Chapter 244 The old man's intervention
Lord's Palace...... No, to be precise, this is the site of the former Lord's Mansion, and there is not even a trace of the 'real ruins' left. When Yuri and the others arrived at the scene, they could only see scattered guards holding their heads and scurrying around, and it was incredible that these people did not even have a piece of cloth to cover their bodies.
Of course, a group of rough men don't have anything to stop at, even if they run naked and run wild. But the culprit who turned them into this tragic scene is in the middle of the most visible ruins.
Huge trees, vine-like tentacles, monsters with beautiful female appearances, and a pair of young sisters who control them. Then, in front of the sisters, a man, in the miserable posture of four prisoners about to be executed, fell to the ground on all fours, unable to move.
Although even if he usually wears bright clothes, his body looks thin and shabby, and at this moment it is even more barren and miserable. There is no doubt that it was the Viscount of Capuwa, who had never been revealed to the public, hiding in the depths of his mansion and not knowing what he was doing, like a vase...... No, his appearance is not aesthetically pleasing at all, so he is just a ghostly damp lord.
Then, he is now on the verge of dying in danger. The short-haired girl raised her knife at the man lying on the ground, and then fell. The hand knife of an eight-year-old girl, if you use common sense, is just an itch for an adult man. But her every move, Alice El Crusnier, was powerful enough to tear the heavens apart, and now the crater-like depression beneath her feet was the best proof of that.
Kapuwa would have been killed - almost immediately, everyone came to such a conclusion. But seeing this scene, no one surged to save him. Because there is no need to lend a helping hand to a heinous aristocratic man. Except for one person—
The white-haired old man accelerated instantly, and the golden fighting qi wrapped around the surface of the muscles like armor, and rushed towards Alice with the momentum of tearing through the air. Then, at the last moment, block the girl's deadly hand knife.
Probably not expecting the sudden killing of Whitehouse, nor did she expect someone to block her attack, Alice's eyes grew and showed a look of consternation.
"Yo, madgirl, we're meeting again. ”
"Old Whitehouse...... You, why ......?"
Alice, of course, immediately recognized the old man who was blocking her killing, but her face was still full of doubt. Why did the other party appear here, why did he save the innocent villains in front of him, and most importantly, what should he do? Knock down the old man in front of him and carry out his own execution?
But it's not easy to defeat Whitehouse, if you ask Alice how many opponents in this world she is not sure to win, then her sister, her mother Ratche, and then the old man in front of her.
"Locked on to dangerous carbon-based life entities, with energy intensity equal to Alice's, with a clear hostile will, causing obstacles to the action plan, and beginning to respond. ”
Compared to Alice's question, the surrounding demonic beasts reacted first. It should be said that Yatanis sensed the danger of her opponent and immediately gave the order to attack the monster girls.
In the blink of an eye, thousands of vines stabbed out of the ground from Whitehouse's feet, and the surface of the rattans, which had been bare, was now covered with crystal thorns like steel cones. Trittney is only in the form of a tree on the surface, but in fact, underground, her roots have spread throughout the town, and as long as she is still in this city, she can strike her target with unmistakable precision whenever and wherever she wants.
However, none of the needles succeeded in piercing the old man's skin. The vines that came in all directions were like papier-mâché, and they were all cut off by a twist of Whitehouse's legs.
Those thorns are not part of the plant, but some kind of liquid that has been solidified, yes...... It is a fragment of the slime's body tissue, capable of changing shape, composition, hardness, and movement at will. The scattered cone fragments immediately dissolved, turned into a viscous liquid, and elongated into a sharp needle to re-solidify, and launched a second round of attacks towards the old man's location.
"Drink, ——!"
This time Whitehouse didn't make any movement, just crouched down and let out a shocking drink from his mouth, and the fighting spirit exploded from the surface of his skin like a bomb to the surroundings, blowing countless sharp needles away with wind pressure, and stabbing them on the ground around him, turning into a dense needle blanket that could not be put down.
From behind the giant tree, a huge python nearly ten meters long flew out, twisting the snake's body in a surprising way, and bursting out with an incomprehensible ultra-high speed. The human girl's eyes on her upper limbs were glowing scarlet, and the magic contained in that light could trigger a curse that would make the flesh of any creature petrified.
According to Atanis's genetic analysis, this special energy is a malignant virus that transmits through the retina, and the optical signals she emits can forcibly rewrite the magical network in the animal's body, forming a unique technique that makes mucous membranes, body fluids, muscles, skin, and so on, quickly secrete a solidified substance that affects the movement of the limbs.
This is a curse common to the original giant python monsters, but the genetically modified Lamia's magic eye has more than 100 times the interference strength of the A-level monsters, and even the dragons with strong magic resistance may be affected. This is undoubtedly a fatal curse for the warriors.
Because, the warrior has to judge the opponent's movements and intentions by observing the opponent's gaze, and the more skilled the warrior, the more so, even Alice. It's just that Whitehouse is different from Alice, he was a veteran adventurer before he became a warrior, although he had never seen a snake demon with a human body, but he also realized the regular ability of snake monsters by experience, and quickly closed his eyes, dodging the petrified magic pupils, but the action of closing his eyes also meant that he could only choose defense.
You must know that Lamia's killer weapon is not only petrified pupil technique, the strange power contained in her body far exceeds that of any kind of giant python-shaped monster of the same race, even if Whitehouse is dressed in golden fighting energy, he is still knocked out by the domineering brute force in a loud collision sound.
Once it floats into the air, the human race will lose all means of movement, and what awaits the old man of the Holy Order is the unavoidable divine thunder from the sky, and the magic power that Finney has accumulated from the beginning is all released at this moment, and the thunderbolt once again falls between the dark clouds in the sky that have not yet dispersed.
This series of actions happened too fast and too urgently, Alice didn't have time to stop them, and the continuous attacks launched by the four A+ rank demonic beasts were intimately launched, even the Saint-rank powerhouses would never be able to retreat with their whole body, and the thunder light hit Whitehouse's body impartially.
Unlike the lightning strikes that had broken down the house before, this time it caused a violent explosion that left the smoke and dust scattered and Whitehouse unrecognizable.
"The attack command has been executed, and the target has been silenced. ”
"No——! wait for Yatanis! this old man is not an enemy!"
"Judgment...... Mistakes?"
"He's my friend's grandfather!"
"Regrets, mistakes in action, apologies, lightning strikes, target deaths......"
Yatanis's expression didn't change noticeably, but Alice could hear the overwhelmed emotion in her words.
"Hey, hey, don't kill the old man without permission......" At this moment, from the direction of being struck by lightning, the rubble was lifted open with a 'click', and a burly old man with burn marks everywhere on his skin crawled out of it in some embarrassment.
"Target survival, unbelievable, physical strength, beyond estimated durability ......"
This is probably the first time that Yatanis has shown 'surprise' in front of Alice.
"Ha, haha...... Also, alive...... Is he really human, old man?"
At the same time, in the distance, Yuri, an adventurer young man who had been stunned by the series of attacks just now and had not yet recovered from the blank space in his mind, couldn't help but smile a little bitterly when he saw the old man who had escaped death, and let out a somewhat helpless sigh.
"Grandpa, grandpa...... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my sister was a little too nervous just now, thinking that the enemy was attacking, so she subconsciously did that...... Sorry anyway. ”
"Girl, don't be so frizzy, it's an old man today, if you change to someone else, you'll burp at the first time. ”
Whitehouse is right, the attack from the monster girls just now, outside of Whitehouse, I'm afraid that no adventurer in the empire can resist it all, if the strength is strong enough and the luck is good, maybe you can pass the second level. But then again, only Whitehouse could catch up in an instant and successfully block Alice's hand knife with all his might.
"Before that, what are you doing here, Grandpa, why are you stopping me? You probably don't know, this scum is innocent, he ——!."
"The old man knows...... Kapwa, this kid, secretly mixed a lot of dirty things, such as precious meat feasts and the like...... Isn't that right?"
"Why do you ...... if you know?"
"Don't get me wrong, the old man didn't come to save him, what this guy did may really be innocent, but this doesn't mean a reason for you to kill him yourself. ”
"What do you mean——!? are you saying that I'm a little kid who is not qualified to judge him? Or is he going to hand this guy over to the Knights? He claims that he has some bureaucratic father's backing, and even if he does something wrong, there will be no law to punish him, right? Moreover, these things he has done, what kind of meat banquet, is the entertainment of the imperial nobles, I tell you grandpa, even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't stop me today, no matter you-"
Probably sensing Alice's will, the monster girls have sunk their faces, and re-entered the state of preparation, and now Alice and their beautiful girls are all beautiful girls in the city, but the momentum that overflows is no less than an army of 10,000 people.
"Tsk, girl, listen to the words of the old man, what the old man means ......"
"Hahaha, old man, you know how to do things! Save me, arrest these monsters and little girls, and I'll reward you with too many of them—"
As if grasping at a life-saving straw, Viscount Capwa burst out laughing, and believing his naked incontinence for help. But what he got in exchange was the heaviness of the soles of his feet, and his spine was broken mercilessly in the crunchy sound of bones shattering with a 'grunt'. The young nobleman's mouth spurted dark blood, and for a moment he was not breathing.
And the one who got down was the old man who saved himself from Alice not long ago.
"What the old man means is that the scum in this city should be dealt with by us adventurers at the responsibility of our own people. ”