Chapter 491: The Twin Gods of Night

At midnight, Magdelene woke from meditation, feeling uneasy.

Ever since the battle with a magus twenty years ago left her injured, meditation had become difficult; she had to maintain a state of no thoughts and an empty mind amidst the constant dull pain in her body.

But today, for some reason, besides the dull pain, Magdelene felt a restlessness rising in her heart from time to time. As a demigod who had lived over five hundred years, she understood in just half a moment that danger might be approaching. Without hesitation, she rose and tore through the void, directly entering the dark world from the small villa where she lived.

This was an immensely wide cavern, two hundred meters high and about a kilometer in both length and width, with scorching lava below. What drew attention was the center: a giant bone dragon, one hundred twenty meters long, with fiery red bones and a golden crown on its head.

Magdelene walked through the lava as if it were nothing, approached the bone dragon, and tapped its first rib with her staff. The latter awoke from slumber, but the soul flame burning in its pupils was crimson—a color representing anger.

"Magdelene, isn't it too early? The time to act against that boy named Andre is ten days from now. You should know that my injuries require deep sleep to recover! And right now, I lack sleep too much. Don't think that just because you're my Saint—"

"But I think we'd better leave here now!"

Magdelene's voice was cold and firm, interrupting the lich dragon 'Barbos': "I feel uneasy, Barbos! Danger may be about to fall upon us."

"Danger?"

Barbos snorted disdainfully, but then it raised its massive dragon head and looked outside the cave. Its true dragon vision allowed it to see through the thick stone walls and glimpse the scene outside. Then its voice turned extremely grave: "You're wrong, Magdelene! Not about to—it's already here."

Then its body began to change, and within a minute it condensed its one-hundred-twenty-meter-long form into the shape of a human skeleton, still wearing the golden crown and holding a staff. What was striking was that Barbos was now covered in a layer of purple holy artifact armor.

"We need to get out of here!"

It waved its staff, ready to tear open the space-time wall to the astral plane. But its magic had no effect; the two 'people' remained fixed in place. The space-time wall had suddenly become extremely solid, rendering the lich dragon's spell useless.

This made both of them tense, and a strong sense of alert rose in their hearts. They simultaneously cast spells, summoning twelve 'Dragonbone Guardians' to protect them. Each was about two meters tall, with four arms—one holding a shield, the other three wielding swords.

—These were 'guardians' made from the ribs of the lich dragon or the bones of true dragons it had slain with its own hands, all possessing legendary-level strength.

Just then, they both felt extremely drowsy, on the verge of sleep. Waves of fatigue and weariness surged from deep within, making them want to collapse and sink into a wonderful dream. But the two 'people' were battle-hardened and soon realized something was wrong. The soul flame in the lich dragon 'Barbos's pupils suddenly flared, while Magdelene cast a 'Cleansing Spell' on herself.

Yet when they awoke, the stone wall ahead, layered with magical energy arrays and supposed to be extremely solid, shattered with a deafening roar. Then two female figures appeared before them, one after the other.

Thanks to intelligence from the Lich Dragon Cult, they immediately recognized one of them. She was a demigod with blood-red eyes, wielding an exaggeratedly large sword, dressed as a maid.

"'Blood-Eyed Angel' Robertte Yvonne?"

Her response to Magdelene was tens of thousands of wind blades. The two demigods felt a chill run down their spines. Their powerful demigod perception and centuries of combat experience allowed them to accurately sense the terror of these wind blades. They both dodged almost simultaneously. But due to the spatial封锁, space-based spells like 'Blink' were completely unusable, so they had to use the high-temperature flames here to escape via 'Flame Escape'.

The moment they left, the twelve legendary-level 'Dragonbone Guardians' were all shattered and sliced apart under the relentless assault of the violent wind blades. Not a single one could withstand more than seven blades!

This terrifying destructive power made Magdelene's heart race, and a premonition of doom began to envelop her mind.

Level 29! That was divine-level spell power!

Just as this thought crossed her mind, another wave of deep fatigue surged into her heart, causing hallucinations to arise in her mind. She felt warm all around, with bright sunshine and a spring atmosphere, and even the dull pain inside her had disappeared. A deep sleep in such an environment would be perfect.

But Magdelene struggled awake at the last moment. On the other side, the demigod lich dragon 'Barbos' let out a muffled roar.

"Magdelene, it's the Twin Gods of Night! The Twin Stars under Conshil's command!"

In ancient Greek mythology, the Twin Gods of Night refer to Hypnos, the god of sleep, and Thanatos, the god of death. They are the children of Nyx, the goddess of night, and are twin brothers.

Hypnos can put anyone to sleep, while Thanatos not only possesses great combat power, able to take lives in dreams, but can also teleport and jump through everyone's dreams, roaming the sea of consciousness among living beings.

Conshil Willenstein had somehow obtained the divine fragments of the Twin Gods of Night, then found twin brothers with powerful illusion abilities. In just twenty years, he created these monsters whose combat power could rival demigods, even contend with multiple demigods!

But at this moment, Magdelene had no time to worry about the 'Twin Stars,' whose locations were still unknown, because several beams of light, varying in color and thickness, were blasting toward them from the front.

That was a level 29 magical energy annihilation cannon! A level 28 death ray! A level 28 great disjunction—

These familiar spells allowed Magdelene to immediately identify the attacker. It was an enemy of hers and the lich dragon 'Barbos,' a magus-level lich who had severely wounded them twenty years ago.

Magdelene turned into flames again, dodging these spells at the critical moment, and then tried to use the magma below to escape deep underground. The enemy had clearly come prepared, gathering several powerful demigods with the strength to surround and kill them here.

But just then, a half-dragon little girl appeared before her, with golden vertical pupils full of wild light. Magdelene then realized that the flames around her had completely slipped out of her control. Then, like mercury, they infiltrated her source armor without leaving a gap.

"Calamity Flame Dragon Girl Adriana!"

Magdelene's pupils contracted as she recognized the power of Calamity Flame Dragon Girl Adriana! Because a series of accidents occurred in her source power circulation, causing the flames to begin invading her body surface.