Chapter 116: Counterattack
Facts have proved that the extra-curricular technique [Demon Binding] can indeed subdue the phantom demon and make it a slave of the caster.
The heart-wrenching pain was only one of the reasons. The most important one was that once the spiritual spear of [Demon Binding] was activated, it would absorb the blood from the body of the phantom demon.
This is what all phantom demons fear.
After all, they are a race that feeds on blood and regards blood as a source of power. Pursuing blood is their instinct and their desire. Therefore, if an individual of the same kind in the same race evolves into a higher-level phantom demon with a higher bloodline, they will often choose to surrender.
The [Demon Binding] technique, which was developed based on this characteristic and is specifically used to restrain phantom demons, just happens to seize the weaknesses of these phantom demons, forcing them to choose to surrender.
This also means that Su Ming's [Demon Binding] is completed.
With the reference of the prototype, Su Ming activated the spiritual power after seeing the pattern, and finally successfully improved the [Demon Binding] technique, making it successfully become Su Ming's own.
Although there is still room for improvement in this technique, for example, there is still some sluggishness in the operation of the technique, and the structure of the technique can also be further optimized to reduce the consumption of spiritual power and increase the output, there are still some minor problems in all aspects, but at least the execution of the technique was successful.
In this case , "I must take advantage of this opportunity to increase my combat power."
With this thought in mind, Su Ming took the scaly-horned demon mutant and began to wander around the battlefield like he did in the morning.
This time, Su Ming not only had to collect various phantom demon materials, but also had to look for targets worthy of being subdued using [Demon Binding] to enrich his imagined phantom demon army.
The target is as considered before, ignoring the screaming devils, corrosive water devils, shadow devils, blade devils and other individuals with not so outstanding combat power, and directly targeting the trolls and scale-horned devils which have outstanding combat power.
What's more, thanks to the wide open entrance to the Spirit Demon Prison, even though the upper-level phantom demons were blocked at the front line of defense and could not advance an inch, many lower-level phantom demons escaped and ran here, including trolls and scaly-horned demons that Su Ming had targeted, and even dark demons and swamp demons.
These are also two types of phantom demons that are famous for their outstanding combat capabilities.
The swamp demon is a phantom demon that lives in swamps and marshes. It looks like a snake, but has two sharp claws. It moves at an incredibly fast speed. Its claws also carry miasma, which can corrode the flesh and blood of the opponent even if it just touches the opponent. It is deeply feared by human professionals.
The Ulun Demon looks like a crow with three legs, a phantom demon similar to the Yatagarasu, and can fly very fast. Its cry can affect the mind and make people insane. Like the Screaming Demon, it is a phantom demon with the ability to fly, but its threat is more serious than that of the Screaming Demon. It is a monster like a scourge to humans.
The combat power of these two types of phantom demons, like that of trolls and scaly-horned demons, are considered to be among the strongest among the lower-level phantom demons.
Unless they are mutants, the strength of the other lower-level phantom demons is far inferior to theirs.
Take the Screaming Demon and the Dark Demon for comparison. The former is an object that can be defeated by a team of students who are not even at the professional level. The task of defeating this phantom demon is only C-level in the Demon Hunting Academy.
The latter, on the other hand, was a terrifying enemy that even three-star professionals had to take seriously, as one could end up going insane and being devoured without even realizing it if they were not careful.
The difficulty of the mission to defeat such a phantom demon would definitely be the highest S level if it appeared in the Demon Hunting Academy.
Since the number of phantom demons to be subdued cannot be increased too much due to the limitation of their own spiritual power, Su Ming naturally wants to select as many powerful phantom demons as possible to subdue.
The process was quite smooth.
After awakening the Seeing Pattern, Su Ming's warlock strength entered the four-star ranks. Even if he was not as good as the veteran four-star warlocks, he was still a superior professional after all. In addition, his hunter strength had steadily reached the three-star ranks due to the transformation of the nightmare bloodline. He also had the special power of [Silver Arm]. With the combination of the two, a mere low-level phantom demon, no matter how troublesome it was, was nothing.
What's more, Su Ming has a mutant horned demon by his side. If they work together, they can easily win even when facing multiple phantom demons.
In the end, Su Ming successfully subdued three trolls, three swamp demons, three dark demons and four scaly-horned demons.
Including the original mutant Scale-Horned Demon, Su Ming now has a total of fourteen Phantom Demons under his command, each of which has power comparable to that of three-star professionals and can even threaten them.
Such a force is no less than that of a small or medium-sized hunter family.
Even the private army under Xu Qianqian, or the Xu family hunters brought by Xu Yanyan, may not be able to defeat these fourteen phantom demons based on their combat power alone.
After all, the people under their command may not all have three-star strength, and there are quite a few two-star professionals among them.
The phantom demons that Su Ming subdued happened to be extremely troublesome among the lower-level phantom demons. They were either extremely powerful, or had amazing defense, or posed a miasma threat, or could cause mental disorder. Even three-star professionals would find them difficult to deal with.
Especially the mutant horned demon, which is definitely like a small boss to those lower-level professionals.
In the absence of high-level phantom demons or high-level professionals, such a fighting force is quite terrifying.
With such a phantom demon army, a lot of pressure in Su Ming's heart disappeared.
"I now have the initial strength to cause trouble to those big families and big forces."
Unfortunately, for the sake of his spiritual power, Su Ming could no longer continue to conquer them recklessly.
Maintaining the spiritual spears of these fourteen phantom demons has already taken up a portion of his spiritual power. If it increases further, it may affect his ability to cast spiritual spells and affect his strength as a sorcerer.
Su Ming didn't want his strength to be damaged.
You know, seeing patterns also consumes a lot of spiritual power to use. It is already amazing that Su Ming can free up idle spiritual power for other uses while taking into account his combat power.
Other warlocks don’t have as much spiritual power as Su Ming.
This is true even for a four-star warlock.
"Never mind, that's enough."
Su Ming didn't dwell on this aspect too much, and was content to stop harming other phantom demons.
He threw the phantoms he had subdued onto the battlefield at random, letting them deal with other phantoms, collecting phantom materials for himself, and then returned to the camp.
After that, Su Ming's activities were to go to the front line to fight, return to the room to rest, and take the opportunity to go out to raid for magic materials.
An Zijin, Yao Beibei, Lei Hao, Ye Bai and others were unaware that Su Ming had secretly done so many things. They only felt that Su Ming, like themselves, had been working so hard on the defense line until he was physically and mentally exhausted. They were still ordinary students in the academy and had not noticed Su Ming's transformation at all.
Just like that, the second demonic time since the entrance to the Spirit Demon Prison was opened, the second evening dusk, arrived.
Just as dusk was approaching, great news came from the front line that made everyone cheer.
"The entrance to the Demonic Prison has been successfully sealed."
The big guys of the Warlock Guild did not disappoint after all and successfully sealed the entrance to the Demon Prison with the [Distant Realm Gate].
At this point, the entrance to the Spirit Demon Prison was sealed and the phantom demons no longer appeared in the world.
The army of phantom demons that came to the human world lost their support and were completely trapped in the Huaming District.
And that means one thing.
"The clarion call for the counterattack has arrived."
At the same time.
When the entrance to the Spirit Demon Prison was sealed, the people of Longyao City were greatly encouraged and everyone cheered. The garrisons on each defense line were also preparing to counterattack the Phantom Demon. At this time, on a remote battlefield not far from the entrance to the Spirit Demon Prison, a man walked slowly here.
He glanced in the direction of the entrance to the Demonic Prison.
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There, the entrance that originally appeared in the void like a black hole has disappeared.
The army of phantom demons was isolated and helpless, and was finally surrounded and sieged by the professionals in Longyao City.
The fierce battle is still going on, even getting more intense, and it feels like the final outcome is about to come.
Of course, the visitor didn't care about this.
He only cares about whether his mission can be completed.
Picking up the phone, the man dialed a number and the moment the other party answered the call, he reported to the other party the status of his task completion.
"I left the cub in the living world, but I was unable to catch it."
He reported the results briefly.
As for the process, it doesn't matter anymore.
"Okay." The person on the other side replied in a fierce voice, "Just keep it here. As long as we don't let it escape back to the Spirit Demon Prison, it will be in our sight."
Only a cub like this is worth continuing to use.
However, there is also bad news.
"I accidentally hurt it, is that okay?"
Such a sentence made the person on the other end of the phone frown.
"Injured?" The other party asked in a deep voice: "Is the injury serious?"
"It's pretty serious, but I tried to show some mercy. With the regenerative ability of the phantom demon, it should be able to recover quickly." The man said nonchalantly, "Unfortunately, its blood has been damaged. Even if we catch it, we won't be able to extract its blood before it recovers."
".Forget it." The other party was silent for a while, then sighed and said, "Anyway, we are not the ones who need its bloodline. Although it is a bit of a pity, let the people who want it worry about it."
"The premise is that the cub is not killed in advance." The man holding the phone said gloatingly, "If it is discovered by other phantom demons or professionals and killed, it would be a real pity."
"That's none of our business." The person on the other side said, "Since you have completed your mission, come back. The ceremony is about to begin."
Upon hearing this, the man's eyes lit up and his expression became excited.
"Is it finally going to start?" He muttered, "I can't wait."
"Me too." The other party also replied, saying, "Soon, we will get what we want."
After saying that, the other party hung up the phone.
The man also put away his phone and took a look at the battlefield.
"The people of Longyao City did a good job and were able to survive this war."
"Unfortunately, this is all in vain."
"Sooner or later, this world will belong to us."
"sooner or later."
After leaving these words, the figure on the battlefield slowly moved away until it disappeared.
Across the sky, an ice-blue figure passed by, causing the water to ripple continuously.
The figure was shrouded in mist, and wherever it passed, drops of blood kept falling.
But it didn't dare to stop and continued to fly into the distance.
The direction is exactly north.
(End of this chapter)