On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

"Deterioration."

Two simple words were uttered softly from Styutia's mouth. The next moment, the holy light power in front of her was rapidly transformed into an unfathomable dark gray, which spread around her like a row of mist.

The dark gray mist did not intercept the laser bombardment launched by the maid; the azure beams seemed to pass through the gray mist with ease.

However, the real change occurs precisely after they have passed through.

The laser energy beam, after being baptized by the gray fog, quickly dimmed. All the abundant energy attached to the beam decayed and dissipated until, when it finally reached Sthiuthia, it was even weaker than a bullet, becoming powerless and easily blocked by the nun.

Seeing this, the maid's face turned deathly pale as she looked at the unharmed Styutia. She was filled with disbelief.

"How...how is this possible!? What is that?"

Unfortunately, Styutia clearly had no intention of explaining to the maid. The nun's figure flashed and disappeared from the maid's sight. By the time the maid realized what was happening and thought to herself that things were bad, it was already too late.

The maid, already overloaded due to "overload mode," was completely powerless to fight back when Sthija approached her. She could only watch helplessly as the nun swung her scythe, and with a "whoosh," pierced through the maid's chest, lifting her entire body onto the scythe.

Then, Styutia casually tossed the scythe aside, piercing a large hole in her chest. Countless broken wires sparked and crackled. The maid, completely paralyzed and unconscious, was then tossed aside by the nun like trash.

Having dealt with the maid, Styutia eagerly picked up her scythe and continued towards Liao Ji. She wanted to take Lord Ash away. Of course, out of consideration for their past friendship, she could cut off some of Lord Ash's troublesome parts and leave them for them.

Styutia, who was chuckling, had just taken one step when, as she was about to lift her other foot, it was as if something had suddenly bound her, making her unable to move.

The nun frowned, looking down at the vines that had sprouted from the ground and wrapped around her feet. At that moment, two other figures seemed to have finally arrived at the battlefield.

"Quick! Irene! I'll hold her off, you take Mr. Liao away!" Ah Xue, whose hands were glowing with dark green light, turned to the girl beside her and said anxiously.

With Liao Ji's help, the catgirl learned the "shaman" tradition through a "contract" and now has the power to control plants. The vines currently wrapped around the nun's feet are Ah Xue's doing.

Then, as if to buy more time for Irene, Ah Xue gritted her teeth and exerted all her strength to activate the power within her body. The dark green light became even more intense. Immediately afterward, two more vines broke through the ground at two other locations beside Styutia, wrapping around the nun's hands like ropes.

"Hehehehe."

"Another one?"

“Another philanderer… no, is he a cat coming to steal fish?” Styutia lowered her head, her bangs obscuring half of the nun’s face, revealing only a maniacal grin spreading across her lips.

"Perfect, since you've come to me of your own accord."

Styutia's hands were bound, but this did not prevent her from unleashing her abilities; on the contrary, it did.

The nun touched the vines that were binding her, and then holy light emanated from her hand. A moment later, as the word "deterioration" was uttered, the holy light turned into dark gray mist and flowed directly into the vines.

The vines, which were just moments ago thick, strong, and full of vitality, seemed to wither and decay all at once, their color rapidly changing from emerald green to a lifeless brownish-red.

The wilted vines could no longer restrain the nun and drooped limply from Sthija's hands and feet. But that wasn't the end of it. The next moment, the nun used the Holy Light again, and this time it seemed to be a Holy Light that was truly used to "heal."

Under the healing light, these withered vines, which had turned brownish-red, seemed to regain their vitality, even though their appearance remained unchanged and still looked rotten, like resurrected undead vegetation.

This was clearly not a simple cure. These undead vines, whose species had been altered, immediately burrowed into the ground after Styutia pointed at them. When they emerged from the ground again, their target had changed to the previous Xue.

Although Ah Xue wanted to resist, these vines, after being corrupted and withered by Styutia and then revived, completely lost contact with her and no longer belonged to her.

The catgirl could only watch helplessly as the vines she had previously used to bind Sciutia now wrapped themselves around her, tightening their grip like pythons, making it difficult for Ayumi to breathe and causing her to feel her consciousness to blur.

Chapter 155 The Healing Nun's Reset of Life (Part 2)

fortunately.

A dark substance carrying an aura of destruction hurtled towards Sciutia from afar. This dark substance, which had no physical form, could not be weakened by the degraded holy light as before, forcing Sciutia to dodge.

With the spell interrupted and the undead vines losing their controller, the binding force weakened considerably. With the help of Irene, the dying Ah Xue managed to break free.

Dark matter is the domain of "superpower" professions, or one's specialty.

Of course, this attack is still far inferior to Lena's.

Styutia raised her head, already growing annoyed, her violent eyes fixed on another figure suspended in mid-air, a new addition to the battle, an unexpected figure.

Her golden ponytail swayed in the wind, her small, fleshy wings flapped behind her, and her heart-shaped tail glowed pink in the night, all indicating her identity.

After the attack, two black energy balls quickly condensed in Caroline's hands and were thrown directly at the nun below.

Boom! Boom—

As Reina's personal secretary, Caroline's abilities are certainly not limited to governance. In terms of strength, this succubus secretary is several levels stronger than the previous maid and Ayumi.

Moreover, her attack methods were able to avoid being countered by the strange mental abilities of Styutia. For a time, under the barrage of Caroline's spells, Styutia seemed to have no power to fight back.

until

Caroline, wanting to press her advantage, condensed the dark matter into a whip-like weapon and lashed the tip down at the nun.

Then, the whip seemed to pierce the nun's body so easily, startling Caroline, but she quickly...

"Are you all never going to stop?"

After the smoke and dust from the spell dissipated, Sthija's figure was revealed. At this moment, blood was spreading on the nun's shoulder, where Caroline's whip had pierced. Although the attack was successful, Caroline was not happy at all. On the contrary, her expression changed, and she immediately wanted to release the whip, but it was too late.

Holy light shone from Styutia's body, and through the whip, it was directly transmitted to Caroline in the air. Afterward, it turned into the gray mist that had been there before, and Caroline's body was immediately corroded. After a muffled groan, he fell straight down from the air.

Finally, finally, all those annoying flies are gone!

Oh.

Is that so?

After sweeping away the maid, Ah Xue, and even Caroline later.

As Styutia watched the dragon girl emerge from the flames of the city hall, seemingly having regained some strength after being stalled for time by others, the nun's face showed no impatience this time, but rather a happy smile.

"Sister Jiuyou, I've already let you go once, why did you come here again?"

The dragon maiden stared at the nun opposite her, who had transformed into a black dress and a black scythe. Jiu You shook her head and said coldly, "Stop, Styutia."

"Stop? Heh heh heh... Sister Jiuyou, do you really think that in your current state you can make me stop? Do you even deserve it?"

Faced with the nun's mockery, the dragon girl slightly raised her chin, as if using such arrogance to retort. This was her honor as a "Guardian," and even if she lost a lot of power due to the ritual, she should not be unable to defeat even a "Priest."

"You'll find out whether you're a good match or not later."

Flames erupted from the dragon maiden's body. Jiu You's gaze swept over her comrades who had been repeatedly defeated by Styutia on the battlefield. These sights transformed into her anger, her fighting spirit, and her strength.

Bang!

Styutia, wielding a giant scythe, charged forward. Jiuyou, who used to be able to react easily, was now slowed down due to the loss of a lot of strength. She barely managed to block the nun's scythe by crossing her arms over her chest, but she was still sent flying by the enormous force.

Before the dragon girl could even land, Styutia's figure reappeared. The scythe she wielded in the nun's hand turned into a series of afterimages. Jiuyou, in mid-air, had no way to dodge and could only take the attacks head-on.

With a "thud," Jiu You was hammered to the ground from the air by Styutia's final heavy scythe, and the dragon scales that served as armor on her body were now shattered.

The dragon girl struggled to get up from the ground, but quickly the next moment...

Boom!

Styutia's black high heels were already on Jiuyou's body, completely eliminating any possibility of her getting up.

As the nun looked at Jiu You, who was being trampled under her feet, struggling incessantly but utterly powerless, and who had been completely defeated by her in just a few moves, Styutia let out a silvery "giggle."

"It hasn't been that long since we last met, how come Sister Jiuyou can't even beat Tia anymore?"

Is it because...?

"What bad things did Sister Jiuyou do behind Tia's back, and was she punished for it?"

The dragon girl originally wanted to speak defiantly, but after Styutia said that, even her previous defiant spirit immediately weakened, and she completely accepted the fact that she had been defeated.

Indeed, she is far inferior to "them" now.

Jiuyou could only plead weakly with Sisiutia, "Sisiutia, it's all my fault. Take it out on me. Don't, don't, go after Hui."

Before even finishing her sentence about Lord Ash, it seemed to touch a nerve with the nun, causing Styutia to step on the dragon girl's back again, interrupting Jiuyou's words.

"Is that so? In that case, I'll grant Sister Jiuyou's request."

"Hmm, let me think. I originally planned to remove the parts of Lord Ash that were in the way. But since Sister Jiuyou loves Lord Ash so much, I'll start by removing the things from your body."

"Let's start from here."

When talking about the last one, Styutia focused her gaze on the dragon girl below, on the pair of majestic dragon horns that symbolized the dragon race.

Noticing the nun's gaze, Jiu You began to struggle violently.

"No! I beg you there, Tia. No!"

Styutia completely ignored Jiuyou's pleas. She placed the scythe on Jiuyou's dragon horns, and then the nun mustered all her strength to try to cut off the horns. Unfortunately, although the dragon girl had lost a lot of power, her physical body remained unchanged, especially her dragon horns, which could be said to be the hardest part of the dragon people.

Seeing that brute force wouldn't work, the nun didn't persist. As Jiuyou shook her head incessantly beneath her, Styutia smiled and placed her hand on the dragon's horns. Then, holy light unfolded, but it was a gray mist holy light that brought "deterioration".

"No, no!!"

Amidst Jiu You's desperate and miserable voice, which seemed to carry some other strange emotion mixed within it, the dragon horns, corroded by the gray mist, finally became fragile. Combined with Sciutia's exertion,

Click. Click!

"Do not!!"

The moment the nun cut off the dragon horn, Jiu You let out a heart-wrenching cry. Although it didn't have much of an impact on her body—after all, dragon horns can grow back just like hair—it was an extremely heavy blow to the dragon girl's spirit.

Styutia watched as Jiuyou's purple eyes instantly turned dull and lifeless at her feet. After her dragon horns were stripped away, the dragon girl, seemingly utterly broken, had tears in her eyes, her lips pressed together, her face a picture of humiliation and despair.

A smile curved upwards at the corners of the nun's lips.

That was the arc of revenge.

Not satisfied with this, they wanted to deliver the final blow to Jiu You.

Styutia leaned down and brought her mouth close to the dragon girl's ear, whispering in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"Sister Jiuyou's dragon horns are so beautiful. Tia will make them into decorations and wear them on her head later."

"Then, I'm going to do the things in the videos you sent me with Lord Ash."

"Wear your horns and do it!"

(PS: Dragon Knight has already completed the three extra chapters that the Alliance Leader added, so there's still 1/3 left.)

I'm humbly begging for votes next month. I can enter the lottery when I reach 2k votes. I'm still more than 300 votes short!

Chapter 156 Awakening from the Dream (Part 1)