Chapter 229 Mai Shinomiyai vs Kazumi Shimizu (4)
“Kill it.”
Cold words were spit out from the young girl’s mouth, and the long spear, carrying immense impact, directly pierced the Tengu’s body and charged forward. The figures in the coffin were finally revealed, and what appeared before the two was a formidable knight clad in heavy armor and wielding a lance.
The tall skeletal warhorse beneath him was also covered in worn but heavy chain mail, and the faint blue flames on its hooves proved its undead identity. What was even more eye-catching was the knight’s towering body with a neck emitting green soul fire.
The young girl had always been a decisive person.
Just as Kazumi, after witnessing the Tengu’s power, immediately prepared to give up and pay the price to kill Mai Shinomiyai, the girl’s decision was as resolute as ever.
Upon realizing that Little Black, her usual means of protection, could not provide support in time, Kazumi decisively instructed Little Black to continue attacking the target. At the same time, facing the giant beast rapidly pouncing towards her, she used the reward obtained earlier for establishing the municipal building.
A temporary troop summoning stone.
The reward this time was not particularly generous, as temporary summoned creatures could only serve as emergency combat forces and not as tools to improve one’s formal strength. The luck of this reward was also not very good, as it only provided a headless knight, which was considered to have decent combat power among mid-tier troops.
But no matter what, the frontal combat power of this headless knight was still much better than Little Black’s, and in a sense, it could be considered the girl’s final trump card.
Although Kazumi still felt a bit of a waste in her heart to have used such a trump card to kill Mai Shinomiyai. However, for the girl, she never regretted her choices but rather chose how to seek her maximum benefit from what had already happened.
“Yaa—”
The faint blue soul fire enveloped the knight’s lance, deeply piercing the Tengu’s chest, causing the Tengu’s ugly face to contort in pain as it let out a tragic cry.
For the headless knight, who had already launched a charge within the territory, its current power was its peak. Even though the Tengu continuously flapped its wings, trying to resist the immense impact, it was in vain and was only able to be pushed back by the knight’s lance.
“Yaa—”
Finally, after being pushed a long distance on the ground, the Tengu found an opportunity to counterattack. Its sharp giant claws mercilessly swiped at the headless, bizarre creature, but all it touched was a faint green skeletal energy.
The high concentration of death aura even corroded most of the Tengu’s claws. In pain, the Tengu withdrew its right claw and flew into the sky, flapping its wings. While howling madly, it unleashed countless wind blades towards the headless knight.
“Swish—”
Faint blue light blades emitted from the tip of the knight’s lance, directly severing the greenish-blue wind blades and striking the Tengu’s body, directly bringing down the arrogant giant Tengu.
The knight pulled the reins, and with his legs straddling the warhorse’s belly, the skeletal warhorse reared high. A faint purple aura lit up around the warhorse, and the surrounding ground seemed to be corroded, causing the flowers and grass to wither instantly, and the very earth turned a decaying, ashen white.
Purple corrosive energy flowed around the headless knight, and the charging knight once again charged towards the Tengu in the distance.
……
Silently withdrawing her gaze from the headless knight, as the worn lance pierced the Tengu’s chest, the outcome of the battle was already decided in the girl’s heart.
Perhaps the strength of the Tengu Shikigami slightly exceeded Kazumi’s prediction of Mai Shinomiyai’s full strength, but it was completely within the girl’s acceptable range. She only had to pay a little more.
Of course, the always shrewd Kazumi would never engage in a losing business. If she paid a price…
Then she must achieve her goal!!
Mai Shinomiyai weakly mobilized the energy within her body. This moment’s change was somewhat unacceptable to her.
She had initially thought that after using her final energy to transfer the Tengu Shikigami’s aggro to Kazumi, she would be the victor of this battle. After all, no matter how powerful a summoned creature was, it would all turn into smoke if the summoner died.
The Shikigami left by her father did not disappoint her. The massive storm directly dissolved the opponent’s sea-like maggots, and its powerful combat strength prevented other summoned creatures from getting close.
But she hadn’t expected that the opponent wouldn’t even show a hint of panic when the Tengu approached her, and the headless armored knight summoned at the end completely shattered the girl’s hopes.
Even if the armored knight’s strength was inferior to the Tengu’s, as long as it could hold it back, she, who was already exhausted, would probably be killed by the opponent’s attack before that.
“Boom!!”
A huge explosion sounded from afar, and the dazzling golden light even interrupted the two’s actions. The scene in the distance rekindled the light of hope in Mai Shinomiyai’s slightly dim eyes.
[It’s Master Ku’s Wrathful Vajra!! As long as I persist a little longer, Master Ku will be here!]
Looking at the giant Buddha statue with four arms and an angry, round-eyed face in the distance, even the spiritual energy within the girl seemed to flow more smoothly. Her initially somewhat dejected heart was also uplifted, after all, there were probably no psychics who could survive under such might.
“Flame!”
Blood-red spiritual energy condensed in the girl’s hands, and the girl’s already somewhat pale face became even paler. Red flames condensed in the air, finally forming a huge flaming mask in the sky.
The flaming mask opened its large mouth, and flames spewed out endlessly, directly burning the encroaching Corpse Crows into ashes.
For the relatively weak underworld creatures of single units, flames imbued with spiritual energy were probably their nemesis. The surging flames directly replaced the previously formed fire wall, preventing the Corpse Crows from breaking through to Mai Shinomiyai’s side.
However, exceptions existed. The lead Corpse Crow in the flock seemed to possess stronger physical strength than the others, stubbornly enduring the terrifying flames and breaking through. The horrifying scene of it covered in flames was like a demon emerging from hell.
The girl raised her hand and shot out a talisman, accurately hitting the head of the exhausted Corpse Crow, directly blowing it to pieces.
“Hmm?”
But what happened next made the girl let out a doubtful hum, unnaturally. With a flash of black light, a normal Corpse Crow behind it seemed to mutate and swell up, charging towards Mai Shinomiyai fearlessly.
After firing several more talismans, the girl felt like she was playing a precision elimination game. With each expanding Corpse Crow, she would shoot out a talisman, slowly preventing them from approaching her.
Until finally, as the girl looked at the empty sky before her and touched the few remaining talismans in her bag, she let out a long sigh of relief.
It seemed that the opponent’s parasitic energy had its limits, and it should have been depleted by now.
“Wait, parasitic?!”
The girl seemed to have thought of something, and a bad premonition flashed through her mind.
Faint blue spiritual energy gathered in her eyes, instantly boosting her vision to its maximum. In her enhanced vision, she saw a small, ashen-white maggot with strange, wing-like teeth on both sides of its body, swaying and falling onto her sleeve like a paratrooper.
Brilliant blue spiritual energy flashed on her hand again, and the tiny maggot was directly turned into ashes by the powerful spiritual energy.
“Hu—” “Hu—” “Hu—”
The girl exhaled a long sigh of relief, feeling relaxed now that her opponent’s scheme had been thwarted. But the next few sounds, which clearly were not her own breaths, made the girl’s already relaxed body tense up instantly.
Stiffly, she turned her head bit by bit towards her right shoulder, from where the sound was coming. Her emerald green pupils trembled uncontrollably, and her bloodless mouth opened uncontrollably, but it was as if her throat was being choked, and she couldn’t make a sound.
And the ugly head that had appeared on the girl’s right shoulder at some unknown time felt no guilt for scaring her. It licked the girl’s tender, white cheek somewhat neurotically. The next moment, a gray-white arm covered in teeth emerged directly from the girl’s chest, and in its slender claws was a warm, beating heart, still emitting heat!
