Chapter 141: Chapter 106: Extraordinary Arsenal, Arrival of Other Forces
After Stein fled.
The first Destiny Abomination fell silently to the ground.
Like falling dominoes, the Destiny Abominations scattered across the battlefield began to drop dead one after another where they stood.
The faint souls of these monsters left their bodies, continuously converging toward the same location.
Immediately after, the Knights of the Destiny Weaver still besieging the Caster Monastery’s defense line collapsed to their knees one by one. They dropped their weapons and clutched their heads in agony, their horrifying screams chilling the bone!
Before the horrified eyes of the Defense Army soldiers, the fallen souls of these Destiny Weavers were brutally ripped from their bodies by some unknown force, mixing with the souls of the Destiny Abominations.
Until a silent, spiritual shriek erupted across the entirety of Seventeenth!
An invisible tide, like a ripple in water, swept across the entire planet!
The sea of clouds churned, and the great earth rumbled.
At this moment, even Mortals with the dullest supernatural senses could clearly feel another Spiritual World—one filled with oppression and madness that had been superimposed over Seventeenth—steadily dissolving.
The Demon’s voice, filled with disbelief and rage, suddenly appeared in the mind of every human!
"Traitor Stein! You foolish betrayer—! You dare sabotage my thousand-year plan! I swear in the name of the Divine Monarch, you will pay the price for this..."
The Demon’s voice came as quickly as it went, vanishing in an instant.
Others might not have known where the voice came from, but Raphael and Reinhardt knew whose it was—the Thousand-Change Monarch.
A Great Demon under the command of the Formless Divine Monarch.
After that, Seventeenth was still a desolate planet, but the thick clouds that had shrouded the sky had, at some point, begun to dissipate.
The dying sunlight that once coated the world in a rust-colored hue now shone clear and gentle upon the corpse-strewn Desolate Wasteland Ruins.
When the dust of war settled, the soldiers, who had been fighting for their lives just a second before, remained tense. Caked in blood and grime, they gripped their sword hilts tightly, staring in shock at the enemies and Demons who had fallen to the ground.
They couldn’t believe they had actually survived to see this moment of victory.
Some civilians, who had been hiding in their homes and had luckily survived the ordeal, cautiously emerged when they heard the sounds of battle outside subside.
The once-familiar streets were now covered in rubble and corpses.
They looked up, and the sunlight on their faces felt so foreign, yet so warm.
When the sixty-thousand-plus surviving members of the Defense Army finally realized the war had come to a temporary end, their numb faces showed no excitement or joy for their survival, only boundless exhaustion.
The flames of the Divine Emperor’s Fury gradually died down.
Under the awestruck gazes of tens of thousands of Defense Army soldiers, the Vengeful Angel who had led them to victory, repelled a Demon Prince with a single strike, and stood like a banner on the battlefield without ever retreating a single step...
...staggered back two steps and fell to one knee.
Even his formidable Knightly Aura abruptly faded at that moment.
Seeing this, Raphael rushed over to help Reinhardt up, but the latter just waved his hand, signaling that he was fine.
His Second Great Power, Bloodthirsty Madness, provided a terrifying boost to his combat strength at full throttle, but its side effects were also considerable, completely draining his stamina.
Even though it wasn’t a serious injury, the feeling of utter exhaustion was far from pleasant.
However, Reinhardt’s gains from this battle were also extremely bountiful.
The strike that landed on Stein not only gave him 870 Heart Steel Layers but also helped him touch upon the threshold of an Earth Knight—the Earth Ring.
Although he was only at the novice stage and not a true Earth Knight, having crossed that threshold meant that subsequent promotions would be a natural progression. He would just need to cultivate diligently for a period of time to polish and master his newfound power.
The so-called Earth Ring was just a general term. Much like the system of Military Ranks, it originated from an ancient era when Knights had an incomplete understanding of Extraordinary Power.
The greatest difference between an Earth Knight and an Official Knight is that the Knight Power of this Level can already have a direct impact on the physical world and matter.
The ultimate form of this power is the Domain Power once displayed by Heinrich and Sedon.
At that moment, lines of ethereal blue text from the system flashed before Reinhardt’s eyes.
[Giant Devouring Current Layer Number: 8680]
[Physical Enhancement Coefficient: 8.860]
[Heart Steel Goliath Giant Current Permanent Physique Augmentation: 24%]
[You have awakened the Earth Ring: Extraordinary Arsenal.]
[Due to differences in the attributes of one’s Power, the characteristics and manifestation of the Earth Ring awakened by each Knight vary greatly.]
[Extraordinary Arsenal: This is the power of your unique Earth Ring. Through the Extraordinary Arsenal, you can activate a second Extraordinary Armament while Extraordinary Armament·Morphic Armor is active.]
[Extraordinary Arsenal Current Armaments: Blood Hand, Defeated Demon, Frost Fist.]
[Blood Hand: Increases base stamina limit by 10% and physical destructive power by 10%. Trait: Energy Shield.
You say it’s called Strak’s Challenge Gauntlet?]
[Stamina Limit: Passive ability. Upon summoning Blood Hand, restores and increases stamina by 10%.]
[Physical Destructive Power: Manifests as impact or shockwave characteristics.]
[Trait·Energy Shield: Can absorb physical and Magic attacks. Breaks after absorbing damage equal to 30% of maximum stamina. Has a cooldown.]
[Defeated Demon: Greatly increases Magic Resistance. Trait: Anti-Magic Shield.]
[Magic Resistance: When absorbing an equivalent amount of Magic damage, stamina consumption is reduced by 67%. Increases Magic Resistance.]
[Trait·Anti-Magic Shield: Refreshes after fifteen seconds of not taking Magic damage. Can absorb Magic attacks equal to 18% of maximum stamina.]
[Frost Fist: Greatly increases physical resistance. Trait: Deceleration Force Field.]
[Physical Resistance: When absorbing an equivalent amount of physical damage, stamina consumption is reduced by 67%. Increases physical resistance.]
[Trait·Deceleration Force Field: After summoning Frost Fist, the Deceleration Force Field will appear in pulses at two-second intervals, slowing the movement speed of enemies within a three-meter radius centered on you.]
Although the armaments in the Extraordinary Arsenal were of the Earth Knight Level, they were not fundamentally different from Morphic Armor.
Even so, simultaneously summoning two not-yet-fully-developed Extraordinary Armaments would provide a terrifying boost to Reinhardt’s strength! Most importantly, including Morphic Armor, all four of these Extraordinary Armaments had the potential to develop Domain Power!
As the Mighty Power of the Earth Knight Level coursed through Reinhardt’s body.
Just as the Defense Army and civilians of Seventeenth believed the war was over and their suffering had passed.
The very thing Provincial Governor Ullrich had feared most finally happened.
After Stein fled and the Demon’s plot had utterly failed, a Wizard Lord, who had long been observing the war from the shadows, descended upon the battlefield at the opportune moment, intending to reap the fruits of victory.
