Chapter 2422: Chapter Forty-Four: Furious Slash

Resentful orphan's mouth spat out sparks, causing the sparks on its body surface to begin dimming.

The archbishop blocked with one hand in front of him; the ground beneath his feet was already scorched red, and a burnt, scorching smell spread in the air—even so, the archbishop suffered no injury, darkness clung to his entire body, isolating the high temperature.

Qi Si never made a move; he had been waiting for an opportunity, and now the opportunity arrived.

Around Qi Si appeared a semi-transparent phantom, this phantom holding a heavy shield in one hand and a cone-spear in the other—this cone-spear nearly four meters long, even mounted knights would find it laborious to use, heavy and unstoppable.

The phantom enveloped Qi Si within, with a clang, the cone-spear was placed beside the heavy shield; inside the phantom, Qi Si pointed forward with one hand.

"Shatter him."

With a boom, the phantom charged toward the archbishop, the heavy armor colliding, this phantom nearly taking on physical form.

The archbishop was being wildly sprayed by sparks, while energy arrows rained down behind him, temporarily holding Su Xiao in place.

Thud.

The phantom struck the archbishop, who staggered sideways several steps, his scepter pointing forward.

A massive hand formed from darkness appeared, slapping the resentful orphan; the resentful orphan vanished instantly, reappearing above the dark hand.

The resentful orphan used the giant hand as a springboard, leaping upward and jumping over the archbishop from above, landing near Su Xiao.

Ding, ding!

The resentful orphan swung its claws, swatting away several energy arrows shot from above to below, positioning itself in front of Su Xiao.

Without needing verbal communication, the resentful orphan led, Su Xiao followed, one ahead and one behind as they charged toward the archbishop.

"Bone Dragon Bow."

Two bone arms, each several meters long, extended from the darkness behind Qi Si, each gripping a large strong bow, and one holding a bone arrow over five meters long, covered in spiral patterns.

Crack crack crack~

The dragon-hunting bow was drawn, the spiral bone arrow aimed at the archbishop.

Bang.

The bowstring released, the spiral bone arrow shot toward the archbishop, piercing through layers of air waves, the bone arrow suddenly splitting and dispersing, encircling the archbishop in a barrage.

The archbishop extended his scepter-holding hand forward, a light wall appeared, at least half a meter thick, its interior filled with energy meridians.

The bone arrows cracked and shattered with a pop-pop-pop sound; at this moment, the resentful orphan had already reached the archbishop's other side, its tentacle tail lashing out, rapidly elongating as the tip split open into a blood-filled maw, packed densely with sharp teeth—being bitten by this would vital organs, even the archbishop would be drained of strength throughout his body.

The archbishop stepped down on the darkness beneath his feet, and the resentful orphan flew backward like a cannonball.

Su Xiao was right behind the resentful orphan, he immediately leapt up,

While retreating, the resentful orphan grabbed Su Xiao's right leg, it swung its long tail, its body spinning once in midair, using the backward momentum and its own throwing force to hurl Su Xiao toward the archbishop.

In the flash of lightning and stone, Su Xiao flew past the archbishop from behind.

Clang.

A slash swept past from behind the archbishop, the blade striking his vertebral column—his bones harder than metal, under the blade's slash, only a hairline crack appeared.

Su Xiao slammed into the wall in the direction Qi Si was testing—heaven knows what material this church is built of; even at this point of impact, the wall remained undamaged, the archbishop couldn't break through this wall.

Su Xiao stepped onto the wall surface, landing in a half-squat posture, a bone arrow over five meters long embedded in front of him, pinning and shattering a dark hand probing up from the ground.

Upon landing, Su Xiao immediately charged toward the archbishop again, not giving the archbishop a chance to act, otherwise he would be suppressed again.

Su Xiao had just taken a few steps forward, when centered on the archbishop, a blinding white light suddenly appeared.

With a clang, Su Xiao raised his knife to block in front of him; in the blinding white light, the black mist incarnation appeared again—this time in exaggerated numbers, just near Su Xiao, there were over a dozen black mist incarnations.

Long-handled great blades slashed from all directions, Su Xiao continuously swung his knife to meet them, but the black mist incarnations were too numerous.

A cold sensation came from behind, followed by a burning sting—his back was injured, the wound over 30 centimeters long, depth still acceptable; before being struck, he had attached a crystal layer to his spine.

The long knife in Su Xiao's hand was plunged into the ground, the green steel shadow energy spreading outward, his mana instantly consumed by over 5000 points.

The white light was dispersed by the green steel shadow energy, all black mist incarnations vanished, Qi Si and the resentful orphan were clearly not attacked by the black mist incarnations—the archbishop had fixed his gaze on Su Xiao.

"Let me get close to him."

Su Xiao spoke to Qi Si, while on the resentful orphan's side, it was still dragging the archbishop.

"Resentful, use that thing you used on me a few years ago."

Qi Si shouted loudly, the resentful orphan, having been blasted to the ground by the archbishop and rolling, grabbed the ground, stabilizing its form.

"Roar!!"

The resentful orphan let out a roar, layers of air waves mixed with black sparks spreading out; the archbishop's scepter in his hand tapped forward in the void, layer upon layer of light walls appearing around him.

"Resentful for 4 seconds, me for 3 seconds."

Qi Si meant that the resentful orphan's roar ability lasts about 4 seconds, while he prepares a certain ability, needing 3 seconds.

A giant skeleton appeared behind Qi Si, his finger pointing at his brow, the darkness in his pupils seeming to jump.

Thud~ thud~ thud~

A heavy heartbeat sound emerged, the archbishop inside the light wall furrowed his brows—this was his first change in expression.

"I offer my soul as compensation, in exchange for yours."

Qi Si's voice changed, becoming hollow and deep.

Thud!

The 'heart' stopped beating, a transparent arm and a transparent claw appeared behind the archbishop, both grabbing his shoulders, pulling hard.

Creak~

Like pulling a gelatinous substance, the transparent phantom was half-pulled out of the archbishop's body—this was his soul.

The light walls around the archbishop shattered, not far away the resentful orphan stood frozen in place, eyes hollow; relying solely on Qi Si, he couldn't pull out the archbishop's soul—this transparent arm was Qi Si's, this transparent claw was the resentful orphan's, together they pulled out the archbishop's soul.

Su Xiao hesitated not at all, rushing straight to the archbishop's front, without swinging his knife to slash—relying solely on himself, he could not inflict heavy damage on the archbishop in a short time, this old fellow's vitality was too strong.

Su Xiao kicked straight with his foot, kicking the archbishop in the abdomen.

Bang.

The archbishop unconsciously retreated half a step, due to numbness in his body, his arms hung down.

Qi Si and the resentful orphan recovered at the same time, both of them instantly rushing to the archbishop's side and behind him.

"Blade Dao Knife · Ultimate."

Su Xiao's strongest close-combat knife technique struck the archbishop's throat, the long blade sweeping across, severing two-fifths of the archbishop's throat.

"Dark Envoy, Brutal."

Qi Si clasped his hands together, a four-meter-tall skeleton appearing beside the archbishop, the skeleton wielding an oversized serrated blade, swinging it at the archbishop's throat, the wind pressure whining.

The resentful orphan suddenly appeared behind the archbishop, not attacking but using its shoulder to brace against the archbishop's back to enhance the giant skeleton's striking power.

"Die!"

Qi Si roared in anger, the skin on both sides of his eyes cracking open.

Pfft!

The serrated great blade swept across the archbishop's neck, dragging blood and flesh as it cut, severing four-fifths of the archbishop's neck.

"Blade Dao Knife · Blood Blade."

Blood-red feathers drifted down, a blood line flashed, striking the archbishop's neck again, this time the archbishop's neck was about to be severed.

The resentful orphan's muscles bulged all over, it leapt lightly, its clawed feet hooking the archbishop's legs, both clawed hands grabbing the archbishop's skull.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Layers of dark rings and light blades spread, dense to the point of obscuring everything else, Su Xiao raised one arm before him, a shield built of crystal layers appearing on his forearm, blocking his entire body.

Impact sensations transmitted continuously from his forearm, even with the crystal shield, his life value rapidly dropped, his whole body in extreme pain, in an extremely short time his life value fell to 17%, his body covered in bloodstains.

Within the dark rings and light blades, Qi Si also fared no better, shattered bone fragments scattering from around him, blood seeping from within his clasped bone hands.

Worst off was the resentful orphan, its entire body torn open with flesh split, yet it still used its clawed feet to hook the archbishop's legs, both clawed hands gripping the archbishop's skull.

A figure shrouded in spreading cold air rushed forward, it was Am, he forcefully pushed through the dark rings and light blades, rushing to the archbishop's front, tightly embracing the archbishop's torso, binding the archbishop's arms.

Ba Ha swooped down from above, together with the resentful orphan grabbing the archbishop's skull, vigorously flapping his wings.

"Ya!"

The resentful orphan let out a piercing cry, exerting all its strength to pull the archbishop's skull, Ba Ha flapping his wings to raise gusts of wind.

Pluck.

The resentful orphan tore off the archbishop's skull, a spray of blood arcing through midair, the resentful orphan lying supine on the ground, its clawed feet still hooked onto the archbishop's headless corpse, rolling several times on the ground.