Find a Troubled Girl after leaving the Guild-Chapter 448 - 242: Ivynis’s Tears

Li Ang handed the pitch-black scabbard to Otto, and the Annihilator flesh, as if sensing the power of the weapon, immediately released a thunderous strike. Otto cut it off with his Invisible Sword’s sword energy, raised his hand in a gesture, and the surrounding waves lifted the Zen Heart Flowing.

The Annihilator flesh throbbed violently, as if it sensed its own power and realized that it couldn’t contend with the Sword Hero who wielded it.

Otto grasped the hilt and drew the Zen Heart Flowing from its scabbard.

In an instant, Li Ang felt everything around him fall into silence.

What is this?

As he still searched for the source of this phenomenon, he heard the sound of tides.

The sound of the tide surged within the domain, and it was precisely this sound that drowned out all others, creating a sudden sense of quiet.

The sound of the tide grew louder, until it roared like thunder.

It was sword energy.

Endless layers of sword energy surged like raging waves, merging with the water elements within the domain, making it impossible to discern which were real waves and which were sword energy born from the Water Sword Path.

A martial artist, whether using fists, feet, or weapons, ultimately seeks the unity of mind, technique, and body.

Otto’s mind was his sword intent; every sword technique, honed from skill, was driven by the mind and executed by the body.

Typically, his body was synonymous with his sword, so he often used the long sword forged and tempered by sword intent and magic power, as such a sword could be seen as an extension of his body.

When he expanded the domain of "Skyborn Sword Domain: Heart Unbound," he essentially extended the reach of sword techniques driven by his thoughts. In the domain, wherever his thoughts reached, sword slashes wrought by extreme sword skills could arrive in an instant.

However, just as any power requires magic power to manifest, and magic power needs the spirit to guide it, only entities with substance can affect the world. Even beings from the Magic Power Dimension must incarnate in the material world to stir the winds and storms of this realm.

For Otto, if a non-corporeal sword bore power, even though magic power could form slashes, it still couldn’t match the might of a corporeal sword.

As expressed by the Elder Sword Hero himself, due to the Sword Path he chose, if a sword doesn’t suit him, he doesn’t wish to use it.

Li Ang doesn’t know whether the Zen Heart Flowing truly suits him or not, there might be some discrepancy, but it’s powerful, and that’s enough.

The so-called ’unsuitable’ is just a relative term. In the hands of a powerful swordsman, a treasure sword is indeed like adding wings to a tiger.

Amid the tide of sword energy, Otto continuously refined the wave-like barrier woven by sword intent in this Dimensional Rift. The Annihilator sub-body attempted a quick-draw slash again, and the black lightning became considerably stronger, but when they struck the domain again, it was to no avail.

The barrier suddenly closed, and the tide of sword energy instantly subsided into calmness.

Otto hovered in the center of the domain, both man and sword exuding a sense of tranquility.

Li Ang had a feeling that the old swordsman had already understood the characteristics of the Zen Heart Flowing—concealing water currents in the depths, power stacking up, and when released, unleashing roaring waves.

The Sword Hero raised his sword, aiming at the Annihilator flesh. The archaic and elegant sword blade, hammered into a water-wave pattern, seemed truly to be flowing.

The Annihilator sub-body rebirthed again, the blade slashed, and a water flow painted as if from a scroll burst forth from its bizarre visage without root or support. Whether starlight or flesh, all was engulfed by this water flow and suddenly vanished.

It really took effect.

Sensing the old man’s treasure artifact in hand, truly beginning to eliminate it, the Annihilator reduced its attacks and shifted to drawing power to begin rebirth.

Otto at this moment could suppress the Jenoside sub-body alone, his blade wielding, the rolling water flow and sword momentum arriving together. After several rounds of powerful strikes from both of them, Jenoside, fully transformed into a defensive posture, could only rely on power to replenish its remaining body. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

In the Acceleration Technique, Li Ang opened his Spiritual Horizon.

Upon meeting the Oracle envoy, every decision and confrontation occurred in an instant, hardly giving him time to observe the opponent’s spiritual line. Yet dealing with that envoy didn’t require this technique.

The heterogeneous Star Soul seemed capable of holding its ground, and he wanted to find a way to slay it from this level.

The good news was, at this moment, Jenoside was divided into countless parts, tearing apart the spiritual line, allowing him to observe more clearly.

Any life, even most of the time incomprehensible Star Souls, requires energy to continue fighting.

This Annihilator was more difficult than any Star Soul he’d encountered, possessing these incomprehensible combat methods; logically thinking, it should require more energy.

Aside from the formidable Baal, other Star Souls more or less suffered from the depletion of the Light of the Star Soul, while Diana relied on the remaining Essence of Water from the Sea Dragon’s death for sustenance.

The Annihilation Star Soul’s rebirth requires energy or magic power for support, but where does it come from?

On Otto’s side, the old swordsman realized he couldn’t eliminate the Demon physically for the time being, so his sword strikes mainly aimed to prevent it from damaging the cave.

On the other side, that peculiar Moon Concealing Rabbit commanding the Demon Armor Mechanic Soldier didn’t let it join the battle, merely making it kneel to shield Diana and her real body, the flower tree, from harm by the Annihilator.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Ang perused its panel quickly and thoroughly.

The skill [Power of the Annihilator] is a rough enhancement of spiritual values. And the Thunder of Destruction suppresses Star Souls, inherently possessing an extremely destructive nature, its abilities for dissolving material and space accomplished through this.

And under physical strength, there’s only one entry, but this "Transformed Body" is quite significant, allowing the Annihilator to morph freely, even transforming into the limbs of other Star Souls.

Because the Transformed Body is a Level 9 skill, within its sub-panel, Li Ang’s conceptual skill is [Unyielding Severance].