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Chapter 3489

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Luvia did not join the battle but stood in front of the red brick wall painted with white paint opposite the 【House of Changelings】. A simple wooden table was set up against the wall, and the crystal ball placed on the 【Pedestal of Fate】 was being carefully examined by Bella.

The great witch of fate was also using this level of relic for the first time. Sweat was faintly appearing on her forehead, and the witch's jewelry bracelet on her right hand radiated dark golden light to help her resist the influence of the unknowable-level relic, while Bella's golden eyes were faintly glowing:

"I see solid ice, I see... Xia De is eating? The unicorns have already joined up with Xia De, but it looks like they have encountered some trouble."

"That's enough, don't continue to use that relic. How long have Amelia and the others been inside?"

Luvia asked at the table, her eyes watching the great witches constantly consuming the power of the 【House of Changelings】. So Flora, who was standing beside Luvia and had not joined the battle, answered softly:

"Twenty minutes. If the prophecy observed from the crystal ball just now is correct, the blood rain will fall in ten minutes."

It was now nine o'clock in the morning, and the blood color of the sky in the eyes of ordinary people was even more severe than in the early morning. The church, which was searching for the fishmen and water ghosts that had slipped through the net after the morning battle near the pier and the coast, had of course long noticed the abnormality in the sky. It was just that they did not yet know that the 【House of Changelings】 had not been completely eliminated in Tobesk, and they had not linked the flesh-and-blood city in the sky with the 【House of Changelings】. Therefore, they only activated the protective ritual of the Time Wheel City at this moment and dispatched high-level ring-wielders to the sky to check the anomaly.

The diviners of the local Prophecy Association were performing divination at this moment just like Bella. Adelaide Lenormand, the president of the association who came from the headquarters, stood at the window with Elder Charatu, one of the candidates, looking upward.

"What can you see?"

The thirteen-ring diviner asked suddenly, and the old man with faintly glowing eyes replied:

"Flesh growth, doors wide open, blood lakes surging, and... the red moon rising. President, did you hear the bell ring just now?"

In the morning after nine o'clock, the moon should have long since disappeared, and the sun was obscured behind the flesh-and-blood city in the sky, turning into a blood-red color. But at this moment, they clearly saw that blood moon on the west side of the sky again. It was very hazy at first, but after a moment, it seemed to be hanging in the flesh-and-blood city.

And half a minute ago, Luvia in front of the red brick wall on North End Street had already raised her head. She softly reminded Bella and Flora:

"Look up at the top, there... Flora, go notify Dorothy, Iluna, and the Red Butterfly sisters that they can try to enter the labyrinth."

Bella looked up in the direction Luvia's finger was pointing, while Flora turned into the round-faced owl familiar to Xia De in the gray light and shadow and flew toward the high sky. Her speed was very fast, and after more than ten seconds, she arrived beside the four girls in the sky.

They were just hovering over the city and did not rashly approach the labyrinth in the sky like the high-level ring-wielders of the Peace Church and the Dawn Church just now. But at this moment, they still saw what was happening more clearly than anyone else.

A crack appeared in the blood-red city. To the changelings who had fled into that upside-down city, a clear crackling sound emerged. Then, amidst the high-pitched neighing of the unicorns, a large hole was forcibly smashed into the blood-red sky of the labyrinth.

Pure white light shone in from behind the hole, but the unicorn herd did not enter here. When the changelings flying in the sky looked out of the hole, what they saw was not the blood lake, but Xia De and Danister holding hands and walking toward it.

The space they were in seemed to be a black space, but as the two approached, the scarlet blood moon rose in an arc trajectory clockwise from below the horizon behind them.

And as that huge moon disk gradually moved behind them, the radiance of the red moon illuminated the path under their feet that extended into the labyrinth of the flesh-and-blood city, illuminating the huge, crooked bell tower at the end of the path directly behind them.

Dong~ Dong~ Dong~

The red moon rose, the bell rang, and the three hands on the bell tower's dial all gathered toward the very top.

Even the changeling was stunned for a moment after being illuminated by the light of that red moon.

And when it came to its senses, the first thing it realized was not that this was the "God-Awakener's" labyrinth, but that the scene of "the red moon rising on the side of the path" was not located outside the hole, but directly opposite itself.

The scene of 【Labyrinth: Zhong Lou Lovers】 had already merged into this flesh-and-blood city, and Xia De and Danister, who were holding hands, were not walking toward the hole, but were walking toward it.

Xia De was carrying 【Night Watcher】 in his right hand. The red-haired witch had a smile on her face, her right hand held by Xia De, and her left hand holding a pink crystal dagger. She walked side by side with Xia De on the path. As the red moon gradually rose from their left rear, she stabbed the dagger into her own chest.

So she turned into fine sand in the light of that red moon, and the fine sand gradually dissolved into the scarlet moonlight behind her. Xia De continued to walk forward until the red moon stopped directly behind him.

At this moment, the bell tower, which was also behind Xia De, merged into the red moon and, together with the fine sand just now, turned into a red cloak dancing behind him. But looking closely, the cloak was clearly the red-haired figure embracing him from behind Xia De, smiling before the red moon.

The red moon became illusory at this moment, its outer contour swaying lightly until it turned into Danister's thirteen-ring fate ring while spinning rapidly. And the color in the center of the red moon concentrated inward, finally stopping at the position of Xia De's left eye, turning his left eye into a rose-red color.

At this moment, he had reached the end of the stone path and arrived above the flesh-and-blood city, calmly watching the astonished changeling. Opposite the "red sun" with fine velvet tentacles that was originally floating in the sky, the blood moon had already risen, which meant that Xia De's power had successfully infiltrated the changeling's labyrinth.

Last time in the forest, three "Moon Witches" merged into Xia De's soul, but this time there was only Danister. She felt that she had become a part of Xia De, and that warm feeling was exceptionally reassuring. The radiance of the silver moon shone on her from Xia De's soul, and that tranquil feeling reminded her of the nights in her girlhood when she watched the moon with her teacher.

"Even your astonishment now is not your true feeling; this is just what you think humans should feel astonished about at this time."

Xia De, with his rose-red left eye, said to the enemy in front of him, and the latter restrained his expression and asked:

"What... exactly are you?"

"If I say I am human, do you believe it?"

The changeling then laughed above this flesh-and-blood city that only had squirming sounds, and while laughing, it raised its right hand to support the red "sun." Then its right hand fell sharply, and that terrifying flesh and blood, which looked like a sun but was actually a huge mass of meat, fell toward Xia De.

Xia De didn't even look up at it:

"Stop!"

The falling "sun" froze in the air, but this was not just the power of "Chloe's Spacetime Freeze" and the red moon:

"I absorbed the blood from the blood pool. Although this is far from comparable to the power of the 【House of Changelings】, I can now barely be considered to have the control permission of this flesh-and-blood city. It can even be said that if it weren't for you ambushing me, causing Ellie to fall into the blood lake and me going to save it, I couldn't have faced you so easily now."

The changeling was not surprised by this result at all. It laughed and pointed at him:

"So, even so, you still think you are human? I understand. After seeing this red moon, I finally understand what you are. The ultimate secret of flesh evolution? The final answer to human reproduction? The perfect body forged by fate?

No, no, no, none of these. You are not human at all. You are clearly using the Sage..."

The rumbling vibration covered its voice. The flesh-and-blood city was vibrating violently, as if a huge external force was impacting it. Whether it was the changeling or Xia De, both could sense that this was some kind of power destroying the spatial structure of the city from its essence.

So the crack opened again. After merging Helen and Grace, Dorothy, with the power of the 3/4 space chosen one, opened the passage with butterfly wings on her back. If the unicorns just now were like using a nail to break a small hole in the wall, then Miss Writer at this moment was slapping the wall with her palm, directly shaking the wall into a crack.

It seems she was really angry that someone didn't bring back breakfast.

And entering this flesh-and-blood city with Dorothy were Iluna and the round-faced owl who had transformed herself into a spirit form.

The crisp sound of the holy bell echoed, and the sun gun had already arrived in front of the changeling before the bell sound had fallen. The golden thunder of the angry strike hit the blood-colored barrier in front of the changeling, shattered the barrier, and hit the changeling's chest directly.

As the arc jumped, that powerful body was unable to move for a short time. It wanted to move in the air to avoid the next attack, but with a loud bang, the main gun of the "Radiant Messenger" from outside the crack that had not yet disappeared hit its body. Then Dorothy, who had already locked onto it, slammed her hands toward the middle, and the space prison temporarily sealed it in the air.

They were buying time for Xia De. At this moment, Xia De closed his eyes under the red moon, holding the hilt of 【Night Watcher】 with both hands, the tip of the sword pointing upward. The silver sword held high above his head was attached with rippling red moonlight, and all the moonlight was projected onto the blade at this moment.

So when the long sword fell, the red moon adhered to the silver sword and turned into that huge scarlet sword light. The sword light was bigger than a mountain, but the blood-red light was incomparably tranquil, as if it could bring the most peaceful night.

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