Of course, this was related to the types of talismans Mo Ye currently mastered. Although Ye Zhongming and she herself had prepared skill upgrade scrolls, upgrading one attribute to its highest level was already a significant achievement. So far, Mo Ye had only mastered two types of talismans: wood and wind. She had upgraded the wood-type to its highest level, gaining the warship super ability, but its attacks were wind-based. Presumably, if she upgraded the wind type to its highest level, the super ability’s carrier would be wind-based, but its attack power would likely be wood-based.
This was just speculation, but it seemed plausible.
With such abilities, Mo Ye was completely unafraid of the level-eight demon and its thousands of underlings. She held off the strongest enemy herself while the warship above continued to harvest the lives of the other demons.
The various abilities of the Holy Army Coat kept the level-eight demon firmly suppressed. Mo Ye would take a moment to strike at other demons from time to time, always with a fatal blow. She targeted level-six demons, as the two-level difference instantly allowed her to kill them. She avoided level-sevens for now, as she couldn’t guarantee a one-hit kill, and level-fives weren’t worth her effort.
In this way, Mo Ye held off the level-eight demon and whittled its underlings. With the help of the warship above, she quickly reduced the demon’s forces by more than half.
The level-eight demon was furious but helpless. It realized its proud attacks were ineffective against this human clad in top-grade equipment, while her attacks, especially that spear, could penetrate its defenses.
It began considering its options: should it call for reinforcements or… retreat?
“Almost there,” Mo Ye muttered to herself. She glanced at the several wounds she had inflicted on the level-eight demon’s body and then launched a fierce attack. The spear turned snow-white, and under Mo Ye’s control, it suddenly thrust toward the demon.
In the blink of an eye, the spear struck countless times.
This was due to another ability of her spear—Spear Thrust.
Like Spear Throw, this was an ability the Three-Pointed Spear component granted after absorbing energy in the Death Wind Cave. It allowed the user to instantly unleash one hundred thrusts equivalent to their full strength, with a tearing effect on the target.
Only the extreme speed of the wind attribute could enable such an ability.
Demon monsters were known for their physical resilience, and this close-combat level-eight demon was no exception. Neither the warship’s attacks nor the ghostly Spear Throw had targeted this demon because Mo Ye knew she couldn’t kill it that way. Mo Ye didn’t have any skills or abilities that could instantly kill a level-eight demon.
Only Ye Zhongming could instantly kill a being of the same level in all of Cloud Peak.
So she had been biding her time.
The demon didn’t know, but Mo Ye knew the warship above wasn’t invincible. It consumed her mental energy, and being attacked would drain it faster. The demon had tried attacking twice, thinking it was useless, and then gave up. Mo Ye was secretly relieved, but the warship’s limitations were real. The frequency of its wind-blade attacks had already decreased from about once every ten seconds to once every thirty seconds.
She was nearing her limit in sustaining the warship’s mental energy consumption.
Mo Ye’s prolonged engagement seemed to be about continuously killing other demons, but she was actually masking her true goal: attacking specific parts of the level-eight demon’s body. Those areas were the demon’s vital points.
Yes, those areas had the strongest defenses. Mo Ye’s attacks had only left shallow marks there, but she had gained a sense of how many strikes it would take to penetrate them.
In a normal battle, she might have been able to achieve this eventually, but it would have taken who knows how long. The current battlefield didn’t allow her to be tied down here for too long. Among Cloud Peak’s level-eight beings, the strongest—Ye Zhongming, Red Hair, Xia Bai, the Evil Dragon, and the Death King Tree—were all absent. The remaining level-eights were not only weaker but also outnumbered by the demons. Everyone who had the ability needed to kill their opponents as quickly as possible and intercept other level-eight demons before they could assault Cloud Peak’s formation.
Mo Ye unleashed her ultimate strike when she saw that she had finally inflicted enough small wounds on the level-eight demon.
One hundred spear thrusts, all aimed at the demon’s chest. By the ninetieth thrust, she had finally broken through its defenses, and the last few thrusts extinguished the life of the level-eight demon.
As she fell to the ground, the level-eight demon still couldn’t understand how this human had managed to thrust her spear so many times in such a short period.
Mo Ye panted heavily and charged into the now-disoriented demon horde. These level-six and level-seven beings could only be slaughtered when facing an opponent who outclassed them in both level and equipment.
The former female police officer had already shifted her attention to another level-eight demon strutting menacingly in front of Cloud Peak’s formation.
Mo Ye wasn’t the first of Cloud Peak’s top evolved beings to defeat her opponent. Xia Lei had beaten her to it.
The combat suit Xia Lei wore was called the Mikaeus Battle Suit. Despite its golden glow, it wasn’t a product of the wheel but an item of alien technology.
Ye Zhongming had obtained it from the Talos Red Dwarves.
During the preparation period, Ye Zhongming completed several missions. Fortunately, he completed one to retrieve an item, earning a large number of contribution points.
This mission had been nearly impossible to complete, as the item was a mutated plant with a name unfamiliar to the Talos Red Dwarves. Even with a description, finding it on Earth was like searching for a needle in a haystack.
But Ye Zhongming was a reincarnator. Luckily, he had seen this plant in his previous life and remembered where it grew. He found the plant and completed the mission.
Combined with the rewards from other missions, he had enough to exchange for this combat suit for Xia Lei.
After seeing its attributes and abilities, even Ye Zhongming had to admit that this was a combat assistance system. Not only did it provide unimaginable defensive capabilities—at least in Ye Zhongming’s eyes as a top-grade craftsman, it was no less effective than gold-grade equipment—but it also had offensive support capabilities.
The most obvious example was the six floating cannons around her.
These were genuine energy cannons, with a very short range of only thirty meters, but their power was immense. A direct hit could deliver a threat comparable to the Ultimate Annihilation Crystal Cannon!