Volume 4, Chapter 56 – Child of the First Celestial Augur Knight, The Last Witch

Although he was House Solrog’s authority on “technology” and not specifically a combat type, Genovis was quite confident in his own strength.

His personal physical abilities in their normal state might not be particularly strong, but they could be replaced at any time, granting him an almost eternally indestructible characteristic.

With over three thousand physical duplicates distributed across various bases, unless they were all destroyed, Genovis could never be eliminated.

Furthermore, over the course of this millennium of development, he had already accumulated a full two hundred plus corpse puppets.

With this group of immortal and indestructible corpse puppets assisting him, except for the Trinity of Malevolence and those two monsters within the family, Genovis feared no opponent.

The Black Witch?

The strongest monster among the Terrabond Lineage?

So what.

Just a single Peak Divine Departure Realm—no matter how powerful, it couldn’t possibly withstand the siege of his corpse puppets.

Therefore, at the start of the battle, Genovis confidently waited for the Black Witch to be defeated under the siege of his corpse puppets.

And then…

This House Solrog ancestor was dumbfounded.

“This… how is this possible? What… what kind of joke is this?!”

Staring at the scene before him, Genovis stammered in a low voice.

He could see that at this moment, as the Black Witch revealed a chilling, cruel smile, eight magic wands of various forms were thrown out by her.

Under the embrace of curse power, elemental energies of all kinds overflowed from around the wands, continuing to fuse and expand, transforming into fearsome elemental magical beasts.

The first magical beast was born from raging flames—it resembled a giant lizard but had three pairs of wings made of lava, each wingbeat scattering fire rain across the sky. The second crawled out from an icy whirlpool, its entire body crystalline like a crystal sculpture, the cold breath it exhaled from its fangs instantly freezing ten corpse puppets. The third was completely condensed from hurricanes, its semi-transparent body flickering with lightning, and wherever it passed, corpse puppets were ground into bone fragments.

The fourth…

Eight elemental magical beasts, each possessing roughly Mid-tier Divine Departure Realm power.

Combined with the wild and fierce elemental forces, they directly shattered Genovis’s corpse puppet army.

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That monster? What the hell is going on!

Genovis clenched his fists in utter confusion.

It wasn’t like he didn’t know the Black Witch’s intelligence.

The reason that vassal was terrifying was because she could summon three Mid-tier Divine Departure Realm elemental magical beasts in one breath.

The magical beasts held the front while the Black Witch, as a mage, hid in the rear chanting incantations and launching magical attacks.

Countless human experts had died under this combination attack.

But…

Wasn’t it supposed to be only three?

Why did she summon eight at once?!

Had that monster been hiding her strength all along?

Seeing the Black Witch use another “Order Magic – Meteor Rain” to blast most of his puppets to pieces, Genovis angrily bit his lip.

Although his puppets could continuously regenerate, each regeneration actually required consuming part of Genovis’s own power…

It absolutely wasn’t something that could be used indefinitely.

At this rate, if the fight continued… his spiritual power reserves probably wouldn’t be enough to sustain it.

Damn it.

If he had known he would encounter the Black Witch, and that she would be this troublesome…

He would have activated and brought all those First Celestial Augur Knight corpse puppets along.

That way, he wouldn’t be in such an embarrassing situation now.

Genovis’s heart was filled with regret.

However, this ancestor also clearly understood that regret couldn’t change anything.

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Since he was now sealed in a barrier and couldn’t get out, he had to find a way to eliminate that Black Witch.

Although Genovis himself wouldn’t die, he didn’t want to just abandon over a hundred puppets like this.

Fortunately, the Black Witch’s weakness was also quite obvious.

Looking at the black-haired girl not far away who was chanting incantations and casting attack magic, Genovis playfully raised the corner of his mouth.

The next instant, as this Sixth Ancestor’s pupils contracted, the five corpse puppets around him responsible for protecting his safety instantly fell powerlessly like puppets with cut strings.

At the same time, Genovis’s muscles began to swell, and hideous blood marks appeared on his body.

Then, “BOOM!!”

Accompanied by a terrifying sonic boom, Genovis himself suddenly rushed toward the Black Witch like swift lightning, enveloped in black and white radiance!

After concentrating the power of five corpse puppets into his own body, Genovis achieved qualitative leaps in strength, speed, and defensive power.

He was no longer the research personnel who wasn’t good at close combat.

The current Genovis was already stronger than the vast majority of Peak Divine Departure Realm experts.

With his terrifying speed, in the blink of an eye, Genovis broke through the defense of the eight elemental magical beasts!

And easily tore through the Black Witch’s protective magical barrier.

“CRACK!!”

With the shattering of the crimson barrier, Genovis thus reached the Black Witch’s front.

Staring at the black-haired girl before him with a look of shock and bewilderment, feeling the panic in her eyes, Genovis’s smile became increasingly sinister.

The Black Witch was indeed strong.

Magic, with its myriad transformations, was indeed difficult to deal with.

But as long as someone was a mage, they all had one fatal weakness.

That was being extremely poor in close combat!

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It was precisely for this reason that the Black Witch needed so many elemental magical beasts to guard her sides.

Furthermore, although magic was powerful, each incantation required a great deal of time to chant…

As long as there was no time to chant, then no matter how strong the Black Witch was, what use would it be?

And the Black Witch’s panicked reaction undoubtedly confirmed Genovis’s speculation.

Hehe, as expected, this guy feared close combat! And having just cast large-scale area attack magic, her next move was still being chanted.

The current Black Witch posed no threat!

“It’s over! You fool!”

Grinning wickedly, Genovis directly reached out to grab the Black Witch’s neck.

As long as he destroyed her vocal cords used for chanting, unable to use incantations to resonate with nature, she would no longer pose any threat.

Until now, everything was still going as Genovis had predicted.

However, the next instant, Genovis was shocked to discover that the Black Witch had pointed her right hand at him, with an unfinished magical array floating in her palm.

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Hm?

An unfinished array? What use was that? As long as you can’t finish chanting the spell, this array is garbage.

Trying to scare me off?

You underestimate me too much… hm?!!!

But just as Genovis felt disdainful of the Black Witch’s behavior, he was horrified to discover that the panicked expression on the black-haired girl’s pretty face had somehow disappeared without a trace, replaced by a chilling, eerie smile.

“Smiling?”

Genovis was stunned.

However, before he could understand the situation, the Black Witch’s ethereal voice emerged from her mouth.

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“Order Magic – Blood Sword Beelzebub.”

In an instant, the array that clearly hadn’t finished being chanted was completed under Genovis’s unbelieving gaze.

A terrifying blood sword condensed from curse power suddenly tore through Genovis’s protective spiritual power and pierced through his enhanced extraordinary body.

“Cough cough cough!!”

Intense pain assaulted his brain as blood frantically sprayed from Genovis’s mouth.

His attack unsurprisingly came to an abrupt halt, and he painfully clutched his chest, his legs even giving way as he half-knelt on the ground.

After a bout of coughing up blood, Genovis glared viciously at the Black Witch not far away.

“You… why can you cast spells without incantation?!”

Faced with this question, the black-haired girl contemptuously tilted her head, looking at Genovis with considerable “sympathy.”

“Why do you think, Lord Ancestor of House Solrog?”

“Why?”

Silently repeating the word, Genovis clenched his fists with a grave expression.

Magic was a way of borrowing power from nature through spiritual power vibrations and language.

Therefore, complex chanting had always been considered an indispensable part of magic.

However, there was a special existence that could ignore this requirement and directly communicate with nature to use magic…

This special existence was witches.

Witches who should have long since gone extinct.

As he stared intently at the Black Witch’s face, some fragments from the depths of Genovis’s memory seemed to be successfully triggered.

A little girl covered in wounds, continuously screaming miserably, being consumed in flames suddenly appeared in Genovis’s mind, making his entire body tremble.

“You’re that Celestial Augur Knight’s child?… You… no, didn’t you die?!”