Chapter 749: Moon Crown
Plitvice East Coast, Tivian.
When the blazing sun in the sky burst out with unprecedented holy light, the fog from the dream that shrouded the sky above the city of Prit was instantly cleared away. The white holy cocoon hidden in the depths of the dream, in the distant giant tree forest, emerged in a trance, confined to the top of the dream illusion above the city, and appeared in the deepest part of all dreams.
After the remaining holy cocoon of the butterfly moth appeared, Gu Mian, who had just escaped from the dragon's mouth, immediately looked up with a blank gaze. It spread its wings that had been repaired almost to pieces, and flew towards the holy cocoon at the top of the dream, starting its final pilgrimage.
"We can't let it enter the higher-level areas of the Dream World, otherwise it can open a portal and reach the side of the Holy Cocoon!"
Looking at Gu Mian flying from the ground of the city to the virtual image of the dream world in the sky, the virtual image of the black cat beside the dragon spoke loudly. After hearing the words of the black cat, Dorothy, who was the body of the dragon, immediately roared, then spread her wings and rushed towards Gu Mian.
In Tivian now, the boundary between dream and reality has been broken. The sky is the virtual image of the dream world and the ground is still the cornerstone of reality. When Gu Mian enters the virtual image of the dream world again, it has the ability to jump directly to the edge of the holy cocoon and fulfill its greatest wish.
The dream dragon that Dorothy loved roared and rushed towards Gu Mian. Without the influence of the fog of confusion, she ran faster and soon rushed to not far from Gu Mian, opening her huge mouth and wanting to swallow it directly.
However, facing the giant dragon's surprise attack, Gu Mian had no intention of hiding. There was only the white holy cocoon in its eyes. It seemed that it was praying to the holy cocoon all the time, and the holy cocoon seemed to have responded to Gu Mian's prayers.
In a trance, a soft light flashed on the dream cocoon in the depths of the woods in the illusion of the dream world, and then around Gu Mian, waves of fine pale white silk threads appeared out of thin air and began to rapidly surround Gu Mian. In an instant, Gu Mian was surrounded by those silk threads and turned into a small suspended white cocoon. Its texture seemed to be similar to the holy cocoon, but it was still growing and expanding. After seeing the cocoon-like object suddenly appearing around Gu Mian, the black cat immediately shouted to remind Dorothy.
"Be careful, sir! That thread is a divine creation, you must never touch it! It has created a secret with the moth in the cocoon, and it has borrowed power!"
Black Cat said this. Before the Holy Cocoon, it had been enshrined in the hands of the Black Dream Hunters for a long time. The strength of the moth had long been enhanced by the Black Dream Hunters to the level of surpassing the butterfly, forcing the Holy Cocoon body left behind by the Dream Knight to activate the final blocking mechanism and release the Mist of Confusion to isolate the connection between the Black Dream and the Holy Cocoon.
Now, the fog of confusion has cleared, and Gu Mian can once again connect with the holy cocoon. Through the means of prayer, it can make the moth in the cocoon, which is more powerful than the butterfly, share its strength with it while it is sleeping, so that it can complete this final pilgrimage.
In short, with the support of Pan Moth who suppressed the butterfly, Gu Mian now also began to possess divine power!
Hearing the black cat's reminder, Dorothy, who was a giant dragon, immediately applied emergency brakes, stopped her attack and did not touch the cocoon-like Gu Mian. After flying past Gu Mian who continued to rise, Dorothy asked the black cat directly in the voice of a giant dragon.
"Is there any way to destroy that layer?"
"No... In my opinion... No, that layer is very dangerous. Perhaps only some powerful divine attack can destroy it..."
Looking at the protected Gu Mian rising quickly into the sky, the black cat spoke anxiously, and Dorothy was also in a bit of trouble for a moment.
"Divine nature...?"
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On the other side, in the eastern suburbs of Tivian, the main venue of the World Expo.
As the blazing pure light shone down from the sky, the thick fog that originally shrouded the Place des Nations suddenly dissipated, and the sun once again shone on the huge main venue of the Expo.
Compared to the bustling crowd before, the main venue was completely silent at this moment. After experiencing the appearance of the false moth and the opening of the door to the dream world, the originally large number of spectators here, like the people in other places in Tivian, fell into a deep sleep. Almost everyone fell asleep in their seats. Except for the occasional roar coming from afar, there was no movement at all.
Above the main venue where the fog had just dispersed, a smaller figure was moving quickly. She was Shachenya, who often appeared in the dream world in the guise of a fox.
“Hoo…Hoo…”
Gasping for breath, Shachenya was running wildly alone in the main venue at this moment. Her target was the Crystal Palace behind the VIP desk of the main venue.
When the situation in Tivian suddenly changed due to the control of the Secret Guard, Dorothy, who was still fighting in the dream world, immediately realized that something might have gone wrong with Charles IV, so she immediately asked the little fox to see what happened in the Crystal Palace.
Following Dorothy's orders through the information channel, Sarah immediately headed forward, but who knew that she would encounter the hypnotic fluctuations of the pseudo-moth after taking only two steps. As a nightmare, Sarah herself had methods to resist the hypnotic fluctuations of the pseudo-moth, but when she faced the door to the dream world and the fog that fell from the sky, she was still trapped in the same place. Now that the fog has dissipated, Sarah immediately ran to the Crystal Palace.
At this moment, Adele, the dancing star who was dancing on the stage and attracting everyone's attention, has disappeared. Because the audience was asleep, without the support of the power of desire on the scene, Adele could no longer use her flower dance body to remotely block the attack of Pritt Field Marshal Kent. After the fog ended, in order to keep Kent away from her audience, she could only fly up to the sky and attack Kent personally. Apart from the roar and vibration from afar, there was no trace of Adele on the scene.
Mercedes was in the spacious main venue, and Sarah was moving forward all the way to her destination, but at this time, an obstacle appeared in front of her. On the VIP seats, several figures leaped down and rushed towards Sarah. Looking closely, they were all nobles in Tivian who had close blood relations with the Despenser royal family. They were corrupted by the Spider Queen and were originally ready to kill people at the main venue, but they were suppressed by Adele's ability. Now Adele went to fight the enemy in person, and the corrupted people woke up through the anti-hypnosis talisman set on their bodies by the Black Dream, and then began to act.
These Tivian nobles were basically wind magicians, most of them were black earth with two or three chalk. They flew in the sky, expressionlessly slashing at Sarah's wind blades. Sarah dodged in panic and used her sleepwalking ability to directly wake up many of the sleeping extraordinary guards who did not have Despenser bloodline and let them fight for her in her dreams.
Since the pseudo-moth skipped the most troublesome deep hypnosis process for Shachenya, Shachenya was able to pull up a lot of sleepwalkers in one go. Shachenya gave them a trace of self-discipline to use their abilities, and they also manipulated the wind blades to fight fiercely with the attacked corrupted Prit nobles. Suddenly, the scene was filled with strong winds and chaotic wind blades, and Shachenya took advantage of the chaos to get out and continued to rush towards the direction of the Crystal Palace.
Although the sleepwalkers awakened by Shachengya were very powerful, as a Cretaceous, her ability was still limited. The sleepwalkers she pulled up were not enough to resist all the eroded Prit nobles. Soon, a high-ranking Cretaceous noble took the two of them to get rid of the entanglement, and quickly chased Shachengya. After getting closer and closer, he fired air cannonballs behind Shachengya. Just when Shachengya was about to be hit, an invisible air cannon flew rapidly from another angle in the distance and collided with the cannonball attacking Shachengya. For a moment, strong winds swept out from the colliding cannonballs to the surroundings, and Shachengya was blown to the ground for a moment, and she couldn't help but feel a pain all over her body.
"Ugh... it hurts..."
Shachenya immediately stood up and looked up at the sky, then saw a female figure flying towards her at high speed from the other end of the sky. She was wearing plain clothes and had short hair. Her young face was full of determination and heroism. It was Misha!
"Who are you……"
"Don't worry about other things now! Leave this to me, you go and do your thing!" Misha said bluntly while looking at Shatiana below. Then, without waiting for Shatiana to reply, she immediately turned around and flew towards those corrupted nobles, manipulating her storm to fight with the enemy, making the battlefield even more intense.
Faced with the situation, Shaya swallowed her saliva, and then continued to gallop towards the Crystal Palace. This time, she had not run a few steps when she heard the whistling sound of strong wind coming from a distance. Shaya turned her head and saw another figure riding the strong wind and rushing towards her.
With long flowing golden hair and a neat and elegant dress, her beautiful face was full of indifference, her eyes were blood red, and she was holding a long sword in her hand. After taking a closer look, Salia found that the person coming was not Princess Isabel.
"You...Princess..."
Seeing Isabel rushing towards her, Sarah hurriedly prepared to use her ability to counterattack, but before she could exert her strength, suddenly, a black shadow rushed from another direction and slashed towards Isabel who was almost flying close to the ground. After a slight pause, Isabel immediately stopped and then drew her sword to block.
With a crisp sound, Isabel blocked the sword that was attacking her from the side, then she stared carefully with a startled expression. What she saw next was that Hermione was a hunter wearing a standard black uniform and a mask. There were actually hunters at the scene!
The hunter who attacked Isabel turned around after the fight and looked at Shaya who was getting up from the ground. After a slight pause, Shaya seemed to understand something immediately, and turned around and continued to run towards the Crystal Palace without caring about the origin of the mysterious man in front of her.
Seeing Shazia running towards the Crystal Palace, Isabel wanted to continue chasing her, but was immediately attacked by the hunter again. Isabel was forced to draw her sword and continue blocking, and she officially fought with the hunter, and her pace was delayed.
At this moment, under the hunter's mask, Gregor faced the royal family of the country he was loyal to with a complicated expression, and fought against them with all his strength.
After getting help from the black cat and the little fox in advance, Misha and Greg successfully avoided the only round of hypnotic waves from the false moth, and quickly rushed to the main venue after the fog dissipated, where they successfully helped the little fox Sarah to intercept the enemy.
After getting help from Gregor and Misha, Sarah was finally able to continue her actions smoothly. She rushed towards the Crystal Palace at the fastest speed she could achieve. Not long after getting away from the battlefield, Sarah finally arrived at the gate of the Crystal Palace.
At this moment, at the entrance of the Crystal Palace, the secret guards who were originally guarding there had disappeared. Upon seeing this, Sarah immediately broke in. Then what she saw was a large magic circle drawn under the spectacular giant glass dome in the central area surrounded by countless exhibition stands in the huge glass church. In the center of the magic circle, an old man in luxurious robes was lying there weakly, with a crown fallen to the side.
That was Charles IV. At this moment, he was the only one lying there alone in the Crystal Palace. None of the secret guards who were originally guarding him were anywhere to be seen.
"Cha...uh...Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"
Looking at Charles IV who had fallen to the ground, Sarah paused for a moment and did not immediately go to check on his condition. Instead, she asked him softly in Primit. After hearing Sarah's words, Charles IV, who was crouching with his face covered, had his hand twitched slightly. Then, weakly, he raised his head with disheveled silver hair and looked at Sarah and the girl in front of him with a blank look.
"I have failed... I have failed... Everything will end... There is an error in the inherited ritual... The secret has been lost... The secret has been known by the enemy... Everything is over..."
Charles IV, who looked very confused and in a very bad mood, could not help but mutter this, and Sarah could not help but ask a question curiously after hearing it.
"Secret...what secret? Hey, can you tell me more clearly? What secret is it? Who knows it? And can you still fight now? If you can, go outside and say hello. Someone is stealing your country!" Sarah continued to say this to Charles IV anxiously, but her words did not seem to wake Charles IV up. Instead, more strange situations occurred.
"It's too late... Everything is too late... The secret has been known... My great queen has known it. She will soon reign over this land again and settle accounts with all the descendants of Hyperion for the sins they committed countless thousands of years ago..."
While muttering in a daze, Charles IV, who was lying on the ground, slowly stood up and floated slowly in the air. Then, in the pupils of his eyes, eight sharp spikes spread out evenly, like a thorny flower slowly blooming.
After the secret-keeping ritual failed, Charles IV, who was attacked by the backlash, was no longer protected by the power of secrets. The Spider Queen used her influence to erode his mind. At the moment when Charles IV floated up, a slight whirlwind began to roll up in the entire Crystal Palace, and it became more and more intense.
Soon, the Spider Queen's side seemed to be about to add another fighter with more than one female warrior as combat power.
"how so……"
Seeing the strange behavior of Charles IV, Sarah couldn't help but show astonishment in her eyes. Then, in the crisis, she passed through the gods and fled out of the Crystal Palace.
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In the center of the main continent, Mount Shenglin.
On the top of the Holy Mountain, which towers into the clouds like a pillar of heaven, and on the top of the Holy Cathedral, which is shrouded in a hazy halo, a huge object is hovering here at this moment. It is a giant steel ship.
It is about three or four hundred meters long, equipped with densely packed gun emplacements on both sides, with rotatable huge cannons placed on the axis, and countless gloomy religious murals engraved on the heavy armor. A row of giant blades like convergent wings are placed under the many secondary guns on both sides of the ship's hull. The towering bridge is shaped like a church, and the rope flags are hung with densely written pages of scriptures.
This was the temple-class holy steel ship "Purification Burning Flame" belonging to the Holy War Court within the church. Compared to the Sister of Extinction of the Court of Salvation, it had many differences. Compared to the Sister of Extinction's western coffin-like body, the whole of Purification Burning Flame looked more like a giant broadsword, with more turrets and a stronger firepower density. On both sides of the ship's hull, it was also equipped with huge broad blades that the Sister of Extinction did not have.
At this moment, the Purifying Flame was hovering above the Holy Cathedral. The countless crew members on board were at their respective posts, in a state of focused and serious alert, waiting for orders.
Suddenly, two figures rose rapidly from the Holy Cathedral below, quickly came to the bridge church of the Holy Steel Ship, entered from the specific entrance that had been opened earlier, and slowly landed on the ground.
The two figures, one was a man wearing luxurious and exquisite bishop's robe, and the other was a thin old man in tattered clothes. They were the Holy War Cardinal Hilbert and the Precept Cardinal Marco among the cardinals of the church. The two of them were chosen to go to Tivian to deal with the emergency. After they got on board, all the crew members around them couldn't help but bowed deeply.
"All ships mobilized, target Prittivian, start sailing immediately!"
"yes!"
After boarding the ship, Hilbert did not say any nonsense but gave orders to his men directly, and his men who were already ready responded immediately and decisively.
After the most critical order was conveyed, the entire Holy Steel Ship began to operate. Amidst a roar, the entire ship burst into a dazzling light. After the light, it disappeared directly on the spot.
The Purifying World Burning Flame is the fastest maneuvering and deployment effective ship among all the temple-class holy steel ships of the church. It has an extremely efficient inner world jump engine, which can quickly jump the entire ship to the corresponding inner world, and then jump from the inner world to the real world, using the huge space difference between different inner worlds and the real world to achieve teleportation-like travel in the real world.
After entering the inner world, the Purifier Burning Flame began to sail according to the route that had been determined long ago. According to the plan, they needed to jump between the two outer inner worlds, and it would take about half a minute to reach Tivian.
However, just as the Purifying World Burning Flame completed the first half of the voyage in the inner world stage and was about to enter the next inner world, an accident occurred.
According to the plan, this time the Purifier should jump to the edge of the Furnace Realm, and then after sailing for a distance, it should jump to the present world again to reach Tivian. However, after this jump, what appeared in front of Hilbert and Marco was not the scene of the Furnace Realm.
After a burst of light, the Pure World Burning Flame, which had completed its jump, now appeared in a valley covered with countless huge crystalline spikes. These magnificent crystals protruded from both sides of the valley, many of which were hundreds or even thousands of meters long. They looked extremely spectacular. At the top of the valley was a dark purple sky that looked extremely strange.
"Navigator! Where is this place?!"
Looking at the deep and strange inner world outside the window, Hilbert shouted loudly and bluntly, and soon his men reported to him.
"Sir... This is a realm that we have never recorded before! It seems that our jump just now went wrong and we jumped here!"
The crew member spoke to Hilbert nervously. After hearing his words, Hilbert frowned and was about to say something sternly, but then he was stunned and closed his mouth as if he sensed something. Then he looked sternly towards the distance outside the window, in the direction of a crystal jungle.
The powerful "light" perception allowed Hilbert to sense the abnormality there. He could sense that there were obvious spiritual or even divine abnormalities remaining there. Judging from the state of these abnormalities, some kind of large-scale ceremony had been held there, a powerful ceremony that was difficult to conceal.
"It seems... someone predicted our inner world jump route and held a disruption ceremony here, disrupting the jump activity and leading us here." At this time, Marco, who was beside Hilbert, also made a serious analysis, and as soon as he finished speaking, Hilbert immediately gave an order.
"Bomb that place!"
Following Hilbert's order, several huge naval guns were turned towards the abnormal point on the side and opened fire with a roar. Then a violent explosion occurred in a grove of crystal trees, and countless fragments were blown all over the sky.
And in the midst of the blazing fire, a sharp sound was heard, and then under some invisible force, the flames that were burning the crystal rapidly weakened and disappeared quickly. Then, on the field after the fire disappeared, Hilbert, Marco and all the crew members on the ship saw a shocking scene.
In the broken and shattered crystal bushes, a huge and terrifying figure stood there, staring silently at Hilbert and the others.
It was a giant monster with a body of nearly fifty meters. It had the upper body of a woman, but its lower body was in the shape of a terrifying spider with psychedelic patterns. On the pale skin and densely tattooed upper body of the woman, there were two different arms, and each arm held a huge blood-red weapon. On its face, there were eight eyes like cracked petals, and its long black hair fluttered behind it.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Hilbert couldn't help but be stunned, and then he murmured quietly.
"The apostle of the Lady of Pain... the Spider Demon of Death..."
Compared to the Chosen Ones, Apostles are a kind of divine incarnation that is closer in nature and more closely connected to God. Therefore, the restrictions imposed on God are often passed on to the Apostles, so that most of the time the Apostles cannot enter the world as freely as the Chosen Ones.
However, in these inner worlds, the apostles are free to move, which also allows the Spider Queen's apostles to have the ability to intervene and intercept the Purifying Burning Flame in the inner world space. The large-scale ceremony just held here was performed by this apostle, and the effect was to guide the Holy Steel Ship that was in the process of jumping over.
The Spider Queen can mobilize more than just Gesijiana as a divine being, but Gesijiana is the person who is most likely to help the Spider Queen enter the present world. However, if she were in the other world, the Spider Queen would have more choices.
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Tivian, North City.
In North Divian, where the mist had dissipated not long ago, it should have been the ruins of the cathedral district. A fierce battle of shadow and pain that unfolded rapidly had ended. At the end of this battle, the victor seemed to be carrying out the final reckoning with the loser.
Inside the huge crater, between the collapsed blood thorn forest, Gesijina twisted her huge body, recovering from the wounds that had just been stabbed by her own shadow, while slowly walking forward. At this moment, the shadow behind her had returned to its original state and would no longer hold her back.
As she walked slowly forward step by step, Gesijiana lowered her head and slowly fixed her gaze on the petite figure lying on the ground not far from her.
Walking in front of the opponent who was fighting just now, Gaskina inserted the bloody blade on her arm into the ground, then stretched out her hand, pinched Atcheri's neck with two fingers and lifted her up, looking at the other party's eyes that were extremely dazed because of the pain, and spoke with a sneer.
"Where has your previous arrogance gone? Saint kid... now you finally know who is the master of the water above this execution ground..."
Looking at the already weak Atchley in front of her, Geskina murmured with contempt. Although she had won the victory at this moment, she was not in a hurry to take Atchley's life immediately, because she knew that Atchley had a greater use at this moment.
Atcherie's ability is related to the Goddess of Mirror Moon, and the Spider Queen has usurped the remaining connection power of Mirror Moon in the land of Pritt through various usurpation rituals. Through this stolen connection power, the Spider Queen can influence the Pativian royal family and Atcherie.
"Come on, now, be one of us..."
While muttering, a dark red light shone from Guskina's eight eyes, and then a similar light appeared in Atcheri's eyes, and then eight sharp spikes began to spread out from Atcheri's pupils.
Through direct contact, Guskina used herself as a bridge to instill the influence of the Spider Queen into Atcheri. In Atcheri's clothes, the powerful "Lamp" amulet that she originally brought from Mount Saint to protect her spirit so as not to be easily eroded by the Spider Queen again lost its effectiveness under the direct infusion of Guskina's power, and there was no guarantee that Atcheri's spirit could remain normal under the erosion of the Spider Queen.
“Ahh…”
Atcheri, who was infected by the dark red power, opened her mouth slightly and made a slight sound. At this moment, the spikes growing from her pupils had spread to a great extent, and her expression gradually changed from confusion to ferociousness.
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