Chapter 240 (2/2)

If this went on, the only thing that would happen would be them getting killed by this horrifying magic puppet. Perhaps even their great leader might not survive!

Auselia finally realized that she would never be able to catch up to this demon puppet. She was no fool; she knew it was time to change her tactics. She then changed her direction and charged towards Karnose who lay on the ground.

With a hostage, she might be able to force the magic puppet to confront her.

However, this idea was only good in theory, because reality turned out to be crueler than Auselia thought.

When she was 50 feet away from Karnose, she suddenly noticed a burst of explosive gas flow around her. Soon, Karnose had vanished from the ground. Half a second later, Karnose reappeared about 300 feet away.

The next one to vanish was Felina, then Annie followed, and finally the two surviving scouts. Not only that, but while the magic puppet saved those people, she had also killed all ghouls at the same time.

Auselia was always a step behind Nana. Her speed was just too slow for this magic puppet!

Now that the hostage strategy had failed completely, Auselia exploded in rage. Never had she ever been tricked and teased this way. She was the guardian of the god-level device! She would not be insulted this way!

She then shrieked with a voice that pierced through the air, and she pointed the whip in her hand to the sky.

“I won’t let any of you escape!” she shouted. “You’ll all stay here! Swallowing Storm!”

Swallowing Storm

Dark Magic Divine Attack

Effects: The Dark Serpent will open its mouth and begin to swallow the souls of all creatures with ten miles.

(Note: Once this spell is launched, the repulsive effects from the physical realm on the Dark Serpent will double, and the Dark Serpent’s powers will be reduced by 80%.)

This was a mighty Battle Art, and it was an attack that no one could evade.

“She’s lost her mind!” exclaimed Link when he realized what Auselia was doing. His face had turned pale.

There was such a move in the game as well, although it worked at the range of only 700 feet. The real version affected an enormous range of ten miles! With this degree of power, it seemed that there was nowhere to hide!

Besides, once this kind of attack was launched, the device in Auselia’s hands would be virtually destroyed. If she wanted to restore its power again, then she had to summon the dark god’s power by sacrificing more souls, and even then, she might not succeed.

This was because the realm of Firuman had marked the characteristics of this device, and so would reject it the moment it tried to cross the dimensional barrier.

The long whip in Auselia’s hands became erect, and it stood straight towards the sky, shrouded in violent black flames. These black flames surged into the sky and condensed instantly to form the ghostly figure of a giant serpent. The serpent was about 300 feet long, and it opened up its wide jaws, looking as if it were about to engulf the earth.

Link immediately felt a strange pulling force, as if something was trying to tear himself out of his own body.

He turned to look at Karnose and the others. A faint shadow appeared around each of them, probably their souls. It seemed that the Dark Serpent would soon suck their souls out of their bodies!

This was the power of a god-level device, and no mortal could resist it! Link took out the Dimensional Scroll and directed his mana into it.

“Let’s go!” he shouted.

Then, the entire world turned gray again, and everyone had reached the Soul Realm.

But to their horror, Link found that it was all in vain because even in the Soul Realm, there was a Dark Serpent so humongous that it covered the whole sky. Its jaws were also wide open, and it was swallowing all souls around him.

The same calamity was happening in this realm. That showed the sheer scale of a god-level device’s destruction!

All realms were attacked at the same time, and there was nowhere to run and nowhere to hide!

In the physical realm, Nana stopped and didn’t follow the others into another realm.

“Target is using unlimited power,” she said. “Threat level, six stars. Begin search for weaknesses…No weakness found…Begin inquiries into historical records of battle strategy…Strategy acquired…Begin execution.”

After an explosion in the air, Nana’s body vanished. She then reappeared near Auselia. The sword in her hand glowed with a blue electric spark, especialyl at the tip of the sword where the spark was blindingly bright.

Stab!

Nana pierced through Auselia’s eyebrows.

The black flame flowed to Auselia’s eyebrows, blocking Nana’s attack.

But Nana ignored it and stabbed at the same position on Auselia’s head. Then she repeated it for the third time, fourth time, and fifth time. Her movements were lightning fast as usual, stabbing Auselia more than a hundred times a second.

Two seconds later, something strange happened.

The black flame on Auselia’s forehead became extremely thin as if it could be broken through soon.

Nana kept at it and continued to stab through Auselia’s forehead with increasing frequency.

Auselia finally felt the vibrations on her forehead. It felt as if the god-level device would soon fail to block the magic puppet’s attacks. The defensive shield around Auselia’s forehead was about to be shattered.

“This is impossible!” Auselia exclaimed.

She dared not take any more risks. She looked at Nana and suddenly decided to terminate the divine attack of the Dark Serpent and used her whip to strike the magic puppet in front of her.

Bang!

Nana responded quickly. After the last stab of her sword, she quickly launched her body from the spot and escaped.

Crack!

The shield on Auselia’s body was finally shattered by Nana’s sword. Her forehead was now pierced through, and she collapsed to the ground.

Bang!

There was another loud crash. A large tree in the forest was broken in half by the impact of Nana’s body. On her back, there was a huge whip scar, and around it, a crack began to spread across her body.

She didn’t completely dodge Auselia’s counterattack, it seemed. With just the slightest contact with the god-level device, her body had almost crumbled to dust.

She fell to the ground, and the clear, pure eyes of hers looked straight up to the sky.

“Mission completed,” she said, her clear voice had turned hoarse. “The threat has been eliminated…Nana’s body has broken down…Begin backing up information…Prepar—”

The crack in Nana’s body expanded, and soon afterwards, Nana’s whole body crumbled to the ground, leaving only a pile of metal fragments.