Chapter 379: Chapter 379
Thinking this way, Falken immediately had an epiphany. Wasn’t this akin to facing a Main God like the Goddess of Fortune directly?
When tenfold skills were unleashed, the shocking effect was inevitable. At the very least, it was equivalent to ten epic-level heroes using super-tier skills to besiege this Dark Hydra.
Following such a powerful Lord, Falken felt a significant boost in morale.
"Lord, allow me to help you find the Demon Warden here. Oddly enough, I haven’t seen him since I arrived at this Divine Hall. Could it be that he’s been in contact with demons too long and got corrupted?" Get full chapters from NoveI(F)ire.net
Lusen pointed behind Falken, taking a sharp breath: "Do you think it’s possible that the ghostly thing behind you is the Demon Warden you’re talking about?"
Falken felt his heart skip a beat, his face turning pale and ugly as he forced a grim smile: "Bro... don’t scare me like that. That joke isn’t funny at all. Ah..."
Before he had a chance to turn around, a scarlet bone blade pierced through his body, and even with a 40% damage reduction, a third of his life bar was instantly cleared!
As he was thrown aside, everyone could see the monster hiding behind him.
A gray-haired woman with bony, jagged limbs, her face mostly hidden behind grayish, matted hair, exposing only a single, crimson, evil eye.
Her body was further deformed by demonic mutations, with sharp bone blades at the joints, and her skin was covered in solid scales.
These demonic deformities should have made her fierce and terrifying, but instead, her skin sprouted numerous tentacles and green sludge, making her look disgusting and eerie.
[Ding, Encounter with an indescribable monster, Will effect correction -25%, -1% correction effect per second, Will effect below normal level, Willpower Limit -5% per second.]
[Ding, Your subordinate Heroic Spirit Knight Lundestadte encounters an indescribable monster, Life Value Limit -10% per second due to a significant willpower gap.]
[Ding, Your subordinate Heroic Spirit Knight Lusen encounters an indescribable monster, Life Value Limit -10% per second due to a significant willpower gap.]
"Hiss~" Everyone gasped. What kind of monster was this?! Just a glance and 10% of Life Value Limit was gone.
Lin Rui roared, "Get up there and hack it to pieces immediately!"
With his command, all the knights charged, it was time to risk everything.
With a 10% decrease in Life Value Limit per second, even healing couldn’t keep up.
Now it was about exchanging life for life!
At this moment, Lin Rui also unleashed everything he had, ice blades and frost aura with a biting chill filled the corridor of the dungeon, instantly covering the dungeon corridor with heavy layers of white frost.
But the monster moved with unbelievable agility, it could even hang upside down from the corridor with bone blades, and sweep its blade in a 540-degree twist.
Falken shouted in shock: "Lord, this monster is at least epic-level, unbelievably strong."
Lin Rui took the chance to glance, a tier six epic-level unit!
But how could a tier six epic-level unit be this powerful?
Lusen was swept away by the monster, he scrambled to his feet, shouting: "Lord, it has at least four or five powers of evil on it. Has it divested various demonic powers onto itself?"
Lundestadte remained calm: "Known traits include bloodsucking, limb regeneration, life absorption, flashing, poison, and six or seven others."
Lin Rui quickly opened his panel and took a detailed look, instantly feeling a chill at the corner of his eyes.
It had over twenty densely packed traits!
No wonder it had become so terrifyingly powerful.
Moreover, these twenty-plus traits covered various powers of evil, this Prison Director was definitely stealing from the demons, taking various powers of evil.
This approach was not condemned.
Some Divine Spirits in this world possess this ability. For example, the most famous ability of the Black Queen whom Audrey follows is Skeleton Stripping.
But this Warden obviously took a significant deviation.
In this world, evil isn’t the original sin, incompetence is!
By stripping off so many powers of evil, it evidently broke its own body, will, and soul.
Seven seconds had passed, and the family army still couldn’t strangle it. Continuing to fight might lead to casualties.
Lin Rui seriously considered using [Faith Intervention] to erase it directly. Yet it suddenly froze and let out a pained roar, even clawing frantically at its own head.
For a whole second, it made no moves.
Yet even in such an intense battlefield, in just one second, its life value was halved.
Lin Rui shouted: "Full attack. Hack it to pieces here!"
The monster within the ice expanded continuously, as if about to burst open the ice sculpture.
Lin Rui had decided, if it broke free, he would use [Faith Intervention] to empty its life bar immediately.
But in the next instant, the monster suddenly exploded, spewing foul blood all over the corridor.
[Ding, You’ve successfully purified a spot of Chaos Corrosion. Every warrior resisting Chaos incursions draws the attention of the gods, continue fighting valiantly, and when you severely damage the Chaos army, you’ll surely receive Divine Spirit’s blessings. (Stage three 451/100000)]
[Ding, You have received the blessing of the Divine Spirit, you can draw an epic-level trait suitable for you.]
[Ding, You have obtained an epic-level item [Seed of the Eternal Tree]*1 (Note: Tainted by demonic power, survival rate 10%, cannot receive Divine Blessing)]
[Ding, You have obtained a Demon Cage Key*1]
[Ding, You have obtained a gilded-level treasure chest*1]
[Ding, You have obtained a tactical item [Evil Taming]*1]
The knights retracted their weapons in surprise, looking at the shattered monster remains in disbelief.
"What happened? I thought we were in a life-or-death situation, yet the monster suddenly blew itself up?"
"This monster was unbelievably strong. I was already thinking about how to bid farewell to Amos, yet it exploded on its own?"
Lin Rui glanced at the strategic item [Evil Taming] in his hand, and tossed it to Lusen: "It’s probably because of this, stop always thinking about women, study this, and figure out how to get stronger."
[The sin is never the power of evil, but the will unable to control evil. Griffins used to brutally prey on humans, but after being tamed, powerful Griffin Knights emerged in the empire. Demons commit all kinds of evil, but Demon Hunters tame demon power and hunt demons in return.]
[Can tame the power of evil to strengthen oneself (Note: Ever since ancient times, taming the power of evil has been fraught with great risks, any slight misstep can lead to a breakdown of body, will, and soul. Black and red color)]
The description of [Evil Taming] was quite vague, but the final notation of black and red invokes caution.
It’s clear the Demon Warden used this item to strip a vast amount of demon power, extracting various powers of evil from demons in cages to strengthen himself.
Lin Rui had witnessed how evil forces in this world could grow so evil and formidable.
Before this, Lin Rui almost thought the Paladin immune to spiritual damage was nearly invincible.
Today he finally deeply understood what it means for every foot of the Way to be followed by a step by the Devil.
While the Lawful Good Faction is incredibly powerful to the point of being idealistic, the evil factions were equally intimidating.
Lusen fiddled with the [Evil Taming], which seemed like a precious insignia, and asked: "Lord, how do we use this? I have no clue."
Lin Rui had some ideas but didn’t intend to say them directly, instead calmly replying: "Figure it out for yourselves! It will surely leave a deeper impression than if I told you directly."
The group of knights gathered around, none lacking in wisdom, and from Lin Rui’s words, they roughly guessed that this item was meant for all the knights to use?
But what could it be used for?
Lin Rui didn’t concern himself with them but instead turned his attention to other notifications.
The rewards for defeating this monster were exceptionally generous.