Survive with the beautiful girl

Although Hayasaka Ai has changed into the white church uniform of the Healing Church, the experience of slaughtering miserable people has long destroyed the sanity of this first hunter of the church who has twisted himself together with his mount and degenerated into a beast.

The grotesque and twisted beast, its two horribly ugly heads let out terrifying roars in unison.

The girls walked into the underground hall one after another, and when they looked up, they were shocked by the sea of ​​corpses and blood before them.

Hayasaka Ai raised her gun and fired, and each bullet accurately hit the festering eyeballs on the monster. The monster suddenly jumped up, and its huge and ferocious claws swung towards Hayasaka Ai who put away her gun and ran away.

The sharp claws tore through the piled-up bloody corpses, and the blood that had accumulated into a river splashed up...

Kaguya Shinomiya took off the bow blade behind her, aimed at the giant beast, put an arrow on it and pulled the bowstring suddenly.

Saya drew her sword and slashed at the twisted monster's hind legs, and Erina Nakiri pulled out the Seven Star Sword and cooperated with her to destroy the monster's relatively slender and weak six limbs that were used to support its huge body.

Yukinoshita Yukino unfolded her staff, and the originally straight staff body transformed into sharp and tough teeth, elegantly cutting the constantly rotting and festering tumors on the monster's body.

Jabami Yumeko was wielding the ferocious and ferocious "Bloodlet", and Yotsuya Miko and Nishimiya Shoko, who were holding the holy sword and the church manuscript behind her, were trying to distract the madly attacking monster.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was preparing ninjutsu on the side. As expected, using ninjutsu in this dream world would consume a lot of physical energy. She had to seize the opportunity and decide the outcome in one fell swoop.

Under the siege of the crowd, the twisted monster waved its deformed claws and fought and retreated.

After forcing back the girls who were chasing it with a sweeping blow, the frantic beast suddenly opened its big mouth full of eyeballs and spit out rosemary water filled with arcane power towards the girls like a water cannon.

Erina Nakiri was unable to dodge and was hit by the high-speed water flow, and she couldn't help but let out a cry of pain.

Fortunately, Xiaoye was quick enough to pull her away and throw her back to the underground platform of the Healing Church.

Jabami Yumeko, whose combat experience had greatly increased, left her position to attack the relatively vulnerable belly of the centaur.

The sharp pointed weapon in her hand deformed and grew ferociously when it came into contact with the blood in the beast's belly.

As Mengzi stabbed with all her strength, the monsters in front of them jumped up and fell down wildly, dodging and attacking the group in coordination, constantly splitting and breaking up their formation.

Everyone was shrouded in the aura of death, and the forced exit of the already half-crippled Erina Nakiri cast a shadow on everyone's heart.

The blazing fireball quickly hit the terrifying monster that jumped into the air. Kasumigaoka Utaha released fireballs that consumed relatively little physical energy and suppressed the monster's range of movement in the air.

The mad beast Ludwig dragged his damaged limbs. The regenerated blurry flesh and blood mixed with the shriveled organs of the skinny and bloody corpses piled up on the ground. It was impossible to tell which ones were his and which ones were those of the poor humans.

Liu Cheng, in a vague human form, clung to the back of the twisted beast beneath him, his eyes fixed on the mysterious greatsword carried by the monster.

With a mysterious power wrapped around his hands, Liu Cheng grasped the hilt of the Moonlight Greatsword and pulled it out from behind Ludwig, who had turned into a beast.

The pale blue moonlight danced gracefully around the sword, and mysterious light waves with shadows were reflected on the sharp blade.

The originally dim and dark light in Liucheng's hand suddenly became brighter, as if summoning some unknown existence from outside the world to come here.

The biting ice covered the blade of the Moonlight Greatsword, and the heat that rose wildly like an explosion tightly wrapped up Orange and the greatsword, eliminating any trace of his "existence".

"Ah~

My moonlight, it turns out you have always been there!

Please give it back to me.”

The centaur, half-man, half-horse monster changed his crazy and savage attitude, and the moment he was illuminated by the pale blue moonlight, he seemed to regain his sanity from the blind darkness and fall, and he even spoke human words and stopped his crazy and brutal attack.

The underground space of the Healing Church began to vibrate violently, becoming extremely unstable as if the world was shattered and the dream collapsed.

Chapter 272: Moonlight Guidance (Part 2)

"Poor Ludwig!

Turn around!

Answer me, have you lost your humanity and completely degenerated into a beast?"

Liu Cheng stood on the steps of the underground hall, facing the back of Ludwig, who had been corroded and twisted into a beast, and gently stroked the green blade of the Moonlight Greatsword with her fingertips.

The light emitted by the Moonlight Sword was like a tiny beam of light in the darkness, guiding Ludwig to turn around with difficulty like a moth to a flame.

Turning around and facing the underground entrance of the Healing Church Research Hall seemed like a very difficult thing for him.

"Please give me back the moonlight, my mentor in life."

A rare trace of human emotion appeared on the twisted monster's face, which was attachment, uneasiness, perseverance and faith!

He ignored the crazy attacks from the girls behind him, dragged his mostly damaged limbs, and struggled to move towards the stairs.

His ferocious claws, covered in blood, stretched straight towards the Moonlight Greatsword that Liucheng had inserted into the blood-stained stone brick.

As Ludwig gradually approached the "Moonlight", the dark red bloodstains on his body seemed to be purified and turned into clear water and separated from his body.

"Good people, could you please tell me...

What did you discover in the research hall?"

Ludwig raised the Moonlight Greatsword in his hand and stared at the mysterious light on the sword with an expression of worship almost like worshiping a god.

His remaining will still retained the duty he had to uphold before being twisted into a monster - to prevent those who were showing beastiality symptoms and were about to mutate from entering the research hall.

However, this group of unidentified and powerful humans walked out of the research hall that they were supposed to protect... (The girls were wearing hunter uniforms of different styles, some were wearing Healing Church uniforms, and some were wearing Maria Hunter uniforms...)

It became meaningless to stop them. The truth that the Healing Church tried so hard to hide had probably been discovered by them long ago.

Ludwig once doubted whether the Healing Church's research on blood was correct - the hunter alliance formed to hunt him down after he fell into the state of a beast; the cries of patients heard day and night from the hall of the Healing Church where he was guarding; he himself had now fallen into the appearance of the ugly monster he hunted in his life...

After regaining his humanity, he once again recalled his original justice of protecting innocent people and fighting against the surging beasts, and his noble ideal of helping the world and resolving the beast disaster.

Faced with this group of young people who have already unearthed the secrets of the Healing Church, Ludwig, after realizing that he does not have much time left, finally becomes curious about the secrets that the Healing Church is trying to hide - he even has a vague premonition that the Healing Church, to which he has been loyal all his life, is a mistake.

Ludwig inserted the Moonlight Greatsword into the ground, leaned on the hilt with both hands, and let out heavy gasps from between his thick lips and teeth like a horse's mouth. He waited quietly for their answer.

Without much explanation, Liu Cheng presented the information they collected during their exploration in the form of pictures to the poor hunter who was fooled by fate.

In pursuit of the power of the ancient gods, the Healing Church conducted experiments on innocent patients that desecrated life and humanity, including the fishing village massacre in which Ludwig personally participated...

There are no extra words, the answer is already in my heart.

Ludwig pulled up the Moonlight Greatsword from the ground for the last time, a determined look in his dry, gray eyes.

He turned around resolutely, pointing the tip of his blue sword at Hayasaka Ai who was wearing the white church uniform and Yotsuya Miko who was holding the holy sword, and he stood up like a human with his twisted, beast-like body.

With a solemn and sacred tone, Ludwig tightly grasped the Moonlight Sword with his own hands. The mysterious and beautiful moonlight surged and spread on the sword. The pale blue moonlight seemed to dispel and purify the ugly beast form in him.

"Young church hunters, let me see if you have become brave, loyal and fierce warriors!"

The former warrior regained his human glory and invited them to fight as the first hunter of the Healing Church.

With a tragic and heroic aura, Ludwig used the swordsman's moves methodically, swinging his beautiful sword energy with flying fluorescent spots at the two girls in church hunter uniforms.

Without the previous crazy attacks and beast-like violent postures, Hayasaka Ai and Yotsuya Miko cooperated with each other, one far and one close, pulling this pitiful warrior who was blinded by the ancient gods and the church.

As Yotsuya Miko stabbed Ludwig's abdomen with both holy swords, filthy blood plasma gushed out of Ludwig's abdomen. The huge body that he had been barely maintaining suddenly collapsed, leaving only half of his shriveled head, which looked like it had been gnawed by a monster, lying in the blood with a last breath.

"Very good, it seems that you have regained your true glory."

With a complicated tone, Ludwig closed his eyes with relief.

But then he suddenly burst into tears again, and a miserable roar came from the half of his mouth that remained. Clear tears as big as beans rolled down his human face into the river of blood of those who had died tragically at his hands, and merged into one with him.

"May this moonlight that has always been with me guide you and end the source of all disasters..."

Ludwig's voice gradually became weaker, and finally almost whispered. The girls watched with heavy hearts as this noble hunter who had regained his humanity from the fallen beast form left.

Liu Cheng picked up the moonlight sword with restrained brilliance from the blood. Although Ludwig fell because of it, Ludwig's own noble and kind character and the strong and brave soul that walked out of the fall and fought until the last moment also gave it a bit of sacredness and glory.

"Let's go, Hui is still waiting for us out front."

Yes, this was also the plan they had prepared to deal with a possible dream collapse - Liu Cheng and his team were responsible for defeating the cursed and twisted Ludwig head-on, while Kato Megumi, who had the strongest stealth ability, would take advantage of their fight to break through the entrance opposite the underground platform alone and explore the dream outside the Healing Church as much as possible.

Walking out from the narrow back door of the church, the blood gushing out from the pile of corpses underground gathered into a river and flowed towards the dead city of Yharnam. The scenery in the city was distorted into a strange gray shape by the dream.

Through the gap in the iron gate blocking the front, one could see the bodies of two clergymen who had been transformed by the Healing Church and were huge and ugly, lying in the bloody river. In front of the iron gate, a group of carrion crows were making hoarse and unpleasant cries.

From time to time, the barking of mad dogs and the cursing and roaring of mad hunters could be heard from the distant buildings. Yukinoshita Yukino cast a compassionate look on the pile of corpses in front of the river, and on the skinny and weak bloody corpse who was knocking on the door frantically. The heavy iron door that was blocking his escape made a dull echo under the slapping of bloody hands.

Chapter 273: Hunter's Nightmare

The tall and thin church pointed arches and the sky covered with dark clouds together form an uneven and bizarre skyline.

Yukinoshita Yukino carefully walked around the skinny corpse that was sprawled on the riverbed, twitching and wailing from time to time, and withdrew her cold gaze from the strange and rugged rock mountain that was twisted into the shape of a human head.

After witnessing the cruel and horrifying environment in the fishing village, she now has a strong immunity to these uncomfortable bloody scenes.

The girls slowly walked up the stone slope to the right of the heavy iron gate and continued exploring along the river channel that had been cleared by Kato Megumi.

Most of the houses on both sides had locked doors and windows, and the dry trees were tilted at strange angles. The whole city was filled with an atmosphere of desolation, emptiness, death, blood, and corruption.

Hayasaka Ai signaled the others to go first, and she squatted down to carefully examine the two tall corpses that were like giants.

This is a completely new humanoid monster that none of them have ever seen. Does this represent another research direction of the Healing Church to use "blood" to transform the human body?

After collecting the data she needed, Hayasaka Ai quickly caught up with the team and found that Yotsuya Miko had a tense face. She whispered to Yotsuya Miko: "Did you see something strange again?"

Yotsuya Miko nodded slowly, forcing herself to remain calm, and followed closely behind the shadow of Liu Cheng without saying a word.

Yumeko Jabami, who was at the front of the team, glanced at the mad dogs that had lost their lives and realized that Kato Megumi might have just left not long ago.

She climbed up the iron ladder on the stone bridge and saw a group of Gothic churches made of stone. They were exquisite in style but had been abandoned for a long time.

After eliminating the crazy hunters, piles of annoying crows, hunting dogs moving in groups, and many blood-sucking fleas with strong attack desires hiding under the bridge along the way, they followed the marks left by Kato Megumi and entered a hidden and dark passage.

There was a flickering fire at the end of the passage. Kato Megumi, wearing a mask on her face, was talking to the hunter who was wearing the same miserable costume as Orange's, in a vigilant manner.

The girls all turned their eyes to Liucheng, and Liucheng couldn't help but frowned - he was 100% sure that the hunter who tried to break the curse from the ancient god Kos did die in the fishing village, at the hands of Brado, the "bloodletter" who invaded and explored the secrets of the Healing Church by ringing the bell.

Did Simon die while exploring the secrets of dreams, and so he became part of this ever-repeating cursed dream?

Simon seemed extremely happy about their arrival. The small lantern hanging around his waist kept shaking as he moved. The bright light dispelled the gloomy atmosphere shrouded in darkness.

This mysterious hunter who sneaked into the dream in order to kill the "Orphan of Kos" and lift the curse placed on hunters by the ancient god Kos set his eyes on Kaguya Shinomiya who was holding his unique weapon, the bow blade.

Perhaps Simon guessed his own fate from this special weapon, and he sighed with some relief, "It seems that I have failed?

Right? The young hunter who walked out from the depths of dreams...

Where do you come from, and why do you know nothing about what is happening in reality?"

In this never-ending dream, there are only a handful of hunters who can remain sane and have normal conversations, especially now that so many of them appear at once.

With their own purposes in mind, the two sides exchanged information with each other - Simon told Orange and the others everything that happened in the real world, while Orange and the others provided Simon with the information they collected in their dreams.

After declining Simon's invitation to work together to resolve Kos' curse on hunters, Liucheng and his companions followed the shortcut pointed out by Simon, pushed open the secret door in front of the corner, and came to the hall that should have belonged to the real Orton Chapel.