Chapter 70 - 70 : Confrontation 2 (2/2)

This sudden turn of events shocked all those who were present, the Pope had many tricks up his sleeves but this mysterious force binding him was too powerful and he couldn't dispel it even after muttering countless spells.

As for the old woman, she didn't try anything and merely gazed at the scene.

”Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....”

Lucy's killing intent reached its climax, the hall's atmosphere became extremely cold as even the Pope felt a shiver down his spines, he was afraid yet a bit happy when he saw Lucy's silhouette, he never thought she was the one who came, after several years searching for her, she finally came to his doorstep but surprisingly, he felt extreme fear as he looked at her and at the man in front of him.

”It's been a very long time.... Sebastien!”

Hearing the familiar yet chilling voice, Sebastien didn't need to turn his head at see her to know who it was, he was usually a scheming and cunning person and wouldn't expose his motives until he was sure he held the advantage, but never did he think this day would come.

”L-Lucy?..”

She didn't respond, instead, a small ball of magma began melting his left hand, and his loud screams resumed.

When almost all of his hand was gone, melted by the magma until it reached his shoulder, it suddenly stopped and vanished, what was left was only blood flowing endlessly and a gory scene, Sebastien face was extremely pale and he could barely hold his consciousness.

Actually, he passed out several times, but he somehow awakened by a mysterious energy which made this like hell for him, the pain was seriously unimaginable.

Lucy didn't even let him time to breath, she picked him up easily and then slammed him down on the ground, a small crater was a formed, blood and foam was leaking out of his lips as he stared fearfully at the cold Lucy in front of him.

His face was finally facing her, it took him a few seconds to adjust and focus on her face, his pale face became even paler as he shrieked, yet because of his special nature, he managed to calm down after breathing for some time, however, that didn't lessen the pain, his left shoulder was aching like crazy and all of the bones in his back were crushed.

”Hahaha *cough* *cough*, So it was you, hahaahhah”

He started laughing hysterically after seeing her figure, that calm attitude he showed normally wasn't present, just by what happened and seeing how he couldn't even retaliate, he knew it was his doom, so he exposed his true face, although he was on the verge of death, he still stared intensely at her while laughing, his gaze even had some lust and lewdness in it.

”S-So you *cough* came, hahaha, did you perhaps miss me? Or miss my..”

Before he could finish, a sharp golden sword was thrust into his body's lower part, and what followed that is a scream even louder than any other one, this time, the pain Sebastien felt by far exceeded the previous ones, even his right hand is broken so he couldn't even move it to hold his lower part, he could only bear and stare at the sharp golden sword penetrating his precious body part.

Lucy's evilly smirked as she saw him stare at the sword, she didn't only do that, instead, she moved the sword while it was still thrust and caused him to wail even more, and while doing that she said

”Emm? It seems you are no longer a man? Here, let me help you out..”

As she said that, a small yet terrifying magma ball, the size of a finger, rushed at his lower part, melting the sword and his body.

Sebastien never once stopped screaming, even his voice changed from all that wailing yet he couldn't stop, as for Lucy, her killing intent subdued a lot, she didn't torture him like he did to her, it's true, but all of this satisfied most of her urges, if it was back then, before she met Arthur, then if she ever caught him like then, she would have tortured him for years, but now, she overcame what he did to her, and this was merely punishment.

Several minutes passed and the Pope never ceased trying to dispel the strange spell cast on him, it was a pity it was not a spell but invisible threads, the more he witnessed what's happening, the more danger he felt, he only thought it was an attack by slightly powerful necromancer, and not by Lucy and Arthur.

Speaking of Arthur, the Pope already knew about him, he knew he was Lucy's companion when he was in the academy, and he helped her a lot, and he felt even more danger coming from this black-robed man.

..

After some time struggling with the threads, he gave up and began chanting something else.

Obviously, Arthur knew about this and heard him chant but he knew it was useless, but once he heard him change his chant, he became alert, he already used the talisman to prevent any teleportation, however, although he knew how powerful he is in comparison to the Pope, he didn't dare act overconfident.

When the chant changed, he spared no time as Natural Lightning circulated in the threads and immediately damaged his vocal cord, permanently preventing the old man from ever chanting again, not only that, he even broke the bones of both his hands and feet.

Never would he underestimate someone again, especially not this man, if not for Lucy, he would have already killed him along with this old woman, it's just that he wanted Lucy to personally kill him, and perhaps ask him why was he so persistent to catch her.

With his voice gone, the Pope couldn't even scream from pain, his eyes were locked onto Arthur as he stared at him with a bit of fear and anger, he was still unwilling to give up, he lived more than 400 years and would never let his fate in the hands of this monster.

..

”*Cough* *cough* Lucy *cough* hahah, good! Good! It seems I didn't educate you enough last *cough* time, even if you do this, you are mine! MINE! HAHAHAH! BITCH! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? JUST A MERE DITY DEMON!”

Although he was provoking her while cursing continuously at her, Lucy appeared calm as her gaze shifted to Arthur, in a split second, she already appeared next to him without even killing Sebastien.

Arthur patted her head while smiling softly, ignoring everything around them, since she wasn't going to kill him, he would do it instead, with a wave of his hand, dark red flames ignited on his body and began burning him very slowly.

The cursing stopped and was replaced by loud yells from him, and from time to time, you would even hear begging but it was useless, as Arthur and Lucy totally ignored him and turned to look at the Pope.

Now that he thought of it, what Arthur did was a bit stupid as now, he can't get answers from the Pope, but the didn't matter anymore, he knew the Holy Church's Pope was famous for his soul attacks and his soul was apparently weak, he didn't know if it became strong or not, but since he devoured 'Abhuva's soul, he couldn't devour anymore.

Lucy's didn't seem she was going to kill the Pope either, so Arthur didn't waste time and guided his Natural Lightning to finish the Pope, but just as the green lightning was going to crush his heart, a deep yet melodic voice rang out in the big hall, completely dispersing the lightning and binding Arthur's movements.

”Boy... stop”

Even though he heard that, Arthur didn't stop and concentrated his powers on the Pope, sending all the green lightning on to his heart, the threads also tightened and started to crush all his bones and trying to behead him.

”Ignorance! I told you to stop!”

As the voice rang out again, Arthur hastily held Lucy and covered her as they were both sent flying away from the Pope, what followed that was a bright light descending from a white crystal above the throne, it was 50 meters or so above it and had a diameter of 20m.

It emitted a very bright light, and a woman's silhouette came out of it, she seemed transparent as you couldn't see her features, but the aura she emanated was very overwhelming yet at the same time calm.

Arthur could barely stand, not even against the Immortal did he feel that.

”Ohhh! Pope Geroge, you indeed managed to get that demon, It seems I need to reward you..”

As she said that, the woman floating in the hall, stretched her bright white hand, and in the next second, a strong force came at Lucy, pushing her toward the Pope and the woman.

The woman's figure was very big, she was approximately 10m, the aura increased every second, Arthur couldn't even move to defend Lucy, he could only look helplessly.

As Lucy's was closing in slowly toward the woman, a cold yet deep voice rang out yet again, it was soul piercing and appeared angry.

”Delia! A goddess like you dares to bully juniors? Seriously gods these days think they are above all or what?”

A black-robed skeleton appeared in front of Lucy, the force that was controlling her a second ago vanished and the pressure coming of Delia didn't affect Arthur either.