"Fine Snow!" After dodging a soul spear, Lu Ming rushed forward in a few steps and spat out a mouthful of fine snow, freezing the magic robe on the crystal elder's body and making its movements stiff.
With the idea of striking while the iron is hot, Lu Ming used Seed Machine Gun the instant the Snowfall skill ended!
"Demon Leaf Slash!" Just like before, the Crystal Elder released leaves wrapped in soul magic to block the seeds of Lu Ming's seed machine gun.
But at that moment, Yusahar had already rushed to its side with the Dark Sword, Dex fired a series of arrows, and Lily, who had just recovered from her injuries, picked up the Hyde Straight Sword again and charged towards it.
"Cough~!!" Two sharp swords pierced his body, and a series of arrows pierced his flesh, causing the Crystal Elder to cough up a mouthful of foul blood!
"Did we win?" All three attacks landed, and Lily's Hyde Straight Sword even pierced the Crystal Elder's heart! Everyone instinctively thought they had won. But...
"Interesting! But the real trial is yet to come!" The Crystallizer suddenly transformed into a pile of leaves and disappeared into the ground, leaving behind a trail of crystals.
"What's going on?" Yusaha and the others, unaware of the truth, looked at Lu Ming.
"Prepare for the second form of the battle! It can now create clones!"
As if to prove that Lu Ming's words were true, several crystal elders emerged from the ground as soon as Lu Ming finished speaking.
"How are we supposed to fight this?!" Dex shouted in terror as he looked at the crystal elders who had suddenly multiplied to the same number as him.
“The fake ones are easy to kill! Just be careful!” Lu Ming replied while dodging a phantom’s soul spear and killing another phantom with the Sage’s Candlestick.
Having received instructions, the group quickly began to kill the illusory clones of the Crystal Elder.
But perhaps due to bad luck, Lily ended up facing the Crystal Elder in his true form!
Fortunately, due to the presence of his clones and his severe injuries, the Crystal Elder was not as powerful as before. Moreover, Lu Ming, who had just killed one of the phantom clones as soon as it appeared, was not far from her.
Even if the Crystal Elder wanted to attack Lily, he would be interrupted by Lu Ming's Seed Machine Gun, and then Lily would strike him with a sword.
Perhaps realizing that things couldn't continue like this, the old man with the crystals raised the crystal ball and loudly chanted a spell. A large crystal shot out from the crystal ball and crashed towards Lu Ming and Lily.
Seeing this, Lu Ming immediately pulled Lily away from the crystal's attacks. However, under the Crystal Elder's relentless barrage of crystal attacks, Lu Ming and Lily were unable to retaliate. Meanwhile, in the distance, Dex was comfortably piercing the Crystal Elder's body with arrow after arrow.
Dex's actions immediately enraged the Crystal Elder, causing it and its phantom clones to unleash a barrage of soul spears at Dex, forcing the massive Dex to perform some kind of strange dance.
Focusing fire on Dex might prevent him from continuing to shoot arrows at himself, but it would also give Lu Ming and others, who pose a greater threat, an opportunity to attack.
Lu Ming's fine snow, Lily's and Yusaha's sharp swords all unleashed their power on the Crystal Elder, forcing him to retreat repeatedly and preventing him from continuing to focus his attacks on Dex. Furthermore, they left numerous wounds on his body.
Blood flowed from the wound, dripping onto the ground and staining the ruins red.
The crystalline elder, who had been slashed extensively by Lily and Yusaha's swords, suddenly drew his crystalline rapier, swung it forcefully, and sent the two women flying. He then swiftly tossed the crystal ball into the air, sneered, and said, "Soul Frost!"
In an instant, countless tiny soul arrows shot out from the crystal ball, falling like raindrops and snowflakes.
"Oh no! Everyone, watch out for those soul arrows!" Lu Ming, who was locked in combat with the Crystal Elder, was horrified when he saw the rain of soul arrows and immediately shouted to the others.
Unfortunately, he was too late.
Endless arrows of soul rained down from above, not a torrential downpour, but more like a drizzle, leaving Yusaha and the others with no way to dodge, and all were struck by the soul frost to varying degrees. Although these soul arrows were not very powerful, they left countless wounds on their bodies! Some were even nearly rendered unable to fight!
"Now, it's just the two of us left! Lu Ming of the Undead Squad!" The Crystal Elder abandoned the crystal ball, letting one arm hang down, and carrying a crystal rapier, he walked step by step toward Lu Ming. His aura became sharp, like the howling of a frosty north wind.
Before Lu Ming could speak, the old man with the crystallized sword slashed down, heavily striking Lu Ming.
To be honest, Lu Ming couldn't even see the Crystal Elder's slash clearly because it was just too fast.
But just as the crystal slender sword was about to strike, Lu Ming's survival instinct made him instinctively roll to the side, narrowly avoiding being cleaved in two.
But is the Crystallizer Elder's Crystal Rapier really only capable of this much? The answer is no!
The moment the crystal slender sword touched the ground, countless crystals spread out from it, wildly extending their claws and fangs, transforming into a crystalline thicket!
Even though Lu Ming dodged the slashes of the crystal slender sword, he couldn't avoid the crystal attacks. Countless wounds were immediately pierced by the crystals, and blood quickly stained his clothes red.
That wasn't the worst part! The worst part was that Lu Ming's legs also crystallized due to the Crystallizing Elder's attack!
Unable to dodge the attack or charge forward, he could only stand there, helplessly watching the old man with crystallized skin approach step by step, slowly raising his crystallized rapier, preparing to pierce him with a thrust.
Lu Ming felt somewhat desperate.
But he didn't give up!
The instant the Crystal Elder thrust out his crystal rapier, Lu Ming forcefully deflected the attack with the Sage's Candlestick. He then drew an ordinary Peheim's Staff, condensing his remaining mana into a soul sword at its tip, and pierced the Crystal Elder's head beneath his enormous hat. Even the hat was pierced!
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Chapter Twenty - A Bountiful Victory (Seeking Recommendations and Followers)
After the Franz Sword disappeared, the Crystal Elder knelt down in front of Lu Ming, his huge hands supporting Lu Ming's shoulders to prevent himself from collapsing completely.
It whispered in Lu Ming's ear with a laugh, "Lu Ming, you succeeded. Congratulations on returning to the Immortal Team..."
After saying that, it turned into a bubble of soul and disappeared.
At this moment, the crystals in the ruins also disappeared with the death of the Crystallizer. Even those that crystallized Lu Ming's legs did the same.
"Ha~ha~ha~" After finally defeating the Crystal Elder who had held back, Lu Ming knelt on the ground, panting heavily. Looking at the Sage's Candlestick in his hand, which had a chipped edge from colliding with the Crystal Sword, Lu Ming felt a sense of relief, as if he had escaped a calamity.
After catching his breath, Lu Ming struggled to his feet, picked up the crystal slender sword left behind by the old man, and walked with some difficulty to Yusaha. He helped her up and they walked together toward a campfire that had suddenly appeared after the old man's death.
The Yusaha hand was placed above the campfire, and the fire was immediately lit.
After dragging everyone one by one to the campfire for healing, Lu Ming became so exhausted that he lost consciousness. Soon after, the others also lost consciousness.
A few minutes later, the campfire in the deserted ruins suddenly went out, turning into leaves that fluttered in the air and eventually gathered together to form a magician wearing a black robe and a huge hat.
"Gone? Heh."
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After losing consciousness, Lu Ming and the others quickly regained consciousness.
Because they had already posed before teleporting, nothing too awkward happened when they returned. But Lu Ming... sigh! Still the same. This time, he still ended up in Yusaha's arms, while Yusaha was holding Lily. That was really awkward.
Lu Ming, who had just woken up amidst the mocking gazes of the crowd, hurriedly ran away with Yusaha and Lily to avoid being called a scumbag by these people.
Back at the inn where he stayed yesterday, Lu Ming sat on a chair in his room, looking through the loot from this dungeon run, while Lily and Yusaha went to take a shower.
"What is this thing? Why did it suddenly appear in my inventory?" When Lu Ming checked his inventory, he found that in addition to the newly acquired Peheim Magic Staff, a set of Black Knight Armor, and the Crystal Elder's Crystal Rapier, he had also obtained a strange item.
It was a transparent sphere containing a small amount of red liquid, which appeared to be blood or something similar. However, what puzzled Lu Ming was that the system hadn't provided any information about its sudden appearance. Even the item description only listed its name: [Wolf Blood].
After much thought, Lu Ming finally concluded that it must have been given to him by the Crystal Elder. After all, he had lied to the Crystal Elder during their fight, claiming to be a member of the Undead Legion. He had challenged the Crystal Elder in order to rejoin the Undead Legion.
However, looking at the [Wolf Blood] in his inventory, Lu Ming was unsure whether he should use it. But thinking about the duel tomorrow evening, he resolutely clicked to use it.
Then, Lu Ming felt a surge of heat flowing through his body and realized that he had become a little stronger.
And his current attributes have also changed.
Name: Lu Ming
Sex: Male
Race: Human (1% Wolf Blood)
Rating: 5
Experience required to reach the next level: 268
Stamina: 12
Power: 14
Agility: 12
Intelligence: 18
Spirit: 15
Mana: 120
Affiliation: Farron Undead Legion
System evaluation: A powerful magic apprentice from the Undead Legion.
"All attributes increased by 5, and my mana doubled! Wow! How is this stuff so powerful?" Lu Ming was quite surprised as he looked at his attribute panel. However, he quickly became puzzled by the two newly appeared attribute panels: "What's with the 'temporary' in parentheses after race changing to '1% Wolf Blood'? Also, what's with this 'affiliated faction' thing? Does saying I'm part of the Undead Squad really make me part of the Undead Squad? Or is it because of this Wolf Blood thing?"
While wondering what was going on, Lu Ming opened the skill menu. And what he saw there surprised him once again! Outside the giant Pokémon skill tree, three individual skills had appeared. These were Farron Rapier and Farron Short Arrow, learned using scrolls, and a skill that appeared for no apparent reason: Crystal Elder's Soul Frost!
"Soul Frost of the Crystal Elder: A summoning spell obtained by defeating the Crystal Elder. It can summon a phantom of the Crystal Elder to use Soul Frost."
Mana cost 85
Like the Farron Quicksword and Farron Short Arrow, the Crystal Elder's Soul Frost cannot be enhanced with skill points, nor can it be upgraded by reaching a certain number of uses; its power can only be increased by Intelligence.
At first glance, it does seem like a good skill, but compared to the skills of Pokémon, this skill is really a rip-off!
It's important to know that the higher a Pokémon's move level, the greater its attack power. These three moves only become truly powerful when the Intelligence stat is high, and since Intelligence stats are less effective than move level stats now, these three moves are basically relegated to the sidelines!
However, since he didn't know how powerful the Crystal Elder's Soul Frost was, Lu Ming felt it was better not to kill this skill along with the two skills from the Fran series.
Just as Lu Ming was feeling happy and puzzled about what he had obtained from this dungeon, Lily and Yusaha, who had just finished showering, came out of the bathroom in the room.
Lu Ming was completely captivated by their appearance at first glance. Their alluring bodies were covered only by bath towels; they were completely naked!
Lily's blonde hair and Yusaha's black hair, soaked and clinging to their fair skin, looked incredibly alluring under the room's lights. Not to mention their strikingly beautiful faces—one youthful and radiant, the other noble and stunning!
"Lily...Lily...Lily, Yu...Yusaha, what is this...?" Lu Ming, a lifelong bachelor, had never seen such a scene before, and he was so flustered that he could hardly speak.
Yusaha rolled his eyes at the nervous Lu Ming, then slowly walked over to him, pulled him onto the bed, and said with a smile, "Tomorrow you'll be dueling Viscount Hatu. So, to encourage you and to reward your heroic performance today, Lily and I have decided to give ourselves to you!"
Hearing Yusaha's whisper in his ear, Lu Ming swallowed hard, asking incredulously, "Lily is my fiancée, there's nothing wrong with doing this. But you..."
Yusaha interrupted him, untying her towel to completely expose herself to Lu Ming, and then pounced on him, saying, "Because I'm also the fiancée you won in the martial arts contest!"
"Eh~!!" Lu Ming, completely bewildered by Yusaha's meaning, was utterly shocked. He couldn't understand how he had ever participated in Yusaha's martial arts contest to find a husband... Wait! It must have been the time he fought Yusaha that day. The platform where that fight took place was the very same platform where Lily held her martial arts contest to find a husband.
"Have you thought it through? Then come and pamper us properly!" Seeing a hint of understanding flash across Lu Ming's face, Yusaha and Lily immediately stripped Lu Ming of his clothes. Then they wrapped the three of them in a large quilt.
"You two threw yourselves into my arms, don't regret it later!" Seeing Yusaha and Lily so proactive, Lu Ming, whose heart was already itching with desire, wouldn't say anything more. He immediately turned around and pinned Yusaha down...
We slept together under the same quilt, our spring conversations unspoken.
After several rounds of intercourse, Lu Ming and the other two fell asleep late at night.
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The next morning, Lu Ming got up early to prepare for the duel that night. Yusaha and Lily, who were not in the mood for it, also got up to help.
Looking at Yusaha and Lily, who were walking somewhat unsteadily, Lu Ming awkwardly touched his nose and remained silent. The fact that they were behaving this way was naturally his fault.
If you do something wrong, you have to take responsibility. So, until Yusaha and Lily recover, Lu Ming doesn't have any other plans for the time being.
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