Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 398 Erin Full of Energy

Chapter 398: Chapter 398 Erin Full of Energy

Hu Li transformed into her original form, the gigantic Nine-Tailed Demon Fox howling as she soared into the sky, pouring Fox Fire in a barrage that almost tore the clouds apart. The explosions created by the Fox Tail Missiles shook the low-hanging clouds.

Luna’s figure flashed and darted through the wind, rain, and thunder, slaying the grotesque and frenzied beasts. The shadows of the Knight Order occasionally appeared among her illusions, seizing the opportunity to drag nearby isolated black-clothed cultivators into a battlefield of death and souls.

Meanwhile, Yu Sheng and Erin’s attention remained focused on the shadowy cleric of the Hidden Monastery, wearing a white robe, whose face was grim and imposing.

Erin suddenly whispered into Yu Sheng’s ear, "Hey, Yu Sheng, even after all this fighting, no reinforcements have shown up."

Yu Sheng slightly furrowed his brow, his gaze sweeping the surroundings.

The sky still exhibited a strange state akin to a shattered mirror, collapsing in a bizarre manner. The structure of the space seemed misplaced, and within the area covered by the shattered and skewed canopy, everything appeared shadowy and overlapped. The buildings on the ground intermittently manifested in a ghostly translucent form, and every time lightning flashed, the intense light seemed to pierce through everything on the surface, revealing a rugged, primordial landscape beneath the city.

Under the influence of these peculiar phenomena, the sensation of dual realities overlapping grew stronger and more apparent.

Simultaneously, Yu Sheng noticed that the white-robed cleric hadn’t launched further attacks—although he was on his home turf and outnumbered Yu Sheng, and with an "out-of-control Artificial Saintess" nearby repeatedly provoking his nerves, he mostly kept a cautious distance from the battle’s center, as if...

He could neither act recklessly nor move too far from where he stood.

Yu Sheng recalled the moment when he discovered the Hidden Monastery’s "black giant tower".

"Seems that ’push’ earlier wasn’t enough—this guy is hiding something behind him," he chuckled softly to Erin, "I need to get behind him—you find a way to hold him off."

"Alright," Erin swiftly replied, "but this body of mine is running out of energy, so don’t take too long."

Yu Sheng nodded, saying no more, and suddenly propelled himself with the Fox Tail, obliquely soaring towards the direction behind the white-robed cleric.

The cleric immediately reacted upon seeing Yu Sheng’s movement, his expression changing as expected. He raised his hand with a wave, and thunder gathered once more, condensing above Yu Sheng’s head.

Yet, at that moment, vast stretches of black silk threads suddenly appeared in the air around him, weaving into webs as if alive, spreading wildly and multiplying. A bone-chilling cold that seemed to freeze the soul seeped from these webs, only to be pierced by several searing beams of light coursing through the darkness, sweeping across the sky!

Thin electric arcs danced in the air, tracing the formation of the spider webs. The white-robed cleric discerned the danger of those threads and beams, compelled to abandon his control over the thunder temporarily, attempting to evade the webs’ capture and the beams’ sweep in the limited space available. In that split second, Yu Sheng had already closed in beside him.

In the next moment, Yu Sheng smiled, as things were exactly as he anticipated: the Hidden Monastery’s cleric, though nimble in dodging the attacks, moved within a very restricted range, practically confined to maneuvering within a hundred-meter space—not due to limited capability, but because he had to uphold the fractured "mirror" in the sky at that position, preventing the barrier from completely collapsing.

"You dare—"

The white-robed cleric roared in anger, finally dispelling the webs that nearly entwined him with a series of small lightning discharges. He then turned, raising his right hand high toward Yu Sheng, and dense lightning nearly instantly formed in the direction of his fingers, crashing down soon after.

The Protective Spirit Qi around the Fox Tail flickered again, clashing violently with the descending lightning, and finally depleted after a massive explosion.

Yu Sheng quickly grabbed Erin from his shoulder, placing her onto the Fox Tail as well. Then, unsteadily, he stood up, plunging forward through the air toward a hazy illusionary rift revealed in the rain curtain when lightning had flashed.

In the next moment, he stretched his hands forward, seemingly grasping something in the air, and pulled hard in opposite directions.

"Found you!"

The horrific, piercing wails and the crash of barrier collapse echoed across this spatially disordered battlefield. The already fractured sky was almost immediately riddled with massive translucent cracks, another rain-soaked wilderness swiftly replaced the edge of Mo City’s buildings. Along with this time-space swapping-like uncanny scene, everyone witnessed the astonishing sight hidden within the other space—

They saw the grand Ancient Refining Tower vanish, replaced by an enormous black rift that seemed to pierce through the heavens and the earth. The fissure extended upward, through the cloud layer, through the atmosphere, even reaching into space and pointing distantly at some direction in the starry expanse;

The original buildings of Mo City transformed into a craggy wilderness, littered with gorges and fissures of varying sizes. Countless rivers of scintillating light surged through these ravines, flowing toward the sky, disappearing into a colossal machinery structure that stretched across the sky, resembling a track;

A distant mountain peak was shattered, its fragments floating mid-air as if freed from gravity’s grasp. Within that mountain, something seemed to be constructed, with immense man-made structures vaguely visible extending from the fractured ridge.

But Yu Sheng didn’t have the chance to see more details.

Not far away, the white-robed cleric, upon witnessing the shocking scene where that rash "brute" literally tore the spatial barrier apart with his bare hands, became mortally frightened. He no longer cared about the re-emerging black webs around him, recklessly raising his hand with a sweep. Far more magnificent than before, thunder converged from all directions, streams of lightning bypassed airborne demon beasts and black-clothed cultivators, surpassed Hu Li’s hastily raised barrier and Luna’s knight illusion, and struck down instantly on Yu Sheng’s head.

Yu Sheng only had time to glance up, exclaiming "Damn" in the blinding electric light—

Then he exploded.

The collapse of space suddenly halted, and the shattered sky almost instantly repaired itself.

The next moment, spider silk entered his body, freezing his soul with chilling pain. The priest of the Hidden Monastery let out a muffled groan in mid-air, struggling to move his limbs. While trying urgently to break free from the silk’s control, he lifted his head and looked at the fox tail still flying in the air not far away, with two eerie puppets perched on it.

However, in the next second, he noticed that the two puppets showed no sign of sorrow or panic over their companion’s death.

—In fact, the puppets were a bit panicked, but it was entirely over something else.

"Oh my god ahhhh..." screamed the two Erins while pulling their throats on the fox tail, "Yu Sheng, you didn’t tell me how to control this thing, oh crap... Hu Li! How do you usually communicate with Yu Sheng through the tail, oh crap ahhh I want to go home—"

The out-of-control fox tail rampaged through the sky, flinging one of the tiny puppets off on the spot (Reinforced Steel), while the other clung tightly to a tuft of fur right in front of it, immediately finding itself face to face with the priest of the Hidden Monastery.

The priest’s expression shifted from bewilderment to fury, and then to a murderous intent.

"You have disrupted the Sage’s plan—pay the price!"

The priest shouted angrily, and then pointed with his hand.

A bolt of lightning struck down, blasting apart the fox tail beneath Erin, sending the tiny puppet flying into the air.

In her tumbling, Erin instinctively raised a hand, pointing at the enemy not far away, only to find a few short sparks shooting out from her fingertips.

"...Oh crap, I’m out of power ahhhhhh—"

"Ignorant!" The white-robed priest shouted again, lifting his hand in a gripping motion, and the surrounding wind and rain suddenly twisted and quivered. A formidable force crushed down from all directions, binding Erin tightly as she rolled in the air, "You all must die!"

The small puppet was restrained by an unknown force, emitting creaking sounds all over, and the next moment, thunder erupted.

Blinding lightning split the sky, striking Erin repeatedly, as dense as a storm.

Standing in mid-air, the white-robed priest summoned lightning upon the strange puppet standing a little over half a meter tall, yet which filled him with immense eeriness and a sense of danger.

Facing such a "small" enemy, he still struck with full force, without mercy—because a bizarre sense of danger and unease had been pounding in his heart since earlier, and it grew increasingly restless with the passage of time.

When did this unease start? Was it when that uncanny "human" tore space apart bare-handed? When his perfect concealment was easily seen through? Or... when these peculiar beings appeared out of nowhere at this place?

Thunder roared, yet the unease that had persisted throughout the whole battle did not diminish in the slightest due to this merciless "execution," but instead grew even stronger, finally reaching a level where alarms exploded in the priest’s heart, causing him to stop abruptly.

Something was wrong, the feel was off.

He quickly dispersed the gathered thunder in the air and looked at the strange puppet, which theoretically should have been reduced to ashes by now.

In that moment, he felt as if he saw the sun.

Erin hovered there, a powerful electric field supporting her body (though she was only 66.6 centimeters tall), and streams of overflowing energy flowed around her.

She—had fully recharged.

The white-robed priest looked on in shock and horror at this scene, feeling a sense of absurdity as if mercilessly mocked by fate. He seemed to understand something but only had time to squeeze out a few words from his throat—

"Who the hell are you..."

The next second, Erin raised her hand.

A searing torrent, thicker than the white-robed priest himself, tore the sky apart.