Silas's figure appeared in the flames mid-air.
He saw that the two demigods were surrounded by invisible rules, and the flames didn't touch them.
When they saw Silas appear close by, astonishment instantly flashed across their faces.
"Ex..."
Amyrius shouted, pointing at him.
He prepared to activate "Exile," using tremendous invisible force to strike him and drive him away!
Meanwhile, Qonas simultaneously activated "Distortion," intending to twist the distance between them and make himself unreachable.
But their movements were a step too slow.
"Thud!"
The moment he appeared in the fire, Silas had already grasped "Agony" in a reverse grip.
With a twisted smile covering his face, he thrust that translucent white bone into his own body.
"Ahhh!"
Three agonized voices rang out simultaneously.
That ultimate pain violently scoured their sanity, tormenting the three demigods present with suffering so intense it seemed to burn through nerves and boil their brains!
Silas had already advanced to Sequence 4, and "Agony," closely connected to his body, faithfully amplified his sensitivity.
That terrifying, unbearable sensation fed back with utmost clarity into the depths of his mind, as if leaving a brand.
"Ex... Exile!"
Amyrius shouted in extreme agony.
However, that pain caused his operation to deform. The torrential storm swept up all three of them.
They crashed together onto the battered plaza of the Governor's Mansion.
Damn it, why does it hurt so much...
Qonas thought. He raised "Revere's Desperate Scream," almost instinctively aiming at Silas, but quickly realized the pain the other suffered would feed back to himself equally.
Better to first pull back the distance. No, "distort" the target of that item's effect...
"Deprive!"
Just as Qonas was thinking this, he suddenly heard Amyrius's furious voice.
This "Imperative Mage" took advantage of the shortened distance to unleash a powerful ability that directly targeted Beyonders' own capabilities!
Light bloomed in the Naval Admiral's eyes. An irresistible powerful law immediately penetrated into Silas's body.
Deprivation, a forced effect launched against a single target.
As long as the distance was close enough, it couldn't be dodged, only resisted or weakened by relying on status level and one's own sequence characteristics.
And the ability Amyrius was depriving was one of Silas's core abilities: "Shepherding"!
Once the deprivation succeeded, the externalized Red Angel wraith would be immediately recalled, and Silas himself might even lose control because of it, his flesh torn apart by rampaging souls!
It could be said that if this "Deprivation" hit, it might completely change the tide of battle!
However, when Amyrius shot that law into Silas's body and prepared to sense the spirituality within to impose restrictions, the latter only looked at him with an icy expression.
"!"
The next moment, Amyrius suddenly felt he had lost contact with the law he'd released.
No, that wasn't right.
That law had entered a bottomless, all-encompassing existence. There, there were illusory sounds of tides...
"Ahhhhhhh!"
This high and mighty Naval Admiral, known for his seriousness, suddenly let out a scream of extreme agony, clutching his head and convulsing non-stop.
Many brass-colored blisters rose on his skin as some kind of maddened aura spread from him.
It's like this again!
Seeing this scene, Qonas's heart lurched violently once more.
Duchess Georgina's loss of control was still vivid in his memory.
Now Admiral Amyrius had also suffered an impact close to losing control because he tried to touch the other's core!
"Hmph."
Silas rose from the ground, glanced at the painfully struggling Amyrius, and finally fixed his gaze on Qonas.
"Deputy Director of MI9, right?"
He asked indifferently.
"Swish!"
Qonas didn't answer at all. Instead, he kicked off the ground and leaped up.
This military demigod jumped to an extremely high altitude in one bound, his speed not slowing at all, with no tendency to fall. He rose higher and higher until he was flying.
"Earl of the Fallen," "Exploit"!
This was exploitation of rules, greatly extending the process of "jumping," maintaining the velocity for a long time.
Qonas was planning to flee!
The facts proved that two demigods were no match for the Blood Reverend at all.
Before the "Sea King" returned, they'd already lost one demigod.
Qonas still carried royal secrets on him. If Alexander Gascoigne captured him here, the consequences would be extremely severe!
The island gradually shrank. Qonas ascended to extremely remote heights.
He planned to ride the wind toward the sea area where the "Sea King" was located.
With that person's strength as guarantee, he would be much safer.
However...
"Swish!"
A fire spear swift as lightning instantly appeared before him.
In the light of the exploding flames, the Blood Reverend's figure appeared again!
Qonas looked in terror as Alexander Gascoigne's chest was still bleeding, that translucent white rib bone not yet removed.
He grinned coldly at him and raised a silver-white revolver.
That revolver gleamed with brilliant spiritual radiance. At a glance, it was clearly no ordinary item!
"Chaos!"
Qonas's eyes focused.
He immediately activated his ability.
Guessing the other might aim that weapon at him, he preemptively activated his ability to distort the spatial rules around himself.
If bullets came, they would only miss his body!
However, Qonas guessed wrong again.
He watched in horror as Silas grinned coldly and actually pressed the silver-white revolver against his own temple.
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"
His thumb simultaneously pressed the ouroboros emblem on the gun body. The silver-white revolver glowed accordingly. Without hesitation, he fired five shots!
"Splurt!"
High in the sky, Silas's head exploded into gorgeous, crimson blood mist.
Qonas simultaneously felt as if struck by lightning, experiencing the extreme agony of bullets consecutively prying open his head!
"Ahhh..."
This pain had even been amplified through Silas's extremely sensitive body. The feedback left Qonas unable to control himself.
"Distort!"
Fortunately, after recovering slightly, Qonas used his ability to distort the effect, greatly alleviating the degree of this pain.
Immediately after, he raised "Revere's Desperate Scream," aimed at Silas, and pulled the trigger.
At the same moment, Silas also pulled the trigger at Qonas, firing the only remaining bullet in the revolver.
That cursed bullet that brought terrible misfortune!
"Bang!"
Seeing the opposite bullet fly from the barrel, Qonas instinctively activated his ability, trying to twist the bullet's trajectory to miss his body.
But before the ability could take effect, that bullet automatically curved, transforming into a beam of light that fell onto another Beyonder item in his pocket.
What!
Qonas's face became extremely ugly in an instant.
Because in his pocket was his second Beyonder item, "Concerto of Light and Shadow"!
In the previous battle, because this item had enormous side effects and its abilities overlapped with Amyrius's, he hadn't used it.
He never expected it would instead become the target of "Misfortune" now!
The greatest negative effect of "Concerto of Light and Shadow" was that its Beyonder effects would undergo intermittent mutations, some good, some bad.
But under the blessing of misfortune, what he would encounter would inevitably be the worst kind!
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