bookbashuk Chapter 184 Parasite
Chapter 184 Parasite
Chapter 184 Parasite
Dui was very surprised by the wolf's sudden outburst.
However, this did not stop him from continuing his pursuit.
"Zorondo, catch up with it!"
The giant eagle, Zorondo, let out a loud cry, flapped its wings, and transformed into a blur as it chased after the demon wolf.
No matter how fast the demon wolf is, can it outrun the giant eagle's aerial advantage?
Zorondo quickly caught up with the fleeing demon wolf and stretched out his sharp claws to grab it.
The wolf seemed to have eyes in the back of its head; it instantly dodged to the side, avoiding the giant eagle's claws.
"Avada Kedavra!"
But Dui on the giant eagle's back was clearly not idle either, launching a simultaneous attack as if it had anticipated the attack.
The Death Curse, flashing green light, collided with the demon wolf instantly.
The demon wolf let out a miserable howl as several evil spirits were extracted from its body and instantly vanished.
The wolf paused for a moment, then continued its energetic run.
"They're still alive?" Dui stared wide-eyed in astonishment.
He was originally very confident in his attack, but unexpectedly it failed.
But he soon realized that the demon wolf must have devoured the hundreds of evil spirits, and now it possessed countless souls within its body.
The Killing Curse's attack is essentially to strip the soul, leading to physical death.
Therefore, his killing curse just now only separated a few evil spirits from it, while the evil spirits that were originally residing in it remained intact, so it naturally did not cause any harm.
Since the Killing Curse was ineffective, Dui wouldn't waste his magic.
When the demon wolf saw Dui and the giant eagle chasing after it again, it suddenly let out a wolf howl into the distance.
The next second, a dozen wolf howls echoed from the Beigang Mountain forest.
"There are also demon wolves?" Dui frowned as he looked in the direction from which the wolf howls came from.
Soon, a dozen or so demon wolves, each the size of an ox, quickly gathered around.
These demon wolves were clearly led by the demon wolf Skul and obeyed its commands.
Dui didn't give them a chance to gather, and slashed his flaming sword at the nearest demon wolf.
The scorching hot blade of air instantly struck a demon wolf.
The demon wolf was split in two at the waist and quickly burst into flames. Along with the demon wolf's screams, a piercing, ghostly shriek came from inside the demon wolf's body.
Then, the evil spirit residing in the wolf's body, having lost its host, transformed into a wisp of black smoke and burst out of the body.
The wolf's body, having lost the evil spirit, seemed to be accelerated by time, rapidly corroding and disintegrating, turning into ashes with the flames.
The evil spirit, having lost its body, seemed unable to survive on its own and continued to dissipate.
But the next second, the wolf king Skul charged straight at the evil spirit and swallowed it whole.
His aura immediately became even stronger, and even his size rapidly increased.
Dui frowned, his expression darkening.
He killed a demon wolf, but this guy got the scrap and became the biggest winner.
This guy now has two evil spirits inside him, making him even more difficult to deal with.
For a moment, Dui hesitated to attack the other wolf demons, since killing them would only make the wolf king Skul stronger.
But if we don't kill them, it will be even more troublesome to be entangled with them.
Dui felt somewhat constrained.
However, Dui soon discovered that although the Wolf King had devoured the evil spirit and gained greater power, its reaction speed had become much slower, or rather, its movements had become somewhat uncoordinated.
It turns out that the wolf king's practice of devouring other evil spirits was not without its drawbacks.
A demon wolf should ideally have only one evil spirit residing within its body, so that it can be perfectly coordinated with the body.
Even though Wolf King Skul had devoured hundreds of evil spirits before, the essence of those evil spirits was no match for the evil spirits within its body, so it was completely able to suppress them from causing trouble within its body.
But now the wolf king has devoured another evil spirit of the same mass. With the two evil spirits coexisting in one body, they instinctively want to fight for control of the body.
However, because the devoured evil spirit was relatively weak, it was temporarily suppressed by the main evil spirit.
Dui quickly understood the situation in a very short time.
He immediately had a plan.
He sneered inwardly, "Want to devour more evil spirits? Then I'll give you a hand!"
He then stopped holding back, wielding a magic wand in one hand and a flaming sword in the other.
With a wave of his wand, he conjured various obstacles to slow the wolf's speed, while his other hand wielded a flaming sword, unleashing flames and air blades.
The giant eagle, Saurondo, was not to be outdone. He swiftly swooped down, grabbed the demon wolf, and pierced it with his steel claws. His sharp beak pecked open the wolf's head, killing it instantly.
With the combined efforts of the man and the eagle, one demon wolf after another perished, and the evil spirits residing within them transformed into black smoke, bursting forth with sharp, piercing howls.
As Dui had predicted, the wolf king Skul, perhaps due to a short circuit in his brain caused by the two evil spirits within him, began devouring other evil spirits without a care.
As it devoured more and more evil spirits, its aura grew increasingly terrifying, and the evil power around it became as thick as black ink, carrying an aura that inspired fear and trepidation.
Even the celestial phenomena were affected, changing and becoming shrouded in dark clouds.
However, correspondingly, the wolf king Skul's cunning and shrewd eyes were now filled with struggle, madness, and a sense of division.
At this moment, its body is filled with more than a dozen evil spirits and hundreds of malevolent spirits, all trying to seize control of the body, making it a complete mess.
When there were only a few evil spirits, Skul's main evil spirit could still have the home-field advantage and suppress them, but now its control over the body is in jeopardy.
"Quiet down, all of you! If you don't listen to me, you'll all die!" Wolf King Skul roared with a ferocious expression.
Perhaps the wolf king's threat had an effect, as the evil spirits within the body became somewhat more subdued.
However, Duy wasn't going to give them a chance to work together. He quickly cast a spell with his wand: "Out of Body!"
The wolf king was unable to dodge the curse and was struck instantly.
As the Soul-Stealing Curse was cast, the evil spirits that had calmed down within the Wolf King immediately began to surge violently.
The evil spirits frantically fought for control of the body, and even the lowest-ranking evil spirits caused chaos.
The wolf king's body was divided and controlled by countless consciousnesses. His eyes were positioned one above the other, his limbs each had their own master, and even the consciousness controlling each muscle was not the same.
The wolf king stood frozen in place, as if immobilized, his consciousness descending into chaos and madness.
"Now!"
Dui leaped off the giant eagle's back, grabbed the Flaming Sword, and plunged it heavily into the wolf king's head, unleashing his magic.
The Blazing Sword unleashed scorching flames, and the power of the basilisk venom, fiery flames, the light of Eyarendil, and the Ring of Qi contained within its blade all erupted within the Wolf King's body.
The wolf king instantly lost all its life force, the flames in its eyes quickly went out, and at the same time, more than a dozen piercing screams filled with resentment rang out from within its body.
It was as if many vengeful ghosts were wailing at the same time, piercing straight to the soul, making people very uncomfortable.
With lightning speed, Dui drew his flaming sword, then somersaulted off the wolf and retreated quickly.
Sure enough, the next second, more than a dozen wisps of black smoke shot out from the wolf king's body, wandering around unwillingly, trying to find another host.
But Dui didn't give them that chance. The guardian spirit transformed into a huge barrier, trapping the dozen or so evil spirits, along with the evil spirits that followed, inside the barrier.
Dui took out the crystal bottle and released the light of Eyarendil. The holy starlight caused the evil spirits and demons to melt and dissipate quickly, just like ice and snow meeting the sun.
After the last evil spirit, filled with resentment, completely vanished, Dui reluctantly put away the crystal bottle.
The Light of Eyarendil is not infinite; once used, it is gone. If it weren't to avoid any unforeseen complications, he wouldn't dare to use the Light of Eyarendil.
Looking back at the wolf king's corpse, it had already turned into a pile of ashes in the flames.
Despite the victory, Dui did not show much joy on his face.
This battle was not easy. The evil spirits and demon wolves possessed by malevolent spirits were different from the enemies we had faced before. Ordinary spells and physical attacks were useless. It took us a lot of effort.
This made him more cautious about his upcoming journey down the Road of Death to find the Sulfur of Souls.
After all, on the path to death, he would be facing an army of ghosts, and he didn't have the identity of a descendant of Aragorn Isildur that would make the ghosts spare him.
Ghosts are not afraid of curses like the Killing Curse, since they are already dead and ordinary attacks cannot harm them.
They are not even like dark creatures such as evil spirits or malevolent spirits, and they cannot deal with ghosts in the same way that they deal with evil spirits.
Dui shook his head, deciding to put the matter aside for now and act according to the circumstances.
He then rode the giant eagle back towards the fairy cave.
After a busy day, apart from receiving a Black Magic Mark from signing in, he has gained nothing else. Instead, he has encountered several troubles, including evil spirits, fairies, and demon wolves.
Dui felt that the first stop of his trip was going very badly.
The fairy cave is winding and interconnected, and all the fairies in the cave have been burned to ashes by Dui's Fiery Blaze, making it appear empty and silent.
After searching the fairy cave for a while, Dui finally found the fairy's treasure vault.
But looking at the treasure vault filled with a pile of broken armor and weapons, as well as several chests of copper coins, silver coins, and a small amount of gold coins and jewels, Dui could only curse his bad luck in silence.
"What a penniless wretch! This trip was a complete waste!"
Dui grumbled as he put the boxes of treasure into his spatial bag, then turned and left the fairy cave.
As for the wolf's lair, there was nothing there except a pile of bones.
Disappointed, Dui could only leave Beigang and fly west.
His next stop was Anuminas to check in, and then he would head to the southwestern grey port.
Annuminas was once the capital of the northern kingdom of Arno, but as the kingdom of Arno split into the three kingdoms of Kadoran, Asedan, and Rudol, Annuminas gradually lost its central position and was eventually abandoned.
The city was not rebuilt until Aragorn became King of Arnor and Gondor.
The distance between Anuminas and North Hill Fornost is roughly the same as the distance between Wind Cloud Peak and Fornost.
The giant eagle Sorondo carried Dui for half a day, and then Dui saw a huge lake in the distant valley.
That is Lake Twilight, also known as Lake Nenveo, located near the city of Anumminas.
It is also the border of the Shire—the source of the Brandy River.
(End of this chapter)