Deep Sea Embers

The hearty jumping chop condensed the cold wind from the north and the thunderous power from the storm. With a certain sense of pleasure in releasing the pressure, Fanna's body jumped high, and a cold weapon appeared in her hands. Ice blade, and suddenly cut the blade down in the cold light of World Creation.

The air was torn apart, and the nearby airflow produced high-heat distortions in the violent impact. When the blade dropped halfway, it even began to show the texture of plasma, like blazing flames wrapped around the condensed ice blade. This ice and fire The intertwined spectacle was so strange and magnificent that the devil-like cultist was obviously stunned for a moment.

For the Annihilation Priest, this should have been a successful sneak attack. He discovered the uninvited guest in advance and used the power of the curse to hide his own aura. The highly symbiotic demon body could even make him completely invisible in a short period of time. Stopping one's own breathing and heartbeat - yet this supposedly perfect concealment was somehow exposed, arousing the target's vigilance.

Now the target that was supposed to be prey has turned into a beast that fights back bravely - and this beast is more powerful than he expected.

The giant blade packed with huge force smashed down. The Annihilation Priest had no time to fight back in a hurry. He only tried his best to let out a weird and sharp scream. A powerful magic spell was compressed in this scream, and the layers of black bone plates were And rock-like shields instantly blocked Vanna's descent route from all directions. At the same time, the deep demon made of jagged bone fragments was also driven by the contract to block in front of his master and aimed at the mortal. Na opened her mouth in the direction of Na, preparing to send out a powerful corrosive breath.

It was only then that the shape of the skeletal demon was completely clear from the shadows - it was a deep hound, even larger than Agou.

Fanna had no intention of slowing down or avoiding.

"boom!"

A loud bang broke the tranquility of the night, interspersed with a series of heart-wrenching, sharp and tearing noises.

Vanna jumped and slashed, smashing the energy barrier and rock shield summoned by the Netherworld Priest, along with the corrosive breath from the Netherworld Hound and half of the demon's dog head, into debris all over the sky.

The shock wave swept across the alley like a strong wind, instantly clearing away the dust and smoke. The Dark Hound, with only half its head left, screamed and flew backwards. The symbiosis chain and the Annihilation Priest also flew out for more than ten meters, and they rolled on the ground together. It took a long time to stop, and then struggled to get up.

The twisted and mutated heretic priest's body was shaking violently. The impact when the symbiotic demon was severely injured made it difficult for him to think - the deformed body hunched up in the dimness, and for a while he couldn't even tell which one he was from the ghost hound next to him. It's a demon, which was once human.

The Dark Hound next to him also stood up staggeringly. Even though half of its head was cut off, the demon's powerful life force still supported it from dying. It roared in chaos in the direction of Vanna, and was injured. The broken bone fragments kept falling down.

Fanna walked forward expressionlessly, throwing away the ice sword that had been shattered by the impact.

This thing was originally meant to be a one-time use, made just for a beautiful full-score jump chop, and now its mission has been completed.

The Priest of Annihilation on the opposite side reluctantly raised his head, tried his best to regain consciousness, and uttered obscure demonic whispers.

The power of the curse condensed into shape, and a twisted substance with corrupting power, composed of bones and rocks, emerged from the air in front of him, and whizzed towards Vanna like a cannonball.

Fanna raised her hand and grabbed the "cannonball". Ignoring the smoke that quickly appeared in her palm, she stepped forward without slowing down at all. With her other hand, she grabbed the mysterious Yousu who seemed to be a little dazed. Half of the hound's head casually stuffed the "Corruption Missile" into the gap in the demon's neck exposed by its missing head.

The Deep Demon struggled violently in instinct, but the force that was enough to overturn the steam tank was unable to shake Vanna's arm. The remaining half of its head was torn off by itself during the struggle, and with its own strength The "Corruption Missile" just summoned has been forcefully stuffed into its own stomach by Vanna - the layers of bone plates in the demon's body made crisp and continuous bursts, and then quickly charged up.

There was a bright flash of light.

Fanna raised her foot and kicked away the demon that was about to self-destruct. Then she casually grabbed the Annihilation Priest next to her and lifted the latter up like a shield.

The latter didn't even realize what happened in this lightning-fast confrontation.

With a bang, the kicked Dark Hound exploded violently in mid-air. Skeleton fragments raged in the alley like fragments of cannonballs. The Annihilation Priest in Vanna's hand was instantly beaten into a sieve.

But he was not dead yet, just convulsed and curled up in violent and rapid pain.

The entire encounter was very short.

"Your symbiosis demon is dead. According to the degree of mutation of your body, you have about six minutes left to live." Vanna threw the cult priest to the ground and stepped on his suspected head. " I know that guys like you will never say a word even if you survive, but I still decided to give it a try - you have three minutes to say your last words, which will determine the way you die in the other three minutes."

On the other side, Alice, who was left at the entrance of the alley, didn't react at all - she just watched with wide eyes as Vanna fought with an enemy that suddenly appeared for a while, and by the way, she shattered an enemy that looked like... An ugly thing from a dog's distant relative, and then the attacker seems to be dying.

Although I don’t know what happened, Vanna is obviously very strong.

Then Miss Doll became happy and clapped her hands vigorously: "Miss Fanna, you are so awesome!"

And in this dazzling moment, she seemed to have forgotten that there were actually a few "threads" floating under the street lamp diagonally opposite. The air near the entrance of the alley was distorted.

The second attacker lurks in the shadows.

Vanna's fight with the Annihilation Priest was too quick. Things in the alley developed beyond the attacker's judgment. The Annihilation Priest's accomplices had no time to rescue them. Now, the second hidden cultist had just arrived. But it came at the wrong time.

As the air twisted, a short but strong figure appeared near Alice. He hurried over slowly, but only saw Vanna deep in the alley with her foot on the head of the Annihilation Priest.

The cultist was stunned for a moment, looked up at the brutal scene inside, and then looked at the blond woman next to him who had just reacted and was looking at him with a curious look on his face.

The next second, the short, muscular man turned around and ran away without any hesitation.

But as soon as he took two steps out, he heard a voice coming from behind: "Hey! Wait!"

He suddenly felt as if something was pulling him - the dragging force acted on all his joints, making him stand still as if being pulled by a huge force.

The cultist turned his head in surprise and fear. He saw black smoke rising in the air beside him. The deep demon that lived with him seemed to be struggling to emerge and fight back, but it seemed to be pinned down by something in the shadow. Still unable to form his mind, he continued to turn his head and saw the woman with long blond hair and a long skirt looking at him, her hand stretched out in the air, as if she was grasping something invisibly.

"Don't leave yet." Alice grabbed the "thread" and stared at the cultists who were about to escape, trying to make her expression more intimidating. "The captain said that you are all bad people and cannot be let go casually. ——You will harm others.”

Not far away, the Annihilation cultist who had just ran out of the alley was stagnant in mid-air in a weird and ridiculous posture. His head had been turned back to a terrible angle. He looked at the blond woman at the alley in fear, struggling with the will to survive. Instinctively, he seemed to get rid of the "drag" feeling a little bit, so he immediately flicked his wrist with all his strength.

A piece of rune paper prepared in advance slipped from his sleeve.

"Choose life...and devour..."

He struggled to make a sound, with obscure demonic whispers mixed in his throat. The magic spell he had reserved in advance was activated. The rune paper burned with flames before it hit the ground, and he began to follow the owner's orders to find the target to attack.

Within a certain range, all living people. The rune paper was quickly burned in the flames, and nothing happened.

The cultist's eyes widened

, watching this scene in horror and disbelief.

Not far away, Alice also opened her eyes wide and looked at this scene in confusion.

She was neither breathing nor having a heartbeat.

And don't know what happened. But she quickly realized that the cultist just now seemed to want to kill her.

She was a little scared, so she tugged on the "thread" in her hand: "The captain said that I have to protect myself when I go out."

The cultist's body completely stiffened in an instant, and the little "freedom" he had just broken free was completely deprived of him. Even his wrists and lips could no longer move. A strange numbness began to spread gradually. He felt that his body was rapidly moving. Becoming stiff, becoming cold, becoming... no longer like flesh and blood.

The world in his eyes darkened.

But the next second, something seemed to emerge from the darkness.

A hollow and low voice, as if coming directly from the chest, reached his ears one by one.

"Ah, here comes the new attendant."