Chapter 313: Bloodbath of Four Cities, Burning the Stone Demon!

Twilight.

The setting sun's halo fell upon the blood-colored mountain peaks.

It triggered the blood-colored phenomenon of the 'Blood Demon Dusk Mountain'.

The entire vast Blood Demon Dusk Mountain was like a gigantic blood-mist spraying machine.

It spewed forth thick, heavy blood mist, which flowed down along the mountain ridges and valleys.

Soon, the Blood Dusk City-state at the mountain's base was enveloped in thick blood mist.

Blood Dusk City-state.

Inside a relatively lively tavern, magic oil lamps had already been lit.

Outside, the blood mist descended, yet it hardly affected the tavern's liveliness; evidently the residents had long grown accustomed to the daily blood-mist eruptions of Blood Demon Dusk Mountain.

"Yesterday I heard from the manor's mage that another transcendent city-state has fallen."

"Supposedly that transcendent city-state relied on the Obscure Sun Church these past few years, developing rapidly, with far more transcendent beings than elsewhere."

"A transcendent city-state once full of promise was suddenly wiped out just like that."

"It's said they took a full five forbidden curses."

As the second-rank knight leaning against the tavern bar spoke.

Many transcendent beings around, as well as warriors without transcendent ranks, turned to look.

During this time.

News of several transcendent city-states of the Stone Demon Statue Empire being obliterated by forbidden curses spread fiercely.

It caused a great upheaval throughout the Stone Demon Statue Empire.

It's said that wealthy manor owners began fleeing the city-state en masse.

Capable mages are investigating this matter through various means and channels.

After all!

Nobody wants that terrifying fellow to approach their transcendent city-state area.

"Is it still that kind of mushroom-cloud-like forbidden curse?"

Someone raised their voice and asked?

"If not that mushroom-cloud forbidden curse, what else could it be?"

"That mushroom-cloud forbidden curse is indeed terrifying; it's said that even ten kilometers away one can hear its violent roar, like… the death god's howl!"

"This is already the third transcendent city-state wiped out by forbidden curses this past month."

"That damned demon."

"Don't the big shots above the empire know to send strongmen to capture this guy?"

"Leaving that damned demon to rampage like this, who knows how many transcendent city-states will suffer?"

"Exactly!"

"The high-ups of the empire and the church would do best to catch that demon early and burn him to death."

"That said, before that demon is captured,"

"we can only pray for the Great Obscure Sun God's protection, so that damned demon does not come here."

"Indeed so!"

"May the Great Obscure Sun God bless us!" as someone chanted loudly.

Immediately, most of the tavern's patrons showed devout expressions.

"May the Great Obscure Sun God bless us!"

The unified prayer voices rose together.

As for the Blood Dusk City-state,

there are three things that cannot be avoided.

Birth! Death! Faith in the Obscure Sun!

The entire Blood Dusk City-state was built upon the foundation of faith in the Great Obscure Sun.

After a round of prayer, the tavern grew lively again.

Just then, a loud voice rose above the tavern's renewed bustle.

"Hey… foreigner! Why didn't you pray to the Great Obscure Sun God just now?"

"What?"

"In Blood Dusk City-state, someone actually doesn't pray to the Obscure Sun God?"

Instantly, many patrons in the tavern glared angrily.

Then, the Obscure Sun-induced mutations writhing on their bodies began to twitch slightly, and each person grew fervent and hostile toward that foreigner.

"In Blood Dusk City-state, daring not to pray to the Obscure Sun God makes one a heretic, to be burned on the spot; in a world of divine faith, no foreign entity is allowed."

"The foreigner," as the tavern patrons called him.

He sat in a dark corner, wearing a grey wizard's hat and black wizard's robe.

As the crowd's angry scrutiny fell upon him,

yet the foreigner stood up calmly and unhurriedly.

Only then did the crowd realize the foreigner appeared to be a handsome young man with fine features.

But… to have taken the path of disbelief in the Obscure Sun God at such a young age is all the more unforgivable, requiring correction and baptism.

Only see the foreigner speaking in somewhat unskilled Eastern Continent language:

"Allow me to make an excuse… oh no, allow me to explain!"

…………

When the afterglow of the setting sun scattered upon the "Blood Demon Twilight Mountain".

The spraying blood mist, like an avalanche, surged downward, submerging the entire Blood Twilight City-state.

Wearing a wizard's hat and clothed in wizard's robes, Ta Ke.

Through the tavern's dim yellow window, he closely examined the mountain before him, which seemed entirely soaked in fresh blood, the "Blood Demon Twilight Mountain".

He had spent over half a month traveling in the Stone Demon Statue Empire.

Ta Ke followed his own route, executing the plan to exterminate city-states founded on the faith of Dim Sun.

Ordinary supernatural city-states, Ta Ke would not bother with.

What Ta Ke intends to destroy are precisely those city-states established upon the faith of Dim Sun.

City-states founded on Dim Sun, the altars of the Dim Sun Church constantly capture the souls and wills of surrounding residents, twisting their faith, causing them to unknowingly become minions of Dim Sun, and then sink into mutation and distortion.

Every Dim Sun city-state established by the Dim Sun Church is a massive source of Dim Sun pollution.

The method to exterminate Dim Sun city-states.

The foremost means is the Flame of the Flock of Ravens.

Ta Ke released the Sares Forbidden Raven.

As a Terror-level forbidden sealed object, it is completely a herald of death.

With the forbidden raven's cry.

The Flame of the Flock of Ravens, following the flow of Dim Sun, can quickly ignite all Dim Sun-believing supernatural beings in the entire city-state.

Not long after, the entire sky above the supernatural city-state will be covered in a dense mass of ravens.

Naturally, the ones who experience the Forbidden Spell Starburst are the temples of the Dim Sun Church, leaving not even a scrap.

The power of the Forbidden Spell Starburst and the enormous mushroom cloud phenomenon of ignited clouds appear grand and overwhelmingly shocking.

But more so, it is a psychological blow and forbidden spell deterrence, plus an astonishing spreading effect.

Don't be fooled by the grand appearance of the Forbidden Spell Starburst.

But in the three Dim Sun supernatural city-states slaughtered by Ta Ke,

the Forbidden Spell Starburst merely makes a sound.

But to truly slaughter a city and kill people, one must rely on the Sares Forbidden Raven.

As a Terror-level forbidden sealed object,

Sares Raven, it is truly ruthless.

Death follows like a shadow, endlessly sowing.

After Ta Ke's Forbidden Spell Starburst on the first supernatural city-state,

Within a few days, the news spread rapidly throughout the Stone Demon Statue Empire.

Subsequently, Ta Ke successively used the Sares Raven and Forbidden Spell Starburst to exterminate two extremely Dim Sun-faithful supernatural city-states.

And today.

This Blood Twilight City-state is the fourth target.

He sought out a tavern.

Ta Ke originally planned to act at nightfall.

He did not expect that the followers of the evil god contaminated by Dim Sun would be so devout.

Ta Ke was just because he did not get up to pray with them.

Judging by their appearance, they likely intended to bind Ta Ke and burn him to death.

Helpless, Ta Ke could only rise and say:

"Please let me make an excuse…… oh no…… please let me explain!"

As Ta Ke's words fell,

"Ga ga ga……"

The hiss of the raven from death followed.

"Hualala……"

In an instant.

Everyone inside the tavern was entirely ignited by the Sares Raven's Flame of the Flock of Ravens.

After a moment.

With a "huala!" sound,

The tavern's glass was suddenly shattered.

A black mass of Sares Ravens surged into the street like a dark flood.

A carriage that happened to pass by was directly overturned by the oncoming surge of Sares Ravens.

At this moment, these ravens were burning with the Flame of the Flock of Ravens.

The horses pulling the carriage, the carriage body, and the wealthy, pot-bellied individuals inside reeking of Dim Sun were quickly ignited by the Flame of the Flock of Ravens.

The horses and the wealthy quickly turned into vast numbers of ravens under the Flame of the Flock of Ravens' burning.

"Ga ga ga……"

Accompanied by a deep, heavy hiss.

The Sares Ravens scattered in all directions.

Sares Ravens possessing a certain forbidden spirituality can, following Ta Ke's will, actively ignite supernatural beings imbued with Dim Sun aura.

The stronger the Dim Sun aura, the more likely they become targets of the forbidden ravens.

Each Sares Raven burning with the Flame of the Flock of Ravens is a death-seeding machine.

When nightfall officially descends!

【Horror-level】 Forbidden Sealed Object Sai'ersi·Forbidden Crow.

It began to spread death and disaster wantonly within the Blood Twilight City-State buried under the blood mist.

The flock of crows cried out.

Shrieks rose from all directions, intertwining within the Blood Twilight City-State into a great net of despair.

Today's blood mist was like a grave.

……

Night deepened.

The residents of the dim city-state whose faith had been buried by death and disaster grew ever more numerous.

The wide streets began to grow desolate.

Apart from the crows, there was hardly any sign of people.

"Squeak".

Ta Ke pushed open the tavern's half-door.

Stepping through the blood mist, Ta Ke strolled through the streets of the Blood Twilight City-State.

The entire city-state was turning into a dead city.

Lifting his head, Ta Ke's gaze pierced the blood mist shrouding the Blood Twilight City-State.

High above the firmament, the cold moon hung.

Besides the cold moon.

There were also insights and surveillance from the Kingdom Ecology.

Having entered the Shadow State, Ta Ke's figure was shrouded beneath the Blood Shadow Witch's Robe.

Ta Ke was unafraid of the insight wielded by Ferdinand Felix, Monarch of the Stone Golem Empire, who controlled the Kingdom Ecology.

The insight of the Kingdom Ecology was not a projection insight.

The target could not be stared at directly; only a vague, overall sense could be felt.

Monarch Ferdinand Felix could feel that this city-state was suffering the ravages of death.

But he could not find Ta Ke's trace within the city-state.

Normally speaking.

A transcendent being carried out a large-scale slaughter within the Kingdom Ecology.

It was inevitable that they would be hated by the Stone Golem Empire's Kingdom Ecology.

And Monarch Ferdinand Felix, by borrowing the hatred power of the Kingdom Ecology, could easily lock onto a target, leaving them nowhere to hide within the Kingdom Ecology.

What a pity!

Ta Ke had long since crushed the ecological threads of hatred from the Kingdom Ecology.

Every thread of hatred was severed by Ta Ke and anchored to the earth.

Ta Ke completely avoided the hatred from the Kingdom Ecology.

Within the Stone Golem Empire's Kingdom Ecology.

Now Ta Ke could run rampant without hindrance.

This is also the core reason why Ta Ke dared to come alone to the Stone Golem Empire to carry out a wanton slaughter.

Only Ta Ke himself could do such a thing.

"Gah-gah-gah……".

Along the way, Sai'ersi crows continually flew toward Ta Ke as if returning to their nests.

When these Sai'ersi crows passed near Ta Ke,

Blood-colored silk threads, like a fine drizzle, were drawn in by Ta Ke.

These blood threads, containing a certain amount of blood-source essence power, were refined blood source; after Ta Ke drew them in, they all settled in the blood pool.

For Ta Ke to cultivate the Master Blood Source Scale Armor.

Directly casting a forbidden spell is simple and brutal, but lacks technical sophistication.

Not even fresh blood could be collected.

Using the Sai'ersi Forbidden Crow is the true technical work.

Killing, tempering the blood source, and finally gathering it all together.

What is professionalism? This is professionalism!

As Ta Ke continually drew refined blood source from the blood pool,

"Gah-gah-gah……".

"Splish-splash……".

Suddenly, the flock of crows burst into sharp cries and scattered wildly in all directions.

At the same time.

The houses on either side of the street seemed to come alive.

They quickly coalesced into two enormous palms, like a wall, and slammed toward Ta Ke.

At the same time, the air around Ta Ke seemed to be imprisoned.

Even the ground's gravity suddenly surged to over ten times its normal strength.

【Air Imprisonment Lock】

【Earth Gravity Bind】

These are two common methods used by wizards to bind frail bodies.

The two enormous palms slammed down upon the bound Ta Ke.

Boom... rumble... rumble...

For a moment, the earth shook and the mountains quivered, and the whole street violently swayed.

As the strike imbued with the earth rune vibrations fell.

The visible earth tide radiated outward in all directions from the point of impact.

The stone slabs paving the street rose up like waves.

Ta Ke, who avoided the attack, stepped on the rippling earth waves generated by the earth rune profound art, and glided forward like a surfer.

He stopped only when the earth wave ripples faded away.

Boom... rumble...

Boom... rumble...

The ground shook violently as if struck by a meteor.

As the blood mist dispersed.

On both sides of the building, two six‑rank Stone Golem Giants over twenty meters tall, resembling heavily armored soldiers, emerged in silhouette.

At the same time, in the front and back of the street.

Two figures also materialized.

One was a burly middle‑aged man clad in dark rune battle armor, wielding a sixth‑rank three‑ring dark demon dragon spear.

His body was suffused with heavy dark blood aura, viscous and unbreakable.

The other was a Sixth Rank Dark Sun Shepherd Bishop, versed in certain sorcery.

His main duty was to shepherd Stone Golems.

These two sixth‑rank Stone Golems were the powerful magical creatures he shepherded.

He could use the Stone Golems to impose magical suppression and magical sealing on enemies.

And he himself could exempt himself from the Stone Golems' magical suppression.

Two senior Sixth Rank Bishops, plus two sixth‑rank Stone Golems.

Facing a Fifth Rank sorcerer.

Just looking at the lineup on paper.

A clear one‑sided crushing.

And at this moment.

These two Sixth Rank Bishops, however, wore an unprecedentedly solemn expression, standing ready in strict formation.

Dark Sun Spear Knight Bishop, with Transcendent Form "Dark Sun Blood Form" fully unleashed, entered the field at his peak state.

Dark Sun Shepherd Bishop, each shoulder bearing a Dark Sun Life Candle flame, the flames roiling and blooming; before even striking, the situation was already a life‑or‑death showdown.

Even his killing move, two sixth‑rank Stone Golems, were released early.

The reason the two were so cautious.

Naturally, it was because the person before them was the God Defiler Ta Ke·La Mo Er.

The name of the God Defiler might be unknown to ordinary residents of the Stone Golem Empire.

But to strong beings of their caliber, it rang like thunder.

Everyone knows how formidable the power of such a super‑genius is.

Holy Son, fallen into his hand.

Countless Dark Sun Church geniuses have perished at his hands.

Even the mighty Eighth Rank Crowned Grand Bishop suffered heavy losses at his hands.

Although this is the Stone Golem continent, and although they possess Stone Golems that can curb source‑energy magic fluctuations.

But facing the Fifth Rank God Defiler Ta Ke·La Mo Er.

They still dared not underestimate him, and each strike was given their all.

"Die!"

A low growl, imbued with willful intimidation, cracked like a sudden thunderbolt.

At the same moment, the Dark Sun Spear Knight Bishop rode the sound wave, the spear tip rushing forward to strike.

The dark rune profound art, intensely concentrated, resembled a black hole.

Dark Hole Stab

It is the dark rune spear secret technique he has cultivated for a long time.

At a distance of a hundred meters, within a single step, an afterimage arrived instantly.

The Dark Sun Spear Knight Bishop, wielding a rune magic spear, thrust a spear that pierced Ta Ke's silhouette.

But it was only an afterimage!

"What astonishing speed and reaction, the timing grasp is almost perfect."

Missing with a single strike, the Dark Sun Spear Knight Bishop felt a slight shock in his heart.

He employed the deterrent power of sound waves, combined with the dark concealment trait, to execute the spear technique 'Dark Hole Stab' attack.

Ordinary Bishops dare not underestimate.

But the Fifth Rank God Defiler Ta Ke easily evaded.

"Continue the pursuit, give Bei Lei Ke a chance."

Following the opponent's attack trace, Ta Ke easily dodged the strike and phase‑walked into a nearby alley.

A peripheral glance flicked past the two massive figures over twenty meters tall.

Ta Ke frowned slightly.

"Stone Golems possess extremely strong magical immunity."

Witchcraft is the blossoming of the deep intertwining of source energy and rune mysteries.

And... the stone demon statue, this kind of creature, naturally causes source energy to lose activity and causes runes to fall into corruption.

I can still mobilize source energy within my body.

Once released, witchcraft will quickly dissipate.

Fortunately, divine ability power is not subject to imprisonment or restriction.

Hmm... let's try!

It matches the attack pattern of the Abyssal Sun Magic Spearman.

Again, a phase shift, Ta Ke dodged the opponent's attack.

For Ta Ke.

Forbidden spell explosion lacks technical content.

Similarly, this sixth-rank Abyssal Sun Magic Spearman Archbishop's attack is now before Ta Ke.

It also appears quite dull.

A phase shift landed in an alley over fifty meters away.

Taking a deep breath, Ta Ke mobilizes the Divine Ability Indestructible Heart of Flame.

Simultaneously, Ta Ke urges divine ability power to condense divine ability fire oil.

Facing the huge stone demon statue ahead, the rich divine ability fire oil mixed with divine ability fire suddenly spews forth and blossoms.

Splash...

Accompanied by the surging, heavy divine ability fire oil, Ta Ke's divine ability fire quickly ignited the huge stone demon statue.

Stone demon statue!

Such a powerful miraculous creature, like a guardian deity of the Eastern Continent.

Before Ta Ke's divine ability fire, it was easily ignited.

Burned for a moment.

That miraculous creature, the stone demon statue, only then suddenly felt it was being burned by some powerful flame.

Roar...

The stone demon statue, feeling pain, let out painful wails.

It hastily waved its stone arms to extinguish those flames.

Unfortunately, the divine ability fire has already seeped into its interior; this clumsy stone demon statue cannot extinguish it.

Indestructible Divine Ability fire!

This is fire produced by system point upgrade transformation.

The blazing fire light that scorched the stone demon statue and made it howl in misery shone upon the cheeks of the two Abyssal Sun Archbishops.

Their psychological defenses are being rapidly destroyed.

They themselves relied on the stone demon statue to dare come over.

As a result, the stone demon statue must now be burned to death.

How can we still fight?

Fear gradually sprouts in the depths of the two Abyssal Sun Archbishops' hearts.

Even the forbidden demon stone demon statue can be burned to death?

Is this the means of the Blasphemer Ta Ke·La Mo'er as a Witch?