Surviving The Fourth Calamity

Chapter 1720: Chapter 297: Gaia’s Wrath

Hill flipped open a small notebook and began to seriously record Gaia’s first killer move: Chaos Annihilation.

But this move only looks fierce. Even for Oriana, as long as a single claw touches the ground, she won’t be affected.

For a demigod, it’s even less of a problem, unless you enter a pure single-element zone... But Gaia doesn’t have that ability yet. After all, without the earth element, she can’t use divine arts.

Without additional value, purely relying on her palms, she wants to wrestle with the Earth Bear?

Speaking of which, Hill is quite eager for Gaia to play such a delightful game with him.

He’s not making unfounded guesses. From the fact that someone just now only possessing a portion of the divine power granted by Gaia could block the upper and lower line permissions of the Undead Tribe shows that even though Gaia hasn’t left much divine power, and the divine realm is fragmented, there’s still some exclusivity.

But this move can be effective against others, not so easy against those with the same attribute.

Hill is also worried whether she might have the ability to place this single attribute into a purely negative energy plane. What if the Lord of Hell hasn’t stripped this part of the divine realm too thoroughly?

For Hill, who has many methods, this is a small matter that’s easily resolved.

But if Oriana and her group face a similar situation, it might be a bit troublesome.

Even though the Earth Bear has the blessing of the World Tree and won’t be tainted by any negative energy, pure negative energy would still make Little Bear uncomfortable!

After discovering her abilities in this area, Hill quickly changed his mind and slightly delayed the time to turn Gaia into mush.

He also plans to force her to use all her moves.

Hill flipped through his pendant... He remembered digging up quite a bit of Radiant Crystal in Agleya?

If Gaia doesn’t kill him, she shouldn’t even think about rescuing the divine sense from within this avatar.

Then he immediately put the notebook away. The ’Old Age Striking King’ and ’Cunlü’, along with their friends and family, finally blocked off the team of Paintbrush and ’Ji Lanyuan’.

At this moment, Hill could remember to give Gaia some gravity acceleration, along with the turning of crimson leaves, which was already quite remarkable.

He glanced at the flustered Gaia trying to put up a defensive shield, and the Eden Undead abandoned behind her... It seems those guards are somewhat useful to Gaia, probably a few of them are there to prevent the ’pure’ Princess of Danboro from going too far.

But Ivan, who seemed to want to get lost, was pulled into the defensive shield by her. Unable to show reluctance, the expression on his face was somewhat lifeless.

Hill pondered a bit. This former Mother Earth seemed to have really lost most of her control over the land. Even Toril’s Shantia, which only has farmland left, wouldn’t have such poor perception.

After all, if Gaia could sense the number of Eden Undead in the maze, she probably wouldn’t have any hope in Ivan.

In the great hunt by the Black Rose and other families of the Proud Sky Alliance entering from the military camp gate, the Eden Undead still madly on the run seemed to number less than ten thousand according to Hill’s estimate.

Surely, these are the most elite ones; those who reacted slowly had already been caught and killed. However... now, the Proud Sky Alliance’s side has more people!

Even the four families responsible for the fort sent few into the mine, and Hill suspected that the small number of followers were there to film, as they obviously followed the most excited ones... especially behind those thousands from the Black and White Path family who secretly returned from the desert upon hearing the news.

Of course, they also wanted to find traces of the famous Black Rose group, but unfortunately, when they entered from the other side, the main force of Black Rose had chased into those small paths, now trying to find their tracks would be a matter of luck.

Especially even encountering small-scale battles when the opponents were only Eden People, these individuals wouldn’t blink, not even throwing a fireball, directly charging forward.

As always, the style of the Undead Tribe is such that even if I’m not here, my eyes must be.

Hill was a bit confused; why did it feel like the people from the Last-Era Clan reacted more intensely than those from Wenjian?

Could it be that they thought neither side was any good, wouldn’t it be more interesting if they fought each other with more vigor?

Never mind, not thinking about it, Hill smoothly shifted to a better angle: everything in the line of sight was clear and unobstructed.

Just in time, the verbal exchanges were just about concluding.

The criticisms that ’Old Age Striking King’ and her group wanted to make were mostly covered in the last fight at Basia, so this time, even though they still started with verbal jabs, the duration was much shorter.

Perhaps considering Gaia is behind, fearing there may not be enough time, even ’Cunlü’, who usually likes to cast spells from the farthest distance, quickly rushed forward.

Compared to the fierce, aggressive ’Old Age Striking King’, whose fingers snapped threateningly, this Female Priest clearly maneuvered rapidly and nimbly, and even in such chaotic melee, wasn’t hit by any spells... ’Ji Lanyuan’ and others clearly understood their fate, so they almost unhesitatingly unleashed their strongest spells, not caring if they would first send off their own.

In this all-range attack of spells, even the resilient ’Old Age Striking King’ lost a third of her health, but her judgment was extremely precise, even predictive. Plus, her healing spells were mostly instant-cast, so she had spare time to heal others around her.

The so-called large heals were basically used by ’Old Age Striking King’.

While ’Cunlü’ sprinted across the field, applying slow healing spells to her companions... the kind that continuously heals over 30 seconds.

Her speed was incredibly fast; she could replenish the buff on the first person before it even wore off.

Hill couldn’t help but glance at her twice and found a piece of ’Light Spirit Grass’ wrapped around her wrist.

This grass is the main ingredient of a swift potion, which certainly enhances her movement speed to match that of a ranger.

These two were indeed good sisters who have cooperated for years; with just the two of them as priests, they could maintain the health of dozens of people above two-thirds.

And across from them, ’Ji Lanyuan’ could also be considered capable, but others were somewhat weaker.

Especially Paintbrush.

Hill slowly recalled that she seemed to be a mage before. When she made her comeback this time, for reasons unknown, she chose to become a priest.

However, she wasn’t very suited to it.

Her personality actually belonged to those with strong attacking power; she preferred killing people over helping them.

So, her response would be a bit slow when healing, as she always wanted to keep an eye on the enemies.

”Idiot!” When ’Old Age Striking King’ slapped Paintbrush away, he coldly threw her two words.

”There’s nothing to say with people like you.” Paintbrush couldn’t help but retort under ’Ji Lanyuan’s’ disapproving gaze.

”Of course, I wouldn’t break the law for a man, let alone betray the country for one,” ’Old Age Striking King’ retorted immediately, ”What can you talk about?

Ask you when you’ll change your name to Eve?”

”By the way, I’ve heard they love to replace their ribs with alloys.” Even amidst the busyness, ’Cunlü’ caught this statement while quickly passing by them, ”When will you change your look as well?

Mithril color might suit you.”

Hill couldn’t help but pause for two seconds: What’s wrong with the Mithril color, why does Paintbrush look insulted?

Nevertheless, she dared to rush towards ’Cunlü’ as pure healing despite being separated from the guarding knights around her... Though ’Old Age Striking King’s’ target is still ’Ji Lanyuan,’ it definitely doesn’t prevent her from swiftly striking, landing a punch straight to the back of Paintbrush’s head.

”Oh my~ Sister gladly accepts your generous gift.”

In the past, when encountering such events, the words ’Cunlü’ and her companions frequently used were ’No need for such grand gestures.’

However, facing Paintbrush’s fallen state, they seemed more satisfied.

Standing above, Hill silently widened his eyes... the armlet ’Cunlü’ pulled from her other arm seemed like it was made from layers of thorny brambles?

It’s the kind where even every nail-sized, hair-thin thorn contains dozens of barbs.

Even though Paintbrush and her allies had turned off their pain sensors, what’s left was still enough to let her experience agony... this bramble was reputed to make the Chosen of the Lord of the Suffering howl and beg for mercy.

Though this may be exaggerated, it can absolutely make Tyr’s paladins cry out loud.

Hill knew about this kind of bramble, but he always preferred straightforward simplicity, so he never thought of using it.

Unexpectedly, ’Cunlü,’ seemingly an easy-going big sister, could find this kind of bramble that was once almost eradicated by followers of the Three Gods of Justice!

She even managed to incorporate it into her collection!

These two women, in a certain sense, are truly evenly matched!

In Paintbrush’s miserable scream, Hill couldn’t help but shiver twice, immediately turning his steps, heading back to deal with Gaia.

Anyway, ’Ji Lanyuan’ was already distracted and thrown to the ground by ’Old Age Striking King’ for another vigorous beating... Oh, no, that’s to make a certain area become a negative number.

Although the others were struck miserably, they all tacitly moved aside... preferring to meet a sweaty death rather than face judgment from those two ladies.

Hill returned just in time.

Within Gaia’s cave, all the Eden Undead Tribe except Ivan lay flattened, blood-red leaf fragments flew through the air... In the past, Hill would pair the Maze Formation with willow or bamboo leaves, which were more lethal, ending battles quickly.

But this time, his distaste for Gaia led him to conjure red Colorful Leaf Grass.

Thus, even though Gaia struggled to protect those followers, they were still left bruised and bloodied by the rapidly rotating egg-shaped serrated leafy blades.

Listening to the cries of agony around him, Gaia was enveloped in an angry black halo.