Above The Sky
Chapter 596 - 596 565 Aether True Body·Feathered Serpent God 23

596: Chapter 565: Aether True Body·Feathered Serpent God (2/3) 596: Chapter 565: Aether True Body·Feathered Serpent God (2/3) “The air here is indeed so filthy and foul that it chokes you.”

When the Holy Hall Enforcer ‘Sword of Light’ and ‘Redemption,’ along with their ‘Aid Squad’, truly entered the depths of The Dead Domain within the Avak Domain, the Horned Female Knight Redemption couldn’t help but exclaim, “The smell of blood, the stench of decaying souls, the scent of happiness and beloved memories burned to ashes…”

“Damn it, I’ve been with the Huai Guang Church for over twenty years; how can there still be such cursed stenches everywhere in this world?”

By the end, Redemption, the towering cow woman, was quite indignant.

Her coarse language, but booming, righteous voice, gave off a sense of righteously berating the world’s darkness.

“At least over these twenty years, you’ve saved quite a few people.”

The White Folks’ Enforcer shook his head slightly as he swung his sword, calmly looking up at the sky above the Avak Domain, now covered in rain clouds: “Stop complaining for now; let’s finish the job first.”

“You’re right.” Exhaling a somewhat depressed breath, Redemption nodded slightly.

Natural disasters, destruction, and apocalypse.

These were the enemies of the Huai Guang Church, and the Huai Guang Church would only deal with such foes.

Death, war, and conspiracy.

Disasters that arose from and were initiated by Humans, theoretically, the Huai Guang Church would not intervene.

Just like the anomaly that occurred in the Avak Domain, even if the direct death toll was estimated to be over eight hundred thousand, the Huai Guang Church would not act in its own name.

But…

If someone within their own church wished to form a team for assistance under their personal name…

Then there would be no problem.

Because, if so, it wouldn’t be the Huai Guang Church taking action, but ‘a member of all the creatures in this world.’

Being Huai, as well as Human—the identity of a person is not immutable.

Traveling all the way from the edge of the region to the vicinity of Hillson City, the two Holy Hall Enforcers crushed many Exobeasts and Phantasms that tried to attack them, and the messy fungal corpses were countless.

Theoretically, this was their duty; they were born to deal with threats and evil aimed at Humans.

But neither Redemption nor Sword of Light found joy in this ‘cleansing.’ The opponents they hoped to face were those that threatened a place, a city, an entire region, or even a country—not such man-made tragedies, not such sins that should never have happened.

At this moment, Redemption’s body shimmered with a visible silver-red fluorescence, while Sword of Light’s body flickered with a dawn-like red-gold Spirit Energy Radiance.

Bathed in that luminesence, their team received an all-around enhancement in strength, physique, and agility, destroying all other vicious beasts and rotting corpses that stood in their way, as easily as slicing through vegetables.

And as Sword of Light’s radiance spread, any Phantasms not reaching the Second Energy Level would gradually disintegrate and collapse simply by attempting to approach.

Warmth, radiance, shining like the sun, his aura of light fundamentally eradicated the existence of these creatures born of the Domain of Void.

In essence, the Projection of the Phantasmal Realm itself was an unnatural, twisted shadow of Human Souls reflected from the Void Reflection, an aberration born as the Domain of Void fell into reality.

So, as long as the Glorious Light released by Sword of Light could restore the Void’s distortions even slightly, then the foundation of Phantasms would vanish like illusions into nihility.

Holy Hall Enforcers are most adept at eradicating these distortions.

This team should have continued like this, like a sharp Longsword cutting through all obstacles, swiftly advancing and reaching directly to the Avak Central Research Laboratory behind Hillson City—they certainly knew where the real ‘survivors’ were, and also knew that it was the source of the catastrophe.

But an abnormal downpour interrupted their operation.

Boom—thunder roared, and following that was an excessively clear torrential downpour.

Too pure, to the extent that the raindrops, which even carried an unnatural aura and were as big as human fists, fell to the ground with the sound of a heavy drumbeat.

The powerful flow of water washed away all the bloodstains and fungi on the ground.

The rain even gave people the sensation of being alive…

no, it was alive!

From a distance, the dark rain clouds enveloped the center of the Avak Domain, and the dreary curtain of rain filled the sky and earth.

A faint shadow that hovered within the rain clouds manifested intermittently, and with infinite rain as its tendrils, it touched, sensed, and collected all the messages from this vast land.

“We’re in trouble.”

With a single strike, Sword of Light severed the head of an Exobeast still attacking, and looking toward the top of the Firmament, he could not help frowning: “Fiery Flame Land is acting faster than we anticipated.

I thought that this was Empire territory; they would show some restraint.”

“How could they?”

Redemption scoffed, “Everyone can see that the Duke and The Empire have a strained relationship, and who supports the Duke is an open secret—why would Fiery Flame Land be afraid of this.”

“We need to speed up.”

At this moment, as the leader of this operation, Sword of Light did not choose to retreat.

Instead, he raised the longsword in his hand that shone with pure white light, pointing towards the center of the hills, “Our target is just in front of us—while these Fourth Level Usurpers are clashing with each other, we must try our best to rescue as many people as possible.”

“Those who should have lived, who should not just vanish like this.”

“Embrace Light above.” A hymn rang out from the team, and then, the entire team chanted in unison, “This is our sacred duty!”

The team galloped forward.

Meanwhile, a white luminescence glowed in Sword of Light’s eyes.

He looked distantly towards the other end of Hillson City, towards another squad at the edge of Azure City.

That squad was slowly withdrawing from the city, heading towards the edge of the Avak Domain—but they were still enveloped within the range of the rain clouds, not yet free.

[Ian…]

He muttered to himself softly, [This is a critical divergence…

and how will you choose?]

[Witnessing the process…]

“Huai Guang Church?”

At that moment, Ian too lifted his head thoughtfully, looking in the direction of the distinct Source Quality Fluctuation, “It seems like acquaintances—Redemption and Sword of Light.

So, people from Huai Guang have also come?”

He was not surprised, after all, just like Lubeck, acting individually to stop the ‘disasters in their own hearts’, Huai Guang has always supported this.

But apart from this, the young man also clearly felt that something was off with the rain clouds overhead.

“This is Fourth Level…”

As he left Azure City with Tres and others, Ian was constantly observing this abnormal downpour—the thunder in the sky spread like a spider web, striking down, illuminating the dark Dead City, and rendering every trace of blood and filth in meticulous detail.

Above the sky, the dim phantasmagoric shadows surrounded by lightning gradually became more solid; rainwater defied gravity to spiral in mid-air, converging into a Great Serpent that kept wriggling and twisting, and the azure-blue lightning also seemed to be attracted, constantly converging and flickering around the serpent’s crown, emitting dazzling electric light.

The thunder grew more intense.

Soon, when Ian felt the premonition “It’s coming,” rise in his heart.

Accompanied by the abrupt cessation of the downpour, the torrential rains that previously shrouded the center of the entire Avak Domain, overwhelming and washing away everything and even creating vast pools of water in the city, shockingly began to flow upwards, transforming into vertical ‘waterfalls’…

into numerous water spouts!

Countless water spouts surged straight into the sky, and in the middle of the rain clouds, they merged into the body of the Water Serpent, while the thunder circled there, like a crown.

“How did it descend so quickly?!”

Tres’s expression was akin to seeing a ghost at this moment, as he shouted somewhat frantically, “How could the Duke of Solin allow the people of Fiery Flame Land to leave Marks on his own territory?

Without Marks, even Fourth Level can’t descend this quickly!”

“Treason, this is real treason!”

His words were meaningless, for everything had already happened.

Hum hum—With a deep hum rising at the pinnacle of the sky, a pair of bright blue serpent eyes appeared at the top of the dark Firmament.

That was a Serpent.

A translucent Serpent, its body covered with grey-black muddy scales.

Streaks of pale cloud-like feathery scales unfurled behind it, entwining into wings, and the mottled scaly wings were covered with a layer of verdant moss and leaves brimming with Vitality, with moist vines entwined between the scales.

The thunder condensed into substance, forming the spikes and plumes above the serpent’s head, and the golden spikes of thunder crisscrossed, amassing into a sacred crown.

The azure-blue serpent eyes looked down upon the land with authority, indifference mixed with thought-provoking contemplation.

The colossal Water Serpent coiled at the apex of the sky, seemingly declaring its undeniable dominion over this region.

He is the inheritor of the Celestial Torrent Feathered Serpent Bloodline, one of the thirteen Kings of Fiery Flame Land, the Heart Light Body of King Caldo of the Heavens…

Or to say, ‘Aether True Body’.

[—Rain Serpent God—]