Novel Full Chapter 1714: Entering Avalon’s Capital
Chapter 1714: Entering Avalon’s Capital
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The two Fairy Knights were obviously possessed by Demon Souls. The moment they rushed forward silently, Elayne quickly sensed their potent auras growing with greater intensity. She stepped forward, manifesting a large pair of sharp, golden dragon claws from her fists and punching both at the same time, protecting Khione from them.
BAAAM!
Both Fairies fell to the ground instantly, their weapons dropping to the floor as cracks appeared. Both knights groaned in pain, their Demonic Souls forcing them to remain awake as they started gnashing and biting at Elayne’s scale-covered hands.
“E-Elayne! Wait, please don’t kill them!” Katherine begged her.
“I wasn’t going to kill them,” Elayne said, infusing holy light energy into their bodies.
FLAAASH!
A small pillar of light pierced their bodies but didn’t harm them, instead reaching deep within their consciousness and forcing the demonic souls inside them to disappear.
The fairies gasped for air. In pain, they looked around with confusion before both fell unconscious right away, too exhausted to speak another word.
“They’re alive,” Elayne said. “But they won’t be able to help us out for a while. They need rest…”
“Yes, I understand,” Khione nodded. “Here, I will keep them inside this.”
Khione took out a storage item shaped like a painting, which was able to store living beings in a vegetative state.
With just a tap, the two fairies entered the painting, resembling two small blue butterflies.
“This is a Spirit Canvas, a storage for people,” explained Khione. “Or rather, Spirits. People like you wouldn’t be able to go inside. But this item can store spirits inside as paintings, leaving them in a resting state. This one should be able to store up to three hundred spirits inside.”
“Sounds good,” Rita said. “With that, we won’t have to worry about where to put all these people… Because I knew you guys were going to ask me to put them inside my shadows, and that place is way too creepy for these little guys…”
“Yeah, it’s better with the painting,” Mark nodded. “It’s honestly a really amazing item. I wonder if it could be replicated or if there are more? With that, we could bring along as many spirits as we wanted. Maybe even from Arcadia.”
“It’s a rare and expensive item to make,” Khione said. “I only have this one… but I could share the blueprint and the list of materials required to make them. Although very rare, I am sure you could find a way to recreate it. Actually, here.”
Khione quickly created a blueprint using her spiritual energy, encapsulating it inside a small spirit crystal she formed by compressing the spiritual blueprint and sharing it with Elayne.
“Oh, thank you!” Elayne said happily. “Alright, we should get going… Ah, there’s more coming.”
All the chatting ended, drawing the attention of more fairy knights and soldiers. All of them were silent, without speaking, with eyes as red as blood.
Their auras surged with demonic power as some rushed down to confront them head-on while others stayed in the skies, raining arrows and javelins at them, all infused with demonic miasma.
“Just how many are there?!”
Elayne swiftly dodged the attacks and fired lasers from her dragon claws; beams of light that struck the flying fairies and made them fall like flies one by one. Khione caught them and, after confirming they were exorcized, quickly sealed them inside her canvas.
Mark rushed forward, infusing holy light into his sword through the Holy Light Lion Totem Spirit’s powers and swinging it at the fairies, cutting through their souls and exorcising the demons from them.
Elena did the same but used her own swordsmanship to cut the connection from the root, using her phantasmal magic for that.
Others, such as Monica, were able to directly extract the demon souls from the fairies once she cursed them and paralyzed them in place.
When the demon souls were extracted this way, they would scream angrily, like furious ghosts, and attack anybody, aiming to possess them.
However, Gabriel used his powerful magic to quickly destroy the souls without issue. The more demons he defeated, the stronger he grew.
This was how Angels progressed, unlike any other living being in the world. They had to both do good deeds and slay demons, and their Halos would resonate and produce more Celestial Power, slowly elevating them.
Gabriel was rapidly regaining his original flight, and his baby-like appearance was slowly changing as he gained a few years of age, although he was still far from looking like a teenager.
“We’ve finally reached the gate…!” Khione sighed in relief. “Is this all the soldiers? Almost a hundred…! I hope there aren’t too many inside.”
“I can feel…” Elayne said, looking forward. “Ugh, the density of demonic miasma is too thick, and because it’s mixed with Oberon’s powers, it’s even stronger and more dangerous… It’s hard to even try to look through. It feels like something is constantly trying to take over my mind.”
“It would be better if you don’t try doing that again,” Khione said. “We must press on with our strength and find the truth of what happened to my father…!”
“Yeah, it’s not like we’re charging blindly. We have a plan after all,” Rita said with a nod.
“Although infected with Demonic Miasma, the Dragon Veins below the capital are available,” Lily said. “I believe we can use them if we purify them ahead of time.”
“Yeah,” Elayne nodded, as she expanded her Domain and Territory everywhere she walked, as much as possible. “It’s a pity that we cannot form a large formation due to the lack of pure spiritual energy… If we tried making something bigger, we would be detected fairly quickly and then we would be where we are right now anyway.”
They had originally planned to “exorcise” the entire palace with a giant formation made of celestial wards and spirit energy, but because the spirit energy was contaminated everywhere, it would have never worked out.
Elayne’s powers were advanced, but for her terrain and domain to expand without being eroded over time, she would need to transform into her full Yggdragon form, which exhausted her body and soul a lot compared to her in-game Avatar, which granted her terrain the [Immunity] status.
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