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These two veteran powerhouses were undoubtedly exceptionally strong, but Ella's attention was not on them at the moment.

She vaguely sensed that a power far exceeding that of the two of them was flowing through the shadows cast by the intertwined branches of the giant tree overhead.

“This is just a celebration for mortals, Miss Ella,” Ken said with a smile, his hand under his chin. “You should be attending a different kind of banquet.”

As soon as the words were spoken, a faint cry came from above, "Help...help me..."

Ella slightly raised her head and saw a human face, revealing a pained expression, slowly emerge from the deep, wrinkled bark of the huge, withered tree trunk.

It was none other than the fourth prince, Raymond. He seemed to have been completely swallowed up by the giant tree, with only his face barely visible.

As Ella's gaze fell upon him, that twisted, pained face was swallowed back up by the withered tree bark amidst a few more wails.

Do you think I would save him?

Ella lowered her head and looked at the Second Prince, Ken.

“I’m just giving you a reason to leave,” Ken shrugged. “I specifically asked the people responsible for entertaining Miss Ella to wait up in the giant tree, as a sign of my sincerity. Or would Miss Ella prefer them to come down and entertain you in this not-so-spacious hall?”

Ella curled her lips. Indeed, if the divine war were to break out in the main hall, she might not be able to spare the attention of the Septian Society and Skadi amidst the clash of various divine spells.

It gave me the feeling that I, as an elder, should no longer sit at the same table as the children.

"Alright then." Ella narrowed her eyes slightly, her alluring crimson gaze falling on Skadi. "Then I'll leave this place to you."

Skadi couldn't understand the meaning behind Ella and Ken's words, but her gaze remained firm. "Hmph, I wasn't expecting you to be of any help anyway."

"Commander Soren and Dean Bazel... my companions and I will defeat them."

A faint smile appeared on Ella's lips.

In an instant, Ella's figure had already crossed the vast hall and appeared directly in front of the throne, accompanied by several crows flying away from her.

Upon entering the main hall, Ella quietly released many raven familiars with teleportation anchors.

But this sudden appearance seemed to be unexpected by Ken, and even the two captains, Sauron and Archmage Bazel, who were staring blankly like puppets, subconsciously turned around.

“You seem quite fearless, Mr. Ken.”

Teleported to the Second Prince on the throne, Ella, though petite, stood high above him with a languid expression, looking down at the seated prince. "Is it because you think you can't kill me, relying on the power you stole through the Authority of Life?"

"I will do as you wish and go meet those people you said were 'responsible for hosting me'."

"But you just wait. After I cut off your pitiful support, I'll come back to you."

Ken's throat moved slightly, and cold sweat immediately appeared on his forehead.

With the Tree of Life behind him, he will certainly not die.

But at this moment, the oppressive feeling revealed by Ella's gaze was able to awaken his instinctive fear from the bottom of his heart.

This is etched into the soul, a deep-seated awe that mortal beings hold for higher-dimensional beings.

Before Ken could reply, Ella's graceful figure suddenly vanished, leaving behind a gust of wind caused by spatial disturbance.

Ah……

Seeing this, the Second Prince Ken, who was able to catch his breath, smiled. Instead of being annoyed by the threat, there was a hint of relief in his eyes—he had finally managed to get rid of this most terrifying guy.

Gods are the gods to deal with. The second prince stole divine power but did not truly become a god. Knowing the other party's true identity, it was already quite good that he had the courage to face him directly.

However, having climbed the tree, Ella Hayville will eventually perish because of her own arrogance.

Ken thought with considerable confidence.

……

Here, Ella used her crow familiar, which flew straight up along the tree trunk, to activate her teleportation illusion, and her figure flashed onto a thick branch.

Even when the tree reaches its densely woven canopy, the dead tree will still consciously grow branches to stab the crows that attack it.

But this time, with Ella herself present, she raised her hand and unleashed a burst of black holy fire, burning those seemingly living branches to ashes.

The withered branches seemed endless, but under the scorching black fire that surged from Ella's body, a gap was forcibly carved out, leading to the center of the canopy.

"rustle……"

In the stillness, the sound of mountain winds rustling through the branches came from all directions.

Ella could sense that the dangerous aura she had felt in the main hall below was hidden among the dense branches in front of her.

As the black flames swept away the withered branches along the way, just then, a faint magical fluctuation suddenly appeared in the shadows, and a thick, dark mist of decay surged through the gaps in the branches, rushing towards Ella.

With a casual flick of her wrist, Ella caused spatial rifts to spread rapidly, following the path of her fingertips like ripples on a lake.

An invisible wave pierced through the thick black fog, suddenly splitting the seemingly lifeless mist in the middle, revealing the figure of a giant spider hiding behind it, spewing out the mist.

"Got you."

Ella smiled seductively at the figure, and the next second, to Dong Muge's astonishment, Ella's ghostly figure had already flashed in front of her.

A dark, long sword in his hand, gleaming with a cold light, cleaved her bulky body in an instant.

The enormous divine body that was quite intimidating to Skadiholman became a clumsy target that could be easily cut in two by Ella.

But Dong Muge, who was split in two, did not die. Instead, he exploded into countless tiny spiders, which scattered like a swirling sandstorm and then reassembled into a new, complete body at the other end of the tree canopy.

Is there more than one way to restore it?

Ella raised her delicate eyebrows slightly, watching the thick, dark mist of decay surge towards her again, and casually summoned a patch of mud to block it in front of her.

Several black tentacles opened out from the silt like lotus flowers, seemingly transforming into a giant abyss maw that easily swallowed the surging black mist.

After a few exchanges, it seemed that apart from being more resilient, the opponent had no means that could threaten him.

This surprised Ella. If that was all there was to it, where did Ken Betis’s confidence come from? Did he really think he could defeat her with just one Dong Muge?

Dong Muge does seem to have mastered some divine power, but on the one hand, the fusion does not seem to be complete, and on the other hand, according to Gretia, Pandia herself has relinquished her divine authority. So now the only thing he can use is the part of the authority stolen from his life, which is not at all the strength that a true god should have.

Just as Ella was puzzled, her keen senses suddenly detected a cool breeze brushing past her back.

She immediately dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding a pair of huge, sharp spider fangs.

Is there one more?

Ella floated to a branch and looked around in the dim moonlight, only to see that the creature that had attacked her was also a giant spider with half a human body and half a spider.

The girl pieced together on the chest of the ferocious beast was actually the image of Dong Muge.

Two Dong Muges fused with divine bodies? Ella's gaze turned slightly solemn, but before she could make a move, a faint rustling sound of branches rubbing together rang out, and she caught another spider-like silhouette in the shadow of a branch out of the corner of her eye.

Sure enough, another "Dong Muge" slowly emerged from the shadows.

Then, a rustling sound began to rise in the silence, becoming more and more frequent and denser.

Ella initially thought it was the sound of the mountain wind blowing through the branches, and although it was dense, she didn't pay much attention to it.

But when one after another Dong Muge connected to the giant spider's body emerged from the darkness, clinging to the branches, Ella finally realized that the continuous, faint sound was actually the sound of countless spiders crawling among the tree canopy.

Chapter 196 Team Battle Master

A thick, dark fog followed Ella's figure, which flickered among the tree branches.

Countless crows flapped their wings and darted up and down through the enormous canopy. Some fell into the dense spider webs, while others were instantly turned to mummies by the black mist. Branches sprouting from the dead trees would also attack the crows like serpents.

But their sheer number is endless, and each raven is an anchor point for Ella to teleport.

Using the crows to leap among the treetops, Ella would occasionally strike and kill a giant spider. Small wounds would be immediately repaired by withered vines, while large or fatal wounds would cause the spider's mutilated body to transform into countless small spiders and reassemble itself, making it a formidable force once again.

Even if you find the right opportunity to burn the entire giant spider with Osmon's holy flames in an instant, the spider will immediately shed its ignited outer layer, revealing a new body inside.

If killing even one is so difficult, imagine how many of them must be lying almost on every branch of this enormous tree canopy.

Furthermore, as time went on, Ella discovered that the effectiveness of her damaging methods against the countless Dong Muge seemed to be slowly decreasing.

The giant spider's shell, which could originally be easily sliced ​​open with a single spatial slash, can now still be disemboweled, but it will no longer completely pierce through the opponent's body as before.

The same thing is happening to the branches of those dead trees, which also seem to be getting harder and harder.

No, more accurately, they seem to be gradually adapting to their own attacks.

Is this also the power of the authority of life?

Ella secretly grimaced. Realizing this, she simply stopped attacking and switched to full-force defense, dodging and weaving among the tree branches.

"Hehehe, Miss Saintess of Light, how come you don't even have the courage to attack? You can't defeat us by just running away."

Dong Muge's voice echoed among the intertwined branches, and her tone changed from its original cool and indifferent to somewhat high-pitched and frenzied.

“So you can still talk,” Ella dodged a thorny branch, “I thought you and the two unlucky guys below had become that prince’s puppets.”

“He can’t control me,” Dong Muge’s voice grew increasingly agitated, “but I have to thank him for giving me the opportunity to take my revenge!”

"No way, I don't recall ever having any dealings with you before." Ella was a little tense, it seemed like every god she encountered had some kind of grudge against her.

"Of course you don't!..."

As they spoke, several giant spiders leaped up and pounced on Ella, but they missed. Ella's figure flashed onto another branch the instant she was hit.

"But your father did! I want you to pay for the sins your father committed!!!"

All the giant spiders roared in unison, which shows how furious they were.

“Pandia?” Ella finally realized. “Interesting. Is your will influencing Dong Muge?... Or have you devoured Dong Muge’s consciousness?”

"You don't need to know all this, Haye's bastard... You just need to die here!!!"

……

A hysterical scream echoed through the treetops, reaching even those engaged in fierce combat in the main hall below.

However, Skadi was completely oblivious to the source of the voice at that moment, as the unimaginable power of Bazel and Sauron overwhelmed her.

The chief mage's extraordinary rank allowed him to casually unleash a heavenly lightning spell that blasted half of the main hall to collapse, causing stone pillars to crumble and bricks to fly everywhere. Even the waterfall at the main hall's entrance was blasted open.

Before the Seven Stars Guild members, covered in dust and dirt in the ruins, could recover, the Knight Commander Soren suddenly appeared and slashed out with his sword. The sword energy that shot out was about to tear half of the guild's players to shreds in the next second.

At the critical moment, Skadi summoned a dragon-fire-wrapped thrust, barely managing to deflect the crescent-shaped sword energy with all her might. She passed through the gaps between the scattered players, smashed through the wall behind her, and revealed a courtyard piled with snow and corpses.

Large beads of sweat dripped from Skadi's forehead. She didn't even dare to take the blow head-on, but merely tried to deflect the opponent's sword energy. The tiger's mouth that was gripping the hilt of the sword was now injured and bleeding.

Although there is the blessing of bloodline power, it is simply impossible to cross several levels to face the extraordinary.

"Your Highness, they haven't shown their full strength...!"

Amidst the rising dust, Li Cheng coughed and shouted a warning, "Their will is resisting!"

Neither Bazel nor Soren used the most efficient method to kill.

Bazel's Heavenly Thunder spell had a wide range, but he didn't specifically target them when casting it; most of the spell's power was poured into the surrounding environment.

The same applies to Sauron. If his sword strike hadn't been deliberately condensed into sword energy but instead used a wide-range sword technique, Skadi wouldn't have had a chance to desperately deflect it.

It can activate skills according to instructions, but it lacks precision and dexterity. Li Cheng, who has a talent for command, saw through this at a glance.

Ken frowned on the throne, surprised that there was someone like this among this group of cannon fodder.

Skadi, who possesses the bloodline of two dragons, is not a threat to him. He knows that his sister is just a brute, and even if she awakens her bloodline and becomes stronger, she can never surpass Sauron and Bazel.

But this guy might actually affect the course of the battle.

He slightly twitched his finger, as if issuing some kind of command from the depths of his being.

Soren's deep, abyss-like eyes immediately fell on Li Cheng. With a single step, before anyone could react, he had already left a trail of afterimages and appeared in front of Li Cheng.

With a swift swing of his greatswords, about to cleave Li Cheng in two, a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed beneath his feet.

The blinding, dazzling light almost illuminated the entire hall, and even the seemingly invincible Sauron was jolted so badly that he twitched a few times on the spot.

Li Cheng had set up a lightning talisman trap in front of him when the main hall collapsed, and Sauron stepped on it precisely at that moment.

They may still be stuck at the Proficiency level and unable to find an opportunity to effectively damage Sauron, who is at the Transcendent level, but these top-tier spell scrolls and various items they obtained from the Duke's family are still very powerful.

"I knew this bastard was going to ambush us," Li Cheng shouted to Skadi as he retreated while Soren was being controlled, "Both of these two rely on that wheelchair-bound man for their actions, and their senses and consciousness are limited by that guy's head!"

If Captain Sauron had his own will, he would have easily avoided the trap with his extraordinary senses. But at this moment, he was like a clumsy "big brother" who had paid for the game but failed to improve, and he was disgusted by Li Cheng's little trick.

Seeing this, Skadi immediately channeled her energy and drew her sword. A dragon's roar accompanied by crimson flames erupted from the tip of the sword, transforming into a torrent that swept across the air and headed straight for Sauron.

Her battlefield awareness wasn't as strong as Li Cheng's, but she still understood the importance of focusing fire on the enemy when they were under control.

Other players from the Seven Luminaries Guild pulled out a bunch of alchemical bombs and threw them at the scene as if they were free. The fierce explosions that followed instantly shook the entire hall.

Chapter 197 Cutting Off the Fire from Underneath