Vexis nodded, her expression sowhat solemn.
"That sli mold dragon you defeated just now was actually my companion. It used to be a skeletal dragon; when we first ca to the Valkorath Realm, we had no experience fighting fungal creatures and it was converted by them."
"That skeletal dragon was once the strongest Legendary level being under my master. For you to slay it ans you've already surpassed the Legendary level."
Orion nodded, fully agreeing with Vexis's assessnt. That skeletal dragon had indeed been special.
In particular, that move nad Dragon Howl Devourer Wave wasn't just a locking attack—it could seal off part of the surrounding space. In the earlier clash, the new skill Orion learned, Battle Will Surge, had perford admirably.
Even so, once Battle Will Surge was broken, the layer of ice armor on Orion was destroyed again. Only when his dragonscale armor erged did it finally withstand the lingering power of Dragon Howl Devourer Wave.
"Let's keep going!"
Since Vexis was unhard, the battle had to continue, and there was no one else to substitute for them this ti.
Orion turned and flew back to the battlefield above, releasing his senses to search for any possible Legendary level enemies.
Another day and night passed. The sli molds broodmother no longer sent any additional Legendary level combatants into Orion's defensive zone.
At dawn, the night receded.
A trace of orangeish-red light appeared on the horizon, and as ti went by, that glow spread across the sky like a curtain.
Sunlight poured down, spanning across the heavens and earth. The temperature rose, and a mist slowly rose up from the ground. Along with it, the massive realm formation in the central region began to ascend.
Rumble!
When the realm formation rose, it sounded like thunder, or a tidal surge, or perhaps a resonance echoing between heaven and earth.
A pillar of light large enough to fill half the sky shot upward. In that vague luminescence, one could just make out the figure of an ancient World Tree standing tall within.
Dense runes shimred across the pillar of light, and even at a great distance, Orion could feel the surging torrent of arcane energy.
In the next mont, the earth trembled, the sea churned, and colossal waves began rolling in one after another.
Countless magical elents were activated, releasing the dormant power inside that imnse magical formation. At daybreak, the Valkorath Realm was bathed in a dazzling glow.
All at once, it felt as though the very air had solidified, and the entire world was briefly sublimated.
Yet at that pivotal mont, two enormous, indistinct figures appeared across the whole sky above.
And then, the booming of thunder roared.
Along with that thunder, golden pulses of light surged out from the central region and rose into the heavens.
Gradually, a faint golden magical formation enveloped the Valkorath Realm completely.
Raising his head, Orion gazed at this awe-inspiring spectacle in a brief mont of daze.
Mysterious energy swirled across the sky. Within the golden magical formation, golden runes gathered, flowing like rivers through the grand cosmos of magic.
Everyone looking up at the sky felt not only astonishnt, but also a naless fear and apprehension.
"The realm formation has been activated!"
"WAAAGH!"
After a soft exclamation, Orion let out a thunderous bellow.
It was the roar of the Giant King, carrying a fearso intimidation.
The Stoneheart Horde warriors who had gone montarily blank, and the small scorpions on the front lines, shook themselves back to awareness.
"Kill them all!"
The fighting resud. The battlefield's slaughter chanism started turning once more.
At this point, Orion could not afford to dwell on the strange phenona in the heavens.
High above that endless sky, two colossal figures collided, contending over faith and conversing with one another.
"Realm formation—so that was your plan."
"You realized it too late."
"You revealed this realm to
in hopes of drawing my people inside, trapping them here so that you could turn them into sustenance, continually extracting their life essence."
"Sli molds are notoriously difficult to handle, but the life essence they hold is indeed quite pure."
"That realm formation was not fully established. You're celebrating prematurely."
Beneath those majestic, divine voices was a confrontation of two overwhelmingly powerful existences.
Above the firmant, divine brilliance flashed, runes spiraled, and countless phantasms ford by belief were locked in killing, prayer, and sacrifice…
Down below, the fungal creatures—already beaten back—seed suddenly to receive so new command.
In an instant, the sli molds layer heaved and surged like a storm-tossed sea, rolling toward the defensive lines. Endless sli molds mutants, like fish and shrimp leaping from churning waters, burst out of the sli molds layer and joined the fray.
Battle escalated at once.
In every direction, fight zones erupted in renewed ferocity.
"Lady Vexis, don't stop the formation summoning!"
Orion's voice rang out from afar. Even though he had brought over a million small scorpions and over a million undead, the fungal creatures' desperate counterattack was starting to wear down the Stoneheart Horde.
To the north, at the sli molds main nest.
At that mont, broodmother Gloob extended her senses. Through the unique fungal neural links, she connected with broodmothers Blobby, Zigzag, and Wobble on the other three fronts.
"Our great Queen has commanded us to launch a full assault and destroy the realm formation core in the center of the continent."
"Hold back the arch lord-level enemies in other areas so that broodmother counterpart can begin its invasion."
"There is a super-tier being in the northern sector. One Vine Splitters unit must assist broodmother counterpart in cutting down the foe."
"…"
Fungal creatures were fully activated at this point, and their information was shared as one.
The entire continent, battered by the raging sli molds layer, was like an island barely above the waves, on the verge of being subrged.
At Bone City, on the ramparts.
Arthas stood at the foremost edge, as immovable as a statue, constantly locking onto the broodmother's presence.
Behind him, a large assembly of necromancers joined forces to cast a massive summoning spell over the area.
At the frontline, black mist began drifting and black rain started to fall.
Wherever that rain touched, all the fallen small scorpions and fungal creatures rose once again, returning to the battle.
To the south, atop a mountain peak.
Leonidas stood at the summit, gazing toward the horizon with deep, unblinking eyes.
From within the mountains, countless beasts thundered forth: those running on land, those burrowing into the earth, and those soaring through the skies. The roars of creatures of all sizes echoed, shaking the land, trampling countless sli molds mutants to death.
Within the beast horde, the skeleton general Rumbold—familiar to Orion—raised his sword again and again, converting the fallen beasts into undead minions to keep them in the fight.
Similar scenes played out in both the west and the east.
Back at the frontline, even Orion had joined in hunting down the sli molds mutants.
In only a brief mont, the numbers of Alpha-level sli molds mutants that erged from the sli molds layer were several tis that of Orion's forces.
His subordinates were forced into a defensive posture almost imdiately.
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