From the eyes of the Horalar Black Snake, a remarkably human-like expression of mockery emerged.
BOOM!!!
A massive wave of spiritual power erupted, instantly repelling the green light.
Not only that, the contract magical array hovering in mid-air trembled, then suddenly exploded.
Bosain was sent flying backward as though struck by a heavy hammer to the chest.
Large patches of silver armor flew off his body, and crimson blood continuously sprayed from Bosain's mouth.
"The contract is backfiring!" Leilin blurted out from his vantage point at a distance.
If a wizard failed to contract a powerful creature, their spiritual power would be struck by the contract's backlash force, and that backlash would also incorporate the creature's own spiritual power.
From the looks of it, Bosain's spiritual power had definitely taken a severe blow! And the Magical Items spiritually linked to him had also sustained significant damage.
CRASH!!!
Just as Bosain continued flying backward, a white talisman suddenly rose from his body into the air, and a ring of milky-white light wrapped around his blood-spewing form.
This milky radiance was suffused with a brilliant and sacred quality, and under its illumination, Bosain's condition recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"A one-time-use healing talisman?" Leilin caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye and recognized the origin of the white talisman.
"He really does have quite a few good items on him!" Although Bosain hadn't been as severely injured as planned, Leilin was still fairly satisfied — after all, he'd forced Bosain to reveal one of his trump cards.
Crafting such a talisman required consuming many rare resources, as well as the substantial mana and energy of a formal White Wizard. Even for Bosain, there was no way he had a second one on him.
"What's going on?"
Jiamen and Xiaoya watched Bosain flying backward, their faces still frozen in disbelief.
"The contract failed! Kill that damn black snake, now!"
Leilin drew the Cross Sword from his waist. As incantation words flickered, a layer of fine, frigid white ice crystals enveloped the blade.
Frost Alchemy Rune!!! A disposable alchemy rune specifically designed for attachment to weapons, it could temporarily boost a weapon's power to near that of a low-grade Magical Item. After use, the ordinary weapon would be destroyed outright.
Leilin's Cross Sword had long since been destroyed during the blood duels.
But that was fine. At Black Bone Forest Academy, ordinary longswords with no magical enhancement were available in unlimited quantities.
Leilin raised the massive frost greatsword in his hand, and the chill radiating from the blade immediately drew sidelong glances from Jiamen and Xiaoya.
"I knew it!" Jiamen's heart screamed. "Leilin surviving the blood duels meant he definitely had his own trump cards!"
"Keep it restrained! I'm going in!"
Leilin cast a glance at the Horalar Black Snake, still bound by green vines and long red hair.
After suddenly erupting with spiritual power to cripple Bosain, the Horalar Black Snake was now writhing its massive body relentlessly, surging waves of power bursting forth continuously.
Creak!!!
Many of the vines and strands of hair snapped, and the expressions on Jiamen and Xiaoya's faces grew increasingly grim.
"Hurry up! I can't hold it much longer!" Xiaoya shouted from the side.
"Cross Slash!!!"
Leilin's muscles bulged across his entire body, making him seem a size larger.
"Detected: Host has entered Knight Secret Technique state. Strength and Agility increased! Constitution decreased!" The Chip's real-time monitoring quickly fed back the data.
During his three years in Polar Night City, Leilin had also obtained a Knight's Burst Secret Technique from Viscount Jackson.
This was something even more powerful than killing techniques, and it came from a Great Knight, making it superior to the Knight Secret Technique passed down in Leilin's family.
With the Chip's powerful computational capability, Leilin had directly integrated Jackson's Knight Secret Technique into his own Cross Sword Secret Technique, dramatically optimizing the effectiveness of the inherited technique.
The Secret Technique Leilin now used had reached the level of a Great Knight's, with fewer side effects and greater power.
With a loud shout, Leilin leaped high into the air, the frost cross greatsword tracing two bright arcs through the sky.
The two arcs converged in mid-air, forming a massive cross shape. Frost continuously condensed, ultimately transforming into an enormous cross-shaped ice blade that slashed toward the Horalar Black Snake!!!
Thud!!!
The frost cross blade struck directly below the Horalar Black Snake's neck, sending scales flying as they cracked and shattered, each one coated with a layer of frost.
At the wound site on the Horalar Black Snake, a massive cross-shaped gash had already formed. Frost continued to spread as copious snake blood — crimson with hints of black — seeped out.
"Hiss hiss!!!" The black snake let out a furious roar, thrashing its body wildly and snapping even more vines and hair.
"Good! Maintain that power! Just a few more strikes and we can definitely sever its head!"
Joy appeared on Xiaoya's face.
"Hiss hiss!" But after its frenzied thrashing, the Horalar Black Snake suddenly and eerily calmed down.
It stopped struggling, only its scales continuously flickering with dark light, emanating a wave of Negative Energy that was intimately familiar to Leilin.