Chapter 106: The Bell of the Era Tolls at This Moment
She was born of the moon, descending upon the earth.
She was both the Moon Goddess and the Earth Mother Goddess.
She specialized in the propagation of all things, unstinting in the earth's bounty.
She was the most beautiful goddess, the mistress of the night.
Her beauty was eternal.
She was sacred, noble, presiding over fertility, childbirth, and love.
...
Professor Kazel closed the book and shut his eyes.
A Flower cards engraved with memories lay on the top right corner of the desk, wisps of green light being drawn out, weaving into a green rose.
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At the top of the spiral clock tower in the center of the castle.
Professor Didi Maxwell floated in the air, her butterfly-like wings gently flapping.
The wrinkles on her forehead were as deep as if carved by a knife, her eyes reflecting two incomplete moons.
"Three minutes left."
She lowered her head, looking out over the various parts of the castle.
When the clock struck twelve, all the ghosts would disappear.
Pandora, who had summoned the final BOSS Behemoth, had only three minutes left to defeat it.
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Headmistress Cynthia Saint Arte and others had already arrived at the first-floor banquet hall, waiting for the clock to strike twelve, when students would flood into the hall, beginning the latter half of the masquerade ball.
Princess Elisa sat beside the headmistress, chuckling and chatting about everyday matters.
Professor Thompson and Professor Pava Jones were talking, while Professor Lily Laplace lay趴 (prone) on the table like a salted fish.
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And in the secret temple.
Dark Demon, who was peeking into the temple, was uncontrollably drawn to the goddess statue.
He lifted his eyelids just in time to see the entire process of the goddess statue opening its eyes.
Their gazes met at the very first moment.
In that instant.
The thin mist veiling its eyes suddenly dispersed, revealing eyes as gentle as water—yet in just a moment, they became evil and fierce!
The fair, jade-like, exquisite face also transformed in an instant into a terrifying visage, as ferocious as a demon!
"Hah!"
Fear struck Dark Demon's heart, and he jerked his gaze away.
But when he reacted and looked again, both the eyes and the face seemed unchanged, still sacred and demure.
But the tranquil and beautiful ceremony under the moonlight had already lost its tone.
The sands of time trickled in reverse.
Dark Demon's gaze pierced the ceiling, seeing the night sky outside the castle.
Although it looked like a mere mirror, the moonlight was indeed passing through this mirror, shining into the temple hidden deep within the castle's secret passages.
It slanted and converged, illuminating the goddess statue, reflecting a bright white light.
In a fleeting moment of looking up, one could see a white dragon dancing in the vast sky.
And the legendary monster, Behemoth, lord of beasts!
Only two minutes left.
Dark Demon stepped out from behind the wall.
That momentary change just now.
Had instead firmed his resolve.
DemiDevimon flew by his side.
Between Dark Demon's two fingers, a light pink magic card had appeared.
[Lust: 92]
There was still leeway.
...
The pink mist, like a spiderweb, bound the sixteen devoutly praying members of the Seafood Cult.
The thirty-four people captured as living sacrifices had all been injected with Soul-Lost Water.
They would lose consciousness for a short time, during which the bond between their souls and bodies would loosen, and their thought matter would become unstable, more easily separated from their brains.
Humans injected with Soul-Lost Water were the most perfect incubators for demon parasites.
In the era when the demon race still existed, Soul-Lost Water was one ofadatok the most commonly used potions by demons in their biological experiments.
But this potion had been completely banned at the beginning of the new era.
...
Unknowingly.
In this area.
It seemed only Dark Demon could still move.
He walked into the temple, drawing slightly closer to the statue.
As far as his eyes could see, seven spheres formed of liquid matter were tumbling violently.
The closer he got, the more clearly he could see the past presented within those transparent water spheres.
It was the entire process of seven couples, from meeting to knowing each other, and then to falling in love.
If one could find true love in a lifetime, it was immensely precious.
They were all rare treasures.
Dark Demon had thought of piercing them—but ultimately refrained.
"How much longer? It should be soon, right?"
His gaze flicked towards the night sky above the mirror-like ceiling.
The moonlight tonight was truly beautiful.
...
One minute left.
...
"Hiss!"
Among the thirty-four sacrifices, something stirred.
Unexpectedly for Dark Demon, a black-haired girl in a Vampire Count costume, guided by the pink mist, stood up like a puppet.
The girl's eyes were still clear, but filled with fear.
She seemed unaffected by the Soul-Lost Water like the others, and might even have been deliberately captured, waiting for an opportunity.
But the magic card she treasured had betrayed her at the most critical moment.
The fan-like mist released from that magic card had stuck to her body like spider silk and was now manipulating her limbs, making her pounce towards the Dark Night Prince in the black crow mask who had appeared in the temple at some unknown time!
"Roar!"
She wanted to speak, but what erupted from her throat was a beast-like roar.
Knowing she was pouncing on someone who could very well be her lifeline.
Yet she could only watch helplessly as she tore him into...
"Ow!"
The vampire girl let out a sudden, miserable cry.
The Dark Night Prince, with no mercy, delivered a heavy blow, shattering her illusion.
Immediately followed by an upward knee strike!
"Bang!"
Having received Valkyrie training (however brief), Dark Demon, even at his weakest, was not someone a defenseless girl could easily approach.
He didn't even summon a magic spirit, cleanly dispatching the pitiful girl controlled by the pink mist.
Kicking the completely incapacitated girl aside.
Dark Demon's expression grew increasingly grave.
"They're even resorting to such tactics. Looks like time is almost up?"
...
Then he suddenly looked up and saw a giant beast head with two curved horns fly past the mirror-like surface.
The pure white bride, riding a slender white dragon, sped past under the moonlight.
"Clang!"
The clock struck twelve.
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In an instant.
The moonlight above the castle suddenly converged over a large area.
The areas that lost the moonlight were swallowed by the night.
Only St. Marian's Castle, like a giant lantern, reflected white light.
The students, feeling the concentrated moonlight, thought it was a Halloween surprise.
An unimaginably intense moonlight pierced the mirror surface, shining directly onto the goddess statue.
In that instant, Dark Demon felt something within him stir wildly!
His emotions fluctuated uncontrollably.
It was like directly staring at a full moon at extremely close range in astronomy class.
But even stronger than that!
Between his two fingers, [Lust I] vibrated madly.
[Lust III] in his card case was almost leaping out!
The statue's eyes suddenly turned to him, its face once again becoming ferocious and twisted.
But it looked more like a sneer.
...
Veins popped on Dark Demon's forehead; he felt his wrath about to lose control.
He immediately activated [Lust I], using this [Lust I] as a medium to connect with the [Lust] within the statue's body.
As expected, [Lust I] poured in like water.
Dark Demon stared intently at the statue's expression.
He noticed the statue's facial expression did indeed twitch.
"Magic Summon!"
At this moment.
Dark Demon endured the backflow of [Lust], using a normal summon to activate [Lust I], attempting to redirect the incoming [Lust] towards DemiDevimon!
The first time he encountered this, he had panicked and resorted to the disastrous measure of destroying the magic card.
But this time, he was prepared.
Guiding the force, unblocking was better than damming.
The statue was, after all, just a statue.
The [Lust] flowing from its body, channeled through [Lust I], streamed continuously into DemiDevimon!
At the same time, the statue, bathed in the intense moonlight, was also madly absorbing the essence of the moon.
It suddenly opened its mouth.
The liquid spheres generated by the seven couples were instantly sucked up by it.
Holy Night, worship, sacrifice.
The ritual was still ongoing.
The power of longing, the power of [Lust], the power of moonlight.
And the inherent, somehow fundamental power remaining within the statue itself.
These various powers continuously merged and fermented within the statue's body.
A corner of the mist, long buried in the dust of history, peeked out.
An Old One leaked a trace of its aura from its eternal slumber.
The entire St. Marian's Castle was shaken.
Headmistress Cynthia Saint Arte, waiting in the banquet hall, slammed her hand on the table and shot up.
Anna and Angie, still running around the castle, were instantly enveloped in a ring of light released by their small spirits and forcibly brought back to Headmistress Cynthia Saint Arte's side.
Professor Sarah Silf, Professor Thompson, Professor Pava Jones...
Almost all of St. Marian's professors showed grave expressions.
Only Professor Lily Laplace looked up, then pursed her lips and lay back down.
...
Pandora Dragon, having successfully killed the final BOSS Behemoth in the last second, abruptly looked down towards a certain part of the castle.
The white dragon, connected to her mind, let out a long cry.
...
Professor Kazel packed his books, stood up, and walked out of his office step by step.
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And within the temple.
Dark Demon held [Lust I] high, continuously channeling the goddess's power towards DemiDevimon.
Under the infusion of immense power, DemiDevimon's brow shone with a strong light, and a Sin Emblem, clearer and brighter than ever before, emerged.
An unending stream of power, converted by the Sin Emblem, was madly absorbed by it.
With the emblem as its core, its entire body began to glow, eventually forming a huge luminous entity.
Its life structure underwent a drastic, earth-shattering change!
From a bat-like lesser demon, it gradually transformed into a black cat curled up like a baby, hugging its knees.
A trace of excitement flashed in Dark Demon's eyes.
His original intention was to absorb the energy within the statue at the most critical moment, causing it to suffer a backlash during the ritual.
But now, it seemed that events were developing in an unpredictable direction.
Was it good?
Was it bad?
He couldn't predict.
But DemiDevimon's evolution hadn't stopped yet!
Within the huge luminous entity, the curled-up black cat, under the continuous infusion of energy, stretched its limbs, its entire form rapidly changing towards that of a human female.
It was the noble and powerful fallen angel, the embodiment of sexiness and beauty, the supremely alluring Mega-level Digimon—LadyDevimon!
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