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Chapter 1212 - Chapter 1212 Chapter 1214 The Array

Chapter 1212: Chapter 1214: The Array Chapter 1212: Chapter 1214: The Array The Cage of Evil’s iron bars triggered the Charging Bullets, which boast high movement speed and auto-tracking features. However, during the tracking process, these bullets could be attracted by other creatures, bringing trouble to those creatures that come too close.

If Song Jian had not heeded Situ Kaiss’s advice and used the Thousand Swords Art to attack and destroy the Cage of Evil, he could have been easily killed on the spot by the triggered Charging Bullets if he was too close.

Although Song Jian possessed “Death’s Bane,” a passive skill that could resurrect him automatically, he had no desire to experience what it felt like after death.

When the Death Lord saw Song Jian get blown away, the distance between him and the Soul Crystal in his hands grew even further, which infuriated him even more.

Hit by dozens of Charging Bullets and sent flying like an empty sack, the Death Lord relentlessly got up from the ground once more and continued to charge towards the iron bars.

This Death Lord wasn’t a real flesh-and-blood body, nor was it a mechanical creation, but rather a monster that was a hybrid of flesh and machine merged into one.

Such a monster was definitely not a natural occurrence; it must have been created by someone.

Song Jian’s suspicious gaze fell on Situ Kaiss. This dwarven Holy Light Priest had been in a cage with the Death Lord since the beginning. To say that he had no connection to it, Song Jian would find hard to believe.

But this dwarven Holy Light Priest was only just over level seventy; how could he have the ability to create such a fearsome monster? And being confined, how did he manage to find the materials to create it?

Song Jian opened his task pane and once again carefully reviewed the task details. Besides rescuing the Holy Light Priest Situ Kaiss from the Cage of Evil, there was no additional description in the task content.

Song Jian hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and ultimately decided to continue helping Situ Kaiss, to rescue him from the cage. What would happen after the rescue could be addressed later. With Situ Kaiss’s strength, he wasn’t significant enough to warrant much attention from Song Jian.

“You actually, actually obtained a high-quality Soul Crystal. My god, you should have told me earlier!” Situ Kaiss hid again in a dark corner far from the Death Lord and complained to Song Jian.

Song Jian glanced at the Soul Crystal in his hand and asked, “What should I do now, how can I use this Soul Crystal to enrage it?”

“You’ve already enraged it!” Situ Kaiss said, “Hold it in your hand, let it sense the presence of the Soul Crystal, and it will soon lose its mind!”

Song Jian nodded, but this time he did not approach the iron bars. His previous position was now occupied by the Charging Bullets. The Death Lord kept striking the iron bars, and countless Charging Bullets, like light elves, roamed around after being triggered. As soon as the Death Lord approached, they would swarm over like sharks smelling blood.

The exoskeleton on the surface of the Death Lord’s body now had visible cracks, and some areas had even been pierced by the Charging Bullets, revealing purple-red flesh and a metal skeleton that glinted with a silvery-white light beneath.

Boom~

With another collision, the entire Cage of Evil trembled slightly, and Song Jian even felt the ground shaking!

“Just like that, just like that…” Excitement flickered in Situ Kaiss’s eyes, her face flushed, her body trembling faintly, tensing involuntarily, fists clenched, her right hand’s fingernails even digging deep into her flesh without realizing, as she hid in the corner. Yet her eyes remained fixed on the Death Lord, muttering to herself, “A being without a complete soul can’t resist the temptation of the Soul Crystal. This desire is encoded within its flesh and genes, a deep craving for evolution, and it’s only this extreme yearning for evolution that can make it let down all mental defenses and allow the neural network to break through the last limit, fully taking over its entire body…”

Boom~

Another hit, this time the Death Lord rammed one side of its body against the iron bars, its shell’s spikes all snapped, emanating a brittle cracking sound, along with a strong burning odor spreading out.

Situ Kaiss’s eyes showed a hint of pain, knowing that such damage to the flesh would significantly weaken the Death Lord’s strength, but to stimulate its full potential locked within its flesh for the neural network to take over, this was an essential step!

Song Jian, holding the Soul Crystal, watched as the Death Lord slammed against the iron bars over and over, its Vitality Points dropping rapidly at a visible rate, such behavior was akin to suicide!

Finally, after countless impacts, the iron bars crackling with lightning finally gave a creaking sound of being overburdened. Several iron pillars as thick as arms, flickering with electricity, began to visibly bend.

Song Jian squinted his eyes, noting the dense silver runes that started appearing on the surfaces of the bending iron pillars. These runes were all magical symbols, which when combined, could form one or several powerful magic arrays.

“These magical symbols are incomplete, part of a larger magic array, originally hidden within the iron bars, but now revealed due to the damage,” Song Jian thought to himself while closely examining the symbols.

“Hahaha, good, good, the Eternal Magic Array has been damaged. Keep going, continue, break it open completely, only by destroying this prison magic array can you shatter your final mental defenses…” The red glow in Situ Kaiss’s eyes grew more intense. If one got closer, they could see hair-thin blood vessels wriggling like snakes across the surface of his eyes, and slowly, wisps of black aura began to emanate from his body.

If Song Jian could see Situ Kaiss at this moment, he would recognize that Situ Kaiss had been tainted by the Abyss’s aura, his eventual fate being transformation into an abyssal creature, but at that moment Song Jian’s full attention was on the Death Lord. He watched in amazement as it relentlessly rammed the cage, heedless of its own life.

The Death Lord’s shell was mostly stripped away, sections of its purple-red flesh were burnt to a char by the electricity, clinging to the silver skeleton.

If it were an ordinary creature, even one with the tenacity of a peak Academy specimen, injuries this severe would likely prevent it from even standing, but this Death Lord seemed unfazed, continuously battering the iron bars, flung back repeatedly by Charging Bullets, apparently unconcerned with its own survival.

Song Jian had seen many creatures fight fearlessly to the death, but one as relentless and brutal as this was a first for him. Just then, a crisp snapping sound rang in Song Jian’s ears. Suddenly, the electricity throughout the Cage of Evil surged, bursting into a blinding white light.

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