A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 148 King of Fire VS King of the Mountain

"God...am I seeing things?"

"Hurry up and take a picture! What are you standing there for? Hey? What are those things flying in the sky?"

"God, is this the winning photo of the photography contest that you have given me?"

Thousands upon thousands of steel bars floated up, neatly arranged in the air, like the mythical swords returning to their source in an Eastern fantasy, which was truly astonishing.

Under Lao Tang's command, numerous steel bars rained down, piercing towards Bao Lie at an unparalleled speed.

Bao Lie had told Lao Tang beforehand that there was no need to worry when a fight broke out, as long as fire was not used, he could save his own life.

So Old Tang was quite relieved. Since the Shadow Brothers had said so, why be polite? Of course, he should just kick them in.

The dense rain of steel bars, so dense that even birds would be shot down, was indeed no threat to Fortress.

His body, along with his clothes and belongings, blurred and indistinct, merging into the shadow of the elevated surface in an instant.

Borg moved swiftly through the shadows, and once he merged into them, the whole world became gray and transparent, while reality was detached and blurred.

Moreover, the interior of the shadow was very desolate. All the sounds from the real world seemed to come from the distant starry sky, empty, far away, and faint.

Using the shadows as cover, Bao Lie quickly reached the side of the abandoned overpass. Thousands of steel bars plummeted at high speed, piercing the abandoned overpass head-on, continuously emitting dense, booming metallic collision sounds.

However, as long as it doesn't hit, it won't cause any damage to Fortress.

'Jingle bells!'

It was as if tens of thousands of craftsmen were forging steel here. The dense, teeth-grinding roar made Chen Motong and the other two on the other end of the phone cover their ears.

Is this the strength of the church's predecessors?
Is this the power of the Dragon King?

Has Kassel gone mad? How can we possibly kill this dragon king?
The helicopter pilots at the scene quickly pulled up, fearing they would be hit by the rain of steel bars, while the media personnel in the distance seemed to value money over their lives.

What if the footage from a great distance isn't clear? They choose to get closer and shoot!

If they didn't capture this once-in-a-lifetime scene and report it on the news, they would definitely regret it!
Excited, Old Tang ignored the helicopter overhead and the approaching media personnel. At this distance, their conversation couldn't possibly be heard: "Hide in the shadows?"

"Is this the origin of the Shadow codename?"

"Infiltrating the shadows—this is an extraordinary ability of a Sequence 7 hermit of the Hanged Man pathway," said the unharmed Forrell, emerging from the shadows and standing amidst the concrete jungle, explaining the concept.

This gave Lao Tang, Chen Motong, and others the illusion that the old church was large in scale and had many secretive channels.

Old Tang felt that the Old Church was incredibly mysterious, and it was a path he had never heard of before. He became increasingly eager to learn about the Old Church, which was born even earlier than the so-called Black King.

He hasn't recovered all of Norton's memories yet, but even if he did, he wouldn't be as good as the Old Church!
Chen Motong and the other two quickly wrote it down. Sure enough, the seniors in the church were all very capable!
Putting themselves in their shoes, none of the three—Chen Motong, Chen Motong, and Chen Motong—could say they would survive such a dense barrage of steel bars.

Bao Lie was secretly pleased; this was the benefit of exploiting bugs.

As an avatar of Xu Lie's main body, Bao Lie can still only use the extraordinary abilities of the Thief pathway.

If you want to use the power of other methods, you must use rituals of other methods to create talismans of other methods.

For example, when Xu Lie's main body wanted to obtain the Faceless Man's talisman for his clone, he needed to cultivate Huang Tiekou and parasitize him before he could create the talisman.

However, once you advance to Sequence 5 Dream Thief, it won't be as troublesome.

Dream thieves have gained an additional ability to disguise themselves as followers of other gods, thereby setting up rituals for those gods, stealing divine favor, and pilfering power obtained from other rituals to create other spells.

Of course, if the other gods discover this, it will be death, but since everyone is an avatar, there's no need to disguise it.

Fortress prays to his avatar in the Chaos Sea, and at most he can obtain the Sequence 7 Hermit's Shadow Infiltration Charm, which can only be used once.

However, there is a loophole in the rules: the Time Worm's clones can steal extraordinary abilities.

All you need to do is have the Time Worm clone inside your body steal the power of the Shadow Infiltration spell when Bao Lie uses it, and then Bao Lie can steal it back, thus bypassing the spell's limitations and allowing it to be used an unlimited number of times.

Before this trip, the main body took good care of him, so it was impossible for Bao Lie to only have the trick of infiltrating the shadows.

To prevent Old Tang from getting too carried away with his fighting, Bao Lie planned to destroy the abandoned overpass to limit Old Tang's Word of Power: Sword Control. And when it comes to destruction, Bao Lie happens to possess a particularly suitable ability.

Once it's used, spiritual energy is consumed rapidly.

Having almost completely drained the spirituality of the several Time Worms within his body, Bao Lie stomped his foot, channeling his power into the entire abandoned elevated structure, causing it to be completely overturned in an instant!

The power from Fenrir, the king of the earth and mountains—stress.

It has the 'eye' that can find everything, strikes hard at the weakest point, pours power into it, and destroys the thing instantly.

For example, the abandoned overpass at the foot of the fortress.

With the release of stress, the entire abandoned elevated highway seemed to have been punished by the gods.

With a tremendous roar, a section of the abandoned elevated road, more than 500 meters long, was twisted into a long braid, defying all reason, as if it had been gripped and twisted by an invisible giant.

Countless concrete fragments and large metal debris fell, forming a black, gray, and gold rain that was even larger than the steel bar rain that Old Tang had just created.

With the abandoned elevated road twisted like this, it's almost impossible for Lao Tang to extract the steel bars in their original shape.

The deafening roar, like a natural disaster, and the rising dust attracted the attention of countless people.

The helicopter pilot at high altitude used all his strength to pull the stick up as high as possible.

Those media personnel who wanted to get close enough to take photos scrambled to leave, no longer daring to covet any big news.

That was a capability completely beyond their comprehension. What the hell? It could twist an entire abandoned elevated highway into a pretzel?

"mom, Mom, Mom!"

"God help me, God help me, I'm going to church this Sunday, help me!"

"Fuck! Fuck! Get out of the way! Don't block my way!"

Let alone ordinary people, even Chen Motong, Fingel, and others who had received education in Kassel and mastered many mystical arts from the old church were dumbfounded and lost their minds.

Old Tang was startled. As soon as the abandoned elevated road began to twist, he quickly jumped onto the floating metal block to avoid losing his footing and being pulled in.

If you accidentally get stuck in there, you'll be twisted into a mushy mess, let alone a pretzel!

"You son of a bitch!" Old Tang was about to start cursing when he saw that even Fortress himself couldn't cope with the effects of Fenrir's power.

After a few disarrayed swaying moments, Bao Lie was swept into the twisted, abandoned elevated structure, turning into a paper figure that was instantly torn to shreds.

Meanwhile, Bao Lie suddenly crossed a distance, flashed to the metal block falling down beside him, and then disappeared into the corresponding shadow, thus escaping unscathed.

He almost managed to kill himself with his own attack, a truly absurd feat.

"..." With this kind of mess, Old Tang couldn't even curse anymore. He even wanted to ask the younger generation in the church if this commotion was big enough.
It should be big enough, right?

Unfortunately, the noise was too overwhelming. The distorted rumble of the abandoned overpass and the clattering of countless pieces hitting the ground meant that even if Old Tang roared in his current physical condition, he probably wouldn't be able to communicate with the noise.

Old Tang could only casually swipe his hand to shrink the range of the Word of Power: Sword Control, maintaining only the metal block floating under his feet to ensure he wouldn't fall.

Next, another kind of Word of Power is activated: Heaven and Earth as Furnace.

The liberator, in a self-centered domain, creates metal out of thin air and arbitrarily assembles it into new forms.

With only a small portion of Norton's memories, smelting metal was as natural as breathing for Old Tang.

Once the realm where heaven and earth were the furnace was opened, the shredded metal from the elevated structure, which had been twisted into pretzel shapes, floated into the air, melted, and reformed, transforming from slag into the form of swords.

In just a few seconds of melting, that thing could no longer be called a sword; the numerous fragments and debris had been transformed into a thick and sturdy large sword pillar!
"Boom!"

Like a thunderbolt striking the earth, a comet colliding with a planet.

The attack still failed to penetrate the twisted, abandoned overpass, but the massive amount of dust it stirred up was enough to obscure everything, allowing Old Tang and Bao Lie to slip away unscathed, leaving only a mess behind.

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