"Gang Qi is Human Realm Power. It can stop bleeding and reshape flesh to a certain extent." With that, Tang Wang poured the golden light from his body into Danika without waiting for her response.
Soon, a right arm made of golden light appeared on her body once more.
"Can you keep fighting?" he asked Danika as he dodged a frigid blade swung by the Abyss Herald.
"...No problem!" The voice that answered him spoke through gritted teeth, yet was unusually resolute.
Only then did Tang Wang suddenly notice that even after suffering such a horrific injury, her left hand had never loosened its grip on her greatsword.
"Well done. You truly are the Captain's disciple." Tang Wang drew back his spear, turned to knock aside an ice blade, and set Danika down.
"Freeze all worlds!" At the same time, the monster, which was either an Abyss Herald or a Lector, was trying to find the person who had created the fire tornado.
The fire tornado was steadily devouring its Cryo shield. Even if the power of the Abyss could restore it, the burning sensation was anything but pleasant.
"Your opponent..." A streak of lightning flashed past. Within the field created by Lunar Superconduct, Danika's power had clearly been greatly enhanced. "Is me!"
Bang! She pushed the short-range, high-speed movement granted by Electro to its limit. Her sword slammed into the Herald from behind, and surging lightning swept across its Cryo shield, making the Lunar Superconduct field even stronger.
"Danika, plan B." Meanwhile, Tang Wang had already begun confronting the Abyss Herald head-on. His spear thrust out again and again, forcing it to devote nearly all its attention to fighting him.
Unfortunately for it, it was completely outmatched by Tang Wang in that regard.
"Ha!" Meanwhile, whenever Danika found an opening, she would suddenly rush in, slash the Herald, and quickly pull back. Each strike triggered Lunar Superconduct, replenishing a large amount of Tang Wang's Gang Qi.
For a time, the battle reached a stalemate. Suppressed by the Lunar Superconduct field, the Abyss Herald could no longer counterattack effectively, but Lunar Superconduct did not suppress the Abyss as strongly as a Lunar Reaction did.
The two therefore chose to use their attacks to force the Abyss Herald closer to the fire tornado. After all, as far as they knew, the best way to deal with a Cryo shield was to attack it with Pyro.
"How are you holding up, Ronava? Can you keep going?" Elsewhere, Linaya was using her Elemental Power to its fullest to replenish Ronava's strength.
Ronava's expression was grave. Her hands were raised high, and her arms trembled, but she was still doing her utmost to keep the fire tornado going.
"Li... Linaya," she said with difficulty, "I feel strange right now."
"Strange how?" Lumi flew circles around the two of them, keeping watch for any monsters that might appear.
"Flames, pain, filling my body..." Her voice was somewhat weak, but the red glow around her was magnificent.
"Then can you try releasing that power?" Linaya was no stranger to this situation. Those who could wield Elemental Power would constantly accumulate "Elemental Energy" as they used it.
Once they had accumulated enough, they could unleash an "Elemental Burst" unique to them.
Clearly, Ronava had never used an Elemental Burst as a human, so naturally she could not understand the sensation.
"Mm." After answering, she followed Linaya's advice and began drawing on all her strength. Soon, a strange sight appeared:
Crimson light dyed the entire sky black. A special "field" had appeared at Starsnatch Cliff in Mondstadt.
On the battlefield, Tang Wang, who was fighting the Abyss Herald, naturally noticed the change. A pair of dark crimson semicircular wings spread open out of thin air behind him, identical to the ornament Ronava had once worn on her back.
Bang! He casually thrust his spear and was surprised to find that the formerly elementless "Gang Qi" on it was now roiling with fierce flames.
"Freeze to death in the wind and snow!" Stung by the attack, the Abyss Herald immediately tried to swing its blade back at him.
"Thunder!" But it had clearly forgotten that Danika was still circling the battlefield. She slashed from the side, cutting off the Herald's chance to retaliate.
What followed was brutal. Without needing to coordinate beforehand, Tang Wang and Danika launched a continuous barrage of attacks as fast as they could.
Boom! Sizzle! Flames and lightning exploded one after another against the Abyss Herald's ice shield.
Even with the power of the Abyss replenishing it, the Herald's shield was beginning to fail under the intense strain. One more powerful Pyro attack would shatter it completely.
"Now!" Then, as agreed, Tang Wang raised his spear high.
"Bird of death, spread your wings." A gigantic dark crimson raven plunged down from the sky toward him.
Seeing this, the Abyss Herald tried to dodge. But it suddenly realized that Danika and Tang Wang had sealed off every escape route.
Boom! The blow landed, and a tremendous crash echoed across Starsnatch Cliff. The black field in the sky vanished, and so did the ice shield around the Abyss Herald.
But Danika, caught in the aftermath of the blow, now bore several black-and-red wounds. The arm Tang Wang had formed for her with Gang Qi had also completely dissipated.
Elsewhere, Ronava, who had unleashed the attack, fainted once again.
"There's still... a chance," the Herald, which had previously gone completely mad, had now regained a little of its senses. "As long as I can form my shield again..."
The power of the Abyss still flowed over its body. All it needed now was enough time. As long as it could form its shield again...
"Damn it!" Unfortunately, the remaining man with the spear would not give it that chance.
His first thrust pierced its body through the chest.
His second strike smashed down from the crown of its head to its dantian.
Without its shield, the Abyss Herald lost all signs of life after just two strikes. Honestly, the monsters Tang Wang hated most were those with elemental shields.
For him, a Pyro Regisvine really was much harder to kill than any of the Hypostases. Abyss Heralds and Lectors were the very, very, very hardest kind to kill.
In other words, without those shields, or if their shields were not protective enough, they were ants to Tang Wang, the kind he could crush at will.
"Danika!" After killing the Abyss Herald, he cautiously strengthened his legs with Gang Qi and kicked it hard a few more times to make sure it was completely dead.
Once he had done all that, he immediately rushed over to Danika, who was lying on the ground. Her face was extremely pale, so Tang Wang immediately replenished her Gang Qi to provide basic treatment and stop the bleeding.
Then he raced over to Linaya as fast as he could. She was supporting Ronava, whose strength had been exhausted. Seeing Tang Wang arrive with Danika, Linaya signaled Lumi to prepare to use her Elemental Burst to heal Danika's injuries.
"Hahahahaha..." But at that moment, the one who had been watching from the shadows finally stepped into the sunlight. "You are truly among the strongest, to have already exorcised two of the Abyss Order's Four Symbols Seals."
"How strong would you be if I made you into new seals?"
With that, he clapped his hands, and a large group of monsters trailing black smoke appeared behind him.
Tang Wang looked over them and discovered that not one of the monsters could activate an elemental shield in its normal state.
"Is that so?" He gave a cold laugh. "Then I'll give you a chance to turn away from the dark and come over to the light."
"Tell me what you're after and what you've done so far, and I'll spare your life."
His voice was full of confidence, leaving the richly dressed young man, who had prepared thoroughly, somewhat surprised for a moment. I'm clearly the one with the advantage, so why is this man so confident?