Chapter 311: Slender Black Shadow
The young girl’s mood was a bit complicated at the moment.
Anyone who had narrowly avoided being hit by that blade energy capable of severing even the clouds would be stunned in place for a while.
It could only be said that it was fortunate that Kazumi’s always meticulous nature had led her to wisely avoid the center of the magic array and the two snake pillars filled with energy after entering it.
It wasn’t that the girl had noticed anything, mainly because if someone wanted to destroy the magic array, they would prioritize destroying these two places. Although it looked quite safe inside, Kazumi didn’t want to inexplicably die from some meaningless area-of-effect damage.
And all of this was as Kazumi had predicted. The terrifying blade energy directly severed the entire protective membrane of the magic array, but because the snake pillars still existed, the blood sacrifice array continued to operate steadfastly, preventing the seal’s gap from automatically recovering.
Kazumi was unharmed, but her ghouls had suffered.
Not to mention the unlucky one that was instantly vaporized by the blade energy, there were also quite a few ghouls that were shredded into pieces by the sharp aura emanating from the blade marks. Moreover, the aura emitted by the ground-penetrating marks would also affect the girl’s control over the ghouls, like a bad signal, sometimes the control would be insufficient and they would fall in again.
“The loss is a bit too big…”
Frowning with some worry, she had initially thought that since she was idle anyway, she would send out her ghouls to pick up stones stained with life energy. After all, her territory was still in ruins, and even stones were scarce.
Another reason was to release the summoned creatures in advance to prevent some potential enemies from directly ambushing her true form.
But at this moment, if the massive death energy that might trigger an unknown chain reaction after entering the territory was not counted, Kazumi was now so broke that she had nothing left.
The group of ghouls, which had already suffered considerable losses, had lost dozens more, causing the girl’s painstakingly accumulated group of ghouls to almost fall below triple digits.
“So, what should I do now?”
Touching her chin with one hand, the girl’s gaze turned towards the battlefield in the distance, where intense combat sounds erupted again.
That single slash was enough for Kazumi to determine who the Association hero who had come here was. As Masashi Sakuraba faced Shun Muto, ranked eighth in the Association as a [Blade Warrior], Kazumi really didn’t believe her temporary boss could win.
She turned to look at the metal snake ring suspended before the black coffin. The originally silvery-white metallic texture had been half-corrupted by an eerie purple, also indicating that the energy collection was more than half complete.
“The organization’s mission is to attract and delay the Association’s high-level combatants, and Masashi Sakuraba’s personal goal is to absorb the evil energy carrying the demon snake’s aura. Therefore, Masashi Sakuraba will definitely get entangled with the opponent, and the heroes’ task is to destroy this magic array.”
The collision of blade energy and giant snake energy in mid-air in the distance interrupted the girl’s thoughts, and Kazumi instantly understood the relationship between their strengths and also figured out what she should do now.
That is… run!
Yes, that’s right, only a fool would listen to Masashi Sakuraba and stay here to help the snake ring absorb energy.
Didn’t you see Shun Muto swinging those slashes towards them like they were free? Masashi Sakuraba must want to stop him, but he has to have the ability to stop him.
Not to mention that destruction is easier than defense, but in terms of pure strength, Masashi Sakuraba is definitely no match for Shun Muto. After all, he himself said that what he is good at is evil energy spells and the like. How could he withstand a pure swordsman in terms of destructive power?
So Kazumi decided to run decisively. She didn’t want to be killed by a blade energy before she had a chance to embark on the path to become stronger.
Looking at the black coffin continuously absorbing the death energy filtered by the snake ring, Kazumi controlled her dispersed ghouls to gather around her. After thinking carefully, she casually grabbed one of the ghouls closest to her and pulled it to her side.
“Little Black, give me a hand.”
Little Black inside her body could now fully understand Kazumi’s instructions. The girl posed her hands holding the ghoul, while Little Black, peeking out from her legs, diligently dug a hole on the ground at high speed.
“No… I’ll use my mouth then.”
After holding the ghoul and gesturing for a long time, Kazumi found that reality and her imagination were somewhat different. The ghoul’s slender fingernails also did not allow them to tightly grasp something.
Controlling the ghoul to stand in the dirt pit and bury herself, Kazumi also gently took down the snake ring suspended in mid-air, then discovered something was wrong, and then controlled Little Black to create a large hole behind the head of this lucky ghoul.
“This should be okay.”
Satisfied with her ghoul holder creation, the girl reached out and stuffed the snake ring in her hand into the ghoul’s mouth. The death energy that had been gathering from the air and entering the black coffin followed the girl’s guidance and took a new route, but it was actually just an additional journey from the ghoul’s mouth to the back of its head.
Clapping her hands, Kazumi felt that she had done her best. This was much better than throwing the snake ring on the ground and interrupting the energy absorption.
The only pity was that after she disconnected the black coffin’s energy absorption, this lucky ghoul would likely not have a good end under the impact of the surging death energy, but it was enough. She only needed its corpse remains to be a fixing bracket.
She pushed the ghouls around her, who were tilting their heads and watching the show, into her territory along the death energy current and decisively cut off the black coffin’s absorption of the gradually weakening death energy.
Although it was good for Kazumi, who was now in a desperate situation, to absorb more energy, being able to survive to spend it was the most important thing.
With a wave of her hand, a giant coffin lid appeared out of thin air, covering the dark entrance emanating decaying energy. Ignoring the lucky ghoul that was gradually enveloped by the filtered death energy behind her, the girl tightened her cloak and walked towards the edge of the battlefield.
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However, what the young girl didn’t notice was that as she touched the snake ring with her right hand and closed the black coffin, a slender black shadow crawled along the girl’s fingertips towards her wrist.
The skull mark on her wrist flickered and appeared, and the black shadow climbed into it along the skull’s eye sockets, and then disappeared along with the dissipation of the skull mark, as if nothing had happened.
