The villain daughter did all kinds of things

If they don't stop now, not only will they be unable to kill Sulina, but Mondoly herself might not be able to escape.

Indeed, after witnessing the battle erupting on the ground, Emerald and Julia, having finished their aerial combat, quickly prepared to gang up on Mondori.

After breaking through the demonic horde's lair, Yulia once again transformed into a humanoid missile, swooping down from the sky, intending to deliver a powerful punch to Mondori.

Emerald, on the other hand, recycled and reused the remaining holy magic power from the Holy Shield, condensing it into a giant holy spear over 10 meters long in her hand, and made a throwing motion, with the spearhead also locked onto Mondorie.

Even Barbara, who had been on the defensive, began to use the power of the earth to surround Mondorie from all sides, preparing to trap her in place.

Faced with the combined attack of three powerful cultivators at the Fusion stage, anyone else might have been completely bewildered, but Mondoly lived up to her reputation as an experienced old witch.

She certainly couldn't withstand the combined attack of three equally powerful individuals, but she has never lacked ruthlessness and has also recognized her greatest strength.

She was playing away from home.

This prevented her from gaining home-field advantage, but it also meant she didn't have to hold back in the fight—what did the lives and deaths of the residents of Locke City have to do with her?

A tremendous amount of magic gathered in Mondori's mouth once again. Then, she let out a shriek, but instead of using magic to concentrate the sound waves to increase the power of a single attack, she caused the sound waves to spread in all directions, turning into a large-scale AOE attack.

If Emery and the others had ignored Mondoly's attack, Mondoly herself might have been seriously injured after being attacked by the three of them, but Locke City would have also been severely damaged in the sonic attack, and the number of dead and injured residents would have been countless.

"You old hag, you're absolutely insane!"

Barbara couldn't help but curse, but she had no choice but to give up binding Mondoly and use her earth power to protect innocent passersby nearby.

Emerald didn't speak, but the giant light spear in her hand also changed shape, transforming into a light shield that descended from the sky, confining Mondori's sonic attack to a range of about a kilometer, preventing it from harming residents and buildings further away.

Even so, the buildings within a kilometer radius of Mondoly were completely destroyed by the devastating sonic waves in just a few breaths. Innocent residents were tossed up and down in the energy waves like small pieces of wood in the ocean... If Barbara hadn't protected them with the power of the earth in time, they would have been pulverized long ago.

Even with Barbara's protection, a relentless attack from a Fusion Stage expert was still too powerful for ordinary people. Many were knocked unconscious by the external energy while under her protection, their faces pale and bloodied, clearly seriously injured.

This scene infuriated Julia, second only to seeing Emery cough up blood before.

Lacking the protective abilities of Emerald and Barbara, she increased her flight speed once more, intending to continue the attack and give Mondoly a good beating to vent her anger.

Unfortunately, Mondorie, now free from the earth's power, wouldn't just stand there and wait to be beaten. After forcing Emerald and Barbara to change their tactics with her large-scale destruction, she immediately left the spot at top speed, even faster than the sonic attack she had unleashed herself. She had almost rushed out of Locke City before Emerald's light shield fell.

Fortunately, no matter how fast Mondoly runs, she is still faster than Yulia, who is a numerical monster.

Not far outside Locke City, Julia caught up with Mondorie.

Although Emerald and Barbara were still dealing with the aftermath of Mondori's actions in the city, Julia was not afraid at all. Having just completed her breakthrough, she was full of confidence and believed that she could defeat Mondori on her own.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Mondoly, who had been fleeing at high speed, suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at Yulia with a mocking expression on her face, and her mouth moved.

Without uttering a sound, Yulia immediately understood what the sentence meant:

[A brainless idiot]

"You're the idiot!"

Yulia puffed out her cheeks in anger, swung her fists, and charged forward, intending to ignore everything else and beat up Mondoly first.

Just as she was about to throw her fist, she suddenly heard a strange sound, and then her mind went blank.

The outward manifestation of this was that Julia, who was preparing to attack Mondoly, suddenly stopped in mid-air, her eyes losing focus and becoming dazed.

"...He succeeded so easily? Does this guy have no brains?"

Even Mondoly herself was surprised.

While her hypnotic ability to fuse organs has always been very effective against those below the fusion stage, its success rate against those of the same level is not high. Even if it succeeds, it requires a mental and physical struggle.

Mondoly's original plan was simply to use hypnosis to distract Yulia, causing Yulia to lose her focus, so that she could then escape completely.

Unexpectedly, Yulia's resistance to hypnosis was as if it were nonexistent; a simple hypnotic attack was enough to put her into a hypnotic state.

This gave Mondoly a new idea: if she could give Yulia a hint so that Yulia would find an opportunity to kill Sulina, wouldn't the success rate be very high?

Without hesitation, before Emery and Barbara arrived, Mondoly immediately approached Julia, intending to implant further commands into the hypnotized Julia.

But at that moment, Yulia, who was clearly under hypnosis, suddenly threw a punch at Mondoly's stomach.

Even though Mondoly hadn't let her guard down completely, she still couldn't completely dodge the attack. She was hit hard in the side of her waist, and the force sent her flying like a broken sandbag, leaving her completely dazed.

...No, I've clearly controlled this person's mind with my ability, so why is her body still able to fight? Is it really possible for someone to act without thinking?

Mondoly quickly lost her composure, as Julia immediately caught up after throwing the punch and continued to punch and kick Mondoly as she was being tossed through the air.

Mondoly's artistic long dress and magical costume were quickly reduced to rags by Yulia's violently beautiful fists. Her skin was covered in bruises and hematomas, and countless bones beneath her skin were broken, leaving her internal organs in turmoil.

In this situation, Mondoly was unable to gather enough power to defeat Yulia, and her attempt to use her special ability to hypnotize Yulia and make her stop also failed.

Every time Mondoly uses her special ability on Julia, she receives a response similar to 'a target that has already been hypnotized cannot be hypnotized again,' which leaves her feeling helpless and puzzled.

Mondoly's hypnotic ability is essentially about manipulating the target's brain through special sound waves, which has always been very effective, until today when she encountered someone who doesn't need to use their brain at all in combat.

Yulia's punches and kicks continued. The old hag, who had advanced to the Fusion stage for hundreds of years, was being beaten so badly by a little girl who had only advanced a few minutes ago that she was powerless to fight back. If this continued, she would be beaten to death.

With no other option, Mondoly had to sacrifice her own magical artifact to save herself. She abandoned her magical armor, activated a one-time-use magical device for emergency survival, and teleported away.

While Yulia beat Mondoli with mindless combat, her mindless fighting also made her less intelligent in targeting – Mondoli had already escaped, but Yulia was still relentlessly attacking Mondoli's Mystic Code.

When Emerald and Barbara arrived after dealing with the sonic attack, they saw Julia punching and kicking a tattered long dress.

"..." x2

Amelie and Barbara exchanged a speechless glance. Barbara didn't burst out laughing, but her cheeks were puffed out, clearly struggling to hold back her laughter.

Amelie had no choice but to fly over and try to grab Julia.

Although Julia chased Mondoly away, her actions were actually her body's automatic counterattack after sensing danger. She herself was still unconscious and did not recognize that the person coming at her was Emerald. She raised her fist to hit Emerald as well.

Fortunately, Amelie knew Julia very well. She grabbed Julia's wrist firmly and scolded her loudly with a stern face:

"You idiot Yulia! Wake up! Or you won't get dinner tonight!"

"...What? No food? Absolutely not!"

Yulia, whose eyes had been vacant, suddenly regained her clarity and realized that she had just tried to attack Emery.

"Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh heh heh heh heh?"

Yulia was dumbfounded.

She looked at her hand, which was being held by Emery, then at the tattered long dress, her forehead filled with question marks:

"How did I get here? Who am I fighting? What's going on?"

"Looks like you've fallen for that old hag's trick... Luckily, you don't need to use your brain in battle."

Emerald quickly made some guesses, and verified them by checking the records on Julia's magical armor. She then gave Julia a brief explanation before concluding:

"Next time you run into that old hag, remember not to go after her alone. She's still very dangerous. Call me and we'll beat her up together."

"Yes, I know... I was just angry when I saw her attacking ordinary residents, that's why I did that."

Yulia chuckled sheepishly, scratched her head, and then quickly asked:

"By the way, are the residents who were affected alright?"

"well enough……"

Emery sighed:

"Injuries were inevitable, but thanks to Barbara, I survived and will be fine after a period of rest."

"That would be wonderful..."

Yulia was finally relieved. She immediately flew to Barbara and bowed to her sincerely and politely to express her gratitude.

"Thank you for your kind help, senior."

"fine."

Barbara waved her hand magnanimously:

“I was invited by Emerald to help, and Emerald promised to pay me. I was just doing what I was supposed to do.”

"Thank you very much."

Julia remained very polite until she saw Barbara's feet:

"Huh? Why aren't you wearing socks or shoes, senpai? Is there some special thing you like to do? Like Emery and Sissi... Waaaaah!"

"What nonsense are you spouting, you idiot!"

Emerald quickly cast a sealing spell on Julia's mouth, then grabbed one of her ponytails and pulled her aside, giving Barbara an apologetic smile.

"Don't mind her, you saw it yourself, she's not very good at using her brain."

"It's okay, I didn't care about these things anyway."

Barbara glanced amusedly at Julia, who was glaring and making faces at Emerald behind her, before becoming serious and saying with some concern:

"Speaking of which, that old hag Mondolly still managed to get away... With her narrow-mindedness, she certainly won't let it go easily. You might have a lot of headaches coming up, right?"

"Will not."

Emery laughed, her smile radiating confidence:

"That's an old woman who's hundreds of years old. I never thought I could catch her and kill her so easily with just one fishing plan... But she's a bit more stupid than I thought. Today's plan was already a great success. In my eyes, she's already a dead person."

“…Is there such a thing?”

Barbara paused for a moment, then her expression gradually became strange:

"Although you acted like a saint today, and this formal attire made you look even more holy and kind... but what you just said makes me feel like you're the villain?"

"Haha... How is that possible?"

Emery waved her hand dismissively:

"As you can see, I was the victim who was attacked by that old hag. What bad intentions could a victim like me have? Right?"

"...Fine, I don't like that old hag's behavior anyway, so let's leave it at that."

Barbara didn't say anything more.

The three returned to Locke City, where the battle was now completely over, and Judy's troops were helping the residents clean up the battlefield.

The battlefield ravaged by the demonic tide was hardly worth cleaning up. The vast majority of the demonic bees were obliterated upon impact with Emery's holy shield, and the rest disintegrated automatically after the tide subsided. Aside from injuring some of Judy's mages, the demonic tide caused virtually no substantial damage.

The real cause of the massive destruction was Mondoly's attack in an attempt to escape, which injured more than 12000 people to varying degrees and destroyed more than 30 buildings of various sizes.

Judy's medics are currently working with the local medical system in Locke City to treat the wounded and search for anyone who might still be trapped in the rubble.

Upon seeing this, Julia immediately joined the search and rescue operation, while Emery and Barbara only watched from a distance and did not take action themselves.

The two stood side by side in silence for a while, before Emery spoke first and handed Barbara a purple rhombus-shaped crystal:

"I won't say thank you or anything like that, this is my payment."

"...What is this thing?"

Barbara took the purple crystal and examined it curiously, holding it up to the sun to see the light through it, and even gently biting it.

"It seems to be some kind of highly concentrated necromancy magic crystal?"

"Well, it's a new necromancy that I developed myself. It's not very useful; it can only save your life if you're killed."

Emery chuckled lightly, seemingly quite unconcerned.

"A life-saving item? Not one that saves my life at a critical moment, but one that allows me to come back to life after I die? No wonder it's necromancy."

Barbara raised an eyebrow, turned her head, and looked at Emerald with some curiosity:

"Speaking of which... I've heard some rumors that your innate magic is actually a prophetic ability, allowing you to foresee the future to some extent?"

"maybe."

Amelie simply chuckled, neither confirming nor denying.

After all, it's not wrong to call past life memories a special talent.

"Then it seems very likely..."

Barbara rubbed her chin, continuing to stare at the strange crystal in her hand:

"You people with precognitive abilities always act in a mysterious way, but every action you take has a profound meaning. It may seem nonsensical at the time, but you never know when it might come in handy."

"You gave me this as payment because you foresaw that I would definitely die once in the future? And for some reason you can't tell me the details, so this is the only way to save my life?"

"...You guessed all of this yourself; I didn't say anything."

Emery maintained an ambiguous attitude, neither confirming nor denying.

"Then it seems to be pretty much correct."