Chapter 2861: Whipping the Demon

Although Xia De mentioned the doctor, the doctor was holding the teacup and blowing on the hot air, not saying a word.

"Young hunter, what is the best strange magic you currently possess that can affect the soul?"

The hunter asked again.

"Soul Lash, this is... are you sure your conjecture will work? I didn't prepare for battle tonight."

"Soul Lash, this is the most important core divine art of the ancient Death God Sect. Both the Punishment and Awakening schools in the church take this divine art as the core. But it is not the foundation, but points directly to the essence of death power."

The hunter said to himself:

"It's easy to handle if you have this strange magic. In our era, there were many ways to wake up people who were forced to be possessed by demons, one of which was whipping.

Although this behavior caused serious consequences later, the 【Pain School】 that appeared as a result even once distorted the mission of the demon hunters with 'only by enduring pain can one wait for hope,' but it does not prevent demon hunters from mastering the means to give demons strong stimulation with this method. Of course, this means has almost no one wanting to master it after the Third Era when evil spirits were rampant."

At this time, Xia De should actually ask "Why does no one want to master it," but he didn't ask, so the expressionless hunter continued to say to himself:

"Because compared to directly causing damage to demons/investigating the traces of demons/resisting the power of demons, waking up people possessed by demons is really not useful enough in an era when evil spirits are almost extinct. Since you have mastered 【Soul Lash】, you don't even need to learn additional strange magic. The power mastered by demon hunters was originally created based on 【Soul Lash】."

The "Demon Hunter's Notes" floated towards the doctor, and the hunter exhorted:

"Turn to page 77."

But in fact, the book looked like it only had about thirty pages, but most relic-type books had similar properties, so Xia De was not surprised.

"I just gave a suggestion. If you want to help, you can look at the content on page 77. Because this was not opened by you actively, learning the knowledge on it will not cause you to become a real hunter. As for the side effects of learning knowledge, it will become easier to contact these ancient evil spirits, I think you shouldn't mind."

Even if the church can defeat that evil spirit, it will eventually pay a price. But if you can take action, at least you can save people who should have died in this war, right?"

Xia De had to admit that the hunter made sense. Although he didn't want to go just now, he walked over after the doctor really opened the book. Tomorrow he still had to trade information with that wish-granting demon, and ensuring that the other party could appear on time was what he should do.

The book opened towards Xia De, and the dense ancient characters of the Third Era, a small amount of later annotations, and the most important ritual content came into view. The whisper elements caused this knowledge and power to be directly imprinted into Xia De's soul, so "She" reminded softly:

【Outlander, your strange magic "Soul Lash" has been sublimated, and the strange magic has gained a brand new effect: Wake up sleeping/controlled will.】

Simple and easy-to-understand effect, it seems it can't only be used on demons. However, considering that Xia De's strange magic learned from Ms. Marilyn Hendel, who returned from death, had nothing to do with demons, even if it had new functions developed by demon hunters, it wouldn't become a power that only takes effect on demons.

(Little Mia running...)

The wind blew through the forest sea in the night of late autumn, and above the forest sea, in the crazy laughter that made people dizzy, the gold rings on the arms of the giant blue giant spirit flew through the air wantonly. Anyone who passed through the center of the gold rings would immediately be unable to move as if they were integrated with space.

Fire, thunder, storm, frost, dense attacks from all directions, even if they hit its giant body, only caused the vibration of a layer of colorful mist on the surface of the blue body.

Even the "Blade of the Firmament" swung down from the night sky was blocked by it reaching out and then easily crushed. Between the closing of the sausage-like swollen lips, the blasphemous language of the demon asked everyone:

"Do you still have wishes? I can fulfill them all! All wishes can be fulfilled!"

It didn't cast a spell, just waved its fists randomly amidst laughter and questioning:

"If you don't have any wishes, then I will make a wish myself! I want that guy riding the griffin to go to sleep obediently now!"

As the words fell, the griffin and the Paladin in the sky disappeared out of thin air, so the pressure on the sorcerers who were blocking this relic from continuing to move forward increased greatly. Forced, the other thirteen-ringers who had become children also had to take action.

The appearance of the demon did not bring dark clouds and darkness as in fairy tales. The moonlight of the three moons shone on the woodland, and the bare woods were covered with a metallic luster at some point. That layer of metallic luster looked like waves floating in the forest sea, but looking closely, it was clearly more than a million brass metal parts the size of a fingernail squirming.

While the "Blade of the Firmament" disappeared, these parts quickly gathered behind the giant spirit. While it raised its arms to try to resist the lightning strike in the air, the assembled brass metal parts had already assembled into a mechanical giant nearly a hundred meters tall, the same as it, and hugged it from behind.

If the mechanical giant blew itself up without reservation at this moment, it would likely permanently change the landscape of the central part of the Old Continent. But the previous battle had already shown that such an explosion was not very effective against it, so the appearance of the mechanical giant was only to restrict its actions.

After successfully hugging the giant spirit, the brass metal parts continued to deform and extend on the surface of the demon's blue skin like dense ants. Thick metal straps fixed it to the mechanical giant that had become taller and heavier behind it.

And with the further deformation of the straps, amidst the tooth-aching sound, the giant spirit's arms were forced to spread to both sides, exposing the front of its body.

"Now!"

"Sunlight Spear!"

This was not only Iluna's voice, but more than thirty voices shouting together. In the clearing directly in front of the giant spirit, Iluna raised her hand and made a grabbing gesture backwards. While the golden thunder was projected, more than thirty sunlight spears passed over her head from behind. This was already all the high-ring sorcerers who had mastered "Sunlight Spear" in the support troops of the Sun Church this time.

At that moment, the shining golden thunder almost illuminated the entire night. Even if the attack method other than soul power was not very effective against this relic, it still didn't dare to take such an attack head-on.

So the giant spirit's chubby face took a deep breath—

*Whoosh*~

Thick white mist sprayed from its mouth. The sunlight spears that were enough to illuminate the night sky also dimmed their light after passing through this white mist. Then, although they successfully hit its chest, almost no effect could be seen.

But at least this also showed that as long as the intensity of the attack was sufficient, even it would be forced to counterattack.

The thick fog of time was also corroding the construct metal objects summoned by "Master Constructor" Mr. Gerald Long. After Iluna took off from the ground riding a skeleton horse and held up the dark golden balance to weaken the giant spirit's power, other thirteen-ring sorcerers who had been hiding in the surrounding woods also appeared together.

Taking advantage of the fact that it had not completely broken free from the restraints, attacks from all directions submerged it. At the same time, the space-time stabilization ritual urgently set up in the woodland to weaken the power of the "Paradox Worm" was also activated.

Only after the chaotic light and shadow gradually subsided, what appeared before everyone's eyes was a glass bottle a hundred meters high.

The cold moonlight made that glass bottle look like it was flashing, and inside the glass bottle was chaotic colorful mist. Suddenly, those mists drilled out from the mouth of the bottle, turned into the giant spirit again in the air, and the earthquake caused by the vibration when it landed didn't know how many people's dreams would be disturbed.

It appeared unexpectedly like this, and then punched Iluna, who was caught off guard, flying away with a loud laugh. The skeleton horse disintegrated in the air immediately, fortunately, it could be summoned again later.

So the embarrassed Iluna spun and flew towards the distance, but before falling into the forest sea, she found that the forest below her was glowing; it was sacred moonlight.

In that silver light that gradually brightened, the giant's palm reached out with the palm facing up, the giant hand grabbed Iluna, and then the giant rose up in that brilliant light rising to the night sky. When the eighteen-year-old girl, who had been thrown into a mess, stood up on his flat-supported palm, she realized that Xia De had used the "Body of Courage" to its strongest state, and his height was basically the same as that giant spirit.

The giant under the moonlight stood up completely straight, his left hand holding the standing girl, and the girl's long hair, which had been scattered due to the fall, swayed behind her. Although this picture was stunning, among the Witches watching the battle above Yulun Lake, Miss Owl said:

"What are you looking at me for? Don't look at me~ That oil painting at the end, I have to paint my important moments with him anyway, I won't paint others."

The 【Night Watcher】, which was small compared to the giant, fell from a high place into Iluna's hand. So Iluna, who understood Xia De's plan, summoned her life ring again. After the dark golden balance floated above her head, she pointed the sword tip at the balance with her right hand, and the girl's voice resounded through the woods:

"Decree—Slay Demon!"

The gorgeous dark golden light burst out in front of Xia De, and then this power derived from the Chosen One of Balance poured into his body.

The blue giant spirit under the moonlight also noticed this side. While it turned to face Xia De, Xia De had already raised his right hand towards the three moons in the sky. The moonlight gathered in his hand and formed the moonlight greatsword that Xia De was most familiar with.

The gorgeous runes engraved in the translucent silver sword body had never been displayed so clearly. At this moment, it seemed as if the night had gathered all the light onto this sword, and the power of the Chosen One made the moonlight contain ancient sharpness.