Layana and Aurelia barely had time to process this baffling “full HP resurrection.” The next second, the bone ground beneath their feet suddenly melted into two pools of purple-black liquid, which then, as if alive, rapidly climbed upward and extended, wrapping each of them in a translucent purple-black spherical barrier.
“Hey! What’s the meaning of this?!”
Aurelia had just regained her strength and instinctively tried to smash the thing open with a fist, but when her knuckles hit the inner wall of the barrier, it was soft and yielding, not even stirring a ripple.
Then, the two purple-black orbs, carrying the continent’s two top-tier Deans, floated gently upward.
They drifted until they reached Wendy’s side, then stopped.
Layana and Aurelia, separated by two layers of barriers, found themselves staring at Wendy, whose face was utterly devoid of will to live.
The three of them hung side by side in midair, like strips of meat left to dry.
The view was absolutely prime.
“Prince Wendy? What on earth is going on?”
Layana gripped the inner wall of the barrier, gazing at the two figures facing off below, her face etched with worry.
“Please remain calm, Deans.”
Wendy forced a smile that looked worse than crying.
“Judging by this, Astreia probably just wants us to sit back and enjoy the show… hear, I mean, she shouldn’t hurt you.”
After all, the two Deans had just released her. If she turned around and killed them on the spot, that would be seriously lacking in martial honor.
“They’re about to fight to the death, and you want us to just watch the show?!”
Aurelia’s eyes went wide.
“Those two down there are throwing down, and we’re just supposed to stand here and watch?”
“What else?”
Wendy spread his hands, his expression utterly innocent.
“Go down and feed ourselves to them? Didn’t you two just try that? You know how it turned out, don’t you?”
In the brief moment they exchanged words, the standoff below had already reached a boiling point.
Astreia pointed the sinister purple-black War Spear in her hand at Laxana in midair, her words cold as ice.
“I’m giving you one last chance, Laxana.”
“Admit your mistake obediently, and I’ll pretend none of this ever happened.”
“Think you’re the Queen now?”
Laxana’s face twisted with extreme envy.
“Admit my mistake?”
She laughed.
“Astreia, do you really think you’re the Queen?”
“Let me tell you! This is the Dream Demon Graveyard! The resting place I chose! The cornerstone of my eternal love nest with Wendy!”
“The one who should get out is you!”
Before the words faded.
Laxana’s figure suddenly split into seven streaks of multicolored light, hurtling toward Astreia from seven treacherous, bizarre angles all at once!
“Seven Radiance · Phantom Body!”
Flame, frost, thunder, storm, lava, light, darkness… seven Laxana clones made of pure elements, each radiating a terrifying Oppressive Pressure comparable to a Grand Archmage!
“Die!!”
Seven roars merged into a single torrent, sealing off every possible escape route from all directions!
Seven different High-tier Magic spells converged into a single devastating saturation attack.
Facing an attack terrifying enough to wipe a fortress city off the map in an instant, Astreia, standing atop the altar, didn’t even twitch an eyebrow.
She merely raised her empty left hand slowly, fingers spread.
A circular shield burning with purple-black arcane flames materialized out of thin air.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
The violent elemental torrent smashed entirely against that shield, which didn’t look particularly sturdy.
The shockwave of the explosions kicked up a thick cloud of dust, completely swallowing the entire Bone Altar.
In midair, Aurelia, wrapped in her purple sphere, clenched her fists nervously.
“Can… can she block it?”
Wendy’s cheek twitched.
Can she block it?
Please. That kind of move in the game couldn’t even scratch Astreia’s defense. A complete waste.
Sure enough.
The dust cleared.
Astreia stood exactly where she was, not having moved an inch.
The purple-flame shield before her didn’t even have a single crack.
As for the seven elemental clones, their mana spent, they dissolved into specks of light in the air and vanished without a trace.
Laxana’s true body reappeared not far away. She was gasping heavily, staring at the completely unharmed Astreia, her eyes filled with utter disbelief.
“How… is that possible…”
“It’s over.”
Astreia declared coldly.
Her figure vanished from the spot in an instant.
The next second, she was already behind Laxana, the purple-black War Spear in her hand sweeping out with a shrieking tear through space!
Fast!
Too fast!
Laxana’s reaction was equally extreme. Survival instinct made her channel every ounce of power into her feet at the critical moment, throwing her body backward in a desperately awkward lean, narrowly dodging the fatal strike.
However, this was only the beginning.
Astreia’s attacks came like a raging storm, relentless and unending.
Every swing of the War Spear was simple and brutal, with zero flourish.
But every strike carried pure, overwhelming, crushing Power!
BANG!
Laxana had just used Space Magic to blink a hundred meters away. Before she could even steady herself, a streak of purple-black spear light was already at her face, piercing through the seven layers of elemental shielding she’d just erected like they were made of paper!
She could only roll aside awkwardly again, dodging the vital point.
BOOM!
Astreia delivered another mountain-splitting strike, the War Spear crashing down with ten-thousand-jun force!
Laxana crossed her arms above her head, and a thick stone wall of earth elements rose from the ground, trying to block.
CRACK!
The stone wall shattered on impact.
Laxana was slammed deep into the ground by the tremendous force, carving a deep human-shaped crater into the bone-paved earth.
Up above, Wendy’s eyelids twitched uncontrollably.
So this is the terror of a numbers monster?
All that flashy elemental comboing, all that nimble positioning—before absolute Power, it’s all just trash.
Laxana was like a fragile Assassin with maxed agility, running into a max-level heavy Warrior whose HP, attack, and defense all completely crushed hers.
Her attacks can’t even break the enemy’s defense, but one hammer from the enemy, and she’s halfway dead.
How are you supposed to play against that?
In the crater, Laxana struggled to her feet. Her long silver-white hair was covered in dust, a trickle of blood seeped from the corner of her mouth, and her form-fitting combat suit was torn in multiple places. She looked utterly pathetic.
Astreia walked slowly to the edge of the crater, looking down at her from above. There was no joy of Victory in her eyes—only pure contempt.
“I told you. You’re not worthy.”
“Now, take your pitiful envy and delusions, and disappear from my Wendy’s sight.”
“Or kneel and surrender to me. I’ll let you die a quick death.”
However.
In the face of this ultimate humiliation.
Laxana suddenly smiled.
She raised her head, wiped the blood from her mouth, and on her dust-covered face bloomed a bizarre, manic grin.
A hint of anomaly flickered in Astreia’s purple-flame pupils. She sensed something was wrong.
“Heh… heh heh…”
“Looks like… one of me really can’t beat you…”
“Didn’t expect… you to be this strong…”
“Hm?”
“Looks like… one of me really can’t beat you.”
One of me?
Wendy’s heart also leaped violently.
Oh no!
It’s that!
It’s Laxana’s phase two in the game!
Almost the very instant Laxana finished speaking!
A sudden change occurred!
BOOM —!!!
In the sky, that already-extinguished Blood Moon suddenly blazed to life once more!
Then.
Red, blue, cyan, yellow, purple, white, black!
Seven enormous Elemental Pillars of varying colors, thick enough to seem to connect heaven and earth, tore through the night sky that had been dyed pitch-black by the Witch Queen’s domain, descending from the heavens like seven divine swords of Divine Punishment piercing through the world!
Their target was Astreia, standing at the edge of the crater, in the state of having just expended her old strength with new strength not yet generated!
This sudden turn of events moved so fast that even Astreia didn’t have time to form a complete defensive stance!
The seven pillars of light, in no particular order, struck the Witch Queen with pinpoint accuracy!
The entire Dream Demon Graveyard trembled violently in that moment.