The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 155

Chapter 156
This is what happens when you fully tank mechanics.
The leader was sweating profusely.
Moriarty’s words were like those of a demon… he knew I brought a Blade Demon, so why was he so calm!
Was he a Demon Scholar, or a demon disguised as a human!?
And how did he know I brought a Blade Demon?
“—Is there an inside man?”
The leader suddenly realized.
If Eivass Moriarty was a Demon Scholar, then the mission he received was flawed from the start—perhaps this person was from the Lloyd Society, and he was just very good at hiding it, so he didn’t know about it!
In that case, this was just a factional dispute from the beginning.
And he was just cannon fodder sent to be used!
“Wait a minute, I have something to say…”
He had already understood this in his heart, but it was too late.
“No.”
Eivass’s cold voice came: “You cannot surrender.”
The next moment, a bullet flew.
The leader felt the danger just before the trigger was pulled—he tried his best to dodge, but couldn’t completely.
Or rather, it was precisely because Eivass wasn’t aiming for his head that he could barely dodge.
But even so, after being shot in the right shoulder, the leader felt as if his limb had been sliced by an invisible Shadow Blade. His right arm exploded in a spray of blood and flew off directly.
The wound sent an intense corrosive sensation.
For the first time in his life, he felt such pain, his mind went blank for an instant, and he couldn’t remember any spells or curses. He couldn’t help but fall to the ground and cry out in agony. The screams echoed far into the night.
At that moment, a thought appeared in the leader’s mind.
When he had poured strong acid on someone’s head before, the other party seemed to have let out a similar scream…
So this was what it felt like…
“Hurry up, don’t waste time. Otherwise, I’ll kill you now.”
Eivass’s chilling voice sounded again: “Where is your Blade Demon?”
Just then, the fire butterfly, which had been slowly flying towards them, also approached the leader.
The leader looked up, his eyes filled with fear as he looked at the slowly approaching fire butterfly.
“—Blade Demon! Save me!”
He subconsciously called out.
The moment the command was received, the Blade Demon, which had been suspended behind him in spirit form, suddenly materialized.
The Blade Demon looked like a half-knight wearing armor, covering its head and chest. However, its armor was pure black and had many ferocious spikes.
The Blade Demon had no lower body—it was suspended in mid-air. Black smoke emanated from below its skirt armor, like dark clouds faintly flashing with lightning.
Even under the Blade Demon’s helmet, its eyes were not visible. Only two red lights shone from where its eyes should be. It wore gloves and wielded a thick greatsword.
It moved silently like a gust of wind and struck the high-temperature Flame Butterfly with a heavy blow.
This time, it intercepted with a close-range attack, and the Flame Butterfly was directly triggered to explode. A rapidly rotating flame storm erupted, engulfing the Blade Demon—
When the flames dissipated, the Blade Demon’s armor and blade had clearly turned red. The flame storm, which lasted for about three to four seconds, had clearly consumed some of the Blade Demon’s power. The most obvious sign was that the black smoke rising from beneath it had significantly decreased.
However, the Blade Demon did take the attack and did not let it affect its master.
Immediately after, the Blade Demon, enveloped in steam and heat—like a bull made of a red-hot iron—turned and charged ferociously towards Eivass, who was standing at the entrance!
Visible lightning gathered on the sword’s edge, and the flowing electric light made the iron sword shine dazzlingly in the night.
—This was [Lightning Strike]!
A generic skill that could be learned only after possessing at least level two Lightning Affinity—it was not limited to swordsmanship, but included all professions that used metal weapons to attack.
Although common, it was effective.
As long as the distance approached a certain degree, the electric light emitted from the blade could cause the opponent’s body to briefly stiffen, paralyze, or twitch.
What followed was an un-dodgeable, unstoppable decapitating strike!
The Blade Demon’s charge speed was extremely fast. Even if Eivass wasn’t in a wheelchair, it would be difficult to dodge solely relying on his own movement speed.
But at this moment, a gray thread had somehow wrapped around his waist.
He simply leaped back lightly, and the thread, imbued with the power of shadow, quickly pulled Eivass back into the shadows.
At this moment, the fire butterfly that had been hovering at Eivass’s fingertips suddenly erupted in flames, forcing the Blade Demon back half a step.
That was the Butterfly, disguised as a Flame Butterfly, hiding.
It had now de-linked from its following form and revealed its true self—
Flames ignited on its red and black butterfly wings, and the scarlet pupils of the black-haired girl snapped open.
Accompanied by intense hostility, she let out a childish shriek.
A lava-like ball of light condensed before her mouth—in just an instant, a deep red flame beam, as thick as an adult male’s forearm, was unleashed.
The Blade Demon had a very strong attack desire.
It endured this attack and swung at the Butterfly!
Lightning crackled—the electricity emitted from its tip struck the Butterfly, turning into lashing electric snakes that coiled around it. But it did not cause any paralysis effect on the Butterfly.
Immediately after, a heavy sword strike came!
But instead of blood, sparks flew.
This attack was very effective, and the Butterfly’s body was almost cut in half. This indicated that it did indeed lack resistance to physical attacks.
However, the Blade Demon failed to deliver a fatal blow.
With its first attack failing, the Blade Demon lost its last chance.
The power of the light cannon fired by the Butterfly far exceeded the Blade Demon’s imagination—the flame stream, carrying hot wind, roared and repeatedly repelled it, eventually piercing straight through!
Centered around the Butterfly, the surrounding grass quickly withered and burned.
The flame stream that pierced the Blade Demon fell to the ground and began to burn fiercely.
This was the Butterfly’s most common and least inconspicuous mechanism, [Guiding Flame Stream]. It randomly targeted a player and continuously guided a beam of fire, igniting the path of the beam.
This was a very typical guided fire wall mechanism that couldn’t kill people at all. It could only serve to divide the battlefield.
However, while the Blade Demon was not as unintelligent as the Deformed or the Hooked Demon Jack, it clearly didn’t know how to deal with it. It stood still like a completely clueless new player, taking the full brunt of the beam.
With just one hit, the Blade Demon’s armor was already tattered.
Then, the Butterfly circled in the air, landing slowly like it was performing an elegant dance and closing its wings. It seemed to have entered a resting state, or perhaps was preparing something.
The severely wounded Blade Demon did not pause at all.
Without hesitation, it charged towards the Butterfly again!
But as its blade struck the Butterfly, the Butterfly’s wings suddenly opened and retaliated!
As the Butterfly spun rapidly, a surging and roaring torrent of flames sent the Blade Demon flying backward!
Eivass also recognized this mechanism.
This was a close-range counter-attack state for a level fifty Butterfly—in this state, the Butterfly’s four wing flames had to be depleted by ranged or Water Attribute attacks.
If the Butterfly took a certain amount of damage from a melee attack before then, it would end its resting state early and immediately unleash a full-screen counter-attack!
This was a mechanism that could easily wipe out a party if not handled properly.
The Butterfly’s wings opened, and it flew back into the sky.
Eyes condensed one after another on its wings, three eyes on each wing.
The twelve eyes swept across the ground, attacking the Blade Demon and the leader repeatedly like claws.
Even after taking twelve beam sweeps, the Blade Demon wasn’t dead, but the leader died upon being hit by the beam for the second time.
Towards the fading Blade Demon, the Butterfly was still enraged.
It transformed into a meteor burning fiercely and soared towards the Blade Demon.
The Blade Demon, now broken down to only half a helmet and one right hand, still did not evade or retreat.
It was like a warrior facing the charge of a heavily armored knight. It gathered its focus, and white radiance continuously accumulated on its blade.
Timing it perfectly, it unleashed an incomparably brilliant sword strike—
But the brilliant sword light was instantly swallowed by the flames, having no effect. The black knight’s helmet clanged to the ground and then dissipated.
Eivass, who received the experience notification from the Blade Demon and walked back to the entrance, saw this scene and couldn’t help but exclaim.
“You could take the full hit? Brother Blade Demon?”
Update complete!
I said I wouldn’t take a day off today, so don’t panic…
Damn, I’m telling you, when I woke up yesterday from the earthquake, my first reaction was “Why is my body convulsing, am I dying?” Then I was confused for about seven or eight seconds before I realized, “Oh, it’s not me shaking, it’s the bed…”