Chapter 552: 552
Tenko Kasumi pierced through the skull of the giant bird with her sword . But even if the white energy that formed the sword fully penetrated the head of the giant bird, it was as if a tiny toothpick was pricking through the skin of the monstrous bird . A non-physical sword could not inflict any damage to its body . Tenko Kasumi pulled away with her sword, just in time to dodge the attack from the bird’s wings .
“This thing just won’t die!”
Drenched in sweat, she leaped up into the air and turned into a stream of light . She had tried a dozen moves to attack, but the damage that each move could do to the giant bird was next to nothing . Without a doubt, the opponent was also a powerful monster with Palatinate-level strength . No way regular skills and moves could contain it .
“It seems that I’ve got to use some killer move!”
Kasumi had noticed that the giant bird was looking up and flapping its wings, flying toward her . The next moment, a bright red beam of light of tens of meters in diameter, shot out of the giant bird’s mouth . Kasumi had nowhere to hide, and neither did she want to dodge .
“Magic Sword!”
As she raised and clapped her hands together, a brown, hideous face appeared behind her .
“Sword Shadow Number Three: Heztghina’s Blow!”
As the enormous face opened its mouth, a cold, bitter gray-white current shot out . It grew rapidly as the current left the mouth and eventually expanded into a ten-meter-wide white, cold draft .
The red beam and the white draft collided at once . As Tenko Kasumi stopped to catch her breath, a black thread came from the side and struck her on the back . Blood spurted out from her mouth as she fell like an artillery shell . And the next moment, she found herself crashing into the enormous arms of someone .
“You look like sh*t, Tenko . ” The one speaking was none other than the Night Lord, draped in his black armor with golden patterns . He caught Tenko Kasumi in his arms as she fell from the sky, making fun of her .
“Aren’t you the same, getting cut away? How could you still have the nerve to talk about me?” Tenko Kasumi’s soul was not contaminated . She could hear the telepathic conversation between Lin Sheng and him nearby .
“Then I will leave you to it . ”
The Night Lord shrugged, about to let go of her . Just then, she spurted another mouthful of blood, splattering it all onto his armor .
“Don’t be overconfident . You’re just a Palatinate…” The Night Lord couldn’t with her .
“You know what, this is the thirteenth!” Temko Kasumi got angry . She had finished off twelve island-sized giant birds earlier . But there seemed to be an endless amount of them . As soon as she killed one, another would emerge .
“Thirteen?” The Night Lord was shocked .
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Thirteen monster birds like this were equal to thirteen Palatinate-level powerful beings . This was only from one outbreak of the Blacktide . The entire Sanctum had only slightly more than a double-digit amount of Palatinates, which included those from the tomb of the Sin Dragon Matriarch .
“Maybe let me do you a favor this time, beauty . ” The Night Lord looked up as the island-sized monster bird swooped down . Raising the armor great sword in his and just as he was about to finish off the monster bird, a sound came from afar in the sky . It sounded as if voices of prayer, or maybe the perturbation of the air . A bright light was forming in the air and rose into the sky like the sun .
“Hmm, I probably don’t have to do it myself now . ” The Knight Lord tucked his greatsword and shrugged .
“What is the original going to do?” Tenko Kasumi looked up into the air above the city, feeling puzzled .
“I don’t know, but I think it is something good . ”
He looked up . The clouds were dispersing, gradually revealing the bright golden sun behind them . The sun penetrated the clouds and shone its rays onto the land below .
Right in front of the Sanctum, in the pure beam of blessings of the world, Lin Sheng looked up the light of blessing that did not belong to the Sanctum .
“Everything has to come to an end…” He pulled his eyes back, calmly walking toward the door of the prayer hall . The cloak fluttering on his back left a trace of holy white light behind him .
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After a while, the entire holy city started to shake . The land around the Sanctum cracked, broke off, and became floating islands . Some of these islands were as large as a few dozen meters in diameter . Smaller ones were a few meters across . They formed a dense array of floating islands with each of them emitting a constantly pure, white holy light .
All of a sudden, two beams of light shooting out from the Sanctum below hit two of the largest floating islands, from which burst out rings of invisible oscillation . The two islands also started to circle around the Sanctum in the air .
Now, the two sealed one-eyed giants, the Annihilatus, in the form of beads, had been infused into the two floating islands . The willpower, released from the protection, was continuously turned into the protective power and holy light that in turn protected everything else .
The formless waves emitted from the islands started to assault the surrounding Blacktide monsters indiscriminately . The legend-class power of the Annihilatus, even though sealed and could only be released in a small amount through willpower conversion, was not something the Blacktide monsters could resist .
In just a split second, the island-sized monster bird above Tenko Kasumi and the Night Lord fell apart like snow under the tropical sun . There was no cry of agony or roar of fury; the monster bird froze like a bug inside the amber, much like what happened when the one-eyed giant slaughtered the living souls .
“Two Legend-class protective cities . It’s truly a masterpiece!” The Night Lord was in awe .
Tenko Kasumi did not say a word, just letting out a heavy sigh . Looking up at the crumbling island-sized monster bird, she felt a strange sense of sadness .
“Tell me, do we still mean anything to the original?” she asked .
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The question transfixed the Night Lord . When the original was still weak, he summoned them to ensure his safety . But now the original had surpassed them in strength . What was the purpose of their existence?
“I think there is still a purpose…” the Night Lord replied after thinking for a while .
“What?”
“For example, enjoy life on behalf of him . ” The Night Lord let out a sly smile . “Look at the original . All he does every day is cultivation and nothing else . How meaningless such a life is! We can help him enjoy life . Since we share the same memories, that means, indirectly, he has also enjoyed it . Don’t you think?”
“Say this to the original . ” Tenko Kasumi sneered .
“Maybe not . I don’t want to get killed . ” The Night Lord knew his place, at least .
There was no more talking between them, just watching as the monster birds dissolved and turned into white light particles before falling back down to the earth .
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