Chapter 3352: Swallowing Sun and Moon

That folding fan made of human skin and human bones was not a supernatural item, but a part of the evil thing—【Swollen Lady】's true body. The damage to the fan represented that its true body was truly injured. The fine cracks on its face were the evidence.

Even if the 【One-Hit Kill Pistol】 failed to achieve "one-hit kill," the damage Theresa caused this time was the damage it had not encountered for thousands of years.

A sharp scream came from the evil thing's mouth. It slid backward and disappeared again. This time it appeared in front of the sister who was rapidly approaching Miss Violet and the others.

The cold-faced sister did not swing her sword this time. She, who had long been prepared to sacrifice herself to help Xia De, wanted to detonate herself by drawing on the fire of her whole body at this moment. After all, she also had a feather.

So the evil thing avoided the sister and disappeared again. This time it appeared in front of Xia De. The red eyes looked greedily at the body in front of it. What it originally loved was only the body of a pure girl, which was something it had once possessed before it died.

But this time it could ignore the gender of the body because of the "perfection" of the body in front of it.

The evil thing, which didn't want to fight those "ugly" women who all had self-destructive tendencies anymore, took away the fan that blocked its mouth and then opened its mouth wide.

Within half a second, its mouth opened to a height of two meters. The whole face with cracks and the mouth occupied four-fifths of the height, and the elongated cheeks made the original beautiful features distorted into a shape that Xia De didn't dare to imagine even in nightmares.

Countless gray souls stretched out from that giant mouth wanting to pull Xia De, and the huge suction force produced by the mouth had already made Xia De's body tilt forward.

"Philosopher's Stone or Mark of the Death God?"

He asked himself in his heart. The right hand with the mark and the left hand clutching the 【Philosopher's Stone】 stretched forward at the same time. But in this short half-second, Little Mia suddenly poked its head out from between the buttons on Xia De's chest. The orange part of the orange-white fur on its body suddenly glowed—just like in the "Middle Spring" yesterday, and then it called out to the giant mouth in front:

"Meow~"

Compared to the small sparks it spat out before, this time it actually spat out a fire that was quite large.

Then the "Swollen Lady" swallowed Xia De and the cat into its pitch-black mouth in one bite. The giant mouth closed, and then it took two seconds to let its face and mouth return to their original shape, only the cracks on the face still existed.

It smiled and used the fan with a hole to block its lower half of the face again, turned around to face those "ugly" women, and unexpectedly found that all the witches, including the girl who was the weakest and hiding in the back holding two hounds, were looking at it with some surprise.

Finally, Miss Liard reminded very fearfully:

"Did you notice that your skin is glowing?"

Under the skin of the "Swollen Lady" that looked fair and tender, the surging silver and crimson light made its skin become more and more translucent. Even on its face, the intertwined light of these two colors had already penetrated from the cracks in the skin.

When Miss Liard finished speaking, the cracks on its face even spread to its whole body.

It also looked at its skin in shock, and then summoned densely packed gray mists from the void, trying to repair those cracks with the purest soul essence of the wronged souls in it, but the soul power disappeared completely after touching the light under its skin as if it had melted.

The exquisite body and fair skin were like the most beautiful porcelain appearing cracks, and in this process, it became more and more charming, and its body was also expanding rapidly in this process.

"No..."

The mouth wanted to make a sound, but found that the voice had become hoarse. And in the eyes of the witches, when that body expanded to a certain limit, what was standing in front was no longer that gorgeously dressed woman, but a swollen rotting corpse.

Light, endless silver and crimson light radiated outward from its eyes, mouth, ears, and even pores. It turned around and wanted to turn into gray mist to escape from here, but after a bang~ sound, when Theresa put down her gun, the "Swollen Lady" with a bullet in its chest fell to the ground with a bang.

Miss Violet cast an appreciative look at her niece, and then reminded:

"Don't look, everyone turn around."

The light radiated from that body was already unbearable to look at. The Witch Empress reminded, and everyone turned around together. Afterward, the light erupted behind them.

Even if they turned around and closed their eyes, their keen perception still allowed them to know how terrifying the light that erupted behind them was. But the light of the gentle moon and the light of the warm sun did not hurt them. Even bathing in that strong light, they had a feeling that all the uncleanness and filth on their bodies were washed away.

Fortunately, this was underground, otherwise these lights would cause big trouble.

The light lasted for three minutes before it ended. Miss Violet, who was the first to turn around and look at the position of the "Swollen Lady" just now, saw that the entire underground space had become bright now. There was still no light source here, but every inch of land and brick here was glowing.

The "Swollen Lady" had disappeared. In the center of the gradually extinguishing light, Xia De, whose whole body was still faintly glowing, walked over holding the cat with a small flame on its tail.

"I'm fine, but don't ask me what happened, I'm not very sure either."

He said this, looking like he and the cat were not injured although they were swallowed by the evil thing:

"After I was swallowed by that thing just now, I originally wanted to use 【Courageous Body】 to grow bigger and burst it, but... a very strange feeling, just like my body lost its specific form. I think this is some kind of special ability of it, but after the body lost its specific form, the light erupted. Of course, first of all, it was the light of this cat."

At this moment, the light of the orange pattern on Little Mia's body was also slowly fading:

"Could it be that it really worked after it went for a swim in the spring yesterday?"

"What about the Swollen Lady?"

The sixteen-year-old girl poked her head and looked behind Xia De. Xia De shook his head hesitantly:

"It's hard to describe, it probably disappeared in the light... I don't know if its body could withstand the energy eruption of the sun and moon from the outside, but it definitely couldn't withstand it from the inside."

"So, is it dead?"

Theresa, Miss Liard, and Sister Belen also turned around at this time. Xia De shook his head again:

"In this world, these undead evil things do not have the concept of 'death.' It is a Chosen One of the owner of the kingdom. It just disappeared temporarily, and it will probably reappear a long time later, but that has nothing to do with us."

The explosion of the "Swollen Lady" was too thorough, even the gold ornaments it wore were blown away.

But it was not right to say that there was no other harvest. Defeating the "Swollen Lady" itself was a harvest, especially since everyone didn't consume other rare "non-renewable resources" except for a feather and two bullets.

But it was not right to say that there was no other harvest. Little Mia could spit out larger flames after this "fright," but Xia De very much suspected that this was the effect of yesterday's "Middle Spring."

As for Xia De himself, the feeling of his body completely melting and no longer having a specific form, and his body turning into pure energy, had been imprinted in his heart. Although he turned back into a human form after the "Swollen Lady" exploded, just like transformation spells, as long as he had experienced it, he would probably be able to learn it. This ability of body energy transformation, he should be able to master smoothly in the future.

The light attached to the surrounding environment did not dissipate for a long time, creating a sacred area in this kingdom belonging to the dead. Xia De went to investigate the exit of the underground space and determined that walking forward along the corridor of the exit would return to the ground.

Here, it was already very close to the final destination. Considering that the area was currently very safe, and even the undead did not dare to enter after appearing, Xia De suggested taking a final rest to deal with the "test" of the end.

Everyone had no opinion on this. Although the time spent walking all the way was not long, the battle was very intense.

So everyone gathered around the campfire after the gold block turned into a "Traveler's Camp," and 【Grace of the Dark Moon】 helped everyone restore their spirit. The spirit of the witches recovered very slowly here, and Xia De did not let them try to cast spells here. It was just that everyone was not very hungry, so after sitting around the campfire, they were all meditating or taking a short rest.

"Xia De, how much time do you have left?"

Miss Violet leaned on Xia De's shoulder and asked softly.

"We didn't waste time this time. I can stay for 120 minutes. We used twenty minutes in the hut just now, and half an hour passed on the way. So it was only fifty minutes, which should be enough."

"It's not enough for me."

The sixteen-year-old blonde girl looked at the campfire and sighed slightly:

"After meeting you, I investigated some of your traces in the past, and then I found that almost the entire Fifth Era has your footprints. I don't know how long the Fifth Era will last, but relative to the past, I am the girl closest to you."

Theresa wanted to remind her aunt that it should be "us" instead of "I," but she didn't dare to speak.

"It's good enough to be together for such a long time this time, but I am a greedy Witch Empress... Crossing the long era, I believe my heart is connected to yours. I don't know when we will meet next time. I really envy the witches of the future."

She lamented that the time of gathering was so short, and Theresa, who was on the side, saw that her teacher didn't speak anymore, so she also said to Xia De softly:

"Xia De, take good care of yourself in the future. Next time we meet, I might also be a 13th-tier Great Witch, so I won't need your help so embarrassingly."

Compared to the past, she was really much more confident.

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Compared to the past, she was truly much more confident.

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