Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 61 Return to Dust
William looked at Coles, who had taken off his human disguise and revealed his true nature as a moon spirit. Beneath his deep despair, a glimmer of hope flickered.
William had seen a similar scene before.
Was that one thousand and eight years ago, or was it just a few years ago?
It probably depends on your perspective on things and your perception of time.
In short, there was once a Chief Judge of the End Watch whose name was not William Kane. She led the members of the Thirteen Seats of Judgment, who had very different personnel compositions, to a desolate lunar realm.
It is called Graycastle and is said to be the first moon realm in the world.
There was nothing there except gray dust. Anyone who stepped into this place would lose their own color and become gray and white as if they had been burned to ashes.
It was the end of the Third War, and the largest invasions of the Moon Realm had been repelled. The entire world seemed to be welcoming the long-lost peace and tranquility.
But scattered Moon Realm monsters are still wreaking havoc in the world, so the members of the Tribunal have scattered to various parts of the continent, cooperating with local lords to fight the enemy together. However, one day, their Chief Judge summoned them to gather at the Dusk Fortress and told them that the final battle was about to begin - an opportunity to completely resolve the Moon Realm crisis had come.
So they followed the Chief Inquisitor to Graycastle.
There, they saw fourteen long pillars rising slowly in the flying dust. On the top of each pillar was a uniquely shaped throne. Then, one figure after another appeared on those thrones.
Different from the gray and white world around them, they all have extremely bright colors.
Except for one empty throne, each throne has a void king sitting on it.
The judges were surrounded and had no way of escaping.
One person was shocked and angry and asked the presiding judge why this was the case.
Then he became the first sacrifice.
A giant wrapped in dark red armor and with blood constantly flowing from his hands, jumped down from the throne. He chopped off the man's head with a brass serrated axe and then let out a deafening roar.
Then, around the judge, her former companions were killed one after another.
Some were strangled to death by spider silk, some were burned by fire, some turned into a pool of pus, and some had their blood drained...
A Void King takes the life of a member of the Tribunal as a sacrifice.
And with every death, the judge's gray body was stained with some color.
After all twelve members of the Tribunal around her died, she completed her final transformation.
White wings spread out from behind her, and her body almost turned into a light symbolizing hope.
And a deep, dark hole appeared in front of her chest, an abyss of despair.
The last Void King who did not take the sacrifice came up to her with a black and white crown in his hand and crowned her...
The form of Coles in front of him looked a bit like the opposite state .
It turns out that choosing different ways to get promoted will lead to differences in the final form?
William thought.
After completing the transformation, Coles said in a completely distorted voice:
"For every second I stay in this state, the mercy I can retain for the world will decrease, and in the future, there will be fewer mortals on the entire continent who can be protected by the lighthouse."
As it spoke, it appeared in front of William like a ghost, raised its hand that had turned into a sharp claw and grabbed the latter's throat.
"And all this was caused by you!"
Coles hissed.
William raised the enchanted and strengthened crystal staff in his hand to block the attack, but the dark claws turned into smoke and passed through the staff, then solidified again in an instant and approached his throat directly.
But just as the sharp claw was about to cut William's throat, the gold ring in the shape of arms hugging on his right ring finger lit up.
A pale golden shadow appeared behind William. It was a young woman whose face could not be seen clearly. She crossed her arms and wrapped them around William's neck from behind. Under the protection of this golden shadow, Coles's black claws could not move forward at all.
After blocking the attack, William jumped back with the help of the [Levitation] spell. In mid-air, he swung the crystal magic medium in his hand like a sword, and a magic sword with a faint blue light instantly took shape from the magic medium.
Then the sword cut off Coles' hand that was grabbing him as cleanly as a hot knife cutting through butter.
"Lady's Guardian? I remember now, the seven Holy Spirit Rings are still in your hands, right?!"
Coles did not look at his severed hand, but stared at the gradually fading golden shadow behind William.
The answer is yes, and at this moment, all seven rings are worn on his hands.
But William did not answer Coles' question.
At this moment, he was in a state of controlling his health to the extreme in exchange for maximizing his spell strength. In short, he was a glass cannon. Although he had a lot of props that could prolong his life when he was hit by a fatal attack, it was always one less item after another. The next time he used it, he had to leave the battle to recharge it, or wait for a long cooldown.
Just like you have been accidentally knocked into an invincible state, you'd better not be too confident.
The hand that was cut off by William did not fall to the ground, but turned into dozens of black balls and scattered in the air, and then quickly attacked William from different directions.
These small balls pulled out a huge gravitational force, and as they passed, the land was torn into gullies, and even the orange clouds at dusk were slightly pulled over by them.
But in the next moment, a mirror emitting lake light appeared on the path of each black ball. At the same time, an equal number of mirror spaces appeared in all directions around Coles.
Coles didn't have time to control the gravity balls to stop moving forward. The dozen or so small balls crashed into the mirror space, then flew out from the mirrors around Coles and hit their owners directly.
In an instant, a violent but silent explosion occurred from there, and everything around it continued to collapse with Coles as the center. It and everything around it were kneaded into an irregular sphere floating in the air.
Then the sphere broke into pieces, and Coles turned it into powder in anger.
But as soon as it appeared, more than a dozen spinning illusory ring blades flew towards it at the same time.
Seeing this, Coles immediately summoned several twisted black swords to intercept. The ring blades and the black swords kept colliding and annihilating in the air. However, several ring blades still passed through Coles' interception and firmly wrapped around his body. Countless thick ink-like shadows burst out from the ring blades, constantly wrapping it up.
Coles showed his sharp claws and kept tearing off the shadows clinging to him, which made it unable to pay attention to the situation on William's side for a while.
Seeing that he had temporarily controlled the opponent, William held the crystal staff in both hands and slammed it heavily on the ground.
With him as the center, a fiery red magic circle with a diameter of nearly fifty meters was outlined, with a pattern that looked so complex that it was difficult to describe.
Let's end it with this one strike.
The pinnacle fire spell [Return to Dust].
