Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 341 Defeat Emma
The ice crystal dome reflected the mithril runes on Arthur's black robe. The lich's bony fingers were stroking the cold spire on the crown, chanting spells in a low voice.

Nemesis noticed the spell he wanted to cast: "I'm going to remind you of the bad news," the wizard tore open the collar that was cut by the icicle, revealing the dragon scale pattern jumping on the collarbone, "My icicles didn't even touch the hem of her dress just now."

"She can summon monsters at will to block our attacks. We must use strong enough attacks."

Arthurek nodded indifferently and changed the spell. Dark mist floated from his jaws, and the green light of the Nine Rings [Withering] swept across the dome. The ceiling collapsed, but only cut off a strand of the swordsinger's silver hair. Emma stepped on the ice and landed in the center of the summoning circle. The moment the rapier inserted into the magic circle, ten 8-meter-tall winter wolves jumped out from the cracks in the ice.

Nemesis glanced back at the thousand-year-old ice worms he had summoned, and saw that four of them had been sucked dry by the snow goblins summoned by Emma earlier.

The swordsinger raised his sword lightly, and the winter wolf spewed out a breath like "Ice Cone" from its mouth, forming a series of ice spikes on the ice surface. Arthurek slammed the staff in his hand to the ground, and the seven-ring necromancy spell "Ashes to Ashes" turned five winter wolves into snow powder, but the claws of the remaining five had already torn open Nemesis's protective robe.

Five winter wolves tore Nemesis apart, and he angrily found himself deceived by an illusion. Nemesis, who had already hidden in another corner, drew a spell model, and five health points were deducted again, leaving only 45/60.

Fifth-ring defensive spell——[Backlash Vortex]!
Silver light drew a brilliant galaxy-like track in the void of the underground treasure house, and a silver vortex with faint purple light swirled above the heads of the five winter wolves and Emma.

"Ouch!"

The vortex shot out six chains, aiming at Emma and the five winter wolves. The huge and terrifying bodies of the winter wolves had no power to resist the energy chains, and they turned into ashes in pain while screaming.

Emma was not feeling well at this time either. [Backlash Vortex] could cause all objects and creatures containing mana within the range to continue to receive backlash damage from mana. The summoned Winter Wolf was a creature made entirely of magic, so it naturally died immediately.

But as a level 20 swordsinger, Emma has extremely powerful magic power.

Under normal circumstances, [Backlash Vortex], as a mere fifth-ring spell, naturally cannot have much impact on Emma. With the Swordsinger's superb intelligence attribute, he can easily resist the effect of this spell.

However, Nemesis amplified the power of this spell, which made Emma unable to resist the effects of this spell. Coupled with the huge amount of magic power in her body, she suffered very serious damage.

"Puchi!" Emma spat out a mouthful of blood. She felt as if her whole body was being burned by flames. She tried to use the sword in her hand to cut off the energy chain connecting her, but it was useless.

From Nemesis's game perspective, Emma's health is dropping madly from 9999/9999.

She tried to cast a teleportation spell while enduring the pain, but she forgot that she had cast the dimensional anchor to deal with the final boss, and the surrounding space had been blocked. Emma had to run outside the vortex, trying to escape the casting range.

In order to prevent a sneak attack, she swung her rapier again and summoned a new monster next to Nemesis.

Twenty snow monsters crawled out of the melting ice water around Nemesis, and Arthurek immediately activated the nine-ring necromancy spell [Wail of the Banshee]. The lich's skinny and pale skull opened its empty mouth like a black hole, and it let out a piercing scream that ordinary people could not bear, and the monsters exploded into ice slag in the sound waves.

"Go to hell!" Emma raised her sword and caused the ice dome to vibrate again. Fifty ice bats shot towards Nemesis like sharp arrows, and then ran out without looking back.

Nemesis released flames to bombard the ice bats, and shouted to Arthurek: "Use energy absorption!"

The lich's bony finger bones clasped the dragon bone staff, and three hundred inverted spells condensed into dark purple gears in the void. When the last syllable of the dead language broke between the teeth, all the gears suddenly turned in the opposite direction, bursting out spider-web-like energy cracks.

Nine-ring necromancy spell——[Energy Absorption]!
A purple-black beam shot out from the lich's empty eye sockets, piercing Emma's heart with precision. Her pierced body instantly became transparent, exposing the scarlet soul vortex surging in her chest - that was the energy storm formed when the source of life was forcibly extracted. The air boiled in the aftermath of the spell, and each light spot turned into a miniature skeleton and roared into the air. The lich's dry ribs began to proliferate flesh and blood, but the new blood vessels were blue-gray like corpse wax, and continued to swell with the infusion of energy.

As a representative of the opposite, Emma fell into extreme powerlessness.

Her blonde hair began to become dry and gray, and wrinkles began to appear on the pixel-style block figure.

Her escape speed was getting slower and slower, and [Backlash Vortex] was constantly causing continuous damage to her.

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She waved her rapier feebly, summoning various monsters: ice element elders, digging worms, frost gazers, etc.
But Nemesis used his huge spell slots to deal with all the monsters without any loopholes, preventing them from affecting the lich in the slightest.

[Energy Absorption] is one of the most terrifying spells of the necromancy system, a curse like the law of cause and effect. Except for the recipient relying on physical immunity or protective spells to block it, there is no way to escape the caster's lock.

Therefore, facing the tiny purple-black beam of light, Emma was unable to summon the Lian family's summoned creature to die as she had done before.

As her health points decreased, she was no longer able to stand and eventually collapsed to the ground, giving up resistance.

"It's time to end." Nemesis raised a finger gracefully, deducted five health points, and released an enhanced version of [Dissociation].

Fluorescent green rays spurted out from the cracked magic lines on the palm of his hand, shooting all the way towards Emma who was no longer resisting. The moment her skin touched the beam, Emma's entire body collapsed like quicksand in an hourglass. Nemesis closed his five fingers, and the body that had not yet fallen immediately exploded like a leaf in the wind.

The moment Emma fell, a walnut box emitting blood rose from her body and floated in the air.

The dead will-o'-the-wisp in Arthurlek's eyes couldn't help but jump excitedly at this moment: "Destroy it! Then you can see the master."

Nemesis couldn't help but ask curiously, "You mean, if we destroy this life box, the seal will be lifted?"

Arthurek shook his head: "No, you still need the reverse pupil to awaken my Lord."

"My Lord has been split by the Right Eye that holds the power of the shadow and has become a traitor in the shadow. Even if the seal is lifted, without the return of Nitong, my Lord cannot wake up."

"However, as I promised you, the holy vessel of my Lord is sleeping in the darkness with him. The holy vessel is waiting for you in the seal."

Nemesis was surprised and asked, "So it was you who was communicating with me all along? But why did you communicate with me in His tone?"

Arthurek said indifferently: "Saints are the extension of God's will. I am Arthurek, and I am also my Lord, but my Lord is not me."

These confusing words made Nemesis ponder. It seemed that the connection between gods and saints was closer than he thought.

He raised his hand, a green light flashed, and [Dissociation] instantly turned the fragile walnut box into a pile of ash like its owner.

(End of this chapter)