The Wicked Saintess Who Transmigrated into the Book Will Never Reveal Her Secret Identity

Chapter 57 : The City Overrun with Corrupted Monsters

The City Overrun with Corrupted Monsters==================================

"Tch, how noisy and annoying."

Jiang Cheng curled her lips and snapped her fingers.

In the next second, the corrupted monster leaping at her seemed to slam into an invisible wall and froze mid-air, before shattering into countless pieces that rained onto the ground.

"Lyle,"

Jiang Cheng turned her head, her gray-white hair swirling in the tempest of magic tides within the Spirit Realm.

"Guard the gate. Don't let those corrupted monsters in. I'm going to summon their helpers now,"

Jiang Cheng said, her golden eyes indifferent as she looked at Lyle.

"All right,"

Lyle nodded. "I won't let any monster hurt you."

"Ha."

Jiang Cheng shook her head with a smile. "It's just some little scouts anyway. Their reaction won't be that quick. No need to be nervous."

With that, Jiang Cheng stood still and once again channeled magic into the pink bead in her hand.

Lyle nodded, holding the Sword in the Stone as he took up position at the door.

As the intensity of the battle increased, the sword Jiang Cheng had once given him could no longer keep up with his pace.

In the original story, Lyle had managed with an ordinary magic longsword he got on his own until volume three, but that was only because the original battles were much less intense.

But to obtain the full version of the blessing, the path Jiang Cheng was leading him down clearly required much greater power.

So, after the incident with the golem, Lyle had stored the longsword as one of the few relics left by his Teacher and picked up the Sword in the Stone.

Outside, perhaps because the first corrupted monster had just died at Jiang Cheng's hand, the other corrupted monsters seemed to sense something and ceased their creeping.

A host of twisted, malicious eyes turned toward the direction of the garden, tensing Lyle's heart.

In the garden, Jiang Cheng whispered an incantation and tossed the bead in her hand into the sky.

Outside, the nearly non-existent brains of the corrupted monsters finally seemed to register what had just happened.

A dozen or so corrupted monsters surged toward the main gate of the garden that Lyle was guarding.

During his days in the city, Lyle hadn't visited the corrupted zones much, spending most of his time accompanying Jiang Cheng among the various powers.

So he actually hadn't seen many corrupted monsters before; this was the first time he'd encountered so many at once.

The dozen-odd corrupted monsters pounced, each displaying their various mutations.

Many of these specialized mutants dazzled even Lyle's eyes.

Meanwhile, the bead Jiang Cheng had thrown high into the air burst into radiant light once again, refracting against the thick, twisted colors looming across the Spirit Realm sky.

In the real world, deep within the underground city of the corrupted zone, all members of the clan crowded around Renata, watching the small bead slowly floating above her palm.

Elsewhere, the mechas hiding in the sewers with a crowd of people also silently observed the bead drifting in their leader's hand.

Both beads gave off dazzling colors, sending ripples through the surrounding space.

Their shimmering light rippled across the sky, catching the attention of people all over the city.

"It's begun, has it..." the president sighed inside a ruined building, muttering to himself, "Hope the Saintess can keep her word and won't kill the main host."

Ferran, inside Jiang Cheng's home, gazed from afar at the two spots in the city and on its outskirts where the splendid pink lights flared.

He rubbed the pistol in his palm, the adventurer's mark on the back of his hand flickering in and out. Who knew what he was thinking?

After a long while, he sighed, "Let's hope they succeed."

In his hand, another small bead flickered, as if ready to light up at any moment and carry him into the spirit world.

"Pft!"

Lyle's longsword, wreathed in golden holy light, sliced through a corrupted monster's body.

But the corrupted monster did not die—instead, it split neatly into two smaller ones.

A split mutant—adventurers' most detested, revolting mutation.

Lyle frowned, the longsword in his grip radiating dazzling golden light.

The holy light condensed atop the sword, forming a sacred warhammer, which he brought down hard on the corrupted monster.

"Boom!"

With a heavy sound, the warhammer crushed the just-divided corrupted monster to dust.

"This feels much better."

Lyle smiled lightly, swinging the warhammer wide and smashing back another corrupted monster that had tried to blink in front of him.

The monster, flung by Lyle's warhammer and the mighty force of his hero's body, soared fifty or sixty meters away, clearly finished for good.

However, as Lyle's slaughter continued, the corrupted monsters started to react in turn.

"Bang!"

A huge corrupted monster, topped with sturdy horns, rammed forward and smashed the fence to pieces.

This was a corrupted monster with both gigantism and horn mutation—truly a juggernaut on the field.

With the fence's collapse, Lyle could at last see what lay beyond.

Beyond the fence, the streets and tall buildings were crawling with corrupted monsters of every shape and size.

The monstrous tide moved almost as a single black, sludge-like flood.

The tide writhed, covering buildings and filling streets, just like ink spilled across a canvas, dyeing the entire city black.

"This..."

Lyle's heart skipped a beat. "So many monsters..."

But now was not the time to think about how to deal with so many monsters.

Not only was it impossible for him alone to deal with them all—even if he could, that was not his mission.

His only duty now was to protect Jiang Cheng and keep her from being disturbed by anything else.

Spinning around, Lyle swept out with his longsword.

There was a ripple in the air before Jiang Cheng—a corrupted monster tumbled out, cut cleanly in two.

Another invisibility-specialized corrupted mutant—impossible to guard against, maddeningly persistent.

Already the sixth assassin-type mutant Lyle had slain.

These things might have lacked brains, but they still knew how to use their strengths to try and assassinate Jiang Cheng.

But Lyle obviously would give them no chance—he would never again let anyone hurt someone at his side, especially Jiang Cheng.

Of course, if Jiang Cheng knew his thoughts, she might have secretly chuckled and pondered when she should "die" to give Lyle a massive shock.

But Lyle did not know this, and Jiang Cheng could hardly read Lyle's mind; all this was merely a possibility.

The surging black tide of corrupted monsters was already crawling closer and closer to Jiang Cheng's garden.

At last, as Jiang Cheng finished the final incantation, the bead shot a massive column of light into the sky.

The pillar smashed into the Spirit Realm's heavens, sending ripples across the skies and forming a vortex above Jiang Cheng's head.

In the next instant, two clusters of whirlpools appeared at Jiang Cheng's sides, and pairs of strangely-shaped people and mechas emerged beside her.

"All right."

Opening her eyes, Jiang Cheng's golden gaze scanned those at her side before falling on the oncoming tide of darkness.

"Knight order, go deal with them."