Chapter 507 Monster
In the reception room on the second floor of Delburg City Hall, a faint blue light, invisible to the naked eye, flashed by.
In the reception room, Rafael Larven, standing on the thin velvet carpet, took a half step back to steady himself. His right arm hanging by his side trembled slightly, and cold sweat slowly seeped out of his forehead and temples.
About three meters in front of him, Brother Lowell was still lying on the ground, motionless.
"Strange... He has lost consciousness, why can he still resist me?" Larven raised his right hand, which was shaking uncontrollably, and moved his eyes between his right hand and the fallen Lowell, with a confused look on his face, "Could it be... the power of the goddess of prosperity is hindering me?"
“…No, it’s impossible.”
Soon, Larven denied his own guess.
The power of the righteous gods can only descend in response to the calls of believers; if the righteous gods also project their power at will, they will be no different from evil gods. Larven disguised himself as a defector and approached Brother Lowell in order to launch a surprise attack and prevent the high-ranking priests of this prosperous church from borrowing the power of the righteous gods.
Eliminating the impossible options, the remaining one, no matter how incredible, can only be the only answer.
"How dare a mere mortal reject me?!"
Larven was furious and aimed his right hand at Rowell again.
Pure blue light energy that is invisible to the naked eye condensed in his palm at an extremely alarming speed, forming a dangerous vortex that seemed to be able to devour people's hearts at a glance.
"Since you refuse to be my servant, let me crush your soul!"
Larven did need to use Brother Lowell as a cover to get close to the "competitor" of the Rhine Kingdom, but since Brother Lowell instinctively resisted serving him and could not be transformed into his holy servant, it would be fine to erase his soul and only keep the body... He had plenty of ways to allow the empty shell without a soul to continue to disguise itself as a living person.
As a vortex of pure energy with a faint aura of devouring and destruction took shape, Larven suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if some crisis was approaching. He hurriedly stopped casting the spell and quickly retreated.
A conical mental spike appeared where he had originally stood , and then dissipated in an instant.
"You can actually detect it... No wonder the monks fell for it."
Ms. Karina appeared outside the reception room window at some point, with her arms stretched forward and her fingers extended, still in a casting posture.
After the attack missed, Ms. Karina immediately spoke to attract the other party's attention: "Who are you? An assassin from the 'Underworld'?"
When Larven sensed the attack, he had already spotted Carina floating outside the window. Although he shifted his attention to the suddenly appearing black magician, the dangerous energy vortex in his right palm was still aimed at Lowell: "A mental attack that can obscure perception, an explosive but unsustainable attack method... Are you a Western spellcaster?"
"That's right." Ms. Karina's expression remained unchanged as she slowly lowered her arms. "Answer my question. Who are you?"
Larven once again showed his hearty and deceptive smile: "You have guessed it, the spellcaster from the west... I am the assassin you know."
"Really? But as far as I know, the assassins of the Underworld are very principled about whether to carry out commissions. I don't think Brother Lowell would meet your assassination requirements."
Larven stared at Karina for a few times, and said as if talking to himself: "As expected, you are trying to delay time. It seems that the attack just now was also a heavy burden for you. That should be the attack method with the highest success rate that you can use at present, so now you can only resort to this old-fashioned trick with questionable feasibility——"
Ms. Karina's expression suddenly changed, and she immediately crushed the magic core that she had held in her hand at some point, and used the magic power in the magic core that had not been transformed in time to smash the window of the reception room and sweep towards Lowell.
When Larven uttered the word "trick", the extremely dangerous vortex of pure energy in his hand was already activated.
Although Ms. Karina took countermeasures quickly, it was obvious that she could not be faster than the speed of the energy vortex.
In desperation, she could only resort to the most clumsy means... While the dangerous vortex of energy enveloped Brother Lowell, it used violent magic power to roll towards Lowell, trying to sweep Lowell's body away.
The surging frenzied magic power and the vortex of dangerously pure energy collided where Brother Lowell fell.
"boom--!!"
The violent explosion blew through the reception room on the right side of the second floor of the municipal building and the rooms on both sides, causing smoke and dust to spread and broken bricks and stones to fly everywhere; the strong wind and chaotic energy of the explosion directly blew Ms. Karina, who was floating outside the window, away.
"Ugh—cough!"
Karina, who was in a state of exhaustion, could not bear the impact on her whole body and spit out large mouthfuls of blood in mid-air.
With a "bang", Ms. Karina, who was blown away, fell onto the roof of a residential house across the street outside the City Hall, and rolled several times before stopping at the edge of the roof.
The residents who heard the explosion and the roof crash opened the window and looked out in confusion. When they looked up, they saw a bloody woman's arm hanging from the eaves. They almost had a heart attack. The screams and the screams of passers-by who saw this scene unexpectedly intertwined...
Inside the city hall, the screams became louder and the crowd became more chaotic.
Larven, who was closer to the center of the explosion, was not as miserable as Ms. Karina, but she was also in a mess...
By the time he discovered that the Western spellcaster was attacking desperately, it was too late; when his energy collided with the violent magic power, he only had time to protect his body with his arms before he was blown away by the blast, crashed through the wall behind him, crashed out of the municipal building, and fell heavily into the courtyard of the City Hall.
"You bastard—I'm going to kill you in a minute!"
Larven got up from the ground in a panic, looked at the direction where Karina flew away, spat, squatted slightly, jumped up, and jumped back to the second floor through the hole in the wall that he had knocked through.
The smoke that had not yet dissipated and the energy and magic that leaked from the explosion site had no effect on Larven.
Seeing the situation in the reception room clearly, even a non-human creature like Larven couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth...
In the messy meeting room with the wall near the window almost blown through, Lowell, who was originally lying on the ground, was also affected by the blast and was no longer in his original position.
The ascetic monk at the center of the explosion had his clothes torn into pieces, and his long flowing silver hair had turned into curls, but his body had not suffered any serious injuries. With Larven's eyesight, he could only see small scratches on the exposed back of the monk who was blown to the wall by the air wave, but nothing more, not even a drop of blood.
"Is this guy... a monster?" Larven couldn't help but complain. He paused and muttered to himself in fear, "Fortunately, I didn't give him a chance to resist, otherwise this guy might be more difficult to deal with than the lich."
The fact that Lowell was able to serve as the leader of the Crusaders for many years despite being constrained by the Prosperous Church was of course not only because of his good character and high reputation. The most important factor was that this ascetic monk was good at fighting... He was not at all vulnerable to conventional energy attacks and physical attacks.
When Yang Qiu first recognized Lowell, he decisively adopted the "Breath of Hell to Stop the War Tactics" because he thought fighting with Lowell was too troublesome.
The only weakness of the monk is probably the unconventional mental attack... The biggest reason why Yang Qiu arranged Enwei to be by his side is that Enwei has a high perception and a strong sense of crisis, which can make up for Lowell's shortcomings to a certain extent.
At this moment, Larven also had similar thoughts as when Yang Qiu encountered Lowell in the wilderness. This ascetic monk who was supported by firm faith and had been practicing himself consistently for three hundred years must not be allowed to fight back.
"I will make good use of your body."
Larven walked up to Brother Lowell who was huddled in the corner, changed his attack strategy, and cast a spell with both hands simultaneously.
“?!”
Just as the spell was being cast, Larven suddenly shuddered and looked up abruptly.
Right above the municipal building, Yang Qiu canceled the summoning of the bone dragon and fell rapidly from a height of three thousand meters.
"--Was the previous premonition not an illusion?!" Larven shouted in astonishment.
Before the high-speed approaching threat from above arrives, he must quickly strangle the soul of this monstrous ascetic and transfer it to this more excellent body. This way, his chances of winning will be much higher!
When Larven was concentrating on launching a mental attack that could strangle the soul of a high-ranking priest... a strong figure jumped into the room from the blown-off door...
“Oooooohh ...
Anthony rushed in with gritted teeth, not daring to even look at the terrible monster that had easily attacked the ascetic, and passed directly by Larven.
At the moment of passing by, this guy, who was actually quite clever and flexible, squatted down at lightning speed, stretched out his hand, grabbed Lowell's arm, pulled Lowell up from the ground, and ran away...
"Where did the bug come from?!"
Larven, who was disturbed one after another, almost had a blood vessel on his forehead burst. He freed one hand and swung it fiercely. The energy blade that took shape instantly rolled towards Anthony's back.
Anthony shook his arm vigorously and threw Brother Lowell, who was pulled up by him, behind him, so that the unconscious Lowell helped him block the attack...
Larven: “?!”
Anthony, who ran up from the first floor immediately after the explosion but was shocked at Lowell being knocked down and dared not show his head, pulled Brother Lowell and jumped directly from the wall next to the window that was blown through.
Anthony and Lowell disappeared from Larven's sight. Yang Qiu, falling straight from the sky, stood in front of Larven who was trying to chase them.
"Nice to meet you."
Yang Qiu gave a very brief greeting with an expressionless face, clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and quickly moved them apart.
A huge magic circle took shape behind Yang Qiu, and a complex formation diagram with a faint blue light flashed by.
The surging dark energy carrying the aura of the evil god swept towards Larven with unstoppable force.
Larven had to stop the pursuit and slap the spiritual energy that was originally used to strangle the ascetic's soul towards the dark energy that was coming towards him.
The collision of the two powerful energies did not cause an explosion, but the energy shock it caused was far more shocking than an uncontrollable explosion - the wall of the Delburg Municipal Building facing the courtyard seemed to be swept by an invisible shock wave, and the windows on all floors were shattered. The exterior wall coating, along with a small amount of stone bricks and wood, were all destroyed into powder.
The civil servants and clerks who were collectively evacuated from the municipal building when the explosion occurred did not have time to evacuate the compound. Some clerks who were a step slower and closer to the municipal building were bleeding from their mouths and noses, and they fainted on the ground with their eyes rolled back.
Anthony, who had just jumped out of the municipal building and had not yet had time to run away, spat out a mouthful of blood with a "wow" sound, staggered for a moment before steadying himself, and ran away quickly without even looking back...
