Chapter 112 The Chaotic Situation

Amidst the chaos, few noticed how many times Yizaks' forehead deflected attacks; everyone's attention was focused on the Chaos Shadows pouring out of the hall. These black shadows, flowing across the ground like sludge, seemed endless. No matter how many Yizaks and Elizabeth destroyed, they kept coming like a tide. The only saving grace was their lack of intelligence: they only rushed towards their targets along the shortest path, making the area between the hall entrance and the demon hunter's line the only place that needed to be blocked.

Now that they were in the open, Hao Ren no longer had to worry about friendly fire from psionic weapons. He drew his Inspector's pistol and joined the battle. Bright blue beams cut through the air, causing explosions in the small plaza in front of the family hall. The ground, along with the writhing Chaos Shadows, turned into crystalline dust under the psionic rays. For a time, Hao Ren's kill rate even surpassed Yizaks and the little imp.

Psionic energy, ignoring the target's attributes and defenses, could inflict equal true damage on everything describable or indescribable in the world. It was a powerful force regarded as "divine power," and even the small-scale firepower in the hands of an Inspector wouldn't change this property. The Chaos Shadows were eerie, but their eeriness was far from enough to counter the level suppression of psionic energy itself.

The only problem was that there were too many of them, and Hao Ren's pistol had a limited range. The Chaos Shadows poured out of the door like disgusting mud, pushing forward despite the bombardment from Hao Ren, Yizaks, and his daughter, eventually reaching the holy flame barrier established by the demon hunters.

Accompanied by a strange, pungent odor, the holy flame barrier burned even more fiercely, engaging in direct confrontation with the Chaos Shadows.

Yizaks and Elizabeth also retreated to the edge of the barrier. Although a demon's will was exceptionally strong and could briefly resist the mental corruption of the Chaos Shadows, the father and daughter didn't dare to be too reckless. While trying to avoid direct contact with the Chaos Shadows, they retreated while fighting.

After Yizaks and his daughter retreated to the edge of the barrier, Vivian joined the battle. Her eyes gradually filled with a layer of blood, and a cold, eerie power surrounded her like a swirling storm. Vivian slowly rose into the air, supported by this vortex, and a large group of black bats appeared out of thin air around her. These bats were different from the solid creatures she usually summoned. They looked like chaotic clouds, energy bodies woven from cold ashes and darkness. The translucent bats flickered with fire inside, swarming into the tide of Chaos Shadows, continuously turning those shadows into a part of themselves through assimilation and devouring.

The dark ash bats intertwined with the demon hunters' holy flames, forming a bizarre black and white scene. Vivian, while distracted by controlling the bats, turned her head and shouted at Hasson, "How long until your ritual is done?"

"A few more minutes!" Hasson shouted back, then looked in astonishment at Vivian's bats flying in the holy flames. The current holy flame was no longer the path of protection everyone had retreated through. To combat the Chaos Shadows, it was now filled with violent, destructive power. "Your shadow power doesn't conflict with the holy flame?"

"When have I ever conflicted with this kind of thing?" Vivian felt the question was inexplicable. "I'm still carrying a body full of crosses!"

"That's not what I meant..." Hasson felt something was wrong, but a sudden exclamation interrupted him.

At the edge of the barrier, a younger-looking demon hunter suddenly cried out, "I'm being..."

The cry stopped abruptly. Hao Ren looked over and saw a gap in front of a demon hunter responsible for maintaining the holy flame barrier. The shadow under his feet was shaking rapidly as if it had come to life, and various colors of protective magic shone continuously from under the demon hunter's trench coat. Although Whiteflame quickly assisted in patching the gap in the barrier from a distance, it was clear that the Chaos Shadow had already taken hold of this warrior.

The warrior, invaded by the shadows, resisted violently for a while, but because maintaining the holy flame barrier had consumed too much energy, he had been completely taken advantage of. After a few seconds of trembling, he suddenly turned to look at the closest companion. In his eyes, there was no reason or distinction between black and white, only a chaotic, swirling cloud of smoke.

The warrior drew his holy silver short sword and pounced on his teammate like a leopard, and chaos erupted around him.

"Tch, that's what I was afraid of," Hesperides, who didn't know where she had pulled out a huge mace inlaid with blades and steel nails, rushed towards the out-of-control hunter, her body burning with hot flames. "The rest of you continue to maintain the barrier, leave this kid to me!"

In that instant, the serene temperament of the Goddess of Dusk vanished again.

Hasson couldn't help but shudder when he saw Hesperides rushing up with the mace. He looked at Vivian in shock, "Didn't you say her personality has recovered?"

"Her personality has recovered normally, but her fighting style can't be completely changed," Vivian explained somewhat awkwardly. "After you blew her head off with an arrow, she transformed her Twilight Scepter into this mace. Later, after her personality recovered, she couldn't find any other suitable weapon, so she simply continued to practice mace techniques..."

Hasson stared blankly at Hesperides, who was swinging the huge mace and smashing people not far away. He vaguely remembered the situation when he first saw Hesperides in the Olympus domain thousands of years ago. At that time, she was just a timid "goddess" who was not good at fighting, holding a huge staff and running behind others, but now she had become like this. The old hunter couldn't help but shudder again, "What a sin..."

Although the demon hunter who had fallen into madness was successfully ambushed by the shadows, his own strength was extraordinary, and coupled with the fact that his combat power seemed to have increased after losing his mind, he actually blocked Hesperides's突襲 all of a sudden, and even gradually reached a stalemate.

Hesperides's body shone with dazzling hot light like the sun, and even the ground began to soften under the illumination of her Twilight Glow, but the demon hunter who was deadlocked with her didn't feel it at all. He relied on short-range space teleportation to constantly distance himself from Hesperides, using crossbow bolts and rune spells to continuously wear down the latter's patience and physical strength. Seeing this situation, Vivian couldn't hold back. After dividing a large group of bats to deal with the Chaos Shadows, she rushed to Hesperides's side, "I'll help!"

"Find a way to hold him back!" Hesperides shouted loudly, "This bastard's spatial teleportation ability is too shameless!"

Without saying a word, Vivian exploded into a large swarm of black bats, each bat mouth flashing with dazzling electric light. They pounced on the out-of-control demon hunter warrior from all directions like dark clouds. The latter instinctively wanted to teleport, but Vivian had already expected this: the little bats suddenly let out a neat directional screech, the shrill sound so ear-piercing that it made people dizzy, interrupting the warrior's skills. Then, electric light exploded, and the scene was shrouded in a blinding white light.

The electric light dissipated, and the bat swarm regrouped. The demon hunter warrior remained stiffly in place: the electric shock had temporarily incapacitated him.

Seeing this, Hesperides immediately strode forward with the mace upside down, preparing to knock him unconscious first.

But before she could act, she saw the warrior's eyes flash with clarity.

The berserk state was inexplicably解除.

At the same time, the joint exorcism ritual performed by the other demon hunters was finally nearing its end. Accompanied by a solemn sound, all the demon hunter casters erupted with a burst of strong light, and the runes above the family hall suddenly crashed down. A pillar of light reaching the sky enveloped the entire building. In that instant, the entire world seemed to be occupied by this white light.

After the white light gradually dissipated, Hao Ren found that the family hall was still standing there intact, but the Chaos Shadows that had been pouring out of the door had all disappeared.

It seemed that these demon hunters' methods were quite clever—at least when dealing with various negative things, these professional exorcists were stronger than ordinary异类.

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