"If our calculations are correct, combining our mental powers should enable you to unleash your Huntress Bullets again! However, our mental energies cannot be transferred to each other. So, it depends on whether the lady's weapon can activate the Huntress Bullets under our joint operation," Dao Lao said, quickly sharing his status bar with the woman.
After examining Dao Lao's status, the woman hesitated and said, "My Equal Existence ability can grant basic usage permissions to others, but as for the joint activation of the Huntress Bullets—although it's possible, I've never used it that way. Besides, joint activation doesn't enhance its power; instead, it weakens its lethality. So, I don't think forcefully activating the Huntress Bullets in our current state would pose a fatal threat to Anxilin. Moreover, after you assist me in activating the Huntress Bullets, your mental energy will drop to its minimum. Given the tense situation, I don't think it's a wise choice."
"Having a chance is better than having none! Besides, continuing like this isn't a solution either. So, why don't we take the risk and try our luck! Haoyun! Can you hold on? If you're fine, try to draw more firepower, so we can create some space for the lady to act!" Dao Lao exclaimed, without waiting for further discussion.
"Don't worry! I can hold on for at least another ten minutes! You guys just act as quickly as possible!" Haoyun nodded, then swiftly broke away from the defensive line formed by the three of them and dashed towards the edge of the rooftop, pretending to make attacking gestures towards Anxilin hovering in the air. Although Haoyun currently had no ability to attack Anxilin, the group of swords still appeared to possess some sort of intelligence. Upon noticing Haoyun's attempt to attack Anxilin, they immediately sent out multiple swords to stop him.
However, how could Haoyun contend with so many swords? Thus, he could only withstand the attacks of these swords while desperately running along the edge of the rooftop, pretending to look for an opportunity to attack Anxilin, in order to divert more attention from the swords to himself. Meanwhile, Dao Lao and the woman immediately engaged the remaining swords in battle after the pressure eased, striving to destroy them in a short time and create an opportunity for the woman to attack Anxilin.
Anxilin, on the other hand, continued to absorb the surrounding magic energy, paying no attention to the movements of the trio on the rooftop. As far as she was concerned, these three posed no threat to her, and she saw no need to waste too much time on them. Anxilin licked her lips occasionally, enjoying the continuous influx of magic energy into her body.
Suddenly, Anxilin smacked her lips, looking puzzled. "Huh? Why does this taste so familiar?"
She tasted the magic energy in her mouth repeatedly before realizing, "Oh, it's the residual spirit energy I injected into Agnes Locke Addagwa's body! No wonder it feels so distinctive. Oops! My apologies, Elina! It seems that the portion of energy sustaining your mother's existence has been summoned back by me."
"Oops! Unfortunately, you've ultimately wasted your efforts. You couldn't save your mother, nor could you gain the power you desired. Haha. However, it's for the best. Since your mother's value has been exhausted, I might as well do a good deed and help end her suffering. Moreover, as my energy, you and your mother can reunite in a unique way within me. For you two, this should also be considered a satisfactory conclusion!" Anxilin swallowed the magic energy in her mouth, pretending to be sentimental.
But what Anxilin didn't expect was that this magic energy seemed extremely indigestible. She had to exert enough force to forcefully swallow it again. However, after she swallowed this magic energy, an extremely painful sensation immediately spread throughout her body. Anxilin's body convulsed uncontrollably, and she began to twist strangely. The immense pain tortured Anxilin, who hugged her head with both hands, flying erratically in the sky, leaving behind traces of magic energy lingering in the air. The magic energy in the sky continued to follow Anxilin's erratic flight path, smearing the entire sky into chaos.
During Anxilin's erratic flight, a malicious female voice suddenly emanated from her mouth: "You! I won't forgive you! You killed my mother! I'll kill you!"
Immediately after, Anxilin began to shake her head frantically, shouting in her own voice again, "That's impossible! I've already consumed your consciousness!"
As Anxilin screamed, a bizarre scene unfolded in the sky. The blurry figure of Anxilin stopped abruptly, and the string of shadows trailing behind her quickly merged, forming a huge black avatar beside her. This gigantic avatar was none other than Agnes Locke Addagwa!
Agnes Locke Addagwa's avatar roared ferociously at Anxilin, "You! You killed my mother! I'll avenge her! I'll reclaim my body!"
After speaking, the black avatar dispersed into a string of shadows, pulling Anxilin and crashing wildly in the sky once again. Then, the shadows reassembled into a more ferocious face, roaring, "No! Your body belongs to me! You can't take it away!"
This face was identical to the one carved on the surface of the stone coffin in the basement. Therefore, Haoyun and Dao Lao immediately recognized that the black avatar that had appeared was Anxilin. As soon as Anxilin's face appeared, the body she had occupied suspended in mid-air convulsed even more violently and was carried by Anxilin's black avatar, flying erratically in the night sky. In this way, the black avatar began to alternate between two faces, sometimes partially splitting into two entangled half-human figures, making the entire scene extremely bizarre.
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The battle between Anxilin and Elina was intense, but anyone with discerning eyes could see that Elina's energy erupted in revenge for her mother was clearly superior. Under the dominance of Elina's powerful aura, Anxilin's voice grew weaker and weaker. As Elina gained the upper hand, the part of the black avatar that had been completely occupied by Elina also began to return to the violently convulsing body suspended in the air. As this part of the body regained the magic energy, it gradually stabilized.
"No! This can't be happening! You—you can't betray me! I found you! I gave you a new life! You can't betray me! You can't live without me—" As Anxilin's desperate and painful struggles faded away, the remaining part of her in the black avatar was finally completely devoured by Elina.
"Ah—!"
As Elina's black avatar sighed deeply in the air, it completely turned into magic energy and returned to the body below. Elina closed her eyes quietly, stabilizing the still slightly convulsing body, and made subtle adjustments to her facial features. Finally, after her silver-white long hair turned back to emerald green, she breathed a sigh of relief and opened her eyes. Elina, she was back.
"Haha. Is this the power of the spirit energy? It feels so good to control you." After feeling her own power, Elina spread her arms again, absorbing the lingering magic energy in the air.
The sudden scene in the sky naturally left Haoyun and the others bewildered. However, when the female elf floating in the air reappeared in the complete image of Elina, the three of them immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. Because, as a priest with a divine body, Elina, after taking over Anxilin and integrating with the spirit energy, not only stabilized her condition but also instantly soared her combat power to the level of six stars.
Haoyun and the others were taken aback. Even if they were in their prime, they were no match for Elina with a combat power of six stars, let alone now. However, although the strength of both sides had widened again, Haoyun and the others couldn't afford to give up. Because, perhaps due to the disappearance of Anxilin's power, the magic sword formation attacking them instantly lost its combat effectiveness and all turned back into magic energy, flying towards Elina.
Haoyun and the others, freed from the entanglement of the sword formation, finally got a chance to catch their breath. Seeing Elina still absorbing magic energy in the air, they all understood very well that the six-star combat power might not be her limit. If Elina continued to absorb the remaining magic energy, her power might reach another terrifying height. Fortunately, Elina enjoyed the power brought by the spirit energy so much that she immediately focused on absorbing the magic energy after reclaiming her body, fully enjoying the pleasure brought by this unprecedented power.
Therefore, after Elina reappeared, she ignored Haoyun and the others standing on the rooftop, and didn't even notice them. Of course, Dao Lao wouldn't waste this rare opportunity where they were being overlooked. He quickly ran to the woman's side and said, "Lady, now it's up to us! Let her taste the Huntress Bullets while we have the chance."
"No problem! Old man, hold on tight!" Although the woman didn't believe that forcefully activating the Huntress Bullets with Dao Lao in their current state would cause much damage to Elina, she was not one to shy away from risks either. Therefore, seeing Dao Lao so determined to continue launching the Huntress Bullets at Elina, the woman nodded without hesitation. At the same time, she signaled Dao Lao to hold onto her neck tightly, then leaped into the night sky with Dao Lao on her back.
As the woman flew rapidly towards Elina, she skillfully set up her high-tech rifle and calmly said to Dao Lao, "Old man, hold the gun stock with your hand! I've activated weapon permissions. From now on, you can inject your mental energy into my weapon and obey my commands at any time. Remember! We must synchronize our mental energy to ensure that our mental energies form a joint force to activate the Huntress Bullets! As for whether this Huntress Bullet can cause her harm, we can only leave it to fate!"
"Understood! I'll follow your lead!" Dao Lao replied, and after confirming his addition to the woman's weapon joint operation platform in the system, he immediately concentrated his mental energy and waited for the woman's command to fire.
Because the woman was flying openly towards Elina, her actions naturally attracted Elina's attention immediately. However, from Elina's playful smiling face, it was clear that she didn't take Dao Lao and the woman holding a long rifle flying towards her seriously at all.
"Hey! Don't be so impatient, gentlemen! I'll gather the remaining energy and send you on your way in no time, okay!?" Elina said lightly, then forcefully exhaled towards Dao Lao and the woman's direction. Then, the two columns of magic energy flying towards Elina transformed into crescent-shaped energy blades, changing direction and shooting towards Dao Lao and the woman.
"Hmph! Don't underestimate the Huntress Bullets!" Seeing that Elina didn't take them seriously, the woman immediately cursed in anger.
At this moment, the energy crescent blades were rapidly closing in, less than fifty meters away from the woman and Dao Lao, but the woman remained very calm. Soon, as the energy crescent blades approached, the woman finally took action. However, she didn't make any evasive maneuvers in the air to avoid the blades' attacks. Instead, she accelerated again and charged towards the blades, using the protective shield on her body to forcefully break through the array of dozens of energy crescent blades.
"We're in range! Old man, listen to my command! Three, two, one, fire!" As she forcibly pierced through the array of blades, the woman completed the countdown for firing, and with Dao Lao's precise coordination, successfully launched the Huntress Bullet.
It could be said that this Huntress Bullet was the woman's trump card. At the moment she launched it, a fierce holy light shot out from the high-tech rifle. This dazzling holy light was like a germicidal UV lamp, not only instantly dissipating all the magic energy it touched but also causing the dozens of energy crescent blades still attacking Dao Lao and the woman to malfunction and fall from the sky in the glare of the holy light.