"We need to end this quickly. I can't let him capitalize on his advantage in the soul."
Having realized this, Roland knew he could not hold back in this battle. Otherwise, he might really suffer a humiliating defeat.
Simon saw that Roland had not been greatly affected. His speed had merely been reduced by half.
Simon was not surprised by this. From Roland's earlier attacks, he had already guessed that his opponent's strength had likely reached the threshold of a Seven-Star Fiend.
Now, it had merely been confirmed.
Seeing his opponent charging at him so aggressively, Simon did not dare act arrogantly. The Ice Mist Battle Armor and Wall of Illusion, both improved several times over, instantly took shape.
Then, holding the Wind-Annihilation Divine Sword, Simon unleashed 365 Divine Power Azure Dragons. His single-target binding ultimate move, Ice-Wind Prison, struck the charging Roland.
"Damn it, another binding-type ultimate move."
"I hate moves like this!"
Roland cursed furiously after being burdened with another layer of restraint.
But he soon could not curse anymore.
To his horror, he discovered that although the later binding move covered a much smaller area, its effect on him had been multiplied severalfold.
As a result, even swinging the War Blade in his hand had become extremely difficult.
"This is bad. Things don't look good!"
Roland was alarmed. Although he was almost frozen in place, the divine power and Profound Mysteries within his body could still circulate normally.
He hurriedly used the material defense ultimate move he had painstakingly researched for tens of thousands of years. In an instant, earth-yellow divine power formed a suit of divine power armor over his body along with special Profound Mystery fluctuations.
At that moment, Simon's material attack ultimate move, Ice-Wind Slash, struck Roland as well.
But what left Simon dumbfounded was that his proud Ice-Wind Slash had failed to even break through the other man's defenses!
Slay!
At this point, Simon was certain that the bandit leader before him had fused at least four Profound Mysteries of the Earth Element: Earth Element, Earth Walk Technique, Strength, and Power of Life.
His defensive ultimate move in particular carried an endless, unceasing quality.
The strongest material attack Simon could unleash after fusing water and wind elements, Ice-Wind Slash, struck Roland's divine power armor, only for it to recover in an instant. It seemed incapable of leaving even the slightest damage behind.
For a moment, Simon was at a loss.
Although Roland was nearly bound in place and unable to move, and the blade lights from his War Blade could not hit Simon—
Simon could not do anything to him for the time being either.
The battle unexpectedly reached a stalemate.
But then Simon remembered that he still had not used his Soul Attack.
His previous battles had all been easily resolved through speed and Ice-Wind Prison.
Simon had rarely used Soul Attacks. Now, he could use Roland, the bandit chief before him, as a test subject.
With that thought, Simon instantly unleashed his Soul Attack ultimate move—Phantom Spear!
This Soul Attack completely fused the Profound Mystery of Roundness and Softness and Mist Illusion, while also containing the Stripping Property.
The trapped Roland saw that Simon had finally used a Soul Attack on him.
Though helpless, he could only brace himself and resist.
He had originally hoped that Simon was not proficient in Soul Attacks. After all, the Law of Wind truly was not particularly impressive in that regard.
But Simon was a Soul Mutator. How could he possibly lack Soul Attacks?
Moreover, the power of Simon's Soul Attack exceeded Roland's expectations.
Hazy, illusory spear shadows surged toward Roland from all directions.
Roland could only circulate the Profound Mystery of Pulse of the Earth with all his strength, forming a soul defense to meet the countless spear shadows.
Simon's Soul Attack was actually rather half-baked as well. Although he had fused Roundness and Softness with Mist Illusion, the Profound Mystery of Roundness and Softness was far weaker offensively than defensively.
Simon had no choice but to use it.
Sure enough, Roland successfully blocked the first wave of spear shadows.
Simon was not discouraged and continued frantically unleashing Phantom Spears at Roland.
Roland was still secretly delighted after successfully blocking them, but then he noticed something was wrong.
Although the spear shadows initially could not break through his soul defense—
As the attacks continued, those spear shadows were actually able to continuously weaken his soul defense!
Upon noticing this, Roland's heart sank to the bottom.
He could only silently grit his teeth and continue circulating the Profound Mystery of Pulse of the Earth for defense.
It was not that Roland did not have other defensive moves. Rather, he had not fused Pulse of the Earth with Power of Life; they were not even compatible!
This caused his soul defense to be extremely weak!
This was also why, despite possessing strength at the threshold of a Seven-Star Fiend, he had yet to leave the bandit group and venture out on his own.
He had originally planned to make Pulse of the Earth compatible with Power of Life, slightly making up for the weakness in his soul defense, before leaving the bandit group and truly making a name for himself.
But fate seemed determined to toy with him. Just as he had fused four Profound Mysteries of the Earth Element and was filled with ambition—
He had run into Simon, who countered him perfectly!
When Simon saw that Phantom Spear was effective—
He was overjoyed. While doing everything in his power to bind Roland, he increased the frequency of his attacks once again.
At this point, Simon had his Wind Element Divine Clone join the attack as well.
Because of the Soul Mutation, Simon's Wind Element Divine Clone could likewise unleash Phantom Spear!
In an instant, the number of hazy spear shadows attacking Roland doubled.
More than ten seconds later, Roland's soul defense was finally weakened to its limit.
As the first spear shadow successfully pierced into Roland's Soul Ocean, it was followed by tens of thousands more.
Under Simon's violent Soul Attack, Roland's Soul Ocean was quickly drowned beneath countless spear shadows.
In only a moment, Roland's soul could no longer hold on and was annihilated beneath Simon's myriad spear shadows.
Thus, the victor had been decided!
Simon had won this battle with difficulty.
He had successfully slain a Seven-Star Fiend-level expert!
When the bandits behind them saw their invincible leader first being bound, then passively enduring attacks, and finally losing his life aura after resisting for just over ten seconds, they initially did not dare believe it.
But when Simon charged over and killed all their other Highgod leaders in just a few moves, they finally came to their senses and fled with strange cries.
Even their chief, who rivaled a Seven-Star Fiend, had been slain. What could they possibly use to resist? Escaping as quickly as possible was the only sensible choice.
When the tree fell, the monkeys scattered.
If they did not flee now, when would they?
After killing all the Highgod bandits, Simon did not continue pursuing the Midgod bandits.
To him, slaughtering those Midgod bandits was no longer of any use, and doing so would diminish the bearing of an expert...
But the other Fiends in the caravan would not let them go.
Seeing the bandits flee, they immediately chased after them.
Simon merely watched their chaotic battle quietly.
Because Simon was overseeing the Fiends' side, the bandits did not dare resist with all their strength and could only desperately flee.
After a long while, all the bandits who could escape had fled, while those who could not had all died.
Napote's team displayed their might once again. Working together, they killed more than a hundred Midgod bandits.
Only after the melee ended and everyone had finished gathering the spoils did they realize what had just happened.
Simon had seemingly killed a Seven-Star Fiend?
A Seven-Star Fiend capable of casually tearing open several meters of Hell's space with a single strike?
Good heavens, that was a Seven-Star Fiend!
And now they were being told that a Midgod had actually slaughtered a Seven-Star Fiend?
Everyone felt that the world had surely gone mad.
They could barely accept Simon killing a Six-Star Fiend before, but what they had just witnessed had completely shattered their understanding.
Although Fanny could tell that Roland's strength was at the bottom among Seven-Star Fiends—
Even if he was at the bottom, he was still a Seven-Star Fiend!
He had fused four Profound Mysteries.
Fanny found it difficult to believe as well.
"Hey, why are you all standing around? Kenchi, hurry up and release the Metal Lifeform so we can continue our journey."
Simon said calmly.
Only then did everyone awaken from their shock. Kenchi hurriedly took out the last Leopard-shaped Metal Lifeform.
Everyone boarded it numbly and continued onward.
Inside the Metal Lifeform, a familiar scene played out once more.
"Simon, are you really a Midgod?"
Napote asked blankly.
"Of course I am. How many times do I have to say it?"
Simon did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Only then did Fanny recover from her shock. After all, she had seen quite a few truly powerful experts.
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