Inside the small forest beside Dazzle Star Lake, when Gothsmore, who had traced the Spirituality threads, witnessed the Corpse Puppet arranged here by Dorothy, she decisively pierced it with a blood blade, but this happened to be exactly what Dorothy intended; after Dorothy herself once again endured a painful transmission by relying on Dragon mimicry and the Moon Crown Fragment, she attacked again, controlling the Spirituality threads originally connected to the Corpse Puppet to materialize and rush out of the Corpse Puppet's body, linking towards Gothsmore.
Spirituality thread materialization, this was a new ability of the Spirituality path that Dorothy gained after becoming Scarlet; Dorothy could materialize the originally invisible Spirituality threads into fine red threads, making them appear in reality; Dorothy could release such threads from her own body or use a puppet that was already connected with Spirituality threads as a medium; the number of Spirituality threads released from Dorothy's main body was very large, while only one thread could be released from each Corpse Puppet used as a medium, essentially linking the Spirituality thread originally connected to the puppet to other targets.
Biological targets touched by Dorothy's materialized Spirituality threads would be considered as having established a Spirituality link with Dorothy.
For example, now, Dorothy was intending to use the Spirituality thread from the pierced Corpse Puppet to touch Gothsmore; in addition to the Spirituality thread from this Corpse Puppet, several equally slender red Spirituality threads extended from the ground, wrapping towards Gothsmore; these Spirituality threads came from small Corpse Puppets Dorothy had buried in the ground beforehand, and they, along with the Corpse Puppet acting as a decoy, formed a Spirituality trap here for Gothsmore!
From the Corpse Puppet and the ground, countless red Spirituality threads extended towards Gothsmore; Dorothy's Spirituality thread speed was not slow, but it was not enough when facing a higher-level "Shadow" Extraordinary, let alone Gothsmore, an Apostle-transformed Scarlet "Shadow"; although there were many Spirituality threads extending from this trap, it was impossible to reach Gothsmore at their speed, so Dorothy had other preparations for this.
In Dazzle Star Lake, the Full Moon Water Demon, which was originally accumulating power, suddenly stuck its head out of the water at this moment, and then released its ability again; at this moment, it also cast an illusion on Gothsmore.
The Full Moon Water Demon's ability was to make people see the illusion they expected to see; this illusion ability could easily make the target ignore new changes occurring in the environment.
Gothsmore subconsciously did not expect this to be a trap at all; she had never seen materialized Spirituality threads before and could not imagine being sneak-attacked by Spirituality threads, so under the Full Moon Water Demon's ability, when facing the incoming Spirituality threads, Gothsmore simply did not see the Spirituality threads appear, because in the scene she subconsciously perceived, there was no Spirituality trap at all.
Therefore, it was not until the Spirituality threads were truly about to touch Gothsmore that Gothsmore instinctively reacted to the arrival of danger and wanted to quickly dodge, but at this point, Dorothy's Spirituality threads were already very close to Gothsmore, and it was too late for her to dodge anymore.
"What... ugh!"
Finally, several of Dorothy's Spirituality threads successfully touched Gothsmore, and then quickly merged into her body; when these links were completed, Dorothy then infused Spirituality into them, hindering Gothsmore's actions and causing her movements to be temporarily delayed.
"What the hell is this again!!"
Feeling the strong sense of restraint on her body, Gothsmore couldn't help but roar angrily, and then immediately began to struggle desperately to break free from the restraints; Dorothy felt her control being greatly challenged for a moment, Gothsmore's strong resistance made it difficult for Dorothy to even control her temporarily, she gritted her teeth and immediately began damage transfer.
Dorothy controlled the Corpse Puppets hidden elsewhere to inflict damage on themselves, and then transferred it all at once to Gothsmore's body; for a moment, Gothsmore's body was covered in bursting wounds, blood spurting everywhere, not a single part of her was intact, and there were even several extra holes in her head, and several gashes on her spine.
However, these wounds, which would have killed a cup Werewolf several times over, did not kill Gothsmore; she was still struggling and howling after suffering countless fatal injuries for an ordinary person, trying to break free from control.
In response, Dorothy immediately used Spirituality threads to conduct a high-voltage current to Gothsmore's body; Gothsmore immediately convulsed and her skin was rapidly scorched, and in more mournful howls, the flesh and blood that burst out even began to carbonize and crack, but this still did not kill Gothsmore; although it weakened Gothsmore's degree of struggle, her resistance was still strong.
"Let go of me! You lowly insects!!"
Even when applying the damage transfer to the extreme extent allowed by Spirituality, Dorothy still failed to eliminate the Apostle-transformed Gothsmore; at this critical moment, Gothsmore even began to deepen her Apostle transformation to strengthen her body's resilience, so that she would not be completely controlled to death by Dorothy.
At this time, Dorothy herself had only one move to completely eliminate Gothsmore, and that was to use the Heaven's Decree Envoy's "Heavenly Punishment Thunder"; this was the Scarlet advanced version of the Summoning Thunder Master's lightning strike ability; as long as it hit Gothsmore, its power was enough to completely vaporize her, but this move, like a lightning strike, needed to accumulate energy in the clouds, consumed a lot of Spirituality, required a certain amount of time, and the commotion during accumulation was not small; that level of commotion could not be concealed even with the Full Moon Water Demon's ability.
Putting aside the issue of Dorothy's shortage of various Spirituality after just being promoted, under Gothsmore's level of struggle, Dorothy had no time to accumulate the Heavenly Punishment Thunder, because according to Dorothy's calculations, Gothsmore would completely break free from the restraints before the accumulation was completed, so preparing the Heavenly Punishment Thunder was a complete waste of time.
She did not accumulate the Heavenly Punishment Thunder, but this did not mean that Dorothy had not prepared a final gift for Gothsmore; on this battlefield, Dorothy was not the only one who possessed a move capable of destroying Gothsmore in one go.
In the dark sky, an orange-yellow starlight suddenly flashed, and then this starlight became increasingly dazzling, and the intensity of its flashing rapidly increased.
In the sky above Dazzle Star Lake, a fiery meteor trailing a long tail of flame was This moment breaks the sky, plunging straight towards the ground; within the meteor's flames was the figure of a heavily armored knight, who was none other than Francesco! At this moment, he was once again transforming into a meteor, rushing straight towards the enemy Fanatics on the ground!
Dorothy had long anticipated that even if Gothsmore fell into the Spirituality trap, she would be powerless to launch a destructive attack capable of ending Gothsmore in one go, so after luring Gothsmore to chase the Corpse Puppet decoy, Dorothy had the Corpse Puppet inform Francesco, telling him to seize this opportunity to prepare a big move to kill the enemy in one go.
For Francesco, Gothsmore was a clear Eight-Pointed Nest cultist; they not only attacked the advance party he had sent earlier, but also attempted to conspire against the extremely important pilgrimage group; now Gothsmore even had the direct protection of an evil god, which was utterly blasphemous.
While Dorothy's situation was unclear, it was highly likely that she was part of the same group as the so-called "Prit Guardians" who had previously rescued the advance party; Francesco, as the Archbishop of Prit, had a certain understanding of Prit's history, and seeing the Mirror Moon Golem that seemed to be a self-defense mechanism, he seemed to have his own conjectures about the origins of these mysterious helpers.
In short, facing the formidable enemy Gothsmore, Francesco agreed to Dorothy's Corpse Puppet's suggestion without much thought, and began preparing his ultimate move while Gothsmore was still chasing the decoy Corpse Puppet; on the rapidly changing battlefield of a few seconds, this timing was already very early.
Francesco's so-called ultimate move was to fly himself to a sufficiently high altitude, then wrap himself in powerful flames and use the "Stone" ability to greatly increase his mass before smashing down fiercely, just as he did when he first appeared; this move, "Heavenly Fire Meteor," was the standard destructive move of a Heavenly Fire saint, and a direct hit would be enough to turn Gothsmore directly into ash.
Just like that, trailing a long tail of flame, Francesco, wrapped in flames, cut through the night sky and smashed straight towards the point where Gothsmore was restrained; after feeling the abnormality in the sky, Gothsmore, who was struggling, couldn't help but look up, and her eyes widened when she saw the increasingly close and large fireball.
"Damn old Fanatics... how dare you at this time..."
Gothsmore spoke through gritted teeth, and then seemed to be preparing to make some moves, while the six blood blades in her six hands at this moment seemed to sense a hint of danger, and began to tremble violently, wanting to turn into a blood mist and break free from Gothsmore, and this abnormality was quickly detected by Gothsmore.
"Don't run away, Bo Ade..."
At this moment, Gothsmore ordered in a sharp voice, and after her words, the six blood blades all stopped trembling at once, but instead, a mournful voice came.
"Let me go, Gothsmore, I beg you, if this continues, both of us will lose our lives!"
Listening to this voice, Gothsmore couldn't help but sneer, and then continued to speak.
"No, not both of us will lose our lives, at least one person will survive...
"In the name of the Deep Web Queen, I command you, Bo Ade, absolute obedience!"
Using the effect of the queen insect's queue, Gothsmore directly ordered Bo Ade in the name of a god using her identity as a shaman, making him absolutely execute her will; Bo Ade's body was temporarily out of his control, and he said in panic, realizing what was happening.
"No! Gothsmore, you can't do this!"
"Why not? You should feel honored by your sacrifice, the Nest will remember your deeds."
Ignoring Bo Ade's words, Gothsmore continued her actions; she first gave up trying to break free from the restraints of the Spirituality threads and the constantly transmitted wounds on her entire body, and instead focused on freeing only one arm; then she gathered the six blood blades she originally held into that one freely moving hand, transforming them into a giant blood spear shining with dark red light, aiming at the fiery meteor falling from the sky.
After realizing what Gothsmore was about to do, Dorothy immediately began to transfer damage to Gothsmore's hand, but even large wounds, including those that would cut off the entire arm, intended to deeply cripple Gothsmore's hand to stop her actions, but due to the significant difference in Gothsmore's body compared to an ordinary person after Apostle transformation, the injuries on ordinary Corpse Puppets could not accurately correspond to Gothsmore's specific body parts; the damage Dorothy transmitted appeared on other parts of Gothsmore's body, especially on her other five arms.
This was one of the drawbacks of the Spirituality path's damage transfer; if the biological essence and category difference between the two targets of damage transfer were too large, the accuracy of the damage transfer could not be guaranteed, meaning that an injury on a human hand could be accurately transferred to a human hand, but not accurately transferred to an animal hand.
And now, Gothsmore was essentially another species compared to humans.
Dorothy's attempt to stop her failed, Gothsmore threw the blood spear in her hand straight out.
Just like that, the blood spear containing the entire power and Spirituality of a Scarlet was forcibly thrown out by Gothsmore, stabbing at the fiery meteor falling from the sky at high speed; accompanied by a flash of dark red light, the giant dark red blood spear hit the fiery meteor at low altitude near the ground, and then erupted in a violent dark red blood mist, and the falling meteor also erupted with even more powerful flames, engulfing the dark red blood mist.
Immediately, a strong explosion occurred at low altitude over Dazzle Star Lake, and a violent storm swept in all directions, stirring up waves on the lake surface and causing large areas of trees to fall.
Finally, from the smoke and dust generated by the huge explosion, a dim firelight fell out, landing on the ground and creating a not-so-large pit; the knight wearing heavy plate armor shakily and with difficulty stood up from it, with many cracks and openings on his armor, stained with large patches of dark red dry blood; those belonged to Bo Ade.
Bo Ade died, transformed by Gothsmore into a powerful blood spear to intercept Francesco; in a head-on collision with the Heavenly Fire saint, Bo Ade died without surprise, not even leaving a trace of his corpse, but the blood energy burst caused by his death, while causing considerable damage to Francesco, also greatly weakened the power of the Heavenly Fire Meteor, so that when Francesco truly landed, he did not have the destructive effect to kill Gothsmore.
Staggering out of the pit, Francesco knew there were still enemies nearby and was actively searching for them, but he did not know that danger had already arrived behind him.
"Ugh!!!"
Suddenly, Francesco felt an unforgettable, extreme pain coming from his back, almost causing him to faint; before he was struck down by this powerful, piercing pain, he struggled to look back, and then saw the cold-faced Gothsmore standing behind him; his chest was currently pierced by a slender blood thorn held by Gothsmore.
Taking advantage of the time Bo Ade had bought with his death, Gothsmore had successfully escaped.
Just like that, under the irresistible extreme pain, Francesco lost consciousness and fell straight down, his heavy armor hitting the ground with a dull thud.
After seeing Francesco fall to the ground, Gothsmore snorted coldly, then, covered in blood, she turned and looked at the Mirror Moon Golem in the distance, and flew towards it at high speed.
"I know, I know you're there... Don't try to trick me again... I'm coming to deal with you right away..."
Murmuring, Gothsmore's face was grim, suppressing immense anger, flying rapidly towards the Mirror Moon Golem, vowing to resolve the final enemy of this battle.
And within the Golem, Dorothy, whose Spirituality was already low in all aspects except for "Shadow" and "Silence", couldn't help but frown after seeing this scene.
"It seems that in the end, I can only rely on this..."
Standing inside the Golem, Dorothy looked at the full moon in the sky and its reflection on the lake surface, and couldn't help but murmur softly.
"The remnants of the night sky, the legend in the lake... are also the last opportunity now.
"Moon, are you also watching this side now? Just like that spider..."
Saying this, Dorothy shifted her gaze to her moon-decorated ring, then slowly closed her eyes and began to use her own Spirituality.