Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 625: Rout

Although I'm not sure why, Erin is evidently very keen on using a jump slash to attack the area below her opponent's knees—perhaps because every time she uses it, she encounters opponents much taller than herself. After all, in her debut battle 3,700 years ago, she faced the Omen Goddess, whose legs were longer than Erin's life...

The underground "parking lot" reverberates with chilling bangs, and due to Exoticization, this expansive space has grown unknown times larger, as if constantly struck by invisible forces. Even the dome and distant, indistinct boundaries are beginning to ripple like waves. Erin's stance continually shuffles in and out of the real dimension—omen, puppet, dwarf...

Those encountering her for the first time cannot possibly keep up with her bizarrely erratic "combat rhythm." The Great Sage can't, and even Yu Sheng suspects that not even Erin knows her strategy, thinking she simply dreams up moves on the fly.

And, to be fair, when someone extremely capable abandons personal quality and image, crawling on the ground and smashing others' toes without hesitation, it's genuinely frightening—from high status to low, she's formidable. Normally, a revered Upper Priest faces opponents at Xuan Che's or Song Cheng's level, and those opponents have some dignity. The Great Sage starting off at a disadvantage surely means it'll only get worse, doomed to a painful ordeal...

While Erin cruelly beats up a severe ingrown nail patient (don't ask why he has it), other Hidden Monastery priests and soldiers realize what's happening and attempt to aid their chief.

Several remaining energetic white-robed priests quickly gather, unstable Spiritual Energy undulating around them. A powerful curse skill starts forming, remotely targeting an enormous spider illusion in mid-air.

Brass Knights retreat within the defensive line, forming a defensive formation around the priests, laying their great swords horizontally. The Protective Force Field gradually syncs, morphing into a hazy energy barrier. Remaining church soldiers quickly seek refuge around the Knight Order, relentlessly directing firepower towards the Silver White Demon Fox to suppress the eerie Fox Fire and explosive tails, preventing interference with the curse skill priests are collectively conjuring.

But then, a white-robed priest guiding a Spiritual Energy impact suddenly feels intense unease, realizing everyone seems to overlook something critically important.

He suddenly looks up, his gaze sweeping across the smoke-filled battlefield. He sees mist rolling around the underground space, with fine snow passing through the roof, swept by heat waves and swirling above the smoke. Thin blood-colored mist spreads everywhere, seemingly possessing independent life, concealing unsettling shadows.

Suddenly, a twisted, blurry illusion leaps out from the edge of the blood mist, puncturing the Brass Knight's barrier at its only weak spot in an instant—only a Commanding Knight's "Artificial Saintess" knows how to effortlessly break through this layer of barrier.

"...heresy mechanism!"

The white-robed priest manages to let out a terrified scream before he feels the Spiritual Energy in his hands lose balance, losing control over all Extraordinary Power—and two seconds later, he realizes it's not the Spiritual Energy losing balance, but he's already been pierced through the head.

Luna's sneak attack succeeds, other priests quickly react, and the powerful curse skill originally aimed at Erin immediately releases on the spot. Space rapidly warps, stagnating. Even airborne dust is firmly held in place by invisible forces, motionless like frozen in time.

Yet Luna had already instant teleported out of the stasis force field's range—she's too familiar with the Hidden Monastery's various tactics and priests' "Divine Arts" fluctuations.

She charges directly at the Hidden Monastery soldiers protecting the Priest Group while suppressing Hu Li with firepower.

Light Power Armor facing the Fingertip Blade of an Artificial Saintess feels like paper.

But then, alarming cracks suddenly echo from the direction of the unstable rift, followed by a piercing ripping and whistling sound resonating throughout the entire underground garage.

The ground starts shaking violently, high concentration Spiritual Energy residue across the space spontaneous generates indiscriminate discharges, dense lightning and flames colliding madly before recoiling and collapsing towards the rift's direction.

Almost simultaneously, the Great Sage collapses with a scream—the giant with godlike grandeur and majesty finally falls, unable to defeat the current omen-puppet despite the power bestowed by "Sanctification." His tremendous vitality and extraordinary resistance only bring pain of pulverized fractures below the knee, along with the humiliation of being chased and smacked with a frying pan by a low-quality puppet for half a day.

Crucially, this puppet not only hits with a frying pan but also insults constantly, its foul language beyond anything he's heard, losing his parents within three minutes of combat. Subsequently, all his direct relatives are verbally annihilated by the puppet.

Erin doesn't spare even the worms at his door or the neighbor's dog.

"Desecrating Alien Form… Desecrating Alien Form…" Unable to fight or outmatch curses, suffering now even from crawling, he mutters angrily, fallen to the ground, elbow propped down, arduously crawling towards the rift, whispering, "filthy and inferior, beyond redemption..."

"What the hell are you babbling on about?"

A chilling voice comes from ahead, several spider limbs appear in the view, the Great Sage lifts his head, seeing the puppet morph into a horrifying Desecrating Alien Form. The black spider with a female upper body towers over, gazing down at him, scarlet eyes glowing with ominous omens.

The cold, dark threads suddenly appeared in the air around him, with two spider limbs weaving them into a web, blocking his retreat from all directions.

The Great Sage struggled to prop himself up, fixing his disdainful and proud gaze on the desecrating alien form before him.

But a sharp spider leg brutally pierced his back, pinning him back to the ground.

"Was it you who issued that remote meltdown command?" Erin pressed down hard on her enemy, surprised by his tenacious vitality, but at this moment, the outcome was already determined; his struggles were in vain. "Did you kill that Artificial Saintess?"

The fallen giant didn't answer her question, only squeezing out a powerless curse from his throat.

Erin grew even angrier, the blood seemingly surging in her scarlet eyes, while the black spider threads around tightened inch by inch: "…She just wanted to eat a piece of candy! She didn't even get to eat it! The C-Coupling can still go farming, water flowers, argue with me, and go tell on Yu Sheng… She just wanted to eat a piece of candy!"

The spider limbs crushed down, pinning the giant to the ground and slowly tearing him apart.

But suddenly, the giant raised a hand, twisting his arm almost to the breaking point, he grabbed the spider leg on his back.

"Senseless… nonsense…" he murmured in a slurred tone.

The heat in the surrounding air began to rise rapidly, and in Erin's vision appeared a dense, blinding flash that emerged from nowhere.

She felt a tingling sensation on her shell and skin, suddenly sensing danger: "What… the hell!?"

She saw the Great Sage's skin, as if carved from marble, suddenly crack open, revealing not flesh and blood, but a powerful, near-limitless glow charged to its limits.

The final stage of sanctification—beneath the mundane shell lay only pure, endless light.

"Listen to the echoes of the Saint Realm…"

The Great Sage clutched the spider limb impaled in his back, letting out one final roar.

Erin's whole body (if she had skin) got goosebumps, and the next second, her massive spider body dissipated into the air, and the blond puppet holding a frying pan dashed out from the slowly expanding white light, sprinting towards Yu Sheng: "Oh no! It's gonna blow!!"

The next second, the intense, endless light erupted—in the instant Erin and Luna swiftly retreated to Hu Li's side, the light engulfed the entire unstable rift area. Even the white-robed priests, Defensive Army soldiers, and Brass Knights who didn't make it out in time were swallowed, and with a few brief screams, the figures within the white light evaporated without a trace.

However, just when everyone thought the light would continue spreading and Hu Li had already prepared his protective spirit qi to withstand the blast, the burst of white light abruptly collapsed and vanished.

All the brilliance collapsed in silence, and the space formerly occupied by the Hidden Monastery Order was left with nothing but a hot crater, the molten ground presenting an apocalyptic scene, with the Brass Knights and soldiers, along with the priests, turning to ash at the bottom. Where the "Great Sage" had fallen, only a slowly "evaporating" remnant of glow remained.

Hu Li instinctively raised his head, looking towards the end of the parking lot, only to find that the unstable rift had also disappeared, leaving only a faint shadow in the air.

Immediately, the environment in the "underground parking lot" began to change—the thin mist dissipated, and no more fine snow penetrated the roof. The space around silently "retracted," and the strange soil and stones integrated merged back into their original time and space.

This scene was identical to when the "Dark Alley" returned to its original state.

Within a mere ten seconds or so, it turned back into an ordinary-looking underground parking lot, with only a handful of empty corners bearing traces of the previous battle, and a few vehicles near the "twisted point" showing varying degrees of damage.

Erin and the others exchanged glances.