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That black mist can attack the elemental self!

"What the hell?"

After being hit like this, Frost Star's overheated mind seemed to be clearer. The two inner guards felt a little relieved when they saw that the saber wrapped in evil power could ignore the opponent's strange body that could transform into flames.

Okay, okay, at least the opponent’s ability is not unsolvable.

Being unable to be hit by physical attacks, this ability is simply cheating. Even the demons in the North are not so unreasonable. At least the demons can be torn apart and destroyed by the Wendigo's halberd and the war wizard's spells, but the white rabbit in front of him, transformed into a fire knight, completely ignores the attacks on the physical level.

Fortunately, when he and others wrapped the power of the evil spirit around the saber, they successfully left a mark on the opponent's strange armor.

"Evil demon, Frost Star, do not advance rashly."

However, just as the two inner guards were feeling complacent about having found a way to deal with Frost Star's elementalization, heavy footsteps suddenly appeared behind them.

Before they could turn around, a strong arm swung a halberd and smashed directly on them. The shield formed by the hastily condensed black mist could only unload part of the huge force. The body still leaned forward and rolled on the snow, between Bozhukasti and Frost Star.

As the emperor's sharp blades, when had they ever been so embarrassed?!

But now, facing a Wendigo and two traitors wearing strange armor, he was even forced to roll on the ground to reduce the damage.

shame!

What a shame!

"Froststar, you can't kill them. The evil spirits are imprisoned in their bodies. The pollution will destroy the entire camp."

"I know, old stubborn man."

Bodracast's arrival and warning calmed Froststar, whose brain was overheating due to the power of the Flame-Flame Fruit, down a little. However, when the two sides were confronting each other, a majestic pillar of fire rising from the snow forest broke the silence.

The embarrassed inner guards were barely keeping their protective suits intact, the Ursus saber in their hands had completely melted. The dragon knight walked out slowly, with the time saber flashing with flames hanging at his side.

"You haven't solved it yet?"

"almost."

Frost Star threw away the unparalleled saber in her hand, and two ice spikes wrapped in liquid flames appeared in her hands.

"Hiss—whoosh—, if you kill us here, this camp will be immediately devoured by the demonic fragments in our bodies. Duke's daughter, let us go. It will benefit you as well."

"Let you go? Let you go and then go find the army to attack us again?"

The flame of the Time Saber in Tallulah's hand was even brighter. When they were in the snowy forest, the inner guard in front of her had threatened Tallulah many times. Now that he was defeated by her, he came forward and begged for mercy under coercion, which was really ridiculous.

"We just want to bring everyone back to that glorious era. By sacrificing a small number of people, we can unite the majority and make the empire great again! Isn't this a good deal?"

"Then why don't you sacrifice yourself?"

boom!

The flames bombarded the inner guard who said this, and the scorching temperature made the inner guard groan. Ordinary fire attacks could not hurt them at all, but whether it was Frost Star's flame from the Flame-Flame Fruit or Tallulah's Drake Fire, they were obviously not ordinary flames.

The temperature of thousands of degrees is enough to melt steel, and even the internal guards need to be careful.

"We will also sacrifice! All Ursus people should sacrifice for the war! The truly strong will not be killed by war! Only the weak will die, and that is for the best, because the dead are not worthy of being called Ursus. In the end, Ursus will be composed of the strong!"

Neiwei's sophistry made veins bulge on Tallulah's forehead behind her mask.

"Every country will eventually use the whip to punish its laziest and most foolish people. But even then, we are not the whip, we are the blade! If cutting off the useless branches of a tree that only know how to absorb nutrients is considered evil, then we are the evil!"

boom!

The powerful fist directly penetrated the inner guard's abdomen. The inner guard who used to be arrogant and rampant in Ursus was now like a weak shrimp in front of Tallulah who had obtained the power of a knight. He was knocked to his knees on the ground holding his stomach with one punch.

"Who gave you the right to define who is the laziest? Who gave you the right to define who is the stupidest?!"

Tallulah's roar contained Draco's anger.

"You sit in high places, receiving a fine education and forming your own intellectual barriers, yet you plunder the pockets of the lowest-class Ursus people of all their money and food, forcing them to work their butts off just to survive! You fail to see their suffering and their perseverance, their tenacity and their love. You only see that they have no extra money in their pockets, that their hands are weak and powerless, and that they can no longer contribute their labor to Ursus."

The angry roar, enhanced by the knight's armor, resounded throughout the snow forest and echoed throughout the camp.

"Arrogant upper class, it's not that you can't see the suffering of the lower classes, but you think that this suffering is what we should endure!"

Tallulah's voice was sonorous and powerful, echoing in everyone's ears.

“The lower classes are the cradle of suffering, and they continue to breed suffering for the next generation.”

“The upper classes are also the cradle of suffering; they provide suffering for the lower classes.”

The cold eyes, in stark contrast to the fiery armor on his body, glared at the evil creature in front of him.

"You have given yourselves the power to eliminate those whom you deem useless. You have enjoyed this unwarranted privilege, this reckless behavior, assuming that everything you do is in the service of a better era..."

The dragon's rage completely erupted at this moment.

"Why do you boast of your glory?"

"Finish Time!"

Press the button above the Dragon driving dial, and after the magnificent sound effect sounds, press the button on the top of the driver. The entire driver rotates counterclockwise for one circle. At that moment, it seems that the whole world is upside down.

"Time Burst!"

The dragon knight leaped into the air, and by the time Bodrakast realized something was wrong, the words "Rider Kick" appeared beside the three inner guards on the ground and beside Tallulah, and converged above their heads and right feet as Tallulah charged forward.

"Wait Tallulah!"

The flames formed a giant dragon's head, and amid Draco's roar, the three inner guards on the ground were all engulfed.

Bozhukast quickly stood in front of Froststar, with a large shield in his hand appearing at some point, ready to meet the first wave of impact brought by the leakage of the demonic fragments.

But after the flames roared for a long time, Bozhukasti did not wait for the expected evil attack. He slowly lowered his shield cautiously and saw Tallulah standing in the flames.

At her feet were the tattered protective suits of the inner guards. Looking at the fragments of the suits, Bozhukasti, who knew the true nature of the inner guards, knew that there was no other possible ending for those inner guards.

"It's really loud, what you two are doing."

Fang Zhou's voice was heard, and the three of them looked over and saw him walking towards them dragging an internal security protective suit.

"Where's your inner guard?"

Tallulah suppressed her emotions and looked at the dark knight in front of her. A deeper sense of horror came from her soul, even deeper than the feeling she had when facing the inner guards in her physical form.

Boundless malice—that was what Tallulah saw in her fleeting glimpse of the shadow behind the Black Knight.

"He is wandering in a sea of ​​malice and shadow."

"what?"

The red sky was endless, with nothing around it except for pieces of floating land.

"Where is this?"

The leader's inner guard didn't remember what happened. He only remembered that the dark knight grabbed his head, and then many black shadow monsters crawled out from the shadow filled with huge malice, grabbed his body and dragged him into the shadow.

Is this place, inside the shadow?

No no no, that's ridiculous.

However, before the inner guards could think further, a large number of soldiers from the Black Shadow Corps appeared from the surrounding floating islands.

"Who are you? What do you want to do?"

The inner guard looked at those dark monsters with sharp claws, huge wings, huge pincers and huge bodies, and panicked. At this time, he also noticed that the protective suit on his body had disappeared at some point, and the dark mist-like body was floating shapelessly in this strange space.

"Where... where are my protective suit and my restraints? Ah! Ah!!!"

However, those shadow soldiers would not respond to his questions, but flew towards him one after another from those floating islands. After losing his protective suit and seeing his alien body, the panic of coming to this strange space and having to face these unknown enemies made the inner guard's psychological defense line on the verge of breaking. He fought against the ghost soldiers who rushed towards him one after another without any plan. However, even though the inner guard could rely on his own strength to repel the shadow soldiers one after another, he could not withstand the other side's large numbers. The ghost soldiers were endless in this shadow kingdom, and soon he was overwhelmed by the overwhelming ghost soldiers. He disappeared in the final wail, leaving only a huge shadow ball.

Slowly, the shadow ball transformed into various ghost soldiers and dispersed. At the place where the inner guards were originally located, a gray-black, three-eyed, fang-shaped strange mask stood quietly in its place.

Soon, a shadow crawled out from the mask.

hiss - huh -

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Chapter 27 Mask Kama

"Don't worry, Bodracasti. The knight who used the Control Watch to transform has a finishing move that causes temporal turbulence. If it were just the demonic fragments, they would have been annihilated along with the spirits of the three inner guards in the chaotic time bombardment."

Bozhukas' eyes behind the mask flashed red as he looked around at the three people around him.

Talulah is the Drake control head, Froststar is the Burning Lock, and Ark is the Ark Drive...

Well, the last purebred Wendigo suddenly feels like he doesn't quite fit in.

"Want to try it too? I have a Zhanji Driver here, and I can help you find a suitable lock."

Using a devil fruit to lock a species is different from eating a devil fruit. Eating a devil fruit will change the eater's genetic factors, and then give the eater superpowers by changing the eater's characteristics. At the same time, it will make the eater completely intolerant to the PYROBROIN component in seawater.

Although drinking water on a daily basis would not be a problem, activities such as swimming and bathing would basically be out of the question in this life. However, it is still unknown whether the sea water on the Terra continent contains PYROBROIN.

However, the Devil Fruit Lock Seed only uses the power of the Devil Fruit briefly through the Battle Drive, and does not completely integrate the power of the devil into one's own body to change the genetic factors. Therefore, when the ability of the Devil Fruit can be used normally, there will be no complete intolerance to PYROBROIN. However, some other side effects of the Devil Fruit will still appear, such as the self-vibration damage of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability and the intolerance of the Poison-Poison Fruit's own toxins.

But when Fang Zhou took out another whiteboard Zhanji driver, he seemed to feel that the white rabbit was looking at him.

"No need. I'm not used to this kind of external force."

Bozhukas shook his head. He was not some old, old stubborn man who believed in his own strength. He was just wary of those sudden powerful external forces.

The power of the Knight needs to be examined. Frost Star's spirit has become excited because of the power of the Burning Lock. Perhaps this is not a side effect, but it must be paid attention to.

"Alright, but you can come to me if you need anything. After all, I'm now a shareholder of Reunion. If you fail prematurely, I'll be making a loss, which is unacceptable."

"So, why did you suddenly give this to me?"

Talulah canceled her transformation and looked at the Draco Pilot Watch in her hand, which gave her a fiery and familiar feeling, and doubts arose in her heart.

"It's simple, because my purpose has changed. Supporting you as the Demon King is no longer possible, but your power and immense potential are indisputable facts. So, after careful calculation, even if you can't become the Demon King, investing in you is a sure win."

Tallulah understood and looked at Fang Zhou with complicated eyes.

"So, this is your bribe to win me over and get me to stand by the side of the future Demon King?"

"Although I think buying and selling sounds better than bribery, it's fine if you want to understand it that way."

Ark reluctantly agreed with Tallulah's statement, but compared to the derogatory term "bribery", he preferred the neutral words "investment" and "trading".

"The Reunion Movement is one of the few large-scale infected resistance organizations on Terra (Rhodes Island is nominally a pharmaceutical company and an infected rights organization, not a resistance organization). The flames within you are enough to ignite an entire grassland, and combined with your potential, Tallulah, this is enough for me to place my chips on you at this table."

The transformation was canceled, the tide of malice receded, and Frost Star, who had been silent all this time, suddenly felt relieved.

Huh, the oppressive force around Fang Zhou just now made him feel very uncomfortable. It was not some mysterious thing like the oppression of a superior, but a kind of majestic malice that almost condensed into substance around him. Just by being close to Frost Star, he felt all kinds of negative emotions attacking his heart.

"Well, business is over. Now we should make preparations. It's impossible for these four internal guards to come here without any preparation. Now that they are dead here, this place is no longer safe."

"There's still plenty of time. In the minds of those people, the inner guards won't die so easily. This is common sense to them."

Bozhukas took a look at the shriveled internal security suit in Fang Zhou's hand. He didn't know where the alien monster inside had disappeared to, but he didn't have the feeling of being watched by evil spirits. Although he was still alert, he didn't tense up too much.

But Fang Zhou shook his head in his heart. Indeed, in the minds of the army, the internal guards would not die so easily, so even if the internal guards did not report the news to them or go back in a short time, they would not directly think whether it was the integration movement that directly killed the internal guards.

But that premise is that there is no traitor in the integration movement.

Snake Scales, the demons planted by Koschei in the Reunion Movement, are puppets created through his own Originium skills. These guys in the Reunion Movement will definitely know that they have killed the Internal Guards. If this situation changes, they will definitely do their best to send the information to the army group.

The army group will respond to this intelligence.

But Fang Zhou would not stop it, or rather, he hoped that the army would come and put pressure on Tallulah.

Having just obtained the power of the knight and used it to destroy three of Ursus' strongest individual combat units (the Wendigo was not recorded), his heart is bound to swell. If he is not taught a small lesson at this time, he may become domineering in the future and turn into a self-righteous and arrogant leader who only believes in his own military force.

"It doesn't matter. We've already made plans to move south, and the camp relocation will only take place in the next two days. Moving it two days earlier or later won't have any impact."

At Ark's signal, Tallulah put away the Drake pilot watch and the time-space driver in her hands. These things belonged to her from today. This inexplicable acceptance of benefits from others made Tallulah feel a little uncomfortable. From the very beginning when the other party rescued and resurrected Alina, she seemed to have owed the other party too many favors. Although the other party admitted that he did these things with a purpose, Ark was Ark and Tallulah was Tallulah, and the burden in her heart would not be put down so easily.

After the four inner guards were eliminated, the sun had already passed over the treetops of the snow forest. The camp, which had become empty due to the inner guards' attack, returned here after the sounds of the battle disappeared. Looking at Tallulah, the Shield, the Snow Monster Squad and others standing there, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Since they were still here, it meant that the battle was won, and the danger should be over.

"Tallulah, what's going on? Have you dealt with all the enemies?"

Alina came from behind the crowd. During the battle just now, the Yeti Squad took them away from the battlefield to seek refuge, and she was also responsible for comforting the non-combatants and children who were panicked by the attack of the Internal Guards.

"It's all over. The four internal guards have been eliminated, but we need to speed up the process of migrating the camp. Have the logistics staff continue to prepare breakfast. After everyone finishes eating, pack up your things. We need to leave here."

Tallulah said this.

She didn't lower her voice, so the people gathered in the front could hear what she was saying, and when the people in the front started talking, the people behind her also had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

"Inner Guards, they are..."

Alina had never heard of this name. "Emperor's Blade" and the like were still too far away from ordinary people.

"You know the folklore about the face-destroying monster? The true form of that legendary monster is the Emperor's Inner Guard. They're nominally powerful soldiers directly under Emperor Ursus. Their appearance here means that what we're about to face might not just be a minor skirmish with the Infected Patrol. We're likely to face Ursus's regular army head-on."

Tallulah did not hide the possible consequences of killing the inner guards. She looked at the people who had gathered again with a firm expression. After the battle, the logistics personnel, combat personnel, and almost all the people in the integration movement had gathered here.