At six in the morning, in the center of Shield District in Dragon Clouds City, the moon had already set in the west. The darkest hour of the day was about to arrive.
The hydra, Kilika, seemed to be very excited. Its gigantic body emitted a chilling sound of flesh rubbing against each other. It could not help but make people think of the scene of someone grinding pork with a millstone. It waved its limbs and tentacles in a frenzy, continuously releasing wave after wave of people to surround Nicholas and Gleeward.
The two supreme class elites, who held legendary anti-mystic equipment, fought with all their might in the crowd controlled by the Mystic and advanced with all their might.
With great willpower, the two of them endured the cries and screams of the residents as they killed their way through a layer of the crowd. With great difficulty, they managed to get closer to the Mystic.
However, the girl with a bright smile only shook her head slightly. A gigantic tentacle reached out from behind her and sent her twenty meters away.
More people who were controlled walked out of the tentacle in confusion and surrounded the two supreme class humans. They could not help but block the space that the tentacle had vacated.
Just a dozen meters away, under an inconspicuous low wall, Thales listened attentively to Black Sword's explanation with shock and astonishment.
"The Power of Eradication originates from the untapped potential in the human body. We use special methods, such as specific martial arts and sword styles, to guide it into usable power."
Black Sword's words seemed to carry a faint sense of authority, causing people to unconsciously perk up their ears to listen. "It can more or less increase a person's abilities for a short or long period of time, or adapt to certain battles."
He stared at Thales sternly and fiercely.
"The forms of existence of the Power of Eradication vary from person to person. There are many types of Power of Eradication. Some will form visible light, some will fuse with organs and tissues, some will even circulate around the body day and night, some will be used on special parts, and some will permeate the entire body.
"Even if it's the same type of Power of Eradication, when used by different people, there are often great differences."
Thales frowned. 'If there are great differences, how should I' teach 'him?'
Black Sword seemed to have heard his thoughts. As the hydra roared from its flesh, he said calmly, "But they still have something in common that can be used as a reference."
"Most of the Powers of Eradication have a specific form and function at the moment of awakening." Black Sword exhaled. His muscles trembled, as though he was doing his final warm-up. He said, "For example, the Glory of the Stars, which greatly increases nerve excitement and human endurance; the Thawing of Glaciers, which continuously increases one's resistance to pressure and senses; the Pegasus' Music, which maximizes the resonance with the external environment; and the Death of the Sword, which instantly breaks the human body's self-protection mechanism …"
"The people who awakened these Powers of Eradication will naturally form biases and habits based on the specific forms of their Powers of Eradication."
When Thales blinked, Black Sword changed the topic.
"But the Sin of Hell's River is different."
Black Sword's expression turned cold.
"It is one of the least recorded Powers of Eradication. Based on my and some of my predecessors' experiences, it comes from the most unbelievable potential of life," Black Sword said slowly.
"Survival."
Thales' heart tightened.
He remembered the encounter in the birch tree forest: Serena strangled him in midair.
"So, the Sin of Hell's River exists to prolong a dying life." Black Sword inhaled slowly and adjusted his breathing. "It is a final struggle at all costs."
He gave the prince a profound look. "This is also the prerequisite for us to awaken the Sin of Hell's River.
"It awakens at the moment of death, and it will stimulate all the essence of life.
"Because of this, it is different from most Powers of Eradication. The Sin of Hell's River does not have a specific form.
"In other words, it can exist in any form …
"And be effective."
Thales' pupils shrank. "Any form of existence for the Powers of Eradication?" Thales' pupils shrank. "Any form?
He somewhat understood what Black Sword meant.
"That's right …" Black Sword smiled and nodded. He looked at Kilika in the distance. "That's right.
"The Sin of Hell's River …"
Black Sword narrowed his eyes. "It's the omnipotent Powers of Eradication."
While the two of them spoke, Nicholas and Gleeward were struggling to hold on.
"We can't go on like this."
With a cold expression, Nicholas chopped off a woman's head with the Severing Souls Blade. Her terrified gaze before she died made the battle-hardened warrior's chest feel heavy. Then, he faced the next old man with a dazed expression.
"With the legendary anti-mystic equipment, we won't have to worry about protecting ourselves …" Nicholas gently swung his slightly sore arm. He glanced at the corpses around them and could not help but frown.
"But in the end, we will be exhausted to death!"
The Star Killer glanced at Gleeward, who had a crazed expression and whose eyes were filled with rage.
'Or, Gleeward will have a mental breakdown after he reaches his limit.'
Gleeward roared and brandished his spear. The spearhead slashed through three people, but his left arm was scratched by a little girl who attacked him from behind.
The civilians of Shield District who were scratched by the spear died under the effect of Extermination. Gleeward tried his best not to look at their expressions before they died, but his entire body was trembling violently.
"Do you have any way to break through?!" Gleeward gritted his teeth and took a step back. He was very agitated. "Don't tell me that you're actually the Kingdom's Wrath!"
"We can't break through." Nicholas stared at the girl standing in front of the hydra and drew a blade. "But we can make it so that she can't retreat!"
Gleeward's expression changed.
In the next moment, the Star Killer's aura changed!
Two patches of red appeared on Nicholas' pale face. He retracted his arm and stopped attacking the densely packed crowd in front of him.
He stroked the Severing Souls Blade with his finger.
In an instant, with a loud crack, the Severing Souls Blade, which had two curved sections, broke into two halves from the protruding part of the blade's spine!
The Blood Mystic raised her eyebrows as she watched all of this. She instinctively felt that something was wrong, and the blood red stripes on her face shuddered.
The cut on the blade seemed to be very regular. The Star Killer held the broken blade in one hand and the remaining half of the Severing Souls Blade in the other. He revealed a mysterious smile.
"World Break, begin," he said softly.
In the next second, Nicholas moved. The Power of Eradication in his body began to tremble.
He turned his body sideways and squeezed past the three civilians controlled by the Mystic in front of him with unbelievable movements. As they screamed involuntarily, he tapped the ground lightly, stepped on their shoulders, and leaped into the air!
If Aida was here, she would immediately recognize that this was the same movement Nicholas displayed when they first met. It was the kind of footwork that allowed him to weave through the crowd perfectly, yet it was impossible to dodge.
Giza's expression changed slightly. Immediately, a few controlled civilians bent their knees and jumped like monsters, pouncing towards Nicholas in the air.
But at that moment, Gleeward's Soul Slayer Pike drew a circle in the air, which was rarely seen.
* Shick! *
Bearing the injuries on his shoulders and back from the encirclement, Gleeward roared and swept away all the civilians who tried to stop Nicholas, turning them into lifeless corpses.
Nicholas leaped into the air without any hindrance. In that second, he cast a profound glance at Giza in the distance.
Separated by dozens of densely packed people, the Star Killer shook his arm.
The broken blade let out a whooshing sound in the air as it sliced through the air and went straight for the Mystic's face!
Giza's expression changed drastically.
Amid the piercing sound of the wind, she cautiously extended two tentacles from her body, struck the ground, and pushed herself backwards.
* Thud! *
The blade stabbed into the ground, only a few meters away from the Blood Mystic.
Nicholas' expression did not change. He descended from the air and used the broken blade to block an enemy who was about to ambush him from behind.
Giza narrowed her eyes and stared at the broken blade on the ground. She did not say a word.
However, a second later, Nicholas swung the blade lightly. His eyes shone brilliantly, and he said coldly, "World Break completed."
The Mystic's expression did not change. He did not even look puzzled.
But at that moment, Nicholas suddenly let out the most emotional roar he had since the start of the battle. "Charge!"
As if he had received a supreme order, Gleeward opened his mouth and brandished the trembling pike with a ferocious expression. He pierced through the two innocent 'enemies' in front of him and charged forward with tears in his eyes!
“wooh！”
As Gleeward roared, Nicholas did not show any signs of weakness. The half-broken blade in his hand shone with a glint so bright that it was difficult to see with the naked eye. In an instant, he slit the neck of a wailing teenager and charged towards the Mystic.
"There's only one chance! Break through! "
In the Blood Mystic's eyes, the two supreme class Mystic charged forward without caring about the cost, injuries, and defense. The dense crowd of dozens of people was crushed by their charge!
Giza tilted her head slightly. More people walked out of the tentacles and surrounded the vanguard.
However, Nicholas and Gleeward's charge did not stop. Both of them had scratches and cuts all over their bodies, but they burst forth with their most ferocious forms and charged at the Mystic at the same time!
They were getting closer and closer to the Mystic.
In the end, Giza still closed her eyes. Soon, Kilika stretched out a giant tentacle from behind her, grabbed her waist, and swept her backwards.
But an accident happened at that moment.
The Mystic on the tentacles retreated no more than ten meters. The blade of the Severing Souls Blade that was stabbed into the ground suddenly shone brightly!
The broken blade shone with the most dazzling yellow light.
The tentacles that protected Giza continued to drag her backwards, but a yellow light that was identical to the one on the blade suddenly appeared behind Giza!
Giza's expression changed.
The tentacles were still retreating, but Giza seemed to be held back by an invisible hand from behind. She was forced to a stop in front of a barrier formed by the yellow light.
No matter how hard the tentacles tried, they could not drag Giza out of the area of the yellow light!
It was as if it had been stuck by something.
Giza raised her head abruptly and looked at the broken blade of the Severing Souls Blade on the ground in front of her.
'It's that broken blade!
There's something wrong with it. '
Giza did not have much time to think, because in an instant, the two supreme class elites broke through the densely packed crowd. Covered in blood, they charged fiercely towards the Mystic, who could not retreat even a single inch!
Ten meters … five meters … four meters … three meters … the distance between the two of them and Giza was getting closer!
"Attack!" Nicholas roared and elbowed an enemy to his left. Then, he turned around and swung his blade decisively. As blood splattered, he cut down three or four people, protecting Gleeward at all costs.
With tears still on his face and a heart full of resentment, Gleeward swung the fatal Soul Slayer Pike and stepped within three meters of the Mystic. Then, he thrust the pike forward!
The yellow light behind the Blood Mystic flashed faster and faster.
It still obstructed her and prevented her from retreating or dodging.
The tip of the pike approached the spot between Giza's eyes.
* Thud! *
At that critical moment, the body of the Soul Slayer Pike was once again gripped tightly by the veteran 'Big Leather Belt' who suddenly appeared beside Giza.
"Chief Gleeward." Big Leather Belt held the Soul Slayer Pike with a face full of tears. "I'm sorry."
Nicholas' figure flashed again. The broken blade flew and clanked against metal. In a short period of time, Gleeward was protected so tightly that not even a drop of water could escape.
"It's nothing." Gleeward gritted his teeth and glared at Big Leather Belt, who was forced to stand between the Mystic and the Soul Slayer Pike. "It's just another unlucky battle."
The three of them were locked in a stalemate.
The crowd surrounding the three of them seemed to have received some sort of order. They stopped abruptly and retreated in unison amidst the terrified howls of those who were being controlled.
Only then did Nicholas get a chance to catch his breath. He took a step back and leaned his back against Gleeward, who was holding the Soul Slayer Pike against the Mystic.
Giza lowered her head. Her lips moved slightly, and her voice rang in the ears of the two supreme class individuals.
"What is this?" the Mystic asked flatly.
"This is the ability of the Severing Souls Blade." Nicholas clutched his chest. He glanced at the blade on the ground, then at Big Leather Belt, who was blocking the Soul Slayer Pike. His expression was unpleasant. "With the separated blade as the center, it can isolate an area that is completely isolated from the outside world for a short period of time.
"It only allows entry and no exit."
Gleeward gritted his teeth. His eyes were full of hatred. "It's enough to trap you here — Bam."
Giza narrowed her eyes. She did not seem to mind at all. Without moving her lips, she asked, "How rare. It's another equipment I've never seen before."
"This ability has a terrible name." Nicholas' face twitched a little. In the end, he took a deep breath and said somewhat stiffly, "It's called 'You Can't Escape'."
"Hmph." The Blood Mystic snorted coldly. "It sounds like the work of that b * tch, Blood Spike."
Nicholas looked at the crowd around him warily. Without batting an eyelid, he nudged his companion behind him. "The Blood Spike Empress originally forged this equipment to fight against the Void Mystic — that kind of illusory, untraceable existence."
The hydra, Kilika, let out an enraged and indecipherable roar.
"Just to deal with Zarkel?" The Blood Mystic shook her head slowly. "You don't know how sad that fool will be when he hears you say that."
Nicholas turned his head and fixed his gaze on Giza. "Of course, we later realized that if the Severing Souls Blade is used with other equipment, it will be quite effective against most calamities.
"For example, right now … it's' you can't escape '."
The Blood Mystic fixed her gaze on them. Her expression became more and more stiff.
"Game over, bitch." Wielding the Soul Slayer Pike, Gleeward's expression was terrifying. He looked as if he wanted to cut the Mystic into pieces with his gaze.
"Do it." Nicholas urged his companion behind him in a cold voice. "Let's end this."
"Are you ready, Big Leather Belt?" Gleeward nodded. Staring at his former comrade who was being controlled, anger and reluctance flashed in his eyes.
"Of course, boss." Big Leather Belt smiled miserably at first. Then, his expression stiffened and he said sorrowfully, "I still have a daughter …"
Hearing that, Gleeward frowned slightly.
'Shield District is almost completely destroyed.
Only a small number of residents in the periphery were evacuated.
'My daughter is probably …'
But Gleeward still took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take care of her for you."
Tears flashed in Big Leather Belt's eyes. At that moment, he flashed a serene smile. "Thank you."
In the next second, under Big Leather Belt's relieved gaze, Gleeward's entire body let out a terrifying crackling sound.
The Soul Slayer Pike in his hand seemed to have the strength of a thousand kilograms. Trembling, Gleeward's hands, which had been freed from Big Leather Belt, thrust forward!
* Thud! *
The Soul Slayer Pike pierced through Big Leather Belt's chest, producing a muffled sound of metal rubbing against his sternum.
Big Leather Belt's relieved smile froze on his face. His entire body turned into a withered corpse.
* Rip! *
The tip of the pike pierced through Big Leather Belt's back again.
Then, it pierced right between the Mystic's eyes.
It came out from the back of her head.
At that moment, the Mystic opened her mouth wide and trembled, but no words came out.
It was as if she was experiencing endless pain.
Behind her, Kilika let out a terrifying sizzling sound. His huge body slowly fell limp.
The crowd around them stopped moving.
Giza's face began to turn black and brittle. Like cracked, dead wood, pieces fell off.
Nicholas exhaled.
Panting, he staggered two steps forward, picked up the blade that was stuck in the ground, and slowly fastened it to the broken Severing Souls Blade.
A dazzling yellow light flashed at the broken part. Then, the two pieces of metal fused together seamlessly.
It was as clean as new, as if it had never been broken.
Gleeward closed his eyes. Leaning on the ground with the pike, he knelt down on one knee in exhaustion.
'It's over.'
Nicholas turned around and looked at the tottering hydra.
"Wait!"
Gleeward's violent roar rang in the air!
Nicholas immediately cast him a surprised and bewildered gaze.
'What?'
"The Soul Slayer Pike … is still vibrating!" The lame veteran opened his mouth in disbelief. He stared at Giza, who was shattering like broken pottery. With all his might, he pulled the pike out.
"This isn't her!" Gleeward roared in grief and indignation. "It's not that bitch!"
Nicholas was instantly shocked!
Under their shocked gazes, the shards on 'Giza's' face fell off piece by piece, revealing a pretty but lifeless gray face.
Once the Mystic's appearance was stripped away, an innocent girl appeared before their eyes.
"This is just a civilian!" Gleeward roared at the top of his lungs.
The battle-hardened Nicholas' expression was cold. He spread his arms like lightning and turned to the crowd around him!
But it was too late.
Countless people instantly moved and pounced on Nicholas, who had just relaxed.
They drowned him in the crowd.
In the next moment, a tentacle was quietly flung out from the crowd and reached him in an instant.
* Bang! *
Unable to react in time, Gleeward was struck by the tentacle!
Under the boundless force, the lame veteran flew more than ten meters away.
* Thud! *
Like a broken sack, Gleeward crashed into a ruin. Dirt and stones flew everywhere, and he rolled a few times before he fell to the ground, motionless.
He seemed to have lost consciousness.
His Soul Slayer Pike flew in another direction and rolled on the ground with a dull clang.
"No!"
Nicholas' sorrowful and indignant roar pierced through the crowd.
He fought his way out of the countless people whose strength, speed, and reflexes surpassed that of ordinary people. He was covered in wounds.
Blood splattered everywhere. The Star Killer rolled a few meters away. With one hand on the ground, he lifted his head weakly and looked at Gleeward, whose fate was unknown.
The multi-headed snake, Kilika, who was on the verge of collapse, became active again. It sent out a tentacle and split it open. A gentle and beautiful girl — the real Blood Mystic — appeared in the tentacle with a pleasant smile on her face.
With a gloomy expression, Nicholas looked at Giza, then at the substitute who had fallen under the Soul Slayer Pike.
"No … You … When did you change your true form?" Nicholas said, trembling in disbelief.
Giza only looked at him with a smile, as if she was looking at a naughty child.
Nicholas closed his eyes, punched the ground, and howled in grief at the sky.
It was his fault.
He should have thought of it earlier.
From the beginning, the Mystic had never smiled, never moved her lips, and never had much of an expression on her face!
'Now that I think about it, that was just a substitute!'
The Blood Mystic's gentle voice came from afar.
"Look, it's not that difficult to change a person's appearance with a bit of dead skin tissue, right?" Giza shook her head mischievously. "It saves my little cuties the danger of being attacked by the Soul Slayer Pike, which would affect me …
"I can also enjoy the wonderful expressions on your faces when you get tricked."
Giza giggled as she looked at Nicholas' resentful expression and waved her hand.
"And I only need to stand in a straight line with the substitute. Even the Soul Slayer Pike, which can locate Mystics, can't tell whether it's a substitute or the real one.
"The Soul Slayer Pike is out." The Mystic narrowed her eyes and looked at Gleeward in the distance. "Listen up, this is a lesson from the bitch."
At that moment, Giza's expression became extremely cold. "Never let your guard down at any moment."
In the next moment, countless tentacles and the controlled crowd pounced on the unconscious Gleeward and the injured Nicholas like a raging flood that broke through a dam. They covered the sky and the earth, and they blotted out the sky and the moon!
In the end, the two controllers of the legendary anti-mystic equipment were defeated by the Mystic.
Nicholas gritted his teeth. The hand that held the blade trembled in anger.
He staggered to his feet and looked at the enemies attacking him from all directions. He lifted the blade helplessly.
The blade sliced through a tentacle and turned it into ashes.
The hilt knocked away a wailing child who pounced on him like a hunting eagle.
'Goodbye, Gleeward.'
Nicholas felt the blood trickling down his forehead and thought in despair.
'We.
'Failed.'
But at that moment, the Blood Mystic's expression suddenly changed.
She turned her head abruptly and looked in another direction.
There, Kilika's two giant tentacles trembled at the same time.
Then, they turned into ashes simultaneously.
Giza narrowed her eyes.
'The legendary anti-mystic equipment?
'The third one?'
Soon, the Mystic saw the figure who attacked her.
"It's you?" Giza's eyebrows twitched. It was her old acquaintance.
Black Sword's figure appeared vaguely in the middle of the tentacles' encirclement. He was less than twenty meters away from her.
But wherever he went, the Blood Mystic's creations of flesh and blood were all reduced to ashes.
"Remember." Black Sword charged towards Giza with an indomitable will. He whispered to Thales, who held the Blade of Purification in his arms, "We only have one chance.
It's time. "
Thales took a deep breath. His gaze was firm as he nodded slowly.
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