Chapter 229
Chapter 229 Ferocious Attack
The adepts’ defensive circle was shrinking.
Now all of the adepts had been pushed back against the tower gates. They erected a sturdy elementium barrier there, barely defending against the dragon breaths from the green dragons.
In this period of time, another adept had fallen under the blade of a radiant knight.
Tacna. An illusionist that was said to have learned some wind spells as well. Sadly, his talent for illusions couldn’t be utilized to their fullest when facing numerous enemies, and his simple wind spells were unable to help him escape the pursuit of his enemies.
As such, he was bogged down by a group of reckless witcher-knights on the chaotic battlefield before finally falling under the sword of Radiant Knight Windsor.
At the last moments of the battle, Mary, Phantom, and Demon Shadows brought large numbers of ‘reinforcements’ back with them. This allowed the adepts’ defensive line to endure for another thirty minutes.
Even disregarding everyone else, just Bloody Mary alone had brought five spellbreaker knight vampires back with her.
Once again, he was defeated in a single blow!
First Grade Body-Refining Adepts were still too frail when pit against a Third Grade dragon knight. If it hadn’t been the massive enhancements to their bodies that shortened the gap in power, just that brief contact with the knight might have caused them to die.
The spells continued to fall on Jefferson’s body like rain.
They turned into bloodsucking vines that grew rapidly and binding him to the spot, or turned into strange clouds of mist, crackling as they corroded the forcefield of life around him. Some were even terrifying elementium spells that engulfed everything nearby in a savage elementium tide…
Yet all of this could not stop the dragon knight’s advance.
The bloodsucking vines were like spiderwebs caught in a wheel. As Jefferson walked forward, the thick and ghastly vines snapped in pieces, sending green sap flying everywhere. The poison mist and elementium spells might be immensely powerful, but they were unable to quickly wear away the thin layer of life forcefield around him.
This life forcefield formed, from the merging of runic and life energies, might be intangible, but it most definitely existed. It had powerful defense that vastly outclassed the elementium barriers the adepts used. Be it elementium spells, curses, illusions, or soul spells, none of them were able to break through this life forcefield and damage the knight’s body.
The only way to stop the dragon knight’s advance was to engage in a frontal physical assault.
Even though every adept that charged at Dragon Knight Jefferson was immediately knocked away, they could only continue to do their best to slow his advance.
After the three body-refining adepts had become casualties at Jefferson’s hands, it was the bloodline adepts’ turn.
Once they turned into magical creatures themselves, they also possessed powerful physical strength. The only difference was that they had not learned many melee battle techniques like the body refining adepts did.
Once Hyde with his robotic body of tentacles and Mary with her crimson shadows had been severely wounded, the only ones left were the Esoteric Adepts.
However, when compared to the trash-like stone golems and earth elementium that crumbled in a single hit, the strange, massive shape formed by Acteon’s carcass beetles exhibited surprising strength.
The carcass beetles’ tough shells, along with their odd ability to share damage amongst themselves, allowed them to constantly scatter and reassemble, weaving about the Third Grade dragon knight and buying the adepts a lot of time.
However, Jefferson soon ran out of patience. With a single ferocious Inferno Whirlwind Slash, he suddenly turned into a storm of slicing blades, and disaster fell upon Acteon’s swarm of bugs.