Even if there were political differences, a patriot like Artus, who sent himself and all his family members except his wife down the path of blood therapy, would make anyone feel ashamed.
However, whether blood therapy would work or not was not something Artus could decide simply by doing so. It's important to understand that the side effects of blood therapy were far too great; even if it could prevent Miracaissa's demise, it would only delay the process. In the end, due to the consequences of blood therapy, Miracaissa would still not escape her fate of destruction.
"Artus, your wife, do you intend to entrust her to Saldallo?" Hedist asked as if inquiring about his final affairs.
“Yes, Your Majesty. It’s best to entrust my wife to your son. After all, Lu Ming is a hero, and he will be a hero in the fight against the monster, whether in life or death. If I entrust her to him, my young wife might have some thoughts.” Compared to the worries of others, Artus seemed very relaxed and even joked about his wife.
“Ha! He’d never be interested in your plain-looking wife!” said Havenlegert, who had always disagreed with Artus on political matters.
“I know.” Artus wasn’t angry. Instead, he laughed and said, “Young Master Saldallo and I know better than you what kind of person Lu Ming is.”
"This Undead Lord of Cinder from Irithyll of the Boreal Valley is actually quite timid and prone to indulging in romantic relationships. However, he always fights to the bitter end for things he can't refuse! Just like in the Deep, he could have cooperated with Yuzahar Thach to completely take Paris and Niflheim from us, and even threaten the safety of the entire Erebus."
"But with nowhere to retreat, he didn't choose to submit. Instead, he chose to confront his former lover, Yusahar, with swords drawn. This shows that he's not a coward! He enjoys excitement and challenges. And his formation of the (Hunter's Guild) is the biggest proof of that!"
"My lord, if I ultimately die at his hands, please do not blame him. Otherwise, he will be the greatest obstacle on our path to saving the nation! After all, he has connections with the Farron Undead Legion, Londor, Irithyll, and Piheim, among other forces!" (To be continued.)
Chapter Sixty - The Night of the Hunt (Part Four)
"Damn it, has it turned into a monster?!" Looking at the giant beast with twisted horns, its whole body burning with green flames, resembling an ape and a sloth, and its claws as sharp as swords, Lu Ming frowned and pondered a solution.
Judging from the flames engulfing Atus, now a monster, melee combat would be suicidal. It would be impossible for Lu Ming and the hunter to inflict any wounds on this monster. Simply exchanging spells and skills from a distance wasn't realistic either. After all, Atus's fiery beast was still loyally guarding its beast-transformed master.
"What's wrong? Is the Lord of Cinder so impatient?" At this moment, Artus, whose face was full of eyes, looked at Lu Ming, who had not made any attack move for a long time, and suddenly said in a hoarse and evil voice.
Seeing that Artus still retained a sliver of reason, Lu Ming was immediately alarmed. However, he also came up with a plan at that moment.
"The Queen of Flowers is using poison mud bombs!"
"Doo~!!"
Before Artus could react, Lu Ming had the Tyrant Flower fire a purple, highly poisonous bomb the size of a washbasin, seemingly intending to contaminate the flames on Artus's body with toxic fire, causing Artus to be poisoned to death by his own flames.
However, Artus and the Typhoon were not going to let Lu Ming's self-conceived plan succeed.
With a powerful slam of his fist into the ground, a wall of fire erupted from the earth, detonating the poison mud bomb.
"Hehehe! Deadly poison. Utterly useless!" Thinking he had thwarted Lu Ming's plan, Artus suddenly burst into laughter. He shouted at Lu Ming as he laughed loudly.
"Really? Then how about this one?"
As if in response to Atus's taunts, a gust of wind suddenly rushed towards it, and an enormous sword burning with sinful flames that even frightened the fire monster Atus suddenly slashed towards it.
"What!" Because the flames on the sword were too sinful, Atus could only dodge and dared not fight head-on. But after leaping backward to avoid the attack of the Greatsword of Sin, Atus discovered that the person who had just wielded the Greatsword of Sin was not Lu Ming or the female hunter, but Bishop Amelia, who had just been rendered powerless by Lu Ming's earth-shattering attack.
Bishop Amelia of Aries, who was already covered in wounds, now had no visible injuries whatsoever, as if she had been given some kind of alchemical potion...
"The alchemical potion that Master Saldallo mentioned? I never imagined you would use something so precious to heal a mindless monster!"
Lu Ming, who was putting the three empty elemental vials into his phone, shook his head slightly and said with some displeasure, "I know better than you what it feels like to be beastified."
Artus sneered, uttering disbelief from his mouth full of sharp teeth: "Stop lying! You think you know what it feels like to be transformed into a beast? Do you take me for..."
However, it stopped halfway through its story. Saldallo had mentioned to him after attending the banquet with the fake Legert that Lu Ming also owned a set of the armor worn by the Irithyll of the Boreal Valley knights in the basement. And those knights were all beasts...
"My first beast transformation was during my battle with Yusahar. Although I initially disliked her, even hated her somewhat, after getting to know her better, I realized she was just a neglected little girl who craved attention. If she weren't so dense, she should be very close to her dream now, instead of being devoured piece by piece by my beast-transformed self..."
"......" "......"
As Lu Ming spoke for the first and only time about his battles against Yousui and Yusahar, the beast-like Atus and the huntress who had fallen into the abyss watched him in silence.
They couldn't imagine what it would feel like to devour their past lover.
“So, Artus, I understand beastification better than you, and I’ve become beastified far more thoroughly than you. That’s why I can calm them down, just like that day in the basement when I calmed down a warrior knight.” Lu Ming looked at Artus with a resolute gaze, a slight smile playing on his lips, and said, “I can also find a way to calm Amelia down!”
"As expected of the Undead Legion's Lord of Cinder, a nobleman of Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. However, you must die here! Otherwise, you will surely stop Blood Healing!" After praising Lu Ming loudly, Artus charged over like a gorilla.
"Lily, you go first!" Lu Ming, who was walking step by step towards Artus and standing next to Amelia, turned around and called out to the huntress.
Seeing this, the huntress didn't mince words. She simply picked up the Irithyll Straight Sword and the Peheim Magic Wand that Lu Ming had thrown on the ground and left.
"Do you think you, this monster that has been turned into a beast by blood healing, and that Queen Flower can defeat me?" Atus stared at Lu Ming, Amelia, and the Queen Flower with his dozen or so eyes, and said with great disdain.
"Whether it's possible or not, we'll only know after trying. Isn't that right?" On the street, which was ablaze with flames from Atus's body and the previous firestorm beast's flames, Lu Ming confidently curled the corners of his mouth and responded to Atus's disdain with a soul resonance.
"You're courting death!!" Lu Ming's soul resonance slammed into Artus, causing it to unleash a terrifying roar.
Then, Artus charged towards Lu Ming. The ground it trod was scorched black by the green flames, and the temperature reached hundreds of degrees Celsius.
"Dragon Pulse!!" In response to his opponent's charge, Lu Ming unleashed a dragon-shaped energy wave, striking his opponent directly.
The Vileplume on the side also unleashed a Solar Beam, coordinating with its trainer to attack Atus.
"Roar~~!!!" Seeing Lu Ming and Vileplume attack its trainer together, Typhlosion immediately unleashed a high-temperature flame, neutralizing and detonating the energy of Lu Ming's Dragon Pulse and Vileplume's Solar Beam.
Forcefully breaking through the energy explosion of the fire, dragon, and grass elements, Atus leaped out, wielding its enormous claws, and grabbed at Lu Ming.
"Damn it!" Seeing Atus leap out of the violent explosion caused by three different energies and grab at him with its sharp claws, Lu Ming immediately shouted to Amelia and Trolla, "Amelia, jump away! Trolla, use Protect!"
Upon hearing Lu Ming's command, Amelia immediately grabbed the Greatsword of Sin and leaped backward to dodge Atus's attack. The Queen of the Flower also erected a green shield, blocking Atus's grab, and left her spot before the shield disappeared.
As for Lu Ming, he moved at high speed and instantly arrived on Artus's right side.
"Not good!" Although he saw Lu Ming flash to his right and catch a glimpse of a malicious smile on his face, Artus was unable to attack. His previous attack was still in progress, and a forced attack would result in a heavy fall to the ground, which would be disastrous.
"Raster Cannon!" A silver-white energy projectile was fired by Lu Ming. Because Lu Ming was too close to Artus, the Firestorm Beast had no time to intercept it, so the Raster Cannon hit Artus's head, which was full of eyeballs, with great accuracy.
The burst of intense light tore apart several of Atus's eyes on the right side of his face!
Instantly, Artus let out a scream, and a rain of blood slowly fell as the bright light dissipated, staining Lu Ming's clothes red.
"You bastard!" Even though the eyeballs blown off by the grating cannon would slowly regenerate, the loss of one eye made it difficult for Artus to adapt, and for a while, it was hard for him to launch another attack on Lu Ming.
After all, whether it is a human or an animal, as long as it is a life form that relies on vision, when it suddenly loses sight in one side, it will be biased in judging the position of objects in its field of vision.
Moreover, this phenomenon cannot be simulated by simply closing one eye. This is because the brain automatically ignores the visual distance on that side. Even if you close one eye, the brain will not ignore the visual distance on that side.
It only appears after one goes blind.
At this moment, Amelia seemed to have realized that the bastard Artus Lecord, who often drew her blood and made her very weak, was acting strangely. She hurriedly rushed towards him and swung her greatsword of sin at Artus.
Fueled by rage and resentment from the torment of the past few days, Amelia used all her strength to cleave the heavy sword of sin against the top of Atus's head, which was filled with eyes.
The flames of sin clung to the greatsword, the weight of which terrified Artus.
However, at that moment, the Firestorm Beast suddenly used lightning to rush between Amelia and Artus, leaped high into the air, and forcefully erected a green shield, blocking Amelia's powerful attack.
Even after being slammed to the ground by Amelia's powerful blow and spitting out blood, the Firestorm Beast did not regret protecting Atus.
Artus, the one being protected, was moved by the Tyrant Beast's loyal act of saving its master. Out of gratitude, Artus, without saying a word, scratched Amelia with its claws, forcing it to retreat.
Although Artus only scratched one of Amelia's arms, Amelia still bled profusely.
After glancing briefly at Amelia's wounds, Lu Ming immediately poured a brand-new Elemental Bottle—made by the Fire Keeper in a brass suit and crafted from a fragment of the Elemental Bottle he had obtained in the dungeon—into Amelia's mouth.
Seeing that Amelia, whom he had painstakingly scratched, was healed by Lu Ming with just one bottle of elemental vial, Atus was quite unhappy: "Is there more?"
"It's a pity it's the last bottle. But we're going to launch a full-scale attack now! We don't need it anymore." Putting away the empty last elemental bottle, Lu Ming decided not to continue grinding it out slowly.
"Then come on!" Artus roared with a cold laugh as his eyes gradually recovered and grew back.
In response, Lu Ming said, "Come on then, who's afraid of who!"
With a sudden swing of the Greatsword of Judgment, Lu Ming and Amelia, who was wielding the Greatsword of Sin, charged towards Artus, while the Overlord Flower also gathered the energy of the Sunfire.
"Evil Pulse!" As he charged toward Atus, Lu Ming unleashed the Evil Pulse, striking Atus. Meanwhile, Amelia also unleashed a spell, almost like a miracle, a kind of medium-based attack.
Seeing this, Artus first dodged to the right, avoiding the combined attack of Lu Ming and Amelia, and then swung his right hand, viciously grabbing at Amelia and Lu Ming.
With a clang, Amelia blocked Atus's claw attack with her greatsword of sin.
Artus, not daring to linger too long in the flames of sin, retracted his arm the moment his claw attack was blocked. At the same time, he swung his left hand at Lu Ming.
"Freezing Ray!" A cold blue beam shot out from Lu Ming's mouth, instantly freezing Atus's hand, which was burning with green evil flames.
Furthermore, using the original power of the Greatsword of Judgment, he imbued it with a layer of Dark Moon power and viciously pierced through Atus's hand, which was frozen by the Frozen Ray!
"Damn it!!" The excruciating pain caused Atus to scream, and even its voice gradually became closer and closer to complete beast transformation.
Taking advantage of Atus's attempt to pull his arm back, Lu Ming easily severed three fingers from Atus's hand with the Judgment Greatsword imbued with the power of the Dark Moon!
The pain caused it to wail incessantly, and it also enraged it greatly.
Just like its Pokémon, the beast-transformed Atus spewed out a terrifying pillar of fire from its mouth, shooting towards Lu Ming.
"Another pillar of fire? Yusaha is like this, and so are you. Does that mean my opponents are always fire-wielding?" Looking at the pillar of fire shooting towards him, Lu Ming muttered helplessly, and the next moment he unleashed another freezing ray.
Ice and fire collided in mid-air between Lu Ming and Artus. Two diametrically opposed forces clashed there.
Ice wanted to freeze the flames, and fire wanted to combine ice and fire. However, neither force could truly suppress the other.
They can only resist each other until the two energies reach a critical point and an explosion occurs!
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Amelia used the Greatsword of Sin to cut off one of Artus's arms.
But it was kicked away by Artus and hit by Tyrant's Flame Chariot!
For a moment, Amelia was no longer able to launch an attack together with Lu Ming.
"Without your monster ally, you are nothing!!" roaring, Atus, whose beast form was becoming increasingly severe, pounced on Lu Ming.
With a slight smile, Lu Ming downed a bottle of Elemental Ash and laughed at the charging Atus, "You think that's all I'm capable of? Hmph! Freezing Ray!!"
Once again, Lu Ming unleashed a blue, freezing ray of light, repelling Atus. Then, he shouted, "Now! Raging Flower! Solar Flare!"
Atus roared, "Firestorm! Breath of Fire!"
"Do~!!" "Roar~!!"
A powerful beam of light shot out from the bud of the Queen of the Sea Flower, while the Firestorm Beast spewed out a stream of lava...
Chapter 61 - The Night of the Hunt Ends
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Covered in blood and clutching his companion's papal sword, Archbishop Tut led more than twenty hunters toward Lu Ming's location.
Soon, they encountered Philner, who was coming from another direction.
Although he saw tears on Fernard's face, Archbishop Tut had no time to properly inquire about or comfort the poor child.
The roars of monsters in the distance and the flames filling the sky forced them to rush in that direction.
Along the way, they encountered a Queen of the Night Flower and a Firestorm Beast trapped under a collapsed wall, and then they saw Amelia's body burned in flames.
Looking at the streets ravaged by fire and Amelia's corpse, Archbishop Tut and Philner, among others, had no idea what had happened. They only knew that Lu Ming and Artus Leco had both been here before.
But as they continued their journey to the sea of fire where the monster was, they witnessed a scene they had never seen before in their lives.
Fire is burning, making the air scorching and distorted.
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