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Chapter 384 The Black Goat

Wendy raised the sword high, like a war god, and cleaved the greatsword of light in front of her towards the window.

In an instant.

Those pale, translucent faces screamed in agony as they swiftly turned into wisps of smoke under the giant sword of light.

Can······

The glass window struck by the giant sword of light did not shatter; instead, more and more transparent faces emerged from it.

Those transparent faces struggled frantically, gradually peeking out from the glass and walls, as if trying to break free of their restraints, or as if trying to drag Wendy down with them into hell.

At the same time, eerie giggles, chilling screams, and piercing shrieks...

Various eerie sounds mingled together, frantically crowding into Erin and his companions' minds, constantly stimulating their nerves and tormenting their bodies and souls.

Wendy, who was closest to those faces, showed a flash of pain.

The various sounds that kept drilling into his ears made his head ache and his mind was in complete chaos.

"appease!"

Just then, Wendy's chaotic mind suddenly cleared up considerably. The confusion and pain that filled his mind was like being caressed by a gentle breeze. He seemed to hear the tune his mother used to hum by his bedside when he was a child. The familiar melody quickly calmed him down.

This is a "comforting" message from Erin.

Erin's powerful mental strength can easily intimidate and hypnotize a person, and of course, it can also quickly soothe a person's emotions.

and so.

When Erin noticed that Wendy's mood was starting to change, she immediately gave her a "soothing" treatment.

The Pope, who was about to cast a Holy Light blessing on Wendy, saw Erin act first, helping Wendy calm down the emotions stirred up by the demon.

A slight smile appeared on his face.

But the next second, when the Pope's eyes glanced at the grotesque, pale faces on the windows and walls, his smile instantly turned cold.

The Pope stroked the silver-white cross hanging around his neck, raised it slightly in front of him, and made a gesture of prayer.

"God said, 'Let there be light!'"

next second.

A bright and radiant sphere of light descended from the sky, like a miniature sun, instantly dispelling the darkness and illuminating the entire corridor.

The transparent faces projected onto the surrounding glass and walls vanished before they could even utter a scream.

In an instant.

The eerie phenomena in the corridor have been completely cleared away.

Let's go!

After eliminating the eerie presence on both sides of the corridor, the Pope said something as if nothing had happened, and continued walking.

Seeing this, Wendy, who was walking at the front, also silently took the lead again.

However, unlike before.

At this moment, Wendy was adorned with a radiant suit of light armor and a massive longsword of light.

Looking at Wendy and the Pope in front of him, who seemed to have mastered all of this.

Erin glanced again at the corridor that had returned to normal and asked, "Are those guys usually so hospitable, locked away deep within the Vatican, barely clinging to life?"

As soon as Erin finished speaking, in a corner that Erin and the others hadn't noticed, a pair of eyes hidden in the shadows suddenly opened. As if enraged by Erin's words, the eyes that turned to look at Erin were filled with extreme resentment.

Ok?

Slightly taken aback by Erin's novel words, the Pope shook his head: "Those old guys aren't usually this active, otherwise my old bones couldn't withstand this kind of torment every day."

After saying this, the Pope glanced at the depths of the corridor that had once again plunged into darkness, and then continued:

"Perhaps the strange phenomena that occurred at St. Peter's Basilica during the day upset them, or perhaps your arrival made them feel threatened. That's why they're being so hospitable tonight..."

Before the Pope could finish speaking...

Just as Erin and his group passed a white stone pillar, a long, narrow shadow suddenly emerged from the pillar's shadow, transforming into a thick, black snake that silently lunged at Erin's ankle.

"Pfft."

The Shadow Serpent's fangs pierced through Erin's ankle in an instant, then injected a viscous liquid, resembling venom, into Erin's body.

After taking two more steps forward, Erin's body rapidly shrank and thinned, transforming into a paper doll with its ankles stained black, which floated lightly to the ground.

The next second, Erin, wearing a trench coat and seemingly having anticipated this scene, appeared in the air not far away.

With a slight raise of his hand, a firebird engulfed in blazing flames instantly materialized in Erin's palm. Then, flapping its wings, it pecked the head of the shadow snake to pieces.

The firebird, having pecked the shadow snake to pieces, seemed unsatisfied.

With a clear cry, the firebird, its claws pressed against the shadow snake, suddenly burst into a huge flame, engulfing it and the shadow snake beneath its feet in the scorching heat.

"Zzzzz!!!"

Under the scorching heat of the flames, the shadow snake, which seemed to be struggling to grow its head back, struggled for a moment before turning into a wisp of smoke, which was then completely burned away by the blazing eternal fire.

"This is······"

Startled by the commotion behind him, the Pope turned around and glanced at the still-burning flame, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

When he led his men to suppress the strange activity of the seal, quite a few people were tricked by this silent shadow snake.

Even he almost fell victim to a poisonous snake.

That's why he understood the horror of this shadow snake better than anyone else.

The deadly venom hidden in those fangs is one thing, but the silent, killer-like attack method is even more difficult to defend against.

What's even more terrifying is the "vitality" of this shadow snake.

The Shadow Serpent is a perfect example of how a head can be cut off only to have two more grow back to replace it.

Venti once used the Greatsword of Light to cut a silver snake into eight pieces, but not long after, those "pieces" turned into smaller shadow snakes.

Finally, he summoned the Holy Light, and under its illumination, he burned all the smaller Shadow Serpents to ashes, thus completely eliminating this seemingly insignificant little thing.

Even when he took action himself, those little shadow snakes took a full seven or eight seconds to turn to ashes under the holy light.

This creature, which looked even larger than the shadow snake that had attacked him earlier, was incinerated into a wisp of smoke in less than three seconds by a firebird that Erin casually unleashed.

He stared at the burning flame for a long time until Erin reached out and summoned the eternal fire back to the [Zhu Rong's Finger Bone].

Recalling the records he had seen before, the Pope asked somewhat uncertainly, "That flame just now... was it the Eternal Flame?"

Upon hearing the voice, Erin turned to look at the Pope, smiled slightly, and without explaining, followed the two of them directly.

After seeing that Erin showed no intention of explaining.

The Pope, being sensible, did not ask any further questions.

After turning around and gesturing for Wendy to continue leading the way, the three of them continued walking deeper into the corridor.

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"Da da da..."

It's unclear whether the power the three of them unleashed earlier made the demons, who had partially broken free of their seals, feel troubled, or whether it temporarily intimidated them.

For the rest of the journey, those strange creatures did not attack the three of them.

Soon, the three of them arrived at the gate at the end of the corridor.

Just as Wendy, who was walking at the front, placed her hand on the door knocker, intending to push open the closed door...

The oval door knocker suddenly transformed into a giant mouth full of sharp teeth, which bit down hard on Wendy's right hand.

"Snap!"

With a crisp sound, cracks instantly appeared on Wendy's armor.

at the same time..

Suddenly, grotesque faces and pale arms appeared on the ground, the ceiling, the surrounding walls, and the door in front of them.

In an instant.

All sorts of eerie, maddening sounds instantly echoed throughout the corridor.

While Erin and the others were distracted by the countless sounds, pale arms rushed out to grab at various parts of their bodies, trying to drag them into a terrifying abyss.

"God said, 'Let there be light!'"

Just as those pale hands gripped his trouser legs, the Pope touched the cross on his chest and prayed once more.

Immediately afterwards, brilliant holy light gathered once again above the Pope's head.

In this holy light that seemed to illuminate all darkness, the pale arms and illusory figures rapidly dissolved. Even the dozen or so shadow snakes that had tried to take advantage of the pale arms to attack Erin and his group were reduced to ashes in the brilliant holy light.

Twisted trails of black ash were left on the ground.

However, when this holy light shone on Wendy...

His shattered armor of light seemed to have taken a powerful tonic, repairing each crack in sequence and transforming it into a brand new set of armor of light.

But just as the Pope summoned the holy light that could dispel all darkness, Erin felt a sudden sense of danger.

Immediately afterwards, Erin saw a crack appear in the tightly closed door in front of Wendy.

"careful."

In fact, Wendy noticed the strangeness of the door in front of her without Erin's warning.

"Bang!"

He kicked the door in front of him hard with his right foot, using the force to fly backwards in an instant.

The longsword of light in Wendy's hand drew an arc in mid-air and landed squarely on a dark figure that squeezed out from behind the door.

"Ding!"

It was accompanied by a crisp sound.

The dazzling holy sword of light, which was invincible against dark creatures, was easily smashed away by a jet-black hoof.

Before Wendy, who had been thrown back, could land, the dark figure that had emerged from behind the door vanished in a flash.

Immediately afterwards, a figure resembling an upright black goat appeared above Venti, and then its hooves slammed into the wall protected by Venti's armor of light.

"boom!"

The moment Wendy saw the upright black goat in mid-air, his pupils contracted sharply. Just as he raised his greatsword of light to try to block, he and his weapon were slammed into the wall behind him.

As that upright, black goat-like figure tried to press his advantage and finish off Wendy completely.

The Pope pointed to the small sun above his head.

The next instant.

The dazzling holy light, like a small sun, exploded with a roar, unleashing a holy light power more than ten times stronger than before.

Caught off guard by the Pope's move, the black goat's back, with its black wool resembling steel needles, sizzled and rolled off its back like melting candles.

In an instant, its hindquarters became covered in blood.

"Meow..."

Amidst a agonizing howl that resembled neither a sheep nor a goat, a gigantic phantom of a black goat suddenly burst through the holy light, its massive horns, radiating a dangerous aura, crashing violently into the Pope.

Just as Erin, who was not far away, took out the [Dragon Slayer] from his spatial ring and was about to pull the trigger...

Wendy, who had been blasted into the wall by the upright black goat, suddenly darted out from the side, and with a fleeting afterimage, raised the greatsword of light in his hand high and slashed fiercely at the black goat's phantom.

Boom!

It was accompanied by a dull, loud bang.

The aftershocks from the collision between Wendy and the phantom black goat shook the entire Papal Palace.

Listening to the huge commotion coming from the Papal Palace.

The row of Papal knights guarding outside the Papal Palace immediately gripped their weapons, preparing to rush into the palace.

But just then, a voice that they knew all too well came from deep within the Papal Palace.

"Get out of my way!"

As the shout rang out, those guarding the Papal Palace instantly recalled Wendy's earlier commands.

[Unless ordered by me or the Pope, you are not to set foot in the Papal Palace tonight, regardless of any sounds or noises you hear.]

The voice, which seemed to still echo in their ears, made them frown deeply, but they also forced themselves to suppress their anxiety and stop in their tracks.

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the other side.

In the long corridor.

With a roar, Wendy's muscles bulged as if inflated, instantly transforming his tall frame into a muscular little giant.

With a suppressed roar, Wendy, his eyes bloodshot, suddenly tilted his head back and spat out a beam of pure white holy light, condensed to the extreme, into the eyes of the black goat phantom.

The extremely condensed white holy light, like a sharp sword, pierced through the void with a sharp whistling sound.

(End of this chapter)