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Chapter 298 -298-One Against Five, Crushing Dominance
"Unrivaled Strength."
A sharp gleam flashed in Igor’s eyes. The other party’s Strength was rather similar to his own.
What he pursued was precisely the path of shattering all techniques with the ultimate blade!
The instant James’s puppet clone shattered, Igor swung his blade at the same time. The blade light was like a streak of white silk, slashing straight toward Dustin.
At the same time, Cold Star and Silas both appeared.
"Life and Death Unknown!"
Silas’s Divine Domain unfolded. The longsword in his hand flew out, moving as nimbly as a serpent as it pierced through the air toward Dustin.
In an instant, the aura of life and death, intertwined in black and white, filled heaven and earth, surging over like a tide.
The moment James’s puppet shattered, it split into tens of thousands of clones once more.
Those tens of thousands of clones each unleashed their skills. Countless secret treasures poured down like a torrential rain, attacking Dustin from every direction.
As for Cold Star, he copied all of Igor’s strength. At the same time, he slashed out with that blade light capable of tearing space apart. Wherever the blade edge passed, even the void trembled.
In the blink of an eye, Dustin was facing the joint assault of four nine-star experts.
No, there was also Mosi!
Mosi had already been lying in wait within the void, silently accumulating his blade intent.
His killing intent was like a hidden dragon lurking in the abyss. Once it was nurtured to its limit, that one slash would be comparable to a full-powered strike from a high Divine-grade expert.
And what he needed was time.
What he was waiting for was the instant to unleash that thunderous blow!
Dustin’s expression was astonishingly calm.
The five fingers of his left hand danced through the air at a dazzling speed, as though weaving an invisible net of destiny.
Suddenly, his flying fingertips came to an abrupt halt.
His index finger bent, and his thumb pressed tightly over it, forming an ancient and mysterious hand seal.
"Break!"
Dustin’s lips parted slightly as he uttered a single syllable. His voice was not loud, yet it seemed to rumble up from an ancient abyss.
Buzz!
An invisible, intangible, transparent ripple spread rapidly in all directions with Dustin’s body as its center.
Wherever the ripple passed, space became like the surface of a lake into which a stone had been thrown, sending out layer upon layer of tremors.
Silas’s power of the Law of Life and Death, that nimble flying sword, the fierce blade energy unleashed by Igor and Cold Star, James’s overwhelming clones and poison attacks...
Everything, absolutely everything, silently melted away into nothingness the instant it touched that ripple, like accumulated snow meeting the sun.
The four nine-star experts simultaneously felt the immense pressure contained within that ripple. It was as though an invisible mountain had pressed down upon their chests. Their expressions changed drastically, and they all retreated frantically at almost the same time.
And that strange ripple was actually able to penetrate through layer upon layer of spatial barriers, reaching deep into the innermost depths of the void.
Mosi, who had been hiding within an alternate dimension, was focused on nurturing his blade intent while waiting for the chance to deliver a fatal blow.
He stared in astonishment as that invisible ripple penetrated the void and surged toward him. Unable to continue gathering momentum, he had no choice but to hastily slash out with his blade.
However, that blade energy, which had condensed the greater half of his effort and will, was likewise silently annihilated beneath the spreading ripple.
"What... what kind of secret art is that?"
Udi’s mouth fell open, his face filled with disbelief.
"Strength of this level..."
Harris’s voice was low, and his eyes were filled with gravity. "Even I would find it difficult to confront head-on."
In the spectator stands, the many experts looked at one another in dismay.
At first, everything had seemed to be under control. James had made the first move, and the other experts had followed one after another.
But why had all of their attacks been dissolved into nothingness in the blink of an eye?
Just what kind of Strength had they encountered to be forced into such a sorry retreat?
"The clan-guarding sacred art of the Chaos Humans."
Oracle-grade Chanelle suddenly spoke, her voice clearly entering the ears of every expert present.
"The tenth-ranked Great Sacred Art—the Sacred Seal of Revelation!"
The universes were not isolated from one another. In the Endless Starsea, exchanges and slaughter were common.
Oracle-grade experts roamed the star sea all year round, so they had naturally heard more or less about the hidden secrets of outer universes.
What Dustin had just displayed was one of the hundred secret arts of the Chaos Humans, the tenth-ranked Great Sacred Art—the Sacred Seal of Revelation.
By combining curse seals with techniques, its power could shift through countless variations, profound and endlessly mysterious.
Dustin had relied on only one of its transformations to casually neutralize the joint assault of five nine-star experts.
Although the spectators had received Chanelle’s explanation, they were still somewhat dazed.
"In the Lord’s name, that Dustin is absurdly powerful."
"To hold the upper hand while fighting five alone... with strength like that, even Oracle-grade experts would have to look at him differently!"
"What kind of joke is this... Is our universe really going to bow before an outsider today?"
"What are you panicking for? Didn’t you see that Harris still hasn’t made a move? Besides, Faustus is still sitting there steadily. He’s our final trump card."
"That’s right. Even if Dustin has heaven-piercing, earth-shaking ability, he may not be able to cross those two hurdles."
"Just watch calmly. The outcome still hasn’t been decided."
The spectators forced themselves to sound confident, but in their hearts, they were gradually losing certainty.
At first, they had not known Dustin’s true depth. The ignorant were fearless.
But now that they had personally witnessed those ghostly, unfathomable methods, they had no choice but to believe it.
This man was a genuine prodigy through and through!
...
Arena One.
"Your sword..."
Dustin grinned, his gaze landing on Silas, who had managed to steady himself in the distance.
"Forget it. I’ll open your eyes and let you witness the sword array of the Chaos Humans!"
He suddenly waved his hand, flinging out a beam of light, which split into four in the blink of an eye.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Four cold, gleaming longswords hovered in the void, sealing off the entire surrounding space completely.
At the same time, Dustin’s fingers changed rapidly, continuously forming sacred seals.
Buzz!
A complex sword array diagram shot into the sky from his body, swiftly spreading across the firmament and resonating with the four longswords from afar.
All of this happened in the time it took to snap a finger.
"Not good! It’s a sword array!"
James’s face turned pale.
"Dangerous."
Mosi coldly spat out a single word.
"Attack together!"
Igor gritted his teeth and charged toward Dustin, with Cold Star following closely behind.
"Chaos Humans..."
Silas felt that entirely different sword intent, and his mind shook violently. Not daring to wait any longer, he raised his sword again and stabbed toward Dustin.
"Ring of Protection!"
James shouted loudly. Countless golden rings of light surged out from his body, firmly protecting him.
At the same time, Silas, Igor, Cold Star, and Mosi were also covered in a layer of golden light.
"We can’t wait any longer."
Harris and Udi exchanged a glance, then disappeared from where they stood at the same time with tacit understanding.
The corners of Dustin’s mouth slowly rose, forming a faint arc.
"This sword array is called the Micro-Energy Judgment Sword Array."
"Activate!"
The sword array thunderously came to life!
Countless sharp and peerless sword lights poured down like a violent storm, filling the entire space.
Those sword lights were incomparably sharp, as if they could cut apart all things in the world.
James and the other four experts were trapped within the sword array, as though standing naked in a bitter, freezing wind.
The only difference was that this "freezing wind" could kill them!
Even Igor, who possessed top-grade Constitution and specialized in extreme close-combat techniques, was cut with countless tiny wounds across his body when facing the all-pervasive sword light.
Although James’s Ring of Protection was resilient, it rapidly dimmed under the erosion of the sword light and looked as though it would soon fall apart.
At this point, forget taking the initiative to attack.
Simply staying alive under the sword array was already extremely difficult!
The five nine-star experts suddenly fell into an unprecedented desperate situation.