<h4>Chapter 500 - 500: Strongest Defence</h4>


    Lucifer''s gaze met with Andreas. He also recognized that person. He was the leader of the Warlock Council, Andreas. Moreover, he was also the same person that Caen was impersonating.


    "That man... Isn''t that your friend?" Duke asked, also noticing Andreas.


    "He''s not Caen. Caen was impersonating to be him. He''s the real deal," Lucifer replied. "Anyway, it''s time for you to show your skills. Let''s give the guests a wee gift."


    "You mean..."


    "That''s right. Target the first ne," Lucifer replied.


    In the meantime, his clouds had also gathered. They even started roaring as if telling Lucifer that they were prepared to take the enemy down.


    Arthur and Yasmine took out thest golden sword as well before they returned to the wall to stand beside Lucifer.


    Arthur appeared perfectly fine, as if what he did was too easy. On the other hand, Yasmine was sweating and breathing heavily as she went through a lot.


    It was hard for her to cast her domain ten times in quick session.


    "You did good. Now stay back and let us take care of them," Lucifer said, patting the shoulder of Yasmine.


    He also took off his gloves and kept them in his pockets. "Duke, not!"


    As Lucifer stretched his arms, Duke attacked. A brightser beam left his eyes, getting thicker as it reached farther.


    The beam advanced towards the first ne from which Andrew was peeking out.


    Andreas wasn''t phased. He didn''t even bother to go back inside the ne. He had faith in the barrier around the ne.


    The beam of energy hit the barrier, making it p. The barrier started flickering a bit in the face of the powerful attack, but that was all. The barrier wasn''t broken.


    However, before Andreas could even smile, another attack came towards his ne, this time even more powerful.


    The attack this time doesn''te from the front. Instead, it came from the sky.


    ck bolt of lightning prated through the dark clouds beforending on the barrier of the ne. The barrier again flickered but did not stop there. Another lightning bolt fell from the sky.


    One after another, lightning bolts kept falling from the sky on the same spot.


    Inside the ne, a blonde man was sitting on his seat with his eyes clenched tightly. He was the S-Rank Warlock who was maintaining the defensive barrier.


    His entire body was covered in sweat as he wondered if he could maintain the barrier for long.


    A few Warlocks noticed the condition of the blonde Warlock. They hastily ran to Andreas.


    "I don''t think Drake wouldst long like this. This attack is powerful. And unlike other powerful attacks, it doesn''t stop. It''s as if the person who is attacking us doesn''t get tired at all! If it continues like this, we will lose the barrier!"


    "That''s true. It''s also harder since he''s covering all the nes with his barrier, which weakens him further. If he were only using the barrier in a small area, it would have been easy for him," John agreed.


    "So, what shall we do?" he asked Andreas. "Should we still wait until we''re inside the city? Or attack now?"


    "I wanted to be inside the city before we started our assault, but it doesn''t matter anymore. We''re going out now. Tell the others to jump out. Instead of being one bigger Target, it''s better for us to be spread out," Andreas agreed.


    As he finished speaking, he jumped out of the ne. His beautiful white winds spread wide as he started flying.


    Within seconds, the other Warlocks from the ne also jumped out.


    Strangely, none of them had any parachutes, but still, they went down slowly as if they were as light as a feather.


    It was also the ability of another Warlock who was casting it on arge scale.


    Lucifer''s attack continued on the ne while Duke attacked with hisser again, this time targeting the people who had jumped out of the ne.


    The battle between lighting and the barrier continued. The barrier continued weakening, especially when Drake opened his eyes.


    He also walked to the exit and jumped out.


    Only after he jumped out did the barrier disappear. The lightning crashed on the ne.


    Boom~


    A loud explosion urred as the ne blew up.?Its ming pieces started falling down, crashing towards the wall of the Royal City because of its trajectory and close proximity to the wall.


    Lucifer stopped his lightning and clenched his fist, bringing forth powerful wind tornadoes which stopped the ming ne pieces from crashing on the wall.


    The tornadoes took the rubble of the ne and flew back towards the Warlock Council members that were still in the ne.


    Now that Drake didn''t have to defend the entire ne with his barrier, he was freer. He sighed a breath of relief as he sighed.


    After collecting a few breaths, he again prepared for battle, now having the opportunity to be more effective since he didn''t have to spread his barrier too thin.


    He raised his left hand towards the iing beam of red energy, casting a barrier as the barrier was cast. This time, the barrier was concentrated in a small ce. It was only two meters wide, but it stopped theser attack.


    It was also stronger. Unlike before, it didn''t even flicker before the energy beam.


    "Now, time to show them what we can do," Drake muttered as hended on the ground.


    He noticed a tornado filled with the ne pieces flying towards him. He shook his head and started walking towards the tornado alone. No one even bothered to stop him since they all had faith in Drake.


    As for Andreas, he also stood with his arms folded, seemingly amused.


    ''It''s so good to have Drake on my team. He has one of the strongest defenses that I have seen. In fact, he''s also capable of bing a Warlock Council leader with his skills.''


    '' Unfortunately, the Warlock Council focuses more on offensive skills and not defensive. Otherwise, Drake would have been in a higher position,'' Andreas thought, watching Drake step ahead.


    As Drake reached the Warlock Council nes, he casually pped his hand, casting a barrier all around the tornado.


    The barrier trapped the tornado from all sides and started closing in.


    As the barriers closed in, the tornado kept bing smaller and smaller before ultimately disappearing.


    Drake shifted his gaze to Lucifer and started walking in his direction.


    "Interesting," Lucifer muttered, smirking. "Yasmine, it looks like he would be a good opponent for your energy negation. Want to go y with him?"


    "I wouldn''t mind," Yasmine nodded.


    "Good," Lucifer let out as he wrapped his hands around the soft waist of Yasmine and jumped down the wall.