Slime Immortal.

Chapter 196 Blood Legion
"Your Majesty, we're back!" Iron Anvil, sitting on a wagon pulled by two sturdy swamp lizards, waved vigorously at Chen Yu, who was standing at the fortress gate, and laughed heartily.

"Your Majesty, goodbye." The young shaman Turke, sitting next to him, also waved his scaly hand with restraint.

Watching the carriage loaded with gold coins leave along the Shunfeng Forest Road and gradually disappear into the distance at the edge of the dense forest, Chen Yu turned around and skipped to the warehouse area of ​​the fortress.

The vampires seemed to have found out that he liked magical organs, and this time, in addition to gold coins and scrolls, they also brought some crystals that emitted a scarlet glow.

After Xiaohua discovered these blood crystals, she temporarily placed them in a dry corner of the warehouse.

Reaching a corner of the warehouse, Chen Yu stretched out his gel-like hand, picked up a fist-sized dark red crystal, examined it closely, and then swallowed it.

Gulu...

The enormous blood crystal stretched his gelatinous body, creating a bulge.

"Chew, chew, chew..."

It's crunchy and has a texture similar to hard candy, but it also has a faint metallic and bloody taste.

what……

Just as Chen Yu was feeling disgusted, the panel popped up.

[Devour Digestion Lv.7 Triggered - Bloodbat Servant Characteristics Recorded, Talent in Development (1/3)]

A new talent?
Chen Yu's round little eyes lit up immediately.

That's great!

He then crunched down two more blood crystals of the same shape.

[Devour and Digest Lv.7 triggered - Blood Bat minion characteristics fully recorded, talent gained: Blood Frenzy Lv.1]

Ok?
It turned out to be a rare berserk talent.

However, this talent consumes not only magic power, but also blood.

If you accidentally use too much, you might even develop anemia.

No wonder Kamishir always looks malnourished, as if he's never had a full meal.

His gaze fell back to the mountain of various blood crystals, and he picked up two blood crystals of different shapes and tasted them before beginning his long eating process.

It took Chen Yu quite a while to fill his stomach until it was round and bulging. He lay contentedly on the floor, squinting his eyes, feeling the surging energy flowing through his body, not wanting to move at all.

[Devour and Digest Lv.7 triggered - Blood Bat Noble characteristics fully recorded, talent gained: Blood Recovery Lv.3]

[Devour and Digestion Lv.7 Triggered - Blood Bat Noble Characteristics Fully Recorded, Gain Talent: Blood Shaping Lv.3]

[Devour and Digestion Lv.7 Triggered - Blood Bat Lord's characteristics have been fully recorded, and the talent "Blood Baptism Lv.3" has been obtained.]

[Bat Wings Lv.1 → Bat Wings Lv.4]

[Blood Frenzy Lv.1 → Blood Frenzy Lv.3]

Aside from "Bat Wings," which is purely a physical transformation, the other Blood Bat talents—"Blood Restoration," "Blood Energy Shaping," and "Blood Baptism"—all require consuming blood to activate.

It is indeed a very special power system.

Of course, the extra cost also brought powerful vampire magic.

The effect of "blood restoration" is quite astonishing, capable of rapidly healing almost all physical damage except for the brain and the soul's origin.

With enough blood reserves, even severed limbs can regrow within a certain period of time.

Talent level only determines the speed of recovery and the efficiency of blood consumption.

"Blood Shaping" can be seen as a variant of the Fireball spell, which consumes magic power and one's own blood to create corrosive blood orbs or boiling blood spears.

It not only possesses a powerful explosive impact, but also carries negative effects such as curse contamination and blood corrosion.

However, because these talents require the consumption of one's own blood to activate, their application scenarios are not that broad.

Perhaps only vampires can fully utilize them.

Chen Yu was thinking this when the "Blood Baptism" talent he obtained from the Blood Bat Lord changed his mind.

He skipped away from the warehouse and came to an open space inside the fortress. On a whim, he tried to activate his new talent.

Baptism of Blood

A vivid crimson light flashed across the surface of the gel, followed by a surge of green life energy, like a spring tide awakening, that burst forth from his round body and rapidly spread outwards.

Eventually, a verdant field with a radius of about nine meters formed around him.

Within this realm, any unit possessing any vampire-related talent can receive a blood energy boost.

When a unit uses the Blood Bat talent, it will no longer need to consume its own blood; instead, the blood energy provided by the domain will replace it.

This perfectly solves the drawback of the Bloodbat talent requiring blood to activate.

It just consumes a lot of his life energy.

Chen Yu withdrew his domain and fell into thought.

So, if he could find a monster that could store large amounts of blood and use it as the team's blood energy source...

Could this create a blood legion that doesn't rely on vampires but can fully unleash the power of vampire magic?

It seems really possible.

As a result, his Stinger Bee Legion will undergo another large-scale upgrade.

From now on, legions will come out with their own magic fountains; how will the enemy possibly compete?

With that in mind, he immediately summoned Little Flower and gathered all the Stinger Bee Queens in the treehouse for a small round table meeting to discuss the possibility of establishing the Blood Legion.

The oldest queen bee stepped forward and rubbed her slender forelegs against Chen Yu's gel a few times as a sign of the highest respect.

"Your Majesty... In the north, in the cold forests... our kind... enjoy drinking the blood of large creatures and store the excess blood in blood sacs in their abdomens..."

Vampire bees?
Chen Yu immediately became interested.

However, he still had to travel to the Treant territory to prepare for the upcoming Stoneborn delegation.

The task of finding the vampire bees can only be entrusted to Little Flower and the army of stinging bees.

Little Flower solemnly shook her gel body up and down to show she understood, then bounced away to organize the reconnaissance team.

The remaining queen stingers were carefully carried back to their respective hives by the worker bees to prepare for the next legion's reproduction.

Chen Yu originally planned to head to the Tree Spirit Territory right now, but suddenly sensed that Arno, who was far away in Gorstone Castle, was calling him.

"What happened?" he asked, puzzled.

A few seconds later, Arno's voice came back clearly from a great distance:
"Boss, something bad has happened! Those goblins have somehow taken over the ice elemental plane behind the rift, and we can't get through at all now."

To occupy the elemental plane?!
Chen Yu was startled.

What are those goblins trying to do?
When did they acquire this capability and ambition?

Surely they can't be so bored that they want to become some kind of dimensional explorer, right?

Whatever their purpose, the dimensional rift next to the Treant territory must be reinforced immediately. We cannot allow the goblins to sneak through the rift and launch a surprise attack from behind the fortress.

He's always the one who ambushes others; how could he let others ambush him?

……

Rewind to one day ago, at the Lieshi Pass.

Since suffering repeated defeats in the war against the Slime Kingdom, even the cannibalistic mage Grumg was defeated, the entire goblin army has fallen into a long period of silence.

Even the goblins, who usually love to swagger around and patrol their territory, mostly stay inside the fortress made of giant stones and rarely show themselves.

Except for one bear goblin—Hammerbone.

Outside the fortress, in that makeshift camp used to guard slaves, Hammerbone hummed a tune in a good mood, his fingers stroking the mace in his arms.

He even had the leisure to use his hammer to gesture at the bald, green head of the goblin shaman trembling in fear, as if pondering where to strike.

The goblin shaman, clutching the bone staff, pleaded with a trembling voice, his teeth chattering, "Master Hammerbone, you know I've always been loyal to the Legion, to you... You... you're not really going to swing it down, are you?"

The malleus emitted a dull hum from its throat.

"That's hard to say, my hands are a little itchy today."

These words terrified the goblin shaman, causing him to tremble even more violently, almost collapsing to the ground.

Seeing its cowardly appearance, Hammerbone chuckled and said, "I'm not like that ogre who even eats its own kind."

"Coward, get lost. I'm in a good mood today."

"Yes, yes, thank you, Lord Hammerbone, thank you, sir..." The goblin shaman scrambled out of the camp and disappeared behind a pile of rocks not far away in the blink of an eye, afraid that if he was a little slow, Hammerbone would change his mind.

Hammerbone ignored it and continued humming his little tune, swinging his mace and imagining another enemy's head being blown open on the battlefield.

The sight of blood splattering made him even more pleased.

Ever since Grumger suffered a setback at the hands of those seemingly weak slimes, the goblins in the legion finally realized that those little green things were not as easy to deal with as they had imagined.

From then on, the contemptuous and disdainful looks he once received mostly turned into awe and flattery, which subtly enhanced his status within the legion.

Who said those slimes are nasty?

They are simply treasures.

Hammerbone even developed a slight liking for the slime that had caused him a minor setback.

If it weren't for them, how could he have made that idiot Grumg look so foolish?

He now even hopes that there are as many of those little green guys as possible, and that they cause as much trouble as possible.

In this way, he could not only gain further attention from the legion commander, but also perhaps attract the attention of the person behind the legion.

Just as he was feeling quite pleased with himself, a sudden burst of panicked screams and commotion erupted from the outskirts of the camp.

"Monsters...monsters, so many monsters!"

"Black, with wings, it's a demon?!"

“Run!”

Hammerbone frowned in displeasure, strode out of the camp, and growled in goblin language toward the direction of the commotion: "What's all the noise about? Do you all want to be turned into jerky by me?"

"M-Master, something terrible has happened..." The fearful voice of the goblin shaman who had escaped earlier rang out from the bottom of the slope, but before it could finish speaking, it was interrupted by a sinister voice.

"Oh. Isn't this our hero of the Riftstone Pass, Hammerbone?"

"Knowing that the great Lord Grumger has returned, he even came out to greet him personally. It's truly touching."

From the source of the sound, the tall, bloated ogre figure of Grumg gradually came into view.

Seemingly to provoke Hammerbone, he stuck out his long, purple tongue and licked the goblin shaman he was holding like a chick.

This scared the goblin shaman so much that he fainted.

Hammerbone sneered, "Grumger, the Legion Commander sent you back to Goldenglow Valley to request reinforcements, so why did you slink back here all by yourself?"

Upon hearing this, Grumger chuckled, casually tossed the unconscious goblin into a pile of rubble, then leaned on his staff and walked to the side of the road, bowing slightly in a humble greeting.

"Welcome, Lord Ajax, the Scythe of Corruption." His voice carried an unusual reverence.

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire Lieshi Pass fell into a deathly silence.

Immediately afterward, at the deep end of the pass, came a rustling sound that sent chills down one's spine.

The sound started out faint, but quickly amplified, and then a scene unfolded that made all the witnesses, including Hammerbone, feel as if their blood was about to freeze.

Suddenly, a dark wave surged up at the end of the once empty canyon.

It was a torrent of countless black-feathered demons, flapping their greasy, black wings and emitting piercing screechs, carrying a foul stench and a pungent sulfurous aura, as if they had just crawled out of an abyss, surging towards the fortress.

Their numbers were countless, densely packed, covering the sky, as if they had dyed the entire canyon sky into a pitch-black night.

No, they are not monsters.

Hammerbone suddenly realized what was happening.

These are all offspring of the Filthy Demon!

Legend has it that these were the demonic offspring known for their countless numbers and the spread of plague.

They once unleashed natural disasters that terrified nations across the continent, and were also a nightmare for goblins.

Damn it, how could the offspring of a demon appear here?

Hammerbone couldn't help but stare intently ahead.

The Felkin charging ahead spewed acid and flames, instantly turning the rubble and slaves who couldn't dodge in time into pus and charcoal, forcibly creating a dark, ember-covered road in the canyon.

At the end of the road, a gigantic Felkin, far exceeding the size of its kind, slowly descended in altitude, like a royal chariot being escorted.

A dark figure standing on a broad back was revealed.

It was a tall demon with curved goat horns on its head.

It was covered in skin as hard as obsidian, and held a dark red, menacing scythe in its hand.

When it looked at Hammerbone with its dark red pupils that seemed to burn with flames, Hammerbone felt a buzzing in his brain in an instant, as if countless blasphemous whispers and twisted malice rushed into his mind.

They tried to drag it into the abyss of desire and madness, to break its will.

This bewitching and terrifying power...

The one before it was undoubtedly a true demon.

Moreover, he is a powerful demon with a real name.

Hammer Bone swallowed hard, quickly made way, and then lowered his head.

"Lord Ajax, welcome to the Rift Pass."

(End of this chapter)