Chapter 952: Triple Expansion


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    When two expansions sh, they getyered based on affinity and type, for example, Arad''s void might get filled with a red dragon''s mes, allowing the two to exist at the same time. But when three powerful expansions sh, the strongest one would dominate as the mana present would hit the maximum density allowed in the air.


    [Elemental Expansion: Bone Yard] As ric crosses his arms, a storm of bones explodes from his forearms aiming to st both Lydia and Lunara away to give himself an opening to kill Eris. This expansion was cone-shaped instead of a spherical one, mainly because ric wanted to conserve energy and create an opening instead of defeating his targets or getting an advantage.


    [Elemental Expansion: Moon Rain] Lunara''s shes fell from the moon as quickly as they could, aiming only at ric. If she could wound him enough, Arad is bound to take back control.


    She can''t spare any shes for Lydia, every sh is a chance at waking Arad up, and she was going to roll the dice as many times as she could. Lydia shouldn''t be a foe, Lunara knew that well and that she was attacking from a misunderstanding. She hoped that Arad would help clear that once he woke up, but she had no guarantee that she would survive a direct hit from Lydia''sing expansion.


    [Divine Expansion:..] Lydia red at them, the sun burning hot behind her back. It was at that moment that the two demon lords knew true fear and realized how bad the situation was for them. It wasn''t a matter of surviving the attack or getting killed. It was a matter of whether their souls would even remain intact from theing attack. At thest second, they could see a ghostly silhouette of Amaterasu sitting on the sun behind Lydia, pointing at them with the sharp nail of her big right toe and carrying a sadistic smile on her face.


    It wasn''t just divine magic that wasing out of Lydia, but a massive wave of cursed magic came rampaging at the same time, sparking from her body in a wave of ck and golden light.


    [...Sr Expansion]N?v(el)B\\jnn


    As Amaterasu''s divine and cursed magic radiated from Lydia''s body into violent sr winds, pping like wings, Lydia''s soul shrunk smaller and smaller, increasing the sharpness and frequency of the sr wind sts and ps. The two demon lords were instantly engulfed in the dazzling sh, the two were like pieces of paper before an exploding fireball, and neither of them seemed to have the ability to resist the simultaneous assault of both divine and cursed magic. It was like rapidly heating and cooling a piece of metal to destroy it, it works and works far too well.


    Lunara who was aiming only at ric ended up getting charred into a piece of charcoal, while her moon shes severed his right arm.


    Lydia''s expansion hit ric''s bones and evaporated them instantly, creating an explosion that sted him back at tremendous speed. Half burned and with his expansion shattered, he had taken too much damage, and Arad was already waking up. Lydia had effectively one-shot him and Lunara at the same time with her expansion, he had to admit, she was the most horrifying being that he had faced in centuries, a monster pdin that didn''t even seem human.


    ric looked at Lydia falling from the sky; she had exerted so much power that her body finally gave up. She had achieved her goal after all, Lunara was a charred corpse falling to the ground, and he got damaged enough that Arad was about to take control in less than five seconds.


    ric ground his teeth, wishing he had the time to finish Lydia off, such a danger shouldn''t be left alive, but s, he was flying away from her. The demon lord smiled, he was flying away from the monster Lydia, and toward the city, he had especially angled his bones so the explosion would send him straight to Eris''s room.


    ^Great pdin, sorry, I can''t finish you off with my own hands. It''s a shame.^ Even with how powerful Lydia is, she is no match for a demon lord''s cunning. ^I''ll finish off that woman Eris instead and steal her divine core.^


    Lydia''s body fell onto a tree that broke her fall, and the swamp''s mud helped cushion her fall even further. Drenched in the dirt, the unconscious Lydiay motionless as arge werebear approached her, droll dripping from hisrge open maw.


    "For...my...lord..." He growled, lifting his w, ready to swing at her neck. ric said he won''t be finishing Lydia himself; he''ll be leaving her to one of his minions. Weakened and in her current state, she should be an easy target.


    "Yo...who do you think you''re attacking?" A voice came from the forest and the werebear''s arm stopped in its tracks, he looked toward the voice and saw a bloodied Jack ring at him with arge smile.


    Jack''s white eyes shifted into eclipse-like ck ones as darkness burst from his body, swallowing the whole area. The confused werebear found himself standing alone in the darkness, unable to utter a single voice. In his mouth, he could taste the rusty vor of iron. BANG! As the light returned, Jack sted the werebear''s brain with a cannon shell in the throat. He stood beside Lydia and looked at her with a worried gaze. "Again?" His eyes then shifted toward the dead werebear, "Hands off my wife."


    At that moment, the ground shook as a massive st emerged not too far away from Jack and Lydia, it was strong enough to knock him down. "Damn it, what''s going on?!" He looked back, "Hurry!" He yelled at the murder pdins who had just finished killing all of the lycanthropic cultists who were transformed by ric, those rampaging wild beasts were a danger to anything alive.


    ric flew at the church and burst through the window, swinging his w toward Eris''s neck. She was fast asleep thanks to the church''s magic, and even if she was awake, she couldn''t fight back in her weakened condition.


    A fraction of a second before his w could pierce Eris''s chest, arge charred foot flew right above his head,nding a hair strand beside Eris on her bed. The charcoal-ck Lunara flew in, snatching Eris out of his way.


    ric''s w pierced her torso, and the demon lord gasped, "Lunara! You could still move?" He couldn''t believe his eyes, with how weakened she was and the injury inflicted from taking Lydia''s expansion head-on, she should''ve been dead.


    While carrying Eris in one arm, Lunara grabbed ric''s w with her other hand to prevent him from escaping. She lifted her other foot and was about to strike. The dying rabbit in the wolf''s jaw strikes back, defending a nest that would never belong to her.


    Lunara swung her foot down, smacking ric''s head as hard as she could, shaking his very soul.


    The lycanthropic transformation started shifting back, and Arad slowly returned to normal, finding himself standing with his whole arm plunged into a dying Lunara with the unconscious Eris in her arm.


    Arad stared at her with a passive face his purple eyes frozen in time. For a second, a dark me could be seen burning inside, growingrger andrger until the veins on his pupils bulged red with rage.