Chapter 1744: Poison Domain
Chapter 1744: Poison Domain
The blood-red poison surged like an endless tide, swallowing every inch of the second glass dimension. With the signal given, Princess Lovina wasted no time activating her poison domain.
This opened a domain filled with nothing but poison.
In fact, this domain was wielded by Princess Lovina in her past life. She wasn’t supposed to awaken it this early in her current life. However, one thing led to another, and now she was using it.
While it isn’t even 10% as powerful as the true Poison Domain, it was enough to kill even a god.
The moment it activated, the Blood Sand Berserker’s demi-human form let out another agonising scream as its flesh rapidly blackened.
Crimson veins spread across its body while poisonous lotus petals clung to its skin like parasites, each one injecting a different toxin into its bloodstream.
"What... is... this poison?"
Its voice trembled with disbelief, terror, and pain.
Princess Lovina floated calmly in the air, her blue robes fluttering gently despite the violent storm of poison surrounding her.
She knew the battle was as good as over. After all, within the poison domain, even non-living things wouldn’t survive.
And with the demi-human version of the Blood Sand Berserker now poisoned, both the main beast form and the humanoid form were subjected to the excruciating pain of their skin melting away.
It took just a few minutes for the demi-human version to die. The moment it did, the human and beast forms followed. In no time, all three versions died, and that was the end of the battle between the three ladies and the Blood Sand Berserker.
The Glass Domain came undone, and the body of the Blood Sand Berserker fell out.
Now that the battle was over and the domain had been deactivated, the other versions were no more. However, because all three versions had died before the domain was deactivated, the beast’s main body died as well.
Perhaps if one of the three versions had survived, it wouldn’t have died.
But it died before it even knew how it had happened. As they say, sometimes winning is all about having the best strategy and perfect execution.
The battle would have been brutal had they not isolated the Blood Sand Berserker within the Glass Domain. They gambled, and it worked.
The three ladies sighed upon seeing their target dead.
"Good job, everyone," Princess Lovina said as she walked toward the body of the dead beast.
"Now, we have to find a way to retrieve the trapped sand demons despite our mission stating that we are only to kill the sand demons." She turned to her sisters and saw that they already had plans to free the sand demons.
Thankfully, glass is formed from the Earth Element, and sand is a component of it, so Enzi could free the people by turning the sand into glass. In fact, she had already started preparing from the very moment they attacked the Blood Sand Berserker.
They all wanted the sand demons to be freed, so making sure it happened safely was their priority now.
Enzi had anticipated the possibility of the Blood Sand Berserker breaking free from the Glass Domain and attacking the sand demons, so she had created many contingencies just in case.
"Let me begin."
She placed her palm on the ground and started transforming the sand into glass.
Meanwhile, deep underground, inside a city built from nothing but stone and earth, thousands of sand demons sat with pale expressions.
Looking up at what could be considered the clouds, they saw that thousands of cracks had formed across them. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn’t have had to worry.
However, they were aware that they had been imprisoned several meters underground, so these cracks weren’t a good sign for any of them.
They knew it would end in deaths, so they started to panic.
Those proficient in the Sand Element stood guard, hoping to prevent thousands from dying. At the very least, if this place collapsed, they planned to save a few thousand sand demons.
However, as the cracks continued to spread, their panic reached a new level. The children cried their hearts out while their mothers did everything they could to calm them, only to give them false hope.
They knew it was over for them, but they wouldn’t tell their children that—not beneath a collapsing mountain of earth.
Suddenly, the cracks stopped. Then, to everyone’s bewilderment, the clouds began turning into glass. In fact, those who had been panicking allowed themselves to be mesmerised for a few moments as the sky transformed into glass.
"What is happening?" some wondered, looking up at the sky that had almost completely turned to glass.
Soon, their questions were answered when the glass shattered. However, instead of falling on them, it began converging toward a single point before breaking into countless tiny fragments.
In no time, a large dark hole appeared in the sky, while the shattered glass had already reformed into several spheres of glass. Then the glass spheres floated upward and vanished from sight.
A few seconds later, three ladies appeared in the air and gazed down at the thousands of stunned sand demons.
"Hello, everyone. We hope we didn’t scare you too much," Liora said, prompting some of the elder sand demons to take flight and appear a few meters away from the ladies.
Seeing their hostile expressions, the three ladies smiled, and Enzi spoke.
"Relax. We have already killed the Blood Sand Berserker, so you are free to leave this place."
Hearing what Enzi said, they all widened their eyes.
"Really?" one of the sand demon elders asked, and the three ladies nodded.
"You can go and check if you’re in doubt. We received your distress signal, so we came to your aid. That said, with your homes destroyed, where do you intend to go now?"
The elders were grateful, but the three ladies could tell from the looks on their faces that they had no idea what to do. Before the Blood Sand Berserker came and imprisoned them, there had been about thirteen million sand demons in their tribe.
However, now they had fewer than ten million left, a clear indication of how many sand demons had been devoured by the Blood Sand Berserker.
So while they were sand demons and would have loved to remain in the desert, their last five years of suffering had traumatised them to the point that they no longer had the will to live here.
What if another Blood Sand Berserker appeared?
That question made them all hesitate.
"You know, we have a place where we can take your people to live in peace and harmony for the rest of their lives. If you wish, we can bring you there—that is, if you are willing."
The elder sand demons turned to look at their people before making a decision.
"We will discuss it with them first, and if they are willing, we will tell you our decision."
Enzi and her sisters had no problem with that. To them, if these sand demons chose to go with them, it would simply mean adding more souls to the tower, thereby further increasing their man’s growing strength.
At the end of the day, the tower was free for anyone to live in, and everything was run using Tower Points.
Of course, with the growing population living there now, Gaia had introduced Spirit Stones to facilitate buying and selling among the various races.
So, regardless of the circumstances they found themselves in, they would be welcomed and given the chance to live in peace for years to come.
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