Don't force me to use my right fist.

"In that case, it doesn't seem like it's impossible. But how are you going to prove your worth and loyalty? For example, tell me first, what exactly is the god you worship?" Sōyū, who hadn't expected to find such an unexpected surprise here, narrowed his eyes and put down the brick in his hand slightly as he asked.

"As an outsider member, I don't really know much about the deity worshipped by the True Word Church, but I do know that the name of the deity is..." Before the man could finish speaking, a strange door suddenly appeared behind him. A strange light shone from the door and disappeared after entering the man's body.

His eyes widened instantly, as if he were enduring some kind of pain, and his body began to swell up again, as if something was trying to burst out of his body.

"Wow, this gag order is pretty impressive." Saya pinched his chin, looking at the man's change with curiosity.

Chapter 192 Troublesome Guy

Of course, Saya had no interest in watching this guy's transformation. It wasn't one of those superhero or Ultraman transformations with background music and flashy effects; it was just a simple transformation from Ultraman 5 to Ultraman 5. Don't expect Saya to adhere to any virtues like not interrupting transformations. Drawing his sharp, enchanted diamond sword, Saya didn't hesitate and quickly approached the monster that was mutating in an even more disgusting and terrifying direction, charging towards it.

As the sword light flashed, the strange creature that had been roaring stopped, its gaping head sliding off its head and rolling down to Saya's feet. Just to be safe, it was better not to wait for it to complete its transformation. Saya wasn't some masochist. That last "strike" was already quite eerie. If he waited until it fully transformed, he might as well just coolly flick the blood off his diamond sword. Saya, who was thinking of turning around to see what kind of mods this thing might drop for him, suddenly stopped. He certainly wasn't afraid of the god this man had mentioned. Although he seemed to have some impression of the so-called "Returner of All Things," that person had only come to throw down a door and deal with the traitor; throughout, they hadn't shown any hostility towards Saya.

What really made Sawa feel something was wrong was that even though he had already killed this guy and chopped off his head, so much time had passed, his experience bar hadn't even shown any signs of increasing.

Tsk, it's more troublesome than I imagined.

Saya slowly turned his head. Countless extended tissues and chunks of flesh from the room poured out of the man's original body, piling up on the ground. His limbs were also completely covered by these things, making it impossible to distinguish them. On his head, the wound that had severed his head with Saya's sword had now transformed into a long mouth covered with spiraling sharp teeth. A tongue like intestines licked and pulled the head rolling on the ground into that mouth, chewing it frantically.

"This taste is really...quite extreme!"

Saya's face scrunched up. He had thought Saya's monster image was already quite abstract, but now it seemed that his imagination was simply not rich enough.

As the swollen chunks of flesh burst open like molten lava after swallowing the head, revealing the exposed eyeballs, Saya could only dash forward to the grotesque creature staring at him with all its eyes. Saya's diamond sword flashed with a dazzling light. The creature didn't try to dodge as Saya had expected, allowing Saya's diamond sword to slash its body. The disgusting body was sliced ​​into pieces by Saya, like a lump of mud.

However, Saya's face showed no joy at his successful strike. The sensation from the sword-wielding hand was unfamiliar. Rather than Saya cutting the sword into pieces, it was as if the opponent had cooperated with his attack, transforming itself into this form. This terrifying anomaly did not disappoint Saya. In the brief moment after Saya's attack ended, it whirled around in Saya's direction, its terrifying pupils fixed on him. From the wound opened by the diamond sword, several intestine-like tongues, dripping with mucus, shot out, heading straight for Saya's limbs. If these were to be bound, Saya would likely only be able to wait for them to be absorbed into his body and slowly digested.

However, Zuoyou wasn't going to fail so easily. A series of cubes flashed across his free hand, finally landing on a shield that looked like a door panel.

The tongues that shot out all struck the shield held by Sōyū, making a crisp clanging sound. Sōyū used the impact to quickly pull away from the thing. Scratching his head, Sōyū switched his enchanted sword to the Undead Slayer, while his other hand held a diamond sword with a faint flame-like enchantment. "Since I'm not sure, I'll try them both." The second round of combat was extremely swift; Sōyū's movements were almost instantaneous. That is to say, he had just been knocked back by the tongues, and in the blink of an eye, he had switched to two weapons and attacked again.

The strange creature, which had absolutely nothing to do with vampires anymore, made no attempt to dodge, nor would its body, which occupied nearly half the size of the room, allow it to.

But faced with Sōyū's attack, it deliberately wriggled its disgusting body and charged forward, seemingly completely unconcerned about his assault.

Two diamond swords landed on the man's body, one on the left and one on the right. The moment the necromancer's longsword slashed down, it seemed to get stuck on something, as the writhing flesh quickly wrapped around it, preventing it from going any further.

"It doesn't even have the characteristics of an undead anymore, what on earth is this thing?" Saya narrowed his eyes, but the enchanted sword with flames in his other hand was proving more effective. Although it was also hindered by the internal mass, the flames released from the wounds spread normally throughout the strange creature's entire body. The peculiar flames from another world quickly ignited the moving mass of flesh, interrupting its attempt to envelop Saya.

Even this monster probably hadn't expected that flames could actually burn it. Its terrifying eyeballs darted nervously, emitting a foul stench as it was burned. Taking advantage of the opening, Saya quickly retreated to a safer position, his brow still furrowed. The burned eyes continued to shatter, but were quickly restored. The speed at which the entire mass of flesh healed was astonishing to Saya; even with regeneration potions, he hadn't experienced such an extreme reaction. The atmosphere reached a stalemate. Facing this seemingly immortal monster, Saya truly seemed helpless.

"It seems we have no choice but to use magic."

Sōyū sighed, but even with magic, he didn't know for the time being which properties could suppress the regeneration of the other party.

As the strange creature gradually realized that the flames could not fundamentally harm it, the screams and roars emanating from its mouth ceased.

Countless eyes were fixed on Zuoyou ahead. Instinctively sensing a hint of unease, he glanced at his status bar, where a buff called "Mental Pollution" was flashing continuously. However, to Zuoyou's surprise, this buff was immediately removed the moment it appeared, and he didn't even feel any discomfort.

"Did that idiot's blessing work?" Looking at the colorful buff at the top, Saya understood that if anything could do this, it could only be this thing. Seemingly noticing that Saya, this troublesome fellow, couldn't be cursed, the monstrous creature, resembling a mountain of flesh, roared. Star-red mouths tore open from its body, and intestine-like tongues shot out, swarming towards Saya.

"Damn, there's no way to use destructive corruption techniques. I really need to find a way to improve my magic-breaking ability. This kind of immortal monster is really troublesome."

Zuoyou raised his hand and placed the folded spider web in front of him. The tongue that had been thrusting at him like a spear lost its speed upon contact with the white, sticky spider web. Flames covered the broken tongues, and these things, which had lost their connection to the main body, still twitched a few times before being completely burned to ashes.

"It's hemp."

Zuoyou continued to construct magic circles in his hands, but after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure out how to deal with it.

However, the other party had no intention of entangled with Saya. Driven only by its instinct to devour, it quickly turned its attention to its body after realizing that Saya was a hedgehog that was difficult to bite.

The stench of blood and flesh emanating from the patients deeply attracted it. Its twisted body writhed, trying to escape the room and feast.

"Damn it, why did you switch targets halfway through? Hang in there, or you might just eat me."

Sagayuu, please note

- It doesn't seem to have any effect.

Chapter 193 I'm Still More Despicable

Sōyū naturally couldn't let this guy really leave from here. He knew that while dealing with this thing wasn't exactly difficult, it was still somewhat troublesome. But if he let it continue, the consequences would be dire.

Sōyū didn't think that the group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people in the hospital could handle this thing. It was even a question of whether they could escape from it.

He definitely cannot allow this to happen. So finding a way to get rid of this thing has become a more important option than solving it.

"So I told you to stop!" Saya darted behind the monster, his block flashing, and a stone wall appeared out of thin air, blocking the strange creature's path. The creature, however, seemed determined not to fight Saya, who was harassing it. Even realizing it was blocked, it didn't attack Saya, but instead swung its massive, twisted body, crashing directly into the stone wall Saya had created.

With a muffled thud, the stone and the wall by the door shattered. The monster wriggled, seemingly ignoring Saya's attacks, and continued towards the downstairs ward. Saya, muttering an old cliché, approached the strange creature from behind. If it continued like this, he really wouldn't be able to do anything about it for the time being. Three hundred magic points weren't enough for him to conjure any world-destroying spells. Destroying such a huge, regenerative thing instantly was indeed a problem. However, despite saying that, Saya still swung his diamond sword at the monster. He'd try to make it stop first, no matter what.

However, just as Saya was thinking this, the longsword he had swung from behind was swallowed up by the strange body. Unable to control his strength, he watched as the monster before him, before he could react, had several tongues wrapped around his limbs, forcefully pulling him towards the monster. At the same time, the mouth that had been tightly closed finally opened, its fangs writhing as if trying to tear Saya to pieces.

"You've grown up and you're still trying to play dirty tricks on me?"

Zuoyou muttered to himself that even after becoming like this, this guy was still so cunning and treacherous. He guessed that the guy had been plotting against him ever since he started walking down.

Sōyū's panicked expression quickly transformed into a confident smile. The magic circle he had prepared in his hand emitted a dazzling light.

The world once again turned black and white with Saya at its center, but this time, Saya, who had been captured, was obviously no longer able to make those chuunibyou and contorted body poses.

"The World!"

Unable to strike a pose, but determined to unleash his skill, Saku swiftly severed the heads binding him with his diamond sword, standing before the strange creature whose mouth was agape and which was trapped in time stop.

He had gained this strange ability after going through all that trouble. After explaining his understanding to the strange creature that couldn't hear him at all, Sawa took out a bucket of the same kind he had given to Urajo Kirie from his backpack and casually threw it, bucket and all, into the terrifying giant mouth.

So, damn it, you're doomed! Take my Great Purification Spell!

While this strange creature was scheming against him, Sawa, who had long been preparing to scheme against its opponent, took a few steps back and came to a relatively safer place.

To be honest, this thing is indeed one of the most difficult types for Saya to deal with at the moment. It's immune to most physical attacks, and other damage can be offset by high-speed healing. For Saya, who relies mostly on his longsword and helmet for damage output, this is quite a counter. However, he only figured out a solution after testing and discovering that it was immune to fire. This kind of acquired power, which doesn't belong to it, isn't particularly difficult for Saya to deal with.

Since all of these are collectively referred to as buffs, the matter of the bucket of milk solved the problem. Milk in Minecraft doesn't just remove negative status effects; it completely negates any buff-type status effect. This is a characteristic of Minecraft. Therefore, when the opponent tried to devour Zuoyou, Zuoyou was thinking about how to make it obediently swallow the milk. And now that it had so cooperatively opened its mouth, Zuoyou naturally couldn't refuse such a kind offer.

With his arms crossed over his chest, he leaned back in a confident pose and casually clapped his hands.

"Then time began to flow. From his mouth, it was as if something strange was spreading out. Hesitantly turning, as if that huge body was turning towards Sōyū, the strange creature that was just thinking of pursuing him suddenly stopped in place as if the power had been cut off."

It was as if a force within its body was trying to break free, and its strange and grotesque body began to writhe.

One by one, the terrifying and bloody eyeballs covering its body shattered, and foul-smelling pus flowed down like water. The power that had transformed it into that grotesque form was neutralized by the milk, and having revealed its true form, it naturally could no longer survive.

After all, he had already had his head chopped off by Saya the instant he transformed.

"Next time, remember to speak faster. Saying something like 'Hanzo will die' is a bit too melodramatic."

This time, having finally received the experience that had leveled him up two times, Saku squatted down and looked at the man who was gradually turning into ashes and dissipating into the air.

It seems that all the strange things he encountered were like this: after death, no body was left behind; instead, the corpse would automatically disappear after a period of time. He even had to deliberately think about how to dispose of the corpse afterward.

"That's just like the game's mechanics; monsters respawn naturally after a while after they die. But why do corpses respawn, while monsters don't?"

Sawa pinched his chin, his eyes filled with confusion.

After racking his brains for a while without figuring out why, Saya sighed. He figured he should just check this strange loot first; something this troublesome should at least give him something good. It was another thing that looked like a drop of blood, reminding him of the drop of ink he'd put in the bottle before. However, this one clearly didn't seem to be alive or moving on its own.

[Dead Apostle Blood]: Blood that only Dead Apostles with strength approaching the level of True Ancestors can condense, and it is also something that must be injected into them to transform humans into their own kin.

This strange thing was given to Saya by the vampire's superior, the one Renya had mentioned who wielded the Yamato. In the past, even if Saya had obtained it, it wouldn't have been of any use. But now that he could skillfully use magic, this thing was perfect as material for finding that guy. Nodding, Saya put it away. A Dead Apostle with strength approaching the True Ancestor level—just that title was intimidating. It certainly wasn't some weakling like the previous one. He should prepare his work first. Thinking this, Saya turned his attention to another item that had dropped. It was a pity there wasn't a mod, but at least it dropped something other than what was in the manor.

[Fake Silver Key]: Accessory, when equipped, increases maximum magic power by 200. It seems to be able to open a door somewhere.

It's a simple and straightforward approach, but it's exactly what Zuoyou needs right now. Mana regeneration can be handled with the hammer, but the maximum output is determined by the maximum mana. Putting everything else aside, those two hundred mana points are equivalent to two extra seconds of time stop. Thinking about it this way, Zuoyou felt that the arduous battle just now wasn't so tiring after all; at least he got a decent piece of equipment, which at least gave him a decent boost in combat power.

Not to mention, he also accidentally dropped a crystal of goodwill. Sōyū's trip to the hospital that night was incredibly fruitful. He casually strung the silver key on a thread and fastened it to his chest before tidying himself up and sneaking back to Urajou Kirie's room. There was a girl waiting for him to get treatment; he couldn't just leave like that.

Chapter 194 The Headless Horseman

When Saya returned to Ujou Kirie's room, he found the girl had placed the milk bucket he had given her on the bedside table, and covered her head with a pillow, as if forcing herself to sleep.

Saya scratched his head and sat down on the chair next to her bed.

"Are you alright? But that person who just came seemed very dangerous."

Ujou Kirie was visibly startled. She was just about to drift off to sleep when Saya's words interrupted her long-awaited feeling.

"So, didn't I tell you not to worry? All you have to do is drink the milk I gave you."

Sōyū helped her tidy up the messy blankets. Then, looking at the milk bucket that was clearly half empty, he said...

The effect of drinking half a bucket of milk was immediate. At least the girl's complexion was no longer so pale, and her mental state even improved a lot.

"I couldn't help you with anything just now, so I was thinking that if I fell asleep, I might be able to use that ability to help you or something." Ujou Kirie hugged the blanket to her chest with both hands. She didn't ask what had happened to Saya, after all, she had already guessed something from the faint smell of blood on him.

"It's good that you have the thought, but you don't need to. Just be careful and stay safe." WH Zuoyou looked at the girl who was facing him with a concerned expression, smiled at her, and comforted her.

"The reason that guy came to see you just now was to try and get you to join the Church of Truth?"

Seeing that her expression had softened, Sōyū handed her the milk bucket and then asked her about the man from earlier.

"Well, actually this isn't the first time he's come. The first time, he just came under the guise of visiting me, claiming to be from a certain church. He didn't say much, just promoted the benefits of the True Word Church. I didn't really pay him any attention."

Ujou Kirie blinked her eyes, which had lost their luster, took the milk bucket, sipped it, and continued speaking.

"Later, right after you left, he confronted me, saying that my power could be used for their purposes." Ujou Kirie lowered her head. If Saya hadn't come and given her hope first, she might have accepted that man's invitation, even though she had completely lost hope for the future.

After all, when people have no hope left, they value that fleeting glimpse of light in the darkness more than anyone else.

"It's best to stay away from cults, of course, that's your prerogative, I can only offer you advice."

Saya shrugged. Even if Ujou Kirie agreed, he wouldn't say anything. After all, given her condition, if someone offered to help him recover, he'd probably agree too. Ujou Kirie nodded and continued sipping her milk.

- The entire ward fell silent, save for the cute slurping sounds of Kirie Ujou taking small sips of milk.

“Um, Nan, Mr. Pumpkin Head Knight. I mean, how should I address you?” After a long silence, Ujou Kirie broke the slightly awkward atmosphere and asked Saya, who was standing motionless beside her as if in a daze.

"Huh? Me? Hmm, is a name really that important? Just think of me as the pumpkin-headed jack-o'-lantern you're talking about. The headless jack-o'-lantern you're talking about on Halloween."

Saya, who was thinking about how to explain to Kaguya that he needed her to take care of this poor girl, came to his senses, scratched his head, and then spoke to Kirie Wakaguri.

He didn't actually want her to know his identity. After all, he only wanted to repay this kind girl on a whim. If she wanted to repay him after she recovered, Zuo felt that he wouldn't be able to accept such a favor.

"Is that so? But I still want to know your identity, because I have no one left to rely on, and I really want to know who my benefactor is." Raising her head towards Saya, Kirie Torijo, who could now vaguely make out the shadow of a black-haired boy in her previously pitch-black vision, reached out her hand to him, as if trying to confirm whether it was an illusion.

"Once you recover, you'll definitely find more friends and people you can rely on. As for me, just think of me as someone who came out of a dream and never existed in the first place, okay?"

Saya Asawa smiled and placed her hand on her head, patting it gently.

A verdant magic circle unfolded from where he and the girl had touched, and a thin stream of green water slowly flowed from it, circling the girl before passing through her blanket and merging into her body. How could the same magic have such completely different effects? Why was Sawa's magic simply poured over her head, while it was so gentle on Ujou Kirie?

Even Heruo Magic discriminates against men and women, right?