allendalepharm Chapter 157 The Lord's Fanaticism! An Epic Implosion Core!
Chapter 157 The Lord's Fanaticism! An Epic Implosion Core!
Jiang Ming felt as if a needle had gently pricked his mind, and then his mind cleared up.
[Iron Will (Passive) is active. Mental-related negative status effects are now immune.]
A system notification sounded in my ear.
He turned his head to look to his side.
Chen Qi curled up on the ground in agony, his hands digging into his scalp, his fingernails full of blood.
Blood flowed from his seven orifices, and he let out unconscious screams from his throat.
Marlo was in even worse shape. The goblin's already fragile nerves collapsed, and he foamed at the mouth, rolled his eyes back, and his limbs twitched as if he had been electrocuted.
That old man's area-of-effect attacks are too powerful.
If they hadn't awakened this amazing skill in the training building, all three of them would have perished here today.
Augustus was engrossed in the massacre, a sickly smile on his gaunt face.
But he soon realized something was wrong.
The dozen or so eyes on his neck turned around in unison, locking onto Jiang Ming, who stood motionless in place.
"Why didn't you kneel?" the old man demanded, his voice choked with barely audible accusation. "Even the proud paladin yields before the goddess's divine might! How could your soul possibly withstand her holy baptism?"
"You call this divine power?" Jiang Ming scoffed, gripping the heavy greatsword tightly with both hands. "I think you're a rotten pumpkin infested with parasites. Stop trying to glorify yourself; you're just a madman who messed up an experiment."
Touched on a sore spot, Augustus's pale cheek twitched violently.
"Heretical!" the old man roared angrily. "You have no idea what evolution is! Since you refuse to hand over your soul, I'll personally rip your body off!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Ming suddenly exerted force with both legs.
The power of 39 points was fully unleashed.
The stone slabs on the ground shattered instantly, and the fragments flew backward like bullets.
Jiang Ming transformed into a whirlwind, charging straight at Augustus with an extremely domineering attitude.
The two-meter-long giant sword, crackling with violent lightning and fire, slammed down towards the old man's head.
"Foolish mortals..."
Augustus remained calm and raised the scepter inlaid with rubies.
A dark red magic circle instantly lit up beneath his feet, followed by a semi-transparent dark red light screen that appeared out of thin air, blocking the two of them.
"boom!"
The sword blade struck the light screen heavily, unleashing a deafening roar.
The lightning-fire sword energy and the dark red magical energy collided wildly, sparks flying everywhere.
Jiang Ming felt his arms go numb, and the back of his hand was painfully shaken by the huge recoil.
The shield's hardness is simply outrageous; it's even harder than the shell of that war behemoth from before.
But he did not back down.
With a sudden twist of his waist, he dissipated all the force of the recoil into the ground, then swung the greatsword again, slamming it down three times in succession in the same spot.
"Snap!"
A tiny crack finally appeared on the surface of the light curtain.
Augustus snorted coldly.
He didn't give Jiang Ming another chance to break the shield; the tentacle woven from flesh and blood on his left arm suddenly swelled up.
The tentacles, which were originally only as thick as an arm, instantly grew to be as thick as a water tank, covered with slime and barbs, and swept over with a nauseating stench.
Too close, Jiang Ming had no choice but to abandon his attack and raise his greatsword to block in front of him.
"Bang!"
A tremendous force traveled along the blade.
Jiang Ming was slid backward for more than ten meters, his feet carving two deep furrows in the hard stone ground, until he crashed into an iron table and came to a stop.
"What a hard turtle shell, and its strength is ridiculously great." Jiang Ming shook his sore arms.
This lord monster not only possessed extremely high magical prowess, but its physical strength also completely overwhelmed all the monsters encountered before.
Augustus did not rush to pursue.
He manipulated his tentacles, lifting up a mutated corpse from the ground.
The fleshy tendrils at the tip of the tentacle instantly pierced into the corpse.
Visibly, the corpse deflated rapidly like a punctured balloon, while Augustus's pale face gained a strange rosy hue, completely erasing the defeat he had suffered from being pushed back by Jiang Ming.
[The Flesh and Blood Ascension trait has been triggered. The target's health is rapidly recovering, and all attributes are temporarily increased by 5%.]
Jiang Ming's heart sank.
The underground laboratory was littered with the remains of limbs and torsos that had just been slain, making it an endless supply station for the old monster to regenerate health.
We must never engage in a war of attrition.
"Your vibrant body is truly amazing." Augustus casually tossed aside the shriveled, dried corpse remains, the eyes on his neck glowing with a greedy red light. "I've changed my mind. I'm going to make you the power core of the next generation of war behemoths, so you can be with me forever!"
The old man raised his scepter high and chanted a long, obscure incantation.
As the incantation was chanted, the remaining nutrient solution and the mutated pus and blood on the ground suddenly began to boil as if they had come alive.
They quickly converged, transforming into more than a dozen scarlet, blood-red whips that lashed out at Jiang Ming from all directions.
Jiang Ming swiftly dodged, using his exceptional agility to weave through the gaps in the blood whip.
"Snapped!"
A blood whip, unavoidable, lashed fiercely at Jiang Ming's heavy breastplate.
Although it didn't break through the armor, the strong acid attached to the whip caused the armor surface to sizzle and emit puffs of white smoke.
Using the force of the strike, Jiang Ming leaped into the air, avoiding the strangulation of the other blood whips.
While in mid-air, he flipped his left wrist.
The black iron chains shot out.
This time, instead of aiming at Augustus, he precisely wrapped his arms around a thick metal beam on the ceiling.
"receive!"
Jiang Ming pulled the chain hard, his body swinging through the air in a wide arc, directly over the dense blood whip net below, and landed directly above Augustus's head.
"Break it!"
The crystal core at the hilt lit up completely, entering its highest overload state. Violent lightning and fire sword energy intertwined.
With the gravitational potential energy descending from the sky, Jiang Ming maximized his 39 points of strength and cleaved the crack in front of the dark red light curtain with his sword.
"Snap—Splash!"
The light screen could no longer withstand this violent force and shattered like a piece of broken glass, turning into a sky full of red light.
Augustus was clearly not expected that his proud high-level shield would be broken by pure brute force, and panic flashed across his gaunt face.
Jiang Ming's sword strike remained undiminished, heading straight for the old man's neck.
As long as you cut off that disgusting head full of eyes, no matter what kind of lord you are, you will die.
Just as the blade was about to touch the skin, a sudden change occurred.
Augustus's neck suddenly stretched out strangely, and his skin and flesh shrank back nearly half a meter like a rubber band.
The sword blade, crackling with lightning and sparks, grazed his chest, slicing a deep, bone-revealing wound that trailed a trail of black blood. Cola Novels: There's always a story waiting for you to unfold.
"what!"
Augustus let out an extremely shrill scream.
However, there was no gushing blood or normal internal organs in the cut on his chest.
It was filled with countless, frantically wriggling black fleshy buds.
These granulation tissues intertwined and coiled wildly like countless tiny worms.
In less than two seconds, the potentially fatal wound was completely healed without leaving a scar.
[Undying Body trait triggered: Physical damage reduction of 80%, forced self-healing upon receiving a fatal wound.]
Jiang Ming cursed inwardly.
How can we fight like this?
The shield is incredibly tough, comes with life steal and attribute bonuses, and now it also has physical damage reduction and forced self-healing. The stats on this panel are simply outrageous.
Before Jiang Ming could change his move, Augustus's thick tentacle had already rolled back and tightly wrapped around the broad blade of the greatsword.
"Gotcha, you little mouse." The old man chuckled sinisterly.
The tiny fleshy tendrils on the tentacles began to spread rapidly up the sword's blade and onto Jiang Ming's hands, which were gripping the sword.
Jiang Ming could sense that as soon as these fleshy tendrils touched his skin, he would be instantly parasitized and assimilated.
He decisively loosened his grip on the sword hilt and leaped backward several meters.
"Without weapons, what will you use to fight me? Your fists?"
Augustus swung his tentacles, flinging the heavy greatsword far away.
Then, he raised his scepter and pointed it directly at the unarmed Jiang Ming.
The ruby at the top of the scepter shone with an extremely dazzling light.
The air in the entire underground hall seemed to have been sucked out.
An extremely dangerous and suffocating surge of magical energy gathered wildly at the tip of the scepter.
Jiang Ming understood that this was a move to clear the area.
He reached for the storage card at his waist.
Conventional methods are useless against this kind of undead monster; we have to resort to some more exciting tactics.
"System, open the synthesis panel!" Jiang Ming silently chanted in his mind, speaking very quickly.
In his left hand he held the [Power Core (Purple Epic)] that he had just dug out of the chest cavity of that war behemoth, and in his right hand he held two still-pulsating [Contaminated Aberrant Glands].
This is the highest-grade material he currently possesses.
But this is not enough.
Jiang Ming quickly pulled out two large bags of [High-Potential Alchemy Gunpowder] that he had previously looted from the corpses of the Bloodfang Mercenary Group, as well as the unused bottle of [Extremely Corrosive Liquid] from his storage card.
Five items were simultaneously thrown into the virtual crafting menu.
[System Warning: High-level energy conflict material detected! The physical gunpowder and the magical core are violently repelled, resulting in an extremely high failure rate (estimated at 95%) and a high risk of irreversible catastrophic explosion. Force synthesis?]
"Mix it up!"
Jiang Ming had no time to hesitate, let alone weigh the pros and cons.
Ten meters ahead, the red light on Augustus's scepter had reached its limit, illuminating the entire underground hall as if it were a purgatory.
The surrounding temperature dropped sharply, and a strange layer of frost even formed on the ground.
[Ding! Synthesis successful!]
[The player may trigger a "miracle synthesis" event, which has an extremely low probability.]
[Item Obtained: Extremely Unstable Flesh Implosion Core (Purple Epic Consumable)]
[Item Effect: Upon detonation, it produces an extremely terrifying energy collapse and flesh annihilation reaction, creating a large-scale vacuum field. Explosion radius: 20 meters.]
[Item Effect: Upon detonation, it produces an extremely terrifying energy collapse and flesh annihilation reaction, creating a large-scale vacuum field. Explosion radius: 20 meters.]
[Note: This item is in a critical state and is extremely unstable. It can explode from even a slight external impact. It cannot distinguish between friend and foe and cannot be thrown safely. Players should use it with extreme caution.]
Jiang Ming looked at the metal ball in his hand, which exuded an aura of destruction, was covered with blood vessels, and was constantly expanding and contracting. He felt a chill run down his spine.
This thing is practically a portable nuclear bomb that could explode at any moment.
"Come on, become my perfect subject!"
Augustus roared, his face contorted in a grotesque expression.
The red light at the top of the scepter transformed into a destructive beam of light with a diameter of more than half a meter, which shot out with a roar.
Where the beam of light passed, there was no explosion, only terrifying annihilation.
The air was severely distorted by the heat, and the stone slabs on the ground vaporized and disappeared, leaving behind a bottomless ravine.
Jiang Ming had no intention of hiding.
He swung his arm and hurled the metal ball in his hand at the beam of destructive light.
The metal sphere detonated the instant it came into contact with the beam of light in mid-air.
There was no deafening noise.
There was no firelight shooting into the sky.
An extremely dazzling, pale white orb of light appeared out of thin air.
The sphere of light expanded wildly at a speed that defied the laws of physics, directly engulfing the red pillar of destruction, and then encompassing the entire underground laboratory.
The moment he threw out the core, Jiang Ming's left wrist suddenly jerked.
The black iron chain transformed into a streak of dark light, precisely binding the alloy spine of the [Stitched Abomination - War Beast] wreckage a dozen meters away.
He used both arms to pull hard.
Using the pull, the person slid rapidly along the floor tiles, directly disappearing into the broad back of this enormous creature.
Although the monster is dead, its specially modified alloy skeleton and thick bulletproof shell are the most solid cover available.
To prevent the bunker from being blown away by the terrifying shockwave, Jiang Ming pressed his right hand down, directly slamming the magic skill [Gravity] onto the corpse of the war behemoth.
Ten times the force of gravity is pressing down on you!
The already heavy remains of the Abomination, weighing several tons, were now as heavy as a steel fortress cast into the floor, firmly embedded in the shattered pit.
Immediately afterwards, a devastating storm descended.
A pale white shockwave, mixed with the energy that annihilated flesh and blood, leveled everything in the laboratory.
The enormous petri dish filled with green liquid, the heavy rusted iron table, the deformed limbs scattered all over the floor, and even the hard metal alloy walls, all shattered inch by inch and turned into dust under the energy erosion.
The first to be hit by the wreckage of the war behemoths were stripped of their hard shells and thick flesh, which then vaporized under the onslaught of this violent energy, and their alloy skeletons emitted a piercing twisting sound.
Even though Jiang Ming was hiding in the back, he still couldn't completely avoid the aftershocks.
A terrifying shockwave pierced through the bunker and slammed into his back.
The dark gold runes on the Crimson Knight Heavy Breastplate flickered wildly, emitting a creaking sound as it struggled to bear the weight.
It lasted only a second before the armor effect completely collapsed.
The seemingly indestructible heavy armor was riddled with cracks before shattering into countless pieces of scrap metal.
Jiang Ming felt a sweet taste in his throat, and a mouthful of blood sprayed onto the floor tiles.
The internal organs were severely displaced.
Even with his lightning-fast reaction and finding the strongest cover, even with heavy armor to protect him, the shockwave from this epic explosion still nearly wiped out his health.
The storm lasted for about ten seconds before gradually subsiding.
The underground hall was filled with a pungent, burnt smell.
The remains of the war behemoth that served as cover had been mostly removed, leaving only a small, bare alloy skeleton.