Lux felt herself sinking into darkness, an endless expanse of darkness. But a spark appeared in that darkness, a white spark, flickering as if it were about to extinguish at any moment. Lux walked towards the spark, and as she approached, the spark burst into a vigorous flame. Lux saw a scene within the flames, a clear yet blurry scene.

  Clear was the scene on the left, showing a man, a handsome young man with golden hair. He was strong, wearing red and white armor, and wielding a massive sword that emitted a blue glow. Blurry was the scene opposite this man, showing some lights and shadows, like glowing human figures. These figures varied in size, some as huge as castles, others as small as children. Among these figures was an even more indistinguishable presence. It seemed like all the surrounding light converged towards that presence, or rather, that presence was emitting the light.

  Then the scene moved. Lux saw the man laughing, a laugh of rage, a laugh of mockery, or perhaps a laugh of release. He laughed, then raised his sword, and swung it towards that presence...

  At that moment, the flames began to sway and flicker erratically, then surged and erupted, engulfing the entire world. Lux wanted to reach out and stop it, but she was swallowed by the flames. After being engulfed, Lux didn't feel any heat or burning, but rather a warmth, a comfort. Then, an immense power surged through her body, a power so strong, so incredible.

  Unlike the magic she absorbed from devouring the Shadow Weaver, this time Lux felt no pain, only a euphoric joy of rebirth! "What's happening?" Kane had just seen Lux, who was charred like charcoal, collapse towards the 'Blasphemer's shard' on the ground. Then, suddenly, white flames erupted from her entire body, engulfing her completely.

  "Hurry up!" Brad didn't know what was happening, but he feared that the 1690 gold coin lady in front of him would disappear, and then he would lose... 1183 gold coins, plus the crystals worth eight and a half gold coins that he had spent!

  But Lux didn't disappear as he feared. The white flames transformed into a fiery tornado that shot into the sky, and a figure appeared in the center. Then the tornado exploded and dissipated. It was Lux. There wasn't a trace of her previous injuries. Her hair and skin were completely restored. Even her severed right arm reappeared, burning with white flames. Then Lux forcefully swung her arm, the flames vanished, and the right arm was as good as new.

  "What the hell?!" Kane and Brad exchanged glances and said the Luxe thing in unison.

  Lux created a black robe and draped it over herself, then stretched her arms. "Now it's my turn, you bastards."

  As soon as she finished speaking, Lux vanished, leaving only an afterimage in her place. "How is she so fast?" Kane wondered, but his enhanced eyes could see Lux's position. He also noticed a ring suddenly appear on Lux's finger.

  "This lady has a lot of magical items. She's quite wealthy," Kane said, sounding both sarcastic and envious.

  Then, in a flash, Lux was upon Kane. She enveloped her hands in black shadow and struck at Kane. "Courting death!" Kane retaliated, swinging his claws at Lux. But Lux first used the black shadow to bind Kane's claws, then bent down, spun around, and used a Bear Paw Glove that appeared on her hand to strike Kane with the acceleration of the Wildcat Ring, sending him flying.

  Using multiple accessories simultaneously and wielding vast amounts of magic power – this was the enhancement the shard granted Lux. Besides that, Lux had also learned a new skill. It could be said that this rebirth completely transformed Lux's desperate situation. Kane was sent flying, rolling on the ground several times before using his giant claws to grip the ground and stabilize himself.

  "Kane! It's all your fault for being so slow! If you had captured that 1690 gold coin girl sooner, we wouldn't have so much trouble!" Brad shouted, his neck turning red. He felt that Kane was the reason the large sum of gold coins he could have had was now slipping further away.

  "Mr. Brad, I think we should cooperate to defeat this lady first," Kane said. The whips with blades on his back began to swing and sway wildly, and the bone blades on his claws grew even longer.

  "Let me tell you, any crystals worth more than ten gold coins that are used in the following battle will be deducted from our prize money before we split it," Brad continued to shout. "This is all your fault for making me use more crystals, and if it exceeds 100 gold coins..."

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  "I agree! I agree to everything!" Kane shouted back angrily. He even wanted to bite his lips off. This was the first time he had been injured since the fight began.

  "You guys are really close," Lux cracked her knuckles, her joints creaking. She stretched her legs and said to them, "I'm sure you two will be very happy to die together in a moment."

  "Courting death!" "Damn the 1680 gold coin girl... Of course, the coins aren't damn," Kane and Brad shouted separately.

  Kane's two bladed whips lashed out at Lux, while Brad's countless crystal missiles and lasers also fired at Lux.

  Lux immediately used the Shadow Cloak to defend and the Wildcat Ring to dodge at high speed.

  Numerous explosions erupted behind her, and several lasers grazed past her. With the shadow magic defense of the cloak and the high-speed reaction and agility provided by the Wildcat Ring, none of the attacks hit Lux. Lux also rolled away from the whips, which slammed into the ground. Lux then ran towards Kane along the whips.

  "You like me so much, lady," Kane said. "Then let's have a welcoming hug." As he spoke, sharp thorns gradually grew on Kane's bone armor, turning him into a porcupine.

  Then Kane forcefully retracted his whips, but not to pull them back. Instead, they pulled him, launching him towards Lux like a stone from a slingshot. Almost instantly, he collided with Lux. But in that instant, he heard the sound of something piercing flesh. He felt blood splatter on his armor. And in that Luxe instant, he saw two slender fingers appear in the eye slit of his armor.

  It turned out that before the collision, Lux had enveloped her entire body in the black shadow, but left only her hands exposed, allowing him to pierce them. At the Luxe time, she extended her hands towards Kane's eyes. "Don't call me lady, just call me Xu," Lux said politely, with a smile.

  Then her fingers immediately plunged into Kane's eyes. Before Kane could react, the shadow magic surged into Kane's armor. Kane wanted to scream, but the black shadow tendrils quickly burrowed into his throat. He was terrified. And his last thought was, 'I don't want to die like a commoner. I haven't become a noble yet!' Then Kane's armor, giant claws, and the two bladed whips withered and decayed like fallen leaves, revealing a corpse with a head full of holes, like a sponge.

  "Kane!" Brad shouted. "You bitch, you killed my subordinate!" "I'm going to kill you, and then turn your corpse into shining gold coins! Then I can get 1680 shining gold coins. No, Kane has parents, so I'll have to give Kane's share to them..."

  Lux ignored the Blessed's words. She grabbed the head of the sponge-headed man, and the head transformed into countless bloody threads of flesh, burrowing into Lux's hand. In a moment, the corpse was completely devoured by Lux's hand, which briefly bulged like it was full, but then quickly returned to normal.

  "What!?" Brad was now terrified. He pointed a trembling finger at Lux. "Devil, demon, evil spirit!"

  "Perhaps you're right. Of course, whether you're right or not, there's no reward for guessing," Lux said, looking at Brad, then charging towards him.

  Brad, no longer caring about the cost, frantically summoned crystals. These winged crystals,

  Explosion, explosion, explosion. Countless explosions engulfed Lux. But then, an even more terrifying scene unfolded before Brad's eyes. He saw Lux sprout the white bone armor of the Beast Kane and charge towards him from within the explosions. Beast Gauntlets: Allows the use of flesh and bone magic when worn.

  Brad clasped his hands together, and a massive, one-meter-tall circular crystal appeared above his head. The crystal began to spin, faster and faster, becoming brighter and brighter. Finally, a giant beam of light shot out from the crystal. This scorching beam devoured and incinerated everything it touched. When it struck a distant mountain, it created a massive, burning crater, the inside of which glowed red as the rocks melted.

  "Is she dead?" Brad was about to ask when he saw Lux emerge from the ground. When the beam of light struck, Lux had immediately used the newly acquired claws to dig a hole and burrow underground, while enveloping herself in shadow magic to evade the attack.

  "Damn it! Aaaaaaah!" Brad shouted. At this moment, the whips that had grown from Lux's back, with bone blades, stabbed at him. Brad immediately used crystals to form a shield to block them.

  Lux began to circle around Brad, dodging his attacks while continuously releasing shadow magic to deplete his crystals.

  Brad was terrified, but when he realized that Lux couldn't break through his defenses, he laughed. "Our battle has been so loud, Lord Purple Man must have noticed," Brad shouted as if he had already won. "Once Lord Purple Man arrives, you're dead. And then my reward will be substantial."

  "Is that so? Thanks for reminding me," Lux said. "Then I'll finish this quickly." "What did you say?" Before Brad could react, he saw Lux conjure a sword of shadow and swing it at him.

  "Life-Sacrificing Slash!" Lux leaped up and swung the sword, just like the man she had seen in the white flames. The sword cleaved through the crystal shield, slicing the Blessed Brad in half.

  'How much money do I have right now?' Aware of his impending death, Brad tried to calculate his current wealth. But before he could finish, his consciousness faded.

  "Hmm?" Lux noticed that when Brad died, his body scattered and vanished into countless motes of light, leaving no corpse behind.

  Now, Lux felt excruciating pain all over her body. This was the aftereffect of the sudden and massive expenditure of magic power. But she had no time to recover. She had to run immediately.

  "But where exactly is the north?" Lux regretted not asking for directions before killing those two.

  "Go this way." A blurry, phantom-like hand pointed in a direction. "Mitty! Is that you?!" Lux asked the air.

  There was no reply. The hand from before also disappeared. But Lux felt a sensation, a sensation called hope.

  "I will find you, Mitty. I definitely will," Lux resolved, and ran in that direction.