Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 1273 - 27: Battle of the Bride

Chapter 1273: Chapter 27: Battle of the Bride

Bud after bud of roses erupted into furious bloom, like crossbow arrows shot forth with a heavy scent of flowers, sweeping over the survivors at the entrance of Fairy Tale Town.

The translucent defense shield on the Conquerors leapt to life, emitting faint glows that dazzled the eye, and the thorny roses crashed into it, exploding into clusters of petals that drifted down with the night rain and the cool breeze.

Under the illumination of the Gothic-style streetlights, the petals covered the damp blue stone slabs, creating a beautiful scene; unfortunately, no one was there to appreciate it. Three university students without shields reacted too slowly and failed to move behind the Conquerors in time, getting skewered by the roses like hedgehogs.

The roses, nourished by fresh blood, became even more enticing and grew explosively, quickly engulfing the three unlucky students and turning them into human-shaped bouquets.

The Ghost Bride was most proficient in soul-based control spells, and the three poor souls, shot dead by the roses, were turned into puppets and suddenly launched an attack from behind.

Song Xin and Gu Xueqi, as healers, were positioned at the rear of the team, and as a result, bore the brunt of the assault first. Gu Xueqi, a true elite, reacted with remarkable speed. Without looking back, she lunged forward while simultaneously sweeping her right hand behind her, releasing a Flame Phoenix that acted as a shield before her.

Crash—the puppet students slammed into the shield and exploded into a ball of fire, emitting black smoke as they stumbled back.

Song Xin’s face turned pale with fright as the puppet students struck with great force, delivering punches that made the shield wobble precariously.

The Ghost Bride was at this moment the central heart of the entire sea of flowers, sustaining them with nutrients to bring them to life. The roses shot from all around once again, and vines like venomous snakes surged out, crashing into the crowd.

Tang Zheng looked back and fired two shots, blasting the puppet students attacking Song Xin into a cloud of broken flesh that scattered among the flowers.

Gu Xueqi saw Song Xin was in danger but did not make a move to rescue her until she was sure Song Xin was not out of trouble. She began to conserve her strength, focusing solely on her responsibilities.

"Xin Lan, freeze the nearby flowers; Ruan Feifei, slay them broadly; everyone else, go all-out on the Bride!" Tang Zheng was frustrated; the team was split into two groups, and Dong Zixuan, the ability user best suited to incinerate the flowers, was not there. Such rotten luck.

Lightning arrows, like migratory fish, radiated non-stop from Ruan Feifei’s raised right arm, destroying the roses and landing on the vines. But as they were plants, the power of the electric shocks was greatly diminished, slamming into the crowd without impedance.

Lu Fan released a cloud of sand dust and instantly formed an igloo-like ice house that enveloped everyone. The roses and vines, sharply lethal, actually pierced the surface, creating cracks, which Little Lolita hastily mended.

There were casualties. Most newbies, when faced with the attack, chose to move closer to the Conquerors, but some panicked individuals, seeing their alumni dead, turned and ran out of the town, meeting a concentrated volley of roses that felled them. Before they could rise again, the vines wrapped around their limbs and began draining their blood.

On a hazy rainy day, it was Li Xinlan’s home turf. As she released life energy, with a snap and a crackle, a white layer of ice formed, quickly spreading over the sea of flowers.

"Smash them," Tang Zheng directed, firing his Devil Flame Pistol, while the Conquerors opened fire with full firepower, causing the sound of shattering ice cubes everywhere, reminiscent of glistening diamond stardust.

The vines wrapping around the Bride’s ankles began to drain blood more rapidly, repairing the destroyed sea of flowers and blooming even more luxuriantly and vividly.

"Charge in, kill her!" Mu Nianqi realized that unless they killed the main body, the sea of flowers would keep reemerging.

Gu Xueqi’s fingers flicked, firing dozens of Flame Phoenixes, shrieking as they fluttered towards the vine wall shielding the Bride.

Jing Lan’s Ghost Reaper and Tao Ran’s Time-space Blackfish drifted out, and this time they smartly circumvented the situation by moving around from the rooftop to the right, launching a stealth attack.

Sand Spears and Ice Spears materialized midair, stabbing fiercely at the vine wall, shaking it on the verge of collapse, as piles of sand dust and ice chunks accumulated on the floor.

Dantai’s Mental Impact was still ineffective, as air razors rotated around Mu Nianqi, carving up any roses that dared approach her.

The newbies had no choice but to follow the team’s charge. The clean-cut doctor hesitated for a moment and was entangled around the ankles by the wildly scurrying vines, lifted and harshly swung onto the floor.

The doctor’s skull shattered, and in an instant, he was sucked dry into a mummified corpse.

The team advanced rapidly, infuriating the sea of flowers. A multitude of vines and roses intertwined, blotting out the sky, pressing down fiercely.

Sand pillars erupted, forming an umbrella shape, which under the pressure of the vines, cracked and let sand dust fall.

"Hurry up, I can’t hold on for long," said Lu Fan, and no sooner had the words left his mouth than the sand pillar collapsed, with Li Xinlan’s Ice Wall arriving a beat too late.

"Tang Zheng, activate your ability!" Ruan Feifei’s lightning concentrated at one point, blasting a hole half a meter wide, to no avail.

"Gravity Control, Steel Sky!" Tang Zheng entered Hero Mode, rising in antigravity, holding the vines aloft as if by an invisible hand.

The already cloud-covered sky now displayed a vast Steel Barrier. Amidst the clicking sounds, mechanical patterns split and assembled, deploying ten Kirov Airships that immediately began raining down bombs on the vine net, igniting large swaths of flames, while the Orbital Cannon and Secondary guns targeted the Bride on the crucifix, firing thick blue-and-white Light beams.

Sizzle—the Light beam pierced right through, causing no harm to the Bride, not even damaging a corner of the wedding dress. This boss was immune to tech-based Weapon attacks.

Tang Zheng immediately adjusted his attack target, and in the second volley, light beams blasted at the vine shield wall, creating a breach in it.

The vines drew their nourishment from the souls amassed by the Bride, able to provide an endless supply of nutrients. This continued consumption would absolutely lead to the annihilation of the Warhammer Team.

"Full firepower, anyone who slacks off, don’t blame me for turning hostile!" The Conquerors had shields and could hold on for a while, but the newbies were dying constantly. After all, those were alumni, and even if their lives were as expendable as cannon fodder, their deaths should at least be somewhat valuable. Amid Mu Nianqi’s roaring voice, she activated Hero Mode, burst through the gap in the shield wall with a leap, and suddenly appeared before the Ghost Bride, slashing downwards with her Vampire Curved Knife.

Unexpectedly, the Bride’s eyes shot open, revealing blood-strained sclera, and her right hand thrust toward Queen Mu’s head, as the vines wrapped around her shot forth.

The Mu Nianqi hit was only a residual image, which vanished, and her real body appeared beside the Bride. The energy blades surrounding her slashed at the Bride in unison.

The wedding dress became tattered and stained with dark red blood, some parts even revealing flesh. However, the Bride’s onslaught didn’t decrease in the slightest, and moreover, her injuries were visibly healing at a rapid pace.

"As expected, unlimited restoration. Soul Dagger!" Mu Nianqi didn’t waste her efforts on futile attacks and instead entangled the Bride to create an opportunity for Tang Zheng.

As Tang Zheng pounced, dozens of vines shot out from the sea of flowers, stabbing towards him, while the rest formed a shield in front of her.

Defying gravity, Tang Zheng rose diagonally into the air, then with a forceful step on a vine, propelled forward, and in an instant, reached the Bride, stabbing with his dagger.

The Bride opened her red lips and let out a transparent soul, which quickly took the shape of a thin meatloaf. The Soul Dagger pierced into it like popping bubble wrap, unable to break through.

Gu Xueqi unleashed the Phoenix, scorching the roses close at hand, while the other Conquerors threw themselves towards the cross.

Daylily teleported, bestowing enhancement halos on everyone. The warriors swung their warhammers, smashing at the base of the cross, setting it afloat. Mid-air combat severely disadvantaged the Warhammer Team.

The Bride’s legs, sheathed in garter stockings, whipped like steel flails, carrying a whooshing sound, lashing towards Tang Zheng’s head and spitting out a Soul Bomb at Mu Nianqi. The impact exploded on her, the added Soul Shock causing the Queen and Tang Zheng to experience dizziness and ringing in their ears.

Bam, Tang Zheng was hit and sent crashing to the ground.

The Bride squatted, stepping on the cross, and with the speed akin to teleporting, appeared before Ai Yixin, spitting out a Soul Bomb.

Ai Yixin underwent Diamond Transformation but was still knocked over by the bomb. Teng Yuangxiang would probably not evade such an attack eight times out of ten due to her inadequate Defense Power.

Apart from the married women, Tang Zheng and Mu Nianqi were also relying on their high levels to survive resentfully, while the others were in dire straits under the Bride’s soul strikes.

Dantai, Qin Yan, and Pang Meiqin were all absent, greatly diminishing the Team’s strength. Lin Weiguo, armored in metal, was kicked over in a confrontation and fell into the sea of flowers, where the vines, like venomous snakes, shot out and wrapped him up into a rice dumpling.

Tang Zheng and Mu Nianqi pursued, but the Bride intelligently spat out a Soul Bomb to halt them and pounced towards the newbies, being the easiest to kill and a means to replenish her soul consumption.

The housemaid screamed in fright as the ghastly pale face suddenly appeared before her, followed by the Bride’s hand knife sweeping across, cutting off her head with sharp nails.

The Bride’s full chest heaved, inhaling deeply, and a transparent soul was sucked out from her neck, drawn into her nostrils.

The newbies scattered, and several unfortunate ones were turned into pincushions by roses shot out from the flower bed. Vines wrapped around them as well, extracting several dried corpses.

"Surround her!" Mu Nianqi sighed. The great purge was too difficult; the newbies had no self-preservation abilities, instantly killed in BOSS battles, unable even to throw out healing techniques, relying only on fortune’s favor.

Tang Zheng once again pursued, unleashing Gravity Suppression. The Bride’s shifting figure delayed for a moment, and Mu Nianqi appeared beside her, severing through her neck with a swing of her knife.

A line of red blood seeped out, the head separating, but after spurting some blood, milky-white fibers emerged, sewing the head back together.

Tang Zheng grabbed the Bride’s ankle, embedding a knife into her calf, and with a mighty heave, swung her towards the ground, and the warrior arrived, smashing his warhammer down towards her forehead.

Boom, the surrounding flowers were scattered by the shockwave, the blue stone slab cracked like a spider-web, and the stone fragments, like cannon shells, whizzed away.

Due to the force, the Bride’s head was buried into the ground, her legs sticking up.

The vines surged forward, entangling the warrior’s limbs and pulling the Bride out, while Tang Zheng charged down, pushed back by a Soul Bomb.

Li Xinlan froze the flower bed again, only to become the Bride’s prime target. The unleashed soul storm swept through.

The women erected an Ice Wall, blasted into shards, tumbling down, but Song Xin’s healing magic timely reached her.

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