Chapter 309 Acquaintances
“Mhm.”
After nodding gently, the young girl’s gaze did not linger on the small snake on her wrist. She raised her head and stared intently at the almost tangible black mist gushing out from the cracked gap in the sky.
It was at this moment that Kazumi finally understood why Masashi Sakuraba was willing to pay a considerable reward to ask her, a newcomer who had just joined the organization, to participate in this mission together.
The black death energy, carrying terrifying energy waves, radiated from mid-air to the entire plaza. The flowers and plants on the ground withered in an instant, and even the brown soil was transformed into gray-white rotten soil bit by bit at a visible speed.
In an instant, a massive amount of death energy swept past the girl. Even though the death energy was completely absorbed by the Human Skin Cloak, Kazumi was still pushed back two steps by the energy waves that were accompanied by the massive energy.
“Is this the aura of the Underworld?!”
A spark of fanaticism ignited in her cold eyes. This violent aura, completely different from the one in the Black Coffin, stirred a peculiar emotion deep within Kazumi’s heart. She began to urge the death energy in her hands to its limit, guiding the death energy in the sky towards her location.
The ferocity of this energy completely exceeded Kazumi’s imagination. It was like putting her hand into boiling water. The moment the two touched, a stinging burning sensation was instantly transmitted to the girl’s right hand.
However, the girl had no intention of stopping. The frown on her brow returned to its usual state. Kazumi continued to raise her right hand, using her own energy to guide the violent energy released from the crack towards the metal snake ring in her hand.
The violent energy, like a wolf that smelled meat, rushed over in a swarm after sensing the guidance of its kind, and was finally crudely stuffed into the metal snake ring, which was the size of her palm.
But Kazumi soon discovered a problem. The snake ring that Masashi Sakuraba gave her was very selective; it only absorbed death energy that was contaminated with that special violent aura. The remaining death energy that was filtered out was discharged from the other end through the holes of the metal ring.
Even for an Undead Creature like Kazumi, it was impossible to face this level of death energy for a long time. It was like how humans need temperature to survive, but cannot survive in a high temperature of 100 degrees.
Initially, the girl relied on the Human Skin Cloak on her body to absorb a lot of death energy. However, the absorption capacity of the Human Skin Cloak had a limit. After it was full, the cloak on her body lazily stopped working, allowing the massive energy to rush directly into Kazumi’s face.
“Black Coffin!”
Seeing the urgent situation, Kazumi directly summoned the coffin that was sleeping in the异空间 (another dimension). A black entrance was directly pressed against the tail end of the metal snake ring, and it swallowed the large amount of death energy that was filtered out like a whale.
“Hoo—”
Looking at the snake ring and the Black Coffin that had entered a subtle balance, Kazumi finally let out a sigh of relief. The situation at that time was much more dangerous than she had imagined. It was also the first time the girl had come into contact with such a completely mutated energy. It was so different from the energy she usually controlled. If such a level of death energy had directly hit her body, although it would not be fatal, the degree of her undeadization might have increased significantly, and even some unknown mutations were not impossible.
Of course, these were all things that Kazumi was unwilling to happen. Although she had always pursued power in her heart, she never wanted to discard that last human bottom line.
It seemed that in the girl’s heart, if she lost her emotions, she would probably lose many important things.
“Is… is it okay?”
Shaking her head, she managed to escape the recent minor crisis. However, looking at the massive amount of death energy constantly being injected into the Black Coffin, a trace of worry flashed through Kazumi’s heart.
The growth of power was a process that followed rules, even for Kazumi, who possessed a golden finger.
Reality was not a game. There was no excellent setting where one could upgrade unconditionally by paying, nor were there magic health potions that could be infinitely restored by eating them infinitely.
Excessive growth always came at a certain price. Kazumi had experienced such a thing before.
She had initially thought that the Death Crystals given by Masashi Sakuraba could promote her territory into a stage of rapid development, but it was the opposite.
The death energy released by directly crushing the Death Crystals was a test for the entire territory’s death energy operation system. It was Lei who had to guide it for a long time before the energy operation returned to normal.
This also caused Kazumi to abandon her impetuous plan to release all the Death Crystals and instead place them in the territory for slow integration. In this way, the result was the same, but the overall speed could slowly improve the territory without affecting its operational state, which was the most cost-effective way to improve.
Moreover, the use of Death Crystals was not just this simple and crude. Kazumi had also kept a few, which could be used to assist in sacrifices or help troops advance in the future.
Therefore, what Kazumi was worried about was how this large amount of unusual death aura would impact the territory when it entered. However, since things had already happened, stopping the loss in time was the most important thing.
Looking at it from a good perspective, even if the entire territory was leveled and rebuilt due to this amount of death aura entering, it wouldn’t be too much of a loss. As for other drawbacks, Lei would just have to work overtime. As long as the entire territory wasn’t completely broken, it would be acceptable.
“Lord Sakuraba, the energy absorption is more than half complete.”
The pain in her right hand had gradually subsided, even becoming numb. This was a precursor to her arm starting to necrotic.
But the girl didn’t care. She raised her left hand and reported softly to the small snake on it.
“Mhm, hold on until the absorption is complete.”
Outside the blood-red light membrane, Masashi Sakuraba stood in front of Yuz, who was being bitten by the blood snake. He looked at the constantly condensing death energy with a hint of a pleased smile on his face.
Things were going much smoother than he had expected. Little Kazumi had the ability to control corrupted evil energy, and those annoying guys from the Association did not come to cause trouble this time. In this way, perhaps he could completely heal his injuries this time.
His slender tongue traced from his lips to his chin. Masashi Sakuraba, who was somewhat excited in his heart, was also showing his joy. With his completely beast-like heterochromatic eyes, he walked up to the dying Yuz.
“To thank you for your life energy making me so delighted, I’ll give you a quick end.”
His slender right hand transformed into a purple poisonous snake. The aura emanating from the purple fangs in the small snake’s mouth could even distort the surrounding space.
“Hm?”
Just as his fangs were about to touch Yuz’s neck, a strange breeze blew past him, making Masashi Sakuraba raise his head in confusion.
And in the next moment, precise power erupted.
The blood snake, Masashi Sakuraba, and even the huge magic array behind them, were all cut into two neat and symmetrical halves at this moment.
A tall blue figure wearing wooden clogs slowly walked in from the end of the field of vision, with a displeased expression on his face.
“Hey, damn snake! It’s you again!”
