Seeing the rapidly approaching roots, Rocky dared not to be careless. Wasting no time, he leaped into the air, trying to avoid the roots at all costs. However, they still kept on chasing and pestering him aggressively.
Because he was still unable to fly or stay in the air for a longer time, Rocky had to find a way to deceive these roots with his current abilities.
Then, an idea suddenly popped in his head, making him reveal a sinister smile at the corners of his mouth. In an instant, a flash of spiritual light surged out and enveloped him. Soon enough, several figures that looked exactly like him emerged in midair.
"Is he trying to escape from the roots using some kind of illusory technique? I'm afraid this won't be effective against the Spiritual Flower Technique!" One of the senior officials shook his head as he saw what Rocky was trying to do.
When the Spiritual Flower Technique was activated, the spirits of the flowers and the roots were driven and manipulated by Valeria's spiritual power. Therefore, they became sensitive to the target's spiritual power, only attacking the strongest one. Hence, even if Rocky used an illusory technique to create several avatars, the roots would know which one to attack since avatars were usually not as powerful as one's real self.
Hearing what the senior official said, the other officials could not help but feel worried about Rocky.
Sure enough, just as what the senior official speculated, the roots did not pay any attention to the other phantoms. Instead, they directly went for Rocky's real body.
However, as Rocky's body was entangled by the roots that were manipulated by Valeria, it suddenly disappeared into thin air.
Obviously, Valeria was shocked to her core. She thought that she finally captured Rocky, but it seemed that he was able to outsmart the attack of the Spiritual Flower Technique. She was in utter disbelief because she had never met an opponent who managed to escape from this technique.
However, Valeria was not the type of person to immediately give up just because of a single mishap. Hence, she immediately controlled the wood spirits to search and locate Rocky's spiritual power. But after some time, her efforts were in vain. It seemed that Rocky's original spiritual power had actually vanished without a trace. Moreover, the strange thing was that the phantoms that he created earlier were still scattered everywhere.
"Wait. I don't think that it is just an ordinary illusory skill...
It must be the Devilish Phantom Skill!"
"What? The Devilish Phantom Skill?!"
"But that is impossible! It is a secret skill owned by the royal family. How could he possibly learn it?"
The officials were in utter disbelief, but they realized that it must be the only rational explanation.
The Devilish Phantom Skill was a high-level secret skill. The phantoms created using this skill would possess the same attacking style and strength as the real body. It could be said that it could create the user's perfect replica.
However, the most terrifying feature of the Devilish Phantom Skill was that the real body could switch its position to any of the phantoms at any time. Consequently, it would be pretty difficult to capture the user's real body. Hence, when Valeria's roots captured Rocky's real body, it instantly switched positions with one of the phantoms.
Valeria also heard what the officials were talking about. However, she refused to believe that Rocky was capable of executing such a high-level skill from the royal family.
The next moment, Valeria manipulated the wood spirits again to rush towards Rocky's phantoms.
However, the same thing just happened. As the roots captured a phantom, it would just suddenly vanish.
"Girl, why don't you just give up already? You're just wasting your effort and energy. You won't be able to capture me anyway," the phantoms that were scattered around Valeria uttered at the same time.
"Damn it! Stop mocking me!" At this time, Valeria continued to fume in anger because of embarrassment.
The next moment, the wood spirits moved aggressively and chased after all the phantoms in the area. However, she still could not catch Rocky's real body.
"I can't believe this! I didn't expect that our Godly Genius could actually defeat Valeria's Spiritual Flower Technique!"
"With his sheer talent, he would bring honor to the Ghost Fief!"
Just when the officials had already become excited, thinking that Valeria had no more ways to deal with Rocky, the wood spirits suddenly gathered and transformed into a huge wooden man.
Swoosh!
Then, the wooden man raised its thick arms up in midair and began smashing wildly in all directions. Soon enough, fissures appeared on the ground within a dozen meters, and even the surrounding buildings were affected. The area had instantly become a mess.
Seeing this, the officials decided to retreat to avoid getting caught up with their battle.
However, the situation became even more uncontrollable. In order to force Rocky to reveal his real body, Valeria allowed the wooden man to destroy everything in the area without hesitation. It seemed that she was willing to pay any price just to bring Rocky down.
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