Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 970: Chapter 20: Chief Divine Favored! (Part 3)

The extreme pain of near-death seemed like an invisible conductive chain, directly enveloping everyone nearby. Except for a few who relied on strong will to exempt themselves, most were powerless to resist; some even convulsed and fainted on the spot.

A few from the Joy Church had experienced this kind of near-death pain and fear.

The long whip swept through the air.

Boom!

A head exploded.

The warrior blocking Maralax was instantly whipped to the rupture of his skull, brain matter mixed with acid splattered about, and as his thorn iron whip swung around again, a Joyful Priestess’s body exploded into fragments.

Poor her with a body of slick white flesh; at the brink of life and death, all joy became void, leaving only scattered rotten flesh and bones.

The people of the Suffering Church would not spare the tender-hearted, and they certainly wouldn’t show mercy when killing.

Morale collapsed.

Such a brutal scene directly petrified the indulgent Joy Church believers. If not for the swift support of the Purple Dragon Knight Order, the enemy would have broken through.

A dazzling light of divine technique descended.

The figure of the Mother of Great Bliss appeared, her body radiating divine power, as if the Goddess of Joy, Lierla, had descended. Accompanied by sacred flames falling, the enemy’s figure stiffened momentarily, scorched by the ’happy fury,’ already somewhat unrecognizable.

The iron whip whistled by.

Maralax, with blood-red eyes, stared at the distant Mother of Great Bliss and suddenly abandoned the breakthrough attempt, directly giving up bypassing the Purple Dragon Knight Order, leaped up, and the thorny whip turned into a nine-tailed whip, like a giant net encompassing the radiant figure of the Mother of Great Bliss.

The Mother of Great Bliss’s face lost its color instantly!

She had never faced such a fierce adversary; now, if Maralax doesn’t escape, there will be no chance to.

The enemy planned to trade life for life, forcefully killing the Mother of Great Bliss.

"Wretches!"

"The elect cannot defeat the divine favored ones!"

As the Mother of Great Bliss was horrified by the enemy’s ferocity, Duncan’s figure suddenly materialized, his leap took him over several meters high wall, then burst with force, shattering stone into the air, and advanced twenty meters with the flicker of the boots of joy, almost like teleporting to the Mother of Great Bliss.

"Go!"

Duncan grabbed the Mother of Great Bliss before activating the Feather Fall technique in mid-air, then his greatsword whipped up a whirlwind, blocking the nine whip shadows the enemy somehow split.

Yet a whip shadow grazed Duncan’s cheek, flesh flying, thorn hooks stripping skin.

If whipped fully, a person’s skin might be flayed alive.

—Skinning spell!

Maralax looked at Duncan with a hint of hatred, leaped onto the roof, prayed to the Goddess of Torture for power, then pointed at Duncan, making his skin seem to flip.

Blood seeped from beneath the armor.

Duncan’s exposed arm armor seemed to shed skin, revealing muscle tissue, a torturous spell lasting several rounds, causing unimaginable pain and mental trauma until the enemy’s flesh is fully stripped.

"Constitution Immunity Successful!"

"You successfully immunized the skinning spell’s subsequent damage."

The advancements of recent times proved their worth.

Such extreme pain did not cause Duncan’s hands to tremble a bit, his great sword severed part of the enemy’s nine-tailed whip, and as he released the Mother of Great Bliss, landing with the shards of stone exploding, he seemed like a swirling tornado, wielding the sword for a jump slash onto Maralax’s head.

—Treatment of fatal injuries.

The Mother of Great Bliss finally seemed to react, hurriedly chanting prayers to perform divine technique, kneeling to plea for Goddess of Joy, Lierla’s grace, but after the goddess responded, Duncan’s airborne figure went through a shocking transformation.

—High-tier God-like visage!

A pair of pure light wings appeared behind Duncan, as his injuries rapidly healed, enveloped in divine power shining, with attributes like strength, agility, constitution enhanced immensely, and the great sword he held blazed with radiant fire.

The Goddess of Joy, Lierla directly bestowed divine grace and power upon Duncan, completely abandoning the Mother of Great Bliss.

This scene left Maralax on the opposite side stunned.

He even momentarily doubted who was truly the elect of Goddess of Joy, Lierla, as the divine glow around Mother of Great Bliss dimmed gradually, powers of divine grace continued flooding Duncan.

"My Lord!"

"Grant me divine power!" Pain Master Maralax kneeled to pray for divine power.

As his prayers rose, his entire body began covering with skin akin to purgatorial creatures, giant skin wings appeared, his hands transformed into half-purgatory creature claws, and he seemed like a dark-red-skinned demon offspring.

Figures rapidly approached the battlefield.

With two of the Five Fierce Women from Wealth Church, Upper Gold Della-Scel and Sharella-Tailbron arriving, the coin hand priest group completed the street’s encirclement.

Further away.

A divine favored one labeled ’Pain Devourer-Grey’ glanced this way, seemingly with a hint of struggle, ultimately fleeing into the wilderness without turning his head.

This operation utterly failed.

The enemy had apparently foreseen their every hidden stronghold, Pain Master Maralax probably couldn’t escape now.

—High-tier Spell Immunity.

Unlike the panicked Mother of Great Bliss, upon appearing, Upper Gold Della-Scel’s first action was to bestow ’Spell Immunity’ effect on Duncan.

This tall, beautiful Upper Gold Bishop clad in expensive Mithril armor wielding warhammer and shield was captivating to behold.

This was truly a top-notch priest who could fight head-on!

Battle Sister.

No such thing as a one-on-one duel.

Sharella-Tailbron ruby eyes narrowed, hand lifted, street-side high-tier magic shooters aimed at the enemy ahead, while several seasoned Silver Dagger wanderers applied poisonous wyvern venom onto crossbow bolts.

The Wealth Church priest group simultaneously began chanting spells, launching magical bombardment against Maralax.