Chapter 327: 326 Magic and Skills
"Boom——"
Beneath the moonlit night, in the forest, a sudden loud noise erupted, causing trees in a corner of the forest to topple, sending up dust like a geyser erupting.
Two figures flew out from the dust, one retreating backward like a streak of light and the other frantically chasing after it at lightning speed.
"Don’t——think——you——can——escape——!"
Having completely transformed into a monster, Shalltear let out a screech-like roar and, while chasing the figure retreating wildly through the air, Reiger, she swung her arm that turned into a claw, slashing sharp claw lights that enveloped the area.
"Boom!"
The surrounding trees were effortlessly sliced by Shalltear’s claws, falling like collapsing columns and kicking up clouds of dust.
Wherever Reiger and Shalltear passed, the forest suffered damage from Shalltear’s frenzy of attacks, causing continuous destruction to the trees.
"Indeed, very strong."
Retreating backward, Reiger, with eyes that shone with a transparent luster, dodged the incoming claw attacks one by one while keeping an eye on the relentless Shalltear, who was astonishingly fast and exhibited terrifyingly powerful attacks, finally feeling a surge of excitement at facing a strong opponent.
Since arriving in this world, Reiger had faced mostly pitifully weak natives. Even someone like Gejiev, who had stepped into the Heroic Domain, only had strength around Level 3, which hardly offered the thrill of battle.
It was not until this moment, facing Shalltear, a max-level NPC from "YGGDRASIL" and a Guardian of the Nasalik Underground Tomb, that Reiger felt a slight sense of meeting his match.
This prompted Reiger to reach for his sword and slash toward Shalltear, unleashing a cut so fast that the blade itself was nearly invisible.
"Moon Breathing·First Form·Dark Moon·Night Palace."
The slash, carrying many moon blades, burst forth in the forest, shining like a flash, cutting towards Shalltear.
"[High-Tier Teleportation]!"
Perceiving the danger, Shalltear didn’t even think before using magic, vanishing on the spot.
[High-Tier Teleportation], a spell that even Reiger once coveted. Unlike [Dimensional Movement], a third-tier magic spell, the [High-Tier Teleportation] that Shalltear used was a seventh-tier spell, capable of teleporting multiple people simultaneously almost without failure. Unless obstructed by targeted magic interference, it could overcome barriers and buildings, allowing the caster to come and go freely.
And so, Shalltear entered a state of instant movement, disappearing from before Reiger and reappeared behind him.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"
Transformed into a monster, Shalltear opened her maw, like that of a lamprey, full of sharp teeth, and bit at Reiger’s neck.
"[Dimensional Movement]."
Reiger immediately activated his teleportation magic, disappearing from in front of Shalltear, causing her ferocious bite to miss.
"Moon Breathing·Second Form·Moon Playing."
In the next instant, two blade winds carrying moon blades slashed from below Shalltear, grinding several toppled giant trees to splinters.
"[Strength Holy Domain]!"
Shalltear chanted a defensive spell, creating a white magic barrier around herself.
This barrier was an absolute defense wall that completely separated her attacks from her opponent’s.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
The two highly destructive blade winds hit the white magic barrier, causing the shield-like barrier to tremble a few times before negating the blade winds’ attacks.
"Moon Breathing·Third Form·Detestable Moon·Erosion."
Reiger suddenly appeared above Shalltear, waving his sharp blade that instantly revealed moon blades, turning his flurry of slashes into two crescent-shaped blade winds adorned with many moon blades of various sizes, slashing towards Shalltear.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
The blade winds and numerous moon blades all landed on Shalltear’s [Strength Holy Domain] once again, causing it to tremble.
"Moon Breathing·Sixth Style·Long Night Solitary Moon·Abyss."
Seeing that the [Strength Holy Domain] continued to protect Shalltear, Reiger, his long sword dancing in his hand, suddenly executed a series of cuts, sending countless crossing blade winds towards Shalltear below.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...
In an instant, a continuous series of explosive sounds arose, as if alarming the forest, causing it to tremble.
The storm of blade winds struck one after another upon the [Strength Holy Domain], making it tremble more and more violently.
This was because the [Strength Holy Domain] was not permanent protection, but like weapons and armor, it had a durability value. Once subject to continuous fierce attacks, the durability would decrease, and when it reached zero, the barrier would break.
Knowing this characteristic of the [Strength Holy Domain], Reiger kept launching relentless attacks, using the high-speed, wide-ranging Moon Breathing sword techniques to break through Shalltear’s defensive magic.
"You detestable——human——!"
Shalltear’s cries had already lost their form, now a mere monstrous roar, the howl of a beast.
"Charming Demon Eye!"
Unable to attack Shalltear before the Heroic Domain vanished, Reiger, in that moment, while unleashing a series of powerful blade gusts, used a psychic magic spell against her.
It was a form of psychic domination magic targeted toward the human species.
When the targeted subject was of the human species, they would come to regard the caster as a trustworthy and close friend, charmed and manipulated by them.
Reiger felt a surge of Magic Power suddenly descend upon him, attempting to invade his brain, his psyche.
But, the Magic Power quickly came to naught.
Psychic domination, such magic was nothing more than a breeze against Reiger, who was immune to psychic interference.
"Despicable!"
Shalltear was furious, her eyes fixed on Reiger, flickering intensely with a deep red glow.
That, too, was a kind of psychic domination ability.
"YGGDRASIL" characters had not only magic but also skills, and special abilities unique to their races.
Like the bone dragons before, they possessed special abilities such as immunity to magic of the sixth tier and below, and resistance to slash-attribute attacks.
Shalltear was a vampire, and a high-ranking one at that, endowing her with multiple racial abilities, including but not limited to: high-speed healing, Charming Demon Eye, life force absorption, the creation of lower-tier vampire classes, weapon resistance, frost damage resistance, complete resistance to instant death, nullification of psychic effects, complete resistance to movement impairment, negation of flight without magic, resistance to vampire-specific weapons, immunity to poison, and more.
Had Reiger not had a special attack against evil entities, he might not have succeeded in cutting off Shalltear’s arm, which was endowed with weapon resistance and many other special abilities. Even if he had, a high-ranking undead like Shalltear could quickly heal with high-speed recovery.
However, because Reiger had a special attack capability against such evil life forms, Shalltear’s severed arm had not yet recovered, still in a state of dismemberment, even causing her pain, which an undead should not feel, leading to her intense rage.
Now, Shalltear was using her Charming Demon Eye on Reiger, a special ability to control the psyche.
In response, Reiger delivered another impressionable slash to Shalltear.
"Moon Breathing·Ninth Form: Moonfall Continuous."
It was a continuous and random series of formless slashes, even more numerous and powerful than before, blade gusts interweaving.
The blade gust, carrying numerous crescent moons, cut down all the surrounding trees while falling, crashing down on Shalltear’s Heroic Domain amid the rumbling of giant trees hitting the ground.
"Boom!"
The protective barrier, which seemed to be assaulted by countless tornadoes, finally shattered amidst this attack, capable of leveling the surroundings.
"Dimensional Movement!"
Shalltear hastily cast a teleportation spell, instantly moving away just before being torn apart by the numerous crisscrossing blade gusts, reappearing atop a collapsing tree.
"Moon Breathing·Ten Forms·Face Piercing Slash·Luo Yue."
Reiger’s transparent world successfully located Shalltear’s position, and his reflexes, strengthened by the ’Speed of Attack’ capability, had him swiftly shifting his attack towards Shalltear, unleashing three giant circular crescent Sword Qi.
This spectacular Sword Qi swirled in its journey, shredding everything in its path, whether it be trees fallen on the ground, or the dust-covered ground itself, being plowed open by the giant crescents, all crushed and blasted in succession.
Faced with such a wide-range attack, Shalltear, who had just used "Dimensional Movement" and was somewhat in a stiffened state, realized that she had no way to avoid it.
The vampire girl, with bloodshot eyes, let out a furious howl toward the grand crescent moons of the Sword Qi.
"Unclean Impact Shield!"
A surge of black and red impact waves, like blood, suddenly erupted from the front of Shalltear’s raised palm.
This was not a magic spell but one of Shalltear’s special skills, which could be used only twice a day, an attack-and-defense shield.
This was also one of Shalltear’s trump cards.
The fact that it was used only meant one thing.
That was, Shalltear had been driven into a corner, where she could not resolve the crisis without it.
"Roar——"
Instantly, the impact wave collided with the magnificent Sword Qi, letting out a deafening roar as they both vanished.
They nullified each other, leaving only the strong winds from the collision to howl across the ravaged earth, causing the ground to sink and shatter a second time amidst the roar.
Enveloped in a pale blue Magic Power light, Reiger hovered in mid-air, watching this scene with mixed emotions.
"The magic and skills of this world really are something."
He couldn’t help but feel this way.