Chapter 129: This Doesn’t Feel Good

Chapter 129: This Doesn’t Feel Good

“Huh? What’s that…” Zheng Yichen tilted his head to look at a golden spear rapidly shooting toward him. Without a second thought, he reached out with his claw to grab it. It wasn’t a physical object, so even if it flew fast, Zheng Yichen wasn’t scared, even though it was a product of magic?

But the quality of this spear exceeded his expectations. Even though Zheng Yichen caught it with his hand, the impact force it carried still knocked him off his flight path. Before he could fully grasp it, the spear was still slowly pushing forward. Zheng Yichen used both hands but still couldn’t stop its momentum.

To stop the spear’s advance, he even forcefully injected mana into his arms to strengthen his power … still useless!

After the tip of the spear hit the scales on his chest, it only met slight resistance before piercing through. “Oh crap… Ah!!”

Adjusting his flight path, Zheng Yichen quickly backed away using the thrust from the propulsion device, trying to put distance between himself and the light spear. This move had little benefit. In fact, with the spear’s momentum, Zheng Yichen’s ascent speed increased even more. As long as he could stall for enough time and fully control the light spear, no matter how powerful it was, he could ignore it!

By now, Zheng Yichen’s trace was completely exposed to everyone… However, those who saw his form couldn’t help but look a bit odd. This dragon was way too strange!

Not only was it covered in strange camouflage colors, but its body also had many weird objects attached. It didn’t look like a member of the Dragon Clan but more like some kind of engineering product… like a mechanical dragon. Of course, Zheng Yichen wouldn’t say anything about this; he even thought the effect was better. He didn’t understand the Dragon Clan’s aesthetic sense. Looking at the dragon illustrations, they all looked the same—aside from color, size, unique scars, or other features.

He was sure that if the Dragon Clan could overlook his identity as a “Cursed Dragon” and accept him, he would become the Dragon Clan’s number one face-blind. They all looked like dragons, with similar scales. Who the heck knew what they actually looked like? As someone with a normal aesthetic sense, Zheng Yichen figured others probably viewed dragon appearances similarly to him.

…He had painted himself!

The extra things he added to his body were all to help him better integrate with the tools he prepared. When not in use, their features were quite obvious. As for the camouflage colors? This world didn’t have camouflage dragons, so how these people saw it was their business.

It took Zheng Yichen more than twenty seconds to fully grab the light spear. The most awkward part of this grabbing process was that he couldn’t influence it—it was constant. Even when he strained to grip the spear tightly, nothing changed. Fortunately, he managed to complete the grab before the spearhead fully pierced his body.

He took out some ointment from his pocket and stuffed it into the wound, stopping the bleeding. He continued to approach the light screen in the sky while holding the light spear, which still maintained its spear form. Even when he squeezed it hard, the spear only shrank slightly in size without any further changes in shape. Its magical structure was very stable; once released, it solidified into this form. In other words, its initial magical structure was just like this!

It was nothing like magic such as fireballs, light arrows, or water arrows. Those also had forms, but they weren’t solidified. Once grabbed, they would revert to their initial magical structure. After release, they would reform based on the effective magical structure. The advantage of the light spear’s initial magical structure was that it looked almost like a real spear, akin to magic arms, with stronger power and cohesion, making it harder to dispel or scatter.

Otherwise, with other types of magic, against Zheng Yichen’s magic resistance, the part that touched his scales first would definitely be partially canceled. It wasn’t like this spear, which pierced through his scales as easily as a hot knife!

Zheng Yichen didn’t believe in the absoluteness of magic resistance. There were many spells that could ignore magic resistance. Even mages could modify magic to greatly enhance its penetration, bypassing magic resistance factors.

So, as long as it wasn’t magic immunity, magic resistance could be relied upon, but not too much. And even magic immunity might not be truly reliable.

Zheng Yichen didn’t throw the light spear back after grabbing it. Its super-condensed magical structure wouldn’t dissipate from lack of mana as long as he held it. Apart from taking up space in one of his claws, it had no downsides—in fact, it had many benefits. What if another similar attack came from below? Would he have to grab it with his hand again?

He could just throw the one in his hand for a direct clash. He was already very close to the light screen in the sky… very close… Oh!?

Zheng Yichen, frozen in the air, blinked his eyes in confusion. When he was still tens of meters away from the light screen, he came to a halt. The propulsion device was still working, but it only prevented him from falling to the ground when he stopped flapping his wings—without any forward movement at all.

Looking around, dozens of light ribbons had entangled his wings, neck, arms, and legs, firmly binding him. If he had to describe the feeling, it was probably like… a kitten being held in an adult’s hand, struggling in vain. Although he had no personal experience, he had seen it… even done it.

“This really doesn’t feel good…”

Two explosions sounded in his ears. Zheng Yichen didn’t need to look to know it was the sound of the propulsion device overloading and exploding. Even worse, he was slowly being pulled toward the ground. If not for some of the propulsion devices still working, he would have fallen on his own without the light ribbons taking effect.

These light ribbons came from a young woman with milky-white hair, standing at the center of the Sanctuary Church’s army. A faint magic rune array appeared on her palms, and the dozens of light ribbons extended from it. The complexity of the magic rune array made Zheng Yichen dizzy after just a glance!

This feeling simply meant his mental energy and comprehension couldn’t handle looking directly at that magic rune array. There were many high-level magics that gave him this feeling. As for Light Tide?

Well… although it was one of the most mana-consuming high-level magics, its range was so vast that it didn’t have any additional special effects. High-level magics with special effects… like Finger of Death… Yes, a classic spell even before his transmigration. When Zheng Yichen first saw the records of this magic, he was stunned. This high-level magic also had strengths he could understand. Although it was single-target, it had an extremely strong instant-death effect!

Especially against beings with flaws in their souls, the effect was particularly significant.