87: Chapter 87 Anti-Elemental Shield

Ronan kept his Spiritual Domain active the entire time.

When Director Dick looked at Arabella, a flicker of resentment and greed flashed in his eyes, which he immediately concealed.

Ronan clearly perceived this scene.

Therefore, when he ran up pretending to help, Ronan was already on guard and immediately jumped away.

Seeing him jump away, the corners of Director Dick's mouth couldn't help but curl up as he sneered, "It's too late to run now."

As expected, Ronan immediately felt himself being locked onto by a strange Spiritual Power.

Next, an invisible sense of restraint washed over him, making his externalized Spiritual Power feel as if it had been placed in shackles.

These shackles continued to contract, tightening their hold on Ronan's externalized Spiritual Power.

Startled, he immediately withdrew all his externalized Spiritual Power, and the Spiritual Domain vanished in an instant.

However, instead of disappearing after losing its target, the shackles accelerated their contraction and surged toward his mind.

This was exactly the effect Ronan wanted.

As the shackles attacked his mind, instead of using Spiritual Power for defense, he began to condense dangerous energy at his fingertips.

Seeing this, the disdain in Director Dick's eyes grew even stronger.

In his view, Ronan simply couldn't break through the "Spiritual Cage" and was planning to use a mutually destructive tactic to force him to abandon the attack.

"I don't believe you'd actually dare to ignore your mental defense and choose to trade blows with me!"

Director Dick smiled confidently and planted his wand on the ground, instantly generating a completely transparent shield.

At the same time, the "Scorching Ray" in Ronan's hand was ready to fire.

It seemed as if he had abandoned his mental defense, but it was actually intentional.

Although he could have broken through those shackles by focusing his Spiritual Power for a full-force impact, it would have inevitably caused some depletion.

It was better to just withdraw the Spiritual Power to save on consumption.

After all, his battle of attrition with the Blood Duke wasn't over yet.

Just a moment before the shackles of the "Spiritual Cage" invaded Ronan's mind, they closed together and transformed into the shape of a spike.

Director Dick hadn't expected the other party would actually dare to let the "Spiritual Cage" invade his brain.

For a moment, he couldn't tell if Ronan truly didn't understand or if he was just hopelessly stupid.

Since the opponent was seeking death, he couldn't be blamed.

"Die!" Director Dick shouted as if venting his anger.

He manipulated the spike formed by the "Spiritual Cage" with all his might, plunging it into Ronan's mind.

The next second.

The spike formed by the "Spiritual Cage" was easily suppressed by the Godhead and crushed into nothingness.

At the same time.

Ronan's Spiritual Power rapidly surged outward, and the Spiritual Domain expanded instantly.

With the auxiliary locking of the Spiritual Domain, he unhesitatingly poured out the energy condensed at his fingertips.

A thick, blazing pillar of light immediately blasted toward the surprised Director Dick.

How could he be fine?

Director Dick was in disbelief, but he quickly snapped out of it and surged his Spiritual Power into the wand in his hand.

The light from the special gem at the top of the wand intensified, coating the completely transparent shield with a thin halo.

When the "Scorching Ray" struck the shield in front of Director Dick, it actually only pushed him back a few steps without creating any ripples.

The shield fully withstood the Ray's attack without any visible depletion, though its transparency decreased slightly.

"Anti-Elemental Shield, specifically designed to counter single-element attacks."

Director Dick breathed a sigh of relief and said smugly, "I didn't expect you to be able to ignore the attack of the 'Spiritual Cage.' It seems your mentor gave you quite a few good things—"

"However, as a Mentalist, going off to learn elemental magic is simply a disgrace to your mentor."

Seeing that Ronan's attacks posed no threat to him, Director Dick began to mock him relentlessly.

Ronan had no idea what profession the "Mentalist" he mentioned was; he guessed it might be related to being a spiritual-type mage.

It was likely that during their previous confrontation, Director Dick had misunderstood Ronan's identity because his Spiritual Power was far higher than that of an ordinary person.

But it didn't matter; the enemy's misunderstanding was a factor that worked in his favor.

From Director Dick's words, Ronan learned that there was a transparent "Anti-Elemental Shield" in front of him that could counter single-element attacks.

In Ronan's eyes, the word "single" here was worth examining closely.

He immediately condensed an Elemental Ice Arrow in his palm and, with a flick of his wrist, shot it toward the shield.

Clang.

The Elemental Ice Arrow hit the shield, the impact producing a crisp sound.

Neither the Ice Arrow's elemental damage nor its freezing effect had any impact.

From this, it seemed that the "Anti-Elemental Shield" had a strong countering effect against elemental attacks, but its defense against physical attacks was mediocre.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have made a sound upon being struck by the Ice Arrow.

"Humph, you think switching to a different elemental attack will work?" Director Dick said with eyes full of disdain.

Ronan understood that "single" likely meant it could defend against any one type of elemental attack within a short period.

However, just how short that "short period" was remained for him to verify.

Ronan condensed another Ice Arrow and fired it rapidly at Director Dick.

The moment the arrow left his hand, he followed up with a Ray at the fastest possible speed.

The two attacks, one after the other, struck the shield in front of Director Dick.

But they still achieved nothing.

Not only that, but the hastily fired Ray was weaker than before, failing to even reduce the shield's transparency.

"Black Day, it seems you are even stupider than I imagined."

Seeing Ronan's fruitless attempts, Director Dick felt victory was certain and became quite talkative.

"If you hadn't accidentally stumbled upon my plans and then publicly humiliated me later, I wouldn't have easily raised a hand against a fellow spiritual-type mage like you."

"What plans of yours?" Ronan asked.

"Once the effect of the rune stone kicks in, it follows instinct to find the nearest member of the opposite sex for a passionate encounter—"

Director Dick chuckled wickedly, "She only uses the rune stone when the President is away—and I am the only male in the Secretariat."

"I waited so long and deliberately had Lena swap the rune stone, only for you to reap the benefits."

He said with a face full of indignation, "Don't think I don't know. You didn't do anything in the President's Office, but looking at your state afterward, it was obvious—"

Before Director Dick could finish, a Ray even thicker than before blasted against the "Anti-Elemental Shield."

The shield fully defended against it, though its transparency decreased.

However, the shield's ability to weaken the massive kinetic energy of the Ray was limited.

This caused Director Dick to involuntarily take a few more steps back.

"I thought you were having an affair with a subordinate, and Arabella accidentally took your sex toy by mistake—"

"Turns out your situation is even worse; it was premeditated."

Ronan spoke calmly, "It seems that even if I kill you, the President likely won't punish me."

After saying that, he fired another "Scorching Ray" from his hand.

This time, the Ray's intensity was even thicker than the last one, carrying even greater kinetic energy.

The attack landed on the "Anti-Elemental Shield," causing its transparency to drop significantly and its visibility to decrease sharply.

It forced Director Dick to retreat a great distance once again.

Just as he was about to counterattack, another equally thick Ray blasted over, smashing him backward again.

Although Director Dick hadn't sustained any damage so far, he felt increasingly frustrated.

"No matter how much you attack, it's useless. Don't forget, I'm not the only one here."

From Director Dick's perspective, a blood-red figure had already condensed not far behind Ronan.

At this moment.

The Blood Duke, who was originally in Director Dick's direction, had actually slipped behind Ronan while he had withdrawn his Spiritual Domain.

It had to be said that the Blood Duke's ability to seize opportunities was superb.

He deliberately slowed his regeneration speed, striving not to be discovered by Ronan.

Director Dick pointing out the key factor now was clearly an attempt to use the Blood Duke to slow down Ronan's offensive rhythm.

However, neither of them obviously understood Ronan's optimized Spiritual Domain.

All of this had long been within the perception of the Spiritual Domain.

The Blood Duke slowing down his regeneration speed suited him perfectly.

Ronan pretended not to see, primarily intending to deal with Director Dick first.

With a series of Ray blasts, Director Dick had already been pushed back to a great distance.

Seeing that Ronan was completely unmoved, he maintained the "Anti-Elemental Shield" while launching a Spiritual Power counterattack.

His wand already had the effect of enhancing Spiritual Power, and with the special gem embedded at the top, it could double that enhancement.

If he had brought out this equipment back at the Secretariat, it would be unknown who would have won the mental contest between him and Ronan.

At this moment, Director Dick manipulated his externalized Spiritual Power to rotate rapidly, forming a spinning spike that charged straight at Ronan.

Seeing this, Ronan was suddenly delighted.

He wasn't worried about Director Dick's Spiritual Power attack; instead, he was very interested in his technique of maintaining a shield while simultaneously controlling Spiritual Power to attack.

How did he manage to multi-thread?

Filled with doubt, Ronan began a meticulous observation.

With the Godhead presiding, Director Dick's mental attacks couldn't cause any damage at all.

As expected, Director Dick's spiritual spike didn't cause a single ripple.

"Fine, fine, relying on the things your mentor gave you—"

Director Dick gritted his teeth and simply gave up on the mental attack, pulling another gem from his robe.

The shape and color of this gem were identical to the special gem at the top of the wand.

Then, he leveled his wand and let the two gems touch.

A bright, dazzling green light flashed, and the two gems merged completely into one large, dimly glowing gem.

After the large gem was formed, the "Anti-Elemental Shield" immediately returned to a transparent state, as if all its damage had been repaired.

Ronan discovered that the kinetic energy of the "Scorching Ray" was starting to struggle to push Director Dick back.

He understood that this was the opponent strengthening the shield.

Now, as long as it was a single-attribute elemental attack, it basically couldn't affect him, and even the accompanying physical kinetic energy was no exception.

Ronan shook his head and sighed somewhat helplessly.

Director Dick's multi-threading technique just now had given him a lot of inspiration.

He had wanted to observe a little longer, but it seemed there was no chance now.

He measured the distance to Director Dick with his eyes and thought to himself, "This distance should be enough—"

Ronan reached into his storage pouch and pulled out a crystal ball, with violent elemental energy churning inside it.