Chapter 415 - 303: Bloody Battle: Unhappy vs. Brainless!

Chapter 415: Chapter 303: Bloody Battle: Unhappy vs. Brainless!

Let the war begin!

Victory brings rewards!

Kill!

This simple information sent the Ogres’ walnut-sized brains into a frenzy. They roared at the sky, brandishing their clubs, and charged toward the heart’s location!

Watching the charging Ogres, Isaac raised an eyebrow. ’A pure battlefield ritual with no plot. Interesting.’

With a mere thought, the heart he had thrown down erupted in a dazzling crimson radiance. A bloody, terrifying, and grotesque crimson Magic Power surged skyward, rapidly weaving itself into a colossal heart, dozens of meters tall!

THUMP-THUMP~

The Ogres slowly halted. This wasn’t out of fear. Their minds had been severely eroded by the Demon God’s Magic Power, and most of them were fundamentally incapable of understanding fear. In their minds, there was nothing but eating and fighting.

The more extreme ones had even abandoned eating—a basic function hardwired into their very bloodline. Their minds were filled with nothing but fighting!

But while their minds couldn’t feel fear, their bodies could!

The Flesh Nest. It was the first big score Isaac had earned from the Master of Billions of Flesh. He had later studied it in depth on numerous occasions, until finally, it could create Pseudo-Tier Three Demons.

That is, Demons whose physical bodies and Magic Power had reached Tier Three, but who possessed no Authority.

However, that was its limit. Fusing it with some Outer God Power or Mysterious Knowledge might have allowed for further advancement, but Isaac had been trying to change his "style," so he had gradually set it aside and hadn’t upgraded it in a long time.

Until...

...the appearance of the Master of Blood. Or more precisely, his Divine Artifact, the Blood Pool.

In the end, although Isaac only managed to separate the Blood Pool—failing to preserve its capacity for infinite growth—even that was enough to bring about a completely new evolution for the Flesh Nest!

This heart today was the Flesh Nest, modified by Isaac after he integrated the Divine Artifact Blood Pool!

And it was this complex Magic Power that had awed the Ogres’ flesh-and-blood bodies into submission. Of course, it was only for a moment; this was merely a secondary effect, after all.

Its greatest feature was that it removed the "pseudo" from its creations!

Now it could create Tier Three Demons that possessed Authority!

Although they could only possess the relatively weak Authority of [Blood Incarnation], it was still an Authority, no matter how weak!

Having an Authority and not having one were two completely different Concepts!

ROAR!!!

With a ferocious roar, a Knight wreathed in blood flames and wielding a Greatsword charged out of the crimson heart. A terrifying, crimson Magic Power emanated from it, spreading wantonly in all directions!

The Blood Flame Knight’s roar only made the Ogres more furious. They shook off the suppressive awe of the heart’s crimson magical radiance and roared back at the Blood Flame Knight, giving it a taste of its own medicine!

SPLURCH! Then, the first Ogre to charge was sliced in half with a single swing of the sword.

Flashes of crimson sword light danced across the battlefield. With every arc of the blade, severed limbs flew through the air. The Blood Flame Knight moved as if through an empty battlefield!

Of course, that wasn’t to say there were no Tier Three Ogres. Not only were there, but there were several!

And all of them had been included within!

A full nine of them!

One of them was even a two-headed Ogre—a classic Ogre Wizard!

One with a Casting Ability!

Unfortunately, the Ogres weren’t as agile as the Blood Flame Knight. The Authority they possessed was merely a simple [Magic Enhancement]. Even with a crude application of this Authority, they could easily unleash a Magic Cannon of extraordinary power.

But...

They were just turrets...

Completely unable to hit the agile Blood Flame Knight!

One against nine!

Without losing any ground whatsoever!

Yes, one against nine.

The evolved Flesh Nest traded quantity for quality. A single Flesh Nest could now only support one Tier Three Blood Flame Knight; it could no longer even produce ordinary Great Sword Ghosts.

Furthermore, the towering Flesh Nest was the Blood Flame Knight’s weakness. If the Flesh Nest were destroyed, the Knight could only survive for three minutes at most. Even if Isaac himself took control, its existence could only be extended to ten minutes.

After that, it would still die.

Most critically, all the energy for the Blood Flame Knight’s activities came from the Flesh Nest, so the two could not be too far apart. It was, one might say, a crippling limitation.

Fortunately, the Ogres were brainless. Despite being unable to defeat or catch the Blood Flame Knight, they charged head-on at it, completely ignoring the thirty-meter-plus Flesh Nest...

However...

Isaac felt no joy at this, because if the Ogres were brainless, the Blood Flame Knight wasn’t much better...

On the battlefield below, after killing nearly a third of the Ogres, the Blood Flame Knight let out a long cry. The severed limbs scattered across the field instantly liquefied into a torrent of blood that surged toward it. In a flash, it coalesced into a thirty-meter-tall, blood-colored Divine General!

This was the Blood Flame Knight’s Authority—[Blood Incarnation]!

[Blood Incarnation]. This Authority had two uses. The first was as the Blood Flame Knight had just demonstrated: transforming flesh and blood into an aura of crimson Magic Power, granting itself an all-around enhancement.

Shrouded in this crimson aura, as long as its Magic Power did not run out, it possessed an Undying Body!

The second was as it was doing now: gathering all flesh and blood within a certain range, transforming it into crimson Magic Power, and coalescing it into a blood-colored Divine General!

Unleashing an ability that only a Knight of the Path of the Gods should possess!

Just like the Incarnation of a normal Knight of the Path of the Gods, it also had two abilities. The first was an all-around enhancement of its own power, almost doubling it!

The second was to generate a domain. Within this domain, all forms of power would be weakened!

All of them!

The only thing that could counter a domain was the domain of a High-level Knight of the Path of the Gods!

This ability was, without a doubt, extremely powerful!

Never mind Knights; even an average High-level Mage would be at a disadvantage against this move. The current standing of Knights was largely attributable to this ability.

But...

Watching the battle from the sky, Isaac sighed helplessly and pressed his palm to his forehead.

True, the Divine General’s domain did significantly suppress the Ogres’ power. Tier Two Ogres were suppressed to Tier One, Tier One to Non-Rank, and Non-Rank Ogres dissolved directly into pools of blood. A single swing of its ten-meter-plus longsword also reaped the lives of swaths of Ogres.

But...

...after the Tier Three Ogres were suppressed, they were still Tier Three. Although all their attributes had dropped significantly, their Authority remained. And so, the next moment...

BOOM!

Nine thick, purplish-black beams from the Magic Cannons slammed directly into the blood-colored Divine General!

It had now been reduced to a complete sitting duck!

ROAR!!!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!

The Blood Flame Knight had just let out a furious roar when the second round of magical bombardment followed. Taking the full brunt of the second volley, the blood-colored Divine General staggered, its form flickering and becoming much fainter.

Seeing this, Isaac sighed once more. ’The outcome is already decided...’

SHRRRIP~