Volume 6, Chapter 76 – The Flying Sun

“If Miss Ruth doesn’t try a little harder, you’ll be crying home to find your mother.”

“Hmph!”

Facing Absolute Evil’s ridicule, the disheveled Ruth swung her long spear horizontally. The three-layered gray magic circle in front of her instantly lunged out three wraiths. But Ruth didn’t expect these three fifth-rank wraiths to defeat Absolute Evil; what she wanted was to delay time and get out of the predicament.

Although less than two minutes had passed since the battle began, she had already fallen into absolute disadvantage. Her attacks couldn’t touch Absolute Evil’s body. Even if she deceived Absolute Evil with a feint and landed a spear strike on him, Absolute Evil’s armor could completely block her full-force blow.

In contrast, any attack from Absolute Evil, even a simple thrust, required her full effort to deal with. Otherwise, just like her carelessness at the beginning, a large hole would be pierced through her body in an instant. If she weren’t an undead without pain sensation, she would have been unable to concentrate due to severe pain by now.

Worthy of the strength that even the Sovereign has to shy away from…

With the help of the three undead, Ruth immediately pulled a distance of more than fifty meters from Absolute Evil, simultaneously confirming Absolute Evil’s strength with detection magic.

Then, her pupils constricted suddenly.

Absolute Evil was even stronger than her mother.

If Venix appeared crimson in the detection magic, then Absolute Evil was a deep crimson that made people tremble, like the red giant stars described in some Holy Sons’ memories. The ominous and mighty heavenly power was unforgettable at just a glance, making one doubt if human power could truly oppose it.

Going on like this, I will definitely lose.

But what about the Chaos below?

She looked at the earth below. Ruth had done her best to stop the Chaos from advancing. In the distance, the sky full of butterflies crashed into the Chaos like moths to a flame, the ear-piercing sound of liquid evaporation unceasing. But this could only slightly slow down the Chaos’s advance speed. The Chaos wave still pushed toward the periphery of the Weeping Mountains with crushing momentum. If not for the monsters near the light screen having been cleared by the Sovereign, the wails of countless monsters could be heard by now—no, wait.

Ruth suddenly realized an even more terrifying thing.

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Following this trend, Brinkat City outside the Weeping Mountains wouldn’t need to wait for the Chaos to submerge it; it would be flattened by undead creatures first. One must know, the undead creatures inside the illusion barrier weren’t aware they were undead. Once they realized this, all undead would fall into madness.

“Daring to get distracted while fighting me!”

Sizzle.

The sound of flesh being split in two by a sharp weapon.

Ruth felt her body suddenly become light, and the surrounding scenery flew rapidly behind her. She didn’t need to think to know that because of her distraction, Absolute Evil had circled behind her at some point and cut her in half at the waist, kicking her toward the Sea of Chaos. Pity that undead creatures wouldn’t die from this kind of injury, or rather, this couldn’t even be counted as an injury. As her upper body fell obliquely toward the Chaos wave, her wound was already wriggling and recovering.

Perhaps Absolute Evil has no experience dealing with high-rank undead. Just need to consume Absolute Evil’s mana with the undead’s innate recovery ability like this… What?

Ruth caught a glimpse of dazzling golden brilliance from the corner of her eye. She immediately looked back at the sky, only to see Absolute Evil holding his right hand high in a posture of supporting the sky. A vast holy aura that made people breathless descended from the sky, so much so that Absolute Evil’s whole person was bathed in a golden pillar of light penetrating heaven and earth.

“Holy magic? How can you use holy magic!”

While screaming in surprise, Ruth blocked her hands in front of her body. The holy aura, vast as the sun, caused a burning pain in her eyes and skin. Ruth, who had almost never experienced pain, gritted her teeth and let out a painful groan, her facial features distorting. Undead creatures didn’t fear ordinary magic, but holy magic was their natural enemy. Not to mention Absolute Evil’s holy magic had already exceeded the boundary of high-rank magic. Ruth only felt the mana all over her body was scalding hot as if ignited. The mana flow brought her a heart-piercing pain of blood vessels bursting, making using magic exceptionally difficult.

Even though the dark red armor on Absolute Evil was incompatible with holy magic, the fact was that Absolute Evil was exempted from the restrictions of demons, using holy magic that should only be usable by holy clergy.

In contrast, Absolute Evil, suspended in the air, flew toward Ruth unhurriedly in the posture of supporting the sky with one hand.

“Demons cannot use holy magic is a law of the world; even I cannot be exempted. But if means are used to deceive the rules, one can use magic that doesn’t belong to oneself to a certain extent. Miss Ruth, time is an advantage. I have existed for so long, not just blindly pursuing pleasure. This armor binds me, but also lets me obtain things that don’t belong to me.”

Absolute Evil suddenly tilted his head.

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“By the way, if I burn Miss Ruth to ashes with holy magic, will Miss Ruth’s soul disappear completely? If it is holy magic, even your mother Venix shouldn’t be able to restore you. Really very curious. I haven’t had the chance to study an undead of your level. Although using holy magic will damage the armor, if I can get results, it can be considered worth it?”

While talking to himself, Absolute Evil got closer and closer to Ruth, who was slowly retreating in the air. For every step Absolute Evil approached her, the severe pain on her body became more obvious. Now it even reached the point where her body felt like tearing apart and her eyes melting. If not for her sufficient willpower, she would have long roared in pain and curled up her body in agony.

“My mother… won’t… let you off.”

“As long as it’s done without anyone knowing, even your mother can’t guess it was me. Although trying to let Miss Ruth merge with Chaos is also very interesting, unlike the Sovereign, I have no good feelings for Chaos. Farewell, lovely Miss Ruth.”

As the voice fell, the golden light pillar that seemed to penetrate heaven and earth quickly converged into a golden throwing spear, and the hideous armor on Absolute Evil also disintegrated and collapsed bit by bit. Ruth wanted to mobilize mana to make her body move quickly, but the golden throwing spear seemed to lock the space; she couldn’t move at all.

Tsk.

No way to change it now.

Despite saying so, Ruth was exceptionally calm. Just like Helian had life-saving methods for last resorts, for someone at her level, having no backup plan was almost impossible. Absolute Evil didn’t know clearly that even if the soul named Ruth disappeared along with the physical body, her memory would be preserved forever in the core of the Kingdom of Death. She and Venix were mother and daughter in name, but actually different manifestations of the same soul. Even if she died, Venix could resurrect another her with her memory.

At that time, Absolute Evil’s secret would be made public.

As for now, let’s see what exactly is under this armor!

Doing her utmost to restrain the heart-piercing pain, Ruth glared viciously at Absolute Evil. Pity that because Absolute Evil was in the light, she couldn’t see Absolute Evil’s appearance clearly. She could only vaguely observe from the body outline that this didn’t seem to be a man’s physique.

However.

“Hmm?” When the throwing spear was only one foot away from Ruth, Absolute Evil suddenly looked up at the Weeping Mountains, a smile gradually surfacing in his voice. “Actually coming so timely. Presumably that guy, the Sovereign, was also like this back then. Delaying further will get me bogged down and unable to leave, but letting you go just like this… Got it.”

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Stroking his chin, Absolute Evil revealed an evil smile of a successful plot. He took out the second Chaos Seed from the void, pierced through Ruth’s chest with one thrust under Ruth’s angry gaze, and finally threw the Chaos Seed into Ruth’s chest.

“This is much more interesting. Goodbye, beautiful Miss Ruth.”

After speaking, Absolute Evil turned and stepped into the white magic circle floating up and down behind him. The golden throwing spear in his hand dissipated completely. If Fia were here, she would recognize this as the teleportation magic used between Demon Generals.

“You—”

Ruth tried to question, but before the voice could come out, a stinging pain that made her whole body cold spread from her chest to her whole body. She immediately thought of the thing Absolute Evil threw at her. She reached out to take out that black seed, but she completely failed to notice that this black seed had already spread from her heart to her whole body. Even her original pink eyes were dyed dark red without whites, and her whole body was covered with pitch-black patterns like Darkborn Disease.

Then, she no longer had the thought of taking out the Chaos Seed. She even felt this feeling was very wonderful, so much so that the Chaos wave below made her feel affectionate. The desire for destruction invaded her brain; she only wanted to tear everything moving in front of her to shreds.

However, Ruth wasn’t of the likes of Radric. Being an eighth-rank undead, no matter how strong the Chaos Seed was, it could only achieve this extent. She still had the ability to think calmly. The only difference was that her body was handed over to another evil Ruth to control.

Is it high-rank mental magic? But even if this kind of magic takes effect, with my eighth-rank strength, it can only last for one or two minutes at most, maybe even becoming ineffective in less than a minute. This is the Weeping Mountains; there is nothing around. Even if I have a desire for destruction for a minute, what consequences can there be?

Was I tricked by Absolute Evil?

Forget it, let’s settle accounts with Venix and Absolute Evil after the magic ends.

Maintaining the suspended posture like this, Ruth quietly watched her body covered with black patterns. Then, she noticed two spots of light flying toward her in the distance. Her expression instantly became weird.

How can there be such a coincidental thing in this world?

Usually not a single person comes to the depths of the Weeping Mountains for several years. Those who can reach the cliff edge are only Nola who comes once every few months. Now two popped up at once, and exactly when I’m full of desire for destruction?

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If people discover the so-called Goddess is actually a Darkborn, and a pink-haired girl with no deterrence at that, the Goddess persona I painstakingly managed for so many years will be ruined… Not just ruined, it’s simply having no face to return to the Weeping Mountains.

No, what’s really fatal should be that I will kill these two people. With my current desire for destruction and slaughter, it’s fine if I don’t see living things, but seeing them, I definitely won’t be able to control my hands.

In fact, Ruth’s non-existent heart had already begun to thump, and her tongue couldn’t help licking her lips. She even took a step toward the two distant light spots. This body was craving fresh blood.

Almost subconsciously, Ruth used the detection magic unique to the undead on the light spots.

Then, her heart went thump .

If Venix’s mana appeared crimson in her eyes, and Absolute Evil appeared deep crimson, then the person of one of these two light spots was a complete, pure blazing white, so much so that it blinded her eyes in an instant. She could even feel the high temperature burning her eyeballs.

No wonder Absolute Evil wanted to slip away. What light spot is this? It’s basically a flying sun!

Run quickly!

She desperately urged her legs to flee for her life, but her body wasn’t under her control. That evil, brainless Ruth was gleaming with a warlike gaze, taking a step towards the blazing white sun.

It’s over.

Absolute Evil, you bastard!

Before her eyes went black, Ruth gritted her teeth and greeted everyone related to Absolute Evil.