I want to be a faded person for life

"If I get the chance, I have to repay Roger's favor."

With such a terrifying trump card, Xiangzi's confidence increased by another 10%.

Chapter 29: Holy Communion

After recovering his strength at the blessing place, Xiangzi saw a long corridor in front of him.

Going further ahead is Greg's banquet hall.

Although they encountered many dangers, for Xiangzi, the operation had been going smoothly so far, which was somewhat unexpected.

The number of soldiers in the city was far fewer than expected. It seemed that something huge had happened to Stonewell, so that he had no energy left to target a small character like her - this was undoubtedly a good opportunity.

And now, Xiangzi is only one step away from his destination.

The girl's grip on the sword tightened and loosened, and her gauntlets were damp with sweat - the most important moment was yet to come.

Although not much time had actually passed, it was undoubtedly a very long journey for Xiangzi.

Even with this body that only needed to be blessed to never get tired, after experiencing countless traumas, killings and being killed, she began to feel a little tired.

"Light...wait a moment, I'll be right there."

Xiangzi murmured softly, as if he was making a promise to someone who was not there, or as if he was simply urging himself on.

After a few seconds, the tiredness on the girl's face completely disappeared, and her eyes became sharp again.

-

The so-called banquet hall is where the demigod Greg and the nobles of Stonewell dine.

According to Eric, this place was also used by Greg to complete the limb-reattachment ceremony, and the selected sacrifices would be stored together with the ingredients for the dinner in the kitchen connected to the banquet hall.

As for why the limb-joining ceremony was held in such a place, Eric explained:

[For adults, the limb-reattaching ceremony is the return and fusion of life and life, and is essentially the same sacred act as eating - so it can also be called a sacrament.]

To call such a twisted evil act a holy communion... To be honest, Xiangzi was really horrified by this.

The corridor outside the chapel leads to the second floor of the banquet hall. Before entering the room, Xiangzi smelled a strange smell.

It's hard to describe what the smell is like - it's a mixture of rich aroma, musty smell, the special sweetness of pickled fat after being smoked, and a faint stench of rancidity masked by these smells.

Xiangzi walked along the wall into the banquet hall, keeping his steps as low as possible and looking around cautiously.

The only part of the banquet hall on the first floor was decorated with dim candlesticks hanging on the walls. An empty long table and chairs were neatly arranged, and the old tapestries were covered with black mold spots.

Several suits of armor and swords and shields are hung or placed in various corners as decorations, demonstrating the bravery of the castle owner.

Something that looked like bacon or ham was hanging from the beams, but it was hard to tell what it was in the dim candlelight.

The most eye-catching thing is the giant oil painting on the wall at the deepest part of the banquet hall.

The majestic old man was wearing armor, and a golden lion was perched on his giant shoulders.

Xiangzi felt that the old man in the painting looked familiar. After a little recollection, he remembered that he had seen his statue on the terrace of the chapel on the cliff.

"That is the original King Gefulei—His Majesty Gerik, and the great ancestor of our Golden Clan."

There was a voice talking overhead.

The voice sounded a little difficult to identify the gender, and it was so soft that it even made people subconsciously feel friendly - but it was just a kind of superior friendliness, like treating a cute animal.

Xiangzi immediately looked in the direction where the sound came from.

Something hidden in the darkness made rustling noises, making it difficult for Xiangzi to track its movements.

Xiangzi now has some understanding of the history of the border area. Melina and Kale often mention names such as Queen Marika, so even if he is not interested, he can't help but remember some of them.

"Oh, is it so."

Xiangzi suddenly responded loudly.

"So you're a noble from the Golden Family? As a descendant of such a great figure, how could you commit such a disgusting act as limb grafting?"

The dark voice became more rapid, no longer able to maintain that creepy softness.

"The lowly Faded One simply cannot comprehend Lord Greg's kindness and ambition, nor do they understand the price he paid for this day."

Xiangzi, who had been paying attention to the source of the sound, finally succeeded in capturing the other party's location, and a mocking smile suddenly appeared on her face.

"The name of King Gefulei will surely weep at the meanness and incompetence of his descendants. You care nothing for the honor of your ancestors. You truly are—you're only concerned with your own affairs."

The person speaking in the darkness suddenly fell silent.

The next second, a huge creature fell from the sky with a sharp roar!

Xiangzi, who was well prepared, immediately flew back and dodged, and shot four sharp pyroxene magic gravels in succession towards the opponent's position.

clang! clang!

Xiangzi heard two collisions and crisp cracking sounds, but then there was the muffled sound of pyroxene penetrating into the flesh.

The opponent only used the weapon in his hand to separate two pyroxene crystals, and the remaining crystals directly hit the attacker's body.

This is an opponent that Xiangzi is very familiar with.

A handsome face, but a body like a spider-like, multi-legged bloated monster.

The one who had been hiding in the darkness just now was a limb-transplanting noble.

At first, Xiangzi couldn't even react to the attack of the limbed noble, but now she can see the other party's movements clearly.

The noble's originally handsome and young face had been completely distorted. The two pyroxenes fired by the girl hit his head and knocked the golden crown crooked, and the other one was embedded in one of the arms holding the rapier.

Scarlet blood oozed out from under the crown of the limb-grafted noble, staining half of its face blood red.

"Don't think you can die easily... Faded One, I will chop off your limbs while you're still alive, peel off your skin and attach it to the most vile and lowly places."

But Xiangzi, who had taken the initiative, had no intention of continuing to talk nonsense with him. He took the opportunity to ring the soul-summoning bell.

The pumpkin-headed swordsman and three stray wolf spirits immediately appeared between the limb-removed noble and the girl.

The magic power in his body quickly dropped to a dangerous level. Xiangzi felt a sharp pain in his head and something hot poured out of his nasal cavity.

This was the first time she summoned a sword fighter and other spirits at the same time. The burden brought by this behavior was greater than she had imagined, but not to the point of being unbearable.

Xiangzi put away his staff and replaced it with the witch's dagger and the King's Army's standard straight sword, crossing the two weapons, one long and one short, in front of his chest.

The damage caused by pyroxene magic is limited, and the remaining magic power cannot be squandered in the next battle.

"...You are actually a member of the Kalia royal family, able to summon multiple souls at once."

A hint of astonishment flashed across the bloodstained eyes of the limb-grabbing noble, but it was quickly replaced by hatred and greed.

"Ah—I see. It turns out that this is all caused by that queen pretending to be crazy. This is really an unexpected gain."

"I take back what I said... I will cut your body into pieces and present it intact to His Majesty Greg. This is the so-called reunion of gold and the full moon."

Chapter 30 Nobles

The battle was more difficult than Xiangzi had imagined.

The Limb-Girdle Lord wields more weapons than his kin on the cliffs of the Chapel of the Kings, for each of his five arms bears a great shield, a pair of rapiers, an axe, and a candlestick.

Xiangzi only felt that he was facing a complete army. When the monster launched an attack, more weapons would come one after another like waves.

After blocking the rapier, you must be careful of the axe and spear attacks. The kerosene burning on the candlestick will spill with the swinging and stabbing, and will immediately catch fire if it lands on your body.

After just one round of mutual testing, Xiangzi suffered some minor injuries.

"Don't think about using the blessing to be reborn... How many faded ones do you think I have killed?"

The rapier rubbed against the shield and sparks flew.

"As long as I can make you lose your ability to resist, I will use many kinds of torture to torment you until you lose your mind - until you can no longer see the guidance of the blessed light."

The limb-grafted noble had a strange smile on his face.

"Those pieces of flesh hanging from the beams are your final fate. Long ago, they also struggled with great spirit, just like you, little girl."

"Do you want to commit suicide now? If you kill yourself before then, you might still have a chance to escape."

The girl's leg armor was cut open, revealing a hideous, outward-turned cut on her fair skin. Her crimson hood was ripped off by the rapier, and the sharp rapier cut a part of the girl's left ear.

There were some burnt marks on the wolf's fur. The swordsman swung the flail and smashed it hard on the golden shield, causing the heavy body of the limb-jointed noble to tilt backward and take several steps back.

But Xiangzi understood that this was not an imbalance. The limb-jointed noble had at least six lower limbs to support his body, and his movement speed was faster than that of the sword fighter. The subsequent swings of the pumpkin-headed monster all fell into the air.

Without any hesitation, Xiangzi took a deep breath and rushed out from the side of the gladiator.

The storm gathered on the straight sword.

After countless battles, Xiangzi has become proficient in the use of the Storm Blade, to the point where he can use it freely even without using the battle memories in his ashes.

In previous battles, she had only used a dagger to perform Storm Blade from a distance in order to make the limb-jointed noble make wrong judgments.

"Storm Blade... Using it this way, Knight Eric—how dare you betray His Majesty!?"

The noble asked angrily.

"You are being sheltered outside the city, yet you don't understand your Majesty's efforts?"

In the previous battle, the girl had noticed the noble's weakness.

The limb that was initially injured by the pyroxene devil gravel was not flexible enough, and the opponent had never used the rapier in that hand once, which meant that there was a weak point in the opponent's defense.

Although it has multiple arms, the body of the limb-grafted noble has lost its human form after all, and there are blind spots that it cannot attack when using any weapon.

Xiangzi pounced on the left side of the monster's body like an arrow, and slashed continuously with the standard straight sword wrapped in a storm.

In the initial confrontation, the axe and spear that fell from the sky brushed past Xiangzi's shoulder with blood.

The straight sword slashed against the rapier decorated with golden branches, and a storm broke out between the two weapons, tearing the noble's gorgeous robes and revealing its disgusting body covered with purple tumors.

At such a close distance, the girl was also damaged by the storm. The leather straps on her wrist armor broke and the iron pieces tied to her forearms fell off.

The limb-removed noble took a step back, but the girl's fierce pace followed closely behind him, leaving him no chance to retract his long-handled axe spear.

The nobleman struggled to lift his injured limb and pointed his rapier at the girl's shoulder, but the latter had no intention of dodging. She simply lowered her body's center of gravity, protected her neck with the dagger in her left hand, and slashed with her right hand in a completely opposite direction, slashing towards the nobleman's wrist along the rapier.

The noble could only hastily drop the weapon in his hand and try to grab the sword, but the sudden gust of wind directly cut off his fingers.

The nobleman who had received the limb reattachment and was in pain had already realized this fatal problem. He moved three of his lower limbs and tried to turn his body to use the side holding the shield to hit the girl.

But not only was Xiangzi agile, the wolf spirit also had the speed to keep up with him.

One of the wolf spirits bit the candlestick in mid-air and was instantly set on fire, but the other two had already broken through the blockade of the candlesticks, forcing the nobles to raise their shields for defense.

Xiangzi had successfully suppressed the enemy's left side. She stabbed with her weapon with all her might. Without using the tactic of wrapping the storm around the sword, she could only perform three consecutive strikes at most.

The storm instantly penetrated the noble's side along with the sword edge. The blood waterfall and air flow exploded in the noble's body like a bomb. The broken wind blade cut the skin of Xiangzi's arm, leaving it bleeding.

The severely injured noble with reattached limbs let out a sharp roar, and its several lower limbs bent together before jumping. Then it soared into the sky in an instant. The huge impact force blew Xiangzi and the two surviving wolf spirits away.

The monster's pupils were completely lit up, flowing with fiery anger like molten gold.

It hung upside down on the beam like a spider, and the only remaining rapier was burning with dark golden flames.

Xiangzi, who had fallen to the ground, immediately regained his balance and saw the hind legs of the reattached noble bent and ready to jump, intending to pounce down again regardless of the consequences.

That enormous force coupled with the weapon enchanted by the dark gold flame was definitely not something she could withstand.

If an arm or a leg is cut off by this sword, it is very likely that it will fall into the hands of the opponent.

Do you want to commit suicide and escape?

The severely injured soul cannot be summoned in the next battle, and this will provide the limb-removing nobles with time to summon the lost knights and soldiers.

no way!

There will never be a better opportunity than now. Committing suicide once is enough!

Xiangzi gritted his teeth and squeezed out the last of his physical strength and magic power, threw down the dagger and let it stick into the ground, stood with his legs apart and raised the sword above his head with both hands.

The light blue light gathered on the blade of the straight sword, instantly doubling its length.

It was too late. Xiangzi simply didn't have enough time to complete the second stage of charging the combat skill [Kalia Greatsword].

The body of the grafted noble had already left the beam, but at this moment - a silent figure stood between it and the girl.

The swordsman raised his head and used all his strength to push the heavy helmet towards the noble in mid-air.

The enchanted ritual rapier was so sharp that even the heavy helmet of the gladiator could not withstand it. The sword edge cut through the golden helmet like butter.

The swordsman's body was instantly ignited by the flames, but he did not fall down. The muscles on the swordsman's arms bulged high and he actually hugged the noble who was bigger than him tightly.

"You vile slave!"