Chapter 72, Chapter 65, Frost Dyes the Land
Verafia’s clear voice echoed in the surrounding silent air. The girl raised her flawless snowy cheeks to face the black sword, the golden flame that appeared in her hand suddenly condensed into a long sword, and she swung it back in a strike!
“Phoenix Heavenly Fire · Burning Light Sword!”
On the long sword swung by the girl, blazing flames surged, erupting with dazzling pure golden flames, and slashed down at the black sword light!
“To have mastered the authority of flames at this level… it seems your identity is even more shocking than I imagined.”
Beneath the mask, the Royal Guard’s calm voice revealed a rare trace of surprise, but his slashed sword light was not slow at all. Facing the girl’s suddenly erupting blazing sword, the black sword edge slashed down.
A black radiance almost submerged the color of the entire sky, directly crushing the girl’s blazing sword, and the golden flames of the fire withered.
Verafia moved her body aside during the moment of interception, and the gleam of the black blade extinguished all life on the ground beneath her.
A trace of residual wave from the black sword qi shattered the flames protecting her body, tore a corner of her clothes, and splashed onto the girl’s pure white skin.
“Ugh…”
The girl couldn’t help but groan, her face filled with immense pain. She clearly felt an evil and strange energy entering her body, devouring and obliterating her vitality.
However, Verafia just pursed her lips tightly. Her burning gold eyes gazed at the Royal Guard who had just swung his sword before her. Her right hand suddenly lifted, and the golden flames burning in the air began to condense rapidly.
“Heavenly Fire, Ashes Burn!”
Within her body, brilliant golden flames ignited from her blood. Verafia’s platinum aura surged violently, reaching the edge of the crystal in an instant. Correspondingly, the pain that appeared between her brows intensified to the point where she couldn’t help but grit her teeth tightly.
“Burning your own Phoenix Blood?”
The black Royal Guard held his sword with one hand. He could clearly sense the power emanating from the girl, born from a bloodline that was incredibly noble despite its fragility.
Suddenly, the Royal Guard’s expression froze. The girl in the flames raised her fair and delicate face, her beautiful eyes shining with golden flames. Amidst her surging aura, a fiery red and gold hue reignited, and another cluster of entirely different power erupted!
The Magic Crystal of the Star Rank Fire-浴 Dragon Wolf King, after being bitten by Verafia that day, was not completely consumed by her.
Verafia’s initial plan was to neutralize its violent energy and then give it to Ig in the form of a magic potion.
But now, Verafia, who had clearly reached a desperate situation, by igniting her bloodline to the limits of what she could bear this Star Rank power, ignited it completely without any hesitation!
Verafia’s aura instantly surged to its peak, almost reaching Star Rank, but her movements were not hindered in the slightest. The condensed blazing sword was already humming with terrifying fluctuating energy, slashing towards the black-armored Royal Guard!
Space was torn apart, the void was frozen, and under the burning gold flames, silver and pure white sword light descended with an irredeemiable destructive force!
“Empty Silence, Sword of Complete Destruction!”
Facing the girl’s brilliant sword light, the Royal Guard merely raised his head. Beside him, suddenly, snow petals as dark as ink fell, dyeing the land around him pitch black.
Verafia’s face showed astonishment, but her downward-slashing sword edge did not pause at all. The dazzling sword light destroyed everything in its path, pouring out all of her strength towards the Royal Guard.
The pure white sword light, without any impurities, instantly submerged every gap in the air, and then… a dark color began to spread.
The Royal Guard’s strange black gauntlet blocked the girl’s stunning sword strike. On the strange alchemical metal, a black fluctuation spread, the same as his blade.
“Quite a powerful strike…”
The tip of Verafia’s golden flame-condensed sword began to spread with dark colors under the erosion, cracking in strands, with an unstable aura of decay and corrosion, as if it would completely collapse at any moment.
The Royal Guard raised his gaze to the shock visible on the girl’s porcelain-like delicate face. Verafia firmly grasped the sword hilt, maintaining the sword’s precarious stability.
“This is a domain… no, it’s far from it, but rather what these substances of his… have spread and constructed.”
Verafia saw the pitch-black land where black snow was falling around the Royal Guard. She had already sensed that this was not ordinary snow – but rather a manifestation derived from spirit and some kind of entity.
Now, with closer contact, Verafia could more clearly feel that these things, fragments overflowing from the Royal Guard’s body, possessed an aura of decay and withering…
This was by no means something that existed in this world!
Verafia suddenly raised her burning gold eyes. The blazing sword held tightly in her right hand suddenly exploded with a deafening roar, and a torrent of intense melted gold light poured out in an instant.
“Sword of Uprooting!”
The girl’s other hand instantly raised another sword and slashed towards the Royal Guard!
The black sword light was raised, and the violent explosion and irresistible terrifying power directly repelled Verafia several meters back.
The girl’s fair, small face flushed as she panted, and suddenly a mouthful of blood emerged. The aura she had summoned by burning her essence blood swayed, appearing extremely unstable.
The black Royal Guard walked through the flame-scorched land with his sword. The originally beautiful and brilliant golden flames all around appeared weak and vulnerable after being dyed by the black snow.
“What an exquisite and ingenious sword… it even made me feel threatened. Miss Phoenix, I am becoming more and more curious about your origin.”
He had always observed Verafia’s strength.
If her battle with the Frost Ice Dragon showed her normal strength, and afterwards was her unleashing her full power, then at this moment, the power gained through forcibly increasing it by burning her essence blood and even relying on the Star Rank Magic Crystal was Verafia’s most powerful attack thus far.
However, it was still easily blocked by the black Royal Guard.
“I am nothing. Rather, you, the Royal Guard of Peka…”
But Verafia’s expression did not change much. She propped herself up with her sword, still staring intently at the black Royal Guard who was slowly walking towards her.
“Black falling snow… where did those powers come from, which demons did you devour? Royal Guard, you are not human, but an evil spirit! Tell me, who are they!”
“Those are the remnants of abomination… they bring us power. We are the sharp blades of the Kingdom. Young Phoenix, you are ignorant and naive, naturally unable to understand.”
The black Royal Guard’s steps suddenly stopped. On the pitch-black land around them, dark light diffused in the air. The raised sword light was like a black tide that would submerge the world!
“Blazing Phoenix, end here!”
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There should be about two more chapters to finish…
