Chapter 315 A battle of Ice and Fire
Rise of the Undead Legion
Dave inspected his opponent.
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Name: DuâRhaza. Lich.
Tier: Doom-Knight Rank.
Danger level: Friendly.
Level: 550
Base damage: 250,000-320,000
HP: 5,000,000
DN: 50,000
MA: 155,000
Skills:
[Freeze] (Passive) All of Lich DuâRhazaâs skills deal Freezing Damage. After a certain amount of Freezing Damage is dealt to the player. They will turn to [Ice Statue]. Becoming immobile for 2 seconds. The next attack on the [Ice-Statue] has a 5% chance of instantly executing them.
[Frozen Death]: (Passive) Continuously Saps life from the living and transforms it into his own health. Steals 0.1% of targets around him per seconds and convert it to HP.
[Icy Burial] Surrounds the target with an ice tomb. Dealing 100% of base Damage in -Freezing Damage and burning 50% of their max Stamina.
[Frozen Necromancy] Summons ice-creatures as undead to attack DuâRhaza aggressors.
[Ice Aura]: releases an ice aura that slows and saps targetâs stamina.
[Icemancer]: (Passive) Full mastery over ice magic. Can control ice, bend it and shape it to whatever form DuâRhaza wishes. Ice attacks deal base attack damage in magic damage.
Lore:
One of the strongest units under Arch-Lich Dagla -Abyssal Knight- of the undead legion. The Black Skull Order trapped duâRhaza in the Ice-Queen palace. Not wanting to waist his immortality, DuâRhaza delved into ice magic and managed to fuse both undeath and Ice which made him one of the most unique liches that could use the freezing element to cause death to his enemies.
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âHe has some nasty skills if I was a human that is.â Dave smiled. His undead nature gave him the ability to counter most of DuâRhaza skills.
A loud voice echoed in the arena. "FIGHT!"
Duârhaza remained hovering in the air, waiting for Dave to attack.
Dave used [Immortal Apparition], teleporting above DuâRhaza and swung down with his glaive. The Doom Knight smiled and waved his hand upward, creating an ice barrier that blocked Daveâs glaive.
Dave dropped down to the ground and jumped again swinging his glaive at the lich. The lich waved his hand creating two ice swords. One of the ice swords smacked Daveâs glaive away, while the other pierced through Daveâs chest.
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Your undead Nature grants you ice damage immunity!
Ice damage resisted!
Dave cursed, DuâRhaza was toying with him.
The constant ice aura surrounding DuâRhaza created a small layer of frost over Dave, it didnât harm him, but it was annoying.
Dave noticed that his HP was continually dropping.
âShit, His Frozen Death is sapping my HP even if Iâm undead.â
"Whatâs wrong young Lich, you should be stronger than this," DuâRhaza said in a soft tone.
"Yeah, donât worry, Iâm just warming up," Dave replied.
âI guess the glaive is not going to help much here.â Dave switched to the sworn Stalwart gauntlets and activated [Aura]
"Smart, fighting ice with fire. Show me how hot are your flames!" Duârhaza said, and with this, the aura surrounding him raged further creating a hail storm around him. Daveâs Aura looked like a flickering candle flame in the presence of the mighty ice storm raging from around DuâRhaza.
DuâRhaza waved his hands, creating spears that shot toward Dave. Dave rolled away from the spears. A Loud crash sounded behind Dave. Looking behind him, Dave saw that the ice spears had pierced deep into the stone pavement of the arena.
âDamn,â
Dave smashed his fists together "Guess Iâm gonna have to turn up the heat!"
Dave activated Drahmaâs Earrings. Using [Zealot] his body grew larger, and steam burst out from every pore of his body. His armor was like a hot iron ingot placed in the cold snow of the north.
"More power!" Dave slapped at his chest disabling the Azur water rune. The chaos energy from his chaos runes began writhing inside him. Rampaging like an infernal tornado that was bottled up and was seeking release.
His skin began to burn bright as red magma colored veins seethed incredible heat through his body. Daveâs [Aura] grew stronger and raged fighting against the oppressing cold.
Dave jumped at DuâRhaza while throwing a powerful punch toward him.
DuâRhaza summoned another ice barrier, but it was destroyed as if it was made of thin paper. The punch landed on the lich and sent him tumbling on the ground.
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"How about that? Strong enough for you?" Dave asked.
The ice-lich stood up, laughing he said, "Yes, thatâs more like it. Now this will be a proper fight instead of a child-beating."
DuâRhaza raised both hands up. The ice particles in the air gathered together and created hundreds of ice swords.
"Take this!" DuâRhaza dropped his hands, pointing them at Dave.
With that, the swords flew like bullets toward Dave.
Dave used [Dragon Fist] punching at the air, the aftereffect of the skill created a gigantic fire dragon that shot out from Daveâs fist. The dragon opened its maw wide and consumed the ice swords into its gullet then surged toward DuâRhaza.
"Not bad!" Duârhaza said he twirled around himself creating a gust of ice that gathered into a dragon quite similar to Daveâs. This ice dragon shot toward Daveâs fire dragon, the two of them collided and destroyed each other.
âThatâs just not fair!â Dave grumbled, but it was no time to feel depressed. DuâRhaza summoned two more of these ice dragons and sent them surging toward Dave.
Dave dodged away from one of the dragon but was forced to face the second. He raised his leg up and smashed down in [Dragon Kick] a fire dragon materialized in the air and came down crashing on the other ice dragon. The two of them nullified each other.
DuâRhaza seemed to enjoy creating ice dragons as he made some more.
"How much mana do you have! Thatâs not fair!"
DuâRhaza smiled, "I lived for a long time. I have enough mana to keep up this output for years! Donât even think that you can defeat me by waiting for me to deplete my mana reserves." Du Rhaza said and pointed at Dave.
The five dragons shot toward Dave instantly.
"Alright, time to use a new combo!" Daveâs hands fashed in ninja seals. Two fireballs materialized above him. He was using [Dragon Ball] soon after, the two fireballs turned to eight, then they turned to sixteen fireballs.
Dave smiled and pointed the giant fireballs at DuâRhza.
The first five fireballs crashed into the five ice dragons destroying each other in the process while the remaining eleven fireballs coursed toward DuâRhaza.
DuâRhaza waved his hand, creating a gigantic ice-wall, but the fireballs were empowered by Daveâs Zealot and chaos runes that they easily destroyed the wall and slammed into DuâRhaza.
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Dave was genuinely surprised. He never thought that this combo would be this powerful.
DuâRhaza was staggered, he groggily stood up and asked, "What was that? There was a familiar magic mixed into them, the very magic I taught you, [Spectral Skulls]"
"Exactly, it was [Dragon Ball] mixed with [Spectral Skulls] this made them eight giant infernal spectral skulls, and I added a skill of mine [Twin Strike] which doubled the number. Sorry if I went too hard on you." Dave said in a snort.
"Very well, thatâs an interesting concept. Letâs see if I can do the same."
"Huh?"
DuâRhaza smiled and raised his hands. Unlike Dave, DuâRhaza was the one who gave him the Spectral Skulls skill book. So he was more proficient in it. Ten, a hundred, a thousand then an incalculable number of spectral skulls materialized in the air. The small spectral skulls all gazed at Dave in a violent manner.
Then DuâRhaza roared, with that, the black spectral skulls gained a blue sheen, and they were made of ice.
âFuck me!â Daveâs eyes were bulging out. The Ice-lich went way over the top with his attack.
"Oh, so it works, show me how you can survive this!" DuâRhaza pointed at Dave. And all the spectral skulls descended on Dave like an avalanche.
Dave hastily activated [Bastion] to protect himself from the incoming ice-spectral skulls. The skulls came down on Dave continuously like the bullets of a machine-gun. They shook his shield like the beatings of a drum.
Dave waited patiently, hidden under the shield of Bastion, but the skulls were so numerous, so many that they lasted more than the three seconds of immunity Daveâs skill gave him.
The moment the glowing shield of bastion disappeared; Dave was pummeled into the ground by the continuous spectral skulls. His avatar was slammed constantly and continuously by the incoming and none-stopping skulls. Every attack emptied his lungs and he couldnât even grunt from pain. These formerly ethereal skulls, now turned to ice felt like bowling balls striking him down.
Hundreds of red damage numerals appeared above Daveâs head.
Then a notification appeared in front of him.
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You have 1% HP remaining!
You are in critical condition!
Passive skill [Unyielding] has activated. You are immune to death for 5 seconds.
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The skulls continued dropping on top of Dave pinning him to the ground. With every explosion, hos body shook.
Thankfully, the skulls stopped falling on him before the seconds from Unyielding had ended.
Dave stood up, meeting eyes with DuâRhaza. "Youâre enjoying this, arenât you?" Dave said.
"Yes, indeed. But you should know, Iâm doing this for your own good. You are not strong enough to be a Doom, Knight. Now die, and try again when you are stronger." DuâRhaza said.
He waved his hands again and summoned the same number of skulls.
"Shit, I have no way to beat him."
He thought about using [Call of Chaos] but the cast time and the time it took for the meteor to arrive is far too long. Using Double Edge would buy him a few seconds, but the summoned skulls will still kill him if DuâRhaza decides to shoots them.
DuâRhazaâs vast mana reserves were a pain for Dave.
Thinking along these lines, Dave had a lightbulb idea moment.
"Guess Iâll try that!"
Dave ran toward DuâRhaza as fast as he could.
"Oh, rushing to your death, I admire your courage. See you another time, KisâShtiengbrah!"
But just as DuâRhaza finished his words, Daveâs infernal body shot out red lightning crackling around him. A dark devastating aura, bone-chilling and terrifying was released from his body. The blood-red aura enveloped his body like a thin blood coating.
Daveâs appearance changed. His back grew large black raven wings. And his head grew two giant horns. Both of his hands turned, even the Sworn Stalwart gauntlets changed appearance to those of enormous claw weapon instead of fist weapons.
Daveâs Death Knight Armor changed color to blood red. And his avatar hovered in the air on its own.
"Demonic aura?" DuâRhaza said.
Dave spoke, in a voice much deeper and more gruesome than his usual draugr voice "Yes, Demonic Ascension]."
Suddenly, all the spectral skulls in the air stopped then they began dissipating.
"Huh?" DuâRhaza was shocked for a moment. He had lost control over all of his spectral skulls. Then suddenly, he fell on his back from his floating status. Eve the aura surrounding DuâRhaza dissipated into nothingness.
Dave looked at Duârhaza from mid-air and said in a smirk "I have the high ground now!"
"What happened? DuâRhaza asked he waved his hand, trying to summon an ice weapon, but the frost he created was instantly dissipated.
"You cannot use Mana as long as Iâm in this state. So tell me DuâRhaza, am I good enough to be a Doom Knight?" Dave asked.
"I agree that you are strong. But Iâm not dead yet!" DuâRhaza waved his hand and summoned his sceptre. Then he swung it at Dave. Dave tried to take a step to the right. He forgot that he was actually hovering. So that mere attempt to move to the left caused his wings to flap once and blasted him a dozen meters away from DuâRhaza.
"Wow, these things are strong!" Dave said as he glanced at his pitch-black raven wings.
Dave took a step forward, his wings flapped again and pushed him toward DuâRhaza like an arrow. He aimed his fists -now clawsâat DuâRhaza. The ice lich blocked with his staff, but Dave empowered by Zealot and Chaos Runes broke the lichâs staff in half and his claws pierced through the lichâs chest.
DuâRhaza grunted in pain. He took a direct critical hit. Dave headbutted the lich with his horned head and stunned him. He then raised the lich that was still stuck to his claws and threw him against the ground.
When DuâRhaza was smashed into the ground, he held his hand at Dave saying, "Okay! I give in. Ha! My old bones canât take such a beating. You win."
Dave stopped in his track. He was wondering if the lich actually surrendered or if it was just a cliché attempt to backstab Dave when he let down his guard.
Yet the notification that appeared in front of Dave confirmed the lichâs surrender.
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Congratulations!
Lich DuâRaza has been defeated.
You have been given a new Sub-Division Unit Number to lead.
You are currently the leader of the first unit of the Rogue Division.
Lich-DuâRhaza has not lost his rank as a Doom Knight and will continue leading unit 404.
Your rank in the undead legion has increased.
Congratulations on reaching Doom Knight rank!
The one hundred undead captains under your command have all been upgraded to Death Knight Rank!
Their weapons and armors have been provided upgraded by the legion!
Your Doom Knight Rank grants you access to an extra feature of the Undead Management panel.
Command and Conquer!
You can now communicate with your Death Knights over vast distances of the world.
You can forcefully summon your underlings to your presence anywhere in the world.
You have gained a new passive skill.
[Deathly Presence] You passively release an aura that frightens monsters that are 50 levels lower than you. Terrorized monsters will flee the scene in your presence.
You can now equip, Doom Knight Rank Equipment.
You have access to an extra set of purchasable items in Dickensâs shop.
You can now corrupt more powerful dungeons and turn them to the property of the undead legion.
You have gained
1,000,000CP
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Dave kept reading through the notifications and grinned like an idiot.
"Yeah, a hundred death knights to lead. Next step. An abyssal Knight!"