Witch Redemption

While pondering, Li Lan used the knives they were using to "dissect" them. As Ryan had told them before, goblins did not have intelligence cores or magic cores. What surprised Li Lan was that, apart from the color difference, their internal structure was not much different from that of humans.

This made Li Lan question his existence. If it weren't for the ugly appearance and the disgusting color of the flesh, he might have even thought he had killed someone, which would have been quite embarrassing.

Shaking his head to clear his mind, Li Lan summoned servants number 1 to 11 and gave them the knives of the eleven goblins.

Although Li Lan had originally planned to prepare a set of weapons and equipment for them at the weapon shop in Mori City, he was short of money and even more troubled by the fact that these good-for-nothings would tremble incessantly whenever they faced Li Lan, so he eventually gave up the idea.

However, Li Lan's luck has finally turned around today. These suckers who have come knocking on her door will just be a good boost to the fighting power of these kids.

Upon receiving their respective weapons, these humanoid fluid-like monsters emitted strange "cooing" cheers. Li Lan couldn't understand what they meant, and quickly recalled them, along with their weapons, back to the spellbook.

In any case, summoning these guys is just like summoning slimes; you have to feed them enough, otherwise they will starve and ultimately affect their actual combat effectiveness.

After confirming the blade, Li Lan tested whether "Life Transmutation" could be used on goblin flesh and blood. The result was somewhat disappointing, as it had no effect whatsoever. Whether he used the Wisdom Core of Mimicry Chaos or the Wisdom Core of the Shadow Monster, he could not trigger Life Transmutation.

"Could it be because goblins aren't monsters at all?"

The thought of such a possibility sent a chill down Li Lan's spine.

"Never mind, these guns..."

At first, I thought this jet-black weapon would be a steam rifle, but when I actually got my hands on it, I found that it wasn't. This thing is more of an empty shell than a firearm.

It has a stock and a barrel, but no trigger or magazine. There is a pungent, bloody smell coming from the barrel. Upon closer inspection, the barrel is engraved with a dense array of strange inscriptions, and further up is a square hole that connects to the barrel, where traces of flesh and blood remain.

In short, this thing gave Li Lan a feeling of inexplicable disgust, a strong psychological and physiological aversion.

A bad feeling told him that he couldn't use this thing, and even if he could, he didn't know what price he would have to pay.

After hesitating for a while, Li Lan did not choose to store it in the magic book. Instead, she smashed it on the ground and summoned "Revelation" to smash it to pieces.

In addition, Li Lan discovered something extremely important: killing these eleven strange humanoid creatures that resembled "goblins" alone actually provided him with 1,100 points of magic book experience in one go.

In other words, the experience gained from killing each individual is 100, which is ten times that of the Mimicry Chaos!

Because happiness came so suddenly, Li Lan's magic book finally reached 50,000 experience points, which was a good omen. He figured that if he could kill another 500 similar monsters, he could raise the experience level of his magic book to level 5.

“Very good, let’s continue in this direction.”

Looking ahead, the street still seemed endless, and Li Lan would be even more cautious this time.

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Her consciousness blurred, and forgetting death and pain, she simply swung the two Libra Cross greatswords in her hands wildly, letting her exhausted body dance with instinct.

"Not enough, not enough, still not enough!"

A crimson of despair slowly spread from her disheveled golden curls, symbolizing a curse of depravity.

The blood-red beastly eyes widened suddenly with killing intent, locking onto all the black humanoid monsters that existed within their "hunting instincts".

No one could stop this crazed monster. Wherever the greatsword went, it would take the life of a black humanoid. Even at the risk of mutual destruction, this monster had no idea what retreat meant.

In her eyes, there was no room for any other thought except for killing intent, even if she were to perish completely here today!

"This is the evil being mentioned in the King's prophecy! The minions of an evil god who will bring misfortune and destruction to our kingdom!"

Shocking, absolutely shocking!

As his comrades fell one after another to this man's sword, the pitch-black humanoid named "Nikolai" felt his heart bleed.

Thirty minutes ago, he had finally managed to stop a suspected extremely powerful evil god's henchman outside the holy land, but he never expected that when he arrived at the fixed entrance of another holy land, he would encounter such an even more terrifying killing god.

Her presence caused the entrance to the entire holy land to be a river of blood, with horrific corpses everywhere.

The people of the kingdom are never afraid of death, yet the countless horrific deaths before their eyes made them question whether death had any meaning at all.

"Peng Sheng, give me the Sacred Blood Gun!"

"Captain Nikolai, this guy needs to be dealt with by the Holy Land Guards, you don't need to..."

"I am fighting for our kingdom, and I cannot let them die in vain! One of you go to the capital immediately to inform Elder Wesley, and the rest of you follow me to kill her!"

Nikolai snatched the black, gun-like weapon from his subordinate, then snapped off his left thumb with a crack, calmly slamming it into the "rifle's" loading mechanism before aiming at the witch caught in the frenzied battle...

Chapter 90 Bloodstains

After a minor hiccup, Li Lan's journey thereafter was peaceful, without encountering any further danger.

This walk took more than an hour.

According to the map of the Mo City ruins, Li Lan has only traveled one-tenth of the entire northern region so far. After all, he is too cautious, which has led to a slow progress.

"This is just an initial exploration. Is there an entrance to the underground area nearby?"

The Empire assigned these witches the task of entering the ruins of Mo City to defend against the Goblin Kingdom's attack, but the situation now seems rather strange.

The so-called goblins did attack Li Lan not long ago, but he still had the illusion that he had become the intruder.

After all, if the Goblin Kingdom really intended to attack the Empire, as the Witch Cult claimed, the situation shouldn't be like this, right?

"Forget it, it's probably around 2 p.m., not really a good time to go any further."

Night will fall in four or five hours.

In any area ravaged by monsters, nighttime becomes incredibly terrifying, as any living creature is completely swallowed up by the writhing darkness.

Li Lan, who had experienced that terrifying night, knew this very well, so he had to make a judgment about when he would return.

After all, he had made an agreement with Lana and the other two beforehand that they would meet and camp on the outskirts of the Mo City ruins before nightfall to spend this terrible night.

The main reason he didn't choose the city area of ​​the Mo City Ruins was that he was worried that these so-called "goblins" might launch an attack at night and try to kill them under the cover of darkness.

"Given this itinerary, it might be better to turn back now. If we retreat to the outer perimeter, we can wait for Lana and the others to arrive and meet up, and we'll have more time to maneuver."

Although Li Lan is usually a reckless person, he will not act rashly when necessary. On the contrary, he is very cautious and calm now.

He would never risk his life unless absolutely necessary.

"Perhaps we should start discussing with them tomorrow. The four of us should redivide our general route, ensure we can support each other for a certain period of time, and then gather on time before nightfall to face this dangerous night together."

Having made up her mind, Li Lan quickly stopped and planned to turn back to the outer area of ​​the Mo City Ruins.

However, just as he was about to leave, the slime hesitated for a moment and suddenly made a sound like boiling water.

"My lord, that direction looks a bit strange..."

"Hmm?" Li Lan turned her head and looked in the direction the slime was pointing.

This ancient city, resembling ruins, still retains the city layout from ancient times. The place where Li Lan and the others stood was a long, lifeless street, with numerous alleyways on both sides, in addition to the nearly collapsed flat-roofed buildings.

The slime refers to a dark and narrow alleyway.

Thanks to the slime's reminder, Li Lan suddenly noticed that the breeze blowing from that direction carried a faint smell of blood. He felt that the smell of blood was somewhat familiar and quickly remembered the goblins he had killed before.

Those things, whether they were demons or not, had blood with a strange smell that was different from that of humans, smelling a lot like body odor.

"Is a witch starting a killing spree over there?"

There were a full hundred witches who entered the ruins of Mo City. Li Lan didn't know what instructions these witches had received, which area they had gone to, or what kind of battles they had encountered there.

"Master, there's a familiar scent lingering there..."

The slime probably sensed that Li Lan wanted to leave as soon as possible, so after hesitating for a while, it only gave a general answer.

What it really meant was that the stench of blood in the air contained not only goblins, but also witches, and that witch was very likely someone it knew.

"Forehead......"

Li Lan was very curious about how her servant, who clearly had no nose, could smell a familiar scent ahead. This guy was originally a Chaos Mimic, not a dog.

That familiar scent... could it be Lana?

That guy is a dragon descendant, incredibly brave. If he were to commit mass killings, it would be commonplace for him.

Although Li Lan believed that Lana would be fine, she hesitated for a while but still couldn't put her mind at ease, so she cautiously walked into the dark alley.

"We still have enough time; we can still make it over there to take a look."

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After navigating the deep alleyways, Li Lan walked cautiously for about twenty minutes before heading towards a wide street, guided by the slime. Along the way, the stench of blood grew stronger.

Finally, as she crossed the last alleyway, an extremely horrific scene came into Li Lan's view.

"this......"

That's incredible!

Li Lan was speechless with extreme shock. He could clearly see that starting from about four meters away from the alley entrance, the massive number of goblin corpses stretched for nearly fifty meters. It was impossible to count how terrifying their numbers were, and each one was missing limbs. Nearly half of the goblins had caused the senior student to lose her head.

"This isn't like Lana!"

Lana is very brave, but when facing monsters, she always aims for a swift and decisive kill.

However, the gruesome state of the corpses before Li Lan made her feel that the murderer had gone mad, acting without any method or strategy, turning this area into a terrifying meat grinder!

Suppressing an indescribable feeling of nausea, Li Lan quickly boosted his "courage," then summoned a total of 46 servants, instructing them to search the ground for any unarmed goblins, and telling them that once they confirmed any goblins that were still alive, they must finish them off.

So, after casting the Courage buff on all the servants present, Li Lan carefully walked towards the end of the street.

Whether the perpetrator had lost their mind or not, judging from the corpses on the ground, all the goblins who seemed to be facing each other head-on were cut into pieces as if by a swift knife. It was simply a brutal massacre.

Furthermore, these goblins are probably really crazy. The whole family came up together to deliver themselves into this mess. Judging from the numerous footprints on the ground, it's likely that none of them ran away out of fear. They were all confronting this witch head-on.

"That's so strange. If we're human, we should have the most basic fears."

However, judging from the first encounter, these ghostly creatures didn't even utter a sound when they were about to die, let alone feel fear; they probably didn't even feel pain.

After about ten minutes, Li Lan slowly walked to this end. It was here that the goblin corpses were piled up like mountains, which was extremely terrifying.

Suppressing her wildly beating heart, Li Lan glanced around and saw that the corpses were piled up around a dark underground entrance. Beyond the entrance, there was a gloomy space with a large number of goblin corpses below.

"Could this godforsaken place be the entrance to the underground city?"

Li Lan had this guess, but hesitated for a moment about whether to go in and explore. The main reason for his hesitation was that he had almost no information about the underground city and his personal strength was far from sufficient.

Just as he hesitated, the servants behind him, who had been given "courage" by him, slowly followed and quickly checked the corpses scattered on the ground to see if they were alive or dead.

What we can estimate at the moment is that there are probably thousands of goblins who died in this area, and each of them was dismembered in an extremely cruel way.

The ruthlessness of the perpetrator even made Li Lan, who was also a witch, feel her scalp tingle. How could a single person face off against thousands of people?

What kind of witch could be so brave?

"Ok?"

When two of the Servants turned over the goblin corpse on the ground, Li Lan finally realized that something was wrong.