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[LFTAW] Chapter 322: Chaotic Prologue
🕑 Added 2024-11-18 01:07:16 +0000 UTCEach breathing style had its own unique characteristics.
Sun Breathing was the most powerful, with the highest overall capability.
Thunder Breathing was the fastest, delivering the strongest burst power.
Mist Breathing was the hardest to predict, with attack trajectories that were erratic and unpredictable.
Moon Breathing, on the other hand, could unleash a large range of attacks akin to sword auras—always accompanied by countless crescent moon blades, typically high in speed and covering a wide area.
In other words, Moon Breathing was best suited for large-scale group battles against numerous enemies. When significantly outnumbered, using this breathing style could work wonders.
In gaming terms, Moon Breathing was a breathing style specialized in AoE (Area of Effect).
As a result, under the moonlit night, facing an undead army of one hundred fifty zombies and two Skeletal Dragons, Riezel chose to use Moon Breathing, which he had vaguely memorized during his battle with Kokushibou.
He brought this breathing style, one that only Upper Rank One could use, into action in another world.
As expected, the effect was immediate.
Even against hundreds of zombies, Riezel needed only one strike to take them all down in an instant.
As for the two Skeletal Dragons, even though they were said to be resistant to slashing or stabbing attacks, it wasn’t even a challenge for Riezel, who possessed Pioneer of the Sun.
Thanks to one of Pioneer of the Sun’s effects, which was capable of dealing special damage to evil entities, it ensured that he could always counter enemies with evil powers, no matter the circumstances.
Naturally, since undead beings were filled with negative energy and vitality, they were considered evil by nature.
As such, under Riezel’s Moon Breathing, they were reduced to nothing but dust.
"Such a shame... the cemetery still got damaged in the end, huh..."
Riezel muttered softly as he looked at the five deep crevices in the ground and the floor in front of the mausoleum, which had been torn open, before turning his head to look in the direction of Khajiit.
"Impossible… Impossible…"
Khajiit remained in the position where he had crashed into a gravestone, muttering these words to himself.
He had planned to use his undead army to attack E-Rantel and turn it into an undead city, using it for a ritual to transform himself into an immortal, high-tier undead.
Unfortunately, all of that was now ruined.
Looking at the despairing Khajiit, Riezel instantly lost interest in talking to him.
Of course, Riezel hadn’t planned on letting Khajiit off, or else, Khajiit would definitely scheme to turn some other city into an undead city.
If such a dangerous person were left unchecked, one day, it would be the innocent people who would suffer.
"Alright, your life ends here."
Riezel raised his sword with an indifferent expression.
"Damn it!"
Khajiit finally reacted, quickly raising the Orb of Death in his hand.
Sadly, as a pure magic caster, his movements were no match for Riezel's speed.
Swish!
With a slash that carried a small crescent moon blade, Riezel cut through the air at an astonishing speed, severing Khajiit’s neck and taking his head clean off.
Khajiit didn’t even realize what had happened, as all he felt was the sudden spinning of the world around him, the ground turning upside down, and then, as if he had fallen to the ground, he saw his own body crumpled in front of a gravestone, headless.
"I…"
Khajiit opened his mouth, seemingly trying to say something, but unfortunately, he couldn't speak anymore.
Soon, the last flicker of life left Khajiit's body, and his severed head remained, eyes wide open and lifeless.
Click!
Sheathing his sword, Riezel suddenly remembered something.
"Hold on... where the hell did that crazy woman go?"
Yes, Clementine had disappeared.
It seemed that the moment Riezel used Moon Breathing to wipe out Khajiit's undead army, she had seized the opportunity to slip away.
"Tch, what a decisive fellow..."
Riezel furrowed his brows slightly, then relaxed them.
"Sense Life."
He immediately cast a surveillance magic that could detect life signs around him.
As long as there was vitality, unless Clementine had a way to evade magical detection, no matter how skilled she was at hiding or suppressing her aura and scent, she couldn’t escape this magic’s reach.
He extended his magical energy, radiating it outward to cover a large area.
Thanks to his deep accumulation in MAG and the enhancement from Mage, the range of his magic detection was vast—easily spanning several kilometers.
Before long, he sensed a multitude of life signs.
Most of these life signs were coming from within the walls of E-Rantel, from the middle area where the citizens lived, but one life sign was heading in the opposite direction, rapidly moving away from E-Rantel toward its outskirts—clearly Clementine, fleeing like mad.
"Fly."
Magical energy in a ghostly blue hue flickered around Riezel's body as he left the ground, flying into the air.
However, just as he was about to chase after Clementine, he remembered something and turned his gaze toward the Orb of Death clutched in Khajiit's right hand.
'If I remember correctly, that thing seems to be a magic item with self-awareness, right?'
Indeed, the Orb of Death was a sentient item, something that didn't exist in YGGDRASIL. It had its own consciousness and the ability to communicate with its holder, believing itself to be born to spread death.
If the holder were human, it would have the power to dominate and control them, turning them into a puppet to spread death. Only humans who could resist mental interference, demi-humans, or heteromorphs wouldn't be affected by its power.
In a way, Khajiit might have been driven insane by the Orb of Death's influence, which could explain his insanity in planning to turn an entire city into an undead city.
Naturally, Riezel had no interest in keeping such a thing.
"Greater Break Item."
Without hesitation, Riezel cast a high-tier magic spell capable of destroying magic items.
For a brief moment, the Orb of Death in Khajiit's hand seemed to sense the threat as it flickered, and as soon as it was struck by Greater Break Item, it flashed frantically before suddenly cracking and shattering completely like a ball of glass.
Finished dealing with the Orb of Death, Riezel turned and immediately headed in Clementine's direction.
Eventually, the cemetery fell silent again, only to be disturbed moments later by a few lights and shadows, which were none other than the guards stationed at E-Rantel's cemetery, drawn by the sounds of battle.
As they arrived at the devastated area caused by Riezel, they soon discovered Khajiit's corpse.
As a result, E-Rantel, already far from peaceful, was once again thrown into chaos by this sudden discovery.
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At the same time, a carriage rolled out of E-Rantel.
It was a large carriage pulled by four muscular horses, more than enough to comfortably seat six people.
Since the night was a world of non-humans, hiding many animals and monsters, driving a carriage at night was an incredibly foolish thing for humans without special abilities like dark vision to do.
Yet, this carriage still sped out of E-Rantel, gradually distancing itself from the noisy city and driving deeper into the night.
Coincidentally, its direction happened to align perfectly with Riezel, who was chasing after Clementine.
