Chapter 1200: The Princess Has Disappeared Again!
A spirit furnace refers to a spiritual power core that uses such spirits as energy sources.
Those with spiritual power talent can summon spirits from other worlds and place them into specially crafted furnaces to create spirit furnaces.
Such a spirit furnace could easily supply the energy consumption of an aircraft carrier!
But just as familiars are far from something ordinary people can master, spirit furnaces aren't something ordinary spiritual power users can control alone. Forcing it would be like stuffing an entire arsenal into a human body - they would easily explode and die!
But Larfuria was clearly an exception!
Not only could she independently summon spirits, she could even use her own body as the furnace core to create a spirit furnace that belonged only to her, supplying spiritual power for her alone!
This only meant one thing!
That Larfuria's spiritual power talent was incredibly powerful to an unbelievable degree!
"The daughter of gods resides within me. The guardian of armies, the age of swords. The hand of death shall ultimately bring victory!"
The princess formed her palm into a blade.
Infinite spiritual light burned, illuminating her face with the holiness of a goddess reborn.
Under this inviolable chant, massive amounts of spiritual power gathered in her hand, forming a nearly ten-meter-long spiritual light blade!
"Imitation Holy Sword...!"
Beatrice's expression changed drastically, and she immediately retreated without hesitation.
"Slash!"
But with a crisp sound.
The spiritual light blade had already swept across the area, cutting through Beatrice at the waist.
Beatrice froze in place.
Then her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed unconscious.
There were no visible wounds on her body, but her aura became extremely weak, like that of a critically ill patient.
Spiritual power and magical power are two completely opposite energies.
Spiritual power is positive energy, while magical power is negative energy. The two are like the poles of a magnet, always in opposition, never complementing each other, only canceling each other out.
For magical creatures like vampires, it's extremely difficult to recover from spiritual power wounds.
"It's a pity my curse gun isn't here, I could only use this watered-down version of the Imitation Holy Sword."
Larfuria lowered her head, looking somewhat dissatisfied.
Curse tools are channels for spiritual power output, capable of imprinting various curses to produce different effects.
Sasuka's Koukaryuu, and Eiji's Thunderfire Sword, are both curse tools.
Correspondingly, those using magical power are called magic tools.
"Clap clap clap!"
A round of applause sounded.
"It's impressive enough in my opinion, creating imitation holy shields and holy swords. Aldegia's 'Craft Elite' system truly lives up to its reputation!"
Eiji walked over, even kicking Beatrice on the ground a couple of times.
Larfuria cast him a subtle look.
"Let's go, we need to continue searching for the other hostages."
"Alright."
The two left the unconscious Beatrice and several artificial angels behind, departing elegantly from the clearing.
Someone would probably come to clean up the aftermath later anyway.
"This is the place!"
They stopped before another hidden room.
Eiji kicked out, and the door instantly shattered.
"It's you?"
Kiriya Kiri emerged from the room, clearly surprised to see Eiji.
"I was wondering how you could walk together with Kousaka Sayaka, so you have this kind of ability?"
She looked at the completely shattered door and licked her lips.
Her gaze toward Eiji grew several degrees more voracious.
"Where's Kataya?"
Larfuria inspected the room and frowned when she found her knight wasn't inside.
So she wasn't the only important experimental subject being held in solitary confinement?
"Right over there, very close."
Moguwei pointed in another direction.
"By the way, the room storing your weapons is along this path. Want to check it out?"
"Of course!"
Larfuria's eyes lit up.
This artificial intelligence's information gathering ability was truly remarkable.
If she could equip the Aldegian Kingdom's magic knight troops with such AI, imagine how much stronger they could become?
"Without weapons in hand, I don't even feel like fighting."
Thinking about retrieving her beloved personal spear, Kisaki Kiriya walked with noticeably more cheer.
"Your Highness!"
The female knight rushed out with tear-filled eyes.
Within minutes, both the knight and their weapons had been recovered.
The process went smoothly - Eiji didn't even need to lift a finger along the way. Kisaki Kiriya easily handled several beastmen, demonstrating considerable combat skills with fierce, powerful movements that marked her as a formidable warrior.
"Speaking of which, haven't we reached Asagi's location yet?"
Eiji frowned as he asked Moguwei.
"The young lady is in the deepest area. The Black Death Emperor Faction really values her."
Moguwei spread his hands.
This wasn't hard to understand.
Asagi's talents were enough to catch the attention of national leaders - anyone would treasure and hide someone like her.
"And whose fault do you think this is?"
Eiji shot Moguwei a cold glare.
"What are you talking about, young man?"
Moguwei paused, his tone filled with confusion.
"Hmph."
Eiji snorted coldly.
"There will come a day when you can't keep up this act."
Moguwei fell silent.
"Mr.Nangong, thank you so much for your assistance!"
Kisaki Kiriya cut in, interrupting their conversation.
"Although I can't say I admire your personality, gratitude is gratitude. Thank you for stepping in this time."
"You believe I'd lock you back up right now?"
"I do, so let's not."
Kisaki Kiriya smiled slightly, choosing to retreat for peace.
Eiji curled his lip but didn't press her further.
"You escort the princess out first. I need to find someone else."
"Don't you need our help?"
"You'd just get in the way. No thanks."
"..."
Kisaki Kiriya's eye twitched.
For a moment, she nearly lost control.
She really wanted to beat this guy up!
"See you later."
Eiji waved without looking back as he headed deeper into the expanded island.
"Sigh, with such impressive skills, if only his personality were more normal."
Kisaki Kiriya shook her head regretfully.
From any perspective, he was an outstanding man - enough to make her heart flutter.
If only he hadn't been born with a mouth.
"Exactly! Exactly!"
Kataya nodded in vigorous agreement.
Just remembering how that person had avoided the princess's outstretched hand at the monastery entrance made her blood boil!
"Enough about that, let's focus on escorting the princess out first!"
Kisaki Kiriya turned around.
Then she froze.
"Where's the princess?"
"Huh?"
Kataya also froze.
The spot where the princess had been standing was now completely empty!
"Y-Your Highness?!"
Kataya was on the verge of tears.
"Haaah..."
Kisaki Kiriya let out an exhausted sigh.
"The princess herself isn't someone to be trifled with. It's impossible she'd be captured without putting up a fight. That means... she hid herself?"
Why?
Just when everything was nearly over, why did she have to create extra trouble for her work?