Chapter 378

"Boom!"

Waves of terrifying mana rose from the four demonic gladiators in front of Danasi.

The mana was much denser, heavier, and even more oppressive than before.

Danasi flipped open the book in his hand, allowing the book to emit waves of gloomy light that merged into the demonic gladiators' bodies.

Under such circumstances, the four demonic gladiators' strength skyrocketed, and more mana surged out.

"That is …?"

Shien was astonished.

Danasi saw Shien's astonishment, and he laughed.

"Surprised?" Danasi chuckled and said, "Don't be surprised. This book has a great origin. Have you heard of the 'Book of Schemes'?"

"'Book of Schemes'?"

Shien instantly frowned.

He had never heard of this name before.

However, not far away, Maffey, who was cutting several evil creatures in half, exclaimed in surprise when he heard Danasi's words.

"Could it be the legendary demonic book that can be used to seize unique skills?"

Muffet's words made Sean fall into a state of shock.

"A book that can seize unique skills?"

How could there be such an illegal magical tool in this world?

While Shien was still in shock, Danasi spoke with regret.

"This isn't something that can be used that easily. Unique skills are known to defy common sense. If it can be seized so easily, it would be a waste of its reputation."

Danas' face was filled with regret as he spoke. He then began to elaborate.

"If you want to use the 'Book of Schemes' to seize unique skills from others, you have to fulfill several very strict conditions.

"Not only does the target have to offer their unique skills willingly, but the target also has to sacrifice themselves in front of the Book of Schemes, burning themselves as a sacrifice."

"Even so, the probability of successfully obtaining a Unique Skill from this book is less than 10%. Moreover, even if it succeeds, depending on the completion rate, the Unique Skill will disappear sooner or later. In other words, there is a time limit for it to be used."

"Moreover, the 'Book of Schemes' can only hold one unique skill at a time, and it can't be abandoned. Unless the unique skill reaches its time limit and disappears on its own, there is no way to seize it again. The limitations of this book are very high.

"Just like now, the unique skill recorded in the 'Book of Schemes' can only be used for less than a year. After that, it will disappear completely and never appear again."

At this point, Danas revealed a smile again.

"Fortunately, the unique skill recorded in the 'Book of Schemes' is very useful to me now.

It can ignore any conditions and increase the power of magical beings by several times. Back then, I spent a lot of effort to obtain this unique skill.

Now, it's a good chance for you to test its power. "

Danasi's smile suddenly turned cold.

"Let's go, magic gladiators. Let me see your power."

Following Danasi's command, the four magic gladiators suddenly raised their heads.

"Swoosh!"

All of a sudden, the four demon gladiators disappeared from where they stood at the same time.

"…!"

Sean's face froze, and he did not hesitate to raise the holy sword in his hand, letting the holy sword with the [Demon Sword] slash past, sweeping around him.

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"

The four magical gladiators suddenly appeared around Sean as if they had teleported, and once again surrounded him. While rushing towards Sean at an astonishing speed, they spread their hands and spread out a magic defensive wall in front of them.

"Dang dang dang dang —!"

Shien's holy sword swept past like a windmill, cutting through the magic barrier in front of the four magic gladiators one after another. However, it was not able to break through the barrier as easily as before. Instead, it was fiercely bounced off in the midst of the sound of metal clashing.

Immediately afterward, while Shien's attack was still ongoing, one of the magic gladiators suddenly sped up and flashed behind Shien. He opened his hands again and actually threw out a magic whip that instantly wrapped around Shien's body.

"Be careful!"

"Oh no!"

Seeing this scene, both Oz and Maffei's expression changed drastically.

At the same time, the other three magic gladiators also flashed around Shien. Their hands under their black robes shook, and each of them held a thorn-like spike and stabbed it mercilessly at Shien's body.

These four magic gladiators chose to use physical attacks to kill Shien when they knew that he had the [Magic Resistance] skill.

Therefore, the spikes in the hands of the three magic gladiators stabbed Shien's throat, heart, and head respectively.

Unfortunately …

"Clang —!"

In the next second, in a neat and crisp collision sound, three sharp spikes fell on Shien's vital position, but it was like stabbing a piece of steel. Sparks splashed and the spikes bounced off from Shien's body.

"What?"

Danas, who originally thought that the outcome of the battle had been decided, saw this scene and his pupils shrank.

"He still has a high-level [Physical Resistance] skill?"

Is this a joke?

It wasn't like Danas had never seen resistance skills before.

Danas had also seen high-grade resistance skills before.

To be able to ignore the attacks of four magic gladiators above level 80, this kind of resistance skill must be at least above level 9, right?

However, most people only had one such skill.

This was because resistance skills were different from defense enhancement skills. The way to learn it was to withstand a certain degree of attack.

If he wanted to learn the [Physical Resistance] skill, he would have to endure a sufficient number of physical attacks and a certain degree of strength.

In order to learn the [Magic Resistance] skill, one would have to endure a certain amount of magic attacks and withstand a certain amount of magic attacks.

Due to such conditions, many people would never be able to learn resistance skills in their lifetime. Firstly, they didn't have the talent in this area. Secondly, it was because the attacks that were strong enough for them to learn resistance skills would usually cost them their lives before they could learn the skill.

Resistance. Resistance. It was because one had withstood enough attacks that the body had the ability to adapt and resist. Only then could it be called resistance. Therefore, the attacks that one withstood had to be withstood with one's body. One couldn't defend or block it.

Under such circumstances, how many people would be able to learn the Resistance skill?

Those who were able to learn Resistance Skills had all survived from hell. Who knew how many fatal injuries they had suffered in their lives? Who knew how many times they had escaped from the gates of hell? Only after they were successfully rescued did they finally learn Resistance Skills.

It was not that there were no such people in the Three Realms, but they at most got one kind of resistance skill.

Two kinds of resistance skills?

How many times did one have to escape death in order to learn it?

Shien clearly looked so young, but he had mastered two kinds of resistance skills, and even upgraded them to the point where they were close to the maximum level?

"This human …"

Danas's expression became more or less dignified.

On the other side, Oz and Muffy were also surprised.

"There are actually two high-level resistance skills?"

Oz's face was full of astonishment.

"Is … is he a monster?"

Muffy could not keep calm at all.

On the other hand, Shien had no idea how much shock he had caused to others. He ignored the three magic gladiators who were shocked on the spot because their attacks were ineffective. He struggled with all his might while being speechless.

"This kind of binding ability, even resistance skills can't work?"

Thinking about it, it made sense.

The effect of resistance skills was to weaken damage, and it naturally had no effect on the power that would not cause damage.

If it was an abnormal state, it would be fine. With [Abnormal State Resistance], Shien could offset the interference and influence brought about by the abnormal state, but this kind of direct binding, no resistance skills would have any effect.

Shien could only use brute force to break free.

No, that's not right.

"[Give To. Dispel]."

Shien used a new [Give To] magic and gave the characteristic of "Dispel" to the long whip wrapped around his body.

"Bang!"

The long whip on Shien's body immediately shattered.

"— —!"

The four magic gladiators finally reacted and did not give Shien a chance to escape. They threw out their chains and let the chains wrap around Shien's body.

"[Give To. Dispel]."

Shien repeated the old trick and continued to "Dispel" the binding around his body, then suddenly turned around and used Celestial Body Magic.

"[Flying Star]!"

Countless tiny meteors descended from the sky, turning into a rain of light that fell on the bodies of the four demon gladiators.

"Bang bang bang bang bang …!"

As the meteors continued to fall, a burst of explosions occurred one after another, causing smoke and dust to rise. The dust gradually enveloped the battlefield where Shien and the four magic gladiators were.

The battle between Shien and the four magic gladiators became more and more intense, magic and magic intertwined, sword and stab flickered with each other, constantly setting off shock waves and roars, telling others that the battle had entered a white-hot state.

"So … so powerful …"

Maffey couldn't help but murmur.

"Humans are still as cunning as ever. Obviously, most of them are very weak, but occasionally there will be some powerful guys. No matter what era it is, there has never been a lack of strong people. It's really incomprehensible."

Even Oz was speechless and said such words.

Obviously, the fact that the power of the four magic gladiators has skyrocketed several times, and Shien was still able to fight with them was too surprising and shocking.

Of course, this situation was not what Danas wanted to see.

"It seems that I still underestimated this human aristocrat."

Danas furrowed his brows tightly.

Danas had heard a lot about Shien, but he never thought that the other party was so difficult to deal with.

It was just a crusade against a declining [Slaughterer Faction]. Although this caused a lot of trouble in the Old Demons Faction, in fact, not many people really cared about it.

[Slaughterer Faction] used to be a little interesting, but since its power was greatly reduced ten years ago, it was completely at the bottom of all the Old Demons Faction forces, and few people looked up to it.

Beetho was quite powerful, but the extent of his power was very limited. Compared to him, many leaders of the Old Demons Faction, including Danas, paid more attention to Killian, who was young but had great potential.

Therefore, when they were suppressed, it would at most make many of the forces of the old Demon Clan sigh that a once insufferably arrogant force had disappeared, and let some people remember Sean's name. Apart from that, there was no other use.

After that, whether it was taming Adol's black dragon or destroying nearly half of the kingdom's knights, although many Old Demons Faction were surprised, there were still not many people who really regarded Shien as a threat.

It was not until there was news that Shien was in contact with the Dragon Demon, one of the Six Great Demons, and also received the attention of the Moon Demon, that he seemed to have a little relationship with these demons in private, that many people really remembered Shien's name and paid attention to him.

But this attention was paid to the power behind Shien, not Shien's own strength.

If Shien's own strength could only be used to crusade against a declining [Slaughterer Faction], it could only be said that he had a little bit of skill.

The same was true for destroying nearly half of the kingdom's knights' combat power.

After all, the kingdom's knights were full of small fries who were less than level 70.

If Shien had destroyed nearly half of the royal knights' combat power, then it would be worthy of the Old Demons Faction's attention.

To sum up, many people, including Danas, were actually only interested in the various things that Shien had done, but basically, no one felt that Shien's strength was a threat.

But now, Danas felt that he had to change his perspective.

"This human noble is definitely a scourge."

Murderous intent began to surge out of Danas's eyes.

Shien was too young. He was only a few years older than the kingdom's most precious treasure and the empire's Valkyrie, but he had such strength. In addition, he had Adol's black dragon by his side, and he had connections with the demons. If he was allowed to grow in the future, it was inevitable that he would become a great threat to the Old Demons Faction.

"I must keep him here."

Danas raised the book in his hand and injected magic power into it, hoping to increase the power of the demon gladiator.

The unique skill recorded in the book had not been activated to the limit yet.

Although if it was activated to the limit and the effect was increased too much, the time limit of this unique skill would be shortened by a lot, causing it to disappear prematurely, Danath was a decisive person. When it was time to pay a price to achieve his goal, he would pay the price without hesitation. This was the reason why he was able to climb all the way to his current position with his weak strength.

However, at this moment, an accident happened.

"[Cyclone]!"

A feminine shout suddenly sounded, and a whirlwind appeared in Danas's hand. With a sweep, the Book of Schemes was taken away.

"Who …!?"

Danas's face changed, and he suddenly turned to the ceiling of the temple.

There, the skylight that was previously broken was still there.

Therefore, a figure appeared there, standing on the ceiling, stretched out her hand, and took the book that was rolled up by the whirlwind into her arms.

Seeing this person, Oz and Muffy were overjoyed.

"Lady Elise!"

"Lady Elise!"

The two couldn't help but shout.

The person was Elise.