MMORPG: The Elementalist

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Boom!

Above the Mythical Battlefield, two powerful streams of Shadow and Water Elements collided and yielded a terrific shockwave. The round-shaped Shadow Elemental wave and the extreme chilling force fused together after the collision generated a greater explosion, which tore apart everything that fell within its vicinity.

Which of course included their original targets, Death Jesus and Qin Ruo.

The enormous force directly deactivated the Demonic and Angelic Wings behind the two players, forcing them to be retracted.

Without support from the wings, the two of them were blasted off to different directions almost simultaneously in a well-drawn parabolic curve.

The devastating collision between the two players had also affected numerous Demon Faction players directly below them. Those players were drawn in by the horrifying explosion and none of them could take their eyes away from the two supreme fighters descending fast toward the ground.

Some quick thinker among the crowd even started to move toward the location the two players might land at. Dropping from such a high altitude meant certain death even for the strongest Beastblood Berserker, let alone these two fragile Elementalists. Luck like this did not occur every day, so they were not going to miss the chance looting free equipment from the dead bodies.

However, as numerous players on the ground watched on with great anticipation, something odd happened.

Instead of crashing straight to the ground, dark mist was suddenly diffused from all over Death Jesus's body. He carried the large cloud of Darkmist and continue to fall like a wrecked aircraft. A long tail of dark smoke was seen dragging behind him.

Some observant players immediately realized the mist had considerably slowed down Death Jesus's falling speed. Even though the minor deceleration was not going to save him, everyone could tell that he had not given up and was still struggling to save himself.

When he was about a hundred meters away from the ground, a giant suddenly appeared below Death Jesus.

It was none other than Judah!

Death Jesus's Pet was summoned again. The scenario was identical to the previous one—broken Demonic Wings, Death Jesus falling to his death…

Bam!

This time Judah did not scoop Death Jesus caringly with his arm. Instead, the monster stuck its leg out in midair the moment it was summoned and placed it on Death Jesus's chest.

The monster then bent its knee and kicked.

Death Jesus rapid descent was promptly halted. He was rebounded to the air by Judah's powerful kick.

"Ah!!!" Players below them exclaimed with some of them felt disappointed. Anyone could tell that he would most probably survive the fall now.

After the Demonic Wings were deactivated by an external force, it can only be re-activated after ten seconds.

Death Jesus's approach had bought himself a few more seconds in the air. Combined that few seconds with the time he fell through the sky, he was very close to reactivating his Demonic Wings.

No matter how this ended, based on his ability to calm down quickly and execute such an extraordinary self-rescue, he was indeed worth being recognized as one of the top four in the Demon Faction.

***

There was a fair amount of witnesses that paid attention to Qin Ruo's situation too.

It was actually even weirder.

The instance he was blown away by the explosion, a giant ice flower immediately blasted open under the night sky like a firework. What was strange was, the abrupt bloom was quickly followed by its sudden disappearance without a single trace.

Under the dark sky, flakes were seen floating down but the player was nowhere to be found.

Those players outside the northern wall were utterly astonished. They opened their eyes wide to search for Qin Ruo under the dimmed sky. Some of them raised their ears to catch the sound of Qin Ruo's body hitting the ground.

But they had nothing.

There was no sign of Qin Ruo. Nothing when Death Jesus reactivated his Demonic Wing thirty meters from the ground. Nothing when the members from Maverick Vatican cheered hysterically as Death Jesus returned to the air triumphantly.

At such moment, even the dumbest of them could tell that Qin Ruo must have used some unknown method to evade the danger. Or else, at such speed he would have already reached the ground before Death Jesus and caused quite a commotion.

The disappearance of Qin Ruo meant only one simple fact—he had fled the scene.

Death Jesus's back was bathed with cold sweat when he accepted the fact that the madman had indeed disappeared.

But suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he spun around quickly and fixed his glare upon the northern gate of Moonrise City.

***

In the air at a few hundred meters away from the explosion, Northern Tropic who currently fought against Black God felt a chill go down his spine.

'God! That's absurd! I've never seen someone disappear in mid-air just like that! That crazy bastard.'

Northern Tropic was shocked and could not find the proper word to describe his feelings.

'… Thankfully my opponent is not the Winter Demon. Otherwise, that attack just now would have blown me up for good.' With fear still linger in his mind, he took a scan on the northern wall. 'There are more than fifty Tier 5 Champions there. With Savior and Leon also at the landing spot, I don't think he is going to create any sizeable trouble to our plan.'

***

At this moment, Leon was still unaware that Northern Tropic was secretly counting on him to stop the Winter Demon. He was busy leading few Tier 5 Champions and a large group of Tier 4 Elites to hackle those defenders on top of the northern wall when he received Savior's message. "Leon! Gather your people and meet me up over here."

"Everyone?" Leon was stunned for a while and asked.

"Yes, everyone. Now!" Savior's tone was full of urgency.

Leon was puzzled by the new instruction. Of course, the condition over Savior's side had progressed smoothly. Near to ten thousand of their men had landed there and taken over a five-hundred-meters-long segment of the northern wall. Still, it was unwise to withdraw the troops over this side. Removing all the Tier 5 Champions from the War Behemoth's side would set Violet Orchid and Slayer's Heart loose. This might give them the chance to regroup and eventually come back to crush them.

Leon asked nervously, "Is there something wrong?"

"We came across some small trouble over here…" Savior said seriously, "The three great leagues of Angel Faction have just formed a rescue team. There are about thirty of them, with two among them fused with Divinity. One warrior and one Elementalist. I only nearly escaped their sneak attack."

"…" Leon's heart was thumping wildly as he took a deep breath. He understood Savior's supremacy very well, which is one of the best, if not the best, among the Demon Faction. If even he admitted that it was difficult to deal with, then the reinforcements from Angel Faction must be rather formidable.

That's not the only bad news. "On the other hand, the f*cking Jesus… I don't know whether he's on his period or that he is really out of luck today."

"What's wrong about him?" Leon suddenly felt that it was too much to take. He did not have the spare time to follow up the battle situation in the air zone after he threw himself to the frontline. Thus, naturally, he had no idea about what had just happened to Death Jesus.

What he did know was how important both Savior and Death Jesus were to this battle plan. If something were to happen to either one of them, it would greatly jeopardize the domination of Moonrise City.

Luckily, Death Jesus was still alive…

Savior roughly reiterated Death Jesus's warning to Leon and said, "It's confirmed that the Tier 5 Aquamancer has reached the northern wall. The few of you are rather isolated now so you all might be an easy target to him. Why not leave the battlefield to the rest and join me in holding what we have already conquered until the time runs out?"

Leon was relieved knowing that Death Jesus was mostly unharmed.

"Alright, I will bring our men over as soon as possible. So, where is dead Jesus now?"

"Him? He is doing fine. At least he did not act rashly and is now heading toward me. But today is definitely not his day," Savior said sarcastically.

***

After Qin Ruo camouflaged the wings he extended using Aquamorph with Frostburst, he glided silently toward the north side of the city.

He was really impressed by Death Jesus quick reflexes and could not help but lament. 'It's definitely not simple to kill a Tier 5 seasoned Champion. He is able to survive under such a deadly situation, so it will only be harder to kill him in the future. Then again, at least his Pet was taken out in the short confrontation, which is a plus to me.'

Qin Ruo refocused and looked at Moonrise City.

He was baffled.

The scene on top of the northern wall had him dumbfounded.

One part of the wall (few hundred meters long, ten of meters wide) was swarmed by numerous red-tagged players, who were all from the Demon Faction.

They all faced toward the inner part of the city, and about a thousand of them were pouring AoE Magic against those gathered down at the city street.

The fight was gruesome.

Even though the Angel Faction had the number advantage, they could only manage to draw even with the Demon Faction since the enemy owned the upper ground. Casualties were pretty even between the two factions.

While outside the city, a huge stream of red-tagged players climbed up the wall endlessly through the War Behemoth's back. As soon as someone at the front line fell, more Elementalists rushed in to fill the battle vacancy immediately.

That was the segment that had been taken over by the Demon Faction.

Both sides continued to exchange fire mercilessly, making this place the most chaotic warzone across the entire Moonrise City, with the most aggressive firepower coming from those Tier 5 Champions.

The powerful spells cast by a group of Tier 5 Champions usually had about four hundred damage points. If someone between the two groups made a careless mistake, a Champion would be easily taken out even with a body full of Legendary equipment.

But such a high-scale battle was also the toughest to conclude early, despite the high rate of casualties.

This was because behind every Tier 5 Champion, was a group of Radiant Priest at service. If someone dies, the Priest would immediately revive them. This was happening with both factions and that was the main reason why the battle was now stalled.

If this dragged on, the Demon Faction could definitely rely on the more than ten Tier 5 Champions and countless Tier 4 Elites behind them to hold this fight until the very last second.

Once the system notification announces that the Demon Faction had breached the city wall and successfully remained there for one hour, then their objective would be complete.

Qin Ruo did not have much time to waste.

With the help of Aqua Wings, Qin Ruo dashed to the northern wall beyond his usual limit.

This was when Qin Ruo suddenly realized that the Aqua Wings formed using Aquamorph allowed him to fly at an unprecedented speed based solely on gliding momentum and wind power. It has nothing to do with his own Speed stat. The distance he glided forward was tens of meters per second, which was several times higher than the maximum speed he could achieve using Angelic Wings!