Tens of thousands of holy knights clad in heavy silver armor, like a flowing torrent of steel, formed impregnable defensive lines in front of the Rift Fortress at an astonishing speed under the command of their commanders at all levels.

Holy light gathered on them and connected with each other, forming a huge, majestic light shield that stretched across the sky. Under the full force of the three epic-level guild leaders, it slowly took shape, like an unyielding holy mountain, and bravely faced the terrifying abyssal torrent that surged and crashed from the rift in the demonic realm!

At the edge of the forest shrouded in gray mist, holy light and filthy darkness collided like two torrents bursting their banks!

Before the border fortress of the Church of Holy Light, the collision between the Holy Light Barrier and the Abyss Demonic Energy was earth-shattering. The divine brilliance and the filthy torrent intertwined, making the edge of the Misty Forest look like a battlefield from the end of the world.

Astrion, Isabel, and Cedric, the three epic-level captains, did their best to maintain the massive light shield, while all the holy cannons in the rear fortress unleashed their full firepower, bombarding the raging magical energy gushing from the rift and the monsters hiding within it.

Every moment, knights fall due to exhaustion of magic, and new knights rise to the front lines.

This is a defensive war concerning the survival of the continent. However, apart from the Enlightenment Society, a spy lurking in the shadows, almost no one outside knows that the Misty Forest is currently enduring a world-ending impact.

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In the abyss, Andromalus's escape is proving to the demons his power as a superior demon.

His enormous demonic body moved through the churning, filthy demonic clouds and the chaotic depths of the abyss, like a slippery demonic eel.

Although Ellen's starlight chains were like a leech, those greedy demons, even when guided by the star trails, were repeatedly shaken off by Andromarius using the unique twisted rules of the abyss's depths and the chaos created by prematurely detonating his clones.

He either uses spatial rifts to create mirror images or unleashes violent vortexes of primal magic to obstruct pursuers, or even tears apart unimportant fragments of his own demonic body as bait and throws them in different directions to briefly distract the pursuers.

"Ha...a bunch of idiots who only know brute force! And that arrogant human female mage!" Andromarius's chaotic thoughts reverberated in the abyss, carrying a mocking smile of relief after surviving a catastrophe. "Want to devour me? Go back and cultivate for another million years! Once I've obscured that damned star and recovered from my injuries, I'll make sure you..."

He could clearly sense that Elaine's starlight mark was rapidly dimming and blurring under the cloak of the ultimate filth that was constantly accumulating at the bottom of the abyss, enough to erode divinity.

In just a quarter of an hour, no, perhaps even sooner, the starlight chains that bind Him will completely fail, and He will disappear into the darkest depths of the abyss, as if He had never existed.

Meanwhile, in the valley outside the Demon Realm Rift.

Eileen's face was as pale as paper. Maintaining the Starlink Chains against the filth of the Abyss was far more exhausting than she had anticipated, and fine beads of cold sweat trickled down her forehead.

Mark's team was completely exhausted.

Enzo and Anna sacrificed themselves in the previous battle, and now only a cold body remains, along with two weapons whose auras flicker.

"Mark! Hurry!" Monica shouted urgently, her shadow magic nearly depleted, barely enough to keep her on guard.

The chaos in the demon realm caused by the battle between the abyss demons has also made the demonic energy outside the valley restless, and low-level demons that have been attracted there are still eager to make a move.

Mark did not hesitate at all.

He quickly activated the Holy Light Protection to activate the crystal.

It's no exaggeration to say that the crystals he has saved up are enough to kill his team ten times over!

A dim light flowed through the crystal core, emanating an ominous yet vibrant aura.

He carefully placed the six crystals between the runeforged hammer and the shadow bow, and following the previous resurrection procedure, focused his mind to activate the power of the crystals.

Buzz—!

However, the process of their resurrection this time seems to be somewhat different from the process of Anna's resurrection last time.

■■The crystals floated up, and a burst of seven-colored black light instantly formed a strange altar phantom above the two of them, burning with pale bone candles.

At the center of the altar, a deep spatial rift slowly opened, and the familiar cold will and vast power emanating from the "mysterious being" poured down, washing over Enzo and Anna's weapons like an invisible tide.

Flesh and blood reformed, and the breath of life was rekindled within the two.

Enzo's massive body trembled slightly, and Anna's fine eyelashes fluttered as the resurrection process began.

Up to this point, everything seemed normal.

However, what followed was a sudden and unexpected change!

Just as Enzo and Anna's bodies were rapidly recovering under the power of the altar and were about to fully awaken, the floating altar phantom did not dissipate after completing its task as usual.

The deep spatial rift in the center of the altar not only did not close, but instead suddenly expanded, like a wound that had been forcibly torn open!

Immediately afterwards, a viscous, deep substance, as if it had melted the purest darkness, surged out from the depths of the crack.

It's like living, flowing asphalt, its surface strangely reflecting a rainbow of dark light!

This seven-colored black light seemed to possess its own will. It ignored Enzo and Anna, who had just been resurrected and whose consciousness was still in chaos, and it also swept past Mark and Monica, who were right next to it. It didn't even glance at Ellen, who was trying her best to maintain the star orbit.

Its target was exceptionally clear: Little M, who was hovering on Mark's shoulder and seemed restless due to the aura of the Abyss Demon God and the changes at the altar!

"Huh?!" Little Mu let out a short, terrified cry, its pure purifying power instinctively surging out in an attempt to resist.

But the seven-colored black light seemed to ignore its resistance. Like a shark that smelled blood, it instantly turned into a stream of light and swiftly entered Xiao Mu's jelly-like body!

Buzz—!

Little Mu's entire body suddenly stiffened, and the seven-colored light burst forth with unprecedented intensity, instantly engulfing its true form.

Within the light, its form underwent a dramatic change!

The originally round slime body stretched and reshaped rapidly, instantly transforming into a slender, streamlined humanoid silhouette.

Three pairs of enormous wings, composed of pure seven-colored black light, suddenly unfurled behind "her," each feather seemingly made of flowing shadows and stars, radiating a chilling pressure.

This version of Little M seems to be even stronger than when it underwent its ultimate mutation!

Clearly, a wisp of the "mysterious being's" soul has descended and completely taken control of Xiao Mu's body, transforming into this six-winged archangel radiating special divinity!

The newly born six-winged angel slightly turned its face, which was covered in black light, as if it were adapting to the body, or as if it were instantly locking onto the starlight chain extending from the star-moon black gold mother coin in the center of the Ellen magic circle, leading to the depths of the abyss.