Chapter 98: Eradicate Evil Thoroughly

In the end, this is the spiritual world of the Soul, a form of visualization of his current state and subconscious thoughts, rather than an unchanging reality, so the situations in the real world will naturally feedback here as well.

The Soul itself is being assimilated and eroded by the Faceless One, but the process seems to be greatly delayed due to its own special abilities and physique, along with external help, which corresponds to the “dark power” sealed in the sword as mentioned by Mona.

Since even with Yuna’s assistance from the outside world, the Soul couldn’t resolve this issue, the same applies in this spiritual world, and perhaps the situation is even more severe.

Soon, as if to prove the Priestess’s thoughts:

“Crack… Crack…”

One of the towering stone pillars surrounding the giant sword suddenly let out a mournful cry as if under unbearable strain, and defying the laws of physics, it disintegrated in mid-air for some unknown reason, collapsing and roaring, turning into countless fragments that fell down!

“Wow! Watch out!”

As the giant stone crashed down, the little loli, Mona, hurried to push the nearby Miss Vilyric aside, but due to her petite body being inherently weak in this spiritual world, or perhaps because the Priestess was simply too stable, her efforts resulted in her directly crashing into the latter’s embrace, who then instinctively wrapped around her to protect her with her body.

“This place is really fraught with danger~”

Accompanied by a slightly teasing laugh, a long-forgotten golden shield rose up from the ground, blocking all the stones that were plummeting like shooting stars, creating a massive thunderous sound of collision.

In the spiritual world, all abilities and means can only be delineated according to the strength of one’s spiritual power. This might be difficult for some who only excel in physical capabilities, but thankfully Miss Vilyric, as a high-level Priestess, had recently been practicing in this area, making it relatively easy for her to handle.

“Ouch!”

Though Mona is just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old little loli, she had grown quite a bit since we last met during her developmental peak. Coupled with the Priestess being relatively small herself, when this girl modeled after a princess was pulled into a hug, her head accidentally bumped into someone’s chest, producing a rather crisp sound of… collision.

Of course, with her extremely high defensive power, Miss Vilyric felt nothing. On the other hand, the blue-haired loli touched her head, which had hit, instinctively looked up, and immediately flushed with an obvious blush, hurriedly lowering her head again, not daring to speak.

However, soon noticing this, Miss Vilyric released the little loli from her embrace to alleviate her awkwardness and looked up at the collapsed stone pillar. Among the falling debris lay a deep gray sword body.

On it, countless black and white masks appeared, each with a myriad of expressions, bizarre and strange as if they were living creatures clinging to the sword, constantly changing and shifting.

Just looking at them brought an absurd and strange thought almost threatening to merge with her expression.

Without a doubt, these are the evil beings that do not belong to this world.

“Sure enough, hidden here, Faceless One… Alright, let me see just how bizarre you are.”

As soon as the girl finished speaking, the countless masks clinging to the sword seemed to have heard her provocation, and began to detach from the sword, soaring into the air, descending with an array of grotesque and chaotic expressions towards the Priestess and little loli below!

“I found it! Right here!!!”

Moreover, as if bolstered by some unknown power, the number of bizarre masks surged wildly, leading what began as the collapse of a single stone pillar and a few falling chains to completely crumble within a few breaths!

Countless fragments fell beyond what had come before, crashing down onto the Radiant Protection barrier, and large swathes of chains fell away, revealing the gray sword body now covered densely with black and white masks, their terrifying faces also rising into the air, like dark clouds descending upon a city!

“Waaah! What’s going on! The seal, the seal, how…!”

“Don’t panic, just stay inside here and don’t run around.”

After advising the panicked Mona, a figure with long white wings suddenly appeared behind the girl, and the black-haired, white-robed pure figure soared into the sky, passing through the Radiant Protection barrier, lightly stepping onto the void above the barrier, directly facing the incoming mask army.

They chanted incoherent, maddened words that ordinary people couldn’t comprehend.

“I really found it! It’s the light! The light is here!!!”

“Reward! The master’s reward!!”

“The light is mine!!!”

“What light are you talking about, you’re all believers of the Church of the Goddess, right…”

The situation took a sudden turn, and the girl, who had become the target of the attack, could only shake her head in resignation. She extended her palm towards the sky, and countless golden long swords pierced through the void behind her, transforming into poised, sharp points, waiting for the command.

“Light!!!!!!!”

Thus, as the tidal wave of black and white masks roared and surged forth, she commanded,

“Go.”

The golden sword rain tore through the sword graveyard.

“Swish swish swish swish swish swish swish…!!!”

Countless razor-sharp points sliced through the air with explosive sounds, piercing, severing, and cleaving the grotesque entities.

The battle line collapsed in an instant; both sides didn’t even manage to launch an evenly matched confrontation before it devolved into total slaughter.

And those black and white masks seemed to be no more fearless than a Depraved Being; as less than one-tenth of their comrades fell beneath the sword rain, those previously laughing and mad faces transformed into ones of terror, sorrow, and anger, wailing and scattering in fright!?

“Ah! So scary! The light is terrifying!!”

“Help! I don’t want the reward! Master, help me!”

“Don’t run away! For the master’s glory, charge!”

Uh… what’s going on with these guys?

Miss Vilyric, right in the midst of the slaughter against the mask army, suddenly found herself baffled.

The enemy was weaker than she had imagined; she had prepared high-level defensive magic, but none of them could break through the sword rain to reach her.

And although she had merely entered the Soul’s spiritual world, the masks attached to that giant sword seemed to carry entirely different consciousnesses, emotions, and thoughts. If they were all virtual consciousnesses derived from the same spiritual world, that would indeed be overly complex.

Of course, doubts aside, facing something actively attacking her that was currently still threatening the city, the Priestess wouldn’t show a modicum of compassion or leniency.

From her raised palm erupted nearly blinding light, calling for punishment.

“Purification Rain.”

Thus, more radiance transformed into countless holy swords’ light enveloped the entire sword graveyard in the spiritual world.

As one of the few pure offensive skills among holy light magic, the power of the eighth-tier spell “Purification Rain” was enough to instill despair in any being below true divine level.

Even without activating the so-called “Destruction Form” for maximum spell power, Miss Vilyric was not facing the millions of Abyssal disasters that had previously destroyed the imaginary island.

The grand golden sword array descended from the heavens; whether the scattered masks wailed, wept, or turned into faces of monstrous fury, even if they fought hard to charge towards the black-haired girl, they could not stop themselves from disintegrating amid the rain of swords.

And then, they were utterly shredded to dust, leaving nothing behind.

   

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