She was being hunted down, so she became a magical girl.

The cult leader is still alive?

Xu Ting stared at the fallen cult leader with suspicion and uncertainty, certain that the other party no longer showed any vital signs.

Even the scan results from the magic ball showed the same thing: the cult leader had stopped breathing and there was no heartbeat or pulse.

From a biological perspective, the cult leader at this moment is undoubtedly a corpse.

but......

"Evil beasts are monsters created by evil gods from beyond the realm, and they cannot be viewed with the eyes of normal creatures."

Xu Ting recalled what the crow had said earlier.

Because of his extensive experience in killing, Xu Ting subconsciously applied his past experiences to the present, which was undoubtedly a major mistake.

To make up for this mistake, Xu Ting increased the amount of magic he poured into the saber.

A single slash!

Click!

A clean, crisp cutting sound came from under the military knife, leaving a deep cut on the cult leader's body.

This cut was deeper than the previous one, almost piercing through the cult leader's chest and back.

The saber was stained purple by the liquid inside the instructor's body. Xu Ting flicked it forcefully, sending the liquid aside.

"Shouldn't this attack kill him?"

"No," the crow shattered Xu Ting's illusion. "The spatial distortion still exists; he must be alive."

"Then how can I kill him?" Xu Ting asked, troubled. "How did the other magical girls do it?"

"Evil beasts basically have their own mechanisms. You need to observe, analyze, and decipher them before you can eliminate them."

"Unless you are powerful enough to ignore the mechanics and violently destroy it, this is all you can do."

After hearing the crow's guidance, Xu Ting recalled the scene from earlier.

What is the mechanism of a cult leader, or rather, what are the abilities of a cult leader?

There is no doubt that his abilities are related to flesh and blood, as evidenced by his regenerating tentacles and his apparent thirst for flesh and blood.

Is the cult leader's regenerative ability unlimited?

It can't be infinite. If any random evil beast had infinite regeneration abilities, magical girls might as well just surrender.

Moreover, the cult leader could only regenerate the tentacles; he couldn't heal the injuries to the torso...

Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed through Xu Ting's mind.

"I've got it!"

She said to the crow with some excitement, "When I cut the tentacles, purple sap spurted out of the wounds, and the tentacles can regenerate at will."

"When the torso was cut, red blood flowed from the wound. After that, the cult leader was devastated and never launched a counterattack against me again."

"Blood is the key."

"Cut off all the parts that bleed when you cut them, and you can take down the cult leader."

Then, she swiftly chopped the cult leader's corpse into pieces.

"Look, the knife is covered in purple liquid now, which means all that's left here is a pile of rotten flesh. No matter how many times you cut it, you can't kill the cult leader."

To use a metaphor from the game, the cult leader is the BOSS, and the part that splatters purple liquid is just his summoned creature; the part with blood is his true form.

Defeating any number of summoned creatures won't end the boss battle; you have to attack the main body to deplete the boss's health bar.

Crow gave a positive evaluation of Xu Ting's analysis.

"Your analysis makes some sense. I once encountered a parasitic evil beast, and you had to destroy its spores to completely eliminate it; simply attacking its derived physical body was useless."

"But here's the problem."

"Where can we find the cult leader's blood?"

This problem did not stump Xu Ting.

"First of all, you can find it on the ground."

Xu Ting walked a few steps on the high platform and found a pool of wriggling blood on the ground.

It was the blood left when Xu Ting pierced the cult leader's palm. After the cult leader transformed into an evil beast, it was revitalized and is now secretly wriggling towards the broken-boned corpse not far away.

After being discovered by Xu Ting, it no longer concealed itself, leaped up, and flew toward the corpse in a bizarre manner, like a mouthful of bloody phlegm that had been spat out.

Unfortunately, it was still a step behind Xu Ting.

brush.

The saber cut it off halfway.

After being severed by the magically imbued military knife, the blood could no longer maintain its form, turning into a blood mist in the air and quickly disappearing into nothingness.

"Has the space distortion problem been resolved?" Xu Ting asked.

"not yet."

It seems the cult leader has blood hidden elsewhere.

Xu Ting turned around, looked at Luo Ruoshan who was supporting his sister, and asked:

"Did the cult leader put his blood anywhere?"

This question left Luo Ruoshan completely bewildered, but although the young man wasn't very capable, he was still quite obedient.

He racked his brains trying to recall his memories, then answered uncertainly:

"There should be the cult leader's blood on the altar."

Xu Ting quickly looked at the altar, but saw nothing.

"Are you sure? There's nothing on the altar."

As Xu Ting spoke, he walked towards Luo Ruoshan.

"I...I know where there's still blood."

To Xu Ting's surprise, it was Luo Ruolan, who was trembling, who answered her at this moment.

She was the second person after Luo Ruoshan to be controlled by the Eye of Fear, and also the one who was most deeply trapped in fear.

She was terrified by the Eye of Fear and cried, lying on the ground frantically shouting "I'm sorry!"

Even after Xu Ting returned empty-handed from the dark corridor for the second time, she remained lying in the same spot, looking as if she had almost scared herself to death.

Considering that she was, after all, Luo Ruowei's younger sister, Xu Ting withdrew his order for her to lie down, slightly reducing the effect of the Eye of Fear.

As a result, Luo Ruolan was freed from the mechanical state controlled by the Eye of Fear.

However, since she had already submitted to Xu Ting, she still could not disobey Xu Ting's orders. When the cult leader rushed out of the corridor, she obeyed Xu Ting's orders and fled to the other side of the basement.

At this moment, she stood anxiously in the crowd.

"Tell me what you know," Xu Ting commanded.

"Master... every time that monster performs a ritual, he cuts open his body and lets his blood flow onto the participants."

"The blood on the altar may have flowed down the grooves into the sewers."

"Impossible," the crow said, rejecting Luo Ruolan's conjecture.

"The spatial distortion is generated around the body of the evil beast. If the blood flowed into the sewers, the current range of spatial distortion should be even larger."

Compared to Luo Ruolan, Xu Ting naturally trusted the crow's judgment more.

"Forget about the sewers." Xu Ting walked up to Luo Ruolan and coldly ordered, "Tell me any other places you can think of where the cult leader's blood might be."

Luo Ruolan's body trembled.

She tried to hold back the tears welling up in her eyes, and said tremblingly, "Maybe it's on the other participants in the ceremony?"

Other participants in the ceremony?

Xu Ting felt a chill run down her spine. She turned her head sharply to look at the figure at the basement door.

"You really have 'come back to life'... That's not funny."

After Luo Ruolan exposed the fake "viper" at the door, it stopped trying to hide. Tiny purple tentacles grew rapidly from the viper's corpse, piercing into the shell of the automated robot and repairing the fake "viper's" broken body.

Then, tentacles identical to those on the cult leader's body grew from the corpse, and a monster composed of corpse, machinery, and tentacles rose from the ground.

"Flesh and blood...though not fresh, it's still flesh and blood!"

A voice that sounded like both a cult leader and a viper came from the monster's mouth.

"Ah, how delicious! But I still crave more. This amount of flesh and blood is far from enough, far from enough!"

The monster took a step forward, its tentacles leaving several purple trails on the ground.

"I want your flesh and blood, to devour you, to devour you, to devour you, to devour you who is a magical girl; to devour you who ruined my ritual; to devour you who killed me; to devour you who destroyed me and my life—"

"Xu Ting, I'm going to eat you up!"