Chapter 225 The Mastermind
"By the way! Honey, your second brother, Tuffman, might be in trouble!"
Spanna finally remembered the important matter.
"He has offended 'Stone Singer' Manson, and I'm afraid he will be plotted against."
Through magic transmission, Spanner briefly introduced the ins and outs of the conflict between Manson and Taffman.
"Manson, huh? You're so arrogant to bully my senior brother!"
Alan's voice was cold.
"Spanna, how is your relationship with this Manson?"
Of course Spanna knew that Alan was a very protective person!
If you provoke him, he may not get angry.
Bullying his family and friends will never let you go!
Spanna was very fortunate that she could be considered Alan's relative or friend.
As for Manson...Spanna sneered secretly.
"Manson and I have no friendship, but we do have a lot of grudges."
Spanna told the whole story of how Manson failed to pursue her, became angry and humiliated, and took personal revenge.
"Manson is a bad guy, but he's quite capable!"
"Integrated with the blood of the Earth Element Demon Scorpion, I have three unique skills!"
"First, he is good at manipulating soil, sand and rocks, and digging underground to sneak."
"Second, the ancestral scorpion tail has a level 6 petrifying poison!"
"Third, he is proficient in the secret art of sound waves. He can chant hypnotic magic sounds and emit destructive sound waves! This is where the name 'Stone Singer' comes from!"
Spanner revealed Manson's secrets to Allen without reservation, even disregarding the overall situation and turning his elbow outward...
"My dear! How about you teach Manson a lesson and help me vent my anger? How about you write off the debt you owe me?"
Alan made an exception and did not bargain, but expressed his attitude in a firm manner.
"Manson must die today! Even the Four Gods of Apocalypse can't stop him, I say!"
After ending the call with Spanna, Allen immediately sent a letter to his second brother, reminding him to be careful of Manson.
"I've heard of Manson." Master Shiva came over with a bottle of wine. "He was born in the Scorpion Clan, and has the blood of the Stone Singer. He's thirty-five years old, and his cultivation is at the early fifth level. Not bad. Do you need my help?"
"There's no need to bother you with dealing with an enemy of this level." Allen said in a deep voice, "Teacher Shiva, I want to confirm Manson's location to see if he is really following my second senior brother and plotting something bad."
"It's a piece of cake."
Master Shiva took out a mirror from his storage bag and used it as a magic weapon to cast the 4th-level "Detection" spell.
After a while, a picture was reflected in the mirror.
Somewhere in the mushroom garden, a giant scorpion is crawling.
This monster is no less than fifteen meters long from head to tail!
Its entire body is covered with a smooth, black shell that looks as if it were made of polished obsidian.
To say that he is a scorpion is actually not accurate.
Excluding the pair of huge raised claws, there are twelve pairs of legs symmetrically distributed on both sides of the body.
The way it crawls on the ground looks more like a giant centipede.
What's even more bizarre is its tail.
The overall look is like a thick scorpion tail.
However, there is no protruding hooked stinger at the end of the tail, but an open cavity surrounded by a circle of silver sharp teeth!
As the muscles in the cavity contract and expand, the sharp teeth arranged in a ring also wriggle slightly, secreting sticky venom.
It's like the mouth of a lamprey was grafted onto the scorpion's tail.
It looks disgusting, scary and makes your scalp tingle!
This monster is the legendary earth-type scorpion "Stone Singer", Manson's fourth-order atavistic form!
As Allen suspected, Manson was stalking Tufman.
The purpose is nothing more than to find an opportunity to assassinate Taffman and seize the essence of his bloodline!
Hundreds of meters away, a group of wolf warlocks including Taffman, surrounded Beiting and were approaching the Fungus Master.
Manson seemed reluctant to commit the crime in front of so many people.
He followed behind closely, hoping to find an opportunity when Taffman was alone before striking.
Alan saw through his thoughts and sneered to himself.
"If there is no opportunity, I will help you create it."
With a trace of "Forget-Me-Not Spore" on his fingertips, Allen sent a telepathic message to Taffman.
Soon, Taffman followed his instructions, made an excuse of having a stomachache and needing to relieve himself, and left the Wolf family's group.
He went into the mushroom forest, untied his belt, and pretended to take a dump.
Manson, who was following secretly, was secretly delighted when he saw this scene.
Sneak past quickly!
Taffman hesitated for a while, then slowly ended the fight, pulled up his belt, and turned to leave the forest.
Manson saw it clearly in secret.
At this time, Bei Ting and others had already walked at least half a mile.
It was useless for Taffman to attack by himself even if he shouted at the top of his lungs!
When it comes to extracting the essence of blood, the key is to keep it fresh.
Killing a person and then drawing blood from him is not very good.
So, Manson decided to try to be gentle...
Suddenly, a strange singing was heard in the woods.
The melody is soothing and the lyrics are unclear, it sounds like someone is humming casually.
The faint singing, containing the magic of sleep, quietly poured into Tafman's ears.
Taffman's eyes widened and he turned slowly.
Under the control of the song, like a puppet, he walked towards where the "Stone Singer" was lurking.
Manson, transformed into a scorpion, hummed a "lullaby" in a low voice.
Seeing Taffman walking towards me with lifeless eyes, I felt secretly happy.
As long as this big fool gets a little closer, he will swing out his scorpion tail, drink up blood with the suction cup covered with sharp teeth, and extract the essence of blood!
Most magical beasts that are born with the ability to suck blood are good at extracting blood essence, and the "Stone Singer" is no exception.
He spent a lot of energy honing this skill.
If we can suck Taffman's blood dry and extract a high-concentration blood essence from it, it will be equivalent to a high-quality blood awakening agent.
After the injection, the probability of awakening is about 30%.
This is the standard of a top pharmacist !
The most amazing thing about this unique blood refining process is... the cost is almost zero!
The cost was only the sacrifice of one Tufman, which was not worth mentioning.
At this moment, a group of ferocious bats suddenly flew in the air, disrupting Manson's plan.
Bang!
Tufman's face was flapped by the bat's wings.
It was as if I had been slapped in the face. I woke up suddenly and found three huge bats circling above my head.
Taffman hurriedly ran with his head in his hands and ran out of the mushroom forest.
"What the hell!"
Manson was anxious and angry, and was about to chase after him.
The ground in front suddenly started to fly with mud and sand like a fountain!
Two earthworms dug a hole in the ground and poked their heads out.
Spray acid at Manson!
The three ferocious bats in the air did not chase Taffman, but instead rushed towards Manson.
These wild monsters are not strong enough to harm the powerful Stone Singer.
But if you keep pestering him, it will be enough to ruin his good deeds!
At this point, Manson was barely able to remain calm.
He hummed softly, trying to hypnotize the wild monster that appeared halfway.
The success rate of hypnosis depends on the mental strength of both parties.
Manson, a fifth-level warlock, has such a strong mental power, how could a group of wild monsters be able to contend with him? !
Under normal circumstances, the ferocious bats and digging worms would be immediately hypnotized and become obedient when they heard his chanting.
However, the development of events was far beyond his expectations.
Manson hadn't realized that the ferocious bats and digging worms that were harassing him were actually dead a long time ago.
The corpse was parasitized by spores and transformed into a fungus beast.
Fungal spores, immune hypnosis.
A corpse cannot be hypnotized.
Manson's lullaby is like singing to the deaf.
Hypnosis was ineffective, and Manson was spat upon twice by the earthworms. He finally lost control of his emotions and became extremely angry!
The furious stone singer no longer sang softly.
He suddenly raised his voice and screamed at the ferocious bat!
The magic power, with sound waves as its carrier, blasted into the air with a long roar!
The Stonesinger's "Crushing Scream" is equivalent to a 5th-level sonic magic.
In terms of lethality alone, it is five times that of "Thunder Wave"!
In addition, it also comes with "deafness" and "stun" special effects.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three ferocious bats in the air were bombarded by sonic waves, and were smashed to pieces on the spot, turning into a bloody rain!
After getting rid of the ferocious bat, Manson shifted his attention to the two digging worms blocking the road opposite.
He didn't want to waste any more time, so he channeled his divine power and activated the divine grace bestowed by the Insect Queen Rhea.
Pingdi summoned a group of giant scorpions over five meters long and ordered them to besiege the digging worms.
He cast the 4th-level magic "Anywhere Door" on his own and teleported directly to a place a thousand feet away to kill Taffman!
In the night, Taffman strode forward.
He had run to the outskirts of the woods.
The ground beneath my feet changed from mossy mud to hard stone.
Digging worms usually do not bother digging into hard stone layers.
The stones under his feet gave him peace of mind.
However, in the next second, the false sense of security was shattered.
puff!
The hard stone ground beneath my feet suddenly turned into a quagmire!
Taffman is over two meters tall and he is quite heavy!
My feet stepped on the soft mud and sank quickly!
Tufman struggled frantically, trying to jump out of the quagmire.
However, the harder you try, the faster you fall!
In the blink of an eye, everything below the waist was submerged in mud!
What’s even more terrifying is that there is no sense of reality under my feet!
The quagmire that emerged from the flat ground seemed bottomless.
I was neither up nor down, and I couldn't use any strength in my body.
Tafman could only continue to sink into the quagmire in despair.
"Haha...big fool, we meet again."
Manson the Stone Singer maintains his scorpion form and speaks in human language.
"Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"
The pitch-black giant scorpion slowly crawled to the edge of the quagmire.
Her green eyes revealed a look of pride.
When Manson was promoted to a fifth-level warlock, he awakened the fifth-level earth magic "Turn Fossil into Mud" and "Turn Mud into Stone".
The former can turn rocks into mud, while the latter does the opposite.
Use "fossils into mud" to create a quagmire on flat ground to trap Tuffman.
Manson's hunting operation finally showed some signs of improvement.
"Silly guy, be good and don't move."
"Soon, you will no longer be in pain."
A hideous smile appeared on Manson's scorpion face.
It shook its two huge claws and cast a spell on the mud.
"Ondo!"
The spell symbolizes "rock", and its words have real effects.
The quagmire that trapped Tufman glowed with an ochre-colored halo.
From the edge toward the center, the mud gradually changes back to solid rock.
The entire change will last about six seconds.
After that, the mire will turn into solid rock.
Tufman, will be imprisoned in the rock from the waist down.
Like pouring cement!
By then, he would be unable to move and could only let Manson do whatever he wanted to him...
Swish!
A silver light suddenly fell from the sky and enveloped Taffman!
"Um?!"
Manson's face changed suddenly!
"Want to run? No way!"
He immediately rushed forward, swung out a pair of huge claws, and clamped Taffman hard to the left and right!
It happened suddenly, and in a quick glance, Manson could only see that Tuffman was teleporting.
What exactly is the teleportation spell?
He didn't have time to identify it carefully.
Bang!
A pair of claws, tightly clamping the target.
However, Taffman in the quagmire has been replaced by a two-meter-high wooden barrel.
This is... Transfiguration? !
Manson's heart sank.
The 2nd-ring "Teleportation" is the lowest level of teleportation magic, but it should not be underestimated!
The oak barrel that replaced Taffman had been pierced by the claws.
The sticky gelatinous substance that flowed out of the barrel had a very pungent smell.
Looks suspicious!
Manson retracted his claws and tried to move away from the barrel.
But it was too late.
The wooden barrel exploded with a loud bang after being hit hard!
A huge fireball engulfed Manson.
The newly solidified mud was directly blasted into a crater.
Broken stones and mixed mud splashed all over the sky!
Billowing black smoke rose up like a mushroom cloud.
A hundred steps away from the center of the explosion.
Two tall young men stood side by side.
The heat wave blowing in their faces, carrying a large amount of mud and sand, made them feel suffocated.
"Wow!" Taffman couldn't help but exclaimed, "Brother, what did you put in that big barrel? It's horrible!"
"Fire glue, thunder stone, and the explosives I invented myself." Allen said calmly.
When Pamela led her troops to retreat, she left behind military supplies, including a large amount of alchemical gunpowder.
Alan stuffed the gunpowder into the largest oak barrel and added some of his own.
The energy released at the moment of the explosion is enough to blow up a building.
However, the aura emitted by Allen detected that Manson, who was at the center of the explosion, was not dead!
"A fifth-level warlock is not so easy to kill."
Allen patted Tufman on the shoulder.
"Second Brother, it is not advisable to stay here for long. Go back to Bei Ting quickly to avoid arousing suspicion from the Lang family."
"As for the mess here, I will clean it up."
"Junior brother, be careful!"
Tufman also realized that Manson was not dead despite such a severe bombing!
With my own strength, staying would only be a burden to my junior fellow apprentice.
He shook Alan's hand vigorously, turned around and ran away.
Alan gently stroked the fire-resistant ring on his ring finger and activated his ancestral form.
The leopard-headed giant strode towards the blazing fire.
In the center of the explosion zone, a huge scorpion lay in the pit.
The chitinous shell, which was originally as smooth as obsidian, was now full of cracks.
The blue-gray plasma oozing from the wound was burned by the fierce fire and turned into smelly steam.
The worst thing was the pair of large pliers that directly detonated the explosive barrel.
The roots were fried to pieces, and the broken ends were burnt black.
The burns and cracks on the body can also be restored with the help of the "fast self-healing" physique.
The limbs that are blown off will cause permanent disability.
After losing his claws, Manson returned to human form and became a disabled, armless man!
Shock, anger and pain filled Manson's heart.
It was obvious that someone had tricked him!
Who is so sinister and despicable? !
Manson didn't know.
He didn't believe that a big fool like Taffman could design such a vicious trap.
Tufman is, at best, just a bait.
There must be someone behind the scenes!
Now he just wants to escape from the fire as soon as possible, catch Taffman, and interrogate the mastermind behind his misfortune!
The sound of heavy footsteps behind him alerted Manson.
Has the mastermind behind all this finally been unable to contain himself and taken action?
Manson decisively suppressed the "rapid self-healing" and, enduring the pain of the burning fire, lay in the pit pretending to be dead.
The person behind me stopped more than ten meters away.
There was a faint sound ...
Could it be... ?
Manson suddenly had a bad feeling.
Turning my head, I saw a blurry figure of a giant through the flames and smoke .
He held a huge rock high in both hands and was about to throw it over!
Stop, stop it!!
You kid! You have no moral principles! !
Manson was so shocked and angry that he had no time to pretend to be dead. He dived into the deep pit and activated his innate skill "Earth Diving"!
The moment it penetrated the ground, the huge rock fell down with a roar.
boom!
The huge crater created by the gunpowder barrel was almost filled with huge rocks.
Manson, who had already dived beneath the surface, was also affected by the shock wave generated by the impact of the boulder.
The already tattered exoskeleton had countless more cracks.
"How dare you... to trick me? Just wait for me!"
Manson endured the pain all over his body, gritted his teeth, and sneaked underground.
Determine the enemy's position through vibrations from the ground.
He went around behind the man and suddenly broke out of the ground.
"Die, little bastard!"
Manson raised his scorpion tail and bit Allen's back hard!
Bang!
Alan turned around calmly and raised his hand to grasp the scorpion's tail.
However, the scorpion tail was more flexible than he thought.
The tip of the tail turned around, wrapped around the cavity of the sharp teeth, and bit his arm hard!
Alan has activated his "soft bone and flesh armor" and added "beast armor". His muscles are harder than steel !
Manson's scorpion tail is equivalent to a level 3 enchanted weapon.
The sharp teeth embedded in the scorpion's tail, with the blessing of "Armed Fighting Spirit", gain the additional "Silver Refining" special effect!
The third-level silver-refined weapon, in theory, can penetrate Allen's damage-reducing armor!
Manson's scorpion tail bites hard!
However, Alan in the fourth-level atavism state has a physical attribute of 56 points, which is incredibly strong!
Manson's scorpion tail fangs could barely penetrate the armor, but they were already at the end of their strength and had no power to really kill this body of steel!
However, Alan, who was experiencing the feeling of armor breaking for the first time, could not help but become overly nervous.
His brows were furrowed and his face was solemn!
What a powerful scorpion tail!
Not only did it hurt my sweat hair, it even bit through my oily skin!
If he bites me like this again, won't I bleed? !
So scary!!
In a flash, Alan suddenly tensed his arms!
The thick muscles twisted and squirmed like a giant snake!
The sharp teeth of the scorpion's tail were squeezed and broken.
Manson bit Allen's arm, intending to suck his blood.
However, after just a mouthful of sweat, all his teeth were broken.
Forced into a corner, it had to give up sucking blood and instead secrete toxins crazily!
The Stonesinger's poison is of the same level as the Barbarian Bull's poison.
The two toxins have slightly different compositions, but both can cause a "petrification" effect.
"Well done, Manson!"
Alan's expression changed from solemn to comfortable and relaxed.
"That's it, more of that!"
"You, you kid... damn it!"
Manson finally couldn't hold it anymore.
He had injected enough toxin to petrify a hundred people, but there was no sign of petrification on the leopard-headed giant.
Just as he tried to pull back the scorpion's tail, the other party grabbed it tightly.
"What did you say before?"
A giant with a leopard head and a ferocious smile.
"Want to run? No way!"
The palm exerts force, and the broken bones explode! !
boom!!
In the explosion, the scorpion's tail was shattered and blood gushed out.
The pain of having his tail cut off almost made Manson faint.
Barely keeping a trace of consciousness, he turned around to face the atavistic Allen and opened his mouth to burst out the "Crushing Scream"!
This is his last chance to turn the tables, his last trump card!
Swish!
A silver dagger suddenly appeared in Allen's hand.
Press down the sapphire gemstone on the handle.
The dagger immediately opened the "Silence Barrier"!
Manson was like a rooster with its neck strangled. Before he could even scream, he was choked back.
The only difference between Spenza's silver dagger and Spanna's is the different gems inlaid in it.
My sister's dagger is inlaid with sapphires.
My sister's dagger is inlaid with rubies.
This gem is the switch that activates the enchantment effect.
Allen had already learned from Spanna about Manson's expertise and had taken precautionary measures in advance.
This dagger borrowed from my sister-in-law Spenza can just restrain sonic attacks including "Crushing Scream".
For this wave, shouldn’t I say “thank you, sister-in-law”?
Desperate, Manson tried to escape underground .
However, Allen no longer gave him a chance.
Swish!
A pale cold current suddenly swept over...
Manson's body and mind were instantly frozen by the "Ice Soul Freezing Wave".
Alan walked towards the atavistic Manson, who was frozen into an ice sculpture, and swung the dagger.
There was a rustling sound, as if a gardener were pruning the branches of a bush.
In the blink of an eye, all twelve pairs of legs and feet of the ancestral Manson were chopped off.
Trim into a smooth scorpion stick.
The next step is still a fixed process.
Inject induction factor and force possession.
After slaughtering, obtain petrified toxins, blood essence and most importantly... special ingredients!
Didi——
"Eat special ingredients: the vocal cords of the Stone Singer!"
"Potential +3!"
"Spirit +1!"
Current attributes: 46 physique, 31 agility, 53 spirit
Potential reserve: 19 points