Chapter 127 -127-Steamrolling the Battlefield

Chapter 127: Chapter127-Steamrolling the Battlefield

After Leviathan reached Lv20,

John didn’t rush to check its new skill.

There was still far too much EXP waiting for him on the battlefield.

He could study the skill later.

However, after what happened in Night City,

John suddenly remembered something important.

[Reality Merge].

Last time, he had forgotten to deal with this affix in advance.

As a result, it triggered immediately after he killed Grey and randomly selected [Hunter’s Eye].

The ability itself was certainly good.

But the scale of the war in front of him was even greater than what he had faced in Night City.

Countless elite monsters.

Thousands upon thousands of Thousand-Player Tier BOSSes.

There might even be stronger existences hiding farther back.

If some absurdly powerful skill dropped later,

but [Reality Merge] had already been used up beforehand—

that would be a huge loss.

John opened the Void Staff’s affix interface.

He found [Reality Merge].

[Spend 100 Gold Coins to remove the current affix?]

"Confirm."

[Gold Coins -100!]

[Divine Affix "Reality Merge" has been removed!]

The golden affix detached from the Void Staff

and returned to his affix inventory.

John was satisfied.

An ability like this—

was better saved until the very end.

He closed the interface

and looked down again.

After several consecutive rounds of spell bombardment,

the battlefield around John had already been completely transformed.

Frost covered the wasteland.

Flames continued burning across the ground.

Massive trenches left behind by the black hole scarred the area.

Large numbers of Darkkin corpses lay scattered among the ruins.

As far as the eye could see,

several kilometers of land had practically been turned into a death zone by force.

The Darkkin army still advancing from the rear slowed noticeably when they saw the devastation ahead.

Some officers even took the initiative to redirect their troops.

They would rather take a detour

than step into the area controlled by John.

The unstoppable momentum they had carried when first emerging from the Eternal Night Gate—

had been forcibly crushed by a single person.

However,

John quickly realized that this was still only one part of the entire battlefield.

Dawnstar City was enormous.

The Dark Realm army had spread out just as widely.

John raised his head and looked into the distance.

Several other directions were already in serious danger.

Large numbers of Darkkin had reached the city walls.

Some areas had even broken into close-quarters combat.

"Tch."

"Still not enough manpower."

John tightened his grip on the Void Staff.

Four streams of black-and-gold energy shot out instantly.

"Void Emissary!"

Buzz—!

Spatial rifts opened one after another.

Four towering Void Emissaries stepped through.

After John’s attributes increased again,

the newly summoned Void Emissaries had received another massive boost to all four core stats.

[Strength: 9,332]

[Constitution: 9,332]

[Agility: 9,332]

[Wisdom: 9,332]

John gave the order directly.

"Two of you, east."

"Two, west."

"Clear out the enemies near the walls."

All four Void Emissaries turned at once.

The next second—

they became four black streaks and shot off in opposite directions.

Their pitch-black longswords swung.

Massive blade waves swept across the ground!

Boom!

Dozens of Darkkin were sent flying along the path.

On the other side,

John raised his hand.

"Ice Rose."

A blue summoning formation appeared directly above the enemy army.

The charging Darkkin soldiers instinctively looked up.

All they saw was a rapidly expanding shadow.

"What is that?"

BOOM—!!!

The Lv40 Ice Rose crashed heavily into the formation.

The ground shook violently.

Several unlucky Darkkin were crushed beneath its shell on the spot.

[You have killed a Darkkin Elite Soldier!]

[You have killed a Darkkin Heavy Guard!]

"Guu!"

Ice Rose shook its head.

It seemed quite pleased with its entrance.

The next second—

[Frost Aura!]

Cold air rapidly spread outward.

The movements of nearby Darkkin slowed noticeably.

One of them roared and slashed at the shell.

Clang!

[Frostthorn Armor activated!]

Icy-blue spikes exploded outward!

[-51,200!]

The Darkkin screamed.

Its Attack Speed plummeted.

More melee units surrounded Ice Rose.

Blade after blade struck its shell.

The turtle itself barely reacted.

Instead,

damage numbers kept appearing above the attackers.

"Guu?"

Ice Rose slowly turned around.

Then it crawled toward the northern battlefield on all four legs.

It simply pushed straight through the entire Darkkin army in front of it.

John glanced over.

Good.

Two Void Emissaries to the east.

Two to the west.

Ice Rose would handle the north.

As for him...

John looked down at Leviathan beneath him, now nearly forty meters long.

He patted the scales on its back.

"Go down."

Leviathan let out a deep cry.

Its wings folded.

Its massive body plunged from the sky!

Boom!

Just before hitting the ground,

it suddenly spread its wings again.

The resulting gale blew over an entire group of Darkkin soldiers.

Then—

John had it charge straight into the enemy formation.

The enormous beast, dozens of meters long, began rampaging through the army.

Darkkin soldiers roared and attacked.

Arrows.

Spears.

Sabers.

Magic.

A barrage of attacks landed on Leviathan.

[Physical Immunity!]

[Magic Immunity!]

[Physical Immunity!]

[Magic Immunity!]

System notifications kept appearing.

Leviathan didn’t lose a single point of HP.

Instead,

it smashed the Darkkin formation into complete disarray.

John’s eyes lit up.

"Stop flying."

"Roll through them."

Leviathan: "?"

It seemed to hesitate for a moment.

But [Soul Bond] allowed it to quickly understand what John meant.

Its enormous body tipped sideways.

Rumble—!

The forty-meter-long beast began rolling straight through the Darkkin formation.

"Scatter!"

"Get out of the way!"

"What the hell is that thing?!"

"Our attacks don’t work!"

Large numbers of Darkkin were sent flying.

Others were directly caught beneath Leviathan’s rolling body.

The previously orderly formation instantly collapsed into chaos.

The damage itself wasn’t especially high.

But the sheer nuisance factor was off the charts.

They couldn’t kill it.

They couldn’t push it away.

And it was absurdly huge.

Standing on Leviathan’s back,

John nearly laughed out loud.

You could use it like this too?

In that case—

he had no reason to stay in the air either.

A silver-gray rift flashed.

John instantly appeared in the densest section of the enemy army.

The surrounding Darkkin hadn’t even reacted yet—

when the Void Staff slammed into the ground.

"Icefire Flame Array!"

BOOM—!!!

Ice and fire erupted simultaneously.

The HP of large numbers of nearby Darkkin began plummeting.

[-18,274!]

[-18,631!]

[-19,108!]

...

Fire Dragons swept past.

Void Spears tore through the battlefield.

Huge damage numbers erupted amid the constant damage ticks.

[-583,746!]

[-692,831!]

[-587,522!]

Ordinary elite monsters fell in waves after taking several consecutive hits.

[You have killed a Darkkin Elite Cavalryman!]

[You have killed a Darkkin Berserker!]

[Heart of Void activated! Maximum HP +1!]

[You have killed...]

John continued pushing deeper into the enemy army.

And behind him—

the pile of corpses only grew larger.

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