Chapter 203: Unexpected Reinforcements
The tentacles danced violently, throwing Artoria's body at Lu Xi who rushed forward. Lu Xi threw down the staff and pistol in his hand without hesitation, and opened his arms to catch the seriously injured girl.
The knight princess in her arms was pale and bloodless, she did not faint, she bit her lip tightly and endured the pain of her heart, and she could not say a word. Artoria gripped the Sword of Victory with the last of her strength, but could no longer lift it, blood pouring out of her chest as if the groundwater had been broken through the well.
Lu Xi hugged Artoria and pressed his hand against the wound on her back as he kept backing away into the corner.
"The heart was not hit, but with this amount of bleeding, the artery must have been hung up...... The bleeding must be stopped immediately! β
But the enemy would not give Lu Xi such an ample opportunity. Several more tentacles rose from the ripples of magic, and they pounced with teeth and claws.
"Arnold!" Lu Xi could only summon his second Heroic Spirit. As for the problem of mana consumption, I can't care about it at all at this time.
A muscular hunk wearing a horned helmet emerges from the void. He swung his heavy sword and battle axe left and right, opened two tentacles, and his huge body turned into his master's flesh shield, catching the attacks of the three tentacles, but still one tentacle passed through the barbarian's defensive circle and swept behind him like a long whip.
Lu Xi, who couldn't avoid it, could only turn around, covered his back with steel skin, and caught this volley that could open the golden cracking stone.
Lu Xi only felt as if he had been hit by 10,000 grass and mud horses on his back, and his internal organs were all transferred to his stomach, and his throat was sweet. A mouthful of blood had spurted out, and he flew involuntarily like a kite with a broken string in his arms. Crashed into the corner.
Lu Xi could only hug Artoria tightly, using his body as a pad. Don't let the impact of hitting the wall inflict a second damage on the girl in her arms.
The person who had been almost cornered just now was also cornered, and the fire demon on the side seemed to like to see the effect of this reversal of the situation, and with a wicked smile he watched the young magician hold the knight girl and knock the wall out of the shocking crack, and then collapsed limply on the ground.
"What a newspaper from the world!" Baro Flame Demon sighed with emotion, grabbed the decapitation sword composed of thunder and lightning in the void with his left hand, and with a wave of his hand, he blocked the double swords of the green-haired girl who rushed forward.
At the same time, a stone spear was already floating in the fire demon's ear, and it glanced at the magic phenomenon around it out of the corner of its eye. With a cold snort, he suddenly swung hard. Even Lim, who was born with divine powers, could not resist such a slash, and she flew back like a rag doll and crashed into Sehiru, who was casting a spell.
Disturbed like this, the magic naturally can't be put down. The stone spear also disintegrated in the air, and smashed to the ground with a clatter, turning into rubble.
"I'm hurt, but not everybody bullies me. If it's the little Nord girl with a brilliant artifact and the wizard boy who is full of strange props, maybe you have to be careful, but what about you...... The difference in strength between ants and demon nobles is heaven and earth. Do you think it's really that easy to overcome? The Flame Demon sneered and said, "This is my lord's hunting, how can I let you and others disturb their Yaxing." β
Lim got up from the ground, red-eyed and trying to rush forward, but was hugged by Sehiru's puppet. The natural emerald girl is constantly struggling. The grappling of the two steel golems was almost free, and they couldn't stop her.
"Lim, Lim. Calm down, it's not the way to fight like this! If even you are hurt. What should we do? Who else can save Lu Xi and them? Sehireu shouted loudly in her companion's ear, which calmed her down a little.
It's good to be calm. At least they won't be making the wounded in a foolish way anymore, but with the combat strength of Sai Xiliu and their group, it is still an impossible task to break through the blockade of the two sheep-headed demons and a half-crippled flame demon to rescue Lu Xi and them.
Behind the Abyss Alchemist Belkir, the ripples of magical energy finally stopped fluctuating, and the owners of the tentacles finally revealed their true bodies.
It was a huge monster made up of countless octopus tentacles. Hundreds of tentacles with fangs and claws are like the petals of a blooming flower, exuding a pungent smell of sulfur and swaying with an unpleasant "thud" sound. The center of the flower surrounded by "petals" is a hornless, compound-eyed lizard-like demon head with a hideous smile.
"Alas, it's a sneak attack again, and it's against such a beautiful girl, it's really against the three views of our generation!" The tentacle monster pressed down a tentacle to block its face, and it seemed that it was really ashamed and shameless.
"Anyway, that's all you have to offer, you can't do anything other than a sneak attack." The Abyss Demon Refining sneered and sneered.
"What a faux pas! If it weren't for the primeval enchantment limiting my power, just with these tentacles, dozens of strong and cute knight girls or magical girls would have become my collection. The tentacle monster shouted, "I'm the dignified Lord of the Abyss, Lord Shadowgul of the 'Hell's Mystery Net'!" β
Actually...... Another Abyss Lord!
The people present only felt that they had fallen into the ice hole, and they were pulling out the cold from head to toe to heart.
However, at this time, even if the third Abyss Lord appeared, Lu Xi didn't bother to pay attention to it. It is imperative to stop the bleeding for Artoria.
"Artoria, hold back!" Lu Xi said in a low voice.
"Right...... I'm sorry......" The girl's voice was almost inaudible.
Lu Xi now hated himself extremely much, why didn't he become a priest and practice divine art in the first place. With the ability of the system plug-in, he must have become an archbishop now, and this injury is a piece of cake in front of the bishop-level healing magic technique. But now, he can only use the arcane "dirt method" to stop the bleeding as much as possible - using Transfiguration to manipulate the muscles and blood vessels near Artoria's wound to tighten it to stop bleeding.
In principle, it is fine, but this is without considering the feelings of the person concerned......
Artoria felt that the wound was more of a hot pain than a cone pain. It was as if she had been pressed by a red-hot soldering iron, and she was sweating profusely. Rolling his eyes, he almost fainted. She bit her lip tightly to keep herself from screaming. until you bite your lips open.
Lu Xi looked at the girl's pale face with heartache, but still resolutely completed the spell, and then put a thin layer of frost on the wound, and the bleeding stopped. However, these are only emergency treatments in times of crisis, and if you want to heal, you must also apply high-quality medicine and bandages to allow the body to recover slowly.
No way. After all, the arcane is not as magical as the magic of magic in dealing with pain and disease.
The two Abyss Lords didn't rush to attack, and just watched with great interest as Lu Xi finished treating Artoria's wounds. Perhaps for the high demons with bad tastes, watching their prey struggle in a desperate situation in a fun cat-and-mouse game can be regarded as a supreme enjoyment.
Belkiel said: "Princess Nord, don't blame me, after all, you attacked me first." Speaking of which, I'm still in pain. The newly grown wings may have grown out of shape. β
Artoria smiled wryly, she didn't have much strength to speak now.
"It's okay, if it's deformed, why don't you just cut it off and grow it again? Anyway, even if it's just to remove the root of right and wrong between your legs. It's sure to grow like a mushroom. Lu Xi sneered.
With the IQ of the Abyss Lord, it took Belkiel five seconds to react, and a very obvious embarrassment suddenly flashed on the hideous and terrifying demon's face. The legs involuntarily closed a little.
"If there is a person in this world who is afraid of me, it may be only you. Because of this. I can't sit back and watch you continue to grow. Such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I will not miss it. Demon refining waved his hand. His right hand had already grabbed a black and violent-looking flail from the void and strode towards Lu Xi.
"Generally speaking, wouldn't the villain with a little bit of courage say to the protagonist, spare you this time, and see how far you can grow, and see if you can stand in front of me with dignity, and so on, such as this kind of particularly noble and glamorous words?"
"I have a few of my companions who do think so...... Many people are sure that sooner or later you will grow to the point where the twelve heroes of the Dawn League will look up to. Being able to see such a character is a great event in itself. Abyss Lord Belkir smiled, "Unfortunately, I'm an abyssal demon who lacks taste. If you sit back and watch any longer, maybe one day, our millennium plan will be broken in your hands, and then you will really not even have a chance to cry. β
"A thousand-year plan?"
"Oh, I lost my words." The Abyss Lord shrugged, "Be sure to forget about it. β
β¦β¦ How could you forget!?
Belkiel took a few more steps and suddenly stopped. On the ground in front of him were lying the Dragon Sacrifice Staff and the Rx78, which Lu Xi had to discard in order to catch Artoria just now.
"Such a precious weapon was abandoned like this. Should you be generous, or should you be wasteful? β
"How can an object be compared to a person, even if it is a brilliant artifact, in my heart it is not as good as half a hair of Artoria." Lu Xi hugged the seriously injured knight princess tightly, looked directly into the eyes of the abyss demon refining ashes, and said coldly: "Now you actually hurt her like this...... Demon, you'd better kill me now, or you'll have the consciousness of dying a miserable death! β
Artoria didn't speak, but she shrank slightly, curling up tighter in Lu Xi's arms, like a coquettish kitten.
However, such a threat is not painful for the Abyss Lord at all. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well, that's exactly what I thought. Then he lifted his foot and stomped on the dragon sacrifice staff.
The red oak that could block the sword was as fragile as glass under the trampling of the abyssal refining demon, but it shattered its bones when it only heard a "click". The Shaped Gem set in the staff splattered upwards and bounced off the ground, dripping and rolling without a trace.
Lu Xi's brows twitched, but he didn't say a word.
The demon refining gaze was on the guide gun on the ground again, and a curious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "This is the new work of your teacher, Master Orucello, right?" Sure enough, genius props always come from the hands of geniuses, what is the principle of operation? I'm really curious. β
Lu Xi bit his lip and remained silent.
"Well, you can take it back and study it...... Do you think I'm going to say that? The demon refining sneered. With a snap of his fingers, a blaze suddenly rose from under the floor out of thin air. Cover the pistol in it, immediately after. All they heard was a loud explosion, as if it weren't a prop made of metal and obsidian machinery, but some dangerous artifact filled with sulfur saltpeter charcoal.
"As expected! You've set such a troublesome trap on this dangerous prop! You really can't take it lightly at all times! The Abyss Lord seemed to have expected it, "However, when did you do it?" β
Lu Xi felt that his heart couldn't help but sink to the bottom, in front of this experienced and scheming old fritter demon lord, his little tricks seemed to have nothing to hide, and there was no chance to fight back at all.
"I had a similar arrangement on the RX78 a long time ago, following the example of the Tisru Core's Induced Magic Trap. Anyone other than me will trigger the trap...... What a pity. You must have been blown off half of your head by a similar trap before, right? Otherwise, as for such a frightened bird? Lu Xi stubbornly squeezed out a sarcastic smile on his face. He decided, even if he was dead, to make the enemy sick with his mouth cannon.
"There's no big mistake in being careful, this is the survival wisdom refined by an old demon for thousands of years of life." The Abyss Lord smiled. He didn't say anything more, fiddled with the shackles, raised his hand and waved it decisively.
The meteor hammer the size of a watermelon came with a terrifying sound of breaking through the air, and Lu Xi rolled with Altoria in his arms and bowed his head, finally dodging the direct attack. The wall behind him was hung open by the tip of the hammer, and the broken stones smashed into Lu Xi's back. smashed him so much that he almost had another mouthful of old blood.
The Abyss Demon Refining's right hand shook, skillfully turning it into a sweep, and the chain ball was also smashed into Lu Xi's ear with a change of move.
Lu Xi used all his strength to narrowly avoid the deadly chain ball. But he was still swept by the chains, and once again slammed into the stone wall, and fell softly in the corner of the wall, and his life and death were uncertain.
Anger and hatred completely obscured Lim's sanity. She let out a frantic cry, like a lioness who had lost her family. Carrying two knives and rushing towards the abyss in the distance to refine the demon, even the puppet of Sai Xiliu could no longer restrain the struggle of the girl who was born with divine power.
The sheep-headed demon's face showed a bloodthirsty hideousness. swung the knife and slashed at the girl's head, but she didn't realize it, and only Lu Xi, whose life and death were uncertain, and her great enemy, the Abyss Lord who hurt Lu Xi, were left in her eyes
"It's a pity to be a beautiful girl again." Shadow sighed and sighed.
Sesileu closed her eyes in pain, her legs went limp and she fell to her knees, she was in complete despair.
Suddenly, a green, almost reddish ray shot out from the doorway, and the light seemed to condense the light emitted by 10,000 emeralds into a bundle. It leapt past everyone, brushing Sehira's cheek and swooping down on the massive head of the goat-headed demon.
Seyriliu only felt as if he had been roasted by a line of fire in front of him, and it hurt hotly. She couldn't help but open her eyes, and the first thing she saw was the moment when the sheep-headed demon was struck by the red lightβjust in an instant, the demon's head seemed to be sucked into another dimension by an invisible mysterious force, and disappeared completely, leaving only a trace of green smoke to struggle in the void for a while, and finally fell into nothingness.
The goat-headed demon who had lost his head held the position in front of him for a few seconds, and finally collapsed limply to the ground.
"This ...... Is this a dissociation ray?! For the first time, the tentacle monster looked terrified. His reaction was also extremely fast, shaking countless tentacles and jumping backwards with his body, and in the next second, a blue-white thunderbolt with teeth and claws slashed at the position where he was originally standing, leaving a pit no more than half a meter in diameter, but unfathomable depth.
"Gollum!" Shadow swallowed in horror, and for the first time showed a look of horror. He could already feel that a vast amount of magical power was gathering at the entrance and exit of the passage.
It was a magician who he didn't dare to provoke at will in his heyday.
"Belkill!" Shadow reminded her of her chirping companion loudly.
The eyes of the Abyss Demon Refining also narrowed slightly because of the crisis. He didn't dare to waste any more time, and once again waved the chain flail at Lu Xi, who was paralyzed on the ground, but when the steel meteor as big as a watermelon was flying in mid-air, a small tornado that started out of nowhere suddenly appeared, enveloping the meteor with snowflakes.
The tornado whistled by, but the meteor hammer was turned into a fragile lump of ice by the cold air, and then disintegrated into ice slag in the air.
"This kind of silent spell casting is actually hidden from me...... Tsk, has the power of the Book of the Night Sky been fully mastered by her? The Abyss Demon Refining casually threw away the chain flail in his hand, and looked at the few intruders who appeared at the entrance of the passage as if he were facing a great enemy.
A young female knight wearing a light armor robe, a purple ponytail, and a long sword.
A little girl in heavy armor, short stature, with a boyish flaming red double braid, and a warhammer in hand.
Dressed in the robe of a battle priest, with his hands full of rings, and a goddess with green hair.
Silver-gray fur, and armor leaves at key locations, like a wolf-shaped monster with a huge body like a winter wolf.
Surrounded by these people and demonic beasts, it was just a girl wearing a simple traveler's robe, with short brown hair, and a bright and warm appearance, like a girl next door. The girl held a cross-shaped staff in her right hand and a large heavy book in her left hand, the cover of which seemed to be made of metal and engraved with simple and elegant magical coats of arms.
"Whew, it's finally just in time!" (To be continued.) )
PS: Big chapter to repay debts. The wind girl made a gorgeous debut, so don't you give a count of votes?