Chapter 3278: The Great Snake

When the pink mist dissipated under the moonlit night, Countess Waldeck on the rocky beach was still the appearance of the Countess, but the earring on the right side was gone. Xia De guessed what she had fed the horse just now.

And the horse that ate the Countess's earring had already turned into a sturdy male "centaur" with a naked human upper body.

It was just that although the appearance was similar, this was absolutely not a heterotype centaur. The faces of the three 【Jester Troupe】 hidden under the masks were solemn, and even Xia De and the witch hiding on the side felt that this centaur had a beauty like a "black rose blooming to the point of rotting."

Xia De had never formally read the containment records of "Desire," and of course, it was possible that there were no containment records at all. But this thing in front of him could probably be classified as a "relic derivative."

The Countess, who was giggling, pointed forward with one hand holding a fan. Without verbal command, the sturdy "centaur" still wrapped in some pink mist rushed toward the three "jesters" while shaking off the carriage.

The Ringed Shushi avoided it as if it were a plague. Several long-range supernatural attacks landed on its body, but they were all blocked by that layer of seemingly ordinary skin. It could still feel pain, but while it roared, an unnatural, flushed color surged across its skin; it was becoming excited because of this.

And Xia De felt that his eyes were like being polluted:

"That layer of pink mist looks very much like the miracle 【Amaris Veil】, but it should be mixed with other things; that spiritual resistance skin of the monster, I think it looks like 【Baron Iris's Steel Body Technique】, but the effect is a bit too exaggerated..."

"These all sound like miracles recorded in the 'Book of Pink'. How are you so familiar with them? Oh, look over there!"

The witch pulled Xia De's clothes and signaled him to look toward the distance of the rocky beach. Xia De looked over, and then raised his eyebrows in surprise.

His surprise was justified, because just as the "jesters" were confronting that "centaur" with super defense, another team of ring mages rushed out from the other side of the rocky beach.

You could tell by their attire that these ring mages belonged to the local Dawn Church, and they didn't hide their identity at all.

Because an Angel-level relic and a demon had appeared on the island recently, the Five Gods Churches were all sending personnel here. Therefore, the captain of this team of ring mages was as high as the tenth level, and the average level of the team members was also the seventh level.

After they appeared, they quickly helped the "jesters" surround the centaur. The witch hiding with Xia De whispered:

"The church's team seems to have been lying in ambush here for a long time... The 【Jester Troupe】 told the church the plan from the beginning, they didn't think about handling this matter themselves at all!"

The centaur, which looked like it could defend against any attack just now, was quickly hit by the tenth-level captain's divine art "Dawn Flash." Eighty percent of the skin on its upper body was burned by that sacred light. Even though the flesh and blood surged to rebuild the skin to restore the kind of "beauty" it possessed, under the continuous attacks, its recovery speed was still far behind the injury speed.

Thus, although the Countess Waldeck still wore a confident smile, she also became nervous. She reached into her small handbag and took out the black revolver. This was also the murder weapon that was lost tonight.

But even now, in Xia De's eyes, this was still an ordinary item.

"Did you kill Baron Jensen?"

"Jester" asked one of them.

"Of course not. Why would I kill him? That really looked like an accident. You recognized this gun? Oh, you were also in the manor just now?"

She pointed the gun at a group of ring mages, but although they were afraid of the pink mist, they weren't afraid of the handgun.

"Unlike you, I am just an ordinary person, so I have to have a way to protect myself. I saw with my own eyes that this gun could still fire without bullets, so I was thinking, could this be a so-called relic?"

She narrowed her eyes because of the smile:

"So you guess, can this gun be triggered now?"

Click~ the trigger was pulled by her without hesitation, the hammer hit the cylinder, but because there were no bullets, it naturally didn't fire.

Countess Waldeck frowned slightly, then pulled the trigger continuously. When the click~ sound rang for the seventh time—this already exceeded the number of bullets the cylinder could hold, bang~ a bullet was fired. It was just a pity that she obviously had no experience in using a gun, so this shot didn't hit anything.

But even so, none of the ring mages watching this scene perceived any whisper elements. The whole process of the shot just now looked like a normal firing process.

Countess Waldeck, who was an ordinary person, naturally didn't know this. She really thought it was a relic:

"So what are the characteristics of this gun?"

The sound of the gunshot was covered by the sound of the waves. She opened her mouth hesitantly:

"So this gun... can fire when it's impossible to fire?"

After the words fell, all the ring mages at the scene had quite a bad feeling. Ring mages/witches with strong inspiration, such as the tenth-level captain of the Dawn Church, Mr. Mortis who was a diviner, Xia De, and Miss Reinhardt, even felt as if she had torn through some kind of disguise and said the "truth" that couldn't be spoken.

"Ah~"

Countess Waldeck suddenly exclaimed in surprise. The handgun in her hand turned into a half-meter-long black snake out of thin air. She immediately let go and let the snake fall on the rocks at her feet. After the black snake fell, its volume grew rapidly, and two seconds later it was already one meter long.

It turned its head and bit the Countess. The latter stretched out her right arm to block it, and sure enough, her right arm was bitten by the snake.

The panicked woman hurriedly got rid of it, and while it continued to increase its body size, she touched her earring again, so pink mist drifted outward. The snake swam away from that area, seemingly unwilling to touch this kind of thing.

So the woman behind the pink mist wanted to turn around and run away, but before Xia De and the witch hiding could take action, she, who had been bitten by the snake, fell directly to the ground and lost her breath.

The black snake's volume became more and more huge, and it grew with every breath people took. The heavy malice toward the world seemed to be the source of its power. Xia De suddenly understood what this disgusting thing that seemed to be born only when the world made a mistake was.

That "centaur" had already fallen bloody under the siege of the church's ring mages, but the flesh and blood were still wriggling and wanted to recover. Although the scene was quite bizarre, it also made it look like a "flesh rose" blooming to the extreme at this moment.

The church's ring mages stepped up the siege of the flesh and blood that had completely turned into wriggling flesh to prevent it from self-destructing or counterattacking before death, and the black snake swam toward them at this time. It looked unremarkable, so the seventh-level mage of the 【Jester Troupe】 threw a fireball at it to test it.

The fireball technique could be considered a relatively basic spell. The fireball the size of a face shot toward the giant snake, and the giant snake swallowed the flame in one gulp.

Then, with the wriggling of its body, firelight appeared on the snake's body. The flames ignited from the snake's body until it was completely wrapped, and it stood up, its body becoming even more huge.

The "jesters" still wanted to attack, but were stopped by their companion, Mr. Mortis. The diviner had a very bad feeling when facing this snake. He originally wanted to divine the origin of this giant snake first, but didn't expect the burning giant snake to spray three fireballs at them at this time.

The three hurriedly dodged, and the sound of the fireball exploding on the ground also attracted the church's ring mages who were besieging the "flesh centaur."

They had actually been paying attention to the movement of the strange black snake. Seeing that the fire attack was absorbed by the other party and produced such an effect, the eighth-level mage in the team manipulated the soil to create a huge stone spear, and then threw the stone spear at the giant snake with pure physical strength.

The giant snake didn't dodge at all and was hit by the stone spear, but soon those stones disappeared as if they were absorbed by the giant snake, and the scales of the burning giant snake became more lustrous because of this.

Its body size grew further, and its speed was also becoming faster. The giant snake swam toward the living people on the beach, and realizing that this snake seemed to be able to absorb any form of attack, the ring mages of the Dawn Church cast several confinement divine arts.

Those pure rays of light formed a divine art ritual base on the rocks under the giant snake, and then three swords of light fell from the sky and nailed to the ground.

The Dawn Church's signature divine art "Light Protection Seal Sword" should theoretically be enough to temporarily delay the giant snake's advance, but it bit the light sword at the edge of the ritual and absorbed the light, and then there was pure white light in the giant snake's pupils.

Two fatal white rays shot toward the ring mages besieging the "flesh centaur" in the next moment. This attack was too sudden, and the church crowd couldn't dodge in time, so they could only subconsciously cast spells to open shields.

But their shields were penetrated by those white rays like phantoms. The bodies of the three people hit by the light rays seemed to have nothing happen in the first second, but then the light began to spread from the position of the "wound" to other parts of the body.

People who recognized what this was suddenly changed their expressions:

"Damn! It's special light!"

The captain slashed with light to cut off one teammate's arm, and dug out the flesh and blood of the right side of the other two's shoulders and most of their bodies. While the giant snake continued to swim forward, he reminded loudly:

"All retreat, everyone retreat! Don't attack or defend, pay attention to dodging!"

He and the remaining teammates cast divine arts to confine that mass of flesh and blood, and then everyone, including the three of the 【Jester Troupe】, retreated. But the giant snake didn't care about them, and rushed toward the position of the seal.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3279 =====

(End of chapter)