During the maintenance of the Miracle False Immortality, if more severe injuries are sustained, the state will be broken. To prevent Mr. Yulian from attempting to lose his life again by biting his tongue or similar methods, Xia De first splashed the silver-glowing holy water from the test tube in his hand onto him, then summoned the Great Sin Chains.
The chains extended from his sleeve, wrapping around the fallen young man in circles. The function of the 【Great Sin Chains】 is to restrict a person's mobility; this is not achieved merely by binding. Once entangled by the chains, all mobility throughout the body is affected.
"Iluna, looking at him now, is he being affected by the relic?"
Even unable to move, Mr. Yulian still glared at the two with bloodshot eyes, as if he wanted to bite them to death.
"Perhaps when his sister died, he had already gone mad. Otherwise, no matter how much he missed her, he shouldn't disturb the deceased."
Iluna said, but then frowned at Xia De's chains:
"Is this the 【Great Sin Chains】 you mentioned? It wasn't obvious in the darkness, but now, seeing it up close under the gaslight, why are these chains so... um... defiled?"
She couldn't find a better word.
"I control the power, the power doesn't control me. Don't worry, the darkness won't devour me."
"I have full confidence in you, Xia De, I would never not believe you."
Iluna said slowly:
"I just wanted to say, this chain, it shouldn't deepen the influence on emotions, right?"
As the two spoke, Mr. Yulian, tightly bound by the 【Great Sin Chains】 on the ground, had a flushed face, and his eyeballs looked as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.
He used all his strength to force out a sound from his mouth:
"Annie, come here."
The corpse bride, motionless by the wall in the Moonlight, instantly appeared beside Mr. Yulian, who was lying on the ground.
Xia De held the chains extending from his sleeve with one hand, while his other hand had already drawn an arc of Moonlight in the air. Iluna stood beside Xia De, holding the crackling golden Sunlight Gun:
"Toby Yulian, I advise you not to resist."
The corpse bride had been severely injured by Xia De and was no match for the two of them now.
"Me? Resist?"
The fallen man squeezed out these few words through clenched teeth, while the corpse, dressed in a wedding gown and looking serene and beautiful, quietly embraced him from behind.
Xia De felt something very bad was about to happen:
"Not good!"
But it was too late to stop it. They were guarding against the corpse bride's attack, but they didn't expect the target of the attack wasn't them.
In front of Xia De and Iluna, the corpse bride, Annie Yulian, held Mr. Yulian's head, then gently twisted it, turning his head one hundred and eighty degrees to face herself, amidst his flowing bloody tears and the crisp sound of bones breaking.
Corpse kissed corpse.
All the lights in the entire house extinguished at the moment, and immense mental pressure surged like a tsunami. The resentment in the whisper, the grudges in the murmur, constantly repeated the anger within Toby Yulian.
Xia De extended his silver-glowing finger forward. Mr. Yulian's head had been severed at some point. The corpse bride, holding Mr. Yulian's head, slid towards them in this terrifying darkness:
"You..."
The ethereal, illusory female voice seemed to come from all directions, and as the corpse bride drew closer, the voice became more and more terrifying:
"...will you marry me?"
"What a joke?"
Xia De slashed forward with Moonlight, but the bride vanished into the darkness. This wasn't a spatial ability; the opponent had truly merged with this darkness. This was a unique talent of undead creatures, a high-level ability that blurred the boundaries between reality and death.
A chilling wind blew past Xia De; something seemed to have moved past his side, completely uninterested in him.
"Over here!"
Iluna shouted a reminder. To their side, in that boundless darkness. The corpse bride, radiating white light, wearing a white wedding dress and holding a human head, slid out again:
"Will you marry me?"
This time, Xia De understood. This sentence wasn't directed at him at all; it was directed at Iluna.
"Don't answer."
Xia De said, gritting his teeth and looking around:
"Iluna, go downstairs to the basement and find that contract. Erase the two names, and I'll hold her here."
"Can you?"
"When have I ever not been able to?"
Xia De's figure appeared behind the corpse bride, and he swung his swords fiercely with both hands. As the bride turned, the second sword, summoned by the "Blade of Disordered Time and Space," struck almost simultaneously.
"I'll be quick."
Iluna quickly ran in the direction of the original doorway, and soon disappeared into the darkness.
And as Iluna disappeared, a piercing shriek almost shattered Xia De's eardrums. The bride, wielding a single blade, shattered both swords, then vanished back into the darkness.
A terrifying wail, like the last unwilling breath exhaled by a dying person. She had become even stronger than before; killing her own ghost marriage partner seemed to have caused new changes in the contract.
The bride appeared in front of Xia De, but not just in front. To the sides, where his eyes could perceive, dozens of identical brides, wearing white wedding gowns, veiled, and holding Mr. Yulian's head, surrounded him. Their silent, forward glide was exceptionally eerie, and Xia De highly suspected he would have nightmares tonight.
His right hand slid from upper right to lower left, then from upper left to lower right. The crossed Moonlight paused in front of him. Xia De turned sideways and lunged forward, sending the Moonlight flying. The silver radiance cleaved through the corpse that had already reached out to Xia De. The fallen corpse transformed into a puff of black smoke and vanished.
"Which one is the main body?"
Xia De directly asked in his mind.
【Look left, no, further left, yes, that's the one.】
Xia De extended his right hand upwards:
"Moonlight!"
The silver Moonlight erupted, but it was completely useless against these brides. Xia De gritted his teeth:
"Felianna's Witch Light!"
Layers of brilliant yellow halo spread outwards. Under Xia De's control, the Miracle's effect did not target the furniture in the room, only the moving corpses. The halo spread to the surrounding corpses; the wedding dresses melted first, followed by the skin on the corpses' surfaces, but it could not continue to melt the deeper muscle tissue. The sharp wails emanating from all the brides made Xia De very uncomfortable, but the corpse brides, fearing the light in Xia De's hand, did not advance further.
"Raglai's Leap!"
Xia De's figure vanished again, then reappeared behind the main body of the bride. This time, he did not attack; chains shot out from both sleeves simultaneously. Before the bride melted into the darkness, he restrained her.
Xia De quickly retreated, pulling the chains tight to ensure the other party could not escape. However, the immense force from the chains almost pulled him back.
The bride's illusions vanished one by one, while the corpse bride's power grew stronger and stronger. In addition, the human head she was holding was laughing loudly, mocking Xia De's foolishness in Mr. Yulian's tone.
Click!
It was the sound of the gaslight igniting, and the room lit up again. The corpse bride, who had been struggling with Xia De, suddenly collapsed as if exhausted, almost causing Xia De, who was pulling the chains backward, to fall to the ground.
Mr. Yulian's head rolled a few times on the ground, finally stopping at Xia De's feet. His neck looked as if it had been severed by some sharp blade. His eyes were not closed; instead, they were eerily looking upwards, and bloody tears had solidified on his face, as if frozen by a chill.
"Is it over?"
Xia De summoned the Moonlight Greatsword, holding it with both hands, ready to pierce the head.
【The traces of the elements are disappearing.】
He finally let out a sigh of relief and dispelled the sword in his hand.
Soon, Iluna, with both hands and sleeves stained with blood, returned to the third floor holding a similarly blood-stained parchment. Seeing the lights return to normal and the corpses on the ground no longer moving, she also let out a long breath.
"Is this it?"
Xia De took the blood-stained parchment. The paper itself did not absorb blood; the blood was only adhering to it and had not contaminated the text. Iluna, by some unknown method, had already cleaned off the two names on the parchment. The black text originally on the parchment, which looked like it had been branded with a cigarette butt, did not belong to any language Xia De had learned from his textbooks.
"Xia De, can you translate it?"
Iluna knelt down to examine the corpse. She had heard Xia De say that he knew many ancient languages.
"Let me see—'By soul, body, and existence itself, we shall be forever entwined, until the end of the world.' That's the rough meaning; there are many words I can't find contemporary equivalents for."
After reading the sentence aloud in delarion common language, Xia De shivered violently. This time, he did not read the content aloud in his mind using the true pronunciation of these characters, otherwise, other things would surely have happened.
"How should this be handled?"
Xia De did not relax.
"I'll handle it."
Iluna casually tossed the head onto the bed nearby, then took a test tube from her pocket and quickly walked over, pouring an entire test tube of holy water onto the parchment, diluting the blood.
And by touching the liquid with his fingers, the voice in his ear also gave a hint: this was third holy water.
"third holy water. Anyway, the church can reimburse it, so don't worry about wasting it. My reimbursement quota is quite large now."
As she spoke, Iluna skillfully took out a sun-patterned holy emblem of the Sun God 【Lantern Old Man】. She had Xia De roll up the parchment, and she used red silk thread to secure the holy emblem and the rolled parchment together. The holy emblem faintly glowed, while the contract book remained unremarkable, without any reaction.
But this was only a temporary containment method; relics related to the undead were safer if professionally contained by the church.
"It's finally over."
Iluna breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the rolled parchment in Xia De's hand with a dazed expression:
"Write two people's names, and let them be in love forever..."
She didn't know what she was thinking, but soon shook her head again:
"Love must be fought for oneself. People who use this kind of thing are truly foolish. It's finally over; my vacation was actually wasted on this kind of thing."
"Wait, it's not over yet."
Xia De raised his hand, handed the parchment to Iluna for her to hold, then looked towards the room's doorway.
"Oh, what now? Can't tonight be more peaceful? My vacation!"
Iluna reluctantly turned to look but saw nothing. Seeing that Xia De didn't seem to be joking, she thought for a moment, covered her normal right eye, and used only her left eye, created by divinity, to look in that direction. She then actually saw a girl in a dark red checkered skirt, standing there with a sad expression.
She paused for a moment before realizing it was Annie Yulian, Annie Yulian in her soul state.
