Dark Blood Path

Jiang Xiaowen’s face was still a touch pale as she recovered from the slime’s wave of mental attack. She was shocked to discover Xiao Yu holding her by the waist and soaring about, evading the deadly acid attacking them from all sides, and she felt a bit bitter in her heart. She originally wanted to assist him and relieve the pressure against the swarm of monsters, but she didn’t expect herself to become a burden in the end.

“Hold on tightly; I will fly a short distance and bypass this area.”

“Can you do it?” Xiao Yu was skeptical.

Jiang Xiaowen could fly, but she couldn’t stay in the air for a long time. In addition, flying with heavy loads was significantly more difficult. Xiao Yu was well aware of this point. Never mind flying with another person, Jiang Xiaowen could hardly stay in the air for half an hour on her own.

However, the girl gritted her teeth and stated with resolve, “No problem!”

Xiao Yu was not a whiny person, and since she looked confident, he directly chose to believe in her and immediately changed his posture, embracing Jiang Xiaowen’s slender waist. His face was nearly touching her ample and firm breasts. The girl in question, though, didn’t care about this and, with no time to spare, focused on her beautiful butterfly wings that shone brightly as she flapped them with vigor, creating a powerful gust of wind. She managed to fly higher tremblingly, avoiding a barrage of acid with difficulty, before leaping across the swampy area and finally stopping about four to five hundred meters away.

Jiang Xiaowen was panting non-stop and imminently collapsed in Xiao Yu’s arms the moment she landed as if she had lost all her strength.

However, the threat persisted, and the giant slime charged in like a massive tank, absorbing and consuming all the monsters in its path. Xiao Yu finally realized why the red slime possessed such formidable spiritual power. It was likely that it had grown by devouring other slimes, accumulating their spiritual energy over time. Individually, a slime’s spiritual power was weak. Still, as more and more were consumed—ten, one hundred, and then up to a thousand of them—their combined force became formidable, amounting to a significant spiritual force.

Jiang Xiaowen panted heavily and whispered, “What to do? Should we continue running away?”

Xiao Yu’s eyes turned blood red, “We have no choice but to engage it; can you still fight?”

Jiang Xiaowen’s complexion recovered slightly; she nodded and replied, “I’m feeling better.”

“I’ll engage it in melee combat. Your role is to distract and divert its attention continuously. Don’t get directly involved in the fight. This slime’s mental attacks are extremely potent,” Xiao Yu instructed as he retrieved a magic scroll from his space ring. He unfurled the scroll, revealing countless intricate magic symbols that lit up and imbued his blade with a strange power. “We only have one minute!”

The magic scroll in question was specifically the Explosive Magic Scroll they obtained after defeating the Kobold chieftain!

Xiao Yu was compelled to use the magic scroll just half a day after obtaining it. Although the blast flame ability could not be used for fear of a massive explosion happening in their vicinity, the explosive magic wasn’t a fire-attributed attack and wouldn’t cause any explosions due to its very nature. Furthermore, its duration was limited, so there was no room for waste.

Jiang Xiaowen gritted her teeth, pushed through her exhaustion, and stretched her wings once more. She used the stabilizing wind bead to condense a cyan wind blade before launching it toward the giant slime. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu was already in front of the monster, slicing into it with a powerful wave of his weapon. There was an explosion, and a huge hole was blasted out of the giant slime’s body. At the same time, the wind blade struck, leaving a long gash and causing a torrent of red, viscous liquid to spill out.

Xiao Yu swiftly swung his blade and retreated in one swift motion. The blade glinted as it cut through the air, and with a thunderous roar, several ordinary slimes burst apart into a revolting and gooey mess. He then sprang up and planted himself on the back of the giant slime, bringing his weapon down with a mighty slash. The resulting explosion blew apart a large chunk of the creature.

Suddenly, Xiao Yu was struck with a sharp, needle-like pain in his brain. The giant slime had focused all its energy on attacking him alone and, with one powerful mental attack, had managed to knock him from his feet. Then, in an instant, he lost all five senses, and the giant slime pounced and was about to devour him whole. But before it could, a “sand spear” pierced straight through its body, passing through it back and forth, leaving a big hole.

This brief pause allowed Xiao Yu to recover his footing. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately used the bullet time ability; his body disappeared on the spot before appearing in the opposite direction. His battle blade got deeply implanted into the slime’s body, dragging out a huge gash four to five meters long, and amidst the subsequent explosions, the slime’s body collapsed into one big lump.

Forty seconds left!

Xiao Yu battered several ordinary slimes, then pivoted to unleash a fierce assault on the giant slime. The barrage of explosions was relentless, breaking apart the giant slime’s body piece by piece. Meanwhile, Jiang Xiaowen assisted him from the air, leaving the creature unable to defend itself in the immediate short time.

Twenty seconds were left.

Only half of the giant slime’s body crumbled.

Ten seconds to go.

The giant slime’s body continued to crumble, with each cut depleting a significant portion. However, Xiao Yu felt something was amiss—the monster was proving more challenging to defeat than expected. Despite the constant bombardment, its mental strength had not weakened, and its mental attacks remained just as sharp as before.

Five seconds!

Four seconds!

Three seconds!

Xiao Yu severed another chunk of the giant slime before being engulfed by a fierce mental wave that rendered him unconscious, devoid of his senses. Although Jiang Xiaowen released the last bit of the wind bead’s power in time to repel the monster, it seemed to have been too late as the glowing magic symbols on the luminous beast blade had already started to diminish.

The effect of the explosive blessing scroll was gone!

We still couldn’t end its life?

The giant slime lacked feelings of anger; it just instinctively perceived the presence before it as a threat and that the opponent necessitated elimination at all costs. Despite its diminished size, its body was still the size of a car. It opened a massive maw from its jelly-like form, ready to devour the person before it in one fell swoop.

Xiao Yu used the bullet time ability and reappeared a few meters away; he was out of breath and gazing fixedly at the giant slime.

Xiao Yu felt defeated. Despite his best efforts, he failed to defeat the giant slime, and he barely consumed part of its body— its core remained intact, and its mental strength was as strong as ever. In contrast, he was badly hurt and couldn’t muster the strength to fight.

I didn’t expect to be forced into this state by a single slime.

The massive slime surged forward, with Xiao Yu’s back facing a seemingly bottomless swamp area. He was trapped, with no escape in sight. The stabilizing wind bead in Jiang Xiaowen’s hands grew dim; its power was already depleted. Biting her lips, she frantically searched her clothing before discovering a pouch carefully sewn within. Then, ripping open the thread, she retrieved an ancient scroll.

“We have no other option; let me summon the half-abomination to deal with this filthy monster!”

Jiang Xiaowen made a decisive decision and quickly unrolled the scroll as a bright light burst forth. Without hesitation, she hurled the shimmering scroll, emitting powerful magic waves, toward the giant slime. Just as Xiao Yu dodged the slime’s attack, the glowing scroll landed on the monster’s body and was promptly ingested within, leaving its fate unknown.

Boom!

A terrible dark energy erupted from the monster’s body instantly, and the slime was quickly torn apart by the huge force generated at the moment of summoning. A large number of magic symbols were assembled rapidly in the air, gradually forming a magic circle. In the next second, a burly and huge body appeared from the center of the magic circle. A dark aura enveloped the surroundings, and the temperature dropped by several degrees instantly.

After releasing the sealed monster, the sealed scroll closed automatically and flew straight back into Jiang Xiaowen’s hands.

A monstrosity that words could not describe appeared in front of them. It measured more than four meters tall and had just one head. The front side of its head had a hideous and horrible human face, while the backside of the head had the face of a beast with two jaws, similar to that of a bear. It also had four eyes and was covered in stitches all over its body. Two arms protruded from its left and right, clutching four different weapons: an iron rod, a machete, a sickle, and a hammer. In addition, a hand was sticking out of its belly, holding a slaughter knife. The legs of two different creatures were supporting its body….

Overall, this monster appeared horrifying, as if six or seven different types of monsters were ripped into shreds and stitched back together.

The half-abomination!

Jiang Xiaowen actually summoned the half-abomination!

Although this was an abomination that failed to synthesize, its strength was not inferior to that of the ogre warrior, and it was certainly not an entity against which they could contend at this stage. Its emergence right here simply represented a disaster!

Jiang Xiaowen summoned the Half-Abomination here, primarily because the swampy terrain with a radius of hundreds of miles could greatly restrict the monstrosity’s movement, rendering it unable to chase and kill the fleeing humans, and used it to draw the attention of other slimes, allowing everyone to safely leave this swampy forest.

It was a good idea, but was it worth it to unlock a sealed scroll for a mere slime?

This was a half-abomination, a monster almost unbeatable below the second order, which meant that it was an invincible entity at this stage. Originally, it was meant to be used while battling large creatures like the ogre warrior to maximize its effectiveness. Nonetheless, the half-abomination had already been summoned, and with its summoning power alone, it crushed the majority of the slime that Xiao Yu had been unable to break down for an extended period of time.

The giant slime that was blasted by the half-abomination’s force lost almost the entirety of its body, leaving just a little chunk, about half the size of regular slime, wriggling around. Its whole body was crystal clear, like a ruby, suggesting that this was the core part of the monster.

Xiao Yu didn’t care about this; instead, he was already planning his escape.

Against the giant slime, he might still be able to fight, but against the powerful half-abomination, he had no choice but to flee.

However…

Just as they were ready to bolt out, something happened that neither Xiao Yu nor Jiang Xiaowen expected. The burly and sturdy half-abomination, full of the aura of death and destruction, stood motionless as if petrified. Its eyes were empty, the ones on its front were looking straight ahead, and the ones on the back of its head were looking straight behind.

Jiang Xiaowen was a little puzzled, “What’s the matter? Could it be that the summoned half-abomination is an idiot? Its aura is so strong, but why doesn’t it move?”

Xiao Yu studied the vegetable half-abomination for a while before realizing that it was indeed an utter failure of an abomination. It was shockingly devoid of feelings and thoughts. Despite having half-abomination energy in its body, it had no fighting power and acted like a vegetable whose thoughts and emotions had practically ceased.

In other words, this half-abomination was nothing more than a doll that couldn’t fight.

At most, they could throw it out to scare their enemies.

The slime was intimidated by the aura of the half-abomination, but the latter didn’t seem to be of any threat after a while had passed. As a result, the slime instinctively engulfed it, attempting to devour the monstrosity’s body.

But how could Jiang Xiaowen let it succeed?

She flapped her wings and flew down in the air. The ring of spikes on her slender finger was shining with dazzling earth-attributed yellow light.

The earth shook, and a seven to eight-meter-long spike rose from the ground, piercing through the giant slime with only its core remaining.