Ye Meng turned his head with lingering fear, his furious gaze locked tightly onto an old man five hundred meters away.
The old man wore a half-enclosed helmet mottled blue and green. Green? That was right—green! The helmet's design was fairly imposing, but its color utterly ruined the look. The hair and beard showing beneath it were completely gray-white, and coupled with the layers of wrinkles covering his face, he looked like a man in his nineties, practically one foot in the grave.
Though he looked ancient, his sharp, spirited eyes shone as brightly as stars! He wore a suit of heavy armor utterly unsuited to his frame. The armor and helmet at least matched somewhat in style, but beneath the armor he wore an Alvin high-grade combat suit. The helmet and heavy armor were standard warrior equipment, yet the old man held a black staff in his hand!
It was like wearing a suit and tie while carrying slippers and balancing a pot lid on his head—utterly mismatched and absurd.
Yet this very old man immediately sparked unprecedented cheers among the Alvin Military's soldiers!
"Th-this is Patriarch Darcy? How did he appear on the battlefield? I didn't even see an afterimage..."
"What the hell could you see? Hahaha! Patriarch Darcy is Alvin's strongest expert, a 3S-rank ability user known as the Energy Conductor! He can draw upon energy of any attribute and inscribe magic arrays onto equipment. He himself doesn't have many offensive methods, but the equipment he enchants is the finest among divine artifacts! Do you see those boots on his feet?"
"He's too far away. I can't see them clearly. Do those boots have tiny wings?"
"That's right! Those are the famous Dragon Soaring Boots. They're divine artifacts to begin with, and after being enchanted by the