"Hissing roar."
The Basilisk, its head smashed into the ground by a hammer, let out a violent roar, its lower body twisting rapidly as its long, rough green tail lashed out.
Whoosh!
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A sharp explosion sounded in the air as the tail whipped toward the newly summoned giant angel with fierce force.
Facing this attack...
The giant angel raised its left arm across its chest; on the outer edge of this left arm was a pale gold shield with a sun mark printed on its surface.
Boom!
The tail lashed ruthlessly against the shield, producing a loud bang, but the angel's body didn't even budge.
The silver long-handled hammer swung.
Boom!
The giant angel slammed down with force again, smashing the Basilisk's head, which it had just struggled to lift, back into the ground.
The two consecutive heavy blows...
Caused a trace of clarity to return to the green pupils of the previously frenzied Basilisk.
"Hiss, hiss." The Basilisk twisted its body, its eight legs pulling back quickly to lift its head from the ground and retreat.
The fin-like structures with spiked protrusions on the Basilisk's head had been broken by the giant angel's two blows, and blood was gushing out.
Lifting his gaze...
Nolan looked at this giant angel.
In appearance, it shared the same lineage as the Flame Archangel, but compared to the Flame Archangel, which had no distinguishing features other than a flame sword...
This giant angel held a giant hammer and a shield respectively, and from both sides of its shoulders and its waist, yellow glowing cloth-like objects hung down.
Most eye-catching of all!
Was that this giant angel's wings had become two pairs, though the top pair was truly a bit too small; it would be more appropriate to call them decorations rather than wings.
Archangel of Observation (Lv 22)!
After mastering the Cursed Knight class and reaching level 22, he had met the conditions for "Fourth Tier: Angel Summoning."
Facing the newly summoned fourth-tier angel...
Nolan's expression was not pleasant; if it wasn't necessary, he didn't want to use his own mana directly.
"Two hits failed to cause effective damage. Compared to its defense, its offensive capabilities are indeed lacking."
Seeing the Basilisk's still-excited state, Nolan knew that the giant angel's two heavy hammer blows hadn't caused effective damage to the Basilisk.
However!
Being able to be blocked by the lowest-level Archangel of Observation showed that this Basilisk, transformed from a humanoid monster,
Did not have a difficulty level of around 83 as Renners had mentioned.
Calculating by actual level, a difficulty of 83 should be between "Lv 27 to Lv 28."
This level was already close to the Hero Realm.
At this moment...
Renners snapped out of her daze and looked at Nolan's back as he stood in his white priest robes alongside the Archangel of Observation.
"The strength of an Adamantite-rank adventurer... I actually intended to make a move against him back then." A trace of bitterness appeared on Renners's pale, weak face.
"Hiss!!"
The Basilisk, having retreated some distance, suddenly emitted an earthy brown light from its green pupils.
"Come back!" With a thought from Nolan...
The Archangel of Observation immediately descended from the air, blocking the path in front of Nolan and Renners.
Hum!
The magical glow of the Petrification Ray was released from the Basilisk's eyes, landing on the Archangel of Observation.
But the Archangel of Observation showed no signs of petrification at all.
"Angels are not creatures of flesh and blood; Petrification Ray is useless." Nolan stepped out from behind the Archangel of Observation with a cold sneer.
"Hissing roar!"
The Basilisk was visibly stunned for a moment, then without hesitation, it turned and fled, its figure rushing quickly toward the distant forest.
Seeing this action...
Nolan's gaze shifted.
He absolutely could not let this humanoid monster escape!
The opponent was very likely some kind of mysterious demi-human race living here, and might know why the power of curses existed within the bodies of the monsters here.
Thinking of this...
Nolan turned his head to look at Renners, who was in extremely poor condition, her entire body stained red with blood.
Given her strength as an Orichalcum-rank adventurer, she shouldn't have been in such a pathetic state, but the curse power contained in this place had clearly had a significant impact on Renners.
A third-tier magic scroll appeared in Nolan's hand within his sleeve, and he crushed it.
A Flame Archangel emerged.
"Your current condition isn't suitable for going deeper. Let the Flame Archangel take you out of this swamp first."
Nolan spoke quickly, letting the Flame Archangel pick up the weak Renners.
"Sorry."
Renners's lips moved, her blood-stained golden hair covering most of her face as she spoke in a low voice.
"I'm not doing this just for you."
"I'm also very interested in the situation here."
Nolan gave a gentle smile, then leaped, using the grooves at the joints of the Archangel of Observation's armor...
To land on the Archangel of Observation's shoulder.
Whoosh!
The Archangel of Observation's wings flapped, carrying Nolan in pursuit of the direction the Basilisk had fled.
The Flame Archangel, meanwhile, took Renners back toward the swamp.
Over here...
Nolan and the Archangel of Observation quickly flew over the low shrubs to the edge of the deep forest; the tall, dense foliage was quite unfriendly to the massive Archangel of Observation.
"Finally, I can act alone."
Looking at the jungle before him, Nolan felt a strange sense of familiarity, especially since with no one else around,
He no longer needed to hide some of his abilities.
With a flip of his palm, a bone-made magic item appeared.
It was the magic item with the "Forest Traverse" ability obtained from the Great Goblin Miguo.
"Track!"
Nolan's gaze swept across, activating a Guerrilla skill.
In the dense jungle ahead, the path taken by some large creature passing through quickly appeared in Nolan's vision.
"Follow it." Nolan held the bone item and controlled the angel to move forward.
Under the effect of this magic item, wherever the massive body of the Archangel of Observation passed, the lush branches and leaves in the jungle all pulled back, revealing a wide forest path.
Monsters like the Basilisk liked living in dark, narrow burrows and were naturally skilled at moving quickly in cramped environments.
Terrain like a forest wouldn't have much of an impact on a massive Basilisk.
Under these circumstances...
In less than ten minutes, Nolan and the Archangel of Observation had caught up with the Basilisk that had been the first to disappear into the forest.
At the same time!
The Basilisk also noticed Nolan following it, its green beast-like pupils filled with an angry expression.
"Hiss, Hu, Human—"
"Le, Leave!"
The Basilisk turned its body around and roared, uttering intermittent and stiff words.
"I can leave, but before I do, I have to figure some things out."
Nolan stood on the shoulder of the Archangel of Observation, looking at the Basilisk crouching in the forest opposite him, and continued:
"About the curse—"
As soon as the word "curse" was spoken, the trace of clarity in the green beast-like pupils was replaced by rage, and a beastly roar rang out.
Boom!
The branches and large trees in the forest shook as the Basilisk pounced forward.
"Holy Strike!"
The silver long hammer in the Archangel of Observation's hand flashed with a white light as it raised its arm and smashed it down heavily.
Compared to the angels summoned by the first three tiers of "Angel Summoning," starting from the fourth tier, the summoned angels began to master certain skills or magic.
This information was automatically perceived by Nolan the moment he summoned the Archangel of Observation.
The Archangel of Observation had a total of three abilities: "Holy Strike," "Holy Protection," and "Mass Lower Defense Fortification," which could increase the defense of allies within its field of vision.
However, the third skill required the Archangel of Observation to be in a stationary state to activate; once it started moving, the "Mass Lower Defense Fortification" ability would automatically deactivate.
Boom!
The silver long hammer struck the Basilisk's head again, making it stumble.
But this time!
The Basilisk clearly had experience in dealing with it; although its head was knocked aside, two of its eight legs—its forelimbs—
Immediately gripped the Archangel of Observation's arm tightly, preventing it from launching another attack.
Immediately afterward...
Its massive body, nearly ten meters long, pressed down all at once.
The Basilisk's green eyes rolled, landing on Nolan, and it opened its foul-smelling maw to bite down.
"Sorry, you picked the wrong opponent."
Seeing the Basilisk's move, Nolan's gaze turned cold. "Dark Wave!"
The Cursed Knight skill was activated, and black energy rippled outward with Nolan as the center.
The Basilisk's body instantly froze in place.