Chapter 2285: Collapse and Demon

"Since you say this is your persistence... then fine. Sherry, I have also contracted a strange illness due to the demon's curse, and now I need two hot knight hearts to treat my illness. Sherry, kill the two people behind you and offer me two hearts."

The coughing Queen said. Then the kneeling female knight stood up, cleanly and decisively swung her sword to kill the other person who was kneeling, and then looked at Xia De with her blood-stained sword.

"Meow~"

The cat on his shoulder immediately hissed at her in warning, clearly worried that she would hurt Xia De. And at the same time as the cat's meow sounded, not only was the cat bristling, but even the small flame on its tail grew a bit larger.

"Miss Nite, you still recognize me, right?"

Xia De soothed Little Mia, then frowned and asked the female knight holding the precious sword. The gray-haired female knight nodded gently:

"Yes, you are Mr. Xia De Hamilton, the knight who helped me a lot in the Gravel Desert."

"So your choice is..."

Xia De looked at her sword. Miss Nite nodded gently:

"This is my persistence, and it is also the last thing I can do in my life. Having walked such a long road, sacrificed so many people, and experienced so many things. Even if the ending is miserable, even if I eventually fall into hell, even at this very moment, I will never regret any decision I have made. I have been moving forward all my life, and I will never look back."

She raised her sword, saluted Xia De one last time, closed her eyes, and thrust the sword into her own chest.

She peeled out her heart alive just like that, placed it together with the other person's heart on the tray containing the green crystal, and offered them both to the coughing Queen on the bed.

The Queen did not reach out to take them, so the tray fell onto the bed, and Miss Nite also closed her eyes and fainted.

Crack~ Crack~

The sound of shattering glass spread from the position where the female knight fell. Then, the surrounding scenery disappeared like shattered glass, revealing once again the scenery in the temple mausoleum located in the Gravel Desert.

Xia De did not care about the black mist gradually dissipating around him, did not care about Miss Mester still sitting on the long bench, did not care about Miss Nite, who was lying on the edge of the sarcophagus clutching a stone heart and fainted from phantom pain. Instead, he leaped up with the moonlight greatsword in his right hand:

"Moonlight Slash!"

From the sarcophagus, a thin man with skin stretched over bones had sat up at this moment. Although he looked like a human on the outside, in Xia De's arcane 【Vision of the Demon】, this thing was emitting black light all over its body. This was simply an ancient evil spirit demon.

The illusion dissipated, and the greatsword attached with brilliant silver moonlight slashed toward the man who seemed not to have recovered his senses. But the moment before the greatsword was about to cut off its head, it suddenly stretched out a hand wrapped in yellowish bandages and steadily pinched Xia De's moonlight greatsword.

Crack!

Cracks appeared on the blade of the greatsword at its fingertips, and then the entire greatsword shattered completely into points of light. But at the same time, three identical greatswords that had pierced out from the void had already arrived in front of it, yet they were all struck and dissipated into pure moonlight by a wave of its hand.

The demon that had just broken free from the seal did not give Xia De a chance to attack again. It swung its right hand, and a huge force directly sent Xia De and the unconscious Miss Nite flying off the high platform where the sarcophagus was located.

Whether it was a coincidence or not, Xia De rolled on the ground a few times and then hit his head with a thud~ against the leg of the stone long bench. At this moment, his eyes saw the light-brown, smooth legs. Looking up again, he met the eyes of Miss Mester, who was looking at him with inquiry.

"Lady..."

The Saint asked with a smile:

"Don't you understand yet? The appearance of this mausoleum in this desert is itself an important step in the sealing."

"It is also afraid of the sunlight here!"

Once the main body of this church was destroyed, it meant that the "Power of the Earth · Blessing All Things," which had been effective for an unknown number of thousands of years, was completely destroyed from the inside. The reason this church could remain undamaged in such a harsh environment was because of the power of this sacrificial divine art. The disappearance of the divine art meant that the church's lifespan had come to an end.

But Xia De could not care about so much. After leaping up, he saw that the coffin lid had been completely lifted, and the thin man, who was only wrapped in linen around his waist and bandages around his arms, was slowly floating up from the coffin.

"Take care of Miss Nite and my cat!"

He placed the cat, which had also fallen from the high platform but was uninjured because he had cushioned it, on the chair beside Miss Mester, and then crossed his arms over his chest:

"Moonlight Slash!"

Not forward but upward, Xia De, wearing golden armor, turned into a moonlight cross and rushed straight toward the roof of the church. After the cross-shaped sunlight shone into the dark interior of the church from the roof, the church's collapse began without warning.

The collapsing building in the boundless desert only stirred up a piece of inconspicuous dust. And when the scorching sunlight shone on the body of the demon floating above the ruins, accompanied by the phantom of flames wrapping around it, large patches of ulceration immediately appeared on its rough skin.

The man remained expressionless, but it quickly flew out of the ruins, wanting to leave this place to find other locations where it could avoid the sunlight. But Xia De, who had suddenly appeared behind it, grabbed its shoulder, and then the pitch-black Sin Chain bound its neck from behind. Xia De and it back-to-back pulled hard, causing both to fall back into the ruins of the church.

After a very undignified roll, the thin man tried to ascend again, but because it failed to get rid of the pitch-black chain tied around its neck, it was deadlocked at a position two meters off the ground.

Even the "Demon of Misfortune - Phanalus" in its prime could not break free from the seven-rune Sin Chain, and this nameless demon that had been sealed for an unknown number of years clearly could not either. It was then completely exposed to the sunlight of the sea of sand, its calm face already melted, revealing the rotten, dirty-red flesh beneath.

And the chain, which also contained the power of "Sin," only made the light of the seven Sin runes connected in the chain appear more profound in this sunlight. Xia De, who was back-to-back with the demon, letting the chain pass through his shoulder and connect to the top, felt that this time he had won.

But things clearly would not be that simple. The demon in the air suddenly stretched out a hand toward the ruins. After discovering that it could not make Miss Nite fly over, it stretched out its hand toward the statue standing on the edge of the ruins.

A beam of black light flew straight toward the statue. Once hit, the statue, whose "Power of the Earth · Blessing All Things" effect had already disappeared, would inevitably be completely destroyed. The ancient knight's physical body had already died when it turned into stone, but his petrified soul was still here.

Xia De's mouth twitched, and he finally retracted the chain, appearing in front of the black light in the next instant. With his feet off the ground, he danced the moonlight greatsword in a circle, aiming at the black light:

"Principle of Regression!"

A faint starlight color flashed behind him, and then the black light was returned along the original path, but it brushed past the demon and flew toward the higher sky. Only this time it did not choose to leave, but slammed a hammer toward Xia De. Amidst the booming sound, the golden armor disintegrated in the air and fell toward the sea of sand below, but Xia De's figure was nowhere to be seen in the armor.

Xia De, who had adventurously used "Lagley's Leap" twice, appeared behind the thin figure again in his undershirt. Accompanied by a dragon roar, the scorching sunlight formed the 【Sunlight Greatsword】 in his hand again.

But the demon, which had already been ambushed once, used the power of spatial movement to dodge the sword that slashed from behind this time. The demon, whose skin was now 80% ulcerated, stared at the sword in Xia De's hand with its all-black eyes, and then the whole person turned into a cloud of black smoke and slammed toward him on the ground.

The explosion of dust rose again under the clear sky of the sea of sand without any clouds. Xia De, who had been slammed into the bottom of the sea of sand, had not yet climbed out, while the demon, whose front body had been slashed with three unhealable wounds by the 【Sunlight Greatsword】, stumbled on the church ruins and gravel, trying to walk into the distance on its feet.

It did not even have the strength to fly again.

But after only a few steps, it looked up and saw the light-brown-skinned woman, with a cat standing on her shoulder, blocking its path.

So the demon's all-black eyes looked at this strange woman again. The Saint, who was smiling, was about to reach out her hand, but the cat with its tail on fire on her shoulder made a very fierce sound:

"Meow~"

It jumped from the god's shoulder to the ground, its back fur bristling, and it hissed again. In its amber eyes was a fierce look that Xia De had never seen before.

The demon did not look at this young cat. Its blood-blurred face revealed a look of surprise, and it turned to look behind it. The black eyes clearly saw that the various parts of the golden armor scattered on the sand were constantly shaking with the cat's meow.

The armor parts seemed to be responding to the cat's summons, lighting up with scorching sunlight one after another on the golden gravel.

Miss Mester took two steps back without a trace. The demon suddenly turned its head again to look at the glowing orange cat that was hissing on the sand. What was clearly reflected in its pitch-black eyes was...

"Moonlight Wheel!"

The rotating light wheel flying from behind cut off the demon's head in a way no one expected. And as the demon's head landed, its body and head quickly burned with a raging fire in the sunlight.

The foul-smelling black smoke produced by the burning made the clean-loving Little Mia retreat immediately, but soon it ran happily toward Xia De, who had just stretched out a hand from under the sand and was struggling to pull himself out of the ground. ===== CHAPTER 2286 =====