manynovel Chapter 69 Hmph, trying to escape?
Chapter 69 Hmph, trying to escape?
After rummaging through the pile of junk left by Swan for a few more minutes, and confirming that he couldn't find even half a copper coin, Luo Lan turned around and walked back to the mountain of inactive slime "corpses".
What was called a corpse was actually a large patch of dark red mud spread out on the ground, covering half of the ground. The edges had begun to dry and harden, with only a small amount of liquid remaining in the center.
From the center of the corpse outwards, many fragments of aurora color are scattered intermittently, half-submerged and half-exposed in the mud, refracting a faint tri-colored light—the remains of the core of the rift.
If this core of the rift were still intact, it would have been a rare item in the form of an ancient treasure.
The core of the ancient treasure form is mostly a powerful magical item or a rare enchanting material.
Even if you don't keep it for yourself, even if it's just a low-level ancient treasure, selling it to auction house merchants or adventurer's associations would be enough to get you a huge sum of money, starting at a few hundred gold coins, or a large number of adventure points.
It was this extremely high value that even the thief Swan, who valued his life above all else, was willing to risk his life to obtain it.
However, this core had previously been used as a sacrificial offering in a ritual by the skeleton priests.
After the sacrifice was interrupted, it was unfortunately swallowed by the Flesh Slime, which evolved it into the Evil Slime and turned its core into its power source.
Piloting the Bone Gundam, in order to end the stubborn vitality of the Evil Slime, Roland had no choice but to personally shatter it from the inside.
The fragments cleaved by the high-frequency bone blade of holy light had smooth surfaces, and each small fragment still retained a faint fluctuation of chaotic magic power.
Fortunately, even though the core of this rift has shattered, it is still of great use to Luo Lan.
He removed the armor from his left hand, revealing a stark white, metallic bone claw.
With his left hand reaching into the deactivated slime, the skeletal fingers parted the viscous liquid and grasped the first fragment.
[Condensation] is activated in the palm.
A slight tremor came from the palm of the hand, and purplish-black chaotic particles were extracted from the fragment and poured into the depths of the left hand through the gaps in the bone fingers.
The aurora colors on the surface of the fragments visibly dimmed, turning into grayish-white stone debris a few seconds later, with no more supernatural reactions.
[Chaos Essence +100]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 100]
"This is good stuff."
The second piece, the third piece... Luo Lan rummaged through the slime, crushing and absorbing each piece he found.
[Chaos Essence +100]...
The core of the Rift Ruins truly lives up to its name, as it condenses over 90% of the chaotic matter within the entire Rift Ruins, relying solely on absorbing these fragments.
Waves of purplish-black particles surged into Luo Lan's body, causing his source essence reserves to steadily increase.
Luo Lan was picking up the scattered fragments from the slime corpse, and was about to sweep the surrounding area clean when...
"Smack... gulp..."
A faint, yet unsettling, damp sound came from behind a section of rubble on the left, crushed by bones.
[Huh? What's that noise?]
Luo Lan abruptly stopped, took two steps toward that direction with his broadsword, and peered over.
A malevolent slime, barely two meters tall, was hiding in the shadow of that huge shinbone.
Inside the monster's translucent, dark red belly, several fragments of the Rift Core, shimmering with a faint light, had already been inserted.
It was rapidly crawling along the base of the wall, swallowing up all the fragments of the rift core scattered in the cracks of the rocks along the way.
With each piece it swallowed, its shriveled body would suddenly swell up like a sponge absorbing water.
"What the heck? He's not quite dead yet?!"
As Luo Lan uttered the curse, he had already placed his hand on the hilt of the broadsword.
But there's a problem—Luo Lan can no longer summon the Holy Light.
The Pale Holy Light Path had been completely drained, and the potent energy potion had reached its limit. For a short time, Luo Lan couldn't even draw a thin wisp of Holy Light enchanted sword light.
Without holy light, using pure physical attacks to cut down this evil slime with its high physical resistance is no different from scratching an itch through a boot.
As Luo Lan discovered it, the small ball of evil slime also noticed Luo Lan.
It stopped picking up the fragments, and its dark red, semi-transparent body trembled as if startled, with the fragments of the rift core inside its body swaying.
The evil slime made a decision: stop stealing, run.
Having been traumatized by Luo Lan, it abandoned the small fragment in front of it and turned around to crawl out at full speed through the collapsed gap in the third level of the Rift Ruins, its escape speed as fast as a frightened mouse.
Just when it seemed like they were about to release the tiger back into the mountains, Luo Lan had lost his holy light. What should they do?
"Hmph, trying to escape? Lightning Whirlwind Slash!"
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With a roar, Luo Lan's combat boots stomped a small crater in the ground, and he chased after it like an arrow released from a bow.
Beneath the skin of his back, the spine vertebrae glowed crimson, and the large amount of bioelectric energy that had been accumulating in his body surged wildly into the blade of the broadsword through his arms that were gripping the sword.
Suddenly, a large cluster of violent crimson lightning erupted from the dark, broad sword, blinding red sparks flashing everywhere.
Using the immense momentum of his sprint, Luo Lan exerted force from his waist, and his broadsword, crackling with violent electricity, slashed out a crescent-shaped crimson trail in mid-air.
"Thunderous Crescent Slash!"
The broadsword, imbued with crimson high-pressure lightning, slid smoothly into the two-meter-tall slime's body with overwhelming force.
The intense heat of the lightning instantly evaporated the slime's sap at the cut. The evil slime, only two meters tall, was cleanly and decisively severed in two.
He stomped directly on the still-wriggling pile of flesh, and a leaping crimson current shot straight down from the tip of his sword.
"Sizzle—"
【Red Lightning Storm lv.1】Full power activation.
The violent crimson lightning surged and exploded within the body of this evil slime.
"Gurgle...gurgle...gurgle..."
The last remnant of the evil slime convulsed violently a few times amidst the raging, high-pressure lightning, attempting once again to [split] and reassemble into a new body. However, under the attack of the red lightning, it gradually became still.
To nip it in the bud, Luo Lan didn't want to discover any more evil slimes that had miraculously survived.
Even after it stopped moving, Luo Lan continued to output damage with [Crimson Lightning Storm lv.1] for a period of time.
The highly water-rich fluids of the evil slime were gradually evaporated by the continuous electric shocks from the red arc, while the proteins coagulated and carbonized at high temperatures.
Within seconds, the dark red color turned charred black, the wriggling stopped, and the volume shrank dramatically, eventually turning into two dry, curled-up black charcoal blocks that emitted a burnt smell.
A few soft tinkling sounds came from inside the charcoal block. Three or four aurora-colored fragments of the rift core, having lost the support of the slime's semi-liquid body, slid out of the carbonized shell and landed on the ground with a clattering sound.
He looked down at the pile of charcoal, then at the scattered fragments.
After confirming that there were no signs of movement, Luo Lan sheathed his broadsword and crouched down to pick up the few fragments of the Rift Core.
"They should be completely dead by now."
Muttering something to himself, Luo Lan stretched out his left hand, his alloy finger bones pinching the fragment, and the purplish-black particles surged into his palm again.
[Chaos Essence +100]
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