Dark King: Gilshak, Level 30 (King-tier Boss)
Strength: C++
Magic: C-
Endurance: C++
Agility: C++
Dark Power: B-
Skills: None
Gilshak’s height surged to nearly five meters.
The black flag hadn’t actually healed its injuries—instead, it formed another body around it.
In simple terms… it built itself a mech—and now it was piloting it.
Bai Qiu’s Spear of Converging Thrust was a causality-type Noble Phantasm.
Since the guaranteed-hit effect had already been triggered, its anti-healing effect naturally remained in place as well.
The body created by its dark energy was fully armored—flesh and bone constructed from solidified darkness.
Its grotesque armor bristled with spikes, and the black blade in its hand now extended to four meters.
Bai Qiu’s spear no longer held any range advantage!
And not just that—in terms of raw stats, Bai Qiu was now completely outmatched!
Expressionless, Bai Qiu stood atop the rooftop, catching the returning spear as he faced Gilshak below from afar.
Neither of them spoke, yet the near-tangible clash of their energies was already violently intense…
Thanks to the Miracle Fruit, the wind-elemental magic Bai Qiu controlled—combined with his own power—barely maintained a delicate balance with Gilshak below.
Natural Miracle: Duration: 1 hour.
Favored by the winds of nature, granting full control over all wind-elemental magic within a 100-kilometer radius…
Wind-element affinity greatly increased for 1 hour.
The power granted by the Miracle Fruit was unlike anything Bai Qiu had ever used before.
It felt both absurd and strangely real—but fortunately, it was immensely powerful.
All the elemental affinity potions he had consumed up until now, combined, didn’t even amount to one ten-thousandth of this ability!
After consuming the Miracle Fruit, it granted the user a one-hour “authority experience”—under normal circumstances, he should have used this time to further increase his wind-element affinity and possibly gain a pseudo-transcendent physique once the buff ended…
But Bai Qiu had no such thoughts.
All of his focus was fixed on the Dark King before him, calculating how to defeat it.
Gilshak’s dark energy carried a corrosive effect.
Walls it touched—even reinforced concrete—began to decay and rot at an alarming speed!
Meanwhile, Bai Qiu was surrounded by raging winds.
The storm around him crushed dust, leaves, and debris into nothingness, even carving marks into the building he stood upon…
As their standoff dragged on, the power radiating from both sides grew more and more overwhelming!
“Human… if you are willing to submit and join our Hell faction, I can spare your life.”
It spoke—this time, attempting to recruit Bai Qiu.
In its view, Bai Qiu’s talent was extraordinary.
The fact that he had pushed it this far was already rare in the world.
It didn’t want to kill such a promising individual—taking him in as a subordinate would be preferable.
“Enough nonsense. If you want to fight, then fight!”
Bai Qiu replied coldly.
If he could kill it once, he could kill it a second time.
His battle intent had reached its peak.
Receiving his answer, Gilshak raised its blade high, immense energy surging as it slashed down!
Though it had lost the ability to use skills, its basic attacks were now even more terrifying than skills themselves!
Boom!
A multi-story building was split in two from bottom to top by the strike, sending dust soaring into the sky.
But that dust had no chance to drift freely.
A hurricane swept it up, carrying it in a swirling storm that crashed onto Gilshak’s body.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
A series of sharp, firecracker-like sounds rang out—but it remained completely unharmed.
At this moment, Bai Qiu floated in midair, surrounded by roaring winds.
His hair danced wildly, his shattered golden eyes gleaming as he stared down at Gilshak below.
Yes—floating.
After gaining the favor of the natural winds, he no longer needed to create magic footholds.
He could now truly fly!
The wind carrying him conveyed a sense of boundless freedom, urging him to soar as he pleased.
This miracle—capable of igniting endless imagination—continuously filled Bai Qiu with awe and exhilaration!
With a casual wave of his hand, Bai Qiu summoned hundreds—no, thousands—of wind blades in an instant, slashing down toward Gilshak below.
Unfortunately, their power was quite limited.
They could only carve grooves a few centimeters deep into the ground—far from enough to injure it.
Whoooosh…
The gale howled across the sky.
Even those in Zone 2225 could feel the terrifying force of the winds outside.
But for Bai Qiu, it was different.
These winds, arriving from distant lands, carried the will of the world itself.
They seemed to tell him:
“Run free… defeat the invader from beyond… you can do it…”
Like the gentle voice of a mother encouraging her child, it brushed softly past his ears.
A faint ripple passed through Bai Qiu’s otherwise indifferent eyes, before his gaze turned resolute.
…
“Look at the sky!”
Not only in Zone 2225—even people from other zones within a hundred-mile radius stared in shock at the changes above.
The once chaotic clouds now seemed stirred by an unseen force, forming a neatly ordered vortex, slowly rotating and converging toward the center.
And at the very center of that vortex—was Bai Qiu.
Gilshak gripped its blade with both hands, unleashing countless arcs of black sword energy toward him—but all were deftly evaded.
They had reached an awkward stalemate—neither side could do anything to the other.
Bai Qiu could fly—and he was incredibly agile.
Though Gilshak’s dark energy slashes were powerful, they simply couldn’t hit him.
No matter how strong they were, they were meaningless if they couldn’t connect.
As for Bai Qiu, he still wasn’t fully accustomed to the power granted by the Natural Miracle.
His earlier probing attacks couldn’t even scratch Gilshak—and he knew very well that he held no advantage in close combat at the moment…
However, the longer the fight dragged on, the more advantageous it became for Bai Qiu.
He took out Fallen Dragon’s Bow.
With its passive fully stacked, its damage was still considerable.
One after another, dark-red arrows rained down from the sky—enhanced further by the wind, making them even more powerful than before!
Gilshak’s blade energy should have been stronger, but all of its movements were hindered by the wind.
As a result, its attacks were weakened.
When they collided with the arrows, explosions erupted, and both sides were annihilated together.
Bai Qiu no longer intended to personally control the winds.
As long as he could fly, that was enough.
He relinquished control of the wind’s authority back to Mother Earth—and asked her to fight on his behalf.
He realized that his way of thinking had been too narrow.
So-called wind blades or other forms of attack were not the true power of this miracle at all…
The wind seemed to understand his intent.
It gently brushed against his face, as if agreeing to his request.
In an instant—the world changed!
Whooooosh…
Centered on Bai Qiu, within a radius of a hundred meters, an unimaginably powerful typhoon began to form.
Zone 2224, above Sankeng Reservoir—the previously calm surface of the water rippled under the wind, while the surrounding vegetation was pressed flat against the ground.
Zone 2226—dust filled the sky, swept up by the wind along with weeds and small plants, swirling wildly through the air.
“Eh?! What’s going on? What happened?!”
The snake woman looked at the dust and weeds passing through the Sanctuary barrier, utterly astonished.
It was too strange.
The strong wind that had started earlier hadn’t stopped—and now it was only getting stronger!
“Animiya! What are you doing?! Get down here and take shelter!” The [Sage] rushed over, shouting.
“Take shelter from what, old man? Also, why aren’t you blocking all this dust outside? It’s getting in my eyes…” The snake woman replied indifferently.
Veins bulged on the elven Sage’s forehead as he snapped, “That would consume too much of the Sanctuary’s energy! Hurry up! Your dream lover isn’t coming today!”
He felt both angry and helpless.
Ever since that accidental encounter with that transcendent adventurer last time, Animiya seemed to have awakened some… rather troublesome trait.
She would run up here every day to stare blankly at the teleportation device… even setting up a tent to sleep here at night!
Players often couldn’t find her when they needed to buy potions…
“…Fine.” Animiya replied reluctantly, walking down step by step, turning her head back every few steps.
— The end of the Chapter–
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