Chapter 1346
That Which Scoffs Like Xing Tian
In this world of “time stop,” Paradise Lost, after hitting its target, did not explode but shattered into a golden light that was about to dissipate, yet was frozen in place.
However, the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s main body, which had been targeted by over six hundred beams of light, was somehow completely unharmed! It had taken the full force of Paradise Lost, and yet it appeared to be only slightly disheveled. It seemed even Paradise Lost was ineffective against him.
But Eivass knew the situation was not like this. Previously, when Eivass guided the flame stream, which could instantly sever a mountain, it had slid directly off the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s body. The feeling was like shining a flashlight on a person; it could illuminate them, but that was all. In reality, it caused no damage whatsoever.
Yet, the current situation was like a child repeatedly punching an adult. Although no damage was inflicted, Eivass could clearly feel the sensation of his attacks hitting home! And as Paradise Lost continued to strike, Eivass felt the damage he was inflicting on the Ring Heavenly Envoy becoming increasingly painful and noticeable, as if the child constantly attacking the adult was rapidly growing. From a four or five-year-old, to seven or eight, then twelve or thirteen, and eventually sixteen or seventeen.
The adult’s expression had also changed from a relaxed smile to a slight frown, and then to a deep frown. Finally, he had to raise his hand to protect his face and even desperately try to counterattack.
Before the six hundred and sixty-six shots of Paradise Lost could finish, the Ring Heavenly Envoy, who felt the pain and regained consciousness, had already used the Authority of Infinity, greatly accelerating his own time and forcibly dispelling the “End of Civilization” state. However, he was then immediately turned into a petrified state by the subsequent second-stage effect, instantly immobilizing him once more.
Although the light arrows of Paradise Lost instantly shattered the stone statue, the Ring Heavenly Envoy then escaped. The shattered petrified shell immediately regenerated, and the somewhat infuriated Ring Heavenly Envoy recovered completely. He rapidly teleported and dodged the remaining Paradise Lost arrows. Even so, he was hit a few more times by the full-coverage Paradise Lost. These few hits were noticeably more painful—the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s left arm, left leg, and head were successively hit and shattered, only to regenerate instantly. Despite no visible injuries, Eivass could clearly feel his growing anger.
“It’s over, right?” The Ring Heavenly Envoy’s icy gaze fell upon Eivass. He extended his right hand and drew a circle in the air. A purplish-black halo emanated from his fingertips, outlining the pattern of an Ouroboros Ring in the air—a purplish-black circle. It looked like a smoke ring that had been exhaled. With a “buzz—,” it flew forward, hurtling towards Eivass at an unimaginable speed!
Inanna only had time to embrace Eivass and spread her wings. As she moved, an amber shell instantly formed. With the Twilight Path no longer in existence, this was the only Preservation Technique in this world. The black circle erupted with unimaginable power upon contact with the Preservation Technique. The frozen ground below shattered violently, revealing the mud and rocks beneath the ice. Inanna and Eivass were abruptly blasted away, leaving a deep gash in their wake!
Seeing the shell formed by the Preservation Technique almost deformed and on the verge of collapse, Inanna’s expression grew solemn. She could clearly feel the power coming from ahead rapidly strengthening. It was as if the circle was not flying horizontally but like a rocket flying backward—in addition to the existing gravity, it was accelerating forward in the direction of gravity! Moreover, this speed was unaffected by air resistance, allowing it to stack infinitely and continuously strengthen. This single projectile attack could fly forward and crush everything in its path until it flew out of the planet and into the universe at ever-increasing speeds!
Inanna extended her right hand forward, attempting to solidify the translucent eggshell formed by the Preservation Technique.
“—How laughable,” the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s cold voice came from behind them. “Have you forgotten who taught you the Preservation Technique?”
In an instant, the ambient atmosphere in the surrounding area was completely drawn out by the Ring Heavenly Envoy. He raised his hand, condensing the greenish-blue atmosphere into a spear. It was burning and bright like plasma, thrown out like lightning!
Inanna had to extend her hand to the other side, causing heavy rock walls to rise from the ground. These served both to absorb force and to block the lightning spear. The eggshell, struck repeatedly, shattered numerous walls reinforced by the Preservation Technique, and its speed gradually decreased amidst intense vibrations. The lightning spear, once thrown, was like a beam of light—it instantly pierced more than a dozen rock walls reinforced by the Preservation Technique, hitting the eggshell directly!
The eggshell of the Preservation Technique, originally dim yellow, was instantly heated to a deep red, resembling the color of lava. When the Preservation Technique lost its dim yellow hue, it signified that its efficacy was weakening. The Preservation Technique was the art of making things exist eternally, and high temperatures could disrupt this stability. It was like how flame-type spells were prohibited on the Elves’ giant tree. It wasn’t just that the giant tree feared flames, but also that the Preservation Technique could not protect the tree from high temperatures—Avalon’s Silver and Tin Hall was burned and occupied in another timeline for the same reason.
However, this level of weakening was not enough to break Inanna’s Preservation Technique. But at this very moment, an incredibly intense vibration suddenly occurred! On the other side of the Preservation Technique, a purplish-black circle had been branded at some unknown time! That was also the Ouroboros Ring, symbolizing the power of “infinity”!
The two infinitely powerful “repelling” forces further deformed the dark red eggshell formed by the Preservation Technique. The originally perfect spherical barrier, which could create a gash on the ground and even rebound from the end of the gash, was now flattened into a flying disc. Even more critical was that they were now rigidly fixed in place by two massive forces pulling in opposite directions! If the Preservation Technique were to be removed, in just an instant—the immense repulsive force they carried would shatter Alain. But if it were not removed, the gradually increasing force would eventually exceed the limit that the Preservation Technique could withstand. Even now, the Preservation Technique was emitting an exceptionally dazzling light—like sparks from welding, or like gold heated to near melting.
Just then, four Ring Heavenly Envoys appeared diagonally above them. They were positioned in the East, South, West, and North, and continued to draw circles, preparing to summon new “Ouroboros Rings.” If these four attacks hit Alain again, he would be pinned in place, unable to move—even the spherical barrier formed by the Preservation Technique would slowly press him into the ground! And directly above them, another Ring Heavenly Envoy appeared! He formed a bow made of dim yellow light with his left hand, and pulled it with all his might with his right. The arrow was aimed directly downwards, perpendicular to the ground, at Alain on the ground. Every second, the volume of this bow doubled. In just half a breath, it had grown to an unignorable size.
And at this moment.
Alain instantly used Inanna’s upright effect [Upright Summoning: Light of Civilization Continuation]! A dim yellow radiance suddenly erupted from Alain’s body, like a sun on the ground, illuminating the entire world. This light was considered a continuously effective Preservation Technique. Coupled with his effort, the precarious Preservation Technique barrier stabilized once more.
Simultaneously, any area illuminated by this light would be considered “touched” by Alain. This meant Alain could use spells that were particularly close. For example…
Star Ice!
Before the Ring Heavenly Envoys who were drawing circles could complete their circles, a layer of iridescent ice condensed on them. In an instant, the four of them lost consciousness and suddenly plummeted.
However, at this moment, the main body that was also frozen—the Ring Heavenly Envoy directly above—instantly broke free from control! He accelerated his time to the extreme, reaching the infinite future!
At this moment, Alain summoned a reverse-edged scythe. That was the God of Death card, Death of Withering! As Alain swung the scythe in his hand, silent, invisible, and intangible sharp blades, like sickle weasels, flew in arcs towards the Ring Heavenly Envoy. They had locked onto their target and would not stop until they hit. Alain rarely used this terrifying and vicious scythe—when it inflicted damage, it directly reduced the opponent’s maximum life force. This meant ordinary healing could not mend such damage. Therefore, naturally, the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s method of instantly recovering health by “infinitely accelerating time” was also ineffective.
Facing this threat, the Ring Heavenly Envoy finally drew his sword. The blade in his hand looked like an ice sword, but in essence, it was a light sword—a sword shaped by a stasis field, much like attacking someone with a sphere created by the Preservation Technique. The Ring Heavenly Envoy’s strength and speed at this moment had increased to a terrifying state. He suddenly disappeared and reappeared from a portal.
He swung his sword—it was less of a slash and more of a blow. The moment they met, the incredibly sturdy Preservation Technique around Alain was on the verge of shattering. Alain was sent flying like a ping pong ball that had just been served, and then another clone appeared, attempting to smash Alain back down—but the next moment, it was frozen into an ice sculpture by Alain, and then shattered!
Facing this situation, Alain naturally knew that he could not continue like this. If he delayed any longer, the Ring Heavenly Envoy would only become stronger. Infinite resistance, infinite life force, infinite growth. Therefore, to counter such an enemy— “Viness!” Alain, holding Viness’s Illusion Card in its upright position, activated its positive effect and shouted loudly—
[Upright Summoning: Fallen Shadow]
[Effect: Summons the power of the fallen to the target location to create a fallen shadow of oneself or the target, lasting for eight minutes; the fallen shadow obeys Viness, possesses all abilities and memories of the original body, and holds 80% of the original body’s power; if the fallen shadow kills the original body, it will permanently replace the original; only one fallen shadow can exist at a time.]
This directly created a perfect clone with 80% of the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s power! And for the Ring Heavenly Envoy, who possessed almost infinite power, this clone was basically equivalent to having infinite power! However, if they were to fight now, the Ring Heavenly Envoy might defeat his other self within a few rounds. After all, Alain had already realized that the biggest difference between the Ring Heavenly Envoy and his clones was that the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s clones could not use “infinite acceleration” or “infinite healing,” nor could they split into new clones.
Thus, as blood rain fell, a scarlet moon appeared in the sky. When the Night Demon appeared, the LV6 Curse Vulnerability was applied to all enemies. This meant that even those with LV6 curse resistance would have it stripped away by this vulnerability, leaving them as defenseless flesh.
Weakening Curse, Blindness Curse, Blood Burning Curse, Petrific lung Curse, Aging Curse… Countless curses were instantly cast, piling onto the Ring Heavenly Envoy! His speed suddenly slowed. At that moment, his power had probably been weakened to a tenth, or even less!
As is well known, when facing a slow deck, you need to speed up! The Ring Heavenly Envoy would become stronger infinitely, with no limits, so he couldn’t be dragged out. Control and burst damage were necessary to defeat him quickly—
And at this moment, countless Great Sin chains instantly appeared from the void and tightly bound his limbs.
—Great Sin Imprint: Bound by Sin!
Around the four chains, an entire layer of chains suddenly appeared, gripping the Ring Heavenly Envoy inside and the inner layer of chains. Then, another layer of chains appeared outside them, sealing them all. In just a blink of an eye, the Ring Heavenly Envoy was imprisoned within a giant hollow sphere by these layers of chains. It was like a giant metal pinecone.
No one could fight an “80% power” version of themselves when they were weakened to the extreme and severely restricted in their movements! From a one-on-one perspective, Viness’s power had indeed been used to its limit.
And at this time, Alain did not underestimate the enemy.
“Alain!” Seizing the opportunity while the Ring Heavenly Envoy was controlled, he switched to the Great Sin Beast again and summoned Alain. Alain and Alain were of one mind. As soon as she appeared, while Alain activated the upright effect, she directly used her own authority—
[Upright Summoning: Holy Blood Baptism]
[Effect: Manipulate any amount of one’s own blood to leave the body and be sanctified into holy blood. If it lands on any matter, it can bestow temporary or permanent life; if attached to any life, it can bestow temporary or permanent strength.]
And Alain’s chosen target was the “remnants of the Ring Heavenly Envoy” that had been frozen by Alain’s Star Ice and fallen from the sky! Since the Ring Heavenly Envoy kept creating clones, why not use his own clones to fight him?
The blood rain was still falling. And bathed in the blood rain, those “Ring Heavenly Envoys” that were covered in thick frost but had not disappeared slowly stood up from the icy ground, perfectly manipulated by Alain.
After completing this, Alain unhesitatingly pounced towards Alain. As she lunged towards Alain, she melted into a pool of blood and was directly “patted” into Alain’s body! Without letting Alain actively switch, and without waiting to be defeated—Alain directly transformed her body into complete holy blood to provide buffs and blessings to Alain, and transferred the control of the four bodies to Alain.
But as if anticipating what Alain was about to do. In the extremely short time lag when Viness exited and the new Great Sin Beast had not yet appeared, a portal suddenly opened behind Alain, and a light sword made of ice-blue stasis field pierced Alain’s spine! Alain’s eyes widened abruptly, and he coughed out dim yellow blood that solidified into ice! He immediately realized that the Ring Heavenly Envoy he was attacking was just a clone! His true main body had entered the portal before attempting to strike him—from that point on, what emerged was fake!
However, the power of miracles took effect—
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Up to this point, the battle had just begun for thirty seconds. The effect of the Nuclear Fusion Furnace had just ended! Alain’s original fatal wound was instantly completely healed.
Then, Alain tightened his grip on the scythe and directly swung it backward, severing the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s head! That was an attack from a weapon that “cannot heal its wounds”—even the Ring Heavenly Envoy, with infinite life force, could not regenerate a new head.
But even so—. The Ring Heavenly Envoy still stood in place, and unhesitatingly swung his sword again, also severing Alain’s left arm!
“Heh heh heh heh—” A sinister laugh emanated from the headless corpse: “The so-called power of miracles—. It turns out it’s nothing more than this—”
It was a strange laugh that no longer belonged to the Ring Heavenly Envoy, but was a strange and holy sound with layered echoes, as if a thousand people were laughing at the same time. Compared to a head with ears, tongue, and brain, the Ring Heavenly Envoy’s main body, or rather, the true vessel of “Whisper of the Void,” was actually closer to this headless body!
