[Hell Arena, the Ultimate Arena]
Inside the city sealed by magic.
While the others held off the enemies, Elfa joined forces with Kwon Ji-Hyun, and together with the support of the powerhouses of the Eight Great Nations, they had already killed the Hell Familiar Golia for the tenth time.
But what drove people to despair was this: every time it died, within ten seconds the Hell Familiar would revive at full health.
It was as if it possessed an undying body.
Reviving again and again, Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun began to feel hopeless.
At this moment, the backstage monitoring staff sent word, ["There's no detected death-reconstruction data in the BOSS's body. Its activity doesn't actually belong to death-resurrection. Rather, it should be that you haven't truly killed it in the real sense. Which means, in its near-death state, if you don't finish it within ten seconds, it just fully recovers."]
"F*ck!", Elfa, hearing this, was furious, "Then what way is there to kill it for good?"
["For now, no related method has been found…"]
Even the technical staff backstage were helpless.
And at this moment, the Hell Familiar Golia, "revived" for the tenth time, once again lunged to attack Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun.
These repeated kills had already forced the Eight Great Nations to pay a tremendous price in lives and strength.
"If this keeps up, our fighting power will be completely drained."
"Damn it, what method is there to actually kill it!"
Everyone was helpless before the Hell Familiar.
———
Elsewhere, the Flowing Gold Warrior and the Three Main Gods ravaged without resistance.
The professional powerhouses of every empire became prey, hunted down by the Three Main Gods, and then devoured by the Flowing Gold Warrior.
All who tried to resist only hastened their own deaths, turning themselves into prey even sooner.
"Could it be… because of the Three Main Gods?"
While Lelovs and the others temporarily held the Hell Familiar back, Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun turned their gaze to the Three Main Gods and the Flowing Gold Warrior.
"Maybe because of their suppression, only by taking them down first can we kill the Hell Familiar."
Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun exchanged a look.
But in the end, they felt fear.
After all, these were the strongest Three Main Gods of the Otherworld, their power far above King-level bosses.
Even though their full strength hadn't yet recovered, they were still many times stronger than the quasi-King-level Hell Familiar.
Any one of the Main Gods equaled several Hell Familiars.
To fight all three at once was like facing more than a dozen quasi-King-level bosses.
Just as the group hesitated, unsure whether to change tactics and prioritize attacking the Three Main Gods, the Three Main Gods instead chose to target them first.
The reason being: the powerhouses of the other nations had mostly been devoured already.
On the Dragon Nation side, Hidden Dragon had fallen. Though revived before being devoured by the Flowing Gold Warrior, because he had earlier used the Soul Curse and burned his soul excessively, he had now lost the ability to fight for a time.
Wolong and Xuan Lan, who had also activated the Soul Curse, were in the same state.
The few remaining Dragon Nation elites were protected by the Hell Dragon Knight, Restiev. For the moment, even the Three Main Gods couldn't do anything about them.
Because of the Hell Dragon Knight's immense counter-damage ability, any attacker would injure themselves almost as much as they injured him.
Even the Flowing Gold Warrior, attacking personally, couldn't break through the Hell Dragon Knight's defense.
So they shifted their target to Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun.
As two of the world's three greatest powerhouses, the Mythical-grade Ghostsword Elfa and Frost Magic King Kwon Ji-Hyun were the elite among all human professionals.
If their powers could be devoured, strengthening with their might, then the Hell Dragon Knight's defense could be broken, and the entire human legion crushed.
This was the Flowing Gold Warrior's final plan.
Before, they were still struggling over tactics.
Now, with the Three Main Gods striking first, there was no choice left.
Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun were forced to fight.
CRASH!
Wrath, Malevolence, Desire, the Three Main Gods swept forward, unleashing from their bodies a devastating force that annihilated all in their path.
Seeing the enemies drawing ever closer, Kwon Ji-Hyun raised his staff and began to cast.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
A torrent of world-shaking magic skills rained down from the skies, ravaging the battlefield.
But though they looked like hulking giants, the Three Main Gods were swift.
They dodged every attack with precision and charged straight in.
Elfa gripped his Ghostsword.
Whoosh!
His body shot upward like an arrow loosed from the bowstring.
In a flash, he struck at God of Malevolence Motan.
For one second he feinted, baiting God of Malevolence's strike.
Seizing the opening—
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
He unleashed a storm of attacks, weaving around God of Malevolence's body, his Ghostsword hacking again and again, racking up blows.
Though without the coordination of Wolong, Hidden Dragon, and Xuan Lan, he couldn't strike God of Malevolence's weak points, couldn't trigger weak-point damage, so every hit felt like scraping an itch.
But still, blow after blow accumulated. After one furious round, he managed to shave away as much as 1% of God of Malevolence's HP.
["No way!"]
The audience outside, watching, were stunned.
["Even Ghostsword Elfa's strikes are like scraping an itch? Is God of Malevolence's defense that thick?"]
["No choice, if you can't hit the weak point, all you can do is brute force. The fact he can even scratch it is already something!"]
The hydra-bodied God of Malevolence Motan's nine heads all gathered power, ready to strike back at Elfa.
Crash!
A surge of ice power swept in from all directions, freezing God of Malevolence in an instant.
Behind, the Frost Magic King kept casting, freezing the battlefield, creating an opening for Ghostsword to deal damage.
Taking the chance, Elfa slashed again and again, raining a storm of cuts on God of Malevolence.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Under Elfa's furious onslaught, God of Malevolence finally took some real damage.
But the moment of glory lasted only two seconds.
No sooner had Elfa finished his round of attacks than God of Desire Wu En spewed a blast of icy-blue dragonflame from his mouth, engulfing Elfa.
At the same time, God of Wrath Jie'e transformed into a giant beast, slamming heavily into Elfa's body.
The tremendous force hurled Elfa flying.
When he landed, both he and Kwon Ji-Hyun were hammered by the combined strikes of Wrath, Malevolence, and Desire.
BOOM!
In an earth-shaking explosion, Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun were swallowed by the smoke.
Outside, countless viewers in the live-stream despaired.
["It's over. Even Ghostsword and Frost Magic King together can't beat the Three Main Gods. This time, humanity's really finished."]
As they spoke, the smoke cleared.
Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun reappeared before the world's eyes.
And behind them, two gigantic barriers shone, one blood-red, one ice-blue.
["The Soul Curse!"]
["Elfa and Kwon Ji-Hyun have both activated the Soul Curse!"]
["My god! They're burning their souls, preparing to fight the Three Main Gods to the death!"]
["The moment of humanity's survival… has come…"]
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