Chapter 219: Look Into My Eyes!
Swimmers drown, and drinkers get drunk.
In fact, from the very beginning of the ritual, when he was fighting Prince Allen, Cheng Tian had already discovered Prince Allen's strength.
Normally, even if the Strength and Spirit values are the same, the conversion ratio of HP to MP bars for both usually won't be consistent. For most units, high HP and low MP are the norm, but Prince Allen had identical values for both, which proved that he was not only a powerful warrior but also possessed powerful spirit and will comparable to his robust physique.
However, Cheng Tian quickly noticed that Prince Allen's method of utilizing high Spirit and high MP was actually quite different from that of a proper spellcaster. It was more like gasoline in a car or an energy pack in a Gundam, allowing Prince Allen to cast his Battle Aura Storm, Aerial Crushing Strike, Charged Punch, and other martial skills more frequently and without restraint, rather than serving as a casting cost.
Cheng Tian even noticed that when his attacks aimed at Prince Allen's head were forcibly transferred to his armor, Prince Allen's MP bar showed a slight acceleration in consumption. This meant that high MP was also being used as an energy source to drive certain magical equipment.
As for the subsequent spellcasting abilities he displayed, such as Light of Purification and Judgment Arrows, they were all related to the Sun God Shard.
In other words, Prince Allen gained spellcasting abilities similar to a magic unit by relying on the Sun God Gem Shard.
And when the gem took over his body, he began to fight primarily with abilities extended from the Sun God.
Not only could his body float, but the damage of the Judgment Arrows also showed a significant increase... But precisely because Cheng Tian noticed the increased damage of the Judgment Arrows, he deliberately chose to engage in a direct confrontation, using his infrequent dodging as bait to further induce the opponent to create more Judgment Arrows. He also controlled the Infernal Winged Dragon, keeping it within the attack range of the opponent's arrows, willing to endure some damage occasionally to stay there.
Then Cheng Tian saw the opponent's MP bar rapidly drop as if it were leaking.
The increased damage of Judgment Arrows usually also meant increased consumption. If it could break through the single-hit damage limit of 18 points, then it was highly probable that 1 arrow consumed 3 MP for 27 damage.
The forced attack transfer effect attached to his equipment was also frequently activating due to bullet and missile attacks, and his MP was dropping in small increments.
Maintaining a Kukulcan-like levitation also consumed MP.
Finally, the Infernal Winged Dragon, which occasionally flew back to take a hit, had an inherent 'Oppression' characteristic that randomly increased the opponent's skill consumption by 50% to 100%... The superposition of multiple factors caused Prince Allen's MP, which should have been over two thousand, to rapidly bottom out after only two rounds of engagement.
On Cheng Tian's side, although the template loading did not change his Strength-HP and Spirit-MP conversion ratio, 50 Strength and 46 Spirit equated to a virtual 960 HP. Even with some previous MP loss, his overall 'HP' could be maintained at around 800 points, not to mention that Cheng Tian wasn't foolishly standing there taking hits the whole time.
Not only could he transfer freely between his three mounts once every 5 minutes, but when he noticed his team's HP was in danger, he decisively detonated his Primordial Shell, which had already absorbed enough damage.
Due to the distance, the shockwave from the shield detonation did not impact Prince Allen, but the three vehicles, which had already been judged as magical creatures, all had a buff of 'Accumulated recovery of 365 HP within 9 seconds' above their heads, just like Cheng Tian's main body.
The team's HP, which had been precarious due to taking a lot of damage from the direct confrontation, was instantly pulled back up.
The 40 HP recovery per second truly felt good.
However, the cost of detonating the shield was that the Primordial Shell immediately entered a long cooldown and could not temporarily replace the HP bar, but its mission in this battle was complete!
When Cheng Tian threw away his C-gun and once again bypassed the rules to pull out the Infernal Chain Hammer, swinging it violently into the air, the two split crystal magic eyes judged the chain hammer's flying action as a ranged attack, and together they materialized two crystal skull hammerheads, resulting in a triple projectile attack.
The low attack characteristic of the template armament still could not be avoided, but the impact it brought was real. Prince Allen, who no longer had enough MP to support his levitation, was directly knocked down.
Cheng Tian, on the other hand, lightly jumped onto the war elephant's Infernal Tusks and was flung out with a forceful push!
Excellent control of force allowed Cheng Tian to land precisely very close to the fallen Prince Allen.
As the dust settled, Prince Allen's face, which had been directly hit by the flying hammers, was already distorted. Although it hadn't reached the extent of Gian hitting Nobita, it made this face, which should have been rugged with dignity, quite ugly and terrifying.
Because the host was still human, even though the gem was primarily in control, the impact of the fall made Prince Allen involuntarily close his eyes in pain.
But at that moment, a voice made Prince Allen involuntarily open his eyes again.
"Look into my eyes!"
Prince Allen's glowing eyes met the hollow, hellfire-burning skull eye sockets of Evil Spirit Cheng Tian.
Even though they were hollow eye sockets, Prince Allen felt as if his consciousness and his suppressed original soul were about to be sucked into the vortex of flames within those eye sockets.
"Your soul has been contaminated and eroded by the blood of the victims—"
"Feel their pain."
A hellish echo resounded in Prince Allen's ears and mind, and Prince Allen's consciousness and soul, which had been suppressed by the gem, instantly came back online, then were surrounded by countless soul illusions—
Eye of Judgment! Activate!
Competitors who refused to accept the complete seizure of their territory's resources and were ultimately sent to the execution ground by his own hand.
Commoners who couldn't pay their taxes and were thrown into the gladiator arena to fight wild beasts, ultimately dying by their claws and teeth.
But the most numerous illusions were the fallen souls of Britannia, who had resisted his invasion, fought to the death, and ultimately died with regret under the swords of his soldiers.
From Prince Allen's soul perspective, the faces of these innocent souls who had died tragically under the swords of his soldiers were being replaced, one by one, with Prince Allen's own face. And every time these Britannia souls suffered a fatal blow, Prince Allen felt the exact same pain.
Prince Allen gradually went from struggling to becoming numb, eventually turning into a puppet that could be manipulated at will, his re-darkened eyes completely losing all their luster.
[You have used 'Eye of Judgment' on Silver Prince Allen (Sun God Gem Shard Host) —]
[Detected that you possess the additional skill 'Soul Salvation' —]
[Skill effect linkage in progress.]
[The target's soul sin value severely exceeds the limit, judged as an Evil Unit. Judgment passed —
For every innocent soul from Britannia who died directly or indirectly because of Prince Allen's orders, Prince Allen will suffer 10 points of soul damage that ignores all defenses and resistances.]
[Prince Allen suffered 74550 points of soul damage.]
[You have successfully judged Prince Allen's soul.]
[You have killed Silver Prince Allen of the Evil Roman Empire.]
[The innocent soul storage limit of your additional skill 'Soul Salvation' has increased by 50 points, currently 149 points.]
[You have become the victor of the Laxhill Ascension Ritual / Sun God Gem Shard Scramble Ritual.]