Chapter 304 Plaza
At this time, Youdu Plaza had completely changed its appearance. The entire area looked as if it had been crushed by the body of a giant beast. The original buildings and ground had turned into ruins, exposing the yellow soil at the very bottom.
In the center of the original plaza, more than a dozen snake-like pillars, as tall as small buildings and covered in evil energy, had been erected. A dim, blood-colored long snake was coiled around them. The seemingly chaotic distribution of these pillars eventually formed a mystical magic array, which rose into a huge blood-colored energy light membrane that directly enveloped the entire plaza.
And on the periphery of this massive energy magic array, a violent purple python was wantonly unleashing its energy, revealing itself as the culprit behind the destruction of the entire plaza – this terrifying giant snake, comparable to a tall building.
Although the giant python appeared to be thrashing about indiscriminately, relying on its massive body for attacks, its body was merely rising purple energy, and the afterimages constantly flashing around it proved that it was fighting an enemy.
Blue afterimages flickered continuously around the giant snake, finally converging into a blade that spanned the entire snake’s head.
The purple snake-shaped energy was directly shattered by the blue light blade, piercing through the giant snake’s metallic-sheened scale armor without resistance. In the next second, the giant snake’s head, the size of a house, was directly severed at its seven-inch mark. Its massive upper body fell to the ground of the plaza, which had already turned into ruins, due to gravity, creating a huge crater.
The blue afterimage retreated from its high-speed attack state. The transparent wings on its back and the balls of light constantly circling beside it indicated that the hero fighting the giant python was none other than Yuz, who had previously forced the young girl into a dangerous situation.
“Yo, your slash has improved quite a bit.”
Suddenly, a playful and ghostly voice[1] echoed from the smoke and dust below.
A rumbling sound of breaking earth came again. A giant creature broke through the smoke and dust and stood in the position where the giant python had been previously knocked down. However, on top of this new giant snake’s head stood a tall man with long, dark green hair.
“Masashi Sakuraba! So it was you causing trouble!!”
Seeing the familiar face he expected appear before him, Yuz’s worries deepened slightly. He pointed his long saber directly at Masashi Sakuraba opposite him, hovering in mid-air and shouting.
“What do you mean by causing trouble? I was just borrowing some things.”
With an evil smile on his face, Masashi Sakuraba stood directly on the head of the giant python, replying to Yuz in mid-air as if chatting with an old friend.
At the same time, with a slight wave of his energy-infused right hand, the small bloodstains floating in the blood array were guided at this moment, starting to converge crazily onto one of the snake pillars. The dim, blood-colored long snake also became more and more substantial and plump as energy was injected.
“You won’t succeed!”
Immediately understanding the true reason why the residents of the entire city had fainted, Yuz’s eyes suppressed a rational anger. Deeply aware that wasting time was no longer appropriate in this situation, the energy ball beside him instantly turned red and green and began to spin wildly.
“Oh?”
The sudden energy fluctuation made Masashi Sakuraba raise his head with some interest, but he made no other move, merely staring intently at the angry Yuz with a strange smile.
Until… a violent flame attack directly covered his surroundings.
“Boom!!”
…
“Boom!!”
A huge explosion sound came from the energy membrane not far away. Kazumi, standing on the road, reached up and pressed down on the hood of her hat to prevent it from being blown away by the powerful airflow.
Feeling the terrifying energy fluctuations coming from a distance, and then looking at the people fighting around her, Kazumi began to wonder if it was a bit too hasty for her to come to the center of the conflict like this.
But this was merely Kazumi’s internal grumbling. The so-called fear of the fanatical cultists was only on the surface. More importantly, it was because the opponent was a subordinate of her current boss, Masashi Sakuraba, and without his orders, these cultists definitely wouldn’t have come looking for her specifically.
[I wonder whose subordinate I really am; I’ve been working for this guy, Masashi Sakuraba…]
While complaining about the boss who introduced her to the [Shell], the young girl slowly moved towards the center of the blood-colored magic array with little interest. Behind her was a giant black coffin floating, and ghoul subordinates who were constantly picking up something around them.
Kazumi was too lazy to care whether they were the corpses of heroes or cult members of the Poisonous Snake Cult. Anyway, her boss hadn’t given her any further tasks since she arrived, so she would just move forward slowly. After all, she was half an invalid.
“All things considered, it’s still not a good deal…”
She swung her energy light blade, ending the life of a not-too-seriously injured member of the Poisonous Snake Cult who had been brought over. Kazumi, familiar with the process, threw the mangled corpse into the coffin and sighed softly.
Although on the surface, the high-quality corpses harvested from this battlefield were definitely more profitable than picking up ordinary people’s corpses in the previous district.
But this was not the case. With the double enhancement of evil magic and cultists, the corpses that fell were basically missing limbs. Many fanatical cultists even sacrificed their lives before dying, and thus, the value of these drained corpses was only slightly stronger than ordinary people’s ashes.
Not to mention that this group of cultists could only fight these heroes, who had been weakened by the array, by relying on numbers and self-sacrifice. Earlier, Kazumi had secretly touched the corpse of a hero.
As a result, she was chased for a long distance by the remaining guys with red eyes, and only managed to escape those troublesome guys by relying on the [Black Coffin]’s burrowing ability. When considering the actual profit, she was still at a net loss.
“Besides, he doesn’t need me there right now, does he?”
Frowning, she looked at the blood sacrifice array not far away. After the terrifying explosion earlier, a series of energy fluctuations were emitted again, proving that the battle there was still quite fierce.
As for the strength of Masashi Sakuraba, or rather, the entire [Dark] Organization, the young girl had never had a direct impression of it. After all, no matter how strong the organization was, wasn’t it suppressed underground by the Heroes Association?
Although Masashi Sakuraba had confidently promised to ensure her safety before, such a promise was completely unreliable when it came to actual combat. Kazumi was not foolish enough to casually entrust her life to others, especially members of an evil villain organization.
“Should I go and see the battlefield again?”
While thinking about various random things, the young girl searched through the wreckage in front of her, looking for any severed limbs or broken arms that she could pick up and take back.
But suddenly, a huge snake tail broke through the ground and wrapped around her body, and a strong sense of weightlessness appeared around her.
Before the young girl could react, she found herself on the back of the snake high above, and standing in front of her was a tall figure she was extremely familiar with, with his hand raised.
“Yo, Coffin~”
