Volume VIII, Chapter 35

The Phantom tapped his staff, and the space in front of him was pulled into a creepy moan, and a split second later, the space twisted into a dead knot in front of his staff. The curvature reaches infinity, and the dead knot of space forms a point that does not actually have the volume of zài, a point with a great gravitational density that instantly sucks out all the zài in this isolated space.

The world outside the spatial barrier is still calm, but as long as you pay close attention, you will find that the outside world seems to have become faster. The dust that kicked up quickly rose into the air, and then fell like falling rocks. The clouds in the sky were almost racing, and in a matter of moments they could fly from one end of the sky to the other.

This is because time is slowing down here, not the outside world. If the outside world could see the phantom and Sheila suspended in this absolute vacuum through the spatial diaphragm, in addition to finding their movements slower, they would also find that their figures were more red than in the outside world.

Since the air has been sucked into this black hole, they speak directly to the spiritual forces in the guò non-spatial form.

"It's even timed this way," Sheila glanced at the black dot that was slowly drifting towards the two of them, and let out a mocking mental fluctuation, "Before it evaporates and fills up the place again, will the winner be decided?"

"What do you say?"

"Don't fall into this singularity. Sheila smiled, "Otherwise, from the outside, you will never fall into it and die, and from your senses, death is only a moment - this is a real moment of eternity...... I'm looking forward to the thrill of discovery you've been able to bring me. ”

Sheila slowly raised her staff, and with a shake of her phantom staff, the three cards had already penetrated the space that was difficult to fold. In this space, the curvature is already extremely rare. No amount of space magic can continue. It is precisely because of the inability to use space magic and the fact that they can only mobilize their own elements under the vacuum conditions and cannot recover them, that the fifth-level combat has become the embodiment of the fairest fighting art. Every element unit needs to be considered. Because once released, there is no possibility of recovery. In this absolutely fair duel space, victory is determined only by the most traditional fighting skills.

The three cards start the rhythm of the battle with the passing of a streamer. Elemental condensed cards trudge through thin space. It's not even a hundredth of the speed of a Phantom card in normal space, but that's where the raw nature of combat comes to light.

Sheila pushed her staff, and three purple-black streaks of light flashed away, just blocking the thin edge of the phantom card cut into her. The purple-black and golden-red turned into thin elements at the moment of collision, and the fading space could not support the mobilization of power, and the escaped elements gradually flew away into the sky, falling into the gravitational abyss of the line of sight that could never be touched from the outside world.

With the flick of the phantom's fingers, cards appeared all around him. Formed a circle of four-color cards that surrounded him like planets. The thin card swept down rapidly, embedded in the invisible plane with the phantom as the horizontal plane, and the space vibrated slightly, and the rose branches composed of clusters of light patterns instantly climbed up from all around him, slowly spreading around, and then gradually began to occupy this space.

The rose branch composed of light suddenly dispelled the life breath that did not belong to the power of space to the light mist composed of the death aura that diffused around Sheila's body. As the seemingly unstoppable spread of the rose pattern, Sheila's expression gradually became solemn. Not far away, the phantom was surrounded by this space filled with the breath of fiery life, and the cane tapped a rose secret card that conjured up countless colors.

"Have you used the Life Secret Card? Now with such a ruthless move, it seems that your style has indeed changed. Sheila looked at the Phantom Staff card in front of it that seemed to have life—indeed a rose card with one-fortieth of the Phantom's life and soul.

"I will not destroy it. You're too careful, Sir Sheila. The phantom smiled behind the brim of his hat, his cane a little stronger, and the vitality of the rose branches in the phantom light was a little stronger. Dispel another layer of Death Enchantment.

Sheila looked at the slowly approaching life elemental around her, sighed lightly, and then quickly twitched. A rib that glowed a miserable white light appeared in her hand. As if echoing the phantom, Sheila slammed the white bone in her hand forward. The ripples of the space spread outward, slightly blocking the surrounding flower branches for a moment.

The white bones slowly spread in the vacuum of the earth. A white light barrier was formed. It was a unique feeling, a power that was the polar opposite of the life force, but completely different from the blue-black death aura released by Sheila.

The faint grayish white touched the golden-green rose branches, and it was covered with a monotonous mist. After the fog dissipated, the withered petals that seemed to have been splashed with thick acid scattered on the invisible barrier with the phantom as the horizontal plane, emitting wisps of gray-white smoke.

A wisp of gray appeared in the Rose Card in front of the Phantom's hand, which held one-fortieth of his life and soul. A little sting in the soul appeared in the depths of the phantom, and the staff trembled slightly.

At the same time, the off-white gradually climbed up to Sheila's long, bewildering red wavy hair. The lifeless, utterly desolate gray-white strands appeared sporadically in her long hair, and then rapidly spread to the sides. But in the end, the gray and white did not completely swallow the bright red hair, but the long wavy white and red hair in this monotonous wilderness background reflected in this space showed that the fifth-level necromancer had a more dangerous and strange temperament than the previous pure red long-haired Sheila.

"It's only now that I'm getting serious...... Can I understand that you are disrespectful to me?" The phantom stroked the gray on the rose card in his hand, and as he stroked it again and again, the gray gradually erased and turned back into the card's original brilliant rose color.

Like the six elements of life and space, which are familiar to the elves and many healers, the life element is not just the element carried by the golden green breath of life. The life force has four elemental forms, which are the most common life element, the soul element, and the opposite death element, necromancy. The first two are well known to the world, and the simplest reason is that only these two elements symbolize life. And the quest for life is common to all living organisms in Osiria. On the other hand, there is the rejection of death, which corresponds to the death of life and soul and the necromantic element has the most essential destructive power on life. As a result, they are often ostracized. Magicians or warriors who study the power of death and the power of necromancy have been outlawed by unwritten rules since antiquity, and Osilia is bound to protect himself by exterminating the negative forces of life.

And then even if it's something that many people are against. There are also people who spend their entire lives studying them. The person who has achieved the greatest success among them is Sheila, the Necromantic Monarch. Of course, she didn't dare to show up in the world lightly when she studied these absolutely forbidden things on the continent, even if she hated the demon race of humans, she was still full of rejection of these studies that violated the survival instinct. It was not until the protection and eternal youth bestowed upon her by the Dark Mage that she officially declared her existence in Osiria.

But at that time, the world that was stuck in war could no longer pay attention to this unprecedented necromancer, and the terrifying shadow brought by the dark mage had obscured the world at that time.

True death power flowed from Sheila's fingertips tapped on her staff, gradually forming three small white doors in front of her in a regular triangle to protect her. Traces of dark blue necromantic power escaped from the cracks in the door, forming surreal layers of black runes in front of the rose branches.

The battle momentum of the two fifth-level powerhouses was still very small. The distance between the two was still less than twenty meters, and the casting tentacles of the four life elements condensed around them were only testing each other at the closest distance. Hardly any of the elemental and power fluctuations were released, but these forces that had been gathered to an extremely high density faintly shook the thin space, proving the terrifying strength of these two fifth-level powerhouses that they had already lifted.

"I've lowered my judgment of your danger to Cheng Dù. Sheila sneered and used her spirit to transmit fluctuations, the tall staff in her right hand moved forward a little, and the small door composed of the miserable white death power that escaped from her with the blue-purple necromantic aura opened in the absolute silence of the vacuum, but it was not a rolling dark cloud that stabbed out, but a shot like the growth of crystals in nature being accelerated countless times. The blue-black power of death turned into a crystal clear liquid in an instant, and then quickly coalesced in front of that door. It crystallized in an instant, and in an instant, it tore apart the beautiful rose composed of the nearest life force, and pushed forward quickly and inexorably. Every meter you move forward, you leave a beautiful and mysterious crystal cluster along the way.

The Phantom immediately cut off the Rose Card in his hand from the surroundings. With a flick of his hand, another life card appeared in his hand. This secret card does not have the gorgeous rose pattern of the rose secret card, but reveals a brilliant golden color. A bright golden glow is released intensely from the card. The thorns around the phantom were filled with the shadow of roses, and plated with a delicate layer of gold.

"I've got a second card," Sheila whispered with a mental wave. "You have forty Life Cards, but use ten of them. You're dying...... Phantom, I remind you to do what you can. ”

The powerful defense brought by the golden secret card instantly acted on the crystal that gradually spread the power of the necromancy condensed and crystallized, and the crystal cluster that rushed to the front suddenly stopped under the reflection of the golden light, and then suddenly climbed upward. The golden secret card spun rapidly at the phantom's fingertips, and the necromantic power that had just jumped over the edge of the defense was instantly shattered under the oppression of the golden color, turning into a mass of necromantic elements that were no longer under the control of Sheila, and slowly drifted towards the time singularity in the sky.

The attack was ineffective, Sheila immediately waved her hand, and the time flow of the crystal cluster was instantly reversed, and the necromantic element in the form of a crystal quickly turned into liquid, and returned to the flowing mist to rush towards the small door composed of the death force in front of Sheila.

But the phantom did not sit back and watch this qiē happen, the rotation of the golden secret card in his hand suddenly stopped, and in the golden light, the pyramid pattern on the golden secret card was faintly visible. Immediately, the phantom grabbed the card with two fingers and shook it towards the resounding necromantic power.

A golden pyramid that was definitely huge in this space appeared out of thin air in front of the surging power of the necromancy, and immediately fell silently, shattering a spiritual control of the necromantic power in an instant. The majestic power of the necromancy suddenly dissipated, and gold and dark blue almost filled the space at this time, but the miniature black hole that glowed rapidly as the matter fell quickly emptied the space again. The giant pyramid of gold is in front of approaching this miniature black hole. Because of the extremely large curvature of space around the miniature black hole, the golden pyramid twisted into a strange and spasmodic shape as the two men watched. The slender pyramid curved into an almost thin line, swirling with a blinding red light, and finally disappeared into the tiny black hole.

The black hole itself is not visible, but the red light around it that begins to gradually intensify means that it is evaporating at a rate that is gradually intensifying.

The time is almost up...... Two fifth-level powerhouses thought. The phantom was followed by two cards containing one-twentieth of his life and soul. Literally rushing back at maximum speed in the thin space, the gorgeous aristocratic costume dragged a long sky-blue shadow behind him. The cane was raised as it slid along, and the golden-red light turned into a bright sky blue halfway through, and the blue light combo took shape again in this vacuum, but it was a little less sharp and more gentle.

Rushing blue energy looped in front of the cane that Phantom held in one hand, and the flying cards were printed with pure white patterns of snowflakes, swirling around the bright blue light, rushing towards Sheila at a faster speed than the blue light. Before the blue light rushed towards the last two doors of death that were about to open. The snowflake pattern has rushed through the defenses of death and necromancy elements brought about by Sheila's death's door.

"Snowflake Secret Card? with three cards...... I said you don't have to work so hard, do you...... It's not Arya I killed. Sheila raised her eyebrows slightly, fifth-level battles rarely really used all their strength, even in the battle that sealed the black mage in his memory, the phantom only used nine life secret cards. In other battles, she'd never heard of a Phantom opponent worth using three cards.

So, is the phantom planning to win the battle with one blow? Thinking of this, Sheila gently opened the force field, and suddenly the powerful force field once again expanded the space around her to become thinner and thinner, and the curvature of the space had almost formed a perfect saddle surface. In such a thin curvature of space. The speed of light in the vacuum had slowed down, and with the advantage that all the thoughts in Sheila's mind had not slowed down, Sheila held the staff in both hands, and a short and long spell came from the six voices in unison. When the blue light touches the two doors of death, it is done in different time frames.

From Sheila's point of view, it took her ten minutes to complete the spell. And from the phantom's point of view, it's just a hundredth of a second.

The spiritual power that permeated time allowed the phantom to discover Sheila's intentions. But time did not tell him what was going to happen next. In this space where time has gone out of control, there is no longer much reference significance for the spiritual power that penetrates into the future. So the Phantom still chooses to act according to his own judgment.

An unbelievable scene took place, and the two doors of death were wide open. The crystal cluster turned into the fastest shuttle dart and stabbed into the blue light combo, and a snowflake was about to touch the tip of Sheila's nose. Sheila's staff, which had completed the spell, did not show any magic luster, and it was evident from every phenomenon that her magic had failed.

In front of the phantom fluttered a spell-like snowflake secret card, and the black secret card was printed with a dazzling white snowflake pattern. Countless illusory copies swept out of the Snowflake Secret Card, surging through the gaps in the fluttering crystal clusters, stabbing at Sheila, who seemed to have no protection.

As if touching some hot plane, the snowflake flashed a white light, and then spread out on the plane in front of Sheila. Although the snowflakes stopped moving, a slightly larger snowflake pattern was still laid on the invisible barrier, but with the vision of the phantom, he noticed that the thickness of the snowflake had disappeared.

Yes, snowflakes with three dimensions of length, width and height have become two-dimensional projections of snowflakes with only two dimensions of length and width. The energy released by the disappearance of the third dimension caused the first flash of light, and the scorching light became brighter with the countless snowflakes that came in, and the intense energy continued to burn, and finally reached a certain tipping point.

The white light produced by the intense energy released when countless white snowflakes turned into two dimensions suddenly covered a qiē in this space. The ninth-level magic, the dimension descends, forming a limited two-dimensional space in front of it, and through the absolute impenetrability of the spatial dimension, it realizes the only absolute defense among all magic, with the only exception being the creation technique magic that can intervene in the space maintained by the elements.

Even with Sheila's fifth-level strength, she could only maintain the dimensional reduction for a few tens of seconds, but this time was enough for her to return all of the phantom's attacks to him from the energy released by the dimensional reduction. The intense white light forced the two fifth-level powerhouses to close their eyes, and at the moment when the white light was about to dissipate, an even more violent explosion appeared in the sky above the two of them. There was no sound in the vacuum, but the intense radiant heat forced them to defend again.

"Po"

A soft sound like a soap bubble bursting came from the absolute silence of the vacuum, followed by a shrill whistling sound of air pouring in. After two explosions that could resound through the plain, the space around it finally returned to normal, and Sheila stood a little wolf-like in a large crater that appeared out of thin air and was half a kilometer in diameter. The surface of this huge crater-like crater is no longer the loess common in the Grimvar Plain, but is a high-temperature melted and re-vaporized color-colored glass particles with a variety of lusters in the air. At this time, there were still condensed glass crystals in mid-air crackling and falling, and they collided with the homogeneous glass layer on the ground to make a crisp sound.

The matter that is sucked into the miniature black hole is completely released in the form of energy as the black hole evaporates, and although most of the intense energy is thrown into the sky, it also vaporizes the surrounding soil layer. The space finally unfolded and merged into the Osilian world as it should be, and the two-dimensional space in front of Sheila also disappeared into fragments in the vast three-dimensional world without the support of the power of space.

The Phantom stood on the other side of the depths of the pit dozens of meters below ground level, staring at Sheila from afar. Sheila was holding her staff, and the phantom was surrounded by three life cards, the Rose Secret Card, the Golden Secret Card, and the Snowflake Secret Card, and the luster was a little dull. If Sheila was careful, she could also see an imperceptible crack in the Phantom Cane. However, the phantom's clothes were still shiny, and the feather pads on Sheila's shoulders, which were purely ornamental, had been burned by the light radiation, leaving only a black mark, and the long wavy curls would be bright red, but the few bent and scorched marks were still clearly visible.

The two fifth-level powerhouses looked at each other for a moment, and finally Sheila opened her mouth to break the impatient silence. (To be continued......)