Chapter 1140: 1140. Change

Hope spread among the attackers. They were doing it. King Elbas appeared unable to defend against their joint offensive, and his condition worsened after every exchange!

Still, King Elbas was the best inscription master of the world. Using powerful items against him could work for a while, but his expertise would become an essential variable in a long battle.

Chasing Demon pressed on. The titan waved its massive fists while the Royal dodged the army of puppets that charged at him.

The titan would destroy some of the puppets with its attacks, but the latter detonated into a storm of rocky shards that forced King Elbas to deploy more defensive items.

The Royals' leader had used more than fifty items in the sixth rank by then. Many of them were at the peak of the upper tier, while only a minority had quasi-rank 7 power.

The number of items already used was incredible. Only Shandal could match his accumulation of weapons, but he was a god who had lived for more than fifty thousand years.

Nevertheless, even King Elbas' huge stash began to dwindle. The Royal tried his best to cover any signal of that event, but everyone noticed how he relied less and less on his items as the battle continued.

There were some attacks that King Elbas couldn't block on his own, but all the others were for his flames to handle. The Royals' leader had to save them for critical situations.

The trend of the battle didn't change. King Elbas even risked dying a couple of times since his reaction time had increased as injuries piled on him.

It was as if he was waiting for something to happen, which was the same moment that all the others on the scene feared.

The titan was about to punch through a series of puppets to reach King Elbas when its movements stopped. No sound echoed in the area, but the eyes of the experts went on Chasing Demon.

The Hive's leader spat mouthfuls of blood as he crouched on the titan's shoulder. His skin had turned gray, and energy leaked out of his hole instead of going into the divine item.

Chasing Demon had activated a secret art to unleash that battle prowess. That empowerment had its limits, and it seemed that he had finally met them.

King Elbas smiled as he exploded into a sea of golden flames. All the puppets around him burned into ashes and blocked the offensive of the other experts.

He was finally free to do as he wished. The titan couldn't roar unless Chasing Demon poured liquid "Breath" in it.

King Elbas was too tired to teleport in another spot among the flames, but he could still charge at his opponent. The fire on his path became denser as spears took form and flew with him toward the coughing Demon.

There seemed to be nothing able to stop that charge. After all, the experts' spells couldn't go past the thick golden flames.

Some of them even began to plan their escape. Suddenly, the division among organizations returned, and any powerhouses that didn't belong to their force became disposable.

However, the experts soon focused on the battlefield again since a black line appeared on King Elbas' path and enlarged to create a portal.

The Royal felt surprised at that sight, and a dangerous sensation filled his mind when he saw more than a thousand spiked spheres coming out of it.

The spiked spheres had various power. Most of them were in the lower tier, but a few reached the peak of the tier.

That kind of threat couldn't scare him away usually, but King Elbas had suffered too much in the battle, and he didn't have the items to face that attack head-on.

He could only slow down his charge so that his flames would take care of the Instabilities.

The spheres detonated and released their spikes. The flames in a small area retreated due to the might unleashed by more than a thousand explosions, but they soon advanced again.

Noah had begun to use saber-shaped runes as the spikes of the instabilities for a while by then, but they couldn't do anything once the golden flames swept them.

The difference in level was too great. The golden flames were one aspect of King Elbas' higher energy in the end. Weapons that couldn't even reach the middle tier couldn't compete with that power.

Still, a massive punch crossed the melting array of spikes and crashed on the spears that had formed during King Elbas' charge. The Royal had the time to escape because he promptly detonated some inscribed items taken out of his space-ring.

A deafening roar spread through the battlefield and destroyed the sea of flames. The titan had awakened, and its Master was controlling it again.

Chasing Demon became visible again after that exchange. His skin was still gray, and blood flowed out of his hole, but he stood proudly on the titan's shoulder as he controlled it to suppress King Elbas.

Noah's interruption had gained enough time for his Patriarch to recover, with the only difference that Chasing Demon wasn't strictly better. He had decided to sacrifice even more of himself to continue fueling the secret art.

King Elbas could only curse Noah. The victory was so close, but his sudden attack had brought him back to the previous situation.

The Royal knew that he wouldn't last until Chasing Demon became unstable again. There was too much coming at him, and Noah was quite troublesome to deal with due to the new Warp spell.

"Fine then," King Elbas conveyed through his mental waves, and his aura suddenly became stronger as he escaped from the various attacks.

Golden flames surrounded his body, and the titan roared to destroy them. Yet, they endured the vibrations and continued to cover his figure as a transformation happened inside him.

King Elbas was the original creator of higher energy according to his research. That field was still vast and unexplored, so there was a large room for improvement.

The Royal had avoided choosing which path to take because he had never been in a hurry. He was the strongest in those Mortal Lands already, so he had never needed to gamble when it came to his power.

However, the experts of the other organizations were about to kill him. It was pointless to hold back some of his resources for the sake of the future.

King Elbas' aura became more intense. The golden fire fed on his skin and blood to become stronger and apply modifications. When the Royal came out of his cover, his injuries had started healing, and his eyes shone.

His figure began to release even more flames at that point. King Elbas hadn't advanced to the seventh rank, but his power appeared far different than before.

The experts couldn't understand what had changed, but Noah inspected the scene and became aware of how King Elbas had pulled that power-up off.

Noah was the only one to notice and understand the change because he had seen those same features in June. She was fundamentally different from the other cultivators because her centers of power didn't have "Breath".

The same had happened with King Elbas. He had decided to abandon his "Breath" and use only his higher energy as his fuel. That gave him more of the resource that he needed to fight and a superior starting point in terms of sheer power.

Moreover, King Elbas had studied the titan enough to know its weak spots. He only needed to take a small disk and other inscribed items before resuming the battle and aiming for those areas.