Chapter 2376: The Pious One

【The opponent can absorb light.】

The voice in his ear reminded him.

"What a pure red moonlight~"

That glowing figure said, and its own light turned into a chain and coiled toward Xia De. And at this moment, the ignored miss finally made a move at the most suitable moment:

"Curse - Slowing Spell!"

The fog and light were stiff for less than a second, and within this second, the playing card in Xia De's pocket had already stuck to his body:

"Calamity Card - Darkness Spell!"

The thick darkness directly wrapped Xia De and that figure. After a few short seconds, the dark area dissipated. Standing in place was only Xia De holding the playing card.

He did not relax his vigilance, but turned to look at the figure that reappeared beside Mr. Ronan at the end of the bridge. The opponent's aura did not weaken at all, but he praised:

"I originally thought that in this glowing thick fog, my 'Light Avatar' would have almost no opponents unless it encountered a Twelfth or Thirteenth Tier; I didn't expect... this kind of darkness where all things perish seems to be purer than my light, and more distorted than the light in this fog. Perhaps, I have really been a bit arrogant recently."

He did not think he had failed, but instead reminded Xia De and Matilda:

"Next, I will use a very powerful strange technique; please pay attention."

So that figure scattered into the fog again. Xia De just hesitated for a moment before looking up at the sky.

The spirit induced the fog to surge like a tide, as if the light near the whole bridge was induced to condense toward the high sky.

The light condensed into a ball of light, and the ball of light quickly turned into an egg shape. And before the Thunder Spear thrown by Xia De hit that "light egg," the light dragon that had broken out of the shell was already soaring in the fog.

The newborn dragon was not large in size, but after avoiding the Thunder Spear, it expanded to the size of being able to cover the entire Moon Bay Bridge after spreading its wings by swallowing the fog and light in two or three breaths.

In the thick fog, even in the city during the day, there was no worry about being seen by too many people. And Xia De, who was already vigilant to the extreme, pulled Matilda into his arms fiercely before the dragon opened its mouth again, and the golden moonlight greatsword grabbed by his right hand stabbed into the bridge deck:

"Heaton Seal!"

"Roar!"

The pure white energy light pillar bombarded the bridge deck, and after colliding with the shield made of bright yellow flowing light, it pushed Xia De and Matilda back little by little amidst the loud noise of the bridge's steel structure.

The continuous pure white light pillar could not break the "Heaton Seal" at once, but maintaining the seal required a continuous consumption of Xia De's spirit. Xia De, who had never worried that he would be unable to maintain the shield due to the consumption of spirit, encountered a problem in this regard for the first time, because that light dragon could continuously replenish the consumed spirit from the light in the fog.

White light and golden flowing light debris kept splashing in front of his eyes. Xia De asked the miss in his arms who was a bit nervous:

"Do you have a shield that can be maintained temporarily?"

"The miss's secret technique - 【Domain of Revelation】 I haven't learned yet, but blocking this light within five seconds shouldn't be a problem."

"Alright, get ready, three, two, one."

On the Sixth Tier Ringed Circle behind the witch apprentice, Enlightenment - 【Adaptation】 bloomed with light. At the moment Xia De disappeared abruptly so that the "Heaton Seal" disintegrated, half of her body also turned into light and collided head-on with the dragon's breath.

20 meters high in the sky, Xia De's figure appeared abruptly. Accompanied by the pattern of the sun, moon, and stars blooming under his feet, the key in his hand had already turned into a long staff.

The effects of offensive strange techniques and curse techniques of the light category would be weakened, so on the surface of the long staff held high, silver-white thunder and primordial fire appeared together:

"Thunder Spear!"

Boom!

Amplified by the "Staff of Yggdrasil," the Thunder Spear, which itself had a special attack effect on "dragons," was thrown with the greatest consumption, and then directly caused a violent explosion over Moon Bay.

The light dragon spitting light was pierced by that thunder, and then the giant beast exploded into light debris all over the sky amidst the entanglement of thunder and fire.

Red butterflies danced in the air and rolled away the falling long staff. Xia De, who landed back on the bridge deck, looked at that glowing white figure that appeared in the fog again, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily:

"In this fog, he wouldn't be immortal, right?"

【Very likely, and the opponent obviously hasn't fought with full strength yet.】

"Troublesome."

That figure pointed, and dense light arrows fell from the sky like rain. Xia De used the "Darkness Spell" cast through the playing card again to form a curtain to block this light.

The blurred figure in the fog absorbed more light, split into two, and then turned into light streams and flew toward Xia De from left and right.

The pitch-black chain swept out and hit one of the figures, so the light shattered into debris. In this way, these figures were indeed avatars constructed by strange techniques.

And the other figure, after dodging the chain, actually re-condensed and appeared beside Matilda. The relic weapon wrapped in blood-colored light stabbed directly at the blonde miss's left arm.

She knew that with her close-combat skills, she would definitely not be able to dodge, so she shook her fingers to cast a destiny curse to try to deflect the direction of the sword tip, and then added a blessing of luck to herself at the last moment.

So the blood-colored light suddenly tilted and brushed past her arm. That blurred figure was obviously also very surprised, but the second sword stabbed out, and Matilda really didn't have time to dodge.

The black chain pierced through the abdomen of that figure from the front. Xia De, who blocked in front of Matilda using spatial jumping, clamped the relic in the blood light with both hands.

The light avatar did not collapse because of the Great Sin Chain, but the light dimmed slightly. The figure turned the long sword in his hand, and the blade cut two bloody marks on Xia De's palms before the sword was pulled out from Xia De's hands.

Xia De ignored the astonishment of the miss behind him, and didn't care about the ulceration of the wounds on his hands spreading to his arms. After directly touching the long sword in the blood light just now, he finally saw what that weapon was:

"Blood Sorrow! Are you the leader of 【Eternal Light】, 'The Pious One'?"

That light avatar was obviously stunned, and then the long sword swung toward the two again.

Clang!

But this time, the gorgeous moonlight greatsword blocked the blood light, and the ancient runes made of burning flames flickered with light in the translucent sword body.

Cracks also appeared on the silver moonlight greatsword, but because of the special nature of the "spiritual weapon," the cracks disappeared quickly.

The two swords were taken back by their masters, and "The Pious One" took a step back, and the long sword in his hand disappeared along with the blood light:

"You know 【Blood Sorrow】, and this pure moonlight, you are..."

There was of course no expression on the blurred figure, but he took out a small bottle from somewhere and threw it to Xia De:

"This potion can temporarily stop the ulceration of the wounds. As for how to treat it, high-purity No. 2 holy water will do."

That figure then scattered into light spots, and then appeared beside Mr. Ronan at the end of the Moon Bay Bridge in the distance:

"Let's not fight; fighting you is meaningless. But please don't continue to investigate 【Eternal Light】. We have nothing to do with your goal; investigating us is just a waste of your time. You have more important things to do."

"You followed our people, and I hurt you; this counts as us being even... The Chosen One's ritual might require a document-level ancient relic called 【Mafala's Mirror】; don't come looking for us again."

After speaking, he neatly turned into light and disappeared into the fog with Mr. Ronan, which even looked a bit like running away.

Xia De frowned slightly:

"【Mafala's Mirror】?"

"The appearance is an ordinary full-length mirror, which only takes effect on living creatures with supernatural power. Standing in front of that mirror for more than 9 seconds, the reflection in the mirror will be activated and have the ability to converse; for more than 29 seconds, the reflection in the mirror will materialize and appear from the mirror."

"That reflection is usually considered one's own 'incarnation of justice,' the best self one can imagine. The main characteristic of this mirror is not very useful, and the materialized reflection will always think that the main body failed to become the good person it expected and has already fallen to the evil side, so it will try to kill the main body."

The blonde miss said, looking at Xia De's hands with worry:

"That mirror is in the miss's hands; it was collected many years ago. Treat it first; the wounds on your hands are still ulcerating... does it hurt?"

She pursed her lips, knowing that this was caused by the sword Xia De blocked for her. Xia De nodded, handed the small bottle of potion clamped by his fingers to Matilda, and she carefully poured the amber potion onto the palms of Xia De's hands.

With a hiss, a bloody mist with a fishy smell floated out from the wounds. Although Xia De just twitched the corners of his mouth and didn't shout in pain, Matilda could see that he was enduring it.

"The four relics we learned about before are poet-level, secret-keeper-level, sage-level, and angel-level, just missing the document-level. The slug corresponds to 【Light】, the stone corresponds to 【Dragon】, and this mirror corresponds to 【Justice】, while the star stone and the sword caster are for casting the sword... All complete."

"Holy water."

Xia De frowned and thought. The maid miss reminded him with worry, and Xia De shook his head:

"I didn't bring No. 2 holy water out; I only have No. 3 here. Let's talk about it when we go back... Oh, please help me divine where the fragments of my broken sword fell. Although the sword has broken, it is not impossible to repair."

So the witch apprentice took out the pendulum pendant to prepare for divination, but she was not very focused, but secretly looking at Xia De who was frowning and thinking:

"Are you worried?"

She asked very carefully:

"That Sixth Tier Shushi just now, I mean the one who appeared later, seems very wrong. That ability to drive light, the ability to absorb light, are not what a normal Ringed Shushi should have, especially since he is only Sixth Tier."

"It is indeed wrong. Where would a Sixth Tier have such power? He even directly converted the special light in the fog into his own spirit, and that 【Blood Sorrow】."

Xia De raised his arms and looked at the ulcerated wounds on his palms:

"I won't feel wrong; that is indeed the whisper element level of a sage-level relic. So the leader of 【Eternal Light】 is him; putting it this way, everything makes sense." ===== CHAPTER 2377 =====