Chapter 137
Three Purple Tier Slots!
The female giant dared not take the spear and immediately wanted to retreat to create distance.
But just as Eivass feigned a charge to attack her, he cunningly faked a lunge and stopped his advance.
It was precisely in this moment of misjudgment that the female giant took a step back, retreating out of Eivass’s attack range.
The height difference between them was too great.
Even enlarged by the magic cauldron, Eivass was only three meters tall.
Facing the ten-meter-tall female giant, he was as small as an underage child, or a slightly larger dog.
But precisely because of this, the female giant would escape his attack range with just a slight step back.
The female giant also realized this.
Her pupils constricted suddenly.
— How could this human use Rungömniade!
But it was too late.
Eivass transformed into a pure white phantom and, with lightning speed, flew to her side. His spear, burning with holy fire, was like a nail, heavily piercing her heart from the rear of her chest!
The holy fire instantly surged into her coarse, rubble-like skin. The female giant’s skin cracked like a spiderweb, emitting tiny sparks.
A direct hit to the heart, scorched by the holy fire. The female giant’s strength immediately weakened. But she did not die at once.
Eivass, holding the holy spear with one hand, hung in the air.
He forcefully stepped on the female giant, using the recoil to pull out the holy spear.
As he fell from the air, the female giant, holding her handaxe, ferociously swung it at the defenseless Eivass.
However, Eivass was fearless, neither evading nor dodging. A peculiar and wild arc formed on his lips.
He did not block, allowing the female giant to send him flying.
This attack caused him no injury; instead, it restored him to his optimal state.
The instant Eivass was sent flying, he raised his holy spear, preparing to attack.
— Thus, the moment Eivass was sent flying, he once again transformed into a pure white phantom, attacking the back of the female giant’s head from the other side with elegant swiftness.
She reflexively retaliated with her handaxe to block and attempted to dodge.
The pure white phantom easily evaded this strike, stepped on her shoulder, and the holy spear was driven into her right collarbone.
The female giant swiftly reached out to grab Eivass’s head—given her size, Eivass’s head was enough to be crushed in one hand, and she could indeed do it.
When Eivass pulled out the holy spear, the Shadow Demon beneath him condensed into a spiral spear, piercing the female giant’s throat.
Under the protection of the Supreme Heaven’s divine power, the Shadow Demon’s attack caused almost no damage.
However, it was genuinely attached to the female giant.
The Shadow Demon towed Eivass, allowing him to run across the giant’s body in a gravity-defying manner. In two steps, he flipped and climbed to her head, grabbing her hair.
The holy spear, like a steel spike, was held high by Eivass, about to stab into the back of the female giant’s head.
She could not escape this attack’s lock—even if she could shake Eivass off by tossing her head, Eivass could counter-attack with the holy spear and strike again.
This was a killing blow.
“— Arthur!!”
A roar came from the entrance. Giant Chieftain Jasper Barton arrived late, “I should have eaten you long ago!”
He clearly recognized the warrior Eivass was currently impersonating.
He recognized “Arthur’s” holy spear even more—
It was the vanguard spear, “Rungömniade.”
It was the weapon held by his nephew, the original master of this shrine, the husband of his wife—Candlemaster Apostle Karstenning, whom he had killed.
Undoubtedly, this spear was capable of killing his wife.
His bloodshot eyes, shining with a dim yellow glow, glared at Eivass. Eivass, raising the holy spear, was instantly petrified in that pose.
“Mr. Alistair!”
Barton could not help but exclaim in shock.
Seeing this, Lily leaped out of the shadows without hesitation, attacking Jasper—however, the gray thread she unleashed could not move him.
Jasper did not even notice anyone pulling him; Lily was completely absent from his eyes.
The female giant also reacted immediately.
With lingering fear, she grabbed the petrified Eivass from the back of her head. Disregarding her own hair, she threw him far away.
But at that moment.
The stone shell, capable of petrifying dragons instantly, inexplicably cracked.
A howling dark storm surged from the petrified Eivass, its impact forcing the female giant to let go—
— It was a Spell Card created by Eivass using the power of the Shadow Demon, the control-dispelling [Shadow Cloak]!
[Spell: Shadow Cloak (Moon)]
[Requirement: Dark 1]
[Instant, Non-contact, Immediately effective]
[Effect: Repels all surrounding targets, immediately dispels all sealed, frozen, burning, binding, and petrified states you are currently under, and enters a state of complete invisibility, lasting for one minute (+30%). When your invisibility state is broken, apply a curse to all enemy targets that can see you, with an effect equivalent to “Blinding Curse”.]
This was equipment Eivass had personally crafted, naturally usable in the Ascension Ritual!
Amidst the howling torrent of shadows, Eivass suddenly retreated into the darkness.
And his action of being thrown by the female giant moved her out of his spear’s attack range—
Therefore, in the next instant.
Blood spurted—
Eivass, who had quietly emerged from invisibility, had already thrust his holy spear into one of the female giant’s eyes.
As the holy fire exploded in her mind, her head burst into pieces!
Jasper roared and lunged towards Eivass.
The moment he raised his hand and aimed at Eivass.
Eivass immediately felt an incomparably strong sense of threat.
It was a powerful sense of crisis, entirely different from fighting the female giant—
— But it was too late.
Because the ritual time had come.
Eivass fell from the air just like that.
He didn’t even look at Giant Chieftain Jasper Barton, merely turning back to Barton with a brilliant smile, raising three fingers as if reminding him of something.
The next moment, a pure white radiance lit up before everyone’s eyes, including all ritual participants who had already died.
It was the radiance of the temporarily constructed dream world collapsing and disintegrating.
Before everyone’s eyes, a series of ever-changing images appeared:
A monk, burning with flames, clasped his hands, gradually retracting the flames, only to be pierced by countless sea urchin-like shadows the next moment;
A person with a look of panic retreated continuously, only to be instantly hung up by threads made of shadows, followed by their head being severed;
A person with an expressionless face held a gray thread between their hands, wound it a few times into a thick rope, and then forcefully strangled the person behind them, who calmly faced death with their eyes closed;
The scene shifted, and it was the same person, sitting quietly on the ground looking afar, holding another unresisting person, easily snapping their neck with a crunch;
A man with a flushed face was loudly scolding something, then was pierced through the body by a giant, sharp shadow spear thrust from in front of him, his entire body falling into a quagmire of shadows and slowly melting away;
A man cowering in a corner intently stared at a bronze door with a large hole opened in it, while the Shadow Demon stood silently behind him. The faceless Shadow Demon split into a terrifying smile, its ferocious shadow claws lightly resting on his shoulder, whispering something in his ear, after which countless sharp, barbed spikes pierced through from behind him.
Finally, there was the youth whose heart was pierced by the Shadow Demon, falling powerlessly in the air.
He wore a wild smile, raised three fingers, staring at the camera as if staring at someone behind it.
The image stopped here, freezing on the youth’s smile.
The entire image collapsed and turned into a sea of blood, dripping onto the ground.
Unlike the Full Moon Ritual, this “highlight reel” did not include the subsequent scene of defeating the giants… only the “death replays” of each person.
And Eivass returned to the initial sea of blood world.
There were no other chairs, only Gawain, the knight clad in silver armor and holding a golden holy sword, quietly watching Eivass and nodding slightly.
Screens rapidly descended before his eyes, displaying Eivass’s settlement points:
[Mandatory mission completed]
[Optional Kill: Killed other participants (Points: 1200)]
[Escaped Crisis: Left your designated storage room (Points: 500)]
[I am the Saint!: Possessed the Holy Spear (Points: 100)]
[Transcendent Nature: Actively attacked the giant and dealt effective damage (Points: 1000)]
[Courage of the Underdog: Used the Holy Spear to kill a giant (Points: 3000)]
[Total Points: 5800, Rank: First]
The next moment, the figure of a Pillar God, never before seen by Eivass, appeared from afar—
It was a giant snake with purplish-red scales, like a dragon.
Its entire body was covered in feathers that shifted from light green to deep blue, its tail adorned with fluffy, gorgeous blue-purple tail feathers like those of a phoenix or peacock, and it possessed two high-arched wings. The wings were equally colorful, with two giant pure gold feathers, like a bishop’s pallium, drooping from the tips of both wings.
— It was the Pillar God Father Serpent of the Transcendent Path.
It coiled in the air and slowly shed a purplish-blue feather.
It exploded before Eivass, transforming into purplish-blue smoke that Eivass inhaled.
Three heavy hums resonated before Eivass’s eyes, and three purple lights simultaneously flashed and overflowed:
[Challenger’s Courage (Purple): You have defeated an impossible opponent. Facing the strong, you will not waver.]
[Silent Dead (Purple): You have died and resurrected again. You may still die, but you will return in silence.]
[Shadow Incarnation (Purple): You are vessel and avatar. Shadows are no longer your enemies.]
The cat decided to post it directly.
Chapter two, update complete!
