Everyone's Class: One Effort, 10,000x Bonus Reward! - Chapter 376: The Illusion in the Black Mist

Rainn kept her eyes tightly shut and pushed the ancient power of the Primordial Miko inheritance inside her to its limit.

Buzz—!

A brilliant pure white light burst from the vertical mark on her forehead like a flood breaking through a dam.

In the blink of an eye, the sacred white light wrapped around her entire body, making her look like a goddess who had descended from ancient times.

“I’ll go in first.”

Rainn’s voice was cold and serious, carrying an authority that allowed no argument.”Follow behind me. No matter what happens, do not move more than ten steps away from me.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she stepped forward without hesitation and entered the terrifying Nether Mist.

Then, a shocking scene appeared.

The strange black mist, which could even melt Legendary Rank equipment in an instant, seemed to meet its natural enemy the moment it touched the white light around Rainn.

“Hiss, hiss, hiss—!”

From deep within the black mist, it sounded as if countless vengeful spirits were screaming in pain.The thick, ink-like fog began to retreat wildly to both sides on its own.

Under the pressure of the white light, a safe path wide enough for three people to walk side by side was forcibly opened.

“Let’s go.”

Aiden did not hesitate at all. In a flash, he took Cheryl with him and quickly followed Rainn into the path.

Around them was a roaring sea of black mist, twisting and surging as if it wanted to devour anyone who came near.In the middle of it all was a lone but steady holy white light.

The three of them continued forward through the dead silence and strange darkness.

But before they had taken even a hundred steps toward the depths of the temple, something suddenly changed.

Aiden suddenly sensed a strange ripple in the space around him.The scene ahead began to twist in a very unnatural way.

Rainn, who had been walking in front of him, and Cheryl, who had been right beside him, quickly became blurry, like reflections on the surface of water. Then their figures faded away.

“Hm?”

Aiden frowned slightly and was about to retreat at high speed.

But the world before his eyes had already changed completely.

The dark red wasteland was gone.

The grand Miko Temple had disappeared.

In its place was a hopeless hell filled with mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

One familiar face after another slowly appeared in this hell.

Eira, the Empress of the Great Shaw Empire, who had always stood high above others, now had messy hair and a torn imperial robe. Her eyes were filled with endless sorrow and resentment.

Vespera, the proud and cold Holy Maiden of the Dragon King, was covered in blood and screaming in agony.

Even Rainn and Cheryl, who had just been right in front of him, had turned into miserable figures. They stared at him with hatred in their eyes.

“Aiden… why didn’t you save us…”

“You were so strong. Why did you just watch us die?!”

“It’s your fault… This is all your fault!”

Countless voices, full of hatred and despair, pierced into Aiden’s ears like steel needles.

The next second, those familiar faces began to twist and rot.

Pieces of black, decayed flesh fell from their faces, revealing white bones underneath.

They turned into terrifying ghostly corpses, opening their bloody mouths wide. Filled with overwhelming resentment, they rushed madly toward Aiden.

Beep, beep, beep—!

At that moment, the system’s killing intent detection gave out an alarm louder and sharper than ever before.

Aiden’s pupils suddenly contracted.

He could clearly feel that these “corpses” rushing at him were not just illusions.

The bone-chilling wind, the sickening stench of rotting bodies, and the deadly killing intent that seemed strong enough to tear apart his soul—all of it was real.

If these monsters bit him inside the illusion, both his soul and his body would die in the real world.

“You want to kill me?”

Aiden let out a cold laugh and tried to raise his right hand to summon the Divine Golden Sunflame.

But then he was shocked to find that his body felt as if it had been bound by countless invisible chains of law.He could not even move a single finger.

“So that’s it. A law-based restraint aimed at the soul?”

The hideous corpses were already right in front of him, about to bite through his throat.But there was not the slightest trace of fear in Aiden’s deep eyes.

Instead, a wild and fearless arrogance burst from them, as if he looked down on the entire world.

“A broken illusion like this dares to play tricks in front of me?”

Boom—!!!

As Aiden roared in his heart, a terrifying wave of soul power exploded from his body.

This was not the soul strength that a level 80 Reclasser should have.

This was the soul pressure of someone who had been tempered countless times, broken past the limits of level 99, and reached the peak of the Great Venerable realm!

The pressure spread out like an ancient Supreme God waking from a long sleep.

It carried an unstoppable force, as if it could suppress all worlds and sweep across the heavens.

“Break!”

Aiden’s eyes flew wide open.Two brilliant beams of soul light, shining like pure gold, shot out from his eyes.

The golden beams were like swords of divine judgment tearing through the night.Carrying the supreme power of a peak Great Venerable, they slashed fiercely into the sea of blood and corpses.

Crack—

Crack, crack, crack—!

Sharp cracking sounds exploded through the air.

The hideous corpses that were about to touch Aiden, along with that hopeless hell-like world, were crushed by the golden soul beams.

They broke apart inch by inch like fragile glass, then vanished completely.

Boom!

Back in the real world, a golden soul storm became almost solid around Aiden and swept out wildly in every direction.

The thick black mist, which had been trying to take advantage of the opening and devour him, was torn apart by that overwhelming soul power and forced back dozens of meters.

The void trembled.

The black mist wailed.

When the soul storm, powerful enough to destroy everything, slowly calmed down, Aiden’s vision finally became clear again.

The foul wind rushed against his face once more.

The dark walls of the Miko Temple still stood silently ahead.

And less than five steps in front of him, Rainn and Cheryl appeared in his sight again.

Rainn was still wrapped in pure white light.Cheryl still held her charred black staff.Both of them were safe and unharmed.

…

Aiden’s gaze was sharp as lightning, and he instantly locked onto the two women in front of him.

Rainn had just emerged from the black mist, but her condition was terrible.

With a thud, her knees went weak, and she fell heavily onto the cold black stone floor.

She clutched her head tightly with both hands.Her slender body trembled violently, like a fallen leaf in a freezing wind.

On her smooth forehead, the pure white vertical mark that represented the Primordial Miko inheritance was flickering strangely, bright one moment and dim the next.

Two completely different powers were fighting wildly inside her body, throwing her into extreme pain.

Clearly, even the inheritance power she was so proud of had not fully protected her from this terrifying illusion that attacked the depths of the soul.

Cheryl was doing slightly better.

She bit hard into her pale, bloodless lips and gripped her charred staff with both hands.

Though Cheryl was still standing, her tightly shut eyes and deathly pale face showed how hard she was struggling inside the illusion.

“What a stubborn woman.”

Aiden gave a cold snort. Without the slightest hesitation, he strode over to Rainn.

He placed his strong, slender right hand directly on Rainn’s trembling shoulder.

Buzz—!

Soul power at the peak of the Great Venerable level surged from his palm like a golden flood breaking through a dam.

It forced its way into Rainn’s body with overwhelming force.

The next second, Aiden’s consciousness tore through the barrier of the illusion and descended straight into Rainn’s inner world.

This place was filled with suffocating silence and darkness.

There was no light.No sound.Only endless cold and despair.

But deep within that darkness, Aiden quickly sensed a faint movement.

He stepped forward, walking through the dark swamp as calmly as if he were taking a casual stroll.

Soon, an extremely cruel scene appeared clearly before his eyes.

A little girl in torn clothes, thin to the bone, was curled up in despair in a cold corner.

Her body was covered in shocking blood marks.

Fresh wounds mixed with old scars, making the sight almost unbearable.

Around the little girl stood a group of ugly, hateful adult Miko, all laughing cruelly.

Smack!

A poison whip covered in barbs struck the little girl’s thin back hard, tearing open her flesh and sending blood splashing through the air.

“No one is coming to save you, you born curse!”

“In the Miko clan, no one will ever love you. You only deserve to live in the mud like a dog!”

“You’re trash! A useless bastard who should never have been born!”

“Go die! Take that worthless little sister of yours with you!”

The cruel curses kept echoing through the dark world, mixed with the dull sound of the whip tearing into flesh.

Aiden watched in silence.A cold, deadly light flashed in his deep eyes.

He knew this was not some fake illusion.

This was Rainn’s deepest childhood memory.

It was the tragic past of Rainn and her younger sister, Cheryl—two girls abandoned by the cold-blooded Miko clan and humiliated again and again.

This damned illusion had torn open the scar she least wanted to face and forced her to look at it while it was still bleeding.

“Boring trick.”

Aiden said the words coldly.

Boom!

As soon as his voice fell, a brilliant golden divine flame shot up from his body.

It was a real sacred soul fire.

The flame gave off no heat, but it carried an overwhelming power that could burn away all evil in the world.

The Miko illusions who had been hurting the girl did not even have time to scream.

In an instant, they were reduced to ashes inside the golden soul fire.