After retreating for a bit, Almond activated Maw of Awakening Embers, absorbing large quantities of wild Prana while converting a spirit into pure soul energy adapted to him and refilling his soul sea.
And then he adorned the Spirit Drape of another Griminion Emperor, bringing his stats to monstrous numbers before heading back into the battle.
Meanwhile, Lily was late to the party by half an hour, but the moment she was done, she adorned her Regalon Spirit Armament with two long daggers and entered the Ruler of Dreadspire state by using her Ability Tree’s power as a bloodthirsty darkness surged from her like a harrowing cloak.
Swoosh!
Four dreadful monsters in a half-physical and half-ethereal state would whip out of her as she traveled like a light, directly attacking a powerful Griminion Emperor—a Quad-Winged Seraph Ape.
The monster roared as its wings’ feathers burst out into a defensive barrier right as Lily arrived, but a red line streaked across the barrier as it cracked while Lily’s right arm turned into a blood mist from the counterattack.
But that was nothing for Lily, and instead, her damage increased while her Dreadspire Monsters rained down debuffs, completely sealing the Griminion Emperor for a second, which was enough. She continued with her attack, executing a powerful move with her daggers as crisscrossing lights phased through Quad Winged Seraph Ape’s head, making it headless before she entered into its body and focused on its most vital part.
Dead.
Absorbing the entire body using Regalon Bloodline’s power, Lily activated her Parade of Dreadspire Kingdom’s second ability—Dreadspire Sanguine Rite.
Lily’s aura burst out as she absorbed the Monster’s power, gaining a temporary boost in stats like Almond’s Spirit Drape.
In Lily’s case, she gained 90% of the stats that belonged to the absorbed Monster and heightened blood recovery depending on the monster’s power.
But even so, everyone was shocked to feel another powerful aura surging on the battlefield!
Prana Sea: 14,850
Soul Sea: 14,850
Stats:
— Body Constitution: 13,720
— Mental Constitution: 16,361
— Soul Constitution: 14,850
— Arcane Constitution: 7091
Lily’s Arcane Constitution increased by 602 as she awakened her second Ability Tree, and created the obvious assets possible with this new addition in a jiffy, increasing circuits in her Arcane Board by 602.
Lily’s stats reflected the majority of late-stage Immortal Emperors’ stats with buffs and other means they had.
Her will was stronger than most Late-stage Emperors just like Admiral Rudra, and with the addition of her new ability tree—Axiom of Hollow Splendor—she rained destruction.
Axiom of Hollow Splendor. Its first conceptual effect was ‘creating’ a weakness in targets, and the probability of this increased drastically the more debuffs she gave to the target, which her Parade of Dreadspire Kingdom did as it had a multitude of debuff effects.
Lily could give slow, armor break, corrosion, burn, blood burn, vampiric absorption, recovery reduction, healing ban, and a lot of other ‘exotic’ debuffs that she could create herself with her overall arsenal of powers in tandem with Parade of Dreadspire Kingdom.
And now, Axiom of Hollow Spelnder’s first ability she created, allowed her to forcefully ‘create’ a weak spot on the target.
Including this with her other assets, she created an ability that if she struck the target’s weakness, the damage dealt would be increased by 100%, and if she killed the target, she would gain a blood barrier equivalent to the target’s maximum vitality and empower her physical prowess by 100% for five seconds. She used suitable attributes from her elements, assets, and conceptual effects of her two Ability Trees in synergy to create this.
And so, Lily’s stats increased by 2k+ for five whole seconds each time she slayed a Griminion Emperor, and she slayed a Griminion Emperor every two to three seconds.
Her abilities consumed her blood in the majority, and her recovery was dreadful enough that she could recover herself with a single attack on a Griminion and even store additional enchanted blood in her Sanguine Dread Pool, the third ability of her Parade of Dreadspire Kingdom.
She could absorb stamina, blood, vitality, Prana, and soul energy from absorbed monsters, making her just like Almond—inexhaustible until her willpower was completely drained.
This was the reason why Lily and Almond were the strongest and stronger than others. On top of having potent powers, their builds allowed them to constantly regain energy during fights in different ways.
As Lily completely entered her battle drive, she began killing Griminion Emperors in one shot, just like those powerful late-stage Emperors and Almond.
Meanwhile, those Supreme Emperors were killing multiple Griminion Emperors at once; all of them seemed to have revved up fully as their speed outclassed Almond easily.
Almond’s rank began going down, but it stopped at 25th eventually after two hours and didn’t go down anymore.
Lily wasn’t seen in the top 100 since she had entered late, but this was going to be a long war, and she had a chance to enter the top 100 because there were definitely fewer than 100 people who had inexhaustible builds like Almond and Lily, aside from Supreme Emperors.
Admiral Rudra also wanted to make a build like that, and he was working on acquiring an Intent to connect in his arsenal of powers and create a logic to do that.
His three Ability Trees were powerful and made him kind of invincible as he was tough, strong, and fast—a perfect all-rounder who could break and shatter anything coming his way or blocking his way.
His Shatter Intent was also the most progressed.
Admiral Rudra killed Griminion Emperors with his fist projectiles, disabling them, shattering them with magic when they attacked, and eventually finishing them off.
He didn’t have crazy stat boosts like Almond and Lily, but his Regalon Spirit Armament still brought him to around 8k in Body, Mental, and Soul constitutions.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t a chance for him to enter the top 100.
While Almond, Lily, and Admiral Rudra wreaked havoc at the frontlines, the High-Mortals, consisting of a majority of old monsters and top guild leaders, were also having the time of their lives with hundreds of thousands of Griminion Immortals coming their way.
The people at their spot ignored Griminion High-mortals and Mortals, letting them pass by while killing Griminion Immortals.
“What the fuck?!”
“Who the hell are these High-Mortals?!”
“Fuck, he just killed two Griminion Immortals with a single slash that streaked in Hyper Plane!”
“Shit, all of them have Hyper Speed 1…”
“Those armors and weapons have a distinct aura common to them…”
“That flag belongs to them. Do you recognize it?”
“Wait, I know that flag!”
“House of Regalon!”