Chapter 774: Curse

The courage to dare to fight with heaven and earth and dare to swing a sword at a true god instantly filled Lu Mian's entire body, and he straightened his waist and back, looking firmly and fearlessly toward the destroyed palace complex within the pale kingdom.

Just at this moment, his eyelids drooped uncontrollably, covering his eyes.

Almost simultaneously, "Knight of Swords'" voice echoed in his ears again:

"The target is Oseto's child, not the ancient god's corpse."

This was to prevent Lu Mian from looking directly at the ancient Death's corpse across the pale wilderness.

"There's nothing to be afraid of!" Lu Mian responded quickly.

His voice, after leaving his mouth, was also "infected" by the paleness ruling this world, becoming weak, hollow, and lacking emotional color.

"Knight of Swords" persuaded earnestly:

"But this will affect our battle with Oseto's child; we must solve it as soon as possible.

"After achieving this goal, you can do whatever you want."

Lu Mian was silent for a second and said:

"Alright."

To tell the truth, wearing the Aigris family's golden mask and being in the state of an undead creature, he had a sense of dread and awe of not daring to resist that originated from his bloodline toward the Phoenix ancestor's corpse lying on top of the palace of "Death". This hadn't been washed away by courage, and to a certain extent, it had weakened his courage quite a bit, forming a check and balance.

If it weren't for this, Lu Mian, holding the "Sword of Courage", definitely wouldn't have been so easy to talk to!

Lu Mian immediately ignited scorching white flames, transformed into a bright spear, and threw himself toward those relatively intact buildings at the edge of the palace complex.

When the flame spear tore through the sky, it was also constantly eroded by paleness, dissipating and dimming increasingly rapidly, which resulted in Lu Mian only flying half the planned distance.

Finally, the pale firelight extinguished, Lu Mian emerged in mid-air and fell straight toward the ground.

He stepped steadily onto the wilderness, only making a slight "pop" sound, and the surroundings were quiet to the point of deathly silence.

The scorching white, brilliant flame spear flew up once again.

After five such consecutive times, Lu Mian finally arrived at a high tower embedded with quite a few golden patterns, standing at the top, and the figure of Oseto's monster child was reflected in his eyes increasingly clearly.

Although the other party didn't display the incomplete mythical creature form it might have possessed, just seeing the curled human hands and feet, the head formed by the fusion of several infant heads, and the half-pale, half-brownish-brown feathered wings extending from the back of its torso, Lu Mian felt a wave of dizziness, accompanied by twitching pain.

In addition, something seemed to be calling within his body, slowly gathering toward his abdomen.

That was Omebella's bloodline!

Lu Mian didn't feel fear because of this.

Isn't this an inevitable thing?

The next second, two figures appeared before his eyes.

One wearing a black Gothic court dress, wearing a small soft hat of the same color, with a light golden bun, and one with slightly messy hair, a white shirt paired with the most traditional black vest.

Temperance Faction demigod Sharon, Temperance Faction member and "Tarot Club" Minor Arcana card holder "Knight of Swords" Malic!

After approaching the main target, they finally detached from Lu Mian's body, preparing for battle.

Of course, the colors on Sharon and Malic originated from the impressions Lu Mian had left earlier and didn't actually manifest; at this moment, they were all pale and dim.

In addition, their bodies all presented a transparent and illusory "vengeful spirit" state.

If it weren't for this, they would die instantly, becoming true undead creatures without spiritual intelligence.

The Oseto child, which was circling and approaching the Phoenix ancestor's corpse, also sensed the approach of Lu Mian and the others; it turned its body halfway across a distance of two or three thousand meters, looking over with its twelve eyes squeezed together.

Lu Mian immediately felt the spirit and consciousness protected by the Aigris family's golden mask, as well as the vitality hidden deep within his spirit and consciousness, showing signs of collapse.

In his eyes, that Temperance Faction demigod named Sharon flashed twice between the crumbling palaces and high towers with the help of the mirror effect of the pure golden surface, arriving at a place only three or four hundred meters away from the Phoenix ancestor's corpse.

She opened her mouth toward Oseto's child and emitted a sharp scream.

This was the first time Lu Mian had heard Sharon's voice.

Affected by the pale erosion during the two-thousand-plus-meter journey, when this sound reached Lu Mian's ears, only a tiny bit remained, like a hallucination.

Oseto's child didn't think so; the half-pale, half-brownish-brown feathers on its back fell off rapidly, the eyes on its face exploded one after another, and the flesh on its body not covered by feathers rotted, deep to the bone.

It seemed to be suffering from some powerful curse!

Seeing this, Lu Mian didn't feel fear at all and transformed into a flame spear once again, throwing himself toward this monster, while "Knight of Swords" flashed forward on various mirror-like objects.

Oseto's child emitted a wail.

Although this was across a very long distance and affected by the rich paleness in the palace of "Death", when it entered Lu Mian's ears, it had already become very small, but it still made Lu Mian daze for a moment, a bloody smell with a rotting aura surging at his nose, and he couldn't help but exit the flame spear state.

Accompanied by this wail, Oseto's monster child turned into a wriggling, twisted, massive pale flower bud; those exploded eyeballs, rotten flesh, and fallen feathers were all sucked into the flower bud.

In the blink of an eye, the flower bud bloomed wetly, giving birth to two children.

One was a weave of pitch-black and dark red, abscessed and rotten, which quickly stopped struggling and became pale, falling toward the ground; one was a massive bird-clawed monster infant that was already intact.

By utilizing this method, Oseto's monster child shook off the curse and obtained a new life.

But Sharon's figure had already seized the opportunity and reflected into its twelve eyes squeezed together.

Oseto's monster child stiffened in mid-air, with the top of the "Death" main hall where the Phoenix ancestor's corpse was lying only a few dozen meters behind it.

Within its twelve crystalline, beautiful eyes, Sharon's figure wearing a small soft hat appeared and disappeared, then was illuminated by scorching, violent firelight.

A brilliant flame spear flew over ostentatiously and landed on an ancient high tower half-collapsed nearby.

The firelight dissipated, and Lu Mian, holding the "Sword of Courage" in one hand, manifested.

He didn't hesitate, nor did he fear, carrying the dizziness and sharp pain in his head, and let his eyes turn iron-black.

The iron-black had just emerged when it was eroded by paleness, no longer having any disharmony with this kingdom.

This didn't affect Lu Mian's observation of the target's weakness, but the problem was that all the colors he saw were pale.

Lu Mian had no choice but to rely on the "Hunter's" keen sensing of weaknesses, picking the one that was most pleasing to his eyes and made his fighting spirit boil the most from those pale colors.

He transformed into a flame spear that was gradually becoming pale and dim once again, flying above Oseto's monster child.

His figure then outlined itself, holding the "Sword of Courage" burning with scorching white and cyan flames in both hands, falling toward the body of Oseto's monster child like a giant rock.

Just as the two sides were about to approach, Lu Mian slashed the large straight sword that had already been dyed pale toward the abdomen of the bird-clawed monster infant.

He used his "Reap".

And before this, "Knight of Swords" Malic, who appeared on the half-collapsed high tower, put on a ring carved into the shape of a sun god bird.

In his hand, a clear spear that seemed to be composed of pure, scorching sunlight condensed rapidly.

This let the paleness nearby fade a little, shadows no longer existed, letting the "vengeful spirit" state "Knight of Swords'" body surface melt inch by inch, dropping droplets of dim liquid, just like a candle being placed at the scene of a fire.

Those droplets evaporated rapidly, leaving only a few dust particles, drifting away slowly.

The bright, scorching flame spear became an alien in this pale world.

It was also being eroded, but it was also dispelling the paleness; it looked like it could snatch the lead and insert itself into the target's body before Lu Mian's "Sword of Courage" slashed the monster child.

And this sealed artifact, regardless of its effects or characteristics, will deal significant damage to "wraiths."

It struggled against the influence of the "vengeful spirit", while letting the "newborn" torso shrink inward slowly, seemingly wanting to turn back into an embryo state and return to its mother's embrace, while unfolding its own "Other Side World".

The pale wilderness quickly encompassed the destroyed palaces and half-collapsed high towers around it, and also included the corpses of the few "Death" followers who had died in this area into the scope of influence.

In the deathly silence, a terrifying giant snake that only had white bones and a little rotten flesh left, and grew exaggerated wings, sprang from the collapsed palace into mid-air, blocking in front of "Knight of Swords'" sunlight spear.

The dazzling sunlight erupted, filling Lu Mian's eyes.

His action of slashing the "Sword of Courage" didn't slow down, slashing down firmly.

The sunlight scorched his pale, dim skin black, stirring up burning smoke.

A slight "clang" sound rang out; Lu Mian's "Sword of Courage" slashed onto the head of that winged giant snake, slashing the target, which had borne the vast majority of the sunlight's damage and become exceptionally fragile, apart in one blow.

Amidst a very weak, almost non-existent movement, the white bones of the giant snake either evaporated or shattered, completely losing support, falling toward the ground like rain.

Relying on driving the white-boned giant snake to block a blow for itself, the Oseto monster child, controlled by Sharon, shrank inward even more violently.

Its half-pale, half-brownish-brown wings and curled hands and feet had already merged with its body, turning into a round ball, with only the head, which looked like the fusion of several infant heads, left exposed on the outside.

Its "Other Side World" encompassed the entire "Death" main hall and the Phoenix ancestor's corpse.

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Its half-pale, half-brownish-tan wings and curved limbs had already fused with its body, turning into a sphere; only a few heads, as if fused from infants' heads, remained exposed on the outside.

Its "Other Shore World" had even encompassed the entire "Death" main hall and the corpse of the Phoenix Ancestor.

(End of chapter)