Chapter 94: Dreadbeast and Legendary Spell

Tally crawled out from Luo De’s shadow.

She bent down, staring straight at Lily.

“What are you doing?”

“I never expected a halfling to have such a chest. Master, want to try a halfling? I can change, you know.”

“How dare you!”

Lily, furious and embarrassed, raised her hand and fired a magic missile at Tally.

The succubus vanished with a [Flash], reappearing behind Luo De.

“Master, she hit me~”

“Luo De! Don’t you control her?!”

Luo De smiled bitterly, feigning a lecture as he pinched Tally’s soft, delicate cheek hard.

“Don’t act up—Lily is our friend.”

“Okay~~”

“And don’t tell anyone.”

“Okay~~ I want a kiss.”

“Kiss later.”

Luo De shoved the succubus aside.

Lily clicked her tongue.

She felt embarrassed—she had lost composure right in front of Luo De.

“Sorry. Can you tell what’s over there, Lily?”

“. Perhaps she performed [Biological Weaving] on her own body. I told you, that woman is insane.”

Luo De glanced toward the nearby temple.

The black blood from the corpse explosion had coalesced into a mist, shrouding the temple’s roof.

The next instant.

“ROAR!!!”

A furious roar erupted from within the temple.

Spiritual pressure solidified, pressing against the air as if even oxygen were trembling.

Both snapped back into combat stance.

“What now?”

Lily’s right eye revealed a miniature array, used for ultra-long-range vision and perception.

“Demonkind aura. Not Biological Weaving—she summoned a juvenile Dreadbeast inside her womb!”

The mist rapidly transformed into malevolent dark energy.

Then it spread outward.

“That’s [Dark Corruption]. Dreadbeasts can release this mist through breath—it corrodes life force and all defenses.”

Both retreated quickly, leaving the range of the dark energy.

“Sixth tier? No—the power level seems to have reached seventh tier.”

Lily looked at Luo De.

“A seventh-tier Dreadbeast possesses a partial [Fear] domain. I strongly advise against provoking it.”

“Why did the half-elf summon this thing?”

“It may not have been her choice. Dreadbeasts are cosmic beings skilled at entering other dimensions, and wizards’ experiments often involve such spaces—they take the chance to implant their eggs onto targets. The half-elf was probably accidentally parasitized during an experiment.”

Luo De’s scalp prickled at the word “parasitized.”

He stepped back a few more paces.

After discussion, they decided to ignore it.

First, it couldn’t harm Naulin, and it was deep inside an abandoned labyrinth.

Second, risking a fight against a seventh-tier cosmic beast with no reward and unknown conditions was clearly disadvantageous.

Most importantly, Luo De hated parasitic things.

Just report it to Emerald City.

The Magic Control League will handle it.

Meanwhile.

From the distant temple came a sound like sawing wood—a grating, wailing cry.

The cry was shrill, piercing, utterly miserable.

There was also a faint sense of satisfaction and melancholy.

It sounded like a funeral lament.

“Is this... the Dreadbeast’s cry?”

“No. Dreadbeasts are relatively common cosmic beings—I’ve never heard of one crying. Could there be someone else inside the temple?”

Lily frowned.

Without another word,

she tapped her staff and summoned a bird made of magic.

It flapped its wings and flew toward the temple.

“Don’t fly over the roof—that’s where the Dreadbeast is watching.”

Luo De pulled a red metal spear from Naga Eve’s spell satchel.

Boom!

The spear shot forth, unleashing a sonic boom as it pierced the air.

It struck the temple’s base cleanly, punching a hole through.

The magic sparrow slipped through the hole and entered the temple.

Shortly after,

Lily stared at the image forming in her eye, her expression strange.

“Is that her?”

“Who?”

“The Mourner from that day—Kris. She’s wailing over the black-haired boy beneath the temple... Wait, why is there so much water and milk? Where’s it dripping from?”

Luo De choked on a cough.

He quickly changed the subject.

“How did she get there? We never noticed her.”

“Don’t underestimate the Mourner. I once faced a seventh-tier one—she killed a sixth-tier spiritual warrior with just one [Leap of Fear]. Their spiritual forms naturally resist many perception spells.”

Lily rubbed her chin.

Frowning, she added: “But we locked her up in prison. How did she escape so fast?”

Luo De remembered Harris mentioning that the prison had been destroyed by Emerald City monsters.

He told Lily.

“No wonder... Wait, she’s about to ascend.”

“Because of the lament,” Luo De realized at once.

“Likely. I don’t know much about them—each race’s ascension method is wildly different. But this spiritual fluctuation will draw the Dreadbeast’s attention.”

Lily stretched her body.

Then she layered on three more spell shields.

“You’re going to save her?” Luo De asked.

“Yes. She committed fraud and extortion—less than one Jin Along in total. In Emerald City, she’d get a year or so in jail. She doesn’t deserve to die here. Any Hero’s Alliance member who sees this won’t stand by.”

“No wonder you’re Hero’s Alliance.”

Luo De smiled and added:

“I’ll draw its attention—you pull her up.”

“Thank you, but I’ll draw its attention. You save her—close combat carries higher parasitic risk.”

“...Fine.”

The two were about to act.

Suddenly—

Sssssss!

A piercing, grating screech rang out.

A magic conduit of orange flame sliced across the sky and landed squarely atop the temple.

In that instant, the sky seemed to tear open—a blinding light erupted from the destruction, brighter than a thousand suns, flooding everything in a searing white glow.

Immediately after, an indescribable surge of energy exploded outward from the epicenter like a furious beast—supersonic shockwaves swept across the land, collapsing buildings and uprooting trees.

Luo De’s [Lightless Seal] instantly reached its limit and detonated.

Lily’s spell shields exploded three layers deep—but she reacted with uncanny speed, casting three more in an instant. Though she held, the blast wave hurled her backward.

Luo De, facing the shockwave, struggled to lift his head.

He stared straight at a vast, black, twisted cloud slowly rising in the distance, piercing the heavens.

"A legendary spell?"

BOOM—

Layer upon layer of shockwaves surged continuously.

He stood as if rooted to the ground, not moving an inch.

He turned his head to look the other way.

A military force marched forward in perfect step, holding high poles with torches and clad in red-edged armor from the Blazing City.

(End of Chapter)