This strike was as fast as lightning, containing the full power of the dying Wild God!
Mark's "Holy Light Protection" shield activated in response, radiating a brilliant seven-colored light!
"Snap—!"
The seven-colored light shield, which was strong enough to withstand the attacks of high-level monsters, shattered like fragile glass in the face of this pitch-black beam of light that had gathered the power of a pseudo-god!
The beam of light, still powerful, pierced through the light shield and slammed into Mark's chest!
"Pfft!" Mark felt as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer, spitting out a mouthful of blood. He felt a cold, filthy, terrifying power filled with endless chaos and a devouring desire rushing into his body!
This corrupt divine power was like a million poisonous needles, instantly piercing through his defenses and rushing straight towards his soul, intending to completely corrupt and devour him!
In that critical moment, when Mark's consciousness seemed about to be submerged by a torrent of filth—
Buzz!
The cross necklace that had been quietly resting on his chest suddenly burst forth with a pure and profound seven-colored black light!
This time, the cross necklace's light no longer merely protected Mark, but carried a "devouring" will originating from a higher dimension!
The rampant and arrogant filthy divine power that surged into Mark's body was like snow water meeting a red-hot iron the moment it came into contact with the seven-colored black light!
No, it's more like prey encountering its natural enemy!
"Sizzle—Aaaaaah—!!!"
The human-faced totem let out a scream a hundred times more shrill than when it tore apart the divine realm by Eileen!
The voice was filled with unbelievable, extreme fear and pain!
"This power...impossible! This...this...is that great one?! No—impossible, He is dead!!!"
Its roar abruptly ceased, as if an invisible hand had choked it.
Because the seven-colored black light that erupted from the cross necklace had instinctively traveled back up the path of the corrupt divine power that had invaded!
Amidst the excruciating pain and confusion, Mark seemed to resonate for a fleeting moment with the will of the necklace. He unconsciously raised his hand, as if unleashing a grabbing instinct from the depths of his soul!
The seven-colored black light rapidly gathered and twisted in front of him, instantly transforming into a huge black light phantom that seemed capable of swallowing the starry sky!
This gigantic maw, imbued with an absolute law of "devouring," disregarded spatial distance and devoured the core of the human-faced totem in a single gulp—
It was swallowed up by the filthy divine power core formed from countless vortexes of painful human faces!
"No!!!" The Wild God let out a desperate cry before his last shred of will vanished completely.
The gigantic maw that swallowed the stars suddenly closed, completely engulfing the human-faced totem along with the filthy divine power at its core, and a mournful wail fell silent.
The aura of the wild god vanished in an instant, like a candle flame being extinguished.
The entire bone altar lost its power and instantly collapsed, scattering bones all over the ground. The rising bone dust mixed with the remaining filthy demonic energy, emitting a nauseating stench.
Those townspeople, whose life essence had long been drained from their bodies and absorbed by the bone waves, fell to the ground like puppets with broken strings, without a sound.
Almost at the same instant that Mark finished devouring everything and the altar collapsed—
Buzz!
Behind Mark, in the shadow beneath Little M, the illusory image of a candlestick altar, which had been quietly projected by a "mysterious being" at some unknown time, had just been lit with a cluster of flickering pale bone candle flames, seemingly preparing to descend.
However, as soon as the candlelight was lit, the spatial rift below distorted violently, as if it had been forcibly smoothed out by an invisible hand, and then closed and disappeared instantly.
The illusory altar paused slightly, flickered a few times as if a signal had been interrupted, and then vanished silently into the air, as if it had never existed.
Only Xiao Mu made a blank "Mmm" sound, seemingly confused and experiencing a sudden ebb of inexplicable power.
"Hoo..." Mark groaned, his body swaying, and the light from the cross necklace on his chest quickly dimmed.
But the enormous and filthy energy that had just devoured the core of the Wild God surged and crashed within him, bringing a tearing pain and a strange feeling of fullness.
A seven-colored black light swirled across his body as he diligently processed this spoils of war.
However, the mutation was not over!
In the final instant before the core of the altar was annihilated, a tiny, almost imperceptible dark rune, yet imbued with the purest abyssal filth and chaotic will, suddenly gushed out from the collapsing core like squeezed venom!
It didn't attack anyone; instead, it transformed into a faint stream of light and shot directly towards the cellar wall.
Ellen's icy blue pupils suddenly contracted!
The star and moon magic array she set up was still operating stably, and the cage of flowing starlight perfectly enveloped the entire church space.
But the moment this unremarkable, filthy rune touched the StarNet barrier, the twisted patterns flowing on it suddenly lit up slightly!
"laugh--"
A very faint sound, like the sound of water droplets piercing through oiled paper, rang out.
That rune penetrated the legendary spatial blockade, constructed from eighty-eight black gold star-moon stones, which was powerful enough to trap a high-ranking demon god of the abyss, without any hindrance!
Like a hot knife slicing through butter!
"What?!" Eileen exclaimed in a low voice, her languid expression replaced by astonishment.
Her piercing senses locked onto the trajectory of the rune that pierced through the barrier of space, her eyes sharp as a blade:
"It contains the rules of the abyss... and has penetrated my spatial anchor?! This can't be the power that wild god possesses! Something's wrong!"
Her gaze followed the stream of light formed by the rune.
The streak of light did not linger after passing through the spatial barrier, nor did it attack any target.
Instead, it flashed across the real plane like a fish, instantly changed direction, and shot towards the deep shadows of the Holy Dragon Continent at an astonishing speed. The speed was so fast that even Ellen's senses could only catch a fleeting trace.
“It’s sending a message inland…” Ellen’s voice lowered, becoming more somber than ever before. She looked away, sweeping her gaze over the wrecked cellar and the still-shaken Mark’s team. “But the recipient… is unknown.”
A chill crept up her spine. A powerful abyssal demon wasn't sending messages into the Demon Realm, but instead was sending messages into the Holy Dragon Continent!?
The guy behind it must be much stronger than it!
The appearance of this rune and its whereabouts made her far more uneasy than the annihilated wild god itself.
With the complete demise of the Wild God and the devouring of the corrupted core, the eerie force field that enveloped Graystone Town receded like a tide.
Outside the church, the townspeople, who had been like walking corpses, stopped their faltering steps. The emptiness in their eyes faded, replaced by bewilderment and extreme weakness.
They seemed to wake from a deep sleep, with no memory of what had just happened. They felt as if their bodies had been hollowed out, and collapsed to the ground, groaning weakly.
This is a consequence of the standard spiritual and physical exhaustion after the eradication of evil god worship.
Although it may be painful for a while, at least they are safe now.
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