Chapter 923: Chapter 921: High-level Life
The dense blood-colored energy gathered on the surface of Bobbobovic’s fist, making his fist look more than twice its size, and it whizzed to smash into the body of the attacking demonized creatures.
With a sound, the blood-colored energy poured into the body of the demonized creatures, causing them to rapidly swell like a balloon, then explode like an overinflated balloon with a “pop”.
Chunks of flesh scattered everywhere, some even landing more than a dozen meters away.
Some pieces landed on the bald head of Bobbobovic, so smooth as if polished and waxed. As soon as the flesh fell, it spun and slid off, giving Bobbobovic an unprecedented silky sensation.
The veins on Bobbobovic’s temples bulged, heaves of breath escaping as his hands moved like an enraged curly-furred baboon—or rather a bald baboon.
Bobbobovic felt his anger hadn’t diminished, but rather increased. He yelled out, charging towards more demonized creatures not far away, ready to stir up a bloodstorm.
Heluo glanced at the somewhat wild Bobbobovic charging in her direction, unsure if he was helping her against the strange demonized creatures or something else. Without speaking, she lightly stepped aside, leaving the demonized creatures to Bobbobovic while drawing a new batch of demonized creatures into her attack range.
Seven or eight unbelievably ugly demonized creatures bared their teeth and drooled as they pounced at her.
One of them, a demonized creature with a bull’s body and a wolf’s head, had a strong aura, already reaching the level equivalent to a third-level Wizard, which made her expression serious.
Heluo let out a clear shout, her body shrouded in a crimson light, like a light gauze wrapping around her, giving a dreamy sensation.
The air slightly twisted as Heluo’s lips moved, reciting a spell, and with a “swish”, her hair grew dramatically.
Under the spell, each strand of hair turned cherry red, divided into more than ten strands, and attacked the demonized creatures.
At that moment, her hair seemed like whips or swords, soft or hard, wielded or stabbing, knocking back the demonized creatures that approached, then piercing their bodies. The most update n0vels are published on 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⚑𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⚑𝙣𝙚𝙩
Amidst piercing sounds, one demonized creature after another fell.
Beside her, Richard was not idle.
Using dense air missiles, he harshly knocked back the demonized creatures pouncing on him, then began chanting spells on the spot.
As the demonized creatures knocked back came at him again, Richard raised his hand, launching a continuous stream of fireballs that exploded one after another.
“Boom boom boom boom boom!”
In the sound of explosions, the area within dozens of meters turned into a sea of fire.
At first, the demonized creatures in the fire sea persisted, trying to counterattack, but as the number of Richard’s fireballs reached ten, they started to retreat, looking for another opportunity.
When Richard’s fireballs reached twenty, some became panicked, attempting to escape the fire sea.
By the time Richard’s fireballs reached thirty, the weaker ones began to die, screaming as they fell into the fire sea.
The power of the fireballs wasn’t very strong, but being released so concentrated by Richard, it unleashed a terrifying power.
When Richard’s last fireball—the thirty-sixth fireball—exploded, there were no demonized creatures left standing in the fire scene, most having died, their bodies charred. The only one not dead was a half-tiger, half-leopard demonized creature, now collapsed on the scorching ground, more exhaling than inhaling.
Richard glanced over without mercy. With a wave, he formed the Langdonick’s Spear from light points, controlling it to fly over and pierce the opponent’s body, ending its life.
Then he turned his gaze to the rest of the demonized creatures…
The subsequent battle wasn’t very turbulent. The newly born demonized creatures were a kind of twisted and strange animal. With great potential, if given time to grow, they might all reach the level of a third-level Wizard.
Moreover, they possessed considerable intelligence, quickly learning tactics like united attacks and diversion in combat. It could be speculated that if given the chance to become mature, the three of Richard wouldn’t be so easy to handle them.
However, the current demonized creatures hadn’t grown up, they were in an infant stage, with great potential but power similar to or slightly exceeding the demonized creatures that bred them.
Therefore, under the attack of the three of Richard, the demonized creatures had no hope of victory.
As the battle continued and half were lost, the strange demonized creatures seemed to realize this reality. Letting out a whistle, they ceased entangling, shifting tactics to deploy guerrilla warfare, using the complex forest terrain for constant harassment and ambush.
If other wizards encountered this, they might find it troublesome, but for the three of Richard, it was just slightly tricky. The three increased vigilance, fully expanding their perception, making every ambushing strange demonized creature return empty-handed.
After some time, the number of strange demonized creatures dwindled to less than a fifth of the original.
When another half-rabbit, half-fox demonized creature had its head blown by Bobbobovic’s punch, all the demonized creatures shrieked and scattered into the forest, completely abandoning the attack.
The forest returned to quiet, as if nothing had happened.
Seeing this, the three of Richard didn’t breathe a sigh of relief. Their faces were somewhat grave, as from the earlier experience, they’d deduced a truth.
It was obvious to see that the earlier collective mating of demonized creatures, breeding new strange demonized creatures, and the organized attacks by strange demonized creatures were not simple occurrences.
“It seems we’re in big trouble,” Richard said, eyes narrowing slightly. “Neither the demonized black snake nor the earlier new strange demonized creatures are the real culprits who killed the previous exploration team members.
Their roles are just pawns, weapons. There should be a more advanced, deeply hidden lifeform controlling them. It’s this controlling lifeform we need to find.
From the opponent’s performance all this while, it’s apparent they possess considerable wisdom and numerous strange abilities. These abilities may be restricted, but only if the opponent is willing to pay the price can they quickly and widely influence, control, or even create lifeforms.
This clearly exceeds ordinary demonized creatures, likely to be…”
“A strange species,” Heluo answered.
Richard paused, glanced at Heluo, and nodded, “Yes.”
Not far away, Bobbobovic was fiddling with the skin of a dead demonized brown bear. Hearing the conversation between Richard and Heluo, he looked up and asked, puzzled, “What’s a strange species?”
“You don’t know?” Richard asked, “The branch has a lot of related information, right?”
“Is that so—” Bobbobovic drawled, “Maybe, but I kind of forgot, why don’t you two… remind me?”