At the forefront stood the white-robed elder, a figure Felix had encountered several times before.
He was a powerful ascetic monk from the Place of Rest, known as the mysterious elder, His Holiness Euripides, the Pontiff!
"God decrees: I shall judge the wicked and punish those who have committed sins!"
This mighty monk from the Place of Rest flew through the sky, his hands forming seals, chanting solemnly as he summoned a series of holy spells for judgment!
A massive hammer of light smashed onto the fleeing bone dragon's head. Upon contact, the hammer shattered into fragments of light that instantly penetrated the dragon's bones, searing its soul within its brain. The soul's agony made the bone dragon roar incessantly, driving it to recklessly attack His Holiness Euripides. But as it moved, a new wave of assault began!
A cross made of holy light energy suddenly appeared above the bone dragon. With a thunderous shout from His Holiness Euripides, the cross shattered the dragon's defenses and impaled its neck bone!
"In the name of God, I declare you guilty!!!"
His Holiness Euripides, standing afar, solemnly pointed at the ancient dragon, now pinned to the ground by the holy light cross.
The pure white cross of light began to crumble, and the deep purple soul fire in the dragon's eyes dimmed. As the cross of energy shattered completely, the last flicker of soul fire in the dragon's skull extinguished.
His Holiness Euripides's appearance filled Felix with astonishment and delight. It seemed the griffin knights had already used special magic to send this news to the imperial capital.
Thus, His Holiness Euripides had arrived just in time with two high-ranking holy priests. The barrier's defense was formidable, forming an internal cycle of elemental force, only breakable by a power many times greater than its own!
Felix was stunned and envious of His Holiness Euripides's overwhelming magical power. The "Holy Cross Judgment Magic" was an extremely power-draining burst skill.
Using Mammon’s Redemption, Felix could barely execute a single Holy Cross — Purification Light. But the inscrutable His Holiness Euripides nonchalantly unleashed a series of Holy Cross Purification Light and Holy Cross Judgment, along with a modified composite of holy light magic!
Most importantly, he was casting these spells in mid-air, implying he was also multitasking to maintain his flight magic.
Felix felt like he was standing before a towering mountain, a very high one at that...
"Clang!"
The Silver Hand, a scar-faced shadow knight of Emperor Jupiter, erupted with the holy light within him right after the mysterious elder's judgment of the bone dragon. His form blazed brilliantly, leaping up almost in flight, hurtling towards the tangible, blood-red barrier!
"Boom!!!"
This attack was different. The Silver Hand's explosive strike cracked the blood-red barrier like crystal, forming a tiny fissure. But before he could continue the assault, the shattered spot was sealed by boiling blood, reforming into a barrier like a red crystal.
Seizing the moment the Silver Hand opened a gap in the barrier, Felix urgently used hawkeye to peer towards the center of the altar.
The lich, holding a strange chant in his left hand and wielding a dark golden dagger in his right, pierced the chest of the crucified white-robed priest. Dark red blood pooled on the ground, and the priest's heart and lungs were extracted by the lich and placed on the two golden trays of the Scale of Death!
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The ritual was halfway complete!
"Open the barrier immediately to prevent the completion of the God-Descent Ritual! The heart and lungs of the sacrificial offering are already extracted. Once placed on the Scale of Death, the God of Pestilence will fulfill the ancient covenant of the Giants' Era. Using the sealed power of the death god Anubis, it will forcefully descend onto the primary material plane in its full state!"
The first ruler of hell was a one-eyed giant and the Hundred-armed Demon God, both wreathed in divine light from the chaos. The second ruler of hell was none other than Hades, the brother of the god-king Zeus.
After the Lord dispatched angels to drive out and defeat Hades, a god from another plane took over hell for an extended period.
This was the death god Anubis, a deity with the head of a wolf and the body of a man from another plane!
Although Anubis had been sealed by Lucifer, the king of fallen angels, thousands of years ago, the divine laws he inscribed in this world still operate. If the original covenant he set is fulfilled, his remaining divine power will resurrect the dead.
Countless grafted spatial dimensions form the universe as known to magic, and even gods might not know how many worlds exist within it. In this universe, separated by crystal barriers, not only legendary spellcasters wander, but also...
And it was the death god Anubis who came to this primary material plane and left a significant mark as a creature from another plane!
After several unsuccessful chops, the Silver Hand gestured towards the griffin knights arrayed in the sky.
Then, the twenty-four griffin knights still capable of battle formed a circular formation, hovering about 150 meters above the altar and gradually narrowing their circle.
A sharp sonic boom erupted in unison!
Twenty-four rune javelins, whistling through the air, targeted a central point of the barrier!
The sound of metal clashing rang out twenty-four times as the rune javelins, all aimed at one point, were repelled by the blood-red crystal wall!
After the first round of probing attacks, the griffin knights in the sky tightened their formation again. They drew another rune javelin each and threw them with all their might. As soon as the first javelin was released, the second was already on its way!
The sharp booms continued three times until all the remaining rune javelins were thrown, and only then did the griffin knights cease their attack.
Cracks began to appear on the blood-red barrier. When the second wave of rune javelins hit, these cracks widened. And when the third wave struck the same spot, the barrier could no longer withstand the immense force and shattered, leaving a hole the size of a bowl!
However, at that moment, the Silver Hand, who had been waiting for the right opportunity, erupted. His body released intense holy light energy, and the high-purity blood crystals embedded in his Crusher began to glow faintly!
As boiling blood reappeared to fill the breach in the barrier, the Silver Hand thrust his Crusher, unstoppable, through the hole!
Felix couldn't see what was happening inside the barrier, but he seemed to hear the lich's angry roar!
The energy barrier on the barrier, which had crystallized into a solid form, began to fade. Within a few breaths, the crystal barrier transformed by boiling blood turned back into a mist of blood-red fog.
And the situation at the center of the altar was now fully exposed to the group!
The white-robed priest nailed to the blood-red cross had been whipped beyond recognition. Aside from his head, which was relatively intact, the rest of his body was a horrific sight!
Below the corpse of the white-robed priest was a rune trough, connecting to the Scale of Death. The dark red blood flowed into a blood gem carved into the shape of a scorpion on the Scale of Death!
The blood-red gem glowed faintly, and the dark red blood seemed to flow into it, slowly seeping into the gem carved in the shape of a shoe and then vanishing.
In the golden tray on the Scale of Death were four bloody organs – the innards of the white-robed priest!
“Holy Storm.”
“Holy Cross – Light of Redemption!”
Almost at the moment the barrier shattered, the Silver Hand and the mysterious His Holiness Euripides unleashed their powerful moves, striking the lich in an attempt to disrupt its sacrificial ritual.
And at the same time, Felix unleashed his own powerful move!
“Boom!”
A violent clash of elemental energies created an energy storm, sweeping across the entire altar and scraping off a layer of the rune granite that formed its foundation. The lich ignored the attack from behind, as thirteen ice shields appeared beside it!
These ice shields not only blocked the attacks of the Silver Hand and His Holiness Euripides but also stopped the assaults of four elemental mages who had stepped into the Golden Domain.
The only pity was that they couldn't block Felix's attack!
Death’s Touch!!!
A dark red beam shot towards the center of the altar. Felix's aim was excellent, as the dark red light corroded the kidney the lich was about to extract into a liquid mass, under its stunned and angry gaze.
Felix wasn't attacking the lich, but the last sacrificial item it was about to extract – the white-robed priest's kidney!!!