Chapter 1613 1613. That Was Fun
Long felt extreme pain in his chest. He also felt a creeping cold invading his body, but the flames burning over his body swiftly chased away the cold and restored the warmth in him.
He jumped away in time just as Jack’s real sword came slashing.
Long’s HP stopped recovering for a brief moment after getting hit by Jack’s Nine Yin Phantom Sword, but it now resumed again. The nine-yang energy had the same level as the nine-yin, it was able to repair even the nine-yin’s disrupting energy so long as the user had better expertise. Right now, Long’s mastery of the Nine Yang Scripture was better than Jack’s mastery of the Nine Yin Scripture.
Even so, Jack’s advancement in this ancient art surprised Long. He had heard reports about Jack using the Nine Yin Phantom Sword. But all this time, Jack always only unleashed one black light with a long interval between each usage. This time, Jack released two black lights without pause.
Jack only recently reached such mastery, and he could only do two rapid stabs using the Nine Yin Phantom Sword. He had to take a break before doing it again. It could be compared to someone who ran two laps and had to rest before doing another lap.
This was the first time he pulled it off in a real fight, and he felt excited about it. This stopped his movement, leaving him open for attacks. Blue chains erupted from under his feet. They were from Gridhacker’s spell. At the same time, a ring of light bound him. It was Magic Bind cast by Guzrim.
The eight draconian guards also came with their weapons ready to strike Jack. As for Long, his Nine Yang Restoration had brought his HP back to almost full again. He transformed into the enhanced dragon form and called his pet out, the Celestial Lindworm.
‘Hey, can I use Elevate Beast with Therras so far away from me?” Jack asked Peniel in his mind.
‘It should be no problem,’ Peniel answered.
“Hehe,” Jack grinned as the lindworm approached.
Jack used the skill then. The Elevate Beast should have increased Therras’ grade to eternal down there. He believed it was now causing even more havoc to the enemy soldiers than it already was. The reason Jack used the skill was not that Therras needed the boost. It was because he needed it to use Beast Command.
His Beast Command could only take control of the opponent’s pet if it was at least one grade lower than Therras and not ten levels higher than Therras’ level. Long’s Celestial Lindworm was a level 78 mythical. Therras was level 81 mythical. Under normal circumstances, Jack wouldn’t be able to take control of Long’s pet. But if Therras was elevated to the eternal grade, then it was possible.
Jack used his race skill, Willpower. The magic ring and blue chains binding him were broken. He flew away as the draconian guards came attacking. He then used Beast Command on the Celestial Lindworm that chased after him.
The Celestial Lindworm that was rushing at Jack suddenly turned to Long who was flying next to him. Long had tried using combination assault just now. He was confused when the system notified him that the skill’s condition was not met. His confusion turned to disbelief when his pet turned around with its mouth wide open ready to bite him.
He dodged in time and sent the lindworm a hard punch to the side of its head, sending it reeling. The lindworm retaliated by firing its light-element breath. Long shielded himself with his two dragon wings.
The rune diagrams around the throne room suddenly flared. The celestial lindworm was forcefully unsummoned by Gridhacker.
The pet was gone, but this disruption had caused Long to lose sight of Jack. When he was looking for Jack, he was assailed by a dark beam. He received chaos damage from the beam and he felt his head spinning. The beam stuck to him and dealt damage over time. He looked at the source of the beam and discovered that multiple beams were fired from the left-hand weapons wielded by multiple Jacks.
Gridhacker, Guzrim, and the draconian guards tried attacking these Jacks, but all their attacks just passed through. These Jacks were illusions.
Jack had cast Hundred Mirages and was using his Staff of Illios’ abilities, the Illios Stare and Vision Bending. Even without utilizing his perfect mana concealment, Long would still not find him due to the vision bending’s ability to conceal mana and grant its user invisibility.
Long’s HP went down from Illios Stare, but his Nine Yang Restoration kept him alive. His mastery over mana manipulation was advanced enough that he could still maintain his ancient art despite the mental attack from Illios Stare. Yet, he knew he couldn’t keep this for long. His head continued to throb. He could lose his focus any second.
Out of urgency, he instinctively punched using his special class’ skill, Infinite Comet Fists. The throne room was large, but the skill produced almost infinite speeding comets that struck all over. Long didn’t aim his skill, he let it spread everywhere to cover all corners. These comets also hit his allies but he didn’t care.
The comets were too many, Jack couldn’t dodge them all. He ended up using his sword art to neutralize the comets coming at him. Once his swords clashed with the comets, his invisibility ended. Jack’s copies produced by the vision bending also vanished.
The Illios Stare was still running, though. The dark beam continued to latch onto Long. Long used the level 70 skill from his Fist Lord class then.
Several duplicates of him charged out of his body, a total of ten of them. These ten duplicates came at Jack with blinding speed. Their assaults took Jack by surprise. Jack defended using a magic shield but the ten performed a combo by linking their hits. The assault sent Jack crashing into the wall. His Illios Stare was forcefully ended.
Peniel later informed Jack that the skill was called Astral Fists. Peniel also said that since Long conjured ten duplicates, that meant Long had fully max-leveled the skill. Astral Fists at its first level conjured only five duplicates.
Freed from the mental attack, Long fired his dragon form’s flame breath. The breath engulfed Jack.
When the flames subsided, they saw a pair of golden wings covering Jack. The golden wings absorbed all the damage from the flame breath. The two wings opened and exposed a grinning Jack.
“Hehe, that was fun. By the way, why don’t you call your companion? Where is Abasi?” Jack asked.
“Where is yours?” Long returned.
“Well, then playtime is over. I’m wrapping this up.”
Finished speaking, Jack used Reset.