bookbashuk Chapter 3939 Dispelling the Curse and the Blood River
Chapter 3939 Dispelling the Curse and the Blood River
Chapter 3939 Dispelling the Curse and the Blood River
"May my Lord protect me! Witch's Arcane Art - Mystic Fire!"
Miss Lenore Bradway's golden flames followed closely, igniting the flesh and blood of the monster, which was immobilized by the bubbles, and then the spirit flowing through its pink muscles. The flames were quite fierce, but ultimately failed to completely burn the enemy.
With the sound of bones breaking, the monster in the cell split its own body open, leaving half of its body outside the cell.
As the golden flames spread, the flesh and blood quickly charred and burned to ashes. The demonic eye fell to the ground after the bubbles dissipated, then rolled disgustingly along the ground until it reached the feet of the two witches.
Behind them, the surging flesh vines were first engulfed by the flames summoned by Shad, and then melted by the golden light emanating from Lady Gustav's staff.
This twelfth-tier old witch was even stronger than Shad had imagined. As a follower of the [Creation Lady], she was not skilled in flesh and blood creation or mechanical creation; her expertise was actually in the decomposition and reconstruction of matter.
After Xia De bought her some time, she successfully analyzed the structure of those fleshy vines, and then used a "Divine Art: Great Disintegration" to almost completely annihilate the vines gushing out from both sides.
But unlike the skinned monster behind them that possessed two relics, these vines not only did not recede, but instead surged even more fiercely from the cells on both sides.
"Miracle - Adele's Time Freeze!"
"Witch's Secret Technique - Flesh Stripping!"
After the bubble-blowing dragon witch and the halfling witch defeated the enemies, the battle on Shad and Granny Gustav's side also came to an end.
The flesh vines were all destroyed. Then, Shad threw moonlight orbs to the cells on the left and right, illuminating the source of the horrific flesh—two corpses "planted" in flowerpots.
After confirming that it was safe, Mrs. Gustav's disintegration technique tore the two corpses to pieces, and then Shad's chains dragged out a glowing red intestine from the left cell.
Shad and the old witch had a very high opinion of each other, and Shad had not expected his companion's fighting power to be so amazing this time.
"I'll take it! I'll take it!"
After the intestines were dragged out by the chains, Gina, having already dealt with the trouble at the rear, immediately spoke. The pink dragon spat out another bubble, which then fell to the ground and enveloped the intestines, causing them to fly together with the magic eye, which was also enveloped in a bubble.
This method looks very ingenious. Shad wanted to ask if this "bubble magic" could fit a cat inside, but it was obviously not the right time to talk about that.
The piece of intestine fell into the small bucket, but dealing with the Demon Eye was a bit of a problem.
"That thing was only severely damaged by us. Although the chances of it reappearing are slim, we still need to be careful. What should we do about the Demon Eye?"
Gina turned to Shad and Mrs. Gustav, explaining that no one dared to touch such a relic used by a mutated flesh monster. In fact, this was the first relic they had obtained since entering this place.
Shad and the old witch didn't have a good solution either, but Miss Lenore Bradway suddenly said:
"How about leaving it to me?"
She didn't intend to use the relic herself. The halfling girl took the various mechanical parts she had collected from Gina, and after quietly casting a spell, the parts assembled and transformed with a series of clicks, finally forming a small shield with a circular groove in the center.
The shield was mounted on Miss Bradwell's left arm, with the Magic Eye embedded in it, causing the small shield, pieced together from various scrap metals, to emit a faint blue light.
"This way, we can safely contain the Demon Eye for the time being, and if necessary, we can activate it to a certain extent."
Miss Bradley explained, without going into detail about the source of this ability, since the four of them were still unable to leave the room.
The group continued onward, with Gina, at the back, remaining highly vigilant, wondering if the enemy with half his body burned off would reappear. Fortunately, they didn't encounter a second wave of attacks until they reached the end of the room.
The "tailor" said that after passing through three more rooms, they would see the "Forge of Life," and after opening the door again, they would be in the second to last room.
"Ok?"
This time, the room was exactly the same as the "blood collection workshop" where Shad appeared, with countless blood collection beds filled with struggling mummies.
After the group appeared, the tumor-like flesh and blood did not reappear on the ceiling, but the mummies broke free of the restraints binding them. After standing on the ground, they pounced on the four people at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary people.
The "Blood Collection Workshop" is one of the most frequently used rooms in the factory, and the three witches have extensive experience navigating through it.
"We need to go through that door over there!"
The short, halfling girl pointed to the door on the left, which was on the same wall as the current door, but a little far away.
"Miraculous Technique - Thunder Wave!"
The ripples from Shade's wave of his hand sent the closest mummies flying. The old witch continued to lead the way, and the group moved forward at great speed, attacking the endless stream of mummies as they went.
For some reason, the number of mummies far exceeded the number of the "blood collection beds" that Shad had seen at the beginning, but fortunately their strength was limited.
Shad's "Thunder Wave," the Old Witch's "Primal Force - Repulsion," Gina's "Exploding Bubble," and Miss Bradwell's flames together ensured that the mummies, who had no ranged attack capabilities, could not touch the group at all.
Although the intensity of the battle in this room seems to be the highest of all the rooms so far, Shad feels that it is only slightly more dangerous than the initial "blood supply room".
Between battles, the halfling girl, protected by Shad, even kicked over a cabinet against the wall and took some of its contents. Meanwhile, the blood-tinged fingers that had fallen from the mummies destroyed by magical power were promptly brought to everyone's attention by bubbles exhaled by the pink dragon maid.
As long as the blood-red tumor that emerged from the ceiling, which Shad encountered at the beginning, doesn't appear, Shad even feels that he can fight here until the mission ends.
"This room is so big, there must be many valuable places to explore. How about we explore a little bit?"
So he asked, but none of the three witches had any intention of staying:
"No, there are endless mummies here, and they will only get stronger as we stay longer. We can't stay, or who knows what kind of monsters they'll turn into!"
Led by Madam Gustav, the four quickly approached another door in the "blood collection workshop." However, upon reaching the doorway, the old witch suddenly paused, maintaining her spellcasting posture and using repulsive force to repel any approaching mummies:
"The door... something's wrong with this door!"
All the doors up to this point had maintained a style consistent with the room itself, and this particular door was no exception, but it had neither a handle nor a keyhole. There was only an octagonal groove in the very center of the rusty metal door, its shape resembling a regular nut.
Are you looking for the keys?
The four of them had all squeezed to the doorway, battling the endless stream of desiccated corpses in the corner between the door and the side wall. Gina's tail swept towards the door, but as expected, it wouldn't open. Shad temporarily stopped casting his spell, turned around, and placed his hand on the door.
"Let me try it first—the Key to the Door! Hmm?"
He initially thought the magic would likely fail, but after casting the spell, he actually turned the illusory key with its star-like color. The door opened, but immediately, crimson light surged through the door towards Shad's right hand, instantly turning the skin of his right hand pink as if it had been steamed.
[Stranger, you have been cursed: "Distorted Flesh and Blood."]
The door was fully opened, and the scene behind it surprised Shad. But it seemed that there was no need for a fight behind the door, so the group quickly went to the last room in front of the "Life Furnace".
The door was closed by Gina's dragon tail. Although any monster here could pass through all the rooms, closing the door meant a change in space, so the mummies in the "blood collection workshop" could not come here.
"your hands!"
Mrs. Gustav immediately noticed the abnormality in Shad's right hand. The dragon maid reacted even more strongly, even reaching out to touch Shad's right hand despite the danger, but Shad stopped her.
"This is the price for forcing the door open. I'm fine."
As he spoke, the mutated skin on his right hand cracked, and then crimson flame marks seeped out from the cracks. The "Embers of the First Flame" state appeared on his right hand, and then gradually restored the hand to normal.
The "mutated flesh" curse here is quite powerful, but fortunately, Shad's "flesh resistance" is high enough to withstand it, and the First Flame was further enhanced after the snow mountain incident. Otherwise, although the curse wouldn't actually turn him into a strange thing that even Mia wouldn't recognize, recovery wouldn't be something that could be completed in just a few minutes.
However, after the "Embers of the First Flame" appeared, Shad observed the expressions of the three witches. None of them recognized what it was; it seemed that these witches had no connection to the First Flame.
Are we anticipating yet another nun?
"She" asked softly.
"No, I'm just worried about yet another inevitable parting."
Ten seconds later, Shad's hand was basically back to normal, and Gina immediately hugged it and spit out bubbles. These bubbles were probably for healing and cleaning; they felt quite comfortable on the back of his hand. This dragon maid's bubble magic was truly amazing.
The room where everyone is currently located is quite different from the other rooms.
The four people stood on an iron grating platform, and below the platform was a surging river of scorching blood flowing from left to right like a long river.
The Blood River was nearly a hundred meters wide, while the iron grating platform extended less than two meters into it. The door to the next room was directly opposite the Blood River, and the four of them could even see a small iron grating platform in front of that door.
There was also a distance of 100 meters on the left and right sides of the room. The "blood river" flowed out from the passage in the wall and flowed into the interior of another wall. For some reason, Xia De thought of the molten iron in a normal factory.
To reach the other side of the door, it seemed they would have to cross this hundred-meter-wide river of blood, and all four of them clearly had the ability to fly.
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