Chapter 414

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

On the Hellfire Dragon's back, Luna's breath fiercely caught.

She subconsciously clutched her staff tighter, the face hidden beneath her hood drained of all color.

Two Chaos Knight Mecha.

She had spent a full half-year, using her clan's secret treasure Knight Mecha as a base, personally applying Chaos Witchcraft to them.

And sacrificing the souls of over a thousand Imperial Cultists, she had forcibly corrupted these Nine War Machines into existence.

Each one was worth a city, one of the core trump cards in her hand.

Yet now, they were cut down one by one by the opponent's sword, sliced like tofu?

From drawing the sword to breaking the armor, the entire process took less than two seconds.

Cold sweat seeped from Luna's palms.

She had always thought Gu Yu only excelled in psychic ability, her close combat capability at best merely equivalent to an ordinary Bishop.

As long as she used the Knight Mecha to engage in close combat, supplemented by witchcraft for long-range consumption, she could grind the opponent to death.

But now she understood, it wasn't that the opponent was weak in close combat, but that she had never fought seriously before.

This power, this speed, this sharpness that severed space...

If the opponent truly wanted to kill her, she probably wouldn't even leave her the time to finish chanting a single spell.

"Impossible, the barrier clearly severed her connection to the Main Hive..."

Luna murmured softly, her voice beneath the mask carrying a barely perceptible tremor.

The core function of this Nine-Sided Sealing Spirit Array she had laid down was to isolate the Insect Swarm Will, turning Gu Yu into water without a source, a tree without roots.

Psychic energy used a point was a point less, and would eventually be exhausted dry.

But this erupted Spirit Energy Level before her eyes, how did it resemble water without a source?

This was clearly the power of the entire Bug Swarm, condensed into that single sword.

Luna took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the palpitations in her heart.

Cannot panic.

She admonished herself.

The more violently the opponent erupted, the shorter the duration it could be sustained.

Power of this grade absolutely could not be maintained for long. As long as she endured this wave, victory would still be hers.

On the surface she still maintained the arrogance of a Heretic Champion Wizard, looking down from above at Gu Yu below.

Her voice amplified by witchcraft, coldly reverberated throughout the entire barrier:

"Trivial skill, a fleeting power exchanged for the sacrifice of three Bishops, and you dare act presumptuously before me?"

"I'd like to see just how many times you can swing that desperate sword of yours."

As she spoke, her wide sleeves hung at her sides, but the fingers hidden in the shadows of her cloak were rapidly forming seals.

Dark blue witchcraft runes faintly appeared at her fingertips, yet she deliberately suppressed their aura, not letting a trace leak out.

This was the Heretic's "Ten Thousand Changes Escape Art", her bottom-of-the-box escape secret technique.

Once activated, it could instantly teleport her to any position within the barrier, the phantom left behind realistic enough to confuse the real with the fake, difficult to distinguish even with psychic detection.

In the past, she had escaped unscathed from countless perilous situations relying on this move.

Today, she likewise did not intend to gamble her life on how fast the opponent's sword was.

Beneath the high platform, Gu Yu gripped the Spine Great Sword, standing quietly between the wreckage of the two mecha.

Purple psychic flames still surged around her, momentum torrential, like an invincible War God.

But only she herself knew, the limit had been reached.

This Divine Chosen Shell's carrying capacity was ultimately limited.

Main Body-grade power was too overbearing; even just one blow was like scorching magma, rampaging through her meridians.

She could feel the muscle fibers in her arm snapping inch by inch, bones groaning under the unbearable burden, as if countless ants were crawling in her blood vessels.

And the psychic energy reserved in the Spine Great Sword, after that horizontal slash just now, had also been consumed by more than half.

Counting all remaining power, she could at most swing one more sword strike.

Only one strike.

Either cut down Luna, or... her gaze turned toward that dark blue barrier.

Gu Yu raised her sword, one hand bracing the ground, three hands gripping the hilt, resting the heavy Spine Great Sword on her right shoulder.

The sword's bone segments undulated in a wave-like pattern, as if breathing, and also as if gathering power.

She slightly bent her knees, leg muscles tensing, the ground beneath her feet unable to withstand this terrifying psychic pressure, beginning to develop fine cracks.

The cracks spread outward like a spider web; wherever they passed, even the scattered mecha fragments were pressed slightly downward.

Purple eyes lifted, gaze crossing dozens of meters of distance, directly locking onto Luna on the high platform.

That gaze was very calm, no anger, no contempt, not even a trace of emotional fluctuation.

Like a predator staring at prey, calm, focused, carrying an undeniable killing intent.

Not a trapped beast's struggle, but a hunter closing the net.

"Open fire! All of you open fire! Kill her!"

Luna felt her scalp prickle under that gaze, and she couldn't help but bark an order.

The remaining seven Chaos Knights immediately adjusted their cannon mouths — Volcano Cannons, Thermal Cannons, Ion Cannons all roaring in unison.

The surviving Pink Terror Demons, Fire Demons, and Mutated Believers around the barrier also swarmed out.

Witch Bullets, Chaos Flames, Corrosion Rays rained down on Gu Yu in a sky-covering, earth-covering barrage.

Attacks of five colors and six hues intertwined in midair into a net of death, enough to blast a heavy main battle tank into fragments.

Yet Gu Yu stood in place, not moving a muscle.

The psychic flame waves encircling her body automatically expanded outward, forming a semicircular shield.

Every attack that touched the shield was either shredded by psychic power or deflected to the sides — not even the hem of her clothes was grazed.

Amidst the sky-full of firelight, her figure stood unmoving, her gaze locked on Luna from start to finish.

That gaze made Luna's back turn cold.

No good.

Can't wait any longer.

Alarm bells rang wildly in Luna's heart.

She knew this feeling — it was the omen of death approaching.

The opponent was gathering power, waiting for the optimal moment to strike with her sword.

And she had no confidence she could take that all-out strike.

Is maintaining the barrier important? Of course it's important.

But no matter how important, it can't compare to her own life.

After all, the entire Saint Galus Family is still waiting for her to lead them to glory!

Luna hesitated no longer; the fingers hidden in her sleeve fiercely curled, completing the final hand seal.

Almost the same instant, Gu Yu moved.

The ground beneath her feet collapsed with a boom, and her whole person instantly vanished.

"Right now!"

Luna shouted low in her heart, psychic power pouring out along the hand seal.

A glimmer of blue light flashed across her body surface, and the next second, her body turned illusory and transparent.

And her true body had already, using the Ten Thousand Changes Escape Art, instantly teleported to the shadows on the other side of the barrier.

Luna slowly walked out from behind a Pink Terror Demon, the corner of her mouth hooking into a cold smile.

Want to kill me?

Still a bit too green.

She was just about to open her mouth to mock a couple of lines, and by the way remobilize the barrier's power to trap the opponent to death in the center.

But looking around, she didn't see Gu Yu's figure.

Not on the platform, not on the Hellfire Dragon, not even in the gaps of the Knight Mecha.

Where is she?

Luna's heart gave a fierce jump, a strong unease instantly seizing her.

She subconsciously raised her head.

Above the dome, beneath the blue barrier wall, a slender figure had at some unknown time already leaped to the very top of the barrier.

Gu Yu faced away from the cannon fire below, four arms holding the Spine Great Sword high, sword body vertical, sword tip pointing down.

Purple psychic power frantically converged along the sword body, finally condensing at the sword tip into a single point, bright enough to make one unable to open their eyes.

From beginning to end, her target was never betting on whether Luna's escape art could be severed with one sword.

Her target was this Nine-Sided Sealing Spirit Array itself that trapped the main consciousness.

In order to cast the escape art, Luna had already withdrawn most of the focus maintaining the barrier's stability.

The barrier wall at this moment was at its most fragile.

"Sever."

A clear and cold voice fell from the dome, light as a snowflake.

But what followed was a sword strike capable of tearing heaven and earth.

The Spine Great Sword, carrying all her accumulated power, heavily cleaved onto the blue barrier wall.

There was no deafening roar, no earth-shaking explosion.

Only a deep purple sword mark, from the contact point at the top, spread straight downward.

Like a sharp knife slicing open a piece of fragile glass.

"Crack!"

A crisp shattering sound rang out.

A huge crack instantly pierced through the entire barrier wall.

The blue runes around began frantically flashing and crumbling; the energy circuits maintaining the barrier instantly fell into chaos.

Having lost Luna's all-out maintenance, the already tottering Nine-Sided Sealing Spirit Array, under this strike poured with the Frost Dragon's full power, finally began to completely collapse.

Cracks spread outward like a spider web, denser and deeper.

Luna stood in the shadows, looking up at the sword-wielding figure above the dome, watching the barrier wall continuously crumble; the face beneath her hood turned completely pale.