Chapter 1659: Completely different (2)
I had already been expecting the Apostle of Destruction to find out that the corruption energy had been purified and for them to send something after us.
It was just that I didn't expect them to find us this soon.
It hadn't even been a day yet and this black bird already found us…
Joan stood up and there was the Mark of God that appeared on her forehead.
It was clear that she was planning to fire her flame breath at this corruption energy bird.
But the moment that she did, there was this breath that was released by the corruption energy bird as well. This was a breath that was different from Joan's breath, it was a breath that was made from corruption energy.
Instead of a pure white breath, there was a pure black breath that clashed with Joan's white flames.
When they clashed, it didn't seem like there was a winner.
Then slowly but surely, Joan's flames were being pushed back by the corruption energy breath.
Joan couldn't help looking surprised by this since this had never happened before…
Well, it had happened with the Apostle of Destruction who called itself one of the Four Omens, but that was a different story. After all, that Apostle of Destruction had shown why it deserved to be known as one of the Four Omens.
But this was just a corruption energy bird that had been sent by that Apostle of Destruction.
This was completely different from facing the Apostle of Destruction itself.
Joan didn't seem like she wanted to give up, but I got on her back and said, "Bring me up there. I want to face it."
In the end, Joan released the flame breath and dodged out of the way of the corruption energy breath before flying up into the air. She carried me up to face the corruption energy bird that was just floating there.
It seemed that after the corruption energy bird saw that Joan stopped shooting her flame breath, it was just waiting there to see what we would do.
This was a bird that was completely covered in the black corruption energy, so we couldn't actually see what kind of expression it had. However, with the way that it just floated there as if it was looking down on us…it was clear what it was doing.
Even a bird like this had this kind of arrogance…
Well, it seemed like I would have to teach it a lesson.
Though I had to admit that I was a bit doubtful as to whether I could do that or not.
Once we came closer, the first thing that I did was pull out the scarf.
After the scarf came out, there was a mist that quickly spread around us and went for the bird.
When the corruption energy bird saw this, it didn't seem afraid at all. It seemed to even disdain this mist as if suddenly dived down into it as if it wanted to end this once and for all.
But the moment that the corruption energy bird dived into the mist…
"Screech!"
It immediately stopped diving and flapped its wings in a panic as if it wanted to get out of the mist as soon as possible. It was as if it didn't want to remain in this mist for a single second longer than it had to.
While it was flapping its wings in a panic, there was a bunch of smoke that came from its body as if it was being melted by something.
This smoke was from the bird being purified by the divine energy mist that was around it.
When the bird left the range of the mist, it didn't stop climbing higher and higher as it was doing all that it could to leave the range of the mist that was still approaching it.
It seemed like it was in a complete panic with the way that it was acting.
This was completely different from the arrogant manner that it had been acting in previously when it looked down on us.
Eventually the corruption energy bird stopped when it saw that it was far from the mist.
But it was clear by the way that it looked down at us that it was angered by what had happened.
Instead of using the same corruption energy breath as before, it suddenly flapped its wings and created wind that seemed to be tainted in corruption energy which made it visible.
That wind continued to grow until it formed some kind of black tornado in the air.
It seemed that this corruption energy bird was planning on using this one big attack to finish this.
I could feel that Joan wanted to dive away from this black tornado, but I patted her on the back and said, "It's fine. Just keep going up at it, I'll take care of the rest."
Though she still seemed nervous, she at least listened to my words and started flying up at the corruption energy bird.
When it finished gathering the corruption energy wind, it sent that black tornado down at us without a single trace of hesitation.
If it was able to speak, I didn't doubt that it would have said, "Die!"
But I didn't panic as the black tornado fell down on us, instead I just gripped the button that was in my hand and sent my divine energy into it.
The black tornado became weaker when it hit the mist, but it still fell down with most of its power as it pushed through the mist.
I didn't panic since the mist was only a stopgap measure in the first place.
The mist wasn't that strong, even if it had done all that damage to the corruption energy bird.
Once the black tornado was almost in front of me, I raised my hand and condensed a shield of ice in front of me.
The moment that the black tornado came in contact with the shield of ice, it just disappeared without a trace.