"These are seeds? You're connected to the giants too?" After forcefully slashing Yusaha away, the dragoon pried the seeds that had struck his helmet and were deeply embedded in it off. At the same time, he glared fiercely at Lu Ming with the eyes on his head, which were now partially exposed from the protection of the somewhat shattered helmet.
"..." Lu Ming paused for a moment, then ignored the roar in the dragon rider's eyes and shouted to Lily and Yusaha, "Use the seed machine to shoot him in the head!"
After saying that, he took the lead and used the seed machine again, shooting it at the already shattered helmet of the dragon rider.
Seeing this, the Dragoon immediately used the large shield on his left hand to block Lu Ming's seed machine. However, while he could block Lu Ming's seed machine, he couldn't block the seed machines fired from other directions by Lily and Yusaha.
Although their Seed Machines weren't as capable of shattering the Dragoon's helmet as Lu Ming's Level 5 Seed Machine, they were more than enough to attack helmets that had already been cracked by Lu Ming's Seed Machine.
With just one seed machine per person, the Dragoon was knocked to the ground, blood continuously flowing from his helmet.
"You forced me to do this!" The wounded dragon rider roared, then ripped open his helmet, revealing his face riddled with holes from the seed machine.
He opened his mouth wide, gathering the glow of the setting sun into it, forming an energy ball that shimmered with silvery-white light!
"Raster Cannon!!" After a roar, the Dragoon spat out an energy ball from its mouth and shot it toward Lu Ming.
Because the energy ball was moving too fast, Lu Ming didn't have time to dodge, and the others couldn't come to his rescue in time. Left with no other choice, Lu Ming mustered his courage and forcefully struck the energy ball with his reflective Hyde Straight Sword!
In an instant, the energy ball exploded, blasting Lu Ming away. He crashed heavily into the wall and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The Hyde Straight Sword, which he had just acquired and hadn't even warmed up yet, shattered into pieces and was blown out of the room's window by the shockwave of the explosion.
Lu Ming, who had never suffered such severe injuries before, struggled to his feet, using the cracked wall he had crashed into as support. Without thinking, he immediately gulped down an elemental vial, healing most of his wounds. However, Lu Ming believed that if this were a game, he would still only have half his health left and wouldn't be fully recovered.
At this moment, Lu Ming, who had never had any murderous intent and had been playing the game all the way, showed a strong killing intent for the first time!
"You're clearly not an immortal, yet you possess immortal treasures... Just who are you...?" The dragon rider, panting from using the grating cannon, asked in confusion as he watched Lu Ming finish a bottle of elemental vials.
But before he could even voice his problem, he was completely overwhelmed by Lu Ming's barrage of seed-generating attacks!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yusahar and Fren acted together, inserting Hyde's straight sword into the gaps in the dragoon's arm armor and severing both of the dragoon's arms!
At that moment, Lu Ming rushed over with the Sage's Candlestick in his hand and plunged it into the dragon rider's forehead, piercing through the dragon rider's entire head.
"Hahahahaha~~!!" The dragon rider, whose aura was growing weaker and weaker, suddenly burst into laughter. He glared at Lu Ming and said with a smile, "You're very strong, but you're not strong enough to challenge him yet!"
After saying this, he vanished without a trace, laughing, just like the ancient knights. He left behind only two silver-white skill books with identical covers.
"..." Lu Ming, who was killing someone for the first time, silently picked up one of the two skill books, while Yusaha picked up the other one.
Just like the skill book from the Seed Machine, the moment she picked up the silvery-white skill book, it transformed into light and struck Yusaha's throat, reliving that intense pain once more. The pain didn't subside until a second later.
Meanwhile, Lu Ming remained silent for a moment before shaking his head vigorously, banishing the guilt of killing someone from his mind. After all, he had transmigrated to another world, where war, slaughter, and intrigue were still the norm! To survive, he had to learn these things...
"Let's go." Like Yusaha, Lu Ming also used the skill book. However, after the excruciating pain, he pointed to the exit directly opposite the entrance to the room.
Knowing that Lu Ming might be having a hard time, the group remained silent and followed him up the stairs outside the room to the empty second floor, where Yusaha lit the bonfire.
As they sat by the campfire, healing their wounds and replenishing their mana, they suddenly lost consciousness.
"They've left? Hmph! Interesting!" Reborn from the campfire, the dragon rider glanced at the second floor, which was as empty as before, smiled slightly, and returned to his room.
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Hahaha, Eldridge, you've finally met your match! How did it feel to be hacked to pieces by me? This is karma for eating a cross-dresser! Also, please (^_^)
Chapter Twelve - Conspiracy (Seeking Recommendations)
"Metallic Sound: Uses a special organ in the throat to produce a piercing metallic friction sound to reduce other people's magic resistance."
Legend has it that this magic was accidentally created by Adil while researching the combat abilities of Kokodora. However, some say that this magic was originally Kokodora's own skill, and Adil simply copied it onto the undead.
Mana cost: 5
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"Can you get off me?" Having just exited the dungeon and not yet fully awake, Lu Ming heard Yusaha, who was pinned beneath him, say something that sounded both annoyed and shy.
"Sorry!" Lu Ming jumped up immediately, feeling embarrassed, and reached out to help Yusaha, who was disheveled, to his feet.
Immediately afterward, Lu Ming sensed the dark aura emanating from Lily. He subconsciously turned around and saw Lily's dark smile. He couldn't help but swallow and give a wry smile.
Meanwhile, Nezha the spirit Dex was explaining to his wife where he had gone.
But......
Have you left?
Dex's wife's rhetorical question startled everyone.
Lu Ming hurriedly took out his phone to check the time and found that their nearly 40-minute battle in the dungeon was less than a second in the real world!
"Is time slowed down here, or is time stopped like in Dolangreg and Rodland?" Lu Ming muttered to himself as he checked his phone.
However, although his mutterings surprised Dex and the other people or elves who had been tricked along with him, they weren't as eager to find answers as Lu Ming. It was the God of Magic—a god who was originally high and mighty, but now seemed somewhat unreliable—who had brought them to the Tower of Hyde's Great Fire. The power of gods is always so unimaginable!
After reviewing all the information and finding nothing new, Lu Ming had no choice but to give up on finding any clues on his phone.
"..." Seeing Lu Ming frowning as he looked at his phone, Yusaha paused for a moment before saying to Lily, "If you're moving, how about coming to Paris City with us? After all, none of you know when the God of Magic will teleport you away again. What if the person you're teleported with is a bad guy?"
"You guys just want to smear me..."
“Okay, that’s where I want to go too.” Lily agreed without waiting for Lu Ming to refuse.
"Hehe!" Yusaha smiled slyly at the somewhat dumbfounded Lu Ming, and then left with Furen with the equipment they had obtained.
Now that things have come to this, Lu Ming knows that there's no point in saying anything more, and Lily is also determined to go with Yusaha and the others.
Lu Ming, somewhat angry, didn't believe Yusaha harbored any goodwill towards him and Lily. Because of personal grudges, Lu Ming subconsciously imagined Yusaha as a terrible woman, an arrogant noblewoman. He failed to notice the possible story between Lily and Yusaha...
"..." He glanced at Lily, who had already made her decision. Because he had personally killed a dragon rider who was different from a zombie, capable of speaking and possessing its own consciousness, Lu Ming was in a bad mood. He took Dex outside the village. Wanting to calm down, he began torment the magical rabbits outside the village.
"Didn't you say you wanted to become a nobleman? How come you're throwing a tantrum now that your wife has decided where you're moving?" Sitting on the grass, Dex sipped his apple soda and laughed at Lu Ming, who was shooting at the Magic Rabbit with a seed machine.
“That’s not why I’m angry! I’m angry because she agreed to that Yusaha!”
"That's how nobles are! One moment they're enemies, the next they're allies. You should get used to it, otherwise what will you do when you become a noble yourself?"
Lu Ming held his phone, collecting the pitiful little rabbits that had been killed one by one into his inventory. Then he looked at Dexter and said, "One moment they're enemies, the next they're allies. And vice versa. One moment an ally might stab you in the back the next!"
"...Alright. But what are you planning to do? Force Lily to go to other cities? Like a cowardly mouse, hiding here and there?"
"No! Lily said we'd go to Paris, so we'll go to Paris. If we don't go, like you said, it's because I'm a coward!"
"You, you~"
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That evening, while Lu Ming and Lily were packing their bags and preparing for their move the next day, Yusaha, Fren, and the tax collector Amani were all at the village chief's house, watching the village chief, wearing glasses, carefully inspect the three Hyde straight swords on the table.
"Based on my sixty or seventy years of experience, these three straight swords would be worth at least 5000 gold coins in the royal city. If auctioned, they could potentially fetch tens of thousands of gold coins! However, these three straight swords are exactly the same, from the patterns on the blades to the craftsmanship, quenching techniques, and time! This could easily lead others to believe they are mass-produced goods, causing their prices to drop!"
"Old man! Do you think dragon scales are easy to get?" Furen, who was initially quite happy to hear that there was a lot of money, became furious when he heard the village chief's next words. He grabbed the village chief by the collar and shouted angrily.
"You think you can just call them dragon scales? Those who buy them won't believe it! In their eyes, these are just three unknown ancient enchanted weapons, worth at most 1000 gold coins!"
Furen gritted his teeth and released the village chief. Although somewhat unwilling, the village chief was right; the price of an ordinary enchanted weapon was 1000 gold coins. Even some seemingly unremarkable treasures, which were actually divine artifacts, were being sold off for as little as 10 gold coins each because their functions were unclear.
“We can’t possibly raise enough money to open a magic academy with just these three straight swords.” Yusaha picked up one of the three Hyde straight swords on the table and gently stroked the blade as he said to the others, “However, thanks to Lu Ming’s relationship with the God of Magic, I think we have plenty of opportunities to get much more good stuff! Then we might be able to get enough money.”
“But, Yusaha, do you think he’ll let you do this?” Tax collector Amani frowned, subconsciously slandering Lu Ming: “You know that guy is just a lowly and despicable commoner. Once he gets the chance, he’ll definitely kick you two siblings aside!”
"So, you want to kill him? Kill a magic apprentice whom even gods treat with respect?"
"No, I didn't say that!"
“I know you resent him because you lost to him. But Amani, you yourself said that he is extremely important to our magic academy! Putting aside his understanding of soul magic, just his relationship with the God of Magic alone means we cannot and dare not attack him! Do you understand, Amani?”
"Yes, I understand..."
Yusaha glanced at the tax collector Amani with a puzzled look, then took a Hyde straight sword and returned to the guest room the village chief had prepared for her: "I'm tired, you should all get some rest too, we have to travel back to Paris City tomorrow!"
Seeing this, Yusahar's brother, Furen, also returned to his guest room with a Hyde straight sword.
After Yusaha and Fren left, Amani looked at the Hyde Straight Sword that the siblings had left him, and his expression slowly turned somewhat gloomy.
"When do you think Yusaha will turn into a monster like Lotus Helas?" After a long while, Amani smiled darkly and asked the village chief beside him.
The village chief also gave a gloomy smile, then replied respectfully, "It won't be long! The curse we summoned from another world is no simple thing. Besides, Yusaha and Furen didn't mention the curse, did they? It's conceivable that they don't know that this curse and soul magic come from the same place. Or rather, they know that this curse simply cannot be lifted!"
Hearing the village chief's words, Amani smiled slightly, then picked up the Hyde Straight Sword left behind by the Sachi siblings and walked back to his room. As he passed the village chief, he whispered a command: "After Lily Helas leaves, you must continue the summoning ritual. And you must summon the magician from that world! Otherwise, do not stop!"
"Yes, Your Highness! I will definitely complete the mission successfully!"
"Very good! Once I establish the magic academy and prove to Father that I am stronger than his so-called children, you and your grandson will definitely be promoted!"
"Thank you, Your Highness! Thank you, Your Highness!"
"Do a good job!" Amani patted the village chief on the shoulder and then quickly left.
He didn't realize that the village chief's gaze as he looked at his back was just as cold and menacing as the way he looked at the Sachi siblings' backs!
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Looking at the patched and tattered clothes that Lily had stuffed into a worn-out little box, Lu Ming imagined a girl living alone in an environment where everyone disliked her. He couldn't help but feel sorry for Lily and sympathize with her.
At this moment, Lily stuffed the last piece of clothing into the box, then walked over step by step, took Lu Ming's hand, and lay down on the bed that temporarily belonged to the two of them.
"You must be quite troubled by this kind of martial arts contest to find a husband, right?"
Why do you say that?
"You've made enemies with several nobles because of me, a woman you don't even know. Isn't that troublesome?"
"This is my own decision, you don't need to think like that."
"You two-faced bastard!" Lily chuckled, snuggling into Lu Ming's arms, making his face involuntarily flush red.
Lu Ming awkwardly stretched out his hands, unsure whether he should put them on Lily's shoulders. After all, they had only known each other for two or three days, and even as a modern person, Lu Ming found it somewhat unacceptable that they were acting like this.
But Lily suddenly grabbed Lu Ming's hand and made him put his arm around her.
"Shy rascal!"
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By the way, after cutting down the dancer, isn't it time for the dragon hunter armor? Oh, and I'd like to know more (^_^)
Chapter Thirteen - The Walking Grass on Hercules' Path
After daybreak, Lu Ming, Lily, the Dex family, and the Sachi siblings who had abandoned the two knights left Helas Village. Neither Lily nor the Dex family looked back at this village that left them with such a bad impression.
Soon, Lu Ming and the others arrived at the lake where Lu Ming had been chased by the Demon Rabbit and accidentally fallen in.
Looking at the willow tree that had stood tall on the opposite bank of the lake but had now been knocked down by something, and the countless corpses of the demon rabbits beside it, Lu Ming felt an indescribable feeling that made him miss home.
"What happened to that tree?" Seeing Lu Ming looking at a fallen willow tree on the other side of the lake, Dex couldn't help but look over there as well.
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