Chapter 289 - 267: One vs. Three! Three vs. One

Chapter 289: Chapter 267: One vs. Three! Three vs. One

"Blasphemer, your crimes in Heta County shall not be forgiven!"

The moment his voice fell, his clasped hands flew open!

A pure radiance erupted from between his palms, as if a compressed stellar core had suddenly detonated!

"VMMM—"

A Saint Sword, forged from the most incandescent sunlight, materialized from nothing. Its blade flowed with a molten-gold radiance, blazing with a magnificent intensity and emitting a sacred heat wave that purged all filth.

The advanced version of Saint Sword Skill: Splendid Saint Sword!

The light from this sword was so overwhelming and pure that as Royce held it, he seemed to be grasping a miniature Sun. In that instant, the entire twisted, dim "Painted World" was violently torn asunder. A blinding torrent of platinum light savagely banished the viscous shadows and sullied hues.

"GAAAAH—!!!"

Carina—or rather, the entity occupying her flesh—let out a soul-rending shriek!

The cry was a mixture of inhuman agony and fury, as if the Holy Light were searing the very core of its soul.

The deep purple hem of her dress, swirling about her, was like thin ice cast into a furnace; it instantly shriveled and charred. Her exposed, pale skin sizzled under the light, releasing foul wisps of black smoke.

Her exquisitely beautiful face contorted in agony. Deep within her glassy eyes, the dark flame wavered violently, on the verge of being extinguished.

"Pay the price!"

Faced with such a blasphemous foe, the Sun Knight had no thought of mercy, only a furious roar!

The muscles in his arms bulged as he gripped the brilliantly burning Saint Sword of light. He transformed into a blazing white meteor, tearing through the chaos!

"BOOM—!"

Sacred Light Wings erupted from his back!

They were not shaped like feathers. Instead, they were explosive bursts of pure light and flame, compressed to their absolute limit—like solar prominences erupting from the edge of the Sun!

Saint Skill: Crown Charge!

A flap of the Light Wings triggered a deafening sonic boom and a heat wave capable of incinerating all creation.

The "abstract lines" beneath his feet groaned and fractured under the strain, the sullied colors evaporating into nothingness.

The next instant, he was before Carina. Hoisting the Saint Sword high, channeling a will to purify all evil, he brought it cleaving straight down!

His target: Carina’s head, frozen stiff in agony!

Faced with a strike that felt like a punishment delivered by the Sun God himself, the pain in Carina’s eyes was instantly replaced by absolute madness!

"Judge me?! In your dreams—!!!"

With a shriek so shrill it cracked, she did something horrifying—she shot up her left arm, not to cast a spell or to block, but as if grabbing a handy tool. Then she savagely wrenched it backward, against the joint!

"RRRRIP—!"

To the sickening sound of tearing muscle and the sharp crack of dislocating bone, her once slender and graceful left arm was torn clean off by her own hand!

No crimson blood spurted from the stump. Instead, a viscous, dark purple ichor, thick as petroleum and reeking of sulfur, oozed out!

She brandished the severed arm like a grotesque Magic Staff!

Her remaining right hand gripped the mangled end of the severed limb, hoisting it high.

The fingers of the severed arm twitched unnervingly, as if retaining some lingering will, while the shattered bone protruding from the stump glimmered with a foul, spectral light.

An invisible tether instantly formed, connecting her to the colossal, six-armed, ever-shifting shadow of chaos looming behind her.

VWOOOOM—!!!

The entire "Painted World" seemed to erupt like a detonated pustule!

Behind Carina, the vast shadow of chaos—a form coalesced from countless sullied colors—had six mountain-sized arms. At their ends, twisting vortexes of writhing eyeballs, abyssal maws, and giant, pus-leaking claws suddenly erupted with a blinding glare, an interwoven torrent of dark purple, sickly green, and crimson!

As if thousands of rivers of magma from Hell had found a vent, an unimaginably frenzied torrent of chaotic Energy surged through the invisible tether, pouring madly into the severed arm Carina held aloft!

Like a vessel being force-fed a sea of filth, the severed arm instantly bloated, twisted, and mutated!

Its skin cracked and flaked away, revealing grotesque, rapidly proliferating muscle latticed with black sinews. A bony structure grew ceaselessly within, glinting with a spectral light. The end of the arm even split open into a great maw filled with spiraling fangs and dripping with viscous saliva, emitting a silent shriek powerful enough to shatter the soul!

Facing Royce’s light-infused charge that tore through chaos and incinerated all creation, Carina swung the "Magic Staff" she had made from her own mutated limb—a masterpiece of blasphemous art!

A torrent of chaotic Energy, compressed to its absolute limit and mixed with a sonic shriek capable of tearing apart the very Law of space, erupted from the maw at the end of the twisted arm like a billion frenzied, venomous dragons!

This was no defensive gesture. With the will to annihilate everything, it met the blazing white meteor of light head-on!

The chaotic maelstrom of dark purple, crimson, and sickly green clashed thunderously with the magnificent, all-purifying platinum flame upon the bizarre canvas anchored by the supreme "Dream Weaver"!

"BOOOOM—!!!!!"

It was as if two worlds were colliding!