NOVPUBAs if traversing from another dimension, countless ghosts appeared, their silhouettes overlapping, indistinguishable as individuals, and spread through the rain and mist, like a spectral chorus.
Their wailing pierced through the boundary of reality and nightmare, bringing forth the soul’s might of the obsidian-like Sealing Stone Tablet!
To Perlman, all of this was mere background noise.
Being of the Mental Attribute, his resistance to mental interference, including rhythmic disruptions, was extremely strong.
The ghosts could only slightly slow down his actions.
Perlman’s psychic shield flared out like wings, and the mere pressure of the air dissipated these choral Undead of the Demon Race.
"Understand? Only one Original Slab can be taken."
Lanci emphasized seriously.
"Bringing a fake stone slab as a decoy, do you think I’ll be fooled a second time?"
Perlman had thought himself to be a rather patient Demon Race, but at this moment, he also found the other party annoying.
The other party’s use of this impressively special Summon was good for nothing but showing him the light effect of the Sealing Stone Tablet.
A spiritual assault descended from the skies, enveloping Lanci directly.
Where the invisible magic power passed, raindrops started to flow again, but Lanci’s body instantly became sluggish.
"This time it’s real."
Lanci, showing no desire to fight, explained.
He wasn’t flustered, he quickly stabilized his posture between the ground and mid-air, and the square Magic Insignia on his dark gray coat burst with dark purple lightning, resisting the impact of Perlman’s psychic force with an invisible Mana Barrier that raised rings of metal humming and airwaves around him.
Talia had long read Perlman’s combat intentions; he would try to attack with Spiritual Magic, so she had preemptively cast a Mental Series Spell similar to his.
As expected, her Spiritual Magic and Perlman’s formed a control to cancel each other out.
The remaining damage was dissipated by her Magic Shield, and also triggered the accessory Lanci had given her.
[Silent Crest]
[Category: Equipment Card]
[Grade: Pink Holy]
[Rank: 5]
[Effect: Automatically triggers when receiving high damage, absorbs 50% of the damage and seals the attacker’s 50% attack attribute for 5 seconds, can trigger up to five times every 24 hours.]
[Note: Both the surface and the inside are truth.]
To some extent, the two of them had intentionally taken a hit from Perlman, because using this piece of equipment could drag Perlman’s time, preventing him from continuing the chase under a weakened attack state.
"Tata, are you okay?"
Lanci communicated to her in an instant mental whisper.
The recent spiritual attack was entirely taken by Talia for him.
Originally, against Sigrid’s sneak attack in Bandera City at the Northern Border of the Protoss Empire, the Legendary Sealing Master had withstood several hits. Sigrid couldn’t kill him outright, and it was only later when he sorted through his inheritance that he found he possessed such ornamental equipment.
"Not bad, that Lausang teacher of yours was indeed quite good to you, even giving you such a card."
Talia felt okay and acknowledged this.
That being said,
she couldn’t see much chance of victory if they kept fighting this way.
In her possessed state augmenting Lanci, her output was limited; she could barely perform to Eighth-order standards, and now they were able to control Perlman, who was in a Berserk state, solely because of their two Nine Seals’ extreme prejudice against the Demon King attribute.
If she was summoned out, she could fight with all her might, but the consumption of Mana would also increase manifold, and they wouldn’t be able to fight Perlman for long.
Regardless, she had decided to listen to Lanci that evening, acting as if she were his Great Love Poet, ready to battle to the very end with him.
In the high skies of Poson District 10,
watching Perlman’s terrifying psychic force assault them again, Lanci’s figure almost turned into a shadow beneath his dark gray coat. He twisted his finger joints slightly, and the entire skyscraper terrace was instantly enveloped by an ominous fluctuation.
Dark gray vines burst from his palms, spreading rapidly into a web of life, abruptly magnifying into a predatory net that swooped down over Perlman’s head.
The pattern on every vine emitted a blackness that made the soul tremble with the Divine Light of the Divine Era.
It not only trapped Perlman; it began to tighten inexorably, as if isolating him within an inescapable vacuum!
[Beautiful as This Flower Making]
[Category: Call Card]
[Grade: Pink Holy]
[Rank: 8]
[Effect: The vines will enclose and seal the targeted enemy, the vines have high damage immunity, returning several instances of damage to the enemy when damaged.]
[Note: Flowers without fruit, leaves without branches.]
This was a card from the Legendary Sealing Master’s last battle; it could seal both oneself and enemies and strongly counter the [Nuclear Fusion Wolf Transformation] Sealing Card.
"Do you think you can just drag out my Berserk time like that?"
Perlman kept applying mental suppression on Lanci while resisting the vines, without using high damage attacks to directly destroy them.
Despite this confirming that Rocky McCarthy could wield Eighth-order magic, it was still seriously mismatched with the stone slab’s holder, only just enough to block him.
And Rocky, that sort of person, was the last type of opponent he liked to face. He neither provoked during a fight nor showed any real pride or embarrassment; all he saw was Rocky constantly feigning weakness, as if playing with his opponent.
One wouldn’t know when he might strike back,
or if he had any means to strike back at all.
It was a constant mental warfare.
"It seems I’m indeed at a disadvantage. I’m about to lose,"
Lanci wasn’t sure how long Perlman’s rational Berserk state could last. All he found was that this Berserk state and [Parlony’s Grudge] Curse shared a consistent characteristic, which is continuously consuming life.
