MTLNOVEL Chapter 243: A Trip Back to Rize Civilization
Humans on this side didn't have any large-scale lethal weapons, so they had to close the distance and seal their hearing.
At the same time, those Insect Soldiers were incessantly letting out wave upon wave of roars, the noise levels exceeding 130 decibels.
"Wow!"
"You are my subjects of the Mandala Empire!"
Even with their hearing sealed, some were still affected, their eyes bloodshot as they raised their guns, ready to spray bullets at their comrades.
Lu Yuan, quick-eyed and deft-handed, knocked out these frenzied individuals with a chop of his hand, one by one, leaving them unconscious on the ground.
He also fiercely threw a spear, pinning a monster to the ground.
Many people were wearing several layers of skin, peeling them off like onions.
"Dadada!"
Like bats, the creatures with human skins were shot to pieces, turned into beehives and fell from the sky, red blood flowing out.
Insect Soldiers beat their wings, relentlessly pursuing their prey.
Some still had the strength to resist and tangled with them in combat.
The horrific scene was like hell on earth.
But there were still three human-skin balloons that seemed to control a particular way of flying, surpassing the range of machine guns in just a few seconds!
Lu Yuan glanced at the Worm King; they were still entangled in battle and temporarily could not pursue.
He knew that letting the tiger return to the mountain would lead to endless troubles and immediately felt a great sense of urgency.
This damned Mandala Empire, who knew how many human-skin monsters were hidden within.
"If the entire nation has fallen, that's a whole population of a million people!"
The mere thought sent shivers down one's spine.
Moreover, these creatures clearly possessed intelligence, and the more information about Sky City leaked, the bigger the trouble would become.
"I must kill all these damned creatures!" Lu Yuan made a snap decision, commanding an "Absorber" to throw him over.
The strength of the "Absorber" was formidable, and with this toss, he shot up into the sky like a cannonball!
He exceeded the speed of sound.
At that moment, he heard one of the skins speaking in a strange language, "You..."
A mysterious force surged into his mind.
Even though he had sealed his hearing, that voice still reached his mind, disturbing his consciousness.
"This is... an Anomaly Level ability..."
Lu Yuan's pupils dilated, and he let out a fierce roar, using Spatial Teleportation to fly in front of the human skin, drawing his Superior dagger and savagely stabbing it!!
The activation of abilities could be fast or slow.
Space Ability was the ultimate in speed!
Lu Yuan himself also had the "Control" ability, but he hadn't used it because the speed at which "Control" was activated was too slow. On the battlefield, life and death could hinge on an instant, a lesson learned through blood!
The other had just uttered a second word, "You..."
"I'm your daddy!"
The dagger sliced right through the other's blood-red mouth.
A copious amount of blood sprayed onto the red glow of the Eternal Spark, staining his suit red.
"Ga!" A screeching sound echoed.
Veins popping on his forehead, Lu Yuan madly stabbed with the dagger, turning the creature into something resembling a raggedy cloth bag after a few thrusts.
Then with another instance of teleportation, he flew in front of another skin.
As that skin was activating its power and saw Lu Yuan appear, it panicked slightly, "You..."
Lu Yuan was upon it with a slash, his finger jamming into its eyeball.
It roared with fury, "You die!!"
A sinister power burst forth in his mind, so intense he almost wanted to kill himself, but perhaps because the phrase was too short and ambiguous, Lu Yuan, sweating profusely, resisted those mere fractions of a second and remained suspended in mid-air.
By now, only the last skin remained, the one who was originally the "Emperor"!
Having realized Lu Yuan's capability to teleport, it knew it couldn't escape and simply stopped running, opening its gaping maw to bite him, the voice spitting out, "Put down!"
Its mouth was filled with hundreds of teeth, closely packed together!
This command, "Put down," directly disturbed Lu Yuan's consciousness, causing confusion, and the knife slipped from his hands to the sky.
Just that moment of delay allowed the human skin to envelop Lu Yuan mid-air.
His vision went dark, falling into a void, and the skin stuck onto his own like glue.
This was a terrifying parasitic ability, and once enveloped, no matter how powerful one was, one could not break free.
Just as humans cannot lift themselves by their hair into the sky... one cannot strip off their own skin.
Unfortunately for the skin, Lu Yuan's combat skills were exceedingly rich. Even though he'd been working in an office for years without engaging in life-or-death combat, the fierce spirit remained.
In the moment before being fully enveloped by the human skin, he grew even more ferocious, his eyes flashing red, "Control!"
"Control," after all, was a Legendary Level Spiritual power!
Perhaps his spiritual power was on the same level as the other's.
Lu Yuan currently didn't have the vast amount of energy "needed" to "control" the monster, but even if he failed to "control" it, he could still produce a significant mental impact.
The human skin balloon was also stunned for a moment.
Then, man and monster fell freely in mid-air, the whistling wind reaching their ears, the height now possibly over two hundred meters.
Lu Yuan, reckless, threw a punch, landing it on that mouth.
Blood splattered, and a dozen teeth flew out like popcorn.
The human skin monster was hit so hard its eyes sunk in, its tongue sticking out. It tried to say something, but Lu Yuan took the chance to stuff his left hand into its mouth, like shoving it into a car's exhaust pipe, to stop it from speaking!
His other hand wildly threw several punches, "Bang bang bang," sounds resonating as he punched the creature's eyeballs out.
To the crowd below, the pair resembled a kite with its string cut, tumbling down from a height of two hundred meters.
They all let out gasps of horror.
The human skin monster struggled fiercely, with immense strength, attempting to envelop a person while also trying to fly away, because this height was enough to crush a person into a meat patty! Two more seconds, and they both would be dead!
But Lu Yuan, not giving a damn, continued to pummel the creature on the way down, beating it like a rag doll, tearing the human skin apart.
In the moment right before crashing, "Swoosh," Lu Yuan once again used Different Space, pulling the creature into the anomaly as well!
He was panting like a bull, white steam coming off his body, a flurry of heavy punches following. Explore more at My Virtual Library Empire
Only after noticing that the creature was almost beaten to death did he dissolve Different Space, landing safely on the ground.
Big clumps of blood fell like raindrops from the sky; Lu Yuan stood like a God of Death, still holding that piece of human skin in his hand.
Deathly silence filled the battlefield!
The soldiers were quiet as cicadas in winter, then suddenly erupted into loud cheers.
A minute later, the Worm King came over to report, "King, all the monsters have been hacked to death except for the one in your hand..."
"There's someone in the lake who fell in and is swimming, not sure if it's a person or a monster."
Lu Yuan's face was grim, breathing heavily.
Though they barely won this sudden war, what to do next remained an unknown.
These monsters could fly, maybe swim too; Sky City had the Opium poppy's surveillance, but not every corner was monitored, so infiltration was still possible.
Moreover, the combat power of these human skin monsters was surprisingly strong!
Yes, whether it was their strength or their inexplicable spiritual power, both were formidable!
If he had been overtaken by the human skin earlier, it wouldn't have been easy to shrug off.
Thinking this, he stuffed the creature, on its last breath, into a flower bud for use.
"Conch, help me with the highest level Dream ability."
[Okay.] The Conch, hiding in a shelter, was terrified, its voice quivering.
The Opium poppy's Dream ability was at a [Demon] level; if this couldn't trap it, no prison could.
A searing pain shot through his arm; Lu Yuan then realized he had been bitten deeply, some parts down to the bone.
He approached the Tree of Life, got some sap, and applied it to the wound.
At this time, the rebellious soldiers were gradually coming to, numbly staring at the mess around them—exploded bodies and human skins everywhere, a constant reminder that everything that had just happened was real.
The lies were exposed at this moment, and these guys almost collapsed on the ground.
"Lu... Captain Lu!" Sha Sanli, the old man, miraculously survived the battlefield, his whole being dazed, sitting by the roadside, scratching his head.
How did he suddenly start calling the other person Emperor?
He had been confused, as if beguiled, suddenly persuaded that the other's commands were irresistible.
Then he remembered something else, his eyes widening in alarm, his body breaking out in a cold sweat.
"Captain Lu? Aren't the villagers in even greater danger, all dead?"
Lu Yuan too had realized this, his heart pounding.
Goodness, about a thousand people who had left were sent straight into the demon's lair; that was akin to a death sentence!
Although it was their choice to leave, the thought that just a day ago they were living, laughing humans, now unaware of their fates, filled Lu Yuan with an indescribable sense of desolation.
He couldn't possibly order to declare war against that terrifying horde of monsters, for he had to consider those alive first, they needed to escape this accursed place!
"Such a vast Empire, gone just like that?" Sha Kan'er also recovered his senses, utterly confused.
Thinking about how he had knelt down, his old face flushed red with embarrassment.
"King, I've been fooled! It's all my fault." Worm King · Lu Da, full of self-reproach; it was somewhat understandable for these humans to be deceived since most were only Level 1 or Level Two.
It was a Level Four creature, after all.
The abrupt loss of those thousand lives weighed heavily with guilt.
"Let's not talk much now, we must mobilize for war immediately!" Lu Yuan had no time for assigning blame, "Old Cat, take charge, I need to make a trip back to Rize Civilization."
"Everyone, follow Old Cat's orders!!"
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