“No… No!”
His companion was killed instantly, and his own feet were tightly entangled by mycelial tentacles, dragging him backward.
The teleportation array was just within reach. The Blood Kin responsible for guarding the array stretched out his hands with all his might, but they were always a few inches short. His fingers clawed ten bloody grooves mixed with ice shards and flesh on the frost-covered ground.
“Ahhhhhhh—!!!”
“…”
Several Puchi Masters controlled their respective Fat Otaku Puchis to collect the captured Blood Kin and the spare supplies they brought, cleaning up the scene.
Lin Jun controlled the Knight Puchi, examining the teleportation array before him.
Good heavens, a teleportation array in such ancient ruins could still be used?!
He decisively destroyed a corner of the array to prevent these uninvited guests from escaping or teleporting more strange guys over.
Just then, a huge roar came from the spiral building behind.
The entire hollow shook with it.
Lin Jun still had a Puchi inside under his control, so he naturally witnessed the scene of structural reorganization within.
Unfortunately, that Puchi encountered a collapse. Although it didn’t die directly, it was buried in the ruins.
What the hell, it can play like this?
He immediately led the team back to support, while cautiously leaving a squad of soldiers and Puchis to guard the teleportation array. Once enemies were spotted approaching, they would completely destroy the array.
After all, who knew if that Vampire Marquis carried materials with him and just happened to know how to repair teleportation arrays?
…
On the other side, Norris had fallen into a crisis.
The Resonance Cannon on the Ji-da’s shoulder was severed at the base by a crimson blood blade. The outer shell was covered in cuts made by blood weapons. At this moment, it was tangled in a fight with two Blood Kin.
Not far away, a third Blood Kin, half his body mutilated, leaned against the wall, constantly condensing blood arrows with his still intact right hand to shoot at the Ji-da, but all were blocked by the mana shield.
They had all witnessed the power of the Resonance Cannon before. To destroy it immediately, this vampire paid a heavy price, but it indeed established the victory.
The Ji-da, having lost its heavy firepower, retreated steadily under the close-quarters assault of two Blood Kin.
In the melee, a whip condensed from blood shot out, wrapping around the scout Puchi on the Ji-da’s head, and pulled violently!
The Puchi was torn apart forcefully.
Inside the Ji-da, Norris instantly lost all external vision. He ejected from the cockpit decisively, using [Sky Step] in mid-air to forcefully change direction, narrowly avoiding the pursuing blood spikes.
The Yellow Codex in his bosom flipped open with a rustle, that gold-rimmed page beginning to glow faintly.
[Kid, watch me…]
Norris, however, slammed the book shut abruptly, blocking it in front of his chest.
Almost simultaneously, a berserk wave of blood smashed into him like a heavy hammer!
The huge impact smashed him fiercely into the wall, ice crystals and rubble crumbling down.
When the blood wave receded, Norris swayed and fell to his knees, most of the scales on his body shattered, blood gushing from the corner of his mouth.
“Not dead yet? Really troublesome!” A Blood Kin stepped forward, lifting him by the neck, condensing a sharp blood spike in his right hand. “This lizardman’s scales are quite hard.”
“Too… close.”
“Hmm?”
“I said you… are too close to me!”
A torrent of mana suddenly erupted from the hole in Norris’s right chest!
“What the hell is this?!” The Blood Kin retreated in horror, but it was too late.
The Mana Cannon bursting in his face blasted him away. The trajectory was unbiased, smashing straight toward the Ji-da that had lost its operator!
The Ji-da, which had been motionless since Norris came out, suddenly stood up at this moment!
“Die!”
The Ji-da took a step forward, the buzzing drill thrusting out, easily piercing the chest of the Blood Kin still in mid-air.
That Blood Kin didn’t die on the spot, skewered on the Ji-da’s arm, letting out miserable howls of pain.
His companion turned into a blood shadow and teleported over, the crimson blade slashing down, severing the Ji-da’s drill right arm at the root!
Witnessing this, Norris laughed wantonly instead.
“Explode!”
A huge explosion swept through the entire corridor, instantly swallowing the two Blood Kin, and even Norris was affected.
Even though Norris raised the Yellow Codex again to block, the violent shockwave still flipped him away like a ragdoll, smashing him heavily in the distance.
Even the sturdy corridor was blasted open with a hideous gaping maw.
The two Blood Kin had turned into scattered pieces all over the ground, mixed together with mycelium chunks. Norris himself had only a breath left, scales completely shattered, white bones exposed in many places.
At the wounds, mycelium and flesh squirmed to reorganize.
[Regeneration]
[Mycelium Reorganization]
Regenerative ability surpassing trolls. With sufficient mana, he could recover from these fatal injuries in a few more minutes.
Unfortunately, the enemy wouldn’t give him the chance.
The initially heavily injured Blood Kin, due to being further away and dodging in time, was luckily intact.
She walked toward Norris frantically over the wreckage covering the ground, eyes burning with flames of malice: “You scum… I’m going to crush your bones inch by inch!”
Norris turned his eyeballs with difficulty, glancing at the Yellow Codex lying beside him: “Senior… any… moves left?”
[You used me to block twice like that, what do you think?] [Ouch… my spine…]
Splurt—
A headless corpse fell in front of Norris.
Unable to turn his neck, he strained to roll his eyes, catching a glimpse of that tall figure.
Louisa held the head of the last Blood Kin in one hand; she was attracted by the Ji-da’s explosion.
She scanned the tragic battlefield around her, roughly understanding the situation.
“Did pretty well!” she evaluated.
“Heh…” Norris didn’t even have the strength to pull the corner of his mouth at this moment.
The sound of increasingly urgent cracking rang out in the corridor on the verge of collapse.
Louisa bent down to pick up the Yellow Codex, then scooped Norris up in a princess carry, leaped out from the breach, stepped on the mushroom caps of a group of Blood Guard Puchis flapping their small wings with puchi puchi sounds, and flew Norris toward a safe place.
…
On the other side, atop a collapsed ruin.
Inanna nervously confronted the Vampire Marquis opposite her.
Beside her were only No. 4, No. 10, and those two Cold Spirits.
Originally left in a rear room for safety, due to the structural reorganization of the building, she ended up facing the most dangerous enemy by a twist of fate.
“Pink Puchi don’t be afraid! With me here, no one can hurt you!” No. 4 leaped to the front immediately, thought for a moment, then jumped onto a slightly higher pillar to continue puffing out its mushroom cap.
“Idiot, don’t rush up by yourself to feed again!” No. 10 stopped it in time.
However, No. 10 could only stop No. 4.
The Snow Servant and Frost Knight seemed to sense Inanna’s tension and hostility. Their bodies composed of ice crystals simultaneously burst with biting cold air, attacking the Marquis fearlessly!
“Controlling elemental spirits? No… more than that!” Witnessing this scene, Cassinar’s eyes erupted with fervent light, his voice trembling slightly with excitement. “Such a weak human can actually command elemental spirits far stronger than herself… You are simply a walking treasure!”
Several blood crystals shattered in his palm. A monstrous wave of blood rose in response, turning into countless crimson blood pillars, sweeping toward the direction of the Cold Spirits and Inanna!
(End of Chapter)
