Shade slowly descended from the air and finally stood on the tranquil water surface that was twinkling with stars.
Behind him, the brass life ring of the four-ring warlock was gradually calming down its crazy rotation. In addition to the core spirit rune, the twelve spirit runes on the surface of the life ring were filled with spiritual light that seemed to be liquefied, flowing on the four surfaces of the life ring.
The divinity cleansed Shade's soul, and he once again took a crucial step on the road to the sublimation of the twelve divinities. At this moment, the dissipated divine power still existed, and he was finally qualified to face the Chosen One of Death in death.
His feet touched the water surface, and the moment he opened his eyes, the silver moonlight that stained his body surface slowly faded, and the light in his pure golden eyes gradually converged.
Joey Barton completely stopped his pursuit of the deepest part of death, turned around and walked in the opposite direction with countless white shadows, heading towards the direction of the mudflat. Shade, who was carrying the night watchman, also walked forward on the water, his shoes left the water and then fell back down, and circles of ripples continued to spread around.
"here we go."
On the beach, three people around the campfire watched this scene. Priest Augustus folded his hands in front of his chest, Sister Defulin sat on the stone and turned her head slightly, only Iluna was very nervous:
"This time, I can't do anything..."
"Mr. Watson, I am surprised that I would end up fighting you in this way."
The two stood on the water, looking at each other from a distance. Joey Barton did not speak, but his voice could reach Shade's ears directly.
He shook his head.
"There is nothing more to say, Mr. Barton. This is the deepest death zone that living people like us with special powers can enter. Once we cross the Dark Moon and see the Wall of Unbelievers, there is really no turning back. This time, I will not try to persuade you again. Countless people have sacrificed their lives because of you, and lost their lives because of your actions. You need to pay the price for this."
Joey Barton nodded expressionlessly:
"From the perspective of the story, I am indeed the bad guy. I know what I did was wrong, but I still did it."
This kind of person is actually the most terrifying.
"Mr. Watson, there's no one stronger than me standing here. Are you sure you want to start?"
"Yes... and my name is, Shad Suellen Hamilton!"
Joey Barton tapped his toes and rose high into the sky. In the darkness that even the dark moon could not illuminate, the huge figure wearing a black cloak appeared behind him.
The sickle swung and chopped towards Shade below. The sickle was silent and heavy, but it seemed so light above the water. Death was coming. Compared to the sickle of the god of death in the real world, the silent black sickle at this moment truly meant the destined death.
But this time Shade did not dodge. He pointed the Night Watchman at the water below with his right hand, and the silver moonlight in his hand was infused into the sword, making the sword body attached with bright moonlight. Close your eyes, hold your breath, concentrate your mind, and visualize the bright moon in your heart.
This is very simple, because that silver moon has always been in Shade's heart. Facing the sickle, facing the thousands of departing souls, he opened his eyes and looked upward, shouting out the greatest wish in his heart at this moment:
"Moonlight—Slash!"
He drew his sword and swung it upwards. A huge arc-shaped sword mark also flew out silently. After colliding with the sickle, both shattered into silver light fragments.
This is Shade using the characteristics of the Night Watchman to release the Silver Moon Slash. Unfortunately, only in this state can he complete the attack just now. The light blade in the ordinary ring warlock form is only normal size.
After the sickle was broken, a huge figure in a black robe leaned over and grabbed Shade. Shade stepped back, tapped his toes, and turned into a large group of red butterflies that flew into the sky and slipped through the fingers of the huge palm. The butterflies flew towards Joey Barton in the air, who stretched out his fingers, letting the black light rain fall, but it only passed through the center of the butterflies.
The red butterflies fluttered in the darkness and reassembled into Shad in the air.
"Moonlight Slash!"
His feet kicked out two streaks of light in the air, but he did not fall again, because the light of the red butterfly attached to the fifty-four Rhodes cards, forming a staircase in the air.
Joey Barton shattered the two rays of moonlight easily, but the night watchman who followed immediately forced him to fly backwards.
Shad had reached the end of the Rhodes paper bridge. He followed across the space and stabbed Patton in the chest with his sword in both hands.
The latter dodged in the air as lightly as a sheet of paper, and his figure suddenly became blurred. Three identical Pattons split from the main body and surrounded Shad from four directions: front, back, left, and right.
As Shad was falling, the Rhodes card flew over and built a platform under his feet, allowing him to use the force to jump upwards.
The four Pattons stretched out their hands solemnly, and two crosses of black light crossed, blocking Shad's head, and then pressed down.
"Power of the Red Dragon - Moonlight Slash - Blade of Chaos Time!"
Swinging the sword upwards, the expanding physical strength made the flashing sword light almost connected into a line, breaking the black light above his head. At the same time, Shade once again used the Rhodes card to borrow force upwards, holding the sword and stabbing at Joey Barton, who was behind him with a huge black robe.
The latter's clone completely disappeared, and the deformed body floated lightly backwards towards the huge black-robed figure, and then completely merged into it.
There was no sound or movement, but Shade knew that the giant black-robed figure had gained wisdom. The pale hands grasped the sickle together, raised the weapon high, and chopped it down again.
This was the strongest attack Joey Barton had ever dealt. It was impossible to dodge or avoid it. Shade jumped up one last time on the Rod Card, bringing himself to the same level as the head of the huge figure that could not be seen under the hood.
Holding the Night Watchman with both hands, the life ring behind him appeared silently, and the core spirit rune silver moon flashed with brilliant light. The light on the sword was extremely strong, and Shade saw the dark moon in front of him.
The dark moon just left the water and hung in the darkness. Bathed in the moonlight, Shade finally mastered the strongest attack he had learned from Miss Orlanod:
"Moonlight Greatsword!"
The Night Watchman swept out, and to the three people around the campfire, the long sword, which was originally just a bright spot, suddenly expanded to be almost the same size as the sickle.
The giant moonlight sword collided with the sickle, and the holy silver sword slowly broke the sickle into pieces, and then cut the hooded black-robed figure in half.
"The battles between the top extraordinary people in the mythological era were probably also like this."
Iluna held her face and whispered, seeing Shade, wrapped in moonlight, lightly falling to the water:
"In the epic stories of the church that I heard, there was a battle scene like this. It was really amazing."
Although the nearly silent battle just now seemed fierce, the white shadows on the water were not affected at all. This was death, and these souls were the masters here. They still looked towards the dark moon, allowing the two living people to fight fiercely on the water.
Illuna couldn't tell which side had the advantage, but in any case, Shade, who held the Night's Watch in his hand and swept the water with a giant sword from time to time, was definitely not at a disadvantage.
"Mythology era..."
Father Augustus took out his pipe at some point and was trying to light a match with the bonfire in front of him. Sister Defulin helped by controlling the flame, and the priest thanked her softly, then used the long match to light the surface of the pipe filled with tobacco. After the tobacco surface began to burn, he used a pressure stick to gently flatten the burning tobacco, and then used the match to light the tobacco again, and then took a beautiful puff:
"Unfortunately, Xia De's current state obviously can't be maintained for too long, otherwise many problems in the future can be easily solved."
While smoking his pipe, he turned his head to look at the water illuminated by the dark moon. Among the countless white shadows, Shad was holding a giant "moonlight sword" in the air and sweeping it downwards. Joey Patton rolled to avoid it, but then Shad's left hand threw out another yellow moonlight sword, which was still buzzing and trembling after being nailed on the water surface.
"It looks like Shade is stronger this way."
Iluna said in a low voice, watching the scene without blinking:
"That's amazing..."
There was an indescribable melancholy in his tone.
"To be able to display such power is indeed close to a miracle."
Sister Devereine's silver eye mask gleamed in the fire:
"In the more ancient era, above the extraordinary level of mortals and below the gods of higher dimensions, there were so-called demigod heroes. However, as the eras changed, fewer and fewer mortals could reach that level. In the fifth era, there were only a few dozen witches who could be considered demigods, such as Miss Mana Felena. Mr. Hamilton's current state is close to that of a so-called demigod."
"You all know so much?"
Iluna murmured quietly, and the old priest comforted her:
"I am old now, so I know more. Miss Bei Yasi, you are still very young. I remember that you are not even eighteen years old. You still have a long way to go in the future. You don't have to envy us."
"But Shade is only in his twenties, and he hasn't even been a ring wizard for half a year."
Iluna continued.
Sister Defulin, who was sitting on a rock with her hands folded on her knees, also spoke up:
"The chosen one of balance, the gift of fate comes at a price, and any gain is accompanied by loss. Don't compare yourself with Shad Hamilton, you are completely different from him. You are the destined hero, destined to become an epic; he is an audience outside of fate, a spectator under the stage..."
He glanced at Shade who was fighting with Joey Barton. At this time, Barton came to the air again, and rushed towards Shade with a black beam in his hand. Shade thrust forward with both hands holding the sword, and the warm yellow sunlight beam met the beam. The clothes of both of them flew back, and their faces were extremely ferocious, and this scene was also silent.
"Your trajectory is different from his."
"In fact, I hope that his destiny will be the same as mine, so that I can..."
Her face flushed slightly, realizing that she had said something she shouldn't have, Iluna stopped talking in time. The old priest Rat Augustus smiled and shook his head, knocked his pipe on the ground, placed it next to the campfire, and then stood up and faced the direction of Mingyue:
"It's time for me to help."
Shade thought he had the upper hand, at least he thought so. The waters of death were originally Joey Barton's home court, but bathed in the glow of the dark moon, Shade also felt that his condition was so good.
The Night Watchman split the light bullets in front of him again, and scattered himself into a group of red butterflies to avoid the light rain falling from the sky. After returning to human form in the air, the Night Watchman diffused the moonlight and once again used the giant sword transformed from the Moonlight Greatsword to sweep forward.
Of course, this sword didn't work, but Shade didn't care. Under the effect of "Raglai's Leap", his body moved ten meters to the left in the air:
"Blade of Chaos Time!"
Two huge moonlight swords attacked Joey Barton from the left and right. The latter resisted the instinct to dodge and slapped the water under his feet with both hands. The black light curtain blocked both sides of his body. While the corners of his soul body's mouth were bleeding, he blocked this fatal attack:
"What?"
He looked up in surprise and saw that after Shade fell, a winged angel looked down at him from above where his body had been. The wings behind him were charred black, and the white feathers fell on the water. It had no face, no shadow, and no form, but it stood so naturally above death:
"Angel?"
The knowledge of the chosen one seemed to remind him what it was, but Barton could not get an answer immediately. The angel above Shad's head stretched out his right hand without making any sound, but the two people on the water knew what it was:
"Finger of Death!"
A straight black beam of light pierced through Joey Barton's head. His feet flew backwards off the ground, rolled on the water, and remained motionless.
Priest Augustus, who was standing at the edge of the mudflat, smiled, shook his head, turned back to the campfire, picked up his pipe and took another puff.
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