Chapter 197: High Demon
A great demon walked up and down a street on instinct, and his meagre intelligence and sanity no longer understood why he was moving around like this, but felt that he should walk like this, and then smashed any other object he saw to move with a big stick of bone in his hand.
It's just that when the big demon turned around a street corner as usual, he didn't notice that there was a figure suddenly behind him, and at the same time as this figure appeared, he jumped up and plunged the horned dagger in his hand into the dented bone at the back of his neck.
When the great demon's huge body turned to ashes, its skull fell to the ground, but before the skull could fall to the ground, it was grabbed by a hand, and then the fire in the skull was taken out by the man and swallowed into his mouth, and after a while, he heard the man say in great disappointment, "Still can't do it?"
This person who doesn't kill the Great Demon is none other than Leo, and four days have passed since the moment he entered this Demon Library. Originally, with Leo's speed, he should have reached the Great Tree Cave two days ago, but in order to be able to stimulate the unknown primordial bloodline in his body, he chose to stay for a while longer, hunt more Great Demons, and harvest more fire.
At the end of everything, Leo didn't worry about being late, because from all the knowledge he had gained, he knew that time in this world is chaotic, even if you stay in this world for 10,000 years, everyone else who entered at the same time as you is in the same time stream, and there will be no lateness, only when you arrive at the big tree cave, the others will just come to the big tree hole.
In the past few days, Leo relied on his understanding of the Great Demons, and used various assassination methods to solve nearly 100 Great Demons, and harvested more than 100 fires, except for a few that have been completely eroded by the power of chaos and transformed into other fires that are not suitable for absorption, most of the rest have been swallowed by Leo into the Chaos Stomach, refining the divine power in it, and fusing it into the body.
It's just that a day ago, the progress bar at the end of the unknown original bloodline in the personal data panel was full, but this unknown bloodline still hasn't revealed its true face, just like the previous full value of 100 points.
"Is it really necessary a high-level demonic spark to complete the final transformation?" Leo couldn't help but muttered to himself as he thought of the reason for the change in his bloodline, and a look of hesitation appeared on his face.
Leo is now completely different from the one he came in four days ago, not only does he absorb the remaining knowledge of the demonic fire, but he also gains more esoteric knowledge by touching the heads of the higher demons during the day.
The vast database of knowledge and memory fragments had made his knowledge of the end of everything, or more accurately, of this demonic library far beyond that of a person in the dream world.
Leo was glad that his caution had kept him from falling into danger, and if he had made a bold attack on the High Demon on the first night, he would have died at the hands of the High Demon by now, his soul eroded by the power of chaos, trapped in this desperate world.
Compared to the Great Demon, the High Demon is more dangerous, and the difference in strength between the two is like the difference between a child and an adult.
The reason why Leo was able to assassinate the Great Demon so easily was because he was very familiar with the Archdemon's behavior and weaknesses, and although the Great Demon himself was powerful, he had no wisdom, which allowed him to succeed repeatedly.
But the High Demon is different, not only does it have the strength that is not weaker than the Great Demon, but it also has a natural mastery of a weapon fighting style, and its body is also more tenacious, even with the amplification effect of the Twin Fists, it may be difficult to break through the defense of the High Demon skin with the long-horned dagger in its hand alone, unless it happens to stab the weak point.
But the problem is that the weakness of the High Demon is not the same as the weakness of the Great Demon, this weakness is not fixed, it can be any part of the body, and even after every night resurrection, the weakness will be transferred to other places, so it is almost impossible to find the weakness of the High Demon.
In addition, the High Demon also has three to five kinds of spells that can be activated at any time similar to psionic skills, and the effects of these spells are also varied, even beyond the types of witchcraft in the Velen World in Leo's memory, and naturally there are strong and weak. Among the Tinder knowledge that Leo had absorbed, there was a great demon who had seen a powerful high-level demon cast a spell similar to meteorite, and the power of this spell was comparable to that of the inferior Star Destroyer cannon in the large warships of the Earth Federation.
"Do you want to use the sacrificial knife?" Leo thought that the only weapon that could confidently penetrate the defenses of the High Demon was the Twin Sacrificial Knife, but in doing so, even if he killed the High Demon, he would be sacrificed to the Lord of Turbidity and Light Spirit in the unknown land, and he would not be able to obtain the fire of the High Demon at all.
After a little consideration, Leo finally chose not to risk attacking the High Demon, but decided to go to the Great Tree Cave to meet Charles Ronco first, and then see if he could use Charles Rangko and them to besiege a High Demon in order to obtain the High Demon's fire.
While there was still some time before dawn, Leo quickly walked along the various shelters in the direction of the large tree hole, and his eyes full of psionic energy could easily spot the figure of any demon, even if they were hiding behind the wall.
Absorbing a large amount of demonic fire these days has not caused much change in Leo's body, and it has only increased a basic value in terms of spirit and strength. However, his uninterrupted use of the psionic skill for several days in a row has improved this psionic skill a lot.
In addition to the almost negligible spiritual energy consumed by the improved spiritual vision skill, he also has an additional spiritual perspective ability, which means that he does not need to go through the spiritual network, and he can also fluctuate with a certain strength of spiritual energy, and this also makes all the demons have nothing to hide under his spiritual vision, which is one of the main reasons why he can assassinate successfully.
The journey was smooth, Leo only took less than two hours to reach the vicinity of the big tree hole, he didn't need to climb high to look out, he just needed to raise his head and he could see half of the big tree hole extending from the top of the building in front of him. According to Leo's estimate, if you are lucky, you should be able to get to the outside of the big tree cave in half an hour, and even if you are unlucky, you should be able to get out of the city area of the Demon Library before dawn.
However, when Leo drilled through several buildings, he suddenly stopped, and quickly retreated into the building, hiding behind the wall, carefully peeking out of the window, and urging the chaotic power transformed by the power of nightmare to completely cover his body, without leaking a trace of breath.
After ten minutes, at the end of the street outside Leo's hiding place, a high-level demon figure slowly leaned towards this side, behaving as if the lord was patrolling his territory.
This figure is eight meters high, it can be regarded as a small giant, although the demon is tall, but it does not appear strong, but like a skeleton, the whole person has to go down first, just like skin and bones, if you don't look carefully, maybe someone will take this high demon as a skeleton.
The High Demon was wearing a tattered robe, his feet were shoeless, and his whole body was suspended in mid-air, and around his body were six balls of different colors and different patterns on the surface, each of which emitted psionic fluctuations far beyond the psionic fluctuations contained in any kind of witchcraft that Leo had ever seen.
It's just that the part of the high demon's body that has the strongest spiritual energy fluctuations is not the ball condensed by those similar spells around his body, but the fire in the middle of a pair of curved horns on his head.
Leo has seen a lot of high-level demons these days, but this is the first time he has seen a high-level demon that can transfer demonic fire from his body to the outside of his body before he dies, and put it in such a conspicuous place.
Not to mention anything else, just the spiritual energy fluctuations emitted by this fire made Leo can't help but think of the True Eye of the Veron World and the Lady of the Lake in the Dream World, the strength of this high demon is definitely not weaker than those two gods.
The reason why Leo hid in advance just now was not because he saw the figure of this High Demon, but because the spiritual energy fluctuations on this High Demon were too strong, so powerful that under Leo's spiritual gaze, it was like a blazing fireball that was enough to burn the sky, enough to burn the people who approached Jean He into ashes.
"Keeper!" Leo barely needed to think twice to confirm the identity of the High Demon, and just glanced at the High Demon's figure in the distance, closed his eyes, turned off his vision, and curled up in the corner of the ruined building.
Just like when he saw the anomalies of those gods before, when Leo saw this high demon, his daily value of will began to decrease rapidly, making him afraid to take a closer look.
Although the influence of this high demon on the will has stopped, the influence of other parts of Leo's body has not ended, such as the strong thirst of the blood veins in his body for the demonic fire suspended above the demon's head, or the absorption and devouring of the high demon's dissipating spiritual energy by the dream body.
The thirst for such a dazzling demonic fire from the unknown primordial bloodline in his body was completely expected by Leo and was under his control, but the dream body began to absorb the spiritual energy that escaped from the higher demons, which surprised Leo a little.
What surprised him even more was that the psionic energy absorbed by the Dream Body was not used to replenish the nightmare power consumed, but to increase the basic value of the nightmare power.
I saw that in the personal data interface, the basic value of one hundred and fifty points behind the power of nightmare began to slowly increase after absorbing the escape spiritual energy of the higher demons, and the improvement speed also accelerated as the high demons approached and the escape spiritual energy absorbed by the dream body increased, and the kung fu increased to more than two hundred and thirty points in the blink of an eye.
Although it was a good thing that the base value of Nightmare Power could be increased, Leo was not happy at all, because he had no control over the absorption of the Dream Body, and even he could sense this absorption movement, not to mention this high demon.
For this reason, Leo had to make the worst plan, he took out a bottle of tranquility potion and drank it directly, inserted the horned dagger into his waist, and pulled out the king and queen at the same time, once he needed to fight, he definitely couldn't directly fight this high demon at close range, first use the psionic firearm to test it from a distance, and find the weakness of the high demon is the most suitable way.
As the High Demon approached, the base value of Nightmare Power had already broken through the three hundred level, and when the High Demon moved to the side of the house where Leo was, it suddenly stopped, and Leo felt a spiritual energy fluctuation similar to a spiritual net envelop him, revealing his location.
Leo didn't hesitate, before the High Demon could make a move, he instantly drilled out of the window at the other end of the room, and at the same time turned on his vision, raised the king and queen in his hands and fired at all parts of the High Demon's body without hesitation.
The huge gunfire made the High Demon suddenly stunned for a moment, and there was no reaction for a while, and the bullet with the burst and piercing effect hit the High Demon's dry body, and the exponentially improved bullet effect hit the High Demon's suspended body in the air and kept retreating, and fell into passivity for a while.
Seeing the advantage, Leo did not stop attacking, but kept shooting on the bullet, trying the effects of various ammunition one by one, and at the same time his body moved rapidly, circling around the body of the High Demon, and the bullets also continued to involve various parts of the High Demon's body before and after, as if he wanted to find out the weakness of the High Demon's body.
However, the king's and queen's bullets all hit the High Demon's body, but they did not cause any substantial damage to the High Demon, not even the tattered robe that the High Demon was wearing was not destroyed.
As the strongest master of the Demon Library, this high demon seems to have been completely enraged by Leo's mosquito-like harassing attack.
I saw that he let out a loud roar, and a round ball around his body instantly burst into a cloud of light, enveloping his body in it, just like the offset energy force field used by an interstellar battleship, blocking all the bullets fired by the king and queen.
Then he recited a monosyllable that Leo didn't understand, and another ball erupted with lightning as he sounded, followed by a thunderbolt shot at Leo.
"Flash!" Seeing the thunder spear shoot out, Leo didn't have the slightest idea of resisting, and directly borrowed the power of spending ten nightmares to imitate Jivi El's flash spiritual energy, and instantly disappeared from the attack range of the thunder spear, appearing behind the high demon, and at the same time raised his hand to aim at the back of the high demon, leading out the spatial turbulence that had already been prepared in the space in his palm, forming a spatial shock wave, penetrating the protective force field, and directly hitting the back of the high demon.
The power of the space shock wave itself is extraordinary, and with the influence of the environment here, it is even more enhanced, although it was not able to inflict fatal injuries on the High Demon, but it beat the High Demon's suspended body to the wall of the building next to it.
Seeing this opportunity, Leo instantly turned the twin fists into the mode of a sacrificial knife, and quickly rushed to the feet of the High Demon, stabbing into the calf of the High Demon, and at the same time activating the sacrifice.