Child of Destiny

Chapter 1843: The Herald of Chaos (Part 6)

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Boom!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The battle escalated to an unimaginable level, especially when Chaotic Luck and Mandos started summoning their more elite forces one after another.

Mandos had summoned a bunch of elite undead creatures like a Death Knight and a Lich. After all, his Bone Dragon had become somewhat restricted due to Chaotic Luckʼs spells while the group of Elven Undead was busy holding down the Infernal Pilgrim.

His forces were at a slight disadvantage at the first few exchanges due to the four skeletal beasts that remained unchecked.

Fortunately, he was able to reorganize his forces quite fast and even let some Flesh Golems deal with these skeletal beasts.

The Elven Death Knight was too much for ordinary skeleton soldiers under Chaotic Luckʼs legion, so he sent the Infernal Pilgrim to deal with it while he added a few more skeletal beasts to hold down the group of elven undead.

As for the Lich, Chaotic Luck unfortunately did not have anyone to match it from his legion since he was still far from creating his fitting alternate version of it, unlike the Infernal Pilgrim.

All he could do was to focus his spells on both the Lich and Mandos in exchange for dropping his suppression to the Bone Dragon.

However, he did not let the Bone Dragon go on a rampage either. He would never let such a creature loose, so he increased the number of his blazing undead legion even if it would burn a larger mana in the process.

He was planning to put numbers against its power.

Among the new batch of skeleton soldiers, some seemed to be little giants that were dragging blazing chains over their shoulders, using them to restrain the Bone Dragon and prevent it from flying into the air.

Boom!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Mandos was still having some troubles despite the difference in experience. He was more experienced compared to his opponent, but he was unable to fully unleash the power of his army.

The main reason was that strange formation once again.

He was not sure what kind of formation it was, but it was eating away at the foundation of every formation that he set up. Even if he repeatedly adjusted the battle formations of his undead army and constantly responded with unexpected changes on the battlefield, a certain point of his formation would mysteriously crumble and lose its overall power.

Moreover, these points that were repeatedly being targeted happened to be the main ʼjointʼ or central ʼcoreʼ of every formation that he had set up, fully destroying everything.

This quite annoyed him since he was losing against a ʼrookieʼ in terms of ʼtactics.ʼ It was a hard pill to swallow for a veteran like him, especially when he was supposed to be one of the former contenders for the title ʼLich Godʼ.

This was such a humiliation. A complete humiliation!

”Damn it!” he could only curse when he saw this happened.

He was also being suppressed by the firepower of his opponentʼs spells, which greatly hindered his command over his army.

Unlike Chaotic Luck, who could both become a ʼstandard necromancerʼ and a powerful ʼfire mageʼ at the same time, his specialty was to create undead creatures that possessed a tainted elemental mana and provide powerful and strange buffs to them.

His current title, the Undead Preacher, mostly came to this.

Unfortunately, all these cards were being suppressed by Chaotic Luck by sending powerful spells at him without rest.

Fortunately, he managed to summon the Boneyard Elemental Domain way earlier and cast the Undead Whispers at the same time, or else he would be contentiously losing way ahead of time.

What annoyed him even more was that he could not find the right opportunity to launch an ambush against Chaotic Luck with the special unit that managed to sneak behind the latter earlier.

He was not sure if it was on purpose or not, but the Chaotic Luck repeatedly positioned himself in a spot where it would be difficult to launch an ambush whenever his hidden unit finished setting up their positions.

He refused to believe that it was all due to luck since no one could be this lucky.

He would believe it more if it were due to the opposing side purposely ʼdroppingʼ their guard to lure him into a trap, rather than to accept this nonsense about being this lucky.

Even the Lucky Dog or any other luckiest person out there should not possess such a fortune of always being lucky all the time.

Regardless, he still had to admit that what Lia and Ashura had warned him before might be true. This guy was truly an odd existence that was very hard to deal with.

”Tsk! My setup at the backline will all go to waste if the initial ambush fails, which is why I keep on delaying it until I find the perfect opportunity to strike. But it has already been a while since then, and I still canʼt find the right opportunity for it,” he cursed as he continued to fend off the attacks of his opponent.

Dealing with Chaotic Luckʼs spells was much easier to deal with due to the noticeable gap in experience. Even if Mandos did not major in dark arts and spells, he could at least counter these simple attack patterns with ease.

He would rather waste all the mana of his opponent than waste his cards to deal with such simple offensive spells.

However, his forces were also slowly losing ground due to the stray spells that somehow landed at their formation whenever he dodged or blocked those spells.

With all of these in consideration, Mandos was put in another awkward situation, where he had to repeatedly step back to regain his footing.

Humiliation once again!

Humiliation after another humiliation!

With repeated humiliation, how could Mandos keep his calm, especially when he was supposed to be the senior one in this battle?

Having all these considerations, Mandos decided to finally use that unit hiding behind Chaotic Luck and decisively take the gamble.

But right after he gave out the command, something unexpected happened.

Chaotic Luck, who was focused on sending more spells his way, suddenly bumped into the nearby tombstone and stumbled forward.

”Ah!?”

As he was trying his best to regain his footing, the scepter in his hands suddenly pointed toward the direction of the elven undead hiding behind him, ʼsendingʼ the ready-to-fire spell to fire in their direction.

Swoosh!

A blazing beam suddenly flew in that direction and blasted that elven undead into oblivion alongside those near it.

Boom!

Chaotic Luck had no idea what had just happened and only lowered his head, ashamed of his mistake. ”It is too embarrassing to trip in such a serious match.”

He was too embarrassed to even look at his opponent, much less after knowing that this was being broadcast to hundreds of millions or even billions of people.

In the meantime, Mandos, his opponent, was unable to close his mouth after seeing such a ridiculous move from his opponent.

”Does it really just because of luck?!” he refused to believe that it was just by accident.

Regardless, he swiftly gave out a series of orders and had those elven undead launch an attack.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The elven undead no longer cared about hiding and finally launched their ʼambushʼ.

The first to move was an elven undead that looked like an Elementalist when it was alive and cast a spell, targeting Chaotic Luckʼs head.

Swoosh!

But when the barrage of fireballs and icicles was about to reach Chaotic Luck, the guy suddenly stepped on the broken fragments of the tombstone scattered on the ground and tripped over it.

”Ah!? So embarrassing,” Chaotic Luck felt like crying after he stumbled and started rolling on the ground.

Little did he know that this trip just saved him from such a disaster.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The barrage of fireballs and icicles landed on the ground behind him as he continued rolling forward.

”Eh!?”

”What the heck!?”

”He dodged that!?”

”You can dodge that way too!?”

”You call that dodging?”

”It works anyway.”

Everyone could not help but stare blankly at the scene, unable to believe that such ridiculousness had happened.

Even Mandos was unable to accept such a thing and went crazy, ordering his elven undead to continue attacking.

It was only at this moment that Chaotic Luck realized what was happening. After all, it was impossible not to notice the explosions that he had left behind while rolling.

”Ah!? There are enemies behind me!?” he was shocked when he tried to pick himself up from such an embarrassing position.

Right after he stood up, he was immediately greeted by a poisonous dagger reaching out to him. It was rapidly magnifying before his eyes, not giving him any opportunity to respond.

Scared, he could only take a step back to dodge. But right after he did that, he stepped on a bone fragment, which made him trip once again.

Swoosh!

While he was falling, the blade of the dagger flew past his face, missing it miss completely.

Midfall, Chaotic Luck cast a series of Blink to escape, trying to distance himself from the ambushers.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

But the speed and agility of those elven undead far surpassed his imagination, which let them almost catch up to him in an instant.

However, he was unable to think that much, especially after seeing that he had somewhat landed on the spot where the number of skeletal remains scattered on the ground was the densest.

Not thinking too much about it, he suddenly slammed his scepter on the ground, making those skeletal remains move and forming a cage that trapped all the elven undead that tried to catch him.

Unintentionally, he had caught almost all the most agile and the fastest elven undead with this single spell.

Chaotic Luck did not know about it and just bombarded them with powerful skills one after another, killing them in the process.

In the meantime, Mandos was unable to think straight, unsure whether the series of events was intentional or not.

He could no longer understand what was happening, especially after seeing how perfect Chaotic Luck had ʼluredʼ his elven undead to such a delicately ʼlaidʼ trap.

In the end, he had lost the gamble. Not only failing to catch Chaotic Luck off guard, but also losing the majority of the elven undead that he had sent for this ambush.

”What the hell is happening?”

At this point, he had already lost both the tempo and the control of the match.

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