Chapter 709 Cooperation
The aura he had sensed outside Bayam City through Groselle's Travels was now spreading from the black vortex above the isolated island. Even above the gray fog, it made Klein tremble with fear.
Moreover, unlike the giant black hand that descended upon Bayam, this time, a huge, strangely shaped tree was about to take shape within the vortex, its branches composed of one constantly swaying arm after another.
Each arm is as big as the black giant hand that day!
"There's no doubt this is an attack by the 'Rose School' against Angel. They used some kind of sacrificial ritual to summon the 'evil god' Sua out of thin air. Furthermore, this time, it might be his true form..."
Through the gray fog, connecting with the crimson star representing Angel, Klein saw the corpses scattered on the ground below the vortex, as well as the various werewolves and ghosts mutated by the black raindrops, and immediately made a judgment.
He subconsciously looked behind the high-back chair, his sight moving over the "Fool's Collection" such as the "Creeping Hunger" and "Luck Stealer" spells, and finally stopped at the "Poseidon's Scepter".
Combined with the "Tyrant" card, it will be the most powerful means of attack he can directly use.
But that's only at the demigod level, lacking even a shred of my own divinity. It can barely handle Angel, so how can it possibly harm a "divine evil" that will inevitably be a Sequence 1 upon its arrival...
He waved his hand to summon a scepter inlaid with blue gems and held it in one hand. With his other hand, he picked up the Card of Blasphemy that was lying upside down on the table and merged it into his body. An extremely majestic and terrifying aura immediately enveloped the bronze table. The image of the Fool turned into that of the Pope wearing a triple crown and a dark blue robe.
The newly crowned "Sea King" held up a bone scepter that continuously emitted silver-white lightning. His gaze penetrated the star of the "Queen" and fell on the sky above the island where the pirate conference was held. He hesitated and did not send down thunder immediately.
The Queen Anne's Revenge is attacking the vortex. My limited strength is just a drop in the bucket. It's a waste of spiritual energy... Try to dispel the surrounding dark clouds? That's just part of the summoning ritual, not a weather phenomenon, so it won't work... Klein's thoughts raced, and he suddenly grasped a key word.
ceremony!
Containing the "Tyrant" card and leveraging the gray fog's status, Klein was able to gaze unaffected at the gigantic figure about to take shape in the sky. Amidst the constantly emerging golden light imbued with the power of order, he keenly caught sight of wisps of black smoke rising from the ground and being sucked into the vortex. They resembled steaming viscous liquid, and even in gaseous form, strange bubbles continued to emerge.
Following the smoke downwards, Crane's gaze fell on the chaotic docks, on the bodies of those who died from pollution, loss of control, or other pirate killings.
This strange killing is itself part of the "summoning ritual"?
Would killing them hinder or even destroy the ceremony?
But those were still alive, not truly dead. Even if they were pirates, they were not necessarily unforgivable villains... No, they had already lost control, and had been contaminated by the aura of "divine evil". Their only fate was to serve as a breeding ground for Su'a to descend here... Or let thunder purify everything!
After a moment of hesitation, Klein convinced himself. He no longer hesitated and swung the arm holding the scepter. His spirituality was enhanced by the "Tyrant" and magnified by the "Poseidon", forming a blinding thunder. It penetrated into the crimson stars and took shape near the "Queen Anne's Revenge" without any delay, shooting towards the pirates on the dock who were about to become the new sacrifices.
Boom!
The light that pierced the black sky and the loud noise that followed shocked everyone present. Cattleya, who was fending off the black raindrops and the constantly drifting ghosts on the "Future", squinted her eyes and carefully looked out of the corner of her eye through the thick lenses of her glasses. She found that the lightning seemed to be a natural phenomenon that formed in the clouds, but it fell towards the dock with a purpose.
Hit it!
Above the gray fog, Klein's eyes widened slightly and looked at the location that was accurately hit by the thunder, but he found that there were only a few pirates fighting each other in the mutation. Their blood turned black, and the rising pirates turned into charcoal. This lethality was not even as strong as that of a Demigod, let alone a Beyonder who had just entered the middle sequence!
Klein, in disbelief, attracted another bolt of lightning. This time, he observed carefully and found that the falling black rain and the drifting black, sticky mist weakened the lightning that passed through them, leaving less than 10% of the power of the lightning that could split a warship in half.
The ritual was summoning the "divine evil," and the "divine evil" was also protecting the ritual... No wonder "He" dared to descend directly on the island. No wonder Annie chose not to attack the dock, but instead directly bombarded the vortex in the sky... Klein frowned, his eyes sweeping across the battlefield, preparing to change angle, avoid the black rain, and try again.
At this moment, he discovered that the pirates on the dock who were killing each other in the pollution and fulfilling the ritual conditions with certain specific killings suddenly became more crazy. Some threw down their weapons and threw themselves into the flames, some cut off their own heads with strange laughter, and some extraordinary people who had already shown signs of losing control even accelerated the process, and it was not a mutation, but a direct death.
Are they...truly crazy?
The scepter in Klein's hand stopped above the crimson star.
This "unplanned" loss significantly slowed down the condensation of the black fog above the dock, causing the figure of the "divine evil" that was about to come from the void to the real world to pause, and several golden rays of light instantly covered His body.
…
boom--
Lightning flashed overhead, and Angel untied a string of iron dolls from his waist. They looked like they were made of metal but were incredibly light. He gathered his spiritual power, activated these magical items, and then threw them on the ground.
The nine tin men returned to normal size in a flash of crimson light, but only eight of them made Angel feel at ease. The ninth one had not yet fully repaired itself, so it was only about one meter tall. It was dragging a long sword taller than itself, and it looked quite funny standing among the soldiers.
But they are all part of the "Reaper Legion".
Surrounded by his temporary subordinates, Angel took out the extraordinary characteristics of the "Iron-Blooded Knight" and held it tightly in his palm. Although he had not yet made it into a magical item, he could use some of its power by using it directly.
With it, Angel gained two important abilities: "Pyrolysis" and "Connection". The former allows her to temporarily become immune to most damage, while the latter gives her the power to share damage and gather strength with her "subordinates".
After doing all this, she raised her head again and looked out the side of the ship. The breath of the "divine evil" in the sky made her feel a little uncomfortable, but she already had her own divinity and with Annie's protection, she quickly calmed down. She was surprised to find that the ceremony to summon Suea's arrival seemed to be destroyed by various forces.
The huge black vortex has stopped rotating under Annie's continuous bombardment, and the figure emitting a terrifying aura inside has become faint. Only the two giant black hands at the edge have successfully revealed their true form. Their arms are more than ten meters long and have skull heads or three-dimensional eyes arched on the surface.
As soon as they took shape, the two giant black hands caused the dock below to boil. The pirates who had long been dead but still retained their basic body shapes slowly stood up and staggered towards the sea. Transparent and vague shadows appeared above the broken corpses, as if receiving unified instructions, floating towards the surviving pirate ships.
But many pirates "really" died. They were the ones who suddenly went crazy and hurt themselves... Angel immediately noticed these abnormalities and realized that the key to the destruction of the ritual might be here.
Were they infected by another rapidly spreading "disease" and committed crazy acts that were inconsistent with the requirements of the bloody ritual?
She seemed to understand something and looked to the other side of the ship.
In the fog, a pitch-black ship with three high-hanging triangular sails blown by the wind was seen. Cannons were in place on the deck. The sailors were busy with their heads down, their bodies seemed to be twisted by a strange force, and they were not affected by the "divine evil" in the sky.
On the stone throne at the end of the deck, Nast, the "King of the Five Seas", wore a crown and a black robe, with the dark red in his eyes almost bursting out.
As soon as he entered the battlefield, the "Mad Mage" discovered the key to preventing the arrival of the "divine evil" under the guidance of lightning. After the "King of the Black Throne" Barros Hopkins, who was hidden in the sea of subconsciousness, used the "mental plague" to infect all sacrifices, he "distorted" the time of onset and greatly advanced it.
The two Sequence 3 Beyonders had no way to deal with the "divine evil" overhead, but they had the ability to bypass the black raindrops' protection and kill the "sacrifice" in advance, and it was very simple...
Just as the pirate king sneered, he heard a roar that pierced the spirit body in his ears.
That was the roar coming from countless mouths on the surface of two huge black arms in the sky.
Including Nast, his sailors protected by the "Black Emperor", the pirate generals on the "Future" not far away, and everyone on ships such as the "News" and "Golden Dream" that were fleeing the island, all trembled in the roar, their limbs stiff, and thoughts of venting emotions and desires kept flashing through their minds.
Some pirates who were closer and of lower sequence had already begun to lose control due to the crazy thoughts filling their heads, and even started to directly attack their companions nearby, causing chaos on the sea.
"deprivation!"
Amidst the endless roars, a voice appeared that was not high in pitch, but rang in everyone's ears at the same time.
The roar of the "evil god" Su'a in the sky suddenly stopped.
His screaming ability was taken away by Anne, the "Balancer".
If the summoning ritual was complete, a complete Sequence 1 "Divine Evil" would descend. Annie's attempt to deprive it of its power would likely fail. However, at this moment, the giant hand in the sky was no more powerful than the one in the battle outside Bayam City. The only difference was that there was more than one black giant hand...
Su'a, who had lost some of his abilities, seemed to have just found his target for today. He clenched his giant fist and smashed it towards the sea with tremendous force, with swirling black clouds and falling raindrops behind him.
Danger……
Angel on the deck suddenly found herself the target of the black hand, and subconsciously wanted to get into the "mirror world" and into Anne's body, using the angel's solid cabin to resist the attack. However, she immediately realized that her connection with the "mirror world" and even the entire spiritual world had become extremely weak. In this case, if she left the real world, she would most likely get lost in the depths of the spiritual world.
Just like the situation in "Trier of the Quaternary Era"... An idea flashed through Angel's mind, and he looked up. The black giant hand that fell to the deck was covered by a dark yellow light at Anne's "confinement" command. It paused for a moment, and then it was hit by several golden rays of light, and for a while it could not get close to the ship below.
But when Annie was fighting against Suea's giant hand, Angel's eyes penetrated the light in the air and looked to a higher place.
She discovered that the other giant hand had not launched an attack but was suspended in the air. Its "roar" was also deprived by Annie, but the countless mouths on the surface never stopped opening and closing repeatedly.
He was praying silently!
Each of His mouths uttered a different word of the ancient Hermetic language, overlapping and combining in a way that was impossible for a human to do, forming a word filled with the power of a curse:
"The Bound God!"
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