"Ivan Darkness, you can't escape anyway. The Sunshine Greatsword will be back soon. There are also more high-level warlocks transferred from other dioceses to the outskirts of the Dark Realm."
Mr. Pirot stated the facts, looking directly into Darkness' eyes:
"As I mentioned at Yodel Palace, surrender and I can guarantee you will live for at least 20 years."
"The power is at my fingertips, you want me to stop?"
Darkness smiled. Compared to his enthusiastic tone, he was not in a good state at the moment.
"When I become the chosen one, what will you be?"
"The lady behind me is the Chosen One. Although she can suppress you, do you think she is strong?"
Mr. Pirot once again stated a fact.
"I'm different from her. She only has herself, but I have this."
Darkness shook his right hand towards Mr. Pirot, letting his center of gravity lean back completely on the pillar. The pillar was thicker than the giant tree that Shade had seen in the Thousand Trees Forest, but it became increasingly tapering as it went up. It was the largest black crystal in itself, and even Shade didn't dare to look directly at it from his current position.
The corners of Darkness' mouth were trembling, and her pale face did not look like she was consuming power at all, but rather like she was consuming fire. Her right hand absorbed the terrifying darkness that kept coming, and the shadows that were hovering in the air were slowly absorbed into the devil's mouth, leaving a series of terrifying rune tattoos on Darkness' body.
"As long as the ceremony is successful, I, Ivan F, Fris Da, and Darkness, hereby declare!"
His body was shaking as he spoke, not at all like the way Iluna was performing the ceremony.
"Please bear witness to the ancient god, the darkness that has walked upon me. I will devour the darkness and bear witness to the past..."
Behind him, between him and the life ring that was faintly emerging with a golden luster, the shadow of a tattered black robe was slowly appearing. This was the symbol of the ancient god of darkness.
"Witch, what are you waiting for?"
Mr. Pirot suddenly said, and the red-haired witch leaning on the crystal opened her eyes, and eleven life rings appeared behind her, overlapping the golden stairs. She made an extremely complicated gesture with her right hand, and held her gold necklace with her left hand:
"Law-Stop!"
The flowing darkness suddenly stopped, and Darkness froze there. However, as the price of stopping the flow of darkness in the entire dark realm, the black crystals on Miss Carina's body quickly spread.
She pulled the necklace off her neck and threw it behind her.
"In the name of brass, steam be with me!"
Mr. Pirot leaped high into the air.
Behind him, a brassy glow burst out from the flowing darkness, illuminating the entire clearing in the crystal forest in an instant. In that light, the shadow of the city slowly emerged. Huge steam machines floated in the sky, steam pipes connected the entire skyline, and the metallic color enveloped the entire city.
This was the real steam city in his mind, and in this huge city phantom, a huge ball of light formed by the gathering of brass-colored light, carrying steam, fell towards Darkness like a falling steel cannonball.
This force even distorted the space of the dark realm, causing the static darkness to have circles of spreading ripples. Shade, who was extremely sensitive to space, even felt terrible cracks appear in the space where the light and steam passed.
The strong wind pressure made it impossible for Xia De to even raise his head. Just by looking at this scene, he could feel the horror. If this attack could work, Xia De even suspected that the dark pillar formed by the ancient demon's corpse would also collapse.
A dark vortex appeared around Darkness, but he was immobilized by the strong pressure from above and could not move at all. He wanted to call upon the power of the devil, but Miss Carina blocked his connection with the Devil's Mouth in some way.
Under this blow that seemed to destroy everything, the right hand wearing the fish training ring moved on its own.
The squirming muscles deformed, first transforming into the form of a half-demon, and then from the form of a half-demon into human pus.
However, because Darkness's body was severely injured, the Human Pus Demon has not yet absorbed enough power to restore the ancient demon's heyday. Even if it is transformed into a Human Pus form, Shad does not think it is a match for the Thirteen Rings Warlock.
"It's over. The True God Church has won!"
Xia De thought excitedly in his heart, but just when he thought that all this was finally over, the pitch-black right hand like a giant tree suddenly swung into the air.
A large mass of pitch-black pus separated from the human body and transformed into a giant black spider in the air.
The spider collided with the ball of light, and the sudden explosion of fire forced Shade to squint his eyes. The loud noise in his ears made him suspect that this angel-level relic was about to collapse.
In the firelight, the giant black spider expanded rapidly as if it had absorbed all the power of the explosion, but before it exploded, it fell into the black vortex below.
The next second, there was a roar of an explosion in the far southeast. It seemed that a mountain had collapsed in the distance, and the sound was able to penetrate the dense darkness.
The terrain in the dark realm is affected by darkness and is more difficult to destroy than the outside world. In other words, if Mr. Pirot's attack just now was in a normal place, it would be enough to easily wipe out the entire Tobesk and the surrounding areas.
The attack was ineffective, and Mr. Pirot tried to change direction in the air. However, Darkness, who was spitting blood, suddenly pointed a steel needle into the air with his left hand and waved his right hand in the air.
Under the effect of the Relic Murderer's steel needle, the Thirteenth Ring Warlock froze for half a second. But in this half second, vortices appeared on all six sides of him, up, down, left, right, front, and back. The vortex closed inward, and Mr. Pirot fell into darkness, and he was transferred to an unknown place.
"I can't beat you, but don't I have any other way to deal with you? There is only one step left. Once I perform the ceremony, there is only the ceremony left..."
"The spider demon just now was neither a human pus nor a crystal demon. Can you summon other demons that have appeared here?"
Miss Karina, whose face was half covered by the crystal, frowned and asked:
"Another gift of darkness, this is really bad, you got 'history'?"
"Yes, witch, I understand more things in the dark realm. Fate is favoring me. This is the proof. I gain new strength in the most dangerous moment."
Darkness spat out a mouthful of blood with difficulty. The blood was jet black and smoked on the crystals on the ground. When he raised his head again, the witch was also completely wrapped in black crystals:
"Now I only have you left, Miss Chosen. Are you sure you want to disturb me?"
He smiled and looked at Iluna again, but Iluna's expression did not change:
"Do you believe in fate?"
The light in his left eye flickered like a flame.
"If there was no destiny, even if Helmons the Blood-weeper sacrificed so many people, he would not have sent me here."
Darkness said while panting. Even though he used the power of other demons to take the previous attack, it didn't mean that he was really intact.
"You believe in fate, and the church also believes in the fate of the chosen. Everything is still as planned. The church has anticipated the worst. Now it will take Sunshine Great Sword 12 minutes to return. I don't know how long it will take for Iron Right Hand to return, but I don't think it will take more than 15 minutes. I am also here. The church is not unaware of the fact that the chosen will fight against the chosen."
Her left hand slowly reached into the darkness around her, and then she took out the golden giant sword that flashed with thunder. Shade's eyes widened for a moment, but then he realized that this was not Iluna's own magic.
Darkness was also surprised:
"Sunshine Great Sword? That thirteenth ring warlock actually used this sword... The chosen one against the chosen one..."
Shade's Moonlight Greatsword cannot be transferred to others for use, but the church's thirteenth-ring warlock can.
Darkness calmed down and took a deep breath, staring at Iluna with her scarlet eyes:
"I, Ivan Frith Darkness, hereby declare!"
He breathed deeply, and pale golden light emanated from his body. Thousands of overlapping prayers came from nowhere. The thick darkness continued to surge, pouring madly into the devil's mouth, and the manic wind came from nowhere.
The ceremony began.
"Don't even think about it! Sunshine Gun!"
Iluna attacked suddenly, and shot a lightning spear that left a golden arc in space at Darkness who was absorbing the dark power, but he just slapped it with his huge right hand, and the golden lightning disappeared.
The girl with long brown hair ran forward, while Shade poured all the weak angel potion into his mouth, dropped the frog legs, and ran over as well.
Tifa, holding the Dark Box, did not stop him.
"Please bear witness to the ancient god Fuxing Zhidang, I will..."
"balance!"
Golden ripples spread, swallowing the endless stream of darkness. Darkness suddenly looked up at Iluna. The girl holding the Sunshine Great Sword in both hands jumped high, and what emerged behind her was not the life ring, but the golden scale. At this moment, balance against darkness, she seemed to be the hero in the legend who guided the light to slay the evil:
"Sunshine Gun!"
Golden thunder attached to the big sword, and she actually used the divine sun gun with the sword in her hand.
The power of this attack was far stronger than the previous one. At this moment, she jumped down from a great height with a greatsword in hand. The violent thunder was bound by her sword, as if it could pierce through the earth in the next second.
"The Chosen One!"
This is the language of demons, it is Darkness's right hand that is speaking.
The right hand almost instantly transformed from a human pus form into a half-demon. It was unclear whether it was Darkness who was controlling it or the demon who was controlling part of his body. The half-demon looked up at Iluna, and black lightning shot out of its scarlet eyes, but they were all bounced off by the golden light around Iluna's body.
The golden light made Iluna look like the sun in the sky, and Darkness visibly flinched.
But the demon didn't. It opened its huge mouth, still swallowing the darkness. As its right hand stretched out, the demon's mouth instantly expanded to a size large enough to swallow the falling Iluna and the greatsword in her hand.
Feeling the strong suction, Iluna could only use the sword in her hand to shoot the sun spear in advance. The golden thunder shot into the demon's mouth, and it roared and trembled, and its huge mouth immediately retracted. Although it swallowed the attack, it was definitely not uninjured.
Iluna gritted her teeth and slashed down with her two-handed sword—
boom!
The half-demon took the initiative to transform into a human pus again, and the huge right hand flowing with pus blocked the Sunshine Great Sword in a way that was almost broken. With a violent swing, Iluna was thrown out, and the huge sword in her hand was even stabbed diagonally into the ground farther away.
“Really…really amazing.”
Darkness' voice was trembling as she spoke. Due to the injury, the Human Pus' right hand transformed into a demon half again, and the demon was laughing crazily.
"This is the Thirteenth Ring. If it was not you who held the sword just now, but the original owner of the sword, I would have been chopped to pieces. But... do you know why I was able to block it?"
This is Darkness speaking.
"Why?"
Iluna climbed up with difficulty, holding onto the ground, and suddenly covered her chest and spat out a mouthful of blood. The crystals spread toward her legs, but Iluna's right hand hit them hard, and the crystals exploded.
"Because I'm not—"
A scarlet light bloomed in his eyes.
"one person!"
The demon's words overlapped with Darkness's, and the demon's half body stretched out like mud, biting towards Iluna's head.
Iluna smiled and said:
“Actually, I’m not alone.”
"who?"
The demon's half body retreated immediately, because the owner of this right hand, Darkness, turned his body in another direction.
Ding!
Moonlight fragments scattered everywhere.
"I knew it was you!"
Darkness held the Dark Sword reshaped by the power of Human Ichor in her left hand, and it collided with Shade's Moonlight Greatsword. The two pressed forward at the same time, making the blades of the two swords fit together.
The dim light of the Moonlight Great Sword illuminated Shade's gritted teeth and Darkness' pale face. This was the first time Darkness saw Shade's true appearance. He opened his eyes wide and had an angry expression on his face:
"It was you at Coldwater Harbor, it was you at Yodel Palace, and now it's you again. I knew it couldn't be such a coincidence. How could I meet a ring wizard who is proficient in both space and moonlight no matter where I go! You are here again, so that's why. This face belongs to you, Lei Jiede..."
He spoke viciously, and the saliva from his mouth could almost spray on Shade's face. He held the sword in his left hand, and despite his current serious injury, he still used his strength to suppress the greatsword held by Shade with both hands, and the devil's mouth in his right hand also bit towards Shade.
It was almost ready to bite Iluna’s head off, but it still pulled back. It seemed that in the eyes of Darkness and Human Pus, Shad, who was almost a mortal enemy, was more difficult to deal with than the Chosen One of “Balance”.
"I let you see my face because you will never leave alive today!"
Xia De puffed out his cheeks and opened his mouth slightly and said, it was difficult to speak with water in his mouth while trying hard.
As a second-ring warlock, even with Miss Carina's necklace, he could not resist the power of a sixth-ring warlock. Not to mention pressing the sword towards the opponent, he couldn't even draw the sword away now.
But it didn't matter, because facing the demon's mouth that was about to swallow his head, Shad puffed up his mouth, and when the demon's mouth was about to cover his head -
puff!
He sprayed out the weak angel potion in his mouth. The potion turned into water mist and mixed with Shad's saliva. Not a drop was wasted. With the huge suction force, it entered the devil's mouth along with the dark tide.
He didn't think he could beat the opponent at all. Before the strongest fighter of the church returned, this was the method he had thought of long ago, to deliver the weak angel potion into the opponent's body.
"Priest Augustus said that as long as we can pour the entire potion into the demon's mouth, the demon will be in serious condition even if it doesn't die! This is easier than I thought."
Thinking in his heart, Shade immediately took a step back, then crossed the darkness and appeared ten meters away. He reached out to help Iluna up and stuffed the leaf that originally belonged to Dorothy into Iluna's mouth.
The girl, who had been fighting for a long time and was seriously injured, immediately chewed the leaves and swallowed them. She helped Xia De stand up, smiled and kissed Xia De's cheek affectionately:
"I knew you would come."
The balanced chosen one has once again returned to his peak form.