Chapter 1527: Chaotic Battle

Chapter 1527: Chapter 1527: Chaotic Battle

As Meilin spoke, he lightly tapped the ground again with his magic staff. A gentle breeze blew from his magic staff, instantly dispersing the smoke rising from the debris in front of him. As the smoke dissipated, sixteen mechanical bodies identical to Pei Yan appeared on the stage.

"Sixteen people with identical source energy fluctuations, not a single difference in their auras either! Is this the effect of the combination of source energy and a Divine Artifact?" Gerald held his great sword horizontally, looking at the enemies on the stage. Even with his abilities and experience, he couldn’t distinguish which of these sixteen were real or fake.

"Be careful! They’re coming!" Bedivere saw their bodies starting to move and hurriedly shielded the mage and witch behind him, shouting loudly in warning.

The spell Meilin set up in the arena indeed restricted Pei Yan’s movement speed to some extent, but with Pei Yan’s recent attack on the surface, it caused significant damage to the ground spells. Added to his naturally high movement speed, when the sixteen figures moved again, they still maintained a dazzling, ghostly figure.

This time, however, Urban and the others could finally keep up with Pei Yan’s speed, blocking him was no longer so strenuous!

Sixteen approached from all directions, each maintaining the same aura! Once again, identifying which was the real Pei Yan became a headache for the three knights. However, facing such bizarre changes, Meilin remained calm, lightly tapping his magic staff in front of him, and casually chanting: "Mixed High-level Spell: Soul Burn!"

With those words, a wall of fire rose instantly around the six, and at the same time, the sixteen figures reached the edge of the firewall. Such flames were insignificant before the formidable defenses of the mechanical bodies, so the sixteen figures stepped through the sea of fire without the slightest hesitation.

"The target is him!" Aleister pointed out a figure on the left with his mind.

"Got it!" The three knights immediately understood the intent behind Meilin’s spell. The high-level mixed spell of fire and light elements, Soul Burn, was indeed a very effective and unpredictable attack against ordinary cultivators. But against the inwardly and outwardly strong defenses of Pei Yan, the damage seemed limited. Meilin’s intention wasn’t to harm but to indicate the position of the true body, because while source energy can be disguised, the soul cannot!

Pei Yan could disguise the source energy of the mechanical duplicates flawlessly but couldn’t divide his soul into sixteen parts for each mechanical duplicate. So, the Soul Burn only reacts to a soul. On the other fifteen mechanical duplicates, it burned as normal red flames, but when it touched the true body with a soul, its exterior changed to an eerie blue flame.

"Watch out! He’s switching his body position!" Hecate shouted loudly as she fixed her gaze on each enemy on the battlefield. Upon seeing a mechanical body glowing blue suddenly shift to red flames, while another mechanical body elsewhere emitted blue flames, she cried out: "Remember the lesson from just now! He is the God of Mechanics; he can switch his position with any mechanical duplicate unnoticed."

"Damn it! Such a cunning guy!" Urban, who had been focusing on one person, complained upon seeing this and had to once again spread his attention across all the mechanical bodies, by which time the sixteen mechanical bodies had already reached them.

Sixteen! This number far surpassed what Aleister could control with spatial confinement or time freeze, which was Pei Yan’s purpose in launching such a multi-person attack! Aleister could only focus on Pei Yan’s true body, constantly wary of possible lethal strikes from the opponent.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Long before the move, the three knights had been fortified with multiple effective blessings such as earth, wind, light, and fire elements. Facing the mechanical duplicates charging closely, they raised their great swords. The three holy swords, imbued with faith and more powerful than ordinary Divine Artifacts, swept towards the enemies in front of them with their swings.

Whether the mechanical duplicates rushing up or the hidden source energy strings they maneuvered, all were sliced into two by the sweep containing Thunderous Fury. Yet, the three showed no sign of relief, their focus continually chasing the blue flame leaping back and forth among the mechanical duplicates.

"Ah!"

A moment’s carelessness led to a fatal error. Because their attention was solely on tracking Pei Yan’s true body, they did not pay much heed to the mechanical bodies of the first wave after slicing them. Little did they know that those mechanical bodies, though suspended in the air and not yet landed, had not completed their attack mission but suddenly exploded with a mechanical hum, releasing a blinding light as bright as the sun and a bizarre high-decibel infrasonic wave that pierced eardrums upon explosion.

The screams echoed along with the explosion, as the high-concentration flash blinding light at such close range directly turned the vision of the three knights into a silver glare, with blood seeping from their eyes. Meanwhile, the ear-piercing sonic attack caused their ears to fill with blood.

In an instant, the three lost both sight and hearing. However, that was not the most frightening! For people of their level, such injuries could be healed within a few breaths allowing them to re-enter the battle. What truly frightened them was now losing these two crucial external sensory abilities, they once again had to rely on source energy perception to sense enemy positions. At that moment, dozens of source energy auras identical to Pei Yan rose suddenly, each emanating intense murderous intent, all attacking their location.

This is the weakness Yue Yong communicated to Pei Yan related to skilled masters. The higher the strength, the more sensitive they are to qi; whether it’s source energy or the murderous intent you might unconsciously leak, they can capture the emotions and weaknesses in your aura at the first moment. This is one of the advantages in high-level confrontations but at this moment, against Pei Yan’s meticulous manipulation of qi, it became a weakness being exploited.

"Time Rewind!"

A barely audible voice sounded, and suddenly, those dozens of murderous intents disappeared without a trace. Urban only felt the stabbing pain in his eyes vanish, and his brain stopped buzzing. He saw countless mechanical fragments and emitted light withdrawing rapidly before his eyes. Unable to resist, he glanced sidelong at Aleister, noticing that the figure which should have been intercepted was once again crossing their defensive line, the raised handgun aimed at Aleister’s forehead. Just one shot could be lethal!