[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress":3,"chapter-evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-chapter-402":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Evolution: From Little Devil to Devil Empress",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1079872,1395,"Chapter 402: Banishment","evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-chapter-402",402,"\u003Cp>\"Is there really nothing besides me and these bronze statues?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liora glanced at the devastated planet around her with faint confusion in her gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several minutes had passed since the fight began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having reached this point, Liora would of course not take a unilateral beating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once she realized that she could not damage the statues in the slightest, she sought alternative ways to deal with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her first focus was the trial space itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During these minutes, Liora had wandered around the planet while fending off the opponent’s attacks, searching for anything that could assist her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, she discovered nothing of value nor any great secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, Liora realized that she could not leave this planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could only fly for a few kilometers before hitting an invisible \"wall\" in the distant sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, the starry sky around the planet was fake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the planet itself, everything else was nothing but an illusion created by the inheritance palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having gone through these two experiences, Liora realized that the combat trial was truly different than the one testing the challenger’s talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, there were no tricks or any mysteries involved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The challenger had no way of passing the trial through luck or trickery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All one could do was defeat the bronze statues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they failed, they would die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was the case that Liora was facing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Assira, the normal process should not be to defeat the bronze statues, but to remain undefeated against them for a short period of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, a normal challenger would not face a dozen of them. In most cases, they would only face one or two. At worst, three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Liora was obviously not an ordinary challenger, and she was not undergoing an ordinary trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is... difficult.\", Liora couldn’t help but mutter, as she wrapped the incoming club in the power of Nothingness and threw it to the side, before taking a step to the left, dodging the threatening spear narrowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staring at the bronze statues, which were as threatening as when they first woke up, Liora realized that wearing them down was not an option either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, her eyes narrowed. She didn’t wish to keep this fight going on for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems that I can only use that.\", she whispered and didn’t hesitate to take action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the bronze statues could launch their next attack, Liora had already moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, she didn’t activate one single ability, but several of them at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The projection of the Land of Nothingness materialized above her head, and its boundless power descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black serpent, coiled around her finger, let out a roar and quickly transformed into an illusory river that wished to drown everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, Liora’s own body shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her blood boiled while a soul-crushing, eerie sound echoed from within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, with an imaginary line stretching from her forehead to her feet, her body was swiftly divided into two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood, bone chips, and even brain matter splattered everywhere, creating a gruesome scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the Indestructible Matter moved quickly and sewed the injuries together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the surfaces of the broken parts squirmed, their appearances also changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, two identical Lioras had appeared on top of the planet, making it almost impossible to see which one was the real one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although one of them possessed a more powerful aura and could thus be judged to be her real body, the difference was not too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both possessed power at the True Spirit stage and were quite powerful among True Spirit Greater Devils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Liora displayed no happiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling that almost forty percent of her Indestructible Matter had been consumed and was draining away from the clone at an astonishing rate, she couldn’t help but feel a little heartbroken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew that if the clone were to perish, she would suffer a great loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, if the fight were to last for a while, she would also suffer greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing this, Liora didn’t dare to wait any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a move of her mind, Eclipse was thrust forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gray sphere fell onto the bronze statues and began to revolve, attracting four of them and pulling them away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the sphere broke apart and transformed into various weapons, entangling with the statues and preventing them from escaping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What followed next was the Snake of Time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the illusory river extended like a snake, it also wrapped around four statues and pulled them away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Eclipse, though, which only attempted to entangle them, countless illusory water drops shot out of the river and fired at the statues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they failed to cause them any real harm, it was more than enough to contain them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the last one to take action was none other than Liora’s clone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a wave of her hand, countless elements gathered around her and entangled three more bronze statues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A powerful domain from the four elements was formed almost instantaneously, slowing down their movements as if they had fallen into a quagmire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From start to finish, less than a split second had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, in such a short amount of time, eleven out of the twelve bronze statues had been contained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one of them remained unattended, facing Liora alone, like the final soldier on the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liora immediately took advantage of this opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a flicker, she flashed forward and appeared beside it before coughing a mouthful of blood on her own hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, while using her other hand to fend off the incoming halberd, she moved the blood-dyed hand and began scribbling inexplicable patterns on the bronze statue’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t complete her goal at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had to evade several times and dance around the statue in order to continue her \"painting\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, slowly but surely, more and more Devil Runes took shape on the bronze statue’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, the originally lone patterns became part of a bigger picture and began to merge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small formation soon appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was something created through Liora’s insights into the World-Descending Array, as well as the runes she had comprehended from the Universe Chamber of Commerce’s space gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the formation materialized, the Devil Runes evolved with a breathtaking light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a powerful teleportation force arrived out of nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the space within the trial seemed strong and should have been able to get rid of it, it didn’t try to dissolve that force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, it allowed it to fall onto the bronze statue and act on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, the space around the statue was torn apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small space crack formed, which quickly grew bigger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within a moment, it had grown large enough to contain the entire bronze statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the crack swallowed it whole.\u003C\u002Fp>",1128,"2026-06-03T10:39:03.948Z",1,"novelbin.me","70b8592e250a297b5900c6eb92334c48dbfda00419112a28d50177b323f859c9","evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-chapter-403","evolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-chapter-401",482,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fevolution-from-little-devil-to-devil-empress-cover.jpg"]