Chapter 236: Rui Ke

The rat-person Rui Ke had expended too much energy on the birth of the new rat-people.

So when she was attacked, she hadn't even registered it.

And when she saw Amel—or rather, Mickey—burned to ash by violet-pink resentment fire.

She realized that perfecting the new rat-people before her body was destroyed by the dimensional stone was now utterly impossible.

Thus, Rui Ke descended into madness.

The beast disease, which had lain dormant in rat-person blood for over two hundred years, erupted at this moment.

Crack—

The green dimensional stone shattered.

Shards scattered everywhere.

Rui Ke's eyeballs turned from rage to clouded, frenzied madness.

Her flesh swelled violently, muscles bulging grotesquely as if doused in beast-boosting drugs, lifting her gray robe high.

Green fur sprouted rapidly from her chest; her fingernails thickened and sharpened, then tore through flesh.

A massive, nearly two-meter-tall muscular rat-person roared to the sky.

"Beast disease?"

Luo De recognized it instantly.

He had just confirmed the mage named Mickey was dead, and now this rat-person mage had gone berserk.

Wait.

Aren't rat-people highly resistant to beast disease?

"Tally, watch the beast disease blood."

"Got it~"

No sooner had he spoken.

In his peripheral vision, the towering muscular rat-person had already lunged before Luo De.

Her cold, coarse claws slashed across his throat in an instant.

Zzzz—

Sparks flew out.

【Dragon Scale Art】's formidable physical defense shattered her claws.

A large spray of blood erupted.

Luo De's eye twitched—he didn't want this pathogen-laden blood rising.

He raised a 【No-Light Shield】, then detonated it instantly.

The powerful shockwave blasted the rat-person and a large pool of blood away.

"Even if her current strength is mid-seventh tier, she's still a mage, half-dead, and after the beast disease erupts, she can't even cast spells—pure negative debuff."

After all, it's called beast disease—it's a disease.

Rui Ke slammed into the wall, stones flying.

Blood poured from her body like water, and within one or two seconds, it pooled into a small black-red puddle on the ground.

"Does the outbreak of beast disease cause a sharp increase in blood volume?"

The beast-transformed Rui Ke roared, like a true beast, charging forward on all fours again.

Now, this gray-clad lord, after the beast disease erupted, likely had only early-seventh-tier strength.

And she lacked the dispelling power of the feathered one, Karoline, or the regeneration of the demon, Artu—purely flesh alone.

This wasn't hard to handle.

But if someone faced her and swung a sword directly.

With this tumor-like blood volume, they'd likely be drenched in beast disease blood the next instant.

"Perfect—let me test my new skill."

A reinforced 【Repulsion Art】 hurled the beast-transformed Rui Ke backward.

Luo De opened his arms.

Blue ice crystals appeared beneath his feet, rapidly spreading outward.

In less than two seconds, the ice spread seven meters out, crystallizing into sharp blades across the ground.

【Yulandi's Ice Blade Domain】.

"Tally, my control isn't great—figure it out yourself."

"Master! I love this! Use it with your Yuan fire on me!!!"

The succubus exclaimed excitedly.

"Shut up. What time is this?"

Luo De ignored her.

He pointed one finger at the beast-transformed Rui Ke, who charged again mindlessly.

Crack!!

Ice crystals followed his motion, erupting from the ground into a massive cluster of ice spikes, crashing like a tidal wave.

Boom!!

Before the beast-transformed Rui Ke could reach him, she was knocked down and impaled by the colossal ice wave.

Before the flying blood could hit the ground, the domain's sentience instantly froze it into solid blood-ice.

"Hmm?"

Luo De's intent with this move was to kill her.

But he noticed some ice blades had fracture marks.

Looking again at the beast-transformed Rui Ke, she now bore a thin, fluid-like magical shield over key parts of her body.

One of her rat-eyes lost its cloudiness, showing a flicker of clarity.

She stared at Luo De.

"You're… the forest warden… from Windwall Forest… why… are you bothering me?"

Perhaps due to the cold of the ice, she regained a sliver of sanity.

Luo De's face was expressionless:

"You attacked my forest—I must deal with you."

"It was… a misunderstanding… I only… sought a new home… for the rat-people's future."

She paused, then spoke in a low tone:

"We have no deep grudge. Let me compensate you—let this be forgotten."

"I refuse."

Luo De sneered, "I'm not foolish enough to make a deal with someone who might erupt into beast disease at any moment."

These words pierced Rui Ke.

Anger flashed in her eyes; her right hand ignited flame, forming a whip of fire that lashed out fiercely.

This spell was somewhat stealthy—carelessness might let it land.

But her posture was terrible, and she had no staff to aid her.

Luo De dodged it effortlessly.

"Whip? I have one too."

Luo De swung 【Painful Lash】.

Crack—perfectly striking her face.

"Aaaahhhhh—!"

Rui Ke screamed with excruciating, piercing agony.

The intense pain shattered her will; the contaminated beast disease blood surged back to dominance.

Her pupils melted and scattered, turning cloudy again.

Her screams became bestial roars.

Crack—

Rather than tear off her own flesh, she fought desperately to break free from the ice.

Luo De smiled.

"Much easier to handle this way."

He stomped his right foot—Boom! The rocky ground shattered, sending a spiritual shockwave straight into the beast-transformed Rui Ke.

It was the long-unused 【War Trample】.

The enemy instantly froze in place.

On the side, Tally immediately manipulated shadow ribbons to drag her into the fissure cracked open by 【War Trample】.

Luo De then used ice crystals to lock her firmly in place, leaving only the rat-person's head exposed.

"Any last words?"

The beast's screaming head offered no human response.

"I suppose not."

He raised his hand slightly.

Two plates of spiritual ice rose on either side of the head, covered in sharp, conical ice spikes.

"This move is called the Mouse Trap."

Two ice plates, studded with ice spikes, snapped open violently, clamping the rat-man's skull between them!

Countless ice spikes from both sides pierced through its skull at once!

The shriek cut off abruptly.

Killing it wasn't hard—it was what to do with all the blood that mattered.

Burn it?

He dared not. What if burning it turned the blood into an airborne pathogen?

Kali had used a purification spell before; better leave it to her.

Luo De turned his gaze to the massive ovular sac beside him.

"What's this?"

As he stepped forward, the prophetic bracelet given to him by the half-deer-man Xiao Ke snapped sharply in his hand.

The bracelet fell to the ground.

The 【Will of the Azure Sky】 immediately sent a warning of spiritual interference.

Luo De's body chilled instantly; he instinctively scanned the room—no one else was there.

He faintly sensed a gaze.

Not in the room—but in the void itself.

(End of Chapter)