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"This... you...!!"
Seeing this scene, Augustus’s face suddenly changed, his eyes twinkling with disbelief.
He hadn’t had time to stop it when he saw his remaining "blood nourishment" being stowed away in a space.
How is that possible?!
In an instant, Augustus completely lost contact with those blood nourishments, plunging him into endless panic.
These blood nourishments were fundamental to his survival; without them, his mutation would be uncontrollable.
Even if he did not die, he would soon turn into a monster.
After such difficulty obtaining these blood nourishments, how could someone have taken them away?
...
"You... what on earth did you do!"
Augustus roared, his face no longer held the mocking amusement of a cat catching a mouse, only the worry and fear of facing death.
He found he could not sense them at all!
How could that be? Even if hidden in a storage space or similar sub-space, he could absorb it in this alien space.
This was the most important reason why he had been so fearless before.
But now, it had completely vanished!
Su Lun was not about to explain to an enemy that the "Little Void Realm" was an independent plane.
He had just rescued the person and could have teleported away immediately.
The laws of this alien space were indeed very high, and with Su Lun’s current understanding of the Space Law, he really couldn’t escape.
But he had a large piece of "Shattered Plane Crystal Source," a top-class space treasure at the plane level.
As long as he was willing to use it, almost any special space in this plane could not trap him.
This was also why Su Lun dared to make his move in the master-filled City of Spirits.
With this crystal, unless the enemy’s strength was so great that his teleportation spells couldn’t react in time and he was killed instantly.
Otherwise, if he wanted to leave, no one could stop him!
....
But now, seeing the distraught Augustus, Su Lun was not in a hurry to leave.
A severely injured old monster was a rare opportunity.
Kama was successfully rescued, and he himself had life-preserving means. Now was the time to ponder the "Lilith’s Vampire Ring."
Since he was already involved, it would be more exciting to stir up bigger trouble.
After a few probing attacks just now, this guy really could regenerate infinitely.
But now that I’ve cut off your nourishment, let’s see if you die?
Just as expected, the moment several dozen young girls were taken into the Little Void Realm, the entire flesh and blood space suddenly became agitated.
The blood vessels, like starved leeches, searched everywhere for targets. Unable to find them, each one became frantic.
Light shimmered from Su Lun’s left eye, clearly showing that this guy’s previously reversing mutation had now intensified!
Even without interfering, this guy would gradually turn into a monster.
"Damn it! What exactly did you do!"
Augustus was dumbfounded by Su Lun’s move.
He could never have expected that someone in this alien space could take away his blood nourishment?
He now needed to continually consume the essence of young girls’ blood to ensure he did not continue to degrade.
He had just stabilized his injuries by consuming them all night, and now that someone had taken dozens of his blood nourishments, he was immediately plunged into a life-or-death situation.
Moreover, it was unclear what was happening outside, and chances were that something had gone wrong, making it difficult to expect more fresh nourishment to be brought in.
This act posed a lethal threat to him!
At this moment, Augustus held no more illusions; he knew that killing the man before him was the only way to possibly reclaim his blood nourishment.
In an instant, he charged towards Su Lun.
"Such incredible speed!"
Su Lun’s gaze hardened.
After all, this Augustus was a genuine sixth rank!
And the kind who had lived for who knows how many years!
Moreover, at the very moment this old monster developed a killing intent, Su Lun suddenly felt as though there was a suction force around him. It was as if a water pump was rapidly drawing out the dark spiritual power from his body. Especially from the ground beneath his feet, the speed at which the spiritual power was draining was like gathering the consumption of a sixth-level Alchemist!
Just as he noticed something was wrong, Augustus had already charged in front of him, and the two of them exchanged blows, suddenly plunging into a fierce hand-to-hand combat.
And during the combat, Su Lun realized the problem was even bigger!
With each punch and kick that connected, Augustus’s body exhibited a strong suction force, sticking to Su Lun and making it hard for him to break free, while his internal spiritual power leaked out like a dam burst!
"So strong!"
Su Lun instantaneously thought of the level-two ability, "B-010-Glutton," which could devour all energy for its own use.
Moreover, this was different from the level-two Glutton ability he had previously understood.
Augustus, this old fellow who had lived for who knows how long, had developed a special use of this ability. Now, the entire different space was at his disposal.
That meant, as long as Su Lun was trapped here, he would eventually be drained dry and die.
"No wonder he was so confident hiding and healing on Parrot Street, so this is why. In this space, he can’t die, but one’s body energy will continuously be absorbed... In this situation, even a seventh-tier professional without countermeasures would die on the spot."
Only then did Su Lun come to a realization.
Normally, Augustus would just hide in this different space. Not to mention whether anyone could find him, even if someone did, entering here would most likely mean death as nourishment.
...
It was just a fleeting thought, and Augustus had already fought him for over a dozen rounds.
Each contact resulted in a large portion of the dark spiritual power inside Su Lun being sucked away.
With this rate of energy consumption, a normal sixth-tier professional’s spiritual power would be drained dry in just a few rounds.
Unfortunately, Su Lun had the epic implant, "Isaac’s Alchemical Heart," that provided him with an endless supply of dark spiritual power.
Su Lun didn’t think of how to kill Augustus for a while, so he just kept fighting.
No matter the black scythe, overwhelming aura, or any other method, even if they could cause severe damage to this old monster, he would recover instantly.
Su Lun felt somewhat helpless.
The only way he could think of to kill this guy was to drop enough bombs to blow up the entire space.
However, this method was obviously not considered, as blowing it up could destroy the different space and possibly the Vampire Ring as well.
As they continued to fight, Augustus obviously also noticed something unusual.
Under normal circumstances, even a seventh-tier professional should show signs of spiritual exhaustion by now, but why did this guy show no anomalies and seemed even more vigorous as the fight continued?
Originally unbeatable in this different space, he could slowly test out the depths of his opponent.
But now, he was in a hurry to retrieve those blood meals and had no intention of entangling with Su Lun for long.
At that moment, during their fight, he deliberately took a hit from a scythe, but suddenly a dagger emitting an eerie red light "grew" out of his palm!
Su Lun saw this and felt a bad premonition, but this old monster’s moves were extremely tricky, and it was already too late to dodge.
The blade passed, and the rune-luster on his skin subtly emerged.
But what was intended happened.
In a moment of crossing, time seemed to slow down by tenfold.
Though Su Lun tried hard to avoid, he could only watch as the dagger’s blade grazed his arm’s skin and then... cut a deep blood mark!
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Even the rune-infused bones clearly had another cut mark.
"How is that possible!"
Seeing this, Su Lun was greatly shocked.
The "Rune Vajra," enveloped in overwhelming aura, had previously faced a seventh-tier Puppet Grandmaster, O’Bri and hadn’t been cut through, yet now it was sliced as easily as paper—how was this possible?
Su Lun never expected such a result; his skin, flesh, and bones were all inscribed with "Himinlewa’s Sea God Runes," making his body strong enough to withstand cannonballs, yet they weere breached by a dagger?
The key was that the opponent was only a sixth-tier professional!
In that instant, Su Lun knew that there was something strange about that dagger., Upon closer inspection, it indeed was extraordinary!
"Siegfried’s Dragon Slayer Dagger"
Quality: Corrupted Magic Weapon
Description: Indestructible, nothing unbreakable;
Curse Feature: Devours the essence of high-grade living beings to feed the dagger, enhancing its sharpness; Continuous killing and absorption of the essence blood of living beings activates the God Slaying Runes, temporarily granting a ’Sharpness’ effect, the higher the quality of essence blood consumed, the greater the increase in sharpness, with no upper limit; Effects include breaking aura, breaking magic, breaking energy barriers, and forced bleeding effect; Needs to be fed daily, otherwise the sharpness increase will gradually fade until it returns to ordinary;
Detailed Description: This is a cursed dagger that had once slain more than one divine-class giant dragon. Forged by ancient dwarfs using God Meteor Iron, which even gods fear, and inscribed with the forbidden "God Slaying Runes." A magical item left from the ancient dwarf civilization, its sharpness makes even mythic dragons tremble; after millions of years sealed, this magic weapon lost its sharpness for slaying gods and demons, but because it returned to being ordinary, it went unnoticed by gods and thus survived in this broken plane."
Su Lun’s eyes momentarily gleamed as he discerned the results of his inspection.
A magic weapon?
This... what kind of quality is this?
Su Lun knew the Rodriguez family had some good treasures, but he never thought Augustus would have an ancient magic weapon in his hands.
The dagger’s effect is very simple and brutal, just sharp, capable of penetrating anything with its sharpness!
Indeed, none of these top-tier old nobles are simple.
The moment it was identified, Su Lun forcefully endured the pain from his wounds and suddenly pulled away.
He teleported to dodge and create distance, but Augustus’s figure had already appeared behind him again.
In this dimensional space, the old monster could sense any fluctuation of energy.
So he anticipated Su Lun’s landing spot in advance, and the crimson dagger stabbed at him once more.
Unable to dodge in time, Su Lun could only raise his hand to pull a gargoyle in front of him.
As the red light swept by, the indestructible gargoyle had its arm cleanly severed!
"What a sharp dagger!"
Su Lun watched, his eyelids twitching.
Glancing at the wound on his arm from the corner of his eye, his expression grew serious.
The dagger’s "forced bleeding" effect caused relentless bleeding from the wound, and if not treated, he could bleed to death.
Luckily, being both a doctor and a Puppet Master, threads quietly emerged from the wound, stitching together the broken nerves, blood vessels, and tissue.
Although there was no sign of healing, at least the bleeding wasn’t so severe anymore.
At that moment, Su Lun realized that killing Augustus was indeed not going to be easy.
...
However, the Dragon Slayer’s Dagger from Siegfried was ultimately just a melee weapon and couldn’t unleash any sort of long-range attacks like Sword Qi.
After a few tentative moves, Su Lun gradually adjusted to the rhythm of the battle and finally could breathe a sigh of relief.
If the dagger could attack through the air like his Black Scythe, it would truly be invincible.
He could only choose to leave.
Despite fighting for so long, Su Lun had not found a way to kill Augustus, and the battle had forced him into an increasingly pitiful state.
That guy could appear anywhere in the dimensional space, impossible to kill, impossible to hide from, evidently determined to wear him out.
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With Isaac’s Alchemical Heart, Su Lun naturally couldn’t be worn out.
He harbored the same intention, waiting for Augustus to be worn out.
Yet, he felt, even if he dragged it out until Augustus mutated into a monster, it wouldn’t improve his situation.
It would probably get even worse.
After all, the combat prowess usually became even stronger in a mutated state compared to the human state.
In this dimensional space, Su Lun likewise couldn’t kill the mutated Augustus.
Moreover, dragging it out any further, he still had no idea what the situation outside was like.
Once he went out, he would be bombarded by a crowd of seventh- and eighth-tier professionals, and even if Su Lun was incredibly strong, he’d be killed instantly.
Just when Su Lun felt he truly couldn’t overcome this and was considering retreating to find another opportunity.
Suddenly, as he glanced around, he noticed something unusual.
That was part of the flesh, which had turned from red to black.
Su Lun immediately realized something, thinking, "Is this because too much dark spiritual power was absorbed and couldn’t be digested in time?"
Suddenly, he thought of a way to break the situation!
The second solution’s B-010-Glutton was indeed very powerful, capable of consuming all types of energy for its use.
But this talent also had a prerequisite, that it was limited by the professional himself.
Although Augustus was strong, he was only a sixth-tier professional. The amount of energy his body could hold was limited!
It was absolutely impossible to contain the massive amount of dark spiritual power from Isaac’s Alchemical Heart!
In the previous battle, Su Lun had already lost several sixth-tier professionals’ dark spiritual power, showing signs of "indigestion" in Augustus.
Su Lun had previously been carefully controlling it, fearing that supplying too much dark spiritual power to the opponent would be detrimental to himself.
But now, he no longer controlled it, as dark spiritual power crazily surged from his body!
He released energy actively, much faster than before, by tens of times!
You absorb, and I’ll let you absorb!
In an instant, Su Lun himself became a huge vortex of dark spiritual power, with energy crazily overflowing.
Augustus also noticed the issue and immediately stopped the active absorption.
But this space was as good as his own body, where even if he didn’t actively absorb, some would still be passively absorbed. Moreover, in a sealed space, without absorption, there was simply no other way for the energy to dissipate.
It was like the food in his stomach, with someone relentlessly stuffing more food inside, and even if he didn’t want to digest it, the food swelling in his throat would suffocate him!
Gradually, the walls of flesh changed color from bright red to dark red, and some even turned black, producing uncontrollable tumor-like growths!
The only outcome of the excessive surge of foreign Spiritual Power into his body was mutation.
Su Lun saw his plan was succeeding, and he stopped fighting Augustus head-on. Instead, he dodged while frenziedly releasing dark Spiritual Power.
Fear finally appeared on Augustus’ face.
When he realized that he couldn’t kill the man in front of him and that this man’s energy seemed inexhaustible, he went from fear to despair.
"Damn it, what the hell are you doing!"
"Oh! No, don’t! Spare me, I can pay a ransom of ten billion..."
"I am the family ancestor of the Rodriguez family. I can give you everything..."
"..."
No matter how much he pleaded, Su Lun had no intention of stopping.
The dark Spiritual Power continued to pour in relentlessly.
Like that, after nearly half an hour, Augustus, already heavily injured, couldn’t hold on any longer.
The curse of the Vampire Ring and the "indigestion" from the massive amount of dark Spiritual Power finally caused this ancient monster to completely mutate into a creature.
The mutated Augustus no longer had any rational control over absorbing energy.
In its monster state, it crazily absorbed everything.
Then, under Su Lun’s continuous energy infusion, the energy balance within the creature was ultimately disrupted, and several mixed forces collided in another dimension.
"BOOM!"
A loud explosion occurred.
The flesh of the entire space exploded, casting bits of flesh everywhere, a terrifying display of power.
Only after the explosion subsided did Su Lun emerge from a clear puppet.
It must be said that this newly acquired war trophy, the "Machine Killing Stealth Puppet," was really useful.
It withstood the sixth-order Dark Gold tier bizarre self-explosion unscathed.
Su Lun saw the "gray mist" rising from the flesh and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
...
"Killed him, huh..."
Su Lun raised his eyebrows, looking exhausted.
Blowing up that monster had also nearly depleted all his dark Spiritual Power.
Fortunately, Isaac’s Alchemical Heart possessed a continuous powerful automatic recovery ability, so he wouldn’t take long to recuperate.
After harvesting the gray mist, a stream of information flooded into his mind.
"You have stripped ’Augustus Rodriguez’s’ soul."
"You have comprehended some of the sixth-order ’Calamity Law’ and ’Darkness Law’"
"You have gained ’Hundred Years of Devouring Techniques Experience’, comprehending [Devouring], [Foreign Energy Absorption], [Enhancement] abilities."
"You now know a vast amount of the Rodriguez family’s secret intelligence."
"You have obtained intelligence: ’The spread of the Red Death was preparation for that great one’s descent onto the world...’"
"You have obtained information: ’I have a safe under the alias ’Williams’ at the Royal Bank’s headquarters in London, where a large amount of high-tier treasures is stored...’"
"..."
"Lived more than one hundred and fifty years old? The true power holder behind the scenes of the Rodriguez family?"
Su Lun, looking at the memories he had stripped, also realized that he had poked a huge hole this time.
The Rodriguez family, one of the senior councilor seats of the Ruying, had their leader killed by him?
However, these were not things he needed to ponder in detail right now.
Su Lun turned his attention back to the flesh in front of him.
Disgusting as it was, he had no choice but to search through it.
He looked for the [Lilith’s Vampire Ring], the magical weapon [Siegfried’s Dragon Slayer Dagger], and some storage rings...
Fortunately, he had a puppet, so he didn’t have to search through the mudslide-like rotten flesh himself.
Su Lun began the pleasant phase of collecting the spoils of war.
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