“Roar of the Holy Flame.”

 

Fierce, golden-red flames erupted from the tip of the staff, transforming into a torrential rain of intense fire that enveloped every tentacle and the core of the pink fleshy cocoon.

 

“Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp!!!!”

 

Once again, from the cocoon came the angry roar of something unknown, but this time it was accompanied by more, a lament filled with fear and unwillingness.

 

【Roar of the Holy Flame】, an 8th-tier magic of the Holy Light system, is one of the few in the entire skill tree that lacks any auxiliary or healing effects, entirely leaning towards destructive magic.

 

“Even the light of kindness will bring down the flames of judgment due to blasphemy.”

 

This is the only description of this skill in the game.

 

As a dual-attribute attack of fire and light, Anastasia’s purple priest staff, 【Radiant Fire】, refined with the essence of a red dragon, undoubtedly enhances the terrifying destructive power of the 【Roar of the Holy Flame】.

 

In Violet’s observation, this cocoon should be equivalent to a level 70 existence like the 【Death Omen Star】. Perhaps the opponent, giving it their all, could unleash abilities similar to an 8th-tier magic, but…

 

Can the power of the 8th-tier magic released by Violet be compared to that of someone just reaching this stage?

 

Defying the laws of inversion, purifying flames of golden-red light became the true flames of purification, igniting everything nurtured by the million souls.

 

The flesh cocoon desperately regenerated, and the internal dark red light had been driven to the extreme, like a heart beating violently.

 

However, even if the reversed law converts more damage into healing, the next moment there will be more and more overwhelming and terrifying flames entwining it, bursting with a merciless destructive power that seems to incinerate everything.

 

As Xiao Guang speculated, reversal is not omnipotent and limitless, and the black-haired girl in front undoubtedly surpasses it in every aspect.

 

The continuously regenerating pink fleshy body was burned at an even faster rate, and the fists attempting to attack were incinerated before they could reach their target. The flesh cocoon almost turned into a giant, eternally burning fireball, engulfed in fierce flames.

 

However, it stubbornly persisted in its undying state.

 

How much time had passed? Five minutes, ten minutes, or even longer?

 

Just as Violet, who continued to output magic, was becoming bored to the point of yawning, the flesh cocoon, which had turned into a pitch-black char, finally exhausted its strength completely.

 

All the connections to the main body collapsed, turning into black debris that dissipated. The main body of the flesh cocoon also fell to the ground with a thud, and the light inside had become so faint that it was almost imperceptible.

 

“Chirp…”

 

“Yawn~ Huh? Is it finally over? It can endure quite a lot; no wonder it’s an old thing that has survived for three hundred years.”

 

Violet, accompanied by the little dragon girl and the guardian of the heavenly realm, walked forward slowly. Even though the massive flesh cocoon, now covered in burns, was three meters tall, the priestess still needed to tilt her head back to see the full picture.

 

“All right, let’s see what’s hiding inside this thing.”

 

“Chirp…!”

 

The flesh cocoon emitted a feeble and urgent chirp once again. Whether it was Violet’s imagination or not, she couldn’t help but feel that this thing… was actually pleading with her?

 

It had endured such intense burning, so why did it suddenly seem to surrender?

 

But… this couldn’t be a reason to let it go.

 

The girl glanced sideways, and Lucas immediately understood. With a decisive stroke of his greatsword, he cut open the body of the flesh cocoon, which had regenerated countless times.

 

Crack…

 

The charred and brittle outer shell, burned by the holy flames, no longer served as any hindrance. The flesh cocoon let out a weak lament and was split into two halves.

 

What provided strength to the flesh cocoon, the incubating entity hidden within it from beginning to end, finally revealed itself before Violet.

 

“Eh?”

 

A surprised whisper escaped the priestess’s lips.

 

“A… girl?”

 

She was a delicate young girl of about sixteen or seventeen, with silvery hair as soft as moonlight and small, bat-like wings of dark red color extending from her back.

 

Curling up in the deepest part of the flesh cocoon, beneath the fragile, snow-white naked skin, her body was tightly wrapped in a semi-transparent membrane, as if a small cocoon was nested within a larger one.

 

The girl possessed delicate features like a character from a fairy tale, with closed eyes. Even in the midst of such chaos, there was no sign of waking up. Her chest, slightly more pronounced than that of a certain priestess, showed no discernible movement, resembling that of a lifeless person.

 

However, Violet could sense a powerful energy within her, a concentrated and intense fluctuation. Undoubtedly, this was the true source she had been tracing all along.

 

Is this girl the thing that hatched from the flesh cocoon?

 

Bat wings… a vampire?

 

However, from the looks of it, rather than hatching, it seemed more like she was sealed inside, undergoing some kind of transformation.

 

Carefully taking out a blue-grade ordinary dagger belonging to Miss Anastasia from her backpack and placing it in a ring, Violet delicately cut open the membrane enveloping the girl.

 

Without letting Xiao Guang or Lucas assist, as their destructive power was too strong and could unintentionally harm the silver-haired girl inside who seemed delicate, even Violet herself used a weapon with lower attack power.

 

The semi-transparent membrane’s defense was not as strong as the outer shell. In a few moves, the priestess fished the girl out from inside.

 

But before she could even get a chance to clothe her, the seemingly vampire-like silver-haired girl…

 

Disappeared.

 

“????”

 

Under the astonished gaze of the priestess, as the body of the vampire girl separated from the membrane, it began to transform into countless light points, ascending into the sky like the mermaid princess in a story, disappearing like bubbles.

 

An ethereal scene, representing the disappearance of something extraordinarily beautiful.

 

During this, Violet also tried to heal her, take emergency measures, but to no avail. Rather, in the process, she discovered something unusual.

 

This girl was not a vampire, not even human. She wasn’t even a living being.

 

She was a reflection.

 

Or rather, she forcibly condensed countless powers into a container based on someone’s template, an existence akin to a puppet.

 

The body was an empty shell, devoid of organs, life, and soul. Nurtured by the flesh cocoon, serving as its energy source and core, the puppet also needed external protection to maintain its form and existence.

 

From the beginning, she could never open her eyes.

 

Thinking of this, Violet, who had been worried that she might have made a mistake in her actions, breathed a sigh of relief.

 

As the mirror image girl, the core, dissipated into nothingness, the flesh cocoon, exuding extremely melancholic and despairing emotions, finally lost its last breath and turned into a puddle of charred dead flesh.

 

Afterwards, the mirrored world collapsed.

 

There was no earth-shattering tremor, the reflection realm, which naturally depended on the real world, dissipated, and the two worlds merged.

 

Violet only felt a moment of change in her surroundings, and they were back in front of the original mirror, except now there was the corpse of the flesh cocoon beside them and some remnants of the mirrored world.

 

Presumably, the undead in the mirrored world, and even those who had been sucked into the mirrored reflection and were fortunate enough to survive, should have returned to their original places. Consider it a small favor for Mr. Xavier.

 

Of course, those people might have been directly sent back to their corresponding locations in the [Forgotten Land] by the reflection. However, Miss Violet wasn’t kind enough to spend time searching for and rescuing strangers one by one. Whether they could survive or not depended on their own luck and capabilities.

 

On her side, there were still many things to handle.

 

Violet bent down and picked up the only thing left after the disappearance of the vampire-like mirrored girl.

 

A brooch, blood-red in color, shaped like a bat.

 

Violet could sense that this was a formidable piece of equipment, a truly extraordinary item.

 

It was likely, at the very least, on the level of a Sacred Artifact.

 

It could be said that it constituted the essence and foundation of the mirrored girl and even the entire reflected world. What the flesh cocoon had been truly doing over the three hundred years was nurturing and refining the power of this brooch.

 

This was probably the highest-quality native equipment she had encountered since arriving in this world.

 

With a light touch of her fingertips, a torrent of information rushed into the priestess’s majestic and righteous spiritual world in an instant.

 

Once again, the heavens and the earth underwent a transformation.

 

 

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