The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

Hearing Lu Ming's response, the prisoner became even more uneasy. He couldn't help but look at Lothric, hoping he could give him a glimmer of hope.

Unfortunately, Lothric chose to add fuel to the fire at this point.

Without turning his head, he said, "I know teleportation magic. I can escape this area the instant he begins his divine descent. So, good luck to you!"

Upon hearing this, the prisoner nearly burst into tears. However, since the guy who ate the Dark Elf was likely targeting her first, all she could do now, besides trembling in the cell, was work with Lu Ming to kill him first.

Of course, judging from that guy's strength before, she was only able to barely repel him. Now, besides herself, she also has Lu Ming and Lothric, two powerful figures, so defeating that guy should be a piece of cake, right?

The prisoner walked behind Lu Ming and his companion, imagining with great enthusiasm and optimism the scene of himself and Lu Ming beating up that guy.

Perhaps sensing the prisoner's thoughts, Lu Ming slightly turned his head, glanced at the prisoner, smiled faintly, and said, "After we kill that guy, I will explain things to the Shadow Church on your behalf."

"Really!?"

"of course."

"Then I will never eat the souls of Dark Elves and other intelligent races like humans again!" Upon hearing that Lu Ming really wanted to plead for him with the Shadow Church, the prisoner immediately laughed with great joy.

But just then, an Elf from the distant mountains suddenly emerged from a cave, sneering at the prisoner, "What's the point of that? When you eat, you should eat while listening to his screams!"

"Eldridge!" Upon seeing the Elf, Lu Ming immediately drew his straight sword and looked at him warily.

Meanwhile, Lothric and the prisoner began casting spells, preparing to cooperate with Lu Ming to blast this guy to death!

"I didn't expect you to be here too. If I had known this would happen, why would I have gone through all that trouble to find this Dark Elf? Aren't you the best supplement?" Eldridge sneered when he saw Lu Ming there, and with his staff that looked like a sword or spear, he charged at Lu Ming.

As Eldridge approached, he fired a large number of blue magic projectiles, which floated and shot towards Lu Ming.

Seeing this, Lu Ming narrowed his eyes and swung the Aries Staff in his left hand with force, unleashing a rain of Farron arrows that shattered most of the magic projectiles. Some of the Farron short arrows even pierced through Eldridge's magic, slicing through the night and heading straight for Eldridge.

If the deep blue magic projectiles were slow-moving stars, their sheer number unimaginable, then the Farron Arrow Rain was a raging meteor shower, swift and fierce.

Perhaps seeing that his magic bullets had not yielded any significant results, Aldrich stopped casting magic bullets for the final stretch and instead unleashed a series of deep blue moonlight soul spears that even Lu Ming and Lothric could only dodge but not disperse, leaving Lu Ming, Lothric, and the prisoners with little ability to retaliate.

but......

Just as Eldridge was a few steps away from him, Lu Ming suddenly lunged at him.

Lu Ming swung his right hand, and a cold, sharp light pierced the night, striking Aldrich's staff with a clang. Simultaneously, he forcefully thrust the Aries Staff into Aldrich's body, unleashing a barrage of Farron short arrows that riddled Aldrich's body with holes!

But after Eldridge was injured by Lu Ming's rain of arrows, he immediately turned into a lump of black mud, trying to envelop Lu Ming and devour him. Fortunately, Lu Ming had been prepared for this move, and the instant he melted into mud, he used his superhuman speed to retreat to a distance, leaving Eldridge empty-handed.

“Crimson Moonlight.” Standing not far away, Lu Ming murmured to himself. A crimson magic sword, seemingly exuding a bloody aura, condensed at the end of the Aries Staff, like some terrifying being, waiting to utterly shatter the enemy’s soul!

Upon seeing the magic that exuded such a terrifying aura, Eldridge, who had turned into mud, did not hesitate to transform back into the human form he used to disguise himself. He used his staff to unleash wave after wave of Moonlight Soul Spears and summoned many Corrupted Treants using the nature magic of the Elven Elves to block Lu Ming's advance.

However, the Moonlight Soul Spear, which had just forced Lu Ming to dodge, was now utterly useless against Lu Ming's magic sword, and the tree spirits corrupted by the profound magic were no match for Lu Ming at all.

The mere touch of the magic sword was enough to take away their corrupted lives.

Seeing this, Aldrich immediately conjured an arrow with magic, used his staff as a bow, and shot it into the clouds. The next moment, countless arrows rained down from the sky, falling on Lu Ming, Lothric, and the prisoner whom Aldrich had chosen as his prey...

Chapter Twenty - Destiny

The rain of arrows, as bright as moonlight, pierced through the thick clouds in the sky above Dark Aifa, falling together with the moonlight from the bright moon hidden behind the clouds, enveloping an area within a kilometer radius of Lu Ming and the others in the rain of arrows and moonlight.

The rain of arrows fell on the solid rocks, scattering sparks. Just a few seconds later, the rocky mountain could not withstand the bombardment of the arrows and began to crack and collapse inch by inch!

"Perhaps my abilities have been suppressed by the gods of the Elven race, but compared to you, I am still the predator, not the prey!" Standing on the only spot on the rocky mountain that hadn't collapsed due to the rain of arrows, Eldridge coldly looked at Lu Ming and the others buried by the collapsing rocks and sneered.

Then he slowly melted into black mud and rushed towards the place where Lu Ming and the others were buried, seemingly wanting to eat them all who were buried in the rubble!

But at that very moment, a crimson magical power suddenly emanated from the rubble, startling it away.

"They didn't die after all? Truly worthy of the new body I've chosen!" Reverting to her Elven form, she looked at the terrifying magical power emanating from the rubble with some surprise, and said with a cold laugh, "However, this is fine! After all, without screams to match the scene, the food wouldn't taste very good!"

"I'm afraid you might not get to eat today!" Suddenly, Lothric's words came from behind Eldridge, startling him.

Before Eldridge could turn around and attack, he heard a delicate shout.

"Supergravity field!"

As the delicate shout rang out, a magic circle appeared beneath Eldridge's feet. The gravity, more than ten times greater than anywhere else, suddenly appeared and crushed Eldridge into the magic circle, turning him into a black, mushy mess, leaving him no chance to maintain his human form.

At that moment, the pile of rubble was also blasted away by the scarlet magic!

Carrying the Aries Holy Staff, Lu Ming walked step by step out of the rubble pit where he had almost been buried. The magic power emanating from his body was absorbed into the magic sword that sprang from the amber eye at the top of the Holy Staff, instantly causing crystals to form on the magic sword, turning it into a crystal sword!

"Are you ready to atone for the sins of those you have devoured with your own death?" Looking down at Eldridge, who was crushed into a pulp by the prisoner's magic and unable to move, Lu Ming asked coldly.

Seeing Lu Ming's appearance, Eldridge couldn't help but burst into laughter.

He said, “Atony? I have no sins, why should I atone? Those children will die anyway, so why can’t I eat them? The outcome is the same anyway!”

As he spoke, a disgusting and dark magical power erupted from Eldridge's body, forcibly breaking through the prisoner's gravity magic and lunging towards Lu Ming.

"Now, let me eat it too!"

"Bloodthirsty New Moon!!" Just as Aldridge lunged at him, Lu Ming suddenly shouted, wielding the Aries Staff and slicing through Aldridge's muddy body with the crimson crystal sword. Simultaneously, the magic erupting from the crystal sword sent Aldridge, now cleaved into two heaps of black mud, flying!

The terrifying magical sword energy ripped through the night, pinning Eldridge to the rocky mountain and simultaneously blasting him and the mountain into pieces!

As the dust settled, Lothric suddenly appeared behind Lu Ming with the prisoners, looking at the ruins formed by the complete collapse of the rocky mountain, and asked, "Is he dead?"

"I'm not dead yet!"

Suddenly, black mud overflowed from the ruins formed by the collapse of the rocky mountain. The mud seeped out from the cracks in the rocks, then gathered together, transforming into the unharmed Eldridge.

Of course, appearing completely unharmed is only an illusion...

"This guy is really tough to deal with!" Looking at the elf that was transformed from black mud, the prisoner pointed at Xiu Mei and said somewhat uneasily.

“If this man-eating monster were easy to deal with, we wouldn’t have had to go through all this trouble!” Lothric sighed slightly.

"That's true."

Standing on the rubble, Lu Ming coldly stared at Eldridge. No matter what Lothric and the prisoners said, he felt nothing but fear. But it was precisely this fear that made him powerful, driving him to do everything in his power to kill Eldridge.

Memories of being eaten countless times, along with countless parallel worlds of his own being eaten, appeared in his mind, constantly deepening his fear and driving him insane.

We stand upright because of fear, we use weapons because of fear, and we gain magical powers because of fear. All progress originates from that deep-seated fear within our instincts!

"If this is destiny, then I choose to face it!" Taking a deep breath, Lu Ming squeezed out every bit of magic power from his body and poured it into the blood-red crystal sword, turning it into a huge greatsword and transforming the Aries Staff into a sword-spear radiating extremely ominous power!

"Ready to fight me to the death, Lu Ming?" Eldridge grinned savagely as he watched Lu Ming drain every last bit of magic from his body, roaring, "Too bad, you can't kill me! This is the conclusion drawn from countless worlds where you were devoured by me in those worlds! This is fate, so just let me eat you! Stop resisting!"

"Resist to the bitter end? Ha! I still have a trump card to play! Profound Saint!" With a cold laugh, Lu Ming let out a roar, then charged towards Elkrich with his sword and spear.

Upon hearing this, Eldridge immediately dismissed Lu Ming's words as mere bluster.

Therefore, when he saw Lu Ming charging towards him, he also grabbed the staff that was neither a knife nor a gun and attacked Lu Ming. Furthermore, flames erupted from his body and his weapon!

"So he's using the power of the Lord of Cinder? What a nuisance!" Seeing that Aldrich had used the power of the Lord of Cinder, Lothric couldn't help but sigh. He then began to attack Aldrich with the Lance of Light to support Lu Ming.

The prisoner glanced at Lothric, who was relentlessly unleashing his light spear, then at Lu Ming, who was wielding his sword and spear. He instinctively felt a dislike for this multi-against-one situation. However, remembering that if Aldrich won, he would surely devour him and Lu Ming, he began to support Lu Ming with elemental magic. He also used various spells related to gravity, attraction, and repulsion to interfere with Aldrich's movements, preventing him from fully engaging Lu Ming. Aldrich could only dodge their attacks while counterattacking with spells like Moonlight Soul Spear.

Perhaps feeling somewhat strained, after surviving an attack that nearly cleaved Lu Ming in two, Eldridge unhesitatingly summoned a swarm of humanoid figures that surged out from the shadows beneath Lu Ming and the others, frantically pulling them towards the abyss!

Although these things were somewhat vulnerable to Lu Ming and his companions, the sheer number of these black vengeful spirits was overwhelming, and they were incredibly troublesome. Several times, just as Lu Ming's crystal sword was about to strike Eldridge's head, these vengeful spirits would suddenly emerge from the shadows, grab Lu Ming's body, and scream, trying to drag him into the abyss. This rendered his attacks ineffective, forcing him to instead direct his sword and spear at these troublesome creatures to avoid being actually pulled into the abyss.

But at that moment, those humanoid figures suddenly lunged at Lu Ming and his companions in clumps of soul sediment, giving them a slight surprise.

The ghostly, deep blue-black monsters howled and pounced on Lu Ming and his companions. Their sheer number overwhelmed them.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Eldridge attacked Lu Ming, intending to use his staff, which resembled a knife or spear, to sever Lu Ming's hands and feet, so that he could swallow him whole and make his power his own.

However, while dodging those soul sediments that seemed like monsters of human nature, Lu Ming remained vigilant against Eldridge from beginning to end. So, the moment Eldridge got close, Lu Ming risked being hit by the soul sediments and swung his holy staff to deliver a heavy blow to Eldridge!

Unfortunately, whether it was due to their good luck or not, as they dodged each other's attacks, not a single soul sediment hit Lu Ming, nor did a single spear of light strike Eldridge. This made the prisoners nearby, who had almost been knocked to the ground by soul sediments several times, feel slightly unbalanced.

However, both Lu Ming and Eldridge knew that things couldn't continue like this, so they were both prepared to settle the score with their next attack.

'The side effects of excessive mana depletion have already appeared. If I can't kill Eldridge quickly, I'm doomed! But how can I kill him?'

'Damn those Elven gods of Afar, still suppressing my power at this moment! Don't you know this bastard is one of your empire's greatest enemies?! There's no other way, I have to fight! If I don't devour him, that damned Elven Queen of Afar will seize control of my body again. What should I do?'

Lu Ming and Eldridge glared at each other coldly. Although their thoughts were different, their goal was the same: to kill each other!

Finally, after a soul sediment was killed by Lu Ming and Eldridge for being in the way, the two Lords of Cinder charged at each other with a roar.

Amidst the relentless attacks of the soul sediments, Lothric and the prisoners could only vaguely see Lu Ming and Eldridge clashing, and hear the sound of the crystal sword colliding with Eldridge's staff.

Lu Ming's growth rate was incredibly fast, so fast that the native mages of Puru couldn't compare to him at all. What took others years or even decades to reach a certain level, Lu Ming achieved in less than three years. He even managed to defeat a sixth-tier magical spirit while only at the fourth tier! This was something that had never happened before in Puru's history, something the native mages of Puru wouldn't even dare to dream of!

However, no matter how fast Lu Ming grows, he can't keep up with Eldridge, who can directly devour others and assimilate their power into his own.

Although the current situation appears evenly matched, with both sides locked in a fierce battle and no clear victor, Lothric knows that Lu Ming is destined to lose if things continue this way. Under the onslaught of so many humanoids and soul fragments, Lu Ming has no time or opportunity to replenish his mana with Elemental Ash while fighting Eldridge. Therefore, once the duration of his self-created spell 'Bloodlust Crescent' expires, Lu Ming will be utterly powerless to retaliate!

So, in order for Lu Ming to successfully kill Eldridge, Lothric grabbed the waist of the two prisoners who were on the same side as them and used teleportation magic to appear behind Eldridge, giving him a big surprise!

Although he dodged Lu Ming's slash, he was caught off guard by the sudden teleportation of Lothric and the prisoner, and was hit by another attack from Lu Ming immediately afterward!

In an instant, the three spells—Bloodlust Crescent, Light Spear, and Dark Flame—striked viciously at Eldridge, causing him to explode and scatter debris everywhere.

Upon seeing this, the prisoner immediately felt that the three of them had already won and that Eldridge had been killed.

but......

Lu Ming then said to Lothric, "My magic is almost gone... so you two should run away."

Upon hearing this, the prisoner was slightly taken aback. Then he saw the black mud around him begin to move again, and the crystal sword on the Aries Holy Staff in Lu Ming's hand turned back into its magical form and quickly disappeared completely!

Seeing this, Lothric sighed slightly and said, "Be careful, Miracaissa can't afford to lose such a talented mage like you right now!"

With that, he used teleportation magic to send himself and the prisoner back to Gulveig City!

"This is your destiny! You cannot escape being eaten by me!"

"Is that so! But even before I die, I will fight with all my might!!" Wielding the Irithyll straight sword in his hand, freezing the black mud coming from all directions, Lu Ming roared, vented, and fought back, but was ultimately swallowed by the black mud.

But was he really swallowed up by the black mud?

The answer is definitely no!

"Hahahahahaha~!! The power of the Undead Legion now belongs to me too!! Hahahahahaha~!!!" Under the moonlight breaking through the clouds, a lump of black mud the size of a small house was laughing loudly.

"Really?! You really think so? Ha!"

But at that moment, a sharp claw covered in jet-black scales suddenly broke free from the black mud's restraints. Soon after, a second claw followed suit. The owner of these claws easily tore through the black mud's body, flapped its four giant wings, broke free, and soared into the moonlit sky, unleashing a breath full of crystalline, deadly power at the black mud!

Chapter Twenty-One - The Dragon That Broke Fate

On a land covered with scarlet crystals, the black mud struggled to gather together and transformed back into the form of the Aifa elves.

As Eldridge watched the dragon descend from the sky under the moonlight, for the first time, aside from being chased by the Ashes of Nofire, he felt as if he were no longer the predator, but the prey.

A dragon, three meters tall, fifteen meters long, with wingspans reaching nine meters, its slender body covered in jet-black scales, and dozens of tentacles over a meter long constantly swaying on its neck and head, with nine eyes burning with scarlet flames and a gaping maw of two rows of teeth, crashed heavily to the ground with a roar, triggering the formation of countless blood-red crystals.