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Bazel began chanting the incantation again, his face expressionless, but before he could utter more than a few syllables, a volley of brass bullets trailing fire came crashing down like a storm.

Chapter 207 Son of the Abyss

"Keep an eye on that old man and shoot him hard!"

Li Cheng waved his hand, ordering the Seven Stars Society members who were getting up, "Take a shot at that wheelchair guy too, don't let those two interfere with Brother Ye's fight!"

"Damn it! You bunch of insects!!"

Ken was furious. Although those scattered shots were not enough to injure Bazel or be shielded by Bazel's spell, they would force Bazel to focus on defense and prevent him from concentrating on casting powerful spells.

With Bazar-Roten not making a move, Sauron was gradually being suppressed by the foreign swordsman.

If this continues, things will get really bad! What on earth is Pandia doing? It's been so long, why hasn't he devoured that damned Ella Havil yet!

It doesn't matter if there isn't enough magic power provided by the Sprout of Life. Even if it's an underdeveloped new tree of life, as long as it can be born, he can easily wipe out these insects!

"Do you know why you, who control the two most powerful empires, are still suffering defeat after defeat?"

Even at this point, Ye Xiao, who was in the distance, couldn't resist making a sarcastic remark.

"Because you're so useless! Even if there are two extraordinary beings, it's useless to rely on a dog to command them, hahaha!"

"You... scum!!!" Ken was so angry that he jumped up from the throne.

But just as he stood up, a burst of sparks struck the shield in front of Ken, making him tremble in fright.

"That shield is really thick. Damn, why isn't there an anti-materiel sniper rifle in this world?"

Li Cheng put down the musket in his hand, frowned, and shouted.

"How could this group of soldiers pull out so many long-barreled muskets?!"

Ken glared angrily in the direction of Li Cheng. After the Seven Stars Society stopped engaging in close combat with Soren, their ranged firepower inexplicably improved to a whole new level.

"The power of money, kid."

Li Cheng chuckled, then stuffed another enchanted armor-piercing bullet into the musket.

Indeed, it's a waste for a typical warrior to carry a high-level musket without the right skills to complement it.

But the Duchess is rich, so why not buy it?

So the twenty-odd people desperately loaded their weapons with expensive enchanted bullets and fired volley after volley. Even a transcendent mage like Bazel began to struggle to keep up.

Even the most powerful mage is still human. If it were just Bazel, he could easily transform into an elemental form and teleport to a safer location before casting a spell to counterattack. But now he has to hold up his shield and block the hordes of crafted artifacts from the dwarven blacksmiths and elven enchanters.

Soren's unorthodox, instinctive swordsmanship was no match for Ye Xiao in his beast form. His profound combat experience and awareness were rendered useless under Ken's control.

Previously, it was easy to suppress Skadi with her superior attributes and skills, but the drawbacks became apparent when facing Ye Xiao, whose attributes had been raised to the same level.

Ken's face darkened; if things continued like this, he might not live to see the completion of the Tree of New Life.

"Brother, are we no match for them?"

Just then, Erica, who was in her arms, suddenly looked up and asked.

"Oh, don't worry, my lovely little sister, these people are just fighting like cornered beasts." Ken quickly patted the girl's head to comfort her. "Don't worry, your brother will definitely win..."

Ken's voice was gentle; in the entire royal family, Erica was the only family member he cared about.

From that point on...

"But if my brother can't win, then it's useless."

Just then, a crisp voice suddenly interrupted Ken's recollection.

what?

Ken was stunned for a moment, then suddenly felt a chill in his chest.

He looked down in astonishment and saw that a withered, black tree branch had somehow pierced through his chest.

Turning his head slowly, he saw that the branch extended all the way to the trunk of the Tree of Life, like a long spear that suddenly pierced through his body.

Ken's eyes were filled with disbelief.

“Erica…you…why…”

Ken's speech began to become slurred, and the blood gushing from his ruptured internal organs filled his throat, eventually overflowing from the corner of his mouth, glaringly red.

Using this withered, dark branch, the Tree of Life behind him excitedly draws blood from Ken.

"Since you're useless now, then my brother can become my toy too."

Erica's eyes gleamed with excitement, her joyful face showing no trace of the grief she felt at witnessing her own brother's death. "Anyway, it's all mine. I am the final king!"

"Good heavens, what's going on over there?"

Ye Xiao, who was fighting Soren, was somewhat surprised to see the tender scene of the brother and sister in the distance.

But then the branch of the tree of life that had pierced Ken's chest grew longer and longer, lifting Ken's dying body off the throne. A gap as deep as an abyss opened in the center of the thick trunk, and another branch extended from it, each bearing a figure with a pierced chest.

It is the eldest prince Evans and the third prince Leonard.

Ye Xiao recognized the figure on it, and saw that the three princes, who were pierced through, were bound together by the branches that seemed to have a life of their own. Then, the little princess's smiling head began to tremble, and her slender, snow-white neck suddenly stretched out, like a root pulled up from the ground. Sections of dark body with scarlet flesh and blood emerged from the bloody hole in her shoulder, resembling a giant centipede with a girl's head.

Immediately afterwards, the black insect body beneath the head used its densely packed legs to claw onto the three princes, and many small mouth-like cracks opened on its dark and slender body.

If you look closely, you'll find that the cracks correspond to the features of human faces, but they are fragmented, twisted, and grotesque, as if they are enduring endless pain.

"Now we can be together forever, my dear brothers!" A shrill cry came from the serpent, but this time it was no longer Erica's young voice, but rather a mixture of howls from countless people.

"Holy crap, this is absolutely disgusting!"

Li Cheng frowned and immediately ordered long-range firepower to be concentrated on the strange monster, but the magical shield that Bazel had set up still blocked all the bullets and arrows flying in.

"Hercate? No... what exactly is that?"

Even Greta had never seen such a bizarre thing. She observed that the lines of fate extending from the thing were unusually chaotic and complex, multicolored, as if the lines of fate of many living beings had been forcibly kneaded together.

Ye Xiao parried Sauron's attack with a single strike, and staring at the shattered human face on the strange worm's body, he suddenly felt as if he had seen it somewhere before.

Where is it...

It's that painting!

The shattered portrait in the Storm Harbor Hotel!

Upon realizing this, Ye Xiao was horrified to discover that although the faces on the worm's body were twisted and ferocious, some of them were ones he had seen before.

It was Cui Xiu, the player who had introduced him to the Samuel Hermitage stronghold... and some were followers he had met at the Samuel Hermitage stronghold...

Ye Xiao suddenly felt a chill in her heart.

He said that after the rebels stormed the palace, he didn't see the members of the Samuel's Order, who originally belonged to the capital, joining up with the rebels, and that Trish, who was with Erica, had also disappeared...

Could this thing have eaten all the believers at the Samuel's Secret Order stronghold?

Chapter 208 Insufficient Strength

Ye Xiao had no idea what had happened at the Samuel Order's stronghold after he left.

But the dark creation before them, which seemed to have broken free from the abyss of nightmares, exuded a malevolent and sinister aura that sent chills down the spines of everyone present.

The centipede's body was covered with writhing human faces, as if imprisoned ghosts were breaking free of their cocoons. Countless gaping mouths eagerly pounced on the corpses of the three princes, tearing and chewing. In no time, those royals who had once worn magnificent robes were reduced to bare bones.

Its doll-like head has its features twisted into a knot, and its open mouth reveals sharp, jagged fangs like those of a wild beast.

"Ah...more madness!"

"You can't kill me, Harold, I am the King of Loren!"

"I am...God!!!"

A sharp, piercing roar echoed throughout the hall. Although Ye Xiao was puzzled by the meaning behind the monster's words, it was clearly not the time to wait and see.

He parried Sauron's heavy sword, nimbly dodging the burly knight commander's attacks, and charged straight at the strange monster.

Although Sauron couldn't utilize much combat experience while being controlled, his steel-like body showed no fear of injury. Seeing Ye Xiao trying to bypass him, he swung his greatsword, risking injury to block Ye Xiao's advance.

However, Ye Xiao, as a miracle mage, had many tricks up his sleeve and had already anticipated this situation. He simply waved his staff with his left hand, muttered some incantations, and an invisible ripple swept across the knight commander's outstretched foot, which immediately became stuck in the mud and could not be pulled out.

In the realm of stagnation, Ye Xiao had previously learned time-based magic from a skill expansion scroll, which could create a spherical time-slow space within a radius of ten centimeters.

No matter how high a swordsman's physical attributes are, without resistance to this kind of time-warping spell, their legs will be slowed down to half speed.

But Soren's extraordinary rank was there for all to see, and Ye Xiao could see his mental energy rapidly depleting from the character panel.

However, Ye Xiao did not intend to control him for long. After only a brief delay, he seized the opportunity to throw a flying knife and then activated "Shadow Shift" to escape from Captain Soren's entanglement with lightning speed.

He raised his blade, black holy flames coiling around it, breaking through the magical shield set up by Bazel. Just as he was about to strike the abominable monster, the Tree of Life behind him suddenly extended dozens of branches, weaving a shield to block Ye Xiao's attack.

Ye Xiao clicked his tongue. He had thought of this when Ken died and Bazel and Soren were still under control.

This centipede-headed creature was indeed the true manipulator of this new tree of life.

This didn't surprise him. What did surprise him was that the black holy flames weren't very effective on the branches of the Tree of Life.

It was his own swordsmanship that cleaved through the tough shield woven from vines; the black flames merely burned its surface before dissipating into the air.

Is it because the divine magic originating from Ella is suppressed by this Tree of Life in terms of its status?

The long serpent with Erica's head on its head looked down at Ye Xiao, who had broken through the lines to attack it, its bloody mouth grinning with a horrifying smile.

“Interesting, I smell a familiar scent on you.”

"Don't try to get close to me, I don't know such a disgusting thing as you."

Sauron was already chasing after him. Ye Xiao casually tossed a throwing knife to the ground, then lightly tapped the ground with his staff. A verdant magic circle containing the power of wind element immediately unfolded beneath him, and a sudden burst of upward airflow lifted his body into the air, level with the centipede-headed creature.

Countless branches shot out from the Tree of Life like flying snakes towards Ye Xiao, surrounding him from all directions as he stood in mid-air.

Ye Xiao simply gathered black flames on the blade again, seemingly intending to repeat his old trick.

The centipede with the human head merely smiled at the sight and remained coiled on the tree roots binding the skeletons of the three princes, neither flinching nor avoiding them.

Ye Xiao's sword strike just now couldn't even break through the vine shield temporarily woven by the Tree of Life, so it certainly wouldn't pose any threat to it this time either.

Or quite the opposite, this time even more life-giving vines will completely strangle this unsuspecting swordsman.

However, this thought had barely crossed his mind when a bullet, piercing through the battlefield, pierced his doll-like, bloated head.

The gunshot seemed to point the way, and then more than twenty bullets with flaming tails swept in like a storm, instantly turning the head on the dark body into a sieve.

"Your brain seems to be single-threaded."

Ye Xiao left with a mocking laugh before his figure abruptly disappeared into a field of vines, reappearing in a safe open space below.

Knowing that the Black Flame was countered by the Tree of Life, he naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to charge in headfirst. Leaping into the air to act as a target was just to attract the opponent's attention; the real attack method was a volley of fire from the Seven Luminaries Society behind him.

With Bazel's spell shield broken, those enchanted bullets were no longer just decorations used to shoot sparks. This seemingly tacit cooperation could be achieved simply by mentally typing two lines of text into the system chat box for Li Cheng.

"what!!!"

Erica's head, riddled with holes, emitted a piercing howl, and the human faces on her body writhed and burst forth from her skin, like countless vengeful spirits opening their bloody mouths and lunging menacingly at Ye Xiao.

But having anticipated that this guy would be anxious, Ye Xiao immediately rolled away to avoid the first wave of overwhelming predators. He stood up and swung his sword twice, creating a crescent-shaped flash of light that sliced ​​through the faces of the few remaining people who turned to chase after him. After finishing the attack, he didn't linger and threw a flying knife into the distance, using "Shadow Shift" to create distance.

The fluid swordsmanship and footwork were battle formation skills honed from the previous life, and the experience gained from fighting against countless powerful demons was on full display at this moment.

Despite being able to control the vines of the Tree of Life, summon hordes of evil spirits, and have extraordinary swordsman puppets chasing after him, this foreign swordsman, like an annoying bug, managed to squeeze through the dense, rain-like attacks, occasionally slicing off a few human faces from the centipede's head.

Tortured like this, "Erica's" hideous head was already fuming with rage. Ye Xiao could only slice off a few faces at a time, but once those faces were cut off, they would turn into liberated spirits and immediately dissipate into the air. No matter how many souls it devoured, it couldn't withstand Ye Xiao's relentless slashing.

The girl's upturned mouth immediately twisted into a downward-curving, furious shape, and her shrill screams rang out again, echoing in the hall and piercing the eardrums.

What's this guy up to now?

Forced to listen to the other person's beautiful singing voice up close, Ye Xiao felt his ears buzzing. In an instant, he noticed countless faces cascading down from above like a swarm of snakes. He instinctively rolled away to avoid them, only to be surprised to find that the faces were not targeting him.

He immediately looked in the direction of the face being devoured, and was shocked to find that the target of those surging faces was none other than the knight commander Soren who had been chasing him.

Ye Xiao immediately drew his sword to try to stop him, but the already controlled Sauron took the initiative to leap up and plunged into the sea of ​​distorted faces without any defense. His solid body was instantly submerged by the dense array of human faces.

Chapter 209 Counterattack

At the same time, Archmage Bazel transformed into a wave of water, piercing through the dense lines of fire and rushing towards the face-covered body of the centipede-headed creature. Those greedy faces reveled in chewing on his flesh and soul, which contained extraordinary power, emitting chilling sounds of pleasure.

Countless black, withered branches, resembling tentacles, spread from the huge cracks in the thick trunk of the Tree of Life. However, they did not attack Ye Xiao. Instead, like sinister parasitic vines, they climbed one by one onto the black limbs of the centipede with the human head.

"What the hell? How can this thing even have a combination technique??" Li Cheng was dumbfounded.