Chapter 290: Seized in a Grip! Instantly Refined!
The Purification Light's random Midas Touch took effect, causing the equipment of Yug and Thor, the two brothers, to explode. As a demon unit without equipment, Dares's flesh became the target for division.
Normally, Dares should have been able to avoid the Midas Touch effect of the Purification Light, as there were no selectable equipment items. However, the source was Kukulkan's Purification Light, and its original skill effect was to transmute flesh, not equipment. So, in the absence of equipment, his flesh was selected as the target.
Not only that, but these three, as holders of the demon factor, also simultaneously suffered 400 points of Solar Ray damage, causing their bodies to inevitably stall.
Thor and Dares were relatively better off; the former only had his skirt armor transmuted, and the latter only had his skin peeled. But Yug was directly exposed in his undershorts.
His origins from a Six High Priests family and the dressing customs of the Yisu Kingdom prevented him from being completely exposed on the spot. However, revealing such intimate clothing in front of many acquaintances had already exceeded the shame threshold for these young men.
His gaze, which had been somewhat blank and dull due to being controlled by the demon factor, actually wavered at this moment.
And this gave the Goddess's side an opportunity to act.
As a side note, according to Cain, Dares and people like Saba were barbarians from outside the Yisu Kingdom, and their clothing was indeed less elaborate and complex than those in Yisu.
However, Cheng Tian's attack was far from over.
Under the effect of Charge +1, the skills with cooldowns attached to Cheng Tian's mask also gained the ability to be cast twice instantly. Therefore, the holy radiance on his forehead and crystal magic eye not only did not dissipate but instead rapidly condensed again, releasing another triple-shot of Purification Light.
Cain Fact's casting ability is currently the strongest among individuals in the current world view. Many spells that require incantation can be cast by him without any incantation time, and their effects are not diminished in the slightest.
But the black pearl in his hand was, in the end, a replica. After completing one full-scale attack transfer, he could only withstand it himself.
Almost instinctively, the light of a defensive barrier reactivating shimmered around Cain.
At this moment, the evil magic power, which was no longer hidden, had already become prominent, meeting the damage judgment of the Purification Light.
Relying on his extremely high magic-blood conversion efficiency, Cain Fact's defensive barrier completely absorbed 400 * 3 triple-shot Purification Light damage, paying only a small amount of his mana bar as a price. However, it could not interfere with the Purification Light's Midas Touch judgment.
The barrier could only block magic and physical damage; its essence was a self-buff for Cain. Therefore, the Purification Light mercilessly took effect, and a purple glow began to flow over Cain.
[The mental attribute difference between you and "Cain Fact" is -10, with a base effective probability of 40%.
You possess 1 point of renown, increasing the probability by 10%. The calculated effective probability is 50%.]
[Judgment successful.]
[Judgment failed.]
[Judgment successful.]
Whether it was simply bad luck or some other reason, three Purification Lights consecutively took effect on Cain twice.
Two purple glows stopped flowing, settling respectively on the entire "High Priest Robe" beneath his black shoulder armor, and the "Shadow Spear" hidden behind him.
The disappearance of the robe was a minor matter, but the Shadow Spear disconnecting from him had already exceeded Cain's imagination.
Even Cain, who had almost shown no change in expression when Cheng Tian hit his face with a meteor hammer, for the first time revealed an expression that could only be described as "hideous."
Cain's brow furrowed into three wrinkles deep enough to crush a fly, and then three purple semi-circular magic shields enveloped Cheng Tian and the Twin Goddesses respectively.
The Fact family's barriers could resist spells and physical damage, and by slightly changing their purpose, they could also become binding trap enchantments. Escaping from them was not a simple feat.
But just as Cheng Tian thought Cain was going for the black pearl, he found that he actually rushed out of the White Tower without looking back!
Almost simultaneously, the binding enchantment, which should have strongly restrained the three, shattered on the spot!
Cheng Tian used his Hell Chain Hammer, and on the Twin Goddesses' side, a silver knight's longsword floated in mid-air; it was what pierced through the binding enchantment.
In the original work, both Cain and Dares knew how to use binding enchantments to long-term trap and imprison the Goddesses. But as the system prompt said, the greatest weakness of these users whose power originated from the Root of Evil was high-purity Kleria ore weapons.
Cheng Tian had already tested it with his chain hammer; it could even shatter Cain's absolute barrier with one blow, so these small binding enchantments were naturally no match.
As for the silver knight's longsword on the Goddess's side, it was actually the broken sword Thor had left on the battlefield after his defeat, which had been repaired by Blue Shinbaji's family magic not long ago.
As one of the few remaining high-purity Kleria ore weapons after the sealing of the ore veins, and also the inherited silver sword that would be passed down to the red-haired demon Yarult in the original work, its restraining effect on the Root of Evil was even stronger than the chain hammer Cheng Tian had improvised.
It was precisely because he judged that Cheng Tian could easily break through the enchantment, and he couldn't forcibly snatch the black pearl controlled by the Twin Goddesses within that short time, that Cain decisively chose to retreat instead of continuing to confront the Goddesses.
In fact, even without Cheng Tian's interference, the already wary Goddesses would not have let Cain succeed easily. However, one of Cain's goals in directly revealing his identity and choosing to betray had already been achieved.
Easily breaking through the enchantment, which also gave Cain an opening to escape, Cheng Tian and the two Goddesses rushed out of the White Tower and saw Cain, enveloped in a demonic wind, flying rapidly towards Dares.
Seeing this scene, Cheng Tian's heart suddenly tightened.
To be able to fly in this space-certified no-fly zone, besides natural/demonized life forms inherently granted the right to fly, only the Twin Goddesses, as descendants of winged people, could do it.
At this moment, Cain was able to forcibly fly within the domain of the Twin White Tower, which probably meant he was using some kind of privilege.
Cheng Tian's gaze had already fixed on the replica artifact in his hand.
Following Cheng Mouren's thought, the Chariot Master immediately established a strong connection with the Hell Serpent.
The Hell Serpent, which was already scarred from clashing with Dares, immediately turned its head and directly fired its fully charged Hellfire Railgun at Cain!
But Cain didn't dodge at all, completely ignoring the railgun's bombardment, and rushed straight towards Dares, who was in a state of painful rage… then, under Dares's astonished gaze, he fiercely grabbed Dares's forehead with his empty hand, the one not holding the replica artifact—
Seized in a grip! Instantly refined!
The black pearl, the replica artifact in Cain's hand, and the incomplete Root of Evil within Dares resonated strangely at this moment.
Immediately, evil magic power enveloped both Cain and Dares!