Chapter 44 Elus’s Flame
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At the same time, on the other side.
Isumi and Dr. O’Kali were doing their best to destroy the Resin Heart.
The unconscious researchers were freed, but the Resin Heart was not the only one… Although the two of them were fast enough, Dr. O’Kali still couldn’t dodge a falling rock and was hit in the legs.
Hiss!
Although her legs weren’t broken, scarlet blood flowed out.
“Wuwu…”
“Dr. O’Kali?”
“Isumi, I’m fine. Don’t worry about me, go and save the other researchers first.”
“But Dr. O’Kali, you are also a researcher.”
Isumi’s simple sentence stunned Dr. O’Kali.
“Uh…”
“In my opinion, your condition is very dangerous. I’ll take you to bandage your wound first. This way, two people together will be more efficient.”
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While bandaging Dr. O’Kali’s wound, Isumi noticed the worried look on her face.
It wasn’t just anger from pain and betrayal, but a kind of confusion from having something on her mind.
So, Isumi asked:
“Dr. O’Kali, are you thinking about Dr. Marin?”
“Uh… were you… discovered?”
O’Kali clenched her fist and sighed in her heart.
In fact, she had worked with Dr. Marin for 8 years, counting from the day they met.
She knew that Dr. Marin was originally a diligent person, with only academic goals in his eyes. He was very rigorous and dedicated to knowledge. He never attended any social events or accepted gifts from certain companies…
Originally, this was normal, as most scholars were like that.
However, he was implicated by his mentor and was dismissed for suspected academic misconduct.
No academic institution dared to accept him. The only place he could go was this Boundless Research Station, located in a remote and somewhat dangerous place.
Here, Dr. Marin was like a madman, wanting to research something, to prove something… But the research tasks of the Boundless Research Station were basically just to observe the movements of the Boundless Land, and did not require anything innovative.
And the work assigned to Dr. Marin was just to analyze soil composition regularly.
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“Isumi, the situation has developed to this point, and I, as the station chief, also have responsibility.”
“Dr. O’Kali, you don’t need to take others’ sins upon yourself.”
“No… actually, Dr. Marin confessed to me.”
“…”
“For someone like him, perhaps loving someone is a rare thing? I know this well, and I don’t dislike him, but this feeling is not love.”
“Some things are in the past, and besides, even so, you haven’t done anything wrong.”
“But Dr. Marin’s madness started because of me. Moreover… I know he truly loves me, because even after all this, he still wouldn’t kill me.”
“…”
“Well, so after we save everyone, I want to face Marin and put an end to it.”
After bandaging the wound, Dr. O’Kali stood up resolutely.
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“Wuwuwu!”
Looking at the vines reaching out towards her, Lonis felt despair!
Just by some thorny vines, she was already itching so much she couldn’t speak. If these vines were to strangle her all at once, what would that feel like?
Suffocation, unable to breathe?
Lonis knew that some humans, in order to seek excitement, liked to play suffocation games during intercourse, but Lonis didn’t feel it, and didn’t want to be tormented to the point of rolling her eyes.
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“Hahaha, stop struggling. Although your power is strong, this is near the Tree Abyss. You are no match for me!”
Marin laughed loudly, and as time passed, his power seemed to grow stronger and stronger.
Even Elus could not maintain her perfect defense, and some vine shadows struck the black-haired girl’s body, making crisp sounds.
And Elus’s ability, the deprivation of the five senses, seemed to have lost its effect now… these obscure energies were originally from the same source as Yixiu, and at this moment, they could not cause any impact on the Tree of Origin Collapse.
But…
Elus showed no fear. She just smiled faintly and said to Marin:
“Since you have completely gone mad, I will completely kill you here.”
“How is that possible?! You have been suppressed by me. This is the domain of the Tree Abyss, and you cannot use your power at all.”
“Oh? But I want to say that I am using the power of the Tree of Origin Collapse?”
“!”
“Lonis, get ready, I’m going to activate the little toy.”
“Meow meow meow?”
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Although Lonis knew that Elus wanted to replenish her magic power to unleash a big move, Lonis felt very strange about the little toy being activated during the decisive battle… It was as if two people were fighting to the death, and Lonis also had to perform a small movie!
(No, wait a minute! It seems that Elus is bullying me differently this time.)
(This is not for her to absorb magic power, but…)
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Lonis looked up and suddenly realized something.
And the vines that were originally attacking the silver-haired girl stopped completely. No matter how Marin urged them, they couldn’t move forward an inch.
“Wh-what’s going on?! Why are these vines not obeying my command?”
Marin raised his head in panic, but it wasn’t just the vines, even his own existence seemed to have become powerless. The scarlet tendons began to dim, and the bark-like skin, which resembled tree patterns, was aging visibly.
“Hmph, that’s because before you sacrificed the Tree of Origin Collapse with your blood, I had already sacrificed the Tree of Origin Collapse with high-purity, high-magic Holy Water?”
“How is that possible?”
“Dr. Marin, die!
!!”
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Looking at the situation before her, Lonis blushed completely…
Elus was too cunning!
Before setting out, didn’t Elus ask her to go to the restroom? And it wasn’t just a little liquid, but a lot.
Her “Holy Water” was absorbed by the roots of the Tree of Origin Collapse.
Although it wasn’t shown just now, when Elus bullied her with the little toy again, Lonis “produced” some more Holy Water.
It was this Holy Water that affected the Tree of Origin Collapse, causing Dr. Marin’s control to weaken.
And what happened next was…
“No, I don’t believe it! I don’t believe that you foolish humans can’t defeat me. My methods are correct, and I cannot fail.”
Marin shook his head frantically, trying to summon all his strength for a final resistance.
However…
“Hmph, so what if I’m misunderstood? So what if I’m hurt? This world is inherently full of malicious wounds… But even so, what does it matter?”
“!”
“Those trash can’t define my value; those rumors can’t stop my pursuit. The path of the strong is destined to be lonely.”
Flames ignited around Elus…
The power from Lonis, accompanied by the whistling sound of the warhammer breaking through the air, struck Dr. Marin’s face heavily.
“If you can’t understand this… then you are destined to perish in darkness!!”
The blazing flames dissipated, and Dr. Marin’s figure flew back heavily.
