"I don't mind if you want to suck some blood from that old man." Ye Xiao flicked his thumb, "I'm fine as long as I can save his life after working so hard. I'm not that obsessed with keeping him from getting hurt."
"That might be a little difficult, Brother Ye," Wengerman smiled bitterly, "I need more blood than you think."
"You bastard." Ye Xiao smiled, pointed his finger and cursed.
Then he yelled, "Hyde!"
"Um...what's wrong...?" Hyde poked his head out from the bushes.
"Are you willing to sacrifice yourself to save these two young people?"
"Huh?? No, who are they!? I'm old but I don't want to die yet!"
"Others are unwilling to sacrifice." Ye Xiao spread his hands.
Wengerman shrugged, "So, you'd rather protect him than help us get out of the cult?"
"I just think that saving yourself by sacrificing others is a bit unreasonable." Ye Xiao supported Shitou and slowly stood up. "Alas, I should have thought of it earlier. You helped me find the room in the tavern, and you told me the conversation last night on purpose, so that I could pay attention to Marilyn, who had become mentally ill due to the evil god's contamination."
"You're already very powerful, Brother Ye." Wengerman was helpless and pulled out the pistol from his waist. "Your arrival even forced the cult to instruct me to snatch the miracle blood in advance, so that Cynthia could sense the intervention of the power of the outer gods and be born early. I had to kill Hyde to prevent His complete birth. Then the complete consciousness of Cynthia could not be integrated with a miracle blood sample."
"Besides... even if you consider everything, you will still fight this battle to protect that old man and Senior Sister, even if you know that Senior Sister is not the final enemy."
"You know me well enough." Ye Xiao picked up the worn-out staff leaning against the stone and held it in his hand. "Then you should have thought that I would not surrender like this, right?"
“Brother Ye, I have been watching the fight from the side the whole time. From chopping off Cynthia’s nanny’s head this afternoon to defeating Senior Sister just now, you are already at the end of your rope.”
"So." Ye Xiao used the staff as a crutch and leaned on the ground with a serious expression.
"I merged with Cynthia and got rid of the shackles of the cult. I am half a god." Wengerman raised his musket, and a faint green light gathered at the muzzle. "You are no match for me now... Brother Ye, if we were not on the same side, I would still like to be friends with you. But I swore to help my sister get rid of the shackles of the gods, so no matter whether it is the gods of the Full Moon Cult or the gods behind you, I will not trust them."
Wengerman sighed, his eyes revealing determination, "I must become a god. Whoever stands in my way must die."
"Indeed, as you can see, I really don't have a drop left. And I can probably sense that your determination and the strange power in you are not something I can contend with now."
Ye Xiao paused halfway through his speech, then the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"But who told you that your opponent is me?"
Chapter 22 Support
The drizzle of autumn rain weaves into a curtain, and the sparse sound of horse hooves passes through the forest.
A girl in a white cloak rode on a brown horse, slowly appearing along the winding path.
Two strands of silver hair fell on his chest from under the hood. His captivating deep red eyes reflected the hunter's stunned expression. His gilded robe was particularly eye-catching in the dim night.
"Finally arrived." Seeing Ella appear, Ye Xiao limped to the side, leaning on his staff.
“Templar Warlock…how come he’s here…?” Wengerman recognized the simple and gorgeous attire, his eyes full of disbelief.
Fortunately, Liangqiu Village is not far from Shanghuangcheng. When Ye Xiao realized that there would be a fierce battle three hours ago, he called for Ella's support. Although Ella, who rushed over at full speed, failed to catch up with Marilyn's mixed doubles, fortunately, there was still a Wengerman left for her to deal with.
Compared to Wengerman's surprise, Marilyn's reaction was more intense. With the other party's aura already in her body, her legs involuntarily knelt on the ground. She could easily sense the pressure from the holy figure of the silver-haired girl that transcended the level of life, so that her face turned pale and she even had difficulty breathing.
"Eh?"
Noticing Marilyn's reaction, Ella raised her hand slightly, and the invisible depression dissipated a little.
Then, the silver-haired girl dismounted and patted the horse's belly with her white-gloved hands. The obedient horse then walked to the other side of the road.
"Wengerman." Ella said softly, her delicate and tender voice was light and pleasant to the sound of raindrops. "I can help you get rid of the Full Moon Cult. I also eliminated the influence on Marilyn."
Marilyn had just wondered why she was instinctively afraid of the girl who suddenly appeared, but now, after hearing these words, even if she was slow-witted, she realized something beyond her imagination, and her eyes widened.
Wengerman swallowed his saliva. His spiritual vision, enhanced by his incomplete spiritual consciousness, did not detect any clues from the girl. "You...how do you know my name?"
He didn't understand why he used the honorific. The man was obviously just an ordinary templar magician in terms of his clothes, but he could feel his soul trembling in his body, as if he wanted to scream and escape from the man's sight.
Ella didn't say anything, just stared at Wengerman quietly.
"I..." Wengerman clenched his teeth. His will finally overcame his instinct at this moment. "...I still want to control my own destiny and don't want to submit to any gods anymore."
"That's just what I want," Ella said with a sudden bright smile, "so I can give you a good beating."
“Uh…?” Before Wengerman could react, a small fist hit his face.
The poor hunter who flew backwards didn't understand why the fist of this templar wizard was as powerful as the fist of the sword wizard next to him.
After a few tumbles, Wengerman staggered to his feet, raised his rifle, aimed at Ella who was slowly approaching, and pulled the trigger. However, the expected fire did not appear, but instead a dark tentacle popped out of the barrel with a "puff".
"What the hell is this..." Before Wengerman could finish his exclamation, the tentacle slapped him in the face.
The injury was not small and the insult was very strong. Wengerman was panting and touching his swollen face, with a gloomy green light coming out of his vertical pupils.
His arms swelled with a creaking sound, dense white hair covered his body, and the tricorn hat with feathers slipped off, revealing a hideous face that looked half human, half beast.
“Ouch——!!!”
A violent roar resounded through the woods. Wengerman kicked his legs and rushed towards Ella with his bear-like body.
Ella had long wanted to try out her evil god skills, but it was too difficult to get the chance to do so in the temple.
At this time, a brother who was willing to be her target happened to appear. The most important thing was that the other party looked very strong and should be able to withstand the torture.
The invisible waves spread out from the girl's feet, and everything they touched fell apart like an oil painting stained with water.
The soft grass rippled like a puddle, and the dirty mud gushed out like a spring.
Gate of the Abyss, this is the name of the spell. Unlike Ye Xiao who needs to use the contract array as a medium, Ella didn't even use spells or staffs to cast the evil god spell.
Just point your finger in the air, and the power hidden in the soul will be projected directly into reality.
The dark waves surged onto Wengerman's body in the blink of an eye, knocking his sprinting sturdy body to the ground.
Upon closer inspection, the sludge that looked like flowing liquid was actually countless tiny tentacles, wriggling and drilling into Wengerman's gray-haired body.
He instantly felt that he had lost control of his body, and felt as if his soul was being gnawed by countless insects. The pain that penetrated deep into his bones instantly filled his brain.
He couldn't even scream. His consciousness, five senses, and internal organs were all being torn apart by thousands of wriggling tentacles. His stretched perception fell into an endless nightmare.
Outside, the mud rushed in all directions like a tsunami, submerging trees and rocks. The pouring malice gathered into several rivers along the mountainside.
Oh shit, this noise seems a bit too loud.
Ella immediately stopped this meaningless spell. Even though she had tried to control it intentionally, it only caused the mud to branch out and avoid Marilyn and Hyde.
The spring in the void stopped gushing, but the silt had already polluted the reality within a few miles.
Looking at the stones all around her that were covered with eyes, and the woods whose branches had transformed into waving tentacles, Ella was a little panicked. It seemed that the reality in this area had produced irreversible effects.
Fortunately, the silt disappeared along with the source, gradually breaking down into stains that sank into the surrounding objects.
Ella felt as if the land had come to life. The wind and the streams of rain swirled around the girl in the holy robe. The dark tentacles in the forest no longer waved but drooped in one direction. The eyes attached to the mountains were slightly closed, just like the awe of a devout believer facing a god.
The hazy but strong emotion was transmitted through the void, and a new name was appropriately added to the system's believer panel.
[Liangqiuling-Low-level believers]
No, how can a mountain be a believer?
Ella was a little messy, but she did feel a pious emotion from the land to which the name was linked.
"what!!!"
A shrill roar interrupted her thoughts, and Ella noticed that poor Wengerman was rolling on the ground with bloodshot eyes.
Countless tiny tentacles drilled in and out of his body, like a group of excited children arriving at the water park they had longed for.
"Stop, stop first, stop torturing him." Ella didn't know how to command these happy and excited little things, but her words seemed to work. Those tentacles obediently penetrated into Wengerman's body and no longer moved.
“What is this…what is all this!? Aaaaaaah!!!” The poor hunter almost went crazy, scratching his whole body with his hairy hands, “Waaaaaaah!!!”
Ella rushed over to comfort him, but it didn't work, so she had to use her unique skill again, "Healing Holy Light".
Grabbing a bunch of black tentacles and stuffing them into Wengerman's mouth, after several convulsions, he finally calmed down, gasping for breath, and fell to the ground with his arms and legs spread out, motionless.
"what……"
But from his lifeless eyes and the tears hanging in the corners of his eyes, it can be seen that this old man is truly enduring unimaginable pain.
Ella half-knelt beside Wengerman and gently stroked Wengerman's shoulder.
"Okay, okay, stop crying. It's over. It's over."
Chapter 23 Good Night
"..."
In Wengerman's eyes, the girl's gentle and lovely face was filled with only evil and fear, like the abyss of the deepest nightmare in his heart.
"Hey, it's not healed?" Ella waved her hand, and a group of cute little tentacles appeared in her palm. "Try eating another one."
"Ah!!! Stop! Please spare me!!!" Wengerman jumped up from the ground as if he was electrocuted, and rolled and crawled to a big rock on the side.
But this action seemed to disturb the stone, and a pupil opened on the stone and glared at Wengerman.
"Wow!!!" Wengerman jumped up again in fright and ran to another place.
Ella finally couldn't bear it anymore. She waved her finger, and a tentacle stretched out from the ground and hit Wengerman on the head.
The hunter brother immediately fell to the ground and fell into a baby-like sleep.
"Don't worry, he'll be fine."
Not far away, beside a tree stump, Ye Xiao rested while comforting Marilyn who was looking at the place worriedly beside him, "I told you, my man is kinder."
Do you have any misunderstanding about "kindness"?
Marilyn really wanted to ask a question, but was afraid of angering the petite figure who was walking slowly towards her, dragging her junior's shoes.
Ella walked to Ye Xiao, spread out her palm, and a dark, wriggling tentacle suddenly appeared in her palm.
Looking at the tentacles, Ye Xiao had a complicated expression, but finally shook his head.
Ella shrugged slightly, threw the tentacle ball to the ground, and then looked at the girl with a golden-gray ponytail beside her, "Ms. Marilyn."
"Ah... um!" Marilyn said tremblingly.
"Can you still ride a horse? Send them back to Liangqiu Village to recuperate."
"Obey...obey!"
"Um, don't be so serious." Ella waved her hand, signaling Hyde in the distance to bring Ye Xiao's two horses over. "To be honest, you and Wengerman are my believers now. You should be able to feel it."
Marilyn nodded apprehensively.
"In other words, from now on, you no longer belong to the Full Moon Cult," Ella said as she led the horse over. The mud that had just been released also covered the brown horse, making the horse's eyes roll around and look spooky. "But I won't restrict you or ask anything of you. If you are willing to take Wengerman and me back to the Imperial City, at least there I can protect you from the influence of the Full Moon Cult."
"If you don't want to, that's fine. Just go wherever you want to go. You are free."
After putting away her intimidating power, Ella looked like just an ordinary girl.
After her mind gradually calmed down, Marilyn lowered her head slightly to think.
She never thought that one day she would be able to escape the control of the Full Moon Cult. She thought that she would spend the rest of her life searching for plagues, hunting plagues, and worshiping the Full Moon.
But when this day suddenly came, she didn't know where her life should go.
Ye Xiao climbed onto the back of the brown horse panting. He did not give Marilyn any advice or say anything. He was not a life mentor. She should consider such matters herself.
"Mr. Ye."
But at this moment, the hunter girl called out to Ye Xiao, and her big watery eyes looked at Ye Xiao, who was lying on the horse's butt like a salted fish, without caring about his image.
"Huh?" Ye Xiao was a little surprised and raised his head slightly.
"……Thank you."
"No need." Ye Xiao smiled. She is a polite and nice girl.
"Mr. Ye, where are you planning to go next?" Marilyn asked timidly.
"Ah, me?" Ye Xiao scratched his head. "Next I plan to go to Howling Valley, and then go through the border to Storm Harbor."
By the time he arrives, some of his friends should also be arriving at Storm Harbor, so the time should be about the same.
"...Oh." Marilyn intertwined her fingers, her face slightly flushed. Although her figure was wrapped in a thick windbreaker, the girl's charm was also fully displayed. "Then...will you return to Valonde later?"
"Return to the Imperial City?" Ye Xiao thought about it. He had not yet made a detailed plan for what he would do after the Storm Harbor guild was up and running. However, there would be many top players gathered for the missions in the Imperial City later. He also planned to get items from several places for Ella when he went out. "I should go back."
"Then..." Marilyn looked at Ella beside her, "...I'll go to Valond with you. To be honest, I don't know where I should go or what I should do now. Since I'm already your believer, I'll just follow your guidance."
"Hmm..." Ella nodded, "Is that all you think?"
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