Chapter 122: Abyssal Beast

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“How pathetic.”

Via stood on the rooftop, overlooking the burning city.

Behind her were the corpses of monsters and demonized ones.

After the battle just now, she had eliminated quite a few demonized ones from the Abyssal Eye, and all the monsters had their magic cores extracted and absorbed into the Demon King Armament.

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As for the clerics, she had no particular interest in dealing with them for the time being.

By displaying her strength, she had intimidated those guys enough.

After all, to resolve the disaster in Kado City, she still needed those clerics to create a safe environment for Sophie.

There was no need to pursue them relentlessly; letting them go was actually a better choice.

“The human world isn’t necessarily any better.”

Via placed her hand on the railing.

In her previous life, her understanding of the human world had been quite limited, mostly from information provided by her subordinates and the words of humans on the battlefield.

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In this life, reborn as a human, she had witnessed many situations in the human world that she could never have imagined in her past life.

The human race wasn’t necessarily a monolithic bloc.

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It was just that back then, with the war between demons and humans, in the face of a greater crisis, the humans had temporarily set their conflicts aside to confront the demons.

Now that the war was over, the internal struggles among humans had resurfaced.

Like those demonized ones.

To pursue power, they could even harm their own kind, using insane methods to force normal humans to transform into demonized ones.

And in this, what difference was there from the demons in the Desolate Fallen Continent killing their own kind for survival?

“The higher-ups in the Holy Land, to explore the limits of the human body’s tolerance for abyssal aura, even conducted inhumane experiments on devout believers… driving them to the opposing side.”

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Via recalled the important information Zak had revealed earlier.

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It seemed she needed to be on guard against the Holy Land’s higher-ups.

She grabbed the railing, snapping it off right then, took a small sharp section, and hurled it backward.

“Ah!”

In the pile of demonized corpses, someone let out a scream, struggled in pain for a few moments, their pupils gradually losing focus, and they breathed their last.

“Earlier, some trash pretended to be dead and tried to sneak away amid the chaos. Don’t think you can use that trick in front of me a second time.”

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Via snorted coldly.

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In her mind, she issued a command to the Demon King Armament.

“System, perform scan.”

「Beginning scan.」

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「Scanning…」

「Scan complete. No signs of life activity detected in the area.」

The Demon King Armament’s system reported.

She had to admit, the built-in functions of these armaments were quite convenient.

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“This area is cleared out. I’ve eliminated quite a few members of the Abyssal Eye, and some are still active on the city’s outskirts, sealing the exits… But they shouldn’t pose much of a threat. The Holy Land’s clerics and the Saint Luo Empire’s soldiers should be able to handle them.”

Via analyzed the situation in Kado City.

Although it seemed the Abyssal Eye had suffered a blow from her, with their plan frustrated, looking at the current environment…

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It couldn’t be considered safe.

Because there was still the biggest threat.

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“Roar—Aaaaaa!!”

A sharp screech rang out, the sound wave turning into a tangible impact that struck the rooftop.

It’s here!

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Via immediately stepped onto the railing and leaped into the sky.

She glanced back, and her previous position had been completely crushed by the sound wave. The corpses of the demonized ones and monsters were also torn into bloody shreds, falling down along with the building’s debris.

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Thud.

Via landed on the ground.

She raised her head, and through the Demon King mask, she saw the white monster before her.

“Abyssal Beast.”

“Hiss… Hiss…”

The Abyssal Beast’s head split open with a gruesome crack, its tongue hanging in the air like a venomous snake’s, sensing the scents of life around it.

The fissures on its body seemed to breathe, constantly oozing dark purple liquid at a certain frequency, dripping onto the ground and corroding the floor.

“Gn, NWI!”

Via used the abyssal language.

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She tried to communicate with the Abyssal Beast, wanting to make this monster withdraw from here immediately.

“Xxio! Xxio!”

The Abyssal Beast’s mouth curved into a bone-chilling arc, the scent it emitted growing even more pungent as it entered an excited state.

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“As expected, it’s useless.”

Via wasn’t surprised.

Abyssal Beasts like this had little rationality to begin with; even demons found it hard to communicate with them.

She had heard the Abyssal Beast’s laughter just now.

Although the Abyssal Beast hadn’t expressed much, she could more or less sense it.

Slaughtering those ordinary lives couldn’t satisfy the Abyssal Beast’s desire for killing.

This white monster had already seen her as a prey worth killing.

“Abyssal Bullet, fire.”

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Via compressed her mana amplified by the abyssal aura, concentrating it into a single point, and launched the strike at the Abyssal Beast.

She hadn’t expected the Abyssal Beast to listen to her anyway; the best way to deal with something that lacked much reason was to use violence.

The Abyssal Beast had to be eliminated.

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The Holy Land couldn’t possibly ignore the Abyssal Beast, and Sophie, as a saintess candidate with outstanding purification abilities, would definitely join the Holy Land’s operation to subjugate the Abyssal Beast and protect the people.

She didn’t think the clerics in Kado City could handle a Transcendent-tier monster like this.

“Hiss!”

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The Abyssal Beast crouched down, its body exceptionally agile.

It actually managed to react to an attack that neither demonized ones nor monsters could avoid, letting the abyssal bullet graze past its body and land behind it.

Boom!

The abyssal bullet’s explosion kicked up an air wave.

The Abyssal Beast used its four limbs to dash madly, utilizing the air wave to boost its speed and quickly close the distance with Via.

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“Multi Abyssal Bullet, fire!”

Via waved her arm, and multiple abyssal bullets appeared above her head.

Twisting white lines constantly rotated within the spheres, compressed by mana to form powerful abyssal bullets that locked onto the Abyssal Beast before firing continuously.

“Ya!”

The Abyssal Beast’s body lit up with an eerie glow.

Its body temperature rose rapidly, as if turning into a superheated device, spraying the dark purple liquid from its fissures. Under the high temperature, it turned into gas, completely enveloping its body.

The dashing monster was like a steam train.

When the abyssal bullets entered the gas it had created, their trajectories were forcibly deflected, all grazing past.

The Abyssal Beast moved at extremely high speed as if charging through a rain curtain, yet without hitting a single drop.

This was the terror of the Transcendent tier—its strength had completely surpassed the common sense recognized by mortals.

“Abyssal Shield!”

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Via deployed the abyssal shield, protecting herself in front.

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The Abyssal Beast collided with the invisible barrier. Under the force of inertia, it pushed the black Demon King along, plowing an exaggerated furrow in the ground. The mere aftermath uprooted the surrounding buildings and blew them into the air.

The Abyssal Beast’s scythe-like sharp claws pierced into the invisible barrier. As if deliberately mocking Via, the smile on its face grew even more intense, tearing the abyssal shield’s defense little by little.