The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns Chapter 285: Victory

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Bing Xue’s family and friends glanced at the card duel in awe. Not only was she showcasing how mighty she was through battle, but also her wisdom, and even her ability to rapidly adapt and strategize was incredible. With Belphegor screaming in humiliation while the Souls of Ra and Khnum were secured by her, everyone cheered happily.

“That’s it, Bing Xue!” Urbosa cried. “That’s how you do it!”

“You showed that stinky demon what’s what!” Merkite giggled. “Now break his skull!”

“Well done, Mom!” Athena cheered. “You were so cool! I want to play those cards too! I wonder how we could remake them on our own.”

“It seemed kind of boring, but the giant monsters fighting was awesome,” Orion nodded.

“Huh, I would be lying if I said I understood even a single thing about that game…” Mursha muttered. “It was incredible how your mother learned how to play it right away and even won against the game’s creator, Kalana! Don’t you think?”

“Yeah! Mom’s so cool! I want to play that game now!” Kalana said. “I can teach you! I think I understood how to play it.”

“Hm!” Fiery Hair smiled while nodding. “Didn’t understand either. But happy if wife won! Wife secured souls of the metal giants; now Merneith will be happy and not sad.”

“Eh, it was a pretty simple ruleset; makes sense Mom won, the rules are very loose, and the card effects could be abused in a lot of crazy ways…” Rainbow Eyes said. “I think that Belphegor guy is just a fraud that didn’t even learn how to play his own game. Makes sense Mom completely screwed him over even when he modified her deck, heh!”

“I-I wonder what will happen now; that demon will be gone, right?” Yanisse wondered with a worried expression on her face. “Hopefully…”

“Yeah, don’t worry, Bing Xue will probably do something,” Peperina said. “Look at her, she’s already unsheathing her sword!”

“Eh?! She’s charging at that demon?!” Bloodclaw gasped, glaring at the scene in disbelief.

“Go for it!” Hekita cried.

“Thank you for securing Ra’s soul, Bing Xue! I will be forever grateful!” Merneith cried. “Now please, slay that damned bastard! He dared to use Ra’s soul! He deserves nothing but death!”

The little Egyptian princess demanded blood, and Bing Xue’s desires aligned with hers and probably with the majority of her spectators.

Even Bloodclaw and Redeye glanced at the scene in disbelief; Djet-Ka was now dead, and even when he ended up summoning a demon accidentally, Bing Xue faced these ridiculous challenges and odds without even flinching.

She was, without a doubt, the mightiest woman they had ever met, despite being of another race, even if she had not a single scale in her body…

They saw her true beauty, her attitude, her strength, and her intelligence!

Saurians highly praised these values in people: strong-willed warriors, physically fit gladiators, and also intelligence and cunning strategists… They were all desirable traits for a proper mate for these Saurian women.

“I think she’s really going to kill that demon! Ah~! My goddess~! She’s so incredible~!” Bloodclaw kept wagging her big, fat tail, hitting the ground with it in excitement, as she was growing redder. “See, Redeye?! This is a much superior deity than the Saurian God, a pathetic, narcissistic monster that never cared about us!”

“I-I can… I can see now just how amazing she is,” Redeye muttered, swallowing saliva. “She’s unparalleled. Never have I met a woman of her caliber before. I-it is a pity she’s a female… Or, well, not a Saurian.”

“Hmph! As if that would ever stop me! It’s you who loses then, Redeye! Fufufu~!” Bloodclaw smiled with enamored eyes at Bing Xue. “Now! Let’s see, will she slay that demon? I-Is that even something she can do?! If she does, she would be able to deal a strong blow to those damned humans you stupidly associated yourself with!”

“Honestly, I have not a single clue they were dealing with demons from another dimension, Bloodclaw!” Redeye complained. “Ugh—Ah! She leaped?!”

As everyone saw what happened, Belze saw Bing Xue taking a step forward, appearing above the skies, and then descending with her shining sword, rushing down towards the weakened Belphegor.

“Bing Xue?! Are you really…?! Wait! You can’t kill him! He’s an invincible being!”

“Let’s see how invincible he is then!”

“N-No…! NOOOO!!!”

As Belphegor complained, hitting the ground furiously while burning everything, feeling his vessel growing weaker, Bing Xue appeared above him, storing both souls inside her Inner Realm to keep them safe.

And without wasting a single second, her heavenly sword rushed down towards his throat!

“Now that you’re here, I’ll waste no time!”

“What are you doing…?!”

CRAAASH!

“GRAAAGH?!”

Belphegor was too slow to even react in time, as he felt the cold blade of Bing Xue piercing his throat, his black and purple-colored blood splattering out of his wound, as his jaws vomited it too.

“I’ll take this mask for my Belze; I hope you don’t mind it!”

“Huh?! Uuggh! S-Stooop!”

Belphegor screamed while vomiting blood, as Bing Xue easily tore apart the mask off his face, which shone brightly, overflowing with demonic power.

“Demons true forms are masses of darkness and cursed energies, right? Or something like that, but with their masks, they can take their idealized shape; the stronger the mask and their color, the mightier they can become!”

Bing Xue threw the mask towards Belze, as she was given a golden mask for free! Such a mask, overflowing with power, was handed to her on a silver plate…

“Uuaaagggh…! Nooooo! G-Give me… Give me back my mask!!! I can’t—UGH?! I CAN’T KEEP MY FORMMMM!!!”

Belphegor screamed in agony and disbelief, alongside wrathful anger, as his entire body started melting away into a mass of miasma with tentacles and crimson eyes, spreading like black fog everywhere.

“GRUUAAAAHHH!”

What the demons abhorred the most was to return to their “stupid monstrous primal selves,” as they believed they were the lesser form of a demon, without ranks, and without their masks to represent said ranks in their society.

Therefore, there wasn’t anything more humiliating than having their masks torn apart from their faces while being forced to return to said primal, stupid forms!

“Well now! This form fits you much more! Right, Belphegor?!”

Bing Xue mocked him, reaching Belphegor’s aberrant form and swinging her sword several times, while her aura expanded into two spinning, blazing rings of white and black colors.

“{Dual Rings of Radiant and Umbral Harmony} + {Divine Yin And Yang Harmonious Soul Blade Arts}!”

FLUOSH!

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