Cornflower Witch

Chapter 310 The Strange Awakening
"you are?"

As Lusa watched the flute she was about to obtain being blocked by the light barrier, she felt extremely irritated. She turned her head and stared at the silver-haired figure slowly descending with her triangular eyes.

Upon entering this place, Hilti also felt a certain restlessness and urge to fight, but as she activated the 'Moonlight Breathing Technique,' this urge and thought were gradually covered and suppressed by the coolness.

“I am… Hilti,” the girl replied, wondering if she should introduce herself further.

However, judging from the hostility in the other party's eyes, they probably wouldn't listen to what I had to say.

“This is not a good place. The owner of the tomb may have ulterior motives…” Hilti tried to advise the other person, although she felt that the other person might not listen.

"Have ulterior motives?" Lusa sneered.

"I think you're the one with ulterior motives. Are you trying to persuade me to leave as soon as possible so you can keep all the treasures here for yourself?" She gripped the dagger in her hand, tossed it lightly, caught it, and looked at the young girl with a hint of mockery.

“I didn’t mean that, sigh…” Hilti was a little reluctant to explain.

"You're so pretty, you must be very attractive to men," she said jealously, looking at Silti's face.

"This..." This was the first time Hilti had encountered such a direct expression of jealousy, and she really couldn't think of a response for a moment.

"Judging from how much you like to play the victim, you must have fooled a lot of people with this childlike and innocent look, tsk tsk," Lusa mocked.

"Stop pretending in front of me. We've come this far, don't we know what we've done?"

"What did I do?" Hiltiya was completely confused.

"Now the treasure and the inheritance can only belong to one person, and judging from the rising ritual array, only one of us can survive."

"What a pity, young lady. If your final opponent had been a man, he might have gone easy on you and been seduced by your charm." She shook her head.

“But that won’t work here.” As she finished speaking, her face gradually contorted into a grimace, and her legs tightened and exerted force.

"Die!"

In an instant, she darted through the hall in a blurry, long arc, ambush Hiltiya from the side and behind. The dagger in her hand flashed a dark red light during the attack, becoming extremely dangerous.

For an assassin, speed is everything. As long as you are fast enough, you can penetrate the weakest point before the enemy can defend. As long as you are fast enough, you can avoid any attack. As long as you are fast enough, you can catch up with and escape from any opponent and completely take the initiative.

As long as the speed is fast enough, that's fine.

Fly Steps

Lusa's figure blurred into an afterimage as she moved at high speed, her eyes filled with bloodlust, and she thrust the dagger in her hand toward Hiltiya's delicate neck.

Seeing that she was only a few meters away from Hilti, and the girl had not yet dodged, Lusa felt a surge of joy, waiting for the thrill of her dagger cutting through flesh.

But a moment later, as he swung his wrist, he felt no resistance; it simply sliced ​​through the air.

Where did the other party go? Lusa felt a chill in her heart and hurriedly changed her footwork, her body rapidly turning several times on the ground to avoid possible attacks.

But after a few seconds, she did not see any counterattack from Hilti, so she looked around for the silver-haired figure.

Above the hall, Hiltiya floated silently, with purple eye patterns opening beside her before locking onto Lusa below.

【Evil Eye Shot】

She used this move with increasing skill, unleashing several dazzling purple beams that blocked Lusa's dodge angles and pierced her body.

The severely injured Lusa was in disbelief when she finally noticed Hilti in the air. She then flipped over, quickly retrieved the remaining medicine, and put it into her mouth.

[Centipede Regeneration Potion] (Tier 3, Excellent): Can consume nutrients to regenerate limbs.

After drinking the potion, horrifying fleshy buds grew from Lusa's mutilated body parts, constantly twitching and filling her body, gradually repairing herself. During this process, her face gradually turned pale, and the newly grown limbs were noticeably disproportionate and could not be completely compared to before.

"There's a flawed regeneration," Hilti thought to herself, not taking the opportunity to finish the job. She still had many questions she wanted to answer from the other party.

However, Lusa saw this behavior as childish. Seeing that her previous attack had failed, she completely abandoned the idea of ​​saving resources and used all the resources she had previously acquired and seized.

【Blood of the Beast】(Tier 3, Excellent): Blue Thunder Beast Blood, which can greatly enhance one's physical strength for a short time and grant some Thunder Power.

After drinking it, a burst of lightning flashed across her body, and her strength was rapidly restored, allowing her to run again.

【Beast Crimson Eye Potion】(Tier 3, Excellent): One of the advanced eye potions, capable of locking onto enemies, causing their blood to become disordered, or even reversed. Her pupils turned a deep, somber blood red. Hiltiya, under her gaze, felt a chill run down her spine, experiencing the illusion of being targeted by a ferocious beast, making it difficult for her to move.

She moved her body slightly, and a sharp pain shot through her body. Under these circumstances, Hiltiah moved swiftly to avoid Lusa's gaze.

Seeing Siltia dodge and run away, Lusa burst into an exaggerated laugh.

"Ha ha ha ha."

At this moment, she regained her confidence, took a deep breath, and then quickly caught up with the new location where Siltia had appeared.

Seeing this, Hiltiah flipped over, and a gleaming golden straight sword appeared in her hand. As she flipped over, she slashed down, turning into a fleeting arc of pale golden light.

Startled by Hilti's sharp blade, Lusa was actually outmaneuvered in the clash, with the blade tearing open a wound on her shoulder.

After this exchange, Lusa focused her attention once more, her crimson eyes fixed on Sylvia, attempting to disrupt her blood flow and cause her to become disordered and disintegrate, just as she had done before.

However, having learned from her experience, Hilti naturally wouldn't stay in the other party's sight for long, and she once again teleported away.

"Hmph." Lusa seemed dissatisfied with the girl's clever dodging. She also realized that without restricting the girl's movement, it would be difficult to defeat her.

Teleportation and blinking—these abilities always consume a lot of resources. I'd like to see how many times you can use them.

After that, Lusa relentlessly pursued Siltia, her figure like a fleeting shadow, making her difficult to escape.

The two clashed in the air and on the ground. Although Hilti's swordsmanship was superb, Lusa, thanks to the boost from the potion and her abilities, was faster than Hilti and could always make up for her lack of skill with her numerical advantage.

Hilti didn't care about this. Instead, she gradually discovered her shortcomings in swordsmanship and fighting style through repeated difficult battles and made improvements accordingly.

('Nameless Blade Technique' Proficiency +13)

('Astral Travel' Proficiency +9)

('Moonlight Breathing Technique' Proficiency +12)

……

Gradually, she became more and more proficient in using her various abilities, constantly refining them through intense battles, and gradually finding the right combat rhythm.

Once again, Hilti used her blade to deflect the opponent's dagger strike, her figure flashing backward repeatedly before a pale silver aura enveloped her entire body.

('Moonlight Breathing Technique' Proficiency +12, Progress 304/300, Trial conditions met)
[Moonlight Breathing Technique Lv.5→Lv.6] (Radiant Moon): Allows you to restore stamina with the help of moonlight, greatly increasing the sustainability of your breathing technique and granting immunity to low-level negative effects, while also reducing the impact of other negative effects. (No side effects will occur when the breathing technique is not used intensely.)
The intense strain that previous breathing techniques placed on the body has been gradually offset by the body's resilience, and some resistance to negative effects has been gained.

Not only [Moonlight Breathing Technique], but [Astral Travel] has also been improved. However, the only effects are increased travel speed and reduced energy consumption, with no other special improvements.

In the ensuing battles, Hilti gradually realized that her opponent's blood-red eye technique was becoming less effective against her, and she was also having more and more energy to spare when facing Lusa's attacks.

It seems like we can fight back now?

She thought for a moment, then stepped back, her eyes flashing with light. Invisible chains stretched out from the void, locking onto Lusa's path. Then, the girl lightly pressed her hand on the blade, her body slowly spinning with her dress, wielding the blade like a dance. The graceful arcs swirled and spread like a stream, easily severing Lusa in her astonished and surprised gaze.

Why did my eye technique fail?

Why was she able to improve so quickly?

Why……

Her body rose gently, then fell, plummeting like a dead moth.

After one of them fell, the magic circle in the hall shimmered with light, and wisps of red light outlined the scene, quickly draining the still-breathing Lusa dry. This bizarre scene astonished Hilti. She had originally wanted to save Lusa's life and take the opportunity to ask some questions, but in the blink of an eye, the other party had become a dried corpse. This scene was far too horrifying.

Moreover, the entire ritual seemed to be activated, with wisps of red light beginning to envelop her body, attempting to integrate the power she had just absorbed from Lusa into her own.

The influx of this sexual energy made Hiltiya extremely uncomfortable, because the condensation of this sexual energy carried a lot of alien feeling, and besides, she did not lack this part of the power.

Hilti's resistance brought the ceremony to a standstill, causing the statues in the hall to tremble.

As the girl once again tried to evade the influx of this power, the statue shattered violently, and a giant worm crawled out from it. It raised its head, opened its wriggling mouthparts, and directly absorbed the power flowing in the magic circle into its body, then expanded further.

Soon, the strange insect settled on the ground, wrapped itself in its silken sacs, and began to nurture a new and unknown life.

　I'm at the hospital again today, and I'll be there for the next week too. It'll be hard to add more updates then; I'll have to wait until the end of the month. 0 0/
　　
　
(End of this chapter)