"Aaah!"
A shrill howl of pain, nothing like a human voice, burst from the flaming skeleton's mouth. A crisp cracking sound followed. His straight spine tilted, and his whole body slumped crookedly against the bike.
The hellfire wrapped around him dimmed with it. Soon, even the final wisp of flame was completely extinguished.
"What a weak Spirit of Vengeance."
Watching Ghost Rider's body sway almost imperceptibly before falling lightly like an ordinary skeleton, all trace of spirit seemingly gone, Abomination snorted a burst of hot air in disdain.
He swept his thick right arm out and directly knocked the leather-clad skeleton off the motorcycle and onto the floor.
"Careful!"
Just as Emil let out a breath and was about to transform back, Wanda suddenly cried out from the side.
The crackle of burning flame mixed with the scorched smell of tires grinding against the floor. Emil's heart jolted. He felt a wave of heat rush toward him from the front, and in the next instant, the motorcycle burning with hellfire slammed straight at him.
"Move."
An arm that did not look particularly muscular quietly reached out. Abomination's several-ton body was lightly pulled aside, dodging the Hellcycle's ambush at exactly the right moment.
The flames burning in the eye sockets of the skull at the front of the motorcycle flickered on and off with a strange light.
Seeing that its sneak attack had failed, it twisted around as if alive and was about to ram Abomination again when scarlet energy easily ignored the hellfire around its frame and wrapped around it tightly. The motorcycle's engine roared wildly, but it could not shake that power in the slightest.
Nearby, Wanda gritted her teeth, red light blazing in her palm. Fenris only saw her swing both hands sharply. The Hellcycle was immediately dragged sideways and sent flying hard.
Boom!
The hotel's thick walls were as flimsy as paper at that moment. After smashing easily through several walls, the Hellcycle was finally buried completely beneath a pile of rubble.
"Hah, hah..."
Wanda withdrew her power and supported herself on her knees, panting softly. Her small body was wrapped in dinosaur pajamas, completely out of place amid the wreckage scattered everywhere.
With the little farce over, Emma walked forward and kicked the fragments on the floor. Curious, she crouched down and even reached out with a glittering diamond hand to pinch one of them.
"Fenris, this Spirit of Vengeance only looks scary. Its power doesn't really seem worthy of being called something created by God."
Wanda rested for a moment and quickly recovered her energy. Wearing slippers, she pattered over to Ghost Rider, who had gone completely still, and said without a care, "Emma, who cares whether he's strong or not? As long as he's useful to Fenris, that's enough, right?"
As she spoke, she crouched down and rubbed her hands together, blinking expectantly.
"Once I pull out the Spirit of Vengeance, Fenris won't have to sleep all the time anymore, and we can finally go out properly."
"Uh..."
Emma blinked. She had not expected Wanda's thoughts to be so simple and pure. After a brief hesitation, she asked, "You've never seen a Spirit of Vengeance before. Do you know how to pull it out?"
"Nope."
Wanda's eyes shifted. "But I can try."
With that, she gently pressed her right hand against Ghost Rider's skull. Energy flashing with dangerous red light slowly seeped into Ghost Rider's body. After only a moment, Wanda's eyes suddenly brightened.
"Found it!"
Emma brightened as well. "You found it?"
"But..."
Wanda's delicate brows furrowed.
For some reason, she suddenly sensed that the power, which should have fallen completely silent, was beginning to revive.
"Not good!"
Wanda's eyes abruptly widened. Without warning, terrifying heat surged once more from Ghost Rider's body. Under the gazes of both women, the dreadful hellfire reignited, growing brighter and brighter.
"Wanda, both of you, get back."
Fenris had originally only wanted Wanda to try because there was no harm in testing it, but he had not expected Ghost Rider to recover so quickly.
His entire body had clearly been shattered by Abomination moments earlier, yet less than a minute had passed, and he was already showing signs of restoration.
"Gah, gah, gah!"
That ugly voice sounded once again from deep within the flames. Fenris frowned and appeared beside Wanda and Emma in a flash.
With one arm each, he scooped up the two women before they could even rise from their crouch. In the next instant, all three vanished and reappeared in the distance.
"Monstrous sinner. You deserve death!"
A shrill roar rang out. Hellfire burned once more, and the scattered bones across the floor began to tremble faintly. They flew up one after another, then rearranged and combined within the flames.
In the blink of an eye, amid crisp sounds of bone locking into place, Ghost Rider appeared before Fenris again, completely intact.
In the distance, the Hellcycle buried beneath the rubble seemed to have been summoned. It abruptly kicked up a cloud of dust, then dragged a scorching trail of fire as it returned beneath Ghost Rider.
Ghost Rider locked the two hollow pits of his eyes on Fenris. He reached out and slowly removed a thick chain from his body. Hellfire spread along it from his fingers, instantly transforming its appearance entirely.
He raised the chain over his head, then whipped it around violently. With a hard swing, the chain's length surged out of nowhere, carrying a fierce gust of wind as it lashed toward Fenris.
"Careful, Boss!"
Seeing this, Abomination immediately understood just how powerful and troublesome this so-called creation of God truly was. He turned at once and used his massive body to firmly block the incoming chain for Fenris and the others.
"Ah!"
In the next instant, the burning chain wrapped tightly around Emil. Ghost Rider abruptly tightened it, and a pain that seemed to reach deep into the soul stabbed into Emil's mind like needles. Even Emil, a former special forces soldier who prided himself on an iron will, was caught off guard and screamed.
Abomination had never imagined that the fire could be so terrifying. Feeling the binding force around his body surge, he cried out in pain. His massive form began shrinking at a visible speed, quickly returning to its original shape.
At that moment, Emil was wearing only a pair of loose shorts. His original clothes were already in tatters, and flames identical to those on Ghost Rider burned across his body.
The hellfire clung to him like a maggot burrowing into bone, as if using his soul as fuel. Emil collapsed on the floor in agony, curling into himself and letting out low moans.
"What the hell is this thing? Die!"
Seeing Abomination suffer, Emma immediately broke free from Fenris's hold.
With a sharp shout, the skin across her entire body began to shine with a diamond-like brilliance, refracting a beautiful rainbow halo in the dim surrounding light.
Immediately afterward, her body began to swell as well. Her figure became taller and more slender, carrying a powerful kind of beauty.
A pair of sharp diamond claws extended from her fingertips, while her eyes flashed with a deep blue glow. Against her diamond body, they looked especially beautiful.
In the blink of an eye, a diamond giant over three meters tall had transformed before them.
(End of Chapter)
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