Chapter 610 Untamed Jungle's Forces
Amplified Dome of Extraction conjured with Soul Energy turned into a far more deadly weapon than Michael had expected. Against Lionhearts at the 2nd Tier, who couldn't block the power of Extraction, it was an instant death.
More than 1,500 Lionhearts in the range of Dome of Extractin had been killed instantaneously. Their lifeforce and energy flooded him, occupying every cell in his body. That didn't even include the energy influxes he obtained.
'This is like...an instant drain. Did I accelerate the top speed at which I can extract lifeforce and energy using Soul Energy to activate Extraction? It might have been an increase in the amount of energy I can drain at a time. Maybe Soul Energy increases the capacity of lifeforce and energy I can drain? Or is it both?'
Michael was not sure what it was. However, he knew that his body was overflowing with energy and lifeforce.
It was great to be full of life, but Michael figured that he shouldn't use Extraction with Soul Energy like that again. Not, if he wasn't lethally injured and about to die, at least. His wrists and hands healed rapidly with the overflow of lifeforce aiding Archangel's Grace.
Michael deactivated Archangel's Grace right after he was done tending to his wounds, but he noticed that he was still overflowing.
Thus, he began to use Insert to provide his injured allies with lifeforce while also channeling origin energy into the healers and others who were about to collapse. Many had overdrawn their energy in the battle and they suffered the consequences.
Once he distributed the excessive lifeforce and origin energy equally to the nearby allies, Michael felt much better.
'Having too much lifeforce and energy is just as harmful as having too little,' Michael chuckled inwardly, glad that his hands didn't look like that of an Undead Skeleton anymore.
He was back in his prime and ready to move out again. There was no time to think about what he had to do next. Michael consumed a dozen SoulStar Fragments to replenish the Soul Power Extraction and Heavenly Realm had drained. In the next moment, Michael saw the Holy Knights and Blessed Squires push past him.
They weaved around the corpses and dashed ahead. However, they were not alone. The Holy Knight and Blessed Squires mixed into the masses of the High Beast Horde.
They had been hesitating to fight with the monsters of the Untamed Jungle at first, but once they noticed that the monsters of the High Beast Horde didn't pay attention to them, their hesitation turned into determination. They were determined to defeat the Heart of the Blazing Lion army, determined to grow stronger in today's battle, and determined to survive by all means.
Despite being Knights and future Knights, the Holy Knights and Blessed Squires didn't wear much heavy armor right now. They were covered in tempered armor that had been dyed to suit the colors of the Untamed Jungle. The armor was not as great as hard steel heavy armor sets, but it was perfect to travel quickly through the Untamed Jungle's thicket. nove(l)bi(n.)com
The retaliation of the Untamed Jungle's High Beasts and the monster horde was unexpected as well. The Commanders of the Heart of the Blazing Lion army had calculated with a few dozen High Beasts and tens of thousands of ordinary ferocious monsters of the Untamed Jungle. However, it didn't make sense that the High Beasts were so strong. Three High Beasts were as strong as the Commanders, and given Michael's Enhancement, they managed to push the Commanders back.
It was only due to the involvement of dozens of High Lionheart Awakened that the Commanders didn't meet an early end on the battlefield. It was shocking.
But the worst forces were still two particular enemies. The biggest threat was the Lord of the Untamed Jungle. He was only a Lord at the Low rank of the 3rd Tier, but his combat prowess was unpredictable. His Soultraits were otherworldly powerful and he had the means to jump through space.
The spatial portals weren't great, but they were enough to appear near the weakest spots in the Heart of the Blazing Lion army. A single use of his strongest Soultrait was enough to obliterate close to 2,000 Tier-2 Lionheart. He disappeared soon after, his body replaced with a Golden Stigner Wasp, which whizzed through the battlefield to cause even more chaos and destruction.
However, the Golden Stinger Wasp wasn't the second most annoying force on the battlefield. It was not Hirak, the Immortal Knight, or the High Beasts either.
No, the second most annoying force on the battlefield remained unseen.
All the Commanders and High Lionhearts managed to sense were raging gales that burst into their faces right before dozens of Ashen Knights, Pyromancers, and Healing Flames were killed. The Tier-2 natives didn't even know what happened before their throats were cut, their chests gaped open, or their heads flung through the air.
The culprits were highly compressed wind blades with a width surpassing one meter. The wind blades were invisible, just like Lilica's arrows, but there was something different about them. The wind blades were controlled precisely. They curved around the bushes, branches, and trees with ease before striking the adversaries in the back or sides.
The wind blades didn't even stop in their tracks after beheading their enemies. They consumed the winds in the surroundings and continued moving until they were stopped, or Frederik stopped controlling them.
Frederik was merely a Tier-2 Awakened. He was not supposed to turn into the second most annoying force on the battlefield. However, his Body, Mind, and Soul had been altered to suit Aeroan perfectly. Wind Mastery and Enhanced Wind amplified 5-Star Aeroan even further, granting Frederik exact control of the only Legacy Arts technique he'd learned until now; Invisible Blades.
He managed to kill more than 2,000 Soldiers in the backrows before the adversaries tried to retaliate. However, they couldn't see his unseen wind blades or Frederik anywhere.
Frederik hated hiding, but he knew that he was not strong enough to deal with Tier-3 Lionhearts, let alone the Higher Lifeforms.
That was not his mission, in the first place. He was supposed to annihilate the masses of Tier-2 Lionhearts.