"Bang bang! Bang!"
As the Goblin High Priest struck, dull thuds echoed. A strange red light flickered on the scarecrow, and the red halo of the strengthened fruit on Ye Feng's body also flowed continuously.
With every forceful strike the Goblin High Priest landed on the scarecrow, Ye Feng couldn't help but frown slightly.
"It hurts a little... there's some kind of thread between myself and that scarecrow... If the Goblin High Priest attacks the scarecrow, I get hurt because of this strange thread?"
"This thread... is it some kind of rune?"
Ye Feng's eyes narrowed. Starlight slowly appeared in his hand. He scratched himself and saw some strange threads. He tugged hard but couldn't break them.
Then, Ye Feng frowned slightly. His Tang saber glowed, and he swiftly slashed across his body. Those strange threads instantly snapped.
"Gak! Gak~"
"Damn human, damn angel!"
The Goblin High Priest screeched, swinging its skull staff with even more force.
After a while, the scarecrow, stained with Ye Feng's blood, began to emit black smoke from the Goblin High Priest's skull staff. However, Ye Feng stood unharmed, showing no signs of injury...
"Gak! Gak!"
The Goblin High Priest roared in fury. It glanced at the blood-colored magic array in the sky above the altar, then bit its tongue and spat a mouthful of blood onto the skull staff.
Immediately, it extended its long, clawed finger and drew a strange mark on the skull staff.
"Boom!"
Instantly, a huge black magic array appeared around the Goblin High Priest, and strange figures climbed out from within the array.
"Puppets?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly, looking at the figures moving somewhat mechanically.
"Gak!~"
At this moment, the Goblin High Priest shouted to the Goblin Shamans by the blood pool in the distance.
Looking around, countless Goblin Shamans stopped what they were doing, turned, and charged towards Ye Feng and the others with fanatical shrieks.
Before they were even close to Ye Feng and the others, various arcane energy lights of different attributes appeared on the skull staffs in the hands of the Goblin Shamans, creating an imposing spectacle...
"Wind's Breath - Arrow Domain!"
At this moment, Xiao Lü, with a few leaps, reached a high vantage point. She gripped her large bow tightly, and her wind-attribute arcane energy surged towards the bow like mad.
The runes on the large bow, named Wind's Breath, immediately emitted a dazzling white light. Then, Xiao Lü drew the bowstring. This time, however, no wind-attribute arcane energy arrows were formed, and the bow was empty...
"Zheng!"
Xiao Lü released the taut bowstring, and a crisp sound echoed.
Ye Feng saw no wind-attribute arcane energy arrows being shot. The space in the entire area was calm, with only a gentle breeze blowing.
"Sizzle!~ Chh~"
As the breeze blew, the arcane energy of various attributes unleashed by the densely packed Goblin Shamans suddenly shattered, as if pierced and dispersed by countless arrows...
"Ah~ Gak~ Ka~"
"Sizzle~ Sizzle! Puff!~"
"Gak~ Ah!~"
...
In the blink of an eye, the Goblin Shamans, who had charged forward menacingly, stretching as far as the eye could see, all screamed in agony.
Innumerable needle-sized wounds appeared all over their bodies... reducing each Goblin Shaman to a pile of rotten flesh...
Even the bones that fell to the ground shattered into pieces...
Before long, like a zombie horde, all the Goblin Shamans who had aggressively charged towards Ye Feng and the others collapsed on the ground, forming a large pile of rotten flesh...
"Xiao Lü's Wind's Breath - Arrow Domain can turn the air within a certain area into invisible arrows, causing immense damage!"
"Even breathing becomes fatal; what you inhale is not air, but countless extremely sharp wind-attribute arcane energy arrows!"
"However, similar to my previous situation, this move puts a heavy burden on her body!"
At this moment, a somewhat weak middle-aged male voice rang out. It was He Shang.
Immediately after, a section of tree trunk emerged from the ground not far from Ye Feng. The trunk opened, and a pale-faced He Shang walked out.
"Gak!~"
While Xiao Lü's face was pale and she was sweating profusely, a Goblin Priest leaped behind her. The skull staff in its hand flashed, and a wave of energy shot towards her with great speed – a mental attack.
"Whoosh!"
At this critical moment, Alak flashed and appeared behind Xiao Lü, blocking the mental attack. Instantly, runes glowed on Alak's armor.
"Crack!~ Crack!~"
The sneak mental attack failed. The Goblin Priest's skull staff continued to flash, and waves of gray-red Yin lightning struck from various tricky angles towards Xiao Lü, but they were all blocked, or rather, absorbed by Alak.
From beginning to end, Alak did not attack the Goblin Priest. Instead, he continuously blocked and absorbed the sharp attacks launched by the latter, whether they were mental attacks, Yin lightning, or ordinary arcane energy attacks...
The runes on Alak's armor glowed brighter and brighter!
"Crack!"
Another Yin lightning strike was blocked and absorbed by Alak. This time, Alak shot more than a dozen metal blades at the Goblin Priest who was relentlessly attacking Xiao Lü.
"Gak~ Ah!~"
Caught off guard because Alak had not counterattacked previously, the Goblin Priest was pierced in multiple places by the metal blades and screamed.
However, Alak did not continue attacking the Goblin Priest. Instead, he leaped and rapidly sprinted towards the Goblin High Priest on the altar.
Perhaps empowered by the rune armor, Alak's speed was much faster than before. Like a shooting star in the night, he instantly reached the back of the Goblin High Priest on the altar...
"Counterattack!"
Alak roared, and the runes on his armor flared. A large amount of gray-red lightning, mixed with strange fluctuations, erupted and directly struck the Goblin High Priest. This was Yin lightning, mental attacks, and a large number of attribute arcane energy attacks.
The Goblin High Priest seemed to have not reacted. It continued to dance its strange dance, looking up at the blood-colored magic array in the sky, chanting obscure incantations...
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's expression changed. He instantly disappeared from his original spot and appeared beside Alak. He patted Alak's body, causing the latter's attack to deviate from the Goblin High Priest.
"Crack!~ Crack!~"
"Buzzing! Crack!~"
"Zzzzt! Boom!~ Whoosh!"
A large amount of Yin lightning and mental attacks erupted on the Goblin Paladins and Goblin Priest escorts. In moments, few of the Goblin Paladins and Goblin Priest escorts remained...
"Ye Feng, why did you...?"
Alak looked puzzled. He had just absorbed a large amount of Yin lightning and mental attacks from that Goblin Priest and had found the perfect moment to unleash the true power of this counterattack armor for a fatal blow to the Goblin High Priest.
Everything had gone very smoothly, but at the last moment, Ye Feng had...