202: Chapter 203 Where did he get his mythical-level skills?

Originally, a flicker of hope had ignited in the hearts of the thirty-one Summoner contestants. Although Gui Wanwan's eerie "Yamas Secret Incantation" had instantly neutralized forty of their core units, at least the remaining fifty-three summons still had a few seconds of invincibility to regroup and organize a counterattack.

However, that flicker of hope lasted less than a second before being utterly crushed by Lilia's ten-minute long "Virgos Protection"!

"This... how is this possible?!"

"Ten minutes of invincibility?! You've got to be joking!"

"How can they have such a broken skill?!"

The mental link instantly erupted into chaos. The faces of all the Summoner contestants became extremely unsightly, and some even had cold sweat seeping from their foreheads. A few seconds of invincibility and ten minutes of invincibility were completely different concepts! The former was a tactical brief respite, while the latter... meant the opponent could do whatever they wanted during that time while their side could only be passively beaten!

"Quick! Try to dispel it!" Hao Qingshan almost roared, his voice carrying an unprecedented urgency. "Otherwise, this ten-minute invincibility period is enough for them to slaughter us dozens of times over!"

Dispel! This was their only hope!

Invincibility states were not absolutely unsolvable. In the world of Summoners, any buff, including invincibility, could theoretically be removed by a higher-grade dispel skill. Of course, the success rate of a dispel depended on several key factors:

First, the grade of the dispel skill must be at least no lower than the grade of the target buff skill. For example, to dispel a king grade invincibility skill, the dispel skill must at least be king grade, and the success rate would be very low; if the dispel skill was three grades higher than the target buff skill, success was guaranteed.

Secondly, the caster's attributes would also affect the dispel probability. The higher the Spirit attribute, the greater the bonus to dispel-type skills.

Finally, skill effects attached to certain special talents were almost impossible to dispel by conventional means.

"I have a legendary-grade dispel!"

"I do too!"

"Go! Cast them together!"

The remaining Summoners reacted extremely quickly. Almost the instant Hao Qingshan shouted, over ten dispel skills were released from different directions and different summons! These dispel skills took various forms—holy white light, emerald-green natural force, deep blue arcane ripples, and even curse-type dispels with an eerie purple glow... They poured down like a torrential rain toward the three girls floating in the air, vowing to tear apart that golden invincibility barrier!

However...

When the light from all the dispel skills faded, people were shocked to find that the "Virgos Protection" covering the three girls—that golden barrier flowing with a nebula-like radiance—remained perfectly intact, without even a single ripple!

"What's going on?!"

"My legendary-grade dispel was actually ineffective?!"

"Impossible! I released three dispel skills simultaneously—one legendary-grade and two king grade—and they all failed?!"

"Could this invincibility skill of theirs... be mythic grade?!"

"How is that possible?! How old is Lin Muyang? How could he possibly possess a mythic grade skill?!"

Exclamations and doubts rose one after another in the mental link. All the Summoner contestants fell into a brief state of confusion and disbelief. mythic grade skills were treasures that even many Nation-Guarding Level Experts dreamed of! Usually, they only had a tiny probability of dropping after defeating the final boss in the highest difficulty mythical-rank secret realms. How could Lin Muyang, a young man who had just reached adulthood, possess a skill of this level?

But the facts before them forced them to face a terrifying reality—an "invincibility" that could simultaneously ignore so many legendary-grade dispel skills likely truly touched the domain of myths!

In the gap while they were shocked, confused, and even somewhat desperate, the Succubus Maiden Elabess, who had yet to make a move, finally acted. A hint of playfulness flashed in her violet eyes, and her red lips curled slightly, revealing a charming smile enough to make any male creature's heart race. Her slender fingers lifted gently, and the staff inlaid with dark purple gems in her hand elegantly traced an arc.

"Darkness Exorcism."

She whispered softly, her voice so soft it reached one's bones, yet carrying an irresistible authority.

Buzz—!

A black light wave as deep as the night suddenly expanded with her as the center! Wherever the light wave passed, the space seemed to be stained by some supreme law of darkness, creating ripples. This was exactly the mythic grade dispel and control skill Elabess mastered—Darkness Exorcism!

If the dispel skills released by the Summoners earlier were trickling streams, then this "Darkness Exorcism" from Elabess was a monstrous tsunami! Under the attribute bonuses from Lin Muyang and Elabess's own terrifying Spirit attribute, the power of this skill was amplified to the extreme.

The black light wave swept across the battlefield, and the invincibility barriers, shields, and buffs covering the remaining summons shattered and dissipated like bubbles in the sunlight! Even some passive defensive skills carried by the summons themselves were forcibly suppressed and temporarily disabled!

"Not good!"

"Our invincibility has been dispelled!"

"This... this dispel intensity... is definitely mythic grade!"

The Summoners' expressions changed drastically. They finally realized a terrifying fact—Lin Muyang's side not only had invincibility but also had the means to dispel their invincibility! Meanwhile, they were helpless against the opponent's invincibility! This unequal skill suppression caused the battle situation to instantly present a one-sided trend.

However, the even more terrifying part was yet to come.

"Black Hole Vortex."

Elabess's red lips parted slightly as she waved her staff again. This time, she released her signature Origin Skill—the Black Hole Vortex, which had been strengthened many times and had now reached Level 20!

Boom—!

Above the battlefield, space suddenly distorted! A pitch-black vortex over ten meters in diameter appeared out of thin air, like the most terrifying celestial body in the universe descending upon the mortal world! The center of the vortex was pure darkness that even light could not escape, while the edges were surrounded by violent dark purple energy turbulence. Terrifying suction erupted instantly, pulling everything within a range of dozens of meters toward the center!

"Careful!"

"Quick, activate Magic Immunity!"

"Shields! Shields!"

The Summoners responded hastily. Some quick-reacting summons immediately activated magic immunity skills or propped up shields, trying to resist this terrifying suction and damage. However, they soon discovered in despair that the damage of this Black Hole Vortex far exceeded their estimates!

At Level 20, with Elabess's ultra-high magic attack and Spirit attribute bonuses, the power of the Black Hole Vortex had reached an inconceivable level. Even more frightening was that after reaching this level, the Black Hole Vortex possessed the terrifying trait of "Ignoring Magic Immunity"!

Pop! Pop! Pop!

Crisp sounds rang out one after another. Those agile-type and weak-defense summons were torn to shreds by the violent dark energy almost the moment they touched the edge of the Black Hole Vortex! Even the thick-skinned tank-type units were battered by the continuous suction, their health bars dropping at a rate visible to the naked eye!

"Elemental Annihilation!"

At the critical moment, Zhao Man's calm voice rang out. The seductive Thousand-Year Snake Demon under her command suddenly looked up and formed hand seals. A brilliant seven-colored radiance erupted from her palm, shooting straight toward the Black Hole Vortex in the sky! This was Zhao Man's trump card mythic grade skill—Elemental Annihilation! It could eliminate most elemental spell effects and was considered a divine skill when facing mages.

The seven-colored radiance collided with the Black Hole Vortex, erupting into a blinding energy turbulence. Somewhat comfortingly, that terrifying Black Hole Vortex was indeed weakened slightly; its range shrank by nearly a third, and the suction force also diminished.

"It's working!" Zhao Man felt a surge of joy, but before it could spread, it froze on her face. To her horror, she found that her Elemental Annihilation actually failed to completely eliminate the Black Hole Vortex! Although the pitch-black vortex had shrunk, the darkness at its core was even more condensed, as if even the energy of "Elemental Annihilation" had been partially devoured by it!

"This... this is impossible!" Zhao Man's pupils shrank, her voice carrying undisguised shock. "My Elemental Annihilation is a mythic grade skill! It actually failed to completely eliminate her skill?! Could it be that her skill... is also mythic grade?! No, that's not right, it feels more like... an Origin Skill?! But how could an Origin Skill have this kind of power?!"

Just as she was filled with suspicion and uncertainty, the spell shield on the Thousand-Year Snake Demon became precarious under the continuous erosion of the Black Hole Vortex. Zhao Man immediately ordered: "Quick! Add another layer of shield!"

However, it was too late.

"Shadow Erosion."

Elabess seemed to have anticipated this scene long ago. The corners of her mouth curled into a dangerous arc as she lightly tapped her staff. A surge of dark energy, even more condensed and pure than the Black Hole Vortex, suddenly erupted! This energy, like a living venomous snake, instantly split into dozens of strands, precisely hitting all the remaining summons in the field that were still resisting the Black Hole Vortex!

This was exactly another of Elabess's Origin Skills—Shadow Erosion! An ultra-high damage single-target continuous output skill. But under the bonus of Lin Muyang's [Super Splitting] Aura, this skill that should have been single-target directly became an area-of-effect attack!

Sizzle—!

The dark energy invaded the bodies of those summons like a maggot on a bone, beginning to disintegrate their vitality from within. The Thousand-Year Snake Demon's spell shield was like paper before this energy, shattering instantly! The dark energy flooded into her seductive body, causing her to let out a painful hiss!

"No—!"

Zhao Man watched helplessly as her strongest summon rapidly withered under the Shadow Erosion, her health bar dropping at a terrifying speed, yet she was powerless. The situation for the other Summoners was equally bad, if not worse. Those summons that were already struggling in the Black Hole Vortex were killed almost instantly after being hit by Shadow Erosion!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

One summon corpse after another fell from the sky, crashing onto the lake surface and splashing huge amounts of water. In just a few seconds, the massive team that originally had fifty-three summons left plummeted to fewer than twenty! Moreover, they were all core units barely surviving by relying on various life-saving skills, and their statuses were all precarious.