In the boundless cavern of flesh and gore, the Hero party stealthily hid in a corner, watching the two young women in the distance still playing with the ice-blue slime in their hands. With the aid of magic, even the gluttonous monsters nearby remained completely oblivious.
"Shinya, what should we do?"
At that moment, Trina leaned in close to Shinya Kamiki, who was at the forefront, and whispered. Originally, their plan was to eliminate the Demon Lord species, Yuna the Ghoul and that Meatball Monster, by launching a direct assault upon finding them here.
However, not only was Sally present, but her aura was also far more powerful than the several Demon Lord species they had temporarily sealed away previously. They simply didn't have the confidence to kill them in a short amount of time. If the temporarily sealed Demon Lord species were to arrive during that period,
then they would be the ones in danger.
"Ambush!"
Shinya Kamiki turned his head, looked at Trina and the others, hesitated for a few seconds, and then spoke. Although ambushes were a shameful act for them as Heroes, they didn't mind violating their principles to successfully eliminate the monster and save the Western nations.
After all, the opponents were Demon Lords. It was excusable for them to use some tricks. Besides, who said Heroes couldn't ambush?
"Ambush... I understand."
Beside her, not only Trina but even the remaining two Heroes showed strange expressions. However, after considering the current situation, they had to agree that it was the most advantageous method at the moment. Subsequently, the four Heroes simultaneously turned their heads to look at Lu Minghao, who was being protected in the center.
After all, as Heroes, they had always been righteous, brave, and upright... If Lu Minghao were to develop a negative impression of them because they wanted to ambush, or even refuse to grant them strengthening magic, it would be terrible.
They had encountered similar situations before. In that battle, they could have won by ambushing with minimal cost, but the others who participated in the battle refused, stating that Heroes should fight fair and square.
At that time, the four Heroes completely ignored them, after all, they had been summoned from another world, and they didn't care about that guy's so-called convictions, but the result was that the guy secretly sent the message that they wanted to ambush to the enemy before the battle started.
In the end, even though they won that battle, they paid a heavy price. Of course, that brain-dead guy also paid the price in the end, directly killed by the Hero Shinya Kamiki with a single sword strike.
"Ambush? That's a pretty good idea. If everything goes smoothly, we can completely cripple the enemy in an instant. However, I think there are still some loopholes in your plan, Hero-sama."
Opposite them, facing the four Heroes who were looking at him, Lu Minghao smiled gently, indicating his agreement with their plan, and even pointed out that their plan was a bit too rough and full of loopholes.
"Loopholes?"
Shinya Kamiki turned his head curiously and asked after hearing Lu Minghao's words. In his opinion, with their strength after being strengthened by Lu Minghao, and with their greater number of strong individuals, even ambushing was already considered despicable and shameless.
But the other party actually complained that such a despicable and shameless plan was full of loopholes.
"Of course. Since we want to ambush, it's definitely to kill with one blow, so..."
As he spoke, Lu Minghao began to take out a pile of bottles and jars from the pocket on his waist. Each bottle contained a viscous liquid of different colors. Trina, who was curious beside him, picked up a bottle of liquid that looked the palest and opened it.
Instantly, a sweet and cloying fragrance rushed to her nose. The pungent smell made Trina shake her head subconsciously, but Trina didn't see that as her head shook, the rotting skin on her face began to fall off, and a large amount of pitch-black, viscous blood dripped onto the ground, emitting a sizzling sound.
"This... what is this?"
Beside her, the Shield Hero's originally resolute face revealed a terrified expression after seeing this scene. He quickly raised his head and looked at Lu Minghao in front of him and asked. At this time, Trina, who was being invaded by the poison, also reacted, and began to purify the poison in her body with all her strength, and heal her injuries.
"Of course it's poison. Since we want to ambush and kill the opponent, we definitely have to use any means possible. As long as these deadly poisons are smeared on the weapons, even if it only breaks a little skin, even if the opponent has powerful recovery and immortality, they will definitely not feel good."
As he spoke, Lu Minghao, ignoring the four Heroes' horrified gazes, began to take out his weapons and carefully smear the deadly poison on them. Under Lu Minghao's superb technique, more than a dozen kinds of deadly poisons were perfectly blended together, not only becoming colorless and odorless, but even the toxicity was multiplied several times.
Shinya Kamiki, on the opposite side, twitched the corner of his eye. Having been summoned to this world as a Hero for more than ten years, this was the first time he knew that adventurers were such terrifying beings.
"Alright, it's your turn, Hero-sama."
After Lu Minghao smeared all his weapons with deadly poison, he raised his head, looked at Shinya Kamiki in front of him, and extended his hand. Shinya Kamiki hesitated for a few seconds, then lowered his head, pulled out his longsword, and placed it in Lu Minghao's hand.
Beside him, the Shield Hero also silently handed over the shield in his hand.
A few minutes later, just as Trina relied on her unique skill [Purifier] to completely clear the poison from her body, she saw her teammates carefully looking at their weapons, as if they were afraid of being hurt by the weapons.
Even the other female Hero beside her, who was holding a magic staff, was now carefully holding the bottom of the magic staff, completely afraid of letting any part of the magic circle other than that touch her body.
After the Heroes took their weapons and shields smeared with deadly poison, Lu Minghao smiled with satisfaction, but a strange look flashed in his dark pupils.
[Physical Enhancement], [Magic Power Enhancement], [Perception Enhancement], [Neural Radiation Enhancement], [Speed Enhancement], [Physical Enhancement]...
Subsequently, after Lu Minghao completed various magic enhancements for the four Heroes, another Hero beside him also began to cast various defensive and concealment magic that weakened perception on Shinya Kamiki and the Shield Hero. After all preparations were completed, Shinya Kamiki and the Shield Hero exchanged excited glances.
They began to quietly sneak towards Sally and Flora in the distance, intending to launch a fatal ambush.
And in the same place, the remaining Lu Minghao watched Trina and another female Hero begin to close their eyes and chant, and as they chanted, the two people's power began to resonate, and golden magic circle inscriptions began to appear above their heads.
As the magic circle gradually completed, golden light shone on the two people, and at this time, the two of them became incomparably holy, as if they were messengers of the gods on the earth.
"Is this the Heroes' strongest trump card?"
Beside him, Lu Minghao looked expressionlessly at the two people who were completing the magic circle. Even now, Lu Minghao still couldn't completely understand what the two were doing, but even he felt a trace of threat from the aura emitted by the magic circle.
After all, Lu Minghao didn't have Rimuru's 【Great Sage】 to tell him about the world's various information and skills.
However, Lu Minghao didn't care about this. Anyway, as long as those two were dead, forcibly interrupting their magic would make whatever magic or skills they had completely irrelevant.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Lu Minghao's face as he stood up and walked to Trina and the other girl. His eyes were filled with concern as he looked at them. The two who were chanting magic also noticed Lu Minghao in front of them, a hint of doubt in their eyes, wondering what he wanted to do.
However, that was all.
They didn't worry about their own safety at all. Although it was impolite to say this about their companion Lu Minghao, the four heroes didn't really trust Lu Minghao. The reason why Shinmoku Shin'ya and the Shield Hero left with peace of mind, leaving Trina and the other girl to prepare to summon the 【Angel King】,
was entirely because they had used various skills to check Lu Minghao last night, confirming that he only had the strength of a high-level adventurer. This level of strength made it impossible to break through Trina and the other girl's current defense.
You must know that even though Trina and the other girl who were summoning the 【Angel King】 couldn't move, and even used all their magic power as the price for summoning the 【Angel King】, the power of the 【Angel King】 would protect them during the summoning process.
Although it was only a small portion of power, unless the Lu Minghao in front of them was a Demon King seed, and a very strong one at that, there was no way he could break through the 【Angel King】's protection and hurt them.
"Lady Trina, if I'm not mistaken, this ability usually requires the four of you heroes to use it, but now, thanks to my various enhancement magics, the two of you can complete it, right?"
Facing Trina's doubtful gaze, Lu Minghao sat in front of them like an old friend, speaking with a smile. Lu Minghao's words caused Trina and the other girl's chanting to slow down, looking at Lu Minghao with shock.
You must know that 【Angel Summoning】 is the strongest power of their four heroes. Everything they had encountered before had died. But now, Lu Minghao only glanced at it a few times and knew so much.
For a time, looking at Lu Minghao with a smile on his face, Trina and the other girl began to have a bad feeling in their hearts. At this moment, they suddenly realized that they couldn't see through the Lu Minghao in front of them, who looked like a high-level adventurer on the surface, but possessed super-strong enhancement magic.
"It's strange why I know this, right?"
Directly opposite, Lu Minghao looked at the shocked two and smiled lightly, but in reality, Lu Minghao only saw this much, and didn't know anything else. After all, before his reincarnation, whether it was in anime or novels, heroes had similar abilities.
There was even the most outrageous one, where the villain was several times stronger than the hero, but at the last moment, the hero would have a wave of flashbacks, plus the calls of various miscellaneous ordinary people, directly reversing the situation and crushing the villain.
Based on this, Lu Minghao boldly guessed, looking at Trina and the other girl's eyes, he should have guessed almost correctly.
"Lu Minghao, who exactly are you?"
At this time, Trina's voice sounded in Lu Minghao's mind. On the opposite side, Trina was staring at Lu Minghao while chanting quickly. Now, she was planning to use 【Mind Connection】 to ask Lu Minghao's true identity while delaying time to complete the summoning.
As long as the summoning was successful, Trina believed that no matter who Lu Minghao was, he wouldn't be a match for the 【Angel King】.
"Me? Of course, I'm the person you've been looking for. By the way, the time is almost up."
Facing Trina's question, Lu Minghao was stunned for a moment before directly raising his hand and pointing at himself, then turning his head to look at Sally and Flora, who had already sneaked behind Shinmoku Shin'ya and the other two. Calculating the time, the poison he had administered should be about to explode.
No one really thought that Lu Minghao was kindly helping the heroes with their plans, and even poisoning their weapons, right?
He did this entirely to allow the heroes to be silently corroded by his poison. In order to avoid being discovered, Lu Minghao even divided his poison into more than a dozen portions. At first, he even pretended to be infected by breathing, and then prepared it into a colorless and odorless form in front of them. On the surface, it looked like it was completely fine as long as the poison didn't corrode their bodies.
But in reality, this poison was indeed fine at first, but when it merged into the heroes' bodies, the poison would completely explode. After Lu Minghao awakened and became a True Demon King, this poison had completely broken away from the low-level poison that relied on breathing and body infection.
Instead, it had evolved into something that could corrode magic power. That is to say, the moment the separated poison was mixed and assembled into its original form by Lu Minghao, the four heroes had been silently infected.
"Time, what ti... Pfft!"
Trina stared at Lu Minghao in front of her. At this time, she didn't even bother to chant, directly raising her head and asking. The uneasiness in her heart was like a shadow, devouring her. But she only said half a sentence.
Suddenly, Trina felt a sharp pain in her chest. She subconsciously opened her mouth and spat out a mass of dark, solidified blood. The skin on her body also began to rot rapidly. Even with the unique skill 【Purifier】's powerful evolutionary power, it didn't have much effect. The poison was still frantically corroding her body.
Bang!
At this time, the chanting beside Trina came to an abrupt stop. Then, Trina saw her companion beside her fall to the ground. The originally fair skin was covered with purple-black patterns, and the pupils also began to dilate. The breath of life had completely disappeared.
"See, I told you the time had come."
Looking at the dead hero, Lu Minghao looked at Trina, who was staring at him, with a trace of helplessness on his face. They know what I'm talking about now, why are you still staring at him?
"Demon King, a real Demon King, you have awakened!"
Trina opened her mouth. Her throat, which had been mostly corroded, made her voice extremely hoarse. At this moment, she finally understood Lu Minghao's true strength, but she never thought that an awakened True Demon King would actually use sneak attacks, poison, and even risk posing as a human adventurer to join them.
"Congratulations, you guessed right. As a reward, let you rest in my body."
In the last second before her death, Trina looked at Lu Minghao, who nodded at her with a smile, and easily shattered the 【Angel King】's protection, taking out a dark red, constantly beating heart from her body.
