Chapter 579

Chapter 579: Extracting Luck

"Damn it!"

Mares could sense the terrifying nature of the lightning.

He gritted his teeth and activated his defensive shield to its maximum.

Giant branches surged rapidly into the sky, weaving together to form enormous defensive nets.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The lightning followed closely behind and crashed down, piercing through the defensive nets with overwhelming force.

Even though it consumed a lot during its descent, it reached right above Mares’ head in an instant.

With a loud bang!

It struck directly against Mares’ energy shield.

Under the impact of this lightning, even Mares’ energy shield suddenly shattered.

However, thanks to the defensive nets and energy shield, the power of the lightning was substantially reduced.

When it hit Mares, it merely caused a thin green liquid to spray from his body, and his upper body was slightly charred.

"What’s going on? He can’t avoid this lightning attack?"

Yi Chen was somewhat surprised.

Through the Video Clip provided by the Shadow King using his Perception Ability, he understood that while this lightning was extremely powerful, even the Shadow King could barely dodge it.

Yet, Mares had not moved to evade it at all; he merely remained on the spot to defend.

"This lightning is one of the Ka Yue Tribe’s innate abilities. It is triggered by the antennae on their heads and possesses immense power," the Shadow King explained through telepathy. "What’s particularly special about it is that the lightning has the ability to track enemies. No matter how the enemy tries to escape, unless they are faster than the lightning and continue escaping until the lightning’s power is completely depleted."

"Otherwise, no matter where they are, this lightning can keep tracking its target until it hits."

"Now I see!"

Yi Chen suddenly understood.

He secretly admired the super star cluster; it was indeed extraordinary.

An ordinary race without its own territory had such strange and miraculous abilities.

He pondered, "If one strike can injure Mares, then doesn’t that mean the Ka Yue Tribe warrior has a greater chance of winning?"

The Shadow King shook his head. "Not necessarily, because this lightning attack can only be used once in a short term by the Ka Yue Tribe warrior."

"Although the Ka Yue Tribe warrior injured Mares, it relied on the most powerful attack method that cannot be used a second time in a short period. Who holds the advantage is still hard to say."

"The real key to victory lies in whether the Ka Yue Tribe warrior can establish a greater advantage in front of Mares with his other trump card. If he fails to do so, the end result will be Mares defeating the Ka Yue Tribe warrior."

"The other major trump card of the Ka Yue Tribe warrior is transforming into lightning to attack. Each time, it consumes a huge amount of energy and can even cause them some recoil damage."

Yi Chen nodded and continued to extract luck from the Ka Yue Tribe warrior quickly.

On the other side, Mares clearly knew about the two main trump cards of the Ka Yue Tribe warrior.

Seeing that the Ka Yue Tribe warrior had already used one, he hesitated not at all. Despite being injured, he still charged forward to attack the Ka Yue Tribe warrior.

Normally, when injured, it is better to defend than to attack. This way, as long as he avoided or blocked the Ka Yue Tribe warrior’s lightning attack, his injuries would not worsen.

The Ka Yue Tribe warrior, in turn, would suffer some minor damage and greatly expend energy.

As the attacks piled up, the advantage would reverse.

However, Mares didn’t take that approach because he knew that if the Ka Yue Tribe warrior exhausted his advantages and realized he couldn’t win, he would undoubtedly seek help from the Time Tribe warrior he had a contract with.

This would completely go against Yi Chen’s instructions to delay time as much as possible.

Thus, Mares could only initiate the attack actively, trying to delay the Ka Yue Tribe warrior’s lightning transformation for as long as possible.

Every second counted.

Even if he couldn’t meet Yi Chen’s expectations, at least he had done his best.

Though the outcome was the same, the significance of failing to delay time without trying and failing after giving his all was entirely different.

Countless tree branches extended rapidly, striking the Ka Yue Tribe warrior like long whips.

At the same time, the leaves on the branches quickly fell off, transforming into sharp blades that shot toward the Ka Yue Tribe warrior.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Ka Yue Tribe warrior struck with his fists to destroy all the leaves while skillfully dodging the attacks from the tree branches.

For the next two to three minutes, both sides remained locked in intense combat.

Meanwhile, Yi Chen, still extracting luck, suddenly felt the green luck continuously flowing into his Qi Sea transform into black luck.

He immediately reversed the Luck Technique and returned all the black luck to the Ka Yue Tribe warrior.

Once all the black luck was returned, he cut off the Luck Technique.

Then, he transmitted a message to the Shadow King: "Inform Mares that he does not need to worry whether the Ka Yue Tribe warrior will call for help from the Time Tribe warrior, and he should focus on killing the Ka Yue Tribe warrior in the short time."

"Understood!"

The Shadow King was somewhat surprised.

He didn’t expect Yi Chen to completely extract the Ka Yue Tribe warrior’s luck so quickly.

Originally, it took him more than ten days to drain Morris’s luck.

After that, the speed of luck extraction increased as Yi Chen’s strength realm improved.

Draining the luck of a Tree-Dwelling Tribe member around level 178 or 180 took about ten hours.

Draining the luck from level 200 Mares took roughly the same amount of time.

Now, he had drained the luck from a Ka Yue Tribe warrior of the same level in just about twenty minutes.

The speed was becoming increasingly terrifying.

He quickly took out the communication stone and sent a message to Mares.

Mares sensed the vibration from the communication stone and focused on two tasks at once.

He continued his relentless attack on the Ka Yue Tribe warrior while using his Perception Ability to check the message in the communication stone.

Upon receiving Yi Chen’s new order, he was instantly confused.

Previously, he had been instructed to delay time as much as possible.

Now, after only twenty minutes, he was being told not to worry about whether the enemy would call for the Time Tribe warrior and was urged to attack with full force to try and kill the Ka Yue Tribe warrior.

Both characters felt perplexed and somewhat burdened.

The first task was to delay time, but the Ka Yue Tribe warrior was not hesitating to attack.

Moreover, the enemy had already used their trump card to injure him, making it difficult to delay for too long.

The latter task was even more challenging; although both were of equal power and he believed he could defeat the Ka Yue Tribe warrior, the opponent was not foolish. If they realized they couldn’t win, they would surely choose to escape and wait for the Time Tribe warrior to arrive for rescue.

Once the Time Tribe warrior arrived, if he hadn’t escaped in advance, he would be doomed.

Yet, he was under someone else’s roof.

His life was controlled by others, and wanting to please Yi Chen, the master of his master, made him hold back any dissent.

He would follow the orders as best as he could and address any issues later.