Chapter 238: Do Something!
The silver de violently collided with the iron hook – a process repeated an infinite amount of times as metal collided with metal.
The de’s power intertwined with the violent roars of the King caused ripples to thunder through the air.
However, as her enemy became weaker and weaker, she did not find herself relieved, but instead, worried. The tattoo on her back continued to pulse, which told her that the members of the Eclipse Society are nearby, and they are most likely here to perform a ritual.
Moreover, there are several urban legends creeping around in the ughterhouse. Judging by the widespread legends about the Eclipse Society across Huacheng, it proves that they are powerful.
Combining the ughterhouse itself, as well as the weakening of the existing urban legends tied to the ughterhouse, it could only mean two things…
<em>And if they seed…</em>
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As she thought about it, evil psychic waves of energy came from the power distribution room, and confirmed her suspicion.
An urban legend, modelled after a legendary demon, broke through the smoke of the explosion, chasing after a white-haired girl.<em>No!</em>
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Fragments of memories of a painful past shed through her mind. Her eyes trembled as she faltered in her steps, and her heart tightened.
As a psychic formed by the evil of the Eclipse Society through a ritual like this, her usually calm and collected demeanor was disturbed when her eyes fell upon the ugly monster emerging from the smoke.
<em>D-damn it, they improved their ritual… they were able to tap into a legendary demon’s power… but…</em>
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<em>Why is it so slow? It seems… iplete?</em>
As she thought of this, she noticed the white-haired girl no longer dodging the beast’s blows. She seemed to toss something in the air, raising her hands as she recited a spell.
“…golden pce, jade house, iron walls…”
From a distance, she could hear the faint chanting of the spell, and her pupils shrunk.
<em>That Witch… how does she know the forbidden spells of the Night Division?</em>
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<em>It’s okay if she knows how to cast the spell, but why <strong>that</strong> spell?</em>
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As far as she knows, there are no more than ten psychics in the entire Night Division who have mastered this spell, known as the [Cannon of the Four Beasts Who Dwell in Bright Skies].
A Witch casting this spell is certainly unheard of.
<em>Did Bai Kai teach this Witch the spell? Is this what she gets at the expense of her womanhood?</em>
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An iron hook shot out at her as she was distracted. She hurriedly brought her sword to her chest, but the hook twisted and mmed right into her as she was thrown to the side.
As she hit the ground, her silver-white armor drew a string of sparks.
Using her sword as a cane, she stood up and looked at the white-haired girl casting the spell, and frowned.
Generally, depending on one’s strength, the area of coverage of this spell should envelope most of, if not the entirety of the ughterhouse.
But…
<em>…it’s like a child with stunted growth trying to count…</em>
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The Witch admits that there was an element of gambling involved in her predictions, but she found that she made the right choice as she was now capable of casting the spell in a tolerable range.
Bright freckles of light seemed to form from the void, and the illusory images of dragons and a phoenix surrounded the air.
In an instant, a mighty torrent of light surged downwards, smiting the darkness.
The void spewing out the light continued to expandrger andrger, as if it was about to bless the entire ughterhouse in its divine light, and…
Poof!
The expansion abruptly stop, and the pir of light that remained was only asrge as an arrow, shooting out and piercing through Levi’s shoulder.
In an instant, his flesh charred, and apanied with his painful roar, his wound sizzled, but he was unable to recover.
As if his flesh waspletely purified.
After discovering that the Witch’s powerful spell wasn’t actually that powerful, Levi felt that he was being bullied. He opened his maw and let out of a burst of disturbing prayers, swooping forward again.
Wherever he flew, he left a trail of mucus that formed disgusting maws.
<em>You’re angry I’m toying with you? There’s no point! You’re my toy now!</em>
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She hurriedly distanced herself from Levi and flicked the copper coin again. Predicting the oue, she began to chant the spell.
“Deste wilderness; ash, bones…”
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On the outskirts of the ughterhouse, in the arena of bones, the psychic waves caused by the use of the forbidden spell could be felt, and Shu’e fell into a cold sweat.
Although he didn’t know what the situation inside was, if a spell like this was unleashed, their ns might be ruined.
The cat girl smirked upon sensing the spell, and taunted, “Oh, seems that she is more powerful than I thought! Your ns are ru-ined!”
“Don’t get too happy, now,” Shu’e sneered. “If it gets fully cast, you will be taken along with it.”
Shu’e implied that, even though it was the same spell, it would cause different degrees of damage to different types of urban legends.
The cat girl’s ears perked up, “E-even then, you are no match for me! As long as you are stopped, I don’t care!”
They could feel the spell being casted, and…
Poof!
Nothing happened, and shortly after, they could only sense the castings of a fire-based spell.
“Hah… hah!” Shu’eughed. “Is this the person you trust? She failed in casting that forbidden spell! She’s probably weakened now that she can only cast that joke of a fire spell. Are you sure you’re confident in her?”
“You little…”
“Oh,” the cat girl stopped feeling angry as her ears perked up once more. “Well, why don’t you use your psychic sense to see it for yourself?”
Shu’e’s smile stiffened. Even if he didn’t tried to sense, he could already tell something was amiss from the subtle change in temperature.
It was indeed a measly spell, but strangely, it seemed… amplified.
And with his sense, he could tell that the amplification had soared past the ten times mark, which is close to the upper limit.
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Fire zed as a fireball the size of a wash basin condensed in the Witch’s hand, emitting terrifying mes.
Facing the abnormally hot mes, even Levi, who was in a state of semi-consciousness, felt uneasy.
It stalled its movements as it buzzed anxiously, attempting to dodge.
“No running!” she sneered as her eyes locked onto Levi. Tilting her body backwards, sheunched the fireball towards the beast.
The fireball roared with intense mes, like a shooting star, leaving behind a trajectory of vibrant red in its path.
Seeing the fireball approaching, Levi moved his huge body to the side, letting his maggot-like body tank the brunt of the impact.
With an explosion, fire spewed in all directions, and a ck dent sted through Levi’s body as ck threads hurriedly tried to restore it to its original health.
“As expected of a tanky boss like you! Again!”
She flew up, tossed the coin, predicted the oue, and recited another spell.
Looking at the swift Witch with fluttering white hair, the millions of eyes in Levi’s pupils trembled in unison.
The Witch before him was like a mystery box from a gacha, making him unable to guess what spell she would unleash next.
Is it the fireball amplified by god-knows how many times? Or the powerful, forbidden spell that turns out to be nothing? Or… something else?
Formting a defensive n is nothing but a luxury now.
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The centaur galloped as her image shed through the mass of sh, leaving behind a hideous, deep scar that revealed bone.
After fighting for a long time, Jiangli finally tilted the scale of victory towards her.
The destructive effects of the Hydra’s poison finally leaked into the King’s body, leading it to its fateful end.
However, it had no intention of falling, and it waved its thick limbs to spit out a vicious, me-like breath.
It roared, and countless iron hooks shot out from its hand to destroy anything around it.
The King seemed to be in a state of rage, and Jiangli kept her guard up, finding gaps from time-to-time to stab into the beast’s body.
Jiangli knew that victory was imminent for her. The more scars she left, the easier the battle would be.
As the toxins began to umte in its mountain-like body, eventually, its core would erode bit by bit, and the beast will fall.
Feeling that the King’s actions were turning sluggish, Jiangli was finally able to split her focus and nce at the Witch.
She saw her hovering in the air, and every time she stopped, she would throw something shiny in the air and randomly select a spell that also seemed to be randomly amplified.
For a moment, a blinding light of white and red shone across the ughterhouse.
Jiangli nced at the deformed, degraded, iplete reincarnation of Beelzebub, who seemed to be in a state of confusion, and Jiangli immediately understood what the Witch was doing to it.
<em>Torture.</em>
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Physical, psychological torture.
Suddenly, a violent buzz could be heard.
Levi, whose body was now covered in blood and pus, roared, and a glowing ck Sun Totem tattoo emerged from beneath his rotting flesh. Then, above him, arge void ripped open, like the ss of reality was shattered open.
In an instant, the twisted space above Levi stretched open.
<em>I-it’s trying to call on a powerful being in the Eclipse Society to rescue it…</em>
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Staring at the hole, her eyes zed over it, and her tattoo burned with a green sheen, shining from underneath her armor, as if it was attempting to break through and answer the call from the void.
At this moment, a hollow voice could be heard.
“…fan the red mes forth!”
The Witch’s shout broke Jiangli out of her stupor, and she couldn’t help but be startled.
A mediocre spell, yes, but it seemed to be amplified tenfold, no, greater, as if she was blessed by higher powers.
Her cold eyes fell on the Witch’s face, and it narrowed as she fell into a deep thought.
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The giant beast roared as its iron hooves stomped on the ground. The des lining its back stood up like hairs, shooting out towards Zhang Dexian.
His body was wrapped in golden lightning, and he performed a swift two-step to dodge the des.
With a loud roar and incantation, an image of a tiger shed behind him, and as if blessed by it, he descended from the sky, grasping the fangs of the beasts tightly.
His legs touched the ground beneath him, and veins protruded from his muscr arms. With a roar, heunched the beast upwards and mmed it down using its teeth, causing it to squirm and scream.
Zhang Dexian was about tond the final, killing blow on the seemingly weakened beast, but stopped in his tracks when a searing wave of heat washed over the battlefield, making him think that he had just stepped into a desert.
He had limited time to strengthen himself in the fight, so he didn’t want to distract himself in the battle the two girls were in.
However, with that wave of heat, he couldn’t help but be stunned, and saw a scene that he would never forget.
He could see the white-haired girl raising her hands to the sky, and with her slender fingers, she molded arge fireball that constantly expanded…
It expanded like the scorching Sun, and the dazzling light and intense heat spread in all directions like a mini-Sun, illuminating the ughterhouse.
With her long hair flowing behind her, she seemed like a goddess that held the Sun itself in her palms.
<em>…didn’t she tell me she only knew how to cast a simple fireball? As expected! Master was right! All women do is lie!</em>
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He felt unhappy, and turned to look at the struggling, dying beast. With anger, he punched his fist together, and delivered thousands of thunderous blows on its head.
“Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stop moving, stupid!”
And all the beast could do was howl in pain.
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To be honest, Yibei only considered the mental consumption of the forbidden spell, and forgot to consider how exhausting it would be to cast even a simple spell amplified tenfold.
In her opinion, however, somebody as weak as her couldn’t possibly, ever, cast a spell amplified tenfold in her entire life.
The moment she finished chanting, she felt as if she had failed.
Even for a simple spell, after being amplified tenfold, the consumption of psychic energy was terrifying.
She had already consumed a lot of energy, and was almost sucked dry from this simple fireball.
However, the air around her was seemingly on fire, and the fireball itself was like a miniature Sun that spewedva.
“Whatever! Go forth, red mes!”
With a shout, she tossed the mini-Sun towards Levi.
The heat spread like a deadly wave, and in an instant, Levi’s body was engulfed by the fire, and zing mes spread across his body like a virus as he took one final look at the void above him closing.
Immediately, the mini-Sun expanded rapidly before copsing unto itself, and exploded.
Boom!
As the smoke dissipated, Levi’s remains were revealed.
He wasn’t exactly killed, but his current state was not very pretty.
Pus and blood seeped out from therge wounds, umting into ake of mucus, pus, maggots, flies, that gathered into a cloud of ck.
In the bone-deep wounds, ck threads squirmed, attempting to sew together the charred flesh back in one piece.
Jiangli and Zhang Dexian were in a trance as they witnessed this, silent.
Yibei, who was sted away by the explosion, came back to her senses as she got up from the floor, squealing out like a pig that stung the ears of the other two.
“Ow, fuck, shit, it fucking hurts, ow- I’m going to fucking die… I got the I’m-going-to-fucking-die disease… what are the two of you looking at?! Do something! Kill it! I can’t fucking feel my legs! Do you know what happens when we don’t pull out the roots of a fucking infestation? It grows back and multiplies! Basic science! If we don’t fucking kill this thing, that shit is going to- [OMITTED ONE THOUSAND AND EIGHTY ANGER-FILLED COMPLAINTS AND WORDS]”
Zhang Dexian and Jiangli nced at each other and thought to themselves.
<em>Hmph! Show off!</em>Dexian thought.
<em>How stupid does a Witch have to be to use such a destructive spell in its lethal range? </em>Jiangli thought.
The two of them nodded at each other, and pounced on the dying Levi.
<strong>TRANSLATOR NOTES:</strong>
We’ve made it to 10 chapters! Thank you all for sticking around, I greatly appreciate seeing all of your names in thements ^.^
Addressing some TL mistakes – in Chapter 236 regarding Kryptonian, I misread 氪命 as 氪金, thetter of which is<em>pay-to-win,</em> while the former is actually <em>self-harm-to-win.</em>Thank you for pointing that out! Pretty big and egregious mistake if Zhang Dexian were to appear in future chapters and I fumbled his actual ability T_T. Please do not hesitate to point out any mistakes, I’ll review them again and make necessary changes as soon as possible!
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