Irina, who can no longer endure this, activates the active part of her ability Frozen Heart and then shouts while firing: "Oh magnificent ruler of the North, I, your legitimate heiress, beg you, let your magnificent glory bring delight to those who adore you and let your wrath bring fear to the enemies of your bloodline! Golden Ice!"
A golden, semi-transparent ice arrow is fired and explodes, raising a wall of ice between Feicui Long and the Lich's elite guard, hindering their advance... or so she believes.
Because in the following moments the rotten knights pierce through it as if nothing. Upon seeing this, the Lich laughs loudly: "Hahahahaha stupid brat, do you think you can do something? Look at yourself, your cultivation can barely advance thanks to the curses of the temple of the Superior God of curses. Today I have come to kill you. For that, the lord sent my master and me to finish his work, so stay still and wait your turn."
This time it is Feicui Long's turn to laugh and he says: "Irina, don't pay him any mind, you did well. That is how a ruler must be, don't you think? I won't tell you to set aside that fear or not to feel it. On the contrary, use it as your tool to keep moving forward. As for you, bag of bones, aren't you being a little too arrogant in front of this sovereign?"
Feicui Long straightens up and touches the place where his heart is: "A paralyzing poison this weak cannot stop me…"
The Lich, almost as if he were still alive, touches his staff like playing a piano and says: "I see you still think you have a chance to resist. You really are a hard-to-kill cockroach."
Feicui Long uses his favorite defensive tactic, stomps the ground, and raises three rock walls to stop the enemy's advance toward him and then says: "Don't you think you've slept enough? I believe it's time, my heart, for you to beat again. Beat, beat wildly, emerald heart!"
Seconds later, from his chest, an emerald energy that emanates an unprecedented sense of vitality begins to ease the effects of the poison and partially stop the bleeding from the wound.
Feicui Long sighs bitterly and thinks to himself: "Damn that dragon-killing poison from the Feilou clan, it was even capable of damaging my emerald heart. Well, at least for now this is enough at this moment. I'll have to find more ways to restore my heart's strength faster."
Irina takes advantage of this moment to use Golden Ice twice on the skeletal archers and the putrid crossbowman, interrupting their attacks for a moment and also allowing Surinbit to start attacking them, causing the Lich to be distracted for a moment.
A moment in which Feicui Long takes advantage to dodge the attacks of the rotten knights and skeletal knights and launch his telekinetic daggers to annihilate the corrupted corpse psychic who is still writhing on the ground from the damage to his mental realm.
At that very instant, other rotten knights reach him, but this time Feicui Long dodges them preemptively and forces them back with another emerald slash.
Thanks to all the knights being distracted by Feicui Long, one of the rock golems hits a skeletal knight so hard that it knocks him to the ground. Once there, the golem places its rocky leg on him to immobilize him, then another nearby golem starts hitting him so hard that the sound of bones crunching and shattering begins to be heard.
The same happens with the undead faun leader and the undead lizardman, who join forces to immobilize another skeletal knight on the ground. The wildfire shaman takes the opportunity to use his fire to burn him from the inside until he completely stops moving.
The two remaining skeletal knights realize they are surrounded and stand back-to-back to defend themselves, while the enraged rotten knights want to go help them, but Feicui Long has to struggle to hold off all five.
The putrid yellow mage and the red skeletal mage join hands with the spiritist zombie and the putrid lightning elementalist to launch attacks toward Feicui Long, making his movements more difficult. Irina, seeing this, bites her lip and uses her technique Golden Hail.
But the Lich raises an ice wall to protect them, then gathers an ice spear and throws it at Feicui Long at the same time he secretly orders the banshees to unleash their scream again.
Feicui Long, sensing something, quickly pulls out a defense talisman, one of those he originally didn't plan to bring since he was going to give them all to his loved ones like his nieces, Mariane and Isabella, to whom he gave the same number of talismans and support and attack scrolls he brought, which he created in his free time because he enjoys making them to improve his inscription skills. That is why he made so many, particularly for attack and support.
The defense ones he made more limited to protect his loved ones and that's why he didn't plan to bring any unless Isabella and Mariane convinced him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have brought a single one. Now it seems he's going to need them, especially this talisman, called Soul Barrier Talisman. It protects against soul attacks. Normally, damaging his soul would be difficult due to his powerful special soul, but he is not immune to those moments of vulnerability that shake his soul like this damn scream, so it is perfect for defense.
Soon the talisman burns out and a violet-purple semi-transparent shield emerges, and when the banshees scream, the shield only trembles. Feicui Long frowns and launches a simple energy slash with his sword. He needs to eliminate these damn plagues no matter what, because even if they cannot harm him, the current situation is too dangerous.
Just at that moment the ice spear passes by his side, sending a danger signal. Feicui Long immediately realizes and throws himself to the side. Then the ice spear explodes, releasing a dark and sinister energy.
Feicui Long then realizes and says: "That is cursed energy! You… you serve Adolf, I see now, you're one of those who joined the extermination crusade against mortal races."
The Lich replies and says: "So what if you know? You're going to die anyway." Suddenly the Lich gathers energy and launches an attack spell toward the golems and the undead surrounding the skeletal knights.
Irina, even though she knows her attacks can't do much, launches her own to collide with the Lich's, causing several to be destroyed. Still, a few hit, giving the skeletal knights time to retreat and join the putrid knights in the joint assault on Feicui Long.
Meanwhile, the Lich's ranged undead attackers, like mages and others, also unleash attacks on Feicui Long again, but some assist the knights, like the yellow mage who uses the Mud Swamp spell to slow down Feicui Long's troops.
The Lich, mockingly and trying to distract Feicui Long, says: "Little insect, you mortals of the 14 races were only made to be stepped on. You should feel honored that my lord kills you and turns you into his slave to kill more mortals."
Then Feicui Long laughs and says: "So, you want to come at me with everything. What a shame. Last time I was distracted, but this time I will eliminate you all with a single attack, a single attack created by mortals."
Feicui Long is tired. With his current strength, these undead already almost exceed the limit of what he can fight. If it weren't for his abundant combat experience, he would have already died. Also, those mortal-grade 5 artifacts, he can't destroy them with his current power, not even with his sword which is barely grade 6. In fact, the only reason he's doing well is because of the heaven attribute of his sword.
Even so, he is confident he can eliminate them with his next move. He has held back from using it due to the massive energy cost since it would leave him with only 5% of his energy, but he has no other choice.
Sighing heavily he says: "Master, this unfilial disciple asks for forgiveness, forgiveness for breaking my promises, forgiveness for having failed and not being able to protect this universe, forgiveness for not realizing Adolf's betrayal sooner, forgiveness for not being able to advance to the absolute king realm and help you take revenge… but also for using the techniques you so earnestly taught me and I refused to learn. I am a foolish disciple."
Then he looks ahead and begins to recite the martial words: "To all those who have only evil in their hearts, to every vile being who dwells under the heavens, those who carry injustice in their very existence, with this sword I will destroy the enemies of the heavens, those who oppose their will and those who defy them, with a single slash I will divide them, with a single slash I will destroy them, with only this slash, I will destroy hell itself!"
Immediately after, energy without precedent gathers into the sword, then he sheathes it. As his eyes activate and he begins to see the back, that great back of his beloved master, the person he admires most, the person he loves most, he holds his sword tightly before finishing and saying: "Heavenly Punishment Arts, A Slash to Destroy Hell!"
...
Irina, who is watching from behind, this time is able to fully see Feicui Long's eyes. Before, she had sensed that every time he used one of those strange techniques, his eyes would change, but she had not seen how. But now that she sees them, they are incredibly unique...
The right side is emerald, the left side amethyst, while in the center a black dragon pupil, like a crack, splits the eyes in two. From that same crack, two golden clock hands emerge, and strange symbols, which can be seen to be numbers, appear all along the edge of the iris.
But for Irina, that is not the most impressive part. What truly amazes her is that at the moment Feicui Long tightly grips his sword, the translucent image of a palace, a colossal palace, a magnificent, imposing, and beautiful palace begins to emerge. For a moment, she thinks her young master is about to summon his palace, but he hasn't reached the earthly realm, so what is it? It's almost as if a force is answering his call.
But she has no time to think about that because the next moment, when Feicui Long finally draws his sword again as the undead knights approach, a very fine slash, almost impossible to see, unleashes a light. With that light, everything seems to stop, from the grass to the wind. Even she cannot move...
It is almost as if everyone is afraid to interrupt, afraid to become the target of that slash. Even the wind itself seems scared to move and risk getting involved. Only when the slash cuts through all the knights cleanly in half and proceeds to cut down the distant attackers does time finally begin to flow again.
On the battlefield, only Feicui Long and his allies remain, along with the Lich, who, terrified, speaks and says: "Y-y-you w-what the hell a-are y-you!?"
Then he screams: "How can you use laws if you're only in the elemental realm!? It makes no sense!"
Feicui Long laughs a bit, very exhausted, and says: "You're just a speck of dust… What the hell could you possibly know? But it doesn't matter, I've already won this battle."
The Lich calms down quickly and sarcastically says: "You think so?" Then he pulls something from a spatial pouch and throws it onto the battlefield...
Soon, all the bone fragments, all the rotten flesh of the elite guard begin to gather in four locations around those two objects that look like spheres.
Feicui Long, surprised, says: "How is that possible!? It's not possible to raise a dead being from an undead! To raise an undead you need a soul or at least fragments left in the corpses to form a new one, but when they're turned into undead and die, their soul, which is not properly bound, gets absorbed quickly without leaving fragments in the cycle of reincarnation!"
The Lich says: "Of course I know that. But what happens if you already have souls set aside for use?"
Feicui Long frowns and says: "I see… So that's how you have so many civilized-type undead? You're using captured souls to insert into undead bodies, but that won't do anything here."
Feicui Long, exhausted, along with Irina and the others, tries to destroy the spheres, but a powerful barrier repels them, and Feicui Long frowns: "Shit… that barrier is at least mystical realm grade 6, lower stage."
Frustrated, he can only watch as those spheres take shape, creating four enormous beings… and they are undead monstrosities. Feicui Long, tired, thinks for a moment: "Maybe I should use my third trump card even if it's risky… but I'll need a chance…"
The Lich launches many attacks at Feicui Long, forcing him to focus on dodging, and then the undead monstrosities charge at Feicui Long, a Feicui Long who is tired, wounded, and with only 5% of his energy remaining...