Chapter 1 The Notable Consequences

The brief battle from before had already caused considerable damage. Holy fire and plasma gun blades melted the solid alloy floor, and the ice-fire dual blades left deep, crisscrossing marks on the walls. This place, which had been pristine not long ago, now looked as if it had been subjected to a saturation bombing. In the relic hall filled with the smell of burnt metal, everyone warily watched the surrounding space, guarding against space distortions that could appear at any moment.

After speaking, Lily fell silent again. She hunched over, her muscles tense, the two claw blades as still as if they were cast as part of her. Her ears twitched slightly in the air, turning to any direction from which a sound came, but otherwise, she remained motionless.

Lily gathered her energy like a predator waiting for its prey, so much so that High Mage Haimer, who was not far from her, even looked at her with horror. For a moment, he even felt that this "werewolf girl" had disappeared from the world out of thin air. Even as he watched her, he had the feeling that he was hallucinating and that she did not exist at all.

This was an aura concealment that only the most elite predators could achieve.

Vivian also floated silently in the air, her scarlet eyes reflecting the entire scene in the hall. At this moment, her vision was completely different from everyone else's. In the vampire's vision, everything was presented in vivid colors, and various things were shrouded in clear lines with parameters such as temperature, magnetic field, and gravity, and the most vibrant things in it were living things.

Vivian blinked. She could even see the blood rushing through everyone's body, weaving into dense networks in the blood vessels, forming the human form, and the heart was a bright blood-colored light, beating in everyone's chest. For ordinary vampires, such a scene was the prelude to a hunting feast, an irresistible "culinary spectacle," but Vivian only regarded it as a means of reconnaissance, like a useful radar.

The hall fell into a brief silence, and a tense mood spread among the crowd. Suddenly, Vivian saw a slight heat appear in the corner of her eye near the door, and gravity and magnetic fields began to distort—

Before she could warn, Lily reacted even faster. The husky girl let out a low growl, and then the whole husky "split" towards the air near the door like a white lightning bolt!

Fire flew across the air in a dazzling streak, and the extreme high temperature and pressure even caused the air to produce several plasma blades more than ten meters wide. Afterwards, a scattering of white sparks appeared in the air. These sparks had just condensed into a human form when they collided head-on with those plasma air blades: it was as if Lily had divinely calculated it, and then the "Holy Flame Avatar" had actively crashed into it.

The monster used the short-term invisibility characteristic after teleporting to launch a sneak attack, but this little trick made Lily successful: this short time difference allowed the husky girl to concentrate and exert her powerful predator talent.

If the opponent teleported everywhere, Lily would not have been able to react.

The air blade collided with the holy flame, directly cutting the latter into several groups of bursting flames. The next moment, Vivian's lightning storm arrived as scheduled. The bright electric light enveloped a third of the hall like golden snakes dancing wildly. In the continuous bursting sounds, the lightning plowed the walls and the ground over and over again until the super alloy, which exceeded the standard of Earth materials, was melted into flowing molten metal everywhere before gradually stopping.

However, a cluster of silver-white flames still jumped on the molten metal liquid, and rapidly grew, re-condensing into the shape of a woman.

This "creature" condensed from holy flame roared at Lily and Vivian, as if feeling great pain in the previous attack.

"This thing still won't die?!" Becky was a little surprised, and the mercenary girl couldn't help but swear.

"I've seen a lot of guys who are harder to kill than this," Hao Ren said casually. His relaxed tone could effectively ease the atmosphere, but he himself remained solemn: the tenacity of this creature in front of him, which he didn't know how to classify, was a bit beyond imagination. It made sense that Vivian's lightning storm just now was enough to destroy any ordinary creature other than a freak like the eldest son, but he didn't expect that the "flame" had survived unscathed.

No, not unscathed—Hao Ren quickly noticed that the holy flame was a little dimmer than before, and the human form that had condensed was also shaking greatly, as if it could not maintain its shape stably.

"Deplete her energy!" Hao Ren's eyes lit up, and he drew out his long sword and rushed up again, while loudly reminding Vivian, "Use concentrated attacks! Range magic is not very effective against this guy!"

The battle restarted, and at the same time, all kinds of magic arrows and energy shocks flew crisscrossingly: those knights and magic apprentices also reorganized their positions and began to join the battle.

In the corner of the hall, Lily shook her hand. The extraordinary claw attack just now made her arm a little numb. While moving her wrist, she stared at the holy flame avatar surrounded by everyone, the golden eyes reflecting the scene of the battle.

She began to think quickly.

The husky girl never lacked wisdom in combat—even if she occasionally lacked wisdom, she had sufficient intuition and instinct to make up for it. Just like now, she suddenly thought of a perhaps most effective attack method.

So she ran like a whirlwind to the knight closest to her and patted the latter on the shoulder hard: "Excuse me, do you have any water?"

The knight was about to swing his sword at a flame that had split from the monster and was rampaging in the hall. He was almost nailed into the ground by Lily's two slaps. He looked back in astonishment, his face blank: "Huh?"

"Water!" Lily shouted loudly, "Do you have water?!"

Knight: "..."

He understood the words, but what did they mean?

Seeing that this silly person didn't respond, Lily quickly switched to the next one, and still asked people for water as soon as she opened her mouth—Hao Ren was already entangled by a holy flame and couldn't spare any time, so she couldn't ask the landlord for help as usual.

However, everyone present was a sound adult who had received formal education since childhood, with normal values and clear thinking. Which mentally ill person could understand a husky's skill tree? The result of Lily asking people for water everywhere was that the knights and magic apprentices were dumbfounded. They had never seen anyone so open-minded that they would not forget to moisten their throats at such a critical moment of life and death—even if it was to say their last words, there was no need to be so pretentious, right?

But fortunately, there was also Becky on the scene. The mercenary girl finally noticed Lily's movements. Although she didn't know what the latter wanted to do, she knew the power of the husky swallowing spicy strips. At this time, Lily running around asking people for water should also be useful, so Becky's two magic swords danced like the wind, temporarily forcing back a holy flame that was trying to break through from her side, and immediately stuck one of the swords on the ground, freed her hand, pulled a kettle from her waist, and threw it to Lily: "Catch!"

Lily grabbed the kettle, pulled out the stopper, and shouted loudly while bringing it to her mouth: "Everyone pay attention, I'm going to spit water!"

Hao Ren was fighting inextricably with a holy flame—in fact, he felt that he would win if he fought for a while longer—but suddenly heard Lily's shout, and suddenly all the hairs on his body stood up. He grabbed a high-level knight next to him and retreated: "Everyone, be car..."

As a result, before he could finish his words, he heard a violent cough from Lily's direction: "Cough cough... cough cough cough..."

He turned his head in stunned silence and saw Lily coughing with a flushed face, waving a kettle in her hand, the kettle reeking of wine...

It was hard for the husky to cast a spell, but as a result, she encountered a spell backlash because of the inferior spellcasting materials.

Calculating everything but not calculating that Lily would drop the chain in this situation, Hao Ren's eyes almost popped out. Vivian, who was throwing ball lightning everywhere in mid-air, also looked at the husky girl with a look of disappointment, holding two ball lightning in her hand, not knowing whether she wanted to smash the enemy or the dog.

Because of Lily's unexpected interruption, a loophole suddenly appeared in the encirclement in the hall.

Although the "Holy Flame Avatar" could not see much of a human appearance, it seemed to have emotional reactions—whether it was an illusion or not, Hao Ren felt that she glanced at the people in the hall mockingly, and then the whole group of flames suddenly shrank, turning into a holy flame long sword like a shuttle, shooting towards Lily's direction like lightning: the latter was still dizzy and coughing from a mouthful of strong wine, and tears were already coming out.

She was obviously the biggest weakness and loophole in the defense line.

"Be careful!" Hao Ren warned in a panic, while rushing over to help.

Lily raised her head blankly, but the cough in her mouth still couldn't stop. This time, she even coughed out a mist of wine: "Cough cough, cough... boom!!"

A white light enveloped a large area in front of her.

Under the white light, the ground twisted and tore, the walls melted and flowed, and the light even penetrated the wall opposite the hall without diminishing its momentum, and then continued to penetrate the laboratory, warehouse, protective wall, and base exterior wall behind the wall. The solid materials made by the ancient magic empire were like paper, and they were pierced layer by layer, followed by the thick rocks and soil of the mountain...

This was the attack that had once penetrated all of Locke Marton's defenses. Although its power was greatly weakened when Lily cast it in human form, from the energy level, it still had unparalleled power.

Even outside the Dark Mountains, this attack could be seen—a kingdom watchtower captured this scene. The sentry saw a beam of light rising from the Dark Mountains and shooting out at a slightly upward angle, leaving a wide wound in the eternally operating Wall of Loresa, and then piercing a huge hole in the sky.

Lily felt like she was about to spit out last year's New Year's Eve dinner.

This must be the most unprecedented powerful spit-up: she almost spat through the stratosphere...