Chapter 976
Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost
After the restraint of “Taurus” was removed, the Fallen Heavenly Envoy was very fast and agile.
If he wanted to, he could of course change direction—if he attacked from the side, the Heavenly Raksha would be unable to block the attack; even if he attacked from the front, he could change his offensive direction and pierce through his chest with a punch!
—But he insisted on confronting the giant Heavenly Raksha head-on!
Rather than saying the Heavenly Raksha “luckily caught the Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s attack,” it was more like the Fallen Heavenly Envoy was aiming for his axe blade!
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy wanted to destroy the Heavenly Raksha’s weapon and shatter his past!
Because the Heavenly Raksha was once an apostle of Supreme Heaven, “Raksha,” and the Fallen Heavenly Envoy considered himself to be of the same kind as the Winged Heavenly Envoy, the predecessor of Supreme Heaven. And the characteristic of “Giants” being extremely tall was one of the characteristics of the winged ones; their love for eating the flesh and blood of their own kind was also the remnant of the essence of “Nibiru”… In other words, “Giants” were a servant race of the winged ones.
To the Fallen Heavenly Envoy, the Heavenly Raksha was a traitor!
Killing him was impossible—because Saint Joan could remove the apostle’s summon at any time. And it would be meaningless to the Fallen Heavenly Envoy.
However, permanently destroying his weapon, the halberd that symbolized his past battles for Supreme Heaven—that was the punishment the Fallen Heavenly Envoy imposed on him!
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s true authority was precisely the “Heavenly Envoy of Sin and Punishment”!
At this moment, the Grand Guardian charged again—
—Of course, he knew that the Fallen Heavenly Envoy was outrageously strong!
He defeated two apostles with just three punches… These were helpers summoned by Saint Joan by burning her life!
He himself was far inferior to any of those two apostles.
However, the Grand Guardian saw clearly—the Fallen Heavenly Envoy was able to throw these three punches by absorbing the power of that purple sun. Now his right hand had no flames, if they needed to counterattack… This moment was the “relatively weakest Fallen Heavenly Envoy”!
And his speed was the fastest!
This momentary surprise attack was something only he could achieve—
The Grand Guardian’s judgment was correct.
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s divine speed, which even Fifth Tier Extraordinary beings could not see clearly, did not seem to be his constant ability. The Fallen Heavenly Envoy did not even have time to react to block the Grand Guardian’s storm-like combo attack, only managing to protect his chest with the wings on his back.
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding—
The sound, like blacksmithing and like wind chimes, rang out continuously.
The Grand Guardian’s combo attack surged like a storm, tearing through the sky with the speed of lightning!
However…
It could not even break through the Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s defense.
“…Is that all?”
Even the Fallen Heavenly Envoy was amused.
He grabbed the Grand Guardian by the neck with one hand and lifted him directly off the Gryphon!
Philip was about to launch an attack—an attack capable of killing a legion within ten breaths, the Gryphon’s Dance capable of slaughtering dragons!
However, he was kicked off by the Fallen Heavenly Envoy.
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy held the Grand Guardian by the neck and mocked, “I’m thinking of getting a cat.”
However, at this moment, Lixia’s majestic voice rang out:
[—Let go!]
The next moment, the Fallen Heavenly Envoy directly released his hand.
As Philip, whose body was covered in injuries, struggled to get up to catch the Grand Guardian.
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy extended his right palm and fired purple magic bullets consecutively!
The falling Grand Guardian’s body glowed with the radiance of Preservation Technique—but the magic bullets whistled like a machine gun, shattering the shield of the Preservation Technique and tearing him and Philip to shreds!
“…I hate it most when people order me around.”
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy looked displeased.
His wings spread out completely and straightened behind him—
The next moment, he instantly appeared before Lixia.
Lixia had already transformed into a dragon using the power of an Ascencist, and the Fallen Heavenly Envoy knocked the dragon away with a single punch!
His expression became even more cruel, “It’s even that guy’s power…”
His wings straightened—
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy instantly moved behind the flying Lixia again, grabbed her tail, and spun her violently like killing a snake, then threw her away like a meteor hammer—
Lixia, whose entire skeletal structure had fallen apart, directly smashed through a mountain range!
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s next target was aimed at Insect Amber.
His spell had the highest priority, and even the Fallen Heavenly Envoy did not dare to say he could definitely exempt it.
However, killing him was the easiest.
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy flew towards the ruins that were already tattered by the aftermath of the battle, his fallen aura seeping out and corrupting the earth.
He reached out and directly grabbed a piece of land—tearing out more than half of the small town!
On that piece of land, there were more than twenty dilapidated buildings alone.
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy flew into the sky and, like smashing a giant brick, heavily slammed it down towards Insect Amber from above!
When confronting pure physical impact, Preservation Technique could only disengage force—transferring the damage taken to the earth.
However, if “two pieces of land” attacked from above and below, the user of Preservation Technique would be directly crushed into pieces!
—The ritual of the Sky-Piercing Tower in the past exhausted the [Wisdom] of the entire world’s truth, and gathered the [Power] of all the people in the world, to reach the sacred number eleven.
This ritual was presided over by Lucifer, the master of the Sky-Piercing Tower.
The once Lucifer was the most skilled winged one in spells!
Even the ruins themselves were engraved by Lucifer’s residual consciousness using Preservation Technique—how could he, as a Fallen Heavenly Envoy, not know the weaknesses and taboos of Preservation Technique?
However, at this moment.
Mu’s body grew larger and larger.
Every step he took, his body doubled in size. It was not the expansion of flesh and blood, but like an illusion—his soul burned fiercely, and the lamplight in his heart reflected a giant shadow. Insect Amber and Saint Joan were hidden beneath him… No matter what, they had to attack him first if they wanted to attack!
The brilliant, yet incredibly illusory golden giant did not launch an attack.
He held a similarly gigantic golden club in both hands—but he used his head to forcefully block the blow!
As that entire piece of land was shattered by Mu’s head, Mu simultaneously swung his club!
Like hitting a baseball, he sent the Fallen Heavenly Envoy flying!
This blow did not cause much damage—but it was extremely insulting.
Originally, the Fallen Heavenly Envoy wanted to kill everyone who dared to resist him in different ways… but he was sent flying instead. And this scene was witnessed by who knows how many people—
This made the Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s “cruel playful heart,” which was like a child tearing butterfly wings, suddenly solemn.
“—Enough! Inferior Caster…”
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy roared, “Come and witness the ultimate spell of the Sky-Piercing Tower!”
From inside to outside—black, purple, purplish-red, red, pink, red, purplish-red, purple.
The eight rings that had appeared behind him when he threw those three punches reappeared.
Each ring had dense runes, and they fit together, their power repeatedly amplified—
—This was not the authority of a god.
It was a pure, learnable spell!
Therefore, even though he was no longer a Heavenly Envoy, he could still use this spell!
At this moment, who knew how many Casters widened their eyes, watching the runes with all their might, trying to decipher this supreme truth.
But this overwhelming amount of knowledge was like poison to those Casters who knew a little about ancient runes. They bled from their eyes and wailed, and some Archmages, Preservers, and Demon Scholars’ heads directly exploded, leaving behind headless corpses!
After the runes retracted, the eight rings merged into a triple magic circle of deep purple, red, and purple. They began to rotate slowly according to the principle of adjacent opposites.
Insect Amber shot out a Petrifying Ray again—but this time, the Petrification Spell was completely decomposed before it even got close. The Mana was injected into the grinding wheel magic circle behind it, and the earth began to tremble.
There was no wind, nor any kind of fluctuation.
But it was violently drawing Mana from the earth veins, and the ground was split open by the Mana fountain—
Pebbles jumped, and giant trees wailed.
The nearby forest withered and died at a visible speed. The lake then dried up, and even those Children of the Moon who had turned into white statues turned into streams of black energy and surged towards it.
Even the golden giant that Mu had turned into gradually became illusory and finally completely disintegrated, a pile of visible golden runes flickered and converged towards it.
Even the blessings they had received from Saint Joan were stripped away and absorbed into the Fallen Heavenly Envoy behind them as golden lights.
The Mage Tower tried to teleport them away—but the blue radiance of the teleportation was absorbed as soon as it was generated, unable to condense into a spell.
—Mana was drawn, runes were usurped.
All “spells” were meaningless before it, and no “spell” attack could stop the activation of this spell.
This was the supreme spell of the Sky-Piercing Tower! The “last ancient spell” invented after all the spells of the Sky-Piercing Tower!
The triple magic circle slowly rotating behind the Fallen Heavenly Envoy gradually began to accelerate as more and more Mana was drawn; as its speed increased, the speed of drawing Mana also increased.
After dispelling all the buffs, blessings, and defenses of the “Hero Squad,” the Fallen Heavenly Envoy snorted and released his Mana for them to absorb.
However, at this moment, the curse magic orb surrounding Eivass suddenly disappeared into thin air.
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy was stunned.
For a moment, he even wondered if this spell had also drained the curse magic orb…
However, soon, a strong shadow aura turned into a storm, and he realized that Eivass had indeed escaped from it!
—Spell Card: Shadow Cloak!
[Effect: Repels all surrounding targets, immediately removes all seals, freezes, burns, binds, and petrification states you are currently under, and enters a state of complete invisibility for one minute (+30%). When this invisibility state is broken, it curses all hostile targets visually observing you, with an effect equivalent to “Blind Curse.”]
As the Lord of Infinite Demons, the Fallen Heavenly Envoy reacted quickly.
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy then became enraged, “You actually used my power… to deal with me!?”
This was the mistake the Fallen Heavenly Envoy had just made!
Any negative status, once applied, would lose its caster and become a pure “negative status.” And the Fallen Heavenly Envoy did not know that Eivass possessed the power of “Shadow Cloak” that only Shadow Demons knew, and the control of this spell itself was not a “curse” that Shadow Cloak could not remove, but “seal” and “binding”!
—The curse magic orb that was originally a “seal” and “binding” could undoubtedly be removed by Shadow Cloak!
Eivass hid inside and, when ignored by the Fallen Heavenly Envoy, finally completely drained the Mana that the Fallen Heavenly Envoy had left in the Mark of Sin.
His teammates were all buying Eivass time with their lives!
He could not afford to wait. The moment he was able to break free, he used Shadow Cloak to tear apart the seal that had been placed on him and rejoined the battlefield!
At that moment, people all over the world who were witnessing this battle against the Heavenly Envoy finally saw Eivass’s appearance again—
At this moment, with “two Eivasses” in the same frame, people could finally compare their similarities and differences!
At this moment, the middle-aged Eivass looked even older than the Fallen Heavenly Envoy—and his height was only half of the Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s, but the wings on his back were equally large.
The white and purple-black wings were exactly the same!
Except for the golden decorations on the wings turning black, there was no difference!
What made people speculate about the relationship between Eivass and the Fallen Heavenly Envoy… was the power Eivass used after breaking free.
He used the exact same spell as the Fallen Heavenly Envoy—
Eivass, of course, did not understand this profound spell, so he could not use Paradise Lost to paralyze all surrounding spells in the preparation stage… but it was enough that Lucifer understood!
—Fully automatic casting!
The next moment, almost identical runes to the Fallen Heavenly Envoy instantly appeared behind Eivass, although the process was slightly different.
It was not assembled from eight rings into a triple magic circle… but from overlapping platinum, brilliant gold, and dark gold triple rings from the beginning.
Because the Mana that the Fallen Heavenly Envoy had injected into Eivass’s body earlier had been converted by Eivass using his white wings, this spell was equivalent to Eivass having pre-read it for a long time. Therefore, after it took shape, the triple rings immediately began to spin at high speed, so fast that no runes could be seen.
Brilliant golden radiance condensed into an incredibly huge and radiant brilliant golden magic circle, shining with sacred rainbow light.
“—Paradise Lost!”
Eivass’s spell was faster than the Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s.
The spell was not cast by Eivass, but by the wings on his back.
It was a gift from Lucifer, a divine heart without a speck of impurity—
Countless brilliant golden rays instantly illuminated the entire world.
The light turned into blades descending from the sky, drawing serpentine paths, covering the entire world within Eivass’s field of vision!
“—Paradise Lost!”
Half a step late, the Fallen Heavenly Envoy’s spell was released.
The purplish-black disk behind him was even the same size as the golden disk behind Eivass!
The Fallen Heavenly Envoy was very clear about the power of this blow—he absolutely did not dare to take Eivass’s Paradise Lost, so he decisively changed the direction of the spell attack, turning the attack originally intended to completely kill the “Hero Squad” towards Eivass.
Countless purple blades flew out from the magic circle behind him, each blow equivalent to the full power of a Sixth Tier warrior!
—The golden and purple infinite powers collided, instantly filling the entire sky!
