The blade touched the ground, power seemed to have seeped out, fires began to pour, and then swept across the land like lava.
In an instant, a blazing fire was everywhere. As the extreme temperature blasted into the skies, it torched all the magical beasts that had been touched by the fires and let out lights brighter than the luminous magic that was in the sky.
Brother Mikoto stood in the middle of the flames as if he was a god that had mastered fire and coldly looked at the hundreds of magical beasts that were being immolated.
“Such is nature’s fury.”
…
Celestial Conflagration. A large AoE finishing strike. Brother Mikoto would automatically learn it when his class level reached level 10. No other prerequisites.
Despite being the first finishing strike that he learned and the class level requirement being quite low, the skill’s power was nothing to be scoffed at. Once used, it could easily kill everything on the screen, and not just scratch the enemies.
Even at the later stages of the game, this was still one of Brother Mikoto’s core skills for him to be able to stand amongst the Meta Characters. It was not abandoned even with the new updates.
Of course. If one had to find a weakness for it, one could.
The skill could only be used when he was at max stamina, and it would instantly empty Brother Mikoto’s stamina bar. Also, after using it, it had a window where he would be immobilized. While it was quite short, as long as someone took the chance, any enemy could instantly kill Brother Mikoto when he could not move.
The most serious situation was when Brother Mikoto used this skill without eating the Golden Apple, he would receive a special negative status effect where his SP would become 0, and could not use any normal Stamina Tablets to restore it.
The skill was something like a “Self-Destruct” skill and would cause him to have no combat capabilities afterward.
Apart from that, as Celestial Conflagration would be a large AoE damaging skill, and according to its setting, it had the “power of natural disasters,” it would also deal damage to his own allies. It was not like magic where its powers were controllable, where if it would hit one of his own teammates, the magical elements would automatically identify it as an ally and as such automatically dispel itself. That kind of magic would not cause any damage to an ally.
Therefore, the skill was a true “Self-Destruct” skill. Not only would it blow up the other side, but it would also blow up himself and his own teammates…
Therefore, even if the skill was extremely overpowered and far surpassed the power of the Union Burst skills of the elementals, Zhang Yun was not going to let Brother Mikoto use it easily.
But just now… That was a different situation. Brother Mikoto was alone on the battlefield and everyone else were magical beasts. There was no one else there.
Facing so many enemies, even if Brother Mikoto had high evasion, used his skills to increase evasion, and equipped boots that increased evasion, he would not be able to fully retreat since he was no monster that could bend his joints at will. He would not be able to handle all the attacks that came from everywhere.
Therefore, before letting the enemies bury him, he might as well blow everyone else up.
Therefore, Brother Mikoto did not make the wrong decision when he used Celestial Conflagration.
Even if Zhang Yun was there in person, he would also make the same judgment as Brother Mikoto.
Back on the battlefield, the range of Brother Mikoto’s Celestial Conflagration was at least 50 meters. All the magical beasts that were on the offensive within this area of effect had all been consumed by the flames. Only the Follower of Archede was brushing its own body in pain.
It gritted its teeth and said, “Damn you… You… I have underestimated you!”
Brother Mikoto did not pay him any attention. Instead, he quietly waited for his immobile phase to pass, and then threw a Stamina Tablet into his mouth.
After that was done and his SP fully recovered, he pulled the katana that had been buried into the ground and held it in his hand, and watched carefully at the Follower of Archede.
While Zhang Yun was not close by and he could not use Examine to see through the follower’s status, as an intelligent hero, Brother Mikoto could feel that it was still quite spirited and showed no signs of approaching death.
What happened? It was standing right at the center of the Celestial Conflagration and had been fully affected by the skill. It had also been struck a large number of times. And it did not look like it had the Twilight Wolf’s regeneration, why would it still have such powerful vitality?
Finally, Brother Mikoto could not help but ask, “You can still fight?”
The Follower of Archede had finally extinguished the flames on it, and then stomped on the ground to douse the flames around it. It then said to him with a sneer, “Heh. I told you. If it was not because of my mission, I would definitely spend some time to play with you.”
It paused and stared at Bother Mikoto before saying slowly, “However, your power would be quite problematic. I will also be unable to perform my mission.”
“I think Lord Archede will not blame me for using my power here…”
As soon as he finished, the Follower of Archede’s body began to radiate purplish, mist-like energy. Its aura began to quickly surge, and even the soldiers on the platform far away could feel the pressure the giant monster was releasing.
It was the first time that Brother Mikoto frowned as another kind of emotion began to show in his eyes.
“Limit Break?”
“Correct! You are right! This is Limit Break! Now, you shall witness my true power!” The Follower of Archede began to laugh maddeningly as the wounds on him were quickly being regenerated, and its singed skin began to recede and gave way to new skin.
“Mist of Plague!” The Follower of Archede opened its wolf jaws. Thick, green poison gas was released in an area of 30 meters instantly, and immediately consumed everything within it.
“Poison gas?” Brother Mikoto quickly retreated as he covered his mouth. Unfortunately, the speed at which the poison gas was spreading was too fast. He did not manage to even take his second step and he was already engulfed in the poison gas.
[Prompt: Golden Apple effect activated, immune to certain abnormal status effects… Immunity successful, Mist of Plague neutralized.]
As it was a rare item, the Golden Apple’s effect was quite powerful. It made the poison gas useless.
Seeing that the poison gas was useless, Brother Mikoto stopped running as he held his katana, and looked at his surroundings vigilantly.
However, as he was within the thick of the poison mist, the mist around him was very dense. He could not see what was happening around him completely, and could only sense where his enemies were through the sound.
“Tsk. The poison gas is useless? There are so many weird things about you, yes?” The Follower of Archede’s voice echoed within the poison smoke as if it was a ghost that came from the abyss. The voice would be close one second, but far away the next.
“Then, what about this?
“Mistwalk! Sonic Claw! Mangle!”
Suddenly, the Follower of Archede appeared within the poison mist as if it had teleported, and immediately appeared behind Brother Mikoto.
When Brother Mikoto heard the sound, he instantly turned around. But he was still too late, and he was struck at the waist by the Follower of Archede’s giant wolf claw. He was instantly thrown away into a distance of a dozen meters, and heavily crashed into the ground.
“Mistwalk!
“Stomp!”
The Follower of Archede once again quickly appeared in front of Brother Mikoto. It raised its heavy back limb and stomped into Brother Mikoto’s head as the air whistled.
Bang!!!
Its limb crashed into the ground and the earth shook and cracked. Dirt and rock were sent flying as countless cracks appeared extending towards its surroundings like a spider web.
Luckily, Brother Mikoto was prepared for it. The moment that he fell to the ground, he rolled to his side which allowed him to avoid the follower’s stomp, and he did not receive such a terrifying attack.
But he was not in a good position as well. Because of the follower’s explosive attack, one swipe from it had taken away one-third of his HP. It had done much more damage to him compared to being surrounded by several dozen magical beasts earlier.
Not good…
The purple wolf…
Had become at least four times more powerful…