Chapter 2830: Nowhere to Run

Following Bahamut's command to "Go get her," the first to charge forward were not the Occultists, nor the desperadoes of the City of Smoke, but the clergy of the Healing Church.

These clerics usually looked kind, but in battle, that was not the case. To heal the sins of the "City of Smoke," they sometimes needed to use coercive measures—for instance, using physical means to reform and persuade the criminals.

This process of reformation required the support of powerful combat strength; moreover, it was not just a technical job, but a physically demanding one.

Nearly 300 clerics surrounded Eunice. They stood upon the ruins as silver chains appeared behind each of them. These were products of the fusion between primordial soul energy and a portion of their souls. These silver chains were the representative items of the Healing Church, much like the holy seals of the Occultists.

Eunice scanned the surrounding clerics. Back when she was still in the Healing Church camp, she had thought about using these clerics to help her fight, but she had failed. Now that she had completely broken away from the Healing Church, these clerics had become her enemies.

*Bang! * A blast of air pressure expanded. A crossbow bolt, its surface covered in wind holes and its tail connected to iron-sand-like soul energy, was caught by spider silk and stopped a few meters from Eunice's side. This bolt had been aimed directly at her head, and the soul energy threads trailing from the end of the bolt were extremely tough—a common weapon used by the desperadoes of the City of Smoke.

These desperadoes used to capture everything: lone powerhouses, Occultists, exotic beasts from District 32, and even some ghostly, strange things. As long as it was something valuable, it was a target for their capture and sale.

These desperadoes came from Districts 1–3. They hadn't been brought by Su Xiao; they had come along with the clerics, a spontaneous act.

This crossbow bolt, now suspended in mid-air, signaled the start of the battle. The Occultists were there for the money. One Occultist took out a small glass bottle, took a deep breath of the soul energy inside, and his pupils transformed into earthy-yellow vertical slits.

This Occultist stomped on the ground beneath him. *Boom! * A large area of the surrounding ruins shook. A giant hand constructed of rock appeared, followed by a torso, legs, and a head. A rock giant had been formed.

As soon as the rock giant appeared, another Occultist raised his hand. Iron-sand-like energy carrying sparks drifted out from his sleeves, sinking into the gaps in the rock giant's body.

*Whoosh! * Flames ignited all over the rock giant. These flames quickly died down, and the rock giant transformed into a lava giant, with magma dripping down its entire body.

"I grant you... a soul."

A hooded Occultist spoke, then collapsed to the ground with a *thud*. Almost at the same time, the lava giant's massive hand moved.

The lava giant stepped over the clerics' encirclement, its magma-filled giant hand slapping toward Eunice. Clearly, the Occultists were the type to be ruthless without saying much.

*Sizzle! * The lava giant's slapping palm was severed. A strand of spider silk flashed and vanished in mid-air.

"I really like one-versus-many battles."

Eunice's hand gripped the air; dozens of spider silk threads were connected to her fingers.

*Szz~*

Several heads flew up, and a few clerics who had charged to within a dozen meters of Eunice collapsed to the ground. This attack had come without warning; the spider silk had appeared out of nowhere.

A strand of spider silk was pulled taut and swept outward. By the looks of it, Eunice intended to sever the heads of dozens of clerics all at once.

"Spider, where are you looking?"

A female Occultist in red appeared behind Eunice. She wasn't standing behind Eunice; she had grown out of Eunice's back, her lower body already turned into fluid.

*Splat. *

A spider's armored leg pierced the female Occultist's head, yet she was smiling. Her entire body turned into fluid, climbing onto Eunice.

Eunice stood still. Suddenly, screams echoed from the fluid on her skin. All the fluid surged toward a spider eye on the back of Eunice's hand, being absorbed by it.

"This round, I'll count it as your win."

A brooch appeared in Eunice's hand. The brooch aged rapidly, *cracking*. Almost simultaneously, a silver chain coiled toward Eunice, but she paid it no mind.

*Jingle. *

The silver chain wrapped around Eunice's neck. Her eyes held disbelief. She immediately looked at the brooch in her hand. Decayed residue slipped from her fingertips like sand; she had not been randomly teleported.

A black-blue feather fell from beside Eunice. Directly above her, Bahamut had spread its wings and activated the Magic Hawk Domain. The space here was sealed.

Silver chains coiled toward Eunice, blocking the sky above her. Darkness gradually enveloped Eunice. Her expression turned cold, and purple light surged over her body.

Hundreds of silver chains tangled together, forming a massive sphere. No matter how the silver chains tightened, the sphere never shrank.

After seeing this scene, Su Xiao drew his long blade. The enemy was about to go all out; he could not stand by and watch.

His relationship with the Healing Church was a temporary partnership, and the Magic Association had been hired. It was fine to have these two parties help surround the enemy, but if he treated them as cannon fodder, they would all withdraw in less than 3 minutes. After all, no one was a fool.

Hundreds of silver chains tangled into a sphere, creaking as they tightened.

*Squish! * Dark purple liquid splashed from within the silver chains. A spider armored leg stabbed out, severing a large number of silver chains. This caused the dozens of surrounding clerics to grunt, their faces turning pale.

"Hiss!"

The spider's hiss spread. A giant spider broke free from the silver chains. It had eight pairs of armored legs, and its abdomen was covered in dark gold stripes.

The giant spider flicked its armored legs, and the broken silver chains tangled on them were flung away. Faintly, a phantom spider web appeared behind it.

This was not Eunice herself; at this moment, Eunice's lower body was submerged into the head of the giant spider, and purple veins covered her face and neck.

Purple aura spread, enveloping a one-kilometer radius.

【Warning: You are about to be eroded by an unknown potent poison. Stamina attribute check in progress...】

【Check passed. You are temporarily immune to this potent poison effect.】

【Warning: If you remain within the potent poison range, you will undergo a second check in 2 minutes.】

A series of prompts appeared. Su Xiao only glanced at them before stepping forward to charge toward the giant spider a hundred meters away.

"Blade Dao Blade: Green Ghost."

*Zing. *

A cyan-blue blade glow slashed through the air. A slash mark several meters long appeared on the giant spider's tail abdomen, and purple blood and body fluids gushed out.

Eunice, located on top of the giant spider's head, shifted her gaze, staring fixedly at Su Xiao. She knew that as long as she killed Su Xiao, today's crisis would be resolved.

Eunice pointed at Su Xiao from afar. A very deceptive laughter came from behind her, and purple light bloomed at her fingertips. Just as this ability was about to affect Su Xiao, Eunice suddenly interrupted her own ability. She had a very strong intuition that if she used this ability, she would fall into a passive state.

It could only be said that a spider's sixth sense was not ordinarily strong. This sixth sense had saved Eunice many times.

"Blade Dao Blade: Flow."

Su Xiao slashed out, and elegant wind marks appeared. The giant spider dozens of meters away hissed.

*Clang, clang, clang... *

Metal clashed. Three suddenly appearing armored legs attacked Su Xiao in succession, but they were all blocked by several finger-thick silver chains.

A cleric nodded at Su Xiao. There was a black mark on the center of the person's brow. This cleric's body had been borrowed by the Black Smoke God Envoy.

The Red-Eyed Girl stood in the distance, those lifeless eyes seemingly watching Eunice. Even with Eunice's strength, once dragged into a dream by the Red-Eyed Girl, she would die.

The Healing Church's Red-Eyed Girl and the Magic Association's Masked Man, Bath, had actually been exiled to the City of Smoke because their abilities were simply too dangerous—dangerous enough that they could not remain on the Eastern Continent.

On the Eastern Continent, the Red-Eyed Girl and the Masked Man, Bath, were mobile natural disasters.

If the Red-Eyed Girl fell into a dream herself, she would inadvertently drag a large area of people around her into the dream. These delirious dreamers would kill each other within the same dream, venting everything they dared not do in the past, while the Red-Eyed Girl watched from a god's-eye view, unable to stop it.

The Eastern Continent had a secret file recording that 6,752 civilians died overnight; that was the day the Red-Eyed Girl's ability awakened. Now, every night, the Red-Eyed Girl had to go to District 30 of the City of Smoke, where there was no one, so she could sleep there.

Silver chains coiled, and a gravity field enveloped the surroundings, restricting the giant spider's mobility. Blade glows slashed out, leaving the giant spider covered in wounds, and one of its armored legs was even severed by "Blade Dao Blade: Flow."

Amidst the siege of hundreds of people, Eunice relied on spider silk and spider armored legs for defense. Nearly a hundred intersecting spider armored legs were located around her, and spider silk tangled them together, forming an inverted defensive shield.

Roaring sounds came continuously from the surroundings. Eunice wiped the blood from her face. Just now, she had braced herself against the surrounding offensive and attempted a counterattack, but the price was painful.

It was only 1.7 seconds, and she had almost been killed instantly by the joint effort of the Occultists. Nearly a hundred Occultists with Tier 7 top-tier combat strength attacked simultaneously, and their lethality was terrifying, plus the leader had a type of damage-amplification ability.

"Must find a way to escape. In another 30 seconds... no, in another 20 seconds, I won't be able to block the surrounding attacks."

Eunice thought rapidly. There were simply too many enemies, and nearly half of them were very good at binding, imprisoning, and so on. The abilities of those clerics were extremely disgusting; they didn't seem to have strong lethality, but they were like dull knives cutting flesh, torturing her bit by bit.

"Only choice is to fight to the death. At least make that bastard die."

Eunice made up her mind. Even if she died here today, she would drag Su Xiao down with her.

Spatial fluctuations appeared in front of Eunice. Bahamut appeared inside this somewhat dim defensive shell. It illuminated the darkness like light—no, it should be the Apollo in its claws that illuminated the darkness.

Bahamut vanished, leaving behind only the fully activated 【Sun's Fury: Apollo】. From its appearance to its disappearance, it was only an instant. Doing this kind of thing, it was a professional.

This 【Sun's Fury: Apollo】 was very unstable because it had been activated once. According to Su Xiao's sensing, this thing would likely explode suddenly within 10 to 17 hours, a large deviation from the expected time. Therefore, he decided to gift this thing to Eunice.

"No..."

Eunice blocked in front of her with both hands, leaning her body back as much as possible. It was too late to stop the explosion. That dead bird had timed it to the 0.1 seconds before the explosion and brought this explosive over.

*Thud! *

Solar flames filled Eunice's vision. Around the giant spider connected to her, a large area of silver chains gathered into a barrel shape, enveloping the giant spider inside. The outer layer of the silver chains was wrapped in a crystal layer, and the outermost was iron-sand-like energy.

Inside the barrel-shaped defensive layer, solar flames soared into the sky, forming a pillar of fire that shot straight into the heavens. ===== CHAPTER 2831 =====