909 The Captured Puppet
“Do you think you can win against me with just that? Pathetic, you even fell into the corruption, Elysia!” Xero unleashed a barrage of attacks with his godly spear.
“…” The corrupted Elysia did not respond. She didn’t even change her expression a bit.
“You don’t want to talk? Fine then, Sun and those tender Goddesses seem to have failed to protect you from corruption and corrosion. Let me beat so sense to you.” Xero clicked his tongue. He felt somewhat conflicted because he only had one choice if he failed to bring Elysia back to her senses. He had to kill her and get her to her master for resurrection.
*Swoosh* *Boom!*
Xero’s slashes split the ground and collapsed a mountain. The corrupted Elysia was badly injured after an hour’s battle with the Heretic God.
For some reason, the corrupted Elysia always failed to inflict some curse on this God. It’s not only because of the anti-curse domain, but her opponent also has some resistance to curse.
“Kuh.” The corrupted Elysia gritted her teeth. She felt unlucky to have encountered this God while carrying out a scheme on the Human Continent.
She was the weakest avatar compared to the others, and she only carried out the easiest menial missions. Still, she encountered one of the strongest creatures in her first great task!
Her current form had just been formed on the orders of the almighty lord. However, who would have thought it could become a turning point for her. She was hunted by this God of Evil.
The corrupted Elysia racked her brain to find a way to escape this situation because she had no sufficient capabilities to win this battle.
*Bam!*
Xero punched the corrupted Elysia right in her solar plexus. He hoped to knock her unconscious and stop her futile resistance.
“Ghak!” The corrupted Elysia received a heavy blow. She melted down like a meteor and hit the ground. Luckily, the soil was pretty soft, and her landing wasn’t too painful.
Even so, her internal wound was fatal enough, and her curse energy possessed no significant threat to her opponent.
“I, I can’t fall into the hands of the enemy now.” The corrupted Elysia muttered softly in pain.
“You even consider me as an enemy? Have you also been brainwashed by the Ruvoid God? Worry not. They should have answered my summons and be here soon. Your master will restore you to normal. For now, sleep.” Xero raised his hand, covered in a dark mist. He stretched his hand to the corrupted Elysia as he would have sent her unconscious.
“No!” The corrupted Elysia screamed. She possessed some vital information that the enemy was not allowed to know because it would ruin everything and foil the Ruvoid Gods’ grand plan.
“You finally know fear? You may be a Goddess disciple, but you are still a mortal.” Xero grinned. He knew the Goddess of Light might be dissatisfied, but he didn’t kill her precious disciple, and he did this partly for her.
“Just get there.” A voice like Elysia came from behind. She immediately kicked Xero away from the corrupted Elysia with gravity force.
*Bam*
Xero stabilized himself in the air and landed with a back flip. He looked at his side waist and found traces of a dark curse, but those immediately disappeared after being sucked up by the anti-curse staff on his back.
However, he was surprised to find another corrupted Elysia standing there, looking at him contemptuously. It was not one, but two Elysia’s!?
“Are you Ai, the so-called Elysia’s twin sister? You are also corrupted and corroded by the curse energy? This is a bit troublesome.” Xero held his head. One corrupted Elysia was already a bit of a pain, but now there were two. Not to mention, this one was much stronger than the previous one.
“Oh my, look who we found here. We can capture two Ruvoid God’s avatars at once in one place.” A noble lady’s elegant voice came from above.
“!?” The two corrupted Elysia gasped and looked up. They expected that God-class reinforcements would arrive here slowly.
“E-eh?” Xero scratched his head in confusion when he found another Elysia behind the Goddess of Light. “There is another Elysia? If that one is the real one, then who are they? You said Ruvoid God’s avatars… They are them?”
“Are you stupid? They clearly don’t have souls. They are empty vessels programmed to follow the host’s orders like obedient puppets. Ruvoid Gods steal Elysia’s form to use in their harbinger of doom!” Nell sighed and shook her head. She didn’t expect Xero would be so oblivious to realize those puppets were not Elysia.
The newly arrived Ruvoid God’s avatar sought out the strongest entity and tried to manipulate that one with tremendous mental attacks.
“!!!” Lifa received the sudden attack, but her defense was extraordinarily formidable. No one could manipulate her even though the current her was just her avatar.
“Hou, that’s a waste of effort. You want me to block the other divine beings to give you time to escape? You seem to have no idea what happened to one of your comrades, the first one who imitated Elysia’s appearance.” Lifa put her hand to her cheek and smiled faintly.
“Number two already perishes.” The Ruvoid God’s avatar glanced at the real Elysia with a sharp gaze. She understood that girls were the weakest among the others but had extraordinary magical abilities that were terrifying.
Even though she was protected by the divines, she was confident in manipulating that girl. Still, she would never make a mistake like the fallen one.
*Snap*
A powerful mental attack was delivered to Elysia’s mind and forcibly pulled Elysia’s consciousness into a separate realm. Twelve mental traps took effect and protected Elena from any harm, but they didn’t work out well for the attacker.
Elena looked right and left. She was currently in a place very much like Nell’s Firmament Realm. She then came closer to the fake Elysia, trapped inside a giant golden birdcage. “Heehee~ So, the previous avatar was number two. Is that a production code or a power-based code? What’s your number, little one?”
“What? How did this happen? I am more shrewd than number two, but why was I locked up in my own surprise attack?” Number Three tried to free herself from the golden birdcage. Still, she couldn’t use her power there because it was the enemy’s subconscious domain.
“You’re weak and don’t know what happened to number two. There’s no further information on her after her demise, right? This isn’t going to end well for you. We are four parallel ahead of you. The previous one was our oversight, but it won’t happen again.” Elena made a grasping motion, sending a mental strike to strangle the fake Elysia into the air. She could use her magic at will here, but it was the other way around for the other party.
“Kuh, I am Number Three. This is not going to end well for you either.” Number Three grinned despite feeling suffocated. She was caught in a trap and was helplessly at the enemy’s mercy, but that didn’t mean she had no solution to get out of her current predicament.
*Bzzt*
Number Three was merely split consciousness. She ordered her body to send the injured avatar away from the vicinity.
“Go!” Number Three opened a dimensional portal with her incomplete consciousness. She immediately threw the injured avatar in there even though she wasn’t sure where the dimensional portal would lead.
“Number Three!” The injured avatar could only scream when she was swallowed up in a super dark dimensional space, but the portal was quickly closed.
*Swoosh*
Rhea was about to burst the portal to eliminate the escaped one in the collapsed space.
However, Number Three used her body to block the turquoise-haired Goddess from interfering.
“I won’t let you interfere. She is an important factor in our plan.” Number Three spat a mouthful of blood as it received a direct blow without preparing any defense.
“The higher order sacrificed itself for the lower order. It seems that avatar has an important piece of information in her head.” Rhea sighed as she saw that the dimensional space had completely closed. She couldn’t mess with that one to eliminate the escaped.
“Heehee…” Number Three’s sustained a heavy burden because most of her consciousness was still trapped in that golden birdcage.
She couldn’t even use her trademark curse magic. Because of that, she had no choice but to take the last option. She would bring as many divines as possible to die with her! “I shall bring you to demise!”
“It’s useless, you have fallen into our hands. You are only less than ten percent for having fallen into our trap.” Rhea brought her hand close to Number Three’s chest. She sent a subtle shockwave to cancel the avatar core to self-detonate.
“Number Four and Number One will hunt you down soon.” Number Three slowly slumped to the ground while glaring with hostility at the real Elysia.
“I thought you were the almighty without needing to scheme. Apparently, you’ve fallen to that point, huh… Wait for our aggressive retaliation, then.” Rhea confirmed the captured avatar was no longer conscious. She then asked Elena to force Number Three’s trapped consciousness into unconsciousness.
‘Hehe, this went much smoother than we expected. We caught one, but one got away. The escaped one seems to be the weakest, so Number Nine? Elyyy, I did it! They don’t even know that the one they think is Elysia isn’t actually Elysia!’ Elena hugged Elysia happily. A counter plan involving more than a hundred traps of various variants was extremely effective.
‘Yay! What are we going to do with the captured avatar?’ Elysia was also happy and excited.
‘We’ll interrogate her, of course. The escaped one seemed to be vital in their plans. Lifa and Rhea will do that conscientiously.’ Elena blinked her eyes with an innocent look.