Chapter 768: Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel

They had indeed considered the worst-case scenario, that the Matriarch's awakening might fail to suppress the evil personality within her body, but they still hadn't expected that their fears would actually be confirmed.

Everyone immediately quickened their pace, pressing ever deeper into the underground.

And the further down they went.

Even Lynn could feel that the atmosphere around them was unusual, the temperature dropping lower and lower, until even the walls of the passageway were covered in fine frost, and as if contaminated by something, those frost flowers were dotted with patches of black mottling.

And the deeper they went, the denser those pitch-black spots became.

As if the place they were heading toward right now was the true hell itself.

And then, in the very next instant.

Just as Lynn and the others charged up to the gates of that underground temple, they abruptly halted, immediately spotting the two guards wearing plague doctor masks, standing sentinel before the gates.

Lynn recognized them. When he had first become a Night Doctor and came to pay respects to the Matriarch, these two guards had been standing watch before these very gates.

And at this moment.

Their bodies were hunched over like two lifeless statues, and behind them, the great doors were now covered in thick, viscous black slime, like writhing chunks of dark flesh, exuding an evil aura that sent chills down one's spine.

"Halt—"

Two hoarse voices rang out.

And under their gaze, the two guards' bodies suddenly twisted with sickening cracks, their limbs contorting and bending at highly abnormal angles.

Their plague-doctor-masked heads slowly raised, the lenses shattered, revealing pitch-black pupils with not a trace of white.

Swoosh—

In an instant.

Under Lynn's unblinking gaze, a pair of wings covered in pitch-black plumes suddenly burst through the backs of the two guards, the flesh where wings met spine a bloody mess, instantly transforming them into some kind of terrifying monster.

"Just as I thought..."

And before Lynn's eyes, their completely transformed panels materialized instantly.

【Attendant of the Fallen Angel】

【Level】：Transcendent

【Alignment】：Chaotic Evil

【Race】：Curse-Twisted Aberration

【Combat Ability】：Extreme aggression that knows no fear of death

【Introduction】：A creature twisted and converted by the curse of the Fallen Angel. Due to immense contamination, rationality has been completely lost, and the seeds of madness within their hearts have taken absolute dominance. This product of a dreadful ritual twists one's mind, provokes every dark aspect of your being, turning you into a vicious attendant who obeys only the will of the ritual's caster, a slave to this hell. Once the transformation is complete, reversal by any means is impossible.

Lynn's eyes blazed with frenzy.

Just as I thought!

So this was the ritual that Fallen Angel intended to perform?

The people around her had already been affected, so what was her true goal? Was she trying to convert all the Night Doctors of Nightfall City into her mindless puppets?!

The two guards stared at them with hollow, empty eyes, black nails extending dozens of centimeters from their fingers with a wet tearing sound, speaking with dull menace:

"Those who disturb our god—shall die—"

Smack—

Two sickening, flesh-crushing impacts.

The moment the two attendants of the Fallen Angel finished speaking, they were directly smashed into two pulps of meat by the massive tentacles extended by the Godweaver Head, black blood splattering everywhere.

"We're charging in!"

The Godweaver Head radiated malice and madness, occult voodoo surging through her entire body, her evil aura no less formidable than the presence emanating from beyond those gates.

Without a moment's hesitation.

The Silver-Haired Girl's figure shot past Lynn like a bolt of lightning, her eyes icy cold, crimson chains surging around her body and clattering as they coiled about her.

Boom—

Her slender fist struck the great gates at an unimaginable speed.

Despite how petite she was, the moment that punch landed, the resulting shockwave erupted outward in all directions with a thunderous roar, her long hair whipping wildly, and even all of Nightfall City trembled violently in that instant.

Above ground, countless Night Doctors staggered unsteadily, completely bewildered about what was happening.

And underground.

Under the Silver-Haired Girl's silver pupils, dense cracks spread outward from her fist, spiderwebbing across the entire gate.

It could be said that among all currently known Roots, her physical strength and close-combat ability were absolutely second only to a frenzied Titan Head.

Crack—

A thunderous sound.

Under their watchful eyes, the barrier-reinforced gate exploded open.

And as the gates came crashing down, they instantly saw what lay within, and even for Lynn, this sight made his pupils contract sharply as a chill ran through him.

It was completely different from when he had come here before.

Within the pitch-black hall, a sinister aura rushed out to meet them.

The ground, the walls, every surface within view, all were covered in dense chains bristling with barbs, looking at a glance like a garden of steel thorns, and crawling along those sharp barbs were countless black veins like capillaries.

"Fallen Angel!"

Lynn roared, charging through the gates with his group.

Hearing that title, the Godweaver and the Colossus's Brain both jolted, especially the Godweaver, whose eyes were filled with shock and utter disbelief.

The aura emanating from the deepest part of the great hall immediately made her realize that the creature conducting that dreadful corruption ritual here was... was her holy sister!

Clatter-clatter-clatter—

As if responding to Lynn's shout.

The chains spanning the entire hall seemed to come alive, clattering apart to reveal a path leading to the deepest recesses of the temple.

And there, in the profound darkness, amid the flickering of black plumes, they beheld the massive twelve pitch-black wings radiating an eerie purple-black glow, and as those black feathers slowly unfurled, a pair of icy, pitch-black eyes came into view.

Jet-black hair, jet-black lips, skin as pale as bone.

And that once familiar, holy, breathtakingly beautiful face now wore an expression as cold as a frozen abyss, like a dark queen crawling forth from the deepest pits of hell.

Fallen Angel!

The cursed personality within the Matriarch's body!

The true mastermind behind the Plague Doctors, a monster utterly antithetical to the Matriarch, filled with malice toward everything in this world!

"You've come?"

That cold, ethereal voice carried not a trace of emotion.

And before Lynn's eyes, her completely transformed panel materialized instantly.

The Godweaver Head radiated malice and madness, occult voodoo surging through her entire body, her evil aura no less formidable than the aura emanating from beyond those gates.

【Rank】：Root

【Alignment】：Chaotic Evil

【Combat Ability】：Pray hard...

【Introduction】：After the Twelve-Winged Holy Angel fell into hell, an evil consciousness gradually emerged within her body. Where there is light, there is shadow, and the brighter the light, the deeper the accompanying darkness. Through long growth within her, this evil consciousness has recklessly flourished, developing to the point where it can briefly suppress the main consciousness and take dominance. Utterly opposed to the ideals upheld by the Holy Angel, she is devoted to plunging all beings in hell into calamity, believing that all fallen ones deserve even deeper punishment. She will stop any attempt to escape and inflict the most frenzied retribution upon it.

And behind her, upon the ground wrapped in countless chains, a ritual magic circle pulsing with purple-black light throbbed like a living breath.

And in that moment.

It was as if all of Nightfall City had been shrouded in a layer of oppressive, bone-chilling cold.

As if some kind of frenzied malice was quietly taking root and climbing within the heart of every living being.

ps: Do any of you almighty readers have pictures? Can't find a suitable one!