Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon

Chapter 198: Chapter 197 Moment of Decision

Chapter 198 -197 Moment of Decision

The light cavalry in the front row was enveloped by the red light and immediately seemed to freeze in place. Soon, their skulls cracked open, and their brains, sprouting countless tiny legs, crawled out and dashed along with the red light.

Their horses were no exception, convulsing as they fell to the ground, with the equine brains squirming out of their nostrils, looking much smaller than those of the humans.

This was a scene not even the most horrific nightmares could conjure. The red light spread across the ground, with densely packed brains crawling behind it, instantly shattering the soldier’s mental defenses.

Witnessing such a terrifying scene, they all instinctively did the same thing—turned around and fled!

The orders of the commander no longer mattered; they now only wished they had grown an extra pair of legs.

Woody was no exception.

Retreat and rout are sometimes separated only by a thin line. He turned his horse around, frantically whipping it, hoping that his mount, just recovered from the shock of the earthquake, would carry him to safety. But in the face of the red light, the horse was like a snail, barely making two steps before being overtaken. Woody only felt an itch at the back of his head before losing consciousness instantly.

In no time, the remaining few dozen city guards turned into a pile of lifeless bodies.

…

“My God… what is that?”

“Hey! Come out and look… the mountain is flying!”

“I’ve seen this… This is the legendary Floating Island!”

At the temporary camp in front of the cathedral, people also noticed this incredible spectacle, standing up one by one to gaze eastward, completely unaware that such a distant object should be shrouded in mist.

Busy maintaining order, Xue Quan and Haiqi looked somewhat solemn.

Both were aware that at this moment, the city guards, the Mechanical Sect, and the people of Paradise were launching a joint pursuit at the Huiqiu Mine, and the direction from which the Floating Mountain appeared coincided with the mine.

“That’s not a mountain,” Haiqi said after a moment of intense scrutiny, “It must be the mine itself. Damn it… the place we’ve been digging for so long has now flown up from the ground to the sky…”

“Gaotian Company couldn’t have done this,” Xue Quan shook his head. “Is it the work of the Heretical Cult? No… not even the Heretical Cult could, if they had such power to move mountains and seas, they would have leveled Magnificent Castle long ago, there would be no need to wait until today.”

“They couldn’t have really summoned the Evil God, could they…” Haiqi whispered, careful not to provoke panic with his words.

“That’s the only possibility left.” Xue Quan had sent several inquiries in secret to the host, hoping to get information about the situation in the suburbs, but these messages were like stones sinking into the sea, left unanswered for a long time.

“Wait, look… is that mountain bleeding?” someone else made a new discovery at that moment.

The commotion gradually subsided.

A kind of fear known as silence began to creep into everyone’s hearts.

They all noticed that the upside-down “mountain peak” appeared to have opened a crimson gash at the top, spilling out something that looked both like blood and like flames. They spilled into the sky, forming long, thin streams, and the thought of what lay within that gap was chilling to even contemplate.

A Floating Island could still be seen as a symbol of beauty and hope in fairy tales, but a bleeding mountain bore a distinctly ominous sign.

“No, I must go over there,” Haiqi put down the bandage in her hand and said.

“Because of Luowei Siya? I suggest you just wait here.” Xue Quan disagreed. “She has a contract with Paradise and won’t truly die, but you will. Besides, if you go, how will you find her? The entire mine has flown into the sky; surely you can’t fly up there as well?”

Haiqi stopped in her tracks, knowing full well that what the other person said was true.

“So what can I do now? Just wait here?”

She clenched her fists, her tone filled with unwillingness.

“Pray,” Xue Quan replied.

“What?”

“In a world without divinities, praying to gods is an incredibly absurd act because you know it’s an evasion of the issue and won’t help the situation itself. But in a world where divinities truly exist, it might not be a bad direction for effort.”

Haiqi looked at him in surprise, seeing that he even smiled at her—even in such a moment, he still managed to use gentle and steady words to soothe people’s hearts, at least Haiqi felt her impatience dissipate somewhat.

“So pray to the Paradise Master then,” he said with hands together and head slightly tilted upwards. The praying posture struck Haiqi as particularly odd, Heaven knows where he learned it from. Strangely enough, she found herself involuntarily mimicking the gesture.

“If there is any divinity who most wishes to save this city, it must be the Paradise Master,” Xue Quan concluded.

…

The moment the earthquake struck, Ge Wei knew things were amiss.

The cultists lurking all around the mine were just tools to stall for time; the real battlefield had long since moved elsewhere.

When the violent shaking subsided, the entire mining area had lifted into the air, hundreds of meters above the ground.

Both followers of the Mechanical Sect and soldiers of the city guard turned their gazes towards her—after ten or so minutes of close combat, Ge Wei’s unstoppable presence had already left a deep impression on everyone’s mind.

However, she merely scanned the crowd calmly, “Continue the attack downwards.”

“Now… we still move downward?” a city guard soldier asked in astonishment.

“Yes, this is our final battlefield. If what you’re asking is what one can do before dying, then kill a few more heretics,” she said.

While everyone exchanged glances, several shrill screams suddenly erupted!

Several cultists were seen running out from the entrance of the mine, rolling and crawling, as if some extremely terrifying monster were chasing them.

The soldiers raised their guns to shoot, but before they could pull the trigger, countless red snakes surged out from the hole, casting darkness wherever they went, resembling long-coagulated bloodstains. The cultists caught by these red snakes fell to the ground, their heads bursting open like ripe chestnuts.

This horrifying scene immediately sent the already low morale of the troops plummeting.

Five to six hundred people scattered in panic, rushing towards the edge of the minefield. Even the presence of sheer cliffs didn’t slow their flight. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

But what was more despairing was that serpentine red lights also crawled out at the edges, moving at speeds of over ten meters per second, quickly encircling the city guards and followers of the Mechanical Sect in the center of the minefield.

At this time, Ge Wei took action.

She held up a cross in front of her and charged towards the outer circle at full speed—by now, it was clear these red lights were coming from underground, so the nearest distance to the source would be jumping off the edge!

“Ouroboros, open the absorption channel!”

A circle glowing with a faint golden light appeared right in front of her. The moment the circle made contact with the red snakes, something incredible happened. The dull red light entered the circle and didn’t come out the other side. A safe area about two meters in diameter appeared behind the cross!