As the endless brilliant Light gradually dimmed, and the destructive roar slowly subsided, under the scorching Light, the colorless world finally began to regain its colors. But after the world's colors were regained, everything was completely different.
After the white Light that illuminated the night disappeared, the night sky once again enveloped the Buserite desert. The green fungal mist that had previously covered the earth like a sea of clouds had now vanished, turning into flying ash along with the swarming flying insects.
After the fungal mist dispersed, the desolate land was revealed again under the stars and moon of the night sky. The land, no longer covered by the fungal mist, was not the same as before. A massive pit over two hundred meters in diameter and dozens of meters deep appeared on the desert. Beyond the edge of the giant pit, traces of sand and stone scattered by the powerful shockwave extended for thousands of meters. The internal surface of the giant pit was still glowing with the scorching red Light symbolizing high temperature. Looking at it, there were molten high-temperature fluids everywhere, with no obvious signs of cooling. The entire giant pit was like a giant pot of hell.
Around and above the terrifying pot of hell, there were no traces of living creatures. Under the complete Silence, there was only the sound of the evening wind blowing and the solidification of the lava. The only sign of life was a male eagle soaring high above, thousands of meters up, overlooking the strange sight below.
'Sin-Purifying Light... Bombardment mode? I didn't expect that Sister Awei's main cannon would have quite a few modes.' Dorothy, from a distant sand dune, observed the battlefield after the catastrophe using her Corpse Puppet's vision, thinking to herself as she watched.
'Compared to the previous roasting mode, this bombardment mode seems to release energy more concentratedly. It turned large-scale roasting into pinpoint blasting. Although the killing range is smaller, the power is more concentrated. The resulting explosion not only directly destroyed Amuyaba's ground insect nest but also destroyed the underground part of the insect nest. The heat roasted all the flying insects to death, and the shockwave directly dispersed such a large area of fungal mist... The power is truly not small. It feels even stronger than a Haolin Shigui losing control and self-destructing...'
Dorothy continued to lament in her heart. Before witnessing Awei's main cannon bombardment this time, the largest explosion she had ever seen in this world was Frederico's self-destruction. Awei's shot was quite a bit stronger than Frederico's out-of-control explosion, already reaching a level far beyond conventional weapons from her original world.
Awei's shot just now essentially eliminated more than ninety-nine percent of the massive number of derivatives that Amuyaba had bred after obtaining a huge amount of Spirituality. Amuyaba was able to hide so deeply before mainly because it found a natural cave system deep underground, where it could directly hide and multiply. But now, Amuyaba has no natural caves it can use directly and can only dig them itself. It had only dug a few dozen meters in a short time. In the end, Amuyaba and both the ground and underground parts of its insect nest were annihilated by Awei's bombardment in one go.
'However, even such a powerful bombardment did not completely eliminate that insect. This fellow is quite cautious; it prepared escape insects early on. Although most of them were disabled by Vanya and then eliminated, there were still a few who slipped through the net... But it doesn't matter. With Vanya here, it can't escape... After all, this is a Scarlet 'Light' plus a Temple...'
Dorothy said in her heart. As she spoke, her gaze turned towards the distant sky. There, in a place beyond Dorothy's sight, the steel battleship was still moving in the air.
...
Under the dark night, on the vast desert, amidst the boundless desolation, a huge, bizarre flying insect was flapping its wings at high speed, flying forward as fast as it possibly could. Amidst the buzzing sound of air vibrations, Amuyaba was desperately struggling for survival.
Faster... Faster... Even faster... This was the only thought in Amuyaba's mind, now in the form of a flying insect. At this moment, it knew that the overall situation was lost, and it had no way to resist the powerful force of the Shining Light Church. It had to flee as quickly as possible with all its might.
'Why... Why were those guys able to break the Holy Epidemic? Why did the Holy Epidemic suddenly become ineffective?! What did they do? If the Holy Epidemic were still here, I couldn't have lost!' At this moment, Amuyaba was filled with utter confusion about its defeat and the sudden disappearance of its biggest trump card, the Holy Epidemic. However, it no longer had time to think too much about the reason behind this, because the ominous star was about to descend upon its head.
While flying, Amuyaba could constantly hear roaring sounds coming from the distance. Beams of Light kept falling from the sky, causing violent explosions in various directions.
Every time these explosions sounded, Amuyaba felt a part of its consciousness disappear. Each bombardment from the sky could accurately take away one of its escape insects, a part of itself. Among the few escape insects that had managed to escape just before the Sin-Purifying Light was fired, more than half had already been eliminated, and the remaining escape insects were now fewer and fewer.
After rapidly decreasing, Amuyaba's surviving escape insects finally dwindled down to the last one. Just as this last escape insect, which could represent Amuyaba, was making its final desperate struggle, a whistling sound suddenly came from the night sky, followed by a huge explosive roar near Amuyaba.
"Boom!"
A shell flying down rapidly from above accurately hit the ground not far from Amuyaba, and then a violent explosion erupted. As the smoke and dust mixed with flames expanded rapidly, a violent shockwave also struck Amuyaba. Amuyaba, now reduced to just one flying insect, was hit by this shockwave and rolled away, then crashed heavily onto the ground. The violent vibration carried by the shockwave severely injured most of Amuyaba's internal organs within its insect body, causing it to almost completely lose its ability to move.
'Dam... it...'
Amuyaba, lying on the ground, kept struggling, seemingly wanting to fly up again and escape from here. However, due to severe internal injuries, it could not fly up again no matter what, only continuously twitching on the ground and spitting out green fluid, as if the entire insect was about to die.
When Amuyaba lost its ability to move, the huge steel battleship hovering high in the night sky also stopped its ground bombardment and slowly began to descend, lowering its altitude and gradually approaching Amuyaba.
After destroying Amuyaba's insect nest, Awei immediately began to hunt down Amuyaba's escaped insects. Guided by Vanya's super biological radar, she quickly locked onto all thirty-four targets and, in the course of the chase, quickly eliminated thirty-three. When facing Amuyaba's last escape insect, Awei chose to deliberately make the shell explode off-target, using only the shockwave to injure the flying insect and make it lose its ability to move.
Relatively speaking, for a Scarlet, capturing it alive is of greater significance than killing it.
Awei stopped lowering the ship's altitude when it was still four to five hundred meters above the ground. Then, a white figure slowly floated down from Awei's ship and landed on the ground.
With Dorothy's assistance, Vanya left Awei's ship and successfully landed on the ground, stopping before the large flying insect, about a meter long, that was constantly struggling. She silently watched it. Vanya's task now was to personally capture Amuyaba.
"It seems its condition is not very good..." Looking at Amuyaba, which was trembling and struggling before her, Vanya said silently. At this moment, she had already begun to use her ability to directly suppress Amuyaba's regeneration ability. Although Amuyaba still had some Spirituality that could be used to recover from injuries, it could not use it.
"Of course. The shell I just fired was quite powerful. Even without a direct hit, the shockwave can cause a lot of damage. It's a wonder it didn't fall apart directly after being affected in that position."
At this moment, near Vanya, Awei's translucent phantom gradually appeared and said coldly. Then she shifted her gaze back to Vanya and continued.
"Alright, now completely contain it and directly deprive it of its ability to move, Sister Vanya."
"Mm..." After hearing Awei's words, Vanya nodded and reached out her hand, intending to completely capture Amuyaba. Amuyaba seemed to sense something, and in its trembling, it directly opened its mouthparts, emitting a sharp, bizarre sound.
"—!"
Hearing Amuyaba's somewhat strange and piercing shriek, Vanya paused slightly, her brows furrowing. Just as she was about to say something, a familiar voice spoke.
"Too piercing, Amuyaba... You should mind your manners in front of important people from the Church..."
Hearing this voice, Vanya was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned her head and looked into the distance in the direction the sound came from. She then saw a tall figure slowly walking towards her from a distant sand dune.
It was a female figure, wearing a close-fitting, short, modified black and gray Sister's habit. She had a proud figure, fair skin, and slightly curled hair visible beneath her Sister's headscarf. Her brown eyes gazed forward, and a slight smile played on her lips.
"You are... Sister Faith! Why are you here?"
Seeing the familiar figure slowly walking towards her from afar, Vanya said with great surprise, her expression showing clear astonishment. She was not only surprised by the sudden appearance of this person who had once claimed to be a spy Sister of the Church, but also surprised that she had not sensed the other party's arrival.
At this moment, Vanya was already a Scarlet-level "Light" Extraordinary, possessing extremely keen sensitivity to living beings. But even so, she still did not sense the other party's arrival.
What is the background of this so-called Sister Faith!?
"Stop! Don't come any closer!"
Seeing Faith approaching, the hovering phantom of Awei beside her couldn't help but shout a very serious warning. But Faith showed no intention of stopping her steps. She continued to walk forward with a smile.
Seeing Faith's complete disregard for her warning, Awei didn't waste any words with her. She directly controlled the main body of the battleship hovering high in the sky to also take action. It immediately turned its cannons and fired a shell in Faith's direction. After hitting Faith, the shell exploded with an incredibly loud roar. In the powerful explosion, flames soared and smoke and dust billowed, and the sweeping shockwave made Vanya stumble slightly. Amuyaba, injured again by the shockwave, let out another piercing scream.
After the explosion, the sky-high dust obscured the large area where Faith had been. Vanya, who had covered her face, reopened her eyes and looked forward, then saw a towering wall of sand and dust.
'Is she dead...'
Seeing Faith directly hit by Awei's attack, this thought appeared in Vanya's mind. But the voice that came from within the wall of sand and dust next made her freeze in place.
"You're still as direct as ever, Awei Emerigo... It's been over four hundred years, and your ruthless nature hasn't changed..."
After saying these words, a figure slowly emerged from the huge wall of sand and dust. Faith, almost completely unharmed, calmly walked out of the massive explosion created by Awei. Her expression was still natural, and not even a corner of her clothing was missing.
"Impossible..." Seeing the scene before her, Vania muttered to herself in disbelief. Beside her, Awei's eyes were wide with a rare expression of astonishment, though her surprise wasn't that Faith was unharmed by her bombardment.
Friendly reminder: The website is about to be revised, which may cause the loss of reading progress. Please save your "Bookshelf" and "Reading History" in time (screenshots are recommended). We apologize for any inconvenience caused!
"Who exactly are you! How do you know my name!" Awei asked Faith very seriously, while Faith waved her hand and whispered.
"Four hundred years ago, the second regiment of the Church's Saint Knight Order, the commander of the Pure Blade Knights, the name of the Bound Steel Sister was very famous. How could I not have heard of you? You were one of the Light's most renowned brave generals in that Holy War..." Looking at Awei in front of her, Faith said with a calm expression. Hearing Faith's words, the surprise in Awei's eyes deepened.
"You..."
"Holy Mother above! Holy Mother's grace! I am here! Great Holy Mother... please save me!"
Just as Awei was about to say something more, the Amuyaba worm, which had been struggling on the ground, suddenly let out an extremely sharp human voice. Hearing this sound, Vania and Awei couldn't help but shift their gaze to the struggling insect.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Vania abandoned the idea of capturing the Amuyaba. She directly used her scar amplification ability on the Amuyaba worm, intensifying its already severe internal and external injuries several times over. Under Vania's interference, the entire Amuyaba worm instantly exploded, bursting into a pile of minced meat and green juice. Awei also showed no mercy, shooting down an extremely hot beam of Light onto the Amuyaba's remains, intending to completely extinguish its life force.
"It's useless... No matter when, you can't kill Amuyaba, because I'm here..."
Seeing Awei and Vania's actions before her, Faith said with a light laugh. Then she gently waved her hand, and a small object flew out from within the beam of Light shot by Awei. Upon closer inspection, it was a piece of meat wrapped in a red glow, charred on the outside, but still pulsating and undulating as a whole.
That piece of Amuyaba's flesh flew from mid-air towards Faith. After Faith caught it in her hand, the meat turned into a puddle of juice and merged into Faith's palm, leaving no trace. Seeing this scene, Awei and Vania prepared to attack Awei directly, but at this moment, Dorothy's voice suddenly and urgently rang out in Vania's mind.
"Run! This woman is the Holy Mother of the Fetal Garment Cult's main sect! Suspected to be a leader of the Fetal Garment Cult's leadership! You cannot deal with her! Suppress her with firepower while retreating!"
Dorothy's voice rang in Vania's mind through the communication channel, and also through the Corpse Puppet on Awei's ship. After hearing Dorothy's words, Awei and Vania were startled, and then almost immediately followed suit.
As Awei began to prepare for a rapid advance to leave, several extremely hot and dazzling beams of Light simultaneously shot towards Faith. Faith was instantly swallowed by these beams, her entire body suddenly in extreme temperatures above five thousand degrees.
After Faith was swallowed by the beams of Light released by Awei, Vania, with Dorothy's magnetic assistance, detached from the ground and returned to the warship in the sky. During this process, Vania also extended her hand, continuously applying her power to the figure within the beams of Light, amplifying the opponent's deep scars to the greatest extent, worsening their regeneration, and trying her best to help Awei suppress Faith.
However, the more Vania used her ability against Faith, the uglier her face became, as if she had felt something extremely terrifying.
"This is... impossible... impossible... How can there be such a regeneration speed... How can there be such a restructuring ability... Is this... still 'life'?"
Vania said in disbelief with a slight tremor in her voice, her eyes wide. And in the extremely dazzling and hot Light where the several bright beams of Light were focused, a faint, illusory voice echoed.
"Ah... the long-lost Purification Flame... Although it is not even one ten-thousandth of the divine Light held by Phaethon, it is enough to make one nostalgic..."
In the Light, as the ethereal voice just finished speaking, a sudden anomaly arose. The desert ground, which was constantly being roasted by the bright Light, suddenly turned scarlet red as if it had been soaked in blood. Starting from the focal point of the bright Light, this scarlet red rapidly expanded outwards, and in an instant, the sand within a radius of a thousand meters was instantly stained scarlet red, saturated with blood.
The scarlet red sand within that thousand-meter radius suddenly began to undulate rhythmically, and a chilling thudding sound began to echo in the space, as if a giant heart was beating beneath the earth. Amidst the constant undulation of the ground and the continuous beating of the "heart", large swathes of "blood sand" began to condense into real "flesh and blood". The original sandy ground quickly turned into scarlet red fleshy ground.
On these large expanses of fleshy ground, various blue veins several meters or tens of meters long were spread everywhere, and dense blood vessels expanded. Then, the large expanses of fleshy ground split open with huge cracks. As these cracks continuously widened, giant eyes seven or eight meters long, and giant mouths ten to twenty meters long filled with fangs, opened up one after another. Looking down from high altitude, one could see that the turning fleshy ground was covered with countless huge eyes and mouths. These eyes and mouths slightly opened and closed, appearing extremely disgusting along with the rolling flesh and blood earth.
'What the hell is this?!'
Facing this extreme change in the ground below, Dorothy couldn't help but think in astonishment, and after seeing all this, Awei immediately aimed all her muzzles at the ground and unleashed her full firepower.
"Destroy! Filthy evil!"
Amidst a series of continuous, deafening roars, countless steel solid shells and energy shells were unleashed by Awei, bombarding the flesh and blood ground below. However, unexpectedly, as soon as the warheads of the steel solid shells approached the flesh and blood ground, they immediately began to deform. The high-temperature metal shell actually began to turn into elastic scarlet red skin. A pair of eyes grew on both sides of the warhead, and a pair of bat-shaped fleshy wings grew on top of the warhead.
Awei's energy shells successfully poured onto the flesh and blood ground, but after only blasting out some blood splatters, the entire ground recovered. The deformed solid shell warheads that had turned into conical monsters bounced back up after hitting the ground, flapping their wings and flying rapidly towards Awei's warship in the sky. Seeing this, Awei immediately used her close-in defense system to intercept. The hit warhead monsters instantly exploded violently.
Just as Awei was intercepting the monsters that had mutated from her shells, several large mouths on the flesh and blood ground began to show signs of vomiting. Then, from many large mouths, thick arms were vomited out. These arms, without skin and only muscle, severely deformed with extra or missing fingers, drilled out from the giant mouths of the flesh and blood ground one after another, rapidly extending towards the sky.
For a while, thousands of giant hands densely reached towards the sky, resisting Awei's close-in defense system, grabbing the rapidly rising steel giant ship. Awei's hull was instantly firmly gripped by countless deformed arms, and then pulled downwards by a powerful force.
"What... bad..."
Just as Awei was grabbed by the numerous arms, Vania, who was originally approaching Awei, was also captured. Before she could react, countless rapidly extending arms had already grabbed her. No matter how hard Vania struggled, she could not break free from this dense restraint.
"Hmm... this is..."
On the other side, after Awei's hull began to be dragged down, the original bright Light emitters could no longer aim. Faith, who was illuminated by the bright Light, reappeared. Compared to before being illuminated by the bright Light, she seemed to be completely unharmed, except for her original clothes being gone.
As Faith was slowly lifted by a few deformed giant hands from the ground, blood threads condensed in the air, weaving together to form a red nun's habit that was worn on Faith again. When this "nun's habit" was completely worn on Faith, its Scarlet red fabric slowly darkened to dark red.
Wearing her new "clothes" and being held up by the deformed giant hands, Faith came before the restrained Vania, carefully examining the little nun who had a hint of panic but was trying hard to stay calm, her eyes full of curiosity.
"What are you... looking at?"
Looking at Faith before her, Vania said seriously with furrowed brows, while Faith continued to examine her and replied.
"Looking at you..."
"I want to take a closer look at what kind of existence Olivia's most valued junior over the past few hundred years is..." Faith said softly with a strange expression as she stroked Vania's body, while Vania spoke seriously again.
"You've been observing me in the camp for so long... haven't you fully understood?"
"Of course not... otherwise... I wouldn't be curious now about how you managed to modify the Holy Plague on such a scale in an instant... The secrets on your body are not only from Olivia, which is enough for me to explore for a long time..."
As Faith spoke, she began to touch Vania's cheek. Vania couldn't help but grit her teeth and widen her eyes. At this moment, countless lightning bolts struck down from the sky, directly hitting Faith. Faith merely used the endless arms extending from underground to block them. When one arm was struck by lightning and shattered, she replaced it with another. Faith had an infinite supply of limbs to use.
"Even the ancient lightning of enlightenment is favoring you... Vania Chafilun, what kind of charm do you have to attract so much favor, I want to take a closer look at you..."
While defending against the lightning falling from the sky, Faith leaned her mouth close to Vania's face and whispered. Then she placed her other hand on Vania's chest, raised it, and plunged it in under Vania's slightly fearful gaze.
Amidst Vania's painful cries, Faith's hand pierced into Vania's chest. As Vania's blood splattered, a seemingly ordinary Holy Mother pendant inside Vania's clothing at her chest erupted with dazzling Light. This bright Light penetrated Vania's clothes and shone outwards.
"What..."
Illuminated by this Light from Vania's chest, Faith couldn't help but tremble directly, immediately pulling away from Vania, covering her eyes, and retreating. The arms that had been restraining Vania also loosened and scattered one after another. Faith retreated far away, covering her face.
"Olivia... I didn't expect you to value her to this extent..."
Covering her face, Faith looked at Vania in front of her and said with a somewhat surprised expression. Under the illumination of that Light just now, Faith's skin began to melt, and another face gradually began to appear on her face.
And when this face was seen by Awei, who was starting to rescue Vania in the distance, she was stunned for a moment, and then the expression on her face turned into one of extreme anger.
"Yunina Dotina!!!"