Chapter 426: Chapter 290: Charming Demon Girl
Clang!
The enormous head of the Skinless Beast, carrying a handful of fresh blood, spun and was lifted high into the air.
Those bloodshot eyes on top stared roundly, fixating on the knight below.
“You can’t kill me, Qiaoke!”
Bishop Somphic roared.
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The next second.
A crimson cloak suddenly appeared mid-air, behind the head of the beast, a rusty bracer was raised, and fingers wrapped in brown leather gloves grabbed the long dark hair, hoisting the entire head in hand.
“You…!”
Bishop Somphic’s voice stalled.
Boom!
A fierce orange flame blazed to life.
The Bishop of the Red Apple Church from Fanglead City screamed wretchedly in the flames.
Within moments,
The ghoul’s head burned into a lump of black charcoal, and Chen Lun casually tossed it away.
On the ground.
The headless corpse had not yet died.
With the formidable life force of the Flesh Faction, Bishop Somphic grew another head yet, the next second, the gigantic ghoul was slashed into chunks by more than a dozen sword lights.
“Ahh!!”
Bishop Somphic screamed shrilly, his voice laden with thick terror.
The Spade Knight moved like a phantom devil, brandishing the frightening greatsword in his hand and easily inflicting severe damage.
Ferocious, powerful, the suffocating pressure!
Bishop Somphic lost the courage to fight and immediately used his Sequence Ability, turning the shattered remains into hundreds of bats that scattered in all directions.
The Spade Knight merely took a step and instantly appeared beside the bats, sweeping his hand horizontally.
Whoo-hoo!
The wide Silver Blade cut through the air, emitting a screech.
The sword, ablaze with ultra-high temperature violet-red flames, slashed out a dazzling ring of fire that rapidly spread. Most of the bats were directly burnt into nothingness, vanishing from sight.
The figure of the Spade Knight flickered continuously, instantly appearing in various corners of the churchyard. Each time he appeared, he either slashed with his sword or swung the crimson cloak behind him, killing all the bats attempting to escape.
He was clad in heavy armor, dragging that enormous silver sword, yet his speed was unbelievably fast!
In less than thirty seconds, the number of bats had sharply decreased to a single digit, and Bishop Somphic was forced to condense his human form. Bloodied all over, his bishop’s robe torn and tattered, he was in the utmost disarray.
Just as he was about to say something, Somphic froze on the spot, terror-stricken.
That terrifying and grand figure appeared once again behind him.
“Don’t…”
Clang!
The Silver Sword fiercely descended, cascading like a silver waterfall from the sky.
The slashing strike split Bishop Somphic from the crown of his head to the groin!
[You’ve killed Bishop Somphic of the Red Apple Church (Sequence Six – Blood Descendant)! Obtained 30,000 Experience Points!]
Chen Lun suppressed the murderous desire within his heart, standing still with the greatsword in tow.
He surveyed his surroundings.
All around the yard lay the scattered corpses of members of the Red Apple Church, limbs and blood strewn everywhere. The residents caged in iron were frightened by this bloody and terrifying scene, some even fainting or wetting themselves.
Chen Lun did not pay much attention to these people.
The main combat power of the Red Apple Church had all been killed by him. The local Shelter and Righteous God Church would soon discover this, and these people would then be saved incidentally.
He looked down at his feet.
The bishop’s remains did not transform into Mysterious Objects, but instead, a stream of blood essence rose up and gathered into the Holy Grail in front of the statue.
‘It’s that Sin Blood again… a product of condensed blood and spirituality,’ Chen Lun thought.
He dragged the greatsword over to the statue, only to find that the girl impaled on the candelabrum no longer stirred, like a white cloth draped over the stone fixture.
Chen Lun bent down to pick up the Holy Grail from the ground and found that a small layer of thick, deep Sin Blood had already congealed within it. He laughed softly and stored it inside the Blood Poem Ring.
At that moment, he suddenly heard a voice, faint as a mosquito’s buzz:
“Save me…”
He looked up to see the girl lying supine, hanging limply on the candelabrum, her bleeding mouth muttering.
‘Such a tenacious will to live…’ Chen Lun silently admired.
He lifted a finger.
The girl’s body slowly rose from the candelabrum, floated upward, and then gently landed at Chen Lun’s feet.
“Please… Save me… ”
The girl’s eyes were murky, and she was coughing up blood repeatedly, seemingly on the brink of death.
His rusty helmet tilted down, the black cross slit peering at her.
She was naked, with a fatal puncture wound between her chest and abdomen, her organs and blood flowing out.
“Heh, you’re quite lucky.”
Chen Lun raised his hand, and a green glow flickered.
The girl’s wounds healed at a visible rate, and her pale facial color gradually regained a rosy luster.
Chen Lun took out a coat, tossed it, and covered her body.
Immediately after, he turned to leave.
“Don’t… don’t leave me behind!”
The girl regained consciousness, struggled to her feet, and staggered after the knight, grabbing his waist from behind. The coat that had just been placed on her had already slipped off.
“Please take me with you! I know a lot of things, I won’t be a trouble to you!”
Chen Lun fought back the urge to crush her head with one hand, and said indifferently:
“Get lost.”
The girl’s body trembled slightly, but she still didn’t let go.
With all her strength, she ran up to Chen Lun as fast as she could, lifted her head, and pushed aside her dirty, disheveled black hair to reveal her beautiful face.
“I’m very pretty! I can do anything! Please let me go with you!”
Chen Lun was about to push her away when he heard the girl say:
“Moreover, I’m actually not human; I can do supernatural magic!”
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The next second, the girl’s pupils transformed into a vortex of intertwining silver-white and pink, stunningly brilliant.
A flicker of desire passed through Chen Lun’s heart, a surge of wanting to ravage her, but this emotion was replaced by brutality in the next instant.
Fortunately, his willpower was firm, and he managed to suppress the tumultuous emotions forcefully.
After catching his breath, Chen Lun showed a look of surprise.
He hadn’t paid much attention to the girl before, but now, after employing Peek Life on her, he discovered some interesting things.
‘Supernatural half-blood…’
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Peacock City.
In a hotel room.
Chen Lun had reverted to his usual attire—a black suit and a top hat.
He was deep in thought, leaning on a sofa.
The girl he had casually rescued was named Lucy, nineteen years old.
She didn’t know who her parents were and had grown up in an orphanage, but because she possessed supernatural powers that ordinary people did not have, she was ostracized.
As she grew up, she worked various jobs, but her extraordinary beauty often brought her trouble. Eventually, she was forced to become a petty thief on the streets, living by theft.
Until one day, several strangers caught her and took her to an auction, where she was sold like merchandise. However, the merchant who bought her was killed by the Red Apple Church in an ambush on the way.
After being shuffled between hands, Lucy became a living sacrifice for the Red Apple Church.
“Interesting…”
Chen Lun murmured as he looked at a drop of blood in his palm.
This was Lucy’s blood.
‘Her blood actually contains a trace of mythical power… according to the panel description, her mother could very likely be a high-level Transcendent of the Constellation Faction, and her father, a Sea Demon.
No wonder her Charm Value can reach 30 points. Born as the offspring of a Constellation Saint and a supernatural creature, she naturally carries an extremely high ancient talent and even inherited a tiny fraction of the Constellation pathway’s supernatural powers… [Sequence Five – Charming Demon]?’
Chen Lun stored the drop of blood carefully.
He actually found it difficult to classify Lucy, because she was not purely human, and also not a Sequence Transcendent as she lacked any supernatural knowledge.
She could be called a half-human, half-supernatural being, a hybrid with supernatural powers.
Chen Lun listened to the splashing water and singing from the washroom and shook his head.
His thoughts then turned back to the auction mentioned by Lucy.
According to her, Peacock City was her hometown, and it was there that she had been taken. At that auction, there were many powerful nobles and merchants, but she did not recognize any of them.
Connecting this information, Chen Lun quickly thought of the attack he had encountered the previous evening… the Blue Sail Gang and the Black Knife Brotherhood, as well as Viscount Harrington behind the scenes.
‘So it turns out, you’ve been operating a human trafficking ring in Peacock City all this time?’
Chen Lun chuckled lightly, finding the situation increasingly interesting.
Click.
At this moment, the washroom door opened.
Lucy, drying her wet hair, came to Chen Lun with a shy smile on her face.
“Mr. Jack, I’m done washing. Do you want to go take a bath?”
After bathing, Lucy displayed her nearly perfect face.
And figure.
And her black hair was actually dark green, but it had seemed black before because it was too dirty to show its true color.
“Put on your clothes first,”
Chen Lun said nonchalantly.
Lucy exclaimed in surprise, then blushing, turned around and ran over to the bed to put on new clothes.
But in Chen Lun’s view, her actions could only be described as a “clumsy performance.”
After Lucy was done dressing, Chen Lun couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.
Though it was just a simple and plain set of a white shirt and light yellow pleated long skirt, it exuded a subdued beauty when worn by Lucy.
“Lucy, come and sit down,”
Chen Lun said softly.
“Yes, Mr. Jack.”
Lucy smiled brightly, a strong sense of allure emanating from her.
She walked briskly over, her lustrous dark green hair billowing behind her.
Then she plopped onto Chen Lun’s lap, wrapping her arms around his neck.
“What are your orders, Mr. Jack.”
Chen Lun took a deep breath.
“I told you to sit on the sofa.”
“Mr. Jack… Thank you for saving me, but I don’t have much to repay you with!”
Lucy suddenly hugged him tightly, burying her head in his chest.
She soon began to cry softly.
“You pulled me out of that hell and gave me the dignity of being a person! I’ve been treated as a monster since childhood, only you don’t look at me with those eyes… Please let me stay by your side! I will serve you wholeheartedly!”