《Netheril’s Glory 》Chapter 96: The Battle Continues.
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"Damn it, ah ah, ah..."
All the ferocious faces inside the dark green spider's body turned toward No. 1, who was already close at hand. Their spiteful gaze was so venomous that it seemed as if it could burn steel. But it was unfortunate for them that No. 1 was just a killing machine that would only obey Punk's orders unswervingly. So no matter how malicious or resentful their gaze was, it would not be able to affect No. 1.
No. 1 stretched out its hands that had been modified with Imp demon's claws, and the chaotic red abyssal energy wandered freely on the edges of its sharp claws.
In front of the believer leader's eyes, which now had a trace of fear mixed in them, No. 1 pierced the dark green spider's body without hesitation.
"Zzizizi..."
As soon as the flesh golem's body that was made with flesh and blood of the Illusion demon came in contact with the dark green liquid on the spider's body, it actually started to be corroded by the strong acidic properties. The ordinary linen cloth covering the arm of the flesh golem instantly turned into flying ash, and the blood-red muscles became exposed as the skin and flesh of its hand begun to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye. The souls who were wandering inside the dark green spider also gathered near the flesh golem's arms and began to frantically bite it.
But as No. 1 didn't feel pain, so even when its arm was full of holes, it still kept its grasp on the dark green spider's wound; as a result, the more and more frantic souls begun to tear the muscle tissues of its arm.
"Ahhhhh----"
Although both No. 1 and the dark-green spider were alchemy creatures, but unlike No. 1, the lunatic believers' souls, which merged into the dark green spider, did not seem to have completely eliminated the feeling of pain.
All the souls inside the dark green spider started to howl in agony, and ear-piercing screams flooded the entire silent domain for a while.
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"A group of useless garbage who can't control even the borrowed power, want to resist true power! What a joke."
Punk was not disturbed by the howling souls, and taking advantage of the time when the spider was resisting No. 1's attack, he had completed a spell that was now floating on his palm.
It was the official-level version of the spell, Minor damage, Major Damage. This spell created more than a thousand etheric energy blades and then concentrated them into an area of about 20 cubic meters.
As one of the spells that specifically made to inflict damage on the enemy, the "Major Damage Spell" had extraordinary lethality, and also as it was a curse spell, it also could not be avoided by the immobile dark-green spider.
The already furious leader of the believers seeing the grey ball in Punk's hand, let out an unwilling roar:
"Goddess Ti Xiaer, please give this incapable slave more strength!"
The believers' leader also began to burn his soul in a desperate move, and the dark green spider began to struggle more fiercely.
Then dozens of howling souls entwined with green aura flew out from the body of the dark green spiders in an intertwined manner and created a soul chain in mid-air.
The suddenly appeared vast soul chain that was exuding an ominous aura then wrapped around No. 1's arm and pulled back desperately.
Although the soul chain could not break through the abyssal energy defence on the No. 1's body, its considerable power still succeeded in pulling out No. 1's hands from inside the dark green spider's body. As soon as it succeeded in freeing itself from the flesh Golem's grasp, it began to tighten its limbs in order to escape from Punk's attack range.
"Keep dreaming…"
Punk shouted in a low voice and immediately ordered No. 1 to use the spell -"Steel Binding"
A large number of twisted steel branches entangled the dark green spider, but perhaps because the acidic slime on its body affected the metal's durability, the dark green spider, even while wrapped in layers of metal branches, successfully moved a long distance.
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The slime on the dark green spider swirled and creaked the steel branches and created a large amount of smoke. In this hazy environment, the densely packed sharp blades gleamed with a chilling light.
"Ah ah ah ah, I want you to die, I want you to die-ah ah ah..."
Although at the last moment, the dark green spider tried its best to get most of the body out of the scope of the Damage spell, but still nearly one-third of its body was cut and smashed, and because of the intense pain, the leader of the believer's soul completely lost its mind.
Now, the seriously injured body of the dark green spider could no longer maintain its balance. All the souls were scurrying around on the body of the dark green spider crazily.
The green mucus on the surface of the spider's body was now just like boiling hot water. Large drops of mucus splashed out of its body, and soon, The surrounding rock ground became like a beehive by the acid splashes.
Seeing the boiling inside of the dark green spider, Punk decided to stay away from it, and as No. 1 had already broken free from the soul chains, he also ordered it to stop its attacks.
This spider beast had some kind of extremely fierce corrosive slime on its body, which was a very dangerous problem for most melee combatants. Even with the sturdy flesh and blood of the Illusion demon, it was still difficult for No. 1 to resist its strong acid, which clearly showed its corrosive power.
But as a long-range mage, Punk was not afraid of the acid that had close to zero range. So no matter how intense the corrosive power was, it would still be useless if it couldn't hit the target.
After calmly ordering No. 1, whose arms had now become bare-bones, to escape from the dark-green spider's madness, Punk began to run counterclockwise while releasing "kinetic energy bursts" to attack the seriously injured spider.
"Ahhhhh, damn heresy, I want you to die, I want you to die—why don't you die... die—"
The leader of the believer completely lost the last trace of his sanity under the stimulation of the severe pain. And in such a state, the dark green spider could not last very long, so the leader of the believer, without caring about survival, started to consume its own body in order to release more acid ball attacks.
Such a crazy barrage of attacks did bring some trouble to Punk. But it was not because of the power of the acid ball. In fact, the dark green spider that had run out of oil couldn't launch the terrible acid that was almost insoluble at the beginning, and now the acid balls it released in desperation didn't even have half of its original power.
But Punk still intercepted all the chaotic acid balls one by one. After all, if there was no terrible conspiracy, it meant that the boss inside was really hoodwinked by the Silent domain. So at this critical moment, Punk would never allow a stray acid ball fired by the dark green spider before his death to fly out of the silent domain.
Fortunately, the dark green spider who had lost its sanity now only have the idea of attacking the enemy desperately. Punk even guessed that it had already forgotten that there was still a boss in their home. Under the control of the leader of the believers, all the acid balls flew in the direction of Punk. This undoubtedly dramatically reduced the difficulty of his interception process.
"Remember, Brain is also important, so if possible, you should grow one first in your next life..."
Experiencing the enemy's brainlessness, Punk sighed and sincerely advised the leader from his heart. But the release of "kinetic energy burst" still didn't slow down a bit, and multiple lavender energy balls smashed into multiple green balls in mid-air. Just like the petals against the gale.
"What a boring fight..."
Punk thought plainly...
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