Chapter 1576 - 42: Hallucination?

Chapter 1576: Chapter 42: Hallucination?

The dazzling white light fills Su Xiao’s eyes. He instinctively raises his left arm to protect himself, and in the next moment, severe pain pierces through every part of his body, as if he is about to be decomposed by this intense light.

Su Xiao leaps backward. With Moris’s defense capabilities, unless he can decapitate her with one strike, he can’t take her down instantly. Besides, before he can even slash out, he might already succumb to the surrounding intense light.

As Su Xiao leaps back, the sharp pain from his body gradually subsides, although he still feels a burning pain on his skin.

Though there are no external injuries, Su Xiao’s Life Value plummets by more than 60% in just 0.4 seconds. If it lasts over 1 second, he will be decomposed into atomic states by the white light.

An Energy Shield stands in front of Su Xiao, and after observing the white light that originates from Moris, he realizes that its nature is somewhat similar to Dust Release in the Naruto World, but the damage range is far larger, and it activates without warning.

"Cough cough cough..."

Moris covers her throat with one hand, letting out dry coughs as a foreign energy rampages through her body, making her experience a torturous pain.

The intense pain comes quickly but retreats just as fast. Moris stands up, with blood seeping through her fingers.

For a normal human, having their throat slashed by Su Xiao would be nearly fatal or half-crippling, but unfortunately, Moris is not a normal human. Light Element gathers in her hand, and as she removes her hand from her neck, the Light Element has sealed the wound and is healing it rapidly.

After attempting close combat with Su Xiao for a few seconds, Moris silently retreats a few steps, trying to create some distance from Su Xiao, while the nearby Halo rushes toward Su Xiao.

The golden Halo seems to tear through the air as it strikes towards Su Xiao. He dodges one Halo while slashing and breaking the remaining two.

Since the battle began, neither Su Xiao nor Moris has had an easy time, but Moris is more severely wounded. After her reckless close combat encounter with Su Xiao, she has become much more composed, with the taste of blood in her mouth warning her of the rashness of her previous actions.

Moris is puzzled, wondering why she was so impulsive earlier, actually engaging in close combat with a Witch Hunter who had slaughtered over a hundred witches with a Long Knife.

Remembering this, Moris’s pupils constrict rapidly. She suddenly realizes that her previous actions weren’t impulsive; rather, she couldn’t resist her instinct. More frightening is that it wasn’t her instinct; just moments ago, she felt her swordsmanship wasn’t inferior to Su Xiao’s.

Moris’s nails pierce her own palm—here she is, fighting an enemy, yet considering matters beyond this battle.

Ring.

A light blue Blade Aura flies directly toward her, and Moris dodges sideways. Due to her lack of focus, the Blade Aura leaves a blood trace on her fair cheek.

"You cowardly woman."

A male voice rings in Moris’s ears, and she fixes her gaze on Su Xiao.

"I’m cowardly?"

Moris is somewhat angry, and Su Xiao, who just shattered a Halo, looks puzzled, not understanding what this woman is ranting about.

"Go back, take him down; you are the Sun Woman, my symbiotic entity, the heir of my power."

"?"

Moris raises a hand to her temple this time, her eyes fixed on Su Xiao, who hasn’t uttered a word. That voice is her own ’hallucination’.

"You disappoint me, Witch. Your talent doesn’t permit you to wield a sword; you are a despicable being."

Upon hearing this voice again, Moris feels a chill run down her spine, now certain that the Sun Conversion Crystal passed down through generations has an issue. Some consciousness invaded her during the completion of the ceremony, without her noticing.

"Witch, you let me down. This is your last chance, also a test."

A mass of golden energy envelops Moris’s consciousness. This mass of golden energy doesn’t obliterate her consciousness but surrounds and infiltrates it.

Meanwhile, blinding white light bursts forth in front of Su Xiao, with all four ’Light Glow’ beside Moris exploding.

Experiencing just one Light Glow was deeply imprinting; having four explode simultaneously is unbearable, so he turns and runs, escaping to the second floor.

Using Bubu Wang’s motto: retreating is not shameful, especially when the enemy unleashes a Big Move; this is called strategic withdrawal.

The third floor of the castle is filled with white light, and within it, Moris’s appearance begins to change, increasingly masculine, her height gradually increases, and the female features on her chest disappear at visible speed.

On the second floor, Meilodi looks confusedly at Su Xiao and Bubu Wang; just moments ago, there were sounds of an intense battle above, and after a sudden silence, she sees Su Xiao and Bubu Wang rushing down the stairs.

Not only is Meilodi puzzled, but Su Xiao is also unclear about what’s happened; the enemy suddenly wasted four opportunities to use a Big Move, which isn’t a normal act. This makes him think the enemy might be facing some problems, either in passing on the Light Element or having internal bodily issues.

The white light quickly dissipates, and Su Xiao immediately returns to the third floor. Upon returning, he sees a vastly changed Moris, or rather, the opponent is no longer Moris.

’Moris’ has grown to about 2.3 meters tall. Now, as ’she’ holds the golden Energy Longsword, a sword of about 1.3 meters long no longer looks mismatched but rather suits ’her’ physique—or more appropriately, his.

’Moris’ still wears that golden one-piece long dress; when the remarkably beautiful Moris used to wear it, it seemed nothing out of the ordinary, but now ’Moris’ appears bizarre no matter how you look at it.

Moris herself seems to notice this; after her height increased, the one-piece long dress became tightened. He grabs his own collar and with a ripping sound, tears the upper part of the dress open from the middle, hanging it like a battle skirt on his lower body.

Moris’s upper body is bare, revealing well-defined yet not exaggerated muscles.

"Seems... a change of persons."

Su Xiao admired Moris’s outrageous transformations—he had seen transformations in battles, but a change in gender was indeed a first encounter.

"You’re impressive, suitable to become my symbiotic entity; unfortunately, you are the Successor of those people. As a defeated one, I can rise again, but I won’t insult former enemies, regardless of victory or defeat, they are worthy opponents."

’Moris’ speaks, his voice also changes to a male tone.

Su Xiao immediately activates the Detection ability of the Eye of the Apostle, yet the results are far from optimistic—he only detects a name, Crownless Lord.

It’s not that the Crownless Lord’s combat strength is sky-high, but the tier position of the Eye of the Apostle is too low to scan opponents of exceptionally high tiers, though scanning allies is fine.

After all, the Eye of the Apostle is just light-gold equipment; encountering such a situation is not uncommon, but detection equipment is too scarce, and Su Xiao hasn’t had the chance to replace it.

The Crownless Lord takes a deep breath, indulging in the slightly burnt taste of air—this is the feeling of being alive. He holds the sword with his right hand, spreads his left hand in front, where the ’Light Glow’ gradually appears, quickly expands, stretches, and ultimately forms a circular ring.

The Crownless Lord’s hand contains a blend of Halo and Blazing Sun, possessing both the speed and traits of Halo, as well as the devastating Attack Power of Blazing Sun.

With a crisp cracking sound, the white light circle in Crownless Lord’s hand shatters, tiny cracks appear in his palm—this ability is too potent, exceeding what this body can sustain.

Realizing this, Crownless Lord slowly approaches Su Xiao. He differs from Moris, as the Sword of Light was his battlefield blade, having slaughtered not hundreds but tens of thousands; the once revered Crownless Lord became a prisoner some time.