Chapter 253: Chapter 253: First Battle
Translator: 549690339
“Weak, humble, incompetent… that’s always the case with humans.”
The Great Lord gazed at the Armored Knight he had slapped into the wall, a sense of disappointment in his eyes.
Just as the Great Lord was about to crush the next target.
Crack…
Togu, embedded in the wall, moved slightly and slowly pulled himself out from between the stones. Standing firmly on the ground and brushing off the stone debris from his body, he seemed unscathed.
Inside his sturdy helmet, Togu was revealing a rare smile.
A broken tongue stretched out from his dark mouth, wildly licking his face.
Excitement.
Togu was excited by the pain, itching to get back to the Great Lord to continue getting beaten up… that last hit made Togu feel incredibly relaxed, as if all his meridians had been unblocked.
At that moment, Han Dong transmitted a message through the ‘Master-Servant Relationship’:
“Togu… in this battle, you’re not allowed to deliberately take hits! This Giant Ghoul’s ‘destructive power’ is far beyond comparison with the previous barber or blacksmith.
A moment’s carelessness could lead to irreparable injury.
And.
The next step will be key in my plan, we must quickly suppress the Great Lord completely.
The fight will be carried out jointly by the four of us, Togu, you will be primarily responsible for the distraction and if possible, use your lava to inflict deep burns on him.
If we can suppress the Great Lord, I promise you one thing!
When we return to the Holy City, I’ll satisfy your desire to ‘suffer’ however you want.”
Hearing the promise of his master, Togu’s eyeballs rolled with excitement… compared to the present temporary ‘pleasure’, Togu obviously preferred long-term suffering.
“Okay.”
He agreed to the request.
This battle was different from before.
Togu immediately entered battle mode with lines of Hell Lava patterns covering his entire body…
Not just that.
The common armor that Togu wore was also undergoing ‘Purgatory Transformation’.
This change could actually be applied to external equipment.
All the joints of the armor were replaced with lava patterns, the helmet was even burning with Hellfire… becoming Purgatory Armor that completely conformed to Togu’s flesh.
‘Mobility’, ‘Hardness’, and ‘Fire Attribute Resistance’ were all greatly improved.
It could even cause a moderate amount of fire damage to the attacker.
The Purgatory Transformation was completed, and Togu officially launched a fierce attack.
Clang, clang!
A series of iron chains shot out from his palm, wrapping around the Great Lord’s neck.
Sizzle, sizzle!
Without the protection of Bone Armor, the neck was immediately burned by the iron chain, producing a large amount of white smoke.
At the same time, Togu used the traction of the iron chain to fly towards the head of the Great Lord… preparing to attack the head directly.
However, the process took time.
Feeling the iron chain wrap around him, the Great Lord noticed Togu’s situation immediately.
Slap!
A palm slapped down, sending Togu plummeting to the ground.
Shards of stone splashed up.
Togu’s body was completely embedded into the ground, but…
“Hm!? What’s going on?”
The Great Lord could feel a strong force pushing back from his palm… the target that was hit head-on once again showed no signs of dying.
Moreover, the force was strong.
The Great Lord’s palm was slowly lifted… Togu was slowly pushing it up in a weightlifting pose.
Just then.
The other members of the team started to move.
“I’ll help you!”
Miss Winry, with her speed, approached the area where the palm was crushed and worked together with Togu to hold up the crushing hand of the Great Lord.
As Winry exerted force, their combined strength surprisingly surpassed the force of the Great Lord’s arm, actually pushing his arm back upwards.
At the same time, the Great Lord’s body also experienced a slight loss of balance, having to take a step back due to instability.
While the two power-type teammates were drawing the Great Lord’s attention.
A deep red shadow had quietly approached the back of the Great Lord’s neck.
The litheness of her body was to the extent that when she stepped barefoot onto the Great Lord’s skin, she felt nothing… Under her feet was a swirling perversion of energy, which nearly eliminated all sense of touch.
The “Evil Bead” swings into motion.
Several evil-looking, black veins began spreading from this woman’s abdomen, creeping along her trunk, shoulders, and arm, all the way to her right palm…
Streams of Yin Qi emanating from the “Evil Bead” overflowed from her fingertips, coiling around the kitchen knife.
Through the shaping of Yin Qi, the kitchen knife morphed into a gloomy long knife, reaching up to one and a half meters in length.
Having fused with the barber’s scissors, its sharpness was escalated.
Swipe!
The knife made a cut on the back of the neck.
The length of the blade was sufficient to sever the neck.
Just as the blade was about to cut through the carotid artery and trachea… Crack!
A clear cracking sound reverberated.
Surprisingly, the blade, so sharp and boosted by Yin Qi, got stuck.
This came as a shock to Chen Li herself.
Through the split open tissue, you could see that the important carotid artery and trachea in the Great Lord’s neck were strangely connected to his cervical vertebra, all enveloped in a peculiar metal shell.
The surface of the metal shell also bore a kind of pattern that Han Dong had never seen before, seemingly a kind of barrier intended for reinforcement.
“Damn it!!”
Because of the attack.
The Great Lord’s cervical vertebra immediately exhibited a stress-induced defensive response.
Click, click, click~ Accompanied by a mechanical noise.
A mechanical tentacle, with a built-in gear system inside, grew out of his cervical vertebra and lashed fiercely at Chen Li.
By the time Chen Li pulled out the Evil Sword, it was already too late to dodge.
Hair!
In conjunction with the recently learned hairdresser skills, Chen Li manipulated her hair to shield her front.
Thump!
The tentacle made a hit.
Scattered in the air were countless broken strands of hair.
In spite of the hair having absorbed the majority of the damage, the robust impact of the mechanical tentacle still acted upon Chen Li’s body… She fell towards the ground like a bullet immediately.
She didn’t have the defense power of Togu.
If she crashed into the ground at this high speed, she would certainly break several bones, severely impacting the subsequent battle.
At the critical moment, a silhouette, similar to a crow, flashed over!
Through the cushion of raven’s feathers, she securely caught Chen Li in her arms…
“Be careful, Miss Chen Li.”
As Chen Li lifted her head, Han Dong’s face was right in front of hers.
Her face turned slightly red, and she immediately transformed into a blur of red, standing next to Han Dong. She reported the important information she had gathered during the battle.
“Hmm… I see.”
Han Dong had already activated “Little Demon Eye”, fixating on the Great Lord’s body.
The cut on the Great Lord’s neck had healed entirely in a short time… Super-fast regeneration.
This kind of regeneration ability was quite typical for this Ghoul.
What left Han Dong most amazed was the body structure of the Great Lord.
“When I met with the Great Lord yesterday I didn’t have Little Demon Eye active, so I couldn’t peer into the true nature of his body.
But seeing it now, it’s quite ostentatious! It’s no wonder that a huge amount of medication is needed to upkeep his body.
This Great Lord truly didn’t stop at anything to gain power.”
Aside from providing support for his body, the mechanical spinal cord of the Great Lord also functioned as the crucial mechanical nerve center for the whole body.
A high-ranking mechanical technology of unknown origin was applied to the Great Lord’s physical body, with every organ covered with a metal coating and every muscle block powered by mechanical gears.
The spine is the core power source for all these mechanical operations.
No wonder the “speed” was so high, since it was not only aided by muscles but also by the built-in machinery.
Furthermore, these metal surfaces also bore a seal…
Meaning, to injure the Great Lord, one would not only need to penetrate the bone layer on the surface.
They would also need to penetrate the metal and barrier layers inside.
The difficulty in defeating this mansion’s final boss lay in how to breakthrough the “defense”.
However… From the very beginning, Han Dong never intended to kill him.
