The blood mist dissipated, the smoke gathered, and the Smoke Demon Knight holding a giant ax stood on the ruins after the explosion.
The surrounding houses had already been completely destroyed by the explosion just now, and the only ones on the scene at this moment were Shugein and the "God of Life" Erfen.
"A thing like you is worthy of being called a god, even worse than a devil? That's too ridiculous..."
A low and hoarse voice, as if cut by a blade, came from the huge smoke knight.
The unpleasant voice mocked mercilessly and pointed its eyes at Shugein's huge eyeballs.
"Shut up..." A calm and magnetic voice interrupted the unpleasant hoarse voice.
"Tch, I am the one who has the best relationship with you, right? Let me tell you what's wrong. How dare this guy call himself "God"?"
"It's not a comedy show either..." The low, hoarse voice stopped abruptly before he could finish talking.
The smoke knight also started to move. While the knight was still, the huge eyeball did not stop.
The surrounding matter was given life again, and this time, it was more concentrated and more elite.
The entire ground was given life and turned into a quagmire of flesh and blood.
From inside stretched out bloody tentacles that looked like skinned octopus tentacles with sharp barbs and curled towards Shugein.
The surrounding broken masonry ruins were once again given life, but this time they were no longer independent individuals, but gathered into a whole.
Pieces of flesh and blood fragments were spliced together, and a large number of masonry fragments were combined to form a shape. The surface was covered with carapace, and limbs sprouted from the sides.
A huge centipede creature was born out of thin air.
The giant centipede stepped on the swamp of flesh and blood and rushed forward without any hindrance, while the tentacles extending from the swamp harassed the Smoke Demon Knight.
Faced with the attacks from the two, the Smoke Demon Knight's choice was to simply ignore them, yes, ignore them.
He completely ignored the charging centipede and rushed towards the giant eye attached to the city wall in a straight line.
Xiugeyin had heard Wang Yu's reminder, and he decided to solve the source of the mutation in one fell swoop.
Tentacles of flesh and blood coiled up, and these tentacles were greeted by puffs of smoke.
The smoke swept from the Smoke Demon Knight's body, and in turn surrounded these flesh and blood tentacles, spinning at extremely high speeds like fluids.
The smoke billows, but the effect is no different from the crazy cutting of a meat grinder.
In just an instant, all the tentacles that swept over were broken, the skin was torn and filled with holes, and they turned into useless pieces of meat and fell into the mire of flesh and blood.
The charge of the Smoke Demon Knight was fast and unstoppable, and the extremely fast sprint was not blocked by the Flesh Swamp.
The running giant closed the distance to the source of mutation to within ten meters in a blink of an eye.
At this moment, the Smoke Demon Knight also met the charging giant centipede head-on.
The centipede coiled up its body like a cobra, raised its mouthparts with strong and sharp giant fangs, aimed at the three-meter-tall body of the Smoke Demon Knight and screamed.
Ignoring the centipede's warning, no matter what it did, all Shugeyin had to do was split the giant eye.
Facing the charging Smoke Demon Knight, Centipede suddenly jumped out, spreading its extremely long body in all directions, forming an encirclement surrounding the Smoke Demon Knight's three-meter-high body.
Even though this smoke giant has a body of three meters high, it still looks a bit small when faced with these giant centipedes that are tens of meters long.
The flesh and blood swamp also boiled in time, and a giant flesh and blood hand stretched out from its interior, spreading its five fingers to grab the Smoke Demon Knight who was surrounded by the centipede body.
The centipede also shrunk its body from all directions, wrapping in the prey inside like a hunter tightening a trap.
The sharp cold light flashed on the surface of the limbs, and it continuously pushed forward and backward, creating an effect like a chainsaw, which was enough to cut gold and break stone.
There are bloody hands pressing down on it, centipede bodies surrounding it, and a dragnet. It seems that the Smoke Demon Knight has nowhere to escape.
"Poof!" The bloody hand came down and slapped on the blood swamp, and the centipede also completed its attack on the prey at this moment.
The two overlapped at this moment, and it looked like the bloody hand was pressing on the ground, and the centipede's body was coiled around it.
The Smoke Demon Knight in the middle could no longer see any part of his body, and seemed to be completely covered and shrouded in it, being hunted like a prey.
But obviously, this is just an illusion.
From the gaps in the centipede's body, wisps of mist floated out from it, and the gas-like mist was not hindered by it at all.
The blood swamp seemed to notice these strange smokes as they emerged from those gaps everywhere. Tentacles kept protruding from the blood swamp, grabbing at the smoke that was beginning to thicken in the air.
The centipede also stretched out its countless jointed limbs, trying to hit the smoke with its body.
But how can the misty smoke be disturbed by these things? It passes through all obstacles without any delay and condenses.
Shugeyin appeared under the giant eye wearing a windbreaker, holding the unburned cigar in his hand.
Pick up the cigar, take a deep breath, and then exhale, the smoke pouring out from your mouth and nose.
This time, Xiugeyin did not transform into the huge smoke demon knight again. The smoke gathered and condensed behind him.
A larger smoke knight then appeared, standing behind Shugein.
As the cigar in his hand was completely burned, the huge smoke knight was completely formed.
The eight-meter-tall body faced off against the giant eyeball attached to the city wall, and they were evenly matched.
At a certain moment, I seemed to see an evil and arrogant smile appear on the corner of the giant smoke knight's mouth, and then disappeared in an instant.
The blood swamp and centipede behind them went completely crazy. The centipede's body rushed towards them like a train, while countless palms in the blood swamp were grabbing at it from the inside.
But it was too late. Shugeyin lifted up his long-handled ax that was stained red with blood, and slashed it down from the top.
The giant smoke knight behind him also made the same move. The huge smoke ax in his hand slashed vertically from top to bottom.
The giant smoke ax delivered a devastating blow, and the giant eye's body had no room to block it. It was split in two by the seemingly unsharp smoke ax blade without any delay.
The huge ax blade even dug deeply into the city wall that the huge eyeball was clinging to, creating a huge scar that cut through the wall and stone from top to bottom.
The flesh and blood collapsed, and weird liquid spewed out from the inside of the huge eyeball. The substance in the eyeball poured out like crazy, which was extremely disgusting.
The slime substance that looked like the pupil of an eyeball was trying to lean towards the edge of the eyeball to avoid the vertical ax blade.
It was so fast that it actually managed to avoid the ax blade to the side before it fell, but this was meaningless.
The smoke was shapeless and swept out from the ax blade, wrapping the flexible slime and blocking all its paths.
It rotated, cut and decomposed, and the invisible smoke exploded with astonishing destructive power. In the smoke, the dark green slime was completely shattered.
Together with the internal core, it was completely shattered, and the two things also fell down and were caught by Xiuge Yin.
The centipede and blood swamp rushing behind him also collapsed the moment the slime shattered. The centipede turned into a large number of flying bricks, and the blood swamp became a rushing mud wave.
"Puff puff puff" Shugen looked at the two objects in his hands calmly, and the smoke knight behind him used his back to block all the splashing objects for Shugen.
Bricks and stones fell to the ground, soil piled up, and the Smoke Knight dissipated little by little, turning into misty smoke.
Wang Yu could see a wisp of smoke floating out from an invisible place and getting into the lantern on Xiuge Yin's waist.
Edward looked at Ciel, who was no longer shaking under him, and released his hold on this guy.
Now that the captain has taken back the demon, that should mean the matter is settled.
Wang Yu felt the changes around him. The dominant void energy field had disappeared, and his ripples were no longer suppressed. Everything within a diameter of ten meters appeared once again.
It seems that the source of the mutation was indeed destroyed this time, and the power it possessed has dissipated.
After looking at it, I saw that the surrounding things that had been given life had stopped moving again and turned into lifeless dead things.
It was a messy city wall area, and all the surrounding buildings had collapsed due to this battle.
Wang Yu is actually quite shocked. In his opinion, the destructive power of the knight profession itself is limited after all, and it is incomparable with the mage.
However, the destructive power displayed by Shugeyin and his terrifying inner potential can be said to have completely subverted Wang Yu's understanding of the knight profession to a certain extent.
Running forward, Wang Yu looked at the two objects in the captain's hands. They were very familiar and proved that his guess was correct.
A steel cone engraved with various runes, and a holy symbol engraved with a dense forest and a towering tree in it.
These two things were exactly the same as what Wang Yu took out from the goblin's body.
After thinking about it, Wang Yu made a request to Xiugein, "Captain, can you show me this holy emblem? I want to confirm the status of this "source of life" Erfen just like you did to Lady Night. .”
"Okay." Xiugeyin nodded. It seemed that he should have learned about Wang Yu's research on Lady Night through his professor.
Taking the steel awl from Xiugeyin's hand, he was familiar with the road and recited the content on the holy emblem.
"The source of life, the giant tree that spans ancient times, the guardian of living things, the kind elder, I praise your name..."
Before the steel cone could react and try to nail Wang Yu's Tianling Cap to control him, Wang Yu crushed it directly.
The material of this steel cone is very special. Only when I started using it did I realize that it can be broken easily.
A ball of light flowed out from inside and penetrated into Wang Yu's mind.
With Xiugeyin by his side, Wang Yu was not worried about any accidents.
Looking directly inward, putting his spirit into his body, Wang Yu once again stood on the lake under the starry sky.
He saw the figure of Lady Night, standing next to Wang Yu, looking in a distant direction.
Wang Yu followed his gaze and found an old man, an old man who was in extremely wrong condition.
The old man seemed to be a very old and prestigious elder. The robe on his body was embellished with green coats of arms, elegant and mysterious.
The wooden scepter in his hand and the smooth and slender antlers growing out of his head look exactly like the druid in the traditional impression.
However, something is extremely wrong with his current state. The old man's skin, which should have a trace of wrinkles on his body, is now too transparent and smooth, and there seems to be some kind of liquid inside.
The originally kind old man's face had his eyes closed now, and a pus-like object appeared on his face, with disgusting liquid boiling inside.
The old man collapsed on the ground, with strange bulges appearing in various parts of his body, like a strange patient whose whole body was covered with sarcomas. His robe could not cover the bulging and mutated flesh.
"He is polluted." Ms. Hei Ye's words sounded around Wang Yu. He couldn't hear the meaning clearly, but there should be a hint of pity.
"As you said, contaminated by the madness of those believers?"
"Yes, it seems that those who believe in Him must be slimes. The instincts of these unintelligent creatures are to divide, devour, and fuse..."
"This has created a huge conflict with Himself, and, like me, this was the only creature that believed in Him at that time..."
"But the Church of the Source of Life has grown to a very large scale here..." Wang Yu objected.
In the city wall area, according to the information provided by the professor, the Church of the Source of Life had appeared a few months ago, and the so-called life return rituals had already begun.
"Those beliefs are not directed at him but at the slime. Everyone thinks that their gods are unstable and twisted things. This will only make things worse..."
Wang Yu thought for a while, I'm afraid that's really the case.
"I think you gods are a little too, well, a little weak, although you are much stronger than me."
Wang Yu has always been a little confused. The gods he encountered seemed not so "divine", nor were they so powerful that they were invincible.
On the contrary, the two so-called gods, Lady of the Night and the Source of Life, seemed extremely passive, and were even restrained by their own believers. He did not quite understand.
Perhaps the only one who fits the image of the god in his image now is the God of Light.
But other gods, such as Erfen, the source of life, were even "killed" by Shugein single-handedly.
"I also want to know why, as the so-called god you call me, I don't have the ability to choose."
Wang Yu didn't know how to answer Ms. Night's words. He seemed to have inadvertently moved the rules and regulations of the earth to this world.
Should gods be omnipotent? Should gods despise so-called mortals? This seems to be a stereotyped thinking.
Even the gods themselves cannot choose what their abilities are, whether they are powerful or not...
"Maybe I took it for granted." Wang Yu rubbed his chin.
"Well, I hope you can keep your word and spread my faith."
"I don't want to be like Him, who is still lingering at this moment and continue to collapse into a posture that shouldn't be."
"Wait, what did you say?" Wang Yu suddenly noticed the problem in Ms. Heiye's words.
"Isn't he killed?" Wang Yu looked at the body of the "source of life" Erfen that was disappearing.
This deformed old man had already begun to gradually fade away when he came in.
He thought that this was caused by the captain killing this "god", but Lady Night's words made him feel something was wrong.
"No, this is not dying, He is just collapsing. He is changing in the direction that believers misunderstood, turning into a twisted thing like slime."
"So the prayers on the Holy Emblem that I recited actually have nothing to do with the god "Source of Life"?"
"So I can no longer connect with Him using my original prayers?"
"Because He has become something completely different from the original source of life?"
"Your guess is not wrong..." Ms. Heiye agreed with Wang Yu's statement.
"Fuck, it's not because he died, it's because this guy can't keep up with the prayer!"
Wang Yu was somewhat surprised. He didn't expect that this guy's incarnation was not because he died, but because he had turned into another god. He couldn't help but curse.
Ji quickly withdrew from the mental space, and Wang Yu was ready to tell others about this discovery.
But after he exited the mental space, what rang in his ears were the professor's solemn words.
"The source of life should have two abilities in the record, one is "life return", and the other should be "immortal seed"."
"The former has already shown its effect in your battle, but the latter, I'm afraid this source of life is not completely dead yet..."
"Ahem, I'm busy." Xiugeyin took a puff of his pipe and coughed twice. His tone didn't change much, but he just said something that might be a complaint.
Charles and Edward looked at each other, while Wang Yu frowned.
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At the same time, at the orphanage on the edge of the city, a team of cavalry arrived with some children. Most of these children had numb faces, and a few of them cried non-stop.
Several middle-aged women in the orphanage comforted these children with kind words and washed their dirt-stained clothes and faces.
They were all orphans rescued by the city guards in this incident, and their parents who believed in the source of life were turned into fleshy monsters.
Some of these children who had no idea survived due to chance and had no concept of faith, and were sent to the orphanage in the royal city.
"Vanessa, be good from now on. Edward and I will come to see you later."
The middle-aged knight who helped Edward take care of Vanessa touched Vanessa's head and warned the dark and thin little girl with a kind smile.
Vanessa nodded obediently. Although she didn't speak, she acted very obediently and followed the aunt at the orphanage to change clothes and assign a room.
The middle-aged knight sighed, what a good boy, these damn cults, thinking of this, his fists couldn't help but clenched.
He shook his head, turned around, mounted his horse and left. Later, he and Edward would take a closer look at this poor and obedient child.
Although her parents cannot be resurrected, at least let her receive a better education. I wonder if she has magic talent...
Behind her, Vanessa turned her head and looked expressionlessly at the back of the middle-aged knight riding away.
The pupils of the eyes melted at some point, turning into a pool of dark green colloid that circled around the eyeballs.
"Vanessa, hurry up!" came the aunt's call.
"Yeah" Vanessa responded softly, her eyes returning to normal.
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