Xyrin Empire-Chapter 202: Trapped? Just Kidding...

Chapter 202 -202: Trapped? Just Kidding…

“They… they’re all being controlled?” Sylvanas said incredulously, her expression clouded with uncertainty. The idea of Spiritual Enslavement was particularly disturbing to The Forgotten, and now to see her own soldiers being controlled by it right before her eyes, even to be turned against her, the look on Sylvanas’s face was far from pleasant.

“Control isn’t quite the right word,” I observed the faint black mist emanating from the bodies of the approaching Undead Soldiers, “The power of the Abyss can greatly amplify all elements of violence and destruction. It can turn a sheep into a bloodthirsty beast, a stream into a city-engulfing flood, or, your soldiers into mindless killing machines, as if they had been injected with twenty pounds of chicken blood and lost all sense of friend from foe.”

As I watched the Undead Soldiers drawing closer, I too furrowed my brows. The Abyssal Aura was formidable, but could it manipulate over a hundred determined warriors so effortlessly? This place had been visited only by some Variant Demons, and I refused to believe that the Abyss Energy carried by thirty Variant Demons could be so potent that it would leave Sylvanas’s personal guards in such a state just by residual presence alone.

What exactly had I forgotten?

I searched quickly among the advancing Undead Soldiers, and suddenly, an extremely wretched figure appeared in my line of sight.

There it was—a being that barely resembled a human form, cloaked entirely in a dark, fog-like substance.

A Ghost, that incredibly lucky entity that somehow made it back alive from thirty Variant Demons!

Due to the Ghost’s innate ability to resist any physical or magical damage, Sylvanas had not questioned how such an inconsequential spirit managed to escape a vastly superior foe, and therefore, neither had I. Now, I realized the apparent oversight; ordinary demons might find themselves at a loss against something that couldn’t be harmed or fought, but could Abyss Energy really not handle an entity composed purely of energy?

So, it was likely… no, it was certain that this Ghost was already under the control of the Abyss Power! Moreover, it had become a vessel for that power. This meant that the “information” provided by the “Ghost” was undoubtedly false, and what had really happened here wasn’t the arrival of thirty Variant Demons but rather its own slaughter of the five hundred Undead Warriors. Then, using false intelligence, it lured Sylvanas out. What came next was something anyone with more brains than a tabletop could guess the Abyss was plotting.

Despite my suspicions, I still felt something was off. It seemed as though the enemy had already begun a targeted plan, even considering a scheme to eliminate the faction leader solo, but…

Forget it, with my intelligence, the war would probably be over by the time I figured all this out on my own, although this self-awareness always brought an inexplicable sense of melancholy to my heart…

“Anwina, get ready for the Holy Light to shine upon us, let’s see if we can snap these guys out of it first.”

After much thought, I decided to see if the energy of the Holy Light could restore those who had just been transformed by the Abyss Power. After all, these were Sylvanas’s closest soldiers; even if they had become the enemy, they were victims of control, and I could tell that Sylvanas was somewhat reluctant to strike them down.

Of course, I also knew that this was just an almost wishful attempt, if the corruption of the Abyss could be cleansed so easily, it wouldn’t have become something that even the Divine Race found incredibly troublesome.

Anwina nodded, then the wings on her back immediately emitted a strong white radiance, standing majestically on this battlefield strewn with zombies in a resplendent display of a high-intensity light source.

The next second, centered on Anwina, a wave of pure white halo rapidly spread and enveloped the entire battlefield; the pristine halos gave me a sense of serene warmth and comfort, yet induced miserable howls from the Forgotten Ones upon contact.

The Holy Light could harm not only the Abyss Power, but it was also the greatest nemesis of the undead creatures, even though Anwina had carefully removed the aggressive nature of the Holy Light Energy she emitted, this pure white curtain of light still caused those skeletal frames to feel excruciating pain deep in their souls.

Under the fierce baptism of Holy Light, the Undead Soldiers advancing towards us started emitting visibly black smoke from their bodies, and the tremendous chaos within their souls caused these befuddled undead to momentarily halt their advance, clutching their heads and crying out on the ground, creating chaos at the scene.

As I had expected, the Abyss had not considered these Undead Warriors, who were no more than Mixed Soldiers in its eyes, to be the main force against us. Just as Anwina was focusing most of her energy on purifying the Abyss Energy in the Forgotten Ones, a dark shadow quietly snuck beneath our feet.

Due to the chaos on the scene and the soil of the Tirisfal Region being naturally black, this energy-fluctuation-less dark shadow did not catch Sylvanas’s attention, but for me, who was well-prepared, this creature’s actions were completely laughable.

From the start, I had Anwina make a high-profile entry, even letting her use all of her scarce Holy Power to initiate the Holy Light, all to make the enemy think that the strongest among us was Anwina.

Sure enough, seeing the “strongest” Angel tied up by the Mixed Soldiers, this simple-minded Abyss couldn’t wait to launch an attack on its own target.

“If I were your boss, I would have done my reconnaissance work properly,” I suddenly lowered my head and spoke to the Abyss Energy gathering beneath our feet, dark like ink.

As soon as the words were spoken, even if Brother Mo Shui had a muddled mind, at that moment, it realized its disguise had been exposed. In the blink of an eye, the filth on the ground shrank into a fist-sized sphere and then darted towards Sylvanas at high speed, but she, never an easy target, narrowly dodged the enemy’s attack, albeit at an improbably sharp angle.

“What is this thing?”

Sylvanas cautiously watched the black sphere hovering about two meters in front of us, furrowing her brow as she spoke. Although she had successfully dodged the previous attack, it had given her quite a shock. Had her sweat glands not permanently ceased functioning, her forehead would have likely been covered in sweat by now. Years of combat instincts told her that had she not avoided that attack, she might have faced an outcome even worse than death.

“This is the Abyss, or more precisely, a contaminated entity formed when Abyss Energy becomes potent enough. Being tainted by this thing means even you might not escape the fate of being completely corrupted…”

“Hiss—”

Before I could flaunt the ink only worthy of showing off in front of a ‘novice’ like Sylvanas, the egg-sized Abyssal had already emitted an indecipherable hiss and then suddenly exploded into a thick black fog, completely enveloping the area we were in.

“Anwina, stay away from here!”

As the black fog had not yet completely surrounded us, I saw Anwina, who had not been affected yet, trying to rush over to me. I immediately shouted out loud.

This black fog might not be lethal to Sylvanas and me, but Anwina had too little experience fighting enemies. If she recklessly ran in, I might not be able to protect her adequately.

As the black fog appeared, negative implications of destruction and damage also pressed in from all directions. Such a massive and overbearing sense had even triggered a hint of irritability in my heart.

“Spirit Barrier!”

I quickly erected a semi-transparent spirit barrier, a shield entirely formed of strong spiritual power, which was the greatest bane of the Abyss Energy. As the barrier appeared, the irritability in my heart also quickly vanished, and Sylvanas, standing beside me, also didn’t look great, obviously disturbed by the experience.

I had underrated the enemy, not expecting that even a low-level Abyssal Aggregation could influence my mind. If a large number of the Abyss had come instead of just one, I really could have met a tragic end today.

Facing such a bizarre enemy, Sylvanas tried attacking. She drew her longbow, and a pure black energy arrow swiftly formed on the bowstring. With a quiet hum, the magic arrow, infused with powerful magic power, shot into the seemingly boundless black fog. Unsurprisingly, the arrow vanished upon entering the fog, causing only a small energy fluctuation, with no effect.

Similarly, the several spiritual shocks I casually released disappeared into the boundless black fog without a trace.

I am sure that the attacks from Sylvanas and me had succeeded in destroying parts of the black fog, but apparently, such minimal damage was repaired in less than a second…

Although the energy intensity of the black fog itself wasn’t noteworthy, the trouble was that its scope was simply too vast. Neither Sylvanas’ longbow nor my spiritual shocks could achieve an area attack that covered a square kilometer range. Moreover, it seemed like unless it could be completely eradicated in one go, the thing could keep regenerating, which was annoyingly unfair.

Facing a large fog, even the most powerful DPS would probably feel clueless about how to proceed, right?

Just then, I started to hear deep, low roars from all around, akin to hundreds of bloodthirsty beasts simultaneously freed from restraint, emitting the hungry calls of the wild.

It was those Undead Soldiers—freed from Anwina’s control and completely engulfed in Abyss Energy, these ordinary warriors had completely mutated into powerful Abyss Monsters!

Damn, this Abyss is outright cheating! Now we can neither hit it nor find a way out; instead, we are at constant risk of being attacked by those monsters lurking in the dark, making this situation unbearably frustrating!

“Anwina, how’s the situation?” I asked through spiritual connection.

“Master, I am fine, but the spread of the black fog is very fast, and I can’t disperse it!”

“Don’t worry about the black fog anymore, quickly get as far from here as you can, the farther the better!”

Damn it, you think you can trap us to death? Do you think I’m out of options now that you’ve turned into a fog? Today, you’ll see why Xyrin Technology is the bane of the Abyss!

I chuckled lowly and began to hurriedly pull stuff out from my personal space.

Phase Deflection Shield, Microspace Jump Avoidance System, Ghost Energy Reactive Armor, High-speed Resonance Deflection Crystal, a thrice-reinforced Crystal Cluster Array Shield, plus a will… scratch the last one…

Sylvanas watched dumbfounded as I continuously pulled out all these bizarre and odd-looking items from a space rift, then at an astonishing speed, I piled them into a strange-looking arrangement that resembled some kind of defensive bunker… no, a pile of junk. Out of curiosity, she hadn’t had the chance to ask before I unceremoniously pulled her into the small, safe area in the middle of this makeshift bunker.

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Hiss… Sylvanas is surprisingly cold to the touch…

Squeezed in what could be called the strongest life-saving bunker in history, almost embracing Her Majesty the Queen, I mused as such.

“Sylvanas, close your eyes,” I said as I pulled out a large pair of sunglasses and put them on, “Now, happy birthday, buddy…”

“Tenfold… Heavenly Light!”