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However, with the vent blocked by the goddess's mark, the only way to release the power within the body is probably—bang!
Shana's shoulders trembled violently, and her eyes welled up with tears.
"Waaaaah, Chief Lak, save me..."
With difficulty, Shana turned her head to look at Chief Lark, whose eyes were lifeless, not far away. She hoped that he could understand the plea for help in her eyes. She wanted to open her mouth, but she felt that as soon as her lips moved, her body would become an outlet for dark power!
"Hey! Wake up! Wake up! Stop spacing out!"
A voice from the darkness resounded from within Lak, attempting to salvage his last shred of sanity:
"Look closely, this warrior seems to be nearing his end! Your runes are still effective!!!"
Lark's pupils gradually regained their luster, sensing the excitement in "Darkness." He focused his mind slightly, opened his Arcane Eye again, and carefully sensed the condition within Shana's body.
"This...this is...that's right, the power within her has begun to become unstable." Looking at the gauge on the monitoring panel where the light had stopped rising, Lak instantly became excited:
"She's going to explode! She's finally going to explode!!!"
As if witnessing a historic moment, the Arcane Eye of Rak firmly locked onto the energy threshold within Shana's body, already able to see the signs of her body exploding, not even daring to blink.
"Soon, very soon—"
"three……"
"two……"
"one……!"
Lak clenched his fists, wondering if it was just his over-excitement, but he felt a subtle, pulsating resonance emanating from the top of the round tower.
Shana felt another intense wave of resonance enter her body in despair.
Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, it passed through the radiant surface brimming with divine power, touched the goddess's mark, and then... melted into the body of the radiant surface.
Eh?
Shana's eyes showed a hint of confusion. She incredulously sensed her body again and realized that she hadn't been turned into mincemeat in the next moment.
Before she could think any further, another wave of resonance descended. Shana's eyelashes fluttered, and she instinctively tried to shrink her neck, but she quickly realized that her previous perception was not an illusion—this wave of resonance seemed much brighter and gentler than before, and it directly merged into the divine power within her body, making the divine power more solid and abundant!
What happened?
Shana's bewildered gaze swept around, then she suddenly noticed that Chief Lark's face, which had been expressionless, was now filled with hope and joy!
Ah—I see…
Shana suddenly understood, and a faint warm current surged through her body.
His crimson eyes welled with unprecedented emotion and admiration: it was Chief Lark who had noticed his mistake at the crucial moment and successfully saved his life!
"Is this the Holy Archmage who once helped my brother resolve countless world-ending crises? So, Mino and I had such reliable support behind us!!!"
With a surge of energy, Shana felt a surge of power coursing through her body.
If before the blessing was simply about obtaining a powerful blessing as quickly as possible to save Mino... then now, she has another goal: she absolutely cannot let Chief Lak down!
"I'd rather the Chief of Lak betray me than let me betray the Chief of Lak—"
As Shana made up her mind, on the stage, Lark's body trembled more violently than ever before.
Looking at the scale in front of me, the intense light on it pulsed again, radiating an unprecedentedly dazzling brilliance.
Lak's throat was almost hoarse, and his eyes were filled with fear:
"—The protective energy within her is still increasing?!"
Chapter 281 "Shadow Demon" vs. "Holy Archmage"! He is the Abyss!
"Monster! She's the real monster!!!"
Lark bent down in horror, his ten fingers tracing deep lines across his face, his sharp nails nearly tearing open gruesome gashes: "How could this be? How could such a thing happen?"
"The thirty-sixth layer of protection is clearly the limit of the peak of the divine system. Even Mino can only receive the thirty-seventh layer of human shackles..."
"What's wrong with her? That crazy red-haired hero?! It's like she has two energy sources inside her!!!"
A deep despair welled up in his eyes. Lak looked up at the magnificent round tower, peering through the narrow opening at the sky where divine light flowed, like looking at the moon from the bottom of a well. He murmured softly:
"Mino Lake, Shana Lake, these two... were they sent by the goddess to mess with my mentality?!"
Lak looked somewhat haggard at that moment.
His mage robes were somewhat disheveled after being tossed around, and his gaze drifted into the depths of his memories, as if some painful memory was being relived. He stood there blankly, lost in thought.
It was just like... an extremely fragile old man.
A dense burst of demonic energy suddenly erupted from the tower walls, and long, sharp shadows, coated with a metallic sheen and carrying a silent yet destructive poison, pierced through various parts of Lark's body on the platform!
A series of brutal sounds rang out, like flesh and blood bursting out of a body.
The fragrance of roses, mingled with the scent of blood, wafted intoxicatingly through the air.
"hehe."
Kleidina's flippant laughter emerged from the shadows. This attack was a deadly strike, executed with all her might and concealed aura. Looking at the shattered body before her, she rubbed her cheek with satisfaction.
"You are much easier to deal with than your close friend, the hero... Mage Lak."
Raising her swan-like white neck, Kletina looked at Shana, whose face was contorted with pain, and at the bloodied and mangled Kingdom Morning Star before her. A hint of joy welled up in her heart. Both of the goals of this plan had been achieved so easily... Before her eyes, Lak's "corpse" suddenly twitched.
Kleidina was startled.
She had just considered using her magic to dodge when she realized that the holy archmage before her did not attack, but instead spoke, uttering a deep voice:
"I must correct you on a few points, you despicable demon."
A murky magical light emanated from his battered body, and his mage's robes, pierced with several large holes, fluttered without wind, dancing in the air as Rak spoke:
"First of all, Mino and I have never been close friends... never!"
A dense and eerie magical power surged throughout the entire round tower like an ocean.
Lak's wounds healed rapidly, as if time had reversed, bringing back the blood mist lingering in the air and the blood dripping onto the ground.
"Secondly, in the realm of archmages, they can already compress magical formulas around their bodies, making them easier to deal with than warriors through assassination or attrition."
Lak murmured softly, and a dense magical power surged forth in the small space, carrying a force that compressed the space!
Lak raised his eyes, which were as black as night, with eerie rings endlessly spreading deep within his pupils.
"Third, and most importantly, Rose Shadow Fiend, Krytina..."
An aged and sinister voice echoed eerily in Kletina's heart, leaving a chilling aftertaste:
"Who gave you the audacity to provoke me from within my round tower—"
Klaitina's cherry-pink eyes suddenly froze, her most acute intuition, derived from the Shadow Fiend, making her realize a truth:
The seemingly aged humans before me appear far more terrifying than Minotaur...
……
"Chief Lark, protect me..."
With her vision blurry, Shana struggled to open her eyes. Through the haze, she could only see an extremely dark and evil power, as well as an extremely concealed presence, emerging from the dark, round tower.
She had no energy left to think, because as the ripples continued to flow into her body, she discovered a despairing truth:
The goddess's resonance remained... she did not imprint any protection upon her body.
Whether it was due to the excessive abundance of dark power within her body causing its mutation, the goddess's mark trembling under the overwhelming power, or a problem with her own constitution, in any case, as the divine power within her gradually increased... the blessing still did not appear.
This means that the goddess's blessing will not stop.
It continued to pump power into her body relentlessly, like an air pump constantly inflating a balloon.
The holy power within her body gradually condensed and purified, descending layer by layer with protective blessings, causing the goddess's mark, sandwiched between two powerful forces, to emit an unprecedented lament within her—
The twentieth floor... the twenty-fifth floor... the thirtieth floor...
If Lark were still looking at the dashboard at this moment, he would be horrified to discover that the protective energy in Shana's body had reached nearly twice the human limit!
"Is releasing my power the only option? But what are the consequences?" Shana's mind was in a daze. She struggled to control every hair on her body, feeling as if her entire body no longer belonged to her.
Even his eyes seemed to be on fire, as if something was about to awaken again from the depths of his pupils.
Huh... why did she say "again"? Never mind, I can't remember... If I release my power now, the only way out is probably for my body to explode into pieces, but I can't continue to be a burden to Chief Lark.
Shana made a difficult decision.
……
"Humans are truly unfathomable... That magic was almost on par with Lady Mia's Time Reversal. Just how far has this Holy Archmage progressed in the path of magic?"
Kleidina looked warily at the mage before her, who exuded a terrifying aura, realizing she had underestimated the difficulty of assassinating this human.
The brave Mino and Chief Lak.
During the time when Mino was famous, the two were known throughout the kingdom as a deeply bonded fighting comrade.
After being crowned "the strongest hero in human history," he was designated as the Kingdom's Sword!
The other, after working with Mino to thwart one disaster after another that seemed to spring up out of nowhere, was praised as the kingdom's strategist!
Because of Lark's advanced age and appearance, neither she nor Swell ever truly considered him and Mino as equals.
But what shocked Kleidina right now wasn't just the terrifying aura emanating from Lak; she also sensed something even more soul-shaking and alien within that chilling aura!
In an instant, an absurd yet terrifying thought popped into her mind:
Does Minona's title of "the strongest 'hero' in human history" have a deeper meaning...?
Chapter 282: Allied forces?! Then I'm going to open the Abyss!
Inside the round tower, Lak was enveloped in a solid and terrifying magical power.
The Arcane Eye expanded like a hawk, coldly, indifferently, and unreservedly releasing its killing intent.
Lak's face was gloomy.
My mood is already terrible enough today, and these blind demons still dare to bother me at a time like this. Do they really think everyone is a Minotaur and can be manipulated at will?!
“Perfect timing. I need some demon blood for my experiments. I think you have no right to refuse…” Rak’s tone turned sinister as he looked at the Shadow Fiend before him.