ccnovels #268 - The Peony's Strangeness
#268 - The Peony's Strangeness
In the pitch-black cloud sea, the Purgatory Dragon swam.
Bathing in lightning, it coiled above the high heavens, its head unseen, its tail unknown.
Like a demon god, both sacred and terrifying, it looked down upon the "mortals" below.
"My dear old friend, since our parting at Magic Academy, I have missed you dearly. Now that you are before me, are you unwilling to even show yourself? This truly pains me. I still prefer the unruly you."
"What nonsense are you muttering to yourself?"
A clear look of confusion flashed across Anderson's face, not understanding why the other party would suddenly say such a thing.
But Blood Demon Bra, who was residing within his body, felt as if struck by a thunderbolt, his heart instantly sinking.
"Impossible! This is impossible!" Bra shrieked. "I have never actively revealed myself. How could this guy possibly know I'm here! There are plenty of people who know Shadow Step!"
"Mr. Blood Demon, are you sure he can't detect you?"
Anderson's address to the Blood Demon changed imperceptibly, his voice still as indifferent as before.
It seemed that at this moment, he had severed all human emotions and feelings, retaining only absolute rationality.
Like a god.
"I haven't done anything. Why would he be able to find me?" Blood Demon Bra shrieked again. "Damn it, if I could be discovered so easily, how could I have become the legendary Blood Demon? In any case, I am the famous Blood Demon who can stop children from crying at night!"
"Indeed, the immortal and indestructible blood and chosen one of the night, the demon of vengeance walking in shadows and blood, this is the legend you personally forged, even if you very likely have no idea what it means, and only inadvertently brought it about."
"Your luck... is truly enviable."
"Sometimes, ignorance is bliss."
Anderson's voice revealed no emotional fluctuations, but Blood Demon Bra detected a hint of sarcasm within it.
He was somewhat ashamed and angry, but also helpless.
Because he truly didn't know what the other party was talking about.
He could only vaguely sense that his host's words had a hidden meaning, but he didn't know what the other party was trying to express.
Without giving the two a chance to continue their conversation,
Lu Wenwu launched an attack!
Governing the clouds and rain, controlling lightning.
This place, already transformed into a thunderous purgatory, was further fueled by Lu Wenwu.
Suddenly, the sea area before Dragon Island became a whirlwind of chaos, with a super-giant downpour like the sky was collapsing, mixed with hailstones the size of fists.
Violent thunder mixed with hailstorm rain, and the entire Holy See team instantly fell into greater chaos than before.
Water... conducts electricity!
The ferocious black dragon head emerged from the clouds, its inhuman dragon eyes flashing with almost manic excitement.
"Roar!"
The joyful dragon's roar and the angry thunder echoed together, and scorched flesh and blood grew rapidly.
The terrifying Purgatory Dragon Breath transformed into a torrent, directly blasting towards Anderson.
The endless sea of blood at this moment seemed to pour backward, actually transforming into a spiral torrent like a battle spear, covering the Dragon Breath.
That kind of cold and overbearing power seemed to directly evaporate the ocean and pierce through the earth!
The wind follows the tiger, the clouds follow the dragon.
Fire boosts the wind's momentum.
Under the blessing of ancient magic, Lu Wenwu's Dragon Breath power was greatly amplified.
"This kind of frighteningly evil flame power... the violent storm actually becomes an aid..."
Faced with the terrifying attack that seemed to directly kill him, even more intense holy flames rose from Anderson's body.
The light wings behind him fluttered, and his figure rose from the ground below.
Brilliant sword light burst forth, and fierce sword intent surged.
The Judgment Divine Sword shone brightly, transforming into a hundred-meter light sword, actually splitting Lu Wenwu's Dragon Breath into two, like Moses parting the sea.
After splitting the Dragon Breath, the sword light strangely expanded again, directly slashing towards Lu Wenwu's head.
"Demon Dragon, meet your death!"
Lu Wenwu laughed loudly, and exhaled all the Dragon Breath he had been brewing towards the other battlefield in one breath.
The sharp dragon claws, enhanced by the Demon God's spear, slapped up.
The falling Purgatory Dragon Breath splashed, like a rain of fire descending from the sky. Even after falling into the water, it continued to burn fiercely, showing no signs of extinguishing.
Rainstorm and fire rain descended at the same time, truly a double whammy of ice and fire!
Steam rose all over the sky, and that kind of heat stronger than fire completely ignored fire-attribute defenses, giving these guys who didn't understand physics a head-on blow.
A Near-God level priest, in order to save the church members, was momentarily careless and was contaminated with a ball of Purgatory Dragon Flame, and was instantly ignited into a human-shaped torch by that strange black flame.
He let out a shrill wail from his throat, trying to use the almost omnipotent power of the Holy Light to resist the erosion of this extreme heat, and to increase his body, temporarily increasing his recovery ability.
However, the Holy Light, which had always been invincible in the past, directly lost its original effect at this moment.
Not only did it fail to offset the Purgatory Dragon Breath, but it was instead swallowed by the Dragon Breath, becoming the firewood to supply the Purgatory Dragon Flame.
The stronger the Holy Light, the more vigorously the Purgatory Dragon Flame burned, as strange as pouring hot oil into a fire.
This fanatical believer of the Holy Light seemed to be determined to go against the Purgatory Dragon Flame.
The small flame that could have been extinguished by his own magic in an instant was forcibly fed by him with Holy Light, turning himself into a fire man!
In the end, he relied on a sufficient amount of Holy Light to forcibly explode this small group of Purgatory Dragon Flame, burning half of his life away, before finally solving it.
Lu Wenwu, who had a divine sense that surveyed the entire field, noticed this stubborn guy, and the excited emotion in his heart suddenly dropped a lot for no reason.
These members of the Holy Church... why do they feel a little silly?
Doesn't he even understand such a simple thing as the mutual restraint of evil and justice?
Holy Light can restrain evil forces, but evil forces can also defile Holy Light!
What a fool, a pure hothead, completely lacking the agility in the Dragon Bone Tongtian Tower test.
Not to mention the top-notch combat awareness and cooperation of those average strong men.
The real people are not as durable as the test NPCs.
Are you going against the heavens here?
He didn't even actively target them, and half of these originally high-spirited hundred thousand believers were defeated, dead and wounded.
Sure enough, in this kind of fantasy world war, quantity basically has no great significance.
A top powerhouse can determine the life and death of countless weaklings.
Thinking of this, feeling his current physical state, Lu Wenwu simply ignored the Holy Church believers.
Even the so-called Near-God powerhouses still have no power to resist when facing Lu Wenwu, whose body is about to complete its transformation.
Their magic and divine arts bombard the dragon scales, and they can't break the defense at all!
Even those so-called saints who can cast divine descent, receiving the power of the gods to descend to the lower realm, only have the power of one strike to launch an attack that can break the defense of the Purgatory Dragon Body.
After one strike, their lives are burned out, their divine power dissipates, and their souls are scattered.
Only Anderson, wielding the Divine Artifact, can truly fight Lu Wenwu. In less than five minutes, one person and one dragon have fought thousands of moves!
"What evil, what filthy power is this!"
Anderson, wielding the Judgment Divine Sword, had eyes that grew brighter and brighter, and the power of the Holy Light on his body grew stronger and stronger.
"Even the two most evil demon gods are not worth mentioning in the face of the monstrous slaughter you have committed!"
"Where exactly did you come from!"
"Grown from the ground," Lu Wenwu answered with a grin. "Your current state... makes me even more excited..."
【Anderson / Avatar of the Will of the God of Justice and Judgment (S+ ~ First Order of God Ascension)】: 4732 0567 / 8000 0000
【Cultivation】: Divine Blood Warrior, Pseudo God (Eighth-Order Divine Art Master)
【Current State】: Will Avatar, Will Assimilation, Pseudo-Divinity Body, Holy Light Power, Judgment Power, Dark Night Power, Rule Blessing, Divine Power, Calm...
【Analysis】: Using the Holy Light to drive the Judgment Divine Sword, attracting the will of the God of Justice and Judgment to descend, bearing part of the divinity in itself, the realm of divine arts is close to that of a true god, and is being assimilated by the will of the god.
"I wonder if beating you can be rounded up to beating the real God of Justice and Judgment?"
The scope of the Thunder Sea is getting smaller and smaller, but the aura emanating from Lu Wenwu is getting stronger and stronger, and he has begun to transform towards some inhuman realm.
The wind and rainstorm have stopped at some unknown time.
The battle group belonging to the Holy See below has no more combat power, leaving only a few half-dead Near-God powerhouses struggling for survival.
This level of battle is not something they can participate in at all.
The aftermath is enough to wipe them out!
Anderson doesn't care about this at all.
And would Lu Wenwu?
"Bold heretic, how dare you insult the Lord of Justice and Judgment so!"
An astonishing rage burst out from Anderson's cold eyes, and the offensive of the crimson-gold long sword in his hand became a bit more fierce than before.
At the same time, the phantom of the scales in the center of the halo behind him was strangely slowly solidifying in the battle, almost forming a materialized complete balance.
"Such an extremely evil and wicked demon, in the name of justice, I sentence you - death!"
Suddenly, the Judgment Divine Sword burst out with an unprecedentedly powerful aura.
As the halo behind Anderson slowly rotated, the pale golden scales completely solidified at this moment, and the divine power was greatly enhanced.
At this moment, the last trace of human brilliance in his eyes completely dissipated.
Replacing it was a kind of cold divinity, devoid of all emotion, like a machine.
"Holy Light! Grant purification upon that enemy!"
The descent of the final lightning bolt seemed to be a signal of sorts.
The Holy Light torrent released by the Judgement Divine Sword, connected to divine power, pierced through the heavens and the earth, instantly covering the Infernal Dragon completely.
That boundless power even cleaved open the dark clouds gathered above, and the dazzling "sunlight" that had risen at some unknown time shone directly onto the sea and the land, like a dawn that split the heavens and the earth.
The cold brought by the sea of bloodlust was completely washed away by the Holy Light torrent.
If it weren't for the large patches of floating corpses that had dyed the sea red and the fragments of flesh that occupied the entire surface, this place would have been so sacred that it could almost be called a sanctuary!
That kind of heartwarming power was soothing the few surviving near-god powerhouses, soothing the huge psychological shadows lingering in their hearts.
"Any evil will eventually be purified by the power of the Holy Light... How is this possible!?"
Anderson's indifferent expression crumbled in an instant.
An emotion called astonishment emerged along with his wide-eyed stare.
When the power of the Holy Light dissipated, when the dark clouds completely vanished, what hung high in the sky, where the sun should be?
It was Lu Wenwu!
He exuded an even more powerful aura than before, Lu Wenwu, who had already returned to his human form!
A round of pale golden sun rose slowly behind him, and the sacred and warm sunlight of merit fell down, replacing the real sun that had not yet risen, illuminating the darkness of Dragon Island.
"How can you be unharmed!"
Anderson's expression completely collapsed, and not a trace remained of the cold, indifferent style of treating everything in the world as ants, remaining unmoved even if Mount Tai collapsed before him.
The part belonging to humanity seemed to have suppressed the divinity again, and even the divine will assimilation, which was recognized by all the churches as irreversible, was forcibly stopped!
"Impossible! The Judgement Holy Light will completely purify all evil, how could it not have harmed you in the slightest! This state... this state..."
"Why am I unharmed... That's a very good question."
Having returned to human form, Lu Wenwu was bare-chested, every muscle as perfect as a well-crafted marble sculpture, faintly revealing a touch of jade-like luster.
"Perhaps... it's because I also know this?"
As he spoke, he slowly raised his hands.
Two clusters of Holy Light, purer and brighter than those on Anderson's body, lit up, dispelling the cold aura in the sky above without leaving a trace.
"You see, this gentle light of order... I also understand a little..."
"This is impossible!"
Anderson's psychological defenses were instantly shattered, his worldview completely collapsed, and his entire being was cracking apart.
Even the divine will possessing him fell into a state of near-silence, and even the blazing Holy Flame burning on the Judgement Divine Sword slowly dissipated.
The will of the God of Justice and Judgement also collapsed due to this outrageous situation.
A dragon!
A dragon who didn't know how much slaughter he had committed, surrounded by an ominous aura that had condensed into substance!
A monstrous demon who had already fallen into darkness!
How could a heretic who didn't believe in the Lord of Light at all possibly master the power of the Holy Light!
The terrifying aura on Anderson's body instantly dissipated, the part of his eyes belonging to divinity completely collapsed, and the light of humanity was rekindled.
The divine descent, which the world recognized as absolutely irreversible, the divine will assimilation, which the world recognized as absolutely irreversible, completely disappeared at this moment!
He may be the first believer in this world to successfully survive after the birth of the Divine Descent Technique, and also the first believer to regain himself from the assimilation of the Divine Will.
But Anderson himself felt no joy in this.
He was like a defeated dog who had been drained of all his strength, and suddenly knelt on the ground.
His eyes were lifeless, and he stared blankly at the golden sun hanging high in the sky, his throat bursting out with a shrill roar:
"The Holy Light... has betrayed me! ! !"