Blood tax

Chapter 563 My body is above yours!

The faint shadow walked in and stood by the wall. Her appearance couldn't be seen clearly in the darkness, but from her light body and long hair that moved in the wind, she could tell that she was a girl. Sonia felt vaguely familiar.

It's someone we know, who? …

Fiona jumped up with a "chun" sound. She wears a silver breastplate, holds a mithril sword, and wears a gleaming winged helmet. She is as noble and indestructible as a Valkyrie.

"Who are you!?"

This shout seemed to break something. Sonia felt that the beautiful image on the wall was melting and blurring, and the melting shadows were like tentacles, densely packed and snaking along the floor.

Sonia was in a trance, as if falling into a dream, falling into the chaotic nightmares that are easy to have when mentally and physically exhausted, and the demons and monsters lurking deep in the subconscious appeared one after another. Ghosts swayed their slender tentacles, half-human and half-animal monsters flapped their wings, and translucent insect-like creatures dragged their swollen abdominal bags.

A group of strange things were pushing and squirming in the dim light and shadow. There was an indescribable buzzing in the ears, and the edges of the vision were densely covered with illusory black lines.

There was a pinprick-like pain on the skin.

"who are you?"

The girl by the wall stood alone and did not answer. Sonia could see her delicate ankles, slender waist and smooth neck, but her face was hidden in the shadows and could not be seen clearly. The girl's lips were slightly opened and she didn't say a word, but Sonia could read the shape of her mouth and understand her words.

"run--"

Fiona next to her grabbed Sonia's waist and jumped out of the window.

"Arrows protect you, and the flow of light accelerates!"

Fiona recited the pre-made mantra, and the magic armor on her body was immediately activated, forming two layers of brilliant halo. The two of them were like a ray of light, smashing the window and rolling downstairs.

The moment she jumped over the broken window, Sonia caught a glimpse of the shadow on the wall becoming an amorphous mass of curling and squirming objects. Just thinking about what this shaking terrifying shadow is can make people have cardiorespiratory arrest.

"Elegance of the Wind! High-level strength enhancement!"

In mid-air, Fiona activated the third level of magic, and an invisible force lifted them up and landed lightly on the ground. If it weren't for this sophisticated equipment that was preset with various levels of magic spells, both girls might have fallen to their death downstairs.

"Run, run!" Fiona pulled the dazed Sonia and ran for two steps. Feeling that she was not fast enough, she picked her up and ran towards the Tiberion Wizard Tower!

Sonia's heart was still shrouded in quiet despair. She heard strange noises in the distance. At first she thought it was the sound of strong wind blowing through the forest.

Soon she understood that it was not the sound of leaves, but the loud scraping and sliding of something, an unidentifiable chant that was neither Elvish nor human. A terrifying existence that is indescribable and does not exist in any records broke out of the gap between reality and illusion, crawling out of the bottomless abyss that only appears in nightmares!
In the dark, Sonia heard a series of sounds of dice falling to the ground. The onrushing tide of terror, death, and mad despair already dimly appeared behind.

Sonia remembered hearing this desperate sound in the underground ruins of a certain swamp. Her will withstood the impact.

Fiona hugged Sonia and ran away. Tentacles spitting out white slime and blasphemy, horrors that cannot be described in words are following. Some brave people who came to support the two girls unfortunately witnessed this nightmare scene, and they all screamed madly.

The thing was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, Fiona stopped, put down Sonia who had regained a little strength, and hugged her tightly.

"Sonia, Sonya!

"Run quickly and don't look back along this road!"

Fiona knows something. She bit her lip tightly and tied up her waist-length blond hair and hung it over her shoulders.

"You have to live well and wait for Griffith to come back and let him find Lana!" Fiona hugged Sonia again, "Tell them not to give up hope and to hold on no matter what happens.

"Only courage can carve out a path forward in the dark wilderness!"

Before the panicked Sonia could say anything, Fiona lifted her up and threw her across a corridor, pulled out her mithril sword and swung it in the air.

The sword light turned into a comet, shattering the dome of the corridor, and large rocks crashed down with a roar, blocking the road.

"Fiona!" Sonia shouted from behind the thick gravel.

no respond.

There was only a kind of musical flute sound with a wide range of sounds coming from the darkness. This chilling melody rises and falls, and finally ends with a shrill ending. As Sonia ran amidst this strange sound, she heard another flute sound further away; both times the sounds were terrifying and blood-freezing. There was a period of silence, as if what had just happened was just an illusion, leaving only the sound of the wind blowing the leaves.

Fiona, who also heard the strange sound, felt something boiling in her body. The ancient memories sealed in her blood attacked her and she almost lost control.

Fiona clenched her sword and pointed it into the darkness. The trailing black shadows and tentacle aura unexpectedly disappeared, replaced by another evil and bloody species.

"Come on, show me what you are all about!"

With rumbling footsteps, nine strong figures nearly two meters tall walked out of the darkness.

These powerful creatures have the bronze skin of orcs, majestic as sculptures, and have a trace of elves in their pointed ears.

Strong orc!
Wearing heavy armor, they had rough and resolute faces. Their red eyes full of violence swept across Fiona's face, and a playful expression instantly appeared.

"Look what we found, a female knight."

"Watch your hands," the leader of the orcs shouted calmly, "take her and don't break her before giving her to the master."

The two orcs immediately came out of the crowd and surrounded Fiona from the left to the right. Every step they took was filled with unstoppable pressure, as if the mithril sword in front of them was just a toy.

Fiona jumped back, raised her sword and swung it down in the air. The sword light ignited the air, forming a rising stream of fire. The blade of the sword rotated, and the flames swirled down like a long snake.

The two approaching orcs were unable to dodge and were bitten by the circling fire snakes, and were immediately enveloped in flames. They let out heart-piercing screams and rolled and flapped on the ground, but no matter how hard they struggled, the flames could not be extinguished until they were reduced to two balls of coke.

"Put away your embroidery needles, little girl," the leader of the powerful orcs roared, striding over, "I, Tianmengxing, Ulontan, have been ordered to bring you to meet the supreme Hermit!"

Fiona didn't answer, she held the mithril sword and raised it. The sword light turned into the flash of a crescent moon and shot towards him quickly.

Ulontan hurriedly rolled to avoid the flash of the new moon, landed on all fours, and jumped up like a beast. With one leap, she was approaching Fiona's side, stretching her ape arms towards her slender waist.

Fiona reacted very quickly. Two whirlwinds rolled up on her greaves, forcing her to duck forward, narrowly avoiding the capture of the orcs. With light steps, she turned around as gracefully as at a ball, and swung her sword to sweep down another round of hot fire snakes.

Ulontan's left hand was engulfed in flames on the spot. He was also extremely ruthless. He cut off his left arm with a single slash of his right hand and abandoned the burning limb to distance himself.

"Hmph, that's all!" Fiona felt a little proud, swung her sword and sent another crescent moon chasing the retreating orc.

However, Ulontan avoided the blow with amazing agility, raised his right leg and kicked hard to the ground.

"boom!"

The ground shook violently, and Fiona suddenly became confused. Before she could adjust her body, the orc had already rushed to her side with the force of kicking the ground, and bumped her sideways. "Boom——"

Fiona flew out like a rag doll and hit the wall behind, and the mithril sword also bounced far away.

The impact almost shattered his internal organs. Even though she was wearing a fine breastplate, Fiona's stomach was still churning, and she lay on the ground retching.

Heavy footsteps were approaching, and Fiona pulled out the dagger in her boot to fight to the death. This action seemed to frighten the orc, and the approaching steps stopped.

Eh……?
The famous swords of the Xia Long family can't stop the orcs, so a small dagger is probably useless... Fiona raised her head in surprise and saw eight strong orcs surrounding them not far away, each one stunned. Looking at her stiffly.

The unsettling ferocious and bloody atmosphere left only a strange silence, lifeless, like wooden stakes. Before Fiona could understand what was going on, the bodies of these majestic orcs split apart.

The smooth cross-section is like chopped tofu. The bronze-like muscles and thick bones cracked into pieces and fell into a heap on the ground.

"..."

This extremely cruel scene traumatized Fiona's sanity. She instinctively wanted to scream, but she couldn't make a sound - the suffocating sense of oppression was pouring out of the darkness and gathering in front of her.

A creature wrapped in a black robe slowly walked over. Most of his face was covered by a black robe, with a gentle smile on his lips. He passed by the broken corpses on the ground without looking away, and stopped not far from Fiona.

"Very good, um, she is the daughter of the Xia Long family, how strange it is," the man in black robe said, "Tiberion, you always have some novel toys in your petri dish."

Another majestic and solemn voice retorted:
"Lies and slander cannot change reality, fallen one, Anas Tasios."

The headmaster of Homemon Watts, the Arcane Supreme Tiberion, appeared next to Fiona without any warning. Wearing a pure white robe, he walked across the filthy ground without staining himself. As soon as he appeared, the girl immediately felt full of strength, and her physical and mental wounds were healed!

If it weren't for this power, Fiona thought she would be struck down by the ban just because she heard the unspeakable name.

"Get behind me, child," Tiberion said. "I'm afraid this is not the right time to send you away, so you'd better get behind me."

"Jie Jie Jie——" The fallen one, Anas Tasios, or the Hermit, let out a weird laugh. He raised his wand and chanted a mantra at high speed.

"Time, stop."

Fiona immediately lost movement and perception. The passage of time was stopped. She opened her eyes, but could not see what was happening——

The Dark Lord stopped the movement of wind, water, insects, air and other substances, but He himself was not affected. He raised his wand with a grin and pointed it towards Tiberion.

"Just use your own magic spell to deal with you! Great Rupture!"

Powerful magic energy shot over. However, at the moment of the hit, Tiberion, who was supposed to be stationary, swiped his wand with ease, knocking the magic energy away.

"Oh!?" The Dark Lord smiled and said, "I understand, you wrapped yourself in the cracks of the plane in advance and exempted me from the time stopping spell. Well, after all, different material planes cannot interfere with each other. Okay, Nor should I expect to defeat an arcane master so easily.

"Time begins to flow."

Fiona regained consciousness again and found that she had been moved under a wall. Two powerful beings were clashing not far away.

Tiberion waved his wand like a conductor directing the magic of Pengbai! One buff magic after another was blessed on him. While casting spells at high speed, he walked towards the Black Magic Supreme. It seemed that he had no fear in the world and that nothing could disturb his leisurely stroll.

Another green light shot from the hermit's wand, hitting Tiberion who was casting a spell, and exploded into pieces on the magic shield. Before the illusory energy fragments dissipated, Tiberion withdrew his wand and waved it around like a whip. A thin and long flame shot out from the tip of the staff, surrounding the hermit, but it was blocked by the silver magic shield that protected him. The flame lasted only a short time before it transformed into a serpent, which released the hermit and turned towards Tiberion, hissing in anger.

"We can fight like this all day long," said the hermit. "Why bother? It's really unseemly for you and me to duel in this way!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Fiona heard strange high-speed chanting while hiding in the corner. While wielding magic for offense and defense, the hermit simultaneously cast a large spell, and it was hidden until the moment it took shape before she noticed it.

"No magic spells are allowed here!" The hermit summoned a never-ending echo attack. The invisible shock wave was like a hundred forbidden bats roaring, and the continuous noise made it difficult to concentrate.

Everyone can no longer chant spells or meditate, and can only use items with preset magic to act.

Tiberion, who was in a state of blessing, had to stop chanting. However, a mere negative state cannot stop the demigod. He immediately found a countermeasure, and a talisman on his collar started to activate, preparing to dispel the lingering noise.

"Too slow!" The hermit pointed his wand, "Old man, you should arrange anti-demonic measures in advance!

“It’s over, that’s death—judgment!”

A powerful spiritual energy that is exempt from the rules of this world and whose power takes precedence over many resistances and strengths is shot from the hermit's wand. This long-prepared spell set off a terrifying psychic storm, ignoring Tiberion's shield and defense!
Fiona, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, was about to collapse just by witnessing this power. She even wished she could kill herself quickly to avoid the torture. Tiberion's robes also had layers of protection, all of which were eroded, peeled off, and torn into pieces by this force.

The power of instant death judgment can even crush demigods!
Tiberion resisted tenaciously. However, all his equipment, defenses and countermeasures are ineffective in the face of this power, and all his magic spells cannot be cast. Finally, his robe and skin were destroyed layer by layer, and finally, they were reduced to ashes.

"This has surpassed all curses. Even demigods cannot resist it!" Fiona had an unstoppable thought in her heart. "The curse of 'instant death' has transcended extraordinary and extraordinary personalities and entered the realm of God’s realm!”

After the wind and smoke cleared, the hermit smiled and scanned the empty ground, then looked in the direction of Fiona:
"Is it over? That's it, little girl from the Xia Long family, have you seen it?
"This old guy's body and mind are rotten. If he were twenty or thirty years younger, he might be able to give me more fun! Hahahaha!"

Fiona lowered her gaze. She had quietly picked up her sword and quietly prepared to fight. Even if she is facing the most terrifying Dark Lord in the world, she will still resist to the end.

"Look around, maybe there is something that can help me? Even if I hold on for a few more seconds..." Fiona desperately encouraged herself and searched the place where Tiberion disappeared, trying to find something useful.

Suddenly, she saw something!
In that cloud of dust dissipated by the wind, something gathered. The weak spiritual energy was reshaped in the hazy light and mist, and the outline of the human body emerged.

"This, what is this..." The Black Magic Supreme was shocked. He saw that the aura of Tiberion, who had suffered his strongest blow, had somehow reappeared.

"Your research on magic is still far from enough, my friend," Tiberion's voice appeared again, and became young and energetic, even a little provocative, "Magic is the power to change the world, and it is the most powerful force. Sublime... And you, my unsteady friend, have abandoned the path of magic.

"Even if you obtain and imitate some memories and abilities, you are still you, not Him."

"High-level near-death guardian, how come you have such a blessing?" The Dark Lord yelled, "Wait, no, it's not just this power. Your voice, your body, your magic power, what's going on? thing?"

Fiona was also shocked. She saw the hazy halo dissipate, and standing tall was an astonishingly beautiful young man - he was tall, with skin as white and smooth as jade, pale golden hair that was more dazzling than the morning sun, a tall nose and handsome side profile. A face worthy of a theater star.

"Aaron, how could it be Aaron!?" Fiona screamed in shock.

This is Aaron's face, but with the aura of Tiberion.

"My voice, my body, my magic," Tiberion stood sideways like a perfect sculpture, his right hand raised above his head, his left hand covering his cheek, the scarlet eyes between his fingers flowing with a trace of emotion. Such a soul-stirring power!

"Younger, stronger!

"You are not alone in your desires and demands, my friend. See—

"My body is above yours!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the demonic energy that destroyed the world and destroyed the world took shape again. The god-level curse "Instant Death Judgment" materialized again, and then... it bounced back towards the Dark Lord!