The witches and the thirteen-ring sorcerers did not hide their tracks, but the mad guardian who walked alone, bringing more filth to the earth, continued to move forward as if he did not see them.
Gradually, other nearby teams of the church also gathered here, using blessed holy symbols or special relics to maintain their strength in this most polluted area.
But even so, facing the spreading black mud, most people had to dodge. When the black mud touched the ground, it changed in different ways. The ground became rock, and all non-stone materials on the ground turned into stone. Even some of the trees that gradually turned gray caught fire after contacting the black mud, which was the cause of most of the forest fires tonight.
In addition to the church forces, there were also other scattered figures in the snow. However, no enemies above the eleventh ring had appeared yet, so the church had not yet contacted or eliminated them.
But they absolutely could not let the crazy guardian go on like this. Even though Sister Devlin and Yin Luna strangely did not show up at this time, old man Christian Crane, the "Blind Secret Keeper" from the northern parish of the Church of Dawn, took the lead and stepped forward to block the lone figure.
The guardian stopped and the black mud under his feet continued to flow behind him, but not forward.
He still kept his eyes closed, and thirteen brass rings slowly appeared behind him. However, unlike ordinary life rings, one third of the life rings turned into a dark obsidian color, which was a phenomenon that no one had ever seen.
However, considering that the life ring comes from the soul, and the erosion of the soul by the crazy earth is almost irreversible, this phenomenon is understandable.
The "Blind Secret Keeper" Christian Klein was a gray-haired old man with no eyeballs in his eyes, but he looked at his opponent like a normal person. The thirteenth life ring also appeared from behind him, and the two of them "looked" at each other in the snow. After a while, the spirit runes on the two life rings flashed at the same time.
"In the eyes of blind and foolish people, there is a devastating ending!"
A dim gray mist appeared in the night sky. In the distance, Luvia and Sirius, who were walking in the snow, looked up at the same time:
"The words of sublimation!"
The purple-eyed girl was wearing a cloak to keep out the cold, and her hair was already frosted on her forehead, but she still made an accurate judgment:
"This sublime language is not the power of the earth. It seems that the church has already started to take action!"
"Can you stop it?"
Sirius was also walking in the snow with difficulty wearing a cloak. She asked worriedly. Luvia shook her head:
"If Xia De and Yin Luna were here, even if they couldn't really defeat him, there would definitely be a way to force him to escape, but it's hard to say given the current situation."
She raised her right hand, and a transparent shield appeared above the two of them, allowing them to continue moving forward in the gray snow. Although the "Power of the Earth·Field of Fertility" had already taken effect, as they continued to move towards the Guardian, the filthy and twisted earth was still affecting their bodies and souls.
Not only that, Luvia actually had an even stranger feeling. She always felt that it was not the first time that she led Sirius Lathers to the crazy guardian in the gray snow in the middle of the night, on the outskirts of the Randall River Valley. And when she tried to explore this familiar feeling, she would feel infinite sadness.
However, Luvia had no time to explore her special feelings, because a third set of footsteps appeared in the snow besides the two of them. When Luvia and Sirius looked up, they saw a guardian in the image of Mr. Lathers appearing in front of them.
Sirius did not call out to his father, but subconsciously took a step back. Luvia narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at the sky in front of her. The spatial distortion phenomenon symbolizing the "Word of Sublimation" still existed. Based on the information given by Shade, she easily made a judgment:
"The one that is entangled with the church is the real body. This is a clay clone."
Obviously her level was lower than Sirius', but it was Luvia who stood in front of Sirius, and neither of them thought there was anything wrong with doing so.
In the darkness, those purple eyes seemed to be filled with a faint light. Seeing that the guardian blocking the road did not move, Luvia took the initiative to ask:
"If you could still speak, what would you do?"
"She can't get any closer."
The guardian pointed at Sirius. Luvia frowned slightly because the other party's voice was very rational, which was different from what she expected:
"Why?"
"For the earth."
The solid soul of the middle-aged man walked towards the two people from the snow, leaving a series of footprints on the snow. He was very oppressive:
"The earth is doomed to fall apart, and for the earth's sake, the dark mud will cover the entire material world. I know she is the only one who can reverse my soul form, so I can't let her get close to my body."
The blonde wanted to say that she no longer had that thought at this point, but the guardian obviously wasn't going to listen to her.
Behind Luvia and Sirius, the five-ring life ring and the seven-ring life ring appeared at the same time. And behind the clay incarnation, a life ring made entirely of black clay also appeared.
Fortunately, it was not the thirteenth ring, but the ninth ring. But even so, it also meant that the opponent was a high-level warlock.
The dark mud flowed out from under his feet, but due to the existence of the "Field of Fertility", a vacuum zone of black mud was formed around Sirius and Luvia.
Mr. Lathers closed his eyes and raised his palms to his chest. Then, from the surface of the flowing black mud, dozens of tentacle-like fluids rushed into the night sky, and then circled around the edge of the vacuum zone around Luvia and Sirius.
The first tentative attack was a spear transformed from black mud and thrown towards Sirius' head, but the round shield formed from the memory threads representing happy moments completely resisted the damage from the spear.
But this was just the beginning. The circling black tentacles kept moving, and black clay figures holding various weapons appeared in the black mud under the control of Mr. Lathers. What was even more dangerous was that dark memory threads also appeared from the hands of the guardians, and they were obviously more dense than those of Hillis.
The two girls stood back to back in the snow, the magical light from the two life rings illuminating the small sky in the forest.
Siris put his right index finger against his temple, and under the inspiration of memory and miracle hero on the life ring behind him, a golden thread of memory was pulled out from his temple. After landing, the memory turned into a lady with only the outline of her body, and it was clearly Miss Benannis, the witch of the earth.
The witch in the memory raised her hands and waved her arms, reciting the ancient secret codes that belonged to the witch in a clear voice in the snow. The normal soil deep underground that had not yet been transformed broke through the black hardened earth, and was almost exactly the same as the black tentacles summoned by the guardian, and entangled with them.
Behind Sirius, Luvia, who was considered weak in fighting by the girls of the Golden Dawn, bit her right index finger and drew a complex hexagram symbol on the palm of her left hand with blood.
The surrounding black mud was briefly held back by Shiris, and in the center of the life ring behind Luvia, the core spirit rune destroyer flashed with a light that could even be described as crazy.
For various reasons, the girl with purple eyes was left behind by Shade and Yin Luna most of the time, but in fact, as Dr. Schneider said when he first met Shade, Luvia might be the strongest fighter in the group.
Luvia took a deep breath, inhaling the cold air completely into her lungs, and swung her bloody left palm at the guardian in the black mud:
"Fate-Destruction!"
If Shad were here, he would have noticed that, although it was not exactly the same magic, the high-five movement was almost identical to the one he had received in the past for eavesdropping.
With one palm strike, the place where the guardian stood exploded. The sound of the explosion even scared Sirius. While controlling the witch transformed by the memory thread to fight, she turned her head and looked back, and then saw that the small half of the forest facing Luvia had disappeared. The explosion did not produce much smoke and dust. She could clearly see that the trees, weeds, and black mud disappeared without a trace, leaving only a flat ground covered with white ash.
"He is not hurt."
Luvia said softly, panting a little, but once again smeared her blood on the palm of her left hand. And Sirius also saw at this moment that in the black mud in the direction she was facing, the condensed soul of her father's image rose from the black mud:
"Rebuilding the body from black mud? This ability is really troublesome."
The guardian did not concentrate on manipulating the black mud, but released dense black memory threads again. Luvia wanted to switch directions with Sirius, but the young blonde decided to face it herself.
The milky white memory threads were released while floating in the snow, and finally intertwined with the black memory threads. When the two came into contact, it was as if some uncontrollable chemical reaction occurred. The black memory threads and the white memory threads multiplied rapidly, and finally became a dense two-color net.
The crazy illusions and whispers from the twisted earth were transmitted into Shiris's mind through the interconnected memories, but at the same time, those memories belonging to Shiris Grande Lassus also entered the consciousness of the guardian's earthen incarnation, and then directly affected the guardian's body.