Chapter 495

After running for a distance in the silent, desolate, and dilapidated Fourth Era Trier, the wound on Lu Mi's abdomen was controlled thanks to his powerful self-healing ability, and it shouldn't deteriorate in the short term.

Under the sunlight, the direction of him and Fu Lan Ka and the others was completely chaotic. Sometimes they clearly entered a half-destroyed narrow street, but what appeared before their eyes was a gorgeous building complex flaunting red; sometimes they walked toward a landmark, but they got further and further away from it, no matter how they changed direction.

Fortunately, the four of them were close to each other, and no one was "lost," and no one was separated from the team.

Just when Lu Mi felt it was about enough and intended to find a place to hide, a large amount of light fragments raging violently appeared before their eyes.

This looked like it had been transferred directly from afar by the power generated by the Fourth Era Trier being stimulated.

For Lu Mi and the others, this terrifying light storm was not unfamiliar; they had faced it once before on the wilderness, which was the ability from Gardner Ma Ding's silver-white full-body armor.

Gardner Ma Ding? Lu Mi stopped in time, not rushing into that light storm which, although already attenuated, was still quite dangerous.

Fu Lan Ka's expression became quite complicated, not knowing if this counted as lucky or unlucky.

As the light subsided slightly, she saw Gardner Ma Ding's head dragging a long, blood-stained spine, saw this old lover's faceplate damaged, his face full of scorched and hideous wounds, the side skull sunken and broken along with the helmet, the gray-white brain faintly visible, while the eyes looking in this direction were hollow and unfocused, filled with dizziness, as if suffering an exaggerated shock under the intense impact.

Opposing Gardner Ma Ding was his body wearing the silver-white full-body armor, the body without a head, the break in the neck full of blood stains.

He raised his hands, condensing a giant axe made of light.

This couldn't be used to release "Light Storm," but for normal combat, it was enough.

Fu Lan Ka looked at that miserable face, familiar yet strange, exhaled, took out a mirror, and shone it into it.

At this time, Gardner Ma Ding's thoughts recovered slightly, and what was reflected in his eyes, besides his own headless body, were Fu Lan Ka's beautiful lake-colored eyes that seemed to have no fluctuations.

Fu Lan Ka pressed her right hand, which was burning with black flames, onto the mirror reflecting Gardner Ma Ding's head, and said softly:

"I'll help you find relief."

Gardner Ma Ding, who hadn't truly recovered from the huge blow brought by his own body, was instantly enveloped by black flames, his spirituality burning from the inside out.

He wanted to scream, but couldn't make a sound. He wanted to pray to the great will for help, using his own specialty, and evoking the power given by the Fourth Era Trier, but there was no response.

With a puff, the headless Gardner Ma Ding waved that giant axe of light, slashing at the face of this head, shattering the already missing faceplate, and slashing into the skull.

Lu Mi had already moved sideways a few steps, raised his right hand, and let a fireball of crimson, near-white color roar toward Gardner Ma Ding's sunken skull like a cannonball.

It fell onto the crack, exploding with a boom, tearing up the gray-white brain that no longer had protection.

In the continuous attacks from his own body, his own lover, and his own subordinates, Gardner Ma Ding's head had eyes bulging out, filled with resentment and pain.

With a slap, the head detached from the helmet, falling to the ground in a semi-shattered form, no longer having signs of life, no longer having any movement.

When the silver-white helmet landed with a clatter, Gardner Ma Ding's body wearing the armor turned around, raised the giant axe of light in his hand, and ran toward Lu Mi and the others.

Seeing this scene, Lu Mi slightly arched his body and strode to meet him.

Every step he took, his body seemed to grow larger, and by the time he approached the headless Gardner Ma Ding, his clothes and pants were already tight.

The power of the "Ascetic"!

Earlier, while hiding and waiting at the edge of the Fourth Era Trier, Lu Mi had "accumulated" some power, and now it erupted.

The power he had accumulated wasn't much, but it also gave him certain changes, plus the improvements in speed, agility, and physique brought by the "Blood-Thirsty Arrow," he had the confidence to block this blow from Gardner Ma Ding wearing the silver-white armor.

Just as the two sides were about to encounter, Lu Mi nimbly moved sideways, letting the giant axe of light slash past him, and punched toward the headless Gardner's wrist.

With a bang, the headless Gardner dropped the giant axe of light directly, clenched his fist covered by the metal gauntlet, and collided with Lu Mi.

Lu Mi's body swayed slightly, while the headless Gardner was like a mountain peak, not shaking in the slightest.

While Lu Mi withdrew his left fist and loosened it, swinging it in the air to relieve the pain, he swung his right fist.

Just at this moment, Fu Lan Ka, who had already hidden her figure when Lu Mi ran toward the headless Gardner, appeared behind this enemy wearing the silver-white full-body armor.

She raised the iron-black ring on her left thumb, and two lightning-like rays of light lit up in her eyes.

She didn't know if this body that had lost its head would still be hurt by "Mental Piercing," but she felt it should be possible, because as long as there was a spirit, it would be affected by "Mental Piercing."

In an instant, the headless Gardner froze there, the skin and flesh exposed at the break in his neck and the broken armor on his chest twitching.

Because she had to chant incantations and use materials, Yu Jianna, who was slower than Fu Lan Ka, also arrived. She appeared at a distance not too close to the headless Gardner, letting clusters of black flames condense and fly out, falling onto the bloody neck of the opponent that was not protected by the silver-white full-body armor, burning the enemy's spirit, which was in a state of intense pain.

Step, step, step—Anthony Reid ran past Yu Jianna, pulling the distance between himself and the headless Gardner close enough.

Then, he let his pupils stand up, floating with pale gold.

"Madness"!

Flames suddenly erupted from the headless body inside the silver-white full-body armor, burning his own flesh and blood.

Seeing this, Lu Mi leaned his body backward, kicked the ground hard with his right foot, letting himself "fly" in the direction away from the headless Gardner, while condensing multiple small fireballs of crimson, near-white color around his body.

Those fireballs roared out, flying into his body one after another from the unprotected break in his neck.

Boom, boom, boom!

Those fireballs exploded from the inside out, causing the silver-white full-body armor to vibrate violently, turning the headless body into scorched flesh and blood fragments, "coating" the inner layer of the armor.

Boom!

Lu Mi, who was flying backward, was pushed further away by the wind of the explosion, falling to the ground.

At the same time, that silver-white full-body armor crashed to the ground like a mountain peak collapsing.

Lu Mi just climbed up and was about to praise Fu Lan Ka and the others for their good cooperation when he suddenly felt the sky turn blood-red.

Drops of rainwater fell.

No, that wasn't rainwater; it was flames, scorching white flames.

Amidst the fire rain, there were also drops of fresh blood.

Fu Lan Ka immediately rolled toward the side building, using the roof extending from it to avoid the scorching of the white fire rain. Lu Mi, Yu Jianna, and Anthony also made similar moves.

Those clusters of scorching white flames and drops of bright red blood fell faster and faster, dyeing the surroundings red and thoroughly igniting the buildings one by one.

The burning buildings connected into a piece, turning into a sea of fire.

Lu Mi seriously considered whether to trigger the "Blood Emperor" aura to see if it could bring about other changes to deal with the current terror, when the figure of the "Magician" lady wearing a shirt with a bow tie and a beige long skirt was reflected in his eyes.

He immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Brilliant starlight lit up, taking them and the "Arrogance Armor" on the ground, Gardner Ma Ding's corpse, and other things, disappearing into this street and entering the golden vortex that was getting smaller and smaller in the high sky.

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The scorching white flames fell like rain with fresh blood, but passed through Bei Er Na Dai Gustav's body, failing to ignite her.

This angel seemed to have turned into a non-existent thing.

She continued to observe the thick gray fog and the various pollutions of this city, only letting her body suddenly turn transparent after a while, becoming a pile of foam reflecting the firelight.

The foam dissipated, and Bei Er Na Dai also left the Fourth Era Trier.

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The two women with outstanding temperaments and charming eyes had just approached the gray-white fog as thick as a wall when they discovered that the sky had been stained with the color of blood, and scorching white flames as dense as rain had fallen.

They were just about to find a place to hide when a golden sun was reflected in their pupils.

In the blink of an eye, they were thoroughly purified.

In other parts of the Fourth Era Trier, the "Hostel" guests who entered here either had mutations earlier and died in a monster state, or were ignited by scorching white flames, or saw the sun.

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Lady Pualis hid at the entrance of an asymmetrical house that was still quite intact.

She saw the sunlight in the distance, saw clusters of scorching white flames igniting nearby buildings, but the darkness inside the door was so deep and terrifying that she didn't dare to go in to hide.

Suddenly, her head felt a sharp, intense pain, and she heard a near-phantom baby's crying in her ears.

That was the crying of her child; it was both like a fragment in her memory and seemed to be ringing nearby.

Lady Pualis followed that wonderful induction and walked into the endless darkness behind the door.

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Amidst the countless scorching white flames falling, Vazan Sanson, who was on the collapsed plaza, was also ignited, but he quickly recovered to his original state.

He immediately saw his fate of being purified by the sun.

Just at this moment, he caught a glimpse of a figure turning out from behind a gray-white stone pillar at the edge of the plaza.

That was a transparent, blurred lizard-like creature.

That creature's cold eyes were quietly looking at him.

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Inside the Fourth Era Trier, a large number of buildings were ignited by scorching white flames, stained red by rain turned from blood, and burned scorched black.

"Red Angel" Medici, wearing blood-stained black armor, walked from the wilderness into this city that was both beautiful and brilliant and full of destructive meaning.

He walked through the scorched and collapsed houses, through the clusters of falling scorching white flames, through the blood-like raindrops, with an undisguised smile on his face.

The two rotting wounds on his face that reached the bone had initially healed, leaving only traces like mouths.

Splash.

The flames and blood in the high sky fell like a waterfall, both illuminating the Fourth Era Trier and submerging these ruins, turning it into a crimson hell.

After 2,081 years, Medici became the Angel of Kings again.

(End of chapter)