The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

"An eternal enemy must be annihilated with swift and decisive force."

"You keep saying I'm your eternal enemy, but the key is you haven't even made a move! Every time, it's you who strike first."

Yu Jin looked at the four figures rushing towards him and muttered a helpless complaint.

"Also, let me remind you, the same move won't work on me the second time!"

Seeing the four figures rushing towards him again in a triangular formation, Ember raised his arm, which was shimmering with the light of lightning.

In an instant, a deep blue staff filled with mystery and profundity appeared on his scarred iron hand.

Luther's Radiant Stone Staff—the staff of one of the "Origin Mages." Only those who have come into contact with the wisdom within the stone, the distant, prehistoric wisdom, can wield this staff.

The staff of the Origin Mage Luther was sealed in the Seria magic circle after Luther transformed into a radiant stone life form in order to study radiant stone magic.

However, the seal didn't mean Ember couldn't get the staff. On the contrary, upon seeing the blindingly bright sealing barrier of Seria's magic circle, Ember, whose phototaxis was maxed out, immediately broke the seal and dug out the staff.

"Bang—" Blue and white starlight gathered from the blue pyroxene at the top of the pyroxene staff, the starlight condensed, like a small nebula.

One of the Origin Magicians, the magic of Luther. One of the "Legendary Magics".

It can unleash twelve dark meteors that fly towards the target. It can be used while moving, and its power can be increased by charging up.

The origin that Luther glimpsed was the moment of the destruction of the massive star cluster—at that instant, everything he owned also collapsed.

"Shhhhh!"

Twelve bright blue-white meteors shot out from the star cluster on the staff's radiant stone. The meteor shower appeared in the dreamlike secret realm, adding to its fantastical charm.

However, the four shadows had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery. Seeing the meteor streaking through the air, they quickly changed direction and scattered in all directions.

But the meteors seemed to have their own will, scattering and clinging tightly to the four figures in front of them.

"Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!" Lightning flashed, and Ying tried to dodge the pursuing meteor with absolute speed.

The meteors were completely unaffected by the lightning; they moved and darted through space, transforming into twinkling starlight.

The starlight chased and intertwined with the lightning, eventually colliding completely with it.

"Bang bang bang!"

The meteor shattered like amber, its hazy starlight exploding completely. Along with the starlight, three "shadows" also exploded.

"See? I told you the same tricks don't work on me, right?" Yu Jin crossed his arms and looked down at Ying, who was getting up from the ground.

He's completely unharmed now, but the shadow on the other side is in a sorry state.

Although Shadow raised his sword to block the incoming meteor the moment it collided with him, the amber starlight shattered from the meteor still possessed considerable power.

Bathed in starlight, she felt pain again after a long time.

With a swing of his sword, dispelling the surrounding starlight, Ying finally nodded in response:

"My hearing is still good enough, you don't need to remind me twice. If this trick doesn't work, I have other tricks up my sleeve."

Chapter 526 Different Blade Light

2024-03-05

"Then please." Upon hearing this, Yu Jin picked at his ear and then gestured for Ying to proceed.

Shadow fell silent again. She raised her Dream Heart, the blade crackling with lightning, as if it were about to strike Ember.

Seeing this, Yu Jin also became alert, abandoning his spectator-like demeanor. Putting everything else aside, being struck by Ying's blade still hurt quite a bit.

The lightning on Dream Heart flickered even brighter, and Ember's gaze never left the blade for a moment.

This is clearly a powerful move, and there's no room for carelessness.

Just as Yu Jin held his breath and prepared to receive the attack, the figure in front of him suddenly disappeared.

"Boom!" The shadow leaped over the embers, leaving a faint trail of lightning, and then rushed straight towards another battlefield in the distance where thunder was rumbling.

"You with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, you actually know how to use sneak attacks?!" Ember belatedly realized that Shadow was planning to sneak attack the Forge Knight, and immediately shouted angrily.

He cursed and shouted as he followed closely behind, his shadow blurring as he went.

Meanwhile, in the midst of a raging thunderstorm, the Forge Knights were locked in a fierce battle with General Thunder.

Through that strange "ritual," the Forge Knights fully unleashed the boundless potential within them.

Each Forge Knight who drinks from the Holy Grail is equivalent to a low-cost teleportation point.

As long as the conditions are met, the scattered Forge Knights can all rush over in a flash.

Of course, whether the Forge Knight, who serves as the anchor point, will be able to survive the unconscious mob attack by his companions is anyone's guess.

In the battle against General Thunder, the Forge Knight made full use of this to dodge and attack.

"Zi!"

A thick bolt of lightning descended from the sky, and the moment it touched the Thunder General, it scattered in all directions, forming a raging sea of ​​lightning.

"Purple lightning... it's just as good as the golden lightning of those people in the royal city and the red lightning of the ancient dragon."

Ordovician held his great shield in front of him and looked at the general who had used his body as a shield, and sighed.

The guy in front of him had surpassed many people Ordovician knew in his mastery of lightning.

Perhaps only the Dragon King, hidden in the cracks of time and space, could surpass it at the border.

Thunder roared, but no Forge Knight attempted to dodge it using the same magical "ritual" they had performed before.

The attack range is indeed large, but this also means that the power is less than other moves that focus on a single target.

That amount of power isn't enough for the Forge Knight to dodge. And even if he did dodge, where could he possibly hide in such a vast area?

They interrupted others' use of Blessing by running, not teleporting. Facing a wide-range attack, rashly surrendering one's body to instinct might reveal an opening.

General Thunder showed no surprise at all as he watched the Forge Knight stroll leisurely amidst the thunder.

She already knew that this move would have limited effect on the Furnace Knight, but General Thunder still used it because it was one of the few moves she could use to damage the Furnace Knight.

Her sword skills were either parried by the Forge Knights or evaded by them using some strange method.

These men, though heavily armored and seemingly more powerful than agile, somehow managed to make General Thunder feel as if he were mired in a quagmire.

This feeling of being unable to exert one's strength made even the puppet General Thunder feel a bit irritable.

General Thunder was having a tough time, and the Forge Knights weren't faring much better. Their agility was limited to dodging; it was far from sufficient for offense.

Therefore, after fighting for so long, both sides only suffered minor abrasions. And it seems this trend will continue until one side can no longer hold on.

"Iai!"

With a swift and precise strike, the blade arrived before Ordovician's eyes in the blink of an eye, leaving him no time to react.

However, he doesn't need to react, because his body sometimes moves on its own without his brain.

Ordovician dodged the Iaijutsu's blade, but his vision was blurred due to the high speed, and his brain was essentially shut down.

But the next moment, his vision became clear, and his senses returned to his brain.

This does not mean that Ordovician suddenly made a breakthrough in the face of danger and elevated his reaction ability to a new level.

The cause of all this is an instinct even more powerful than interrupting someone from drinking from the Holy Grail—the instinct to sense an impending crisis.

Ordovician felt a dull ache in his chest, and a streak of purple light had appeared before him in the distance.

Given his understanding of his own speed, Ordovician knew he couldn't possibly dodge at that distance. So he quickly held his breath, gathered his strength, and prepared to take the hit head-on.

"Didn't anyone tell you that ambushing is a bad thing to do?!"

There are many people faster than the Ordovician, but very few faster than a shadow. Coincidentally, there is one person here who perfectly satisfies both of these criteria.

At the critical moment, Ember's flying kick landed squarely on Shadow's waist.

"Boom!" A mournful cry echoed through the air as the purple flash was instantly reduced to its original form, rolling a long distance on the ground before finally stopping.

"Cough cough cough!" Ying got up from the ground and coughed a few times. There was no blood in her mouth, but rather some kind of bright debris.

"Can't be resolved?"

"It's hard."

General Thunder and Shadow exchanged a few words before falling silent.

"Seriously? How come you guys have so many injuries? If I hadn't come, wouldn't you have been beaten to death by that puppet?"

"Wang himself doesn't seem to be doing much better, does he?"

"I'll be fine on my own in a little while, can you?"

……

In contrast to General Thunder and Shadow, the conversation between Ember and the Forge Knights on the other side could be described as noisy.

They first talked about their respective injuries, then discussed the strength of the Thunder General and the Shadow, and finally even analyzed their moves on the spot...

Looking at the chattering group of Ember, Shadow raised his Dream Heart and stared at its blade.

"Use that cut."

"A single, unexpected strike?"

"The vain opinions of ordinary people, that slash has no name."

Ying let out a deep breath. "The Unthinking Slash" was the name given to that slash by the people of Inazuma.

But Ying knew that that strike was the culmination of her power. It contained both her martial arts skills and the state of mind she had when she swung the sword.

When instructing Inazuma Takehito, the sword's power merely surpassed ordinary martial arts techniques. However, when facing the demon god from another realm, the sword possessed the power to cleave heaven and earth.

The power of a strike varies greatly depending on one's state of mind when wielding a sword. Such a technique cannot be fully captured by a simple name.

"Say what you will, I am different from you. My sword strikes are always the same, no matter how you slash."

After General Thunder finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at the Ember and Forge Knight in the distance, who seemed completely unaware.

She took a deep breath and her entire body vanished into the void.

"Om-"

With this enormous buzzing sound, the entire space began to tremble. Outside the space, it seemed as if something enormous was constantly crashing against the barriers of space.

"Be careful of this aura."