Chapter 430: The Worst Thing Always Happens

Chapter 430: The Worst Thing Always Happens

When the black ring spread, it was silent. If no one had seen it, probably no one would have thought anything was wrong here, including the Undying Witch!

What she was doing had progressed to the final stage. That spark of spiritual light slowly merged into that special mass of flesh and blood. Just at that moment, the second black ring on the Dark Element Heart spread out. This spread was much more noticeable than the first.

Beings outside the range did not sense any abnormality. Some beings within the range, however, could sense it this time. This also included the Undying Witch. The moment the anomaly appeared, she knew. This anomaly did not significantly affect the mist blockade or what she was trying to do, but it did remove the ward covering her body!

This layer of ward was not the mist blocking this place. It was a power ful concealing ward to avoid being traced or having information predicted by Dan Marina’s ability. Now, this ward was forcibly broken by an external force. Even though she could immediately create a new one and restore some pre-set defensive magic destroyed by the black ring.

However, since it was a deliberate break, the moment it was broken, that certain woman had already grasped the information she wanted to hide. She didn’t have time for this! Acting decisively, the Undying Witch did not pay attention to the ward being broken. Instead, she focused all her efforts on merging that spark of spiritual light into the flesh and blood mass.

As the spiritual light merged, the flesh and blood mass gradually took shape, turning into a small figure the size of a baby. When the contours of its face gradually appeared, she couldn’t help but grunt. The steadily flowing Undying Demon Power showed slight disruption. The cause was a Blood Qi Blade that stabbed into her from behind!

Looking back, she saw a pair of eyes showing a kaleidoscope pattern. It wasn’t a simple color pattern made by Zheng Yichen, but a color effect produced by intertwined elemental powers. These eyes, while she was desperately accelerating to complete the task before her, saw a not-too-important Node in the flow of power around her… A Witch’s power flow was perfect and not easily countered.

So seeing that one Node was Oss’s limit. After dealing with those Undying Demons, his stamina and energy were nearly exhausted. Fortunately, his luck afterwards was not bad. He actually didn’t encounter any other traps and arrived at this place. Thinking of his scattered companions elsewhere and Lena, and considering the difficult situation he himself faced, they likely had already met with misfortune.

But Oss still wanted to try. Even if not for them, even for his sister, for himself, he had to try, not choose to give up after seeing the Undying Witch!

Luckily, she seemed to be doing something, and was at a critical moment. She actually hadn’t noticed him. Oss clearly knew that once she finished what she was doing and turned her attention here, it would be his death. That he could deal with those Undying Demons was not a source of pride for him. Facing a Witch, he was still like an ant.

Having almost exhausted his last bit of Spiritual Power, he gathered the little remaining Bloodline Power he could mobilize and threw it… An advantage of Bloodline Power was the lack of related magic ripples or the strong power fluctuations when Battle Qi was released. Sneak attacking, Oss held no real hope. Daring to act was purely out of unwillingness… Yet this desperate attack actually worked!

It didn’t touch any expected magic defense. This Blood Qi Blade passed through a slightly fragile Node in the Undying Witch’s external power flow that he saw, and also pierced her body. Oss, maintaining his throwing posture, forcefully clenched his open palm when the Undying Witch looked back. The thrown Blood Qi Blade exploded!

The explosion, which should have been quite large in scale, only burst within the range of the Blood Qi Blade’s form. A flash of disappointment crossed Oss’s eyes. So it still wasn’t enough? Even with a successful sneak attack, facing too vast a power gap, a turnaround was still impossible… If only he could defeat her, this mist should disappear.

“Hmm…” The Undying Witch frowned slightly. The explosion of the Blood Qi Blade caused her very low damage, but low damage also depended on timing. What she was doing was at a critical point, requiring extremely precise control. This precision demanded the Witch’s full attention, not allowing the slightest distraction. Therefore, while the Blood Qi Blade’s explosion seemed suppressed, she essentially took the full brunt of this blood energy explosion!

Even so, she continued maintaining her influence on that gradually forming flesh and blood mass. The situation was critical, but eighty percent of what needed to be done was complete. Plus, with her ample preparations, as long as she finished the final step, she could directly abandon this place and leave immediately without any problem…

Right! And the matter of That Dragon!! How could Oss arrive here without her knowing? Where would a mere mortal get such good luck? Combined with the ward that was just broken, that power must have come from the Dark Element Heart. Only something with such an overbearing nature could break the ward so easily. Therefore, Dan Marina definitely had a hand in this!

Fine. So you really care about That Dragon, right? In that case, you can go worry about it…

The mist outside showed slight abnormalities.

“It’s done.” The lump of chaotic gray power constantly evaporating in Dan Marina’s palm completely dispersed: “I never expected the Undying Witch to be hidden so deeply, actually… Heh! It’s possible. Time is short. You’ll find out soon. Act quickly now. If you miss it, there won’t be another good chance.”

At the same time, the third black ring erupted from the Dark Element Heart in Irene’s hand. The black ring spread across the entire Mist Zone. This eruption shattered all the preparations hidden within the mist!

The Undying Witch, who had just sent out some of Zheng Yichen’s information through a pre-prepared method halfway, suddenly widened her eyes. She realized something was wrong. She seemed to have been too careless. Knowing full well that the ward on her was broken by the power of the Dark Element Heart, that break could have broken the entire containment mist, even ruined what she was currently trying to do, if only it burst indiscriminately.

Yet after the ward was broken, she had only been relieved it didn’t interfere with her task. Even when Oss’s sneak attack succeeded, slightly delaying her completion progress, she hadn’t realized the issue at the time. She even ignored who did it, opting for the worst course of action: continuing to accelerate finishing the nearly complete task!!

She didn’t think… or rather, she overlooked some details. For example, That Dragon was present but not a major threat. Dan Marina was also there, but probably not enough to interfere with her near-complete task. Their power levels weren’t too different. For something almost guaranteed to succeed, even if Dan Marina interfered, she couldn’t lower the probability much.

Loris? That Witch had pure destructive power. Though destructive power was troublesome, with sufficiently skilled preparations, it could be held off long enough for her to finish everything.

What she overlooked was… the Witches taking action this time might not be just two!! And what inexplicable mindset was she in, being overly focused on completing her task? Those Abyssal Creatures? Those things were completely unreliable… She had been influenced. Normal influencing methods wouldn’t interfere much with her, but what about a Witch’s methods?

She was a Witch, but not invincible. So, encountering a fellow Witch’s hidden hand, especially with multiple Witches cooperating, getting unconsciously caught briefly wasn’t surprising at all. She had been careful until now, yet still fell for it. From the start of the final stage, she had overlooked too many details!

Unfortunately, realizing this now was too late. Only after sobering up did she truly understand how dire her situation was. Even if the external Sanctuary Church forces were indeed held back, and the hold would last a long time, the garrison inside the Border Great Wall wasn’t made of wood. Their reinforcements had already arrived. Not just the Border Great Wall garrison, but Sanctuary Church armies too. In this war, they had prepared large quantities of Semi-Awakening Potions.

Trying their luck failed, gaining mostly useless innate abilities. But any ability could serve some purpose. Even increasing one’s power by one percent was an improvement. If lucky enough to temporarily manifest a powerful ability, they could exhibit several times their strength.

This war already had great advantages. All those Corrupted Creatures gathering now were perfect for a single round of encirclement and suppression. Afterwards, the Containment Barrier would be much cleaner… The unfavorable factors had long turned favorable.

Moreover, with a large army pressing on the border and a surplus of high-level combatants, escaping would be truly difficult for her… However, she wasn’t completely without a way out. If pushed too far, she could always go to the Abyss! Even if that was the worst choice.

“Huh? What’s this?!” Dekoff, in the midst of battle, frowned. He received a piece of information, originating from information released by the Undying Witch. This information wasn’t transmitted mentally, but through the Soul, impossible to guard against and difficult to intercept. However, this information wasn’t complete. Though a part was missing, it still contained sufficiently shocking information. The true identity of the Magic Pharmacist frequently trending recently was actually a dragon… and the very dragon the Sanctuary Church had been seeking. Not only that, its power was quite special… could interfere…??

The information stopped abruptly here. Not only was Dekoff somewhat frantic, others were too. This message affected a wide range. Even the later arriving army personnel received it!

“I intercepted about half of the information. I don’t know how much of the rest got through.” Irene looked expressionlessly at Dan Marina. When the Undying Witch wanted to transmit certain information, it truly wasn’t easy to intercept. She was proficient in Magic, but not all-encompassingly. In Soul-related matters, the Undying Witch was more proficient. This information transmission spread through the Soul. Even though Irene made preparations in advance, she couldn’t completely intercept it.

“Half is about enough… A fifty-fifty chance. In her haste, the Undying Witch wouldn’t have time for more editing.” Dan Marina said, her eyes holding a chaotic gray: “At least the short-term future seems quite peaceful…”

“Your prophecy like this doesn’t mean much.” Irene said. Dan Marina’s Prophecy Art was effective for local areas or individuals, but influencing the whole world? Not a chance.

“But my prophecy flows smoothly…” The chaotic gray in Dan Marina’s eyes suddenly vanished. She lightly waved her hand, a chair appearing behind her, and she sat down: “I’m out of energy. The rest is up to you.”

It was the same for Qin in the team. She hadn’t spoken earlier, not because she didn’t want to, but because her main focus was on influencing the Undying Witch. Making the Undying Witch discover something was wrong without leaving a flaw was incredibly taxing!

“Oh, I originally thought there wasn’t much left for me to do. But it seems a small complication has arisen ahead.” Annie said, then glanced at Dan Marina: “I haven’t heard of you doing many good deeds, but you always manage to make bad things deteriorate to their worst.”

Dan Marina paused slightly: “That’s probably as the Little Dragon says. If there’s a possibility of something going wrong, no matter how small the probability, it will always happen… Murphy’s Law. The power of fate… I actually don’t like using it excessively either.”

Loris, who hadn’t uttered a word, fully stabilized the sphere of destruction in her hand, which had turned from dark red to almost pitch black. She casually tossed this sphere away. The flying black sphere of destruction didn’t seem fast, but it had already moved far from them in a blink. Along its trajectory, slight ripples appeared in space. These ripples weren’t transparent distortions, but tinged with black, like formless, intangible mist spreading from the ripples in other directions. Then Loris gathered it back. The ground beneath her feet became decayed and withered.

At the same moment, the Undying Witch also felt an immense threat!!

“Curse of Destruction!?” The Undying Witch gritted her teeth hard, looking at the increasingly clear face and limbs of the flesh and blood mass. The third black ring eruption had already destroyed all her preparations. Preserving this flesh and blood mass was purely achieved by desperately consuming power.

If she dodged now, everything before her would certainly be erased by that fist-sized black sphere. She could only withstand it! The moment it touched the black sphere, numerous mottled black marks appeared on her body. She absolutely did not want to be tainted by this. Once tainted, even changing bodies couldn’t completely remove it. The Curse of Destruction would still appear. Even now, without Undying Demon Power suppressing it.

Her body had already completely broken down. Worse, the formed flesh and blood mass actually moved at this moment. Its tiny arms and legs displayed abnormal speed, grabbing a magic bottle placed nearby to maintain the final stabilization of its form. With her being hindered, the small figure’s action succeeded.

The mocking laughter of an Abyssal Creature sounded in her ears in real time.