Bang!
In mid-air, a magnificent magic array, filled with sacred aura, exploded with a bang. Golden light illuminated the originally dim surroundings. A girl in a pure white priestess robe fell heavily to the ground, blood flowing continuously from her chest, staining the pure white robe red.
A fist-sized hole could be clearly seen in the girl's chest, the bloody flesh inside rotting away. The girl's delicate face still retained her pre-death expression, her large eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
Beside the girl, another girl in a magnificent magic robe raised her head, her face already half-rotted. Her empty eye sockets stared fixedly at the fallen girl beside her. Even though her pupils had completely disappeared due to the corrosion of the poison, she still clearly knew what had happened through [Mana Perception].
"Don't worry, you will be reunited soon, inside my body."
Lu Minghao squatted down and gently stroked the girl's hair, but her originally dark and smooth long hair had become dry and dull. As Lu Minghao stroked it, large clumps of hair fell out.
"Run... Run!"
At this moment, the girl completely disregarded Lu Minghao in front of her, and just used all her strength to support her body with her arms, using her last strength to send out a final warning to her remaining companions in the distance.
"Bastard!!"
"Trina! Serra!"
In the distance, Shinmoku Maya and the Shield Hero, who had just arrived beside Sally and Flora, had already noticed something was wrong the moment the [Angel King] summoning failed. When they turned their heads, they discovered the fallen Trina and Serra, who was struggling to give a final warning.
In front of them, Lu Minghao, who was squatting there, turned his head and looked at them expressionlessly. In an instant, both Shinmoku Maya and the Shield Hero completely abandoned their previous sneak attack plan, roaring and rushing towards him with all their might.
Bang! Bang!
"Big brothers, where are you going? Didn't you come to play with Sally?"
Just as Shinmoku Maya and the Shield Hero rushed towards Lu Minghao, Sally and Flora suddenly stood in front of them, looking at them with faint smiles. Sally and Flora had already discovered them the moment Shinmoku Maya and the others teleported here.
It was just that they hadn't directly attacked.
"Get out of the way!"
"Don't block our path!"
Shinmoku Maya and the Shield Hero looked at Sally and Flora blocking their path, their speed not decreasing at all, even pushing their bodies to accelerate again. The sword in Shinmoku Maya's hand directly slashed at Sally in front of him, and the Shield Hero on the side also raised his huge shield, crashing it towards Flora at the same time.
On the opposite side, whether it was Sally or Flora, they still looked at them with smiles on their faces, without the slightest intention of dodging or even counterattacking.
"Puff!"
The next second, just as Shinmoku Maya and the Shield Hero were about to touch Sally and Flora, their bodies suddenly shook, and they crashed heavily to the ground, large mouthfuls of solidified dark red blood spurting from their mouths.
"Poison? When? I clearly didn't notice it at all before?"
Shinmoku Maya, kneeling on the ground, couldn't believe the blood he had spat out. The dark red solidified blood clot emitted a foul stench, and even the ground under the blood clot was constantly corroded, making a sizzling sound.
However, he had clearly checked several times before, and there were no traces of poison infecting either his body or his soul.
"It's magic, you know. Minghao's poison has long evolved to the point where it can infect magic. As long as you use magic, you are destined to be infected and corroded."
Sally squatted down and looked at Shinmoku Maya with a look of disbelief, kindly telling him how he was infected with the poison. After all, in Sally's opinion, food should be in a good mood before eating it, otherwise the taste will be worse.
"Minghao... Lu Minghao, it really is him, he did all of this!"
Shinmoku Maya held the hilt of his sword with both hands, supporting his body to stand up. His eyes stared fixedly at Sally in front of him and Lu Minghao not far away. Now he could guess that Lu Minghao was secretly doing all of this.
"Sally won't tell you."
Facing Shinmoku Maya's question, Sally stuck out her tongue and made a face at him.
"Heh."
Shinmoku Maya looked at Sally, who looked like a porcelain doll of fifteen or sixteen years old, and a hint of self-deprecating smile appeared on his lips. This time, they were indeed careless, and they never thought that Lu Minghao, the mastermind behind all of this, would have mixed into their team.
Of course, the main reason was that they had never encountered such a sinister and despicable opponent, and one whose strength far exceeded theirs.
However...
Even so, it doesn't mean they have already lost!
The next second, in Sally's surprised gaze, Shinmoku Maya directly raised the long sword in his hand and stabbed it into the body of the Shield Hero beside him. The Shield Hero, who was attacked by his companion, seemed to have expected this, and just raised his head and gave Shinmoku Maya a slight smile.
"Maya, I'm counting on you."
In a voice full of nostalgia and expectation, the Shield Hero closed his eyes, and his life aura completely disappeared. In contrast, Shinmoku Maya, who had just been extremely weak due to the poisonous aura, was now rapidly increasing in both magic and aura, and even the poison on his body was completely cleared.
"I'll leave the rest to me, I will definitely..."
Shinmoku Maya, shrouded in a faint golden light, looked at the Shield Hero with sadness in his eyes, and then turned his head to stare fixedly at Sally and Flora in front of him. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly discovered that Sally's figure began to distort continuously, and finally disappeared.
'Afterimage!'
Seeing the disappeared Sally, Shinmoku Maya's pupils instantly shrank to the extreme, and he instinctively slashed the sword in his hand towards his back.
Just as Shinmoku Maya had just turned around, Sally's figure had appeared somewhere unknown, and Sally, who was raising her fist to smash down, showed a hint of surprise on her small face when she saw the oncoming long sword. Then, she clenched her small fist again and directly swung it out.
Crack!
The next second, the fist collided with the blade, and a clearly visible crack appeared on the originally strong and sharp Hero's Sword. In Shinmoku Maya's unbelievable gaze, his Hero's Sword was directly smashed by Sally with one punch, and then her seemingly tender little fist heavily smashed into his chest.
Boom!
Instantly, the entire cave emitted a huge roar, and even the entire cave began to shake. In the center of the cave, Shinmoku Maya's pupils were constantly enlarging, and his body was twisted into a strange posture, and his back was strangely protruding. Looking closely at the appearance of the protruding back, it looked like a fist.
Puff!
Suddenly, Shinmoku Shin'ya opened his mouth, and fresh blood spurted out like a water column. Behind him, the air was compressed into a tangible form, and a visible shockwave shot directly into the sky. The next second, a golden ray of sunlight shone into the cave, and looking up, everything above the entire cave had completely disappeared.
In other words, Sally's punch, even just the aftershock, had completely shattered and blown away the ten-thousand-meter-high mountain of flesh.
Clap!
The next second, Sally retracted her small fist. Shinmoku Shin'ya, his body already folded in half in mid-air and his bones shattered into a pile of rotten flesh, fell to the ground. A faint golden light began to emerge, and Shinmoku Shin'ya's body began to recover automatically.
"So weak."
Sally pouted, looking at Shinmoku Shin'ya's rapidly recovering body in front of her. Originally, Sally thought she would finally encounter an opponent she could fight with all her might after receiving the Demon King's blessing. But one punch was all it took. If Sally hadn't reacted quickly and transferred most of the power in time,
Shinmoku Shin'ya would have been turned into minced meat by that punch.
"Sally, don't underestimate these heroes."
At this moment, Lu Minghao, wiping the corner of his mouth, walked up to Sally, gently patted her little head, and looked at Shinmoku Shin'ya on the ground, saying, "In Lu Minghao's perception, there is a terrifying power awakening within the dying Shinmoku Shin'ya."
Moreover, this power had reached a point where even Lu Minghao, the Demon King, had to take it seriously.
"So that's how it is."
The next second, Lu Minghao, having absorbed all the memories and nutrients of Trina and the others, revealed a look of sudden realization, with a hint of surprise on his face as he looked at Shinmoku Shin'ya, who was rapidly recovering on the ground. It turned out that the hero team's biggest trump card wasn't the [Angel King].
But the Shield Hero, who had always seemed unremarkable and lacked presence in the team. The Shield Hero was different from the other heroes; he had two unique skills, one of which was [Adamant], giving the Shield Hero far superior defense and recovery power compared to other beings.
But the other unique skill, [Evolutionist], was a terrifying and useless unique skill. The Shield Hero, as the skill's owner, could only activate this skill before death, willingly offering everything to the person who killed him.
And the person who killed the Shield Hero would evolve when near death, even evolving directly from a hero to an Awakened One comparable to a True Demon King.
"If it weren't for me, you would have succeeded."
The next second, Lu Minghao squatted down and picked up Shinmoku Shin'ya. At this moment, Shinmoku Shin'ya, his eyes bloodshot, was staring intently at Lu Minghao, the killing intent in his eyes completely undisguised, but he just silently looked at Lu Minghao.
In just a few seconds, he could rely on the [Evolutionist]'s ability to break through his limits and become an Awakened One. At that time, even if Lu Minghao was a Demon King, he would have the strength to fight him, and even if he couldn't win, he could escape.
And then return for revenge when he was strong enough.
"Hero, are you thinking that in just a few more seconds, you'll complete your evolution? Too bad I'm not the kind of villain who loves to court death, deliberately waiting for the enemy to evolve or transform. By the way, blame yourself. After all, magical girls have invincibility time during their transformations, but your evolution doesn't."
Across from him, Shinmoku Shin'ya's pupils shrank to the extreme when he heard Lu Minghao's words. Magical girls only existed in another world, but why did Lu Minghao know about them?
Could it be that he was also a being summoned from another world?
"Are you thinking that I was also summoned to this world from another world?"
Lu Minghao smiled slightly at Shinmoku Shin'ya in front of him. His originally black and white pupils had completely turned pitch black, and behind him, a circular, pitch-black monster with a huge mouth occupying most of its body appeared.
"Congratulations, you guessed right. Also, you can reunite with your teammates."
The next second, the monster behind Lu Minghao opened its big mouth and directly swallowed Shinmoku Shin'ya in Lu Minghao's hand. In an instant, Lu Minghao felt a large amount of nutrients constantly pouring into his body, and the magic essence, which had been slowly increasing since awakening as a True Demon King, rapidly increased again.
"Hmm, what is this?"
The next second, Lu Minghao felt a strange power appear and subconsciously opened the talent panel to take a look. He saw that in addition to the original unique skills, he had several more unique skills.
As for where they came from, of course, they were the rent paid by the heroes resting in Lu Minghao's body.
However, the unique skill [Evolutionist] caught Lu Minghao's attention. The current [Evolutionist] was no longer the same as before. Originally, [Evolutionist] allowed the user to willingly offer everything to the person who killed them at the moment of death.
But now, it had become the ability to accumulate nutrients infinitely and initiate evolution under Lu Minghao's self-awareness.
"This skill doesn't feel weaker than an ultimate skill."
Lu Minghao looked at the new [Evolutionist] description and subconsciously stroked his chin. The gap between the upper and lower limits of the new [Evolutionist] was ridiculously high. For now, the nutrients provided by the few heroes Lu Minghao had just devoured would at most increase Lu Minghao's strength by about one-tenth.
Although it was only one-tenth, it was still a very ridiculous increase for Lu Minghao, the Demon King.
But the problem was that the current [Evolutionist] could accumulate nutrients infinitely. If he could completely devour a world and accumulate it as nutrients, what kind of existence would Lu Minghao become after completing the evolution?
"An unspeakable evil god?"
The next second, Lu Minghao raised his head, looked at the deep blue sky and the golden sun above the cave, and slowly pulled up a terrifying arc at the corner of his mouth. Endless gluttony power rose behind him, forming a ferocious and terrifying monster, as if to devour everything.
"Minghao, is it over already? Sally was so looking forward to it."
At this moment, Lu Minghao was suddenly hugged. He lowered his head and saw Sally lying in his arms, raising her small head and looking at him with puffed-up cheeks. She was so looking forward to playing with the hero big brothers and big sisters, after all, Lu Minghao had prepared so much.
However, Sally had never expected that it would end so quickly.
"Don't worry, there will be more in the future. And Sally, remember not to let your strength lead to arrogance. As villains, we must examine ourselves three times a day, understand?"
Lu Minghao looked at Sally, who was pouting, gently stroked her little head, and said with a serious face, "How many villains died because of their arrogance? Even the most ridiculous villains cultivate an enemy out of boredom.
As a result, they were hammered to death. In Lu Minghao's opinion, this behavior was courting death. Since they were enemies, they had to be killed directly. What's the point of playing nurture? That's not how you court death."
