Chapter 3017: Approaching Divinity

The dragon's scales were not physical objects either, but illusory patterns formed by the flow and refraction of light. With every movement it made, ripples would stir in the air, like a flowing galaxy shimmering in the starry sky.

Although many incredible things had appeared tonight, the appearance of this "Giant Dragon of Light" was still the most incredible so far.

The dragon's head was held high, its eyes like two scorching stars. Those eyes contained both an overwhelming majesty and endless warmth and hope, like a beam of light that could pierce through darkness, guiding lost souls toward justice and light.

And when its eyes looked toward the pitch-black dragon-beast, the monster, whose scales were illuminated by the light from the Dragon of Light, stopped fighting under that gaze.

The suppression from the most ancient source of bloodline made the pitch-black monster, which had lost its wisdom due to a deal with a demon, seem to see a ray of light guiding the future in the darkness. It didn't understand what this glowing dragon was, but everything told it that it absolutely should not make a move against this dragon.

And so, among the time clones summoned by the Ancient One, the dragon-beast symbolizing "Wind," which was the last to act, lowered its head and voluntarily turned into a wisp of breeze and disappeared.

The other five giant dragons that had just been fighting it turned into human forms in the air together and bowed to the light dragon radiating dazzling light:

"The Chosen One of Light."

The light dragon, which resembled a god, also illuminated the group on the ground, but only Xia De could tell that Mr. Ptolemy Albert's state at this moment had definitely exceeded the boundary of the 13th circle:

"Why is he so strong in a sealed state? Is it because he has truly turned himself into light?"

However, the time this sealed vampire coroner could act was limited, so after ordering the dragon-beast to leave with a gaze, he didn't even greet Xia De before spreading his wings again, opening his mouth to spray pure white light toward the hundred-meter-tall old man sitting at the lower end of the giant tree in front.

The old man under the tree raised his hand to block, and the light was reflected back. The Dragon of Light reabsorbed those rays of light and then spread its wings to fly higher, and the five giant dragons followed him to the heights.

Xia De, who had not taken action personally on the ground, finally moved at this moment. Demons were still fighting in the darkness outside the forest, Thomas Bennett seemed to be on the verge of defeat above the canopy of the giant tree, the low-altitude flying black Paradox Bugs were retreating steadily, and the Ancient One was finally directly exposed to everyone's eyes:

"Attack together!"

Following his shout, the six giant dragons in the air sprayed dragon breath downward together. Guided by the power of the Dragon of Light, all the dragon breaths merged together, and the Ancient One sitting on the throne looked up.

His emerald-green eyes shimmered with the color of stars, and the scorching energy and dazzling light solidified in the air. But a flash of scarlet light appeared, and the girl with butterfly wings came directly from the deck to the Ancient One.

Her fair right hand swiped forward, and the space in front of her collapsed inward amidst the black light. But this collapse only made the light around the white-robed old man twist slightly. He raised his right hand and pointed at the butterfly-winged girl, and the latter went "pop" and scattered into a sky full of red butterflies with silver edges.

Crimson flames slashed toward the giant hand the Ancient One had not yet retracted, but only passed through the phantom of the arm. Sister Dervin, who had temporarily left the battlefield at the top of the canopy, danced with the scythe in her left hand and the long sword in her right simultaneously, the black frost and crimson flames merging to form a black fire tornado.

The tornado was only the size of Sister Dervin's height at first, but it grew larger and larger during the flight. By the time it reached the Ancient One, it was already a hundred meters tall, just like him, but the white-robed old man just gently plucked a leaf from the branch that formed the armrest of the throne.

After throwing the leaf toward the pitch-black fire tornado, it grew to a hundred meters long and burned fiercely, but the black tornado disappeared.

He didn't even stand up, just sitting on the throne under the tree, easily resolving the attacks of the three Chosen Ones.

Sea-blue light cannons were fired from the Radiant Messenger, which he ignored completely, and he didn't care about the hundreds of thaumaturgy attacks launched from the ground that arrived together.

Because every external attack, upon touching the sacred radiance surrounding him, simply vanished. This was not even the power of time; the others did not know what this Ancient Tree had done, but only Xia De saw it—that was the lingering radiance of divinity.

"So what if he can utilize the power of divinity? I am the only one in the material world who can absorb divinity. In Moon Bay, the Chosen Ones caused damage even to true gods!"

Understanding this, Xia De leaped, and behind him, even Emilia rode Little Liana toward the old man sitting on the throne under the tree. Everyone understood that this was the final battle; as long as they won, everything tonight would be over.

The light of thaumaturgy and curses brushed past Xia De and then disappeared one by one, but when Xia De raised his right hand, the Ancient One, who had just been looking up at the flying giant dragons, immediately looked at him.

"Aren't you sitting there unwilling to move?"

The miracle elements transformed from the vast spirit accumulated under the moon now became the light he held in his hand. The silver light sphere rotated and turned into a silver light wheel in his palm, and then the light wheel grew larger and larger, until the grain-sized Xia De stood before the huge Ancient One, holding a rotating light wheel the size of the Ancient One's head.

The spirit rotated with the light wheel, cutting through space, and the buzzing sound was clearly the miracle elements colliding with space-time.

Xia De's raised right hand shook clockwise at this moment, and the huge silver light wheel swayed under the canopy with its shimmering green light.

Space-time seemed to be swaying because of this, and the illusory light and strange colors were nothing more than an abnormal tide of spirit triggered by the elements. The swaying silver moon wheel made the surrounding space seem to melt into seven-colored glaze, and so, amidst the swaying, the silver light wheel turned into three other moon wheels—amber, holy silver, and blood-red—and then the four huge light wheels were thrown toward the Ancient One.

"Moonlight Wheel, Fourth Form!"

Even without prior charging or other preparations, under the special moon phase of this night, Xia De's thaumaturgy still exerted power that it wouldn't have in a normal state.

The attacks of other Ringed Shushis would be dissolved by the light around the Ancient One, but Xia De's four moonlight wheels successfully broke through the limitations of that light. The buzzing, rotating light wheels slid out elegant, intersecting arcs in the air, but before they truly hit the old man sitting on the throne, he reached out and grabbed the blood-red light wheel flying in the front, swinging it forward to collide with the two silver light wheels.

When the brilliant silver moonlight dissipated in front of him, he threw the red light wheel he was holding forward, letting it collide with the last amber light wheel and disappear together. The whole process was smooth and flowing, and the Ancient One didn't even change his expression.

"Moonlight Slash!"

Xia De in the air simply crossed his arms in front of his chest, and his whole body turned into a crossed great cross of moonlight, slashing forward.

The Ancient One remained sitting on the throne, unmoved. With the light around him still present, he punched forward violently to collide with the great cross of moonlight.

Boom!

Silver light spots splashed under the tree, the moonlight dissipated amidst the sound, and Xia De's figure appeared and was knocked backward.

But he wasn't knocked too far before stopping in the air, because he was dragging two black chains in his hands, and the other ends of those chains had already shackled the Ancient One's huge right arm during the collision.

"Good, good, good. The power of sin is also power. You truly understand this principle."

The old man laughed and praised, his left hand raised to block the dragon breaths sprayed by the giant dragons again, and then he grabbed the solidified dragon breath and swung it forward like a stick, colliding with the flames danced by Sister Dervin.

Taking a deep breath, the old man spat toward his right arm. Where the white mist passed, the eight sin spirit runes on the 【Chains of Sin】 dimmed, and then the chains themselves were actually being dissolved.

However, the chains didn't disappear directly, so taking advantage of the opportunity that 【Chains of Sin】 had affected the Ancient One's right arm, the other Ringed Shushis launched attacks on that right arm together.

The spiritual light of thaumaturgy successfully landed on the surface of the Ancient One's body, but like a stone falling into a lake, it rippled on his sleeve without producing any other effect.

Instead, the chains themselves broke completely in this round of attacks, so the Ancient One swung his right hand forward, smoothing out the space fractured by the butterfly-winged Chosen One. Then, the wide sleeve produced a huge repulsive force while sweeping, sweeping away everyone who had flown close to him.

Almost everyone was knocked to the other side of the clearing, and even Little Liana carrying Emilia was blown backward like a leaf.

Amidst the buzzing sound, a large number of Paradox Bugs flew in from the periphery of the clearing. Those who had just been knocked away could only helplessly fight them to prevent these bugs from disturbing the battlefield in front of the Ancient One.

Sylvia, Grandma Cassandra, and Flora, after receiving instructions from Luvia, also jumped down from the ship's deck together at this time, leading their respective followers to join the battle.

As the three Chosen Ones of Light, Space, and Death rushed toward the Ancient One sitting on the throne again, the great witches present gathered toward one place.

Megan and Xivi were still in the city, and Galina's exploration of the underground palace with the alien female sorcerers had not yet ended, so at this moment, five formal great witches had gathered in the forest: Bella (12th circle), Vanessa (13th circle), Grandma Cassandra (10th circle), Sylvia (11th circle), and Flora (human transformation form).

During the flight, Flora took out the "Corrupted Holy Acorn" that the hermits had sent her not long ago, and then put the fruit, which looked like it had gone bad, into her mouth and swallowed it whole. ===== CHAPTER 3018 =====