Chapter 474: 439 First Wave of Spoils
The battle was unfolding in an orderly manner, whether it was Reiger and Liz on one side or Revin and Nipede on the other, both were continuously inflicting wounds on the giant guards, gradually tipping the scales of victory in their favor.
"Magician! Volley!"
Kazi’s side had also formally started to move. Following his command, the twenty magicians from the Meipros family’s knights all sprang into action, releasing the magic they had chanted.
These twenty magicians seemed to all have the aptitude for transformation series and were able to use elemental attack magic.
Thus, when Kazi gave the command, a series of compound attribute magic was fired off: some were surges of flame, others high-pressure water jets, some booming thunder, and some whirling blade winds, all striking the giant guard that Revin and Nipede were dealing with.
Under such a barrage of magic, even though the giant guard possessed endurance abilities surpassing Level 7, it still began to falter.
Primarily, Revin’s sword of the rebel and Nipede’s magic had created too many wounds, and the Meipros family’s magic knights specifically targeted these conspicuous wounds to fire their magic. Otherwise, the giant guard’s endurance would not have been breached by a bunch of Level 4 magicians.
However, at this time, two unexpected things occurred.
One was that Revin and Nipede were taking longer than anticipated.
The other was that the giant guards in the city were arriving faster than expected.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—!"
At one moment, several more giant guards charged out of the city, roaring towards them while also hurling massive stone spears towards the city gates, breaking the sound barrier and shooting towards Liz, who was tangled with two giant guards.
"Damn...!"
Perhaps because she was too focused on the two giant guards in front of her, Liz only noticed the stone spears when they were already very close, and exclaimed in surprise.
"Arrow-blocking Wall."
At that critical moment, it was Reiger who acted, employing a spell that could stop projectile weapons, causing the wind to change direction.
The stone spears wobbled in the turbulence and ultimately missed Liz, instead hitting the walls on either side of the gate, blasting several large holes in them.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—!"
The giant guards that had burst out of the city disregarded this, as if spurred by something, charged at Reiger and Liz, throwing punches powerful enough to shatter the earth.
"Master!"
Liz cried out involuntarily.
"Advanced Teleport!"
Reiger teleported in front of Liz, grabbed the girl by the shoulders, and then activated the teleportation magic, transporting Liz to another location.
Thanks to this, Reiger himself was enveloped by several giant guards, taking punches from all directions.
Those massive and frighteningly powerful punches, combined with the strength parameters among the top of Level 7, were not something even Reiger wished to endure carelessly.
And so, Reiger exploded.
Not figuratively, but literally.
"Maximum Enhance·Nuclear Explosion!"
A flash of light burst forth from Reiger’s body, like a detonated nuclear bomb, expanding and exploding instantly.
"Boom—!"
In the earth-shattering explosion, the blast swallowed everything, not only blowing up the city gates and the walls but also the several giant guards, reducing all of them to rubble in the blast.
"Another, another Tactical Level Magic...!?"
Feeling the tremors of the ground and atmosphere, the people outside the city gate wailed in distress.
Their assumption was understandable.
Nuclear Explosion—this spell, ranked at the ninth tier of staged magic.
While it is an offensive spell, its damage isn’t particularly high because it is a compound attribute magic, half fire and half blunt force, causing its damage to be weaker even among the ninth tier of spells.
But this spell has three advantages.
One is that it poses an exceptionally high threat to undead creatures of the skeleton type, for they fear both fire and blunt attacks the most.
Another is that the spell’s effect range is vastly large, ranking among the top in all ten tiers of magic. In terms of the Earth Mistake World, it is considered an ultra-wide range annihilation magic.
The last is that everyone within the range of this spell, enemies and allies alike, would suffer various abnormal statuses such as poisoning, blindness, deafness, confusion, panic, and even a strong knock-back effect. Even if the opponent is a massive, mountain-heavy fearsome beast, it would still be blasted away by this spell.
Thus, Reiger used this spell to blast away all the giant guards surrounding him.
Of course, Reiger himself was also within the effect range of the spell.
This is also a drawback of Nuclear Explosion, not distinguishing between friend and foe, even the user of the spell cannot avoid it.
But Reiger at the center of the blast was unscathed.
The reason is simple.
Because he is resistant to fire-based attacks.
Because he is resistant to various abnormal statuses.
As for the blunt damage, as long as Reiger used Radiant Green Body, a spell that could nullify a blunt force attack once, he would be completely impervious.
As long as he could defend completely, the forced knock-back of the spell would not take effect. Conversely, the enemies not only had to fully endure the damage and effects of the spell, but also, since half of this spell is fire-based, the pain from the fire attribute attacks was doubled, thanks to Reiger’s skills.
As a result, when the huge explosion occurred, not only were the giant guards blasted to destruction, the knights outside the city also thought Reiger had used a Tactical Level Magic, and even the city gate and the surrounding walls were destroyed, presenting a scene of devastation.
As for Reiger, he was completely unharmed, nonchalantly standing at the center of the explosion.
"[Triple Enhancement·Maximum Enhance·Crimson Nova]!"
"[Triple Enhancement·Maximum Enhance·Instant Severance]!"
Next, Reiger simultaneously unleashed two kinds of magic, causing three half-destroyed giant guards to be burnt by the Red Lotus Karma Fire, and also causing three other giants, who were struggling to rise, to be split in half by three dimension-slicing strikes.
In an instant, the Red Lotus Karma Fire melted three half-destroyed giants, and the other three giants, struggling to get up, were cut from head to toe, their enormous bodies falling to the left and right.
"Swoosh!" "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!" "Swoosh!"...
At that moment, whether it was the three burnt-up giant guards or those three bisected, from their bodies flew a piece of a crystal that radiated brilliance.
Upon appearing, the crystals immediately flew towards the center of the city, as if fleeing for their lives.
"Don’t think of escaping!"
Reiger immediately activated teleportation magic, appearing in front of each crystal, either grabbing or seizing them, capturing them all.
"Buzz!"
"Buzz!"
The crystals still tried to struggle, emitting buzzing sounds, until the palms of Reiger’s hands holding them surged with a crimson wave, then they quieted down as if admitting defeat.
"True to form for autonomous types, although not particularly intelligent, their defensive instincts are at least adequate, full of a will to survive."
Reiger, accustomed to such oddities, did not intend to let the core of these giant guards go and directly threw them into the dimensional cube’s storage space.
After pondering, Reiger again activated a spell—"Un-chanting Magic·Time Stop."
"———"
The world’s time was instantly frozen, plunging into silence.
Reiger moved through this world, exiting the half-destroyed city gate, seeing Revin and Nipede still battling the gate-guarding giant guards, with magic from the knights of the Meipros family creating a barrage of spells above their heads.
Reiger gave that area a glance, then shifted his gaze, arriving at one of the gate-guarding giants he had frozen into an ice mountain.
"[Delayed Magic Effect·Instant Severance]."
Timing the delayed magic, Reiger instantly flashed to the top of the giant guard’s head.
Soon, the time magic was undone, and the world regained its vitality.
"Pshht!"
Almost at the same moment, a strike capable of severing space flew out, shattering the ice mountain and also the giant guard inside, slicing him across the chest.
"Swoosh!"
A crystal immediately flew out from the chest of this guard whose size not only exceeded all crystals Reiger had encountered so far, but also its speed, which immediately flew up above the city, preparing to escape.
"[Time Stop]!"
Without hesitation, Reiger activated the top-tier time magic for the second time, freezing the world.
He flew in front of the crystal, reached out, and grasped it in his hand.
Soon, the magic dissipated.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"
The large crystal in Reiger’s hand suddenly began to struggle with astonishing force.
"Behave yourself!"
Reiger, as usual, used a dispel magic to intimidate, successfully subduing the large crystal before finally storing it in the dimensional cube’s storage space.
And all of this, astonishingly, went unnoticed.
"Master!"
Using the flight magic imparted by Reiger, Liz flew back after being teleported out.
"Raven!"
Nipede also controlled the giant guard with magic without noticing anything unusual and called out to Revin.
"Got it!"
Revin raised the Sword of the Rebel, utilizing the Ultimate Dark Sword Technique, merging black light and mysterious halos, allowing his Magic Greatsword to unleash tremendous power, slashing at the head of the giant guard.
"Pshht!"
The giant’s head was sheared off, flew up into the air, then crashed to the ground, motionless.
"Swoosh!"
From the neck of the giant guard, a large crystal appeared and flew swiftly toward the direction of the city.
Little did they know, Reiger had already been waiting there.
"[Advanced Teleportation]!"
With teleportation magic this time, he instantly moved in front of the crystal and grasped it.
The two gate-guarding giants were thus smoothly resolved, along with several other ordinary giant guards, their cores all falling into Reiger’s hands, becoming his spoils of war.