Chapter 3357: King of Graves

Everyone's steps were becoming heavier and heavier, and the most relaxed person in the group was not the little Hound, but Little Mia.

It was hidden in Xia De's pocket, equivalent to Xia De carrying "weight" forward. But the weight of this cat here seemed to have become lighter than its real weight. Thinking carefully, this cat had been lost after birth, was soon found and fostered in a pet shop, and then was abducted and taken in by Xia De; the cat's two years of life couldn't be called sin, and it hadn't even contacted much life other than Xia De.

This cat was clean and white, so even carrying it wouldn't be a burden on Xia De's life.

No one knew how long the road back was; along the way, the voices in the wind wanted them to look back, and the illusions in the fog wanted them to deviate from the path of walking straight forward.

But no one looked back, and no one gave up. Because of various reasons, the "test" the Outsider faced was the lowest in difficulty, but he really admired the witches in front; each of them had a firm will like steel.

Time passed, no one knew how long; gradually, the strong wind became weaker and weaker, the fog disappeared, and only deep darkness remained ahead. Even the pressure covering everyone disappeared, and everyone's steps became faster.

"Are we reaching the exit?"

The girl wearing round-framed glasses almost immediately ran forward after noticing that her body had recovered and become light, and everyone behind her also followed at a trot.

Five people and two Hounds gradually approached each other, until they reunited as a team and moved forward together.

On the road just now, each of them had lost their breathing and heartbeat; at this moment, their feeling of being living people recovered, and everyone was actually very happy in their hearts.

Silent and still, in a certain instant, Xia De and Miss Violet, who were walking fast in the darkness, suddenly realized that their journey along this path didn't seem to be straight forward; the road under their feet had always had a slope, but now it had become a flat road.

And not long after realizing this point, all the living people's hearts beat violently. The sound of footsteps all stopped; they knew something was coming, coming from the deepest part of the darkness ahead.

Fear, panic, unease, shock; while these complex expressions appeared one by one, just as Xia De had long expected, a giant bone right hand wearing three bright golden bracelets slowly stretched out from the thick darkness ahead and slapped the ground not far in front of the group. The bone hand had seven fingers, each finger had a golden ring, and sacred golden runes flowed on the surfaces of those rings and bracelets; that indescribable sense of holiness was out of place with the pale bone hand.

The light of the glowing rings and bracelets couldn't light up this darkness, and immediately after, another bone left hand with seven fingers, wearing bracelets and golden rings engraved with runes, also stretched out from the darkness and slapped in front of the crowd.

The rise in blood pressure caused by panic made Liyade almost feel that blood was about to spray from her pores; she didn't dare to say what this was, but her body had instinctively tilted backward and was then supported by Sister Belun.

Miss Violet and Teresa protected her behind them, and golden cracks penetrated Xia De's right eye, which in turn caused golden cracks to spread on every inch of his skin.

He looked forward with a serious expression; accompanied by the two giant bone hands pressing on the ground, a giant skull wearing a gorgeous golden crown also flew out from the darkness silently. Golden flames burned in the eye sockets, and between the withered yellow and uneven upper and lower teeth was darkness that seemed to be able to swallow everything.

Pure white rune chains surrounded all the golden bracelets, rings, and the crown, and the light they combined finally lit up the front.

There was no exit to leave in the distant darkness; there was only a bottomless abyss and nothingness. The road stopped abruptly in front, and the "King of Bones," which appeared with both arms and a head, was crawling out from that abyss.

"A scam?"

The question appeared in Xia De's heart, but now was not the time to think about this. The long-prepared words blurted out, and the sound was so loud that it startled even himself:

"Among the three golden bracelets on the right arm and two golden bracelets on the left arm, one is the most critical, destroy it!"

The god who only revealed his arms and skull in front of him was almost exactly the same as the one Xia De saw when he had the final battle with Joey Barton (Chapter 793). But the god's divine descent state at the moment was very special; this was definitely not a state of complete descent, close to the saint form but different from the saint Xia De had seen before.

But this also meant that when that white bone right hand lifted and grabbed at the five people standing together, others were imprisoned by the god's power and unable to move; an instant in the eyes was eternity, but even without burning divinity, Xia De still raised his right hand at this moment:

"Night Curtain Seal!"

The defensive effect of the Night Curtain Seal against physical attacks was far inferior to the "Heaton Seal," but Xia De's first reaction at this moment was still to seek help from the power of the night. Thus, the glowing white bone hand enveloped that black sphere, and when that bone hand found it couldn't grab the souls and slowly retracted, the people in the Night Curtain Seal miraculously all recovered their ability to act.

As the heavy night faded, Xia De had already rushed toward the right arm of the "King of Bones" that was retracting. The golden flames in the giant skull floating in the void looked at him, and then the left hand lifted, wanting to grab him, but the left hand in the air collided directly with the fireball.

The firelight of the fireball exploding in mid-air couldn't shake this thick darkness in the slightest. Miss Violet looked at the nun beside her in shock:

"I was considering how to make a move, you directly dared to resist a god?"

"I am a nun serving the First Fire and the Fire-Bearer."

The nun wearing a silver eye patch just said this, and flames licked the great sword she held in her hand. The flames of the First Fire ignited, but because of the influence brought by the god, they only attached to the surface of the sword.

She flew directly toward the left hand that wanted to continue falling after being blocked by the fireball for a moment; the sixteen-year-old girl shook her head, stuffed the remaining three soul tears into her mouth, and while the pale golden light in her eyes was almost brighter than candlelight, she also followed Sister Belun.

Even if the god in front was in a special state, and didn't seem to use full strength at once, but a god is a god; this point could not be changed. The two who flew up almost immediately fell back automatically, and could only help Xia De block that left hand in the low air.

Seeing Teresa take out the 【One-Hit Kill Pistol】, Miss Liyade asked while holding the two trembling Hounds:

"Are you going too?"

Actually, the girl wearing glasses' hands were also trembling, but she was a high-ring witch after all:

"I feel like my legs can't move anymore."

Then she pulled the trigger six times in succession, firing all six soul bullets at once.

Only an Unknowable-level relic could truly influence a god; even though the 【One-Hit Kill Pistol】 was a top-tier Angel-level relic, six bullets fired at that left hand almost had no effect, merely causing a crack to appear on one of the three bracelets on the wrist.

If the opponent weren't a god, even the former 【Pus of Man】 wouldn't dare to face these six shots directly.

The time the girls could buy for Xia De wasn't particularly long, but the outcome was indeed decided within a short few dozen seconds.

He rushed toward the right hand with seven finger bones, stuffed all the Philosopher's Stone into his mouth for the purpose of maximum absorption efficiency, and then used the miracle that had accompanied him from the very beginning:

"Moonlight Slash!"

With palms pressed together and arms held high, his entire body then transformed into that clear and incomparable moonlight.

The firelight and the witch's miracle couldn't light up the solidified darkness here, but that deepness gradually faded because of the emergence of the silver moon. What appeared at this moment was not a crossing moonlight great cross, not even an arc-shaped moonlight blade; Xia De at this moment clearly transformed into a new moon.

The power of the Philosopher's Stone to turn decay into magic caused the miracle to undergo a qualitative change; when the brilliant new moon collided with the god's right hand, in the eyes of Miss Liyade and the Hounds who were trembling, it was clearly the god's palm being bombarded by the moon.

The new moon and the white bone collided but remained silent, but the first golden bracelet on the white bone right hand shattered silently.

The new moon was bounced back to the ground, and after the moonlight flickered a few times, Xia De's figure reappeared. He supported the ground, panting heavily, and looked at the white bone right arm that was lifting again, then also raised his right hand.

A huge black scythe appeared on the side of that white bone arm; the scythe fell and collided with the second golden bracelet, and the second bracelet also shattered into two halves, turning into starlit golden light during the fall.

The disappearance of the light source made the visibility on the right side of that giant skull even weaker; although the bracelet shattered, the white bone right arm remained intact. The palm grabbed toward Xia De below, and the runes of all the golden rings on the seven fingers resonated, imprisoning time and space to prevent Xia De from escaping again.

But fortunately at this time, on the left side of the giant skull floating in the void, the two witches' attack on the left arm seemed to influence the skull's decision, and the right arm's slap appeared to wobble, making Xia De barely dodge this grab.

The palm slapped heavily on the ground, and the mark on the back of Xia De's hand was activated for the last time; the black scythe slashed toward the last bracelet on the arm bone of the right arm that was pressed against the ground, but after the bracelet shattered, it just shattered; the battle continued.

"I can't even bet right on a three-in-five chance?"

Xia De, panting heavily, thought in his heart, and then saw Miss Violet's body explode, and her weak soul floated slowly toward the ground; after being reborn with the feather obtained from Miss Liyade, she rushed upward again for a second round of self-explosion. Then Sister Belun let herself be ignited by fire, at the cost of over-stimulating the power of the First Fire, and finally, together with Miss Violet's two explosions, almost completely shattered the first bracelet on the god's left arm.

But "almost shattered" meant the bracelet still didn't shatter.

PS: Not weakening the god's expressive power, it will be explained later.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3358 =====