At night, the bright moon hung high above a dense forest in the outskirts of Igwinte. Amidst the raging storm, Anna transformed into a valiant young knight. Dressed in a fitted skirt-armor, holding a long spear-flag, and wearing a winged crown, she looked forward with a solemn expression. She was looking at another young girl, Atcherly of the Church's Bureau of Secrets, who stood rooted to the spot with a peculiar look in her eyes.
"Is this... a weapon and armor? And of an ancient style? Is this some kind of inheritance left by the Field family? But in the history I know, the Extraordinary inheritance has long been severed since the first Field family head... It seems you have unearthed something new..."
Looking at Anna, whose appearance had drastically changed, Atcherly said with a rather serious expression. She now seemed to believe that Anna and the organization behind her had unearthed some hidden Extraordinary legacy of the Field family, thereby gaining such power.
"Are you referring to... some Extraordinary legacy left by Patriarch Alin? Unfortunately... if he had truly left any legacy that could be used as power, his descendants would not have suffered this tribulation today," Anna responded to Atcherly with a serious expression, then looked at the long spear in her hand and continued.
"My power does not come from any legacy, nor does it have anything to do with the Placenta cult. This power comes from past history. We are not the people you are looking for. There is no need for us to fight, so let's stop here, Cardinal of the Bureau of Secrets..."
"The power of history, huh... Interesting. It seems your Rose Cross is even more extraordinary than I thought, and more valuable to investigate. Furthermore, whether you have anything to do with the Placenta is not up to you to say, but up to me after I capture you and thoroughly investigate. Even if there is no connection, you, with so many secrets, cannot just walk away like this. Don't try to bargain with me..." Still maintaining a detached expression, Atcherly spoke to Anna. Dorothy in the distance couldn't help but frown slightly upon hearing her words.
'The Church people are too overbearing. Is this the arrogance accumulated over a thousand years?' Dorothy mused to herself. In her previous words, she had already hinted that the Rose Cross was related to "enlightenment" and the Judge of Heaven. However, even so, Atcherly still relentlessly wanted to apprehend them, which made things a bit difficult for her for a moment.
The Church has been the most powerful Extraordinary force for too long. No other force has ever been able to stand on equal footing with them. This has caused the powerhouses of the Church to accumulate strong arrogance. Accustomed to being dominant, they are not used to bargaining with other forces. Even if there is room for negotiation, it is basically done after they have full control of the situation and the other party is completely under their thumb.
Although the Cardinals of the Church are all aware of the huge crisis that Unina's return might bring, none of them have witnessed Unina's power, having no substantial experience of it. In addition, many Cardinals in this current Cardinal Council have not experienced the Great Holy War four hundred years ago and have no intuitive understanding of the threat posed by the Taiyi Three Teachings' alliance, so they have not yet established the concept that the Church needs to win over external forces to jointly resist the threat at this time.
Atcherly is young among the Cardinals. Unlike Amanda, who personally experienced the previous Great Holy War, she currently has deep confidence in the Church's power, believing that full Holy War readiness is the best defense against the crisis and there is no need to go further at the moment. This arrogance is common among the Church's high-ranking officials. Although Atcherly is not overly severe, it also influences her to handle cases in a forceful manner, leaving little room for negotiation.
"Cardinal of the Bureau of Secrets, can we really not talk?" Anna continued to ask Atcherly, while Atcherly raised her sword and spoke without mercy.
"If you want to talk, come back with me and talk..." As she murmured, the previously still Atcherly suddenly burst forth, wielding a gun and a sword, charging towards Anna at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Upon seeing this, Anna immediately braced herself to meet the enemy. She brandished the long spear in her hand and slashed upwards at Atcherly mid-air.
As Anna swung her long spear, a wide and sharp giant wind blade was unleashed from the trajectory of her slash, flying towards Atcherly at high speed. Seeing this, Atcherly dodged sideways with a stern expression, easily avoiding the massive wind blade. As the wind blade brushed past Atcherly's side, it left a deep furrow on the ground.
The power of the storm. This was the power Dorothy extracted from the history and legal principles of the Field family and bestowed upon Anna.
Currently, although Dorothy no longer has the blessing of Viejeta, she can still use the divine power from the Judge of Heaven to a limited extent. Dorothy can use a portion of divine power to enhance some of her original abilities. Quantitatively, the current Dorothy is equivalent to having 3 points of recoverable fixed divine power. By using this divine power, Dorothy can perform divine enchantments on her original abilities, allowing them to be sublimated.
The ability that Dorothy is currently enchanting with divine power is the summoning of Anecdote Bodies from the Path of the Bewildered God. After being sublimated by divine enchantment, the source of power for summoning Anecdote Bodies has expanded from terrifying legends to the level of history and legal principles. As long as she can find a node that can bear powerful legal principles and historical karma as a collaborator, Dorothy can materialize the corresponding historical legal principles and turn them into power. The form of materialization is varied. For example, Dorothy is now weaponizing this power and directly applying it to Anna, the node, to maximize its effectiveness. Dorothy calls this Heroic Spirit Materialization!
Currently, Dorothy is using Anna as a node to materialize the history and legal principles of the Field family. Of course, the Field family is merely a hereditary Viscount family of only a few hundred years, and the power of their legal principles and history is not particularly strong. The power materialized from this is not enough to contend with Atcherly. Therefore, in addition to using a bit of divine power to activate the ability, Dorothy also used a little more divine power to further expand the historical and legal connections of the Field family, using the first family head, Alin Field, as an interface to partially extend the scope of the legal and historical absorption to the national history of Prit.
Fortunately, Alin had the deed of refusing the title of Duke, participated heavily in the Wind King Rebellion, was a founding hero of the Hyacinth Dynasty, and was also closely related to King Baldrick. Using him as an interface made it relatively easy to include some of the legal principles of Prit's national history. A considerable portion of the power Anna is now using comes from Prit's national history.
Returning to the battle, seeing that her first attack missed, Anna continued to swing her long spear, continuously unleashing more giant wind blades at Atcherly. She also thrust out many air cannons in a stabbing manner. Facing these constantly incoming giant wind blades and air cannons, Atcherly maneuvered at high speed as if dancing, quickly weaving through the invisible attacks and dodging all of them one by one.
'What an ultimate power of "Shadow"... This is probably the strongest "Shadow" I have ever encountered. In terms of speed and agility, she is even stronger than Gothsmore back then. Such a powerful "Shadow" actually serves as a saint in the Church of "Light". How strange... This Church truly hides many secrets...'
Watching Atcherly's performance before her, Dorothy sighed in her heart. And now on the battlefield, seeing that her usual attacks were ineffective, Anna's expression solidified, then she gripped the long spear in her hand, and lifted it upwards into the air. Instantly, the surrounding air currents surged towards Anna like crazy, turning into a strong updraft that rapidly blew towards the night sky.
'Upwind Prison!'
Under the blast of the strong air current, Atcherly's small body, which had very little weight, was directly blown upwards, violently impacted and blown towards the sky, quickly beginning to move away from the ground and ascend into high altitude.
Under the wrapping of the strong air current, Atcherly's entire superhuman mobility was completely restricted. Seeing this, Anna immediately seized the opportunity to slash several wind blades at Atcherly, who was being blown towards the sky and had limited movement. Facing the incoming threat, Atcherly, unable to dodge, chose to raise the pistol in her hand and fire a shot directly into the air.
Amidst a gunshot, a dazzling ball of light shot out from the muzzle, suspended in mid-air. Under the illumination of this dazzling ball of light, the various shadows on the dark ground became extremely clear. Anna, as well as countless trees and rocks, were illuminated by this light, casting deep projections.
The moment these deep projections appeared, Atcherly's own projection, which was being blown away, connected with the shadow of a tree on the ground. Then, Atcherly herself directly turned into a phantom and disappeared. Her projection on the ground also completely merged into the connected shadow, also disappearing directly.
After seeing Atcherly disappear, Anna suddenly paused. Under Dorothy's factual information support and prompts, she immediately turned around, raised her long spear, and stabbed directly at her own shadow. And from that shadow, Atcherly's figure was rapidly rushing out.
As she had anticipated it, Anna's long spear, which was attached with a sharp wind blade, directly pierced Atcherly, who had rushed over from close range, through the chest. However, the pierced Atcherly did not show any sign of pain, but instead, after suffering a fatal injury, she maintained a detached expression and rapidly disappeared from the spot.
'Not the real body!'
Seeing this scene before her, Dorothy's heart slightly froze, and then she immediately told Anna to look around to find Atcherly's real body. However, she saw an unexpected scene at this moment.
In the brightly lit forest, within the deep shadows beneath countless tall trees, a small young girl was slowly rising and appearing within each shadow. It was Atcherly!
Atcherly's figure emerged from the shadow of every tree under the strong light, looking coldly at Anna, who was in the center. There were hundreds, even thousands of them, which looked extremely strange and spectacular at first glance.
'Is this... a clone!'
The Atcherlys emerging from the shadows raised the pistols in their hands and aimed at Anna. For a moment, Anna began to face nearly a thousand dark muzzles from all directions. Her expression froze, and she frowned, gripping the long spear with both hands.
With detached expressions, the Atcherlys simultaneously pulled the triggers. Immediately, dense gunshots rang out in sync. From the muzzles of the guns held by nearly a thousand Atcherlys, nearly a thousand beams of light shot out simultaneously. These countless beams of light shot directly towards a single point from all directions, collectively weaving a dense net of light, about to completely pierce and ensnare Anna.
Facing this net of light from all directions, Anna was well prepared. The moment the countless Atcherlys began to appear, Dorothy had already alerted Anna. After gripping the flag-spear in her hand, Anna raised it above her head, then crossed her hands and began to rotate the long spear, rotating it faster and faster.
The long spear rotated rapidly above Anna's head, simultaneously creating a swirling whirlwind. This whirlwind, guided by the long spear, stirred up countless sand and stones while gathering around Anna, forming a swirling storm.
The swirling storm spun faster and faster, steadily contracting to form a sphere that enveloped Anna entirely. This sphere of storm was constructed from a high-speed swirling storm, filled with the ""Shadow"" Spirituality that had transformed into sharp wind.
A high-speed swirling storm shield formed around Anna, completely enveloping her, and at this moment, beams of light from various directions struck.
The storm shield completely blocked the incoming light beams. The high-speed flowing Spiritual wind and the countless sand and stones it carried scattered the light, and Anna, protected within, remained unharmed for a time.
"Circle Cut!"
After using the storm shield to block the dense light beam attacks, Anna, inside the storm shield, gripped her spear tightly again. Her entire body spun around once, then she unleashed a portion of the power accumulated within the storm shield outwards.
Under Anna's circle cut, a circular wind blade burst forth from the edge of the spherical storm shield. This wind blade suddenly expanded outwards from within, rapidly slashing at everything within a 360-degree plane around her.
Under the cutting of this new peach blossom wind blade, all trees it touched were directly cut into two sections. As the wind blade spread, more and more trees were severed. For a time, with Anna as the center, trees were cut down in batches from the inside out, snapping and falling. The sound of trees collapsing echoed continuously. What was originally a large, dense forest was instantly reduced to nothing but stumps with clean cuts. The surrounding view instantly became much more open, with perfectly flat stumps visible everywhere the eye could see.
Along with the trees, many of Artcherly's duplicates that couldn't dodge in time were also cut down. After one circle cut, about two to three hundred duplicates were affected and dissipated, but the vast majority of them dodged the powerful circle cut with keen reactions, by jumping up or crouching down. Although this circle cut looked imposing and had strong destructive power, its lethality against Artcherly was limited.
It was clear that for high-speed, agile units, the power of the attack was not as important as the frequency and range of the attacks. After understanding this, Anna began her downward movement.
After dodging the circle cut, Artcherly's remaining hundreds of duplicates regrouped, gripping their blades and charging towards Anna at extremely high speed. Meanwhile, Anna, within the storm shield, held the spear that guided the wind and continued to spin in circles.
This time, Anna directly released the power accumulated within the storm shield outwards. Instantly, the storm shield that had been contained around Anna suddenly expanded. While transforming into a spreading hurricane, it also drew in more surrounding air currents to flow together. A large area around Anna began to accumulate an increasing amount of air, which started to rotate around Anna and accelerate rapidly. Even the logical chain in the sky began to gather spiral black clouds.
"Wind Scroll..."
Finally, amidst a roar, the air Anna agitated transformed into a giant tornado that reached the sky. The tornado, carrying countless sand and stones and hiding thousands of wind blades, formed with a howling sound and continuously expanded, growing from its original size of over ten meters wide to hundreds of meters, even hundreds of meters wide. From the outside, it looked like a thin pillar of black wind suddenly swelled into a wall of black wind connecting heaven and earth, pressing down in all directions with immense momentum.
Unlike normal tornadoes in nature, this giant tornado, hundreds of meters wide, created by Anna, had thousands of continuously swirling wind blades interwoven within it. These wind blades turned the giant tornado into a giant shredder, grinding rocks and trees that were sucked in and swallowed. It also instantly swallowed all the attacking Artcherly duplicates. The light spheres that had been shot into the sky were also torn apart by the storm and vanished into nothingness.
Facing the rapidly approaching destructive tornado and seeing many of her duplicates being annihilated, Artcherly's expression was serious. At this moment, she knew that she had to unleash more power to contend with the opponent.
"May the saint protect us, liberate the name of Artcherly..."
Facing the destructive wind wall that was approaching her, Artcherly gripped the pendant on her gun-sword. During this low prayer, she transformed into a pool of shadow and sank into the ground.
And just as Artcherly was praying, in another part of Igwinte in the distance, Dorothy, located on a mountaintop, suddenly paused, as if sensing something. She shifted her gaze from the distant giant tornado and looked at her hand.
At this moment, a fine layer of silver light enveloped the family heirloom ""Shadow"" ring on Dorothy's hand.
Dorothy could sense that just now, a presence she particularly cared about had suddenly intensified...
"This, could it be..." Looking at the ring on her hand, Dorothy spoke in disbelief. At this moment, a strange thought was forming in her heart.
On the battlefield, the roar of the strong wind echoed throughout Igwinte. The residual currents stirred up by the storm caused a strong wind to blow through the distant Igwinte City for a time. This immense noise caused many citizens who were asleep to wake up directly. They wanted to see what was happening outside, but the howling wind on the streets made it difficult for them to even open their doors and windows. Only a small number of Extraordinary could withstand the aftershocks of this storm and come outside to observe.
"What's going on! Why is there suddenly such a strong wind! What is that thing over there...!" On top of the Cypress Fir Building, Turner, the Captain of the Iggwente Secret Agency team, asked in surprise while bracing against the strong wind and looking at the terrifying black storm in the distance. He had never seen such a shocking scene since he was born, and for a time, he was completely stunned. As merely an Apprentice, he could not understand how such immense power was formed.
"Director James... this... what exactly is this? This isn't a natural phenomenon, is it? Was this created by Extraordinary power? Can Extraordinary power in this world really create such a terrifying phenomenon?" On Turner's other side, Eilina, wearing the Hunter team uniform, was also shouting against the strong wind. As a ""Lamp"" Apprentice, although she was more certain that the scene before her was the result of some kind of Extraordinary power, she still found it hard to believe... She had never imagined that any Extraordinary power in this world could reach such a destructive level. The phenomenon before her could be said to far exceed her understanding of the Extraordinary.
"This is... the power of the storm... This level of storm power means someone of Scarlet... Golden level has arrived? Why would such a great figure appear here?!" Also standing on the rooftop, James, the Director of the Iggwente Secret Agency, said in astonishment while using his ability to lessen the impact of the strong wind on their side and looking into the distance. He was certain that the destructive power that erupted in the distance belonged to the path of the storm he was on, but that destructive storm power far exceeded his own limits.
Facing the powerful destructive force in the distance, James and the others were terrified at this moment, but also very curious about who the being that created this force was. They were even more curious about who the being confronting this force was. Did such powerful beings clash here in their small Igwinte? Could it be that a royal family member of extremely high status had arrived?
Before this astonishing destructive storm, these Extraordinary from the local An Yin Bureau, like James, were not much different from ordinary people; they were equally insignificant.
The howling giant storm lasted for a considerable period. As the storm gradually subsided, the spiral black clouds in the sky also slowly dissipated, and the moonlight above the clouds once again shone down on the ground, revealing a devastated wasteland under the moonlight.
Everything that was originally in the area affected by the giant tornado, whether forest or rock, was completely gone. What remained on the scene was only a ground of fine sand. This fine sand was the result of the surface rocks being ground into powder by the giant tornado shredder. The tornado had directly scraped away a layer of the thick ground and shattered it into the form of a desert.
Under the moonlight, speckles of glittering light shone on the wide desert that should not exist in the Prit climate. In the center of this desert, Anna, holding her spear, stood there, surveying the surrounding scene. She looked around but did not see any trace of Artcherly's presence, but she still did not let down her guard.
Dorothy knew that although the destructive whirlwind Anna had just created, which almost surpassed the level of a typical Scarlet, was powerful, it was not enough to eliminate the Golden-level saint from Holy Mountain. What Dorothy hoped for was merely to force him to retreat. She hoped that after witnessing this power, Artcherly would temporarily abandon the pursuit due to considering the damage, or that dodging would buy Anna time.
After not seeing Artcherly's figure at a glance, Dorothy, who believed Artcherly had likely retreated to the distance, immediately told Anna to prepare to withdraw. However, just as Anna was about to leave, the situation on the scene changed again.
Shadows, countless shadows, suddenly darted out from the projections of the ground dunes under the moonlight—countless Lakhman without physical bodies!
Generally speaking, shadows exist dependent on physical objects, but what darted out from the projections of these dunes were merely pure Lakhman, without any corresponding physical objects.
These Lakhman moved at high speed across the desert ground like countless black fish, and after surrounding Anna in the center of the desert, they surged towards her from all directions simultaneously.
Facing the countless moving shadows from all directions, Anna also immediately took action, brandishing the spear in her hand and creating many wind blades to slash at the Lakhman moving at high speed on the sand. However, when these wind blades, filled with Spirituality, attacked the Lakhman moving on the ground, the Lakhman were not affected in the slightest. The high-speed, powerful wind blades merely plowed deep gashes in the ground, without causing any effect on those Lakhman, as if the attacks were truly hitting real shadows, completely useless.
Facing this situation, Dorothy couldn't help but widen her eyes slightly in disbelief. It should be known that while illusory spirits and the elemental bodies of Scarlet Elementalist were immune to many types of physical attacks, they could almost always be harmed by Spiritual attacks filled with Spirituality. Yet here, the shadows Artcherly had transformed into were completely immune even to Spiritual attacks, as if they were truly just shadows that could not be harmed.
Facing this situation, Dorothy's mind raced, trying to analyze the reason for the current situation, but Artcherly would not wait for Dorothy to decipher the truth of her shadow transformation. The countless shadow fish she controlled on the sand rapidly swam towards Anna's location.
Facing the shadows that came from all directions and were completely unstoppable, Anna directly ascended into the air, flying high up to escape the encirclement of these biological-like shadows. Although these shadows looked very strange without the physical objects to cast them, they could still only move on the surface of matter, only able to travel along the ground. Without a medium, they could not pursue targets in the air.
Relying on her rapid ascent, Anna escaped the ground shadows' hunt, but after losing their target, these shadows didn't give up the chase. Instead, they turned their direction one after another, pursuing towards another location.
This time, what these shadows were pursuing was not Anna's physical body in the sky, but the projection of Anna in the air cast by the moonlight!
Although Anna flew into the sky, her shadow was still on the ground! Her shadow couldn't possibly fly up with her body; it could only be left on the ground, and the distance from Anna, who had flown into the sky, was growing further and further. Anna's physical body couldn't immediately attend to the shadow left on the ground!
After approaching Anna's projection on the ground, those fish-like shadows still converged, directly forming three humanoid shadows, which were the silhouettes of three Atcherley! Atcherley, existing entirely as shadows, attacked Anna's projection extremely quickly, swinging the shadow blades in their hands and slashing towards the opponent. And Anna, sensing something was wrong, immediately adjusted the position and state of her projection on the ground by flying at high speed in the sky, directly moving the projection's position quite a distance.
By dodging, Anna's shadow avoided most of the attacks from Atcherley's three shadows, but in the end, one sword still slashed at the waist of Anna's projection. Instantly, the armor on the waist of Anna's physical body, located in the sky, suddenly shattered, and blood sprayed out from within! Anna couldn't help but frown in pain.
Atcherley's shadow avatars can attack the object itself by attacking its projection!
After one successful strike, Atcherley's shadow avatars regrouped and slashed towards Anna's projection again. Facing this almost undefendable attack, Anna calmed her expression, and then, under Dorothy's guidance, swung her spear in mid-air.
Under Anna's swing, a strong, incomparable gust of wind immediately swept up from the ground again. This gust of wind blew up all the fine sand on the ground in one go, creating a huge dust cloud in the environment. This thick dust cloud temporarily covered the entire battlefield, including Anna herself, completely, making the entire environment dim and dark for a while.
The appearance of the sandstorm blocked the moonlight in the sky. The moonlight found it difficult to penetrate the thick dust cloud, causing her shadow on the ground to completely disappear instantly. As long as she wasn't exposed to clear light, a shadow wouldn't be generated. Anna used the method of using the dust cloud to block the moonlight, making her projection disappear completely for a while.
After clearing away her projection, what Anna faced at this moment was the thick dust cloud around her. Just then, Anna suddenly felt a disturbance in the dust on one side. She immediately turned around and raised her spear towards the direction the disturbance came from.
"Clang!"
In the next moment, a crisp sound of weapons clashing rang out. Atcherley's physical body appeared in front of Anna. The long sword in her hand directly struck Anna's spear, and at this moment, in her indifferent eyes, a faint orange halo shone.
At this moment, Atcherley chose to change back from her shadow avatar state to her physical body and used the powerful "Light" vision to see through the thick dust cloud, moving towards Anna's position and attacking her. Although Anna's "Shadow" passive ability could block Extraordinary detection, it couldn't make her physical body invisible. Being seen directly at such close range was unavoidable.
After approaching Anna and clashing weapons with her, Atcherley immediately raised the pistol in her other hand and aimed at Anna at close range, firing. Instantly, an extremely dazzling beam of light shot out from the muzzle, and Anna, having seen Atcherley's movement and being forewarned, turned her head and dodged the incoming light beam.
However, even though the light beam was dodged by Anna, the strong light erupting from Atcherley's muzzle still didn't disappear. At extremely close range, the non-offensive light emitted from the muzzle, which served as a light source, had extremely strong penetrative power. This highly penetrative light shone on Anna, casting a huge projection of her in the dust behind her! When the light source was close and strong enough, even the thickest dust cloud couldn't block it!
With the moonlight unable to shine through because of the dust, Atcherley chose to materialize her true body and bring a strong light source in front of Anna, forcibly creating a projection!
The moment Anna's projection was created again, Atcherley's other two shadow avatars reappeared. They appeared in the dust behind Anna, holding shadow blades and charging towards Anna's projection. And at this moment, Anna was being held back by Atcherley's physical body and couldn't possibly worry about her shadow!
And at this critical moment, Anna quickly made a declaration.
"In the name of Field... I expel all things from beyond the boundary within my territory!"
The moment Anna finished her declaration, Atcherley's shadow avatars, which were originally in the dust, suddenly disappeared! Seeing this scene, Atcherley couldn't help but widen her eyes in surprise.
Regarding the essence of Atcherley's shadow avatars, Dorothy began to ponder the moment the opponent's ability was displayed. In the present world, there were quite a few illusory and elemental bodies that were immune to physical attacks, but this was the first time Dorothy had seen shadow avatars like Atcherley's that were immune to Spirituality attacks. Therefore, she had been studying the true nature of these shadow avatars throughout the battle.
Finally, Dorothy drew inspiration from the Pseudo-Moth, which could travel between the present world and the Dream World and evade attacks by crossing boundaries. She believed that Atcherley's shadow avatars were likely a form of inner-world interference. On the inner side of the world, there might be an inner world related to shadows, and by entering it, they could evade attacks in the present world, just like the Pseudo-Moth. The shadows were merely a manifestation of this inner world in the present world.
Within this "Shadow" inner world, Atcherley could also cause damage to entities in the present world by attacking shadows with shadows, just as people in the present world would be affected after the dream cocoons were damaged in the Dream World.
After speculating that Atcherley's shadow avatars might originate from some kind of inner-world interference, Dorothy had Anna activate another ability of her Heroic Spirit armament, Lawful Territory Dominion!
Anna is Viscount Field, and Igwinte is the Viscount Field's territory. Legally, the entire Igwinte area is Anna's lawful territory. Fighting on her lawful territory, Anna can not only gain more combat power bonuses but also, with the support of the Judge of Heaven's divine power, directly command the territory itself as its Lord, performing some law-based operations, such as the expulsion just now.
The expulsion order is a command used by Lord nobles to expel unwelcome individuals. While this command doesn't have much effect on Atcherley herself as a saint, it is instantly effective against shadow avatars that don't originally belong to the present world, because they belong neither to Viscount Field's territory nor to the entire reality itself. The dual lawful powers can be superimposed at this moment to carry out the expulsion.
After successfully expelling Atcherley's shadow avatars, Anna, holding her spear, her expression solidified and became more serious. She pushed Atcherley in front of her away with both hands, then charged forward with her spear. Seeing this, Atcherley also met the attack with her gun-sword.
Within the thick dust cloud, Anna and Atcherley began a close-quarters battle at short range. At speeds invisible to the naked eye, various afterimages flickered, and the crisp, dense sounds of weapons clashing were incessant.
'They... can actually isolate inner-world interference. It seems that to truly catch them, I need to go all out...'
In the high-speed close-quarters battle, Atcherley thought this seriously to herself. In order to deal with the tricky enemy before her, at this moment, she intended to use her power even further.
"May the Holy Maiden protect..."
In another round of prayer, Atcherley prepared to further unleash her power. And at this moment, Dorothy in the distance couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement.
"It's coming..."
At this moment, Dorothy on the mountaintop looked to her side. There, a silvery-white, ethereal, illusory female was suspended in the air, staring blankly into the distance. This was precisely the Lake Fairy Anecdote Body that Dorothy had summoned just now!
Earlier, when Atcherley first unleashed her power, Dorothy had sensed an incredible manifestation through her ring: the connection power of the Mirror Moon Goddess in this area had actually strengthened somewhat!
Although she didn't quite understand the principle behind it, Dorothy was certain that Atcherley's power had intricate connections with the Mirror Moon Goddess. When she unleashed her power, it would strengthen the Mirror Moon Goddess's connection ability within this area!
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
After realizing this phenomenon, Dorothy immediately summoned the Lake Fairy's Anecdote Body and also began to strengthen the Mirror Moon Goddess's connection power on her side. Then Dorothy began to wait while assisting in the battle, waiting to see if Atcherley on the distant battlefield could further strengthen her connection with the Mirror Moon Goddess.
If the connection was strong enough, perhaps the Mirror Moon Goddess's will could be summoned again. Firstly, it might resolve this conflict, and secondly, she could communicate with her!
And Dorothy's wait was not without result. Now on the battlefield, Atcherley had already begun to further unleash her power, and the Mirror Moon Goddess's connection power had begun to strengthen further. At this moment, Dorothy began to focus on the reaction of the Lake Fairy Anecdote Body beside her.
As expected, the Lake Fairy began to undergo some changes at this moment, but they were not the changes Dorothy had seen before.
At this very moment, the Lake Fairy's Anecdote Body was not being possessed by the Mirror Moon's will and becoming re-animated and full of vitality, as it had been before in the Mirror Moon Church. Instead, it began to flicker indistinctly, becoming more blurry and unstable, its entire body like a broken television screen.
"What... what's wrong?"
Seeing this scene, Dorothy couldn't help but frown in confusion. And just as she was about to look for the reason, the flickering Lake Fairy began to undergo horrifying changes.
After a period of high-speed flickering, the Lake Fairy's originally serene and beautiful head disappeared, replaced by a terrifying spider image on top. Its eight frightening eyes stared silently at Dorothy in front.