488 Ups and Downs II (1/2)
In the endless silver moonlight, a fine black line appeared and grew bigger and bigger.
It was a long sword covered in black flame. The black fire blazed so brightly that it seemed like it could devour anything.
Francis who was at a distance could only fell that the black was drawing in all the light. Even time was slowed down and become solidified in it.
But he soon realized that this was simply his illusion, as he saw the dark green and greyish white colors as well as bright and rigid light coming out from the darkness.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
In the end, the darkness overwhelmed everything again and retreated within a second.
When the silver moon rose up again, under its brilliant rays, Lucien was floating in the air. His Pale Justice had been thrown to the other side of the river and was now stuck in the ground beside Natasha, his left hand was hanging beside his body weakly, and his face was as pale as a piece of paper. This one strike had consumed all of the power that Alterna had accumulated as well as Lucien's blood power after transformation. Now Lucien had gone back to the original shape of his figure.
The Temple of War and the peak where the temple once stood on were both gone. Congus stood still in midair, while Rudolf II had fallen to the ground. His black-and-white scale was gone as well. Maybe the scale was also just a projection.
The night breeze blew lightly. Congus's black magic cloak and robe fluttered and turned into tiny pieces. The white skeleton inside was revealed, and then as if the skeleton was melting, drops of white liquid fell to the ground, taking away the last slight of life force from the ground.
Congus' whole set of skeleton had broken down. When the skull cracked, the two needle-like light spots instantly died out. However, underneath the white skull, a smaller delicate golden skull was revealed. It possessed an extremely horrible power. In the eye sockets of the golden skull, the needle-like red spots lit up again.
”You'll never be able to run away.” Congus, who was now only a golden skull, said to Lucien gloomily, the two lines of teeth opening and closing.
Then the golden skull also cracked. Inside the skull, there was an ancient ring. In the next second, the gold skull and ring disappeared together.
Lucien's heart suddenly sank. Congus had a resurrection spot nearby!
Lucien did understand that it was impossible for Alterna to kill Congus and Rudolf II using one strike when Alterna was still recovering. However, since he was now facing the projection of Rudolf II, Lucien was still hoping that Alterna's power could completely destroy this body of Congus so that he could only resurrect in his phylactery in the main material world. This would win him some precious time. However, things did not go as he wished.
But Lucien did not panic. He was the Secretive, and he had reunited with Natasha. Lucien just need carefully hide himself and find the Congress of Magic, then he would not need to worry about Congus anymore. It would at least take Congus half an hour to return. And what was more important was that…
Lucien's sight shifted to the solidified pieces of black, white and grey floating in the air — Once Alterna absorbed the pieces, Congus would definitely try to stay away as far as possible.
When Alterna's power further recovered, Alterna would be able to completely wipe Congus out!
A creepy smile crept onto Sun God Bero's face, and He suddenly collapsed onto the ground into a pile of ash.
Ell, Natasha, Camil, Francis, Danniel, and the rest of them had all either became unconscious or lost all their strength, while Asin had become an undead creature, yet it still kept some consciousness and knew that Lucien was definitely the one it should stay away from.
”I'm starving…” Lucien's left hand reached out and pulled Lucien up. It pressed against one of the pieces in the air, and then the rest of the pieces were also gradually pulled over and blended together.
Suddenly, the sound of wind disappeared in Lucien's ears, and colors disappeared in Lucien's eyes. All he could see was a space filled with black, white and grey. Anything that was over a meter away looked completely blurry. Lucien felt that he was in an isolated space, and even his mind had slowed down.
Francis tried hard to look up at Lucien, who was floating in the air still. He saw that, on Lucien's left hand, the color of silver was fighting against a mixture of black, white and grey. Lucien's eyes had lost focus as if he had lost his soul.
At this time, Danniel the Fire of Purification turned his neck. A mysterious smile rose on his face. Then he slowly stood up and flew towards Lucien with the sword in his hand.
”You know that my projection wouldn't die easily, but you have still turned to take in the essential pieces. Have you become too pretentious?” Danniel spoke, but the voice definitely belonged to Rudolf II!
However, the power from the projection was lower than the legendary level. It seemed that the power of the projection depended on the host.
”Huh, Lucien Evans knew that the projection would not die easily? How did he know?” In the noble district of the city of Husum, Sophia was sitting on the bed, staring at the black and white scale in front of her. She was watching the fight at the Temple of War using the divine item and the connection she had with the projection. However, her father's words confused her.
She would never forget what happened in the underground palace of Sun's King three years ago. She had looked for the mysterious sorcerer for a long time to take her revenge but had not gained a single clue. Later, she gradually put this aside and started focusing on improving herself.
Before leaving the Congress, Lucien had submitted the two magic spells which he used in the underground palace. Because the principles of the two magic spells were quite simple, many sorcerers had also created similar spells based on the principles. As a result, the intelligence section ignored this, and Sophia thus missed the most important clue for tracking the mysterious sorcerer.
However, as a legendary, Rudolf II had instantly recognized Lucien Evans. After all, Lucien was not trying to hide his spiritual power at all.
Rudolf II talked to Lucien first to show that this was not a sneak attack. Then, lifting the long sword named the Fire of Purification, Rudolf II hacked at Lucien against the moonlight.
The sword was quick. The sword reflecting the silver moonlight seemed to possess many virtues, such as honesty, kindness, order.
When the white sword inlaid with the patterns of flame was only an inch away from Lucien's head, an ordinary-looking long sword came horizontally and blocked its way.