Farewell, Abyss

Anna wore Silver Armor. At just over five feet tall, she sat atop a white steed, her nearly six-foot spear creating a striking contrast.

At Anna's command, the fully armed soldiers roared in unison, their voices shaking the heavens!

"Kill!"

The soldiers did not possess the nuns' explosive power, but in one-on-one combat, they still had a high chance of killing monsters.

However, for the sake of efficiency, most of them surrounded a single monster in groups, striving to secure results as quickly as possible.

Anna raised her spear and charged into the horde of monsters. The weapon, far longer than she was tall, swept through the creatures before her. Wherever it passed, monsters lost limbs and horns. In Anna's hands, the spear seemed alive, striking wherever she pointed.

Although Anna appeared overwhelmingly powerful, Chen Yi, who was watching from the sky, felt that something was off.

Meanwhile, the once-plump king was gone, replaced by a tall thin man with dark skin, his entire body shrouded in swirling Ominous Black Qi.

Iris's expression darkened. She instinctively recoiled from that black energy, as if it were some kind of Natural Enemy.

"Where did you find this kind of energy?!"

"Wait! You're the Demon King?!"

The king, who had not returned to his true form for a long time, was in no hurry to attack. He had discovered this energy a very, very long time ago.

The Demon Territory had been secretly breached by the Previous King.

By coincidence, the Previous King had happened to witness the birth of the Demon King.

Space had been torn apart, and Ominous Black Aura seeped from the scarlet rift.

An ordinary monster had been enveloped and permeated by the Black Aura, after which it began to evolve.

From that moment on, the Empire had never ceased researching the rift and the energy beyond it.

This energy was extremely strange. Not only could it be absorbed by the human body, but it also possessed powerful adaptability and corrosiveness. It could overwrite other energies within the body, and those who absorbed it quickly grew stronger.

Its drawback was that those who absorbed it gradually became violent and lost their reason.

The Previous King had inherited the royal family's legacy passed down through generations. He could not destroy that inheritance for an unknown possibility.

It was not until this generation's king, after his subordinate mages gained a preliminary understanding of the energy, that he resolutely abandoned the royal inheritance and passed it on to his still-immature daughter.

He himself absorbed the energy and became the "Demon King"!

Afterward, in order to make the church lower its guard and conceal his own energy, he used the Royal Secret Technique to become the fattest king in Vesilia's history.

For a long time, this king had been the Empire's laughingstock.

Although no one dared mention it openly, everyone knew about it in private.

That fat suppressed the strange energy within the king. With the Black Energy suppressed to its limit, it could not directly affect the king's personality, allowing him to retain his sanity.

Yet the strange nature of the Black Energy continuously consumed the fat, strengthening itself in the process.

To continue suppressing it, the king could only increase the amount of fat he carried. This caused him to grow fatter and fatter, until even moving became difficult.

Even with so much fat, the time the king could suppress the Black Energy grew shorter and shorter. The plan could only be forced into motion.

The "Demon King" was born, and the Hero was summoned.

Yet when the king removed the Secret Method himself, he was the true Demon King.

The Demon King moved his body with some emotion. Having maintained that form for so long, even he, whose will far surpassed that of ordinary people, had felt incomparably stifled.

"Bishop Ilis, please accompany me—and the church—in destruction."

Before his words had even faded, the Demon King charged at Iris.

As she watched the Demon King reach her in the next instant, Iris's pupils contracted sharply. The scenery around her streaked forward.

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Unlike Vesilia's royal family, which received inherited power, this generation's king had nothing but his fists.

"God says, the enemy before us shall suffer Myriad Arrows Piercing Heart!"

"God says, Sluggishness!"

"God says, Heal!"

Iris chanted rapidly as she was sent flying.

An uncountable number of light arrows suddenly appeared behind the Demon King, who was preparing to charge again. At the same time, it was as though Invisible Force had seized his body, restricting more than half of his speed.

Iris's condition had improved considerably.

The Demon King waved his hand curiously. "Wind?"

The Black Qi that seemed like mere decoration on his body began to surge. The invisible wind was torn apart, and the gathered Wind Elemental Particles were scattered.

Wave after wave of light arrows rained onto the ground, each one erupting with a thunderous boom. The once-grand church became battered and ruined, buried beneath clouds of dust. Only the towering statue remained completely undisturbed.

Within the dust, the Demon King searched for Iris's location. Black blood occasionally dripped from his back; a small number of light arrows had still struck him.

After hitting him, the light arrows exploded into particles. Those particles attempted to enter his body through his wounds and inflict secondary damage, but the energy within the Demon King was no pushover and quickly devoured them.

"God says, Fire Snake!"

Iris's voice rang out. The next moment, a flaming python charged toward the Demon King within the dust.

Her instinctive resistance toward that black energy had allowed Iris to determine her opponent's location first.

But attacking also meant exposing herself. The Fire Snake had only just wrapped around the Demon King and left Burn Damage across his body before he tore it apart in the next second.

"Come on! Come on! Come on! Let me see what gives the church the right to stand above imperial authority!"

Iris shouted, "Holy Shield!"

The Demon King punched through the Light Shield before Iris. The collision created violent shockwaves, sweeping away all the dust in the air.

The figure on the ground began to flicker, leaving small craters behind with every flash.

Iris did not attack rashly. Her eyes and Mental power continuously sensed the Demon King's position.

Although the Demon King's speed far exceeded Iris's, he could not evade her powerful Mental power.

"Behind you!"

The Demon King kicked at a spot five steps to Iris's left. The "Iris" that had previously been searching everywhere for monsters flickered several times before turning into an illusion. The real Iris was swept up by immense force and slammed headfirst into the wall.

Drip. Drip.

Iris's hair had come loose, and blood dripped from the corner of her mouth.

The Bishop once revered by tens of thousands now looked like a madwoman. Her eyes were hidden behind her hair, making her expression impossible to read.

The Demon King's figure appeared atop the platform again, his arms folded across his chest. "Don't tell me this is all you've got. You can't even make me enjoy myself..."

The Demon King stared absentmindedly at his hands as they gradually ceased to resemble human hands. His black nails were slowly growing longer.

He did not know when the Black Energy had begun affecting him. If he had been his true self, he would have already launched a storm of attacks, only stopping once Iris was on the verge of death before carrying out the rest of the plan.

But now, he had become exceptionally battle-hungry and wanted to tear apart everything before him.

"The plan has changed again..."

If the energy's influence increased any further, it would be difficult for the Demon King to die at Anna's hands. That did not match the plan.

Chen Yi, watching the battle from above, had learned quite a bit as well. In any case, it had nothing to do with him. The fiercer they fought, the better. Perhaps he could even learn some combat experience from it.