Chapter 972 My Immortal Friend
——Time stopped.
It's not just one person, but an entire space and time that is frozen here!
The almost miraculous sight shocked all the teammates around Master Chongbo!
Everyone only knew that this ordinary, silent, and decadent old man was a preservationist hired by Aiwass. He was said to be able to cast a powerful shield and even resurrect the dead...but people didn't know his power was so great!
Where's the assistance you promised?!
"——What are you waiting for?!"
Ligeia shouted loudly and slapped Julia's butt lightly.
Yulia suddenly woke up, feeling ashamed for being distracted during the battle, and with a determined look in her eyes, she reached out and grabbed the black and red bow on her head.
The moment the bow was removed, it burst into flames. The dark red flames gathered between her fingers, like a small reactor.
“——Liya!”
Yulia shouted loudly and suddenly threw the ball in her palm upwards!
The dark red flames expanded into a huge vortex in the air, turning into four gradient red and black butterfly wings.
Then, the Flame-Butterfly emerged from it!
Wearing wings of ash and a skirt of flame - with dark red irises, it reminds people of the eyes of an insect slowly opening, staring at the frozen magic fly in the sky.
She raised her hands high, forming a triangle with her index finger and thumb, and then the triangle was completely filled with flames.
The golden-red flames gathered in it, formed into a beam in front of the triangle, and shot into the sky!
The air was pierced by the flame beam, emitting circular air waves.
The violent storm spread in all directions, and Yulia's long silver-white hair fluttered in the storm and flew all over the sky.
There was an unquenchable flame burning in her bright red pupils!
She glared at the sky, and seemed to have formed some kind of resonance with the Flame-Rebellious Butterfly - the golden-red flames instantly expanded three times and turned into a platinum-colored flame beam!
The beam of light swept across the entire swarm of flies from west to east, but it seemed to have no effect.
“…I’ll leave it to you.”
Master Chongbo spoke in a low voice, his body swayed slightly, and he seemed to be a little weak. He was immediately supported by the quick-eyed and swift-handed big guardian beside him.
Then, the frozen time resumed its flow.
Explosions occurred one after another in the sky!
The burning magic flies fell to the ground like a shower of falling meteorites and exploded before landing; it was also like many missiles being intercepted as they flew in.
Although it was too far away to strike accurately, and it was impossible to see where the fly demon was hidden in the layers of demon flies... However, the Flame-Rebellious Butterfly roasted it carefully from beginning to end, so it was sure to hit it at least once.
And when the demon flies in the sky were roasted and the swarms became sparse, they finally saw where the demon flies were.
The fly demon was clearly at the sixth energy level, and was completely immune to the Flame-Defying Butterfly, whose power was halved... But at this moment, it was making hysterical and noisy insect sounds, as if it had suffered a huge and unignorable injury.
He was madly spreading plague and curses, and visible green and yellow mists kept falling and spreading around him.
But unfortunately... even though the fly demon looked furious, he still remained rational and did not come down to fight them.
Instead, he began to fly upwards, trying to hide somewhere higher.
——This won’t do!
At this moment, Cardinal Galatea's pupils suddenly turned into two mirrors.
Her magic cannot affect the fly demon, but it can affect a group of them!
The sky above the fly demon suddenly turned into a clear and transparent mirror.
Then, with a severe dizziness and upside-down feeling, everyone was surprised to find that they were standing above the clouds, and the sky above their heads was the earth!
The fly demon that was originally far away from them was now approaching them rapidly!
The fly demon had obviously realized this, but it was too late -
“—Drink!”
The first one to rush forward was the roaring Siegfried.
The Great Guardian hesitated for a moment, because he didn't want his partner Philip to be poisoned by the spores in his mouth; but he quickly realized that they seemed to be standing upside down in the sky, and the fly demon's spores were falling away from them!
Siegfried stepped forward, faster and faster—the ground beneath his feet transformed into a curved surface of ice. He pushed against the air, accelerating as if skating. Eventually, he gave up pushing against the ground altogether, charging forward like he was skating or surfing, riding the newly formed ice wave!
The fly demon was shocked and angry, but instead of retreating, he advanced!
He took Siegfried's charge and slash head-on, his body seemingly much more fragile than the Greedy Demon's. This single blow nearly severed him completely.
However, at this moment, his left arm rapidly extended, turning into a sharp structure like a tree root and a tentacle, and stabbed Siegfried's heart fiercely!
If this attack can hit, it can directly drain Siegfried's vitality and rebuild his demonic body!
——This is the style of fighting where you exchange injury for injury, life for life!
No matter what kind of injuries he suffered, he could recover quickly by absorbing the opponent's vitality!
"……What?"
The fly demon was suddenly startled.
His tentacles easily pierced Siegfried's heart, along with his left arm, which he subconsciously used to block it.
However, there was no "feeling of flesh and blood" that he was already familiar with, and his roots could not take root in the other person's body.
Instead, it was as if "he was still a mortal" - or, just like when Leverkühn was a child, he punched the glass window in extreme anger, but ended up hurting and hurting himself!
The "Siegfried" suddenly shattered in front of him with a sound like cracking ice!
Without time to think, the fly demon stretched out his other arm and knocked Ligeia, who had transformed into a dragon, back again. When he realized that he could not absorb vitality, he immediately changed his previous battle strategy and transformed his right arm into a soft, thorny black whip, whipping away the enemies who had not yet approached him!
This strange mirror-shaped enemy will shatter after just one attack!
However, at this moment, several extremely hot beams of light shot out again and merged, almost cutting his body apart!
The fly demon tried his best, but could only protect the body of "Leverkhun" under himself and use his upper body to forcibly take the blow.
However, he suddenly felt a sharp pain coming from Leverkühn.
An adult dragon that was at least five or six times larger than Ligeia, with a huge scar on one of its eyes, appeared out of nowhere and bit Leverkhun's body!
“—Damn it?!”
Feeling the excruciating pain of his body being torn apart, the fly demon watched in extreme fear as Levequn was bitten and torn off by the giant dragon!
“No, that’s not right…”
He immediately realized that the dragon was an illusion!
The fire explosion did not completely kill the swarm of magic flies around him. It was impossible for the dragon to bypass them and approach him silently!
These people are also my own hallucinations!
When he realized this, the adult dragon froze and gradually dissipated into a shadow. Along with the people who had appeared in the sky to block him and the mirror that had appeared out of thin air, they also disappeared simultaneously.
However.
——"Leviqun" had been bitten off by the illusion of Farna!
The fly demon, emitting purple smoke and gradually becoming weak and sluggish, desperately pounced on the expressionless young man with lifeless eyes and the flesh on his back still spread out like a butterfly, trying to connect himself back again...
But at this moment, the familiar golden-red pillar of fire attacked again.
Just before he was one step away from grabbing the young man's body, he swallowed it directly in the fire!
“No, no…!!”
The fly demon made overlapping buzzing sounds like cicadas.
It wasn't sadness, it was fear.
Because he knew that he was dead.
The Fallen Angels weren't short of demon servants; what they wanted were "human proxies." That's why he injected his power into those two humans, and in doing so, he bypassed the limitations of the Sand Clock's Balance Wall.
Any extraordinary being that reaches the sixth energy level will have its power suppressed in the material world, so the power of the sixth energy level has a time limit; however, "demons" will not be affected within the territory of the Fallen Angels... Due to the influence of the Ring of Tail, this place has been partially integrated with the territory of the Fallen Angels in the dream world, so the Fallen Angels themselves can also retain the power of the sixth energy level.
However, his kingdom has not yet truly manifested, and the power of those higher demons has been temporarily suppressed to the third energy level. Only the power of the servants in the material world is unrestricted.
However, even the Fallen Angels could not bypass the promotion ceremony and directly inject the power of the sixth energy level into the bodies of mortals in the material world, forcibly raising them to the sixth energy level; if he directly raised the power of the demons, it would be equivalent to turning them into his followers, and would suppress their power to the third energy level.
However, the old-fashioned rules of the Sand Clock have never been a problem for the Fallen Angels.
As a rule breaker, the Fallen Angels quickly thought of a way to circumvent this rule - that is, to brand a person with the mark of sin, and continuously transfer their own power to the higher demon gestating in the body of the "demon incarnation"!
The Fallen Angels command countless demons, able to grant or strip them of their powers at will. Although the demons bred within demonized bodies are hostile to their hosts and would seek to seize their bodies at the first opportunity... the Fallen Angels personally instruct them to protect their hosts, so they dare not act rashly.
Once the host dies, it means that they have lost the Sin Brand that transmits power!
That not only means that they have lost the power of the sixth energy level...it also means that—
"—means you've let me down."
A lazy, somewhat disappointing voice sounded out of nowhere: "That's what you think."
"No, Master, my Lord... My Lord! My King—"
The fly demon screamed, but his body gradually tightened in the invisible restraints, making a sour creaking sound: "Help - please forgive me -"
He didn't even dare to cry out in pain, he just kept begging.
It's like gradually crushing and crumpling an empty plastic water bottle.
In the sky, the fly demon's body twisted, shrank, and deformed with a creaking sound.
In the blink of an eye, the giant demon that was over three meters tall turned into a black ball the size of an adult's fist.
"Then you guessed right."
That lazy voice sounded again.
A ferocious claw stretched out from somewhere and crushed it!
When the right claw opened again, only a clean crimson rune remained, spinning quietly. It looked like a slightly exaggerated lip print, as if it was smiling or eating something.
It turned into a red light and flowed into the center of the claw.
An extremely strong oppressive force came.
A four-meter-tall, slender man stood in the sky out of thin air.
Quietly, looking down at all living things.
There were no wings behind him, nor was there any hurricane stirring up.
He wore a dark gold helmet shaped like an eyeless bull's head, revealing only his mouth and the outline of the lower half of his face. He was clad in a slim-fitting black bone armor—yet the armor outlined the contours of his muscles. His hands were not slender like a human's, but rather ferocious claws, reminiscent of both a dragon and a bird.
The purple-black hair was tied into thin strands, draped down her back like fiber optic cables, reaching nearly ankle length. Each "cable" was tied with a different colored ring at a different location, and a single strand could have up to seven rings of different colors, totaling nearly a hundred strands.
At this moment, a dark red ring gradually formed at the end of one of the strands of hair.
No doubt about it.
Even if they had never seen him, even if there were no fallen wings behind him, people could immediately understand that this posture was that of the Fallen Angel.
The man slowly fell from the sky.
After the fly demon died, the remaining demon flies did not die with it. Instead, they seemed to be frightened and driven away by something, and fled in all directions.
However, just as one of the demon flies panicked and flew over the head of the Fallen Angel, the corners of his mouth, which were not very happy to begin with, suddenly drooped again.
Without saying a word, the demon fly on his head suddenly turned into nothingness, and all the demon flies turned into black dust and dissipated at the same time.
He simply looked down at the land and spoke in a calm tone that surprised even himself: "Is this the 'Brave Squad' you used to challenge me, you immature snake tail?"
"——Why, not qualified?"
A mature and deep voice suddenly sounded from above.
Yulia was stunned for a moment, feeling that the voice was extremely familiar.
She immediately raised her head and looked in the direction of the voice.
But the next moment, she was stunned for a moment, and her pupils trembled violently.
That was Aiwass.
He stood atop the giant tree, holding onto the meteorite. The antlers on his head had swelled to several times their size a few days ago, so large that he worried they might shift his center of gravity and cause his head to fall forward.
...But at the same time, that wasn't the Aiwass they were familiar with.
Because the details of his appearance are completely different from Aiwass's -
But even so, Yulia could recognize it!
——Even if he aged dozens of years overnight, she would still be able to recognize him!
Yes, at this moment, Aiwass had somehow become a man in his forties. From a teenager of eighteen or nineteen, he had become a determined and experienced middle-aged man!
His face was still handsome, but it lacked a certain neutrality. Standing high up in the treetops against the light, he looked as solemn and sacred as a holy image.
"...Don't worry," Saint John whispered behind her, holding Yulia in his arms. "This is normal, every priest goes through it. Using the power of devotion close to its limit will burn your lifespan... Using the fire ritual can slowly replenish it."
Hearing this, Yulia pondered for a moment, "I do know about this... but my brother never paid a price when he treated others... I'd completely forgotten..."
"……snort."
No one else said anything, but Fallen Angel replied with contempt, "Of course, he is not an ordinary person after all.
"He's a snake that's been alive since sunset!
"Snakes that confuse people, cause strife, and make them fight each other!
"The church teaches corruption and vanity, that intoxicating serpent!
"Before him, all flesh is as grass. There is nothing that cannot be betrayed, nothing that cannot be deceived, nothing that cannot be plundered—
"—Because he is the immortal serpent, and all things must eventually die!
"My immortal friend!"
Accompanied by deep hatred, the sound of gnashing teeth came from the air.
This was the first time his emotions fluctuated after the Fallen Angels appeared—and it was an extremely violent fluctuation for the first time.
Full of hatred, yet mixed with inexplicable pride and unwillingness.
He had thought he wouldn't be so excited.
But when he saw these mortals supporting the Snake Tail...
I still couldn't help but think of my past self.
...or rather, another self.
That young, innocent, and pure self.
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