Priest Augustus, who personally instructed Shad not to kill anyone here, would certainly not kill Joey Patton.
This deformed middle-aged man, with a hole running through his forehead, stood up tremblingly surrounded by thousands of white shadows. Iluna squinted at them and saw a large piece of white mist pouring out over the water:
"Look, it's a puzzle lock. Finally someone wants to use the puzzle lock!"
This is not the narrow gap between life and death. No matter how good Joey Barton's condition is, using the maze means he has to fight to the death.
Sensing the change in space, Xia De, who was standing on the water, was not panicked. After the second ring was upgraded to the third ring a few months ago, he was even able to open the maze to seal the human pus. This time, of course, he could do it too.
The Kiss of the Tree is not very lethal, and the match girl might let Priest Augustus and Sister Defulin know that he is the Godcaller, so:
"Sleeping Princess!"
He swung the sword forward with one hand, splitting the darkness apart and spreading rich colors to the left and right. It was like a dark curtain being lifted, revealing the magnificent palace.
The dilapidated city shrouded in white mist was spliced with the royal palace, but neither of them could completely cover the water. They just appeared on the water forcibly, like colorful fragments spliced together on an oil painting.
Iluna still held her face up and watched the scene in the distance, then saw Shade turn around with a sword in one hand and quickly climb the steps high up in the palace. The ice coffin fell from the sky and hit the highest platform of the palace. The coffin lid was silently cut open, and Shade reached out and held the white hand that stretched out from the ice coffin.
The witch with red hair walked out of the ice coffin, bowed slightly to Xia De, and stood with him.
"Another witch, I guess."
The seventeen-year-old girl whispered in a monotonous voice, squinting at the two spliced mazes as Joey Barton led the undead to charge towards the palace, and then the undead were swept away by the hot dragon's breath.
The maze can provide the caster with a home advantage. Judging from the results, when both sides activated the maze, Patton was being suppressed by Shade and the Witch.
"Oh, that lady does have a tail... It looks like a dragon's tail... I killed a dragon some time ago."
Iluna continued to mutter.
The old priest smiled as he tasted his tobacco but said nothing, while Sister Defulyn stretched out her hand toward the flames in front of her.
"Feliana's Witch Light!"
Xia De and the "Princess" simultaneously extended their fingers forward, and the spreading golden light washed over everything. The "Sleeping Princess" puzzle lock continued to erode the "Life and Death Narrowness", and Barton was defeated step by step. He never thought he would encounter such a situation.
The red-haired girl once again exhaled a fiery dragon's breath. Although Shade had never seen this move in the Gadis Library, the dragon's breath of the hybrid dragon race should not be underestimated.
But the firelight did not only come from the shadow of Miss Drago beside him. The Night Watcher in Shade's hand suddenly drew a bright red mark on the ground. In the firelight, Sister Defulin, whose body was emitting flames, slowly straightened up.
"ah?"
Xia De didn't expect this scene to happen.
She bowed slightly to Shade, then walked on the red carpet towards the chaotic space at the junction of the maze. Joey Barton looked at her in horror. The nun said nothing, but waved her hand and threw a ball of fire. The fire fell into the maze of life and death. The next moment, the ruined city was on fire, and the maze was actually burning.
Sister Defulyn is a genuine eleventh-ring sorcerer.
The maze was an independent space, and being temporarily out of the waters of death weakened Joey Barton, but strengthened Shad, a living person. Sister Develyn's shadow disappeared, and Shad took advantage of the primordial fire to burn Barton's maze. The Night Watchman sprayed out dazzling rays of sunlight, completely destroying the dilapidated city on fire in the white fog.
Joey Barton was hit head-on by the sunlight ray and fell back onto the surface of the water. All illusions around him disappeared, and he rolled over several times before struggling to get up.
The red-haired girl also bowed slightly to Xia De and returned to the ice coffin. Xia De, who was a little exhausted, ended his maze, stood on the water with his feet, and looked at the embarrassed middle-aged man, or child, not far away.
Sister Defulin, who was sitting by the bonfire on the shore, withdrew her hands, which already had burns, from the bonfire and hid them in her sleeves.
Iluna stood up immediately:
"I think it's my turn now, and this battle should be over."
She also walked to the end of the mudflat.
On the water surface illuminated by the dark moon, Joey Barton stood up with a wry smile:
"Mr. Hamilton, I didn't want to do this."
Holding the Rhodes card in his right hand, he raised it with a trembling hand and placed it in front of his right eye. Although Shade didn't know what he wanted to do, he hurriedly swept the moonlight sword forward, but the strange darkness behind Barton actually swallowed him.
He seemed to melt into the endless darkness at the end of the waters, and that darkness even swallowed up the light of the dark moon.
There was no sound, and everything was quiet, but Shad's heart suddenly began to beat violently. He knew that something was coming, coming from the deepest part of death.
A giant bone hand with a bright golden bracelet slowly stretched out from the darkness and slapped the water. The bone hand had seven fingers. Then, another giant bone hand with seven fingers, also wearing a bracelet engraved with runes, stretched out from the darkness and slapped the water.
Xia De felt that his blood pressure was about to rise to the point where blood was gushing out of his pores. The extreme feeling of panic made him realize that this was definitely not something that mortals should come into contact with.
"What?"
The old god in charge of death left his mark here.
"ha?"
Don't worry, it's just an imprint, and it's borrowed by the power of impermanence.
"No one told me in advance that there would be such an enemy! Why can he use cards like this? This is not fair!"
Because he is the chosen one. Outsider, what should you use to fight against the Vientiane card
she chuckled.
With two giant bony hands pressing on the water, a huge skull wearing a golden crown finally emerged from the darkness silently. There were golden flames in its eye sockets, and between its neatly arranged upper and lower teeth was a darkness that seemed to be able to swallow everything.
Shade waved his hand and the Rhodes deck flying in the sky returned to his hand.
"Sunshine Gun!"
A clear and sharp sound came from a very far distance. Shad raised his head and saw hundreds of dark whirlpools forming above his head at the same time. Following the loud shout, Iluna on the shore suddenly ran forward and then jumped high into the sky. Her long brown hair fluttered behind her and a dark golden scale floated above her head.
The golden thunder spear in his hand was stained with dark gold, the light illuminated his young and handsome face, and the sunlight spear pierced through the dark vortex in front of him.
Even death could not eliminate this sound. Amid the loud thunder, hundreds of lightning spears appeared above Shad's head and bombarded the giant skeleton that had just emerged from the darkness of the end.
"Today's scene is really..."
The old priest beside the campfire kept sighing.
The skeleton was disintegrating, but it still opened its huge mouth with rays of sunlight blazing through it. The black ball of light between its teeth was rapidly expanding. Joey Barton's voice came from somewhere:
"Grant you—the destined death."
The black ball shattered, time froze at this moment, everything ended, and the great power spread to everything around through the chosen one and the power of impermanence.
But the waters remained so peaceful, the black light penetrated Shad, but he still stood there, unharmed.
"Why... ... "
The mark left by the old gods was blasted away by the sunlight spear thrown by the balanced chosen one. Joey Barton, completely exhausted, reappeared, the dark moon shining on him, he knelt on one knee on the water, no longer having the strength to continue fighting.
Although the Chosen One has great talents, he is only a first-ring warlock after all. He is not like Darkness, who has no demons and talents but still crushes the enemies of Shadow.
"First of all, this is the end of everything, this is death itself, the power of death and the power of the end, which has no meaning here."
Shade said, and then stretched out his hand, letting the two Rhodes cards in front of him fly back. They were the Impermanence of Everything·Balance and Impermanence·Darkness, which were also cards that Shade could control like his arms:
“Moreover, you shouldn’t have used the power of the Omnipotent Card to launch that attack just now.
Just when I was about to fight head-on, I discovered that the Vientiane card can counteract the effect of the Vientiane card. And your control over that card seems to be far inferior to my control over these two cards."
"Everything is impermanent..."
"Where did you get the cards in your hand?"
Shade inquired, lowering the night watchman to point toward the water.
"After she died, I took her ashes to many places. In the winter of 1849, I traveled to the New World. Outside the town of Umr, a settlement in the southern part of the New World, I fell into an ancient ruin and found this in the hands of a bronze skeleton. It was also from then on that my talent became stronger and stronger."
Joy Barton said, clutching the cards, and huddled there sobbing:
"It still doesn't work. Even though I've made a big mistake and come to this point, I still can't see her."
Seeing that the battle was over, Sister Devlin and Priest Augustus, who were sitting by the campfire, stood up and walked to the edge of the mudflat. Together with Iluna, they looked at Shad and Joey Barton from afar.
The dark moon shone quietly here, and the souls that had originally stopped here once again quietly walked towards the end of the water. Everything was silent, yet so solemn and dignified, and it was all very sacred.
Among the souls that were gradually moving away, only Shad and Mr. Barton stood still, their figures becoming somewhat blurred by the receding white shadows.
Everything was over. Xia De didn't mind talking to the other party for a few more words and asked the other party to follow him back to the shore:
"Do you really want to take her back?"
"Yes, even if it costs me everything. My life is so perverse, it doesn't have much meaning. She is my only glory and my only happiness."
He stumbled to his feet, but did not try to struggle. Instead, he turned around and looked into the depths of the water:
"It's fine this way. I've already made a big mistake. I might as well leave here. Leave and go find her... It's time to end. I'm a child now. The next step is to step from a new life into death..."
He staggered forward following the white shadows, but fell back into the water after only two steps.
The deformed man did not struggle anymore, but curled up into a ball, holding his head and howling. Xia De had seen many people cry, but he had never seen anyone cry so miserably.
"Midhill Castle is really a place full of tragic stories."
"ah!"
Joey Barton, who was howling and crying, suddenly screamed again. His body was gradually covered with some decaying gray lines. These lines seemed to have crawled up from under the water. The strong power of the curse even made Shade feel terrified. Even he could not bear this curse:
"Where did the curse come from?"
Under his feet was a surface of water shimmering with silver light, and there was no power of curse beneath the water.
Stranger, you have gained some information from death.
The chosen one of death lost to the mortal who used other powers in death. You can think of this as the curse of the ancient god of death, or the curse of death itself. He was spurned and completely lost the qualification of being the chosen one, and this curse cannot be removed by any means.
"I still don't understand why the god of death cursed him?"
“She” was laughing:
He shouldn't be here, losing to you.
Xia De turned his head suddenly. He clearly felt the wind blowing past his ears when he was talking, but there was nothing behind him.
"Is that so? This is the price he pays for everything he has done."
Shad thought slowly in his mind, without looking at Mr. Barton who was curled up on the water.
He held his sword and looked up at the dark moon shining from his dream. The moonlight was so pure and charming, and he enjoyed the moment.
Someone is coming.
"What?"
Enduring the pain of his soul, Mr. Barton, with tears streaming down his face, held onto the water surface and barely propped himself up. He wanted to leave with the souls, but when he looked up, he saw a pair of translucent boots stopped in front of him.
It was a pair of brown women's short cloth boots with black decorative laces. Looking up, the shoes connected the translucent legs, then the black floral skirt, then the women's white shirt, then the lisianthus flower pinned on the chest, then the neck with a pendant that could hold a photo, and then... ...
Mr. Barton knelt on the water, looking at the face with tearful eyes; Shad put one hand in his pocket, sighed and looked at the two people in front of him; the three people in front of the shallows looked at the figures on the water with different expressions.
Everything is so quiet, the dark moon shines on everything, although it is not bright enough or warm enough, it is very gentle.
On the dark waters, there are still dots of light like stars in the galaxy. This light illuminates the way out, guiding the souls to pass by those who have stopped here, and head towards the end of everything.
Although this is the place of death, Shad likes the environment here very much. It is so beautiful.
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