Chapter 137: Dawn, Dawn (Part 8)
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"Spirit Rune, Shield Enchantment!"
Reimu picked up a piece of talisman paper and leaned over to stick it to the ground. Just listening to her shout, a light blue spherical shield appeared out of thin air, protecting the three of them.
The shield was almost completely transparent, as thin as a light veil, but it was extremely strong, and it did not move at all when the demonic aura was raging outside. If those demonic qi invaded and had direct contact with the three of them, Reimu and Nalan Twilight would not mention it for the time being, Kazuhiko would definitely be killed on the spot - its toxicity is so strong.
In front of the three, Radu III stood where he had fallen, his head hanging and motionless. Blood-red crystal shards were scattered at his feet, stained with evaporating liquid.
Although he knew that the situation was critical, it was difficult for Nalan Yu to see anything unusual from his body, but he felt that his figure was a little unusually blurry, as if many shadows were stacked on top of each other, dangling and not seeing clearly. Kazuhiko, on the other hand, felt that it was very dark around Radu III, and although it was night, Kazuhiko could see that the darkness that was wrapped around that guy was by no means the natural darkness of the night, but the strange darkness from which even the light could not escape.
He couldn't understand what it was, but he felt fear, so he looked away and stopped looking.
The only person among the three who knows what happened to Radu III's body is Reimu.
She could see that a large amount of demonic energy, which did not belong to him, was leaking out of his body and spreading throughout the courtyard, like a resentful spirit escaping from hell, waving its teeth and claws, screaming and flying.
The outermost layer, the demonic qi radiating to the vicinity of the three people, is light purple, and further on, it is dark purple. The closer you get to Radu III himself, the stronger the demonic aura becomes, and the darker the color becomes. As for the few wisps of demonic energy that wrapped around him, it was a deep black, thick and thick, like oil. The light distorted with the distortion of this demonic energy, and there were several more ghosts on Radu III's body, and Reimu was dizzy when he saw it.
"Is this demonic power brought to him by those three crystal balls?" Reimu glanced at the crystal fragments that were scattered all over the ground, and muttered in his heart, "What is there in there?"
"Tell me," she asked, turning her head to face Nalan Twilight, "what the hell is going on with this guy?"
"Do you remember the vampire attack some time ago?" Nalan asked, keeping an eye on Radu III in the distance.
"I remember. ”
"You know," Nalan asked again, "how many youkai have been killed in this series of events?"
"I don't know. Reimu shook her head.
"Wen gave me a little bit of information, saying that it is no more, no less," he said, and Nalan Yu gestured a finger, "exactly a hundred." ”
"A hundred?" Reimu's eyes widened, "All youkai?"
"It's all a monster, but it's not a big monster that can be named, it's just a small monster. Nalan Yu turned his head, looked at Reimu, and said, "Now you know, why this incident made the mountain of youkai and even Kazami Yuka angry, right?"
"The killing of a hundred youkai, even if it's just a small youkai, is a big event that can shake the 'balance' of the entire Gensokyo. If I had known about it sooner......"
Actually, Marisa had told her a long time ago, but she never took it to heart. As a qualified shrine maiden, she can rest easy until the end of the world comes.
"There are no ifs. Nalan Yu spread his hands and pouted, "The blood of those hundred monsters, along with their power in life, flowed into the hands of Radu III, making him what he is now. What we should be thinking about now is how to kill this guy. ”
"Do you have any plans?"
"For example, I'm going to tease him first and see what he's capable of?"
"Are you serious?"
Nalan didn't say anything, just gave Reimu a relaxed smile. Reimu was stunned for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, she found that Nalan Twilight was gone.
"Hey, Tepes!"
Nalan Yu got out of the shield, and relied on his body to resist the demonic qi that was blowing around like a strong wind, and ran to Radu III in a few steps, and yelled at him:
"Look up and look this way!"
"Huh?"
Radu III raised his head and looked around, as if he had just woken up, and the whole person had not yet woken up. Nalan Yu took advantage of this opportunity to rush forward with an arrow step, and without saying a word, raised his hand and punched him in the head.
However, after this punch, it was not Radu III's face that was beaten, but Nalan Twilight's own hand. His fist slammed into an invisible wall, stopping just a few centimeters from the tip of Radu III's nose, unable to move on for a single cent.
"Hmph......" Nalan Yu withdrew his fist, glanced at the open fractured wounds on the back of his hand, and said:
"This ...... I really didn't expect that. ”
"Ah, it's you?"
At this time, Radu III finally came to his senses, so he raised his arm and stretched out a finger towards Nalan Twilight.
"I'm ......"
With a flick of his fingers, Nalan Yu was knocked away by an invisible, but really powerful force. This force is like a large container truck in optical camouflage at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, directly pushing Nalan Twilight out of ten meters away, almost flying down the mountain.
Nalan Yu drew a graceful parabola in the air, and finally fell heavily to the ground, his mouth was almost out of breath, and he could only spit out a half-word tremblingly:
"Go to ......"
"This idiot!"
Seeing this, Reimu, who was standing in the hood, was so angry that he stomped his feet. The pitch-black demonic aura stood there like a wall, but Nalan Twilight, a fool, had to fight with his fists, and the blow that gathered demonic power was not impossible to dodge, but Nalan Twilight, who was more alert and clever on weekdays, stood there stupidly like taking the wrong medicine today, and didn't hide at all.
She really couldn't understand why there was such a conspicuous demonic aura, Nalan Hao could just turn a blind eye, which tendon was twitching in this guy!
As for Nalan Xuan's self-abolition of mana, she naturally didn't know. But that doesn't matter, she's going to go out herself.
"Listen boy, I'm going out to fight now, and until the battle is completely over, you must, never go out of the enchantment range, understand?" she turned around and said to Kazuhiko, who didn't even have the guts to watch the battle.
"Good...... Okay!"
Kazuhiko nodded, even though Reimu couldn't tell if he was nodding or trembling. In short, what she can do has been done, and if this kid dies, it will be his life, and it has nothing to do with her.
She still has a bad battle to fight now.
As soon as she left the shield, the violent demon wind blew so that she couldn't open her eyes. The skin that was directly in contact with the air was burned by the scattered demonic energy, and this was still under the condition of having a whole body of spiritual power to protect her body, if it weren't for this, she would already be a dead person.
After quickly pasting a piece of rune paper on himself and unfolding a defensive barrier the size of a person, Reimu opened his eyes and continued to walk, walking all the way to Nalan Twilight's side, and opened his mouth to scold:
"Stupid Nalan Twilight, do you want to die like this?"
"Ahem...... Nalan Yu propped himself up, got up, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and said with a wry smile:
"Practice has shown that this guy's power is genuine. The power of those hundred youkai was preserved in his body without leaking, and maybe it was even increased. ”
"It's not just 'amplification', it gets me a 'promotion'!"
Radu III's voice came from ahead, far and near, drifting uncertainly.
"Vampires, only by hunting the strong and taking their blood can they become stronger. It is true that I don't have the combat power and courage like you to attack my elders, but I can make up for the qualitative deficiency with quantity. ”
He still stood in the distance, not moving, but the sound covered the entire mountain. Echo jumped back and forth between the trees and the shrine's broken walls, repeating his words over and over again.
"This method has proven to be both simple and effective. Now I have a tremendous power that is no less than, no, completely superior to you!"
As he spoke, Radu III spread out his arms, and a foul demonic aura floated from his arms, like a raven flaunting its black feathers.
Of course, Nalan Twilight can't see this. All he knew was that the guy was talking and suddenly started posing and pretending, and that's it.
Therefore, the ignorant are fearless.
"Above me, just you, hehe......" Nalan Yu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and sneered, "When Lao Tzu was born, he was already stronger than you are now." I really don't understand, where did you pick up the second-hand confidence to dare to talk to me like this. ”
"So, let's give it a try. ”
Radu III's tone was very steady, as was his pace. He walked towards Nalan Twilight, and Nalan Twilight greeted him. Both sides know what to expect the moment they come into contact with each other.
"Wait a minute, Nalan Twilight!" Reimu shouted at Nalan Twilight's back, "That guy is weird, it's best not to ......"
Before she could finish her sentence, the battle between the two began first.
This time, it was still Nalan Twilight who took the initiative to attack. The right side hits directly, with the power of cutting between the fingers, and it will die when touched, without exception.
He never thought anyone could stop his blow.
But what he didn't expect was that Radu III really didn't need to block his attack.
Nalan Twilight's outstretched right hand came to a stiff stop in front of Radu III. Then, starting at the elbow, it disconnected neatly and fell to the ground with a "click". Blood flowed out of his marrow like a stream.
"How are you going to kill me if you can't touch me at all?" said Radu III slowly, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.
"Why can't I touch you?"
Nalan raised his eyebrows, ignoring the pain of the wound, raised the severed arm, and swept sideways at Radu III in front of him, throwing out a long stream of blood. The blood, undoubtedly with his characteristic "severe" power, flew unmistakably to Radu III's throat.
Blood can indeed fly farther than fists, however, it is just "some" farther.
"You must be fucking kidding me, right?"
Nalan looked at the oval blood spots that stuck to the air, and immediately thought of the spurting blood stains that poured down on the wall after the killer cut the throat of the victim. It was as if there was a wall between him and Radu III, and all his attacks hit this invisible wall.
If it was just an ordinary wall, he would probably be able to cut it into seventeen pieces with a single sword. But this wall, he can't even recognize its existence, how can he start?
What's even worse is that of the four people present, he may be the only one who can't see this wall at all.
"Obviously, you can't cut me. Radu III said coldly, "But I can still cut you." ”
As he said this, Nalan Twilight's chest was torn open. It was as if there were two huge eagle talons, one on the left and one on the right, hooking Nalan Twilight's ribs and tearing the contents of his chest outward. If this is not a thoracotomy, then it can only be a dismemberment site.
His whole body was now suspended from the ground by that invisible force, and he couldn't move. His chest was open, and the undulating lobes of his lungs and beating heart were almost unobstructed.
He wanted, and tried, to break free from it, but he couldn't. He tried to unleash his power in all directions, but he could only cut through the air over and over again. It's not that he's incapacitated, it's just that he can't find a target to cut off.
"You can't see at all, what hit you, right?" said Radu III with a smile...... If that distorted expression could be considered a "smile".
"Phew!"
Nalan Yu spat out a mouthful of blood foam, but was stopped by the "wall" and failed to spray it on his face. This bloody saliva expressed all the meaning he wanted to express for him.
"Hehehehe......" Ladhu III laughed even more, "Actually, I don't mind sharing my secret with you, and I will tell you clearly that you were killed by something." ”
"This power from a hundred youkai has fused perfectly with my body under the harmony of magic. It's a natural extension of my body, and everything I can do, it does. ”
"Let's say, sucking blood. ”
Nalan Yu can't see anything like magic power at all, and it's okay to have glowing and heat-emitting spells like magic cannons, but illusory things like demon power and spiritual power, people who don't have talent really have no problem. And he is the opposite of a self-deprecating talent.
The only thing he could see now was blood. The blood that flowed from the cracked chest cavity gradually stopped flowing under his nose.
No, it's not that the flow stops, but it stops flowing downward.
Gravity, no problem, time, no problem, Radhu III couldn't be strong enough to interfere with these. Then, what went wrong must be the blood itself.
The blood began, slowly, in an orderly manner, floating, towards Radu III. Wisp after wisp, strand after strand, and so on, until Nalan Twilight's life dried up.
Not only that, but looking around, he saw that the vegetation was withering at a rate visible to the naked eye, the earth was rapidly drying up and cracking, and the houses were decaying and dilapidated as if they had weathered decades. Even the severed hand that fell to the ground became more and more shriveled.
It's like it's been drained.
The blood that flowed from his chest converged into a ball in front of Radu III. Radu III raised the blood ball to his lips, took a sip, and couldn't help but admire:
"The taste of revenge is so sweet!"
"Your death is but the beginning. "The more blood you take, the more efficiently you can plunder." Starting with you, then to the little girl, then to the village at the bottom of the mountain. When I wipe out all the living things here, maybe it won't be a bad thing to try to dominate a wider territory. ”
"When that time come......s," said Radu III, a twisted smirk on his face, "I'll leave a booth for your skull in my palace." ”
"Hah!" Nalan opened his bloody throat, laughed dryly, and said:
"The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. Let me give you a prophecy that you will get stuck at a critical step and fall short. ”
"Tell me, then, which step?"
"The 'kill me' step. The corners of Nalan Twilight's mouth rose upward, revealing two blood-stained canines, "Look around and see who's missing?"
"What?"
This smile startled Radu III, and he immediately turned his head to look around, and saw the collapsed shrine, the withered woods, the frozen torii, the badly injured Nalan Twilight, the little boy Kazuhiko squatting in the enchantment, and ...... Nope.
No, it shouldn't be.
There was a girl in a red and white dress there, standing there, she should have been standing there when he was fighting Nalan Twilight!
Why is it gone, and where has it gone?
"Watch the top of your head, man, watch the top of your head. ”
After Nalan Twilight's reminder, Radu III reflexively looked upward.
"Secret Treasure, Yin Yang Treasure Jade!"
In front of his eyes, there was only pure white.