Evolution Begins with Elemental Domination

Chapter 292: Chapter 149: A Monster Born from the Void, Top 1

BOOM!

Another towering Death Knight suddenly descended to attack. As it swung its massive bone blade—a weapon capable of cleaving a river in two—it kicked up a suffocating, putrid wind.

Faced with a heavy blow that could flatten a tank, Su Chen’s expression remained as placid as still water.

Since the battle began, he had, without realizing it, sunk into the state of Heart Stream.

SWISH!

He transformed into an intangible, formless streak of light, effortlessly evading the powerful, lethal strike.

BZZZT!

A crimson death ray shot out from the Death Knight’s single eye, relentlessly pursuing its enemy. The ground it passed over was instantly seared into a bottomless, blackened trench.

“Watch where you’re aiming, you idiot!”

Instead, unexpected shouts came from all around. The commotion stirred up by the massive creature’s battle was causing problems for the very people trying to gang up on Su Chen.

This indiscriminate attack forced the surrounding besiegers to retreat in disarray. The once-tight encirclement instantly loosened, and even an Order Prism that had been emitting spatial calibration waves was blasted apart.

The boundaries of reality loosened, freeing up most of Su Chen’s high mobility.

His real body had already ghosted behind the Death Knight. A brilliant, white-hot Divine Sword Radiance materialized from thin air, rippling with four layers of Attached Damage as it fiercely chopped down at the knight’s thick neck.

CLANG!

The shriek of metal striking metal exploded as a viscous, ink-black dark shield manifested around its body. It held for over a second before a corner of it was shattered.

Before Su Chen could follow through with his cut, the Soul Fire within the Death Knight’s hollow skull burned fiercely.

VWOOM!

In that instant, the remnant of the dark shield stopped defending. Switching from defense to offense, it unleashed a powerful Destruction shockwave outward like a bursting dam.

WHOOSH!

The violent Dark Element instantly consumed all light, plunging the hundred-meter radius into a land of absolute darkness.

One’s sight, hearing, and even their Perception of the Elements were forcibly stripped away in that moment.

“AHH!!”

Screams rose and fell. Several people who couldn’t escape in time had their bodies rapidly weather away like dry wood the moment they came into contact with the Wither wave.

As for Su Chen…

His figure had already bizarrely merged with the darkness. He became an elusive shadow line, using a second Shadow Assault to forcibly change direction toward a shield-bearer.

The Holy Light Sword Radiance in his hand flared again, obliterating both the man and his shield.

The magnificent, thick Sword Momentum had even erased most of the man’s body, leaving only a pair of severed feet on the ground.

With a third assault, another heavily armored fighter died horribly under his Holy Sword.

“Is he even human?”

The crowd had been utterly terrified. Aside from the Death Knight, anyone who tried to block him was cut down without exception, and there were even more who couldn’t even keep up with his reactions.

“Does this even make sense?”

This was what everyone was struggling to comprehend.

This monster, relying on his astonishingly fast reflexes, seemed to have a permanent, non-stop “startle” effect active. Not to mention, his attack power was completely beyond imagination.

Except for regional overlord-type monsters with tough physiques, how could a Rune Caster’s frail body possibly withstand a direct hit?

“That guy must be the number one in Dongfu.”

A Warlock in a Magic Robe, specializing in curses, muttered to herself. She considered herself one of the few who had managed to land any damage on him.

But that little bit of damage wasn’t enough. Even if she could interrupt the enemy’s casting, she needed someone to coordinate with.

She glanced around, but her heart sank.

Unbeknownst to her, before their side had even managed to exhaust the main forces’ Rune Energy, most of her companions had already quietly left the field. Some vanished using earth escapes, others retreated as smoke, all clearly scared witless by a single man.

Just as she tried to cast a binding curse on that cold, distant back from afar, a pair of Spiritual Arrows shot through the air. She didn’t even see them coming—she only felt a chill on her brow.

Her body went rigid for a moment before she lost consciousness and collapsed.

BOOM!

BOOM!

Along with the crack of sniper shots and the surge of the Ghost Assault Team from within the city walls, this symbolic action meant that the many experts who had charged into the city were more than likely doomed.

Realizing this, the figures outside the broken wall’s boundary immediately began to retreat.

Those who had been watching from a distance now dared not make a single rash move.

“Let’s retreat for now.”

The previously fierce and imposing Five-Star Secret Art Bishop and Holy Light Judge were also forced by the circumstances to disappear from the scene.

The rout in this small corner was, in a way, a microcosm of the entire battle.

On the main battlefield, the Undead Calamity that had once surged like a black tide was now completely submerged by the endless stream of reinforcements pouring in. The front line had long since been pushed tens of meters beyond the city walls.

Soon, the Death Knight, having raised its dark shield once more, finally succumbed to the focused attacks. Its giant body crashed down beside the broken wall, and its skeletal frame disintegrated like rotten wood.

…

The Desert Beast Master, Wyatt, was dead.

A Five-Star being who proclaimed himself immortal had died under the torture of a thousand cuts.

Most of the top group he led, the Beast Blood Alliance, had also fallen beside him.

Not only had they failed to save their leader, but they also got themselves killed one after another in the attempt.

“Here!”

Captain Zhang presented a Wood Element Soul Core, a Dark Element Soul Core, and several Runes.

The former was taken from the Desert Beast Master, while the latter naturally came from the Death Knight that had just collapsed.

Su Chen was slightly surprised. So a Five-Star Professional could form a Soul Core upon death, whereas the Four-Star experts he had killed before had never left behind such a rare gift.