183. Eruption
With the Eye of Light, Reina easily found the special area of the Shadow of God.
Before her was a huge ritual pool, similar to the giant cauldron she had seen in the Goddess’s ruins. It seemed to be used for collecting some kind of filth.
According to her speculation, the Shadow of God had used the remnants of the ten thousand beastmen to pollute the entire world, and then used a ritual to summon the filth back, thus summoning the God of Light. At that time, all demonified humans below level 30 would either die or wake up.
Before the establishment of the God Slaying Society, she had mentioned this possibility in a meeting, but it was ultimately just a guess. Now it seemed that this deduction had some omissions.
Reina came here to confirm whether her guess was correct. If possible, she would [correct] all of this.
On both sides of the pool were two female statues. Their hands were clasped together, and bloody tears flowed from the corners of their eyes, dripping into the pool. Reina could smell the scent of Light. She had stopped here not long ago.
In front of the pool was the plaza where Reina was. The entire space was about the size of ten football fields.
Just then, a heavy figure walked up from behind. The strong sense of pressure made Reina frown slightly and turn her head.
“Dragon Slayer.”
Reina said the person’s name.
“Goddess, your arrival is quite sudden, hehehe…”
“Dragon Slayer, did your Shadow of God cause the world’s [demonification]?”
“Before I tell you that information,”
“Boom—!”
Dragon Slayer instantly appeared in front of Reina and threw a punch.
—These people really had no manners.
But what Dragon Slayer didn’t expect was that when the smoke cleared, his hand was actually gushing blood.
Looking closely, he realized that his punch had hit the Judgment Blade.
“[Judgment Blade], it’s different from before.”
But Dragon Slayer threw another punch, directly sending Reina flying along with her sword.
Reina controlled her center of gravity and landed steadily, now 200 meters away from Dragon Slayer.
From now on, he would develop a resistance to the Judgment Blade.
“Since you’re here, it means you don’t mind me becoming completely immune to your attacks.”
Dragon Slayer patted his wrist.
Actually, he was right.
His defense was similar to [Eternal Golden Radiance].
Every time he was attacked, he would develop a large amount of “resistance” to the same attack.
If every attack failed to kill Dragon Slayer, then he would be several times, even dozens of times, more difficult to deal with. A true “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”
Interestingly, Reina could now confirm that [Eternal Golden Radiance] was the “superior” of his defense.
Dragon Slayer’s strength wouldn’t become stronger just by “dodging.”
In any case, logically, to defeat the powerful Dragon Slayer, she had to use a variety of attacks he hadn’t experienced before to kill him.
“I have no need to answer your ability.”
“Dragon Slayer, do you know the first Elven King? Are you using the Shadow of God?”
“…Haha, what if I don’t tell you?” Dragon Slayer said with a smile.
“Then I’ll have to let you die.”
“Very well. In this weak era, the Goddess is still as decisive as ever. You came here just to kill me!”
“You’re right.”
Suddenly, a terrifying power erupted from Reina’s entire body.
The Judgment Blade disappeared, because there was no need to use it yet.
[Eye of Light]
Almost all of Dragon Slayer’s information was transmitted to Reina, and now, she finally confirmed that her actions and predictions were not wrong.
—Dragon Slayer was afraid.
He didn’t intend to answer Reina’s questions.
He must know something about the first Elven King.
Reina’s suspicion of him came from this ritual.
In the Goddess’s ruins, the Dark Elf Queen had once used that black liquid and her life force to restore the first Elven King’s body. That liquid was clearly a part of the “ten thousand beastmen sacrifice.”
The rest of the sacrifices were scattered among the humans through the “demonification event.”
The content of the ritual was to gather them together.
If she let the first Elven King “absorb” this power instead of “reviving” the Goddess of Light, then…
The conclusion was that everything Light had done was just paving the way for the first Elven King.
Light hadn’t betrayed, and it was very likely that she would never betray the Goddess of Light in the future.
And Dragon Slayer was the most likely to be a traitor.
Just now, Reina saw clearly that he was lying, and that he was expressing uneasiness… and came to a conclusion. Dragon Slayer was using some method to manipulate Light, making her coincidentally promote the resurrection of the first Elven King.
Since she had confirmed the news, there was no need to hide her next trump card.
“[Vassal Instinct]”
An even more powerful force erupted from Reina’s entire body. Although she didn’t know how much magic power Calysia had given her, a simple calculation showed that she was now level 191. It seemed that Reina had still underestimated Calysia’s strength.
The cross at the bottom of her eyes shimmered slightly, but a few seconds later, it turned into a pitch-black, tainted cross. This was the consequence of absorbing too much of Calysia’s power.
Her dragon wings shimmered with an azure light, and a purple energy magic crown appeared on her head.
At this moment, she was like a dragon god.
“[Dorricati’s Burial]”
Reina raised one hand.
Suddenly, the surrounding scenery shattered.
Dragon Slayer’s eyes widened. This person is for real!
The entire world turned into a golden grassland, as if he had been dragged into a domain.
He wanted to escape, but found himself surrounded by golden crosses.
There were 20 of them in total.
No matter how he tried to escape, these ten-meter-high crosses moved with him as if they were alive.
Dragon Slayer felt danger and instantly transformed into a dragon.
—It was a 500-meter-long black dragon.
Unlike Reina and Calysia, Dragon Slayer’s dragon form was bloated and strong, with sharp spikes growing wildly, more like a huge black beast than a dragon. His wings were not well-developed, but his tail and limbs were even stronger than Calysia’s.
Just by moving his body slightly, he could cause an earthquake.
He stood on the golden grassland with all four feet, yet he wanted to escape.
But the next second, he was still instantly surrounded by several crosses.
In the center of the crosses, countless white spikes suddenly appeared.
“Hiss, hiss, hiss—!”
20 spikes instantly pierced through Dragon Slayer’s body.
Reina also raised her other hand and brought it down on her first hand, as if closing a lid.
After shooting out the spikes, the crosses instantly formed a regular circle.
Then, a magic circle, as dazzling as the sun, appeared above Dragon Slayer’s head.
At the last moment, Reina opened the Eye of Light and calculated all of Dragon Slayer’s weaknesses.
Then, a burst of heat, accompanied by a strong light, erupted, as if she had directly crushed the sun into pure energy.
“Die.”
Reina’s merciless voice became the last bit of tranquility in the golden grassland.
