chapter 82 She’s Back Too
Just a brief moment of respite, the magical light barrier resisting the spread of the abyss was eroded. Jagged, pitch-black cracks spread across the pure white light, and a corrupted, desolate aura seeped in.
Vicena withdrew her gaze. The expression on her beautiful face became solemn again. She held her staff, chanting complex and obscure spells. The residual elemental traces in the world resonated with her, and brilliance flashed, ready to unleash all her demonic power towards the abyss that was about to pour down.
The corrupted black marks expanded. Finally, the magical light barrier could no longer bear it and shattered with a roar like a broken mirror.
Darkness and decay poured down. A vast black curtain, like an endless black scroll, and in the center of the scroll, the most eye-catching was a demonic figure made of what seemed like pitch-black mud. The mud, like corrupted water, dripped down, revealing a nauseating face that radiated intense ugliness and sin.
—Everyone present felt their hearts sink. They had been fighting the abyss for only a few years, but they had encountered such unhuman existences more than once. It was not a living being, but the embodiment of pure sin from the abyss, an incarnation of the abyss itself!
Not only did it possess the power of the abyss, but all laws and elements withered and died within the demonic energy wielded by the incarnation of the abyss.
At this moment, a small, slender figure stood before the dark silhouette. Her exquisite evening gown was already tattered, and moonlight-like silver hair cascaded down her tender, delicate back. Yet, a pair of vibrant blood wings grew from it. The blood moon hung high, and even though she was young, she was as noble as a queen of blood.
The girl held a magnificent blade condensed from the blood moon in her slender little hand. Her scarlet wings fluttered, and the pure blood demonic power condensed into scarlet lightning bolts, unleashing terrifying attacks towards the incarnation of the abyss before her.
In an instant, the incarnation of the abyss was battered and broken by the demonic power of blood, with a horrific large hole in its chest and abdomen, looking utterly miserable.
However, anyone could see that the silver-haired blood race girl was at the end of her strength.
Almost at the same time, thick, black abyssal tentacles extended from the rotten flesh. As they swung down, the terrifying demonic energy shattered upon collision, striking the blood race girl’s slender, delicate body. With a low hum, she fell towards the ground.
Vicena raised her staff, which flashed with dazzling radiance, and a brilliant magic beam roared out, repelling the incarnation of the abyss.
“Miss Fran!” Elysia hurriedly helped up the blood race girl who had fallen to the ground.
The girl’s pure white face, like snow, was as pale as paper. She gritted her silver teeth tightly, as if forcing herself to endure the pain, but she merely shook her head and stood up again, gripping her weapon.
Vicena, who had picked up her staff, walked past her. Fran suddenly spoke, “You can’t beat it. I’ll do it.”
The girl’s voice was slender and childish, but it sounded exceptionally cold.
Vicena’s steps paused, and she turned to look at her. However, Fran clearly had no intention of letting her reply. Her scattered scarlet snow wings forcibly reconvened. She simply said, “Although my sister didn’t have time to instruct me, she must care about you deeply. I want to protect you for her.”
As she finished speaking, Fran took a deep breath, preparing to forcefully drive her demonic power to continue fighting. Suddenly, as if sensing something, her beautiful, scarlet, ruby-like eyes widened in surprise.
After her, Vicena, Elysia, and the knights and soldiers following them also sensed something unusual.
The endless darkness that enveloped them, writhing and pulsing like countless tentacles, the abyss, seemed to freeze at this moment. A long-lost tranquility appeared above the previously oppressive desolation. Even the decay and coldness permeating the abyss also stalled.
But it was only for an instant.
In Fran’s widened eyes, the darkness that enveloped them like a deep sea seemed to have its infinite thickness erased, turning into a thin piece of paper, its wrinkles and creases folded by an invisible force.
A flash of dazzling white light pierced through, and a scorching sword light split the abyss!
“That’s—”
Gazing at the sword light that spanned the entire abyssal sea, as if freezing time, not only Fran, but Vicena’s loosely held staff trembled slightly, and her beautiful cerulean eyes showed disbelief.
Vicena was already a legend, yet the stunning sword light in the dazzling white radiance made her feel an insurmountable distance… This feeling was even greater than that of a deity. Even Lancaster in the past had not given her such a feeling.
“It’s Ig.”
The brilliant sword light illuminated Elysia’s face. Her golden silk-like hair caressed her face as if she saw the black-haired young man swinging his sword and cutting through the long river of the abyss. A hint of surprise flickered in her bright golden eyes.
Before the people beside her could ask in confusion, immense gaps torn by the long sword were filled with chilling frost and freezing air. The magnificent frost dragon wings even overshadowed the frozen abyss.
A clear dragon’s roar echoed. The Frost Giant Dragon appeared in everyone’s sight. The traces of space froze as its dragon wings moved. In the blink of an eye, hundreds and thousands of abyssal followers turned into ice sculptures, their lives extinguished in the extreme cold without even a moment to cry out.
The soldiers of the resistance army looked at the Frost Giant Dragon, which had destroyed one-tenth of the abyssal army in the blink of an eye, with utter shock. However, Elysia’s eyes were somewhat dazed.
The dragon flapped its wings and flew towards where she was. The brilliance of the ice mist enveloped the dragon, and two figures, one large and one small, appeared on the ground.
“Mmm, Elysia! I missed you so much.”
A childish and icy, yet filled with deep joy voice came. The people present didn’t react much. The ice-blue long-haired girl threw herself into Elysia’s arms, burying her head forcefully into her high chest and rubbing against it.
“Is that, Little Fran?”
Elysia gently stroked the girl’s soft, beautiful hair with surprise. A slight smile appeared at the corner of her lips. After separating slightly, she looked at the ice dragon girl who was grinning, her small face still exquisitely flawless amidst her childishness, and showed a relieved smile:
“Little Fran, you’ve grown so much. You’re much stronger than me now… But, Little Fran, you have to tell me, is this little one, is this Little Fran’s daughter?”
Elysia gently rubbed the girl’s soft hair, a playful curve appearing at the corner of her lips. Her bright golden eyes saw Anrijel, who was beside Ophi and bore some resemblance to her.
The loli in the white dress with snow-blue long hair looked exceptionally embarrassed, burying her face and tightly gripping the hem of her skirt with her delicate fingers.
“Mmm! No, Elysia, listen to me, Anrijel, she is…”
The silver-haired, blood-winged blood race girl walked lightly to her side, lifting her small face and looking at the ice dragon girl, who had become somewhat unfamiliar compared to her memory. She hesitated for a moment, then softly uttered: “Ophi.”
“It’s Little Fran.”
Looking at the blood race girl, Ophi’s eyes suddenly lit up.
Fran’s lips curled slightly, but she quickly concealed it. She took the girl’s hand and looked up, “Ophi, be careful, that’s an incarnation of the abyss.”
“The incarnation of the abyss?”
Ophi also looked up. Soon, her beautiful frost-blue eyes curved into a gentle blue moon. She reached out and pinched the girl’s cheek, “Little Fran doesn’t need to worry about this guy. Not only me and Ig, but Veer is back too.”
Fran’s scarlet pupils suddenly trembled. She forcefully raised her head. Through the large gaps torn by the blazing white sword marks, a slender figure flickered, followed by a clear voice, like exquisite high heels landing on a glass floor, weaving a moving melody.
“Ophi, you mean… Sister?”
As if following Fran’s voice, a green light illuminated this sea of overflowing abyssal haze, like the birth of a world, and brilliant radiance instantly filled the entire sky.
Under the dazzling divine radiance, the pitch-black mud made a sharp, burning sound and rapidly annihilated. The body of the monster formed by the original sin of the abyss was pierced with countless wounds, its dirty blood flowing everywhere, and its shattered flesh vaporized completely. In just an instant, the thick abyssal mist evaporated, being unquestionably suppressed by the divine radiance.
As if unwilling to be suppressed and weakened, tentacles broke through the shattered flesh of the abyssal monster, struggling desperately and appearing even more ferocious, letting out roars.
However, in the illuminating brilliance, a slender girl stood before it. A pure white silk dress flowed with unprofiable divinity. Beneath her dazzling golden hair, golden luminous eyes lit up, gazing at the creation of sin before her.
A pure white slender finger pointed towards the convergence of all impurities in the world. The raging will of the abyssal monster suddenly revealed human-like cowardice.
However, without allowing it to beg for mercy, the Goddess of Life uttered a plain sentence, “Creation of the abyss… By the authority of life, I strip you of the vitality you stole in sin. Disintegrate before my eyes.”
Brilliant divine radiance emanated from the peerless beautiful girl emerging from the sea of the abyss. In an instant, it seemed to freeze into an eternal scene in the eyes of countless people.
The girl calmly announced her judgment. Time and space fell silent for a moment. Without even touching it, the surging, boiling abyss instantly solidified like mud and stone, and then, in her eyes, it crumbled.
“This… it’s over?”
The soldiers of the resistance army wiped the blood from their faces and murmured, looking in disbelief at the corrupted darkness that rapidly dispersed with the fall of the incarnation of the abyss, and the pure divine radiance that even the abyss could not defile, the golden-haired girl standing calmly.
How could he not have expected that the monster that had been their nightmare for countless days, which even Lady Fran and Lady Elysia couldn’t deal with, couldn’t even last a second in front of that girl, falling so simply and directly like ordinary soil.
He suddenly realized that there were soldiers from the Abyssal Church beside him and quickly tightened his grip on his weapon. However, he was surprised to find that the enemies before him were evaporating in the burning black mist, collapsing like wheat, their vitality extinguished.
Just like the creation forged from the sins of the abyss, these soldiers, corrupted by the sins of the abyss, also had their lives stripped away by the girl’s simple declaration.
Elysia’s slender fingers clutched the sword hilt, and her bright golden eyes slightly tilted upwards, looking at the noble and inviolable girl amidst the pure radiance.
“Senior Elysia, long time no see.”
A young man’s voice, which she had missed for a long time, came. Ig, holding a straight long sword, walked out from the gaps torn by the scorching white sword light with a smiling face, revealing the joy of meeting an old friend.
“Ig?”
Elysia’s eyes lit up with surprise, and her voice also gained a hint of joy. However, she quickly looked up again, gazing at the girl in the radiance. Her ruby lips moved, “And Ig returned together, so… is that Miss Verafia?”
Ig nodded, and followed Elysia’s gaze towards the girl who lit up the endless night. This was his girl, so his heart couldn’t help but feel a bit more proud:
“Yes, the Young Lady is back too.”
