“Ugh... ha... haaa...”
Sophie, who had been exuding an overwhelming aura just a second ago, saw the light in her eyes vanish completely. The corner of her mouth twitched uncontrollably to one side, and silver drool trickled down her chin onto Kaila’s nun habit.
Her arms hung limp.
A faint, phantom roar of dragons echoed from within her body.
Once there were nine dragons pulling a coffin; now there were nine dragons pulling a total collapse.
“A... baba... hehe... dragon... big dragon...”
At the same time, the Mambo sound effect she had set earlier played once more.
“I am the Saintess,” the Mambo sound effect declared.
【Log: You have triggered [Acting]. Due to your brilliant performance, [Miaoyue] believes you are the Saintess; [Kaila] and [Chengzhong Dino] have seen through your acting.】
Miaoyue was convinced.
“Could it be... she really is the Saintess?” Miaoyue hesitated.
In the fraction of a second where Miaoyue’s thoughts drifted into this minor detour, the Hero swung her weapon once more.
This time, it wasn’t a light sword, nor was it a light spear.
It was a projectile.
Regardless of the form, any weapon handled by the Hand of the Hero would achieve its maximum potential.
Thus, in that instant, the thrown Sophie reached terminal velocity in mid-air.
“Swooooosh—Boom!”
Sophie was slammed right onto the moon.
Since the Hero’s weapons never suffered from wear and tear, she landed perfectly not far from Miaoyue.
At that moment, Miaoyue’s train of thought was momentarily severed.
Similarly, her delicate guidance of the high-intensity mana suppression was also interrupted.
She was never particularly good at fine mana control to begin with, relying entirely on her massive reserves for indiscriminate coverage.
With this distraction, the five blazing starlight spears that were about to be launched instantly lost their balance in their orbital path to her left.
Stellar energies of different attributes rubbed and collided against one another. Once the core mana circuits were no longer being guided, they began an irreversible collapse.
“Rumble—!”
A series of violent explosions erupted directly along the right edge of the Dark Red New Moon.
The wild starlight turbulence surged backward, causing Miaoyue’s intricate and magnificent ceremonial gown to flutter wildly. Several sharp meteorite fragments even grazed her cheek, leaving a tiny bloodstain on her fair skin.
“Cough... What’s going on?!”
Miaoyue waved her arms in a fluster, attempting to stabilize the spell matrices that were starting a chain reaction. Her once-lofty divine majesty was now reduced to a state of disarray.
On the other end of the battlefield, beneath the inverted ground, Chengzhong Dino rejoiced at the sight of Miaoyue showing a weakness.
Although she didn’t understand how that woman’s clumsy acting had fooled the thieving cat, it didn't matter.
Her fingers danced rapidly. The pale threads and various puppets that had been stalemated by the starlight immediately surged forward in a counterattack.
A golden spear, twisted from ten million threads, took advantage of the gap left by Miaoyue’s failing formation. It pierced through three meteorites and drove straight toward the base of the Dark Red New Moon’s throne.
“Shatter!” Dino spat coldly.
At the same time, Dino’s peripheral vision swept toward the dazzling white light that was ascending.
Since that white-haired bat had caused the thieving cat to suffer such a setback, it was the perfect time to snatch her up and turn her into the most exquisite puppet.
With her in hand, she could not only control the thieving cat’s woman but also make that brute of a Hero hesitate for fear of hitting the hostage.
Hundreds of transparent mana threads emerged silently from the void on the side, darting toward the flying Sophie like the flicking tongues of venomous snakes.
Mid-flight at high speed, Kaila suddenly twisted her waist, her nun habit tracing a sharp arc in the air.
The light rifle appeared in her hand.
Kaila didn’t even bother to brace the stock against her shoulder. She held the rifle with one hand, her eyes not even turning back to confirm her target, relying entirely on intuition and absolute battlefield awareness.
“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The crisp, rhythmic gunshots rang out consecutively in this chaotic airspace.
Every pure white light bullet spat from the muzzle was terrifyingly precise.
The first things to be shattered were the transparent threads attempting to ambush Sophie. The light bullets exploded the moment they touched the threads, their holy power severing the mana link between the threads and Dino.
Immediately after, the barrel shifted slightly.
Two bat puppets, stitched together from giant wood and rock, lunged from the flanks with their maws wide open. Within five meters of them, the light bullets struck their core mana centers with unerring accuracy.
There were no screams or struggles; the two massive puppets were purified into fine ash by the holy light in mid-air.
In an instant, Kaila fired over a thousand rounds, briefly suppressing Chengzhong Dino’s fierce offensive.
Chengzhong Dino frowned.
Aboard the Dark Red New Moon.
Miaoyue had just finished mobilizing her mana to forcibly extinguish the meteorite ash that had undergone sympathetic detonations due to her own mistake.
Her chest heaved violently, and her face was terrifyingly pale.
She turned her head to look at her own Saintess, who had just flown up to her.
Rate on N.U.
