Chapter 1528: Fierce Confrontation

Chapter 1528: Chapter 1528: Fierce Confrontation

Unfortunately, Pei Yan’s shot still couldn’t be fired. Just as he raised his hand to aim, his body and everything around him seemed to be rewound, moving backward.

Everything returned to the moment before the explosion. This time, Urban and the other two knew what was about to happen, prepared protection for their eyes and ears in advance, and simultaneously attacked Pei Yan, who was planning to take advantage of the explosion’s roar to launch a sneak attack.

Boom!

The flash and sonic wave sounded again, but this time without the screams of the three knights. The three’s greatswords and the icy mist of the Hecate Witch hit Pei Yan’s body, which continued its attack due to inertia.

Bang!

The ice sculpture-like machine instantly shattered into powder under the assault of three swords. Before that, Pei Yan had already transferred to a more distant machine, but before he could catch his breath, Meilin, who had predicted his next move, had already launched an attack.

"Soul Stiffening!"

This was a continuation of Hecate’s previous attack. Although Pei Yan jumped out of the enemy’s encirclement at the first sign of a counterattack during the time reversal, Hecate’s icy mist still plunged his soul into an ice cellar, dulling his reactions. Normally, Pei Yan could quickly relieve such a situation, but Meilin was a step ahead, setting up Soul Stiffening on the machine he was about to jump to, making Pei Yan like a tiger thrown into a trap, frozen stiff and unable to move.

Just as Pei Yan would exploit any opening to attack the opponent, the enemy’s counterattack was as swift and fierce as a storm. Upon discovering Pei Yan’s transfer and being controlled again, the three knights, like vicious dogs seizing prey’s weakness, instantly rushed to Pei Yan’s side to launch an attack on his vital points.

The longsword easily sliced through Pei Yan’s body. Facing the attack, Pei Yan did not meet it head-on but utilized the traits of the Demon Race to vaporize the part in contact with the enemy’s holy sword. In the magic plane, encounters with the Hell Demon Race were frequent. These three, having vast experience, immediately recognized the trick and devised a counter. The three switched from slashing to thrusting, stabbing fiercely towards Pei Yan’s body, while the light and soul forces on the holy swords firmly adhered to the dispersed vaporized particles, leaving Pei Yan no chance to escape.

"Be careful!" Aleister watched as Pei Yan, impassive at the holy swords piercing his body, raised both hands and loudly warned the two Round Table Knights advancing on him: "He’s likely still able to transfer the damage! He’s intending to fight with a life-risking move!"

"Shattering Source Slash!"

Boom!

With a muffled explosion, Pei Yan was sent flying horizontally, while the two Round Table Knights, Bedivere and Gerald, were not faring well either. Their sword-wielding arms were entangled by source energy lines sprouted from Pei Yan’s body. Despite wearing holy armor, the finer source energy lines, reinforced by the White Deer Institute’s silkworm gloves and the Divine Artifact Ring, left cracks on the armor. The worst damage broke through the armor, injuring their arms, blood streaming down. Simultaneously, the plasma beam shot from the close palm directly melted their helmet visors, causing the molten iron to bond with their skin! If not for the supreme defense of the Heavenly Dao against source energy attacks, such an assault could have claimed a cultivator’s life.

At the moment Pei Yan’s attack was launched, the three knights counterattacked by detonating the source energy within their holy swords, causing it to explode inside Pei Yan’s body. Although frequent use of this attack would irreversibly damage the Divine Artifacts, the urgency of fighting a formidable foe like Pei Yan left no room for reservations.

"Cough! Cough! Cough! Phew! So powerful! Truly, a slight misstep could lead to eternal damnation!" Pei Yan, who had fallen, leaped up after a brief coughing fit, with the three pierced areas on his body healing instantly! After removing his visor, he spat a mouthful of clotted blood on the ground and looked up at Meilin and the others with admiration.

Aleister knew Pei Yan wasn’t as unscathed as he appeared. Physical injuries could be transferred, but soul damage could not be replaced. The Shattering Source Slash unleashed by the three Holy Knight-level opponents could injure the soul. Even though Pei Yan managed to endure most of it with his body, his soul couldn’t avoid being impacted.

Despite saying this, Aleister himself wasn’t in a good state either. He had suffered no physical harm in the recent attack, but time-element spells were highly energy-consuming. It would be manageable if applied on an individual scale, but casting a time reversal on such a vast scope had exacerbated his current state of sustaining magic with life energy.

Clearly, Pei Yan also noticed Aleister’s fatigue. Externally, Aleister still appeared at his peak, but recovering to this pinnacle took longer than after summoning Meilin. To outsiders, this might be a minute observation, yet it couldn’t escape Pei Yan’s AI’s analytical capture.

"He’s wearing you down! He’s using persistent probing attacks to make you expend your resources on more energy-intensive spells, eventually wearing down your body and will! From now on, minimize your use of time-element spells, focus on support, and reserve forbidden-level spells for critical moments," Meilin similarly noticed Aleister’s shift and warned after discerning Pei Yan’s intent.

"Okay!" Aleister nodded and agreed.

"Such troublesome control ability! Facing a coalition of so many experts indeed makes my attacks less fluid! But you’re the most troublesome of them all!" Pei Yan exclaimed, pointing at Meilin, "Your presence has greatly enhanced this group’s capability to restrain me! Phew! I need to seriously think about how to beat you!"

"Really?" Meilin responded with a smile, "Do you really need to think it over seriously? Young man, from my perspective, your probing attacks have already made us scramble. To lead a disturbance to such an extent in Council City, I assume you’re relying on more than just courage? Surely, you have more cards up your sleeve, right?"

"Indeed! But those cards are reserved for the prominent figure you mentioned! I don’t want to reveal them too soon." Pei Yan replied candidly to the inquiry.

Pei Yan’s words were indeed quite arrogant. Everyone understood that the prominent figure he referred to was the Magic Plane’s Venerable Face, implying no one else, not even the legendary Meilin, nor with six experts jointly besieging him, was worthy of seeing his trump cards.

"Hehehe! Young man, unlike you, I have no need to hide any cards!"