When the plot-skips players into the game world

Chapter 389: Chapter 297: The BOSS Learned to Jump Mechanisms Chapter 389: Chapter 297: The BOSS Learned to Jump Mechanisms After Aiwass channelled mana into it, a slight squeeze of three fingers sent the red card, bursting with flame streams, flying directly out of his hand.

The butterfly card spun through the air, spewing forth gold and red flames as it flew, transforming into a disc ablaze with fire.

It spun out of the tattered doorway, and then flames erupted from its center—

Four deep red butterfly wings, as ghastly as the setting sun, emerged, with the outermost layer pure black ash.

As it burned, it continuously shed black ash like snow, while in the middle, a girl curled up like a baby slowly opened her body and stretched herself out.

She had initially appeared younger than Yulia, but now she seemed about the same age.

She still wore a black, widow-like dress ablaze with fire, though her stature had grown somewhat taller, increasing from eighty centimeters to approximately one meter thirty-four.

Her black hair fell to her ankles, moving without wind.

Her dark red pupils were filled with murderous intent.

The moment the Defiant Flame Butterfly appeared, it immediately opened its mouth, and a lava-like glow condensed at its lips.

The light rapidly expanded, and a searing deep red flame stream burst forth!

The heatwave whipped up a storm, blowing the surrounding dust and broken grass in all directions, even flattening the grass about half a meter beneath the Defiant Flame Butterfly, which trembled violently.

Then, before the eye could catch, the grass turned yellow and spontaneously combusted.

And the flame stream struck solidly into the crowd—

The Demon Scholars had not anticipated that breaking into a village house would suddenly unleash a powerful and hostile Phantom Demon.

Their protective rituals had been prepared to resist bullets, arrows, and explosives—after all, even a Fourth Power Level fighter was unlikely to advance unharmed through a horde of demons.

To threaten them, the best method was remote attacks.

This was why they had specially arranged countermeasures in advance.

All of this was the result of training from battle after battle.

However, their protections were entirely useless against the Defiant Flame Butterfly.

As the Defiant Flame Butterfly slowly rotated its flame stream—what was just a slight turn at its end turned into several meters of displacement.

Those people screamed miserably as they were scorched, their bodies catching fire and turning to charred remains.

In just an instant, the Defiant Flame Butterfly had already killed five or six people!

After releasing the Defiant Flame Butterfly, Aiwass immediately turned to Lily and commanded, “Go into the shadows first, Lily.”

“Yes.”

Lily hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

Seeing Aiwass suddenly attacked and even nearly injured while protecting her, rage flared within her heart.

This reaction was unrelated to the resonance with the Path of Adaptation, but rather stemmed from the influence of the Path of Love.

Yet Lily did not lose her reason.

She was, after all, only a Second Power Level assassin and witch.

Even with the trump card of transforming into a werewolf, it hardly made a difference in a large-scale battle of that nature.

She would only burden Aiwass, requiring the Shadow Demon to protect yet another person.

So Lily slipped into the shadow beneath Aiwass’s feet, and the Shadow Demon originally concealed within her returned to Aiwass as well.

Feeling the re-established connection with the Shadow Demon, and the rage sensed through that link, Aiwass too felt a tinge of regret.

If only he had the Shepherd’s Nurturing Skill at this moment…

maybe then he would be able to calm the Shadow Demon down.

—This ritual is too bothersome.

Aiwass even felt his own temper worsening a bit.

“Prioritize destroying the rituals, Defiant Flame Butterfly,” Aiwass ordered the Little Butterfly and then commanded the Shadow Demon, “Protect me well, Shadow Demon—I allow you to devour them.”

“At this point, I have lost all interest in such rotten flesh, my dear master…”

The Shadow Demon emitted an increasingly hoarse and desperate laugh, “You’ve really whetted my appetite…”

The pitch-black shadows that were like a muddy swamp churned and boiled, beginning to slowly spread across the ground.

In the next moment, a Shadow Wolf with ferocious shadowy tentacles all over its body and eyes glowing blood red slowly emerged.

This was a form the Shadow Demon had never shown before—

Just then, the wooden door, already shattered by fireballs, was violently kicked open from the outside!

An Aberrant Limb Demon, along with two crawler demons with wings-like appendages, rushed in, baring their teeth and claws.

The enemy’s strategic thinking was very clear—without any commands, at least three Demon Scholars realized immediately that the Defiant Flame Butterfly in its butterfly form might be a product of the ritual.

If it was summoned by a ritual…

whether it was a prayer from the Path of Devotion or a Curse Ritual Magician’s ceremony, disrupting the ritual site could cause it to dissipate!

So they didn’t test attack the Defiant Flame Butterfly but instead turned around intending to cut off Aiwass and disrupt the ritual!

If the Shadow Demon hadn’t been there, they might have actually succeeded.

However, now Aiwass didn’t even need to issue commands.

A sharp shadow fin, like those that rise from the sea, sliced swiftly—cutting the Aberrant Limb Demon cleanly in two!

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Its tentacles transformed into numerous sharp and slender shadow spears, making itself resemble a sea urchin, and instantly impaled the bodies of the two crawler demons!

The shadows, carrying strong corrosive power, rapidly corroded and destroyed their bodies.

Meanwhile, Aiwass did not rashly rush out of the room and expose himself to the Demon Scholars’ view but instead cautiously crouched in the corner of the house, watching the outside battle through the decrepit window with his peripheral vision.

The Fifth Power Level Demon Scholars still presented a bit of a problem.

After creating considerable casualties at the start, the damage from the Defiant Flame Butterfly was quickly suppressed—the Giant swiftly erected a Flame Nullification Barrier.

The deep red barrier effectively weakened the temperature of the Defiant Flame Butterfly’s flame stream.

What originally had been a concentrated and intense flame stream, akin to a laser beam, became a dispersed flicker of flames after passing through the barrier.

The temperature remained high but had lost its penetrative force.

This was because the Defiant Flame Butterfly’s standing was high enough—if it hadn’t been marked as a Superior Phantom, it probably wouldn’t have become a flicker of flames but would have been outright blocked by the barrier.

Even so, the enemy couldn’t inflict effective counterattacks on it.

After all, the Defiant Flame Butterfly could fly, and it was quite fast at that.

Under Aiwass’s careful guidance during regular blood-feedings, it no longer fought on instinct alone—in simple terms, it had learned to bypass systems.

Now, like a bomber, it opened the eerie eyes on its twelve butterfly wings.

While swiftly flying to dodge spells, it let the twelve eyes continuously shoot out lasers.

It was very smart, targeting the foundation of the rituals.

Its attacks still had power to spare after piercing the Flame Nullification Barrier, thus they could damage the core components of the rituals.

Just two strafing runs, and the barrier visibly started to become transparent.

Even while under the Flame Nullification Barrier, it managed to kill two more people.

Seeing this, the Giant finally realized—this was a Superior Phantom.

A Fourth Power Level Superior Phantom, an enemy roughly at his own level.

If he wanted to keep hiding his true power, it was no longer possible.

And to exert strength above the Fourth Power Level…

the Demon Scholars were not enough.

—It had to be a Demon Incarnation.