Chapter Twenty-Eight: Hungry Souls
In the backyard of the secluded Crescent Manor, there are only two people: Lucia and a hungry old man who came out of nowhere. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 At this time, Lucia was walking towards the old man, and she smelled a strange smell. Previously, the old man had been hiding in the shadows of the building, and Lucia couldn't see it really. This time, she wanted to see what this person looked like!
The moon, which had just been obscured by the clouds, showed its brilliance again, and although the light could not reach the shadows of the building, this time, Lucia really saw the appearance of the so-called "old man" clearly. Exactly, it's not human. Just looking at the head, it is not much different from an ordinary old man, with a few brown-red hairs on his round head, dull eyes, and a harath flowing from his mouth. There are no clothes on the body, and the unusually protruding ribs can be seen on the chest, although they resemble human shapes, with a head and feet, but only one hand and one foot. The arm is long on one side of the body, and the other side is empty. Below the waist is an unusually thick leg, connected to a large foot, and jumps up and down when walking.
At this time, it jumped towards Lucia like this, and from time to time, its mouth was still babbling: "Give ~me~eat~, give ~you~the~meat~ to ~me~eat~"
Lucia instantly bounced a few meters away. She knew this monster, and when she was reciting the "List of Demons" earlier, she knew that this monster was one of the top ten evil ghosts, named Hungry Soul. Most of these monsters are the souls of humans or animals who have starved to death, and they are formed with a strong obsession. Because I couldn't eat enough before I was alive, I can't forget the feeling of hunger after I die, and it was very painful. However, even if this kind of youkai eats all the time, it will not be able to eat enough, because it has a large hole in its stomach, and when it eats, the hole opens by itself, and it leaks as much as it eats.
Lucia still has some sympathy for hungry souls, but she also knows that this monster has no feelings other than the obsession of eating, and it can't think, and it belongs to a low-level demon. Rather than make it so painful, give it a ride. Lucia knew the way to exorcise hungry spirits, but it needed the power of sunlight, and it was night.
Lucia once had the bad idea of letting it go and running away. But she soon gave up on the idea, no matter where the hungry soul came from, now that it was in Crescent Manor, it was a threat to the people who lived here, and if she escaped, it might be tonight, and the evil spirit would be able to eat everyone in the manor. As a magician, you can't do this without virtue!
But how can you take it without sunlight? Lucia pondered as she stepped back. The Hungry Spirit swooped towards her, she had never expected such a monster to move so fast! Realizing that this was not the way to go, Lucia decided to give it a try, after all, she used to do things often with dates and without dates.
With the incantation, the lightsaber came out of the palm of his hand, and as the halo expanded, the sword gradually took shape. She grabbed the sword and stabbed at the hungry soul, but the other deftly dodged it. At the same time, because of this thorn, it clearly sensed the danger, and leaped forward, flying several feet high. Then quickly descended, and the big foot stomped on Lucia.
Lucia had no confidence in her lightsaber, so she decisively chose to dodge and rolled on the ground. The hungry soul landed heavily, shaking Lucia, who had just gotten up, staggered a little. She quickly gained her footing and swept a sword into her opponent's calf. It didn't work, the monster's skin was too thick for an ordinary sword to pierce at all.
The Hungry Soul soared again, a deep pit flowing from the place it had just stepped on. Lucia smacked her lips, even if she died, she didn't want to die at the feet of such a monster, that would be too inferior! Lucia rolled over, jumped slightly, and leaped into the air. By this time, the monster had landed, and smoke and dust were everywhere. Lucia pronounced the incantation, and the lightsaber in her hand instantly turned into a bow, and the arrow shot straight at the hungry soul's feet, and with a loud roar, the arrows pierced its feet fiercely, pinning it to the ground.
Was Lucia's arrow really that powerful? Probably when it drove away the merfolk, because it was in the middle of the day, aided by sunlight, and it was night. Lucia's people all use the sun's rays as the source energy for magical attacks, and all the methods they have learned since childhood are about the sun. And the moon, for them, this star body that exudes a faint glow has no other purpose than to appreciate and express emotions. But today, after Lucia ascended, she noticed that her lightsaber had changed.
The silver light of the moon gilded the sword with a magical layer of frost, and the hand holding the hilt of the sword could feel an unprecedented power, echoing with the energy in her body, and after merging with it, Lucia did not need to recite any incantations, and the color on the sword turned from white to yellow and then to red. The blade flashes and is razor-sharp. "It is finished!" a voice cried out within Lucia, who smoothly turned her sword into a bow. It all happened for a split second, but for Lucia, it was more than enough.
The hungry soul pinned to the ground could not move, and it let out a scream of pain. Lucia didn't say much, she swung her sword and swept it, and the demon's head was cut off with a brush, rolled to the side, and her body collapsed instantly.
"I won't feel hungry anymore. Lucia said lightly, she closed her eyes, folded her hands, and silently prayed that these souls could ascend to heaven sooner. The bodies and heads of hungry souls also turned into smoke and dust at the sound of her prayers, drifting away.
After dealing with the hungry souls, Lucia immediately restarted her escape plan, and the fight just now had already taken a lot of time, and Lucia unconsciously quickened her pace. Soon, she came to the border of the woods. The white building with the dome she had seen from the window was close to her, and it was pitch black just now, but suddenly, all the lights were turned on at once, and the whole white building was like daylight.
Originally, this white building was a flower house, and the surrounding walls were made of glass. People can see the whole inside at a glance from the outside. It was a unique flower room, with all kinds of curiosities, and Lucia even saw several flowers and plants that did not belong to the same season blooming at the same time, and she couldn't help but sigh about the life of a rich man.
Fascinated by the view of the interior, Lucia's gaze wandered from one plant to another, and suddenly, she saw something strange, something that was not in harmony with the time of the flower room, to be exact. It was a long golden hair, clinging to the ground, hidden among the branches and leaves. Lucia rubbed her eyes, reaffirming that it was indeed long blond hair.
"Oh no, someone is down inside!" it was easy to judge from the position of the hair, and Lucia didn't think much of it, she pushed the door and rushed into the flower room.
"Miss, how are you?" she quickly found the location of the blonde hair, but there was no lady there! Knowing that someone had entered, the blonde hair that had been spread on the ground slowly rose. At first, Lucia only thought it was weird, and it wasn't until the ends of the long hair left the ground that she realized where the weird spot was. There was no human torso underneath her hair, and Lucia was greeted by a long snake body. At this time, the long hair was slowly changing its angle, and the whole head was turning!
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