Seeing the beam approach them, the devil immediately leapt to the side and shouted, "Master, I can't help you with this!"
The energy beam hit Adam and Adam let the magic flow through his robe, absorbing the hit. He then stretched out a finger and shot electricity to filter out the rest of the beam.
The electric current collided with the beam, causing a huge reaction -- continuous explosions crackled throughout the air, and eventually, both magics cancelled each other out, and a shock wave swept through the air.
"Weird."
"This beam is nothing, really -- it is so primitive and inefficient, as if someone threw a ball of magic towards me."
Adam recorded his findings silently.
"Blasphemer!"
A bloodied chain grew out of the priestess' hand and the chain shot into the sky, as if it was hooking onto something. Flesh started to grow on the chains, turning into open mouths.
"Accept God's punishment!"
Grotesque tongues imbued with a strange white light shot out towards Adam, like countless sharp spears stabbing forward.
Adam fully focused on keeping his psychic barrier up, letting the tongues stab and stick onto the barrier. He then touched the barrier with his finger and electricity flowed through the barrier, immediately frying the tongues.
The priestess' brows furrowed, her body shook violently, her face contorting in pain.
Adam shot forward like lightning, holding the chain in his hand.
"How does this work?"
After touching the chain, Adam's eyes widened, "...bone?"
Adam thought the chains would be some kind of alien magic -- he never expected it to be made of human bones.
"Get your filthy hands off of it!"
With the angry voice of the priestess, several faces grew rapidly on the chain, biting at Adam fiercely.
Adam simply waved his hand, slicing the faces off with several wind blades. Adam reached his hand into the open cavity of the face, and summoned a huge electric current within the chain, spreading it towards the priestess.
"This thing is conductive."
Adam muttered, and the priestess took the full blow of the electric current entering her body. Her screams pierced through the air and her muscles tore open due to the impact of the electric current.
"She seems weak," the devil muttered, hovering beside Adam while shielding Adam from the god's blasts.
"Weak?" Adam doesn't think so. Although Adam had the upper hand, he knows that the priestess was more powerful than him. However, she had no idea how to utilise her power.
If anyone else from his team was sent to deal with her, they would surely die.
However, she unfortunately encountered Adam, the brightest student of the Moldo Mage Academy.
Blood poured out like a faucet from the priestess, and suddenly, the silver robe she was wearing lit up -- the threads of the silk robe swam across the air rapidly, cutting off the chains and drilling into her body.
At this time, William, Crystal, and Ophelia arrived at the scene, shocked by the huge altar floating in the sky.
"It's... bigger than the royal city!"
"Look at all those bones... at least 100,000 people died because of them!"
Adam imbued his hand with electricity, used his hand to cut off the chains and flew back to his team.
"Seems like they have been abandoned by their god," Adam muttered, watching the chains fizzle out into ash; his eyes landed on the statue who was holding the crystal skeleton. "That woman is incredibly powerful, so be careful. Kill the other priests and retrieve that skeleton."
With no hesitation, the three rushed forward to complete their task. William feared that if he hindered Adam in any way, he may die.
With their help, the priests fell one after another -- when they died, their corpses were seemingly absorbed by the altar; their bones adding to the altar's structure.
The priestess raised her head, crawling towards the statue holding the skeleton. Countless wounds decorated her flesh, her once beautiful face now littered with scars. However, she didn't care. She scooted closer to the crystal skeleton and muttered, "My baby, my baby... I have never been willing to use this magic -- I'm afraid that you won't recognise your own mother anymore."
"But..." she muttered, sweeping her hateful eyes on Adam. "...I have to. Forgive me, my baby, but these people want you dead, so they have to die."
"You are my world -- if they want to destroy my world, then I will destroy... all of them!"
The priestess discreetly unbuttoned her robe, leaving her body exposed. Then, she produced a knife and started to slash at her body repeatedly.
Adam immediately fixed his gaze on the priestess and knew that the priestess was chanting a powerful spell. To slash at her own body like this recklessly, the spell must be incredibly powerful. An ominous premonition rose in his heart and he struck lightning down on the priestess repeatedly.
However, before the lightning could strike, the skeletons on the altar flew out, blocking Adam's magic. The skeletons joined together, forming a wall of bones.
Beyond the wall, Adam could see the priestess gouge her eyes out before turning into a skeleton as well.
Adam hurriedly bombarded the wall of bone with more magic and found that the entire altar came together to form a huge sphere, with the priestess in the centre. The priestess' body could be seen, constantly wriggling.
Ophelia had smashed the final priest into smithereens and joined with Adam, staring at the growing bone sphere before them.
Crystal conjured an array of powerful winds -- although some bones were blown away, it couldn't keep up with how fast the sphere was growing.
William and Adam continued to bombard the sphere, but to no avail.
"Damn it, I shouldn't have used the ring so soon," Adam frowned.
The sphere grew larger and larger. It divided into itself and it was starting to take a human-like skeleton form. Adam discovered that his magic couldn't affect it either, as it was offset by an unknown force.
