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It was entirely covered in black, cold armor, with only two clusters of deep blue, almost purple, light flickering where its eyes should be, giving off an exceptionally sacred and wise feeling, yet appearing quite indifferent and devoid of warmth.
In its hand, it held a straight, profound greatsword, like a solemn Dark Knight.
"Saintess of White, Katarina Pelle?"
Leyton's flat voice emerged from within the tall Dark Knight.
"You know me?"
"It's a pity. If you hadn't stolen that Conqueror Characteristic, I wouldn't mind having a truly joyful time with you. But now, I can only follow the Primordial One's oracle and bring you back to the Demoness Sect."
"Of course, perhaps your companion would be willing to exchange that Conqueror Characteristic with us. After all, it's a Hunter Pathway Characteristic, and for both the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and the Aurora Order, it's not a mandatory item."
Her words were met with an upward swing, each movement of the dark, profound greatsword accompanied by an intense Fallen aura that corroded the surrounding seawater, causing it to sizzle.
Katarina Pelle's body distorted at an incredible angle, easily dodging the dark greatsword's swing.
Her dark hair suddenly expanded, twisting into roots, intertwining with each other like black tentacles or grotesque venomous snakes, striking at the tall Dark Knight from different angles.
Sizzle Sizzle
The black tentacles slammed hard against the black armor, instantly corroded by the dense Fallen aura, emitting sizzling sounds.
Relying on the armor's strong defensive capabilities, Leyton barely managed to entangle with these hair-distorted tentacles. They were extremely flexible, as if each tentacle had its own mind, deftly dodging the dark greatsword's swings and seizing the opportunity to wrap around the Dark Knight's wrist.
Leyton controlled the Dark Knight, using the pulling force of the hair-wrapped tentacles to violently ram into Katarina Pelle in front of him.
The power from the Fallen domain continuously gathered on that dark, profound greatsword, as if it could corrode flesh and obliterate souls.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the overcast sky, thick bolts of lightning struck down, hitting the entangled Demoness and Dark Knight at an unavoidable speed.
These electric lights carried a strong numbing effect. After hitting the Dark Knight and the long-haired Demoness, they quickly disintegrated into countless tiny electric snakes, darting in all directions, illuminating the surrounding seawater as bright as day.
Even with the Dark Knight's concealment, Leyton still felt his body stiffen slightly.
The same was true for Katarina Pelle, whose hair distorted into tentacles. Leyton clearly felt that the black tentacles wrapped around the Dark Knight had become soft and weak.
With a slight delay, the tall Dark Knight instantly disintegrated into a profound Darkness, and as if conscious, it enveloped Katarina Pelle along the tentacles formed by her dark hair.
The dense Fallen aura instantly corroded and broke her hair, or caused it to develop Fallen consciousness and turn to entangle her instead.
The dense, profound Darkness wrapped Katarina Pelle into a giant cocoon, constantly wriggling and deforming, as if something was about to break through the cocoon's confines.
Leyton's eyes were surrounded by a deep blue, almost purple, glow, appearing exceptionally cold and sacred. Suddenly, his gaze flickered, becoming extremely profound, then quickly returning to normal.
Before the continuous lightning strikes, he summoned an invisible giant hand, sending the constantly wriggling and deforming dark cocoon high into the sky, to the side of "Sea King" Jahn Kottman.
"Hmph!"
A cold snort, accompanied by the wailing of wind, exploded around him, forming a terrifying sonic boom.
Leyton's body instantly became transparent, shattered, and transformed into countless brilliant starlight surging in the seawater, probing towards the deep sea.
"Sea King" Jahn Kottman's gaze fell upon the dark cocoon thrown before him. It seemed as if countless pythons were wriggling inside, twisting and expanding strangely.
He reached out his hand, summoning an invisible wind to firmly restrain it.
Chirp!
A dark tentacle pierced through the layer of Darkness that enveloped it.
Chirp! Chirp! Chirp! More and more tentacles extended from it. They began to wrestle with the invisible wind, attempting to break free.
In just a moment, thick, layered dark clouds covered everything around, and silver electric snakes darted out, carrying a strong, almost tangible aura of tyrannical destruction, densely striking at the tentacles and at the Demoness who had not yet fully broken free from the Darkness.
Katrina's expression suddenly distorted. She had been directly thrown in front of the Church of the Lord of Storms's "Sea King." Her eyes were enveloped by dazzling silver light, while invisible wind and the dark, Fallen restraints still bound her.
Damn it, Elena, that crazy woman, if she doesn't use that item soon, even with the Demoness of Unaging's powerful survival ability, it will be very difficult for me to safely leave this sea.
In a coastal area to the left of Bayam, on the exposed reefs due to the receding sea level, brilliant starlight surged and condensed into shimmering patches, revealing Leyton's figure once more.
He reached up and rubbed his forehead; his spirituality was already struggling to maintain the starlight state.
Simulating the solar flare earlier consumed too much spirituality. How does the Demoness Sect possess such a Concealment Mystical Item? Do they control higher-level items from the Darkness and Artisan Pathways?
As he pondered, his spirituality was suddenly touched. He looked warily at the reef to his right.
Dark red flames suddenly surged, and a vibrant figure emerged from them. Her fiery red hair was singed yellow in places, wildly flaring and twisting within the dark red flames.
Invisible transparent threads spread rapidly outwards from her.
Some were hard, some soft, carrying invisible mystical viruses and bacteria, attempting to invade Leyton's body.
On his back, pure white, illusory feathers condensed, and as the pure, sacred wings unfolded, Leyton's body cracked open with fissures, from which eyes grew out.
They were indifferent, cold, bizarre, and distorted, as if each eye was alive and had its own thoughts.
"Do you have any means of resurrection left?"
Leyton slightly opened his mouth, emitting a hoarse, low voice, mixed with emotion-stirring and desire, accompanied by complex, useless knowledge.
This was closer to a kind of ravings, and although it lacked the corruption of complete living biological forms, through his deliberate influence, this ravings would be even more dangerous.
Elena experienced a brief trance. A large amount of complex, useless knowledge was transmitted to her mind with the sound, making her thoughts sluggish, and the surging emotions and desires blurred her judgment, making her forget to act.
Every eye that had opened on Leyton's body met her gaze. Those eyes seemed to contain countless brilliant starlight, hazy and dreamlike, making her unable to help but want to look more closely.
Those countless brilliant stars continuously magnified in her mind, forming a pair of eyes, cold and indifferent eyes. From these eyes, she saw all-encompassing knowledge—no, He was knowledge itself!
Immersed in knowledge, she was completely unaware that her body had begun to mutate. Her flesh continuously cracked open, and amidst layers of crimson, one eye after another opened. These eyes were tainted with a strange aura, rapidly contaminating her own being.
Leyton's lips slowly curved into an arc, murmuring in a dreamlike whisper. His voice easily penetrated everything around him, polluting the entire sea area:
"Sage who perceives the world, eyes that glimpse truth, embodiment of endless knowledge and numerology!"
Standing on the opposite reef, Elena, immersed in knowledge, had eyes growing on her body that suddenly became active, gazing up at the sky as if in pilgrimage, towards the Spirit World Depths.
Under the influence of the eyes on her body, Elena began to speak in a dreamlike voice:
"...The source of all disasters, the symbol of Apocalypse and destruction, the Demoness who controls chaos."
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