Xyrin Empire

Chapter 104: Chapter 104: Fierce Battle

“I think I know how Caesar’s strength has increased…” Sandora said gravely as she observed Caesar, who had largely taken on a human form, “There’s a lot of different energy inside him.”

Even though it seemed the enemy was unstable upon arrival, not one of us initiated an attack. An enemy like Caesar was powerful to a certain degree, and he definitely was smarter than Brother Mo Shui, who we had ambushed and beaten half to death. Since he dared to show himself, he must have been prepared. We probably wouldn’t gain anything by striking first and might even make things worse.

The over a thousand Xyrin Warriors who were still operating normally had withdrawn all their attack systems and instead focused all their efforts on the Protective Barrier. Their attacks would likely be ineffective against Caesar, so rather than wasting energy, they formed a human fortress to ensure the safety of Qianqian and her sister.

As I was about to ask Sandora for more details, I saw Caesar make a move: he disdainfully glanced at us, then turned and seized the Abyss behind him, which he had just rescued and which was now less than half a meter in diameter.

Amidst pitiful screams and furious roars, the Primordial Abyss, which made a grand entry but a stupid exit, was quickly turned into a mist of Chaos and then inhaled into Caesar’s body.

Even a novice like me, who had just learned to use spiritual power to sense energy fluctuations, could clearly perceive that the energy intensity of Caesar had instantly upgraded by a level.

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“I know now too…”

I said with a bizarre expression, finding the scene somewhat nauseating, but the creature that had been swallowed was nothing more than a pool of ink, which made me feel weird. Altogether, this was the strange look on my face.

“Do such things happen often among the Abysses?”

I curiously asked through the Spiritual Connection to the audience outside the battlefield.

“No,” Sandora replied immediately, “Even among the Abysses, devouring one’s own kind like this is not allowed—what is Caesar thinking? Doesn’t he worry at all about being hunted down by his current kin?”

Sandora and I kept talking, but since this conversation occurred through the Spiritual Connection, once we finished, only a moment had passed—just after Caesar had completed his performance art-like meal.

“Here we meet again.”

Sandora said calmly, although the golden stripes behind her were surging with enough Divine Power to destroy tens of thousands.

The unpredictable black Shadow in the sky did not respond but suddenly sent an arc of black lightning toward Sandora while charging at me with astonishing speed.

It seemed that my consecutive use of Super Space-Time Strikes to frustrate his movements last time had left him harboring a grudge, and his first thought now was to eliminate me, the unstable factor.

“Mind Barrier!”

Sandora shouted, and instantly a translucent shield appeared in front of her. This shield, formed by spiritual power, did not have the defense ability of usual energy shields, but it was filled with Sandora’s strong resolve. This strong determination was so powerful that it could cause reality within a certain space to warp. The black lightning, upon touching the shield, had its nature altered by the intense will and turned into a wisp of blue smoke.

Meanwhile, seeing the enemy attacking me, Qianqian immediately acted impulsively, revealing her true nature as a beginner in combat, despite her seemingly calm and serious exterior. Her premature action completely disrupted my combat strategy. @@novelbin@@

The black figure charging at me suddenly stood still in mid-air, while the spatial strike I had timed to summon hit the ground between me and Caesar.

Well, I admit, that was a blunder.

Qianqian’s ability was undeniably powerful, but all abilities shared a common trait— they weakened as the opponent’s strength increased. Caesar had devoured countless Abyss, and the energy intensity of his body could be described as terrifying. With Qianqian’s strength, managing to make him pause for even a second was the limit. Therefore, without waiting for me to launch another attack, Caesar had already regained his mobility, casting surprised glances at me and Qianqian.

Although one second was a brief moment, it had been enough to turn the tide of the battle. If it hadn’t been for the lack of coordination between me and Qianqian, and Qianqian’s less proficient mastery of her own abilities, Caesar might have already been seriously injured under the Super Space-Time Strike.

Knowing she had caused trouble, Qianqian gave me an apologetic look and then focused again, searching for the next opportunity to strike.

After all, now was not the time to fuss over these details.

Caesar heightened his vigilance, which greatly pressured me, who consistently preferred stealthy and shameless tactics… cough, surprise tactics. Several of my surprise attacks were cleverly dodged by him, and he even became increasingly familiar with my Super Space-Time Strike. Qianqian attempted to freeze the time around him, but frustratingly, after forcibly enhancing his own power by devouring his kind, his speed also became quite problematic. Qianqian’s ability only worked when the target was in her line of sight, and though she had a vision of 1.5, facing Caesar, who nearly danced like a whirlwind, her 1.5 vision was insufficient…

Similarly, my sister’s curse ability, which required a specific target to activate, also tragically failed in front of Caesar, transformed into a whirlwind knight…

“Floating Gun Array, initiate cluster shooting!”

Pandora had given up on the powerful but imprecise heavy artillery, opting instead to use an overwhelming Floating Gun Array to disrupt Caesar’s movements, giving us a brief respite.

With a loud “boom”– the only one capable of engaging Caesar in close combat, Sandora was blasted back over ten meters by the powerful impact. Seizing this less-than-a-millisecond opportunity, Pandora fired all cannons simultaneously, finally grazing the enemy. The curse from my sister also successfully activated following this.

“Exhaustion!”

After the curse took effect, Caesar’s movements visibly slowed, as if he had exhausted his physical strength. Seizing the moment when an enemy is weakened is an ancient and unchanging tactic of group combat. Without hesitation, I waved my hand, and three white energy beams, each six meters in diameter, descended from the sky from different directions, bombarding Caesar.

After completing the attack, still feeling it was not secure enough, I gritted my teeth and employed my newly mastered but still clumsy ability.

Originally, I had intended to save this ability as a surprise for Sandora at the end. (Only Sandora would be pleased about my mastering a new ability, Qianqian wouldn’t care about such things.)

“High-frequency Virtual Blade!”

Since discovering that my mutated spiritual power could directly connect with the Xyrin Mother Star, ignoring any plane barriers, I had been researching how to use my mutated spiritual power for more things—such as not just communicating with the Xyrin Mother Star but trying to resonate with something else in the universe or even the Endless Void.

At first, I exerted a lot of useless effort because the various energy fluctuations in the universe were too numerous. The first time I let my spiritual power dissipate aimlessly led me to suffer extensively, with everything from a diabetes commercial from some place to a friendship signal from some edge civilization, even the background noise of a nebula in a deep part of the universe crashing around in my head, making it unbearably chaotic until I finally mastered the trick of filtering useful information from the vast noise, escaping that hellish noise of a thousand flies in my mind.

High-frequency Virtual Blade was the first useful thing I summoned from I don’t know which space.

It was an energy with extremely powerful devouring and assimilative capabilities, but unexpectedly, this energy was also extremely lazy—unless something actively came into contact with it, it remained as harmless as lukewarm water. This was why, even with my mutated spiritual power, I could barely summon even a trace of this energy.

As for the name… cough, it was actually Little Baobao who chose it by random combination, a significant improvement over the first randomly generated “Dynamic Light Wave.”

Accompanied by my spiritual power serving as a beacon, a mysterious mighty energy tore through the space, invading this material world. Above Caesar, it formed a black energy blade thirty meters long and over two meters wide, then fiercely crashed down.