Chapter: Chapter 247
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Looking at the enormous body that had fallen to the ground, Leticia couldn’t quite believe that she had defeated this monster so smoothly. In her subconscious, she still felt that this monster was difficult to defeat.
And now, with just one sword strike, the monster was defeated?
Was Bai Ling’s combat power too strong, or had the monster’s strength regressed due to the prolonged seal?
“You… did you cheat?” Leticia looked at Bai Ling, who had a calm expression, and couldn’t help but ask.
After unleashing such a terrifying attack, she still looked so composed. If she had unleashed that attack herself, she probably wouldn’t even be able to stand.
No, she couldn’t stand even now, relying entirely on the magic sword as a crutch to support herself.
Her magic power was almost completely drained, and Leticia felt that her current combat power was only slightly higher than that of a chicken.
“Give me your hand, you don’t look well.” Bai Ling walked to the front of Leticia and extended her hand to the girl.
Looking at Bai Ling’s outstretched hand, Leticia bit her lip, turned her head away awkwardly, and said with a soft哼: “I don’t need your help.”
“You helped me this time, and I’m not someone who forgets favors.” Bai Ling naturally moved closer to Leticia and took her arm to support her. “It’s just that I’m still a bit worried. That monster always gives me the feeling that it wouldn’t be defeated so easily.”
As expected, Bai Ling felt the same way. Leticia nodded and said, “I feel the same way, and Xi over there probably thinks so too.”
The storm in the sky had not yet dissipated, indicating that Xi was still on guard.
It was not right to arrogantly assume victory at this moment.
“I say, why don’t you go chop it a few more times, chop it into several pieces, and then I won’t believe it wouldn’t die,” Leticia whispered to Bai Ling.
But Bai Ling shook her head, “I can’t unleash such a powerful attack for now.”
She only appeared to be in normal condition now. In reality, her remaining combat power might not be much more than Leticia’s. Unleashing an attack that exceeded her control had temporarily made her unable to sense stellar energy.
“Let’s go and stay carefully nearby. It should be safer there than here.”
“Okay, you really don’t need to support me, I can walk.”
In the distance, Xi stared intently at the fallen monster. She didn’t believe her old adversary would die just like that. She had witnessed its regenerative abilities before.
Back then, she had thrust her fork into the monster’s head, and she thought she had won, but the monster had remained as lively as ever, forcing Xi to activate her backup plan and seal herself and the monster together.
And now, although Bai Ling’s starlight had indeed pierced the monster’s brain, could this truly kill the monster completely?
Or, was the brain truly that important to this monster?
Xi felt it was hard to say. At least, in her memory, there were many creatures whose brains were just decorations, or even lacked brains altogether.
Unless this monster turned to dust before her eyes, she would believe that it was truly dead. Just falling to the ground now felt like a feigned death tactic by the monster.
However, even knowing that the monster was faking death, there was nothing she could do. Leticia and Bai Ling, the two main damage dealers, had depleted their combat power. Especially Leticia, who now needed to be supported by Bai Ling and couldn’t even walk steadily.
In the sky, Sasha and two girls from White Dove breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing the monster’s enormous body fall, they instinctively felt that they had won this time.
However, this emotion only lasted for a short while. Sasha immediately issued instructions to Yi Yujun, asking her to scan the monster’s body.
She needed to confirm if the monster was dead when it fell.
White Dove cautiously flew to hover above the monster and began to meticulously scan its enormous body.
“There’s still residual activity in its body?” Yi Yujun frowned as she looked at the wavy lines on the screen. “It’s not dead yet?”
“Even if the brain of this marine creature is destroyed, its body will still have residual activity for a short period of time. This is quite normal, as long as they lose their central nervous system that controls them,” said one of the girls, looking unfazed. “I’ll redirect all the energy to the scanning device. This will make the detection more accurate.”
As the girl operated, the lights within White Dove dimmed, as if all transferable energy had been diverted.
An overhead map appeared on the girl’s screen, but it didn’t contain any terrain features, only wavy lines of different colors.
“Remove the blue, remove the colored ones, what’s that color called… never mind, they all need to be removed anyway.” As she removed the interference waves one by one, the detection results appeared before the girl.
Instantly, the girl’s eyes widened. Without hesitation, she piloted White Dove away from the monster’s upper body and shouted, “This guy is going to ambush Leticia and the others!”
The girl’s voice reached Sasha through the radio. Sasha didn’t ask why the girl had come to that conclusion; now was not the time to dwell on such questions.
“Miss Bai, be careful!” Sasha shouted a warning to Bai Ling as she rushed towards Bai Ling and Leticia.
She still had some divine power left, which should be enough to block the monster’s ambush.
As long as she could reach Bai Ling and Leticia.
“What?” Leticia heard Sasha’s call. Her head, which had become somewhat hazy due to the depletion of her mental power, didn’t even register the meaning of Sasha’s words.
But Bai Ling was different. The moment she heard Sasha’s voice, she immediately grabbed Leticia’s arm. At the same time, a wave of overwhelming malice surged from the ground, making Bai Ling’s expression even more solemn.
Rumble, rumble, the earth began to shake. A colossal tentacle shot out from underground, its target undoubtedly Bai Ling.
The monster wasn’t dead; it had been waiting for an opportunity to ambush.
And its target for the ambush was Bai Ling, who had inflicted significant damage on it.
In its eyes, among everyone present, the only one who could pose a threat to it was this white-haired girl.
Bai Ling naturally knew this. Without even thinking, she threw Leticia away, then turned her sword, and confronted the tentacle.
“Bai Ling!” Leticia, having been thrown by Bai Ling, widened her eyes. How could Bai Ling possibly deal with the monster’s tentacle alone now? This was a carefully planned ambush by the monster.
Without her protection, Bai Ling would definitely not win.
The entire world seemed to have been put on slow motion. Leticia desperately tried to move her body, wanting to unleash magic to block this attack for Bai Ling. Even if the shield she unleashed now was as fragile as an eggshell, it would be better than letting Bai Ling take the monster’s attack with her own body.
But the magic power that could be mobilized with a single thought now seemed so disobedient. No matter how many times Leticia commanded it in her heart, the magic power still did not respond to her request.
A sharp pain shot through her head, and she realized that her mental power had weakened to the point where she couldn’t even cast a simple shield spell.
What to do? What should she do?
Bai Ling held her sword horizontally in front of her. With such a short reaction time, this was the most unsuitable defensive method for her.
The energy contained within the monster’s tentacle was terrifyingly immense. Bai Ling’s hasty defense was completely incapable of blocking it.
Leticia had always known that Bai Ling’s defense was not befitting of someone at her level. This girl was a true glass cannon.
However, she only knew this.
Normally, this cannon could use its ferocious firepower to destroy anything that dared to get close to her. When Leticia was by her side, her vulnerability in defense could be compensated.
Therefore, Leticia had never known how fragile Bai Ling truly was.
What would happen if she was hit by the monster’s ambush like this?
Leticia didn’t dare to think.
Would she die? Or would she be seriously injured?
If she herself were to face such an attack now, what would be the outcome?
Undoubtedly, she would die. The best outcome would be to barely hold on to consciousness, just as before, preventing instant death.
Her defense power could barely keep up with the average of her level. What about Bai Ling, whose defense was completely inadequate?
She would die.
Die?
Leticia had never imagined such a scene.
In her subconscious, she had never considered that Bai Ling, this troublemaker, would die, let alone die in front of her.
Why was it that they were enemies, yet why did she now feel sad?
When did her feelings for Bai Ling change?
The monster’s tentacle touched the beautiful Star Sword. The immense force caused cracks to appear on the Star Sword. In the blink of an eye, the beautiful long sword shattered into starlight.
There was no longer any barrier between the monster’s tentacle and Bai Ling.
In the next moment, the monster would strike Bai Ling’s body and kill this guardian of mankind.
Can I only watch this happen? Leticia questioned herself.
She was unwilling to watch Bai Ling die.
Yes, she didn’t want Bai Ling to die.
Even if the past Bai Ling had wanted her dead, even if she had been beaten to a pulp by Bai Ling back then, now, Leticia did not want Bai Ling to die.
When did this white-haired girl become a part of her life?
Perhaps at the beginning, Leticia did indeed dislike Bai Ling, and maintaining superficial harmony with her was only because she didn’t want her peaceful life to be disrupted.
But gradually, she seemed to have gotten used to this person’s presence, got used to her shamelessly appearing in her room, got used to her occasionally annoying actions.
Why was this?
Was it because she was beautiful?
Perhaps.
Anyway, if Bai Ling died now, Leticia would be very sad.
“The greatest threat to the Demon Race died at the hands of a disaster created by humans themselves. Isn’t this a good thing for you?” Somewhere in the distance, Leticia seemed to hear her own voice.
Without Bai Ling, would there be anyone in this world who could stop Leticia, the Demon King?
Demons themselves possessed immense power, and the Demon King was the only existence in the world comparable to the Sword Saint.
If the Sword Saint died, and died before the eyes of the Demon King, then from then on, would there be anyone to stop the advance of the demon army?
“Now you just have to watch this woman who once wanted to kill you be killed by a monster, and then scurry back to the Demon Realm to recuperate. Before long, you will become the ruler of the entire world.” That voice whispered seductively in Leticia’s ear. “At that time, there would be as many beautiful women like her as you want?”
Is that so?
Yes, that’s how it is.
As long as Bai Ling disappeared from this world, the Demon Race would have no constraints, and their power would be enough to conquer the entire world.
“So, accept reality. This perfect reality for you: your enemy is dead, the Demon Race is revitalized, isn’t that good?”
“No!” Leticia said softly.
From a rational standpoint, this was indeed good.
But Leticia had never been a rational person.
“I don’t know what you are, but that kind of thought is definitely not something I would have,” Leticia looked at Bai Ling in the distance, and the corners of her mouth suddenly curved up. “There’s still a way, there’s still a way.”
Her magic power was exhausted, but she still had blood to burn. Her mental power was almost depleted, but overexerting herself wasn’t impossible.
If she could save Bai Ling, what were these prices compared to that?
Leticia felt her body ignite as a surge of demonic power erupted from the depths of her being, and a hint of coolness appeared in her mind.
With all her might, she pointed the magic sword towards Bai Ling.
A fragile barrier, shining with a dark light, appeared in front of Bai Ling. The moment the barrier appeared, the tentacle fiercely collided with this hastily cast magical barrier.
Shattered, there was no doubt about it.
Even the magical barrier carefully constructed by Leticia could not withstand the monster’s charged attack, let alone this hastily cast barrier.
But this barrier had served its purpose.
It consumed the power of the tentacle’s attack.
Bai Ling crossed her arms in front of her chest, protecting her vital points, and waited for the tentacle’s impact.
A faint, almost invisible starlight enveloped her, and then, the tentacle struck Bai Ling.
The attack, which was enough to smash Bai Ling into a pulp, only sent the girl flying, but its effect was still remarkable.
Her hands were broken, several bones in her body were fractured, and Bai Ling felt that she could no longer sense her body at all.
If no one were to catch her, she would probably fall to her death.
But, she was no longer worried.
She felt a warm embrace, the embrace of the person she loved most.
“You owe me a life,” the girl’s faint voice sounded in her ear.
“I will repay it with my entire life.” Although blood was constantly flowing from the corner of her mouth, Bai Ling smiled happily.
