7 Advent
Advent
Someone like an old man with a shady identity would never get a chance meeting the duke--- even after he accepted his son as his disciple.
Also, he couldn't just force his way into the city lord's mansion--- After all, this body's maximum output is just tier 5 spells.
Only by using the self-destruction skill [Molecular Collapse], can he unleash a tier 6 might.
Thus, the black robe man speeds up the launching of war by helping the demon lord Hannigan.
This war will create the opening they needed to complete their purpose.
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Through the collective information gathered by him and the old man--- They concluded that the military forces of the demon lord, might not be enough to force the duke to activate the [Mega-Ton Hermos cannon]
---because the kingdom will be sending reinforcement, a thousand elite combatants.
Another factor is the person leading them.
According to Viscount Randolph, the prince behavior is depraved and he lets his army do all the fighting while getting all the merits.
But that doesn't mean he was a weak warrior himself. As the king's successor, he was carrying with him two of the kingdom's seven national treasures.
One is an ancient armor made by a dwarven blacksmith. This armor was reinforced with a runic technology that might not exist anymore. It was said that it can withstand an attack of a tier 5 spell, at least 3 times.
The second one is the holy sword--- Exterion.
A sword created for killing evil entities, which does amplified damage against the like of liches and demons.
---It also has an unknown active spell.
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Barlow didn't know what just happen, but now that the enemy are disorganized, he started advancing forward---
slaying all of them viscously.
"The supports in their backline are gone! Everyone advance!!"
Barlow's loud voice awakened the confused rebel mercenaries and they also started to slay their way forward.
"Kill!-- kill!-- kill!
---this dogs of the king will pay for all their crimes today" the silent Luke howled.
[Slash]!
[Smash]!
[High Vertical Strike]!
---most of the attack are focus on the old berserker Gilford.
[Fortress]!
[Evasion]!
He managed to defend against some attacks--- but the number of enemies targeting him are just too many.
The allies near him have already backed away after witnessing the frenzied attack of the rebel armies.
[Charge]! [Charge]! [Charge]! [Charge]! [Charge]! [Charge]!
---a large amount of insect knight suddenly tackles him with their shield, knocking him to the ground as the other rebels showered him with spell attacks.
*woosh--- woosh*
*boom*
*boom*
The elite army of the kingdom started to reduce in numbers--- more of them started retreating after losing their commander.
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At the center of the explosion within the huge crater--- the prince was on his last breath.
After sensing the danger, Ptolemaeus directly activated the armor's defensive skill. Even after pouring all his mana into it,
---the armor still failed to save him. The left side of his body was completely destroyed, while the rest are scorched.
From where his left arm used to be, all the way down to his lower body, were all blasted away.
His intestines are coming out.
Only because he's a paladin and a holy knight that he's still breathing. But death was slowly approaching every time his blood spills out.
Pain...
Regret...
Hatred...
Confusion...
Despair...
Ptolemaeus was about to black-out, but he endured the intense pain to slowly raise his sword---
"Stellarknight!"
---this was his last word before dying.
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"Why? What just happened!?"
Hannigan was keeping his attention to prince from time to time, so he managed to see the old man grabbing the prince, then an explosion suddenly followed.
Hannigan asked the black robe man beside him---
"You!?, was he under you all along?"
He was really impressed that the black robe man managed to sneak someone to get close to the prince.
But the black robe man didn't answer his questions.
He slowly floats upward then turns to face Hannigan and declare---
"With the <Summoning Item> and the help I gave you, I won't be owing anything. In the future, if you stand on the opposite side of the battlefield against me, I'll destroy you."
---then his body and clothes slowly disintegrated to dust.
Hannigan was confused, but he doesn't have time to dwell on it--- since a giant shining warrior suddenly appeared on the battlefield.
It wears a silver spartan helmet and armor--- while carrying a shield and spear on each of its hands.
Stellarknight started attacking the things it considers evil. Since Hannigan was an Insect druid and a half-successor of an evil god,
---the attention of the Stellarknight was directly focused to him and his bugs.
"What is that thing?! Is it that rumor?,"
'The Alfonse kingdom really possess a tier 6 spell!'
Hannigan always thought that it was just an exaggerated tales. But he actually sneered, since he also possess--
A tier 6 <Summoning Item>.
Hannigan activated it,
"[Summon Gaia's protector Tier 6, Fortress Golem]!"
---Three giant golems appeared on the battlefield.
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The few surviving elite combatants has now retreated far away and were resting.
All of them are in a very depressing mood.
They were afraid that when they return to the kingdom with the prince dead--- they will be severely punished.
Suddenly, a heavily injured man approaches them. When the surviving elites saw him, they were very happy.
"My lord, thank the heavens you're alive!"
---a warrior had rush to help the prince walk.
"Healing potion!"
"Who still have any healing potion left?"
---One of the crusader started asking.
Some of the surviving clerics have depleted all their mana--- they can't cast any healing spell at the moment.
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*bang!--- bang!*
*crash!*
In the distance, the Stellarknight and the three golems started fighting.
The Stellarknight is much bigger than the fortress golems but its holy attribute spells are useless against the three.
The Stellarknight then decided to fight in melee combat using its spear and shield instead.
The surviving elite combatants started cheering for the kingdom's guardian--- but the prince was observing this fight devoid of any interest.
He suddenly turns his attention toward the direction of the city lord mansion---
'It's finally starting.'
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While every survivors was observing this grand battle, the ground started to shake.
"What's happening!? This is just a natural earthquake, right!?"
---a random surviving rebel asked nervously. He was very happy to survive that bloody battle, but it seems something more is coming.
"Everyone look over there!!"
---someone shouted while pointing at a certain direction.
"The city lord's mansion is changing?!"
The tallest building in the city started to transform, a huge cannon-like structure started rising from it.
It was made of a material looking similar to a concrete, its surface is covered with runes.
The concrete-like material were connected by a series of metal tubes. Looking at where this metal tubes were coming from have made this thousands of spectator shocked.
"What the fuck is that huge thing!"
"It looks like a huge animal?!"
"Look there, it's a head!--- and it looks like a turtle!"
"It really is, a giant corpse of a turtle!"
But now everyone's attention shifted to the back of the turtle---
On it were hill size manatite ores!
"Fuuckk!--- isn't that the <Millennium Turtle> from the legends?"
Millennium turtle--- this monsters devour precious ores and gems during its infancy. As it grows older, it can burrow through the planet's deepest crust or survive in the deepest ocean. They live there and absorbs only the purest natural energy. This causes its back to grow different ores depending on its habitat.
"Motherfucker!--- that huge ass cannon is using it as a power source."
"How powerful will its destruction blast be?!"
Watching all these happening, the demon lord Hannigan, his generals and the rebel mercenaries all had their faces paled.
Just the energy gathering on the cannon's tip already causing the sky to change color.
"Based from the books of the evil god, isn't this similar to the tier 6 spell [Control Weather]?"
---the Demon lord suddenly said dejectedly.
Everyone who heard him was shocked.
After all--
'And this changes happen just from gathering its energy? Then how devastating its firing power be?'
Everyone were thinking the same thing, cold sweats started flowing on their backs.
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Inside the mansion's control room, five silver rank mages were currently adjusting the cannon to a specific direction and angles.
Some of these mages were heavily wounded--- clearly they just survived a deadly battle.
One of them is the city lord's son--- Viscount Randolph.
"Little bastard, what are you doing!? Uhg--- have you lost your mind?!!"
---in the corner, a bleeding old man was furiously shouting.
He was bounded and barely conscious. If he wasn't suddenly got attacked from behind, how can a mere silver-rank mage forced him to this state!? He was stabbed by multiple poison-daggers but was still able to fight them for ten minutes before losing.
The Viscount was focused on his given task, not giving his father any attention.
[Direction: Northeast] [Distance: 15,645 meters]
[Firing interval: 1/10 minutes] [Firing Angle: 37 degrees]
[Firing speed: 1200 m/s]
This [Mega-Ton Hermos cannon] can only fire three times before it destroys itself.
Also, based on the energy it uses and the amount of manatite ore on the turtle's back, this weapon can make five tier 7 attacks at most.
That is why it was only to be used when extremely necessary.
After confirming that everything is exactly accurate---
"Fire!!"
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Seeing the magnitude of power that was gathering--- Hannigan ordered everyone to retreat in different directions.
He also has taken a certain direction where nobody was retreating to, since him or his summoned <Fortress Golem> would definitely be the main targets of this attacks.
*BOoom!!--- WHOooossh!*
A thundering noise roared through the sky--- as a huge blast of destructive mana accelerates toward the northeast.
Everyone was shocked from the direction the blast flew into.
It was not even close enough, it was way beyond them, as it flew far away.
There was nothing in that direction, except mountains.
Thirteen seconds later---
*Banng!!!*
---one mountain in that direction was blasted apart.
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In the center of the crater, was a huge ten-meter black crystal.
It was amazing that after receiving the destructive force of a tier 7 attack--- it only created some cracks on its surface.
Inside it was something that is made of by some unknown metals that doesn't exist on this world.
That is because, this type of metals can only be found in a world called <Yggdrasil>.
Metals in that world has levels of rarity, which is very difficult to find the higher the quality is.
The same goes for <Data Crystal>--- it also has levels of quality which was assigned randomly, when they dropped after killing monsters.
Normally, with the extreme rarity of <Ultra-rare metal>, successfully collecting them with an amount enough to create a high-quality sword---
Then upgrading it to <Divine Class> using the rarest <High-grade Data Crystal> was an extraordinary achievement in Yggdrasil.
But right now, if an Yggdrasil player would see this thing inside the black crystal--- he definitely be shocked by the excessive amount of <Ultra-rare metal> that the owner has used to create this huge body.
Not just that, the metallic body was also infused with <High-grade Data Crystal> until everything has reached the <Divine Class>!
