Evolution game, nothing more than that!

The Cursed Blade, a weapon that has not appeared for a long time, is once again used by Mai Sakurajima.

Pfft!

The bone blade penetrated Emilia's back without any hindrance. The blade disappeared completely. Sakurajima Mai could even feel that the tip of the blade had penetrated the opponent's heart by the touch of the knife!

Following this heavy blow, blood flames suddenly erupted from Emilia's body, mixing with the dark blue flames formed by the spontaneous combustion of her body surface, reflecting a purple light.

Realizing the danger of the flames, Mai Sakurajima immediately pulled back, but the highly sticky flames clung to the blade like grease, and even had a tendency to spread towards her palm.

Mai Sakurajima had no choice but to drop her sword and hide herself in the mirror again.

boom!

The erupting blood flames destroyed the surrounding mirrors and scattered the continuously reflected ultraviolet rays, reducing the damage to Emilia.

The flames still burned on her body, but they could not keep up with the speed of her regeneration of flesh and blood. In just a few seconds, Emilia regained her full form again.

No, not completely, because a wound appeared on her back that penetrated deep into her internal organs, and bright red blood continued to flow out of it. No matter how hard Emilia urged her body to heal itself and reorganize her flesh and blood, it could not be healed.

If the wound is allowed to continue bleeding, even with her immortal body that exceeds the limits of vampires, there will still be a moment when all the blood will run out.

The "bloody curse" from the unknown evil god in the Arctic is the nemesis of those who possess immortality!

Feeling that her perfect immortal body had an irreparable flaw, Emilia's face turned pale and her heart was filled with incomparable anger.

"You forced me!"

She spoke angrily, her voice full of resentment.

"Great Lord of Change, Lord of All Laws, Weaver of Fate, Supreme Eagle, your humble believer hereby offers a sacrifice to you!"

Her whole body was burning with blood flames, and she raised her hands high in prayer, ignoring Yi Shen and the others.

Upon hearing her prayer, Yi Shen's expression changed. She was actually a follower of Tzeentch? ! !

"Can't let her succeed!"

Chapter 231: Sacrifice Ceremony, Consciousness Attack

As Emilia prayed, unusual changes began to occur in the city of Budapest.

The earth began to tremble faintly, and one after another visible light paths emerged along the lines of roads, buildings, bridges, pipelines, etc. in the city, connecting with each other.

If you look at it from the air, you will find that these lines together form a complex and strange pattern. At first glance, it looks like an abstract flame. If you count carefully, you will find that this "flame" radiates nine "flames" like the sun, which coincides with Tzeentch's sacred number "9".

——As a vampire elder who has been in power for a century, even if he doesn’t stay in Budapest often, it is still easy for Emilia, who has become a player, to do something in this city.

This formation is her backup plan besides the killing chip plan. Those lines are essentially the patrol routes of the vampire clan in the past few years. Under the influence of magic, the breath left by them when they walked through these roads was fixed and became a kind of mark. When it was reactivated, it formed a grand magical ritual.

During this ceremony, people in Budapest, whether indoors or outdoors, awake or asleep, all felt the disorganized light and shadows before their eyes, as if their consciousness was being pulled out of their bodies. One after another, they either vomited on the spot or lost the ability to move.

What's worse is that many people were driving on the road when the formation was activated, and those drivers were obviously unable to continue controlling their cars in this state. In the blink of an eye, no less than thousands of traffic accidents occurred in the entire city of Budapest, many of which caused fires. Thick smoke rose from every corner of the city, creating a doomsday scene.

In fact, if left unchecked, the end would be near, at least for this city.

Emilia obviously wanted to sacrifice the lives of the entire city to Tzeentch, and Yi Shen and others who realized this naturally would not allow this to happen.

"Stop it!"

Thunder roared, and lightning bolts thicker than buckets shot towards Emilia, about to swallow her in an instant.

However, a layer of shield emitting a faint blue light suddenly appeared around her, blocking Yi Shen's attack.

——The ceremony has begun, and Emilia, as the main priest, is naturally protected by the entire ceremony. She is no longer as easily attacked by Yi Shen and others as before.

Mai Sakurajima tried to control Emilia's shadow to attack herself, but soon found that the opponent's shadow became extremely heavy at this time - yes, something that should have been weightless, but in Mai Sakurajima's feeling, it was like a mountain and was difficult to shake.

Yamasaki An also tried to lock Emilia in the Mirror World, cut off her connection with the material world, and prevent the continuation of the ritual, but unfortunately, Emilia seemed to be connected to the entire city at this time. If Yamasaki An wanted to lock her in the Mirror World, she would have to lock the entire Budapest in as well!

"Is it the unity of man and nature? No, it should be said that it is the unity of man and city!"

Yi Shen quickly discovered the clues to the problem through his elemental vision.

In his eyes, Emilia's aura had already merged with the city outside, just as he had entered a state of "harmony between man and nature" and was one with the electromagnetic field between heaven and earth.

However, what the other party integrated was not electricity and magnetism, but the "life aura" of the entire city of Budapest, a seemingly abstract concept.

Well, to make a simple analogy, this is actually something similar to Yi Shen's biological force field. However, compared to the biological force field that has been condensed into substance and has powerful defensive power, this "life aura" is very loose and complex because it comes from countless ordinary people, and it cannot interfere with the material world.

However, when this power was gathered and mastered by Emilia, the situation became completely different.

As the saying goes, quantitative change leads to qualitative change. When the "life aura" of millions of people in Budapest are superimposed together, it is like Yi Shen's biological force field, showing extraordinary power. It can not only withstand the attacks of Yi Shen and others, but also bind Emilia to the city, making it impossible to separate her.

In order to break the opponent's state, one must either use the absolute power of the "life aura" that is comparable to that of an entire city to crush the opponent, or find the flaw in this technique and win by clever means.

The former is actually not impossible for Yi Shen to do. As long as he is given time to prepare, he can accumulate energy of "life aura" that far exceeds the energy of a million people in an entire city - just summon a thunderstorm.

After all, the energy contained in an ordinary storm is equivalent to that of a small nuclear bomb, which is enough to overwhelm the "life aura" of millions of people.

But the problem is that what he lacks most now is time!

From summoning thunderclouds to creating a thunderstorm, it would take several minutes no matter how perfect the work was. By the time he was done, the entire city had already been sacrificed to Emilia!

Then, we can only take shortcuts.

Yi Shen's thoughts are racing - literally "racing", meaning he's connected to the AI ​​and using the element of thunder to speed up his thinking. The integration of man and machine allows him to gain a longer thinking time in disguise.

He analyzed and solved the energy flow around Emilia bit by bit, and various solutions were built and overturned in his mind.

In just a short moment in the outside world, his mind had already been constantly accelerating as he thought through tens of thousands of options.

In the end, he only found a very risky method.

"Tsk, there's no time, let's just do it!"

Sensing the "life aura" that was madly converging towards Emilia, Yi Shen's eyes flashed and he made a decision.

hum!

As the air trembled slightly, Yi Shen fully unfolded his biological force field, changing its nature from "rejection" and "defense" to "acceptance" and "integration", and actively immersed himself in the "life aura" around Emilia, becoming one with it.

In an instant, he felt his life force flowing out crazily. Even his spiritual will, which had been well-protected, seemed to have been torn open and continued to flow towards Emilia.

But this was Yi Shen's purpose. Taking this opportunity, he projected his consciousness onto Emilia, and followed the "life aura" that gathered on her body into Emilia's body!

This is somewhat similar to the situation when the Transformers' spark entered his body. In fact, neither of them was an active invasion, but was absorbed into the body by the other.

However, the last time the Transformers Spark entered Yi Shen's body, it wanted to take over his body, but Yi Shen did not need to take over his body. He just wanted to launch a soul attack on Emilia in this way!

Chapter 232: Consciousness Overwrite, Asking "God" to Possess You

Having had the experience of having his sea of ​​consciousness invaded by fire once, Yi Shen was naturally familiar with the process. After his consciousness entered Emilia's body, he immediately rushed into her head and drilled into her sea of ​​consciousness with a "whoosh".

In a flash, he found himself in a sea of ​​blood.

“Is this Emilia’s sea of ​​consciousness…?”

Yi Shen's consciousness manifested into a physical form, standing on the sea of ​​blood.

Opposite him, Emilia's consciousness also manifested simultaneously, looking at him in shock.

However, Emilia, who was guiding the sacrificial ceremony in the outside world, noticed something was wrong and discovered that someone was invading her sea of ​​consciousness.

"You actually have this ability?!"

Looking at the figure in front of her, Emilia was surprised and happy.

Was the other party crazy? How dare he enter her sea of ​​consciousness?

Although she was not a mage specializing in souls, she knew how terrifying a spellcaster was in her sea of ​​consciousness. The guy opposite her actually came to her on his own initiative. Did he think she had lived too long?

"Well, since you're here, just stay!"

Emilia stirred up a sea of ​​blood, and the huge waves merged into her consciousness, instantly transforming her into a giant that stood tall and straight.

Compared to her, Yi Shen, who maintained the size of an ordinary person, seemed as small as an ant.

"Die!"

The giant transformed from the sea of ​​blood stepped down.

boom--! ! !

A huge wave of blood surged, and a deep footprint was left at the place where Yi Shen was. Countless blood was discharged outward, splashing huge water.

However, Emily Luanya, who thought she could kill the other person with one kick, suddenly changed her expression. A huge force suddenly came from under her feet, and she was knocked over with a "bang". A figure not shorter than her rose from the sea. Who else could it be but Yi Shen?

"It seems you have absolutely no experience in soul battles. Don't you know that in such a battle of souls, all changes and fists and feet are useless. Only the essence of the soul and the strength of the will can determine the victory or defeat of both parties!"

As Yi Shen said this, he also grew huge and stepped forward. He grabbed Emilia's consciousness with one hand, and then his other hand turned into a hand knife and suddenly stabbed it into the other's chest.

A surging wave of black mud emerged from the place where the hand knife pierced, and quickly spread towards Emilia's consciousness.

That’s right, just like he did before against the Transformers Spark, Yi Shen once again used the same trick and used the skill of [Consciousness Override].

Feeling the black mud eroding and rewriting her own consciousness, Emilia's face changed drastically. She hurriedly grabbed Yi Shen's hand knife and tried to pull it out.

However, she discovered in despair that the hand seemed to be rooted in her body and could not be pulled out at all no matter what.

"Damn it! What kind of evil method is this?! Didn't you say it was a test of soul essence and willpower? You're cheating!"

Emilia yelled and cursed Yi Shen loudly for saying one thing and doing another.

In response, Yi Shen just smiled silently and didn't bother to argue.

He was telling the truth, but he just didn't say the whole thing.

For ordinary people, this kind of soul battle can only be decided by the essence of each other's soul and the strength of their will. But just like ordinary people can use fists or swords and guns in a fight, techniques or skills such as [Consciousness Override] that directly attack the soul are the "swords and guns" in the soul battle, and the party holding them can have an overwhelming advantage over the other party.

However, just as the black mud that overwrote Emilia’s consciousness had eroded most of her soul and was about to cover her entire body, a mark like a leaping flame suddenly appeared on her consciousness.

Not only that, but dark blue feathers actually began to grow on her consciousness body that had not yet been covered by the black mud, and her facial mouth and nose also began to stretch and change, eventually turning into a hard bird beak.

Along with the mark and the change in shape, Yi Shen's [Consciousness Overwrite] encountered huge resistance. A power that did not belong to Emilia emerged from her soul, as if to push back Yi Shen's erosion.

"It's the power of Tzeentch!"

Yi Shen was not surprised by this.

After all, they are believers who believe in the evil god and actually gain power, so it is normal to have the mark of the evil god in their souls.

He had already considered this point and naturally prepared countermeasures.

"Only divine power can counter divine power... Although this is a bit risky, I'm doing this to save the lives of the entire city. I think that boss will forgive me..."

As Yi Shen thought this, he activated a prepared spell in his body in the outside world.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!

There were five sounds of flesh and blood exploding, and a wound appeared on Yi Shen's wrists, ankles, and left rib.

The first four were circular penetrating wounds like nails, and the last wound under the ribs was a stab wound like a sword or gun blade, deep enough to reach the heart.

That's right, this is the wound Jesus suffered during the Crucifixion. Van Helsing used this trick to resurrect Dracula's lover and transform him from a vampire into a human.

But now, Yi Shen does not need to be resurrected - for him who has the ability to control cells, this injury is not fatal.

What he really needs is the symbolic meaning brought by these "holy wounds" or "stigmata".

According to the idol theory, a fake object with similar appearance and characteristics to the original object will also inherit some of the original object's abilities.

Although the "holy marks" on Yi Shen's body are fake, they will also inherit a trace of the power of the real thing.

Of course, if that's all, the power of this fake stigmata can be said to be negligible, unless it is like what Van Helsing did in the past, using the holy shroud containing the blood of Jesus as a basis, and making the false become true, it is possible to truly trigger a "miracle".

Yi Shen naturally did not have a treasure like the Holy Shroud, but he had something else - the identity of a savior!

Don't forget that he, Yamasaki An and Sakurajima Mai had previously solved the murder chip incident that was enough to destroy the entire human world, and truly saved the world.

Even if no one knows about this except a few people in Kingsman, and even Kingsman's agents don't know their true identities, this achievement will not be erased. The world remembers, time remembers, and there are traces left in the long river of fate, giving them the identity of "saviors."

This identity is nothing in itself, with neither power nor fame, but when it is combined with the symbol of Jesus Christ, its nature changes!

Jesus Christ, the so-called "Christ", means "Savior". He is the Messiah described in the Bible who will save the world when the end of the world comes.

Although this savior is not that savior, they are both "saviors" and can be confused with each other in the concept of mysticism and used as the same concept.

The effect of this conceptual confusion is much stronger than a few drops of rancid blood on the holy cloth.

Almost in an instant, a sacred, compassionate divine power emerged from Yi Shen's body, as if it was willing to bear the sins of all living beings in the world.

This power not only appeared in the physical body, but also in Yi Shen's consciousness.

At this moment, Yi Shen's senses seemed to ascend to a new dimension. In his eyes, everything lost its appearance and returned to its original state as various kinds of "light".