Chapter 166: The Terror of the Ancient Mindfolk! Three Steps into the Sky

But the problem was that they were entirely out of his range. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

He tried to unleash his Telekinesis to make the trait reach the experts, but as soon as the invisible force neared the boss, it was violently cut off.

It was like a vastly superior mind was directly jamming his lower mental power. To reach the experts, he would have to go straight through the monster.

"Ruyi, get bigger."

Caelus unleashed the staff’s power onto the world.

The iron staff instantly enlarged, reaching the massive size of a 300-meter hill.

It went crashing down directly toward the boss as Caelus activated his Projection Frame.

His figure glitched through reality as he tried to skip towards the trapped experts.

However, the next moment, his eyes widened in horror.

The massive Ruyi Jingu Bang was completely stopped in its tracks. The boss had halted the 300-meter weapon using only a single pinky finger.

What was even more shocking was that right in front of Caelus, a perfect copy of the boss monster had already formed!

"You..."

Before Caelus could finish his sentence, the boss copy looked at him with a twisted grin.

The following instant, it lightly tapped Caelus’s temple with its own staff.

BOOM!

Caelus’s mind literally exploded.

A bloodcurdling scream erupted from his throat as he was launched violently back to the ground, his eyes completely bulging out of his skull.

His mind had been completely shattered.

[Your mind power has been crippled. If you do not fix this, it will result in permanent mind damage.]

[Ding! Your Chaos Dragon Brain Matrix has activated. It is attempting to fix your disarrayed thoughts before total brain death occurs.]

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING TO CAELUS?!" A terrifying red light shot toward the boss with immense speed.

It was none other than Sylvia.

She closed the distance instantly, thick blood-power oozing out of her entirely crazed form.

She thrust her weapon forward and stabbed the boss fiercely.

It plunged right through the creature’s chest. However, just as quickly, the boss’s body dissipated into green smoke.

BOOM!

A massive psychic blast enveloped Sylvia from behind.

She coughed up a heavy mouthful of blood. Her blood wings instantly shattered as she began free-falling toward the ground.

The boss reformed in the air, letting out an evil, triumphant laugh.

"I will get... good rewards from the leader. I am very lucky."

Its cold laughter echoed agonizingly straight into Caelus’s ringing ears.

Caelus’s figure twitched violently. He was on his hands and knees, thick blood oozing steadily from his forehead.

He looked at the falling Sylvia. Then he looked up at the floating boss.

He gritted his teeth so hard he almost cracked them. His mind was slowly but surely forcing itself back together.

He felt entirely helpless.

How come, even with an SSS-Rank talent, he still couldn’t defeat these enemies?

He truly felt like a complete joke of an Ender.

He had even put Sylvia in danger. Who would have thought that this alien creature, a being no one had any data on, would be this terrifyingly strong?

No. He could not stay like this.

A raging fire lit up inside Caelus. Every single hair on his body stood straight up.

His Dragon Heart started beating faster and faster. It grew so loud and violent that it sounded exactly like a pounding war drum.

The boss naturally heard the rhythmic booming and turned back to face him.

Caelus slowly stood up, staring at the Boss with anger.

BOOM!

Boundless, terrifying light erupted from his core.

[Ding! Ender’s Will has activated.]

BOOM!

Caelus took a heavy step forward. His shattered mind instantly snapped back into perfect alignment.

BOOM!

He took a second step. His mental power restored to its peak.

He took a third step. His aura began climbing exponentially, violently distorting the air around him.

Sylvia, who had crashed heavily into the ground, looked up through her bleeding vision and smiled weakly.

That power had finally activated.

The unprecedented amount of fighting spirit radiating into the atmosphere made it impossible for anyone to ignore.

This was Ender’s Will. The ultimate, upgraded version of Battle Will.

It was the exact same tyrannical power that had allowed Caelus to defeat Rachel with overwhelming strength.

The chance of it triggering was extremely low. But it had triggered and that only meant one thing.... Certain Death for the boss.

The boss twisted its large face in disbelief as it felt the crushing aura around Caelus climbing rapidly.

"You beat everyone with your overwhelming psychic power and cheap illusions," Caelus said, taking one final step into the sky. "But..."

Whoosh!

The massive Ruyi Jingu Bang rapidly shrank and flew perfectly back into his grip.

He brandished the golden-banded staff, his muscles bulging with power.

The power of the elements crackled violently across his skin. He stood firmly on the empty air, his clothes violently fluttering around him.

"NOW, I am far above you."

The boss shrieked in sudden rage. It waved its staff, unleashing a massive, suffocating wave of psychic gravity and razor-sharp mental blades directly at Caelus.

"Chaos Dragon Body."

Caelus’s voice was completely indifferent.

His body instantly transformed. His HP, CA, and mind power pool expanded to an absolutely monstrous degree.

He didn’t dodge. He poured power directly into the Ruyi Jingu Bang, forcing the weapon to match the power of the incoming psychic attacks.

Slash!

Caelus swung the staff effortlessly, shattering the massive psychic wave into harmless glittering dust.

The boss’s eyes widened in genuine panic. It instantly threw up three dense layers of psychic barriers.

Seeing this, Caelus closed the distance in a single blur.

He needed three hits on the boss.

"Get bigger, Ruyi."

BAM!

The staff expanded and slammed into the first barrier. The shield instantly cracked, and the weapon’s passive Mana Burn violently ripped away a chunk of the boss’s energy pool.

The boss shrieked in pain, trying to retaliate with a concentrated mental spike straight at Caelus’s head.

Caelus completely ignored it. His newly reinforced Chaos Brain Matrix tanked the spike without a single flinch.

CRACK!

He swung a second time, entirely shattering the remaining psychic barriers.

The ancient Mindfolk panicked completely. It desperately tried to warp the space around itself to teleport away.

Caelus instantly activated his Projection Frame, appearing directly above the fleeing monster.

"Get bigger."

The staff enlarged to the size of a massive pillar in an instant.

BOOM!

The third consecutive strike landed flawlessly on the boss’s fragile body.

[Passive Effect: Regression activated.]

The boss’s body violently seized up. It temporarily forgot its own strength. All of its active defensive buffs were instantly stripped away, and its highest-tier psychic abilities were forcefully sealed.

It was completely helpless.

With the psychic jamming entirely broken, Caelus waved his free hand.

Holy Cleanse!

A wave of pure white light washed over the battlefield, instantly clearing the Dreamwalking debuff from all the trapped Duke family experts.

They stopped bleeding and snapped violently back to their senses.

What they saw absolutely terrified them.

Caelus hovered high in the air like a god, a terrifying, building-sized staff pinning the monstrous boss down.

Brenda gasped heavily at the sight. So did the powerful patriarchs.

Caelus looked down at the completely broken boss.

"Volcra."

A blinding, flashing white light completely engulfed the area.

When the destruction finally faded, the boss’s body had completely vanished.

A single, shining bone dropped to the rocky ground with a dull thud. It was the only remaining piece of the creature.

"This..." The Gold III experts were all left entirely speechless.

The following instant, the dark, glitched space above them completely shattered, revealing a glowing white core.

"It’s the core." The Duke families immediately had a sharp change in expression.

"You want the core?"

Caelus’s voice echoed across the silent battlefield.

"I’m sorry, but it’s mine."

Caelus calmly reached out and touched the glowing sphere before anyone could even budge.

It opened up, showing an item inside it.

The following instant, the system notifications rang out loudly for everyone to hear.

[You have cleared the challenge domain set by a higher-sequenced powerhouse.]

[You have defeated an Ancient Mindfolk, a powerful entity in the domain, and obtained the core.]

[Your party is the MVP of the domain.]

[Allocating rewards...]