Chapter 2216 Battle on the Clouds <TOC> Chapter 2218 Three-Headed Lion Dog
Translator: SumTLMan
The battlefield at this moment was already divided into two factions.
He alone occupied one side, facing countless gazes filled with hatred, as well as storms and fierce howls that made the sea of clouds churn.
Compared to groups of massive wind elemental creatures, Angel seemed particularly tiny. However, his aura was incredibly resilient, remaining unflustered even in the face of malice as violent as a tempest.
“Kill!”
“He must be killed!”
The shouts kept entering Angel’s ears, and the surrounding wind also began to grow restless.
Harlequin then stepped to the forefront. It didn’t immediately commence hostilities but took a deep breath with all its might, drawing a vast amount of wind and clouds into its chest. Its upper body instantly enlarged by a third.
About two seconds later, Harlequin slowly exhaled.
This breath was long and serpentine, reaching hundreds of meters into the sky, eventually transforming into a black tornado shadow that hovered at the highest point of the battlefield, overlooking all beings.
“That is the last wisp of wind left by Elmhurst; it will witness your demise,” Harlequin stated coldly to Angel, declaring the start of the battle.
Angel also saw the black tornado in the sky, which was the big tornado that had self-destructed during the previous battle with Toby.
So it was called Elmhurst.
Angel, upon the appearance of Elmhurst, showed no fluctuation in emotion. Elmhurst had initiated the fight, and death was its destiny.
However, Angel didn’t really want to play the “defeat the minion, here comes the boss” scenario. Even if Harlequin belonged to other wind domains, his initial intention was to attempt communication.
But given the series of reactions so far, dialogue seemed impossible for now.
So, battle was the only option.
With Harlequin’s mourning and rage for Elmhurst, the battle finally began.
Facing dozens of figures enveloped in hurricanes, Angel did not show fear. Instead, with a thought, he summoned Eremy, who was hidden in his shadow.
Upon Eremy’s appearance, its dark aura immediately blended with the surrounding storms.
Its indifferent eyes turned green, and in that moment, it transformed into a true wind elemental creature.
“Harlequin is yours to deal with; I’ll handle the rest,” Angel communicated his thoughts to Eremy.
Then, Angel extended his hand and gently touched Eremy, infusing Nightmare Aura into its body. This aura would allow Eremy to avoid being affected by illusions, capable of moving freely in illusory realms.
After all this, a gleam flashed in Eremy’s eyes. Sharing a glance with Angel, they dashed in two directions amidst the howling winds.
The instant they departed, numerous wind blades rushed into their previous location. Though these winds appeared chaotic, when they converged, they exhibited terrifying power, piercing through a hundred meters of cloud layer, creating a hole. Through this gap, one could even glimpse the sand and stones stirred up below.
This was the power unleashed by dozens of wind elemental creatures simultaneously.
Powerful enough to penetrate the eternally stormy sea of clouds!
This scene left Arnoldo and Jack on the distant Gondola utterly astounded. With Angel and Eremy facing such terrifying forces, could they truly have a chance of victory?
Dangros was terrified by the scene before him, the sea of clouds here differed from the external sea of clouds, being composed of the purest form of energy, penetrating it required a terrifyingly high power level. Yet now, with just one strike, the opponent had breached the sea of clouds. Dangros had been quite confident in Eremy before, but now harbored some fear, even considering a retreat: “Lord Toby, perhaps, perhaps we should temporarily withdraw? Even if we don’t withdraw, we could head to Wind Island first?”
However, Dangros received no reply. Turning its hand, it saw that Toby, who had been standing at the bow, had vanished.
And a hundred meters away, a griffin ablaze with roaring flames was confronting a black giant serpent standing in the clouds…
Elsewhere, Harlequin had also been paying attention to Angel, but the scent of flames carried by the wind made it turn back in confusion.
It saw Toby confronting the giant serpent.
Upon seeing Toby’s fiery form, Harlequin immediately thought of the terrifying creature from Elmhurst’s memories that had killed it.
“So, you were hiding here.” Harlequin had been wondering where the fiery creature had gone, not expecting it to be hiding near that strange flying boat.
Harlequin knew that the fiery creature was ultimately responsible for Elmhurst’s death. Therefore, even if just to fulfill Elmhurst’s final wish, Harlequin decided to kill Toby first.
It turned and charged towards Toby at high speed.
However, the more Harlequin focused on Toby, the stranger it felt in its heart. Elmhurst’s remaining memories did not provide too much detail about Toby’s appearance. Now, seeing Toby standing in the distance in reality gave Harlequin the chance to observe.
It felt that Toby’s appearance seemed familiar, as if seen somewhere before.
While charging towards Toby, Harlequin tried to recall where it had seen Toby’s appearance.
Before Harlequin could remember, a gust of wind appeared in front of it. Harlequin hadn’t yet identified who the figure was when a whirlwind struck directly at its face.
As a wind elemental creature, Harlequin could almost be immune to wind to a certain extent, especially to a whirlwind that seemed trivial.
However, for some reason, facing the incoming whirlwind, Harlequin felt a terrifying sensation.
Its intuition was screaming that it would get hurt if it did not dodge.
Ultimately trusting its intuition, Harlequin dodged the whirlwind. To prove whether its intuition was deceived, it also created a whirlwind infused with its divine sense, confronting the incoming whirlwind directly.
When the two whirlwinds collided, Harlequin was shocked to find its whirlwind annihilated, and most importantly, its trace of divine sense disappeared!
The disappearance of its whirlwind could only indicate that the opponent’s whirlwind was stronger than its casual strike, but the annihilation of divine sense was extraordinary.
This meant when facing such an attack, it wouldn’t be immune just because it was also a wind attack, and it was very likely to be genuinely harmed at its core.
What exactly was this whirlwind?
And, who released it?
Harlequin halted its pursuit of Toby and looked towards the opposite figure instead.
It was a blue shadow, resembling a wildcat. However, it was many times larger than a normal wildcat but seemed minuscule compared to Harlequin’s size, almost like a wind sprite.
But that attack just now was definitely not something a wind sprite could release.
Yet, to say the figure was a wind elemental creature seemed somewhat incorrect. Harlequin could sense a more profound and frenzied aura, not something a gentle breeze could form; it was more like a physical creature?
“Who are you?” Harlequin displayed seriousness for the first time.
However, his inquiry was met with no response, only met with an extremely indifferent gaze and a storm hiding thunderous dangers!
With successive thunderous roars and the wild swirling of wind dragons, Harlequin and Eremy officially clashed.
Their battle, from the moment it began, showcased a terrifying momentum, making it so that almost no creatures of the wind dared to approach where they fought. In a short time, a new hole piercing through the cloud sea appeared.
The mere clash between the two of them created this new hole, which continued to expand, showing the terror of their battle.
Although Harlequin was entangled in battle with Eremy, he did not forget the dying wish of Elmhurst, still suspended in the sky, watching over the fight.
He sought revenge for Elmhurst, not only aiming to kill that humanoid creature but also to take down the flame creature alongside it. Indeed, his priority was the flame creature, for it was the true culprit behind Elmhurst’s death.
Harlequin might be outmatched alone, but he was not alone here, with dozens of wind elemental creatures and his most valued subordinates, the four great wind generals——now only three after Elmhurst’s death.
Before battling Eremy, Harlequin had spread the word that Toby was the true culprit behind Elmhurst’s death.
This news poured fuel on an already boiling pot. In an instant, rage spread, and aside from the three great wind generals focusing on Angel, nearly all other wind elemental creatures set their sights on Toby.
However, before they could break through the battleground’s confines, they saw a figure pass by them with a speed beyond their imagination.
These wind elemental creatures could see clearly that this figure was the humanoid being pursued by the three great wind generals.
They didn’t regard Angel as particularly strong because, unlike Eremy, who dared to confront Harlequin directly, Angel hardly engaged in true combat upon entering the battlefield.
In their eyes, Angel was like a dog that had lost its home, frantically chased by the three great wind generals, hardly a threat.
The only thing that impressed them was Angel’s speed, which was astonishingly fast, surpassing most of the wind elemental creatures present. Although untested, it might even surpass Highness Harlequin!
Yet, they were not worried if it was only about speed. Since Angel’s speed wasn’t enough to break out of the battlefield, they believed there would always be a chance to exhaust his strength as long as he was confined within the battlefield.
Therefore, seeing Angel run past them, they paid him no mind.
The three great wind generals were already pursuing and draining Angel’s stamina. They had more important things to do, like killing that detestable flame creature!
With this thought, their spirits soared even higher as they charged out of the battlefield.
However, just as they were rushing towards Toby with towering rage, suddenly, the cloud sea below was stirred up by someone’s wind, obstructing their view and also their sense of the wind.
The environment here was inherently shrouded in clouds and mists, so it was normal for the cloud sea to be ruffled, especially since they each carried stormy winds that commonly wrinkled the cloud sea.
They didn’t pay it much attention and continued in one direction, transforming into storms to sweep forward.
Yet, as time passed, they gradually felt something was off. Even as they cleared the way with storms, the fog in front of them became denser and denser, to the point where they could barely see the path ahead. And when they extended their sense of the wind, trying to perceive movements ahead through the flowing air, they found that the way forward remained obscured, as if they were surrounded by thick fog with not the slightest sign of clearing.
Most importantly, they started together but ended up scattered, each individual flying alone through the mist, lost.
By their own estimates, with their speed, it should have taken less than half a minute to reach the vicinity of the flame creature.
They had been flying for two minutes… five minutes… ten minutes.
Still, they could not see any flame creature, nor could they sense the presence of their companions around them, only encountering rolling dense fog wherever they looked.
By this time, many wind elemental creatures had begun to feel that something was wrong, speculating that they might have fallen into some strange ability. However, they were not too anxious because this place was a sea of clouds, and moreover, surrounded by wind. They believed that by dispersing the clouds or moving to a higher or lower area, they could escape the predicament.
However, when they tried each method in turn, they were completely baffled.
Whether ascending to the heavens or burrowing into the earth, or even exhausting their wind power to blow away the surrounding mist, they ultimately could not escape the clouds. It was as if they were imprisoned within a cage of fog, losing control over their sense of direction and their understanding of the flowing winds.
After all avenues seemed doused with cold water, they then remembered Angel, who had previously raced past them.
Eremy was engaged in battle with Harlequin, leaving him almost no time for trickery. And Angel, with his extraordinary speed, could have easily chosen a more open route to flee. There was no need for him to run past them, and yet he did, which must have been for a reason.
Perhaps, imprisoning them within the strange cloud cage was his goal.
When they realized this, fear and panic instantly dominated their minds.
However, the panic was only momentary, as there was still hope and expectation in their hearts. The three great wind generals were still in pursuit of Angel, and Highness Harlequin was fighting outside. They must have noticed the anomaly here, and it was only a matter of waiting for their arrival for a possible rescue.
With this thought in mind, the multitude of wind elemental creatures enclosed in the mist began to quietly wait.
However, this wait turned out to be even longer than they had anticipated.
…
The chase between Angel and the three great wind generals continued. Yet, what all the wind elemental creatures, including the three generals, thought would be an easy battle, ultimately shifted towards an unknown situation.
Angel had already noticed that the group of wind elemental creatures intended to deal with Toby.
However, he was well-prepared, and his continuous flight was just to deploy more stable illusion nodes.
When these illusion nodes were connected, the battlefield was covered in vast white fog, leaving all wind elemental creatures attempting to break through the line trapped within the Misty Battlefield.
Including the three great wind generals behind him, who had yet to notice the change.
Chapter 2216 Battle on the Clouds <TOC> Chapter 2218 Three-Headed Lion Dog