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  Teressa’s eyes widened, and as they turned pletely sapphire-colored, her entire body exuded an aura of frost, freezing her surroundings. The moment the bzing giant, yet another Raid Boss, maed, she quickly and desperately unleashed her powers at once—everything she had, all of it!

  Her Ara and her Blood Power, and also her Frost Essehe unique energy she could wield by transf her heart and refining it into a Frost Quee, the entire arm made of bzing fmes, fused monsters, and red crystals suddenly stopped midway through, barely uo crush them with its immense might.

  FLUOSH!

  A powerful storm of frozen winds exuded from Teressa as she started sweating rapidly, floating in midair, and pushing her hands toward the monster.

  “My husband gave me this territory for a reason... He trusted in my strength; he khat I wasn’t weak enough to just let it all be destroyed!” she roared. “Don’t think I’ll let some monsters do as they please in MY nd!”

  RUMBLE!

  The amorphous giant made of red crystals, fmes, and tless monsters fused together aberrantly was being slightly pushed back, uo pletely e out of the bined portal!

  “Hah… HAHAHAH! You are strong! Good! Show me how strong you are, little fme! Burn that fme of yours; show it to me! I ! I hat!”

  The Unending Crimson screamed like a madman; the entity seemed to feel joy in seeing a person’s “inner fme” bze through all kinds of stroions.

  Bravery, fear, vi, resolve—all of these things made this outer being shiver iement. It was a being of inprehensible existence, and perhaps its own perspective of the world was much different than the rest.

  Yet despite all of that, it found joy iruggles of mortals—perhaps even a meaning to its owence.

  “ you hahis too, my beautiful ember?”

  Suddenly another bzing arm rushed down. Teressa gasped, uo rea time. She jured a barrier of ice, but it easily shattered into pieces. The bzing fist punched her down, smming her into the ground below.

  BAAAM!

  “Mama!”

  “No!”

  Camil and Vd gasped in horror, rushing towards their mother, whose body had caught fire; several of her bones had broken, and she was screaming in agony.

  “Uuaagh! Ugh! Aaahh!”

  She was trying to turn off the fmes, yet her ice could simply not do it! These fmes were cursed, and her ice couldn’t overwrite the curse. The agony only spread further through her body.

  “I-I’m going to die... like this?!”

  She tried to stand back up but kept falling to her knees, vomiting blood as she felt her insides all crushed. Her regeion was trying its best to keep her alive, but the stant burning of her body weake and slowed dowernal healing.

  “R-Run away, you that are you doing?! Uugh…! This city... it’s doomed. Ugh…”

  She started to cry as Camil and Vd watched Teressa try her best to stand up, even as she was burning.

  And then, tears started falling from her eyes; her tears quickly evaporated from the fmes.

  “I’m sorry… for not being the mother you wanted me to be.”

  “No, mama!”

  Camil cried, running towards her mother despite the fmes. Vd quickly grabbed the girl, dragging her away.

  “Brother! Stop!”

  “Enough, Camil!”

  “Are you going to leave Mama to die?!”

  “Of course not, but you ’t... Just leave it to me!”

  Vd rushed towards his mother, eling the st Ara he had and quickly juring his powers.

  His Aura of Ara spread over a wide area of over fifty meters, and as he gritted his teeth, his eyes started bleeding as he forced himself once more.

  His Soul surged, bining its Aether with his Blood Power.

  “Uuuaaagh!”

  As he screamed in pain, suddenly, everything came together.

  “{Geomancy}: {Bzing Frost Rain}!”

  The fire c Teressa’s body quickly flew away. At the same time, all the ice she spread around flew away as well, fusing with the fmes and then bining themselves into a dozen giant spears made of id fire.

  “Impressive! Even until the very st moment! Your fme—how brilliant it is! My dear ember!”

  The Unending Crimson faced the rain of projectiles happily, tless crimson eyes opening across its gigantic vessel, admiring the beauty of a mortal’s struggles till the very end.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  Frost and fire bombarded its entire vessel body; several cracks spread through it, and a few pieces fell apart, but it wasn’t enough; the massive thi ing from the portal, its wounds rapidly regeing as more red crystal grew over its surface.

  “The fmes shall baptize you! Everything... must return to ashes!”

  Without saying a word, the gia ing out of the gate; almost its entire body was out now, and the ey was stantly trembling, fmes spreading everywhere.

  Everything was going to sh*t.

  “Cough… Ugh!”

  Although Teressa had freed herself from the fmes, her burned body was regeing too slowly. Vd quickly grabbed her with his arms and decided to run away.

  “Camil, Chris, we’re out of here!”

  “B-But our house, brother, our house will burn!”

  Camil anig; she had hought that today she would have to do so many crazy things, but above all, she didn’t want to leave her house, the only fort zone she had.

  “We ’t afford any more time, Camil!”

  “No! But the house!”

  The girl kept pointing at her home. Vd khat she was different from other people; sometimes she became too fixated on a sihing, ign everything around her.

  “Ugh… My son, we have to-Ack!!”

  Teressa was trying to recover herself, but her deyed regeion had ruined her pns to fight until the end, and she was now being carried by her crippled son.

  "Please leave me behind. I ot hahis shame! My husband, your father, gave me this city to protect it. If it is destroyed, I must... die with it!”

  “Enough! You’re not going to die today! Hey Chris, help me out a bit, Chris?”

  Vd suddenly noticed Chris remained in the skies as an Aura of Light surged from his body, sht that it made him resemble a sed sun.

  FLASH!

  “W-Wha…?!”

  He closed his eyes due to the bright light and eve his skin burn slightly. After all, vampires were weak against bright lights, and the light that Chris emanated was almost divine.

  “I should have dohis way earlier... I was holy afraid I would bee weird like you, Paul. But there’s no time to doubt nht?”

  Chris' appearance slightly ged; his red hair became long, reag his hips; his entire body became slightly taller and slenderer; his eyes shoh golden light; his wings, once demonic, became angelic, with white feathers, and enormous, spreading up to three meters long each.

  His bck clothes turned into white robes, beautifully c his delicate, androgynous body. Vd didn’t know if he was seeing an Incubus anymore, or perhaps a god of light!

  A halo ht sunlight appeared above his head.

  Without a doubt, Paul immediately realized what was happening.

  “Is this his equivalent of my own buff? He has... a whole transformation?!”

  Yes, this was the power of the Heavenly Demon’s greatest rival, Murim.

  Who Chris apparently ended up being his reination.

  [“That damned aura! I reize it! The Heavenly Emperor... Why is he here?! How is this possible?! Was that brat his reination this eime?”]

  “I am not used to this power myself; it’s weird and scary.” Chris muttered. “And I got eveime than you on using it—five minutes... But I think I hahis thing. Or at least, I want to try.”

  Chris smiled back at Paul.

  “I want you to rely ooo.”

  Paul felt his heartbeat accelerate as he heard Chris’ ho words.

  “Chris…”

  “GRUOOOHH!”

  The furious roar of the titanic aberration reverberated through the ey; the Unending Crimson no longer spoke, pletely indulging itself in the suffering of tless others through its endless fmes.

  Fantic bzing fists reached Chris within seds, yet the angelicubus received them with a serious expression on his face. As his long, red hair waved by the wind, he pointed his arrow at the ining hands.

  “{Immemorial Heavenly Sun Arrow}”

  A single arrow made of pure blinding light was fired, which quickly divided into four in an instant, reag all four fists and pierg through them.

  The arrows didn’t explode automatically, stantly pierg through the gigantic limbs of the monstrosity until they reached its entire body. Blinding divine light ki surged from the cracks and wounds left behind as tless explosions engulfed the monster’s arms and then its torso.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  Vd, Teressa, and Camil watched in utter disbelief at the se; it was as if a dweller of a pletely different Realm had suddenly arrived in Obscuritas!

  Why? Because nobody here wielded the element of light in such a way in this Realm of pure darkness.

  “UUUAAGGH!”

  The aberration screamed in agony, trying to rapidly regee, but Chris was merciless, pointing his bow at him again and firing not o a dozen arrows secutively, his powers allowing him to create endless divine light ki strus, the specialty of the Heavenly Emperor.

  Each arrow pierced the monster’s body before it could properly retaliate, creating tless explosions across their bodies over and over and over and over and ain.

  A never-ending rain of arrows made of light.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  The titan tiruggling, f more and more bzing crystals. It fired against Chris and called the rest of the monsters iy, which started merging with its body.

  Yet Chris remained unstoppable; not only did his bow ge, but his trident absorbed his holy light powers, being a giant spear of pure light!

  “Amazing…”

  Paul could only wat awe as if this were an epiematic of a video game, yet it was all happening iime; it was just actual gamepy, not a ematic.

  “It is time to finish you off food,” roared Chris, his personality ging and being slightly like that of the Heavenly Emperor. “Demons like you don’t belong in my domain. BEGONE!”

  “{Immemorial White Heaven’s Spear}”

  With a single and, the spear started spinning around and being even rger, rushing down towards the bzing titan and pierg its very essehe e it had with the Unending Crimson itself!

  “T-This is…?!”

  The Unending Crimso his authority over his vessel pletely shatter into tless pieces as its ford powers were quickly dragged back forcefully where its true existence dwelled, ier Void.

  BOOOMMM!!!

  The bzing titan, without a soul to and its giganti, quickly started shattering apart, but the blinding light was so powerful and all-ing that most of its body was disied and turned into nothing but ashes.

  RUMBLE!

  The two dungeon portals trembled, slowly separating into their former appearances, as the bzing aura that the Unending Crimson’s Raid was stantly releasing quickly dissipated.

  The remaining monsters died instantly, as they all tried to fuse with the titan to make its regeion stronger, but it was all futile.

  “Wow… I did that?”

  Chris looked at the se in utter disbelief, feeling rather proud of himself.

  [“You? We did that! My reination, you should seriously work out your abilities; you could have drawn even more of my powers if you had tiraining your Ki! Why haven’t you trai at all?!”]

  "Look, I don’t even know what that is!”

  Chris quickly desded as he discussed with the Heavenly Emperor, but to others, it looked like he was talking to himself.

  Teressa looked back at her son in shock.

  “My son… You’ve truly gotten... an excellent servant,” she smiled, before falling unscious.

  “Ahhh… I guess so...” Paul sighed. “Chris! That was amazing! I had no idea you could do the same as I could!”

  “Yeah, yeah, no time to talk though; I o use these powers as much as I ; I have like two minutes left!” Chris said, rushing into the skies. “I’ll try to heal as many people as I and also move the rubble if possible!”

  “Wait, Chris!”

  Vd couldn’t stop him, as the little angelicubus went and healed thousands of people while lifting away rubble with giant hands made of light before his transformation turned off and he fell from the skies!

  “Oh…”

  And he couldn’t even fly; his entire body aralyzed after using that transformation, which had even more serious aftereffects than Vd’s buff.

  “Ugh, I ’t even move my wings?! My energies are all empty too! Agh! I’m going to die from this high! Shit, shit, shit! Paul? PAUL SAVE MEEEE!”

  His high and mighty personality ged into a crybaby as Paul ran towards him and barely mao catch him while flying into the skies using Float, using the st remaining Ara within his rings.

  “I told you to wait, and you went on your own!” Paul kept reprimanding him.

  “Geez, I just wao help!” Chris cried.

  “Well, thank you.” Paul sighed. “You did… help a lot.”

  “Yeah? I sure did~” Chris smiled cutely.

  Their eyes met as they slowly desded; Chris was beily carried like a princess by Vd, making the se even more awkward, perhaps.

  “That retty amazing; I have t.”

  “You finally reize my strength? That’s good~”

  “Don’t get so cheeky about it.”

  “Nah, I’ll get super cocky about it, actually.”

  “You…”

  “What~?”

  Their faces were even closer than before, fiercely gring at one aheir faces were blushing, yet they simply couldn’t stop talking as their faces approached.

  Something ulling the two together; even as Chris had regained his body mobility, he just didn’t want to let go of Paul yet.

  “I should teach you a lesson... You need some corre, you bratty incubus.”

  “Oh? And how are you going to correct me, my crippled vampire prince~?”

  Vd bit his lips fiercely as his face became as close as it could to Chris, their noses poking each other, yet they didn’t seem to mind at all right now.

  Their heartbeat was rag faster and faster; both didn’t know what was going to happen now, but there was a sense of anticipation about doing something almost forbidden.

  “My son! Are you alright? Is your servant well?”

  Teressa and her daughter ran to see Vd and Alitheus, only to find a se that both of them ruly expected to see.

  Their lips met in a passionate, hot kiss. Alitheus' hands were ed around Vd’s shoulders, while his legs were tightly locked behind his back.

  Meanwhile, Vd’s hands were tightly grasping his butt, stantly massaging it, and as their lips savored each other, eveongues were meeting sciviously.

  “Hmm~ Ahh~”

  Alitheus moaned as Vd tinued kissing his neck, only for his eyes to widen, finally realizing what the two of them were doing, almost lost in the passion of the moment.

  Teressa and Camil were watg, their jaws dropping to the floor.

  “Mother?!”

  Vd was the oo panic right afterward.

  “W-We expin this!”

  The two then looked at one another and how they were toug each other’s bodies, quickly separating.

  “Yeah… You better expin it! You have a lot of expining to do!”

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  Pach