Inside the floating Sky City, after the battlefield between Yumo and Asar had shifted, Xizhi, leader of the Nightingales, forcibly tore through the city’s defenses with Liyu’s help. Since Asar had beco an enemy, it was only natural for their Black Rose family to reclaim control.
Using the Sky City’s ’Divine Cannon’ to aid Yumo was Xizhi’s primary objective in charging in. Any guards who dared obstruct them were rcilessly cut down by Xizhi and her Nightingales.
However, as Xizhi rushed toward the central control room, a painful groan from afar caught her attention.
"Hmm?"
She spotted a delicate-looking maid writhing on the ground, letting out heart-wrenching screams as if in trendous pain.
Xizhi wasn’t so bleeding heart, and with her urgent mission, she couldn’t be bothered with so randomly wailing maid.
Yet just as she made this judgnt, she witnessed sothing bizarre.
Without warning, platinum-colored otherworldly flas suddenly erupted on the maid’s body! The flas spread rapidly, consuming her entirely... In monts, only black ash remained where she had been.
"What... what the hell?"
Xizhi stopped in her tracks, muttering in confusion.
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anwhile, on the Dead Sea battlefield, Asar gave no response to Momo’s question. Instead, she gripped her massive scythe and launched a lightning-fast assault. Eos followed her master’s lead, unleashing her power to join the fight.
On the other side, facing these two going all out, Momo dared not hold back either. She imdiately summoned Yue from her internal space, transforming her into sword mode.
In that instant, the sky blazed with three colors of energy - crimson, platinum, and pale white - rapidly expanding and contracting with terrifying destructive force.
In re seconds, thousands of exchanges occurred between them.
Amidst the dance of blades and light, all life turned to ash.
Unlike before, Asar now seed unconcerned with controlling her power, each strike aid at Momo’s vital points. Though she had roughly figured out Momo’s ability, she attacked fearlessly anyway.
Under Asar’s command, Eos too launched hysterical attacks with complete disregard for death.
Facing these two, Momo gritted her teeth and ruthlessly reversed their attacks back at them. No matter the intensity - be it normal slashes, energy blasts, or colorful magic attacks - she turned everything back on her enemies.
After all, with her ability discovered, there was no point in hiding anymore.
For a ti, a bizarre scene played out in the sky.
Asar and Eos continuously launched lethal attacks at the black-haired girl, but after each assault, they were the ones blown to bits while their target remained unscathed.
However, after being blasted to pieces, Asar’s body would regenerate in an unnatural way, while Eos would erge unhard from her magic mirror.
Then they would attack again, fall the sa way, and revive once more...
The battle had fallen into an endless, bizarre cycle.
"For fucking sake, this never ends!!!"
After blocking Asar’s scythe, Momo whirled her thin sword at incredible speed, instantly cutting Asar’s body into tens of thousands of pieces.
Yet for Asar, who could regenerate even from ash, being cut to pieces was just a minor wound that healed in the blink of an eye.
The next mont, under Momo’s grave gaze, Asar’s body instantly reassembled.
An eight-ard Asura manifested at Asar’s summons, suddenly unleashing dozens of divine light beams as counterattack.
"BOOM!!"
With a series of explosions, the black-haired girl was blown backwards.
In that instant of Momo being blasted away, Eos- whose upper body had just been blown off by Momo - walked out of the magic mirror again, flash-stepping behind Momo to fire two point-blank super-powered Shadow Annihilation beams. Of course, under Momo’s power, it was Eos herself who ended up pulverized.
Momo used the explosion’s aftermath to put distance between herself and both Eos and Asar.
Staring at Eos erging from the mirror for the eleventh ti, Momo bit her lip in frustration.
"FUCKING HELL!"
Momo shouted in exasperation.
"WILL THIS EVER FUCKING END?!?!"
With her roar, hundreds of Shadow Annihilation beams accompanied by blood butterflies rained down majestically on Eos and Asar’s positions in a massive barrage.
Compared to Momo’s rage, Yumo in their shared consciousness was calr, though her expression was unprecedentedly grave and filled with deep unease. Still, she kept taking deep breaths, studying the scene for any weakness.
Watching Eos and Asar engulfed by Shadow Annihilation, Yumo showed no relief.
From the dozens of previous attempts, Yumo knew these two couldn’t be eliminated so easily.
First was Eos- under Asar’s command, she seed to have abandoned defense entirely to focus all power on attacking Momo.
Thus, once Causal Reversal activated, Momo could instantly kill her.
However, no matter how many tis she was killed, Eos would walk out of the mirror completely unhard.
She just wouldn’t stay dead...
In that mont, Yumo seed to understand why the Goddess had sealed Eos away.
Her power? It must be sothing like infinite regeneration, right?
If even the Goddess couldn’t kill Eos, then no matter how hard they tried, it would be useless.
In that case, we should focus our attacks on Asar. Once we defeated and eliminated Asar, Eos would naturally stop attacking without her master’s commands.
But the problem was...
"This damn Chosen One just won’t die either!!"
Momo’s agitated voice echoed through their shared consciousness.
"Don’t tell she has infinite life power too?! This never fucking ends!!"
"No, I don’t think... that’s it..."
Shaking her head, Yumo spoke softly with a grim expression.
"The Chosen One’s weapon, that scythe - didn’t you cut it several tis? But... the next second, it was like it reset, becoming completely whole again. If it were infinite life power, it shouldn’t work on objects. The sa with Asar’s armor - it was lted, but instantly restored."
"Then what the hell is her power?!"
"I..."
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"The Price of Blood."
"What?!"
"It’s the Radiant Emperor’s power. As his heir, Asar must have inherited the sa ability."
Hearing ngxi’s words, Xiao’s eyes showed disbelief, seemingly surprised that ngxi knew about Asar’s power. But there was no ti to investigate further - from the projected screen, Yumo was clearly being pushed into a defensive position.
The next mont, Xiao grabbed ngxi’s shoulder and demanded seriously:
"What kind of power is it?!"
"It’s complicated... Simply put, it lets her substitute her possessions to take damage in her place. For example, just now when Asar’s scythe was broken, she could sacrifice another weapon bearing her soul essence to prevent the scythe’s destruction. In other words, letting insignificant weapons take the damage ant for divine weapons. It works the sa with life - when Asar dies, she can force another being marked with her soul power to sacrifice itself, rewriting her death and effectively resurrecting."
"Sacrificing others??"
Silently repeating ngxi’s words, Xiao’s mind began racing.
The earlier report from Xizhi echoed in his mind:
"My Lord, several maids, servants, and generals in Sky City just died mysteriously. That brat Asar seems to have placed so curse on them?"
Sacrifice?
Substituting death?
Mysterious deaths?
Curse?
No, that’s not a curse...
In an instant, a cold light flashed in Xiao’s eyes as he gazed toward Sky City with a look so frigid it could freeze one’s breath. If that’s how it is...
"Xizhi, Mingtong... kill everyone in Sky City! n, won, old, young - slaughter them all!! Right now! Imdiately!!"
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