CHAPTER 404: CHAPTER 46: SNAKE SHEDDING ENHANCED BY 200,000 TIMES

"As I expected, Yila, you don’t need to deliberately think about ’calling out the soul within your body’; you just need to simply let go of the ’restraint.’"

"Each person’s soul naturally repels external presences. Actually within your spirit... in your words, it’s the ’subconscious,’ those souls are ’stored’ by you."

"As long as you ’release’ it in your consciousness, the souls will be automatically expelled and will find a host by themselves. This process doesn’t require any professional assistance."

"..."

When Tipcapu and Raphael woke up, they saw a hazel-eyed girl conversing with Yila... however, they still couldn’t speak at the moment.

Yila nodded while watching the two ownerless bodies gradually change at a not too fast but not too slow pace into Raphael and Tipcapu’s original appearances.

Just as Vera said, these bodies had significant adaptability... they could easily transform into the original appearance and form of the soul residing within them.

They were quite suitable to be used as bodies.

"Can you see us now?"

Yila said this as he took two steps, realizing that Tipcapu and Raphael’s gazes followed his movement... he nodded and said, "I’m not sure what kind of ’resurrection’ this truly is; many things are unknown..."

As he said this, Yila watched their bodies slowly solidify and said, "Including whether the use of abilities will be normal, whether Mana can still be freely mobilized, all this I... Wait, Raphael, why are you using..."

Upon realizing Raphael’s manifested body was a busty female, Yila quickly turned his head away... Meanwhile, Gurela, who was crafting their clothes with interest, commented, "Ah, a Heavenly Holy Knight... completely bare."

Yila: Bare?

"From the neck down, there’s not a hair on their body, not even a hint of body hair... the skin is so flawless it could be made of light itself, or maybe Heavenly Holy Knights don’t have a strict sense of form?"

As Gurela said this, her gaze swept over Raphael’s well-built female body, then looked at a bashfully covering Tipcapu, her eyes lingered on the small area before passing the clothes over, saying, "This succubus is bare as well..."

"But this isn’t unusual among succubae... Perhaps, comparatively, male succubi are the rarer kind."

Casually speaking, Gurela watched Raphael nod in gratitude and dress calmly, whereas Tipcapu shyly hurried to put on clothes. She gestured to Yila, "Alright, they’re dressed... how strange, so a Heavenly Holy Knight is actually female?"

From Yila’s previous deeds, Gurela had thought Raphael was male.

And Yila naturally turned back and helped the ready-to-speak Raphael explain, "For a Heavenly Holy Knight, the body’s gender doesn’t matter much. Even now, he can switch at any time..."

Seemingly to prove Yila’s words, or to adopt a more convenient form, Raphael quickly transformed using newly regained Mana into an indistinct face, encased in armor appearance.

It was hard to say if the figure inside the armor was male or female.

"What are your plans next? Tipcapu, are you coming back to the Demon King Territory with me... continuing as a maid?"

Yila said this, looking at the nodding Tipcapu. He tried confirming he could still use the ’Inverted Wing Pillar’ power, while wondering about the mechanics, he looked in Raphael’s direction, asking, "And you? Raphael?"

"I’ll return to Heaven first, see if I can help resolve some calamities."

Raphael said this in a female voice, indicating she was indeed female inside... or perhaps, there was nothing inside the armor, much like a Headless Knight.

A Heavenly Holy Knight could naturally achieve this, and perhaps her colleagues wouldn’t care either.

"I’m not very familiar with the calamities yet. If you need me... I’ll do my best to help."

Raphael’s meaning was quite clear... However, her intentions, though complex, boiled down to — I’ll follow you!

So now beside Yila, there were quite many extraordinary individuals... Leonard and another hunting party member (currently helping the non-extraordinary team find accommodations), Ernie, Raphael.

The Starlight Body could barely count as half helping Yila... as for Wenresa and the human woman, maybe only a quarter could be considered, making roughly a quarter of assistance to Yila’s extraordinary team.

But in the generally idle extraordinary group, this was quite remarkable.

"So, about the next calamity’s information..."

Yila said this, looking at Raphael, asking without much hope, "Blue-purple flames... hmm, just this phrase, a prophecy from the theocratic country’s Pope, which seems very accurate so far. Do you know anything?"

The blue-purple flames were the only information Mille Milyan had received.

"..."

But evidently, Raphael didn’t know either. He (she) shook his head in silence, but suggested, "Then the extraordinaries watching us don’t seem to know either... the Star Realm’s Starlight Body might know something; its ’knowledge’ covers a wide range."

Regrettably, this vague information still came from the Starlight Body.

After Yila explained this, Raphael could only shake his head, indicating he didn’t know... he lightly clenched the armor’s fist and said, "The body is somewhat fragile... it might not last long... if I use power, it might collapse even faster."

Raphael said this, glanced at the comfortably-appearing Tipcapu, and supplemented, "Probably the weaker the power, the less strain on the body... as for me, without using power, I can last twenty weeks, in combat, the time will be shorter."

In other words, about five months?

Yila thought this, squinting, recalling the complaints from the ’Serpent’s Shedding’ earlier. Serpent’s Shedding said... using its best body, it could only last ten minutes, even in restrained combat.

If using Raphael’s hosting body, perhaps not even a minute... in this view, even at a strength near top-tier extranormal Raphael...

Compared to Serpent’s Shedding’s strength, there was a difference of...

...

Two hundred thousand times?