Chapter 529: 479 Chapter 529: 479 Dozens of thorns imbued with electromagnetic force arrived in an instant.
To unleash the “Light of Annihilation,” the majority of the holy artifact’s power had been drawn away. This time, under the successive barrages of ‘mini electromagnetic cannons,’ the “Unbreakable Shield” quickly shattered upon impact.
Monroe, bound by rune chains, had no chance to dodge. He could only try to avoid vital points as he helplessly watched thorn after thorn pierce his chest, thighs, and arms…
One of the thorns even struck the floating cube—Rafael was well aware of what the key was.
As Monroe’s cries of despair echoed, the cube slipped from his grasp and was sent flying away.
Before Rafael could launch another assault, a hand reached out and caught the cube precisely before it hit the ground.
A look of joy immediately appeared on Monroe’s face as he urgently warned, “Quick, Ivina, destroy the altar!”
The holy artifact in his hand was poised. With just one more push, it would be unleashed.
Although Ivina would inevitably take some of the credit, at that moment, he no longer cared!
Amidst Monroe’s anticipation and the suddenly changing gazes of Rafael and the others, Ivina raised the cube in her hand, aiming it squarely at the Sun Furnace, and without hesitation, she initiated the attack!
The dark “Light of Annihilation” shot out from the cube, its speed reaching the extreme!
It was evidently a reference to someone’s development of laser magic.
Simultaneously, Cynthia managed to tear open a rift in Vittorio’s legendary array.
While there was an abundance of energy to sustain the array, how could a living legend not be able to break through a dead formation?
Soon after, strands of dazzling starlight emerged behind Cynthia, spreading out in a display as resplendent as a peacock’s tail…
Just as Cynthia was ready to cast her spell and obliterate the entire ascension platform, a deadly, dark beam of destruction struck her from behind without warning.
The speed of the light was unfathomable. By the time Cynthia sensed the danger, the “Light of Annihilation” had already pierced through half her body, shattering her carefully constructed spell as well.
The entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence, as everyone present stared at Ivina holding the cube with surprise and disbelief on their faces.
Monroe’s eyes widened in shock. For a moment, he even suspected he was hallucinating. But he quickly came to his senses and yelled in despair.
“Why… Are you mad? Ivina!”
Monroe refused to believe that Ivina had simply missed her target. It was unthinkable that she would accidentally strike the Holy Maiden; it had to be deliberate!
Ivina ignored Monroe and, with the luminous cube pointed at Cynthia, asked solemnly.
“I have some questions, and I hope you will answer me truthfully… Your Holiness the Holy Maiden.”
“Is the scripture accurate, is the land we stand upon flat or spherical, did God truly create this world? What exactly is a wizard? Do heaven and hell really exist…”
After living and studying in Fire Oil City for several months, Ivina had too many unresolved questions. Although now might not be the best time for such inquiries, she knew she would never get answers at any other moment.
Harrov didn’t wait for Cynthia to reply and took the lead, sneering as he spoke. “What Holy Maiden? Standing before you is Ela, the deity worshipped by the church!”
“The ‘Holy Maiden’ you speak of is nothing more than a shell used to sustain her coming, replaced every few years… Claiming to be a divine being, she’s actually just further along the path of magic than the rest of us,” Aurora added without hesitation, revealing Cynthia’s true nature.
She did not understand why Ivina had suddenly attacked the Holy Maiden, but the cube in her hands held the power to influence the outcome of the battle.
The words of the two caused Ivina to be utterly astonished, so much so that even Monroe, his face a picture of despair, stood there frozen.
The Holy Maiden before them was… the Moon Goddess [Ela]?
Cynthia did not respond to Ivina’s words, nor did she deign to refute Harrov’s remarks. Instead, she spoke with an extremely cold voice, “You’re prepared to use my own thing against me?”
“A knife can be a lethal weapon as well as a tool for saving lives.” Ivina struggled to suppress the shock on her face, showing no consciousness of retreat. She was different from Monroe, as she only acted according to her own will, not caring whether it was Divine Arts or magic.
However, Ivina clearly misunderstood what Cynthia meant. In the next moment, she felt the cube in her hand losing control, with countless threads of magic power shooting out from its crystalline surface…
Cynthia wasn’t just waiting; she was communicating with the Divine Energy within the cube, despite it being an alchemic creation. This didn’t mean she hadn’t left a backup plan within the holy artifact she had crafted with her own hands!
At such close range, Ivina had no possibility to evade. Her body was quickly penetrated by the surging threads of magic power, one of which tightly wound around her neck like a hangman’s noose.
An intense feeling of suffocation immediately took hold of her entire brain.
Not only that, Ivina also felt her physical strength and magic power being drained non-stop…
Her mind grew hazy, and memories of the past flashed by like phantoms, finally freezing at the image of that harbor town ablaze with fire.
Perhaps she should have died that night? The girl thought to herself regretfully, it’s just a pity she still hadn’t figured out what the truth was, nor had she found any trace of Loth…
The struggling expression on Ivina’s face gradually settled into calm. Although somewhat unwilling, she still serenely accepted her own death.
“This is where it ends!”
A loud voice suddenly filled the entire underground space, reaching Ivina’s ears, followed by the sound of something bursting and shattering.
When Ivina’s eyes opened again, she saw that what had exploded was the self-floating cube in front of her. It seemed to have been shattered by a powerful force, with large chunks of crystal stone scattering into countless shimmering fragments on the ground.
The magic power threads connecting to her body had also snapped apart.
Ivina crashed heavily to the ground, turning her gaze, regardless of the pain from her body, toward the Sun Furnace.
The flickering lightning inside had completely dissipated, and the alchemy runes that had been sparkling on the ground had dimmed.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, a figure in dazzling blue emerged from the Sun Furnace. In the instant of Body Reshaping, Lynn had crafted an appropriate atomic outfit for himself using magic power.
He had no choice, his robe could not withstand such an intense energy wash and had been destroyed along with his body.
He didn’t have a habit of fighting without clothes.
Lynn looked around the underground space that had turned into a projection of the Divine Kingdom, Ariel with a severed arm, the gravely injured Harrov, and the official wizards who were oppressed by the Divine Realm to the point of being unable to move, all came into his view.
He understood that he had made some mistakes in his judgement. Lynn had thought that with the obstruction of Harrov and Aurora, and with the Alchemy Array laid by Vittorio, he could just barely hold out until his ascension was successful.
After all, his intelligent brain had recorded every step of constructing a Magic Power and Energy Body, and Lynn was confident he could complete it within a minute.
But he hadn’t expected that he still underestimated Cynthia’s power; the Hand of Elements deployed with the power of the Divine Kingdom was strong enough to tear through the protective Array laid by Vittorio.
Seeing Lynn walk out of the fusion furnace, Harrov was exceedingly overjoyed. He understood that from now on the tide of battle had turned, but he still asked cautiously,
Although both he and Aurora were gravely injured, they still had some fighting power left.
“Leave it to me. Your magic probably won’t have any fatal impact on her!” Lynn reassured them, then turned to look at Cynthia, who had regained her body, and spoke again with a cold voice.
“Perfect, I’ve been wanting to experiment with a technique!”
The moment his words fell, Lynn’s body moved, extreme speed causing an intense sonic boom that repelled everything around him. Mach cones, which normally only appeared on supersonic jets, now formed around the Energy Body.
Relying solely on the power of his ‘flesh’, Lynn broke the sound barrier, sending Cynthia flying with a direct punch!