**Chapter 112: Full Power Form: Grand Radiance** 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

The ring, formed by thousands of rune artifacts, rotated slowly, its shimmering light and glowing runes flickering between each artifact, resembling a futuristic war machine radiating a heart-pounding energy fluctuation.

As the rune ring prepared to unfold, Jie Ming subtly signaled Amy and Victor with a glance.

Understanding his cue, they seized the moment while the Blood Angel’s attention was captivated by the awe-inspiring sight behind Jie Ming. They swiftly converged, using Alchemy Technique to clear the underground rocks, digging a deep passage toward the safer depths of the mine to escape.

The Blood Angel noticed their movements but dismissed the two lesser threats for now.

Its senses warned that the enemy before it, charging up, was growing more dangerous by the second!

Yet, it was powerless to act.

On Jie Ming’s side, after seconds of preparation, the final phase began.

Three disc-shaped metal plates, etched with arcane runes, floated and overlapped at the center of the massive ring behind him.

Upon reaching their designated positions, they fused with the ring like components in a machine, stabilizing its flowing light and emitting a low, resonant hum, as if a primordial beast were awakening!

[Full Power Form: Grand Radiance]!

This was Jie Ming’s trump card, the ultimate weapon forged from years of knowledge and research!

The moment Grand Radiance fully activated, the Blood Angel was engulfed by a dense torrent of thousands of energy bolts!

No longer mere precision strikes, they formed a barrage dozens of meters wide, covering every angle without blind spots.

Like a radiant white river, the barrage surged through the confined mine, bearing down on the Blood Angel with unstoppable destructive force!

Jie Ming tuned each energy bolt to its “maximum” power, equivalent to a legitimate first-level wizardry spell.

A single bolt could demolish an entire stadium!

Now, thousands of such bolts flooded toward the Blood Angel every second, their relentless booming echoing through the mine, deafeningly painful!

Firepower suppression!

Incandescent light swallowed the Blood Angel’s form, the terrifying energy shockwaves radiating outward from Jie Ming.

The mine’s walls groaned under the strain, large rocks dislodging as dust billowed.

The Blood Angel darted through the flood of light at high speed.

As a third-level being, its speed was immense, making it nearly impossible for even this overwhelming barrage to lock onto its position.

Its form twisted and flickered, leaving afterimages as it evaded the ceaseless assault.

Jie Ming’s eyes twitched, straining to track the Blood Angel’s movements.

Controlling the rune ring, he pursued the angel’s shadow, bombarding it with endless energy bolts.

*Boom! Boom! Boom!*

In mere moments, the mine—and the mountain above—could no longer withstand the devastating energy impacts.

Massive cracks spread across the mountain’s surface, accompanied by bone-rattling snapping sounds, as if its framework were shattering!

*BOOM!*

With a earth-shaking explosion, the mountain erupted from within, debris and dust soaring skyward, forming a massive mushroom cloud!

The mountain collapsed, rocks flying.

At the explosion’s core, two figures—one blood-red, one radiant—burst from the collapsing mountain at astonishing speed, streaking into Elosia’s vast sky!

Jie Ming and the Blood Angel shot upward like arrows, piercing through the dust into the heavens.

The Blood Angel’s speed was staggering, each wingbeat leaving afterimages, each flicker pulsing with divine power, darting like a phantom, always a hair’s breadth from Jie Ming’s extravagant barrage.

Seeing his attacks consistently miss, Jie Ming knew the speed gap was too great for conventional methods to work.

Gritting his teeth, he pulled another unassuming rune artifact from his internal space.

Unlike the crystal-like rune artifacts, this resembled a sleek metal bracelet, its surface etched with ancient, intricate runes, faintly glowing white.

This was the final piece of Jie Ming’s years of research, pushing his “Full Power Form” to its zenith.

Originally a crude mobile rune artifact for flight spells, he had planned to enhance it using insights from the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror.

But as his study of the Mirror deepened, he found the flight function increasingly obsolete.

Eventually, the flight runes became the biggest obstacle to improving the mobile artifact.

In the end, he removed them, transforming it into an entirely different rune artifact.

Snapping the metal bracelet onto his left wrist, Jie Ming mentally commanded, “Accelerate!”

An invisible energy surged from the bracelet into his body.

Instantly, the world around him seemed to hit a “slow-motion” button!

The Blood Angel’s rapidly beating wings became clear, each feather’s motion distinct.

The divine power swirling around the angel slowed, as if trapped in viscous syrup.

Even the dust in the air floated at a visible pace, as if frozen.

Time seemed stretched several times over, granting Jie Ming astonishing perception and reaction speed!

This was the rune artifact born from studying the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror—the “Acceleration Rune Artifact”!

It amplified his “perception and reaction” speed by dozens of times!

But this power came at a steep cost.

Each use drastically accelerated cellular metabolism, effectively burning through his lifespan.

The overwhelming information and strain of controlling this acceleration caused excruciating pain in his brain and soul.

Yet, all these drawbacks served one purpose—breaking past his current reaction speed limit!

With the Acceleration Rune Artifact, Jie Ming surpassed a first-level wizard’s reaction limits, clearly tracking the Blood Angel’s movements.

No longer a blur of afterimages, each flash and turn was distinct!

Even his flight spell, boosted by the artifact, nearly matched the Blood Angel’s astonishing speed.

Now able to track its movements, Jie Ming could finally engage the Blood Angel in true combat!

Enduring the bone-deep pain in his brain and soul, he locked onto the angel’s position, even predicting its actions.

The dense barrage instantly redirected, engulfing it in a blink.

“Vile heretic!” the Blood Angel roared amid the rain of energy bolts.

Though each bolt’s damage was negligible to it, being hit by so many simultaneously would be fatal, even for an angel.

Forced to act, it wove its longsword into an impenetrable net.

Each swing carried blood-red divine power, attempting to block or pierce the endless energy bolts.

Initially, the Blood Angel’s exquisite swordsmanship allowed it to deflect while seeking gaps in the barrage to counterattack.

But Jie Ming was an unyielding aerial fortress.

Each of the Blood Angel’s attacks was firmly blocked by the fourth-level artifact’s shield, rippling but never breaking.

“Think you can kill me? You’re nowhere close!” Jie Ming’s taunting voice, aided by the Acceleration Rune, rang clearly in the angel’s ears.

Controlling the rune ring, he continued pouring out endless energy bolts, enveloping the Blood Angel.

The angel grew increasingly desperate.

Its attacks couldn’t breach Jie Ming’s defenses, while his relentless barrage forced it to dodge and block constantly.

Each wingbeat, each movement, was hounded by thousands of tracking bolts, shattering its blood-red energy armor, exposing rough skin.

Though its wounds healed quickly under divine power, the mental toll accumulated.

The battle became a war of attrition.

The Blood Angel’s expression darkened.

After nearly an hour, its divine power was depleting rapidly, yet the wizard’s barrage showed no sign of stopping.

Worse, the wizard’s shield still held!

“Why can this attack persist?!” the Blood Angel roared inwardly.

It understood the rune artifact’s principle—drawing energy from the surrounding atmosphere.

But such massive consumption should have depleted the local “mana” long ago, even with sufficient mental energy.

It couldn’t fathom how Jie Ming sustained such a terrifying barrage.

“No matter, his shield’s time is almost up! Then…” The Blood Angel’s inner monologue faltered.

Just as it thought Jie Ming’s shield would fade, ready to counterattack, Jie Ming calmly pulled another identical fourth-level defensive artifact from his space!

As his mental energy surged, the old shield shattered, and a brighter, denser fourth-level shield instantly enveloped him.

“There’s more?!” The Blood Angel nearly spat blood.

This was no fair fight!

Panic crept in.

If this continued, its divine power would eventually run dry, and it would be worn down to death by this first-level wizard “monster”!

In truth, Jie Ming was equally anxious.

Behind him, the outermost of the three overlapping metal discs was dimming, its glow fading.

These discs were why he could sustain such a barrage.

Developed from studying the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror and elemental pools, these “Energy Storage Rune Artifacts” acted like miniature elemental pools, supplying endless energy to his rune artifacts.

But crafting and charging them was extremely difficult.

Even with Jie Ming’s wealth, he had only amassed three over the years.

Once all three were depleted, he’d have to rely on the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror to escape!

Though both were anxious, neither showed it.

Instead, they traded barbs in the sky.

“Is that all you’ve got, great and noble Blood Angel?” Jie Ming taunted lightly, dripping with sarcasm. “This divine power isn’t even enough for a warm-up! I told you, I’ve got all day to wear you down!”

The Blood Angel, surging with divine power, endured a barrage hit and roared, “Arrogant heretic! I’ll tear through your turtle shell eventually! Then you’ll pay for your folly!”

“Hah! Big talk, but aren’t you just struggling to survive?!”

“Heretic!”

“That’s all you’ve got to say?!”

“Damned heretic!”

“For heaven’s sake, I’m trying this hard—why are you still alive?!”

In this protracted, intense battle, the massive commotion drew countless natives to investigate or reinforce.

Yet, these natives—second-level at best, whether orc warriors on the ground or eagle knights in the air—were obliterated by Jie Ming’s thousands-strong barrage before they could resist, leaving no trace.

Eventually, no one dared approach, leaving the area as Jie Ming and the Blood Angel’s private battlefield.

Such a disturbance naturally caught the gods’ attention.

However, Elosia’s planar rules strictly limited beings above a certain strength from entering the mortal world.

Moreover, wizards lurked at the plane’s edges.

Even enraged, the gods dared not descend, fearing their actions would invite wizard invasions or expose their weaknesses.

Thus, the situation persisted bizarrely.

A third-level being was pinned down by a first-level wizard through near-cheating means, unable to break free.

Jie Ming and the Blood Angel, locked in this endless war of attrition, waited for the other to falter first.