"Ultimate Shield!"
When Alyon's words ended, the Five Roots raised their staffs in the air and released their technique surrounding the orcs around them.
"Let's wipe out these little bugs!"
Alyon had long dropped his Noyla disguise; the hulking Orc Chief, in all his glory, was marching upon the enemies in front of the Elite Ten.
"Seventh and Fifth Fiends. Go and wipe out those filthy orcs!"
Behind Eyshan, who sent two of her guards upon the newly appearing enemy, only three people were left; the surroundings of the Queen of Hell were thinning out. At the same time, the battle of the Sheikhs had reached a critical point; Hueso and Atractivo were in a tight spot.
"You were strutting around all high and mighty, you were saying all of you against just me, right?"
"Fuego, stop talking and attack!"
The Sheikhs of the Holy Fire and Holy Ice sects had cornered Atractivo; they weren't holding back from reminding him of his previous insults either.
"It must be very hard for you to hide your power just for this moment, but I'm still alive, you are the ones who are going to die!"
The Handsome Sheikh wanted to catch the two Sheikhs off guard by sending his attack to various spatial voids, but they had covered their bodies with the elements whose energies they commanded. Without letting their guard down, they engaged in a war of attrition using their numerical superiority.
"My friend, don't you dare die!"
Atractivo called out to the Holy Bone Sect Sheikh without taking his eyes off the enemy; he wasn't doing too badly himself. The Holy Earth Sheikh, contrary to his previously weak appearance, was the side dominating the battle.
"A lot has changed while you were underground, we've developed quite a bit thanks to the spoils of your pillaged lands!"
"Treacherous pig! So you've stooped so low as to ally yourselves with another continent!"
"Look who's talking! It's as if the orcs who are about to be killed by my disciples are disciples of your sect!"
The Holy Earth Sheikh couldn't see what was happening due to the heat of the battle, but what was happening was progressing in the exact opposite direction of his expectation. The Elite Ten, having gained their protective shield, were tearing the combined disciples of the four sects to pieces one by one.
"When the Blood Dome breaks, your granddaughter and those other bugs will join them, and you won't be able to do a thing. We will settle the score for what was done centuries ago!"
For the Sheikh blinded by revenge, the grand plan didn't matter; it was enough to extinguish the fire that had been scorching them inside for generations. He wasn't imagining things; the Blood Dome was under siege, and Eyshan was planning to speed up its destruction.
"Use the War Machines!"
The disciples receiving the order surrounded the four sides of the blood dome with war machines within ten breaths; the siege had no blind spots.
"Attack!"
When the first wave hit the shield, Jashua was shaken; because of his technique, the structure he became one with was taking a heavy blow. Nafız stopped her attack and channeled her energy into the shield; otherwise, Jashua's body and energy could take heavy damage.
They took ten attacks like this; both of them were extremely worn out, and the blood overflowing from Jashua's mouth was streaming down his chin to his neck.
"Lareina, how much more time do you need!"
"Not much, it'll be done in a hundred breaths!"
Dozens of papers lay spread out on the ground inside the dome, and the young girl was busy drawing symbols on new ones like the wind. How could she act slowly while the man she loved was suffering to protect them? Every second she was late, Jashua was taking blow after blow.
"Hurry up, I'll buy you some time!"
Pulling her hands from the shield, Nafız grabbed her bow and initiated an effective area attack.
"Rain of Arrows!"
The enemy was expecting this; they managed to protect themselves by activating their shields.
"These are their final struggles!"
"In a moment, blood will flow not from your mouth, but from every hole in your body!"
The two disciples spoke arrogantly when the energy fluctuations ended, but their voices suddenly cut off as they were finishing their words. The person who had just rained down arrows was right in front of them, and the daggers in her hand were about to touch their throats.
"Nora, get inside the dome!"
By the time Atractivo realized who had stepped out of her technique, it was too late, but the real mistake would be breaking his concentration while fighting two enemies. When the Fire Whip and Ice Spear struck his body, the only thing that would protect him was his Blood Armor, which shattered and vanished.
"It's the end of the road Atractivo!"
Fuego quickly shot forward. She swung her whips, which she gripped tightly with both hands, to carve permanent marks into Atractivo's body. She swung them alright, but she had to jerk her head back at the last moment, or the blood-red arrow passing in front of her would have gone in one ear and out the other.
"You talk too much, bitch!"
The owner of the attack was none other than Nafız; ignoring the enemies attacking the Blood Dome she created, she had saved the Sheikh. When Atractivo turned his head and saw his disciple in Nora disguise, he gritted his teeth; his life was being saved by a little girl.
"How much longer are you going to hide?"
When the voice echoed across the battlefield, everyone heard Atractivo; who was the Holy Blood Sect Sheikh calling out to?
"It's finished, everything is ready!"
A breath later Lareina also shouted; she had taken care of all the talisman papers she needed to create.
"Don't wait, move them here!"
When Nafız ordered, the young girl clasped her two hands in front of her face. While her fingers pointed to the sky, she muttered a few words and then blew her breath onto the talismans on the ground.
"Finally!"
"We were able to come out to the outside world!"
"The Divine Summoner is reborn!"
"Fall in line!"
"Take battle formation!"
There were shadows shooting out from inside the talismans, and these could speak just like humans. A hundred talismans turned to ash; a hundred people they had never seen before appeared inside the Blood Dome. As Jashua and Lareina examined the appearing people, they recognized the duo standing in the front. They were the young boy who wanted to bully them inside the library and the girl who came later and stopped him.
"Atractivo, did you summon me!"
The surprises didn't end there. A hunched-over old man was walking with difficulty with his cane in his hand, but the interesting part was that the place he was walking on was the sky.
"I summoned you, you shameless bastard, are you shamelessly asking me that?"
The Holy Blood Sect Sheikh was foaming at the mouth as he shouted at the appearing old man; it was obvious he didn't like the person he was talking to very much.
"If you ask me, I'm not the one you summoned, you want Anticuado!"
When the old man waved his hand, a person stepped out from the crack that formed in the air. The Library Guardian of the Holy Blood Sect was appearing next to him.
"You are ill-mannered as always, Atractivo!"
Anticuado, looking the Sheikh up and down with a harsh glare, snapped at him in a rude tone.
"And despite everything, you are on the side of that scum, like a loyal guard dog!"
The Sheikh, who spat at the end of his words, was angry; the unfolding events were so striking that even the two Sheikhs who attacked him a moment ago had frozen in place.
"You're talking nonsense, we are both beings born from his soul!"
"The two of us? Once we were a single being, our glory shook the earth and sky, but what happened? That guy calling himself a Sheikh, this monument to weakness, let that whore split us in two, and while he was in a state where he could have killed them all single-handedly."
"You speak without thinking, without knowing anything, and by your nature, you will always be like this. No matter what, you are my other half, I have to come to your aid!"
Anticuado left the old man's side and appeared right in front of Atractivo. The long-bearded Sheikh, leaning on his cane, watched the two of them for a while; the tears slowly streaming from his eyes were not something to be missed.
Right after, he changed the direction of his gaze; his target was those inside the Blood Dome.
"Holy Blood Sect Disciples, greet your sheikh!"
Even though his body and aura smelled of death, his voice was enough to make the massive garden ring; the hundred people shooting out of the talismans were carefully listening to what he said.
Those who saw the scene expected them to bow and greet him, but that didn't happen. The hundred people turned and dropped on one knee in front of the Second Elder.
"Holy Blood Sect Sheikh Aspero, we are at your command!"
Even though those shooting out of the talisman looked between his two lips for him to say something, the Second Elder was in shock.
"Sir, sir this is you!"
His gaze was on the old man in the sky, and the old man was watching him too.
"Aspero, stop crying. It doesn't suit you at all!"