Chapter 546 - 293: As Long As You Survive, There’s a Chance to Turn the Tables!
The plague hounds looked like dire wolves, but their skin was rotting all over, swarmed by circles of buzzing flies, and from their mouths, aside from long fangs, dripped some kind of yellow‑green saliva.
Even separated by dozens of meters, Raine could still feel a nauseating stench rolling toward him.
...
On the other side.
Seeing the two sides start to clash.
Jorazi’s figure, which had been moving quickly toward the second floor, abruptly stopped.
His original plan was—"go to that room on the second floor first and kill those annoying Critt Squad Mages," but when he saw the fight break out so quickly, he immediately stood in the shadow of a pillar and started watching.
After all, the two in front of him were the real enemies.
As for those four Mages from the Critt Squad, in Jorazi’s eyes they were just small fry that would only take a bit of effort to wipe out.
His gaze first lingered for a moment on Raine, who had just leapt into the air.
Then it shifted to the Eldest Princess of the Soladin Kingdom, Leonore.
It wasn’t that he had forgotten the grudge of Raine killing his teammate Aishir, but from the perspective of an experienced Adventurer, Leonore looked easier to deal with at this moment.
Because standing opposite her was Lord Hagen the Unclean, a fallen paladin.
A fallen paladin was similar to an Arcane Knight, possessing strong close‑quarters offensive power, as well as solid Spellcasting ability and Magic resistance.
Even against a Caster, rare as they were on the Valzeg Continent, if they faced off one‑on‑one, the odds of victory would be fifty‑fifty at best.
In that situation, if he joined the fight...
There was no doubt it would greatly increase Lord Hagen the Unclean’s chances of winning.
Only, Jorazi quickly noticed the fleeting, blurred figure circling fast beside Leonore.
"That Drow Elf?"
Seeing Meredith constantly circling Leonore, carrying out some kind of close‑range scouting and guard, made Jorazi’s stern face darken.
Obviously, she was there specifically to guard against him.
"Huh? Wait, if that’s the case..."
"Doesn’t that mean that Raine is facing White Mann and Lilith alone?"
Suddenly, Jorazi, who had just realized this, snapped his head to the side.
As his pair of narrow eyes caught the hammer‑wielding figure that had just flown up to the castle’s rooftop, Jorazi was overjoyed!
"As expected!"
"I don’t believe it—White Mann plus me, and we still can’t take you down?"
While thinking this, Jorazi’s figure at his original position suddenly blurred!
A few seconds later.
A blurred, blood‑colored figure arrived on the castle rooftop, and with a zigzagging lunge, rushed in from behind, rapidly closing in on Raine, who was locked in a fierce melee with White Mann.
"Hm? This is..."
Jorazi’s expression shifted slightly, and his movement speed gradually slowed!
Because the scene before his eyes at this moment genuinely shocked him—
"White Mann released Erosion Shock, Raine crossed his twin hammers in front of his chest and tanked it head‑on;"
"Almost at the same time, Lilith cast Hold Person Spell, and Raine didn’t even pause for a heartbeat;"
"The two had no choice but to retreat and spread out."
As the one in the thick of it, after blocking eight spells in a row, Raine had already closed to less than twenty meters from White Mann.
He could even see clearly, through those plague hounds, the pores in White Mann’s beard on his face, as well as that fleeting flicker of surprise in the man’s eyes.
"Vibration Wave!"
Facing the obstruction of five plague hounds, Raine’s Warhammer boomed as he swung it, and an invisible shock force turned into ripples in the air, sweeping out to cover the fan‑shaped area ahead.
Ineffective?
Eyes widening slightly as he watched the five plague hounds in front of him show no sign of dizziness and continue lunging at him, Raine swept his Warhammer sideways again and again, knocking them back.
But in the next instant, a rope‑like strand of Erosion Energy coiled around Raine’s legs.
It was White Mann at the side casting "Darkness Bind."
"Good chance!"
Seeing Raine’s back turned toward him, a sharp light flashed in Jorazi’s narrow eyes.
His whole body seemed to teleport as he suddenly appeared behind Raine, gripped the Nightmare Blade in a reverse hold, and drove it down in a vicious stab!
If that landed, it would absolutely be a heart‑piercing kill!
"Clang!!"
But Raine’s muscles suddenly swelled, bursting out of the Darkness Bind as he spun and swept his hammer across, blocking this nearly impossible‑to‑block strike!
"What!!"
Joraqi’s narrow eyes bulged round.
Maybe this was the widest his eyes had opened in his entire life.
Raine blocking Joraqi’s killing skill wasn’t luck; before the battle even started, he had already cranked his vigilance to the max.
In fact, that was also why he had Meredith stay behind to guard Leonore’s side.
From one angle, Joraqi reappearing at this moment both confirmed Raine’s guess and meant that Joraqi had already removed the threat posed by the others;
From another angle, it also meant the enemy already had one foot inside the battle rhythm Raine had preset.
Missing with that blow, Joraqi’s face changed sharply, and he unleashed Shadow Step without a shred of hesitation.
With a flash of black light, he instantly reappeared twenty meters away.
Miss once, retreat far, retreat fast.
"As long as I stay alive, there’s always a chance to turn the tables!"
That was one of the life creeds Joraqi firmly believed in.
But almost at the same time, his pupils shrank hard!
Because with a flash of blue light, Raine actually appeared right behind him as well, less than three meters away.
Three meters—this was a killing distance!
"No way, that’s a Mage’s move??"
Before Joraqi could figure it out—
"Roar!"
With a harsh bellow, Raine’s muscles swelled, his frame seeming to bulk up another size. He raised the Warhammer high and smashed it down at Joraqi’s head!
The speed was so great that besides afterimages, you could even see white shock ripples at the hammer’s head as it punched through the air.
In that split second of lightning and flint—
White Mann, who naturally couldn’t just watch Joraqi get killed, pointed a finger at Raine. A spiral ray of Erosion Energy lanced toward Raine’s back like lightning!
It was none other than the famed Seventh Level Spell "Death Finger"!
This scene caught in the corner of his eye made Joraqi’s heart leap with joy.
Because in his view, Raine absolutely couldn’t afford not to dodge this strike.
And once he dodged, it would mean Joraqi could escape disaster—
Dodge this near-guaranteed-kill hammer blow from Raine!
But in the next instant, his face instantly went deathly pale.
Because reflected in his pupils, Raine actually didn’t dodge at all. His body didn’t so much as sway, and the Warhammer in his hand, like two overlapping silver meteors, suddenly accelerated as it crashed down!
"Damn it, he’s not dodging!!"
As that final thought flashed through his mind, Joraqi’s vision suddenly turned into eternal Darkness.
"Bang-crack!"
In Lilith’s field of view as she was in the middle of chanting a Curse, Raine, ignoring everything, brought the hammer straight down and smashed Joraqi’s head to pulp.
At the same time, he took Lord White Mann’s Seventh Level Spell head-on!
"Pff!"
The spiral black ray of Energy bored into Raine’s Plate Armor from the rear right, then punched out below his left abdomen, continuing on to blast into the hard granite floor of the castle’s top level, kicking up a spray of shattered stone.
In Lilith’s eyes, even for an Extraordinary Strong Person, a wound like that was extremely serious.
At the very least, his combat strength would be massively reduced!
But to her astonishment, she saw a dense milky-white radiance bloom over Raine’s body.
That extremely serious wound actually began to heal at high speed!
"It’s that Warhammer!"
Both Lilith’s and White Mann’s gazes locked simultaneously onto the Warhammer Defender in Raine’s left hand.
Since it wasn’t a lethal hit, the special effect of the Counterattacker in his right hand was not triggered.
Sacrificing 10% durability, Raine activated the Defender’s third special effect, "Holy Healing"—restoring all injuries, stamina, and Energy of the Warhammer’s wielder.
(Each time this effect is triggered, the Warhammer’s damage level increases by 10%. This effect can only be triggered once per day.)
In the blink of an eye, his injuries rapidly knit back together.
Spending 10% Warhammer durability in exchange for killing a highly dangerous mid-tier Transcendent Wanderer—this trade, in Raine’s eyes, was more than worth it.
His gaze swept over Joraqi’s headless corpse on the ground, pausing only briefly on the Nightmare Blade in the enemy’s hand that was glowing with a ghostly green light.
Raine shook the Warhammer, turned around, and locked his eyes back onto White Mann.
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