Murphy could not control the sounds escaping her lips.
She could not afford to delay any longer.
[Healing Magic · Green]
This time, the magic activated once more.
Yet Felina still had no intention of letting her complete it.
She pressed harder and deeper, twisting slightly before surging forward.
“I won’t… I won’t give up…”
What is Murphy doing right now?
“Calm down. Quickly regain your sanity, Feli… na.”
Suddenly, Murphy took the initiative and kissed Felina’s lips.
She began absorbing the shadows and dark magic power within Felina’s body, just like before.
Only this way could Felina regain her reason.
However, the amount of shadow inside Felina this time was far greater than any previous occasion.
If nine days ago the shadow within Felina had only been a small stream, then now it was a turbulent, endless river.
Taking advantage of the moment, her magic continued to activate.
It began purifying Felina’s body, sealing away the curse and mental control inside her, allowing Felina’s own consciousness to return.
Throughout this process, Felina’s movements never once stopped.
The shadows and her actions launched a joint assault on Murphy’s body, scattering even a portion of the reason in Murphy’s mind and leaving her hazy and lost.
Murphy used a small portion of her magic to purify herself, forcibly keeping her mind clear so she would not be dominated by the shadow.
She pondered everything happening before her eyes.
The shadow was perhaps using and amplifying the emotions in Felina’s heart.
Miss Felina had already liked her.
She was simply unable to control that emotion right now.
Therefore, rather than completely erasing it, she should accept her…
“Re… lax.”
Although Murphy was still reminding her, her face was already flushed beyond recognition.
Her body was damp.
Earlier she could still feel the heat from Felina’s body.
Now her own body was beginning to burn hot as well.
Her face felt like a heated branding iron.
She kissed Felina again.
This time, she drew out even more “shadow.”
“Murphy’s mouth is really delicious.”
“Thank you. You are always so kind. Thank you~”
“Don’t… don’t say such silly things!”
Murphy felt shy for a moment and did not meet Felina’s eyes.
The healing magic seemed to be taking effect.
However, success was still far from reach.
The shadow controlling Felina, that tentacle, was still wrapped around her arm.
Suddenly, under Murphy’s shocked gaze, the shadow actually slid down along the arm, crawled over the wrist, and coiled around Felina’s somewhat damp fingers.
Murphy sensed danger.
Simply suppressing the shadow above had already been extremely difficult.
She believed she could maintain her reason.
But if she had to endure Felina’s caresses at the same time, she did not know whether she could hold on.
Her body trembled uncontrollably.
She suddenly widened her eyes, then her pupils unfocused.
In a short time they refocused on a single point, staring at the hazy moonlight in the sky.
“Magic… healing… ah…”
“Felina, aaaah… I will… save… ah… I, mmm… ha.”
The girl’s moans were firmly sealed by Felina’s lips.
Green magic particles entwined around both of their delicate bodies.
After a long while, the magic dissipated.
They gently collapsed against the stone pillar.
The girl steadily caught Murphy’s delicate body.
But soon the touch turned gentle.
She stroked Murphy’s beautiful hair.
The demonic vertical pupils now carried a hint of mocking teasing.
She gently placed the little maid Mu’s head onto her own lap.
She lifted her gaze toward the starry sky.
A pair of crimson horns had grown upon her small head.
Recalling the girl’s moans, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated again.
She licked her cherry lips.
In the end, her eyes still fell upon the girl in her embrace.
“Thank you, Murphy. But I… can no longer return to the past.”
The human Church’s capital, a place of rest and recuperation for pilgrims, lay northwest of the plain belonging to the city known as the “coastal holy city.”
A warm, sweet spring breeze draped the land in vibrant green.
Several black sheep that had fallen behind the flock ran across the grass, as if celebrating the revival of all living things.
However, the good scenery did not last.
As the earthquake grew increasingly violent, the small hill at the center of the wilderness suddenly cracked open.
The black sheep quickly fled into the distance.
When the earthquake finally stopped, the place that should have been a small hill and bare rock had transformed into a bottomless canyon.
This canyon seemed capable of splitting the entire landmass.
One could not see its end at a glance.
Crimson light seeped out from within the canyon, as if some enormous energy hidden in the earth’s veins was about to erupt.
Nine crimson vines crawled out from the cracked canyon.
They resembled several newborn larvae emerging from the comfortable cradle of their eggshells.
Yet after moving ninety meters, they stopped as though they had received a command.
Evil tree roots.
In front of the canyon and the evil tree roots, they looked like tiny sesame seeds.
Accompanied by the howling of狂风, a single “vine” was dozens of meters wide.
Several black sheep stared with vertical pupils glowing crimson from within the evil tree.
In the night they resembled gray wolves waiting for prey.
The skin was no longer the healthy white of humans, but a pale close to that of demons.
Purple light shone upon the girl’s porcelain-white skin.
Yet this was not her natural color.
She looked at the crystal shining with silver-white light in her hand and nodded.
She was a high-rank demon.
Her head of purple-red long hair was somewhat messy from the狂风.
“Don’t move.”
Suddenly, a girl’s voice made her quickly raise her head and look into the distance.
It was a girl with orange-yellow hair, gripping a giant sword and staring fixedly at her.
The girl was about one hundred and sixty centimeters tall with a full figure.
She wore a dark red long robe that could not hide the fullness of her chest.
Red scale armor was attached to her shoulders.
Both arms and legs were hidden beneath the red robe.
There was a hint of baby fat on her face, yet her gaze was incomparably sharp, like a cold killer.
The ends of her orange-red long hair gradually turned black, resembling an orange-red peacock.
The demon did not continue moving.
She only gripped the silver crystal in her hand tightly.
She glanced sideways at the strange canyon, then looked back at the demon.
“I am [Flame Saint] Hertitz. Demon girl, may I ask, is this your…”
“Whoosh—”
Before the girl could finish speaking, undercurrents surged through the grass.
A massive black hand wielding a sharp blade burst from the ground and precisely stabbed toward [Flame Saint] Hertitz’s body.
At the joints of the doll, that black giant hand had actually shot out from the earth out of nowhere.
Its surface was smooth.
Hertitz showed not the slightest panic.
The black blade dissipated the instant it touched her body, like a snowball striking an invisible steel barrier.
The demon girl spoke.
“Oh? So it is [Phoenix Robe]. Moreover, how truly shocking. Among the Flame Saints, there are actually two Heavenly Envoys. Is this truly just a coincidence?”
Hertitz’s eyes narrowed slightly at the corners. “So it really is you, Leah.”
“It is me~”
“You have sided with the Evil God.”