The Devouring Magic Activated at a Huge Cost

The knights continuously poured their magic essence into the magic array.

Several pure white rays of light broke through the ground, condensing into the form of chains in the knights’ hands.

“Everyone, target the witch in the sky. Throw your chains.”

Yuffie’s command was given.

Under the knights’ control, the Holy Stone chains folded amidst the sound of tearing wind, locking onto Su Ran and rushing towards him.

The arranged magic array used magic essence to condense the power of the Holy Stone into chains.

It locked its target onto the witch standing in the sky.

As long as she was entangled by one chain, what followed would be a succession of chains like vipers, one after another.

Even if these chains couldn’t seal the witch’s abilities and magic essence, they could still suppress her strength to the same level as the controller.

Therefore, Yuffie, who had made all preparations, had absolute confidence.

Even when facing this witch attacking from the sky, she had a chance of winning.

In a battle of Sequence Fives, she, the Holy Maiden Yuffie from the Church, had never lost!

After seeing the wind blade bullets he had fired being completely melted away by the magic array, Su Ran was not in a hurry to continue firing magic essence bullets.

With this magic array present, even if he used more magic essence bullets, they would only be consumed by it.

What caught Su Ran’s attention more were the Church knights standing under the magic array.

The chains that appeared in their hands also contained the aura of Holy Stone.

At this moment, before Su Ran had time to make his next move, the Holy Stone chains were already shooting towards him.

Su Ran’s brow furrowed.

His figure swayed, and the purple light in the air dissipated into nothingness, letting the Holy Stone chains pass through the remaining light in the air.

But they still missed, failing to capture Su Ran’s real body.

What Su Ran himself could not observe was that after being passed through by the Holy Stone, the purple light on his body dissipated slightly.

With a part of the light’s cover gone, the alluring figure within the ball of light also gradually became faintly visible.

“Even the Holy Stone that neutralizes magic essence still has an upper limit. Otherwise, the Church, which masters the Holy Stone, would have long since dominated the entire continent.”

Faced with the Holy Stone chains that were still relentlessly pursuing him, Su Ran continued to dodge.

Su Ran’s guess was correct.

The Holy Stone was produced in specific locations, and its quality was mostly ordinary.

Being able to set up this kind of magic array mainly relied on the high-quality Holy Stone Yuffie had brought as a catalyst.

Moreover, the Holy Stone mainly had a strong suppressive effect on witches and their magic essence.

It did not show this kind of domineering neutralizing ability against magic released by ordinary superhumans.

Su Ran raised his crystal flintlock to block and parry the incoming Holy Stone chains.

As long as he didn’t activate the magic essence bullets, the money in his bank account would not be deducted.

The incoming Holy Stone chains gradually slowed down in Su Ran’s eyes.

Thanks to the reflexes he had honed in Narukami and his current body’s flexibility, relying on the hard body of the flintlock, he

managed to weave through the giant net woven by the Holy Stone chains.

The Holy Stone chains could not get close to him at all.

“This is impossible!”

Yuffie cried out in shock.

As long as the Holy Stone chains locked onto an enemy, they basically never missed.

If the first time, the purple witch had used magic to dodge, Yuffie could still find it excusable.

Then the second time, Yuffie watched her take elegant steps, using the body of her gun to block some of the chains, and directly pass through the gaps in the Holy Stone chains.

Compared to the first failure, the second one made Yuffie’s face turn ugly.

She had already done her best to face the enemy according to the standards of a high-rank Sequence Six.

Even so, she found that she had still underestimated the strength of the purple witch before her.

Even though Su Ran passed through the net formed by the Holy Stone chains, the chains locked onto him followed relentlessly under Yuffie’s control.

“This is too annoying. Is there a way to directly destroy the magic?”

Even if Su Ran could avoid being captured by the chains, being entangled like this was not a solution.

He needed a way to break free with a single, decisive blow.

[Presence of Holy Stone factor detected. Do you wish to spend 5,000 yuan to activate the Devour magic?]

“Confirm!”

At this moment, the system’s service popped up.

Faced with the Holy Stone chains, Su Ran gave the order and directly purchased the pop-up service.

The savings in his bank account instantly decreased by five thousand.

Compared to the wind blade bullets that only cost one hundred yuan each before, this was a huge sum.

His originally affluent life was instantly thrown back to its original state.

Su Ran, who had lost his patience with the Holy Stone chains, was holding in his anger.

The originally gray skill icon on his interface lit up directly after he confirmed the payment.

“Devour!”

He directly used this five-thousand-yuan skill.

In front of every Holy Stone chain chasing Su Ran, a black hole that seemed to swallow heaven and earth accurately appeared, pulling at the surrounding space.

Affected by the sudden black holes, Yuffie had no time to control the chains to stop.

As a result, most of the Holy Stone chains plunged straight into the suddenly appearing black holes.

Even the few Holy Stone chains that were lucky enough to escape could not resist the black holes that were constantly devouring the pulling space.

When all the Holy Stone chains were swallowed by the black holes, shattered into pieces, and completely devoured without a trace, even the Holy Stone factor within the magic array was completely devoured by the black holes.

Losing the support of the Holy Stone factor, the entire magic array barrier cracked like a spider web, exploding outwards into specks of light.

The originally solid magic array was instantly defeated without a fight.

When the magic array surrounding the square disappeared, Isa could finally see the situation inside clearly.

The purple light representing Her Highness Su Ran was still in the air, and at her feet, a large number of knights had fallen to the ground, their life or death unknown.

Only the golden-haired girl on the high platform, although her face was pale, still remained conscious, gasping for breath.

A red liquid flowed from her covered eyes.

At this moment, Yuffie was able to remain conscious thanks to her powerful Sequence Five spirit, and the fact that she had not truly manipulated the Holy Stone chains.

The Holy Stone chains in the magic array not only extracted the Holy Stone factor, but each chain was also fused with the knights’ own magic essence and spiritual power, containing their firm will to exterminate witches.

If things had gone according to plan, Yuffie would have used her spiritual power to guide these chains to bind the enemy, and the remaining matters would be completed by the spirits of the knights within the chains.

She could then withdraw and focus wholeheartedly on the enemy.

But she had never expected that Su Ran could twice dodge the pursuit under her spiritual lock, and at the same time, turn around and devour all the chains.

The devoured Holy Stone chains contained the spirits of the knights.

Although this was only a part of their souls, it was enough to deal them a heavy blow.

Making no progress in the days to come would be a relatively light consequence.

More seriously, they might remain in a coma until they died.

Yuffie had no time to worry about others, because at this moment, she was being pointed at between the eyebrows by the purple witch with a crystal flintlock.

Having arrived on the stage, Su Ran said faintly, “Let the witch go.”

“Dream on. Even if you kill me, I will never let the witch go!”

Facing Su Ran’s weapon, Yuffie, who was enduring the backlash, had a pale face but forced herself to remain calm.

The dignity of a Holy Maiden did not allow her to bow her head to a witch.