Chapter Eighty-Five: The Lord of Filth
Bernreid, across the lake from the village of Berg, has become a living hell.
Endless corpses, endless ruins, and vast swarms of rats, all over the mountains, over the streets, through the houses.
Damn the Franks! Make it food for my men!
Among the countless marching rats, there is one inconspicuous rat that is extra excited. Its bean-sized eyes stared ahead, and the vision of countless rats converged in his mental body, like the compound eyes of flies, and could observe thousands of images at the same time.
Through the ability of "Rat III", the spirits of these rats are linked together and become part of his Finger Arm.
On this planet, as long as it is a living creature, there will be more or less extraordinary power in the body. For ordinary people, making potions from spiritual materials rich in supernatural power is the best way to concentrate and absorb supernatural power, after all, it is relatively inefficient to plunder supernatural power from killing and food alone, and it is easy to escape during digestion and cannot be condensed into supernatural properties.
However, at this time, he had mastered thousands of rat spirits, and he was able to choose a more extensive predatory mode, that is, to eat all living things that could be seen.
The flesh is gone, and the corpses are gone.
Due to the large number of long-term killing and eating, the tiny supernatural power plundered by each rat continued to pour into the spirit network, and the amount accumulated was also considerable.
Of course, if he had a choice, he would prefer to eat the transcendental, just like the dozen or so knight squires in the Wolf Legation before, whose extraordinary strength was enough to triple the size of his rat colony.
Extraordinary strength can speed up the rat's natural reproductive cycle, or strengthen their ** qualities, or enhance their ability to attach plague and toxins to their claws. The stronger the rat swarm, the more efficient it is to destroy and plunder.
Bernreid is almost destroyed, and if there are any remaining creatures that are not found, it is not worth the time of ordinary people who hunt for food. The mouse rolled its bean-sized eyes, and its pupils gradually turned bright red.
He's going to drive the rats to the next town as quickly as possible to eat more Franks...... Before the demigods of the Weissbach family had discovered him.
The current Demon Tide level cap is Lv.10, which has both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that transcendents higher than lv.10, such as the demigods of the Weissbach family, are inconvenient to deal with him because their spirituality cannot be restored naturally.
The downside, of course, is that he himself can't collect extraordinary powers that match his current level and complete promotions for the same reason.
However, his "rat generation" ability can skillfully avoid the restrictions of the demon tide, and obtain a large amount of low-level extraordinary power through the feeding of the rat swarm.
These transcendent powers are scattered in the network of spirits of the rat swarm, replacing his own spiritual consumption, so he does not have to worry that his own abilities will be limited by the demon tide.
When the size of the rat swarm expanded to a terrifying point, he integrated all the rat swarms into his body, and used a large amount of low-level supernatural power to cause a qualitative change, condensing into a high-level supernatural power that was enough for him to be promoted, thus breaking through the threshold of demigods in one fell swoop.
Demigod ......
Demigods!
The mouse suddenly leaned down, its gaze fixed on the figure in the distance.
Red-haired Otto looked at it with a smile, his hands in the body of a rat that was not yet dead.
Demigods of the Weissbach family! When was it discovered? The transcendent in the rat's body wanted to transfer, but found that the spirit network of the rat swarm suddenly collapsed.
He can't teleport to other rats anymore!
Under the invisible thought, countless rats ran towards him, and the flesh and blood gradually merged into its body, "composing" into an upright humanoid monster fused by countless rats, with black hair and tail on its skin that had not faded.
"Lord of Filth." The red-haired Otto narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing a hint of jealousy.
"Seal the fire of the furnace." The humanoid monster's voice trembled, "Why dare you bother Your Excellency the Demigod to come?" ”
"You have harmed the interests of the Weissbach family." Red-haired Otto said lightly.
"I'll make amends." The humanoid monster whispered, "I've eaten these Franks, and even if you kill me, you won't be able to bring them back to life." ”
"But if you're willing to let me go, wouldn't it be more cost-effective for you Weissbach to gain the friendship of a newly-minted demigod than for us to lose here?"
"You're rational." Red-haired Otto sneered, "However, in your organization, rational people tend to be more threatening. ”
"How can the threat of the future compare to the threat of the present?" The humanoid monster said, "You slay me at the expense of your own spirituality, what about the Wolf family?" If Weissbach can't win this civil war, what's the point of removing me early? ”
"The meaning is, I don't trust you." The red-haired Otto's voice suddenly became cold, "Devouring blood and flesh, stealing lives and stealing souls, poisoning the countryside, plague the city, your bloodline is born to create disasters!" ”
"Hahahaha!" The humanoid monster seemed to have heard something funny, and laughed wildly, "I can't imagine that the famous Fire of the Sealed Furnace would actually be superstitious about the so-called bloodline original sin theory?" ”
"The scorched fire burns, the living soul turns to ashes, where is your bloodline good? The former emperor crusaded against Henry, the Duke of Lion, and the innocent souls burned under your hands are more than a thousand times more than mine! I'm just slaughtering the city, but you're destroying the country! What right do you have to accuse me! ”
"Everything my red-haired Otto did was based on the sacred oath made by His Majesty in front of the steps, and the duty is not against my heart!" Red-haired Otto exclaimed.
"What a good one!" The humanoid monster sneered, "Just the thickness of this cheek, he is worthy of being the founder of the Weissbach family!" ”
"It's not helpful to say more." The red-haired Otto said indifferently, as if he had lost interest in continuing the verbal battle with him, and waved his hand casually, "Your Excellency Asker, I will leave it to your people." ”
"Hmm." Asker drew his sword and stepped forward.
"Who are you?" The humanoid monster immediately realized that something was wrong. Hey, why didn't the fire of the furnace take action personally?
"Azure Sword Mercenary Group!" Asker shouted, "Everyone! ”
The Sword of Azure? What the heck! The humanoid monster was slightly stunned at first, and then overjoyed.
Could it be that the Fire of the Sealed Furnace doesn't want to be my enemy, so he sent these low-level transcendents to encircle and suppress me, pretending to be?
When I kill these people, the fire of the furnace will retreat under the pretext of saying that these mercenary groups have failed to stop me, and it will be too late for him to arrive?
The humanoid monster thought it understood what the other person meant, and gradually showed a grotesque smile.
In the next second, its smile was blown off by bullets.
The monster's head suddenly exploded, turning into countless bats in the sky, its wings connected almost obscuring the sky, and fiercely attacked the people of the Azure Sword.
The bats fluttered their wings in mid-air, suddenly losing the ability to fly, to be precise, the air under their wings was drained and they rained down on the ground, and then they were sucked together by the emerging gravitational field ball.
Sidlifa had already rushed forward, and before the bats could coalesce back into their original form, the Axe of the North Wind slashed through an arc and slashed at it.
Freeze!
All the bats were frozen into a ball of ice slag in an instant, and Sidlifa's right hand caught the flying back Axe of the North Wind, and the power armor palm of his left hand was already pressed on the ice ball.
Palm. Thunder!
The huge voltage condensed in her palm, and in an instant, it pierced the entire puck of the ice ball. The first half of the puck she held was intact, and the second half of the puck exploded into countless tiny pieces, as if it had been held down by a shotgun and fired.
"Be careful! Sidlifa! Eleanor's warning suddenly sounded.
Hidlifa jerked her back, and saw a cloud of blood slamming in front of her, enveloping her entire body.