Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 990 - 243: The Death Overlord’s Four-Piece Set_2

Chapter 990: Chapter 243: The Death Overlord’s Four-Piece Set_2

"Goodness." Dragon Knight Lampard, who never swore, actually let out a curse to express the excitement in his heart.

Dragon Knight Gaxia was a bit more reserved, but the shock on her face was unmistakable. She had also witnessed the prowess of these elite archers. Frankly, when compared with rangers and swordsmen, their role was quite ambiguous. Such Divine Archers, equally dangerous and deadly in close and long-range combat, had already earned the respect of any brave warrior on this merit alone.

The well-informed Jade Dragon Knight also knew a fact: the danger level of such centaur archers, adept in using both hands and feet in coordination and shooting dual bows from horseback, was exceedingly high. Pairing these archers with a high-level Magical Beast as a mount made them dangerously off the charts, essentially the natural predators of Dragon Knights.

Seeing the stunned expressions on the two Dragon Knights, Liu Zhenhan felt quite satisfied with his vanity. He even started to plan, wondering if he should recruit all the archers capable of "Secret Commands" from the Haus tribe under his command and then sweep the underground, turning all the Three-legged Gold Toads living in the various underground lakes into Thousand-Mile Horse mounts?

"Master, should we head to Pompei as soon as possible? After all, Saint Francisco has a cardinal presiding over it, and the Pompei Empire has not yet converted to the Holy Vatican. To stop the conflict, we need to act quickly. If the brave warriors of Pompei cross the Thunder Mountain Range, I fear by then the war’s situation will be beyond what our Vatican can stop!" Dragon Knight Gaxia, looking at the Bimon warriors opposite her, felt her eyes blur and quickly steered the conversation back to serious matters. Subconsciously, the Dragon Knight was increasingly uncomfortable and felt guilty staying in the capital of Beamon, for reasons she could not fathom.

"Before I met up with Lady Gaxia in the Thunder Mountain Range after rushing from the Pompei Empire, I received some bad news. The leading court Great Magician of the Pompei Empire, Master Aymar, along with his three Alchemist Mages, had already headed to the frontier army camp. It seems that Pompei is dead serious this time, not only deploying all of ’Edward Scissorhands’ but even mobilizing ’Ripper Black Jack’," Dragon Knight Lampard reported promptly to Master Saint Chiao.

"What is ’Ripper Black Jack’?" Liu Zhenhan asked inexplicably.

"It’s the pride of the Pompei Empire’s golem army. ’Edward Scissorhands’ is the first generation of puppets, while ’Ripper Black Jack’ is an upgraded second-generation Golem. To put it simply, after losing four golems in a ferocious battle with Jade, they developed this new type of Golem, discarding the giant scissors with insufficient offensive power and replacing them with a tyrant chainsaw, weighing 15 tons, heavier and far more powerful than the first-generation ’Edward Scissorhands’! There are four of these, a total of sixteen Golems – Pompei’s secret weapon. We only discovered this secret after the Vatican’s covert agents struggled greatly. It seems that Pompei wants to settle this once and for all," Dragon Knight Lampard explained to Lord Piegel on behalf of the master.

"Pompei Empire had sixteen Golems total; I’ve taken down four ’Edward Scissorhands’, leaving twelve Golems. Damn it! Now four ’Ripper Black Jacks’ appear out of nowhere; do they still have sixteen Golems even after just a few months since the Battle of Jade’s Defense?" Liu Zhenhan was dumbfounded, continuously exclaiming in shock, cursing under his breath!

The human empire was indeed a human empire; its formidable industrial and magical foundations were truly beyond what Meng and the Kingdom of Bimon could hope to achieve. An ordinary Alchemist, at best, might make some clay puppets, stone puppets, or even more sinister bone puppets. Iron Golems were extremely difficult to manufacture, as the compatibility between iron and magic was very poor. Apart from nations like Pompei, which discovered Jing Gold mines and could plate a layer of it over Iron Golems, what other country had such immense industrial and magical power? In the progression of war, this frightening capacity for regeneration almost determined a nation’s sustained combat ability and the course of the war, hence Liu Zhenhan’s horror — Jade’s underground arms factory, gathering the Tifeng blacksmiths from four valleys, had only managed to produce two Mechanical Gao Cens thus far. From the speed of Pompei Empire’s war machinery, their rate of puppet production already matched the speed with which Jade’s factory manufactured Gao Cens! Gao Cen, powered by mechanical force and not requiring Magic Arrays, saves much time and effort compared to Golems!

Piegal had to admit that when it came to arms manufacturing capabilities, as a rising power, it was indeed difficult to compete with the heritage of old empires. He really didn’t know where those Pompeii people got so much Jing Gold!

"Aymar showed up too?" The Great Magician of Saint Chiao rubbed his forehead tirelessly, very troubled, "This guy isn’t that warlike! Why did he join the battle personally this time?"

"I’ve heard of that guy; he’s just an Alchemy Magic Tutor, nowhere near your level." Piegal maliciously incited the old man, "Finish him off and snatch the Golems-laden Magical Equipment he’s carrying!"

"Give it to me... no... give it to Joan of Arc for self-defense!" Although Piegal was a ranger, he almost let slip a fox’s tail at that moment.

"Nonsense!" Master Puskas gave Piegal a sharp look, "Aymar and I are old friends, would you strike down your own friend? Also, there’s something you need to understand, when Mages fight, it’s not just about levels determining everything. Stop being so arrogant and self-important, thinking you’re the pride of Saint Chiao!"

"Cut it out, old man." Piegal wasn’t buying it; for a rough person like him, might makes right.

"Aymar possesses an artifact from the Overlord of Death—’The Overlord of Death’s Earring.’ This earring is quite deceptive; it’s a rare attack-type Magical Equipment. Besides being able to fire a ’Nai’aozu Heart-Piercing Nail,’ this earring also saves sixty percent of mana. A magic spell only needs forty percent of the mana, isn’t that deceptive enough? And you still underestimate such a Magic Tutor, you ignorant fool!" Master Puskas scolded with the tone of an elder lecturing a junior.

"Mana-saving equipment?! This is the first time I’ve heard of it in my life!" Piegal’s eyes popped with greed, almost engraving the word ’greed’ on his eyeballs, "How many pieces are there in the Overlord of Death’s equipment? I’ve heard that when Magical Equipment sets are combined, they produce mysterious special effects! Damn, my Divine Song Shaman’s three-piece set is still missing the ’Dazzling Heart’ ring! I only have two pieces of Overlord of Death’s equipment, damn it, I have to collect..."

Suddenly, Piegal couldn’t continue; he remembered that the "Overlord of Death’s Shield" given to the young Nun Joan of Arc was actually hustled from Dragon Knight Gaxia’s hands by Master Puskas, and saying this now wouldn’t it be exposing the lie right then and there?

"Look at your petty mind!" Master Puskas watched the ranger with a mix of amusement and annoyance, the face of a parent looking at a mischievous child, "The Holy Vatican only has two artifacts of the Overlord of Death, just two pieces of Magical Equipment! Show me where in history any great warrior or Mage became famous due to equipment? The Overlord of Death’s Shield was a gift I gave to Joan of Arc, what’s there to hide? Even the Pope has to give me that much respect! I’m not boasting, but if I wanted to take back the artifacts of the Overlord of Death from Joan of Arc, it would take but a minute, you brat, could you even stop me?"