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Chapter 776
Chapter 776
The expedition team sprinted toward the base that was shooting a pillar of light into the sky, but...
Ssseuuu...!
A dense black mist emerged out of nowhere and pervaded the entire Suzdal Empire Ruins: 458.
[Alert: Status Ailment!]
[Alert: You have been afflicted with Silence!]
[Alert: Skills may not be used within the Void Mist!]
The dense black mist was called Void Mist, and it was the manifestation of the Void Soul’s power. No skills could be used as long as the user was within the mist.
“What overwhelming energy this is... Hohoho...” Daode Tianzun muttered with a chuckle. He stood at the pinnacle of magic, an Archmage, yet even he, with his mastery over magic, struggled to cast spells within the mist.
“Eh? A mist that seals the use of skills?” Siegfried grumbled, stunned by the power of the Void Mist.
This silencing mist was a crushing blow for classes reliant on casting magic or skills, as their only option to fight was to rely solely on basic attacks powered by mana.
To make the situation even worse, when the mist appeared, monsters imbued with the powers of the Soul Fragments of Apocalius emerged from all directions and swarmed the expedition team.
“Kyaaah!”
“Kieeek!”
“Grrr! Waaah!”
The worst-case scenario was ongoing. These monsters posed an immense threat to the silenced expedition party. Even though they had the Archmage, Daode Tianzun, on their side, the fact that they couldn't use their skills rendered the majority of them useless.
Gosran also found her combat capabilities reduced significantly, as her main strength was in unleashing devastating ranged attacks with her skills. In the mist, her skills were sealed, leaving her with no choice but to rely on her normal arrows.
She took out an old-fashioned quiver and began firing arrows at the monsters.
“Hmm? Who is this girl? Isn’t that Windforce’s bow? Could she be a descendant of Windforce?” Deus[1] grumbled, frowning while watching her.
He watched her intently for a while, clearly fascinated, but that was about it.
“Meh, for a supposed descendant of Windforce, her skills are quite lacking,” Deus murmured bluntly with a shrug. Then, he turned to crush the invading monsters with basic attacks that were far more devastating and destructive than most people’s skills.
Siegfried was not sitting idly by; he struck down the monsters with absolute brutality using his +15 Vanquisher’s Grasp.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
The monsters struck by the + Vanquisher’s Grasp couldn't withstand the brunt of its damage and died, proving that the enormous investment Siegfried had made to enhance the weapon from +13 to +15 had paid off in spades.
[Alert: You have gained 0 Experience Points!]
[Alert: You have gained 0 Experience Points!]
[Alert: You have gained 0 Experience Points!]
[Alert: You have gained 0 Experience Points!]
Although he fought off waves of powerful monsters, he didn't obtain even one Experience Point from them.
‘I guess I’ve really hit the max level,’ Siegfried thought grimly. He had just realized that he had truly reached the level cap, and it was proven by how his experience bar was refusing to budge, no matter how many monsters he killed.
The battle raged on.
Everyone was fighting as fiercely as they could in the midst of the suffocating mist, but there was one person who shone brighter than anyone else.
That person was none other than Seung-Gu.
Each dungeon had unique characteristics, so some would favor a certain type of class while limiting others. In this case, Seung-Gu’s class proved immensely advantageous to their current predicament.
“Die, foul beasts!”
“Kill them all! Shoot every last one of them down!”
Seung-Gu mounted Golem King Reventon, who was wielding a massive greatsword on one hand and a heavy-duty cannon on the other.
The Golem King caused absolute mayhem on the battlefield whenever he fired his hand cannon and swung his great sword, and the cannon fire from the pre-summoned Iron Golems devastated the incoming hordes of enemies.
For Seung-Gu, the limitation of not being able to use skills was barely an inconvenience. He had already summoned his golems before the mist had set in, so he could fight as he normally would by commanding his Iron Golems to decimate the enemies with their powerful cannons.
Baaam!
The Void Mist dispersed completely as soon as Siegfried killed the final Void Smogger.
Deus, who was busy killing the nearby monsters, turned to him and smirked. “Your sense of judgment is not bad at all. I guess being weak means you have to compensate for it with your head. Keke!”
“Of course, Master!” Siegfried replied with a broad grin, feeling proud of himself.
With the mist gone, Siegfried channeled his mana and unleashed Wave of Truth.
Rumble!
The powerful burst of mana rippled outward, enveloping the zealots buffed by the Almighty Soul.
When Siegfried’s Wave of Truth swept across them, their buffs were instantly weakened.
The Almighty Soul’s buffs were not completely nullified, as it was too strong for a single Wave of Truth to dispel completely. Still, it managed to strip more than fifty percent of the buff’s efficacy, making the zealots much weaker.
The expedition team then launched a fierce counterattack that made the vulnerable zealots and monsters fall like flies.
“A-Arghh!”
“Noooo!”
The two thousand zealots of the Church of Osric, who had proclaimed themselves to be Angels of Genesis, were decimated in the blink of an eye.
Of course, the monsters did not fare much better; they were incinerated en masse by Archmage Daode Tianzun’s spells.
“Let’s move!” Siegfried rallied his comrades and headed toward the enemy’s headquarters.
But before they could advance—
Flash! Flash! Flash! Flash!
Shwoooooong!
Four beams of light shot down from the Heaven’s Eye.
***
Each beam of light was of a distinct color, green, black, purple, and white, and they landed directly in front of the expedition team. Figures familiar to Siegfried then emerged from the lights.
From the green beam of light emerged the spectral form of Hennessy Venom, the Venomous, wielding the power of the Ignite Soul...
From the purple beam of light emerged the phantom of Death Fog, the Immortal, wielding the power of the Requiem Soul...
From the white beam of light emerged the projection of Seraph, the Omnipotent, wielding the power of the Almighty Soul...
And from the black beam of light emerged the manifestation of Pluto, the Void, wielding the power of the Void Soul.
These were the specters of the Soul Fragment of Apocalius that Siegfried had vanquished so far. However, there was something different about them this time, and it was their levels.
Hennessy, Death Fog, Seraph, and Pluto were all Level 500. They were around Level 300 when Siegfried had faced them in their original forms, but their specters had exceeded even the threshold of a Grandmaster, which was at Level 450.
Of course, it wasn't just their levels.
Sseuuuu...!
Pluto, the Void, unleashed a wave of Void Mist, shrouding the surroundings in a suffocating darkness that silenced everyone and everything within it.
[Alert: Status Ailment!]
[Alert: You have been afflicted with Silence!]
[Alert: Skills may not be used within the Void Mist!]
“Kyaaaaah!”
“Kieeeeek!”
As if that was not enough, an overwhelming number of monsters emerged. They numbered in the millions, and they charged at the expedition team with frenzied looks.
Unfortunately for Siegfried and his comrades, the battle seemed to be far from over.
1. Author-nim suddenly switched to Deus instead of Siegfried, so that’s the end of the confusion. ☜