Vol 4. Chapter 100: A Strange Power

“What... kind of monster is that now?!”

Faced with the sea of thorns that had suddenly appeared, as well as the swarm of Blood Butterflies that had instantly been reborn within the flames, Holy Dragon King Mebili and Helitia both wore incomparably grim expressions.

But before they could figure out what was happening or make any response,

the sea of thorns suddenly erupted into motion.

Countless thorny vines burst from the ground and launched lethal attacks upward at the two peerless powerhouses.

Although the thorns’ attacks were nowhere near as spectacular or colorful as a dragon-breath cannon or Sanctuary Magic, the dense, icy murderous aura surrounding them, along with the suffocating pressure rushing straight toward them, made both powerhouses feel the threat of death.

And aside from the thorns emerging from the earth,

the Blood Butterflies danced through the sky, transforming into a crimson tide that surged toward the dragon and the human from every direction.

Mebili’s extraordinary intuition told him that whether he was entangled by those thorns or swallowed by the Blood Butterflies, he would die here.

There was no doubt that they had fallen into an unprecedentedly desperate situation.

Compared with their current predicament, the difficulties they had once faced while fighting the Demon King together with Anze were practically child’s play.

However,

as powerhouses who had experienced countless battles of life and death and cultivated all the way to their current realm, neither Mebili nor Helitia was the type to give up easily.

The enemy was powerful.

If they resisted, perhaps there was still a sliver of hope.

But if they did not resist, the only thing awaiting them would be the tragic fate of being devoured and killed...

If they wanted to bring about a miracle, they could not abandon hope themselves.

After taking a deep breath and suppressing the despair gradually spreading through his heart,

Mebili revealed a resolute expression.

The mana throughout his entire body began surging without the slightest restraint.

Even his soul gradually began to burn, transforming into an endless stream of energy that caused the Holy Dragon King’s aura to rise again and again.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced toward the blue-haired girl not far away, who had already begun chanting a Forbidden Spell.

Then Mebili suddenly let out a hysterical roar.

“Helitia! Let’s fight these monsters to the death!!”

Accompanied by a heaven-shaking dragon roar,

the enormous golden dragon spread his vast, majestic wings and abruptly transformed into a golden meteor filled with destructive energy, violently charging toward the overwhelming swarm of Blood Butterflies ahead!

At the same time, Helitia, his companion, gritted her teeth and suddenly exerted force with both hands, directly crushing the silver staff in her grasp!

Using the divine staff itself as the medium, she activated the most powerful Sanctuary Magic on the continent—Heavenly Sacred Judgment.

......

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Faced with an evil unlike anything they had ever encountered, faced with a monster capable of dragging the entire continent into a bottomless abyss,

in order to prevent the world from falling into the flames of war once more, and in order to avenge their fallen comrade, the two peerless powerhouses had already abandoned any hope of survival.

With the determination to perish together with their enemies, they used every bit of power they possessed and resolutely launched attacks against the swarm of Blood Butterflies and the sea of thorns.

“BOOOOM!!!”

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As guardians of order on the continent, as peerless powerhouses who had defeated the Demon King, Mebili and Helitia possessed more than a century of combat experience.

And when facing Blood Butterflies that would leave no corpse behind once they swallowed their target, as well as thorns that would plunder enormous amounts of vitality the instant they made contact, that experience became their most reliable support.

The swarming Blood Butterflies,

the wildly dancing thorns filling the sky,

wave after wave of terrifying attacks—

the two powerhouses successfully evaded them using exquisite technique and almost godlike predictive ability.

After realizing that their defensive capabilities could not withstand the horrifying attacks of these ‘Demon God’s dependents,’ Mebili and Helitia changed their fighting style.

They began fighting through evasion and counterattacks.

And compared with these two vastly experienced masters of combat,

the black-haired girl and the monster beside her controlling the vines clearly lacked actual battle experience.

Their attack trajectories were straightforward, and their patterns were simple.

Once the two peerless powerhouses understood those patterns, the Blood Butterflies and thorn whips found it increasingly difficult to touch the bodies of the Holy Dragon King and the supreme master of the Magic Tower.

Even if the attacks contained vast power capable of destroying the world, they were meaningless if they could not hit their target.

However,

although they could successfully evade the vast majority of the enemy’s attacks, a grave expression remained in Mebili’s dragon eyes from beginning to end.

Through their overwhelming advantage in combat experience and their tacit cooperation with one another, he and Helitia could barely keep these monsters occupied for a while.

But,

merely stalling was nowhere near enough.

What they needed was victory.

Therefore, while evading the attacks, they continuously unleashed one terrifying move after another, each powerful enough to instantly annihilate entire armies, toward the black-haired girl in an attempt to inflict severe injuries.

And under Mebili and Helitia’s expectant gazes, those attacks bypassed the protection of the thorns and easily struck the black-haired girl’s body...

However,

whether it was the storm-like bombardment of dragon-breath cannons, the repeated eruptions of Sanctuary Magic, thrusts from the Dragon King Spear, or coordinated attacks from the two of them, none could cause any substantial damage to the black-haired girl.

Even when they blasted the strange thorns around her into ashes and completely destroyed her thin beast-hide clothing, their attacks still failed to leave even the slightest mark on her body...

And even if they did,

the wounds healed instantly.

In the end, the girl remained completely unharmed.

And amid wave after wave of bombardment, when her clothing was completely annihilated, countless Blood Butterflies immediately swarmed forward, concealing the spring scenery that was about to be exposed.

Then they instantly disintegrated into countless crimson energy particles.

Those particles converged and reshaped themselves, transforming into a blood-stained scarlet formal dress.

While making the girl appear even more beautiful, it also gave her an eerie sort of elegance...

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The Holy Dragon King and Helitia launched one fierce attack after another.

Even the Demon King, once their strongest enemy, would inevitably have died in bitter defeat if subjected to this endless barrage while completely unprepared.

Yet this black-haired girl still looked as though nothing had happened.

She merely continued indifferently controlling the Blood Butterflies to encircle and attack them.

On the surface, the two sides appeared to have entered a stalemate.

But,

as time passed,

Mebili grew increasingly uneasy, cold sweat dripping from his forehead one drop after another.

He understood very clearly that this stalemate was meaningless.

The enemy was suffering almost no consumption at all, while they were gradually becoming spent forces.

The instant they exhausted their strength, the Blood Butterflies and the countless thorn whips below would undoubtedly converge upon them and erase them into nothingness...

They had to break through now.

They had to make one final gamble!

After pouring the last remaining bottle of ‘Nature’s Tears’ into his mouth, the enormous Holy Dragon was suddenly enveloped by golden light.

His body disintegrated and reshaped itself.

With the help of transformation magic, he directly became a heroic white-haired man clad in golden armor.

Although his body had become smaller, the Holy Dragon King’s aura rose to an unprecedented height.

Gripping the Dragon King Spear tightly in both hands, veins bulged across Mebili’s body, and his eyes were completely bloodshot.

All of the mana within him, including the power generated from burning his soul and dragon blood, rapidly converged upon the Dragon King Spear.

Mebili’s facial features gradually began to distort, and blood seeped from them.

There was no doubt that as this power continued to gather, his body had already reached its limit.

However,

this peerless powerhouse still gritted his teeth and desperately mobilized his remaining strength while continuously evading the enemy’s attacks.

Meanwhile,

with nothing more than a single exchange of glances, Helitia understood Mebili’s intention.

Without the slightest hesitation, she rushed directly toward the Blood Butterflies, attracting most of the enemy’s attention.

At the same time, after abandoning any possibility of prolonged combat and sacrificing the sight in her right eye, Helitia was enveloped by dazzling white light and unleashed the spell known as the Forbidden Spell, “Kroanna—Gate of Heaven.”

In an instant, tens of thousands of energy summons resembling angels appeared upon this brutal battlefield under Helitia’s summoning.

Without hesitation, they charged toward the black-haired girl!

Under Helitia’s desperate cover,

Holy Dragon King Mebili completed his charge.

And he found the perfect opportunity!

While the black-haired girl’s attention was focused on Helitia, and while the Blood Butterflies and sea of thorns were busy dealing with the ‘Angel Legion,’ Mebili’s eyes abruptly narrowed.

Holding the Dragon King Spear, he suddenly transformed into a beam of golden light, sweeping along overwhelming mana and a mountain-toppling dragon might.

Under the enhancement of five Sanctuary-level support spells cast by Helitia, Mebili’s speed, strength, defense, explosive power, and other abilities all received an epic-level increase in that instant.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!”

Roaring wildly, Mebili, now transformed into golden light, charged forward with unstoppable momentum at a speed impossible for the naked eye to follow.

He directly broke through the encirclement of the sea of thorns!

Then he violently thrust the Heaven Spear, blazing with dazzling radiance and seemingly capable of dispelling all darkness, toward the black-haired girl.

“DIE... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!”

In the next instant,

Mebili held his breath.

And under his tense, solemn gaze, this strike containing all of his power did not disappoint him.

The moment the black-haired girl turned to look toward Mebili, the golden spear abruptly stabbed toward her chest.

In an instant,

brilliant golden light erupted!

The dazzling radiance immediately dispersed the oppressive crimson glow filling the sky!

Overwhelming waves of power spread outward in all directions from the spear tip, reshaping the surrounding terrain yet again in a single instant.

Even space itself was forcibly torn apart by the vast power, and spatial cracks appeared all around both sides of the battlefield.

Pale golden mana and crimson Shadow of Silence Power collided violently and spectacularly at that moment.

And accompanied by Mebili’s hysterical roar,

the golden spear finally broke through the protection of the Shadow of Silence Power.

Under the ecstatic gazes of the two peerless powerhouses, it violently pierced through the black-haired girl’s chest!

It pierced directly through the area of her heart.

?!!

S-Success?!

We did it!!

We won!!

Upon seeing that his full-power strike had successfully pierced through the enemy’s chest, an ecstatic expression immediately appeared on Mebili’s face.

The two who had once fallen into despair finally saw the dawn of victory in this moment.

As long as

he further detonated the mana contained within the Dragon King Spear, he would definitely be able to severely injure her!

Although this black-haired girl’s defensive ability was terrifying beyond reason, if the explosion came from inside her body, she could not possibly resist it!

No matter how powerful a monster was, her insides could not possibly be an impenetrable fortress!

Thinking this,

intense fighting spirit suddenly erupted within Mebili’s dragon eyes, and he tightened both hands around the spear.

However,

just as Mebili decided to finish the battle in one decisive push, the Holy Dragon King suddenly discovered something that left him stunned.

Even though her vital area had been pierced through, the expression on the black-haired girl’s face remained completely indifferent.

It was as though she were a doll incapable of feeling any pain whatsoever.

She merely stared at him with those eerie eyes, utterly devoid of emotion.

The sight sent a chill down Mebili’s spine.

However,

at the exact instant that strange sense of discomfort appeared,

an invisible force suddenly surged.

A violent pain, as though his entire body were being torn apart, abruptly flooded into Mebili’s brain!

In an instant, the peerless powerhouse’s face twisted into a hideous expression from the unbearable tearing agony...

?!!

W-What is this?!

“What happened?!”

At that moment,

Mebili’s attack was forcibly interrupted.

The Holy Dragon King tremblingly lowered his head and looked toward his own chest, where the agonizing pain was coming from.

And the moment the condition of his chest entered his vision, Mebili froze completely in place.

Confusion, shock, despair, and countless other emotions surged into his heart like a bursting spring.

Because at this moment,

somehow, without him even realizing it,

a bottomless bloody hole had appeared in the Holy Dragon King’s chest...

“H-How is this possible? She... clearly didn’t... do anything?”