Chapter 412 Chapter 206 The Change in Lorinc
Although Verafia and the others left by forcefully breaking through the castle’s strong walls riding on Ophi’s transformed dragon, a dragon’s target in the vast sky was too obvious. In just over ten minutes, they had suffered no less than ten attacks, including city defense magic crystal cannons, forcing the young girls to land on the ground again.
However, from the moment they landed, the young girls were attacked by waves of mutated creatures, and over a hundred were burned to ashes by Verafia’s flames alone:
Among them were completely mutated monsters like Marquis Ward, but more were creatures that had grown thick and bizarre torsos, covered with tumorous flesh and strange tentacles, yet still retaining half of their human bodies.
All flesh and tissue rapidly mutated in a direction without purpose, like a tumor freed from restraint, without any fixed framework!
Verafia had just waved her staff, releasing flames to burn the mutated monsters that came close.
Suddenly, a painful roar came from under the heavy black curtain, and from the ground covered with countless fragmented flesh and pus, a silent figure crawled up. The upper torso instantly exploded from the growth of flesh, forming a giant human tumor completely disproportionate to the body. Tentacles with budding branches waved like seaweed, attacking the young girl in front of them heavily!
A cold light like moonlight flickered, followed by a flash of sinister blood-red light.
The sword edge of “Key of Silence: Cold Light” effortlessly cut through the mutated flesh, and the giant figure let out a harsh wail from its throat. Then, all its blood was rapidly drained, and the flesh within the mutated tumor, large enough for several people, quickly withered.
Flan’s silk-edged skirt corner slightly reflected some moonlight, and she held the sword whose blood-red light was gradually fading. A blush appeared on her snow-white, youthful little face. She raised her cheek, her ruby-like eyes looking at Verafia:
“Sister, the blood of these things is still pure human blood… it has not been polluted or eroded by other substances.”
The meaning in Flan’s words, except for Ophi next to her who couldn’t quite figure it out, was understood by everyone else.
Ig, holding a piece of chopped but not completely inactive flesh, brought it before his eyes and opened the Eye of Insight. What he saw was an unoriented, extremely wild change that seemed to be sped up countless times.
“Flan, you mean, only the residents themselves… their internal changes turned them into these monsters?”
Shiel, holding a gorgeous staff, stepped forward slightly and said.
Beneath her beautiful silver-blue long hair, the girl’s exquisite little face looked a bit pale. Clearly, this bloody and nauseating scene was very difficult for her, a young girl, to accept… Shiel was forcing herself to endure it so as not to worry her brother.
“The anomalies in these people’s bodies are the same as Grandfather’s… Could it be Douglas again, and that Whispering Church? But if their bodies were not polluted or eroded, how could they have done it, involving the entire Lorinc?”
Shiel’s voice came through. Verafia slightly raised her face, her golden eyes as if rippling with gorgeous flames, and her small lips curved slightly.
The girl suddenly turned her face, extending her slender, jade-like little hand. Ripples of flame condensed into a slender sword edge between her fingertips, cutting open a mutated monster lying at her feet. The exposed cut surface, even after death, still retained its vitality with messy and disordered tissues, visibly wriggling and changing.
“These people’s bodies are filled with distorted tissues.”
Verafia’s long eyelashes lifted, her shining golden eyes revealed in the night sky.
“However, from their appearance, I thought of what Chrisis told me about her childhood yesterday… it was the same in an entire city, using this kind of spell that forcefully changes flesh and tissue, and then causes morphological distortions.”
Ig was slightly stunned for a moment. He had asked Chrisis before, but the girl remained tight-lipped. However, Verafia suddenly mentioned it at this moment…
“Young Lady, do you mean—”
“This kind of thing is almost exactly as Chrisis described… well, as you humans say, like a grand banquet. It’s hard not to suspect some force manipulating it from behind the scenes. But who could cast their spell on an entire city without anyone noticing?”
Verafia’s clear and melodious voice strummed like strings under the moonlight. A thin sheet of moonlight sprinkled upon her, and the girl gently tilted her face, her big eyes looking at the young man.
“In Chrisis’s hometown, the mastermind behind that incident was the lord of the entire city… Well, from my observations of you humans for so long, he certainly had the ability. But, your hometown, Ig…”
Ig suddenly looked up: “Young Lady, are you implying the Church!”
“Brother, be careful!”
Shiel’s voice suddenly sounded at this moment.
At the corner of the ruined building, the air, which was like a dormant ocean, suddenly became like boiling in the midst of a sudden surge of aura. A huge figure stepped on the ground, the strong ripples like an earthquake!
The mage girl waved her staff, releasing several sharp ice crystals that pierced into the tall figure, only causing it to pause. However, the exploding light illuminated its face!
The hard, standard armor of a Knight Commander, even with the swollen flesh, could not completely tear it apart; and although its face had mutated, compared to the unrecognizable mutated creatures they had encountered earlier, its features were still discernible.
“Lord Sean!”
Ig’s pupils contracted.
The knight before them, with blood-red eyes full of killing intent, was none other than Sean, the Holy Guard Knight of the Red Robe Decree, whom they had encountered outside Lorinc City!
Verafia raised her hand, creating a shield to block in front of Ig.
“Ig, this knight is different from the others. He still has fluctuations of consciousness and cognition—but, like the white-robed cultists Ophi met back then, he is being controlled!”
The greatsword struck the fiery shield, and under the Star Rank attack, the light of the entire blazing flame rippled, and the emanating fluctuations caused cracks to appear on the ground.
Ophi let out a soft cry, grabbed the Dragon Spear with her slender hand, and the cold light of ice crystals pierced through afterimages, attacking the knight’s throat outside his armor.
Behind her, the Silver-haired Vampire Princess pulled out her “Cold Light” sword and swung down the huge blood scythe, while Shiel, raising her staff, had also gathered strong spell light. A powerful Secret Rank spell was unleashed, attacking the knight’s figure!
Even though “Sean” was a veteran Star Rank, a Knight Commander of the Decree, he was being crudely manipulated. His strength was mostly displayed according to the pre-arranged commands and his own instincts, and under Verafia’s fiery pressure, he could barely exert one or two tenths of his power.
Under the siege of the several young girls, the red-robed Knight Commander “Sean” finally let out a voice of unwillingness from his throat, the blood-red light in his eyes dissipated, and his mountain-like huge body crashed down.
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Well, irrelevant battles are briefly skipped. Let’s go directly to fight the boss.
