The dragon's eye had actually withered the moment it was struck by the first 【Sunlight Spear】. All the subsequent power unleashed was essentially just desecrating a corpse.
Oh wait, this dragon's eye was already a corpse to begin with.
So it didn't matter. Faust simply wanted to take the opportunity to vent his frustrations, letting the power of the 【Great Thunder】 dissipate at will.
Exhilarating! How could it be this exhilarating! He was completely satisfied!
Faust was entirely immersed in the omnipotent power of his divine authority, until he had completely blasted the dragon's eye into nothingness, leaving not a single trace behind.
Only then did he stop his hand. It wasn't because he was satisfied with the 【Sunlight Spear】, but because his twenty-minute experience time was up.
The power of the 【Great Thunder】 was fleeting. As the divine authority receded like a tide, Faust felt an unprecedented sense of emptiness and frowned in displeasure.
Sigh, why like this?
A body that had been filled with the 【Great Thunder】... could never go back!
However, the weakening of the divine authority was very real. After the divine thunder power faded, a deep exhaustion spread from every inch of his muscles and bones.
The reason his body had been in good condition before was entirely due to the support of the 【Great Thunder】. Now that the divine authority was gone, it was time to settle the score for the baptism of dragon flame and the overexertion of his physical limits.
Faust's body swayed, and his vision nearly went black.
【Do not worry. The divine authority you squandered during this time will not go to waste. I will do my best to engrave it as your mystery trait.】
Hearing Mephisto's promise, Faust finally let go of his regret and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, he fell backward with a sense of relief.
But Faust did not end up falling to the ground. A pair of slender, fair arms wrapped in black silk gloves caught him. The prince felt himself resting on an incredibly soft and elastic cushion.
When he raised his gaze, he saw a beautiful and delicate face.
It made sense; only a high warlock could teleport behind him so quickly.
Lola held the naked man tightly in her arms, her silver-gray eyes filled with soft attachment as she pressed her cheek against the prince's forehead.
"You did very well, Faust, my child... thank you..."
Faust smiled. "I'm just glad I didn't fail my mission."
He then closed his eyes and fell peacefully asleep in Mother Lola's embrace.
.................
In the distance, two grail knights supported each other. They had left the battlefield due to their heavy injuries, but they were still watching. Seeing Faust being taken away, surrounded by beautiful girls like Selena and Viviana, they couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"What... incredible bravery..."
"Young people these days are truly something else..."
As warriors pursuing glory, they had to admit that Faust's heroic figure as he turned the tide and defeated the incarnation of the dragon's curse single-handedly was truly enviable.
The quality of the grail knights was indeed high. They did not feel that their credit had been stolen; instead, they sincerely celebrated the achievements of the Prince of Qingxi.
"Yes, it truly is an unexpected harvest."
Just then, a meaningful sigh echoed in the ears of the grail knights.
The Lady of the Lake had appeared behind them at some point. Azure Maiden, dressed in her white robe, had already recovered from the pain of having her divine authority stripped away.
However, the aftereffects were not over. Azure Maiden was still tormented from time to time by flowing lightning, her delicate body trembling involuntarily. She looked somewhat disheveled, lacking her usual elegance.
But for grail knights who didn't even dare to look directly at a goddess's face, it wasn't that easy to notice.
Even if they did notice, they would at most suspect it was caused by the dragon's eye.
"Lady!"
Dathrohan and Royce hastily knelt on one knee before Azure Maiden, saying with shame,
"Our apologies. We were unable to bring victory back to you. The glory of ending the dragon disaster has been seized by the Prince of Qingxi."
Azure Maiden stroked her cheek, saying with a faint smile,
"It doesn't matter, as long as the dragon disaster is resolved. Besides... after this, you won't remember it anyway."
Huh? What did she mean?
Dathrohan asked tentatively,
"Lady, the dragon's curse of the Midwinter Kingdom has been eliminated. Do we still need to carry out the original plan? From the looks of it, the Midwinter Kingdom probably won't allow us to continue interfering..."
"If you still wish to capture the Prince of Qingxi, perhaps we will need more assistance."
"There is no need... at least not for now. Let us just admit defeat for this round."
Azure Maiden said calmly, "There will be plenty of time in the future, everyone."
Mephisto had already marked her. No matter where she fled next, Azure Maiden would be locked onto by the primordial fairy and even calculated into the fate's script.
The 【Great Thunder】 was like something stored with her; he would just come and give her a beating whenever he wanted to use it.
Sigh, my friend, you know my ways. I'll take twenty out of a hundred of the 【Great Thunder】 first, and you keep the remaining eighty; I'll have use for it later.
However, the Lady of the Lake did not feel despair. In her brief exchange with Mephisto, she had also thought of a way to break the situation.
Heh heh heh. If Mephisto were still that high and mighty, flawless primordial fairy, then even with a weapon like the 【Great Thunder】 that meant mutual destruction, she would have no choice but to sit and wait for death.
But Mephisto had actually formed a contract with a mere mortal! This meant it had a weakness, a tether.
Azure Maiden chuckled, covering her mouth,
"Mephisto, oh Mephisto, my Most Holy One. I didn't expect that you, who had already jumped out of the cycle of destiny, would dare to personally enter the field after so many long years, even interfering with the supreme fate's script... are you truly tired of living?"
"The contractor of the Most Holy One... I truly have to seize him now. I'm looking forward to it..."
Originally, she just thought Faust was handsome and flavorful, and she wanted to sleep with him.
But now that she knew he was Mephisto's contractor, Azure Maiden's dark possessiveness began to grow wildly. In terms of greed, she was one of the foremost among all the Ladies of the Lake.
Even if the opponent was Mephisto, Azure Maiden did not want to sit and wait for death; she still had to put up a fight!
Azure Maiden smiled like that. With the threat of Mephisto, it seemed her dull and tedious days finally had some color as she vanished into a stream of light.
Just as the grail knights followed the Lady of the Lake to leave, Dathrohan took two steps, then suddenly stopped and frowned.
"Wait... who were we fighting just now?"
Royce: "Has your brain been damaged? It was the incarnation of the dragon's curse, it seemed to be a giant serpent."
Dathrohan then came to a realization, sighing with regret,
"Oh right, that's how it was... it was truly a fierce battle. In the end, the Prince of Qingxi, who awakened the thunder spell, reaped the rewards. It's truly a lingering regret."
Meanwhile, during the time Faust was unconscious, the scorched traces of dragon flame left by the dragon's eye were being erased from the land of Midwinter as if they had never happened.
The consequences caused by the dragon's eye's reckless use of dragon-speech spells were also being slowly but firmly erased in the blink of an eye.
Along with them, the personnel who participated in the battle—whether it was the Midwinter Kingdom army, the grail knight order, the vassal state armies, or the adventurers and mercenaries—seemed to be decreasing in number after the battle, between one breath and the next.
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