aircannonsinc Chapter 568 Clearing the Guards
Chapter 568 Clearing the Guards
Lin Tian took a step back, the spear tip grazing his collar.
At the same time, he raised his left hand and clenched his five fingers.
[Law Imprisonment]
Four golden chains shot out from the void, their ends tipped with sharp spearheads that precisely pierced the guardian's limb joints.
The chains tightened suddenly.
The guardian's body was firmly fixed in mid-air, its limbs outstretched, like a gecko pinned to a wall. It struggled twice, its rocky body making cracking sounds, but the chains of law remained unmoved.
Lin Tian's intelligence is hundreds of times greater than itss, and the duration of the law-based confinement is almost maximized.
Twelve seconds.
enough.
Lin Tian turned to face the third guardian.
The guardian was approaching from the right, its icy arms condensing into more than a dozen ice spikes, each as thick as an arm, with tips as sharp as needles.
The moment it saw Lin Tian turn around, it swung its arm.
More than a dozen ice spikes shot out simultaneously, covering the entire space around Lin Tian.
Lin Tian did not dodge.
Shinra Tensei
A terrifying repulsive force erupted from his palm, spreading forward in a fan shape.
The ice spikes were as fragile as paper in the face of the repulsive force. They were first shattered by the repulsive force, and then the fragments were blown away by the repulsive force, unable to get within a meter of Lin Tian.
The third guardian was also hit by the aftershock of the repulsive force, its body flying backward and crashing onto the steps of the altar with a dull thud.
Several cracks appeared on its rocky trunk, spreading outwards from the crystal core at its chest, as dense as a spider web.
Its health bar dropped by a third.
However, the passive effect of [Guardian Will] causes its health to begin to recover rapidly.
Lin Tian did not intend to give it time to recover.
He raised his hand.
[Astral Ray] Second shot.
The beam pierced through the guardian's chest core. Just like the first one, it was precise, fast, and without any unnecessary movements.
The sound of the crystal core shattering rang out again.
The guardian's body froze, the blue light flickered, then went out, and finally exploded into a pile of rubble.
[System Notification: You have defeated 1 Icefield Guardian, gaining 787,000 experience points and 3 Ice Crystal Core Fragments.]
The guardian, bound and locked by the laws, was still struggling.
It stared at the corpses of its two companions, its crystal core flashing intensely—not with anger, nor with fear, but with a reaction akin to a "system error." Its programming lacked an option for "lone wolf," and it didn't know how to handle the situation before it.
Lin Tian walked up to it.
Up close, I placed my palm on the crystal core on its chest.
[Star Ray] Released at zero distance.
The beam of light shot out from the palm and pierced directly through the core of the crystal.
The guardian's body trembled violently, then fell completely silent.
The light from the crystal nucleus dimmed, like a lamp being slowly turned off.
Its body began to disintegrate from its feet, rocks shattered into powder, ice crystals shattered into fine fragments, and finally the whole thing turned into a pile of grayish-white ashes, which were scattered by the wind.
[System notification: You have defeated the Icefield Guardian...]
The three guardians fought for less than ten seconds from start to finish.
Lin Tian stood still, his breathing steady, not a speck of dust on his robes.
Little White landed from the sky and circled back onto his shoulder. The luster on its scales was brighter than before the battle, a natural reaction after absorbing the battle's energy.
Celia withdrew her shadow energy, her black robes fell back down, and she returned to her languid posture.
Zhao Hao hid behind the ice rock, completely stunned.
His mouth was slightly open, his eyes were wide open, and his pupils reflected the direction of the altar—in that direction, the three level 75 elite monsters had been turned into shattered ice and rubble all over the ground.
He had seen the corpses of the Ice Armored Rhinoceros and Frostclaw Beast before, but that was the "result," not the "process."
Witnessing Lin Tian's battle firsthand is a completely different experience.
What did he see?
Three level 75 elite monsters, which he dared not even touch in the map, were as fragile as paper in front of Lin Tian.
Less than ten seconds.
From the first Star Ray to the last point-blank shot, he counted, and Lin Tian used a total of four skills—Star Ray, Law Imprisonment, Divine Expedition, and Star Ray.
Four skills, three elite monsters.
Clean and efficient, without any unnecessary delays.
Zhao Hao looked down at the short sword in his hand.
He silently tucked the short sword back into his waistband.
"Too powerful..." he muttered to himself, his voice so soft that only he could hear it.
Then he peeked out from behind the ice rock to make sure the battle was really over before cautiously stepping out.
His legs were a little weak, and he walked awkwardly like a penguin that had just learned to walk.
But he still walked up behind Lin Tian.
"Is it... over?" Zhao Hao asked, his voice still trembling.
Lin Tian did not answer.
His gaze had already moved beyond the altar and landed in the distance.
There, deep within the icy plains, that immense life force still pulses slowly.
But unlike before, its pulsation frequency has changed.
It's a bit faster now.
It was as if it sensed something.
It's like someone is waking up.
......
Lin Tian stood before the altar, his gaze shifting from the shattered remains of the guardian to the ice crystal suspended in the center.
The cracks on the surface of the ice crystals were particularly glaring under the grayish-white light. Each crack looked like a wound, tearing apart this once perfect core from the inside.
The misaligned runes, the broken energy channels, the dim nodes—all the clues point to the same conclusion: this barrier won't last much longer.
Even if no one touches it, it will completely collapse within a few days.
At that time, the leader sealed inside will break free on its own and lead all the high-level magical beasts within the barrier toward the northern border.
The attacks on three villages were just the beginning.
Zhao Hao followed from behind, stood at the edge of the altar, and looked up at the floating ice crystal.
He could sense the terrifying energy contained within—like a volcano that could erupt at any moment, quietly, suppressively, and irresistibly accumulating power.
He swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down.
"This is... the core of the barrier?" he asked.
"Mm," Lin Tian replied.
He walked around the altar, carefully examining the misaligned runes and broken energy channels.
He memorized every single piece of damage—its location, direction, and severity. He wasn't a runemaster and didn't need to repair these things, but he needed to know how much they affected the barrier.
The conclusion was the same as his previous assessment: there was no major problem.
The barrier's sealing function is still intact; the core seal hasn't been destroyed, only the energy supply is malfunctioning. It's like a person with blocked blood vessels—the heart is still beating, but the blood can't reach where it needs to.