Lord of Ashes
Chapter 945

Standoff

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As the Black-Bellied Spider Leader bore eighty percent of Saine's firepower, the shock and despair in its heart were beyond the imagination of ordinary creatures.

Its powerful physique and the surface carapace strengthened by the Goddess's blessing were not enough to let the Black-Bellied Spider Leader withstand Saine's relentless bombardment.

Why were the mages of the Wizard World so renowned?

Was it not because the elemental attack methods they wielded had always been known for their sheer power?

Originally, if the battle had relied on swift close-quarters combat, the Black-Bellied Spider Leader and its subordinates would have had a good chance of instantly wresting control of the battle's rhythm into their own hands.

But once the fight truly began, they were the ones led around by Saine.

No matter how powerful Saine's attacks were, there would always be intervals when his magic ceased.

No matter how many Magic Conductors Saine possessed, they would eventually be exhausted or enter an equipment cooldown phase.

That gap was the perfect time for creatures like the Black-Bellied Spider Leader to launch a counterattack.

But what drove the Black-Bellied Spider Leader to despair was that when it finally seized an opportunity and forced its way through Saine's magical attacks to close in before him, Saine showed no sign of panic whatsoever.

The three layers of Elemental Shield covering his body quickly lost two amid the melee. When the Black-Bellied Spider Leader's sharp claws, gleaming with silver energy, finally tore through Saine's final Elemental Shield—

Not only did Saine not retreat, he instead swung a massive flaming hand straight at the Black-Bellied Spider Leader's head!

The Black-Bellied Spider Leader's attack had certainly struck Saine, but Saine's Flame Demon True Body seemed not to have suffered much harm.

Instead, the Black-Bellied Spider Leader's head was scorched by

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