Chapter 1698: Chapter 1156: The Final Cleanup

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Not long after, the world-reflecting domain vanished like a mirage in the water.

The vast blue sky, the splendid shrine, all disappeared in an instant, bringing everyone back to the trembling capital, back to the collapsing Jade Throne Hall.

Yet their minds were blank, as if they had forgotten the peril they were in.

In their minds and vision, the endless slashes resembling a storm seemed to linger, leaving them all in a daze, without response for a long time.

Reiger stood there with his back to the crowd, still maintaining the Tan Tu Seal in his hands.

Around him, all the ferocious black hounds had disappeared.

They were already dead.

Sliced to dust by endless slashes, shattered into finer particles than dust, as if turned to ash with no remains left, only pools of blood on the ground proving their once existence.

As for the black giant hound in front of Reiger, transformed into the beast disaster Bagster, it was not smashed to pieces.

Under Reiger’s deliberate mercy, Bagster was still alive.

However, the giant hound barely had a patch of intact skin, as if having suffered a thousand cuts, its body covered in marks of slashes, bleeding profusely.

"Thud..."

The black giant hound collapsed to the ground, twitching all over, seemingly trying to struggle to rise, but failed.

"Swoosh!"

Reiger’s figure instantly appeared in front of the black giant hound, reaching out a hand to place on its body.

"[Passive Transformation]."

The soul of the Cursed Hound, at this moment, just like the previous Melusina, was brought under Reiger’s control.

Generally, in transforming to their current state, becoming the "Red Disaster" and "Dark Disaster," both Melusina and Bagster would completely lose their intelligence, lose their sanity, go berserk out of control, and could never return to their original form.

Yet, the power of [Passive Transformation] surpasses this limitation.

Once the soul is under [Passive Transformation] control and whimsically altered, the body undergoes transformation along with it, changing to another form.

Through this method, Reiger transformed the souls of the "disasterized" Melusina and Bagster back to their original shapes, causing their bodies to follow and return to their original forms.

This is a more thorough approach than Morgan’s naming gift.

Once the souls are transformed by [Passive Transformation], unless Reiger performs a secondary transformation using the same method, the forms of Melusina and Bagster will be permanently fixed and will not revert to their previous state.

Because their souls have assumed these forms, the bodies change likewise; as long as the soul’s form remains unchanged, so does the physical form.

Under these circumstances, the black giant hound began to shrink continually, its body squirming and changing, finally reverting to Bagster’s fairy form, restoring its original state.

"Swoosh!"

Only then did Reiger, together with the unconscious, bare Bagster, flash back in front of the group.

"Go, take her out as well."

Reiger threw Bagster to Da Vinci, and as if nothing had happened, continued with his initial argument.

"And what about you?"

Da Vinci, naturally unable to catch Bagster’s massively robust body, hurriedly controlled the mechanical arms from his backpack, using them to hoist Bagster while questioning Reiger.

"I’m going to do the final cleanup."

Reiger merely said this one line, yet everyone understood.

"...Can you handle it?"

Holding Morgan, Altoria looked up at Reiger and said this.

It was indeed a genuine monster.

Cornus, though a fallen deity, a fallen deity is still a deity.

Even having lost its past power, Cornus had been slumbering in Britain for over ten thousand years after its death, accumulating ten millennia of rage and hatred, bringing untold calamities across Britain.

The catastrophic curse potent enough to sink all of Britain into the ocean would cause one to lose consciousness with a mere glance, disorient the mind, pollute the brain, and corrode the body, showcasing its terrifying magnitude.

Without a doubt, it was an entity far more frightening than the still unformed, currently infantile Beast into which Koyanskaya had transformed.

Even Morgan required the power of the throne and twelve sacred spears to dare contend with it.

And even with the throne and spears at her disposal, Morgan has so far only managed to suppress its awakening, unable to annihilate it.

Against such a monster, can Reiger handle it alone?

"Mr. Reiger, I..."

"Wait, I also..."

Matthew and Pasival were the first to speak, seemingly wanting to stay and help.

Matthew had retrieved the black spear body from Reiger, an ultimate weapon designed specifically for confronting deities, making her capable of posing a threat to Cornus.

Pasival also wielded another sacred spear, which should allow him to pose some threat even against Cornus, the god.

The others seemed to be thinking similarly, about to address Reiger.

But Reiger raised his hand to stop them all.

"Let me do it." With a calm expression, as if bound to fulfill some duty, Reiger smiled and said: "Half of what’s happening now was propelled by me."