Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 42: Disparity and Backhand
Even so, Remedios herself was unsure. The seven blessed arrows had been restrained by the advisor of the Takma Cult, and it was still unknown how much effect the power of the empty strings would have in a battle of this level.
The little girl in front of her, floating in the air with a blood-red sword in one hand and a red thread made of mist wrapped around the other, was undoubtedly a divinely inspired being in a "God's descent" state. Even if she was fully prepared, she had to deal with an enemy of this level with caution.
In the past era of the Judgment Seat, the Holy Spirit that gained personality would overflow and become "disasters". The God-inspired ones who followed the seven disasters, after being chosen by the power of the disaster as the vessel of "God's Descent", would become the agents of the "Touch of Disaster". They are terrifying beings walking in the world, and their destructive power is even greater than that of high-level Moon Realm monsters.
A "divine enlightener" in a state of divine descent, plus the advisor of the Takma Cult next to him who may take action at any time, and Morton, the lord of Fire Phoenix City, whose attitude is not yet clear.
This battle is by no means as easy as he had boasted before.
But... being able to escape would be considered a success, right?
Remedios thought helplessly.
+Don't hurt the child, I'll need her help to confirm some things later+
It was also at this time that a soul voice with some kind of vibrating echo appeared in his mind without warning.
She resisted the urge to turn around and look at William.
The weapons she relied on were not even half as effective as before, and the Judge beside her was just a fictitious illusion created by distorted light, and the role he could play in a battle of this level was extremely limited - she didn't think she had the leeway to hold back in this situation.
It would be better to say that my plan is just to take him away and that would be the limit.
But from what William said, it seemed that he really intended to use this false illusion to cooperate with her to directly defeat the divinely inspired person in front of him who was in the "God's descent" state?
This is too high of a view of me...
She took a deep breath and gently stroked Liuliyue's bowstring as if plucking a harp.
With a humming sound, countless thin threads shot out from the bowstrings, cutting through the diffuse mist and entwining around various locations in the hall. Then, as if they had life, they began to weave a spider web full of murderous intent in this space.
"Before we begin, I want to ask you one last time. Are you sure you won't consider my previous proposal?"
The "little girl" floating in the air paid no attention to the web that was gradually approaching her. Instead, she looked at Remedios in the center of the spider web and asked softly.
Her proposal was that as long as she helped use the mist spirit to engrave "Holy Spirit Terra" in the cycle of time, she would swear to commit to the permanent independence of Ava Continent.
"You want me to give up the protection of the souls of my ancestors in Avazhou and sacrifice my own life to become your stepping stone, and then use this to exchange for the freedom that should have belonged to us... Do you think this is possible?"
To this, Remedios simply replied in a cold voice.
"No, I would say this is my last attempt to respect your free will. Because your personal opinion doesn't matter as much as you think it does."
The girl said sincerely.
Remedios did not reply, but drew her bow like a full moon and played a dangerous piece of music towards the divine enlightener floating in the air.
The pillars, reliefs, beams, and sculptures in the hall that were entangled with bowstrings all trembled at the same time, and many were even scratched to have broken edges as smooth as mirrors. As the bowstrings trembled, the deadly net strangled the girl floating in the air from different angles at the same time.
Liuliyue's bowstring is woven from the conspiracy silk of the Whispering Queen. Without the blessing of the seven blessed arrows, the way to maximize the use of this blessed artifact forged by the seven Void Kings is to activate the power of the conspiracy silk.
Of course, it is possible to use the bow arm forged from the crystals as a melee weapon to hit people, but Remedios is not very good at this.
【Liuliyue·Brutal Killing】
The silk threads throughout the space were like invisible and deadly blades, rapidly gathering towards the little girl trapped in the middle from all kinds of tricky angles. The thin chestnut-haired girl was as fragile and powerless as a bug caught in a spider web, but...
She raised one hand, and the blood-colored mist instantly turned into dozens of weapons flying around her. They kept shuttling around the girl, and their movements were as nimble as swimming fish. In just a few breaths, they turned into blurred streams of light.
There was a flash of blood, and the sound of dozens or even hundreds of strings breaking rang out around her. The severed threads twitched and danced in the air, leaving dangerous scratches on the floor, statues, and pillars around her.
But this didn't hurt the girl at all.
Remedios, who was controlling the direction of each silk string, felt the power in her fingertips getting out of control. The powerful recoil made her take several steps back.
Seeing that the previous strangulation had no effect at all, she first forcibly stabilized the vibrating silk thread, then gritted her teeth, hooked the bowstring with her fingers, and forcefully played out a bursting sound like tearing silk.
The previously out-of-control strings came back under her control. In a flash, they raised their heads like poisonous snakes spitting out their tongues, and once again shot towards the "God-Enlightened One" from all directions.
"Oh……"
Facing this dangerous scene, the girl chuckled as if she found it a bit funny. Then, the weapons around her, which were as fast as flowing light, accelerated their movement again, accurately and efficiently blocking the sharp and strange strings one by one, preventing them from getting close.
"The conspiracy strings are an offensive method that can only be effective in the dark. In this fog, their trails are more conspicuous than flies flying into a church. Isn't it too presumptuous to think that you can defeat me with this?"
The girl floating in the air didn't even move from her position from beginning to end. She looked down at Remedios, who still had an expressionless face but a slightly solemn look in her eyes, and spoke arrogantly.
Indeed... This throne room filled with fog is just like a certain physics experiment cloud chamber that William knew about in his previous life. Any object moving at high speed will leave a very obvious movement track in the fog, and those tracks can be used to accurately predict the direction of the attack.
Those hair-thin, silent, and swift threads of conspiracy were extremely difficult to detect through the senses, but in this throne room, they were nowhere to hide.
"You, whose arrows are sealed, have no chance of defeating me here. No, even if they are not sealed, you still have no chance..."
The girl continued.
As she spoke, as if to confirm her words, she gently raised the blood-red sword in her hand and pointed it at Remedios. As she moved, dozens of blood-red weapons emerged from the mist behind her again, and then immediately gathered into a crimson torrent and rushed towards the other party.
Upon seeing this, Remedios quickly plucked the bowstring, and several silk threads shot out in an instant and converged into the spider web that covered the entire throne room.
She jumped up on the silk threads, and with the help of the ubiquitous spider web in mid-air, she dodged the blood-red weapons chasing her from behind . She turned back from time to time, drew her bow and shot invisible energy arrows to smash the weapons following closely behind her.
"Why bother?"
The girl said as she looked at Remedios who was constantly moving around her.
"Death is a relief for you now. Forcibly maintaining your life that should have ended long ago will only cause your soul to continue to corrupt."
Remedios answered her with several invisible arrows filled with anger.
So strong, so strong...
William, who was standing aside, sighed as he watched Remedios dodging in the spider web and could only counterattack during the gaps between the opponent's attacks.
The God-Inspired One, who was floating in the center of the throne room at this time with a playful expression like a cat playing with a mouse, was much more powerful than the ghost he had encountered on the Sea .
The gap in between is caused by the "God-Enlightened One", the fulcrum of the present world.
But on the other hand, as William expected, the other party still did not intend to give up the attempt to use the Mist King's coronation to ascend to heaven. Therefore, the other party would not use the previous power of instant death to quickly resolve the battle - if so, William would have risked his own clone to cover Remedios's escape from Moon City.
From this perspective, her current fighting style of toying with her opponent while maintaining some leeway was not out of any bad taste, but rather an attempt to constantly wear down Remedios's fighting spirit.
But this way, I can buy enough time for the backup plan I prepared earlier...
"Liz, you should be almost ready..."
William murmured softly as he nervously stared at the fierce battle not far away where the gap in combat power was huge.
