Chapter 1357 Chess Pieces
What on earth does the Land of the Gods want to do?
Looking at Alec, who seemed like a high school student, Sirius was completely flustered.
Yet, Jonathan next to him, scoffed at Alec’s bet.
“My Asura’s Office doesn’t need your support. Even if we were to discuss it to the ends of the earth, the conflict with the eight respectable families is still an internal issue of ours in Chanaea. Even if the eight respectable families want me dead, I would never consider bringing in an external force like you into Chanaea. Your Land of the Gods, no matter how rampant it is in Remdik, no one cares about you. But if your people dare to cause chaos in Chanaea, kill them!”
With a single utterance of the word “kill”, Jonathan reached out and touched Troop Summoner.
Beside Michael, six figures rose from the ground, each carrying an endless malevolence, all charging toward Michael.
Jonathan was a master of the Elemental Extrication Technique. However, no matter how exquisite his technique was, it was ultimately a lifeless thing.
Even under normal circumstances, when a large amount of spiritual sense was expended, at most, only a few Burrowing Dragons could be condensed. Although they can achieve surprisingly effective results, they wouldn’t hold much advantage when faced with high-level cultivators.
The spiritual energy form that Joshua summoned had a major drawback of enormous consumption. Although these spirit warriors were extremely powerful, in reality, when it came to actual combat, Joshua couldn’t manage to focus on each spirit warrior simultaneously.
Once attacked, these transformations could easily shatter and disperse, only to be summoned again through Troop Summoner.
But now, Jonathan had managed to merge two spells into one, summoning the Elemental Extrication Technique spirit warrior.
Those spirit warriors, entirely composed of sand and stone, if judged solely on strength and agility, were even somewhat superior to the average cultivator of the same level.
And because he was grounded, even when under attack, Jonathan could constantly mend his battered body through the Elemental Extrication Technique.
It could be said that as long as Jonathan’s spiritual energy could sustain the consumption of the Troop Summoner and Elemental Extrication Technique, these Elemental Extrication Technique spirit warriors were truly immortal warriors.
Bang bang bang…
Muffled sounds continuously emanated from around Michael.
Those spirit warriors, each at the beginner phase of God Realm cultivation, struck Michael’s shield with all their might, each blow exerting their full strength.
Even though Michael kept slashing, cutting them down, the warrior spirits would regenerate and charge at him again in the blink of an eye.
“You can’t harm me in the slightest with these things!”
With a roar of fury, Michael swung his battle sword, cleaving the two spirit warriors in front of him. Then, like a wild bull, he stomped the ground into pieces and charged madly toward Jonathan ahead.
A distance of several meters, for a powerhouse like Michael, was as good as teleporting.
The long knife was sharp.
The chilling gleam of the blade rapidly magnified before Jonathan’s eyes.
Just as the moment when Jonathan was stabbed, Michael was forced to close his eyes by a burst of dazzling purple light.
It was in this moment of hesitation, when he opened his eyes, Jonathan had already vanished from his sight.
Beneath his feet, a chessboard spanning twenty meters on each side had appeared.
“Stop playing tricks!”
Michael swung his long sword downward, intending to slice the chessboard beneath his feet. However, as the sharp blade fell, it only sparked a series of sparks on the black chessboard, leaving not even a single mark in the end.
At this moment, Michael realized something was amiss. He tried to step away from the chessboard, but at its edge, the figure of Jonathan was rapidly growing larger.
“Within Reach!”
Jonathan formed a seal with both hands, his body radiating a wild, flickering green light. Then, with a fierce slap, he struck the chessboard.
The Divine Chessboard, ever since it fell into the hands of Jonathan in the small world of the Western Regions, had not played a significant role.
All along, even when Jonathan used it in battle, at most, he only took advantage of its hardness and the ability of the formations within it to teleport instantly.
Simply treat it as a force field that you can carry with you wherever you go.
But this time, Jonathan had truly grasped the essence of the Divine Chessboard.
Just as he was about to use the Divine Demon Chessboard, Jonathan, filled with an overwhelming amount of life energy within him, subconsciously channeled this life energy into the chessboard.
It was as if a seal had been broken, revealing the entire structure of the chessboard, with all its strategic formations, to Jonathan’s mind.
So it turns out that this chessboard, like the Azure Sky Sword, cannot be activated by mere spiritual power.
What was needed was a higher level of Pryncyp-derived energy, or directly the power of Pryncyp of Strength itself, to fully unleash its potential.
At this moment, although the life force was not the true energy of Pryncyp, it is still superior to spiritual energy, more than enough to stimulate the chessboard.
At this moment, Michael was truly feeling a bit panicked.
Because in his eyes, the chessboard under his feet was rapidly enlarging.
In just a few moments, the chessboard, which was originally only twenty meters square, had already filled the entire land.
The surrounding mountains and flowers were swiftly pulled away by a mysterious force, disappearing into the farthest reaches of sight.
Within the entire universe, all that remained was oneself, the chessboard, Jonathan, and the towering giant behind him.
“Is this magic?”
Michael closed his eyes, gripping the long sword tightly in his hands. Gathering his spiritual energy, he suddenly slashed forward.
“Break!”
With a loud shout, the space in front of Michael fluctuated violently.
A streak of black furiously slashed forward, completely severing the space above the entire chessboard.
And it was within that torn space Michael saw the same mountain peak he had seen before.
“Just as I thought, it’s all fake! If that’s the case, then I will shatter all the illusionary realm before me. Let’s see how much strength you have to rebuild them!”
At this moment, Jonathan, standing outside the chessboard, also had an extremely solemn expression on his face.
Though the physical size of the chessboard could be altered, aside from the mythical weapon in legends, there was no known material with such formidable malleability.
Even if the Divine Chessboard was extraordinary, the greatest change was but within a hundred meters.
Under the constraint of limited space, it created an illusion of boundlessness. This was achieved through the impact of the space-altering formation above on one’s normal perception.
But he never expected that Michael could be so brutally fierce.
Incredibly, with just a single war blade, all the formations on the Divine Chessboard were cleaved open.
Feeling the rapid depletion of his life force, Jonathan gritted his teeth in the darkness.
A lioness would use all of her strength even when hunting a rabbit.
Not to mention, in a battle with Michael, Jonathan knew he was the rabbit.
Even with the activation of the life force and the Divine Chessboard, Jonathan still found himself at an absolute disadvantage.
If he attempted to test the other party again, Jonathan might truly lose the opportunity to eliminate them.
“Use vita as a chess piece. Make your move!”
Before Jonathan, a series of illusory purple stripes quickly formed, and in the blink of an eye, they transformed into a chessboard.
Jonathan extended his right hand, his index and middle fingers. Between these two fingers, jade-green energy continuously gathered, ultimately forming a chess piece entirely constructed of green energy.
With his right hand trembling, Jonathan firmly placed the chess piece on the chessboard.
“Attack!”