Chapter 331: Metallic Creature

While Franca was speaking, she let black flames emerge from her right hand and pressed them onto the mirror belonging to Lu Mian's substitute.

Jenna watched with worry, instinctively holding her breath.

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Inside the "Fictional Bottle."

Lu Mian, who had just let the wall of fire spread and ignite the "Abyss Magic Flower," felt a sharp pain in his heart, and a shallow layer of black flames appeared on his chest.

This made his spirit body seem to be slowly falling, the destination being the deep darkness that could swallow light.

Curse? Lu Mian, protected in the middle of the heavy crimson flames, was stunned for a moment.

He didn't understand how he had been cursed.

On one hand, he blocked his ears, not worried about being deeply affected by the "Soul-Sucking Secret Technique." On the other hand, Guillaume Bénet was hiding behind the "Abyss Magic Flower" that hadn't been ignited yet, showing no obvious signs of using contract abilities. And more importantly, he hadn't been injured yet, hadn't left any flesh and blood, and the hair that had left his body had all been burned by the flames.

With the black flames emerging and the curse not becoming intense, maintaining a very weak state without affecting his actions at all, Lu Mian immediately had a guess:

This curse came from Franca!

She was using the "Mirror Substitute" to try to establish a connection with him!

Lu Mian's heart moved, and he pushed his hands suddenly toward the place where the parish priest was hiding.

Amidst the *crackle* sound, another crimson wall took shape, fire tongues crazily licking the "Abyss Magic Flower" hanging from high above.

After blocking Guillaume Bénet's sight with this, Lu Mian turned his body and ran wildly toward the entrance of the "Fictional Bottle."

His physical movements, his unmasked choices, were all nakedly telling Guillaume Bénet:

Why should I fight you in the place you chose? My companions can't get in, so I'll go out and meet them!

Guillaume Bénet, whose exposed skin all took on a metallic luster, turned out from behind a few "Abyss Magic Flowers."

The fierce fire tongues rushed onto his body, but could only "tear" away a small amount of cloth, unable to create charred traces on his body surface.

Looking at the vague figure of Lu Mian across the crimson wall of fire, this parish priest of Cordu Village smiled.

On the premise that one could freely enter and exit the "Fictional Bottle" as long as the conditions were met, he had long turned the entrance into a trap, just waiting for Lu Mian to step on it himself!

Having become a metallic creature, he could currently only use gifts involving the body and fate and three relatively special contract abilities that were not affected. One of the latter was:

"Shadow Burial"!

Following a flash of a certain black mark on Guillaume Bénet's torso, arms that were pale, pitch-black, evil, or strange stretched out from the shadows around the entrance, grabbing toward Lu Mian, who was running wildly.

Lu Mian stepped heavily on the ground with his right foot and jumped directly into mid-air, seemingly wanting to leap over those strange creatures from the shadows and throw himself into the quiet, pitch-black exit.

A crimson fireball condensed behind his back, which could explode at any time, turning into a thrust that would bring damage.

There were also fiercely burning fireballs on his left and right sides, the purpose seeming to be to block the grabbing of those arms.

On Guillaume Bénet's metallic face, the smile, although not vivid enough and stiff, was a bit more obvious than just now.

He was just waiting for Lu Mian to jump into the exit of the "Fictional Bottle" himself.

The strange arms that came with "Shadow Burial" were just to paralyze the other party, making him not suspicious!

It's really a pity that "Bone Curse" can't be used in the metallic state, otherwise, now would be a good opportunity... Guillaume Bénet hesitated whether to lift the "Steel Body" and give Lu Mian a supplement.

But in that way, he wouldn't be able to turn into a metallic creature for a short time, and this abandoned mine had not only been filled with anesthetic gas but would soon turn into a real sea of fire. For fragile humans who hadn't obtained divinity, this was a harsh environment where one couldn't survive or stay for long, even for a "Mendicant Monk," at most persisting for a little while longer.

Guillaume Bénet hesitated for a second and chose to maintain "Shadow Burial," letting those strange arms that seemed to come from the depths of nightmares continue to grab toward Lu Mian.

After a leap, Lu Mian was getting closer and closer to the exit of the "Fictional Bottle," about to arrive.

Just then, the pitch-black exit that wasn't illuminated by the firelight suddenly wriggled gently, like a shadow giant mouth that had finally waited for food to send itself to the door.

The surface of that secret door was covered with a layer of dark, deep "shadow" that seemed to have its own life!

It was a trap Guillaume Bénet had prepared in advance. The reason he didn't trigger it when Lu Mian entered, but waited until he tried to leave, was because he was worried that the other party would have a sense of danger, think the secret door was problematic, and choose not to enter the "Fictional Bottle."

At this moment, Lu Mian seemed to be falling into the abyss, unable to grasp the last straw.

That "pitch-black" that seemed to be only a thin layer but connected to endless shadows rippled with a vortex, truly presenting the posture of a giant mouth.

Lu Mian, who was in mid-air, extended his right palm and retracted it suddenly when he was about to touch the "shadow giant mouth" covering the surface of the secret door, making a movement of opening the door.

Along with this movement, the "Decency" brooch pinned to his right chest flashed with a dark golden light.

"Distortion"!

Lu Mian distorted the movement of opening the door into "opening this enclosed space"!

From the beginning, he never thought of leaving the "Fictional Bottle," just thinking of ways to let his companions enter to reinforce him.

This kind of enclosed environment with a large amount of combustible materials was the kingdom of the "Pyro"!

*Boom! *

The crimson fireball on his left suddenly exploded, producing a lateral thrust. While bringing him not-insignificant damage, tearing his side clothes, and burning part of his flesh, it pushed him away from the "Fictional Bottle" exit, away from the dark area covered with pale or pitch-black arms.

With a *thud*, Lu Mian rolled and hid behind the fiercely burning wall of fire, letting that shadow area be unable to extend over, letting all those strange arms be blocked by the scorching firelight.

Outside the "Fictional Bottle."

Franca and Jenna simultaneously felt a cold wind blowing out from that secret door.

Soon, the cold turned into scorching heat, and they saw that behind the secret door was an abandoned mine filled with crimson firelight, with one after another fiercely burning, not-so-twisted fire dragons hanging from mid-air.

The remaining black vines, bright red giant flowers, and strange arms were being chased by fire tongues.

Franca gave Jenna a wink, approached the secret door, and hid her figure.

Jenna understood what Franca meant and rationally shrank into the shadows outside the secret door, hiding herself well.

She knew that with her strength, it was hard to participate in the battle inside, so she waited for the enemy to escape from the door to see if there was a chance to give a fatal blow.

Inside the opened "Fictional Bottle," Lu Mian, who had finished rolling, supported himself with one hand and stood up.

He looked at Guillaume Bénet in the distance, the corners of his mouth split silently, and a layer of crimson flames emerged from his body, burning his clothes and flesh.

Familiar pain entered Lu Mian's brain, letting him break free from the sleepy feeling.

Long time no see! Lu Mian smiled twistedly and rushed toward Guillaume Bénet, who was like a metallic puppet. The wind of his running brought up the crimson flames around him, letting them stretch long behind him, like a gorgeous cloak held up by someone.

Guillaume Bénet, wary of the Hum-Ha secret technique Lu Mian had used before, didn't fight head-on and constantly changed his position.

He could see that the other party was relying on the burning of the flames on himself to resist the anesthetic gas brought by the "Abyss Magic Flower," but that definitely couldn't last long, at most delaying the time until he fell into a coma. Some things couldn't be solved by will or self-mutilation!

And after using "Steel Body" to turn into a metallic creature, Guillaume Bénet was neither afraid of anesthesia nor needed to breathe, and could even significantly reduce the damage brought by the flames. He believed that the effect of "Steel Body" was enough to maintain until Lu Mian Lee entered a state of anesthesia.

In addition, he could also see that the other party's spirituality was consumed quite a lot and had not used "Spirit World Travel" again.

Judging from this angle, the Hum-Ha secret technique shouldn't be able to be used many more times.

Of course, he couldn't just dodge. The other party seemed to have opened the "Fictional Bottle" in some wonderful way, and his companions might have already "turned invisible" and entered. He couldn't let the two form an effective cooperation.

After running around the burning vines that kept falling to the ground for a while, Guillaume Bénet suddenly turned his body and faced Lu Mian.

His metallic face reflected the firelight, refracting a psychedelic luster.

Countless tiny "rainbows" connected together, letting Guillaume Bénet split into two as if looking in a mirror.

"Avatar of Light"!

This was one of the three contract abilities that could be used in the "Steel Body" state.

Its function was to use light to manufacture a temporary avatar that could carry a certain ability of itself.

The two metallic Guillaume Bénéts ran toward Lu Mian simultaneously.

*Deng deng deng*, every step they took, their bodies expanded a bit, and soon they turned into metallic giants, tearing the white robe with silver and black threads.

Lu Mian raised his right hand, and crimson fire crows condensed around him.

The fire crows flew toward the two Guillaume Bénéts at a very fast speed, circling, not letting any one of them go.

Since he couldn't tell which was real and which was fake in a short time, he would use saturation coverage attacks!

The real can't be fake, the fake can't be real!

Just then, the Guillaume Bénet in front suddenly exploded.

*Boom boom boom! *

Along with this explosion, a large number of fire crows were detonated in advance, and a "Water Cannon" condensed from ghostly green liquid sprayed out from the body of the fake Guillaume Bénet, which had split into four or five pieces.

The "Water Cannon" speed was extremely fast, and the distance between the two sides was close. Lu Mian was directly hit through his flame cloak, hitting his body, showing signs of melting.

Derainil Gland Poison!

One of the three contract abilities that metallic creatures could use!

*Crack*, Lu Mian's body shattered instantly, turning into pieces of mirrors.

Less than ten meters away from Guillaume Bénet, because the "Mirror Substitute" was triggered, Franca couldn't help but exit the "Invisibility" state.

Seeing her, Guillaume Bénet's blue eyes became so shallow that they seemed transparent, and he pushed out his right palm forward.

A mighty long river composed of mercury-colored complex symbols appeared around Franca.

For Guillaume Bénet, fighting Lu Mian wasn't actually a very pleasant thing, because he couldn't use the "Fate Hunter" ability he was most proficient in and most powerful in, as that would make him suffer the backlash of Fate.

Since he couldn't use it on Lu Mian Lee, he would use it on his companions!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 332 =====