Chapter 325 - Cleansed In Lightning And Fire
(Lian Li POV)
I charged up another fist with lightning, punching into the wall of the building and unleashing the electrical discharge without holding back.
Unlike the stupid barrier from before, the house was completely destructable.
The wall I just punched exploded outwards, the debris crashing out into the garden outside.
Unsatisfied, I let loose another bolt of lightning at the closed door in front of me, blasting it to pieces.
"HAHAHAHA!! WHERE ARE YOU, YOU LITTLE SHIT?! THINK YOU CAN TRAP ME IN THIS STUPID HOUSE?! I'M COMING TO RIP YOUR DAMN HEAD OFF!!"
Stepping over the broken pieces of the door, I found myself in a large hall where several figures wearing some kind of white, collared shirts and short skirts were standing around. All of them had a distinctly female figure but their faces were distorted to the point of missing any noticeable facial features.
On the other end of the hall was an ornate door, this one clearly not as broken down as the rest of the house.
They shambled forward, each of them holding a knife in their right hand.
The one closest to me tried to stab me with the knife in her hand, the blade only managing to cover a small distance before my own hand punched out to blast her away with lightning.
Her body disintegrated into ashes even before she hit the ground.
"HAHAHA! KNIVES?! You got to try harder than that!!" I laughed, summoning forth a storm of lightning that blasted every single one of those abominations to pieces.
I swiped the rest of the furniture away with another blast of lightning, heading deeper into the mansion. The girlish laughter I had heard before had all but disappeared, most likely being scared and hiding somewhere.
I tried the door and of course it was locked, not that it was going to stop me though.
Bracing on one leg, I blasted the door off its hinges with a lightning infused kick, the door smashing into wooden splinters when it crashed into the wall on the other side.
Behind the door was a surprisingly opulent hall that was similar to the entrance of the mansion when I first came in.
The room was well lit and decorated with almost everything covered in gold. A golden throne sat at the back of the hall where a single familiar person sat on top of it.
It was the scum son himself.
He grinned at me, "Oh, welcome my dar--"
I threw a lightning bolt that blasted him to bits even before he finished his words, my attention drawn to the rest of the room trying to find the door that might lead me deeper into the mansion.
Finding none, I turned back to the door I had entered from to find a brick wall there.
"You really don't learn do you?" I chuckled, directing golden coloured lightning to my right fist. "If you want to play hard to get in this stupid house… THEN LET ME MAKE IT SO THAT THERE IS NO HOUSE!!"
I punched into the air with my other hand, unleashing a blast of lightning at the ceiling to rip it apart and reveal the night sky above.
Flying through the gap, I raised my hand and unleashed the Divine Lightning I had been charging at the house, leveling the entire building to the ground.
It might have just been a petty move on my part since the entire house might just be an illusion, but it still feels good nonetheless.
Seeing the mansion destroyed, I tried to fly further upwards but the infuriating barrier was still there, preventing me from going any higher.
I considered raining Lightning upon the whole island for a moment before the sound of glass shattering filled the air, the barrier breaking apart into pieces that disintegrated into nothingness.
Almost immediately, I felt Master's presence deeper into the island, the energy present in the air suggested HE had just used some kind of really destructive Technique.
I immediately flew towards that direction without much thought.
I hope Master is fine…
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(Manami POV)
That statue thinks it can hide in the forest does it?
Ufufufu… Then there is only one obvious thing for me to do!
"Burn! Ufufu... BURN! Ufufufufu!!" I laughed, watching the forest fire in front of me. No where for that stupid thing to hide when everything has been burned to ashes now, would it?
Ah~~ Somehow watching the sea of flames in front me is making my body rather hot, which is interesting considering I am still in my swimsuit.
Maybe I am already missing Master's touch? I'll be sure to beg Him to be rougher with me tonight~
"Big sister… You're scaring me..." A voice beside me whined.
I rolled my eyes and shook her grip out of my hand, "Really now. You shapeshift into someone close to me and couldn't even get her behaviour right. You are a pathetic excuse of a trickster."
As though to prove my point, I used my Astral Quarks to project an illusion of Cai Hong standing in my place and staring at her.
The fake Cai Hong frowned, her eyes looking at my child form up and down before taking a few steps back.
I thought the little faker would run but no, her head split open down the middle to reveal a giant mouth filled with razor sharp teeth.
The little monster's neck stretched upwards before turning back down towards me, its mouth gaping wide open in an attempt to swallow me whole.
My figure remained stationary even as the mouth closed around my illusion of Cai Hong, snapping me up in a single bite.
The monster didn't bother with chewing.
I'm guessing this one likes to swallow its prey whole as it sucked my illusion up through its neck and into its belly, the head returning back to its original place after the deed was done.
I let it think it had won for a few more seconds before removing the illusion over myself, making it seem like I had appeared out of thin air a few steps away.
The shapeshifter looked at me in confusion, obviously wondering what it had just swallowed.
"Trying to outsmart a fox youkai in trickery? There's only one person in existence that I can believe will be able to pull that off and it most definitely isn't you."
I snapped my fingers and the inert Soul Flames I had made it think was Cai Hong flared to life inside it, burning the stomach of whatever the thing was.
The unquenchable flames would burn it slowly and painfully from inside out, slowly spreading from its stomach to its other organs before finally consuming everything else.
I'm pretty sure the thing wanted to scream out in pain, but I made sure to burn out its vocal chords first so I didn't need to listen to it make whatever noise it could be making in its death throes.
The fire finally broke through the surface of its skin, the shapeshifter writhing around on the ground in agony while I watched on with glee, the forest still burning down all around me.
I was just about to consider tossing the thing to join the forest fire when something smashed in the air, causing my entire vision to shift.
All of a sudden, the forest was no longer burning and the monster was gone. I was back to where I had first separated with Cai Hong on the forest trail.
It took me a split second longer to make sense of what happened and before I could attempt to connect telepathically to my sisters, the unmistakable feeling of Master's Quarks exploding emanated from deep within the forest.
No doubt my other sisters would have felt that too so that was my destination.
If anything happens to Master… I would definitely burn this entire island to the ground!!