Chapter 197

Chapter 169: Blue Fire Burning the Moon, Blood Staining the Royal City Part 3

Pure strength collided in an instant.

Captain Gray’s sharp blade struck the black giant blade held by Teresa, causing such a loud impact that it instantly made my ears ring. Sparks flew like a red-hot downpour, scattering over our bodies and heads. Teresa’s face turned to me in the next moment, she let out a soft cry, spewing out black smoke. Her originally azure eyes had turned dark red and glaring, with the blood vessels on her face lighting up brilliantly.

“Ha!”

Suddenly, she gave a soft shout.

Seizing the opportunity before the weapons separated, Teresa crossed her axes’ handles, changing the force from a side slash to a downward attack, pressing down like a mountain towards me.

It was an unstoppable power.

In what seemed like slow motion, my right hand, which gripped the scythe tightly, tore open from the palm, followed by my left hand. Teresa’s transition from defense to offense was too precise and quick for me to react to. Suddenly, the scene in front of me shifted from a murderous nun to a cold, brick ceiling. My body fell backward—

Bang!

My back slammed straight into the ground, cracking the rock beneath.

“Cough—”

The handle of the scythe, originally across my chest, was pressed by the giant axe, causing me to groan in pain as the heavy impact and excruciating pain made my mind go blank. The axe blade scraped past my shoulder and hit the ground, sending shards of stone flying into my right eye, blurring my vision.

Next moment, my neck suddenly tightened—Teresa grabbed my collar and threw me toward the wall behind me.

Boom!

The hard brick wall shattered from the impact, pieces falling to the ground, obscuring my vision with dust. I felt my entire back embedded in the wall. Struggling to free myself, I found I couldn’t catch my breath; my chest was surging with unbearable pain, and I couldn’t muster any strength.

I was careless…

This thought flashed through my mind.

Whew—

A gust of wind broke through the dust, revealing the黑白相间的修女服 (black and white nun’s attire) in front of me. Immediately after, countless heavy punches, accompanied by blazing flames, rained down like a violent storm.

Boom boom boom boom boom—

The sound of earth and stones crumbling echoed in my ears, and the room suddenly turned into a sandstorm. The iron-hard fists kept striking my face, chest, lower abdomen… hitting places I couldn’t even identify. My body swayed like a tattered cloth in a fierce wind, pushed deeper into the wall by the brutal force.

It hurts so much.

So painful… so hot… it hurts!!!

Spitting out blood.

“Ah—!!!”

I roared in anger, my face contorted with fury, and I managed to free one hand, slapping Teresa’s face with a resounding “slap.” A blue glow enveloped my body, and the extreme cold instantly frosted the surrounding walls.

Die!

Crack—!!!

Countless tiny, sharp ice fragments burst from the frost mist at my palm, exploding and shattering Teresa’s head along with half her shoulder, spraying blood and flesh all over me, almost into my mouth.

The explosive force hurled her headless body seven or eight meters away, sliding further on the ground, twitching… and then standing up again.

Damn… if not for the presence of others… damn… damn…

“Cough, cough—”

Sand and blood mixed in my mouth, blood dripping from my nose, my chest feeling constricted, and my body… firmly stuck deep within the wall, only my hands could move.

So uncomfortable… I must get out quickly…

Sss…

Suddenly, a faint smoke rose from my body, and I smelled something burning. Before I could react, a bone-chilling pain spread throughout my body—the blood and flesh splashed onto me by Teresa ignited into hellfire.

“Ahhh! Ahhh—!”

I screamed in agony. My frail hands flailed around my head and body, trying to extinguish the flames. Captain Gray’s scythe, which I had been holding tightly, clattered to the ground.

It’s so hot… So scorching hot!!!

After struggling in panic for two seconds, I finally reacted. My eyes lit up with blue light again, and the freezing mist emerged around me once more, quickly extinguishing the flames.

The intense pain made my body shake uncontrollably.

Struggling to lower my head, I saw that my black dress had been burned through in several places, revealing the charred, smoking skin underneath.

A piercing pain.

I gasped sharply, glaring fiercely at where Lysa was, grabbing onto the broken outer wall, and trying desperately to squeeze out from the crack.

Not far away, Teresa had already returned to normal.

She didn’t attack again. Standing not too far away, she gazed at the spine bone in the pool of blood that had turned completely black, muttering to herself.

“After tonight… there will be no more ‘Boswell’ in the royal city, and may you rest in peace.”

Then she bent down to pick up the double-bladed giant axe that had fallen on the ground, looking calmly in my direction.

“Miss Silvija, you are very strong. But… I’m very sorry, I can’t waste any more time here.”

After saying this, she turned around without hesitation and walked quickly towards the exit. When she reached the broken door, she suddenly stopped and looked back.

“If you can make it out alive, we’ll continue our battle.”

What… Where are you going…

The tattered nun’s robe disappeared at the edge of the exit.

I couldn’t stop her.

I continued to struggle with all my might, using only my hands that could still move, constantly reaching forward to find a foothold on the broken wall, trying to pull myself out from the narrow rock fissure behind.

Charles, who was sitting behind the pool of blood, seeing this, began to crawl over.

“I’ll… I’ll help you—”

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud explosion from outside the room, shaking the entire room violently.

Following closely after, dark red flames surged from the exit, carrying a raging heat wave.

I was stunned.

In my field of vision, the towering flames instantly swallowed up most of the room. The fire licked the scorching heat, igniting the rocks, climbing the walls, and spreading to the area behind the blood pool—in an instant.

Alice… is still there…

“Ah—!!”

I started to frantically squeeze out, ignoring the pain in my body, digging my hands into every possible place on the stone cracks for leverage.

Come out! Come out!

My skirt was torn, my nails snapped, blood dripped from my fingers.

It’s too late…

The fire spread to the children’s bodies.

Their bodies trembled and convulsed in the flames, suffering immense pain from the burning heat—I knew they were conscious.

“Alice—!!!”

“Alice! Move! Move!!!”

Teresa…

I have never hated anyone as much as I hate her.

But at this moment, I would kill her even if it costs me everything.

Teresa… You deserve to die!!!

Suddenly, Charles glanced at me from afar.

He was terrified, his hands and teeth were trembling. But he seemed to have made a sudden decision, a fierce look appeared on his face.

What do you want to do…

In my field of vision, the ragged man suddenly twisted his body.

Dragging his broken leg, he moved to the children’s side in an extremely ugly posture, crawling and jumping just before the flames reached them, protecting Alice and another little boy under him.

The infernal fire burned his back, setting his hair ablaze.

“Miss—!” He screamed hoarsely.

“You get out quick!”

“I won’t last… long! Get out quick—!!!”

He wouldn’t last long.

The infernal fire instantly enveloped most of Charles’s body, his head catching fire.

“Ah! Ah ah ah—!!!”

Apart from the heart-wrenching cries, he couldn’t say anything else.

Even so, he tried to raise his head to avoid the fire on himself burning the children.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

Bang—

As the debris fell, my body came out of the crack, landing on the ground.