Chapter 2632: First Battle with a Death Apostle

The boy ignored Xia De's accusation and retreated directly back into the shadows:

"The ball in the past isn't hidden; someone will bring it to find you. Go snatch it; this is much more interesting than hide-and-seek. I'll be waiting for you to get that ball."

It disappeared into the woods after saying this, and the owl transformed from the witch quickly flew to Xia De's shoulder:

"Transform me into a toy; I'll go help you."

"No need; I'll solve this matter myself. I have a helper in 1821."

Xia De hugged the owl and placed it on the ground. The witch, who had transformed back, was a little unhappy, but she didn't insist:

"As long as you have a helper. But don't leave yet; we found this while searching the Collins Manor. The Collins family hung this on the wall as an antique."

Miss Bei Er stepped forward and showed Xia De the arrow she was holding. Xia De recognized at a glance that this was the "Elven Antique Arrow" made of World Tree material that the elf lady needed. He was not surprised that this kind of arrow appeared abruptly again:

"You keep this arrow for now. Miss Bei Er, when you investigated York Bronte, the data said his uncle Ben Bronte died in 1829. Do you know the cause of his death? Also, what about Ben Bronte and the father of the current Baron Bronte, Theodore Bronte—how did that old baron pass away?"

He asked suddenly, and the black-haired girl was indeed professional. Even though she didn't know why Xia De was asking about these people, she still answered:

"In the summer of 1829, Ben Bronte suddenly caught a cold and then died. As for the earlier Theodore Bronte, he also passed away from illness in 1800."

Xia De was quite satisfied with this answer:

"You all wait here for my return. No need to worry, Yin Yi Yi Lu Na; you can see me anyway."

Yin Yi Yi Lu Na had the most confidence in Xia De. She took out the two Sunshine Gun brooches and placed them in his hands:

"We will wait for you here."

Xia De smiled and prepared the spellcasting materials, then turned and disappeared into the woods. When he saw the lady in the black skirt again, he found that she had covered her face with an illusion and was looking seriously toward the direction of the orchard near the manor.

The young man holding the black ball landed from the air. Ben Bronte's body had expanded into the shape of a giant two and a half meters tall. The surging vitality driven by the operation of the Spirit did not make him younger; instead, it caused two extra arms to sprout from his body surface. After his coat tore, a blood-red eye split open in the gap on his chest.

In the Creekwood Town of 1821, Xia De had long guessed that the most troublesome enemy at this time was this Death Apostle. Although Xia De had not expected to have a fight with this thing in this era, since he had already encountered it...

"Lady, please do not intervene in this battle for now; I want to test how powerful he is."

The ball was tossed onto the ground by the Third-Order Death Apostle who seemed to have lost his mind. The chaotic Spirit and elements on his body were clearly symptoms of a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi losing control, so this battle had no reason; it was purely that this person had been brought here to oppose Xia De.

But at least he still possessed the wisdom of combat. After determining his opponent, the young man reached behind his neck and pulled out his own spine with a sound that made people frown. Vitality allowed him to quickly regenerate a new spine, and the bone-fleshed spine in his hand quickly transformed into a strangely shaped, heavy bone sword wrapped in blood light as he swung it with force.

Xia De also reached into the air beside him. The moonlight in the night sky seemed to gather all its radiance into his hand at this moment. The brilliant moonlight condensed into a translucent sword body, and then gorgeous rune chains spread within the sword body, extending to the hilt as the greatsword fully appeared, intertwining into anti-slip patterns on the hilt.

The Thirteenth-Order female sorcerer watching this scene raised an eyebrow.

"Miracle - 【Bright Moon Perception】!"

As soon as the miracle that enhanced perception under the moonlight was used, all sounds, colors, and even the fluctuations of Spirit and elements in the apple orchard within three hundred and sixty degrees centered on Xia De clearly appeared in his perception.

The moonlight was perfect tonight, so the greatsword pointed slowly forward, sweeping parallel to the ground to slash out a silver light blade. The light blade was shattered by the bone blade in the hands of the out-of-control Bronte, which also signaled the official start of this battle.

Holding the sword in his right hand, Xia De arrived in front of the monster, whose body was still expanding, with a single forward thrust. The two-handed blades collided, and amidst the splashing light debris, it was the Death Apostle who fell backward.

But another arm grew from its back to support the ground, and then all four arms in front pressed down on the bone blade, forcing Xia De back. Xia De did not intend to fight it head-on; he retreated and disappeared from the spot, then gripped the sword with both hands and sent the greatsword into the monster's neck from the air.

The Moonlight Greatsword was stuck in its neck, but this fatal injury was completely ineffective against the monster. It roared and grabbed its neck with two hands. Xia De transformed into a swarm of red butterflies to dodge, and when he reappeared on the ground, he saw the monster, with its head hanging almost off, holding the increasingly huge bone blade high and slashing down at him with force.

With a "clang," the blood-red slash collided head-on with the 【Heaton Seal】, but the monster, charging like a cannonball, shattered the golden shield head-on.

Two pitch-black chains shot out from the sleeve of Xia De, who was falling backward due to the impact, and entangled the Death Apostle's arms. He stopped his backward flight with this tension, and while the monster was stiff, the greatsword in his hand thrust forward fiercely.

The gorgeous silver greatsword embedded deeply into the monster's chest flesh, but that was not all. Xia De's empty left hand stood up beside his head, and a buzzing, rotating light wheel was thrown out at close range:

"Moonlight Wheel!"

The light wheel followed the wound pierced by the greatsword, cutting the monster into two parts with incomparable smoothness. But the body of the Death Apostle, falling to the left and right, was pulled back together by its own hands.

Then one of the hands pierced the flesh with the white bone greatsword, connecting the left and right sides of the body together. Then, dense granulation tissue climbed and grew at the tear, mending the two sides of the body back together.

Because of the existence of the 【Chain of Sin】, its movements were incomparable stiff, but this did not prevent it from letting the eye split open in the center of its body turn into a huge mouth after another Moonlight Wheel flew over and cut off two arms and its head.

The mouth sucked fiercely at Xia De. Xia De only felt that something in his body was flowing away because of this suction; it was not just vitality, but even the flow of Spirit appeared to be blocked.

But before he could hit that mouth with a Great Fireball, the 【Gluttony】 Spirit Rune slowly rotating on the life ring deep in his soul burst into light.

The vitality that was about to be sucked away immediately stabilized. At the same time, an indescribable, massive sense of hunger suddenly emerged. This hunger even made Xia De produce the impulse to kill the offender in front of him and devour it completely:

"No, I don't want to eat this dirty thing!"

The Chain of Sin continued to entangle the monster that was self-healing. Xia De reached upward, and dozens of fireballs appeared out of thin air, then flew toward the monster one after another, dragging trails of flame.

The firelight and booming sounds produced by the explosion were all covered by the lady in the black skirt, but the monster roaring in the firelight rushed out again. The body melted by the heat of the flames seemed to turn into a semi-liquid state, and the flowing flesh immediately turned into spikes that permeated toward the ground, then suddenly shot out from under Xia De's feet to stab at his unspeakable parts.

"This thing really can't be killed."

But Xia De, who already knew the opponent's strength, was not in a hurry. The shattered golden shield repelled the monster's new round of attacks. Then he took a deep breath, and as the burning, melting behemoth appeared in front of him, a blood-colored corrosive blood mist sprayed out:

"Corrosive Blood Mist!"

At this moment, not only did the scarlet toxic mist spat from his mouth cover the entire body of the monster whose skin was half-melted, but even as Xia De stomped on the ground, a red mist pillar shooting up from under the monster's feet also wrapped it within.

Among all of Xia De's offensive miracles, "Corrosive Blood Mist" was the most effective miracle against flesh-and-blood creatures. But when facing this kind of immortal monster, the Death Apostle was actually still able to rush out of the blood mist.

Only at this time, its skin, which was originally in a half-melted state, had completely disappeared, and the outline of its mutated, swollen skeleton had already been revealed in the toxic mist. And the severe pain and bodily injury made the Death Apostle, who was already out of control due to the influence of the Whisper elements, completely crazy.

The monster, which could hardly be seen as having a human form, let its shadow shroud Xia De like a beast, but when it truly opened its mouth wide and pounced down, it only caused itself to crash into the ground.

With a muffled "boom," a large snowball fell from the sky and smashed onto its body, and then two intersecting Moonlight Wheels cut it into four segments.

But even so, this thing still didn't die. It struggled to crawl on the ground, was hit by a fireball head-on, and immediately after, a silver-white thunder spear also landed in that pile of flesh.

The silver electric light jumping on the bones finally made it unable to move, and just as Xia De held that gorgeous Moonlight Greatsword and prepared to give it the final blow, a black heart hidden under the charred flesh flew into the air and quickly disappeared into the woods under the night sky.

Xia De stood on the spot and did not pursue. After confirming that the opponent had left, he threw a fireball to burn all the remains it had left behind.

The black-haired lady walking from the shadows in the woods came to his side. Xia De explained:

"This will do. Ben Bronte died in the summer of 1829, not now. He will have a new identity later. But thinking about it now, his next identity didn't choose to grow up in Creekwood Town but ran to Wilndale, which probably also has to do with him being scared by tonight's events." ===== CHAPTER 2633 =====