Then let the witch offer her loyalty

Her eyes were surrounded by dense, thorn-like black marks, and her pupils, twisted into vertical lines, seemed like bottomless abysses as she stared menacingly at Chen Moxin, who stood in the distance.

"Come... mortals... let us become one..."

Chen Moxin took out the detonator from her pocket and pressed it directly.

At this moment, Annie was still wearing the amulet given to her by Chen Moxin around her neck. With a "boom", the miniature bomb that had been buried inside exploded.

This bomb uses the most advanced technology of the Human Alliance. Even with a small yield, the blast radius still covers an area of ​​tens of meters, and the towering flames instantly engulfed Annie.

Chen Moxin shielded her face with her hand to block the flying embers, observing the situation at the center of the explosion through the gaps between her fingers.

As the flames gradually subsided, he saw a figure interwoven with black and crimson amidst the embers on the ground.

Anies was directly blasted at such close range, her body was covered in wounds and torn to shreds, like a broken piece of porcelain.

Her legs, which she had clearly ruined before, were now inexplicably standing there.

Psionic energy surged between the gaping wounds, glowing with a dark purple aura due to the influence of the madness. They writhed like living things, reattaching the shattered bones, and tiny black crystals continuously precipitated from the wounds, playing a repairing role.

Anies' right eye was destroyed in the explosion, but her left eye glowed with an eerie purple light. From her vertical pupil, spiritual energy corrupted by madness surged out, forming a vortex-like force field around her, displaying a terrifying sense of rage.

"Look...how beautiful this existence is..."

Anies arched her back, and the skin on her shoulder blades suddenly tore open, but not a drop of blood flowed out. Instead, dark purple psionic energy, corrupted by madness, gushed out from the crack and condensed into twisted wing-like shapes in the air.

These wings of light, formed from pure psychic energy, are sinister and bizarre, their surfaces covered with honeycomb-like holes from which countless dark purple tentacles hang, each writhing wildly in the air.

When the pair of dark purple wings were fully unfurled, the flapping motion created a stream of air filled with black ash, lifting Anies's shattered body off the ground and suspending her high in the air.

Anies's body twitched unnaturally, as if being squeezed and kneaded by an invisible hand, her joints making a chilling clicking sound, and a low, inhuman growl came from her throat.

"Abandon your fragile shell...your finite life..."

Dark purple psionic energy condensed in Anies's wrist, emitting a deafening buzz. Her fingers twisted into claw shapes, and materialized energy flowed from her fingertips, gradually extending into a one-meter-long arc-shaped blade of light.

Chen Moxin threw away the detonator and took out something else from her pocket.

"Whoosh—" As the finger pressed into the groove, the hilt of the sword that Anies had given to Chen Moxin suddenly shone, forming the same curved blade of light.

The only difference was that the light blade under Anies's wrist was now a dark purple, covered with thorn-like patterns, and viscous energy was constantly dripping from its edges, corroding small pits in the ground.

The lightsaber in Chen Moxin's hand was not affected by the Madness when Annies made it; its psionic energy remained pure, and its clear cobalt blue color was as smooth as ice crystals.

Holding a lightsaber, Chen Moxin vanished into thin air like a ghost without warning.

Anies coldly scanned the area ahead, and suddenly, she manipulated her light blade to sweep it backward.

"Clang!" The azure lightsaber and the dark purple light blade, which were of the same origin, collided and exploded into a burst of dazzling psionic particles.

Chen Moxin appeared behind Annies at some point. After missing his first attack, he marked a broken steel bar above Annies's head and instantly phase-shifted with it, launching an attack from above.

But Anies' reaction speed was too fast. Just as Chen Moxin's lightsaber slashed down, she flapped her light wings to make her body spin, and the light blade under her wrist flicked upwards, drawing a sharp arc to deflect the attack.

Your efforts are in vain...

Anies flapped her ominous wings of light, leaving a trail of black mist behind her as she swooped down. The light blades on her wrists continuously emitted bizarre dark light, casting a terrifying shadow over the steel mill.

Each swing of the blades of light traced a dazzling trail in the darkness, and iron filings that fell into the air were instantly melted upon contact with them, turning into sparks that dripped to the ground.

Faced with Anies's domineering offensive, Chen Moxin did not take it head-on. He used phase shift to instantly teleport himself to an open area, creating distance between himself and his opponent. Then, his body dissipated into the air like mist.

Anies spun around and swung her blade at the spot where Chen Moxin had been standing, but he was no longer there. The blade merely swept across the rusty distillation tank, leaving a crimson gash in the thick steel plate.

"Whoosh—" Without warning, a sharp sound of air being torn apart reached Anies's ears from the side.

She didn't see anything in that direction, so her movements were a beat slower.

The invisible lightsaber, illuminated by the refraction of light, hurtled straight at Anies, instantly scorching several strands of her fluttering hair.

She only had time to flap her wings and lean back as the lightsaber grazed her cheek. Although it didn't cause a fatal wound, it left a charred mark on her face, and her flesh and part of her facial bones were carbonized in the high temperature.

"interesting..."

Anies' lips curled up, causing the charred gash on her face to spurt blood, yet she seemed completely oblivious to the pain, her remaining eye gleaming with a bloodthirsty glint.

The light blades beneath his wrists blazed fiercely, rapidly extending from one meter at the beginning to over ten meters in the end.

Her body spun in the air as her wings flapped, and a light blade several meters long swept around, instantly melting everything it touched.

Not far away, a huge abandoned cooling tower was cut in half. The 20-meter-tall steel structure tilted and crashed down with a metallic twisting sound, raising a cloud of dust.

Almost instantly, Anies observed that the dust in one area was irregularly distorted, as if some unseen entity was blocking it.

"Got you!"

Chapter 150 The Limits of Psychic Energy

"Shh-"

Anies swung the dark purple light blade under her wrist once more, slashing vertically at the spot where the dust had been disturbed.

The steel beams overhead were the first to be affected and melted, causing the structure to collapse instantly. Countless debris fell from the sky, like a metal rainstorm.

The light blade slashed across the spot where Chen Moxin was, and two intersecting grooves were immediately melted into the concrete ground. However, he was not injured. Before being attacked, he had already used phase shift to get to another place.

Anies used the same trick again, swinging her light blade at high frequency, constantly destroying the internal structure of the steel plant. Various metal debris poured down like a waterfall, splashing up wave after wave of dust.

Whenever she observes irregular disturbances in the dust in a particular area, she immediately launches an attack in that direction.

I can hear it... your heart is beating faster!

Anies's twisted laughter echoed around them, carrying a chilling pleasure.

A burst of dark purple energy erupted suddenly, her body transformed into a blur, and the light blade trailed in the air, leaving a scorching mark before sweeping out horizontally.

"Ding!"

The lightsabers and blades of the same origin collided again, and Chen Moxin also broke out of his refracted state, revealing his true form. He was seen struggling against Anies, and blood was spurting from the tiger's mouth of his hands due to the shock.

Anies' power was simply too great, and unfortunately, Chen Moxin couldn't leave right now.

The dead zone created by the madness will only affect ordinary people, and will not affect psychics like Chen Moxin, no matter how long they are exposed to it.

But because the Dead Zone would affect ordinary people, Chen Moxin had to keep Annie here.

Annies had a premonition that she was about to lose control, so she ran away alone to the southern edge of the colony, which undoubtedly saved the situation to a great extent.

The outbreak of madness at this location only covers the lower city area, so the impact is relatively limited.

But now Anies is clearly out of control. If she starts heading north and spreads the Dead Zone further into the city, causing the people of the Upper City and even the Planetary Defense Force to suffer large-scale corruption, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Right now, Chen Moxin, Lei Lie, and Alexander are all stalling for time for the Stargate Base, trying to wait until they get the final data.

Until then, they could only keep fighting.

Even if you get injured or die as a result, it doesn't matter, after all, this is the Resonance World, not reality.

But for them, there is still a limitation.

That is the erosion of wild imagination.

Even when using psychic energy in the Resonance World, the rampant erosion will still be reflected back onto the witch in reality.

Therefore, they cannot use psionic energy without restraint.

Chen Moxin's previously activated "Psionic Storm" talent was a lifesaver, greatly slowing down the accumulation of Madness's erosion during high-intensity battles.

Otherwise, the pressure from Anies's ferocious offensive would be too great.

Soon, the battle between the two entered a fierce stage.

Chen Moxin constantly used the surrounding environment to perform phase shifts, sometimes appearing on the ceiling and sometimes launching surprise attacks from the ground. His lightsaber struck back and forth from tricky angles, attempting to break through Anies's defenses.

However, Anies' combat skills were extremely powerful, and she was always able to use her light blade to intercept Chen Moxin's attacks.

Even if some attacks are too tricky and penetrate the gaps in her defenses, she can promptly condense solidified energy at the point of impact, essentially constructing a temporary shield to block the attack.

Chen Moxin's dozens of attacks failed, so he took a step back. As Anies attempted to counterattack, his figure once again blended into the surrounding environment and disappeared quietly.

“It’s that trick again…” Anies let out a disdainful laugh, tinged with provocation.

She used the same trick again, her wrist blade bursting with intense light as she slashed rapidly at the surroundings, trying to use the dust to locate Chen Moxin once more.

But she soon discovered that this tactic was ineffective.

There was nothing unusual about the movement of the surrounding dust.

Previously, Chen Moxin would make sounds when she was invisible or moving, but now she can't hear them at all.

He seemed to have completely detached himself from this world, as if he had vanished entirely.

Without warning, a chill came from behind Anies.

"Shh-"

Chen Moxin suddenly appeared behind her, wielding a lightsaber and thrusting it fiercely into her back.

"Pfft!"

The attack was too sudden, without any warning. Even though Anies tried to flap her wings to dodge, the lightsaber still pierced through the lower edge of her shoulder blade and came out through her chest. The piercing wound was completely charred and carbonized by the high temperature, and not a drop of blood flowed out.

Chen Moxin struck, then vanished into thin air just like before, as if he had never existed.

Anies scanned her surroundings, her psionic energy surging from the light blade beneath her wrist, but she couldn't find a place to strike.

"Shh-"

In the dead silence, a second attack struck without warning, the lightsaber flashing a cobalt blue light as it aimed straight for Anies's neck.

"Pfft!"

The blow left a burn several centimeters deep on her neck, and the ruptured blood vessels squeezed through the charred flesh, causing blood to gush out continuously.

Anies realized that Chen Moxin must have used a different, more advanced form of psionic energy.

Previously, he could only make himself invisible, but he couldn't erase his voice or his physical form.

Now, he can briefly enter a spirit-like state, a state that is truly invisible and undetectable until he launches an attack, at which point he will reappear as a physical entity.

Thorny black marks spread across the corner of Anies's eye, writhing around the vertical pupil like living things. The light blades shone brightly beneath her wrists, reflecting the face twisted by madness.

"boom!!!"

With an even greater infusion of psionic energy, the light blade extended to nearly a hundred meters, like a giant flame shooting straight into the sky, engulfing everything around it in dark purple light.

She completely ignored her injuries and seemed to feel no fatigue, wildly slashing in all directions.

The ground was torn open with jagged cracks, lava surged in the ravines, various equipment around were hacked and smashed, broken steel beams twisted and deformed under the scorching heat, and falling debris dragged sparks in the air, crashing to the ground like meteorites and creating shockwaves.

Everything in its path was shattered, and shockwaves swept through the area.

Chen Moxin is currently in spirit form, which is the power of Gu Qiaoqiao's second-stage spiritual awakening. This allows her to temporarily escape the material plane and remain unaffected by reality.

This effect allowed him to ignore Anies's ferocious attacks; even when the two light blades struck him, they had no effect.

But he knew very well that the situation was turning unfavorable.

As a witch hunter, the first thing you need to know is your witch's limit of madness tolerance, which can be determined through repeated experiments and with the help of relevant instruments.

After Chen Moxin formally established a spiritual contract with Liu Lan and Gu Qiaoqiao, she also specifically tested their limits.

Although I have the talent "Psionic Storm", which can reduce the effects of Frenzied Erosion during continuous release of psionic energy.

But Anies's combat power was too strong, forcing him to constantly use his psionic energy, and even use his second-tier awakened ability, which had a higher degree of corruption.

The levels of consciousness within Liu Lan and Gu Qiaoqiao have probably reached dangerous levels!

...

The wind, carrying smoke, swirled across the battlefield, and artillery fire rained down, illuminating the wave of dead soldiers surging forward and their morbid, twisted laughter.

Alexander and Reilly were currently on a main road in the upper city, the most important transportation hub, where no mistakes could be tolerated. They had also deployed the most elite forces of the Planetary Defense Force there.

Even though the planetary defense forces were well-prepared and had set up defensive positions in advance, the enemy's strength was still too great.

As time went on, the situation became increasingly unfavorable, with news of the surrounding defenses falling constantly coming through the communication channels, and even a lot of foul curses could be heard.

"Listen! Hmm~ I'm chewing up his eyeball with my teeth, and now I'm going to chew up yours!"

"You're all dead! Hahaha, you ants, none of you will live!"

"You'd better run away quickly~ Hehehehe! It'll be too late if you don't run now~"

This must mean that some cultists seized the communication equipment of the defending troops, or that the defending troops themselves were corrupted by fanaticism and turned into cultists, who are now insulting and mocking the "friendly troops" who are still holding out in other places, in order to undermine their morale.

Among the deadlings who were attacking the core defense line, one could see many figures wearing planetary defense force uniforms. They were supposed to be warriors protecting this colony, but now, under the influence of madness, their rationality had collapsed, and they were dominated by an endless desire to kill.