Chapter 1248 The Broken Cake
The baker didn't even seem to resist, he just spread his hands and said calmly, "What else, Miss Knight?
"—Everything in the Ascension Ceremony is fake. The buildings are fake, the land is fake, and the people inside are fake. Everything is just a stage prop, like ritual material."
Facing Haina's questioning, the man just spoke calmly, took out a cigar from his arms, lit it with the flame of his index finger, and blew it out, puffing out a puff of smoke.
When he opened his eyes, his honest and reliable temperament suddenly turned into the majesty of a gang leader.
"And, are you mistaken about something, Miss Knight?"
The man's voice was low and vague, with an unquestionable firmness and unconcealable fatigue: "We are enemies, aren't we?
"If I remember correctly, it was the New Moon Ritual. The main theme of the New Moon Ritual is mutual slaughter... You entered the New Moon Ritual voluntarily, right? Shouldn't you be prepared to kill everyone involved?"
"In that case, what's wrong with me lying to you? Humph... I'm a ritualist. You don't want me to duel with you, do you? Don't you think that would be unfair?"
The Baker scoffed, exhaling a puff of smoke. "Preparing the ritual ingredients silently, using the fewest people to create the most powerful material—to achieve this, we must inspire strong emotions in them. What does emotion mean? It means the impulse of the Tao... and also power. It means the opportunity to triumph over the strong, victory and transcendence."
"—No, that means sin."
Haina said in a deep voice, raising the lightning sword in her hand.
"oh?"
The baker laughed and said, "So? Miss 'Knight' of Avalon, are you going to judge me for my fictional crimes? Judge a high priest? Oh, I have to admit... I'm surprised that you could find me directly from reality. I'm even a little scared.
"If I'm not mistaken, your master must have just killed Aziz not long ago. I'm truly grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to advance further... But have you ever thought about the implications of killing the left and right emcees of the same benevolent master within a few days of each other?"
The man in childish little girl's clothes was holding a cigar, not afraid of Haina's attack at all, his body was completely relaxed.
The Baker laughed wildly. "Do you really trust your master so much that he won't hand you over? There's no good ending to being an enemy of Aymar Nur! Even if it's the Pope of the Theocracy, ask her if she dares to come here?"
"Naive, such a naive little girl. Is this how the people of Avalon are taught? No wonder the people of that land can't achieve anything. Even such a powerful transcendent has been taught by them to be so naive, so... ridiculous."
The baker sneered and looked at Haina with pity. "How strong are you now, 'Knight'? Fourth energy level? Or... fifth energy level? My master is a true sixth energy level transcendent. And he is about to become a great being of the sixth energy level of the dual path, the agent of Tiansi! Where is your master?"
"I'm not a dog."
Haina's eyes gradually turned cold, but her angry expression gradually calmed down: "I won't compete with other dogs for my master's power."
The chaotic electric light dancing in her long ponytail gradually became stable, and the electric light in her pupils and on the sword blade also became dazzling.
——[Elephant Charge]!
The next moment, Haina rushed forward with the power of a giant elephant, crushing the earth!
The golden barrier on the surface of the "Pastry Maker" shattered in an instant, and the sword blade with electric light easily pierced through the baker's abdomen like a hot knife piercing butter!
A sword pierces through.
Then he drew out the sword, pierced the heart again, and lifted the "Pastry Maker" slightly away from himself.
The process is clean, neat and elegant.
But there was no trace of fear or pain on the "baker's" face.
"I say..."
He just laughed, letting the blood stain the cigar in his mouth red. "You don't think... I'm more fragile in reality than I was during the ritual, do you?"
Suddenly, the "baker" spit out the blood-stained cigar like a rocket, aiming at Haena. Haena dodged it perfectly by tilting her head slightly.
But just then.
The "baker's" body suddenly began to twist.
With a sharp scream, his body shrank as if it were losing air. In the blink of an eye, it turned into the dying body of a female dwarf.
This pajamas fits her perfectly.
The dwarf opened his eyes wide and looked at Haena with horror and despair.
Although she was a female dwarf...Hana's eyes blurred and she mistook her for a human girl.
This made Haina open her eyes suddenly and fall into a brief state of shock.
The next moment, the dwarf suddenly opened his mouth extremely wide—opening it more than one hundred and eighty degrees.
A hideous, deformed, twisted crimson arm suddenly stretched out from it.
The sharp purple nails scratched towards Haina's face!
There is no doubt that it is extremely poisonous and can kill instantly if it comes into contact with blood.
Although she was dazed for a moment, Haina's body moved on its own - she drew out the sword, kicked the dwarf's corpse far away, and at the same time used the force to dodge backwards, raised the sword and cut off the arm of the deformed demon!
——And at this moment, the cigar behind her suddenly glowed and exploded!
That was the cigar that the "cake maker" had spit onto her back!
The explosion did not spark flames, but instead produced countless crimson spells.
Haina couldn't stand up in the air, so she turned into a ball of lightning, readjusted her position, and flew high into the sky!
When the spells failed to capture Haina, they quickly penetrated into the eyes and mouths of the guards covered in blood. It turned out that they were not dead, but were put into a state of suspended animation by a ritual after suffering fatal injuries.
At this moment, they were awakened simultaneously. Amidst a series of shrill screams, their living bodies were dissolved and devoured. Spines, like catworms, were animated, enveloping them in crimson runes and black-red smoke, and like tentacles, they attacked Haina!
While adjusting her body in the air, Haina took out a huge shield from behind her.
Golden flames erupted from all around the shield—and through this, her speed increased again. Like a strange and swift flash of lightning, she darted through the cluster of spinal tentacles at high speed.
Like a fighter jet dogfight, she flew through the tentacle forest, her speed increasing. The shrill cry, like the simultaneous chirping of thousands of birds, grew louder as she dove.
As each "corpse" melted away amidst shrill screams, black lightning, white fireballs, and purple poisonous arrows formed wave after wave of barrages, but they could not even break through the increasingly dazzling lightning shell on Haina's body.
Then, the ground began to shake, and a giant hand of earth, covered in runes, emerged from it.
As the fist opened, the dim yellow eyeball in the palm also opened.
The stance of frozen time spread outward, forcing even the swift Haina to stop.
Countless hideous white tentacles finally caught up and submerged Haina in an instant.
But at this moment.
Lily appeared in the corner silently.
Appearing with her was the "cake maker" hiding in the shadows.
He staggered out, staring at his chest in disbelief.
A slender and white right hand - what should have been a white hand pierced through his chest and grasped his heart.
"This is your heart."
Lily hugged him gently from behind. She pinched the eagle feather short blade between her index and middle fingers of her left hand and stabbed it viciously into his left eye. At the same time, she whispered, "Is this our first time? Okay..."
She then gouged out the baker's left eye: "This is your left eye."
“—Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
The baker screamed in pain and terror - he never expected that there would be a crazy hunter lying in ambush in the shadow world!
He no longer cared about Haena... Being entangled in a curse of the level of the "Bone-Eating Curse" was impossible to break free from, and would only be entangled to death. All he could think about now was how to escape from this terrifying humanoid monster...
“Drink!”
——But at this moment, Haina came through the air!
[Guardian Will (Gold): When fighting alongside your teammates, you cannot be controlled by the enemy. Each time this effect is triggered, the power of your next attack is doubled, and "Guardian Will" is temporarily extinguished. While "Guardian Will: Extinguished," you gain 7% damage reduction. After taking damage from evil enemies seven times, "Guardian Will" relights.]
The moment Lily broke free from her invisibility, the power of the Silver Crown Dragon suddenly surged from her heart. That was the might of the previous Pillar God. The silver-white cold air that burst out froze the surrounding skeletons, allowing her to easily escape.
And Haina descended from the sky holding a huge shield and released the "momentum" that had been accumulated for a long time!
The Royal Guard can build up power through movement and defense, and unleash it all in the next attack!
This attack was doubled by the protective will, turning it into an extremely terrifying attack—
Lily swiftly slipped into the shadows and vanished like water.
The cake maker, whose heart and left eye were gouged out and who was overwhelmed by severe pain, was unable to dodge and was instantly shattered by Haina's giant silver shield!
Just like a flattened cake, he was beaten into a pulp without even a moment's survival under the violently vibrating shield.
Haina's attack continued unabated, and she slammed her shield heavily onto the ground.
The next moment, the earth twisted and shook.
Like a thick liquid, it rolls outward layer by layer, turning into waves.
The surrounding buildings shook and collapsed, and visible ripples spread out in all directions. The water in the pool was instantly shaken into mist, and the corpses that had not been completely dissolved in the surrounding area were also shattered into pieces.
——There was an earthquake.
Update completed!
Last night, I suddenly fell ill. My neck felt cold, my stomach felt uncomfortable, I had a headache, nausea, and dizziness. I couldn't stand it anymore at 8 a.m., so I went to sleep for two hours. Then the headache woke me up. After vomiting, I felt much better. I lay down for another two hours before getting up. I didn't fully recover until around 6 p.m., so I continued writing...
Strictly speaking, I didn’t sleep yesterday… It’s a good time to adjust my sleep and rest schedule!
(End of this chapter)
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