The bride under the moonlight was very beautiful, wearing a white veil and a white dress that fitted her figure perfectly, with the width of the waist also showing her slimness. Her carefully groomed hair hung down behind her, and she wore a pair of black high heels on her feet.
From a cursory glance, she was taller than Iluna in her high heels.
The reason why she was thought to be the "corpse bride" was that judging from her body shape and blurry face, she was clearly the "fiancée" seen in the house just now.
"Can you tell me what the relic is?"
Xia De asked Iluna beside him, and the girl from the True God Church replied with some annoyance:
"There are simply too many relics that can give corpses the ability to move. Without a more detailed understanding of their characteristics, I cannot give you an answer."
The fish training ring that Shade currently possesses also has the ability to "revive" corpses, but wearing the ring on a dead person's finger and reciting a spell will cause more consequences than just resurrecting the dead.
"Anyway, let's try her strength first."
Shade said, and Iluna nodded and stood shoulder to shoulder with him:
"Quick and decisive, there are other residents on this street, and the Silencing Spell doesn't work well in such an open environment, remember not to make too much noise."
The Corpse Bride did not attack during the conversation, but stood quietly in the middle of the street under the moonlight, as if she was not used to the environment here. As Shade pulled out the Moonlight Greatsword from the air, golden lightning flashed in Iluna's palm, and she moved her limbs stiffly.
She swung the sharp knife with her right hand, and rushed towards the two people standing there like she was sliding. Before this, Xia De could not imagine a bride wearing high heels and holding a sharp knife charging at night:
"Perhaps it could be used as material for Dorothy's novel."
He was thinking wildly in his mind.
"Sunshine Gun!"
Iluna spoke softly, and the spear she threw out did not make a loud crackling sound because she deliberately controlled the power.
The golden lightning pierced through the bride's veil, and she swung the sharp knife in her hand to chop. The metal knife collided with the lightning, and the reduced power of the sunlight gun dissipated a part, but most of the golden thunderbolts followed the blade and spread to the bride's body.
At the moment when the corpse bride's movements suddenly stiffened, Shad's figure appeared above her.
"Raglai's Leap!"
Xia De chopped the bride's head with the sword in both hands, but at the last moment, the bride, who had broken free from paralysis, raised her hand and swung the sharp knife upwards. The swords collided, and silver moonlight fragments splashed in the sound of clang. Xia De, holding the sword in both hands, used the downward slashing action to forcefully suppress the knife in the hands of the corpse bride.
No one knew what material the knife was made of. After colliding with the Moonlight Sword, only a gap appeared on the blade.
"Good chance, Iluna!"
Shad whispered.
“Here it comes!”
A black vortex appeared beside Shade, and Iluna quickly stretched out her hand, holding the Sun Spear high up, and chopped it directly on the bride's face at close range. The Sun Spear, a high-level divine art of the Church of the Sun, was said to be more powerful the closer the distance.
This kind of situation where the target is hit almost face to face, even if Iluna reduces the power for the sake of silence, it is enough to destroy most targets.
But the one in front of him was obviously not a normal target. The sun gun pierced his face and even a big hole appeared on his veil, but the corpse was still moving.
The high-heeled foot kicked Shad away in front of her, and then she disappeared into the air, and then appeared behind Iluna with a knife in hand.
"The Sunlight Gun that restrains the Undead didn't do much damage to it, and what was that just now was actually space teleportation?"
Shade couldn't figure out what could create such a terrifying undead. On the other side, Iluna also sensed the wind behind her. She was very experienced in combat and didn't hide at all, but summoned the Life Ring.
The bell and whistle sounds when the life ring appeared could only be heard clearly at a close distance. The golden life ring that emerged from the high-temperature steam mist forcibly bounced the corpse behind Iluna away.
For ordinary ring wizards, the life ring cannot be used as a weapon, but the chosen one is different. In the Crystal Forest, she even held the scales in her hands in the dark and protected Shad and Tifa.
"Space Stabilization Aura!"
Shade also appeared behind Iluna, and immediately activated the magic to prevent the enemy from moving in space. He swung his sword again, but was blocked by the sharp blade in the hands of the corpse bride, leaving a notch on the blade again.
This time, Shad noticed that the bride was wearing a wedding ring on her right hand, but unfortunately the ring was also an ordinary item and not a relic that caused the corpse to move.
"balance!"
The golden ripples spread, and Shade, who was holding a big sword and fighting against the corpse bride, clearly felt that the opponent's power was rapidly weakening. At the same time, looking closely at the veil that had been cut open, Shade also clearly saw the face behind the veil.
The damage caused by the sun gun had disappeared, and the bride's face was exactly the third missing body, Anne Julian.
"What exactly does her brother want to do?"
He exerted force with both hands and pushed the knife in the bride's hand back to her. As the bride continued to retreat, Xia De continued to press forward without giving in. Suddenly, behind the veil, a mouth painted with bright red lipstick opened, and then a bright red tongue like a snake was spit out.
The tongue seemed to pierce through Shad's throat, but Shad, who had just been sprayed with darkness by Darkness, had been prepared for this move. He held the sword in his right hand and pulled his left hand from the upper right to the lower left.
The slanting moonlight split open, cutting off the slender tongue, leaving a crack on the white wedding dress, and then leaving a huge wound on the corpse.
There was no bleeding from the wound, as if the skin and flesh had been burnt, and even if it was scratched it was just a scratch.
He continued to suppress the opponent with the sword in his right hand, and pressed his left hand directly on the opponent's face:
"Feliana's Witch Light!"
A brilliant yellow halo spread outward from the bottom of his hand layer by layer. Under Shad's control, the range of the magic was limited to the area under his control.
The cold face first melted under his palm like lard, followed by the layers of flesh and blood under the face, until the hard skull. In just one breath, Xia De's hand on the bride's face melted most of the face like a burning coal falling into butter.
At the same time, a dark and filthy chain flew out from Shade's sleeves and wrapped around the bride's neck. But the corpse bride still did not stop, it abandoned the weapon in its hand and escaped from the chain like an illusory shadow.
The gliding shadow retreated dozens of steps and stood in the middle of the street under the moonlight again, motionless.
"Shad, look!"
Iluna pointed to the scar on the corpse caused by Shade's moonlight. The scar was repairing, but slowly.
"We have to create a large area of wounds at once to stop her from moving."
Xia De also understood:
"Not only can the opponent move through space, but he can also use shadows. Moreover, the corpse itself is extremely hard... Iluna, can you make her stand still for at least three seconds?"
"Yes, I haven't learned the witch's command series of magic yet, but I think I understand the principle behind it. Shade, only one second!"
As she spoke, the seventeen-year-old girl walked quickly towards the body.
Xia De threw away his frog legs and jumped, landing lightly on the roof of a two-story shop facing the street. He looked up at the silver moon above his head, and then his arms drew a cross of silver light marks in the air in front of him.
The intersecting moonlight stayed in the air. Shade calculated the distance and angle, spread out his hands and threw a stack of 54 cards into the night sky. The cards overlapped each other, and under the effect of the magic treasures, they formed a two-palm-sized square in the air.
"Now!"
The golden life ring behind Iluna was like molten gold, reorganizing into a golden balance behind her:
"Law!"
She shouted softly, staring at the corpse in the wedding dress with her eyes wide open under the moonlight. She clasped her hands together and pointed her middle finger at it:
"stop!"
Turning quickly to look at the night sky, Xia De spread his arms under the moonlight and jumped. He came lightly to the mid-air, stretched out his hand to press the Rhodes card in the sky, adjusted the direction of his kick with the help of the opposite force, and then pressed down with both hands to kick.
His body tilted down and touched the cross-shaped light mark suspended in the air. Then his foot stepped on the center of the cross-shaped moonlight and tilted down. Silently, the corpse bride was split into four uneven pieces from the right shoulder by the charged moonlight falling from the sky.
As Shade's feet landed on the ground, leaving a cross-shaped depression on the street, the four neatly cut pieces of his body turned into ashes and disappeared behind him. The ashes flowed into the crack of the closed grocery store door like a thin trickle.
Xia De didn't turn around, but stared at the marks on the ground:
"Breath of Time!"
He took a deep breath, and as an invisible air current rose from the ground and entered Shade's nostrils, the damaged stone bricks under his feet reversed time and returned to their intact state three seconds ago.
Iluna, who ran over in a hurry, saw this scene, but didn't say much:
"It seems that the other party has disappeared due to serious injuries. Let's take advantage of this time to quickly go in and capture Toby Urian. No matter what that thing was just now, it is definitely related to the other party!"
Look at the upper left window.
Shad looked up at the third-floor window of Mr. Julian's house. There was no light on the third floor. In the dim moonlight, behind the glass window of the corridor, the dead bride with her veil lifted slowly retreated, her lifeless eyes and body disappearing into the darkness.
"I really hope I don't have a nightmare tonight."
Shade thought again:
"The third floor. The other party is on the third floor."
The two walked towards the door of the grocery store, and Shade unlocked the door and broke into the store. Shade walked in front holding the Moonlight Greatsword, and Iluna followed behind vigilantly to prevent sneak attacks from behind.
As the ashes flowed in the air, they left behind extremely faint traces of whispering elements. Following these traces, the two of them came to the third floor. There was no light in the corridor on the third floor. In the dim light, Shade looked at the place where the corpse bride appeared just now:
"This way, in the room at the end."
The two walked side by side quietly along the corridor without knocking on the door. Xia De touched the door lock with his finger. This door, which was purely physical in nature and had no protection, did not pose any obstacle to him at all.
Taking a deep breath, Xia De suddenly turned sideways and pushed the door open. As he rushed into the room, which was also dark, a shout came from the wall behind the door:
"Don't try to stop me, go to hell!"