Chapter 728: Chapter 283: Fierce Battle (Two-in-One Mega Chapter)

Because the ancient hero Mong, who had been unharmed, suddenly let out a pained, low growl!

Behind his tall frame, there appeared a solid, lifelike transparent phantom that had been knocked out from his body by Rein’s hammer strike, at this point, it was at least a meter away from the body.

That wasn’t all.

In an instant, the transparent phantom that had left the body had dozens of fist-sized holes appear up and down its form.

Following that, the now much dimmer transparent phantom, seemed to be pulled back rapidly into Ancient Hero Mong’s body by some gravitational force.

Even though the transparent phantom had returned to the body, Ancient Hero Mong was vomiting dark-red blood in great gulps, kneeling on one knee, barely supporting his quivering body with his warhammer, suffering in torment!

“This….” Freeman and the others all wore expressions as if they had seen a ghost as they watched this scene!

According to the records in the Sect’s scriptures, this Ancient Hero Mong wasn’t just any ordinary Legendary figure, but an Epic-level warrior from their Sect’s ancient past.

Even in his far from recovered state, retaining scarcely one-tenth of his strength.

But surely, one-tenth of an Epic fighter’s remaining power would still comfortably reach the level of strength of a Legendary fighter!

‘A starving camel is bigger than a horse.’

Therefore, they could never have imagined that such a top ancient warrior from their own Sect could be wounded by a young man from the empire who was clearly not yet a Legendary figure!

The problem was, the injuries looked quite severe!

…

Cleya had originally seen Rein’s arm muscles burst open inch by inch, her eyebrows slightly furrowed as she worried, but she had not expected the situation to turn so quickly.

That enemy, who was clearly at least of Legendary level, seemed to be even more seriously wounded.

No, his injuries were worse!

The shadow that had just appeared seemed to be his soul, and a direct injury to the soul, obviously, would be much harder to heal than Rein’s physical wounds.

Meanwhile, in the arena, Flay wore an expression of pleasant surprise and immediately turned to his team captain Langgeler:

“Captain, I told you! With Lord Rein on our side, we could still put up a fight.”

“This….” At this moment, Langgeler’s mind was also buzzing.

He couldn’t understand why such a Legendary fighter–and obviously not just an ordinary one–could be hammered into such a state by Rein.

Could Rein be a Legendary fighter too?

But that was impossible!

Rein’s battle with Ganon of the Secret Snake Sect had been a long, drawn-out affair.

In terms of strength, Rein was still some distance from being a quasi-Legendary. He managed to win over Great Priest Ganon of the Secret Snake Sect more due to the blessing of his “Extraordinary Stamina” than anything else.

How exactly did Rein manage it? Langgeler truly could not understand!

…

“Zzzt~~~”

Rein’s legs adopted a defensive posture as his muscles bulged, digging two trenches, each several meters long and nearly half a meter deep, into the garden’s ground before he finally steadied himself!

His right hand throbbed with bone-piercing pain, but Rein’s eyes were firmly fixed on the Ancient Hero Mong, unwavering.

When he saw that the other’s transparent phantom had been knocked out and clearly severely injured, he immediately revealed a trace of a smile.

“True damage, is it that it actually affects the soul directly?”

“It seems like, there’s still a fight to be had in this battle!”

Rein could clearly feel that not only was the other’s aura rapidly declining, but also the once tight, seamlessly encompassing aura around him had now weakened substantially.

It was like watching ribbons that had been neatly drifting in one direction, now becoming disordered and fluttering off in all directions, leaving many gaps in-between.

“However… I need to heal my wounds first.”

Adding attribute points could only restore energy but not heal injuries.

Rein quickly glanced at his Beast Priest (Legendary) panel and focused his attention on the core Skill ‘Beastly Vitality.’

Previously, in order to improve his Weapon Master (Legendary) strength as soon as possible, he had spent most of his Skill Points on Extraordinary Battle Technique, so the core Skill ‘Beastly Vitality’ remained at level one.

Of course, another reason was that at that time, Rein thought level one was sufficient.

But today, the situation was different.

There were no large ferocious wild beasts nearby for him to draw from, so if he wanted to heal his injuries, he would have to rely on drawing from the vitality of the three battle pets under his command!

Without any hesitation, Rein added 2 Skill Points to ‘Beastly Vitality lv1 (Active).’

The icon changed subtly, from an image of a palm resting on the head of a prostrate beast, to one that showed three beasts surrounding it.

The text below the icon updated as follows:

[Beastly Vitality lv3 (Active): As a Beast Priest descended from ancient trolls, you can quickly draw vitality and energy from beasts or bonded pets within a certain distance to heal your injuries and restore your energy.]

(Note: You can affect up to three beasts or bonded pets at the same time, without exceeding thirty percent of their life force.)

(Note: Drawing from wild beasts will cause you to be affected by the negative influence of their spirits, bonded pets will not.)

Immediately, Rein noticed the changes after the Skill upgrade, with the addition of key phrases ‘within a certain distance,’ ‘at the same time,’ and ‘three.’

As soon as Rein thought it, a canine creature the size of a pony suddenly leapt forward to Rein’s side and lay down quickly, while from another direction, a large and robust black horned horse charged toward him.

Just when everyone thought Rein was planning to mount one of the creatures to retreat, a majestic and strange bird of prey swooped down from above his head.