Passing through a ripple, they arrived at the first space.
The sky was gray, and the ground was filled with the smell of decay.
Crows of death cawed loudly on the black withered branches.
“Ah—ah—”
This seemed to be a mass grave at the edge of a cliff, with countless decaying crosses standing, surrounding a simple hut in the middle. It was like dry, withered arms growing out of the ground, embracing the largest grave in the center.
“Hmm~ hmm~ ♫”
A melancholic tune drifted from inside the hut, as if symbolizing the only life in this black and white world.
Li Andy scanned his surroundings, noticing many rotten wooden stakes adorned with tattered Bloody Crusader flags.
“Brother...”
Youxi asked,
“Is this life simulated by Jasmine a witch from the witch-hunting era?”
The witch's attire, combined with the dilapidated Crusader flags, easily brought to mind that dark period of history.
“Probably.”
Li Andy slowly approached, while simultaneously releasing his spiritual power, preparing for the impending conflict. He wasn't so arrogant as to believe he could easily defeat a half-awake Heart Source.
Youxi glanced at Sophia, who was expressionless but whose tail was bristling, and silently released the Faceless Nun as well.
The sudden change in atmosphere startled the crows hovering on the branches, who shrieked and scattered.
At the same time, the humming inside the house stopped.
Li Andy reached the door, paused, and then pushed it open.
“Creak—”
Inside the house, Witch Jasmine sat barefoot on a high stool, stirring a cauldron while smiling at them.
“My dear Father...”
Witch Jasmine smiled gently and asked,
“Did you come to me early because you favor me more?”
Father.....
Why is she calling me Father? Who taught her that?
Li Andy surveyed the other party and the environment while responding,
“Even if you call me Daddy, I won't think you're better. Is this... the experience of your simulated life? Stop dwelling on past memories; you should wake up.”
Witch Jasmine was silent for two seconds, then chuckled as she threw away the half-corroded spoon in her hand, slowly saying:
“This might be virtual for 【Jasmine】, but for me... it's all real!!”
“Bang—!”
Witch Jasmine suddenly lifted her bare foot and kicked over the medicine pot. The glowing, viscous liquid splattered onto the ground, corroding a large pit into the wooden floor.
Then, as Witch Jasmine sneered, the liquid began to squirm and expand, transforming into a giant, disgusting mud monster.
“Your words are as disgusting as those hypocritical priests! Truth and falsehood... evil and justice... can only be defined by you?!”
The mud monster angrily lunged forward!
Li Andy pulled his sisters back and out of the doorway, simultaneously causing the entire wooden house to collapse and explode, expanding the battle area to the entire mass grave.
“Boom....”
As the dust cleared, Witch Jasmine, sitting on a broom, floated above the mud monster.
“So, are you also going to judge me like those people?”
Li Andy looked up at her:
“Not judging, just waking you up.”
“Heh, hypocrite.”
Witch Jasmine pulled a bottle of potion from her sleeve and poured a stream of red solution onto the green mud monster below.
After a brief boiling, the monster's body grew even larger, turning dark and emitting a foul odor.
Viscous pus flowed into the ground, awakening a series of foul-smelling decaying corpses that burst forth from the earth!
One of them emerged directly at Li Andy's feet, its dark hand reaching for his ankle.
Li Andy was about to kick it away, but someone was faster than him.
A bloody shadow flashed by, and the corpse shattered into dust.
Sophia's eyes glowed red, clearly a passive trigger for protecting her master.
Although she had given up active thought, she was still a Heart Image. Even abilities she wasn't yet at the level to use, as long as her body believed she could use them, she could release them at will!
“Sophia, disable all the corpses.”
Li Andy quickly gave the command, and the golden-haired wolf girl immediately sprang into action.
She transformed into a golden lightning bolt streaked with blood, instantly clearing out the decaying corpses.
Compared to her previous self, who would overthink, now that she had successfully abandoned her brain, every move became sharper and more efficient.
From a certain perspective, this wasn't a weakening, but a strengthening!
Realizing this, Li Andy decided to heavily develop the 'human-machine' Sophia and resolve this meaningless battle as quickly as possible.
“Sophia, that mud monster can't hurt you, tear it apart!”
Receiving the command, Sophia bared her teeth and bristled, enveloped in a bloody mist, and immediately lunged at the mud monster, forcefully smashing half of it apart.
Witch Jasmine frowned, not expecting that the highly corrosive mud monster could only burn through the opponent's clothing but couldn't harm an inch of that large expanse of white skin.
Suddenly, just as she was distracted...
“Bang—!”
A bullet shattered her broom.
The sudden loss of gravity caused her to fall from the air.
When battling a Heart Source, you cannot give the opponent time to react!
Resolve the battle as quickly as possible before the opponent can freely create Heart Images!
“Youxi, let's go!”
Li Andy's blood surged within him as he charged forward first. The Faceless Nun, holding an iron chain, followed closely behind him.
The broken tiles and wood from the collapsed house collectively came alive, forming a bridge directly to his target.
As she fell, Witch Jasmine looked down at the cliff, and in a daze, recalled a bad memory.
That day, too, the weather was gloomy like this.
A disheveled witch stood alone at the edge of the cliff.
Confronting countless righteous knights in iron armor, surrounding and approaching her.
She gave a desolate smile, took out a strange potion from her bosom, and drank it all!
The sudden mutation made Li Andy involuntarily stop in his tracks.
Several long, twisted arms burst from inside Jasmine's robes.
She was like a grotesque spider, twisting her body and suspending herself on the ground.
“Hahahaha....”
Witch Jasmine's face was covered in spiderweb-like cracks.
“Father! Real witches are not romantic and beautiful, this is... the final appearance of a witch pushed to the cliff!”
As soon as she finished speaking, she instantly sprang in front of Li Andy, her crazed expression terrifyingly hideous!
Li Andy's internal alarm bells rang loudly, and he immediately shielded himself with both hands.
The next moment, with a “bang—”, he was kicked dozens of meters away by a spider leg.
“Cough!”
Li Andy spit out half a mouthful of blood in mid-air.
Sophia, who had just torn apart the mud monster, immediately had even redder eyes, transforming into an afterimage and colliding with the spider witch.
“Brother!”
Youxi, with her arms outstretched, tried to catch Li Andy with her own body, but instead, they were both sent flying, rolling awkwardly on the ground.
Li Andy propped himself up, his eyes red. The side effects of Mad Blood began to devour his sanity.
Damn it!
Crazy!
He now had only one thought in his mind: to give Jasmine's spider-veined, tender white face a resounding slap!