Chapter 1203 - 1203. Conquest
The new defenses deployed by the Elbas family began to fall. One by one, the invaders managed to overcome the challenges in the regions near them.
Great Elder Diana slowly destroyed the giants that tried to catch her with their spears. The healing light of the formations tried to fix their injuries, but the Matriarch's offensive was relentless and never gave them time to breathe.
Moreover, she was too fast for those giants. Their number didn't help them since the Matriarch only viewed them as targets to destroy.
God's Left Hand was in a similar situation. The wall of runes against her could only crumble when it faced her storms and dense gales.
Each of her spells inflicted heavy damages on those inscriptions, and the golden light coming from the ground never manage to fix them entirely before the next wave of attacks arrived.
Elder Julia eventually crushed the army of hybrids. The Poisonous Giant Frog was a resilient opponent, but the powerhouses assaulted it with attacks that it couldn't even see.
The other hybrids in the army tried to shield their leader from her spells, but their effort was pointless since Elder Julia always managed to make some wind-slash slip past the blockage.
Elder Julia's battle style was also flawless, and she left openings in her offensive only when she wanted to lure the hybrids into a trap. The Royals felt forced to make the army retreat at some point to salvage some of their most valuable assets.
Elder Regina's approach was different from her companions. Her puppets couldn't inflict heavy damages on the red wh.i.p.s, but they could leave many injuries on their structure.
She would have to create something bigger to eradicate them, but she had chosen to opt for a different strategy.
The Elbas family had limited resources and assets. The Royals didn't have the power to stop the three organizations when they worked together. Still, it had the chance to preserve a few regions if the invaders committed some mistake during their attack.
Ending a battle as quickly as possible was usually good since it limited the chances of suffering losses. Yet, the Royal didn't have much energy stored, so depleting it would benefit even the future battles.
Elder Regina's life wasn't in danger against the red wh.i.p.s. She could fight slowly and force the Royals to fix their defenses multiple times to maximize their energy consumption.
Skully and the magical plants appeared to have reached a stalemate. The powerhouse managed to destroy branches from time to time, but she never injured the trunks of those defenses.
The magical plants had it a bit worse than her. They couldn't catch her, and her innate ability made her a troublesome opponent to trap with a few branches. The best they could do was stopping her from advancing.
However, Faith and Daniel soon arrived in her help, and they ignored any strategy when they joined the battle. The sheer power of the three powerhouses was more than enough to eradicate those magical plants.
True Speed and Elder Laura's battles ended soon after the Demons joined them. Dreaming Demon's influence on the puppets made them easy targets, and Flying Demon's abilities were quite effective against inscribed weapons.
June had to struggle in her battle. The defensive wall appeared able to absorb every attack that landed on its surface, and it could turn that energy into beams slightly stronger than the original technique.
The whirlpool continued to overwhelm her attacks, but that only pushed her Perfect Circuit to generate more energy. The energy released in her battle was so intense that the regions under her shattered whenever it leaked.
June's spear was full of cracks. It had long surpassed a quasi-rank 6 weapon's structural limits, and it remained in one piece only because its quality went far beyond ordinary inscribed items.
Noah had built it knowing that June would wield it, and she had reinforced it with her formations. A weapon that had gone through those two experts couldn't break easily.
June cleaned her mouth with the edge of her sleeve. She had spat some blood after the last clash with the defensive wall. The beam that it had released had utterly overwhelmed her attack, and it had almost reached her.
Her complexion was pale, but she radiated more energy than ever. The storm around her had covered the entire region by now. Still, it didn't expand because the shockwaves released in Matriarchs' battles destroyed her higher energy when it went too far.
June's battle intent filled the storm and made it release countless lightning bolts toward the ground. Her sole presence had managed to unleash destruction in a wide area, but even that amount of power wasn't enough to defeat the formation against her.
There was a limit to how much she could achieve with sheer power, but June didn't believe that her individuality could lose against some inscriptions. She had to win when it came to battles of that kind.
June knew that there had to be a limit to how much energy the whirlpool could absorb. However, she had yet to find it. The defensive wall had managed to reflect all her previous attacks.
Still, she had a plan. Her spear wouldn't survive that tactic, but it was time to change her weapon anyway. She couldn't think of a better way to use it either.
June pointed her spear at the defensive wall, and all the sparks started to fly toward her figure. The storm quickly disappeared, and black lightning bolts began to run through her body.
An intense aura spread through the sky as June condensed that higher energy. She did the same for the new sparks that her Perfect Circuit had produced after losing against the wall before making everything flow inside her weapon.
More cracks opened on the golden spear, but June traced lines around its structure as her higher energy flowed inside it. Black lines formed around the living weapon and created a formation that stopped its destruction.
Third Prince and Second Princess revealed a surprised expression when they saw that. They were inscription masters with a lot of experience in multiple cultivation fields, but they had never seen someone creating formations in the sixth rank with simple movements.
Formations even required specific materials, but she didn't use anything except for her higher energy.
They didn't know where June had learnt to perform such inscriptions, but that level of expertise exceeded theirs.
June continued to reinforce the spear until all her higher energy condensed in its structure. She decided to attack only when her Perfect Circuit became empty and started to produce more fuel.
The tip of the spear shattered as soon as June released her wave of energy, and the rest of the shaft ended up in the same state when her attack reached the defensive wall.
The whirlpool activated and began to absorb the energy contained in June's attack, but the lines that covered the wall started to flicker after a while.
Small explosions happened on the inscribed structure. Some of the lines on its surface became unable to withstand that flow of power and detonated, releasing the energy they had acc.u.mulated in the process.
That trend continued until even the rune under the whirlpool began to flicker. June only had a small part of the spear's flat end left in her hand, but she never stopped her offensive.
Cracks spread from the rune, and orange light came out of them. The golden halo tried to fix those damages, but June's flow of energy was too intense for that formation.
The wall tried to release some of that energy by launching a beam that could counter June's attack, but that attempt failed before even starting. The rune couldn't stabilize itself under an assault on that level.
The cracks eventually spread until the wall's stability fell apart, and the whole structure blew apart, releasing thick lightning bolts that gave birth to a storm wherever they landed.
The end of June's battle was the last defeat that Third Prince and Second Princess were willing to witness on that day. They deactivated the healing formation with a wave of their end, and they disappeared from the battlefield before anyone could think about chasing them.
The invaders had yet to realize that, but they had already conquered the entire western coast and nearby regions.
