chapter 85 Touch of Darkness (Part 2)
Ighet stared with a solemn gaze at the dark woman who appeared before him.
The dark elf ranger, Evanista, was ordered to leave the Sacred Spirit Mountain Range to hunt down Ain, who had run away from home. In fact, Ighet had dealt with her more than once.
Whether it was the faint dark figure behind the “Jealousy” Witch Verodia in Loringkel, or the Shadow of the Dark Moon he witnessed for the first time upon arriving in elven territory, they all had a significant connection with Evanista.
However, the dark elf maiden who was originally in his memory, with a beautiful face and graceful posture, appeared before him in such a distorted, ugly, and grotesque appearance…
“It’s actually her!”
Upon hearing Ighet’s words, Ophiris was greatly surprised. She couldn’t connect the dark elf ranger with the grotesque monster before her. She raised her face and looked for a long time, only managing to find a few similarities.
The sacred domain surrounding Evanista surged, mirroring her fluctuating emotions. The hatred in her eyes was even more difficult to conceal for Ighet and the ice dragon girl’s reaction.
With a near roar, Evanista’s distorted body lunged towards the two like a cannonball.
The icy short sword tightly grasped in her only human-shaped hand condensed like the night and slashed down at the two. Ighet’s pupils contracted, and he raised his sword to block, forcefully pushing the ice dragon girl beside him.
The terrifying demonic power had nowhere to dissipate, and the floor was smashed into a huge pit. At the same time, countless dark tentacles like fleshy hands clawed out from her body.
Ophiris, suspended in mid-air, trembled. She swung her ice spear with all her might, and the ice-blue wall slashed through the numerous dark tentacles.
Shards of broken branches fell to the ground. However, as a powerful person in the sacred domain, Evanista’s vitality was immense. Her flesh writhed and regenerated, growing back into terrifying branches.
“Evanista, why have you become like this?” Ighet swung his long sword, and the fierce sword qi severed the tentacles that were pouncing at him. Bright red blood splattered in mid-air as he asked.
“Heh… it’s all thanks to you!”
Evanista’s voice was filled with malice. Within her distorted body, the demonic power belonging to the Saint Rank seemed to boil and was suddenly swung out along the common sword gripped in her hand.
Ighet raised his sword to block. With a “clink,” End was shaken away, and suddenly a shadow like a dark moon followed closely, crashing into him with a roar.
“Ighet!”
Ophiris cried out in shock. Behind her, the phantom of her true form as a dragon suddenly condensed. With a clear dragon’s roar, she spewed forth the chilling frost dragon breath towards the mutated woman before her.
The ice dragon breath instantly condensed into a hard ice layer, shattering through flesh and blood.
The ice dragon girl’s crystal-like dragon wings fluttered slightly. Her gaze fell on Evanista, who was covered in the frost dragon breath. Gritting her silver teeth, the spear tightly grasped in her slender hand, bearing the heavy Saint Rank domain, forcefully stabbed towards her figure.
Boom!
The dark sacred domain demonic power violently collided with the ice dragon girl’s heavy blow. The intense fluctuations generated by the explosion prevented even the surrounding dark elf soldiers from approaching.
Ophiris’s figure was also sent flying. The frost dragon spear pierced deeply into the ground, sliding nearly ten meters before barely stopping.
“Wuwuwu…”
Ophiris whimpered, her beautiful frost-blue eyes misting over, nearly shedding tears. She tightly pressed the spear handle. Due to the impact carrying demonic power, the ice dragon girl’s high-piled chest continuously heaved beneath her frost-blue skirt armor.
The maiden slightly turned her head and saw Ighet slowly stand up, supporting himself with his sword from the surging demonic power. He did not seem to have suffered much injury, which made her slightly relieved.
“Little Fei, are you injured?”
Upon hearing Ighet’s voice, the ice dragon girl quickly shook her head vigorously.
After glancing at Ophiris and finding that she was indeed unharmed, Ighet felt at ease and raised his gaze back to Evanista, who was steadily approaching.
The other party did not immediately launch an attack, but Ighet naturally knew that Evanista was accumulating her strength.
He took a slight breath, infused it with demonic power, and his End sword in his hand gently chimed. The sword glow flickered, and he said in a deep voice, “You said it’s because of me? Could it be that time a month ago when I severely wounded you?”
A month ago, Ighet and his group encountered Evanista’s attack as soon as they arrived on the elven land.
At that time, Evanista was unable to subdue him. After being wounded by Ophiris’s spear and falling into a spring containing the divine power of the Moon Goddess, she used the essence of moonlight to create an avatar of the Dark Moon Goddess.
However, that avatar was shattered by the ancient moonlight in Ighet’s hand.
Even though Evanista was not captured, and instead escaped with the power hidden within her body, Ighet was completely certain that her injuries could never have been minor.
Let alone healing themselves in a short period, it was probably very difficult for her to even maintain the realm of the Sacred Domain.
The Evanista who appeared before him this time, besides the changes in her body and form, showed no signs of injury at all. In fact, her physical strength and demonic power level were even stronger than when he had last seen her.
Ighet was almost certain that Evanista’s strange distortion of her body was definitely due to these injuries, for the sake of recovering her strength and saving her life.
The ice dragon girl beside him tightly gripped her dragon spear, her crystal-blue eyes, like frost-blue gems, turned slightly, and she met Ighet’s gaze. Although she was a bit airheaded, she wasn’t so unclear as to not understand such a straightforward issue.
“However, the power that changed Evanista…”
Ighet raised his eyes again, falling on Evanista’s grotesquely swollen flesh, with countless dark tentacles growing like branches on her back, and suddenly said:
“It’s not the corrosion of the abyss, nor does it belong to the power of the Dark Moon.”
Like the former Douglas, Ighet had indeed seen the distortion caused by the abyss’s erosion on the body, which also made his body extremely bizarre, not in human form… That was purely the mutation caused by the abyss’s demonic power constantly eroding within the body.
However, Evanista before him was fundamentally different from those who had fallen due to the abyss’s power, like Douglas.
Ighet tilted his head slightly. End sword blade had once severed one of Evanista’s tentacles, and black blood remained on the blade.
He could sense that this was not the tainted power of the abyss, but the proliferation of a pure life form, with blood flowing in the simple sense of life.
Ighet raised his face:
“Evanista, the spell released on your body to save your life, and even restore your injuries, is a spell cast by the Magic Monarch, Fatter!”
The Magic Monarch Fatter, without a doubt, had long reached the peak of his mastery of magic, and even as a deity, he attempted to create life through magic.
Last time, Ighet saw the Magic Monarch. Although it was just his phantom, his body entirely constructed by magic, it still left him unforgettable.
However, Fatter’s comprehension of life still had shortcomings, and he could never achieve perfection… That was why he delusionally wanted to abduct Verafia, and even when he saw the phantom of the Life Goddess, he boasted that he would personally uproot the sacred tree and seize the position of the God of Life.
Now… on Evanista’s body, it was a mutation caused by the simple breakthrough of life’s shackles, not being bound, representing Fatter’s mastery of physical life.
Thinking of this, Ighet couldn’t help but take a slight breath.
“This Fatter can manipulate physical life so much… I previously thought that his understanding of life was still his weakness. I underestimated this hero who was once Veer’s companion.”
Being able to easily save the life of someone in the Sacred Domain… Although not perfect, causing mutations in her body, it was more than enough to prove that Fatter’s mastery of life had reached the level of a deity.
