My health recovery is incredibly fast.

The Splitback Terror, transformed into a Shadow Giant, roared to the sky, its crimson eyes blazing with murderous intent. Bones protruded from its body, and its dark skeleton radiated a bloodthirsty desire.

"Hmm, the design isn't bad."

Xia Zuo used his bloodline connection to look at the Shadow Giant and slowly nodded.

The Shadow Giant Form was also a spell contributed by the Pseudo-Blood Mage Legion, and this was the first time Xia Zuo had used it in actual combat.

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[Spell Name] Shadow Giant Form

[Spell Type] Blood Magic, Shadow Magic, Transmutation

[Spell Description]

This form requires a high-level alien demon to activate.

Depending on the type of demon that makes up this form, the Shadow Giant will have different passive effects.

When this form is deactivated, the Shadow Giant will die.

[Passive Effect]

Splitback Terror: Greatly increases physical attributes, with physical and magical damage resistance increased to 80%.

Cube Shadow Fiend: Greatly increases the efficiency of the Shadow Forge, increasing energy conversion rate by 100%.

Church Assassin: Greatly enhances melee capabilities, increasing melee attack speed, counterattack, and block ability by 100%, and blocks will affect spells.

Pleasure Specialist: Greatly increases immunity to control spell effects, and will perform three additional checks each time a spell effect is checked.

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These shadow giants, composed of otherworldly demons and used only as disposable items, possess up to 80% physical and magical resistance.

Although its spell resistance wasn't 100%, falling short by 20%, the Shadow Giant, with the help of the Pleasure Specialist, utilized three additional spell effect checks to become almost completely immune to all control spells.

These mage killers, designed to counter mages, caused considerable trouble for the Temple army on the battlefield.

Fortunately, the pseudo-blood mage legion successfully hunted down a living shadow giant, allowing Xia Zuo to draw this skill, which was just right for the battle against the faceless man.

The Faceless Man clearly recognized the Shadow Giant.

The faceless man's tall stature and highly immune physical and magical attack forms prompted him to speed up his spellcasting.

The frequency of the flashing wild elements in the energy field suddenly increased significantly, to the point that it exceeded the limits of eye movement, creating the illusion that the wild elements were constantly lit.

Shadow energy surged upwards from the soles of the Shadow Giant's feet.

Faced with the Shadow Giant's attack, the Faceless Man knew very well that direct spell attacks were basically ineffective. The Shadow Giant's magic immunity and multiple hit detection were the bane of all spellcasters.

Only by making good use of the special environment created by magic can the Shadow Giant be killed.

Hundreds of frost-covered pillars of ice shot at the Shadow Giant from different angles at the same time.

The sharp icicles struck the rock-solid muscle block and shattered into a large shard of ice crystals in an instant.

These ice shards hovered eerily in the air, creating a unique ice shard environment.

The wild elemental emitted a burst of light, accompanied by lightning and thunder!

The menacing forked lightning bolts pierced the Shadow Giant from all directions. The electric snakes passed through the ice shards, detonating the cold air contained within. The air around the Shadow Giant became humid and heavy, and the forked lightning became even more rampant, evolving into chain lightning. With the help of the ice crystals jumping from the exploding ice shards, it formed a perpetual lightning cage.

More forked lightning bolts were summoned by the wild elementals and thrown into the near-spherical lightning cage. The electric light intensified and overlapped layer by layer, and the accumulated lightning power increased exponentially.

The Shadow Giant roared and howled in the lightning cage, hacking at the wall of lightning in front of him with his long-handled double axes.

Its magic immunity, granted by its transformed form, has taken effect.

The axe blade sliced ​​through the lightning-filled wall, creating a narrow opening. But before the Shadow Giant could squeeze through, a barrage of chain lightning bolts immediately filled the gap, trapping the Shadow Giant inside once more.

Even with its incredible magic resistance and ability to trigger spell checks multiple times, Shadow Giant could not escape the relentless stream of lightning.

Within seconds, the Shadow Giant, who had made a high-profile entrance, became a prisoner of the Faceless Man. This was the standard fate for Shadow Giants, a high-level combat force of the Church of the Otherworld, when facing the Faceless Man.

The difference in strength between the two sides was too great. Even if ten more shadow giants were added, they would still be forced to be blasted into pieces by magic.

But Shazor has more than just Shadow Giants.

Directly above the faceless man's head, under the halo of the blazing sun, a large group of alchemical missiles hovered, using the bright background to conceal their tail flames.

Just as the Shadow Giant was about to be blasted apart by the lightning cage, an alchemical missile lurking high in the sky shot straight down, its shrill sound like a deadly, malevolent spell that drew the Faceless Man's attention.

The faceless man immediately noticed the group of alchemical missiles carrying high-explosive warheads.

Never underestimate the power of alchemical controlled items; they are controlled because they threaten the lives of mages.

Any heavy weapon can seriously injure a careless mage. Countless archmages, temple mages, and eternal mages throughout history have been ambushed by heavy weapons, let alone a large group of alchemical missiles falling from the sky.

After identifying the model of the alchemical missile, the faceless man cast [Elemental Intrusion] on it, and more than thirty magical chains appeared out of thin air on the alchemical missile.

The [Elemental Invasion] was activated, but only two alchemical missiles deviated from their flight paths and flew towards the edge of the battlefield, while the other alchemical missiles remained in their straight-up trajectory toward the white columnar object.

If the faceless man still maintained his humanoid form and was equipped with an alchemical bionic device that simulated facial expressions, he would definitely be angrily cursing his treachery.

This was all because Xia Zuo had modified all the components of the alchemical missile with [Blood Dissolves Iron] beforehand.

The alchemical missile accelerated its descent and was expected to collide with the static energy field within 10 seconds.

The faceless man hastily summoned a series of protective spells, including [Earth Barrier], [Hurricane Barrier], [Blazing Protection], and [Air Brick], to protect the white pillar from the inside out.

The static energy field above his head increased its energy density several times over, and the wispy energy ribbons transformed into thick clouds that covered the faceless man's head.

Faced with the faceless man's multiple layers of protection, the alchemical missile seemed to have lost its explosive capability.

After they entered the static energy field, they were immediately frozen in place, and countless magical chains rushed up, completely enveloping the alchemical missiles.

The faceless man breathed a sigh of relief—although these alchemical missiles had been modified and could not be controlled by [Elemental Intrusion], the detonation process still needed to follow the basic rules. As long as the primer and explosives were physically isolated, the explosion could be prevented, rendering the alchemical missiles ineffective.

Just as the faceless man was relieved that he had stopped the explosion in time, he suddenly felt something was wrong and turned to look at the lightning cage below.

The shadow giant had already half its body out of the cage, howling in pain as it was licked by lightning, but it still struggled desperately to break free of its restraints.

Die, you insects! ...The faceless man suddenly increased his energy output, and dozens of thick bolts of lightning poured into the cage.

The crack in the lightning cage closed instantly, severing the shadow giant in half and spewing out a large cloud of blood mist.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A series of explosions suddenly appeared, but they were not the Lightning Cage, but rather the alchemical missiles that the Faceless Men had identified as ineffective.

Shrapnel, marbles, deadly poison with a foul odor, sinister talismans stained with cursed power—all the dangerous things that Xia Zuo could think of and make were stuffed into the alchemical missile, just to give the Faceless Man a proper welcome.

Why did the malfunctioning alchemical missile suddenly explode?! Didn't I already cut off the pipe between the primer and the explosive? ...The sudden explosion momentarily stunned the Faceless Man.

Xia Zuo chuckled.

He knew that the Faceless Man's understanding of the Alchemy Missiles was no less than his own, and that the other party would definitely try to disable the Alchemy Missiles by working on the primer.

So Xia Zuo cunningly hid the real alchemical explosives in the propulsion system. The explosive yield was reduced by 80%, but it was enough to interfere with the Faceless Man.

Faced with the unexpected explosion, the faceless man hurriedly manipulated the energy field to prevent the spread of toxic substances.

In a static energy field, anything that lacks magic immunity and multiple judgment characteristics will eventually become docile under the pressure of the energy field.

The toxic substances released from the alchemical missile explosion, after consuming several layers of the Faceless Man's shield, were compressed into small black cubes by the energy difference and fell to the ground.

Just as the faceless man was distracted by dealing with the explosion, a hand grabbed the end of the white pillar.

The grinning shadow giant was now only half a body.

Its waist sprayed blood and shadow energy, propelling it high into the air.

It gripped the white pillar tightly, brutally tearing through the magical shield surrounding it with its magic-immune arms and hands, just to hold the white pillar in its arms like a lover in the throes of passion:

"o-kuda, id-nado, na-cui."

(Translation: Foolish mage, do you want to know where you went wrong?)

The shadow giant roared with laughter, his voice hoarse as he vented his triumph:

"ku-nochi, bi-kaan, aut-ogi."

(Translation: A mage who can't cast Blink is worse than a pig or a dog.)

In the far south sky, a stark black dot is rapidly growing larger against the azure backdrop.

The white pillar, tightly bound by the Shadow Giant, trembled violently.

Chapter 41 I will never die here

From the start of the battle until now, everything has gone smoothly, but only Xia Zuo knows that this smoothness is based on a series of coincidences.

In the timeline of [Future.300], "Xia Zuo" accidentally used the Blood Demon Law to evade the detection of the underground protective array and embedded himself in the deepest part of the Faceless Man's base, where he witnessed the Faceless Man in deep meditation.

In the [Future.301] timeline, "Xia Zuo" accidentally launched an attack while the Faceless Man was in deep meditation, and discovered that the other party had difficulty waking up from deep meditation.

In the [Future.319] timeline, when facing the Faceless Man's [Static Energy Field], "Xia Zuo" accidentally adopted a highly mobile guerrilla strategy and confirmed that the Faceless Man could not cast any teleportation spells when the [Static Energy Field] was deployed.

In the [Future.323] timeline, while his flesh clone was fighting the faceless man, "Xia Zuo" used the last remaining drilling vehicle to sneak underground and found Rena and Hurley, who were imprisoned in a magical cocoon. He accidentally discovered a secret room containing chaotic energy.

When the "coincidences" from various future timelines converge, a qualitative change occurs:

A chaotic magic arrow, condensed from chaotic energy and launched from a heavy weapon launcher carried by a drilling vehicle, has become Xia Zuo's potential weapon to decisively and completely eliminate the faceless men.

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[Spell Name] Chaos Arrow

[Spell Type] Elemental Spell

[Spell Description]

Chaos energy is not subject to most spells or energy constraints; only two methods can fix its appearance:

1. Construct a binding force field with light energy and shadow energy in equal proportions, and place chaotic energy between light energy and shadow energy.

2. Attract chaotic energy with a chaotic consciousness. For example, use a spiritual ocean to attract chaotic energy, causing it to attach to the outer shell of the spiritual ocean and spontaneously form a chaotic container.

[Spell Effect]

Chaos Arrows cannot be immune to, immune to, or deflected, but they can be dodged.

Upon impact, the Chaos Arrow randomly selects one of eight negative effects and massive damage to produce an effect that cannot be immune to, saved from, evaded, or reflected.