Chapter 85: The End of Sin (4k)

Clang!

At the edge of the block, accompanied by a thunderous shattering sound, the magic barrier that had already been teetering on the brink of collapse finally disintegrated and vanished completely.

"It's broken!"

"That's amazing!"

Bai Jingxuan couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth upward, cheering softly in excitement. Moke, who was by her side, also hugged her, and they celebrated the completion of their mission together.

Tian Sheng, who was slumped to the side, watched the magic barrier being dispelled. The heart he had been keeping in his throat finally settled, as if it had found a place to rest. He let out a long sigh of relief, then smiled and passed out.

He had been holding on for too long.

The jubilant Bai Jingxuan noticed this scene and immediately opened her mouth, but before she could check on Tian Sheng’s condition, she noticed the block not far away shake violently, followed by it being ignited by magic as fiery as flames.

White magic invaded the block; that incandescent light was like a sun falling upon this place, yet it was not scorching. Instead, it made those within it feel at ease, warm, and deeply encouraged.

Contrary to ordinary people, the man in the state of a Remnant Beast felt suppressed. His entire body went rigid, his magic turned cold and sluggish, and he cowered as if he had encountered a natural predator.

This was a very abnormal occurrence, yet, having transformed into a Remnant Beast, his dulled senses prevented him from realizing it.

He still followed his previous actions, leaping up along his original trajectory, using all his strength to charge toward Lin Xiaolu.

Dodging the white magic permeating the surroundings, this time, it was a suicidal attack; his sharp claws aimed straight for Lin Xiaolu’s throat, intending to kill her in this single strike.

But this plan failed to bear fruit. When he sprinted in front of Lin Xiaolu, he noticed that pair of shining white eyes, which had locked onto him completely.

Lin Xiaolu’s heart was filled with fury, but her mind was very clear.

She felt equally unfamiliar with this suddenly appearing white magic and did not know how to use it. However, with the battle at hand and facing the Remnant Beast’s attack, the most suitable way to respond appeared in her mind inexplicably.

Her eyes reflected the fierce and brutal figure of the Remnant Beast, but what she saw was not just the Remnant Beast before her.

In this instant, she returned once again to that night at the wetland park. It was the same Remnant Beast waving its sharp claws, the same attack about to reach her throat; it was as if she were standing before a fatal strike once more, facing that Remnant Beast about to kill her.

She could feel the cold touch still lingering on the hand holding the magic wand, which allowed her to recall with absolute clarity the scene where Cui Que blocked all attacks from an enemy far larger than herself using only a magic wand.

"Watch closely, my battle."

These were the words Cui Que said the first time she appeared before her.

For her, that was the starting point of everything. And now, facing a scene identical to that starting point, she felt she could provide a different answer.

Could she do it? She didn't actually have a definitive answer. But she felt she had to do it.

She had undergone systematic training and had more combat experience. She was no longer the person she once was.

Thus, facing the attack about to strike her throat, she raised her magic wand.

Clang!

The magic wand steadily blocked the Remnant Beast’s claw strike.

"Roar!"

Feeling angry that his attack had failed to take effect, the Remnant Beast roared and shrieked, raising its other claw to smash straight down at Lin Xiaolu’s head again.

Sidestepping, Lin Xiaolu pulled out the magic wand that had been braced under the Remnant Beast’s claw, turned its orientation, and slashed it horizontally toward the Remnant Beast’s wrist.

Clang!

The magic wand blocked the Remnant Beast’s attack once again.

The eyes filled with incandescent white magic made her vision incredibly clear, and the powerful magic also reinforced her physical constitution in return, allowing her body, which was originally only at the Seed level, to not fall behind in a clash of strength with the Remnant Beast.

Her petite body seemed to contain immense power, and she began the most direct and primitive slaughter with the Remnant Beast amidst the incandescent flames.

Staring wide-eyed, Lin Xiaolu seemed to have entered a state of selflessness, parrying all attacks amidst a series of clashing sounds. And the moment a flaw appeared in the Remnant Beast’s attack stance, Lin Xiaolu extended the tip of her wand; white magic condensed at the tip, and a burning beam of magic pierced straight toward the Remnant Beast.

"Gurgle-roar!"

The magic beam pierced through the Remnant Beast’s upper arm, eliciting a sharp howl.

The intense pain made it furious. It still did not give up, accelerating again to attempt an attack on Lin Xiaolu from behind. However, Lin Xiaolu, as if guided by a ghost, braced her magic wand behind her, perfectly catching its attack.

This sequence of movements was so coherent, as if another figure were within them.

"So this is what it feels like to be able to see..."

Lin Xiaolu muttered to herself, her gaze sinking again. She pulled out her magic wand, struck the Remnant Beast’s jaw heavily, and with white magic surging, she hit the Remnant Beast’s shoulder with a magic beam once more.

"Ssh!"

This time, the Remnant Beast’s entire claw-arm was pierced through and snapped off directly.

"Roar-roar-roar!"

And this time, the intense pain finally awakened the Remnant Beast’s original intelligence, surpassing its instinct for destruction and slaughter, making it realize: it had to run.

Using the Beast’s Viscera to become a Remnant Beast was not without a price; besides reducing one's lifespan to a certain degree, during the transformation, the user's consciousness would be completely beast-like, and their intelligence would drop significantly.

This beast-like consciousness was also a double-edged sword; it could significantly strengthen the user's instinctive intuition, giving them sharper reactions in battle, but it would also lead to impaired judgment, often making it difficult to judge the strength of the enemy.

There was never any concept of avoiding harm in a Remnant Beast’s instincts, only destruction and slaughter; unless death was truly imminent, it would not realize what danger was.

And at this very moment, facing the fire-like magic, it finally felt a profound sense of fear.

Using this white magic, Lin Xiaolu could easily inflict damage upon it; its once-proud defensive power was as thin as paper before her.

The purple-black Remnant Beast magic curled up and cowered, as if resisting any intersection with this white magic; the fear of the power itself finally awakened its reason.

Thus, it howled, but took advantage of the momentum of its retreating attack to turn around abruptly, fleeing after a few leaps in an attempt to leave.

Not expecting the enemy before her to suddenly change direction and choose to flee, Lin Xiaolu kept a straight face and fired several magic beams along its path of departure. But to her surprise, even when the magic hit its back, it still failed to stop it.

She frowned and was about to stir her magic to pursue, when she suddenly discovered a mirror had been set up before her at some point.

Turning her face to the side, Lin Xiaolu saw Xia Liang lying on the ground not far away, opening her eyes slightly and making a cutting gesture toward her in a somewhat disheveled state.

"Give it a fierce one," she said.

Looking up, Lin Xiaolu discovered that on the path ahead, six mirrors had appeared at some point, positioned at angles to correspond with each other, pointing all the way in the direction the Remnant Beast had fled.

"Holding a grudge now?" she couldn't help but ask.

Xia Liang, however, shifted to a more comfortable position while lying down and closed her eyes with a smile: "This is called doing business."

Thus, the incandescent white magic beam erupted toward the mirrors set along the road.

The white light beam quickly hit the nearest mirror, then transmitted along the way, leaping forward at a terrifying speed along the path of reflected trajectories. Finally, the light focused in the distance and shot straight into the Remnant Beast’s body.

This time, the magic beam pierced through its chest without any obstruction.

"Roar—ahhhhh!"

Purple-black magic leaked out continuously, and the huge figure began to wither constantly; the deep roar of the Remnant Beast turned into a human howl. The man reclaimed his form from the pitch-black Remnant Beast body, and his original face gradually emerged beneath the twisted beast head.

"To think it would be like this, to think it would be like this..."

He ran forward with all his might, his face full of pain and struggle, yet for some reason, it also carried a hint of excitement: "To think there is another Sacrificial Child; so that’s how Gongchu Eleven died... This city, to think two Sacrificial Children appeared in such a short time!"

After being pierced by the white magic, he felt his life and magic leaking out continuously, but precisely because of this, it made him resolve himself.

He didn't want to die here yet.

"It’s not over yet, it cannot be over..."

Seeing Lin Xiaolu catching up from behind, he finally hardened his expression, made a decision with some heartache, grabbed the purple-black flesh on his chest, and squeezed it violently.

Boom!

The green pipes throughout his body burst, and a large amount of the purple-black blood mist that had been flowing within them exploded out, forming large swathes of misty rain that blocked Lin Xiaolu’s path and obstructed her line of sight.

This blood mist was born from him damaging his own Beast’s Viscera to stimulate the Remnant Beast blood quality and magic within it, containing quite intense toxins and hallucinogenic elements. This was both a trump card kept to perish together with the enemy and a means to continue causing trouble for the enemy after death.

But he took a shortcut now, not fully stimulating it, just using it as a smoke bomb.

Using the blood mist to block his tracks, the man had blue veins bulging on his face, but he endured it without a sound, clutching his chest and leaping up suddenly.

Behind him, Lin Xiaolu invoked the white magic, continuously dispersing the blood mist around her. She was completely unafraid of the effects of this poisonous mist and soon broke through the fog, but after emerging, the man’s figure was no longer in her field of vision.

"Damn it, where did he go!"

She hurriedly looked around to search, but she could not see where the man had gone.

And in her blind spot, a black figure had already climbed onto the roof along a nearby building and began to stumble and leap through the high-rise buildings.

The man’s Remnant Beast transformation state was nearly over, like a deflated balloon. The huge body that had originally expanded to four or five meters was now only two meters tall, looking quite comical.

However, he could not care about his appearance or injuries; with a ferocious expression, he leaped and ran wildly toward the outskirts of the block.

"One city, two Sacrificial Children... and a magical girl with a mysterious background. Fang Ting City, there must be other secrets in this place."

He calculated in his heart and muttered to himself: "This is truly a big surprise. I must survive, live to bring this news out, bring it to 'Moth', and then I can obtain even stronger..."

While running, his words suddenly stopped.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but from the distant blue sky, he vaguely saw a deep blue flash.

"Blue?"

As if realizing something, his expression began to turn somewhat gloomy.

He remembered the target he had been avoiding on this trip, but behind him was that Sacrificial Child using white magic; he had no possibility of turning back to flee.

Changing direction now to leave from the side was likely too late. Based on his estimation of the flight speed, he would probably collide with that high-speed flying person in a dozen seconds or so; their trajectories would inevitably intersect.

In the short time, out of a strong desire to survive, he began to prepare a new plan. When his gaze swept over the dense crowd of people under the high-rise building, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of a way:

He could find a way to blend in.

The opponent’s flight speed was very fast. If they encountered him suddenly, they should not be able to use any very strong attack methods for a while, but would subconsciously choose to defend.

Since that was the case, he could bluff, pretending to have a head-on collision with the opponent, while actually using a feigned attack to attract their attention, making them subconsciously attack or defend, so he could take advantage of the momentum to fall rapidly to the street below.

After blending into the crowd, even if he were caught up again, he could use the lives of ordinary people as a bargaining chip to maneuver with these magical girls.

The man calculated in his heart, and in the gap of his brief thinking, the blue light in the distance was already close at hand. He immediately hardened his heart and leaped toward the direction of the light.

Almost the moment he leaped, he first fired several purple-black magic bullets upward, then suddenly changed direction and began to fall downward.

Facing the sudden attack, the opponent would have to defend, and he would take this opportunity to create a time difference; he would have a chance...

Boom!

His thoughts stopped right there.

Because the blue light was like a comet, passing straight through his body; the deep blue magic trajectory pierced through his body directly, carrying incomparably strong destructiveness, wrapping his entire person in the magic light.

The man, or rather, the body of the remnant beast, was instantly torn into two halves.

As his severed body spun in the air, the man’s final sight was that blue figure, and only two words filled with confusion surfaced in his heart.

Leaf-rank?

Then, his consciousness fell into complete silence.

After piercing through the man in the air, the blue comet also suddenly stopped in mid-air. The petite, blue-haired girl revealed her figure from within the flow of magic, instinctively held her forehead, and then shook her magic wand with a look of disgust.

After shaking off the remnant beast's blood that had stained it, she turned her face to the side and clicked her tongue.

"Tsk, disgusting vermin."

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(End of this chapter)