Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 130 Degenerate into an Egg, The Heart of a Demon

"Light of the Sky has hit the target!" Uriel's voice echoed within the temple, his glasses reflecting a blinding white light.

Remiel stood before the mirror of holy light, his pupils reflecting the scene of destruction.

A giant beam of light plunged into the Mediterranean Sea.

First, a blinding white light swallowed all colors, then a circular shockwave spread out from the center of the beam of light.

The sea surface sank into a giant crater hundreds of kilometers in diameter in a fraction of a second, a scene resembling a giant scooping a piece out of the sea with an invisible ladle.

Hundreds of millions of tons of seawater vaporized directly, turning into a white wall of mist that blotted out the sky and rose into the air. This white pillar connecting heaven and earth could be seen from hundreds of kilometers away.

“The seabed rock layers have been eroded away,” Uriel said in a low voice. “All life signals have disappeared.”

Far's fists clenched so tightly they cracked: "Looks like even these insects can't withstand the power of light magic!"

As the mirror screen zoomed in, tens of thousands of Void Worms were writhing wildly in the seawater at the edge of the pillar of light, releasing wave after wave of energy from their bodies.

"Fortunately, we didn't launch a rash attack. Even if we managed to wipe out this swarm of insects, the Holy City would still suffer significant losses."

"These damn bugs are more dangerous than we thought! Where did they come from?"

Just when everyone thought the threat had been eliminated, an unexpected change occurred.

As the energy of the destructive pillar of light gradually dissipated, the evaporated seawater began to flow back, forming towering waves that filled the terrifying crater.

But what's even more chilling is the change in the seabed.

Those Void Worms that should have been wiped out have survived in another form.

In the core area bombarded by the beam of light, the seabed rock layers had crystallized, turning an eerie purplish-black color.

This crystallized "death zone" was covered with translucent purple insect eggs.

These insect eggs vary in size, exhibiting a disturbing diversity.

The tiny insect eggs are only the size of chicken eggs. They are densely packed on the rocks on the seabed, and their numbers are impossible to count.

These tiny insect eggs are covered with intricate honeycomb patterns, with dark purple energy flowing through each hexagonal grid.

Through the translucent eggshell, the outline of the larva inside can be seen changing at an astonishing speed—sometimes resembling the tentacles of a siren, sometimes transforming into the segmented limbs of a void worm.

The medium-sized eggs are about the size of an adult human, with a translucent shell that vaguely reveals a strange, winged creature curled up inside.

The largest insect egg throbbed eerily, like the heart of a demon.

It stands five meters tall and is covered with a purple membrane resembling biological tissue. Beneath the membrane, countless coarse, blood vessel-like patterns are clearly visible, and a viscous, purplish-black liquid flows within it.

Unlike other insect eggs with smooth surfaces, the shell of this giant insect egg is covered with uneven, fleshy protrusions.

Each tumor has a closed eyeball at its top. These eyeballs will suddenly open from time to time, revealing a scarlet pupil, and then quickly close again.

A viscous black liquid continuously seeps from the surface of the eggshell, forming wispy strands in the seawater, like the hair of a demon.

And its location—was right at the center of the bombardment by the light from the sky.

Logically, this place should have withstood the most powerful energy impact, but the insect egg was completely intact, and golden patterns similar to the Sky Array appeared on its shell.

Clearly, it converted some of the Holy City's attack energy into nutrients for its own evolution.

At the same time, these insect eggs all have one thing in common: they are all breathing.

The honeycomb pattern on the eggshell expands and contracts rhythmically. Each contraction draws energy from the void, while each expansion releases purple mist. This mist forms eerie purple clouds in the seawater.

“This is impossible.” Uriel’s voice trembled, a rare occurrence. “The Light of the Azure Sky is a supreme magic array capable of slaying emperors and demons. How could they possibly…”

"How could they possibly survive such a magical attack?"

These Void Worms in the Mediterranean evolved after devouring tens of thousands of sirens in the Indian Ocean.

When Voidworms suffer a fatal blow, they activate a unique survival mechanism.

First, it discarded the power of the siren it had devoured, and its enormous body began to shrink rapidly; then, it shed all its foreign features, and its carapace peeled away layer by layer; finally, it returned to its most primitive form as a void worm.

If attacked again, it will curl up into a purple egg and wait to be reborn.

This terrifying evolutionary process allows them to retain the purest essence of life even under the threat of any devastating blow.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, Void Worms cannot be killed.

Just then, the enormous insect egg, which resembled the heart of a demon, suddenly began to tremble violently.

Its deep purple surface revealed menacing vein patterns, and each pulsation produced a deafening "thump-thump" sound, like the heartbeat of an ancient behemoth.

With each heartbeat, the blood vessels on the surface of the insect eggs become even more vivid and striking.

The previously tightly closed tumor-like eyeballs suddenly opened wide, their scarlet pupils turning in unison towards the Holy City.

"Boom!"

It was another, even stronger pulse.

This time, the entire seabed was shaken, and the smaller insect eggs burst open, their internal purple energy being absorbed by the giant insect eggs like rivers flowing into the sea.

The cracks on the surface of the eggshell were increasing, and something inside could be vaguely seen struggling frantically.

"It's about to hatch! We must destroy it now!"

At that moment, Archangel Raphael, who had been standing silently in the holy light, suddenly stepped forward, his pure white robes fluttering without wind.

His face was shrouded in a soft halo, yet it exuded a suffocating majesty.

“I’ll go.”

The two simple words silenced the entire temple.

Raphael slowly unfurled the wings of light on his back—one pair, two pairs, three pairs. A total of seven pairs of wings unfolded in succession, and the fourteen wings of light illuminated the entire temple like burning holy flames.

Each wing radiates a sacred light, with the outermost wing edges displaying a translucent gold, while the innermost wing is almost pure white, exuding a breathtakingly pure aura.

The overwhelming power of the fourteen-winged seraph invigorated many of the clergy around the temple.

Raphael gently flapped his wings, and countless feathers of light drifted down.

He said nothing more, only nodded slightly towards the Mediterranean Sea, and all fourteen wings flapped simultaneously—

In an instant, his figure transformed into a dazzling golden streak of light, and wherever he passed, the clouds parted automatically, as if the entire sky was making way for this supreme seraph.

Behind him, the afterimages of fourteen wings of light lingered for a long time, intertwining into a sacred cross-shaped star pattern above the holy city.

(End of this chapter)