Chapter 247
Battle of Light and Darkness
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Once Ina’s summons appeared, the Pendulum Golem immediately stopped talking and commenced his offense .
It raised its bronze staff, and a curtain of darkness materialized behind him . Tendrils of shadows drifted within the darkness, emitting an aura of decadence . As it raised its chain-covered ar, a bolt of darkness shot towards Brendel .
“Careful,” Ina gave a quick warning . “That is his ‘Decay’ ability . It will cause us to lose our Cards quickly . The spell he cast is Assassinate . Can you deal with that spell?”
Before she could even finish her sentence, Brendel had already cast the Mana Loss spell . He obtained that spell, at the same time he saw the Cards’s information .
- Assassinate (Paradise of Adversity XIII)
- Consumes 5 Dark EP
- Spell - Instant
- Targets one of the opponent’s Creatures or Artifact, and forcefully discards it . Assassinate deals damage equivalent to the spell’s cost .
This Cards is only useful against Planeswalkers . Brendel thought to himself . Brendel decided to cast the spell at the cog above the Pendulum Golem’s head, however, a shimmering barrier appeared around the cog, wasting Brendel’s counterattack . That was Anrolda’s Divine Ring . The cog must be very important if the Pendulum Golem was willing to use up a Cards to protect it . It stared at Brendel for a moment . It did not think that Brendel had such a Cards up his sleeve, so it dared not use any more similar spells .
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At the same time, Ina expelled a ray of golden light at the curtain of darkness and destroyed it .
The two of them had the advantage in numbers as well as spellcasting .
However, the Pendulum Golem did not seem to worry at all, instead, it pointed at Ina and Brendel, commanding his Death Sentinels to attack . It was obvious that Ina and the Pendulum Golem were old enemies as neither were surprised at the other’s actions . Ina brandished her spear, and her Glorious Sentinels engaged with the enemy forces .
The black Death Sentinels wore the barest of armors, wielding swords that had hooks on it . One could obviously tell that they were tactical soldiers who were offense-oriented . The Glorious Sentinels were the exact opposite as they wore sets of white heavy armor while holding longshields in one hand and halberds in the other, marking them as battle-savvy soldiers who focused on defense .
The two forces of opposing colors clashed against each other, one defending while the other attacked, it was nearly impossible to judge who had the upper hand . Even though there were less Glorious Sentinels, the Grimoire played the role of a healer, constantly summoning halos of light over allies, allowing the Glorious Sentinels to push back the Death Sentinels through pure endurance . As they advanced slowly, the number of Cards in the Pendulum Golem’s Graveyard started to accumulate .
The Pendulum Golem did not seem alarmed at all . It pointed its finger, and another spell was cast at the oncoming Glorious Sentinels .
The spell was similar to Andrea’s Abyss Web . However, it manifested in the form of a dark fog, blanketing the battlefield, causing the Glorious Sentinels to lose all their buffs, instead, they were now afflicted with Weakness, Slow, Blind and other various ailments .
“Drowning Sorrow, it reverses all buffs,” Ina explained while shooting a beam of cleansing light . The beam hit her soldiers and removed all status effects, both beneficial and detrimental, proving that it was an expelling spell .
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However, Brendel noticed that Ina had never once explained her own Cards . Brendel smiled dryly to himself . What a shrewd woman .
The exchanging of spells by both sides caused all status effects to be removed . However, this meant that the Glorious Sentinels, who had fewer numbers, were at a disadvantage . Ina couldn’t hold in her nerves and started stomping her hooves . She turned to the teen with the trumpet and ordered, “Reno, sound the horn!” The white-robed teen stepped forward . He had beautiful curls on his head and a sweet face, like an angel straight out of the Bible . He puffed out his rosy cheeks and blew the horn . As the horn resonated through the area, the beating of wings could be heard . Soon after, a giant platinum dragon flew out of the darkness and landed on the battlefield .
“Shit, that horn can summon dragons?!” Brendel was startled by the dragon’s appearance . As if reading his mind, Ina looked at him and batted her eyelashes, not answering his question, as if she were teasing him . Brendel clenched his teeth . You damn demon!
After Reno finished blowing his horn, he sat down with a beat red face, completely exhausted . The summoned Platinum Dragon was not as intimidating as the actual dragon race, or perhaps it had yet to fully mature . Brendel guessed that its battle power was around level 60 to 70, which was around the level where it would develop its Elemental Power . Of course, its level was definitely sufficient to overpower the Death Sentinels, and soon enough the ground was littered with corpses of the Death Sentinels .
Brendel let out a sigh of relief . He had not expected Ina to be so strong, to the point where she could push back the Pendulum Golem . Despite that, he still did not think the battle would be won so easily . It turned out as he thought as Ina recalled her Platinum Dragon despite having the edge at the moment .
Brendel did not question her decision as he believed that both of them knew each other’s moves well enough to not make any dumb mistakes .
He saw the Pendulum Golem pull out another Death Sentinel Cards, and he saw the scene of the Death Sentinel summoning again . Every unit was replaced by a Death Sentinel, but now there were ten more of them . Had Ina not recalled her Platinum Dragon, it would have been trapped like Brendel had been before .
“Damn it,” Brendel wiped his brow . This Cards is extremely hard to deal with .
After the Death Sentinels had been summoned, the Pendulum Golem summoned yet another Cards . This time it was a Devil, who went on to engage in battle with the Platinum Dragon . It looked exactly like a Devil from Hell, but it had cyan skin instead of red, and its body exhumed cold flames that were turquoise . Brendel had never seen such a creature before, but it possessed tremendous power as it managed to fight the Platinum Dragon to a standstill . The Pendulum Golem started to summon more Ekronian Spellweavers . Soon there were another four more of those four-armed Spellweavers .
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“What is he doing?” Brendel was not in a rush to join as he wanted to observe how Planeswalkers fought . He could not hold in his question after seeing what happened . He possessed the Ekronian Spellweaver Cards as well, but it was only level 25, so he could not think of how it could play a role in this particular battlefield .
Ina summoned another two more Glorious Trumpeters . All of them looked identical, having the same handsome face that made Brendel feel inferior to his own appearance . Hearing his question, she replied, “He is trying to filter the Light . ”
“Filter the Light?”
“It means converting the Dark Element into Light Element . Hmph, without the Paradise of Purity, it has to resort to such crude methods to collect Light EP, the Adversity of Darkness is truly lacking . ” Having its pride wounded, the Pendulum Golem let out a retort, “Aren’t you the same? The Paradise of Purity can only defend, all you are doing is delaying your inevitable defeat . ”
Even as they fought the battle of words, their hands did not stop summoning creatures . Through the Glorious Trumpeters, Ina summoned another two powerful creatures . One was an Armoured White Elephant, and the other was Gleaming Giant Eagle . Only then did Brendel understand the role of the Glorious Trumpeters . It seemed that they could call upon any Cards from the summoner’s deck, and not that they had some sort of Planeswalking ability . Even so, it was an extremely valuable ability .
For example, the Platinum Angel in his deck needed nearly 100 EP to summon, which he had no way to obtain .
But if he had the Glorious Trumpeter, then he could summon the Platinum Angel for free . The only problem was that he did not know the cost of the Glorious Trumpeter . If it was too high, then it would rather useless .
Thanks to the Glorious Trumpeters, Ina’s creatures had the obvious upper hand against the Pendulum Golem . However, the Pendulum Golem still had some tricks up its sleeve . It summoned those beetle-like automatons, after a specific time it would duplicate itself, and these automatons had the ability to create extremely powerful balls of lightning . Every time one of those lightning balls were fired, one of Ina’s summons was finished off .
It was as the Pendulum Golem said, Ina had the superior defense, but she lacked offensive firepower . If this went on, defeat was imminent .
“What is that lightning ball? Why is it so strong?” After some observation, Brendel found out the answer . The beetle-like automatons actually have an extremely weak constitution, it was at most level 20, not even silver rank, it could be considered as trash among the trash . However, its attack power was off the charts, much more than what a monster at the peak of silver rank could attain .
Even though there are monsters whose attack power are extremely strong, none of them can skip so many ranks .
Brendel felt that it was similar to his Dragon Knight Battle Technique . The Wind Spirit Spiders were originally extremely weak, yet the Holy Sword Technique could make their offensive ability increase by several ranks .
“Those lightning balls are that Pendulum monster’s spells . As long as there are Nightmare Forges on the battlefield, then the lightning balls will continue to appear . It is one of the Pendulum monster’s two trump Cards . ” Brendel wanted to ask what its trump Cards were, but instead, he asked, “Nightmare Forges?”
“They are those metal beetles . Known as Nightmare Forges, they were created using Ekronia’s Furnace of Adversity . ”
So it’s like that . Brendel thought that the way these metal beetles worked was similar to his Dragon Knight Battle Technique, it was no wonder that they were so strong . At that moment, Ina had more bad news to share . “Not only that, but they can also create clones by consuming the Light Element . If we drag this out any longer, we are bound to lose . ”
Ina let out a sudden cry of surprise as she realized that there were more Nightmare Forges hiding behind the Pendulum Golem .
“That damn metal head dares to use these underhanded methods against me!” Ina exclaimed with much anger in her voice .