Chapter 144: Chapter 144: Southern Battlefield, Critical Danger!
"Clang——!"
Amidst the continuous assaults of the Demon Lord, the Holy Sword in Lazuli’s hand was finally knocked away by his strike, spinning and embedding itself into the distant ground.
In the eyes of this Demon Lord, a gleam suddenly flashed.
The opportunity has arrived!
"It’s over!"
His eyes glowed fiercely, and five razor-sharp claws instantly closed into a cone, wrapped in pitch-black demonic qi, stabbing straight at Lazuli’s heart!
If this strike lands...
Even with Lazuli’s Constitution Attribute of 50,000 points, it would be absolutely unstoppable!
There is only one possible outcome, she would have her heart pierced through and die from this attack.
As the Demon Lord’s claws got closer and closer to Lazuli’s heart,
he even imagined the scene of piercing through this angel’s heart in his mind.
Thinking of this, his gaze unconsciously shifted to the human there.
With his beastbond about to die, shouldn’t this human’s face show despair?
However, as far as the eye could see...
That young human’s lips unexpectedly carried a faint, almost imperceptible smile!
What is going on?!
The Demon Lord’s heart constricted violently, an ominous feeling slithered up his spine like a venomous snake.
When the claw was only an inch away from Lazuli’s heart, he suddenly realized a fatal issue:
The other beastbond...
Where did it go?!
The next moment, he got the answer.
"Ghost Race Third Technique: Heaven Opening!"
A cold voice exploded almost against the Demon Lord’s ear, causing his entire body of scales to bristle in an instant!
When did this happen——?!
The Winged Demon King’s pupils contracted abruptly to the size of needlepoints, but at this moment, it was too late to defend.
Veridia was surrounded by boiling Netherghast Aura, with a spatial rift incompletely closed beside her...
She used Scarlett’s Space Talent to complete a deadly ambush in the instant the Demon Lord got distracted!
Such a fleeting opportunity could only be seized by Veridia, whose combat instinct was off the charts.
Had it been Lazuli, she might have missed this chance.
But Veridia would not!
The fist condensed with Netherghast Aura was almost at hand, the Winged Demon King could even sense that destructive energy wave.
Death...
This punch would absolutely crush his skull!
At the brink of life and death, a ruthless gleam flashed in the Demon Lord’s eyes——
Even if he was to die...
He would drag this angel to accompany him in death!
Instead of retracting the claws that were aiming for Lazuli’s heart, they burst out with the last of his demonic qi, piercing forward at an even faster speed!
However.
Imagination always differed from reality!
"Divine Protection!"
Lazuli’s clear voice suddenly rang out, a brilliant golden barrier instantly enveloping her entire body.
"Bang——!"
The Demon Lord’s claws fiercely struck the barrier, but did not even stir the slightest ripple.
[Divine Protection: A Divine Skill of the Seraphim, capable of withstanding a fatal blow!]
The Winged Demon King’s ferocious face was instantly frozen, eyes filled with disbelief——
How is this possible?!
But now, no one would answer his doubt.
"Boom——!!!"
Veridia’s Netherghast Aura-wrapped iron fist landed solidly on the Demon Lord’s head.
Under the crush of 80,000 points of terrifying power, that ferocious head exploded like a ripe watermelon!
It wasn’t over yet!
The life force of the Commander Level Demon Clan was tenacious, even losing the head would not result in immediate death.
Veridia swiftly wrapped an arm around Lazuli’s slender waist, and in a flash of the void, retreated several hundred meters with her——
She had to guard against the Demon Lord’s dying counterattack!
In the distance, Aster Grant finally let out a long breath, the tense nerves slowly relax.
Everything had been part of the plan, but until the battle ended, he dared not relax even slightly.
Now——
The dust has settled!
This Half-step Monarch Level Winged Demon King had finally been executed through the perfect cooperation of the three of them.
Despite the perilous process, the result, in the end, did not disappoint.
At the moment the Demon Lord perished, a massive blue energy orb erupted from the corpse, splitting into two torrents, pouring respectively into Lazuli and Veridia!
"Boom——!"
Their auras soared instantly!
Though they had just recently broken through to Commander Level, the energy from killing the Half-step Monarch Level Demon Lord was exceedingly abundant.
Lazuli and Veridia’s Level directly leapt from Commander Tier One to Tier Two!
With the breakthrough of his beastbonds, Aster Grant also felt the spiritual power boiling within, his realm pushing through to Commander Tier Two.
Yet, more unexpectedly——
The surplus energy spontaneously surged towards the Divine Pattern on his forehead!
What is...
Under Aster Grant’s bewildered gaze, the blue energy, like rivers converging into the sea, slowly submerged into that golden Divine Pattern...
Aster Grant was slightly stunned.
The Divine Pattern... could actually absorb the energy of the Demon Clan?
However, besides a clearer perception of Azurea, nothing else seemed to have changed.
After pondering for a moment and getting nowhere, he simply set the question aside for now.
Looking up at the horizon, that foreboding spatial rift still hung in the sky like a gaping wound, continuously pouring demonic qi into Azurea.
He must find a way to seal it...
Otherwise, the next Demon Clan army would enter through here!
With that thought, Aster Grant instinctively invoked the power bestowed by the Divine Pattern.
Spiritual power quietly merged into the void, instantly, the structure of the entire spatial rift became incomparably clear in his eyes——
So that’s it...
With a slight shift of his mind, he attempted to guide nature’s spiritual energy to repair the rift.
The next moment, a miraculous scene unfolded!
The spiritual energy of a hundred-mile radius converged madly as if summoned, transforming into countless streams of light surging into the edges of the rift.
Under the astonished gaze of Aster Grant, the crack spanning the firmament began to close slowly, and finally——
Completely vanished!
On the ground.
Witnessing this scene, Orion Winslow and the others were completely stunned in place, their faces written with disbelief.
How is this possible?!
Orion Winslow swallowed hard.
Aster Grant had just broken through to Commander Level, how could he have possibly slain a Half-step Monarch Level Demon Lord at Tier One?
But the facts before them could not be denied——
He not only slew the Demon Lord...
But also erased that spatial rift?!
When he mechanically turned his head towards the ground battlefield, an even more shocking scene met his eyes:
Vera was surrounded by furious lightning, with a Spiritual Attribute as high as 54,000 points now a crushing force under the dual blessings of "Soul-devouring" and "Elf Monarchy"!
In her presence, those Commander Level Demon Clans were as fragile as lambs ready for slaughter.
"Azure Sky Thunderfall!"
With a resounding shout, nine Apocalyptic Thunder Dragons roared forth, and the last Demon Clan member also turned to dust in the searing lightning!
By this point——
The battle, once on the verge of collapse, had been completely reversed in the brief time since Aster Grant’s arrival!
On the smoke-clear battlefield, no sign of the Demon Clan remained...
However, in the sky, Aster Grant’s face suddenly changed dramatically.
Just now, in that instant, his heart gave a sudden lurch, an overwhelming sense of distress enveloping his entire body.
Who was in trouble?!
At this moment.
The southern battlefield.
The humans who came to stop the Demon Clan were almost entirely wiped out, the situation having reached a moment of extreme peril.
The only ones left were Crystal Winslow, Chloe Grant, and others holding the last line of defense.
In front of them was an army of tens of thousands of Demon Clan!
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