Chapter 718
Legend of the Rose Cross
The sailors on the deck were all hypnotized by the Sea Bride’s song, falling into a slumber from which they would not wake, even if severely injured or dead.
Only Professor Rasimi, still struggling against the drowsiness, witnessed it all.
He saw Miss Alistair standing on the deck, with the unfathomable butler before her.
Every time the “butler’s” gaze swept over Professor Rasimi, he felt a faint threat of death… undoubtedly, the other party possessed the ability to easily take his life.
However, the butler stood with his hands behind his back, making no move to intervene.
This was because Miss Alistair had summoned a terrifying Phantom Demon with a wave of her hand.
It emanated a fearsome Scorching Flame, with a pair of strangely alluring butterfly wings on its back. The wings were adorned with eye-like, uncanny patterns, and the lasers emitted from these patterns could instantly dismember a Sea Monster that was once of the Fifth Tier!
Professor Rasimi had initially been struggling to resist the placid sleepiness in his heart, so he couldn’t discern its specific appearance. He only felt that it was as terrifying as a Demon King…
After Alistair’s summoned beast severely injured the Sea Monster, the demonic power in the depths of Professor Rasimi’s brain, which felt like it was dragging him into an abyss, dissipated. As Twilight Power filled his body, his mind gradually became clear.
The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the radiant, searing flame stream that seemed to tear apart the night sky!
The heat of the flames, felt by Professor Rasimi at least seven or eight meters away, was dizzying and suffocating. The air seemed to be roasted to a boil, and inhaling the heat caused a throbbing pain deep in his lungs.
If Professor Rasimi, who had just woken up, hadn’t reacted immediately and used the Preservation Technique on himself to protect his internal organs… he would likely have already suffered burns to his lungs from the heat, making it impossible to breathe normally.
The Sea Monster, which was continuously directly hit by the flame stream, let out agonizing roars.
These were not the imitation bird-human songs from before, but more like the sounds of whales or elephants.
Its body and the surrounding seawater evaporated from the direct impact of the Scorching Flames, constantly steaming white vapor. Its originally bluish-purple tentacles had large portions already turned a delicious red… clearly, it was well-cooked.
Undoubtedly, this flame stream attack had inflicted very significant, even near-fatal, damage on the “Sea Bride.”
As the great Sea Monster was severely injured, it became utterly frenzied!
The Twilight Power within it continuously overflowed, turning the surrounding sea surface into a quicksand-like consistency.
The dying Sea Monster continuously stirred up whirlpools, and countless waves rose high from all directions as if possessing life.
These were hundreds of meters high waves—countless waves of seawater intertwined like a spiderweb, freezing into deep blue ice, and anchoring the ship at its very center.
In the blink of an eye, a sky-obscuring, hemispherical water prison was constructed.
Instantly, the sea froze.
The waves, mixed with Twilight Power, condensed into a single point at their highest. The highly convex ring of waves, at its apex, transformed into a deep blue crystal—these dripping waves, like stalactites, resembled a giant spear of divine punishment, or a sword of Damocles forged from crystal.
And as it fully solidified and appeared, the crystal emitted a strange brilliance.
It was like seven-colored rainbow light, or a world of myriad colors seen when hallucinating. Its dazzling colors defied the laws of optics—the night sky was so dark, and no light was shining onto the dark sea surface… yet the colors were directly etched onto the retina, and even when closing his eyes, they would not immediately dissipate. Instead, they spread and expanded in the mind like vines.
With the terrifying momentum to shatter the ship’s bow, a demonic ice spear column, larger than the ship itself, roared and descended towards the ship locked in the water cage.
In that instant, Professor Rasimi felt the fear of approaching death.
Compared to the towering giant waves, the ship, appearing small as a child, had no chance of resistance against that attack.
Professor Rasimi clearly sensed… it was a more pure and profound Twilight Path Power than his own!
A Fifth Tier Twilight Path spell! The Sea Monster’s ultimate attack, unleashed with all its corrupted souls!
This was not necromancy, nor the Preservation Technique… but another power of the Twilight Path mastered only by Sea Monsters, a power of extreme cold that neither Humans nor Elves could wield.
A great power from the Abyss Heavenly Envoy!
But just then.
Professor Rasimi, fully sobered by the fear of death, saw the Phantom Demon, dressed in a black dress, aloof and cold, suddenly raise its right hand.
The golden-red flame stream that had been suspended before her suddenly thickened, transforming into a dazzling white light column, slowly cutting upwards with her movement.
The flame stream scarred the sea, leaving behind a hot and intense white mist; the flame stream cut through the ice-made spiderweb, unfreezing the ship gradually solidifying in the center of the cage; the flame stream sliced the Sea Monster in half vertically, and then continued straight up—aimed at the descending iridescent sharp ice.
The billowing white steam rolled over the sea surface, even spreading onto the ship’s deck.
As they reached Professor Rasimi, his skin could still feel the residual heat within them!
The next moment, the flame stream and the ice sword collided heavily!
They might have made some sound… yet the screams of the Sea Monster, completely severed, echoed across the sea, even gradually waking the sleeping sailors.
When they opened their eyes, they saw a pillar of fire that seemed to pierce through heaven and earth, connecting them—and at the very top of the fire pillar, the giant ice sword continuously shattering and disintegrating.
The scene was fantastical and dangerous, beautiful yet deadly.
Countless dissolved ice shards were melted by the purifying fire, and corrupted souls were transcended and purified—the vapor rising from the ice sword was not white smoke, but a rainbow-colored curtain of light, like an aurora covering the sky.
Even the passengers hiding in the cabins could see this scene through the broken deck.
The water screen formed by the reverse waterfall also dissipated, and instead flowed downwards along its original path.
The scattered small ice shards, like a meteor shower, fell along the original water flow, deviating from the ship’s direction, and mostly melted only after entering the sea.
From a distance, it looked like heavy rain in the distance was colored with a rainbow’s radiance. The iridescence lost its dizzying, demonic charm. The water curtain, originally used to imprison the ship, ironically served as an umbrella for shelter. Through the lens formed by the water waves, and the distorted, color-changing rainbow light, a surreal painting that could only be seen in dreams was formed.
Even so, after those water curtains fell into the sea, they still stirred up monstrous waves, causing the ship to shake violently.
However, this time, the passengers were no longer as terrified as before.
Instead, there was a sense of relief after surviving a disaster.
Professor Rasimi’s face, as cold as a dead person’s, was now a mixture of shock and relief.
He looked with awe at the powerful Phantom Demon, which had shattered into Flame Butterflies after unleashing its ultimate attack and was now hovering by Miss Alistair’s ear.
Undoubtedly, it must have reached the Fifth Tier… or even approached the limit of the Fifth Tier! Only a powerhouse of this level could so easily dismantle the Sea Monster’s last desperate attack!
At this moment, however, Professor Rasimi suddenly saw a trace of pure purple light.
It emanated from Miss Alistair’s pupils… the light of the Path, which Professor Rasimi was very familiar with.
This was the light of transcendence, emitted when Transcendent beings resonated with the Transcendent Path!
…Miss Alistair is a Transcendent?
He was greatly shocked.
Then he suddenly realized—the Phantom Demon’s appearance did not seem like a Familiar that had been tamed or modified by the Path of Love. Although witches could tame some familiars, they would definitely emit the resonance light of the Path of Love when using their abilities.
…This purple glow seemed more like a contract signed with a demon.
And “Miss Alistair”… or rather, Countess Beyad, as a Fifth Tier Child of the Moon, now possessed a Fifth Tier Phantom Demon servant capable of defeating a Fifth Tier Sea Monster…
Professor Rasimi suddenly thought of a legend.
It was a legend passed down within their Rose Cross.
(End of Chapter)
