Chapter 695 - 639: A Hand Of Ice (3) (1/2)

Time slowly passed and, before even the couple succ.u.mbed to the cannon shot called 'Bio Blaster', the rest of the inhabitants of the world, those who weren't dragged away by the System's teleportation, died in five seconds or less.

The trees withered, rivers dried, and the small organisms vanished from existence, killed by the toxic attack launched by the System.

In five minutes, the world didn't resemble its former peacefulness and became a barren land full of death and eerie emptiness.

Arthur and Lucy laid next to each other, both unconscious for a prolonged period of time as the System refrained from dispatching any robot to retrieve them until the effect of the blast lessens a bit and becomes non-lethal.

One day passed and the first to somewhat wake-up was Arthur, who had a lot of difficulty breathing, much less properly moving, nevertheless, he tried his best to sit-up and move a bit closer to Lucy, checking if she's still alive or not.

Fortunately, the silver-haired woman had a bit of life in her but it was rapidly diminishing and if she were to remain in this fatal environment any longer, she'll definitely die.

Unlike her, she doesn't have countless resistances to poisons and all kinds of stuff so the attack affected her more than him despite her high cultivation.

The parasite raised his head and saw the massive spaceship covering the grey sky. Its shadow was enough to cover hundreds of kilometers and it was giving multiple red lights which seemed like alarms.

Even the wind which blew on his face was inexplicably hot and highly toxic. The ground under him was lifeless, the trees withered, the branches fell down and the leaves were nothing but ash.

'Just what do they want from us?'

Arthur tried to use Life Magic on himself and Lucy but it didn't work. In fact, after making a couple of simple movements, he fell back down and lost consciousness again.

One more day passed and when Lucy was truly on the verge of dying, a sudden phenomenon occurred around the couple. It all began with Evil Wind, which left Arthur's storage and started letting out desperate cries while circling around Arthur and Lucy.

It used its black flames to protect Arthur but Lucy was still exposed and perishing. Her skin was turning green and blood was oozing out of all of her orifices. The sentient Dark Blade's cries became extremely loud, almost deafening and when night was about to fall, it hovered above Lucy.

The sharp tip of the blade was pointing at her chest and, slowly but surely, it stabbed the white specter but it didn't want to kill her, quite the opposite, it was saving her life.

When half of the blade penetrated Lucy's chest, her eyes fluttered and after a few breaths, she came back to her senses, heavily panting.

She looked at Arthur then at Makaze, which didn't stop and, seeing her in a better condition, completely entered her body, causing the woman to cry from the agony she was going through, nevertheless, she didn't resist the Dark Blade.

A period of total silence passed before, in the middle of the night, a burst of blue light exploded forth, reaching the spaceship and freezing a small portion of it in a split second.

Back on the ground, next to Arthur, Lucy was back on her feet, her clothes were cleaner than ever and her complexion was back to normal, however, her appearance had drastically changed.

Her right arm, the Devil Arm, had much smaller crystalline scales and, instead of the steam, there were black flames in a circle around her feet. Her silver hair grew much longer, almost reaching her feet and both her eyes were now sky-blue.

Her right hand was tightly holding Makaze, which had drastically changed in appearance. The blade wasn't curved anymore and resembled a straight one-handed sword, its black handle now silver with a blue phoenix wrapped around it. Furthermore, it was emanating Lucy's fusion flames from its tip.

”I never thought that you'll be the one breaking the oath but…”

She looked at the sword in her hand, smiled and added, ”I have to thank you for trusting me. Now then, shall go kick some ass?”