Chapter 400: Act 118 Final Battle (6) (3rd update, finished for the day)
When Brando and Qian arrived, they saw Medisha pressing a hand against her shoulder. Blood had already soaked through her silver armor, staining the pristine white battle robe red. She stood with a furrowed brow, facing off the giant monster before her, while Conrad had long disappeared.
At this moment, the Earth Envoy Eckerman also looked somewhat unusual—its former gray-yellow shell and cuticle were now completely cracked, revealing a dark red glow beneath, like slowly flowing lava. If before, this thing looked like a giant piece of earth-colored stone sculpture, now it looked something like granite that had not yet fully cooled and solidified.
Brando was startled seeing Eckerman in this state—it was the Divine Blood Rampage state. Even an undying evolution stage creature would regress one tier after entering this state, meaning this thing would revert from an incomplete form to a juvenile form after this battle. What was going on?
It was logical to assume that without a life-threatening situation, the Divine Envoy would never willingly enter Rampage. Just like many BOSS fury states, it would trigger only below 30% of its life.
His gaze followed the monster’s arm down and spotted a deep, bone-visible wound on Eckerman’s left flank. Brando guessed it must have received the blow from Medisha’s Thousand Army Strike. However, that did not account for this problem, as Eckerman’s tenacity would mean not even a direct hit from Thousand Army Strike would deplete 10% of its life, let alone initiate Rampage.
That left only one possibility: it had received a command to enter Rampage voluntarily.
Brando turned his head, only to see Medisha looking at him apologetically with her silver eyes. “Sorry, my Lord,” the Elf Princess said through gritted teeth in a low voice. “I let Conrad escape.”
Brando mentally cursed his own negligence. He and Qian had never thought the Earth Envoy Eckerman would use a diversion, as he assumed it was an insect of sorts corrupted by the Divine Blood, which by logic, should not possess such intelligence. But he hadn’t considered that as long as Conrad had control of the ‘sheath,’ he could make decisions for it.
“This is not your fault.” The three of them stood together, facing off the rampaging Earth Envoy. Brando then asked, “What happened just now?”
“That man tried to lure me into a trap, but I saw through it. Then he summoned this monster and tried to escape under its cover…” Medisha coughed into her hand, blood trickling through her fingers. “Cough, I attempted to stop them with a Thousand Army Strike… but the monster suddenly mutated midway, breaking free from my gravity binding…”
“Is that how you got hurt?”
“Is it serious?” Brando frowned. The rampaging Earth Envoy’s strength had increased dramatically by 20%. If Medisha had taken a direct hit, the injury wouldn’t be minor.
“It’s nothing, just a scratch, cough…,” the Silver Elf Princess replied. “But it seems the Elemental Power seeped in and wounded my lung.”
That is called nothing? Brando sweated, but he remembered that Medisha was actually in a spiritual state. The so-called external injury was merely an outward manifestation of her Soul Fire being disrupted. It indeed wouldn’t lead to a significant drop in combat ability like it would for humans.
“What now?” Qian asked from the side. Newest update provıded by 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭·𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮·𝙣𝙚𝙩
“We have to change the plan temporarily,” Brando said, staring at the motionless Earth Envoy, still puzzled as to why Conrad was so eager to break free from the three of them, even at the expense of the precious Divine Blood to put the Envoy into rampage. “Qian, you and Medisha go after that man. Don’t let him disrupt our layout— as for here, leave it to me.”
“You?” The red-haired girl turned, a flash of doubt in her fiery red eyes.
“My lord?” Medisha was also surprised. She knew Brando’s strength as a Summon—just a Silver Rank warrior. No matter how rich his battle experience, he couldn’t possibly match a fearsome creature enlightened with elements. It seemed unrealistic even to delay it for a while.
“Have you forgotten my true power, Miss Medisha?” Brando responded internally.
“You mean the Travel Mage, my lord?” The Silver Elf Princess responded likewise within.