Chapter 831: Chapter 619: Gudong vs Shuanglian
Divine Duel Country.
Anqiu.
Mid-mountain.
A fierce battle was unfolding.
“Damn it!” Gudong was dodging left and right, in a dire predicament.
“How did Shuanglian smuggle these two Golden Level Snow Elements up to Anqiu?” Gudong couldn’t answer this question.
If it weren’t for the increasingly obvious movements of the Snow Elements climbing the mountain, Gudong wouldn’t have discovered them.
“If it weren’t for the upcoming National Ceremony, which greatly reduced the forces allocated here, the current crisis wouldn’t have happened!”
Gudong fought hard, completely on the back foot.
Fortunately, he had already called for reinforcements; now it was just a matter of when Mei Lin and the others would arrive.
“Before that happens, I must hold the line and defend this last barrier.”
Gudong knew: At the top of Anqiu stood the tombstones, the graves of duelists. The names on them held extremely important information.
No matter what Shuanglian planned, if she saw these tombstones, the secrets of the duelists would be exposed.
Honey Snow Tower.
Shuanglian was merging with the Tower Spirit, fully controlling the Golden Level Snow Elements and a large number of Alchemy Puppets for combat.
“The advantage in this battle is mine!” Shuanglian was excited, her morale high.
These two Snow Elements were both Golden Level, main forces she had painstakingly subdued and suppressed on the half-plane. Now they were deployed here.
Besides them, there were also a large number of Alchemy Puppets. Quite a portion of them were hastily crafted by her and her students day and night. Some were for combat use, but more for reconnaissance and detection purposes.
After contacting Anqiu, massive amounts of data were gathered through the investigation of these Alchemy Puppets and then transmitted back to the Honey Snow Tower.
Shuanglian held the initiative, continuously remote-controlling these Alchemy Puppets, breaking through from all sides.
And Gudong was alone.
Fortunately, after reaching the Golden Level, a fighter’s attack range and methods underwent a qualitative change. As he moved closer to the mountain top, the area he needed to defend became much smaller, allowing Gudong to barely hold on.
But the Fighting energy was consumed very quickly, and Gudong could only persist for a short time.
“As expected, my teacher’s predictions were correct; this hill is extremely important to this space,” Bu Quan was in the control room, checking data, eyes shining.
“With this data, the King’s crowbar will definitely pry open more space!”
Magic-like spell—Explosive Hail.
Shuanglian controlled one Snow Element, condensing hail from its body, and kept firing them.
Hundreds of hailstones flew forth, each capable of self-detonating. With each explosion, cold air spread out, and shattered ice shards scattered everywhere with terrifying cutting power.
Gudong initially wanted to dodge, but the next moment, he saw the other Snow Element rushing towards the mountain top despite its injuries.
Gudong had to dispel the idea of dodging and extended his palms forward, spewing a large amount of Golden Fighting Spirit.
The Fighting energy, under the cohesion of Combat Skill, formed a wall of Fighting energy.
The wall blocked the exploding hail and barely resisted the headlong charge of the Snow Element.
Although the Snow Element also suffered from the impact of the hail explosions, because it was inherently a Snow Element, it had very high resistance to Frost Magic, so it wasn’t too severely damaged.
Two Snow Elements joined forces, ferociously attacking Gudong’s Fighting energy wall.
Each heavy strike caused cracks to appear in the Fighting energy wall. Gudong kept retreating, urgently funneling Fighting energy to repair the wall while straining his mind to cast another Combat Skill to reverse the unfavorable situation.
But just then, an Alchemy Puppet suddenly emitted a pink halo.
Halo after halo passed through the Fighting energy wall, shining on Gudong’s head, making him lose focus and unable to concentrate.
“Not good!” Gudong cried out in his mind, trying his best to resist, but his spirit kept alternating between focus and dispersion. For a moment, he couldn’t cast other Combat Skills.
“This is a Dispersal Light Ring Emission Device. It’s said the magic model used was improved from the Love God’s Divine Arts model,” Bu Quan watched the Magic Image in the control room.
“Who goes there?” Shuanglian exclaimed, showing a hint of surprise.
The next moment, the Flying Puppet suppressing Gudong was hit by an Air Bomb.
The Flying Puppet was forcibly displaced by the blast, causing the halo to miss, allowing Gudong to catch his breath.
Gudong successfully cast a Combat Skill, retreating smoothly while temporarily forcing the Snow Elemental Body to stop in its tracks.
“Phew! Reinforcements arrived so quickly?” He gasped, surprised as he looked towards the reinforcements.
“So it’s them.”
The reinforcements were not Mei Lin and others, but Ice Eagle and his group.
The intense battle between Gudong and the Snow Elements had caught the attention of the remaining Saber Gang members. Even though Ice Eagle was only at Silver Level, as a duelist, he knew the importance of Anqiu, so without hesitation, he immediately brought everyone to aid.
“Well done, Hen Fa!” Spring Boxer exclaimed loudly in praise.
Lan Zao was currently only at Black Iron Level, but his potential reached Silver Level.
Ice Eagle, Spring Boxer, Xiong Ju, and the Human Race leader were all at Silver Level, but they couldn’t use Combat Skill for ranged attacks. This gave Lan Zao a good opportunity to earn merit.
Lan Zao seized it. Although he didn’t destroy the Silver Level Flying Puppet, he created a crucial interference that affected the battle.
“Roar!” Xiong Ju, holding a Two-Handed Greatsword, charged into the Alchemy Puppet ranks.
These Alchemy Puppets were at most Silver Level, mainly reconnaissance and detection models, completely no match for Xiong Ju.
Xiong Ju displayed the demeanor of a fierce general, charging and breaking through the puppet crowd, creating havoc among them.
Soon after, the remaining Saber Gang members also pounced into the enemy ranks.
Shuanglian wasn’t skilled in puppet combat; initially, she didn’t control the puppets to retreat but piled them up for a head-to-head confrontation with the Saber Gang remnants.
But she quickly realized her puppets were reducing in numbers significantly, while the Saber Gang remnants were vigorous and energetic.
This group of people underwent the harsh elimination process of a gang upheaval, escape from Snowbird Port, and survival on Flower Skirt Island, leaving only the elite.
These elites, after undergoing intense training in the Divine Country, received continuous Divine Blessings, solidifying their strength and significantly enhancing their combat abilities.
Shuanglian realized her mistake and quickly withdrew the puppets.
Most of the puppets were reduced in number.
Shuanglian gritted her teeth and changed tactics, letting the puppets disperse completely.
The remnants of the Saber Gang found it hard to intervene in the intense battle between the Golden Levels. Under the command of the Ice Eagle, they targeted these puppets and began a chase.
“The line is stabilized!” Gudong received timely support, and the depletion of fighting energy was greatly alleviated.
This was because he no longer needed to split his attention to deal with those alchemical puppets.
With the help from the remnants of the Saber Gang, he only needed to focus on the Snow Elemental Bodies in front of him.
Although the Snow Elemental Bodies were both Golden Level and there were two, they did not hold an advantage in battle with Gudong.
In this aspect, Shuanglian’s situation was somewhat awkward.
She used Spirit Manipulation to control the Snow Elemental Bodies in battle, which didn’t allow the full battle potential of the Snow Elemental Bodies to be realized. Being a mage, she was not adept at close combat and mostly used the Snow Elemental Bodies to unleash magic-like spells in a barrage. The benefit was that she could make the two Snow Elemental Bodies coordinate.
If she gave up direct control, leaving room for the Snow Elemental Bodies to act freely, these two would often end up fighting individually, hindering each other. In this way, while individual battle power could be better utilized, coordination would be poor.
Gudong’s practical battle experience was quite rich; as a duelist, he was by no means an ordinary Golden Level warrior.
Without Shuanglian’s direct control, he would cleverly use the obstruction by the two Snow Elemental Bodies to reverse the situation and gain the upper hand.
Shuanglian couldn’t afford to be distracted and continuously maintained control over the Snow Elemental Bodies, but she couldn’t break through the defensive line.
Meanwhile, her alchemy puppets were gradually being destroyed by the remnants of the Saber Gang. Even the one puppet that spread divine light in a circle was not spared and ended up dismantled.
“We’re going to fail… damn it.” Shuanglian’s face darkened.
“This group is the key to the battle.” Shuanglian glared with resentment at the remnants of the Saber Gang in the magic image.
She hadn’t thought there would be such a group of people at the foot of Anqiu Mountain.
Bu Quan saw Lan Zao in the magic image but did not recognize him.
On the one hand, Bu Quan was not familiar with the other survivors. On the other hand, after Lan Zao left, due to the purification of his bloodline, his appearance had undergone a massive change.
To this day, his Deception and Disguise Skill had run out, though the Anti-Intelligence Prophecy Skill was still maintained, it was not far from dissipating.
But because of his drastically changed appearance, it didn’t matter much that the Deception and Disguise Skill was gone.
“Ordinary attack methods will be dispersed as they approach the hill. The only effective attack is probably the Ice Split Skill.” Shuanglian hesitated.
The magic model for the Ice Split Skill was improved by her to enable the Mage Tower to use it.
But it was barely usable.
Even if the Mage Tower cast it, it would have only one shot’s power, depleting the mana pool by 78%, and the Tower Spirit would temporarily crash, entering a forced rest state.
The Ice Split Skill was Honey Snow Tower’s most powerful attack method and Shuanglian’s believed key to escape.
“Just using the Ice Split Skill won’t be enough. It needs to be paired with the King’s Crowbar to attack the hill.”
“But once this is done, the consequences will be unpredictable.”
Shuanglian could not make a decision immediately.
Firstly, she could not estimate the actual battle effect. She could only calculate that it could harm the hill, but to what extent, she could not measure.
Secondly, once she used this method, it would inevitably alert the enemy, even to the extent of counteracting it. If in the future the enemy made contingencies, making her Ice Split Skill unusable, how could she then leave this space of the Divine Country?
One could say the Ice Split Skill was Shuanglian’s confidence, and also the source of her sense of security.
Shua.
With a wave of space fluctuation, Mei Lin’s figure appeared at the foot of Anqiu Mountain.
“Finally, someone is back!” Gudong sensed the familiar transcendent aura of Mei Lin and was immediately overjoyed.
This scene was also detected by Shuanglian, prompting her to make a decision.
“If we can’t take this battle, it might be the only chance we have. The enemy will definitely guard this hill strictly afterwards!”
Use the Ice Split Skill!
In the next moment, the Honey Snow Tower body trembled violently, and a massive amount of mana was mobilized, gathering onto the magic model.
Bang!!!
A beam of snow-white light shot out fiercely, directly towards Anqiu.
Midway, the light beam became smaller and thinner— suppressed by the Divine Country.
The King’s Crowbar!
Shuanglian immediately used this Legendary level tool. In an instant, the connection between the Honey Snow Tower and the half-plane disappeared. The light beam of the Ice Split Skill quickly restored.
Anqiu’s power was pried open, unable to completely suppress it.
“Not good!” Mei Lin quickly tore open a scroll, but the Defensive Magic only held for a moment before being breached.
Gudong, on the other hand, was entangled by the Snow Elemental Bodies.
The light beam slammed fiercely into Anqiu, white light like snow rapidly spreading around.
The remnants of the Saber Gang were caught in the destruction, hastily fleeing towards the foot of the mountain.
The snow-like light spread too quickly, and Lan Zao, unable to dodge, was finally engulfed.
“I’m… going to die.” In an instant, Lan Zao was frozen into ice, even his thoughts slowed down.
“Don’t worry, you won’t die yet.”
The voice of the Fishman youth suddenly echoed in his mind.