Persona: Devil Summoner

Immediately afterwards, the Hydra let out a terrible roar, and its huge body kept rolling over in severe pain, as if it had suffered a heavy blow.

This scene made Jiang Tianwei involuntarily recall the cartoon he had watched that year, Nezha Conquers the Dragon King... Although the protagonist of this scene is not the lotus root man, and the one being beaten is not the Dragon King but a giant snake, and even the terrain here is not the sea.

However, the way the big snake in front of him rolled around wildly looked very much like the poor dragon prince whose tendons had been pulled out.

This is the power of physical reflection!

It was just like the battles in martial arts novels. The harder you hit me, the harder you will be hit! The stronger you are, the harder you will be hit! The Hydra had no intelligence, and the full force of its collision was now rebounded back to itself. No matter how you think about it, it would not be a pleasant feeling.

At this moment, Jiang Tianwei just wanted to imitate the Fire Cloud Evil God in Stephen Chow's movie and say: "It's okay, you can be a little harder, it can bear it!"

At the same time, without Jiang Tianwei's order, Fang Zexia half leaned out from his side, pushed her hands forward, and saw her white wrists, and instantly a whiter lightning shot out from her palms. Facing such a huge target, there was no need to aim.

The white light branched irregularly like a branch, instantly lighting up the poorly lit cognitive space. Lightning is often compared to a sharp blade that tears through the darkness, and this is the best portrayal. The irregular lightning quickly crossed the space and aimed at the body of the Hydra. The sharp thunder quickly covered the body of the snake...

However, the lightning attack that should have caused great damage to the creature did not exert its due power at this time... This was also the effect of the size difference. With such a huge body, thick snake scales and fat acted as an excellent buffer material. Even if the lightning really passed through them and hit the snake's body, it was offset by the huge body.

To give an extreme but very intuitive example, it is like if you use an embroidery needle to poke an ant, it will die immediately, but if you poke a person, he will just feel pain for a while at most.

Although Kasumi Yoshizawa has fused with a demon, the person she met at the very beginning of the fusion was Pixie. This little fairy is not a particularly powerful demon either in the original book or in the current APP's classification.

To be honest, Fang Zexia had the idea of ​​finding a new demon to fuse with because she noticed her own shackles. Of course... after hearing about Jiang Tianwei's strange XP, she probably wanted to add a "mother" attribute to herself.

Don’t just look at the numbers. The famous example of 1% and 99% once mentioned by Edison, the second half of which few people say is “that 1% is much more important than the 99%.”

But now that the battle has begun, there is no time to worry about such things.

Fang Zexia was secretly blaming herself for not making some hindsight remarks like "strike first and gain the upper hand" and "If I had known, I wouldn't have waited and merged directly", while she released two swift lightning bolts.

Jiang Tianwei did not release high-level demons like Nuwa and Cu Chulainn directly, just like before. After all, reality is not a game. You can't gain experience by killing monsters. You have to hone yourself in actual combat.

While I still have two big guys who can save the situation at any time, I will of course improve my level as much as possible - I can call for help if I really can't win!

Thinking of this, he held the gun with both hands. The long gun with dark patterns was held steadily in his hand, and the tip of the gun was pointed at the solid body of the Hydra. Based on the impression of Cu Chulainn's previous fighting skills in his mind, he swung the gun and rushed towards the Hydra.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 316: High Defense? We’re targeting high defense!

Based on the aforementioned sentiment about giant beasts, the human hero is almost tied to the giant monsters in various human legends.

Whether it's Siegfried who killed the evil dragon, or Nezha who could fight with the dragon's tendons pulled out, or King David who could kill giants with stones, or Finn who was good at strategizing and could outsmart giants, no matter which one, they all reflect the ancient human idea of ​​"man can conquer nature".

This is even more true in modern times. Basically, in any video game with combat, there will always be a few huge bosses for you to fight, which are both visually impactful and make the players' blood boil - and the difficulty can be blatantly increased, making people want to throw the controller in anger.

Jiang Tianwei had been baptized by so many games (especially his favorite game company was Capcom), and facing this monster that was much bigger than himself, not only did he not have any fearful thoughts, but his mind was even full of excitement! He was already looking forward to what materials would drop when destroying a part of the Hydra's body.

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Jiang Tianwei's spear rushed out, turning into a swift silver dragon! The sharp fangs easily tore through the Hydra's scales, and the entire spear seemed to have no resistance and easily penetrated its flesh!

This is the power of the Demon Red Knight - [Sword of Despair]. Although the weapon has a physical body, it also has no physical body. This feeling is like the ice weapon that occasionally appears in detective novels, which melts and disappears after killing someone.

The sword of the Demon Red Knight is not made of metal, but is woven with [despair]. Naturally, it will not be affected by ordinary protection. I have never heard that wearing thick clothes can block the erosion of despair.

“Hoho?!”

The Hydra roared in pain. It should have been an invisible sound, but at this moment it was like a thick wall, as if it was going to blow away everything around it.

This is a similar instinct that all living creatures have. After being attacked and feeling pain, they will unconsciously contract their muscles and twist their bodies to try to soothe the painful part. This is shown in the case of the nine-headed Hydra, where this giant creature raised its injured head high to try to avoid being hurt...

Naturally, when one head is raised, it will naturally use the other heads to attack. Therefore, when one head is raised and the other heads fall down, the snake's body, which is entrenched in the channel of cognitive space, rolls violently!

This movement is somewhat similar to the legendary "death spin" of crocodiles when eating! Just watching the Hydra spin, the entire cognitive space seemed to be bombarded by an earthquake again.

Fang Zexia quickly spread her butterfly wings and let herself hover in the air. This kind of tremor from the ground can be avoided as long as your feet are off the ground - this is the valuable experience that Pokémon has brought to people. How to invalidate earthquakes? The floating characteristic can solve it!

Where is Jiang Tianwei?

She anxiously searched for Jiang Tianwei's figure, her beautiful eyes carefully searching in the trembling space...

Jiang Tianwei himself was also very curious about where he was now...

Has anyone ever ridden a roller coaster? Jiang Tianwei now feels like he is riding one. And it is a "power-enhanced version" without protection. Does anyone ride a roller coaster without wearing safety measures? Then congratulations, you now understand Jiang Tianwei's situation.

Because half of the spear was embedded in Xudela's neck, it twisted its body so wildly that Jiang Tianwei was naturally thrown up with it!

Although Jiang Tianwei tried to get away, it was difficult for him to just keep himself fixed on the huge body moving at such high speed, let alone pull out the gun.

This is mainly because Jiang Tianwei's weapon is a spear. If his weapon is a broadsword or a sword, there will be no such problem. Because the blade of the spear is relatively short, and the large section behind it is the pole. The Sword of Despair will only strengthen the [blade] to the point where it cannot be defended, and it will not care about the pole.

Otherwise, if the sword handle and gun barrel also ignore defense, then when you grasp the weapon, won’t your fingers be cut off?

The result is that now, with half of the spear stuck in Xudela's flesh and unable to be pulled out, Jiang Tianwei can only hold it with all his strength, and his whole body circles with the big snake in the air, making irregular turns, up and down, left and right. If Jiang Tianwei could add an attack and a jump now, he could almost get 30 lives directly!

As mentioned before, humans are very adaptable creatures. Jiang Tianwei was so frightened by this extraordinary "roller coaster" at first that he couldn't open his eyes. The strong wind pressure made him feel cold all over. But after just five or six breaths, he calmed down and opened his eyes. Everything around him seemed to be bizarre in the literal sense, but once his eyes got used to this sense of speed, he didn't feel anything scary anymore.

"Come out! Persona!"

Jiang Tianwei let out a low shout, and a silver metal giant flew out from behind him. As Jiang Tianwei's mind moved, the metal giant quickly became strong, and his arms became particularly powerful. Jiang Tianwei's originally white mask was also stained with handsome black ink.

This is exactly his original persona form, Overlord Xiang Yu, and it is also the most powerful one among all the personas he has mastered.

"Grab my gun!"

Jiang Tianwei ordered and released his hand. The metal giant flew forward, grabbed the gun with one hand, and held Jiang Tianwei's hand tightly with the other hand.

In this way, Jiang Tianwei had one hand free - because persona's wrist strength was much stronger than his.

"Snapped!"

He snapped his fingers with one hand. The air beneath him seemed to rise hundreds of degrees in an instant. Because of the heat, the light was distorted, and the space was alienated... In less than ten minutes, a metal "Hummer" came out from between his legs! It was the flame motorcycle of the devil Hell Angels!

The motorcycle that could run freely on any terrain now treated the Hydra's broad and huge body as a running horse. The valves roared loudly, and the flaming wheels rolled up, burning the Hydra's body!

Now, Jiang Tianwei was sitting in the car, and if the car moved, he would definitely run with it. And Xiang Yu was holding his hand, and if Jiang Tianwei walked, he would definitely walk with him... and in Xiang Yu's other hand, he was firmly holding Jiang Tianwei's spear!

So, what will happen?

“Hoho?!”

The Hydra let out a heart-wrenching roar! Even though she didn't understand the animal language, Fang Zexia could clearly sense the equally huge pain hidden in this huge sound!

Jiang Tianwei's flame motorcycle galloped on the body of the Hydra, and next to the body was the spear that persona Xiang Yu grabbed with all his strength. The edge of the spear was the alienated demon soldier infected by the Red Knight's Sword of Despair! Xiang Yu raised his wrist with all his strength, like a medieval cavalry charge, and the spear was tilted against the body of the Hydra. As Jiang Tianwei galloped, the tip of the spear was like a sharp paper cutter cutting a creased white paper, cutting the solid skin and flesh of the Hydra!

Before the wound torn by the gun tip had time to bleed, the never-extinguished flaming wheels of the flame motorcycle used their high heat to roast the entire wound!

In the original story of the nine-headed Hydra, the great hero Hercules used this method to chop off the opponent's head and then directly burn the wound to prevent it from regenerating itself. Unexpectedly, today, in a land that is neither Greek nor full of demigod heroes, Jiang Tianwei came up with a cheap replica of the great hero Hercules!

Judging from the Japanese middle school atmosphere... Jiang Tianwei should be called "the modern Hercules"... Wait, this name always sounds so familiar...

As expected, Kitagawa Yusuke is very artistically minded, and his words really came true!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 317: Substitute poison is a standard tactic, it's not dirty

Facing Jiang Tianwei's "Flame Charge", Hydra had no way to deal with him.

This feeling was like asking a person without arms and legs to catch fleas on his body. Although the Hydra had nine heads, it didn't even have an arm. It rolled its body desperately, trying to throw Jiang Tianwei off, or simply crush him to death.

But unfortunately, Jiang Tianwei would not follow his wishes. He stepped on the accelerator and said, "You try to shake me off, and I will immediately change to a new "runway". After all, there are nine "runways" here! Now he just needs to wear yellow, put a heart on his head, and say, "Go ahead, this place is spacious!"

As for how to deal with this kind of multi-headed monster, people who have watched old animations should have some impression. The more common ones include drilling into the stomach and then killing it directly from the inside... For example, deliberately making its multiple heads spin around, and finally tying their necks together... For example, deliberately luring its heads to attack its own body and so on.

The same goes for Jiang Tianwei. Facing the nine-headed Hydra, he does not have the exaggerated strength of the great hero Hercules, nor does he have the variety of magic weapons of the great heroes of the mythological era. However, by making the most of what he knows, he can still deal with this ferocious beast.

In just five minutes' drive, Jiang Tianwei had easily cut off the two heads of the Hydra, like a pair of scissors on fire. The huge snake head covered with metal fell to the ground with a bang, bending the rails in the cognitive space!

Now, Hydra, who had turned into a seven-headed snake, was angry. It was really angry. It was because it had no intelligence that it burst out with primitive anger like a beast, and wanted to kill this little thing at all costs!

It gave up the third head that was being attacked, and raised the other six heads high. The six mouths that were constantly flowing with acid were aimed at Jiang Tianwei from all angles!

This posture was very similar to the posture of a cobra preparing to spit venom in a documentary. Jiang Tianwei immediately understood what the other party wanted to do...

The six snake heads opened their bloody mouths at the same time, and thick purple mucus rolled out of their mouths and sprayed towards Jiang Tianwei!

Thick purple mucus was fired from six nozzles at the same time like a high-pressure water gun, hitting almost all the targets roughly. The purple venom burst out like a mountain torrent bursting through a dam.

You can tell how powerful Hydra's venom is from its battle record: Chiron, the immortal Centaur sage, would rather give up his immortality to get rid of the severe pain it brings!

Even the immortal sage is like this, let alone Jiang Tianwei, a living person!

But Fang Zexia was not worried.

Because she knew that man too well.

That man has many shortcomings, but he doesn't have the problem of [not cherishing his life]. There are only two possibilities for him to take this kind of attack. First, he didn't react in time, or he had no means to escape. Second... Of course, he had to take this attack!

The purple sticky venom dissipated, and even though Xudela himself was the sprayer of the venom, he was seriously injured by his own attack - even if he himself would not be infected by his own venom, let alone other things, just a cut on your hand would be very painful if you flush it with a tap, not to mention that two heads were chopped off and then sprayed with six high-pressure water bubbles, which must be extremely painful!

On the open back of the Hydra, a large amount of purple venom was shocking, the sticky purple color was wriggling like a living jelly...

Living jelly?!

The purple jelly noticed that the spraying had stopped, and immediately stood up tall, with a round shape and a cut in the middle!

This is not a venom ball, it's a giant slime!

This RPG regular, which has always been regarded as the weakest monster, just happened to become Jiang Tianwei's perfect buffer material. The slime, which is originally a slime monster, has great resistance to the impact of the venom, which is also a liquid. Just like a sponge absorbing water, it directly absorbs those horrible toxins into its body...

But, if you think about it carefully, a demon like the slime, once it absorbs the venom, will become poisonous itself. Then, wouldn't Jiang Tianwei, who was swallowed by it, also be poisoned?

Of course Jiang Tianwei was well prepared!

The slime's stomach split open, and a brownish-brown monster stood up from it! It looked like a starving corpse from a concentration camp, with overly thin limbs and a body. Its eyes stretched out like a snail, and its mouth went from where the mouth should be, all the way down to the lower abdomen. It was like a huge zipper structure.

This is the man-eating hungry ghost called Bishezha in Indian mythology. What is Jiang Tianwei? A human. He immediately performed a scene of being eaten by an evil ghost! Just like a Russian nesting doll, Jiang Tianwei is surrounded by Bishezha, and outside Bishezha is a slime. With two guards like this, no matter how powerful the venom of Hydra is, it can't touch Jiang Tianwei.

But...everything has its pros and cons...

Although he didn't get venom, he couldn't avoid Bishezhe's saliva. How could a scavenging demon that eats dead bodies taste good? Although Jiang Tianwei's HP didn't drop, his SAN value did drop a lot...

However, he clearly summoned two demons, but he only managed to block one of Hydra's venom sprays. Isn't that a bit of a loss?

Jiang Tianwei thought so too - so he didn't plan to let the two demons just bear the attack and then leave! Just like a magic trick, he took out a delicate gadget from his arms...

It looks round and metallic, the size of a palm, with delicate patterns. You can tell at a glance that it is a small balance.

It's almost the same thing as the scales in the hands of the Demon Black Knight!

Since the Red Knight's ultimate move, the Sword of Despair, became Jiang Tianwei's sharp blade, and the White Knight's divine arrow assisted Jiang Tianwei's spear, then what did the Black Knight provide? Yes, it was this small scale...

With it, you can use the ability of soul balance that is almost like a bug!

Of course, Jiang Tianwei is just a person after all, and the [Soul Balance] he used is not as strong as it should be, and can directly weaken the strength of a person's soul. This is very much like a game, a skill that is invincible in the hands of the enemy, and an invincible boss when it is an enemy, will be severely chopped down once it falls into our hands.

But, even though it has been weakened a lot, this balance is still quite useful... especially in some special occasions... like now!

Jiang Tianwei put away the motorcycle and fell on Xu Dela. He found a piece of body that was not splashed with venom and placed the scales on it!

Immediately afterwards, the slime and Bishezha summoned by his side all turned into a ball of purple light and fell on one end of the scale, while Jiang Tianwei's hand also drew a ball of white light from Xudela's body and fell on the other end of the scale.

Although this scale no longer has the ability to [balance souls], it still has the characteristic of [forced balance]. So, what exactly is it balancing?

That is what we often call "state". From a minor cold or fever to a major poisoning or paralysis, the souls placed on both ends of the scale will be forced to balance into the same "state".

Although Xudela himself was immune to his own poison, once the Balance unleashed its power, the pure white soul ball was quickly dyed a deep purple!

Immediately afterwards, Xudela began to struggle frantically!

Jiang Tianwei did not fight with it. He jumped and fled to the ground, hiding behind the one-eyed demon elephant, Kilimekara.

This is a deadly poison that would make even an immortal body want to die! How could Xu Dela have thought that one day he would be poisoned by himself?! He was in so much pain that he rolled around desperately...

At this time, Kilimekara, who has the ability to reflect physical damage, just happens to be the strongest shield.

This is the practical version of the famous tactic [Substitute Poison]!

Jiang Tianwei doesn't need to be anxious now. He just needs to wait slowly for Xudela to be tortured to death by his own venom.

Even if Xudela would not be poisoned to death, as long as the severe pain was still there, it would definitely struggle, struggle, and struggle until all its strength was exhausted.

I guess everyone who has fished should have some experience, right? When you catch a big fish, don't use brute force to pull it, but first walk the fish left and right to consume its physical strength. When fish are in the water, they often burst out with power far beyond people's imagination.

By the way, I’d like to say “Who asked you?” here, be careful of fishermen showing off their fish.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 318: The Real Modern Hercules

There is a Chinese saying that goes "A centipede will die but its body remains stiff." Similarly, it is difficult for a giant like Hydra to die.