Chapter 347: Goddess of Corruption
The scarlet flower blossomed magnificently, and in a moment, the smell of corruption completely enveloped the bottom of the holy tree.
At this moment, the bottom of the holy tree was like a sea of blood and hell, filled with corrupt red fog that would bring death to anyone who touched it.
Just as the corrupt red fog was about to spread outside, the original corrupt pool that had already turned into a black pool suddenly moved.
The sticky black water in the black pool gurgled and rolled with black foam, and then all sank into the tree roots below.
The originally sacred golden roots suddenly began to reveal dark and dull lines. It was a darkness that could completely swallow up even the light. The moment the lines appeared, the shadows expanded.
The black shadow expanded rapidly, and then fire patterns emerged from the shadow. The two-color curtain with black as the main color and red as the secondary color instantly enveloped the entire bottom layer of the sacred tree.
Before the blooming scarlet corruption could successfully spread, it was trapped in a small space by a deeper force.
If the corrupt red mist emitted by the Scarlet Flower is allowed to spread, all life on the Holy Tree will be infected and then wither under the power of corruption.
Michaela's sacred tree will also turn into a second Galide, and it may even be worse than Galide because the goddess of corruption is here.
"Tsk, that's not right."
Xia Yu, wrapped in black wings, controlled the darkness in the tree roots to prevent the spread of the corrupt red mist, while frowning as he thought about this unreasonable scene.
Under normal circumstances, even if Malenia lost her personality to resist the scarlet corruption, she would not bloom right away.
This is proven by the first and second stages of the game. The tone of the first stage is sad, revealing pain and struggle everywhere.
At this stage, Malenia does not know any corrupt law prayers and can only use the flowing water sword technique.
It was the sword technique of Flowing Water Sword, which was opposed to corruption, that prevented the broken personality of Malenia from completely succumbing to the fate of blooming.
After all, running water never rots, and a door hinge never rots. The flowing sword, which represents change, is the nemesis of corruption. This is also the reason why the blind swordsman in blue can seal corruption.
But when Malenia was beaten to the point of death, she blossomed.
The second stage arrives, and the tone of this stage is no longer sad. Instead, it makes people feel relieved and accepted.
Both Malenia’s lines and the background music show that she has submitted to her destiny of blooming, and she has indeed bloomed.
She no longer even felt pain or struggle, and completely accepted her identity as a corrupt goddess.
The two stages are Malenia's mental journey, a process from resisting fate to accepting fate.
So... this has to be a process!
What does it mean to bloom right away? Where is your struggle? Where is your resistance? Why can you accept your fate so easily?
Is there someone giving instructions? Or is there someone behind the scenes?
Xia Yu thought silently and pieced together the clues he knew, and he did think of two candidates.
They are the god-man Michaela and the sealed corrupt god.
But it should be impossible for a corrupt god to do so. That thing is still sealed in the Ansel River. If it could influence Malenia's choice, Malenia would have blossomed long ago. Why would it have to wait until now?
So it was actually Michaela who made Malenia bloom?
But that is even more impossible. In order to cure her sister's corruption, Michaela abandoned gold fundamentalism and turned to studying pure gold. She even used her own blood to water the sacred tree.
Would such a godly man who values his sister take the initiative to let his sister accept corruption and become a corrupt goddess?
Everything is possible, and nothing is impossible.
Gumperson's law has shown that probability has a contradictory side, that is, the more likely something is to happen is not necessarily likely to happen, and the less likely something is to happen is likely to happen.
So, Michaela, the least likely one, is the most likely one.
This is not something Xia Yu made up. First of all, Marlenya, who is obsessed with her brother, will hardly go against her brother's wishes. Even her own name is "Michaela's Blade".
If Michaela asked Malenia to bloom, then Malenia might really bloom right away.
She trusted her brother unconditionally, even though he asked her to give up herself and become a corrupt goddess.
“…”
After coming to this conclusion, Xia Yu was silent for a while, then he shook his head fiercely. Guessing cannot be regarded as fact, even if it is infinitely close to the truth.
As expected, a fight is necessary. Once Malenia is subdued, his guess will be verified.
…
Outside, the scarlet flowers gradually faded.
The blossoming Malenia also flew out from the bud. At this moment, her appearance had changed greatly.
A pair of beautiful yet strangely corrupted wings condensed from behind her. They were composed of the Ionian butterfly as the main body, with falling leaves as embellishments, and the wings were woven with red hair.
Malenia, floating in the air, exudes a strong divinity with her naked body like an ancient Greek sculpture.
The goddess of corruption has arrived!
"This is really troublesome."
Xia Yu spread his black and red wings to disperse the red fog around him, holding Millicent horizontally, and muttered to himself as he looked at the arrogant Malenia.
He also wanted to let Millicent fight a fateful battle with Malenia in person. No matter whether Millicent won or lost, he would suppress Malenia in the end.
Then, while Malenia had not yet bloomed, he allowed it to be reborn, eradicating the scarlet corruption that had been parasitic on it since its birth.
As a result, plans could not keep up with changes, and the goddess of corruption actually came directly.
Forget about the fateful battle, as he was the only one among the two present who could stand up to the goddess of corruption.
Millicent, who was held horizontally by Xia Yu, heard Xia Yu's mumbling. Without any hesitation, she grabbed Xia Yu's clothes and spoke anxiously.
"Xia Yu, don't worry about me, just run away."
She also took notice of the extremely oppressive and corrupt goddess, a god who had no chance of winning.
"What are you thinking about?"
Xia Yu lowered his head and smiled: "How could I abandon you and leave, and now no one can stop her except me."
"Xia Yu..."
Millicent was a little touched. Along the way, she had been well taken care of by Xia Yu, but now facing the strongest enemy, she could only hold them back.
"Okay, you stay with your sister and rest for a while. You can come out after I take care of her."
"My sister?"
Millicent looked up in confusion. Weren't her sisters swallowed by the tree spirit? What did she mean by resting with them?
Before Millicent could figure it out, Xia Yu suddenly used both hands to throw Millicent out.
And in the shadows at the edge, a dragon head covered with black lines suddenly emerged, and swallowed Millicent in one gulp as she was stunned.
At the last second when her vision went dark, Millicent finally understood what this meant by taking a break with her sisters.
…
After Scarlet confronted Flame and sent Millicent into a safe space, Xia Yu looked at the corrupt goddess holding the sacred prosthetic knife.
"Big sister? Are you still conscious?"
“…”
Malenia, who had already accepted the power of the Goddess of Corruption, had no intention of speaking. She raised her prosthetic sword high in front of her chest.
Seeing this, Xia Yu didn't say any more nonsense, mainly because it was useless to say anything now, as Malenia obviously didn't want to hear anything anymore.
He clenched his palm and pulled out an extremely gorgeous sword from the air.
After taking out the Sword of Night and Fire, black and red colors were wrapped around it, extending the hollow sword body a lot.
Then the darkness and fire became more concentrated, dividing the sword into two parts like a ruby and a black gem, with golden runes lingering at the connection.
Xia Yu, holding the True Night and Fire Sword, squinted at the motionless Goddess of Corruption, and the four wings behind him slightly closed.
whoosh!
clang!!!
With a flap of wings, Xia Yu, holding the Night Fire Greatsword, collided with the prosthetic sword of the Goddess of Corruption. Xia Yu's face was serious and ferocious, while the Goddess of Corruption remained expressionless.
At this moment, both of them were holding swords and confronting each other in the most primitive wrestling, with their faces only a palm's width apart.
The face of the corrupt goddess was eroded by corruption, her eyes were blind, and only the skin below the nose was intact.
Although it looks a bit scary at first glance, it is quite stunning when you look at it face to face, especially the imperfect beauty, which makes the corrupt goddess look even more sacred.
Xia Yu's eyes lit up when he saw it.
The next second, the light in Xia Yu's eyes became brighter and brighter, yellow sparks burst from the corners of his eyes, and a twisted .
Crazy fire in the sky!
The scorching fire compressed to the extreme suddenly shot out from Xia Yu's eyes. The nemesis of scarlet corruption is fire, and fire is also fire.
Because the distance was too close, even though the Goddess of Corruption dodged quickly, she was still hit on the head by the evil fire.
The twisted yellow flames immediately spread over it, and Xia Yu immediately seized the opportunity to chop down the corrupt goddess who had lost the initiative with the Night Fire Sword.
The corrupt goddess had no choice but to ignore the anger in her ears and raised her sword to block Xia Yu's attack.
clang!
The two people who were originally evenly matched are now one on top and the other on the bottom, and the corrupt goddess who was pressed under him finally changed her expression a little.
But she did not pull away. Instead, she suddenly raised her golden prosthetic foot and kicked straight at Xia Yu's chest.
Xia Yu did not dodge or evade. He immediately retracted one of his hands holding the sword, then reached forward, grabbed the ankle of the corrupt goddess and pulled her back violently.
The corrupt goddess suddenly lost her balance and was pulled in front of Xia Yu.
Face to face again, Xia Yu's eyes lit up again.
boom!
This time, the Goddess of Corruption failed to dodge, and the crazy fire in the air exploded on her face with lightning speed.
Then Xia Yu suddenly raised his knee and rammed it hard into the stomach of the corrupt goddess. With such great force, the corrupt goddess' body bent deeply, and then flew out with a bang under the spreading sonic boom.
The corrupt goddess, who was flying backwards, flapped her wings repeatedly before she was able to slow down her flying body.
"It's OK, but I don't need to borrow any strength."
After the test just now, Xia Yu compared the power between himself and the Goddess of Corruption, and confirmed that he could now fight hard and have the upper hand.
Either the two sides are evenly matched, or you can crush and kill them instantly, or the best option is to run away. Now the situation is evenly matched.
It's OK, acceptable.
On the other side, the goddess of corruption extinguished the yellow flames on her face, and the aura of corruption on her body became stronger. Although she had no eyes, Xia Yu could still feel the gaze staring at him.
Well, it’s confirmed that the other party was irritated by him.
Swish!
The wings of corruption flapped gently, and scarlet butterflies filled the air around the Goddess of Corruption. Illusory shadows emerged from her body, and the butterflies took shape.
In an instant, four butterfly clones flew out and rushed towards Xia Yu from all directions.
The four butterfly clones all held long swords, and when they swung their swords, they formed multiple gorgeous slashes like flowing water, surrounding Xia Yu in the center like an overwhelming force.
Putting aside the human personality that suppresses corruption, the current Goddess of Corruption uses scarlet corruption combined with flowing sword skills, which is a more perfect form in terms of combat power alone.
Compared to the Starshatter Ratan, which is suitable for large-scale battles, Marennia's Flowing Water Swordsmanship is more suitable for small-scale one-on-one battles.
Xia Yu narrowed his eyes, and purple lightning spread across the sword. As he swung the sword down, he drew down purple ripples, and a fierce and heavy pressure suddenly emerged!
gravity!
The space was suddenly squeezed, and long, narrow black cracks appeared. The almost invisible clone was directly crushed and turned into petals that fell to the ground.
Then Xia Yu took advantage of the situation and swung out a terrifying sword energy with purple lightning. The purple and almost black sword energy arrived in front of the Goddess of Corruption in an instant. The void where the sword energy passed left pieces of collapsed and fragmented space.
The corrupt goddess failed to hit him and immediately pulled back.
But for some reason, the distance between her and the sword energy not only did not increase, but instead became closer.
The sword energy carrying gravity magic has the ability to pull the enemy closer to itself. Unless the Goddess of Corruption can break through gravity, she can only be restrained.
Seeing that she couldn't escape, the Goddess of Corruption simply stopped flapping her wings and raised her righteous hands behind her, which was the starting move of the Water Bird Dance.
Swish——!
In an instant, the Goddess of Corruption disappeared from the spot, and scarlet sword energy appeared in the space all around, penetrating the space with unparalleled force and slashing towards the purple-black sword energy.
Water birds are dancing!
With a slight swish sound, the gravity sword energy that seemed to be able to crush space was immediately hit by countless scarlet slashes.
There was only a crisp sound, and the gravity sword energy was covered with cracks in the blink of an eye, and then exploded with a loud bang, but the Goddess of Corruption did not show up.
Xia Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, and the four wings suddenly wrapped around him.
In an instant, the Goddess of Corruption appeared in front of Xia Yu, followed by countless scarlet slashes.
Scarlet sword energy flew in all directions, and the surrounding tree roots and walls were shattered by the sword energy. Then the Goddess of Corruption condensed her body, and boundless sword energy burst out from her body again.
The four wings that served as protection were also in tatters. When the Goddess of Corruption was about to lunge and kill the enemy, something strange happened.
Two giant black hands suddenly stretched out from the ground, grasped the Goddess of Corruption in their hands, and then fire patterns lit up, and blazing flames suddenly rose up!
boom!!!
The flames exploded, and the giant black hand was swallowed by the flames, and at the same time, the corrupt goddess who was held in the giant hand was also wrapped up in it.
Flames danced wildly in the sky, illuminating the entire sacred tree space as bright as day. The flames turned into fireballs, and the fire patterns on the surrounding shadows lit up at the same time, injecting more hot breath into them.
Under the scorching heat like that of the sun, the space vibrated and twisted, and the roots of the trees underground sank layer by layer. If it weren't for Xia Yu's darkness enveloping this space, the ground below would have disappeared long ago.
The fireball broke through with a trace of red light, and the figure of the Goddess of Corruption rushed out of the fireball in a panic. There were flames on her wings and a burning smell came from it.
Although the Goddess of Corruption can use the power of corruption to heal herself, she can only barely avoid further burns under the nemesis of fire.
