Just like the Yellow Sand Diamondback Snake King back in Sand City, Elementalists gained an extraordinarily powerful period of invincibility shortly after advancing. During that time, their physical strength, speed, toughness, and agility, along with their mental reaction speed, probing ability, acuity, and perception, increased severalfold. A special energy transcending all seven elemental powers also revolved around them. This invisible energy protected those who had advanced, allowing them, even without using elemental power, to become impervious to blades and spears, immune to water and fire, unshaken by mountains and seas, and indestructible beneath heaven and earth-an ultimate, unassailable state.
The only difference was that this period of invincibility varied from one Elementalist to another. For some, it lasted less than a minute; for others, it continued for ten minutes.
"I underestimated this brat." The gleam in Qin Mu's eyes suggested that he was still recalling the scene from over a year ago, when his group had captured this Viking hiding in the mountains.
It had happened on an unnamed hill in the Looking-Back Mountains. The Viking monster and a deserter from the Qin Kingdom Army had built a spacious wooden house there, spending their days farming, fishing, tending vegetables, and watering flowers, living utterly carefree lives.
Qin Mu had no idea how the two had met, and neither did the Prison Warden. Even the cruelest punishments and instruments of torture in the dungeon could not cause this burly monster any pain-or rather, he could endure brutal punishments that would have tortured an ordinary person to death without divulging a single word. As a result, they knew nothing of his background, where he had come from, how he had met that deserter, or why he had suddenly decided to live in seclusion in the mountains.
Questions flooded his mind like a