Keyboard Immortal

Chapter 2469: This Place Forbids Forbidding

These enemies were the beings sealed under the Eye of the Ocean, and they were not to be trifled with. To make things worse, the monsters had no intelligence about the multiple-armed race.  

There must be another world sealed beneath the Eye of the Ocean. I must report this to my master—there is a new world to be conquered!

The Incestuous King squeezed out a smile and said, “It’s a misunderstanding. There must be a misunderstanding somewhere.”

The Mermaid Queen and the Peacock Princess were baffled. They were so used to Mojard’s arrogant attitude that they couldn’t believe he could change his ttune that quickly. 

While everyone else was in a daze, however, Mojard took back control of the Soulfall Bell and shook it. Everyone who heard the bell lost their balance.

Zu An unleashed the Lion’s Roar before saying, “Be careful. That bell can sway one’s soul.”

Princess Ni Huang snapped out of her daze and sneered, “Easy peasy!”

She waved the command flag, and deep war horns echoed from the asura army, greatly raising their morale. The shaman army also began roaring, as if provoked by the asura army’s war horn. They had fought against each other for so many years that it actually aided their coordination.

Pah!

Under the reverberation of all these noises, Mojard’s Soulfall Bell began to crack. A single artifact could only do so much before an entire army. 

Mojard’s face darkened. “Kill them!”

Countless skills were conjured through the army formations and hurled toward the asura and shaman army. 

“Get into formation!” 

However, in response, the asura and shaman army also conjured skills that neutralized over half of the monster army’s bombardment. The remaining attacks fell on their own army formation’s transparent barrier. This exchange completely lit up the area around the Dragon Palace. 

Once again, Zu An confirmed that only an army could deal with an army. Even though the Rune Weapon Chart allowed him to be a one-man army, there were limits to what he could do alone. He wouldn’t fear an average enemy force, but dealing with elites from the Monster World at its peak would still pose some trouble to him. Judging from their bombardment, he could tell that the monster army was filled with experts, and their defensive formations were formidable. Even if he unleashed an airstrike via his Rune Weapon Chart, its prowess would likely be greatly reduced by their defensive formations. 

It was fortunate he had won over the Asura race and the Shaman races, or else the situation would have been tricky. 

While both sides bombarded each other with skills, the monsters began charging at the shamans and asuras, whipping out their weapons and claws to rip apart their enemies. Their goal was to reach the formation masters. Once the enemy’s formation masters were down, they would be able to easily massacre everyone else. For the same reason, every army always ensured their formation masters were tightly guarded. 

The fight intensified. Blood and flesh flew everywhere. The asuras and shamans boasted superior individual fighting prowess, but the monsters were veterans who had conquered countless worlds. It was a surprisingly close fight. There were so many casualties that even the army commanders were startled. 

Zu An’s expression turned grim. He couldn’t let the asuras and shamans suffer such severe losses when they were here to help him. Thus, he charged at Mojard. 

“This place forbids…” Mojard began using his soulspeak.

Something must be wrong with his head. He dares to use soulspeak despite suffering a huge setback against me.

“What you lookin’ at?”

“…”

“This place forbids teleportation!” Mojard still completed his soulspeak somehow.

Zu An suddenly felt so heavy that his body plummeted from the sky. He stared at Mojard in confusion, not comprehending why the latter hadn’t been compelled to reply ‘I’m looking at you, shithead!

’ This was the first time that skill had failed. 

His gaze soon fell on Mojard’s helmet. He hadn’t paid that helmet much notice as the latter was commanding an army, but from the looks of it now, it was probably the helmet that was making a difference here. 

Zu An’s confusion delighted Mojard. “Heh, did you think I would keep falling for the same move? I had this artifact specially forged to tune out external noises and soulspeak.”

Mojard wouldn’t be affected by ‘What you lookin’ at?’ if he couldn’t hear Zu An’s voice. He could decipher what others were saying by reading their lips, so not being able to hear wasn’t an issue for him.

Zu An was stunned, thinking, He looks awfully like Magneto.

He unhesitatingly charged up to Mojard, hoping to interrupt his soulspeak by engaging him in close combat. 

The two of them exchanged a blow. While Mojard was being knocked back, he made use of this opening to declare, “This place forbids external aid.”

The Mermaid Queen was shocked to discover that her buffs no longer worked on Zu An. 

Zu An’s speed was reduced by almost 20%. Soulspeak sure is troublesome to deal with. 

Mojard dodged Zu An’s attack while making another declaration, “This place forbids…”

Soulspeak wasn't omnipotent. Certain conditions had to be fulfilled before it could be used, and more often than not, it could only achieve auxiliary effects. Otherwise, Mojard could have simply ordered his enemies to kill themselves. Also, the effectiveness of soulspeak was greatly dependent on the power disparity between the aggressor and the victim. For instance, he was able to outright forbid the Peacock Princess from retaliating against him, but he couldn’t do the same for Zu An. Not only would it be useless, but he would also suffer a rebound if he tried to do so. Thus, he carefully set up rules one by one. While these rules might not seem like much, they slowly turned the tides in his favor. 

He viewed his previous defeat to Zu An as a great humiliation. On top of forging his noise-cancellation helmet, he had also thought hard about how he could subdue this mysterious fellow. It wasn't without reason he was ranked third in the Monster World. He had accrued much combat experience in the years he spent conquering countless worlds. He'd meticulously planned the rules he would impose to avoid backlash while creating the conditions required to achieve victory in the shortest time possible.

If everything went according to plan, he would need just one more rule to ensure his decisive advantage. Once that happened, the enemy could struggle all he wanted, but it would be futile. 

But Zu An beat him by declaring, “This place forbids forbidding.”

Mojard was stunned. Do you think we’re playing house? How can you forbid forbidding? Do you take yourself as the God of Creation or something?

He was about to declare the final rule to ensure his victory when he suddenly stiffened up. Much to his shock, he was unable to voicetthat rule!