Chapter 79: The War God’s Fury and the Necromancer’s Gambit

Although the opposing commander couldn’t conjure any new stratagems, Wang would not merely deflect thousands of arrows with the flat of her blade, as she had that morning.

She had already made all her preparations while battling the enemy’s vanguard.

Her longsword traced a circle in the void, and as it swept horizontally, all the earth elements from the surroundings gathered, swirling around the periphery of the blade.

As stones peeled from the ground, they carried away sand and grit, mixing with the dust to shroud the entire vicinity in an earthen haze.

From a distance, You’s gaze swept over the scene, and he almost imagined a ‘dragon’ born of the wind materializing before him.

The ‘dragon’s body’ coiled with a sandstorm, raising its neck high. Its ‘wings’ flapped once, immediately transforming into a conical impact that slammed forward with the might to shatter mountains and seas.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

No aiming was required. The moment the impact arrived, it slammed with incredible force directly along the horizon, extending in a straight line.

The stirred-up dust instantly enveloped the entire ground.

Undead soldiers, barely escaping the epicenter of the explosion, were innocently swept back into the fray just by touching the residual flying dust.

Under the might of this single sword strike, the very ground they stood on sank slightly.

The flat road vanished instantly, leaving behind a horrifying sight in You’s eyes: a landscape utterly ravaged, transformed into a disaster zone.

Following that sudden slash, the left flank of the undead army’s formation was brutally torn apart, and all soldiers in that sector were annihilated!

Just as in life.

These soldiers, who could barely pose a threat when alive, how much could they possibly improve after becoming undead?

Precisely because this army relied on sheer numbers, it was destined to be wiped out in an instant when facing a force possessing absolute power.

Witnessing this scene, You was immensely grateful for his own sagacity.

If he hadn’t sent his army forward as expendable cannon fodder, charging recklessly to form layers of human shields for himself, he would have been the one facing that devastating slash.

Even now, You felt little true shock.

After all, he had personally experienced his opponent’s strength firsthand that very morning.

The previous earth-element attack, while more visually stunning, was no more destructive than the lightning attack.

“If this is the extent of your abilities, then I won’t even need to deal with you. Those mere pawns will be enough to tear you limb from limb!”

Unlike the previous battle, You was no longer hampered by external factors. His fearless army of hundreds of thousands fought entirely according to his sole will.

The confidence instilled by the human wave tactic made You utterly convinced:

Before the demon leader could even spend a few minutes preparing her next deadly move, the swarming soldiers would corner and overwhelm her.

Objectively, You’s estimation was largely sound, provided he didn’t factor in his opponent’s desperate tenacity…

One move?

Absolutely not!

As the dust barely began to settle, the longsword was once again raised by its wielder, gathering another element from afar towards the battlefield.

Among the six elements—water, fire, ice, wind, earth, and lightning—Wang was most proficient in controlling lightning and fire.

Yet, proficiency did not equate to sole capability. Otherwise, how could thousands of undead have been buried by earth and stone not long ago?

Having used one element, Wang did not stop there.

She defied You’s predictions, immediately controlling the rising wind elements, transforming them into a reverse-spiral hurricane that stood dramatically on the battlefield, a truly eye-catching sight.

The invisible wind vortex horizontally divided the battlefield into two halves.

One end represented ‘life,’ the other ‘death.’

The hurricane connected heaven and earth, and in the next instant, it inverted these two concepts.

This was because the endlessly entangled undead were lifted from the ground, entering a realm of air they had never known in life.

The external wind force bound these departed souls, transforming the area into an boundless graveyard.

As their bodies were flipped upside down, their heads facing the ground, they gazed at the motionless figure below, creating the illusion that she stood high above in the heavens.

After a sword’s resonant hum, its blade touched the earth. Simultaneously, the undead soaring high in the sky exploded violently from the collision of external pressure.

The white fragments falling to the ground were not necessarily rain or snow, but perhaps the shattered bones of men.

*Pfft!*

After unleashing two consecutive deadly attacks, a muffled thud resonated from within Wang’s arm as her sword descended.

Immediately, that arm began to bleed.

Blood seeped from the inside out, staining her clothes and saturating her terrifyingly red arm.

Wang knew she was paying a ‘price.’

Without waiting for her body to recover, she continued to launch powerful attacks, subjecting her limbs to immense strain.

When the strain reached a certain level, heavy bleeding, as just witnessed, was a manifestation of ‘paying the price.’

Bleeding was a normal occurrence, for Wang was still human, and in this world, all humans were mortal flesh and blood.

Yet, even so, some individuals could still transcend their limits, transforming themselves into god-like warriors.

The ‘War God’ showed no sign of fatigue, raising her sword a third time, relentlessly pressing forward!

Innumerable droplets of water crystallized in mid-air, solidifying into ice shards that then extended, forming an endless expanse of ice and snow that swept across the land ahead.

The sprawling ‘carpet of ice’ maintained a curled leading edge, while its trailing end formed a perfectly straight line, straighter than any arrow’s flight.

Every undead soldier caught in its path was completely frozen solid by the spreading frost.

The moment the ‘carpet of ice’ fully covered the battlefield, the countless ice sculptures it had created along the way shattered into fragments amidst the sound of cracking ice, visibly returning to the earth.

Soon after, Wang’s other arm turned crimson, the strain truly affecting both her arms.

But this was far from the end. There were far more than just these three elements, and she still had the stamina to continue fighting.

Fire could scorch the plains, water could overturn seas, and lightning could shake the heavens!

Perhaps due to growing accustomed to it, Wang began to control elements continuously in rapid succession.

Instead of launching her subsequent attacks one by one, she harnessed the three major elements, gathering them all around her.

Three rounds of deadly moves, no less potent than those preceding them, were unleashed simultaneously under her command.

Watery ripples reflected layers of light, their surfaces mirroring the intense heat at the core of raging flames.

Outside the fiery mass, tendrils of lightning swirled and rotated, with semi-liquid lightning plasma occasionally dripping down, dissolving the already fragile ground.

The tidal wave crushed the army’s increasingly chaotic formation. The undead soldiers didn’t have to wait long for the opportunity to dry the water from their bodies.

The scorching heat that assailed them was undeniably intense.

It wasn’t just the water that evaporated; even those gleaming skeletons were incinerated into nothing but ash!

And if that wasn’t enough, booming thunder followed closely, supplementing the assault.

Lightning, circling three times in the air, swept through the surviving remnants, indiscriminately blasting targets into dust.

Six consecutive rounds of lethal impact thoroughly devastated the entire battlefield.

You gazed into the distance, and not long after, he discovered with ‘great surprise’:

They were all gone!

The national soldiers, who had stayed far from the battle, were spared by their non-participation.

However, the numerous undead You had dispatched were utterly annihilated, wiped out in a single landslide combined with six rounds of elemental attacks.

One sword strike, ten thousand vanquished!

Even those seven words were insufficient to describe the power of this attack.

Unlike the morning’s battle, where heavy losses also occurred, it was merely a portion of the army that was lost then.

This outcome was fundamentally different, effectively meaning that the combined forces of four major nations were annihilated by their enemy in less than twenty minutes.

Less than half an hour had passed, and an army numbering in the six figures was completely gone!

Since the continent entered the ‘Age of Kingdoms,’ in countless wars recorded in history, when had there ever been such a terrifying casualty count, akin to a ‘horror story’?

In terms of nations, it was equivalent to one woman, in roughly the time it took for a lunch, single-handedly obliterating four great nations!

For the first time, You realized:

All the exaggerated, astonishing military power, the meticulously crafted armor by master artisans of great nations, the soldiers’ over ten years of training in the army…

All these, when faced with that single sword, that lone individual, seemed even more fragile than sand before a flood!

Logically, a Peerless Monarch shouldn’t be able to accomplish such a feat, but her personal situation was quite unique.

Driven by a truly terrifying willpower, Wang pushed her stamina to its absolute limit!

Typically, a Peerless Monarch would be exhausted after defeating over 200,000 enemies.

If such a powerhouse were to face more enemies, the result would inevitably be defeat.

Yet, at this moment, even after exerting her strength with a suicidal abandon, Wang’s stamina remained unspent!

To her enemies, this was undoubtedly a formidable foe, terrifying beyond imagination.

“Fortunately… you’re already at the end of your tether!”

As the shock in his heart subsided, You’s upturned lips betrayed his self-satisfaction.

Looking at the demon leader’s blood loss, enough thick blood to stain several meters of the surrounding area would certainly be lethal for an ordinary person.

Even if she somehow clung to life, relying on superhuman vitality to persist, what would that prove?

“The current you can’t even unleash half your usual strength, while I am no longer who I was; I have already gained the power to confront you head-on!”

Raising his saber, You was immediately enveloped in a gray light.

With a slight push of his foot, he traversed a great distance, fiercely raising his saber to strike.

The blade, held high above his head, aimed directly at the detestable face before him.

*Clang!*

Sword and saber, two weapons inherently unable to coexist, driven by the wills of their two masters, each launched a deadly assault against the other.

Following the opening saber strike, Wang’s figure twisted, appearing like a ghost beside You.

Her upward-thrusting sword transformed into a rising black arc of light, bursting forth as it cut towards You.

In a pure weapon-on-weapon contest, You held no certainty of victory.

However, as a necromancer, his ultimate trump card was never close combat, but rather ‘that thing’ he was about to use for defense.

Just as the upward-cutting blade was about to strike, the shadow beneath You’s feet detached from the ground, writhing and curling upwards.

The shadow had barely risen to a height similar to its master’s body when it swelled into an unusual silhouette.

As the eerie black shadow grew immense, it transformed from illusion to substance: a real, gigantic skeleton instantly blocked Wang’s path.

Its bone claws swung forward in a cross, tensing to form a barrier that desperately parried the swift slash of the blade.

“You certainly know how to play tricks…”

As the attack concluded, what Wang said aloud was entirely different from what she thought inwardly.

‘I hope nothing goes wrong on the way, and that silly woman can safely reach a secure location…’

Though it was not ideal to be distracted at such a moment, Wang couldn’t help but worry about Cai’s safety.

In truth, she needn’t have worried.

After all, if she were to know what the silly woman would do next, she would undoubtedly feel immense regret.

The specific regret would be not having tied that idiot up tightly with rope, gagged her, and then stuffed her into a sack.

Only after doing all that should she have let the Large Dog take her away!

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