America: The Cremator

Chapter 210 Elena's Domain!

The expected feeling of weightlessness did not last long.

A powerful spatial pulling force struck Su Long's brain, causing extreme dizziness and a splitting headache.

Sulong lost his normal vision; he could only see a chaotic mix of colors constantly changing.

I could vaguely hear a dense chewing sound, as if I had fallen into some kind of large cafeteria, but judging from the force of the chewing, it sounded like some kind of meat grinder.

Su Long gritted his teeth and let the force drag him to the deepest part.

The long ordeal is finally over.

When he realized that his feet had stepped on something, Su Long gasped for breath, suppressed the churning in his stomach, and opened his eyes.

When his eyes refocused, he saw something completely different from what he had imagined.

This is an extremely spacious banquet hall with an ridiculously high dome, from which dozens of huge crystal chandeliers hang.

Underfoot was a wool carpet covering the floor, with intricate and ornate dark red patterns.

The walls were covered with dark gold wallpaper, and beautifully framed oil paintings hung on them.

Those oil paintings depict demons tearing human limbs apart, leaving them dripping with blood.

Several marble sculptures, all depicting grotesque and twisted ghouls, stood in the corner of the hall.

In the very center of the hall, there was an extravagantly long European-style dining table that stretched almost the entire space, covered with a spotless white tablecloth.

Surong is now sitting at one end of the dining table. He tries to stand up, but his body doesn't move.

Several thick black iron chains extended from under the chair he was sitting on, tightly binding his body.

Su Long tried to exert force, and his muscles tensed up suddenly. The chains were pulled and cracked, but showed no signs of breaking. At the same time, the flow of spiritual energy within his body became extremely sluggish.

Then, he noticed his hands.

My hands were forcibly placed on the edge of the dining table, with a fork in my left hand and a knife in my right.

The knife and fork were entirely white, made of the bone of some kind of creature, and polished to an exceptionally smooth finish.

Su Long tried to loosen his grip, but a sharp pain shot through his palm. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the handles of the knife and fork were covered with dense bone spurs.

These bone spurs pierced his palms, embedding themselves deeply into his hand bones, completely binding the knife and fork to his hands.

Su Long sneered, "Is this some kind of dining etiquette? Are you tying me up here to prepare a buffet?"

Instead of wasting his energy trying to break free of the chains, he looked up ahead.

As your gaze follows the long table forward, the scene in the hall suddenly begins to change; the once empty table is now filled with "food".

A golden-brown roasted thigh sat on a silver platter, while a still-beating heart filled a crystal goblet.

Su Long's gaze swept past the disgusting food and fixed on the very end of the long table.

At the other end of the long table, there was a porcelain plate with a gold rim, on which two eyeballs were placed alone.

The gray-blue pupils were the exact color of Elena's eyes.

Su Long's heart tightened. The bronze sculpture showed that she was seriously injured, but there was no way she could only have her eyes left. She must still be alive, struggling to survive in some corner of this space.

Were those two eyeballs her eyes that had been gouged out? Or were they bait used by the Great Devourer to provoke her?

The gaze continued upwards.

At the head of the long table sat the host of this banquet, the true form of the Great Devourer.

Sulong had imagined what the Great Devourer's true form would look like, but the monster sitting in the main seat was completely different from what he had imagined; it was far too thin.

He is nearly three meters tall, but his body is extremely thin.

His grayish-brown skin clung tightly to his bones like dried sheepskin, and his ribs were clearly visible, almost piercing through the skin.

If he had to put it into words, all that could come to mind when Sulong looked at this guy were refugees who had starved to death in famine.

It was dressed in an ill-fitting, ornate tailcoat, the fabric hanging loosely on its frame, with a napkin stuffed into its collar in a rather ostentatious manner.

He had a high, straight nose and a huge mouth that stretched almost to his ears, with dry, cracked lips that revealed a dense array of sharp teeth.

The face had two huge black holes occupying the space where the eyes should have been, but even without eyes, Su Long could still feel that the two black holes were locking onto him.

A palpable pressure rolled down from the end of the long table, making it hard to breathe.

The ravenous monster twitched its nose.

It was sniffing the scent of Suron in the air, a scent that fascinated it; the freshly delivered dish was just what it wanted.

Then, the exaggerated mouth stretched to both sides, revealing an exaggerated smile, and then raised its bony hands, tapping the edge of the porcelain plate twice with the bone knife and fork it held, making a crisp tinkling sound.

This is the signal to start the meal.

Su Long stared down at his hands, which were forcibly bound to the cutlery. Some kind of power of rules was seeping into his body through the bone spikes, trying to completely seal off his spirituality.

He's not the kind of person who'll just sit and wait to die.

A purple-gold flame ignited in Su Long's palm, and the world-destroying fire erupted.

The intense heat instantly reduced the bone knife and fork to ashes. Su Long raised his arms and pulled his hands out of the remaining bone fragments.

With his hands freed, Su Long immediately turned his attention to the iron chains binding his body.

Flames instantly engulfed his entire body, and the iron chains that tightly bound his body began to be constantly washed away by the world-destroying fire.

Large plumes of white mist rose from the chains.

Just a few seconds later, the chains were glowing red-hot, and in the end, they hung limply on Sulong's body like a few noodles.

As Surong strained his muscles, "Crack—"

The softened iron chain snapped, and the broken iron rings fell to the ground, burning several holes in the carpet and filling the hall with the smell of burning.

After completely breaking free of his restraints, Su Long stood up straight, stretched his hands, and purple-gold flames danced along his fingertips.

He raised his head, his gaze passing over the long dining table and landing on the gaunt monster sitting at the head of the table. Then he raised his hands, burning with world-destroying flames, and slammed them on the edge of the table in front of him.

"Are you still waiting for dinner? Don't fucking eat!"

The moment the words left his mouth, a violent wave of fire poured out from Su Long's palm, and the world-destroying flames surged forward along the white tablecloth on the long dining table.

Purple-gold flames swept across the table, destroying everything in their path.

The entire long table transformed into a burning fire dragon, the flames rapidly engulfing the giant devourer at the other end of the table.

The giant devourer was completely unprepared for this sudden counterattack. Waves of fire, accompanied by scorching air, rushed towards it, directly burning its hands that were resting on the table.

Its grayish-brown, withered skin sizzled the moment it touched the flame, and wisps of pungent blue smoke rose from its knuckles.

The giant devourer abruptly pulled its hands back to its chest.

Apart from the area engulfed by flames, only the porcelain plate in front of the main seat remained intact on the entire dining table, with the two gray-blue eyeballs still lying quietly inside.

The giant devourer's chest heaved violently, its enormous mouth, stretched to its ears, opened wide, emitting a piercing roar: "Insect! You have violated dining etiquette!"

With this roar, the giant devourer's previously withered hands underwent a transformation.

It suddenly spread its ten fingers, and the skin and flesh in its palms tore open and rolled outwards, revealing two pale, sharp, bony spikes that emerged from deep within its palms, covered in viscous black blood and exposed to the air.

The giant devourer raised its hands high, aimed them at the porcelain plate on the table, and slammed them down hard.

Two muffled thuds of piercing sound rang out.

The two sharp spikes that emerged from the palm pierced through the two gray-blue eyes in the plate.

The dark red liquid flowed down the bone spur and dripped onto the porcelain plate.

The giant devourer raised its hands, and the two eyeballs were positioned perfectly in the center of its palms.

Next, it flipped its hands over so that its palms faced outwards, then pressed its thumbs firmly against the sides of its nose and the edges of its cheeks with its other four fingers.

Those two eyeballs on the palms were thus placed in the place where they should have been eyes.

With this face, the Great Devourer stared intently at Suron, who was standing at the other end of the long table, using the two gray-blue eyes on its palms.

His eyes were filled with greed and malice.

"Delicious insect, your noise and rudeness have not only violated etiquette but also made the food taste bad!"

It roared at Sulong across the sea of ​​fire, its mouth turned outward, revealing a dense array of sharp teeth, and black saliva dripped down its chin onto the collar of its tuxedo.

Su Long looked at the face, curled his lip in disdain, and gripped the bottom edge of the long table with both hands.

His fingers sank into the hard wood, his abdominal muscles tightened suddenly, and he concentrated all his strength into his arms.

"It tastes bad? Then don't eat it!"

Su Long roared and thrust his arms upward with tremendous force.

With a deafening roar, the long European-style table that spanned the entire hall was flipped into the air by Su Long's immense force.

The long table, still glowing with embers and covered in ashes, crashed heavily to the ground, causing the entire hall floor to tremble.

The exquisite banquet was instantly reduced to ruins.

The Great Devourer, seeing the overturned long table, instantly flew into a rage.

The banquet she had carefully prepared was ruined by this human; all the delicious dishes were burned to ashes!

Thinking of this, it suddenly pushed back the high-backed chair behind it and stood up from the main seat.

When it stands upright, a sense of oppression arises from its size difference; the giant devourer is nearly three meters tall and extremely thin.

Furthermore, its limbs are unusually long, with prominent joints at the knees and elbows, yet this emaciated physique does not make it appear fragile.

On the contrary, a savage appetite suddenly erupted from that seemingly frail body, a desire to chew up and devour all living things.

It stood in the main position, looking down at the ruins across from Sulong.

The giant devourer opened its mouth, and a piercing shriek erupted from deep within its throat.

Hiss!

The shrill scream swept through the entire hall, the violent sound waves rippled through the space, and the dozens of huge crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling were shaken violently.

boom! boom! boom!

The glass pendants on the chandelier shattered one after another, and large pieces of shards fell from mid-air.

The dark gold wallpaper on the surrounding walls was torn apart by the sound waves, and the oil paintings fell off the walls and shattered.

With a piercing shriek, Sulong lowered his center of gravity, braving the gale, his right hand already poised to pull the trigger on Sirius.

Just as he was about to unleash a fiery bomb on the hungry ghost, a sudden change occurred.

Rumble—!

The wall behind Sulong suddenly collapsed violently.

The heavy marble wall shattered with a crash, and large chunks of brick and debris rained down, crashing onto the expensive and luxurious wool carpet and kicking up clouds of dust.

Immediately afterwards, a spiritual fluctuation completely different from that of the Devouring Domain appeared in Su Long's perception.

They carried a hint of warmth and gentleness as they squeezed in from the other side of the crumbling wall.

A glaring boundary line followed closely behind, rapidly expanding across the ground and surging into the hall like a tidal wave.

It swept over the rubble and the burning remains of the long table, and in the blink of an eye, it swallowed half of the entire hall.

The domain that originally belonged to the Great Devourer was forcibly cut in two.

The giant devourer's shriek abruptly ceased, its two eyes in its palms fixed on the gap in the wall.

Su Long stood there, his brows furrowed.

He stepped onto the newly appeared boundary line, turned his head, and looked at the territory that had forcibly squeezed in behind him.

This is deep within the stomach of the Great Devourer, where the monster holds absolute dominance.

Who has the ability to forcibly tear a hole in its stomach? And even carve out a new territory here?

Outside the gap in the collapsed wall was a huge hall, the entire hall exuding a pure sacredness.

The interior of the main hall has no ceiling, only a deep dome like the starry sky of the universe.

More than a hundred huge stone pillars, carved with intricate patterns, support this space. Soft golden light flows across the surface of the pillars, illuminating the entire hall as bright as day.

At the deepest part of the main hall stands a majestic stone statue tens of meters high.

It was a goddess draped in a long robe, her face blurred and her features indistinct, holding a lantern high in her hand.

The dazzling holy light emanated from the wick of the lantern, enveloping the entire hall and firmly pushing away the Great Devourer's domain.

At the foot of the goddess statue stood a familiar figure.

She was wearing a tattered tactical uniform, her long hair was slightly disheveled, and her face was pale, but her posture was upright, and the lantern in her hand echoed the one on the stone statue.

It's Elena.

Elena also saw Su Long. Carrying her lantern, she quickly walked up to him, her grey-blue eyes filled with disbelief.

"Suron? This is the domain of the Great Devourer. How did you get in? Didn't you receive the evacuation signal when Byron and the others retreated?"

Looking at her tattered clothes and unhealed wounds, Surong explained, "We had already evacuated, but I didn't see you outside. Byron told me you were swallowed up. I knew you weren't dead, so I managed to get in. I have to take you home."

Elena paused, looking at Su Long with a complex expression and a hint of reproach in her voice: "You've ventured into the Great Devourer's domain alone? Do you know how dangerous that is? Su, you could be throwing your life away for nothing. You're being too reckless."

Su Long looked at her like this and laughed instead.

"But I found you, didn't I?"

He then pointed to the surrounding area: "And judging from the current situation, shouldn't I first congratulate you on turning misfortune into good fortune?"

"Congratulations, you have successfully expanded your domain."

Elena glanced at the lantern in her hand, then looked up at the huge goddess statue: "Now that you mention it, it seems to be true. I was already at my limit, and I felt like I was about to be digested when the lantern suddenly lit up by itself, and then—that's how it happened."

She added somewhat uncertainly, "Perhaps this is what people mean when they say that people can always unleash their potential in a crisis?"

Just then.

"Hiss—ah!"

"Hiss—ah!"

Two identical, sharp screams came simultaneously from two different directions.

Su Long immediately looked in the direction of the sound, his pupils shrinking slightly. He saw two identical halls floating at opposite ends of Elena's domain.

In one of the rooms, the long table had been overturned, and flames and ashes were everywhere; it was the very space he had just been in.

In another hall, the long table was intact and filled with various "dishes" made of human organs.

In the main seat of another hall stood a gaunt monster with the same face as the one Sulong had seen before.

Elena looked at the two halls with a solemn expression: "The rules here are very strange. The Great Devourer will separate the prey it swallows and imprison them in different spaces, and then eat them one by one."

"After I deployed my domain, I sensed the movement on your side, so I used my domain to break through the spatial barrier between us and connect to your side as well."

Su Long understood.

It turns out that the giant devourer was using a separate serving system, preparing several tables of dishes at the same time.

The next moment, another change occurred.

The two restaurants that were suspended at the edge of the domain suddenly began to slowly rotate around Elena's Hall of Light.

They spun faster and faster, eventually crashing straight into each other in mid-air.

boom!

The two spaces collided with a deafening roar, merging together like two drops of mercury in the instant of impact.

The two long tables, the two high-backed chairs, and the mess on the floor were all combined into one.

More importantly, the two giant devourers also merged together, and their size became even larger after the fusion.

Its height increased to five meters, and four arms grew from its withered body. Its tailcoat was torn apart and turned into several tattered pieces hanging on its body.

The head also split into two, one in front and one in back.

Two enormous mouths opened, and four eyes, placed on the palms of the hands, scrutinized Sulong and Elena, who were standing in the center of the domain. At the same time, a pressure several times stronger than before suddenly spread out.

Looking at the two-headed, four-armed monster, Surong muttered to himself, "Goodness, this combo is pretty effective. If it had another head, it could be Satan's dog."

He turned his head to look at Elena beside him: "Looks like this guy has been pushed to the limit and is ready to take us all out in one go."

,

Elena gripped the lantern tightly, and golden holy light gathered in her palm.

"After it merges, its power has increased by more than double. My domain may not be able to withstand its attack."

Su Long patted her shoulder and grinned, "It's okay, I'm here for you. I'll also get involved in things like domains."

Before he finished speaking, Su Long took a step forward and touched the ground with his toes.

boom!

A ring of purple-gold fire exploded with a bang, centered on his landing point.

This line of fire, carrying the aura of incinerating everything, expanded wildly in all directions.

Wherever the flames passed, everything in the hall turned to ashes.

In the blink of an eye, Su Long's domain covered nearly half of Elena's domain.

The amethyst flames of purplish gold and the pure white holy light of purification, two completely different powers, converged in mid-air and achieved a delicate balance.

Elena stared in astonishment at the burning purple-gold sea of ​​fire beneath her feet, then looked at Sulong beside her, who was enveloped in flames.

She could sense that Su Long's domain and her own domain seemed to have found some kind of resonance.

The two-headed, four-armed Devourer stood at the other end of the hall, its powerful spiritual pressure rising from its feet like a wisp of wispy smoke.

It looked at the two domains before it and was completely enraged.

"Blasphemy! You have desecrated the sacred dining table!"

"You lowly ingredients, I'm going to chop you up alive and make you into sashimi!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Great Devourer suddenly raised an arm, and a finger as thin as a withered tree branch slowly straightened out, pointing towards Su Long.

In an instant, every hair on Su Long's body stood on end.

A deadly sense of crisis rushed to his head like ice water. Without the slightest hesitation, he activated his spiritual vision and bullet vision at full power at the same time.

The world seemed to slow down in his perception.

The surrounding burning flame particles hovered in mid-air, and the halo emitted by Elena's lantern also turned into a slowly expanding circle of light.

But he keenly realized that this "slowness" was extremely limited.

On the retina of spiritual vision, spiritual paths that are normally invisible are forcibly made visible.

It was a dark gray thread that had emerged from the fingertip of the Great Devourer.

The thread was extremely thin, so thin that it could not be seen with the naked eye, yet it shot toward him with incredible speed.

That's incredibly fast!

Sulong was so close that he even had the illusion that his bullet time had failed.

This silken attack reminded him of Baphomet on the Trial Island.

The demon's destructive power also used silk threads as a carrier, and he still vividly remembers the oppressive feeling he experienced at that time.

But Baphomet's threads are nowhere near as fast as this guy's!

You could even say it's far too slow!

There's no way to avoid it!

Su Long realized that with his current speed, he couldn't dodge this attack unless he used his extremely precious Shadow Steps.

He gritted his teeth and decided to try using the armor skill to withstand the attack and see how it worked!

With a thought, Sulong activated the armor "Uriel".

A thick, spherical force field shield instantly expanded, accompanied by a sacred hum, completely enveloping him.

"Sizzle—"

'

The moment the dark gray silk thread struck Uriel's light shield, the shield was neatly sliced ​​into twenty pieces.

The cut is as smooth as a mirror.

The protective sphere of light crumbled into countless points of light so easily, failing to even hold them off for a second.

Fortunately, Uriel's passive rule was triggered.

The attack that destroys the shield orb will be completely absorbed.

The immense energy remaining on the silk thread was forcibly obliterated by this force of rules, ultimately dissipating into a wisp of nothingness in mid-air.

Su Long stared intently ahead, his scalp tingling.

This monster's power is too overwhelming; it destroyed his strongest defensive skill with a single casual strike.

Seeing that its attack had failed, the giant devourer let out a strange laugh from its two enormous mouths that stretched to its ears, and several large clumps of black saliva splattered on the ground.

It suddenly raised its other two withered arms, and its two fingers locked onto Sulong.

Two dark gray threads shot out simultaneously!

"Suron!"

Elena's loud shout came from behind.

The enormous goddess statue behind her moved, raising its lantern high. A dazzling white light enveloped Sulong's body before the silk threads could reach it.

Simultaneously, Su Long mobilized all the spiritual energy within his body and slammed his hands on the ground.

"rise!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One after another, heavy crematoriums rose from the ground, like a row of heavy armored walls, firmly blocking him and the monster.

Two silk threads have arrived.

"Click! Click! Click!"

The rapid cutting sounds blended into a series of ear-piercing noises.

The heavy, high-temperature incinerator was as fragile as paper in front of these two wires.

The silk threads pierced through the ten crematoriums with overwhelming force, neatly slicing these spiritual creations into countless pieces.

The thick metal walls and high-temperature flames were forcibly cleaved open, and the shattered furnace collapsed on the spot, turning into sparks everywhere.

The remaining threads plunged straight in and crashed hard against Elena's divine protection.

A white light flashed violently, and large cracks appeared on the surface of the shield.

This protective layer lasted for less than half a second before collapsing with a crisp cracking sound.

The powerful backlash caused Elena behind her to groan, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of her mouth, and even the goddess statue instantly shattered into pieces.

Su Long gritted his teeth, forcibly compressing the world-destroying flames between his arms, crossing them in front of his chest, attempting to intercept this final, fatal blow.

"Pfft!"

The purplish-gold flames were instantly shattered.

Immediately afterwards, Su Long's two arms exploded in an instant.

Blood spurted out, and his arm muscles, blood vessels, and bones were instantly sliced ​​into twenty pieces.

Layers upon layers of minced meat and broken bones slammed onto the charred marble floor tiles with a thud.

Before the excruciating pain could even reach his brain, the sacred relic "Uriel" hanging on his waist exploded.

boom! boom! boom!

Two consecutive bursts of blinding sparks exploded on the surface of the scales.

Uriel was completely destroyed, reduced to a piece of broken scrap metal.

This attack would have sliced ​​Sulong's chest and internal organs into pieces, but Uriel's destruction negated the attack.

However, the attack did not end there.

With the first thread clearing the obstacle, the second thread encountered no resistance and went straight for Sulong's nose.

In the face of life and death, Su Long's nerve reaction speed was pushed to its limit.

Flaming Mist Realm, unleash full power!

A large, dense cloud of purple-gold fire exploded in front of him, directly blocking the monster's visual lock and completely concealing his figure in the firelight.

The Realm of Stagnation, open!

An invisible pressure gripped the approaching thread tightly, forcibly slowing it down.

Instant shadow!

Su Long's figure completely blurred in place.

Using those fractions of a second he gained, he suddenly exerted force with both legs, flashing ten meters behind him and retreating to the edge of Elena's domain.

Only by unleashing all three trump cards could they barely dodge this fatal blow!

At that moment, Su Long suddenly remembered the sentence he had seen in the library before.

"Among the S-class anomalies that have been observed and recorded so far, there are extremely severe gaps in the destructive power between individuals."

"In fact, this gap in strength already began to appear at the A-level."

The Great Devourer, an A-rank anomaly, is vastly different from Baphomet, who is also an A-rank anomaly—

A world apart!