Child of Destiny

Chapter 2045: The King’s Battle (Part 5)

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Seeing that the young man seemed to have lost in his thoughts, the leader of the Black Market’s group snorted. ”Brat, remove all those distracted thoughts of yours and focus on your job. You are only here for one job, which is to study all these engravings and tell us whatever you find.”

”You should know the consequences if you do anything funny. We may not know who is chasing after you, but we can just hand you over to them once we find that you no longer have any value.”

Hearing this, Lawrence, the young man, snorted silently while cursing inside his head. ’That is more reason for me to keep everything to myself since you guys can just throw me away right after getting everything you need from me.’

At the same time, the other member of the group suddenly chimed in. ”Branch Manager Gunner, are we still not going to make our move? It seems like those people from the Dragon Pavilion will not be able to break through this undead army.”

”We have already collected enough information about the opposing forces anyway, so I think it is better to force them to use their hidden cards now so that we can prepare later,” he added with a respectful tone, afraid that the latter would find his suggestion an overstep of his position.

Fortunately, Gunner did not mind it at all and just turned toward the other side of the altar. ”Those sly snakes of Hydra Guild have yet to make their move. Let’s wait a little more before making our move.”

”I don’t want to be taken advantage of by those people,” he said before turning back to Lawrence beside him. ”Brat, make sure to recover everything. Once we make our move, you don’t have to do anything. Just continue studying those engravings and leave the battle to us.”

Lawrence just nodded his head while continuing to look at the patterns engraved all over the place.

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Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the meantime, Chaotic Luck could not help but furrow his brows while looking at the members of the Dragon Pavilion attempting to break through his legion through brute force.

He was quite confused at first, thinking why these people looked a bit ’weaker’ compared to what he was expecting, especially after seeing the strength of a few individuals fighting during the first trial.

However, he later realized that it was most likely because of the overpowered buff that he had gotten earlier when he first arrived in the trial ground.

Given all the strengthening effects that his legion had gotten from this so-called blessing, their overall power had reached an unimaginable level.

He felt very powerful at this moment, especially when he could continuously summon more blazing undead creatures without caring about anything else. He could constantly replenish his forces without encountering any issues with his mana.

Moreover, controlling his army had also become much easier due to the commanding traits that the buff had given him.

The size of his army had also grown much larger due to the extra buff as well, which was why he was able to set up his legion quite quickly earlier.

It was just a pity that he did not have any commander-type undead creatures that were capable of commanding his troops, which would further strengthen the entirety of his legion.

Having this in mind, he could not help but turn toward the other benefit that he had gotten when he ’accepted’ his currently ongoing quest.

It was a temporary skill that could summon a commander-type undead, which was supposed to be a Lich, and someone that he truly needed for his army.

Based on his ongoing quest, he would get this summon after he completed it, which was why he prioritized doing this quest above everything else. If not for the previous accident, then he would have most likely cleared the quest already.

He knew that this Lich summon would most likely be the key to finishing that quest, especially when he only had three chances to use the skill.

”If the situation calls for it, I will use this skill at the final two trials. I can just give up this stage later if I can no longer hold that long. After all, I have already survived the previous two rounds and earned myself a decent number of points.”

”Given that I have already held my ground for more than thirty minutes, my ranking later will not be that bad, especially when these people will most likely fight against each other for the final spot.”

Chaotic Luck was considering his options after seeing that the other parties were about to make their move and join the battle.

Regardless of his current situation, he would refuse to hand over the throne that easily. He knew that this was going to be a difficult battle; he would not go down easily!

He wanted to become a great expert just like the Monster Trio and Demonic Duo of their team.

”Come! I’m ready for anything!” he mumbled after noticing that the trio from a certain team simultaneously disappeared from their respective positions, making him shiver a little.

Their disappearance alone was more than enough to tell him about their respective class.

Even though he did not know that they were the Transcendent Beings of Hydra Guild, he could at least tell that they were powerful experts, especially when even his legion of undead was unable to find any of their trances.

He could also feel the danger lingering in the air, despite his standing quite far from the spot where the trio disappeared.

It was as if the death itself suddenly descended from the sky and came after him.

Chaotic Luck was very familiar with this feeling, as he was always subjected to this level of pressure whenever he trained with those monstrous individuals from their team.

”This feeling-... Those guys are truly not regular experts,” he mumbled before finally summoning his strongest creature, the Hell Pilgrim.

Swoosh!

Right after appearing, it stood before its master with the intention to protect. It sharply swept its eyes in the surroundings, looking for any fluctuation in the air that would tell it the movements of the enemies.

The moment this Hell Pilgrim appeared, the opposing parties immediately realized that their opponent was finally taking them more seriously.

Even if they could not fully see its current appearance, it was still clear that this undead was a highly elite creature, which was most likely a Death Knight.

After all, summoning a Death Knight was one of the core abilities of the necromancer class.

At the same time, Chaotic Luck had summoned his other elite creatures, which were a notch higher than regular blazing skeletons.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

They were the blazing giants made of the skeletal remains of ape beasts. He had summoned eight of them at once, which quickly paired up with another and headed to different corners of the altar, facing all directions.

At this point, Chaotic Luck was still unaware that there were already three people standing at platform of the altar, silently watching and patiently waiting for their opportunity to strike.

Even the sharp senses of the eight blazing apes were unable to sense their presence despite them standing very close to those three.

As for the Hell Pilgrim, the three assassins of the Hydra Guild were unable to tell if it was able to see through their stealth due to it not moving an inch away from Chaotic Luck.

There were quite a few openings that the three could take advantage of, which were the perfect opportunity to strike.

Unfortunately, these three were top assassins and were able to ’tell’ that those openings were nothing but a ’trap’ to lure them.

Such a huge and deadly opening caused by a mere ’carelessness’ was such an obvious trap.

It was not going work against them!

Only a bunch of beginners and lesser assassins would fall into such a trap.

Little did they know that it was a true opening created by Chaotic Luck since he was still not familiar with complicated setups when facing a group of highly skilled assassins.

After all, the feeling that these three were giving him was different from the ones Shin and Diablo generated during their training sessions.

Even though the pressure that he was receiving was the same, the way he dealt with it was still a bit immature.

Chaotic Luck was hesitating whether to use the illumination spells that he had to reveal if there were any hostile opponents around him. After all, he did not want to waste such spells, which could greatly help him deal with opponents in stealth.

It was better to save them until the right moment.

He had learned it the hard way when dealing with Diablo, who kept on toying with him during their training sessions. He had always wasted such spells at the most crucial moments.

Unfortunately, he had yet to fully grasp what the others were telling him about the so-called ’feeling’. The ’feeling’ that would tell him whether it was the right time to use such important spells.

He could not help but be lost in thought while thinking about those tips.

At the same time, he was unable to help himself from doing a few simulations inside his head, which was another trick that he had learned from those great experts.

The problem was that he was unable to properly cast the illumination spell in his mind, accidentally triggering it for real.

”Ah!”

He was taken aback by his own actions, snapping out of his simulation in the process.

Swoosh!

A ball of light suddenly appeared in the distance where his bone scepter was pointing, revealing a hazy silhouette standing at that spot.

Due to how unexpected his actions were, Echis, who was standing in that spot, suddenly froze. He was greatly caught off guard by the sudden development.

He was still thinking about how Chaotic Luck had found him when he suddenly saw a blur appearing right before him.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

The two blazing skeletal apes nearby swiftly moved and instantly reached him, swinging their fist with all their might.

Boom!

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