The Shepherds Are Dense – Chapter 896

Chapter 895
Can a Doctor Save Someone Whose Head Has Exploded?

Before the demon tide arrived, Mu’s shoulders sagged slightly, and his calloused hands relaxed naturally.
He focused intently, gazing at the approaching demon tide. Then, his hands suddenly clasped and twisted, and a bright golden staff materialized!
“I humbly implore the Silver Crown Dragon, the God of Sacred Number Seven!
“The Unquestionable God! The Crowned and Sword-Wielding God—”
Eivass gazed at Mu and suddenly prayed loudly, “Grant the brave one immense stature!”
As Eivass’s prayer fell, Mu’s body suddenly expanded. His skin was covered by a thin layer of ice armor, and white smoke, whether from heat or cold, steamed from his body. While his strength, physique, and defense increased, he paradoxically became more agile.
—This was a divine art of the Silver Crown Dragon, “Immense Stature”!
Mu, already nearly two meters tall, now shot up to four meters in the blink of an eye!
The staff in his hand was now as massive as a pillar.
Mu rapidly swung his similarly enlarged staff, striking the Blade Demons at the forefront of the charge!
A wind sound like a dragon’s roar whistled through the air, and these armored demons, with only upper bodies and lower bodies like mist, were instantly smashed away by Mu!
But the conical wave of demons was still drawing nearer—Mu, standing at the very front, remained unmoved, but as demons approached from the sides, gaps appeared!
Master Amber tightened his grip on his prayer beads, and without snapping them, he pulled off an amber bead.
He tossed the amber bead into the sky, where it condensed into an amber-colored light screen, protecting the Extraordinary beings in the rear, leaving only Mu exposed outside.
The traps left by Little Cat were triggered one by one, but they only slightly slowed the demon tide. They didn’t even inflict effective casualties.
The Dream Traveling Monk, Bai Ke, whose spirit shone as brilliantly as gold, strode forward, passing through all his teammates and enemies. No one could attack him, as if he were merely an illusion or a lingering dream.
As the Dream Traveling Monk floated several steps ahead of Mu, he suddenly rose and became ethereal, as if transforming into a brilliant sun—he suddenly became incomparably huge, and illusory runes formed from countless “knowledge” fragments appeared out of nowhere and gathered, forming a massive, three-headed, six-armed Dharma image!
However, this Dharma image was only from the waist up, and its outer shell was illusory. Even the left and right heads among the three were a nearly blackish-green transparency. Only the central head was pure, sun-like bright golden.
But even this half-body was nearly twenty meters tall. Compared to it, the demons were like slightly larger moths—the bright golden six arms grasped in all directions, easily seizing several demons. He then tossed them at each other, smashing them, and for a moment, forcefully halted the surging demon tide, allowing Mu behind him to deal with the situation.
But it was clear that he wouldn’t be able to hold on for long—the moment he revealed this Dharma image, he became vulnerable to attack.
As the demons found it difficult to bypass him to attack the rear, they simply turned their attention to him.
Shadow Demon’s woven shadow blades, Succubus’s illusory butterfly wings, Ice Demon’s condensed frost needles, Eye Demon’s multicolored beams of light…
Bai Ke’s body fiercely flashed with unstable light, like a flickering light bulb. Runes on his body dimmed and disintegrated, and his arms, once filled with golden light, gradually turned into hollow, blackish-green.
He didn’t last long—about six or seven seconds, and his golden luminous body suddenly shattered under the concentrated fire of hundreds of demons!
At this moment, Bai Ke’s radiant golden spirit body also dimmed. Although the surrounding demons could still not attack him.
Bai Ke clearly couldn’t summon an equally grand divine avatar again—he could only manifest two bright golden arms on the shoulders of his golden spirit body. Under his control, he attacked the surrounding demons, but without causing much damage.
However, the time he delayed was meaningful.
Sin had finished chanting his spell.
He fully mobilized his Path Power, emitting a cyan glow, clearly going all out—
On the ground in front of Mu, a cyan-green magic circle suddenly lit up, and a visible cyan storm gathered.
But before it could ignite, the magic circle turned red. Even the storm turned deep crimson, and the air became scorching hot.
Then, it turned into hot sand—the magic circle became yellow, and the illusory storm turned into a physical entity, with countless scorching iron sands swirling, cutting the skin of the most fragile demons into bloody wounds.
Afterward, the magic circle turned deep blue. The iron sands turned into ice and snow, and the air suddenly cooled.
Sin reluctantly glanced back at the deep blue jewel in Cardinal Galatea’s hand.
But he still turned back.
As he poured all his mana into his staff, the staff emitted intense warning sounds under the overload. White smoke billowed from the staff, but the spell continued to run stably.
The deep blue magic circle, at this moment, suddenly flashed with crackling lightning.
Through this method, he adjusted all four colors of his mana to be unified!
The demons feared the Punisher Demon, master of lightning, the most. Sin keenly realized that these demons had an instinctive aversion and fear towards lightning, so he used his most powerful spell!
The spell seemed to activate the entire building—
It wasn’t just summoning lightning, but using the surrounding environment to channel lightning from the sky!
The deep blue runes on the entire building lit up one by one. Originally, some were supposed to light up and some to go out, like a traffic light… but now they all lit up simultaneously, densely packed on one wall.
The cyan runes continued to brighten, their radiance becoming dazzling. Then, they turned pure white.
The next moment—
A deep blue lightning strike once again hit the ruins of the Sky-Piercing Tower, a thunderous tempest that seemed to annihilate the world erupted!
Even Eivass clearly felt a tingling in his feet—countless white lightning bolts like snake-like lightning crackled within the runes, then disappeared.
While it was hard to say about the previous lightning strike, this one was indeed from Great Philosopher!
The divine aura infused within it made the Amber Wall appear scarred. The more fragile demons turned to dust in the baptism of lightning. Dark vortexes appeared, sucking those dead demons into the Dream Realm, while lighter demons like the Eye Demons were directly swept into the Dream Realm by the vortexes.
Once they became demons, they could never return to being mortals—even if they died, they would only be reborn in the Dream Realm, and dying in the Dream Realm would turn them into Phantom Demon Eggs to be reborn in the Material Realm.
The chaotic lightning that ravaged the earth continued for a full half-minute—not because it couldn’t continue, but because the Amber Wall had been destroyed by the spell’s aftermath. To avoid harming his own people, Sin stopped the spell.
The hand holding the staff was burned, and an electric current occasionally flashed on his right arm, causing his muscles to twitch.
Looking up, the approximately six hundred and sixty demons had now dwindled to less than twenty.
The remaining ones were the elite of the elite, all of the Fifth Tier!
Even so, they didn’t look to be in good shape.
They bore obvious burn marks on their bodies, but their eyes showed even more intense malice and killing intent.
But at this moment.
Sin suddenly let out a miserable cry—an electric current pierced his body, and then his head exploded with a bang!
The exploded head blew off his upper body along with it. His standing lower body lasted for a long time before falling, his intact intestines spilling out.
Professor Bard, who had been quietly cowering at the back of the team, suddenly let out a terrified scream, his first since the battle began: “He! His head! It exploded!”
Although Professor Bard knew that it was best for support staff not to cause any commotion that might distract the combatants… this scene still startled him greatly.
He couldn’t hold it in!
For a moment, Eivass thought it was a spell backlash on Sin or that he had violated some taboo.
But Cardinal Galatea sighed and pointed to Sin’s glasses on the ground, saying, “Mirror Demon.”
When the Amber Wall shattered, the Mirror Demon had silently leaped into Sin’s glasses!
After regaining her memories, she had, for a moment, decided not to help Eivass and the others anymore.
But for some reason, she had changed her mind now.
Perhaps she didn’t want to involve others… after all, Sin wasn’t the only one in this team who wore glasses.
As Cardinal Galatea pointed to the glasses, they suddenly shattered.
Accompanied by a shrill wail like a banshee, a shadowy, cloaked woman emerged by Eivass’s side.
The Butterfly, with sharp eyes, flew forward without hesitation—with a spin, her thin, blade-like fiery wings sliced the woman in two!
Then she focused her laser to a single point. First, she killed the Mirror Demon, then turned back and swept towards the other Fifth Tier demons!
“Zhu Tang!”
Little Cat screamed.
“All right, all right!”
Zhu Tang had finally finished arranging his magic circle.
He opened his blood-tear-filled eyes, looked at the demon horde, and chanted loudly and urgently:
“Five Elements gather spirit, Eight Trigrams form the array; Golden light illuminates demons, Wood binds their form; Water cuts off demonic energy, Fire burns evil spirits; Earth solidifies the seal, Yin and Yang are balanced; Heaven and Earth’s righteous energy, obey my command—
“Supreme Purity Sacred Light, illuminates all directions; Evil spirits are quickly destroyed, unable to be reborn; Where the talisman arrives, all evil shall be pacified—Supreme Lord Lao, hasten to seal!”
He used his eyes to confirm the array’s foundation, locking onto the demons one by one. The remote ritual using chess pieces as substitutes was completed and cast.
The Origin Transcendent Power from the Father of Snakes manifested, transforming into pure Balance Power beneath the array platform.
It was a bright yellow light that could disperse all extraordinary powers, which Zhu Tang called “Supreme Purity Sacred Light.” It descended vertically from above the demon horde. Although it was a light pillar, it felt like a strong gust of wind.
As it descended, everyone except Eivass, Cardinal Galatea, and Master Amber—even Zhu Tang himself—simultaneously felt a suffocating sensation.
The cyan runes on the surrounding buildings were also extinguished, like candlelight being blown out. Or as if a wind from above had blown towards a dusty ground, scattering the dust in all directions. The Dream Traveling Monk’s golden spirit body was blown out like a candle flame, and his sleeping physical body suddenly awoke.
The Butterfly, a Phantom Demon, also felt intense discomfort and reverted to her traveling form, the Flame Butterfly, resting on Eivass’s shoulder. This was merely the feeling of being radiated by the light of balance—the bodies of those directly exposed to it visibly faded. Even the divine art and blessings Eivass had cast on Mu were dispersed by this light.
This was a technique specifically designed to expel Phantom Demons into the Dream Realm, a skill used by the Apostles of Hourglass to drive away and suppress Phantom Demons who reached the Sixth Tier!
The weaker demons would directly dissipate under this light and return to the Dream Realm to be reborn.
The Ice Demon of the Fifth Tier roared ferociously—although theoretically it should be able to speak, these ancient demons clearly didn’t understand language. It condensed a cold current, but its spell became extremely unstable, condensing twice without forming.
Seeing that the third condensation would be successful—but at this moment, Mu leaped directly forward!
As the sacred light staff in his hand entered the domain of balance, it also disintegrated and shattered. But even so, he was fearless and hammered at the demons with his fists!
The weak demons, despite possessing higher-tier power, were not adapted to this extreme environment filled with Bewitchment Dispelling Power and Balance Power. Before they could adapt, Mu’s fists shattered their weakened bodies one by one!
After only four or five punches, the demons completely faded and were forcibly banished to the Dream Realm with unconcealable hatred.
The remaining demons were dealt with similarly—the restless Vagrant Durrur also picked up the Mighty Bow he carried and shot arrow after arrow at the weakened and silenced demons. Little Cat also re-entered the shadows, sneaking forward to perform her assassination techniques, which she hadn’t used in a long time and had become somewhat rusty.
With Little Cat and the Vagrant driving them away, there was no need to worry about the weakened demons escaping the ritual circle, which was nearly sixty meters in diameter.
The light shone for about a minute—to be precise, fifty-eight seconds. And this duration was enough for the three physical professionals to deal with the enemies.
“…You can do this?”
Eivass was surprised, “This skill of yours… it’s quite unique, isn’t it? Summoning Balance Power with a ritual… and such pure Balance Power is truly rare. I’ve only seen it when Alchemists perform Bewitchment Dispelling Rites.”
For a moment, Eivass felt tempted.
He was also a Ritualist and might be able to learn it.
“This isn’t difficult, the difficult part is the remote casting… Remote casting isn’t possible for me, it has something to do with my Heavenly Eye. But if it’s the ritual itself… if you’re interested, I can teach you when I have time.”
Zhu Tang rubbed his forehead with a headache and said casually.
Eivass thought, if you dare to teach, I truly dare to learn.
As the demons were completely expelled, and a rare quiet moment descended.
Zhu Tang did not immediately close his eyes.
He looked back at Sin’s corpse on the ground, whose head had been blown off by the Mirror Demon’s reflected spell and was still radiating residual heat. He hesitated and looked at Eivass, who was healing Mu and checking Little Cat’s injuries, “Your Excellency the Pope… ah, and Master Amber. This kind of injury… uh, Doctor, can you see if something that’s blown to pieces can still be saved? How about… taking a look first? After all, he’s… the main force… isn’t he?”
“Don’t panic, he can be saved.”
Eivass replied without turning his head, as he focused on healing Mu, whose body was once again bruised from his reckless brawl with the demons, “I’ll treat the living first—and you should watch out for yourself, don’t just stand there taking hits that you can dodge because I can heal you. I saw it clearly, you deliberately walked into several attacks.”
Mu nodded silently, unsure which part he was agreeing to.
Master Amber pushed up his glasses and nodded in agreement.
He looked back at Sin’s corpse, pushed up his glasses again, and said in his usual tone, “Yes, you can.”
Everyone looked at the remains of Grand Mage Sin, now just a “Sin,” with hesitation.
“Really, really can?”
(End of Chapter)