Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 2097 2069. The Serpent of Evil

"What are you going to do?!"

While Lann was still maintaining his five-second suppression of Malenia, Melina raised her hand from a distance to stop Messermo's upper body, his own hand seemingly about to reach for his face.

Melina looked very surprised, and she even broke her posture while she was praying.

The healing power of the golden tree, which was almost fully formed, dissipated and disappeared.

In this incredibly fast-paced battlefield, a single mistake in action can lead to utter defeat, let alone a mistake in spellcasting.

However, Messermo's upper and lower body were still lying on the sand.

The blood gushing from the cut caused the sand to clump together and turn black, but he himself no longer cared.

He trembled as he reached out with three fingers to touch his right eye.

Even after Melina stopped his wrist, the piercer's face remained cold and hard; he merely turned his head to look at his sister, who shared the same flame.

He stated the facts: "...There's no time left. You know, this is the last resort."

“We’re siblings, but we both know we’ve only just met.” Messermo’s voice was clear and cold, just like his words. “But you and him… you have reasons why you can’t stop here, right?”

Melina's face stiffened, and she hesitated before letting go of the arm that had been holding onto Messermo.

At the same time, she did not seek further spellcasting. Because once Messermo decided to do it, his current injuries were insignificant.

Messermo stopped hesitating and simply placed three fingers on his right eye socket.

The golden blessing, gleaming with extraordinary brilliance, and whose pupil was not a pupil but an eye bearing the personal emblem of Queen Marika, coldly watched this scene.

The crimson winged snake coiled around Messermo's shoulder stretched its head up to Messermo's face and looked down at him.

Messermo simply nodded silently, and the winged serpent quietly moved its head away, but wrapped its body around him even tighter.

In any case, the Winged Serpent will not betray Messermo.

With three fingers slowly applying pressure, his eye sockets were pressed inward, causing his eyeballs to bulge out.

Only at the very last moment, with a slight tremor in his voice, did Messermo say, "Mother, please forgive me."

Then, under the dim sky of the Shadowlands, amidst the overflowing holy light of Michaela in the distance, a sound rang out as if one's own fingers were plunging into their eye sockets and tearing at their own flesh.

The juicy, plump eyeballs made a squelching sound like raw meat being kneaded, but were instantly torn to shreds by Messermo himself.

In the end, all that remained was the pupil within the eyeball.

It was only at this point that people realized that Messermo's eyeball was not his own natural eyeball, but rather a prosthetic eye.

The central pupil is a bead that is entirely golden in color.

Queen Marika's emblem, like a scar, is deeply etched on the front of the golden bead.

As Messermo ripped his right eye out, a plume of black smoke and a shadow began to slowly spread from beneath him as he lay on his back, just like the blood that had flowed from him.

Melina silently stepped back.

On the grayish-white sandy ground covered with corpses, this large patch of black stood out conspicuously.

Lying on the sand dune, Messermo turned his head to look at the distant figure that was the embodiment of god and king.

“Mikaela, be devoured—” As he spoke, Messermo gripped the pupil of his right eye with three fingers, “The serpent of the abyss without light awaits you.”

Marlenia, who had forced Lan En back, seemed to sense something, and she turned around briefly in the midst of the tense sword fight.

All she saw was Messermon's face, which was also turned to look at her.

—The right eye socket of the piercer had become a completely black hole, but if one continued to look into that black hole, one could vaguely see... inside, countless black snakes intertwined!

It was as if Messermo's brain, and indeed his entire being, was filled with these black snakes!

"Click~"

The crisp sound of crystals shattering echoed throughout the entire spiral tower from top to bottom.

With three fingers, Messermo crushed the protective seal that his mother, Queen Marika, had placed on him.

People say that the piercer was not only chosen by the winged serpent, a symbol of positive wisdom, but that he possessed... the essence of a serpent.

Even after being sealed away in the Shadowlands with Queen Marika, the Black Knights of the Holy War Army maintained their faith and loyalty, continuing to complete their missions. However, upon discovering this, the commander and vice-commander successively raised the banner of rebellion.

What they saw was indeed the truth.

The moment the golden bead was crushed and shattered, a scorching and dark aura suddenly erupted.

Messermo's body, which had been broken in two, turned into a pool of black mud, which merged with the already spread black smoke and shadows, and twisted and merged into a huge black snake!

The black snake had a mouthful of barbed teeth, its jaws were wide open at a 180-degree angle, and a fireball of Mesmer's Fire was perched atop its wide-open mouth!
The oppressive dark red flames and swirling black smoke made the fireball resemble a piece of coal about to burn out.

Even Marlene, in her current state, couldn't help but twitch at the corner of her mouth upon seeing this situation.

Although Malenia had lived on the Sacred Tree for a long time, she was still born and raised in the border region, and her views were the same.

She never imagined that her brother, also one of Queen Marika's children, would be such a person, a filthy snake at heart!

In terms of the imagery and status of snakes in the border region culture, this is practically like one's own mother giving birth to a bedbug!
"Dirty and unclean things!"

The Valkyrie, who had been completely silent and focused on the battle since it began, couldn't help but shout out at this moment.

And while he was just guarding against Lann's golden prosthetic blade, he first slashed at the black snake that was biting a fireball and charging towards him!
"呲呲呲!"

The prosthetic blade did not directly strike the attacking black serpent, but the rain of light that extended from it fell sequentially along its extended line.

They breached the foundation of God's Gate Plaza and bombarded Tombstone Plain.

However, after completely unleashing its true nature, Messermo did not become a black serpent, but the serpent's body seemed to be shifting and not flesh, but more like a clump of moving black mud.

The light rain slammed down on it, black mud splashed everywhere, and the black serpent let out a mournful roar, but its movements showed no sign of hesitation.

The giant snake's mouth, propelled by the fireball, crashed into the spot where Marlenia had been standing, and immediately bit down!
"Boom!"

The explosion and tremors spread instantly!
The fireball was bitten and shattered by the snake's mouth! A scorching yet dark sea of ​​fire erupted!
The foundation of the God's Gate Plaza has been pierced by dozens or even hundreds of holes by the light rain, but it still maintains its overall stability.

The downward-spreading Messermo fire could only be ejected vertically downwards through those dozens or hundreds of small holes, visible to the people on the Spire Tower, scorching the cemetery plain directly below into darkness.

Unable to spread downwards, the flames that surged upwards merged with the flames that were already shooting upwards.

The blocked flames were like giant waves crashing against a breakwater; after they dispersed, they became even more overwhelming!
Dark red flames and snake-like black smoke surged upwards, spreading out in a way larger than the entire Gate of God Plaza!
The entire spiral tower was enveloped in the dark red glow of the flames!

At this moment, the surging air under the heat seemed like a storm and a giant wave!

Anyone who couldn't stand steadily on the spiral tower was instantly blown away like dust, scattered in all directions.

After falling from the towering spiral tower, their figures quickly shrank to the size of dust.

But then, a sharp blade of light slashed out from the huge fiery canopy that covered half of the cemetery plain!

The blade light was so fast and so dense that it tore the fiery sky into a pile of fragments in an instant!
The rain of light followed the flash of the blade, piercing a series of holes in the surging sky of flames.

Neither Marlene nor Messermo were talkative people.

Now that both sides have fought to this extent, it's simply a matter of life and death!
When Lan En and Malenia were entangled before, at least they were only competing in swordsmanship.

But as Messermo charged in, he immediately activated his wide-area destruction mode.

The God Gate Plaza was covered with an unknown thickness of corpse dust, but after his explosion, almost all of the dust, except for some that was instantly melted into liquid glass by the high temperature of the Messermo Fire, was blown away by the shock wave!

The height of the square immediately dropped by as much as seven or eight meters. It's hard to imagine how many corpses were originally here, which were then weathered into sand and dust.

Messerker unleashed his serpentine nature, which seemed to somewhat compensate for the loss of his essential flames.

This made him much stronger in combat than before.

The black serpent was indeed composed of a type of black mud transformed from Messermo.

But this does not mean that the black serpent cannot transform back into Messermo.

In fact, after biting and exploding its own fireball, the black serpent immediately disintegrated into a puddle of black mud and disappeared supernaturally.

Messermo, his body now fully reassembled, reappeared in the same spot.

However, he was now mostly naked. It seemed that in the act of liberating his true nature, the surge of the Mesmer Fire was out of control, burning away the robes and fabrics that had covered his armor, leaving only the hardest and finest metal.

The winged serpent that had stayed by his side, whether injured or affected by the power, had its once beautiful, ruby-like body turned into a sickly mottled black and white.

But regardless, Messermo has made it clear that he is willing to pay any price to shatter Michaela's ambition to become a god right here!
(End of this chapter)