Knights and Magic Wand

The Demon's flame spread in the Spirit Palace scarred by crimson invasion, trembling under the tearing of the Space Blood Demon in this flesh-flying twisted battlefield.

Giant thorny tentacles surged out from the fissures, sweeping up the eerie crystal monsters around, crushing them into dust.

Not far away, a crystal giant troll with two arms resembling spindle-shaped siege hammers roared out a terrifying shockwave, freezing the flesh demons ahead into crystal sculptures with its rolling rainbow breath.

Its flat, horned demon head spotted the giant tentacles of the Blood Demon and immediately swung its arm to shatter the crystallized flesh constructs in front of it, sprinting towards them at full speed.

The entire Spirit Palace corridor shook beneath its weight.

In the dark voids between the tentacles, Leon and Olivia appeared as if spat out, the two leaping out from the fissure.

As soon as they landed and saw the charging crystal monster, Olivia, without any hesitation, transformed into a silvery streak, wielding her sword to meet it head-on.

—— Boom!

A deep blood pit erupted like rain under the weight of tens of tons, collapsing and denting the hard floor of the Spirit Palace beneath it.

Dodging the demon's horrifying hammer strike, Olivia leapt onto the troll's knee, swinging her great sword with chilling light, leaving a deep wound on the crystal demon's elbow and chest.

Solid crystal splintered like dust, and the enraged giant troll swung another arm, attempting to swat away the small figure in mid-air, but Olivia spun onto the demon's crystal arm, stirring its anger further.

The giant mouth gaped, and the demon attempted to breathe upon the mortal.

Crack!

A blaze-burning molten flame blade pierced through its head from behind, emerging from the giant mouth.

The enormous downward force from an oblique angle almost caused the troll to lose balance, causing it to swing its head in fury, its siege hammer-like arm splitting into fingers, attempting to grab Leon at the back.

"Get away!" Leon, tightly clutching Garner, shouted to alert the girl.

Seeing Olivia kick off and flip down from the demon's arm, Leon immediately unleashed his magic power, spreading his Heavenly Wings.

The light wings emitted a radiant glow like vector nozzles, and the flame sun radiance behind Leon burst out in a dazzling flash within his roar, the abruptly increased powerful force causing the demon to stagger off balance, forced towards the Gate of Darkness opened by the Blood Demon, its giant head falling into the temporal fissure in mid-air.

At the last moment before touching the fissure, Leon extracted the magic gun, flaring his wings and withdrew from behind the demon's head — several of Squash's fleshy tentacles, in an instant, tightly entwined the massive crystal demon, rendering it immobile.

In the next moment, the Spirit Realm passage and the Blood Demon's thorns abruptly vanished, accompanied by the disappearance of the spatial rift, unrestrainedly swallowed the demon's head stuck in the time-space crevice.

With a thunderous boom, the beheaded crystal demon body ceased its struggle, collapsing and shattering into a large spray of crystal fragments, losing its luster.

Waving his hand, Leon summoned the Netti Card back to his grasp, inserting it at his waist, then turned and landed back on the ground, slicing through an attacking low-level demon with the Molten Flame Blade aimed at Olivia, and bellowed towards the fleshy corridor.

"Lead the way! Squash, I know you can hear me, I don't have time to waste here!"

Responding to him, a fleshy passage resembling a seven-gilled eel opened not far on the wall.

Wielding his magic gun to release the Wind Hammer, sweeping aside the enemies obstructing the battlefield, Leon pulled Olivia and plunged into it.

The ground vanished beneath their feet, dropping into a giant hollow vertical passage, Leon quickly wrapped his left arm around the falling girl, stabilizing their descent with his light wings.

Seeing the fissure open again below at an angle, he instinctively adjusted direction, passing through.

Suddenly, the surrounding quieted significantly.

The secret architectural spacings seemed removed from the outer demonic battlefield, only the dull explosions and vibrations of the structures remained perceptible.

Following the shortcut carved by the Blood Demon, bypassing the fierce battle routes deepening along the way, traversing a narrow fleshy arch bridge within a dark space.

Leon stepped onto a forward-floating platform, beholding the massive crystal encircled by crimson thorns, yet showing no signs of being corroded by the Blood Demon.

A thick red mist continually diffused within the crystal, occasionally arousing scarlet light swirls with flashes of azure lightning.

He hurriedly approached, yet a blue glow suddenly formed at the four corners of the platform.

Familiar visions of ancient magic intelligence projected before Leon and Olivia.

"...My supreme lord, I once again offer counsel, upon assessment, you are very weak, I don't believe you intend to unleash the Blood Witch...."

"I know what I'm doing, Regent Intelligence, in the name of the Pope, I command you to release Squash's seal, immediately!" Leon stopped his steps, rudely interrupting Suviel's projection warning.

Explicitly commanded, the virtual image of the intelligence projection had to close its mouth, respectfully bowing.

"....Then, as you wish."

The golden apex supporting the crystal slowly unfolded, the entire space quivering with frightening energy surfacing within the Spirit Palace.

In an instant, the crystal cage riddled with bright red cracks climbed.

Endless red mist enveloped the platform, spreading expansively, the towering fleshy walls of the dungeon sprouted numerous thriving tentacles and spikes, a hearty muffled laugh sounded from the dark.

"....Ah...how am I to thank your liberation?..."

A gale slammed into Leon, retreating half a step, gritting his teeth to endure the piercing demonic sound.

His skin under the armor instinctively rose in goosebumps, with magic perception within his mind akin to confronting a torrential blood-red tsunami.

Compared to facing this Blood Demon in Rolannar, confronting the true form of a high-ranking demon within the Spirit Realm, the terrifying magic power was tens of times stronger than the external world.

The nauseating bloody wind surrounding impelled Olivia to pinch her nose, the girl's slender eyebrows knit into an eight, instinctively sensed life hanging by a thread, as if remaining solely at the whim of the demon's dreadful death threat, she wielded the Sun Holy Sword to shield Leon at the front.

The rustling slimy squirming sound approached within the red mist, giant thorn tentacles propping up the blood demon emerging slowly from the red mist.

Six red eyes distributed across its twisted head cast a gaze carrying genuine heavy pressure, this moment, Leon even felt Squash's grotesque tentacles were far more 'adorable' than his repulsive deformed inhuman face.

"...I've decided...how about merging you and your intriguing little lover into one blood beast? You and she seem full of potential, I assure you, will restructure your forms meticulously, granting you extraordinary power as my prized Blood Lord...."

Leon raised Garner aiming at the blood demon's enormous head, unmoved by its intimidation.

"You may try, but regardless of whether you can succeed, I must remind you, Squash, your time is running out too, Valary could spare some time anytime to find you, turning you into a crystal sculpture, I imagine your appearance then, would be substantially more artistic than now."

"..."

The Blood Demon silently lifted its upper body, slender finger joints interlacing.

".....You are too weak, mortal, even I could crush you like a bug right now, what confidence do you have to thwart Valary's ceremony?

You've missed the final opportunity, now it's too late, Kleinian has already been drawn from the Mortal World into the domain of Supreme Heaven, connected to your world's Divine Soul, being injected into that immortal Demon God's nurturing pool. I am among the creators who devised this magic, no one knows better than I that now it's impossible to separate the two Divine Souls again."

Leon lowered the magic gun, sighed and shook his head: "This matter doesn't concern you, if you don't trust me, isn't it appropriate to send us before Valary to court death? Saves you the trouble, how about that?....Perhaps I might distract Valary somewhat, vying time for your escape."

The irony within the mortal's words before provoked Squash's body spikes and tentacles to tremble enraged.

The scarlet demonic eyes narrowed.

Yet quickly, pairs of blood eyes relaxed and opened.

"Indeed, no need to obstruct your quest for death..."

The swirling storm-like Gate of Darkness opened before Leon.

"Go then, I want to see how you struggle before that arrogant mongrel..."