I Can Copy And Evolve Talents

Chapter 1373: A Powerful Paragon To Boot

The turrets of light continued to batter the undead armies. They were devastated by it, bodies blown apart and scattered across the battlefield, but their unique nature made them a relentless foe.

Even as the burning light tore through their ranks, they simply picked themselves up.

The ones that could grab their own severed limbs grabbed them and pushed forward. Even when a head was burnt clean off the neck, the body stubbornly pressed on.

However, Raven’s entry into the battle shattered the composed formation of the undead army. Everything was wrenched apart the moment she landed.

Raven flowed along the battlefield, and everywhere she moved a blinding flash erupted that exploded not just one or two but dozens of undead soldiers into smithereens.

Their bodies were torn apart into shards so small they were difficult to pick back up without spending time on the ground, like trying to gather a handful of scattered coins.

And so the battlefield remained in utter chaos. When the undead tried to reassemble themselves, they were further wrecked by Annette’s raging flames or Sael’s bow, which flew loosely across the sky now.

Sael kept shooting arrows and kept shooting. Even as his essence dropped to its lowest point, he had not ceased drawing the Tideturner’s strings.

Draw and release.

Draw and release.

While the ferocious and unlikely duo tore their way forward to the center of the battlefield.

From the vantage point of the endless dark sky that sat above them, wind, light, and darkness flowed as though they were a single force and severed the thick flood of black and red that threatened to sink them all.

They were unhalted and unstoppable in their advance. Annette had been driving towards the same goal, but when she saw that they were closer than she was, she shifted her focus to diminishing the undead army’s numbers instead.

The undead were already beginning to move differently, too, fleeing from the others and trying to condense themselves around Jeci and Lynus, who were savagely cutting their way forward.

So Annette took flight, ascending into the air and calling upon a downpour of ruthless fire.

Vida had also been freed up since Raven’s arrival. Even though she didn’t need much help and had everything under perfect control, Raven’s entry into the battle had relieved her burden regardless.

Now she joined the others, cutting across the ranks of the army with brutal strikes.

Strikes that took arms and heads off their targets and reminded anyone watching how fearsome she was in hand-to-hand combat.

With Sael’s essence hitting rock bottom, he couldn’t manage to use the Tideturner’s abilities anymore, so he continued to unleash ordinary arrows into the distance.

They flew with lethality, twisting across the air and throwing the undead back as they bit into eyes, the center of heads, sometimes chests.

One whizzed past Vida and buried itself in the center of the brow of the undead soldier she was about to crush with her fist. The soldier flew back a few hundred meters, crashing into the others.

This prompted her to look back with a small frown.

’I didn’t need any help...’

Sael, meanwhile, nodded at her, unaware of her thoughts, and simply turned to another direction to fire his arrows.

’Did I read her face wrong, or was she irritated by my assistance...’

He turned the Nightmare Wyvern and glided across different parts of the battlefield, releasing the wrath of his arrows. And sometimes he stayed stationary in the air and unleashed them from where he hovered.

The tide of the battle that had seemed like it would swallow them all, regardless of how fiercely they resisted, had swiftly turned with the entrance of a single person.

All because of Raven.

Of course, she hadn’t entered the battlefield with the intention to end it herself.

All she was doing was merely assisting the others and making this easier for them.

If it was just her, she would have done a fine job of teaching the poor Commander a lesson in just how ridiculously strong the new generation of Drifters in the Central Plains had become.

If there was one thing the Empire was overlooking... it was that.

It wasn’t just Raven, Annette, Vida, Helena, Terence, Braham, and Northern.

There were several more... several more Drifters who had survived the age of the Dark Continent and made it back to the Central Plains.

Raven had no idea what they were up to right now. Of course, many of them had returned to the embraces of their homes and families.

But should the need to leave the comfort of their homes and protect their loved ones arrive, the Empire would be fighting a battle it had very high chances of losing.

And with Northern in the mix... Raven felt like the Empire’s loss was certain.

’No... I’m sure of it.’

There was no other outcome she could imagine.

And she was sure of it because she had watched Northern herself.

Even she, a Paragon in her own right, couldn’t come close to half the strength he wielded. In a battle that determined the fate of the continent, she had been utterly useless. All she could do was fight for her life against the crumbling terrain that was a result of Northern’s destructive clash with the Origin.

She sighed.

’I need to get stronger... we’re both Paragons now, but it feels like he’s a hundred times stronger than me... I need to become a Luminary.’

But would becoming a Luminary close the gap between her and Northern?

’No... I need to become a Transcendent.’

Perhaps as a Transcendent she might be able to fight by his side.

’I need to do it fast.’

If there was one thing Raven had the advantage of, it was speed. Her soul rank advancement was twice as fast as any other Drifter’s, the quality of her ranks twice as strong, and her talents twice as potent.

And she had two of them to boot.