Chapter 511 – Six-Winged Angel Lapis, The Advancing Tianyuan Generals

Boom—

Mu Yuan threw out the palm-sized statue in his hand.

The complete structure spun through the air, growing larger and larger until it transformed into a fully-formed Miracle Building in the blink of an eye, crashing down to the ground.

「Notification: The epic building ‘Guardian Angel’ has been constructed.」

A pure white statue over ten meters tall stood before the City Lord’s Mansion.

Below the statue was a half-meter-high square base, with four pillars two to three meters tall rising around it. Between these pillars, smaller stone columns were evenly spaced, forming a fence-like enclosure around the entire base.

On the base stood the main body of the structure—the angel statue over ten meters tall.

It depicted a female angel wearing ornate armor and a battle skirt that reached down to her combat boots.

She wore a circlet with a gem at its center, her long hair flowing backward.

Her hands were clasped in front of her, gripping a large Sword that was plunged upside down into the base. The blade of the Sword bore a row of mysterious runes, appearing quite extraordinary.

The most striking feature was the three pairs of massive wings spread out from her back.

Even in its sculpted form, the Guardian Angel exuded an indescribable sense of nobility and sanctity.

It was as if the mere presence of this statue elevated the entire City Lord’s Mansion to a higher status.

And in reality…

That was more or less true.

The City Lord’s Mansion was only an Excellent-grade building.

There were very few epic buildings in the entire Tianyuan City, and this ‘Guardian Angel’, though somewhat redundant in Mu Yuan’s view, ranked among the top tier of defensive epic buildings.

If an ordinary territory obtained such a Guardian Angel and diligently managed and cultivated it for several years or even decades, the Lord could face even Soul Realm or Law Realm invaders without fear.

However, Tianyuan City was never short on high-end combat power.

「Guardian Angel」

「Grade: Epic」

「Description: Formed from the lingering will of a powerful, completely fallen angel, shaped by the rules of the world. Guardian Angel · Lapis possesses a newly Awakened self-awareness, the Legacy of a six-winged angel, rich combat experience engraved into her Soul, and room for further growth.」

「Guardian Angel’s Current Realm: Peak Heaven-Earth Realm (10,000-meter class)」

「Ability ①: Guardian Angel · Lapis possesses main skills & talents including ‘Mass Resurrection’, ‘Purifying Saint Judgment’, ‘Angel’s Guardian’, …」

「Ability ②: If Guardian Angel · Lapis falls, she can be quickly resurrected on the building’s base by spending 1,000 Soul Crystals. Resurrection time is 60 seconds, with no usage limits or cooldown.」

「Ability ③: While within the territory’s boundaries, Guardian Angel · Lapis has infinite energy but requires additional Soul Crystal consumption or energy extraction from power-supplying Miracle Buildings. Her range of activity cannot exceed 10 times the territory’s area.」

As expected.

Even Miracle Buildings must adhere to the conservation of energy.

The Guardian Angel was an ‘architectural lifeform’ that could absorb energy from the world to sustain itself, but infinite energy couldn’t appear out of nowhere.

“She’s actually stronger than I imagined.””The resurrection time is extremely short, the cost is very low, and the Guardian Angel is born as a peak powerhouse at the ten-thousand-meter level, possessing three epic abilities. Her combat power is almost the strongest below the legendary beings in Tianyuan City.”

“Moreover, her skills hold extremely high value.”

“Mass Resurrection: Casts a spell on an area, capable of resurrecting up to 36 fallen individuals (excluding undead and shadow-type lifeforms). This skill has a cooldown of one day.”

“Note: Cannot resurrect individuals of higher tier than oneself; cannot resurrect individuals who have been dead for more than 12 hours.”

It truly can’t compare to Deadbone’s Undead Resurrection.

However, ‘Undead Resurrection’ is an extremely abnormal skill, and by now Mu Yuan has confirmed this.

Epic skeletons like Bone Two and Bone Three—none of the twenty to thirty thousand skeletons in Tianyuan City have awakened a similar skill.

Angels are different.

Two-winged angels at Epic One-Star have a considerable probability of awakening the divine skill ‘Single Target Resurrection.’

This is no secret in the Eternal World.

Resurrection treasures are extremely rare, and the cost of resurrection is enormous, yet angels can simply resurrect a fallen powerhouse. Which lord wouldn’t desire to possess an angel?

It’s just that they seek but cannot obtain.

Angels are the symbol of the Holy Griffin Empire.

The Holy Griffin Empire possesses the only seventh-tier recruitment building in the entire Eternal World, the ‘Angel Rebirth Pool.’ Traditionally, only the imperial family and a very few generals with great merits are permitted to visit the Angel Rebirth Pool to pray for the favor of an angel from the Upper Realm.

“Angels…”

Mu Yuan, of course, also harbored a tiny bit of longing for such legendary creatures that could only be admired from afar.

However…

“This Mass Resurrection skill doesn’t seem to hold much value for our Tianyuan City, does it?”

“After all, the Guardian Angel cannot stray far from the territory.”

He thought, gazing at the tall angel statue before him, “Awaken, my Guardian Angel.”

In an instant,

Golden light burst forth from the pure white stone statue.

The golden radiance enveloped the main body of the statue. Under this brilliant light, the entire statue… or rather, the Guardian Angel, continuously shrank in size, from over ten meters tall to less than two meters.

The golden light faded.

What appeared before Mu Yuan was no longer a stone statue, but a female angel with golden hair, silver armor, and white wings.

She knelt on one knee.

“Master.”

“I, Lapis, vow to defend the territory unto death.”

Although the Guardian Angel Lapis possesses self-awareness and the ability to inherit legacies, she still gives off the feeling of a cold, lifeless doll.

After all, she is a building lifeform.

Alive, yet also a building.

Mu Yuan led Lapis into the City Lord’s Mansion and called for Is… called for Dolai to show the newcomer around.

“No problem, I’ll definitely introduce all the delicious food in our Tianyuan City to Lapis~”

Lapis remained expressionless.

Since she is a lifeform and appears no different from an ordinary person, she probably can eat, right?

She went along with Dolai.

What Mu Yuan wanted to attempt was another bold experiment.

Evolution!

The Guardian Angel is a Miracle Building, thus it only has the ‘Epic’ tier designation, without distinctions like Epic One-Star or Epic Two-Star.

But Lapis is also a lifeform.

So, can she evolve?

If possible, what changes would occur to her as a Miracle Building?

Mu Yuan manipulated the power of evolution and began to tentatively inject it into Lapis’s body.

Feedback was received in an instant.”To think… it’s actually possible.”

“But it requires 5 million evolution points.”

Not the 500,000 needed for three-star epic to legendary evolution, but a full 5 million.

Lord Mu felt the impulse to try.

What changes would occur to the Guardian Angel structure after evolution?

He restrained himself.

Direct evolution was too risky – he hadn’t forgotten how Isloria and Lu Liu’s evolutions had far exceeded standard requirements.

Moreover…

He didn’t currently have 5 million evolution points available.

He had used them not long ago.

His gaze turned to the Dragon Mound Fertile Soil Realm.

Within, dark clouds blotted out the sun as winds gathered and storm clouds swirled.

Vast legendary might rolled through, filling the entire secret realm.

Deadbone was inside, bathed in evolutionary light.

「Evolution Points: -1.5 million.」

Once Deadbone completed his evolution, Dolai would follow.

Despite the tempting evolution target of the ‘Guardian Angel,’ Mu Yuan would stick to his original plan.

Now that he understood how to gather miracle power in large quantities, accumulating several million evolution points wouldn’t take too long.

But it couldn’t take too long either.

Their enemies were too powerful, and their current strength was insufficient for self-preservation.

After all…

……

Crimson tentacles stretched across the sky as numerous regions throughout Taixuan and the wider world fell into warfare and crisis.

Though the crisis in the Shattered Isle Region had been resolved, many warzones and cities continued to retreat before the onslaught of monster armies.

“Boulder City is under attack by powerful legendaries and urgently needs reinforcements! Nearly half the city area is in danger!”

“Frostleaf Island Warzone faces imminent breach! Emergency assistance required, emergency assistance required!”

“River Valley City requests aid.”

“Whitewood Fort requests aid.”

“Tianshui River Defense Zone requests aid.”

Distress signals from various regions came in continuously, yet available reinforcements were stretched thin.

This was frustrating, yet inevitable.

Taixuan had barely been able to keep enemies beyond their borders before. Now, with numerous monsters pouring in through the celestial rift disaster and powerful monsters entering the Alliance heartland, how could they possibly have enough personnel?

Several veteran commanders responsible for deployment at the Pioneer Group headquarters were already absent.

They had gone to the front lines.

Military resources were particularly strained.

A one-armed general spoke, “Send another message to Duke Beiting, urge him again.”

The liaison officer responded, “Duke Beiting has already dispatched reinforcements – two Law Realm experts and three Soul Realm experts, all deployed to the most critical warzones… The current distress calls are from areas that haven’t received reinforcement allocations yet. Headquarters can only order them to hold their positions.”

The command center fell silent for a moment.

Someone asked, “Is there really no way to scrape together more reinforcements? Our Taixuan has so many Miracle Lords.”

“It’s not that we can’t find reinforcements,” the officer explained. “In fact, many lords have volunteered for battle, and we’ve assigned them to suitable areas… but we’re severely lacking in high-end combat power!”

Outside the main warzones, a single legendary represented peak combat strength.

Most lords, even with their entire territories and armies, couldn’t oppose a single legendary.

And all available legendary combat power had already been deployed to various front lines.

「Beep~ New legendary reinforcements available, awaiting deployment.」

As the notification sounded, the soldiers present couldn’t conceal their excitement.

“Which lord or which major territory’s forces?”

“How many legendaries are there?”The one-armed veteran general asked.

“It’s… the general from Tianyuan City Lord!”

“Tianyuan?” The one-armed veteran general was somewhat astonished. “Didn’t Tianyuan just defeat the Dragon’s Slumber Valley army, fighting desperately to overcome their forces?”

“Perhaps Tianyuan City Lord believes some of his subordinate generals still have combat capability and noticed our continuously sent distress signals. Meanwhile… some frontline areas are indeed in urgent need of strong reinforcements.”

The one-armed veteran general clenched his fist tightly, taking a deep breath. “Dispatch Tianyuan City’s generals to the critical areas.”

…

Boulder City.

As one of only three official great cities in the Taixuan·Twilight Great Domain, Boulder City possessed a massive population, vast territory, and formidable capability to resist external threats.

Originally, Boulder City was established to defend against the monster overlord ‘Goblin Kingdom’ that ruled the entire Gloomy Forest.

Thus, Boulder City was situated at the outermost edge of Taixuan Territory, directly facing the wildlands of Gloomy Forest.

After the Goblin Kingdom was eradicated, this region had been downgraded from ‘forbidden land’ to ‘high-risk area,’ but since no Miracle Territory existed here, the entire Gloomy Forest remained classified as wilderness.

Above the Gloomy Forest, a crimson scar-like rift tore across half the sky.

Crimson Mist and countless monsters swarmed out from it, continuously assaulting Boulder City.

If this were all, Boulder City could still stand firm as a boulder amidst the tides.

Boulder City’s City Defense Barrier shone brilliantly, its light curtain rising to connect with the heavens.

Flying monsters that crashed into the light curtain fell like rain.

Even a Legendary Realm expert gathering heaven and earth energy for a strike could only cause ripples across the barrier.

This City Defense Barrier wasn’t top-tier, but it wasn’t something ordinary legends could breach.

However,

“The problem is, while monster legends can’t break through Boulder City, they can easily bypass it to destroy dozens or hundreds of surrounding towns.”

“We must firmly hold these monsters here.”

Ordinary legions defended the city, while Legendary Realm experts stepped beyond the barrier to confront powerful enemies high in the sky.

They were at a disadvantage.

Boom—

Boulder City Lord slammed against the barrier’s light curtain, causing ripples to spread across it. He was drenched in blood, his armor cracked.

His bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at a green figure in the distance.

The Goblin King.

A Peak Heaven-Earth Realm expert!

Of course, he too was at the Peak Heaven-Earth Realm.

However, beside the Goblin King stood two other Peak Heaven-Earth Realm beings.

Giant Goblin! Gluttony Goblin!

Surrounding them were over a dozen powerful monster legends, while Boulder City’s side had only six legends and one Army Soul Legion. He alone represented the Peak Heaven-Earth Realm.

“If only Celestial River and Boulder were both here…”

He thought to himself.

But after the Goblin Kingdom’s destruction, Boulder City had few defensive duties left, so he often dispatched the two powerful experts—Celestial River Sword Saint and Boulder Great Venerable—to campaign on the frontlines.

Who could have predicted they’d face such a crisis today?

“This City Lord has campaigned for over a decade—I won’t fall here.”

He wiped blood from the corner of his mouth, suddenly revealing a smile. “Oh? Reinforcements are coming? Then this City Lord must drag you all here no matter what.”

“Stones rise! Mountains rise!”

Rumble—

The earth trembled as defending forces slaughtered invading monsters, occasionally glancing into the distance.

Jiang Luoxing was among them, having come to Boulder City as reinforcement to assist in defense.

“But I’m too weak!””If I were in the Legendary Realm, if I possessed an Army Soul Legion, I wouldn’t be trapped inside this city – what kind of reinforcement am I anyway!”

They not only had to defend the city, but also needed to eliminate these dozen monstrous Legendary beings.

Otherwise, half of Boulder City’s territory would face disaster!

But what could they possibly use to destroy such formidable enemies?

“Look! The sky!”

Someone exclaimed!

Suddenly night descended, the brilliant starry sky enveloping this stretch of land.

Countless stars shimmered, converging to form a celestial river.

A noble, majestic aura transcending the mortal realm spread outward, making the entire starry sky seem to sing with joy.

“Clang~!”

One brilliant stellar ring after another manifested across the heavens.

It was as if a great and lofty Star God had opened eyes to gaze down upon the earth.

Within that gaze, a figure arrived treading upon the starry river.

With a turn of their luminous hand, the stars sealed heaven and earth.

Whoosh!

Space seemed to solidify.

The Goblin King’s pupils dilated, deep fear visible within them.

Unbeatable! Impossible to oppose!

“Human, this king means you no enmity.”

“We withdraw, we’ll retreat immediately.”

“I swear we shall never set foot in Taixuan Territory again in our lifetime!”

They were no ignorant wild Legendary.

This human expert was likely at the Soul Realm.

But how could Taixuan dispatch a Soul Realm expert so quickly?

“Thinking of leaving? Too late.”

Isloria looked down upon the surrounding Legendaries, her overtime grievances materializing into tangible killing intent that surged forth to blanket the sky and cover the earth.

(End of Chapter)