Mystery: The Last Shepherd

Chapter 236 The Wrath of the True Creator

Taking advantage of the fact that the two were close enough, Lanius suddenly straightened up, displaying his bulging belly to Luzer.

Through the skin, a bulge the size of an infant's palm appeared, the palm facing Lu Ze, the five fingers closed.

"Well!"

Lu Ze shuddered violently. The moment he saw the hand, a strange connection seemed to form within him, resonating with his flesh and blood, as if trying to seize control of his body.

"Wow—"

However, Lu Ze was prepared. The illusory tide flowed down his body, and he instantly regained control of his flesh and blood. From the outside, he only swayed for a moment before regaining his footing.

"How could this be? You actually..."

Before the smile could even form on Lanius's face, it was quickly replaced by surprise.

Lu Ze stared coldly at him, raising the silver-white "Lucky" revolver toward his head.

"boom!"

One shot fired.

The pistol bullet, carrying immense kinetic energy, struck Lanius precisely in the forehead. However, the bullet merely spun on his forehead, emitting white smoke, without penetrating his brain.

"hehe."

Lanius leaped to his feet; the wound on his thigh had healed, and countless small, raised growths had sprouted all over his body. These growths were so hard that even a pistol bullet couldn't penetrate them!
After being used as a mother by the offspring of an evil god for so long, his body has undergone a mutation.

Lanius, whose face was covered in tumors, stared at Luze while listening intently.

“So that’s how it is. You’re a disobedient who doesn’t believe in the true Creator. You’re a shepherd, yet you show no reverence for Him.” Lanius, as if hearing something from his own child, immediately noticed Luze’s difference. He roared ferociously and madly:
"Do you think that this way, my child won't be able to deal with you?"

Lu Ze stared coldly at him, his body suddenly swelling, transforming from a normal physique into a giant nearly four or five meters tall. Goat-like horns sprouted from the sides of his head, covered with mysterious patterns, and bat-like wings grew from his back. Numerous eerie blue fireballs surged around him, and the stench of sulfur permeated the sewer air.

"Demonization!"
Fortunately, the sewers in Backlund were deep enough, otherwise Luze, in his demon form, wouldn't even be able to stand upright. But even so, if he straightened up even slightly, his head might still hit the top brick.

"Very well, since you're not going to let me go, then die!"

Lanius roared wildly, and the white bone spurs on his right hand grew even longer, making them appear even sharper.

"brush!"

His movements suddenly became swift, and he nimbly flashed behind Lu Ze's massive body, his skeletal hand about to stab him in the abdomen.

Lu Ze turned to look at him, a glint of light suddenly flashing in his scarlet eyes.

Interrogator: "Mental piercing!"
That illusory tide allowed him to herd multiple souls simultaneously without having to switch between them!

"what!"

Lanius clutched his head and screamed, his voice shrill, as if he had suffered immense mental damage. Although the tumors covering his body were sturdy, they were no match for attacks targeting the mind.

"Whoosh—" Just as Lanluus was clutching his head and howling in agony, Luze stretched out his right hand, and blazing lava surged from his palm. The blazing lava flowed and quickly formed a longsword burning with eerie blue flames. He gripped the longsword and thrust it straight at Lanluus's bulging abdomen.

He will use the lava sword to pierce through Lanius and his so-called child!
"puff!"

The lava sword was sharp and hot, and the tumors on Lanluus's body could not stop it at all. Luze did not even feel any resistance and easily pierced through his body!
However, just as the lava sword was about to pierce through, Lanluus's previously protruding belly suddenly moved. The bulge moved across his body, eventually reaching Lanluus's chest, and by the time the lava sword struck, his abdomen had already flattened.

The children of God were not harmed!
"Cough cough."

Although his abdomen had been pierced, his body, imbued with divinity, would not be so easily destroyed. Lanius's body, hanging from the lava greatsword, looked up at the massive Luze and grinned maliciously, "Blasphemy shepherd. I will prevent you from reaching your flock."

"laugh!"

He quickly reached into his eye socket, viciously gouged out one of his eyeballs, and with a "smack," crushed it!
What is he going to do?
Lu Ze's heart skipped a beat. He was about to swing his lava sword and throw Lanius to the ground when—

"Guwa."

A loud baby's cry suddenly echoed through the dark sewers. The cry seemed to possess a terrifying magic, driving everything around it into a frenzy. Although Lu Ze had a phantom protective aura from the ocean currents, the cry was simply too close and too piercing, causing his mind to waver!
Damn!

Lu Ze covered his head, forcefully urging the surging tides to make the sound even louder, thus counteracting the effects of his crying. However, this also accelerated the depletion of his spiritual energy; he had to kill Lanluus as soon as possible!
His distraction by the crying gave Lanius a golden opportunity.

Pale blue sap and tissue oozed from between his fingers, and a shocking bloody hole appeared on Lanius's face, yet he still laughed with a mixture of benevolence and madness, calling upon the name of the true creator in ancient Hermetic, "The Creator of all things."

"You have blasphemed the Son of God and disobeyed the Father; you deserve punishment!"

He quickly finished reciting the entire ancient Hermes incantation, and his right hand, which was tightly gripping the crushed eyeball, suddenly emitted a foul and terrifying aura. Just as Luze regained his senses and raised his head, Lanluus had already thrown the lump of matter at him!

"boom--"

Lu Ze felt an unusually cold aura penetrate his skin and enter his body. This aura seemed to contain a strange spirituality, rapidly passing through his body tissues and stopping at the places within him where the souls of the "lambs" were stored.

not good!

He instinctively sensed something was wrong and was about to use the illusory tide to dispel it when the cold aura immediately spread out and seeped into the dwelling place of all his "lambs" souls!

"Om-"

A chilling aura spread out, seeping deep into his flesh and blood, and at its deepest point, it released an indescribable divine quality!
"The Lord calls upon this city, and the wise will fear his name; hear who has ordained the punishment of the rod."

High and deep somewhere, the towering, upside-down giant opened his eyes. His gaze pierced through endless barriers and descended upon this dark and cramped basement. He saw that his offspring were being attacked by someone.

Luze's consciousness blurred for a moment, as if he heard angry murmurs echoing in his mind. When he regained consciousness, he was surprised to find that he had been freed from his demonic state. That cold and terrifying, sacred yet filthy aura faintly permeated his body, making the souls of those lambs tremble, unwilling to emerge no matter how much Luze called to them!

He can no longer herd livestock!

"hehe."

Luze heard Lanius's twisted laughter from across the way. Lanius stared at Luze with malice, his abdominal wound slowly healing.

(End of this chapter)