Southwest Prit, Igwinte.
Under the night sky of Igwinte, the terrifying tornado that had just swept across the land had temporarily vanished and stopped. Just as the entire City was slowly waking up from its panic, a horrifying scene was unfolding on a small hilltop in the distant suburbs of the City.
During Anna and Atcherie's battle, Dorothy discovered that as Atcherie's abilities were unleashed, the local connection with the Mirror Moon Goddess would strengthen. Originally, she planned to use this phenomenon, combined with her Lake Fairy Anecdote Form, to summon the will of the Mirror Moon Goddess to descend. However, an unexpected accident occurred during the implementation of this plan.
Although the Lake Fairy Anecdote Form was successfully summoned and did indeed change the moment Atcherie's abilities began to further unleash, this change was not what Dorothy had anticipated.
When the Anecdote Form image of the Lake Fairy began to flicker and distort unnaturally, she started to sense that something was wrong. When Dorothy wanted to immediately withdraw the Lake Fairy Anecdote Form, she found that this Phantom Form had begun to become uncontrollable, and during this loss of control, the image of the Anecdote Form underwent a shocking change.
'Spider Queen!'
After seeing the head of the Anecdote Form she had originally created flicker and turn into a horrifying spider, Dorothy couldn't help but think in astonishment,'Spider Queen!' The combination of a beautiful female body with a terrifying spider head was something she had seen before... she had seen it in the blasphemy ritual site of the Eight Point Nest...
'The Spider Queen has eroded the influence of the Mirror Moon! Her plan being executed in Prit has made deeper progress! Could it be that She has been waiting for me like this all along!?'
Upon seeing this scene, Dorothy's eyes widened as she thought in horror. The purpose of the series of blasphemy rituals the Eight-Pointed Nest had conducted before, in Dorothy's view, was very likely the Spider Queen eroding the remaining influence of the Mirror Moon in Prit, ultimately achieving some goal.
Dorothy had originally thought that her previous action in Glamorgan to stop the Eight-Pointed Nest's activities, converting the Mirror Moon Church first while also eliminating a Scarlet and a Divine Chosen Scarlet, should have affected the Spider Queen's plan and caused it to pause or delay for a period. But now the Spider Queen could actually influence her Lake Fairy Phantom Form. This clearly indicated that the Eight-Pointed Nest's plan had taken a significant step forward. Had the Eight-Pointed Nest been secretly doing something during this time?
At this moment, various confusions flooded Dorothy's heart. However, despite her many confusions now, she knew that this was not the time to dwell on these issues. The will of the Spider Queen was being projected onto Igwinte through the Lake Fairy Anecdote Form. She had to run quickly!
Thinking it, she did it. In this critical moment, Dorothy, who had completely not anticipated things would develop this way, immediately prepared to elementalize and escape.
Just then, the Spider-headed Phantom Form, which was still flickering and disturbing, suddenly turned its head and stared fixedly at Dorothy with its eight eyes. The moment Dorothy was targeted, a circle of ethereal spikes suddenly appeared around her.
These spikes were semi-transparent dark red, piercing out of nowhere from empty space, completely surrounding Dorothy from all directions: above, below, left, and right. The moment these semi-transparent ethereal spikes appeared, Dorothy's body immediately felt a violent phantom pain. Under such a strong phantom pain, Dorothy's elementalization was forcefully interrupted for a moment, and within this phantom pain, it was difficult for Dorothy to concentrate and start elementalizing again!
"Selene... pawn... waiting... for you... for a long time..."
'Damn it...'
After her elementalization was broken by the phantom pain, Dorothy's heart couldn't help but feel a sense of dread. Moreover, this phantom pain not only hindered Dorothy from using elementalization but also obstructed almost all other Extraordinary abilities. Now, whenever Dorothy wanted to use any Extraordinary ability, she would be interrupted by intense phantom pain.
Those spikes surrounding her clearly emitted a faint divine aura!
Under these circumstances, she had absolutely no chance to escape. She could only stand there and wait for those ethereal spikes to pierce her. And since the phantom pain from these spikes was so intense, the result if they actually pierced her body was something she couldn't even dare to imagine.
Just as Dorothy was almost closing her eyes, waiting for the spikes to pierce her, all the ethereal spikes stopped just less than half a meter away from Dorothy, not advancing another inch. Although the ethereal spikes still hadn't disappeared at this point, they were completely motionless, showing no signs of movement.
Thus, although Dorothy's entire body avoided the fate of being pierced by the ethereal spikes, because of the dense and close spikes that hadn't disappeared, Dorothy temporarily lost her ability to move freely and was held captive by these inwardly pointing spike prison.
Dorothy, wearing a hooded cloak and concealing her appearance, looked at the dense ethereal spikes around her, cold sweat dripping down. She hadn't expected the Spider Queen's influence to be able to directly attack here, and why did this attack suddenly stop at this point?
With confusion, Dorothy looked towards the direction of the Spider-headed Anecdote Form. What she saw next was that the flickering manifestation that was already present on the Anecdote Form was now even more frequent. The out-of-control Anecdote Form was flickering rapidly and intermittently before Dorothy's eyes, sometimes present and sometimes not, appearing even more unstable. This was no longer Dorothy's Anecdote Form, but some special ethereal form relying on the Spider Queen's projected power.
And within this rapid flickering, the head part of the Phantom Form was the most unstable, its image constantly changing, sometimes turning into the monster-like spider form, and sometimes turning back into the normal female form of the Lake Fairy.
'The power of the Mirror Moon Goddess has not completely disappeared! She is still trying to project Her power towards Prit!'
Seeing this scene, Dorothy thought, making a judgment in her heart. It was clear that the Spider Queen was using the method of eroding the remaining influence in Prit to begin affecting Dorothy's Phantom Form and projecting power, but this influence was not completely thorough. After the connection strengthened, the Mirror Moon now seemed to also be projecting power towards the Lake Fairy's Phantom Form, only She hadn't overwhelmed the Spider Queen, and was even slightly at a disadvantage.
Currently, the Mirror Moon seemed to be using the influence that hadn't been eroded to intermittently project power, vying for control of Dorothy's out-of-control Phantom Form. It seemed to be barely holding its own against the Spider Queen, which was why all these dark red ethereal spikes suddenly stopped and didn't further harm her.
'That's great, it seems the Mirror Moon isn't completely unable to interfere.'
After witnessing this scene, Dorothy couldn't help but think with a surge of excitement. She then began to pay more serious attention to the changes in the out-of-control Phantom Form before her, and also started to ponder in her mind how to deal with it.
Just at this moment, the out-of-control Phantom Form, whose form was unstable due to the interference of the Mirror Moon's power, slowly shifted its gaze into the distance during one of its transformations back into the spider head, and then looked towards the night sky on the horizon.
The direction she was looking at now was precisely the battlefield where Anna and Atcherie were fighting!
At this moment, in the distance in the direction the out-of-control Phantom Form was gazing, the confrontation between Atcherie and Anna was about to enter a new phase. After seeing her Shadow Avatar being broken, Atcherie was secretly praying on the side while further unleashing her abilities. And the moment the out-of-control Phantom Form looked towards this battlefield, the situation here changed.
"Light and Shadow coexist... Inside and outside depend on each other... Saintess... Guide me in the name of Atcherie... Ugh..."
Speeding across the barren sandy ground, constantly dodging Anna's attacks, just as Atcherie was about to complete the guidance, she suddenly froze for a moment. After a slight tremor in her body, her entire demeanor began to change.
"What... is this?!"
With a look of shock, within the whites of Atcherie's wide-open eyes, threads of dark red blood vessels gradually appeared and crawled out, beginning to surround the edges of her eyeballs, gradually filling the entire eye area.
"This is... Saintess? No... This is..."
At this moment, Atcherie felt a will full of hatred and cruelty inexplicably growing from within her heart, gradually eroding and occupying her original consciousness. Even though Atcherie's own will was firm, she was temporarily unable to resist this erosion.
At this point, Atcherie felt like her head was about to explode from the pain. She felt countless rustling sounds whispering in her ears, making her feel agitated and restless.
Under the inexplicable erosion of consciousness, Atcherie's further unleashing of power was not only interrupted, but her entire combat state also began to be greatly affected. But even so, Atcherie still relied on her extremely excellent combat instincts to completely handle the offensive Anna launched at this time.
As time passed, the progress of the erosion in Atcherie's mind increased rapidly. The white of one of her eyes was quickly filled with dark red. Just as the other eye was about to be completely stained by dark red, a faint silver light appeared, protecting the last trace of white.
"Ugh... Ugh... This is... pollution... It's actually... pollution from the name of a saint..."
In the pain of her will being eroded, Atcherie, who was fighting purely on instinct, gradually began to fall into a disadvantage. Although Atcherie's consciousness was severely stained now, that last trace of silver-white prevented her will from completely falling, as some strange power was protecting her.
'This is... the Spider Queen is using some channel, utilizing Her influence in Prit to erode Atcherie's will, but the Mirror Moon has also intervened, She is protecting Atcherie from being completely eroded!'
After witnessing this scene on the distant battlefield, Dorothy, who was still trapped in the spike prison, couldn't help but analyze this in her heart.
However, just as Atcherie's last trace of consciousness was protected by the silver light, on Dorothy's side, the previously flickering out-of-control Phantom Form suddenly stabilized significantly. However, the head of the stabilized Phantom Form was not the original normal female form, but still the terrifying spider head! The Mirror Moon's power was suppressed by the Spider Queen at this moment!
Seeing that the out-of-control Phantom Form had stabilized into the spider head form, Dorothy's heart tightened sharply. She then saw the ethereal spikes around her, which had previously stopped, suddenly contract inwards and stab, seemingly about to pierce Dorothy into a hedgehog.
Looking at the ethereal spikes piercing down from all around her, Dorothy couldn't help but tighten up in panic. Just as she thought she was probably doomed, the out-of-control Phantom Form flickered again. The previously stable spider head form on the Phantom Form's head could no longer be stably maintained, replaced by an unstable form alternating between a normal female and a spider monster.
The moment the Out of Control Manifestation returned to an unstable state, the illusory spikes that were originally piercing down towards Dorothy suddenly paused again. A moment after the Spider Queen completely dominated the Out of Control Manifestation, the originally suppressed Mirror Moon power suddenly surged back, competing with the Spider Queen for control of the Out of Control Manifestation, which once again temporarily halted the piercing torment the Spider Queen was inflicting on Dorothy.
However, this surge of Mirror Moon power was not without cost. On the battlefield, in the eyes of Atcherly, who was engaged in a battle of will with the power of erosion, the last trace of silver-white fluorescence gradually disappeared, and Atcherly's eyes were instantly completely occupied by dark red.
It was obvious that compared to the current Spider Queen, the power Mirror Moon could project onto Prit was far from enough. With limited connection power, Mirror Moon could only concentrate the small amount of power it could project to fight against the Spider Queen.
This meant that with the Spider Queen's projected power far greater than its own, Mirror Moon could not fully protect Dorothy and Atcherly. After the Spider Queen saw that she couldn't completely pull the Manifestation away from Mirror Moon in the struggle, she turned to erode Atcherly's mind. Mirror Moon saw this and diverted power to support Atcherly, which caused the power on the Manifestation side to weaken. So the Spider Queen turned back to seize the Manifestation and threaten Dorothy. Mirror Moon also had to defend, but the Spider Queen took the opportunity to completely erode Atcherly.
The power Mirror Moon can project now is limited. If used concentratedly, on the battlefield of the Manifestation, which has a capacity limit, Mirror Moon can fight against the Spider Queen, who has more projected power. But as soon as another battlefield is added, Mirror Moon's projected power immediately becomes stretched thin.
Therefore, to put it bluntly, for Mirror Moon, it could only save one of Atcherly and Dorothy. It would try to save both, but if forced to choose, it would definitely choose Dorothy.
However, for the Spider Queen, no matter how Mirror Moon chose, she would ultimately win. Even if Mirror Moon could temporarily save Dorothy, after completely eroding and controlling Atcherly, Dorothy wouldn't be able to escape either.
Today, the Spider Queen was determined to take this opportunity to eliminate Dorothy, whom she considered the greatest trump card Mirror Moon left in Prit.
After the whites of Atcherly's eyes were completely stained dark red, she looked at Anna in the distance with a cold expression. After dodging several powerful wind blades and air cannons created by Anna with high-speed agile movements, she pulled out the pistol in her hand and fired continuously at Anna, shooting out countless beams of light.
Facing the beams of light shot out by Atcherly using the Light Revolver, Anna, who had been warned in advance, directly used the Wind Spear in her hand, rotating it to create a turbulent barrier of wind, scattering and blocking all the incoming beams. After seeing Anna's action, the eroded Atcherly took the opportunity to shoot a beam of light in another direction.
The direction this beam of light was aimed at was precisely where Dorothy was currently located! Dorothy, who was trapped in the spike prison, immediately told Anna to stop what she was doing and immediately stop Atcherly after realizing the other party's action.
So, after guiding the storm shield for only two rotations, Anna immediately directed the power it contained, turning it into a fierce wind blowing towards Atcherly's direction. Just as this gust of wind swept in, Atcherly had just fired her gun.
Amidst a crisp gunshot, a slender, dazzling beam of light shot out from the revolver in Atcherly's hand, crossing the entire Igwinte City, traveling a very long distance from one side of the suburbs to the other side of the suburbs.
The beam of light shot from Atcherly's gun was aimed directly at Dorothy's head. With Dorothy trapped in the spike prison and completely immobile now, she herself was utterly unable to dodge this shot.
Fortunately, Dorothy anticipated Atcherly's attack in time and had Anna whip up a storm to interfere just as Atcherly was about to fire, causing a tiny deviation in Atcherly's aiming posture.
This small deviation was extremely slight, so slight that its impact on Atcherly's shooting accuracy was minimal. It was so slight that if Atcherly in this state were to shoot at targets, she could hit the bullseye accurately at seven or eight hundred meters or even four or five kilometers.
But the target Atcherly was attacking now, Dorothy, was more than twenty kilometers away from her. Any small deviation in the trajectory would be greatly amplified at this distance of over twenty kilometers, resulting in a miss.
When the beam of light shot from Atcherly's hand appeared in Dorothy's eyes, she saw a dazzling orange light pass by dozens of centimeters to the right of her head. If it had been a little more accurate, she would have been directly headshot by this sniper shot from over twenty kilometers away.
Atcherly's shot missed, but it didn't matter to her, because her other ability activated at this moment.
Atcherly instantly turned into a puddle of Shadow and disappeared on the ground. Anna had originally come to stop her, accelerating with the Storm and wielding her spear, but she was a step too slow. The spear, imbued with the power of wind, directly struck the ground.
In the large pit created by the impact on the ground, Anna currently looked towards the distance, in the direction where Dorothy was, with a hint of worry.
At this very moment, at Dorothy's location, as Dorothy herself was illuminated by the previous beam of light, casting a Shadow, Atcherly's figure suddenly rushed out, holding a blade, and slashed towards Dorothy.
Facing this scene, Dorothy, although her expression was solemn at this moment, showed no trace of fear.
"Fate Locks"
Suddenly, the sound of iron chains echoed in the void. Out of thin air, tangible chains condensed within the previously empty space. These chains glowed with a golden luster, densely inscribed with various scriptures. Upon closer inspection, these were actually scriptures from the classic texts of the Shining Light Church!
These golden chains materialized out of thin air directly beside Atcherly and automatically wrapped around her, locking her down, and their speed was extremely fast. Atcherly wanted to dodge, but for some reason, she couldn't dodge these chains at all! In every corner she could possibly dodge, there were chains materializing almost out of thin air!
With a series of rustling sounds, Atcherly's entire body was completely locked and bound by these chains that appeared out of thin air. In an instant, she was tied up and locked in place like that, with strong golden locks wrapped around her limbs and body.
Atcherly, who should have been incredibly agile and fast, was bound by these countless iron chains in an instant, with almost no room for reaction. Bound all over, Atcherly struggled desperately, but she couldn't break free even slightly. Her resistance couldn't even cause the chains to loosen in the slightest.
Seeing this scene, even the Spider Head on the Out of Control Manifestation not far away couldn't help but change its expression, showing an unusual look.
'Fate Locks' is another application of the Judge of Heaven divinity by Dorothy. It is the product of Dorothy combining divine power with the form of spirit threads. After spirit threads are infused with the Judge of Heaven divinity, they transform into a treasure capable of binding using the power of legal principles and history.
The current Spider Queen is interfering with this place by eroding the influence the Mirror Moon Goddess left in Prit. In other words, what she is relying on now is a corrupted version of Mirror Moon's influence. Through this influence, the Spider Queen even corrupted some kind of Mirror Moon power present in Atcherly, thus achieving control over Atcherly.
That is to say, all the interference the Spider Queen is doing now is based on the residual power of Mirror Moon. If Dorothy can limit Mirror Moon's power, she can also limit the Spider Queen's interference.
As a divine being, does Mirror Moon have means for Dorothy to limit it? The answer is yes. The Judge of Heaven divinity that Dorothy possesses can guide out such power.
Dorothy's Lake Fairy Manifestation is summoned by relying on the various mutated legends of the Mirror Moon Goddess remaining in Prit. The reason the Mirror Moon Goddess's faith has declined to the point where only folk legends remain in Prit is almost entirely due to the Church's suppression.
For hundreds of years, the Church used various methods such as modifying churches, altering legends, diminishing and alienating, brainwashing propaganda, and persecuting heretics to cleanse the original Mirror Moon faith in Prit, ultimately almost completely washing it away from mainstream culture.
And now, Dorothy is precisely borrowing the Church's legal principles and history in Prit, using the Judge of Heaven divinity, to specifically guide out this history of Light's suppression of the Mirror Moon faith that lasted for hundreds of years, manifesting it in the form of spirit threads as chains.
The chains Dorothy manifested this time contain the legal principles and history of Light in Prit and have a powerful suppressive and locking effect on all other faiths and their derived powers within Prit that are outside of Light. Although the effect is best at binding Mirror Moon's power, it also has a strong inhibitory effect on the Spider Queen's faith, because the Spider Queen's faith also seems to be one of Prit's other local faiths.
The current Atcherly has many powers related to Mirror Moon and is now controlled by the Spider Queen, so she was directly bound by Dorothy's Fate Locks. When countering targets suppressed by legal principles, the Fate Locks can demonstrate 100%, causality-level absolute binding. No matter how fast or agile one is, they cannot escape when restrained by legal principles. The binding power of the chains is determined by the power of the corresponding legal principles, and Atcherly, as she is now, is completely unable to break free.
Of course, since the power of the chains comes from the Church's legal principles, this power should not be able to bind Atcherly, who is a saint of the Church. However, the current Atcherly is not herself but the Spider Queen's puppet. As the Spider Queen's puppet corrupted by Mirror Moon's power, her heretical side is far greater than her saintly side, which is why Dorothy's chains can be effective. This is why Dorothy didn't use the chains to restrain Atcherly when Anna and Atcherly first fought. When Atcherly is truly a saint of the Church, these chains are ineffective, unless Dorothy can find some legal principle that can restrain the Church, but this is almost impossible.
Furthermore, such a powerful ability cannot be used whenever desired. The power of the Fate Locks comes from the power of the Church's legal principles, and the current Dorothy cannot guide the Church's legal principles out of thin air. Just as Dorothy needs Anna as a node to guide the power of Prit's national legal principles, Dorothy also needs a node to guide the Church's legal principles.
And Dorothy's legal principle node in the Church is precisely Vanya.
Currently, Vanya has become a Scarlet, an existence capable of entering the high ranks of the Church, naturally serving as a node for Dorothy to draw upon the Church's principles. More crucially, in Vanya's resume, she once served as the temporary Archbishop of the entire Prit diocese after the Glamorgan incident! She presided over the Saint Chant Church and managed the entire Prit diocese for several months, during which she even handled an extremely serious heretic attack case, winning widespread support.
These few months as a temporary Archbishop allowed Vanya to perform exceptionally well when drawing upon the Prit diocese's principles. Within the Church's system, an Archbishop represents the entire diocese, making this an excellent node for Dorothy!
The moment Dorothy was trapped by the Spike Prison, she had already begun using information channels to contact Vanya in the distance, asking her to conduct a short ceremony on-site, adjusting it to a state where Dorothy could remotely borrow it as a node. Just as the controlled Atcherly attacked, Vanya had also just finished preparing the ceremony. Dorothy was capable of performing the simple operation of borrowing a principle node remotely.
Dorothy, currently trapped by the Spike Prison, is unable to use her usual Spirituality abilities due to the Illusory Pain Spikes. However, the ability 'Fate Lock' is different; it is a divine ability! It can be activated, ignoring the restrictions the Spider Queen placed on Dorothy.
This is not ordinary Spirituality power; this is the power of a god! Furthermore, it is the power of a Lord God, higher in divinity than the Spider Queen!
At the current scene, the originally attacking Atcherly is completely and firmly bound by Dorothy's Fate Lock, unable to move at all. Dorothy herself is trapped by the Spike Prison and also has basically no ability to act. Meanwhile, the Spider Queen is simultaneously controlling Atcherly and vying with the remnants of Mirror Moon for control of the runaway Phantom. For a time, she is also unable to act smoothly. The various parties are currently at a complete standstill. For now, truly no one can do anything to the other.
However, such a stalemate will not last for long. Firstly, on Dorothy's side, Anna is quickly rushing towards this location. At her speed, she will reach the scene soon. Her arrival will directly alter the balance of power at the scene. Furthermore, the Fate Lock binding Atcherly has the ability to continuously suppress and counteract principles. Under the restraint of the Fate Lock, both the Spider Queen's power and the corrupted Mirror Moon power on Atcherly's body will become weaker and weaker. Atcherly will soon be able to break free from the Spider Queen's control and wake up.
In the current situation, waiting is advantageous for Dorothy's side, but it is clear that the Spider Queen is unwilling to give up just yet.
While gradually withdrawing the power she had imposed on Atcherly, the Spider Queen also reduced the number of illusory spikes on the Spike Prison binding Dorothy by one-third. By actively reducing her control over Dorothy, she gained a little more control over her power from Mirror Moon's interference. After scattering widely away from Dorothy, the reduced spikes were released from the Spider Queen's control and burst open in mid-air with a roar.
Those illusory spikes thus burst into clusters of vivid red blood mist in one breath. This blood mist quickly spread, completely enveloping the entire area.
Seeing this, Dorothy, whose restrictions had just been partially lifted, immediately used a Water Absorption Rune on herself. She then brought the portable water source from a small cylinder, previously confiscated from the Sea Abyss Church, to her mouth.
However, the Spider Queen's purpose in releasing this blood mist was not to poison people. This blood mist primarily dispersed in the upper air, forming clouds of blood mist that barely sank. The Spider Queen's goal in doing this was to obscure the full bright moon in the sky!
Moonlight, the channel through which Mirror Moon exerts influence, is something the Spider Queen currently cannot corrode. Although Mirror Moon's current state is not quite right, the domain of the moon is still held in Mirror Moon's hands. The Spider Queen cannot infect it in the slightest. The uncorrupted influence of Mirror Moon at the scene is likely projected through the moon; this is absolutely clean and uncorrupted Mirror Moon power.
And now, the Spider Queen has obscured the moonlight, effectively blocking the key channel for Mirror Moon to project power!
At this moment, the Spider Queen almost completely gained control of the runaway Phantom, stabilizing the originally unstable spider head. Mirror Moon's will within the Phantom was momentarily suppressed.
The spider-headed Phantom is the Spider Queen's only node for projecting power in this area. After Mirror Moon's interference significantly subsided, the Spider Queen could finally control her abilities to some extent. She looked at the countless dark red spikes remaining beside Dorothy, controlled them, and fiercely thrust them all towards Dorothy.
Seeing the densely incoming spikes, Dorothy's expression became solemn. In the next second, she seemed about to be skewered like a hedgehog from all directions simultaneously.
"You are not allowed to act presumptuously in my territory! Evil God!"
Just at this moment, a storm suddenly arose, blowing in all directions. A massive current of air and wind gathered around Dorothy, forming the figure of a young knight. After appearing, Anna brandished the spear in her hand, imbued with divine power, and instantly shredded all the dark red spikes around Dorothy.
Seeing Anna's sudden appearance, the spider-headed Phantom's expression once again showed a strange look, seemingly indicating that this scene was beyond her expectation.
Logically speaking, high-level Extraordinary individuals on the Storm Path fly very fast, but definitely not this fast. The battlefield where Atcherly and Anna were previously located is about twenty kilometers away from Dorothy's current position. From the moment Atcherly instantly arrived here using shadows until now, only about ten seconds have passed. Even if Anna rushed here with all her might, she shouldn't have been able to arrive yet.
In fact, the reason Anna could be so fast did not come from the Storm Path, but from the ability of the Heroic Spirit Armament itself, just like the previous Lord's Eviction Order.
The origin of the Field family is Yarling Field, and Yarling's most legendary deed, which also brought him the greatest rewards, was the legend of riding a thousand miles to aid, fighting an entire Black Thorn Knight squad alone, and rescuing the captured prince. This is his most celebrated legendary battle.
After the Heroic Spirit Armament, this legendary deed of Yarling's was elevated into a special ability bestowed upon Anna. When someone close to Anna, or someone who has signed a contract with Anna, encounters a crisis, Anna can instantly arrive at that person's side at almost teleportation speed, acting as a guardian knight. The range of this ability is almost equivalent to half the size of Prit, meaning Anna can teleport across half of Prit's distance to rescue targets in crisis.
During the guardian battle, Anna will also receive a combat power bonus due to Yarling's legend. And if the target of the attack is related to the legendary Black Thorn Knights, this bonus will further increase, even causing the attack to carry a divine enchantment that counters the legend!
Anna instantly arrived at the scene to protect Dorothy, and the connection between her target, the Spider Queen's power projection, and the Black Thorn Knights that appeared during the Wind King Rebellion is now self-evident. Only in this way could Anna shatter the dark red spikes created by the Spider Queen.
Seeing Anna's appearance, the spider-headed Phantom waved a hand directly, condensing countless dark red spikes and thrusting them towards Anna. At this moment, Dorothy warned Anna, saying.
"You cannot use any long-range attacks... Just slice these spikes from the side, don't block them..." Dorothy warned Anna like this. Knowing the characteristics of the Spider Queen's divinity, she knew that facing the Spider Queen's attacks, one could be subjected to intense pain if not careful, so caution was essential during the fight.
Nodding in agreement with Dorothy's suggestion, Anna began rapidly swinging her spear, slicing off the spikes that materialized out of thin air one by one. However, the spider-headed Phantom was now materializing more and more spikes, and it seemed Anna might eventually be unable to handle them all.
"Make wind towards the sky! Blow away those clouds!"
At this moment, Dorothy reminded Anna, saying. After a pause in her defense, Anna began directly manipulating the high-altitude air currents in the sky, attempting to create strong winds to blow away the blood clouds. However, these blood clouds all appeared extremely thick and viscous, and the howling winds Anna created were slow to build up, unable to disperse all the clouds at once.
Seeing Anna's actions, the spider-headed Phantom directly condensed two waves of spikes and shot them forward, one wave towards Anna herself, and the other towards the wind she was creating in the sky.
The spider-headed Phantom wanted to directly transmit pain to Anna by attacking the extraordinary phenomenon she created! Anna could defend herself and Dorothy's surroundings, but she couldn't defend the high altitude.
Just as Anna couldn't attend to the overall situation, a black swift shadow flashed through the air. The few dark red spikes aimed at the sky were instantly sliced into pieces after the swift shadow swept past. Only after that streaking shadow landed did its figure become clear – it was Atcherly!
At this moment, Atcherly had completely broken free from the Spider Queen's control. In her hand, she held a sword blade that emitted a black, ominous aura, seemingly like pure shadow. With angry eyes, she looked at the distant spider-headed Phantom.
"You dare to toy with my mind? I will make you pay, Evil God!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Atcherly rushed towards the spider-headed Phantom at high speed. The spider-headed Phantom condensed scarlet spikes to counterattack, but after only shooting out a few, the space around the spider-headed Phantom rippled. Immediately, golden chains shot directly out from the void, completely binding the spider-headed Phantom from all directions.
After Atcherly completely recovered her senses, Dorothy's Fate Chains were freed up and could be used to lock onto a new target! And after dodging a few spikes, Atcherly directly pulled out a pistol and fired a shot at the spider-headed Phantom's head.
The specially charged massive light bullet was fired, bursting with light and shattering the spider head after accurately hitting it.
And at the same time, Anna on the other side finally managed to blow away the blood clouds covering the sky. Instantly, moonlight spilled from the clouds, shining onto the Phantom that had lost its spider head. The Phantom, which had originally struggled enough to loosen the chains, gradually began to calm down after being illuminated by the moonlight.