Chapter 1248
The Cake Maker Who Was Smashed
The Cake Maker didn’t seem to resist at all. He just spread his hands and said calmly, “What else? Miss Knight?
‘The things in the Ascension Ritual are fake. The buildings are fake, the earth is fake, and the people inside are fake. Everything is just a stage prop, like ritual materials.’
Facing Haina’s questioning, the man said calmly. He took out a cigar from his pocket, lit it with the flame from his index finger, and blew out a puff of smoke.
When he opened his eyes, his honest and reliable demeanor instantly turned into the authority of a gang leader.
“And, did you get something wrong, Miss ‘Knight’?”
The man’s voice was deep and muffled, with an unshakeable firmness and an unconcealable fatigue. “We are enemies, aren’t we?
“If I remember correctly, that was the New Moon Ritual. The core of the New Moon Ritual is mutual killing… You willingly entered the New Moon Ritual, didn’t you? Then shouldn’t you have come with the resolve to kill everyone?
“If that’s the case, what’s wrong with me deceiving you? Hmph… I am a Ritualist. You don’t want me to duel you, do you? Don’t you think that would be unfair?”
The “Cake Maker” sneered and exhaled a puff of smoke. “Quietly prepare the ritual materials, and use the fewest people to make the most powerful materials—to achieve this, you need to ignite their strong emotions. What do emotions mean? They mean Path impulse… and they also mean power. They mean the chance to defeat the strong with the weak, they mean victory and transcendence.”
“—No, that means sin.”
Haina said in a deep voice, raising the lightning sword in her hand.
“Oh?”
The Cake Maker laughed and said, “So what? Miss ‘Avalon’, are you going to judge me for my virtual crimes? Judge a High Priest? Oh, I must admit… it surprised me that you could find me directly in reality. It even made me a little scared.
“If I’m not mistaken, your Master just killed Aziz not long ago. Thank you very much for giving me another opportunity… But have you thought about what it means to kill two High Priests of the same Lord in a row within a few days?”
The man, wearing the clothes of a childish little girl, held the cigar and was not afraid of Haina’s attack at all. His body was completely relaxed.
The “Cake Maker” laughed presumptuously. “Do you trust your Master so much that he won’t hand you over? There’s no good end to being enemies with Aimel Nour! Even the Pope of the Church, ask her if she dares to come here?
“Naive, truly naive little girl. Is this the education of Avalon people? No wonder people from that land can’t achieve anything. Such powerful Extraordinary beings are educated to be so naive, so… ridiculous.”
The Cake Maker sneered and looked at Haina with pity. “How strong are you now, ‘Knight’? Fourth Tier? Or… Fifth Tier? My Master is a true Sixth Tier Extraordinary being. And he is about to become a great being of the dual-path Sixth Tier, the representative of the Heavenly Envoy! What about your Master?”
“I am not a dog.”
Haina’s gaze gradually turned ice-cold, but her angry expression gradually calmed down. “I won’t compete with other dogs for their Master’s power.”
The chaotic lightning flashing in her long ponytail gradually became stable, and the lightning in her pupils and on the sword blade became dazzling.
—Elephant Charge!
The next moment, Haina, carrying the force of a charging giant elephant, crushed the ground and charged forward!
The golden barrier on the “Cake Maker’s” body shattered in an instant. The lightning-flashing sword blade easily pierced through the Cake Maker’s abdomen like a hot knife through butter!
Pierced through with one sword.
Then she pulled out the sword blade, pierced through his heart again, and lifted the “Cake Maker” slightly away from herself.
This process was clean, neat, and elegant.
But there was no fear or pain on the “Cake Maker’s” face.
“I’m saying…”
He just laughed, letting the blood stain the cigar in his mouth. “You don’t think… I would be more fragile in reality than in the ritual, do you?”
Suddenly, the “Cake Maker” spat out the cigar mixed with blood at Haina as if it were being fired. Haina dodged it perfectly by tilting her head slightly.
But at this moment.
The “Cake Maker’s” body suddenly began to twist.
With a sharp scream, his body shrunk as if deflating. In the blink of an eye, he turned into the dying body of a female Dwarf.
The pajamas fit her perfectly.
The Dwarf’s eyes widened, staring at Haina with a look of horror and despair.
Although she was a female Dwarf… Haina’s eyes blurred, and she saw her as a human girl.
This made Haina’s eyes widen suddenly, and she fell into a brief daze.
The next moment, the Dwarf suddenly opened her mouth wide—her mouth stretched open more than 180 degrees.
A ferocious, deformed, and twisted deep red arm suddenly emerged from it.
Sharp purple nails clawed at Haina’s face!
There was no doubt that it carried a deadly poison.
Although her mind was briefly disoriented, Haina’s body acted on its own—she drew her sword, kicked the Dwarf’s corpse far away, and used the momentum to evade backward, raising her sword and severing the Deformed’s arm!
—And at this moment, the cigar behind her suddenly glowed and exploded!
It was the cigar that the “Cake Maker” had spat behind her earlier!
The explosion did not ignite flames, but rather drilled out countless deep red runes.
Haina, unable to brace herself in mid-air, directly turned into a ball of lightning and repositioned herself, flying high into the sky!
The runes failed to capture Haina and quickly drilled into the eyes and mouths of the guards covered in blood—they were not dead, but had been in a state of suspended animation after suffering fatal injuries due to a ritual.
And at this moment, they were awakened at the same time, and amidst the continuous piercing screams, their living bodies dissolved and were devoured. Spines like Cat-worms were activated, wrapping themselves with deep red runes and black-red smoke and attacking Haina like tentacles!
Haina adjusted her posture in mid-air and took out a giant shield from behind her back.
Golden flames erupted from the edges of the shield—using the spray, her speed increased again. Like a strange and swift bolt of lightning, she darted rapidly through the group of spine tentacles.
Like a dogfight between fighter jets, she weaved through the tentacle forest, her speed increasing exponentially. The piercing cries, like thousands of birds chirping simultaneously, grew louder with her dive.
As the “corpses” melted amidst harrowing screams, black lightning, white fireballs, and purple poison darts formed wave after wave of barrages, but they couldn’t even penetrate the increasingly dazzling lightning shell on Haina’s body.
Then, the ground began to shake. A giant hand made of mud, covered in runes, emerged from it.
As the fist opened, a dim yellow eyeball in the palm also opened.
A field that froze time spread outwards, forcing the swift Haina to stop.
Countless ferocious, pale white tentacles finally caught up, instantly submerging Haina.
But at this very moment.
Lily appeared in a corner without a sound.
She was accompanied by the “Cake Maker,” who was hiding in the shadows.
He stumbled out, looking at his chest in disbelief.
A slender and fair right hand—a hand that should have been fair—pierced through his chest and grasped his heart.
“This is your heart.”
Lily gently embraced him from behind. With her left hand, she dexterously stabbed a hawk feather short blade held between her index and middle fingers into his left eye, saying softly, “Is this the first time you’ve seen it? All right…”
She then gouged out the Cake Maker’s left eye. “This is your left eye.”
“—Ahhhhhhhh!”
The Cake Maker screamed in pain and terror—he never expected there to be a mad hunter ambushing in the shadow world!
He no longer cared about Haina… He couldn’t break free from a curse like “Bone Devouring Curse” and would only be entangled to death. What he was thinking now was how to escape from this terrifying humanoid monster…
“Haaah—!”
—But at this moment, Haina broke through the air!
Guardian Will (Golden): When you fight alongside your teammates, you cannot be controlled by enemies. Each time this effect is triggered, the next attack’s power is doubled, and “Guardian Will” is temporarily extinguished; when “Guardian Will: Extinguished”, you gain 7% damage reduction. After suffering seven hits from evil enemies, “Guardian Will” is re-lit.
The moment Lily broke her invisibility, the power from the Silver Crown Dragon surged from her heart—it was the might of the previous Pillar God, and the silver-white cold air burst out, freezing the surrounding skeletons, allowing her to escape easily.
Haina descended from the sky with her giant shield, releasing her accumulated “momentum”!
Royal Guards can accumulate momentum through movement and defense, and release it all in the next attack!
This blow, with the doubled bonus from Guardian Will, became an extremely terrifying strike—
Lily nimbly retreated into the shadows, dissipating like water.
But the Cake Maker, whose heart and left eye had been gouged out and who was controlled by extreme pain, could not dodge in time and was instantly smashed by Haina’s silver-white giant shield!
Like a flattened cake—under the violently shaking shield, he couldn’t even last a moment before being reduced to a paste.
Haina’s attack did not stop, and she slammed her shield heavily onto the ground.
The next moment, the ground twisted and bulged.
It rolled outwards layer by layer like thick liquid, forming waves.
The surrounding buildings trembled and collapsed, and visible ripples spread outwards. The water in the pool was instantly atomized, crushing the bodies that had not fully dissolved along with it.
—An earthquake.
(End of this chapter)
