Chapter 520 Sephis's Special Profession: The Power to Deceive the World
An invisible spatial slash sent it flying!
Pfft—
Green blood spurted from Safis Sothos's shoulder, and the intense pain almost made him drop the medicine bottle he was holding.
it hurts!
This type of injury hasn't occurred for centuries, and the nerves, long since numbed by time, have made the pain increasingly intense.
"ah!……"
Safis Sothos couldn't help but let out another scream, even though he wanted to hold it in:
"How long has it been since I've been this disheveled..."
"You inferior creature, is this all the magic you can use? Your monotonous attacks are a disgrace to the identity of a magic caster."
Safis Sothos wanted to influence his opponent to change his magic through words, while also further confirming his suspicions.
This inferior creature has very little magic left!
After all, the opponent had previously used methods such as magic triple transformation to enhance their abilities, and now they were only releasing "Severance" alone.
"Don't say anything stupid!"
Tang Zheng responded coldly, "There's no reason not to use magic that can ignore magical defenses and cause direct damage."
"—"Present-day judgment"
Whoosh!
The invisible spatial slash flew away again.
"Skull Wall!"
Safis Sothos's voice trembled slightly as he quickly chanted and waved his magic wand.
This time, instead of launching an attack, they adopted a defensive strategy.
A flash of dark light!
A wall of skeletons, made of bones, rose from the ground, but it couldn't withstand the attack; a spatial slash flew past.
"ah!"
Safis Sothos screamed again, his snake eel tail wriggling as he staggered back two steps, his gray-green pupils contracting.
It actually failed to stop it!
"Skull Wall" is a 5th-tier spell. Although it is a low-level spell, it can withstand a powerful instantaneous attack and is the best single-target defensive spell.
The reason we couldn't block the attack wasn't anything else, it was simply that the process was a beat too slow.
My chanting speed has slowed down!
Safis Sothos quickly realized this; the intense pain in his body was affecting his casting speed.
"Immediate judgment"
"Magic Without Chanting: Skull Wall!"
This time.
Safis Sothos had no choice but to use magical enhancement techniques, instantly unleashing magic to block Tang Zheng's attack.
"Make a decision now!"
Tang Zheng continued casting his spell, his gaze fixed on Sephis Sothos opposite him, a deep thought flashing in his eyes:
"Although the battle situation was different from what was expected, with deliberate guidance, the battle was still turned into a favorable situation of 'war of attrition'."
Mastering the "live decision" is a crucial skill!
By using verbal stimulation to engage in a battle of wits, one can elicit this response.
Tang Zheng can use "experience points to cast spells" to ignore magic consumption to some extent, but Safis Sothos cannot.
The opponent thought he could deplete his magic first, but in reality, Tang Zheng was the one who truly wanted to deplete Sephis Sothos's magic!
We've been fighting until now.
Safis Sothos's true advantage of mastering countless spells was never brought into play.
"This is the price of arrogance."
From the moment the other party took him for a real magic chanter, they had already fallen into this "common sense" trap, which was also Tang Zheng's biggest disguise.
According to the terminology for fighting a boss, this is the first phase.
"The important thing is—I haven't even broken through my first stage yet!"
A barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of Tang Zheng's lips, his voice remaining cold and deep as he released the magic:
"Immediate judgment"
The silent spatial slash dissipated upon contact with the skull wall.
In the empty square, the sound of bones shattering echoed continuously as a simple yet extremely risky magical confrontation continued to clash!
One attack, one defense.
From a distance, it looks like a battle between magic chanters walking an extreme tightrope.
1 minute!
2 minutes!
5 minutes!
Tang Zheng's relentless attacks bombarded him relentlessly, without any complex magical techniques, only one "severing blow" after another.
This...this is impossible...
"impossible!'
Safis Sothos let out a strange roar from his throat, the sound becoming increasingly shrill and deep, his gray-green eyes widening.
Even among the 10th-tier spells of the same level, "Immediate Severance" is the type that consumes the most mana. This inferior creature in front of me is still able to cast it.
"What have you done, you bastard?!"
After Safis Sothos unleashed another defensive spell to neutralize the attack, he couldn't help but roar:
"How could someone possess such immense magical power? Even special skills couldn't achieve this!"
"There is no way in the world to replenish magic power!"
Everything before its eyes had overturned its understanding!
Even if all of these inferior creatures were of the type that increased magic power, and with the added benefit of their equipment, they still couldn't withstand such a drain.
This is incomprehensible!
In Safis Sothos's heart, a fear of the unknown coalesced.
Don't make such a fuss~
"Your arrogant and haughty attitude is embarrassing for your men to see, Lord Safis Sothos,"
Tang Zheng remained calm, his gaze sweeping over the attribute panel while his palm pointed forward, continuing to cast magic.
"A contest of magic consumption? The one who's truly fallen into the trap is you, you octopus!"—[Immediate Cut]
Level: 100Lv → 99Lv
"Take office!"
Level: 99Lv → 100Lv
That's right!
Such a long period of consumption has exhausted all the 20 million experience points stored up, but this does not affect the casting of spells.
When experience points are depleted, continuing to cast spells will cause you to lose levels. At this point, you can change jobs to level up and repeat the cycle.
This is the real "experience-based spellcasting technique"!
The methods were almost unconventional.
However, there is also a drawback: Tang Zheng's level cap needs to be kept at 99Lv to free up one level.
This will inevitably affect the last high-level profession, preventing it from reaching the maximum level!
How to choose?
Tang Zheng is currently unable to determine whether the future combat style will lean towards warrior or mage.
"—No, ah!"
Sephiroth Sothos retreated in a panic, taking the spatial slash hit him. He let out a miserable howl and swung his magic staff.
"It must be fake! Die!"
"Gravity vortex"
The dark, deep energy sphere formed an invisible gravitational field in the air. When the intersecting spaces stretched out, the energy of the two collided and dissipated.
Under the monitoring effect of "Magic Essence", Tang Zheng's magic power had already dropped to zero and remained unchanged!
The opponent continued to use magic.
"It's not a mana drain!"
"Yes—other means of attrition!"
Safis Sothos desperately wanted to tell himself that everything before him was an illusion, but the mere thought itself was the greatest mockery of himself.
"What exactly is it... what exactly is being consumed?"
Safis Sothos's mind was in complete chaos, with a headache and disbelief constantly assaulting his brain.
I've been tricked!
I thought I was the hunter who set the trap, but I never expected that the real prey was it.
Pfft! Pfft
Streams of green blood blossomed continuously in the air.
"They've even stopped drinking the medicine; have they given up?"
Under Tang Zheng's watchful gaze, Sephis Sothos, aside from occasionally using magical artifacts for defense, offered almost no resistance, and even refused to drink the red bottle.
"It looks like the magic power has been exhausted."
Victory seems to be just around the corner?
Yeah, right!
Tang Zheng became even more tense and cautious, his attacking movements continuing without pause.
Sephiroth Sothos's aura was extremely weak; excessive blood loss had caused his entire octopus head to become flat and grayish-white.
Whoosh!
"Immediate judgment"
An invisible spatial slash struck again from afar.
This moment!
"No!"
Safis Sothos abruptly raised his head, his large, gray-green eyes, bloodshot and filled with a ferocious and resentful glare at Tang Zheng opposite him.
"My plan was flawless! The problem lies with you!"
"No matter what despicable means you used, I, created by the great Cthulhu God-King and inheriting the bloodline of the Old Gods, will not lose to anyone!!"
A sharp, piercing cry, like the shriek of a crow or the sound of fingernails scraping across a blackboard, roared out.
"Let a lowly being like you witness the power created by the Supreme God-King!"
Sephiroth Sothos extended a slippery octopus hand from his magical robes, the grotesque form of the alien species becoming increasingly distorted, as he looked up at the sky:
"bring it on!"
Buzz—
An invisible wave emanated from Safis Sothos, and the entire surrounding area seemed to fall into a state of silence.
The alarm bells in Tang Zheng's mind instantly rose to their highest level. His eyes narrowed, and he quickly retreated.
Pfft!
The Spatial Slash was unaffected and easily struck Sephis Sothos, reducing his stamina to zero.
In that very instant!
"Cognition is the power to change everything."
Safis Sothos uttered a frenzied chant, like a dying wish.
The world is starting to turn gray!
At the center of Safis Sothos, all colors disappeared, and the world was like a color television turned into a gray-white television.
This grayish-white hue spread dramatically in all directions.
"Shield of Impure Impact"
Without hesitation, Tang Zheng unleashed his long-suppressed special skill, a black and red energy shockwave.
However!
This power, which could negate everything, failed to defend against it, and Tang Zheng, like those around him, was stained gray and white.
Buzz—
The attribute panel jolted.
The special class "Illusionist" has been discovered, requiring a higher-level class as a prerequisite...
"It failed!"
Tang Zheng's expression changed drastically: "Damn it!"
He immediately realized that the opponent's trump card was not the type he had initially anticipated being used against the enemy.
"To present the world with the only false evidence!"
Safis Sothos spoke loudly, his dying gaze fixed on Tang Zheng, making a kind of declaration:
You are dead!
Swish—
The grayish-white hue vanished in an instant.
Tang Zheng quickly activated the rebirth spell "Mercy of the Twin Sal Trees" stored in his passive ability "Magic Preparation".
Everything went black.
In the blink of an eye!
Tang Zheng's vision returned to light, and his previously vigorous life points suddenly dropped to single digits.
At this moment, if Tang Zheng is hit by any attack, he will die. The situation that was originally in a dominant position will be reversed in an instant!
"Triple Enhancement of Magic Without Chanting: Internal Explosion!"
"Die!" Safis Sothos's icy voice echoed across the square.
Did the octopus revive itself using an item?
"Shouldn't he have no magic left? How can he release magic again?" A series of doubtful thoughts appeared in Tang Zheng's mind.
There was simply no time to think further!
Tang Zheng had been struck by magic, and his whole body swelled up like a balloon that had been suddenly inflated, despite his current single-digit stamina.
Such a magical attack would surely kill him!
"I won!"
Suppressing his earlier panic, Sephiroth Sothos revealed a victorious smile and arrogantly raised his head.
The "Life Essence" has already provided the answer. Not to mention the three "Internal Explosions" enhanced by magic, even a single spell could kill Tang Zheng in his current state.
It's just that it's been reinforced for added safety!
"puff--"
Tang Zheng spat out a large amount of blood, his swollen belly then returned to normal, and his body swayed as he fell backward.
Squeak!
He moved his left leg back and placed it on the ground.
Tang Zheng steadied himself, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and revealed a ferocious smile as he looked at the person opposite him: "I almost died!"
"Huh?!"
Safis Sothos was so shocked he almost jumped up. "Blocked it? How did you do that! With that little health..."
A flash of light from the "essence of life".
Instead of decreasing, the health points increased, seemingly appearing out of nowhere!
"Ahhh!"
Safis Sothos screamed incredulously, looking at Tang Zheng as if he were some kind of monster:
"You are not even a human being, a lower form of being. What are you?!"
Such a short time!
It's simply impossible to cast healing magic; there's not even enough time to trigger the healing effect of an item.
"It's so noisy!"
"You disgusting octopus, monster?"
Tang Zheng swallowed the lingering taste of blood in his mouth and took a heavy breath: "Of course I'm human!"
The reason he didn't die and even gained more strength was not because he released healing magic, as there wasn't enough time, but because the passive effect of [Lord of the Holy] took effect.
...
"The protection of faith":
When HP drops to half, immediately restore 20% of HP and remove negative status effects (1/day).
...
Tang Zheng had withstood the attack, but his stamina was still extremely low. He quickly took out a magic scroll and tore it off.
"Great Healing"
A divine and gentle healing light emanates.
"I don't believe I can't kill you!"
Affected by the white light, Safis Sothos also snapped out of his panic and gritted his teeth.
"Yeah!"
Tang Zheng responded sarcastically, but his heart remained solemn: "The illusionary power that can deceive the world, that's your trump card."
"As expected, it's an unpredictable tactic!"
"I didn't expect you to choose to kill me directly. No... not directly, but by deceiving the world, you transferred your own death onto me, didn't you?"
"Otherwise, I would have died directly, and my stamina wouldn't be so low. You replaced your zeroed stamina value."
Tang Zheng quickly sorted out his thoughts.
The special class [Illusionist]'s trump card is the ultimate technique of casting illusions on the world.
Tang Zheng happened to know a little bit of information. The Bone King had mentioned that although the information was limited, at most four systems of magic could be used in the game.
And then I was transported to another world!
This killer app truly has the power to deceive the world, which means its application is not fixed.
This is why Tang Zheng has been on high alert.
(End of this chapter)
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