Chapter 84: The “Descending” Projection

Chapter 84: The “Descending” Projection

The dazzling pure-white ray directly pierced through the glass window and landed on the Witch King Karaman.

It immediately burst with intense light, melting away everything undead, shadowy, and evil.

Karaman’s figure ignited with whitish flames, like a paper man brought close to glowing-red coal.

It truly was a paper man, seemingly formed from crimson moonlight.

Witch King substitution technique: Moon Paper Figurine!

As the paper figurine turned to ash, the ancient Witch King appeared at the top of the cathedral spire, casting an icy gaze toward Emlyn White near the bell tower.

Just then, Karaman’s blood-red eyes reflected Sharron’s figure in her black court dress and small soft hat. His body instantly stiffened, as though he had lost control of himself.

Seeing this, Emlyn did not hesitate. As though he had rehearsed the movement a thousand times, he aimed the Pure White Sight at the left side of the opposing Witch King’s chest, preparing to activate the Sun domain’s Unshadowed Spear.

As long as the attack could strike Karaman’s heart, this Witch King would be unable to neutralize it through Moonlight Transformation and would find it difficult to heal with the artificial vampire’s superhuman recovery.

Of course, that would certainly cause fairly serious harm to Sharron, who had possessed Karaman. But if it could quickly resolve the target, she was willing to pay the corresponding price.

During their previous discussions, Emlyn, Sharron, and Maric had debated several similar plans and reached agreement.

This was also why Sharron had not bound the Witch King Karaman by influencing his clothes. Compared with Wraith possession, such a method was easier for an opponent capable of Moonlight Transformation to resolve. As for whether Karaman would be ashamed by running naked, the magic mirror’s answer was no.

Under those premises, they had ultimately chosen to have Emlyn White ambush the target, exhausting his Moon Paper Figurine and thereby creating an opportunity for Sharron to possess him.

Seeing the transparent glass orb in Emlyn’s hand accumulate radiance once more, extending a spear of absolute purity and incandescent whiteness, Karaman, who stood stiffly atop the cathedral spire, suddenly changed.

A slit rapidly opened at the center of his forehead. Within it seemed to be embedded a blood-red full moon.

Moonlight flooded out like a tide, causing Sharron’s illusory body, pale-blond hair, and light-blue eyes to uncontrollably float a little out of Karaman’s body.

Karaman’s stiff and sluggish movements barely returned to normal. In the radiance of the full moon, he turned into a mass of blood color and split into countless fragments of light.

His figure quickly reassembled atop another spire of the cathedral, with Sharron’s phantom in her black court dress pressed closely to his back. Meanwhile, the Unshadowed Spear Emlyn had created passed through Karaman’s original position and flew into the distance, swelling in midair into a miniature sun.

The entire port city was suddenly illuminated.

At the same time, Karaman’s right shoulder began visibly wriggling. Something tore through his black robe and drilled out.

It was an exquisitely made male doll. Only the size of a palm, it wore a dark-red formal suit decorated with golden patterns. Its eyes had been dug out by someone, leaving only two black holes.

The doll sat on Karaman’s shoulder and raised both hands, its ten fingers pressing repeatedly as though playing an invisible instrument.

Sharron’s figure was immediately bounced away from Karaman’s back, seemingly suffering powerful rejection.

Emlyn, for his part, felt his clothing abruptly tighten, binding him firmly in place.

His bow tie also came alive and attempted to strangle him in midair.

That doll was a Grade 1 sealed artifact the Rose School of Thought had given Karaman. It was called the Pupil-less General, an item formed after a Sequence 4 demigod of the Mutant pathway died suddenly in some accident.

It possessed living characteristics. According to its owner’s thoughts, it could possess things with spirits and awaken objects without spirits. Under ordinary circumstances, however, it had to be fed by the holder’s own flesh and blood. Otherwise, it would gradually grow eyes.

Once this sealed artifact became complete, it would turn into an evil spirit that madly hunted its former master, and it hated all humans.

As Emlyn heard his bones groan beneath the unbearable weight, the Pure White Sight, which burned at his soul, blossomed with bright, clear light, turning the surrounding region into an unshadowed kingdom where no shadow and no evil existed.

The Pupil-less General’s influence over his clothes was interrupted.

But by that point, Karaman had already indistinctly uttered a word. With a cruel smile, he stretched both hands forward and pulled open an illusory, hazy door engraved with numerous mysterious symbols.

This was the Gate of Summoning!

Sequence 3 of the Moon pathway was Summoning Master!

Karaman, who originally possessed only the level of Witch King, had directly completed a Summoning under the illumination of the “blood-red full moon” on his forehead!

However, his overall temperament changed because of it. Much of his rationality retreated, while his madness became even more obvious.

With an illusory creak, the Gate of Summoning opened a crack.

From within the crack, two human palms reached out. Their skin had no luster and lacked texture, like the lowest-quality cloth dolls.

…

Outside Valtke City, the Rose School of Thought believers and vassals, who had originally planned to follow the revived corpses in attacking the Loen army’s defensive line, were madly slaughtering one another without the slightest rationality.

Some of them, originally ordinary people, bent their backs, grew gray-black wolf fur, split their mouths wide, and dripped sticky saliva. Some had their skin turn black and hard as steel. Some lost their hearts and collapsed, only to climb back up again as if nothing had happened. Some became transparent and illusory, as though transforming into one shadow after another.

Abomination Suah had only descended with His aura, yet He had already polluted the surrounding living beings, causing them either to collapse and die horribly, or mutate into supernatural creatures such as werewolves and living corpses.

As a high-level existence of Sequence 1, He could directly bestow power upon believers, though that power had a time limit. And this method was not necessarily what those resistance soldiers hoped for.

On the other side of the battlefield, more than two thousand meters away, behind the Loen fortifications, even though the soldiers saw nothing and heard nothing, transparent blisters still rose on the surfaces of their skin. Inside their minds echoed only thoughts venting all kinds of emotions and desires.

It would not be long before they went mad one by one and became irrational beasts. Across the entire position, even inside Valtke City, there would not be many humans left who could maintain clarity.

Suddenly, they heard chanting.

It was chanting formed by one holy, ethereal voice after another.

The chanting came from the Church of Evernight inside the city, as though multiple choirs were praising the Goddess.

One after another, soldiers, citizens, and officers sank into sleep: behind fortifications, inside trenches, and beside streets.

They dreamed of a peaceful darkness. They dreamed of moonflowers and clusters of night vanilla. Their bodies and minds were incomparably calm, no longer suffering erosion from evil.

Inside Valtke City’s Church of Evernight, the Nighthawk senior deacon known as the Eye of the Goddess, Ilia, struggled to maintain this dream that enveloped the entire city. She no longer had the strength to interfere with the demigod-level battle outside.

Klein and Reinette Tinekerr simultaneously sensed the surrounding spirituality mutating. It seemed to transform into layer upon layer of barriers, trying to bind them in place and restrict their movements.

At the blood-red mud between the Witch King’s chest and abdomen, after Suah’s arm fully extended out, a mass of wriggling flesh covered in black sticky liquid followed, drilling out and forming the body of this Abomination.

He was like an enormous tree drenched in petroleum. The spreading branches were formed by dozens upon dozens of arms, each bulging with one strange thing after another.

Upon the “trunk,” across the sticky black liquid, one bloodshot black-and-white eyeball after another rolled everywhere, instantly emptying the reason of those who witnessed them and turning them into rabbits, goats, and fat pigs.

Those dozens to nearly a hundred arms rapidly stretched outward. Some sealed the sky. Some drilled into the earth. Some closed in from every direction. Some directly grabbed toward Klein and Reinette Tinekerr.

At the same time, Abomination Suah released a roar that stabbed straight into spirit bodies, causing both targets to tremble and stiffen to a certain degree. It made the crimson moonlight in midair grow denser, and caused a scene to appear upon a red “curtain.”

At the center of that scene was a mummy wrapped in yellowed bandages. Countless brownish branches pierced through it and suspended it in midair.

Its belly was swollen high. From time to time, one spot would bulge and then flatten, as though it were nurturing new life.

The mummy’s mouth opened and closed, constantly screaming. Although Klein could not hear an actual sound, pain still resonated within his body and soul, making him gradually bear what the mummy was suffering.

The Chained God!

Suah’s roar just now had been formed by one Ancient Hermes word after another, overlapped in a manner exceeding human imagination. In essence, it was a prayer to the Chained God, and He had successfully received a response!

The Mother Tree of Desire still could not let too much power seep into reality. If one wished to pray to Her and obtain angel-level feedback, one needed a large sacrificial rite. Of course, there was a certain distinction and fundamental gap between the Mother Tree of Desire’s direct influence and the gaze She granted through the Chained God.

The Chained God was not originally a true god. He was only a King of Angels who had accommodated the Uniqueness of the Mutant pathway and two Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics. After giving birth to Abomination Suah, He had even lost one Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic. Once He was fully corroded by the Mother Tree of Desire, He likewise suffered the fate of isolation.

Therefore, regardless of what the Mother Tree of Desire’s essence was, after going through this roundabout path, the influence that could be exerted upon reality was limited. Even so, this trap aimed at Reinette Tinekerr was luxurious enough!

As the projection of the Chained God appeared, the entire earth was dyed dark red. Klein immediately felt his connection to the spirit world severed. He could no longer use Teleportation to leave.

His figure instantly jumped through clusters of flame. Taking advantage of Reinette Tinekerr confronting Abomination Suah, he reached into the void and grabbed several times from different locations.

In the end, Klein dragged out a silver-black jewelry box inlaid with all kinds of gemstones. Without the slightest hesitation, he opened its second layer.

The Box of the Great Old Ones!

The second layer of this Grade 0 sealed artifact could transfer all living beings within a certain range to one of the scenes it had recorded!