Chapter 518: The Power of Rewind
Whether it was the reserve squad members on site.
Or the high-ranking generals in the Hundred Ghosts Fortress.
They never imagined, even in their dreams, that the spatial relay station could be repaired so quickly.
According to the initial estimates, to take down the spatial relay station, they would have to defeat a ground ghost general stationed there, along with dozens of elite ghost generals.
Moreover, they would also have to deal with an endless swarm of ghost slave monsters.
Therefore, the minimum estimated time for a fierce battle was three to four hours.
And there might still be significant casualties in between.
This was inevitable.
But now someone was telling them it had been done in just a short while.
Who could withstand that?
In reality.
While everyone was still in shock.
Ling Zhan had indeed arrived at the spatial relay station and began repairing several spatial relay channels.
With the help of his S-level talent, 'Spatia Dominance,' forget about repairing spatial relay channels—Ling Zhan could even open new spatial relay channels with ease, guaranteeing that he could create a brand new spatial relay channel from Hakata City to the Hundred Ghosts Fortress within ten days.
One person, ten days, opening a new channel!
Can you believe it?
You have to know, the difficulty between repairing and creating is very different.
Repairing a spatial relay channel could actually be done by someone with a D-level spatial talent.
But creating a new spatial relay channel—someone with D-level spatial talent could not accomplish it, as the talent level is too low and doesn't grant the authority to open space.
And opening a new spatial relay channel requires an entire team to accomplish.
Even for the Dragon Kingdom, known as the 'infrastructure maniacs,' opening a spatial relay channel from Southern Province to Fengtian Province would still require a team to spend at least three months.
Therefore, Ling Zhan accomplishing it in ten days was enough to leave everyone in shock.
But none of this was really important.
The most important thing was...
How did Ling Zhan make all the fireballs that should have exploded vanish completely?
'Temporal Rewind.'
Exactly.
It was this S- level skill that was taking effect.
In fact, the fireballs were less than three meters away from the ground at that time.
Just a gentle touch on the ground, and the fireballs would have exploded.
Even if you brought a three-turn Archmage here, it would be impossible to completely stop the fireballs in that situation.
Because the skill had already left the caster's control.
And even though Ling Zhan was proficient in magic, he still couldn't make the fireballs, once released, come to an abrupt halt.
So the last thing he used was the skill 'Temporal Rewind.'
Returning himself to four seconds earlier.
During countless simulations, Ling Zhan made an astonishing discovery—that everything 'related to himself' would be rewound by four seconds.
This 'everything related to himself' even included the skills he had cast.
As for his equipment and items, they were considered 'external objects.'
They would not be affected by the rewind.
The fireballs falling from the sky had only reached 3.12 seconds of descent time.
After rewinding.
The fireballs that were initially falling all reverted to their suspended state, as they were four seconds earlier, before being released.
Since they hadn't been released, Ling Zhan naturally could directly cancel their activation, causing these sky-darkening 'small fireballs' to vanish completely.
Of course...
Ling Zhan's initial intent was just to see if it would work.
If it didn't work, then he would have had to resort to other measures.
But who would have thought that the ground ghost general would be so cowardly? When it saw Ling Zhan's apparent disregard for the spatial relay station, intending to destroy it completely, it decisively fled.
Moreover, Ling Zhan's astonishing tactics had completely scared that ground ghost general.
It seemed that these low-ranked ground ghost generals were indeed a bunch of cowards.
The level 87 Glaring Ghost was like that before.
And now, this level 92 Ghost Yikou was no different.
It seemed the stronger they were, the more they cherished their lives.
A small skill tricked out the opponent's blink.
So Ling Zhan smoothly flashed into the spatial relay station, while summoning a certain number of contract spirits to block the attacks from the abandoned ghost slaves around him.
Under the effect of his S-level spatial talent, a few of the less severely damaged spatial relay channels were quickly repaired.
Throughout the entire process, not only others, but even Ling Zhan found it unbelievable.
He was all ready for another battle, but who knew a small skill would make the opponent blink away?
After the spatial relay channel was repaired, he immediately signaled the Hundred Ghosts Fortress in his capacity as the temporary captain of the reserve squad.
In less than half a minute.
The various national forces, who had already assembled, directly transmitted through the spatial relay channels.
Thus...
When the furious ground ghost general Ghost Yikou returned to the northwest area.
It was stunned to see...
Tens of thousands of troops from various countries were already gathered!
"Damn it!!"
Without any hesitation.
The level 92 ground ghost general immediately turned to flee, not even bothering with the dozens of elite ghost generals beside it!
"Kill!!"
Seeing this, the generals of the various national forces immediately ordered the elite teams, comprised of level 80 experts, to intercept the fleeing elite ghost generals and the ground ghost general.
In such an encirclement.
Ghost Yikou had no chance of winning.
At the same time, it hated this non-specialist with a vengeance!
That non-specialist was truly despicable!
So disgusting!!
The key was that his small skill baiting the blink made Ghost Yikou feel utterly humiliated, like a clown!
If only it had stayed back and fought the non-specialist head-on back then!
Now, not only had it lost the spatial relay station, but it was also being hunted down.
After all, killing a ground ghost general was no small feat!
Ling Zhan, having slain a ground ghost general and countless ghost slaves, had directly surpassed the Earth Rankings and moved up to the Heavenly Rankings.
A general beside him, seeing Ling Zhan's calm demeanor, couldn't help but praise him:
"So talented at such a young age! Truly admirable!"
"At first, I thought the praise for you was overblown, but now that I've seen it firsthand, I know it's well deserved!"
"Indeed! A hero from the younger generation. It looks like another legendary figure will soon emerge from the Dragon Kingdom!"
The surrounding generals of various national forces were not very high in rank—they were the deputy commanders of major army units.
But each one of them was over level 95 in strength.
Now, seeing a young man thirty levels below them achieve such an impressive feat, they couldn't help but shower him with praise.
To this, Ling Zhan simply responded politely, "You flatter me."
Then, with a tap of his toes, he leaped into the air, heading towards the position of the Dragon Kingdom's Ninth Squad.