Chapter 301: Final Judgment, The Burning Demon King
Phantom Blade: Active Skill, Template Skill. The Black Angel Niloan Jero dislikes using firearms, but due to his need for ranged attacks, he developed swords made of magical phantoms as his primary ranged attack method. These can be used for throwing and spinning defense, and can even create a binding effect on targets as needed.
You can directly create Phantom Blades by consuming magic power. You can generate up to 7 Phantom Blades in 1 second. These can be used for single shots or volleys. Each Phantom Blade deals magic damage equal to your Spirit attribute. Each Phantom Blade consumes 2 MP. You can only create a maximum of 7 Phantom Blades simultaneously.
When there are 7 Phantom Blades on the field, you can form them into a Sword Array to bind and strike targets. If the target is within the Sword Array when the blades descend, the target will be bound for a maximum of 7 seconds.
You can use Phantom Blades as a "Sword Array Shield" to rotate around yourself, dealing physical damage to the surroundings and simultaneously deflecting projectiles, as well as probabilistically parrying melee attacks. In this state, Phantom Blades will not disappear, but will consume MP equal to the number of Phantom Blades * 2 per second.
You can create Phantom Blades using your currently held sword-type weapon as a template. The created Phantom Blades will retain all attributes and effects of the template, and will be granted the "Throwable" attribute. When attacking a target, there is a chance to trigger the weapon's additional skill, and it will not affect the cooldown of the main body's skills. The higher the rarity of the chosen sword-type weapon, the higher the MP cost required to create the corresponding Phantom Blade, with a base cost of 5 MP. (Special equipment "Arthur's Proof" linkage)
You have currently selected "Black Dragon Sword" as the Phantom Blade template. As it is a reversed template armament, the MP consumption remains unchanged, still 5 MP.
Additional Comment: POWER!!!!!
Cheng Tian, currently in his Black Angel form, maintained his Trinity state with the Twin Goddesses.
Although it looked somewhat bizarre, Cheng Tian was still able to use all the abilities of his Vengeful Angel transformation, including Red Moon Ritual and Azure Moon Order.
Due to his wings being completely blackened, the colors were not obvious when activating abilities; only a red glow, similar to a Dragon Ball aura, emerged from his left wing.
The Red Moon Ritual activated, and the skill it granted Cheng Tian was "Demonic Burst" from Yogg Fakt.
In the original work, Yogg, guided by Dalles, willingly accepted the enhancement of the demon factor and gained Demonic Burst, a higher-tier ability than Magic Burst. In this state, the number of Fakt Eyes would increase from 2 to 6.
Cheng Tian's current Black Angel form inherently possessed demonic bloodline, making his demonic state normalized, equivalent to a permanent demonization or oni-fication. Thus, Cheng Tian's Crystal Demon Eyes appeared as 4 from the start.
And by stacking Yogg's Demonic Burst on top of this form, the number of Crystal Demon Eyes instantly surpassed Yogg's, and even his biological father Cain Fakt's, manipulation limit, reaching a staggering 8.
Coupled with Cheng Tian's own casting ability, this was equivalent to directly gaining 9-fold casting ability.
Of course, there was still a "ranged attack" limitation here.
Eight crystals, nine-fold casting, a total of 63 Phantom Blades modeled after the Black Dragon Sword directly surrounded the Black Pearl.
Under the Demon King Damm's almost desperate gaze, Cheng Tian waved his hand, and all the Phantom Black Dragon Swords shot towards the Black Pearl!
I wonder if anyone played with toothpicks or sewing needles poking yarn balls as a child; the Black Pearl now looked exactly like that.
63 Phantom Black Dragon Swords almost simultaneously stabbed into the Black Pearl.
But before Demon King Damm could even cry out in pain, all 63 Phantom Black Dragon Swords exploded on the spot. These bursting phantom blades immediately split into 7 small flying swords driven by demonic flames!
Because the reversed template was the Blazing Dragon Sword, the Black Dragon Sword, aside from its elemental attribute being transformed into blue demonic flames, still retained the attributes of the Blazing Dragon Sword. The appearance of these flying swords was clearly the effect of the Blazing Array.
And the Phantom Blade, linked to the Arthur template from Cheng Tian's strawberry underwear, perfectly inherited the Black Dragon Sword's special effects when thrown. Thus, a total of 441 small Black Dragon flying swords were directly generated!
All the small flying swords began to shuttle at high speed, targeting the Black Pearl!
Demon King Damm, who was frantically trying to defend, immediately began to twitch, his face filled with extreme pain!
The reason was that every 7 strikes from the small flying swords caused a fixed, forced action interruption, which prevented Demon King Damm from ever speeding up.
Accompanying the frantic output of the 63 sword arrays, Demon King Damm's HP plummeted like a leaking bottle of wine.
Due to the template reversal, Cheng Tian forgot to re-apply the "Vengeance" mark to Demon King Damm, which meant he missed out on the 3x Demonic Flame Damage BUFF, but it no longer mattered.
First, the flying attack of 63 Black Dragon Swords dealt a cumulative 63 * 50 = 3150 damage.
Yes, Cheng Tian temporarily adjusted his attributes back from extreme Agility to extreme Spirit, maximizing the flying sword damage.
And after all Phantom Blades triggered the Blazing Array, 441 small flying swords continuously dealt 11025 damage to the Black Pearl.
The two strikes cumulatively dealt 14175 damage.
Demon King Damm's HP, which was over ten thousand, instantly plummeted to only 65 points remaining.
Truly on his last sliver of health.
However, after all the strikes from the Blazing Array were completed, a "Black Dragon Entanglement" DEBUFF still lingered above Demon King Damm's head.
This DEBUFF was simple: it would deal 10 points of demonic flame damage per second to the target, for a cumulative total of 7 seconds... "Do you have any last words?"
Cheng Tian turned around and asked Demon King Damm, who was only left with his upper body and had stopped charging forward.
"As long as the Root of Evil exists, as long as there are negative emotions from humans in this world, I will have a chance to rise again!"
Facing Cheng Tian's question, Demon King Damm's twisted face was full of unwillingness and threats.
And just as he said, if the Root of Evil was not destroyed, Demon King Damm would not die.
"Oh, I forgot about that."
Cheng Tian, hearing Damm's reply, was momentarily stunned, then clapped his hand. As Demon King Damm's life countdown reached 3 seconds, he reached up and removed his mask.
Unlike when he was the Ghost Rider, Cheng Tian's face at this moment had returned to its proper appearance.
And this was also the first time Cain Fakt, the main personality within Demon King Damm, truly saw Cheng Tian's true face.
But it was this almost instinctive reaction that made him meet Cheng Tian's gaze.
"Look into my eyes!"
In Cheng Tian's ink-black eye sockets, demonic flames, hellfire, and heavenly holy fire burned simultaneously, like a vortex with endless gravitational pull, drawing Damm's mind and soul into it.
The next second, Demon King Damm's HP percentage began to surge... No, it was his HP limit that was rapidly burning away like a lit fuse.
Until the entire HP bar, along with the final 10 points of demonic flame damage caused by Black Dragon Entanglement, vanished.
Demon King Damm's massive body, and the Black Pearl, the divine artifact replica containing the shattered Root of Evil hidden in Cheng Tian's hand, both scattered with the wind.
Demon King Damm, burned to ashes!