OBS Chapter 3719 The Curtain of Life and Death
Chapter 3719 The Curtain of Life and Death
Chapter 3719 The Curtain of Life and Death
With a soft hum, the pure silver halo expanded outwards in concentric circles.
When the silver moonlight touched those gray, time-frozen zones, the fishmen and water ghosts frozen within were like those scalded by hot oil, their bodies rotting away until the rotten flesh melted into foul-smelling pus, leaving only their skeletons in place.
However, some water ghosts and fish-men still managed to maintain their normal forms under the moonlight, but they could not escape that gray, time-frozen realm.
Although Shad had closed his eyes, his senses were not limited, so while he continued casting the spell, he heard the blonde "sorceress's" reminder:
“More things are coming, I can… the power of calamity, snakes are slithering in.”
"It's alright. You don't have a snake shed skin, so don't act rashly. Help me protect Ellie. Grace, Helen, clear the area first."
"Yes, sir!"
Large swarms of red butterflies emerged from Shad's shadow like a tidal wave, but upon closer inspection, Adele Isabella noticed a familiar silver edge around the wings of those butterflies.
The red butterflies spread to all corners of the island, and were eventually detonated by a chilling and eerie girl's laughter.
The crimson mist, imbued with an extremely powerful curse, a corrosive force of death, and the ability to sever space, permeated the entire sea area. After precisely avoiding the snakes lurking beneath the water, it dissolved every enemy hidden in the black waves into scarlet seawater.
Crimson mist swirled around Shad, and Shad's shadow under the moonlight no longer appeared as his own, but as a pair of sisters holding hands. Although she knew whose power this was, the thirteenth-tier Great Witch still felt incredibly horrified by the scene.
The appearance of the red mist expanded Shad's perception range. With the help of the magical technique [Radiant Moon Realm] to enhance his ability to perceive under the moon, Shad could know everything within a three-mile radius of the island.
Therefore, he "saw" that many water ghosts waiting to be revived were buried in the seabed beneath the surface of the sea. The toxins secreted by the huge snake fangs into the seabed made their bodies extremely deformed. At the same time, he also saw three fully formed infinite snakes swimming around the island.
As for the root of all this—
Shad turned to look southeast, where a black tide surged and lifted up a "mermaid." Its upper body resembled Valentine Halonin, while its lower body was that of a filthy mermaid's tail.
The source of this power is self-evident, and the woman who emerged from the seawater retorted sarcastically without any restraint:
"Look at you. I originally thought you were a very upright person, but now you're using the power of humanoid relics? And I can see that you're not simply using the relics; you're deeply fused with them. Look at your terrifying appearance now, such a deep fusion..."
She covered her mouth and laughed:
"I don't believe you if you say that your relationship is just about using each other or even friendship. Yes, I can see through your desires, and I can also see her feelings for you, so pure and passionate, so long and enduring."
Tell me, handsome sir, what exactly did you do to the humanoid relic?
The "sorceress" beside her twitched her brow, while Ellie, whom she was protecting behind her, let out a threatening cry at the "mermaid" in the waves.
"Now I understand. All my attempts to seduce you have been ineffective because of this. You don't like human girls after all; you like this kind."
Grace appeared out of nowhere behind her and slapped the back of its head. The shattered space directly sucked in half of the "mermaid's" body.
"They ran away, but they're still around here."
Grace's emotionless voice reached Shad's ears through the increasingly dense red mist, followed by the complete corrosion of the remaining parts of the corpse into pus by the red mist.
The appearance of these extremely dangerous red mists, imbued with whispering elements, even led the ring sorcerers, led by Miss Ingram, the Nightmare Witch of the Church of Nature, who had just arrived, to believe that the red mists were the work of the enemy.
There were only about twenty ring mages who came here, but each of them was at least ten rings high. In addition to the ring mages from the church and the high-ring prophets from the association, Saint Byron's party also came here.
【Red Moon Witch】Dannister immediately recognized what kind of power this was. She looked towards the center of the red mist, and although she couldn't see it, she inexplicably sensed Shad's presence:
"It's the Summoner of Gods. It seems he arrived ahead of schedule. Unfold the [Veil of Obscurity] and resolve the issues here as soon as possible. Other places also need the power of this relic."
A flat wooden box, held by a ring sorcerer in black robes, was opened, and then a rectangular piece of gray, shimmering fabric unfurled like flowing water. As it was tossed high into the air, the fabric, originally only the size of a cloak, rapidly expanded until it completely enveloped the night sky.
The gray fabric rapidly encroached upon the surrounding space, but instead of isolating the nearby sea from the surrounding area, it dragged the space encroached by the [Veil of Obscurity] towards an ambiguous region where life and death intertwined.
Influenced by this force, the water ghosts on the seabed, even those that were not yet awakened, spontaneously awoke. Fortunately, the corpses and fish-men lurking on the seabed beyond the vast ocean, due to the interval between life and death, were temporarily no longer under the control of the "mermaid" Halonin.
The water monsters near the island surfaced, only to be met with a barrage of magical spells from the ring sorcerers. Even implanted with the destiny of destruction and apocalypse, they were still forced back beneath the surface by the first wave of attacks, followed by the devastating magical spells unleashed by two thirteenth-ring sorcerers:
"The Red Moon Has Fallen!"
"A nightmare has arrived!"
In the center of this crimson mist, where life and death intertwine, three enormous black serpents had already engaged Shad in battle. The unique environment, fraught with danger, hindered the spread of sound. The three serpents slithered towards the island's shore from three directions, simultaneously lunging towards Shad, who was surrounded in the center, only to be pierced by three longswords at the same time.
"The Blade of Distorted Time!"
After reaching the higher rings, he used this extraordinary technique that had accompanied him from the lower rings. Every time Shade swung his longsword, three seemingly identical figures would overlap with him and strike in different directions.
Even though the sound of the longsword cutting through the air was almost completely suppressed, the shimmering silver light and the glittering yellow runes still made the very center of the red mist appear strangely hazy.
"Time manipulation techniques for close combat~"
The blonde "sorceress" watched his fighting figure with some admiration, then realized that this was definitely not a magic technique that "she" had taught him, and began to suspect that Shad had other teachers with time-related powers.
She waited to lend a hand. Although she couldn't directly cast spells on the Infinite Serpent, she could still help Shad by using the power of time to accelerate, pause, or slow down the flow of time in the surrounding environment.
But it seems that even facing three Infinite Serpents at the same time wouldn't be too dangerous for Shad. Without the "Infinite Evolution" trait, as long as he's careful not to get bitten and injected with venom, these serpents aren't even considered evil creatures to Shad.
The three snakes had already undergone a certain degree of evolution before their appearance, and each possessed relatively strange abilities. However, the purple light mark on the back of Shad's hand was hidden in the silver sword light, and shortly after the church opened the veil of life and death, all three snakes were shrouded in that inexplicable white steam mist.
Miss Sabel and Ellie were also enveloped in that steamy mist. The little unicorn didn't know what the witch felt, but she definitely felt that Shad's powerful soul force enveloped the space where the island was located. It felt as if Shad's soul was enveloping her in it.
The falling rings then transformed the three defeated Infinite Serpents into black arcs. As the steam dissipated, Shad looked at the black arcs he had held aloft and felt that he had acquired perhaps too many of these arcs recently.
However, the battle was not over yet. After the surrounding steam and red mist dissipated, the stars and moon in the night sky disappeared as the curtain was drawn back.
Under the pure black sky, the sea became calm. The team led by Daniste and Miss Ingram had completely suppressed the snake-like plague-infected water ghosts and fish-men back to the seabed. But the key to this battle was neither the plague-infected nor the snakes.
Beneath the dark sea surface, a huge black shadow was rapidly circling the "island" where Shad was located. Wherever the shadow passed, the seawater gurgled and bubbled, as if it had been transformed into some kind of highly poisonous liquid.
It didn't immediately leap out of the water, but gradually moved away from the island, trying to find the edge of this world caught between life and death. However, the power of the angelic relic couldn't be broken in a short time. After confirming that its body couldn't establish any soul or spiritual connection with the outside world here, it summoned the remaining fish-men and water ghosts in the sea to gather around it.
Slender black shadows rapidly converged towards the eastern edge of this world, eventually merging with the largest black shadow.
The ring sorcerers tried to stop them, but the bubbling black seawater severely hampered the power of their magic and divine arts.
Entering the water rashly at this moment would be very unwise, so the group of more than twenty people came to the island and met up with Shad, who was standing next to a unicorn and a sorceress.
Daniste glanced curiously at Miss Sabel and asked Shad telepathically:
"The boundary between life and death has been opened, so when will the silver moon appear on the horizon?"