Chapter 117: Severance

She ran away.

Not Lu Mo.

But… Solaris!

“Dammit!”

Solaris stepped back, gritting her teeth, speaking with a mix of anger and disbelief.

“What kind of power is this?”

“Who are you… What exactly are you?!”

Everyone saw Solaris’s appearance once again at this moment.

Right now, she actually looked somewhat disheveled.

She tightly gripped the Sword of Annihilation, holding it protectively in front of herself.

“?!”

Solaris’s eyes widened sharply at this moment.

And reflected in her pupils, that expanse of darkness was also getting closer and closer to her!

Her hair stood on end right then. She immediately used her sword to defend, protecting herself with divine power.

Hum—

In the next instant, the ultimate darkness and the brilliant pale gold collided head-on!

In a flash, they exploded!

Even space cracked open at this moment.

Within the wildly scattering energy, a figure staggered backward repeatedly.

The hand holding her sword was trembling violently.

And before her, the shield surface condensed from divine power was actually dented inward, covered in countless cracks!

The dark power was slowly eroding the shield’s surface, shattering it completely.

“Wh… what?”

“How could—”

Seeing this scene, the others were also so shocked they could barely speak.

Lady Solaris had unleashed the power of her divine artifact now!

To some extent, her current status could almost be called the proxy of a deity!

Divine power was the highest form of power in this world.

This was the fact they had always been taught, what they believed to be true.

But today…

That fact seemed to have been twisted, trampled upon.

That darkness was devouring divine power, destroying it.

“That dark power… what exactly is…”

The woman spoke, her soul still unsettled.

As the darkness spread and swept past her, she shuddered, her mind going blank.

It was truly an… indescribable power.

Chaotic to the extreme, yet forming a strange balance at this moment.

Extreme, cold, chaotic, murderous…

It was as if it came from an abyss at the world’s end.

“This aura…”

The Sacred Dragon Knight beside her also muttered in a daze.

Her perception of demonic power was stronger. She sensed the intense demonic aura contained within the dark power.

The terror this feeling gave her…

Could be said to completely surpass that of a Demon Duke!

Her face instantly turned deathly pale, filled with unprecedented fear.

What on earth was going on?

Lady Solaris had really just thrown a Duke’s token onto Lu Mo earlier…

But how did Lu Mo…

Crack, crack, crack—

Endless darkness slowly extended in all directions.

Carrying powerful Celestial Dominion power, carrying a strong demonic aura.

Lu Mo also slowly walked out from within that darkness at this moment.

Once again, standing before everyone.

She held a dark sword in her hand. Above her head, a crown was formed from entwined dark thorns.

That peerlessly beautiful face held not a trace of expression.

And her clear, cold eyes, looking at the crowd, flowed with endless darkness and blood.

Intending to devour them all right now!

“De… Demon King?”

For some reason, that word suddenly popped into the Sacred Dragon Knight’s mind.

She knew Lady Rumina was currently clashing with the Demon King.

But looking at Lu Mo, she couldn’t find a second word to describe the girl at this moment!

An intangible pressure surged forth.

Like an unsheathed sword, revealing to the world at this moment a sharp edge capable of severing all things.

“Lu Mo… you…”

Now, standing before Lu Mo, even Solaris felt an intense sense of suffocation.

As if her life would also be severed by that sharp edge.

But soon, she erupted with divine power again, forcibly blocking Lu Mo’s pressure.

No.

She would not retreat here.

She was the master of the Sword of Annihilation.

She was the proxy of divine power.

She was the adjudicator who would pass judgment upon the blasphemer!

The power of the deity—

Would absolutely not be tainted by this dark power displayed by a mere mortal!

“Blasphemer… by law, you shall be executed!”

Solaris spoke, her gaze sweeping over the surroundings.

“You lot, are you just going to stand there and watch?”

“Scared stiff before this filthy darkness… what right do you have to be my people?”

“Kill her, end this—”

As she spoke, Solaris moved.

Divine power erupted, Celestial Dominion power unfolded. Behind her, a sacred figure also condensed.

The armor of an ancient era, a blazing greatsword, were rapidly taking shape.

Resonating with the Sword of Annihilation in her hand!

“Right, kill her, and it’s over.”

“She’s just a mortal, who knows how long she can last!”

The woman spoke, and then ancient patterns also appeared in the space before her.

She was of the Saint Mage class, skilled in long-range spellcasting.

Although only at the peak of the Earth Vein realm, given time, completing a magic combat skill capable of heavily injuring a Celestial Dominion realm opponent wasn’t a problem!

She thought the distance between her and Lu Mo was sufficient.

In theory, the Celestial Dominion phenomenon shouldn’t extend to her location.

Crack, crack, crack—

And in the very next second…

The space before her shattered violently!

As if that darkness… suddenly opened its eyes right in front of her.

“!”

“Ugh—”

Dark spikes pierced through the air!

Like tentacles, or like thorny vines, instantly piercing through her body!

Too fast for the woman to react.

And the Earth Vein power the woman used for protection was like paper before these dark thorns!

“H… how is this possible—”

The Sacred Dragon Knight looked at the woman pierced by the dark thorns, her face ashen.

As the woman’s figure was devoured and annihilated by the darkness, her expression grew even more terrified.

“Dammit…”

The woman was dead.

And from start to finish, Lu Mo hadn’t even glanced at her!

“Lu Mo, killing your own kind so casually like this… don’t you feel any guilt in your heart?”

Another teammate spoke up at this moment.

It was a person of the Saint Protector class, responsible for defense and drawing fire.

Lu Mo didn’t answer her.

When Solaris had earlier attempted to force Cecilia to sacrifice herself, the mage woman not only didn’t stop her, but turned her back, ignoring it completely.

And now, that woman, like these people before her, wanted to kill Lu Mo.

So, why couldn’t Lu Mo kill her?

An enemy… why couldn’t she be killed?

Darkness flowed, thorns drooped, crashing down towards that Saint Protector in this instant.

The Saint Protector snorted coldly, raised her heavy shield, and charged upward.

Hum—

She erupted with full power, blocking the impact of the thorns.

But sounds came from all the bones in her body, and many wounds appeared on her, bleeding.

That heavy shield was also visibly dented, nearly smashed with a large hole.

“Your power… is nothing much—”

The Saint Protector glared, fixing Lu Mo with an angry stare.

She suddenly erupted with full force, charging out from the darkness where the thorns fell.

As she charged out, she also swallowed a secret medicine, used a forbidden technique, pushing her injured body to drive the heavy shield, charging recklessly towards Lu Mo!

Her momentum was climbing at an unprecedented speed!

The number one ranked Saint Protector naturally wouldn’t have only those meager means from before.

She was determined to force Lu Mo back!

Use sacred power to forcefully smash through that darkness!

And in that instant, a wind blew again.

Carrying faint, wispy traces of black.

Or rather… it was a sword gleam formed from a strand of dark power that brushed past the Saint Protector.

The Saint Protector’s body continued forward.

But her shield fell to both sides.

That heavy shield was easily sliced right down the middle.

Then, the Saint Protector’s figure also, while moving forward, fell apart to both sides.

Darkness surged forth, enveloping that figure, annihilating it.

Soon, the Saint Protector’s aura also completely vanished from this world.

Lu Mo didn’t look at the Saint Protector either.

As if these characters didn’t exist in her eyes.

She only looked at Solaris, who had unfolded her Celestial Dominion phenomenon.

Holding the dark sword, she slashed forward fiercely!

Clang—

The dark sword instantly collided with the Sword of Annihilation.

Darkness and light.

Chaos and order.

Demon and deity.

Several auras alternated madly!

With the boost from the divine artifact, Solaris already possessed mid-stage Celestial Dominion power.

But even so, in a pure clash of power, she hadn’t gained the slightest advantage over Lu Mo!

“And…”

The Sword of Annihilation had already been awakened!

It was a divine artifact, possessing the power to annihilate all things.

Including weapons daring to come against it.

But up until now, the dark sword in Lu Mo’s hand didn’t show the slightest sign of damage!

What was this?

A demon weapon?

The Demon King’s armament?

Solaris stared fixedly at the sword in Lu Mo’s hand.

She couldn’t determine that sword’s grade.

But it could be predicted that the dark sword’s grade was very high.

And within the sword body, something seemed to lie dormant.

Darkness…

Darkness… Pillar?

She seemed to sense a faintly familiar aura from within the sword.

Clang—

Clang—

In terms of swordsmanship, Solaris was no match for Lu Mo.

Even though she had comprehended something more from the Sword of Annihilation.

The two clashed, exchanging dozens of strikes within seconds.

Each strike was a collision between the sacred figure and the abyssal thorns.

Space collapsed, darkness and gold shattered.

Solaris’s expression changed, while Lu Mo’s remained calm.

Roar—

Soon after, a dragon’s roar echoed within this darkness.

A massive figure crashed through the thick blackness, spread its wings, scattering dazzling light at this moment.

It was a… dragon.

A Sacred Dragon.

“Made it—”

On the dragon’s shoulder, the Sacred Dragon Knight spoke, her expression tense.

Looking down at Lu Mo below.

The Sacred Dragon Knight, as the name implied, was one who formed a contract with a Sacred Dragon.

Their greatest power lay in being able to summon the Sacred Dragon to fight together.

The Sacred Dragon was one of the creatures standing at the very peak of this world!

In terms of strength and value, it probably wasn’t inferior to some divine artifacts.

She was the number one ranked Sacred Dragon Knight. The Sacred Dragon she contracted was naturally the strongest among that group of dragons.

Her Sacred Dragon was fine in all aspects, except for sometimes being disobedient.

“Destroy her… Sacred Breath!”

The Sacred Dragon Knight spoke, and then, the massive dragon form fully spread its wings.

The dragon opened its mouth, violently erupting with a pillar of light, blasting towards Lu Mo.

Lu Mo was almost instantly engulfed by the intense pillar of light in the next second.

“With this, it’s over…”

The Sacred Dragon Knight said.

But the next second, she froze again.

Because she felt something was rapidly whistling towards her from within the light pillar!

The light pillar was suddenly sliced open!

What cut it was a dark shadow moving at extreme speed.

It was… the dark sword!

The sword body cut through the sky, leaving a dark trail of shattered space.

Like a line across heaven and earth.

A line… of black death!

Tear—

The sword pierced through the dragon’s throat.

The dragon could no longer maintain its breath. It spat blood, its body writhing in pain.

The sword shadow tore through the dragon’s spine and neck from behind, arriving before the Sacred Dragon Knight.

At this moment, a pale hand suddenly grasped the sword from within the torn-open space.

“!!!”

The space tear grew larger and larger.

Lu Mo’s figure also stepped out, step by step.

Standing before the Sacred Dragon Knight!

“Lu Lu Lu… Lu Mo…”

Seeing this, the Sacred Dragon Knight was terrified to the extreme.

The Sacred Dragon was instantly severely wounded. Naturally, she had no thought of fighting left, only extreme fear.

She immediately turned, about to leap down from the dragon’s back!

“Ugh—”

But Lu Mo’s sword was faster.

The Sacred Dragon Knight only felt a chill on her neck.

And then, she felt herself flying.

She saw her own body falling.

The head of her body was gone, blood gushing wildly from the neck wound.

She realized something.

Her face filled with terror, and despair.

Soon, the light in her pupils also completely faded.

Her vitality was severed.

Her figure was also annihilated by the darkness.

The Sacred Dragon Knight was dead.

The Sacred Dragon also suffered damage due to the contract.

It thrashed violently in the air, letting out pained roars.

Lu Mo, at this moment, thrust her sword into its back.

Then, flung it forward fiercely.

Instantly, sword intent erupted!

Darkness condensed into a dozens-of-meters-long sword gleam, directly piercing through its belly, tearing forward!

Dragon scales were also useless before the girl’s sword!

The dragon’s spine, neck bones, and brain were completely destroyed.

It stopped struggling, died completely, and fell heavily, merging into the darkness.

But no loud crash of it hitting the ground came from the darkness.

As if the dragon had fallen into an endless abyss.

Thus… the other enemies had all perished.

Except for Solaris.

Lu Mo landed on the ground, slowly looking at Solaris standing before her.

“Lu Mo—”

Solaris spoke coldly.

At this moment, she had already gripped the Sword of Annihilation with both hands.

More and more divine patterns were extending outward, centered on the Sword of Annihilation.

The divine power around her grew denser and more solid, radiating an ancient, blazing, scorching divine will.

The feeling it gave… was like a sun, slowly rising.

Solaris, the Sword of Annihilation, and the Celestial Dominion phenomenon resonated intensely at this moment.

God-blood, sacred power, and divine power intertwined and superimposed upon each other.

Making Solaris’s image at this moment…

Infinitely close to that of a deity!

“Preventing me from obtaining Cecilia’s sacrifice, killing my teammates, defiling the divine with darkness…

You are now a traitor to all humanity!

You… deserve ten thousand deaths!”

Solaris said, divinity completely enveloping her at this moment.

Dazzling gold completely ignited the surrounding darkness.

Her entire person transformed into a blazing sun.

The divine patterns extending outward from the sword were a corona, also becoming a…

Divine crown!

Like a scorching sun capable of purging all darkness and evil.

When she swung the sword, that sun would also transform into a sword gleam, annihilating all!

This was the strongest strike Solaris could currently unleash.

Heavenly Crown… Cataclysm!

The blazing sun ignited everything, and would also annihilate everything.

In comparison, Lu Mo’s figure seemed to have become much smaller.

“Final Annihilation.”

But she remained calm, calling out the dark sword’s name at this moment.

The power of the dark sword was unleashed.

Deeper darkness spread at this moment.

It was the power once devoured by the Sword of Final Annihilation—cold, tyrannical, as if intending to devour the entire world with darkness.

Deep within the girl’s pupils, a certain will suddenly manifested.

And that… seemed even more terrifying than the darkness itself.

“…What’s happening outside?”

A woman’s lazy voice sounded in her mind at this moment.

“Huh? Huh huh huh huh?”

And soon, that laziness instantly transformed into extreme shock.

“That ahead is a Sequence Hero?”

“You’ve killed until only she’s left?”

“What did I miss?”

“You you you… you—”

Sword intent merged into the darkness.

Lu Mo, facing that sun, also slowly raised the sword in her hand.

Her entire person, at this moment, also transformed into a sword…

Capable of severing all things!

Hiss—

The sun erupted with intense light and heat.

Endless darkness also madly devoured towards that Heavenly Crown sun.

Knight and Hero.

Demon and deity.

Severance and annihilation.

Finally collided at this moment… head-on!