Abyssal Chronicles

Inside the floating Sky City, after the battlefield between Yumo and Asar had shifted, Xizhi, leader of the Nightingales, forcibly tore through the city’s defenses with Liyu’s help. Since Asar had become an enemy, it was only natural for their Black Rose family to reclaim control.

Using the Sky City’s ’Divine Cannon’ to aid Yumo was Xizhi’s primary objective in charging in. Any guards who dared obstruct them were mercilessly cut down by Xizhi and her Nightingales.

However, as Xizhi rushed toward the central control room, a painful groan from afar caught her attention.

"Hmm?"

She spotted a delicate-looking maid writhing on the ground, letting out heart-wrenching screams as if in tremendous pain.

Xizhi wasn’t some bleeding heart, and with her urgent mission, she couldn’t be bothered with some randomly wailing maid.

Yet just as she made this judgment, she witnessed something bizarre.

Without warning, platinum-colored otherworldly flames suddenly erupted on the maid’s body! The flames spread rapidly, consuming her entirely... In moments, only black ash remained where she had been.

"What... what the hell?"

Xizhi stopped in her tracks, muttering in confusion.

…

Meanwhile, on the Dead Sea battlefield, Asar gave no response to Momo’s question. Instead, she gripped her massive scythe and launched a lightning-fast assault. Eos followed her master’s lead, unleashing her power to join the fight.

On the other side, facing these two going all out, Momo dared not hold back either. She immediately summoned Yue from her internal space, transforming her into sword mode.

In that instant, the sky blazed with three colors of energy - crimson, platinum, and pale white - rapidly expanding and contracting with terrifying destructive force.

In mere seconds, thousands of exchanges occurred between them.

Amidst the dance of blades and light, all life turned to ash.

Unlike before, Asar now seemed unconcerned with controlling her power, each strike aimed at Momo’s vital points. Though she had roughly figured out Momo’s ability, she attacked fearlessly anyway.

Under Asar’s command, Eos too launched hysterical attacks with complete disregard for death.

Facing these two, Momo gritted her teeth and ruthlessly reversed their attacks back at them. No matter the intensity - be it normal slashes, energy blasts, or colorful magic attacks - she turned everything back on her enemies.

After all, with her ability discovered, there was no point in hiding anymore.

For a time, a bizarre scene played out in the sky.

Asar and Eos continuously launched lethal attacks at the black-haired girl, but after each assault, they were the ones blown to bits while their target remained unscathed.

However, after being blasted to pieces, Asar’s body would regenerate in an unnatural way, while Eos would emerge unharmed from her magic mirror.

Then they would attack again, fall the same way, and revive once more...

The battle had fallen into an endless, bizarre cycle.

"For fucking sake, this never ends!!!"

After blocking Asar’s scythe, Momo whirled her thin sword at incredible speed, instantly cutting Asar’s body into tens of thousands of pieces.

Yet for Asar, who could regenerate even from ash, being cut to pieces was just a minor wound that healed in the blink of an eye.

The next moment, under Momo’s grave gaze, Asar’s body instantly reassembled.

An eight-armed Asura manifested at Asar’s summons, suddenly unleashing dozens of divine light beams as counterattack.

"BOOM!!"

With a series of explosions, the black-haired girl was blown backwards.

In that instant of Momo being blasted away, Eos- whose upper body had just been blown off by Momo - walked out of the magic mirror again, flash-stepping behind Momo to fire two point-blank super-powered Shadow Annihilation beams. Of course, under Momo’s power, it was Eos herself who ended up pulverized.

Momo used the explosion’s aftermath to put distance between herself and both Eos and Asar.

Staring at Eos emerging from the mirror for the eleventh time, Momo bit her lip in frustration.

"FUCKING HELL!"

Momo shouted in exasperation.

"WILL THIS EVER FUCKING END?!?!"

With her roar, hundreds of Shadow Annihilation beams accompanied by blood butterflies rained down majestically on Eos and Asar’s positions in a massive barrage.

Compared to Momo’s rage, Yumo in their shared consciousness was calmer, though her expression was unprecedentedly grave and filled with deep unease. Still, she kept taking deep breaths, studying the scene for any weakness.

Watching Eos and Asar engulfed by Shadow Annihilation, Yumo showed no relief.

From the dozens of previous attempts, Yumo knew these two couldn’t be eliminated so easily.

First was Eos- under Asar’s command, she seemed to have abandoned defense entirely to focus all power on attacking Momo.

Thus, once Causal Reversal activated, Momo could instantly kill her.

However, no matter how many times she was killed, Eos would walk out of the mirror completely unharmed.

She just wouldn’t stay dead...

In that moment, Yumo seemed to understand why the Goddess had sealed Eos away.

Her power? It must be something like infinite regeneration, right?

If even the Goddess couldn’t kill Eos, then no matter how hard they tried, it would be useless.

In that case, we should focus our attacks on Asar. Once we defeated and eliminated Asar, Eos would naturally stop attacking without her master’s commands.

But the problem was...

"This damn Chosen One just won’t die either!!"

Momo’s agitated voice echoed through their shared consciousness.

"Don’t tell me she has infinite life power too?! This never fucking ends!!"

"No, I don’t think... that’s it..."

Shaking her head, Yumo spoke softly with a grim expression.

"The Chosen One’s weapon, that scythe - didn’t you cut it several times? But... the next second, it was like it reset, becoming completely whole again. If it were infinite life power, it shouldn’t work on objects. The same with Asar’s armor - it was melted, but instantly restored."

"Then what the hell is her power?!"

"I..."

--

…

"The Price of Blood."

"What?!"

"It’s the Radiant Emperor’s power. As his heir, Asar must have inherited the same ability."

Hearing Mengxi’s words, Xiao’s eyes showed disbelief, seemingly surprised that Mengxi knew about Asar’s power. But there was no time to investigate further - from the projected screen, Yumo was clearly being pushed into a defensive position.

The next moment, Xiao grabbed Mengxi’s shoulder and demanded seriously:

"What kind of power is it?!"

"It’s complicated... Simply put, it lets her substitute her possessions to take damage in her place. For example, just now when Asar’s scythe was broken, she could sacrifice another weapon bearing her soul essence to prevent the scythe’s destruction. In other words, letting insignificant weapons take the damage meant for divine weapons. It works the same with life - when Asar dies, she can force another being marked with her soul power to sacrifice itself, rewriting her death and effectively resurrecting."

"Sacrificing others??"

Silently repeating Mengxi’s words, Xiao’s mind began racing.

The earlier report from Xizhi echoed in his mind:

"My Lord, several maids, servants, and generals in Sky City just died mysteriously. That brat Asar seems to have placed some curse on them?"

Sacrifice?

Substituting death?

Mysterious deaths?

Curse?

No, that’s not a curse...

In an instant, a cold light flashed in Xiao’s eyes as he gazed toward Sky City with a look so frigid it could freeze one’s breath. If that’s how it is...

"Xizhi, Mingtong... kill everyone in Sky City! Men, women, old, young - slaughter them all!! Right now! Immediately!!"