Chapter 548: Trick to Dealing with Large Creatures

In the ruins that was filled with seawater and was half fused with the

spirit world, Klein stood at the door of the central hall, wearing full

body black armor. Inside was the the gigantic blue serpent's body that

was being mutilated for food and the old priest with his bulging

stomach.

The latter's skin was a grayish-black, as though it had become

dessicated from prolonged exposure to the wind. His eyes flickered with

an azure-blue glow as he stared intently at the "guest" who wore a black

crown, as though he was considering where he should start his meal from.

Without any hesitation, Klein reached into his body with his right hand

and took out a brown translucent bottle.

Then, he stretched out his left palm and quickly unscrewed the lid

before casually flinging the Biological Poison Bottle to a corner of the

hall.

In this environment, which was half submerged under the sea, other than

Fire of Light which could consume the undead and evil, no other flames

could exist; thus, it also limited two important powers of Klein's

Magician Sequence. Therefore, he could only push his other advantages to

the limit right from the very beginning.

At the same time as when he threw out the Biological Poison Bottle,

Klein's left glove quickly became resplendent, as if he was reflecting

the light of the noon sun.

Around his body, the undulating seawater was stained with a golden color

as it spread outwards, layer after layer.

This was the Priest of Light's power from the Creeping Hunger, Light of

Purification!

The old priest who had eaten part of Sea God Kalvetua's body was

certainly not civilized and polite enough to just watch Klein prepare

for battle in a chivalrous manner. The blue light in his eyes suddenly

bloomed, and his bloated belly once again swelled.

Howl!

An ethereal, yet mournful sound came from his body, instantly covering

the entire ruins.

This voice was like the song of a nightingale, beautiful and also

melodious at the same time. It was also cold and bone-piercing, one that

penetrated right to the soul.

Klein was frozen in place. Similarly, all his thoughts seemed like they

had been blasted by extremely cold waves and instantly froze.

The old priest's body swelled up in an instant, as if he was a

resurrected Kalvetua or a giant that had walked out of a mythical

legend.

One after another, blue slippery tentacles, all surrounded by silver

lightning, emerged from under his ripped robe. They shot out and danced

in the air, striking the stunned Klein.

Sizzle!

With a burst of silver light, Klein was sent flying before falling

heavily at the doorway. The black armor on his body dimmed instantly and

cracked, and he had subconsciously thrown the cane in his hand far away.

His mind remained abnormally calm. In a situation where he was almost

frozen, he didn't even have the thought of using Paper Figurine

Substitutes and had ended up taking on the blow head-on.

If it weren't for the Black Emperor card and Azik's copper whistle which

were simultaneously reinforcing his Spirit Body, with him essentially

being a Sequence 6, he would've been seriously injured and even killed

instantly.

The tentacles surged over again and struck down.

Klein, who was jolted awake by the electricity, agilely somersaulted

away, barely dodging the attack.

He glanced at the man's body. He turned around immediately and ran out

the door without any hesitation. It was a determined and decisive

action.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

As Klein ran and flew as though he was pathetically fleeing for his

life, the old priest's silver-lightning enshrouded blue tentacles were

chasing him from behind in a bid to pull him back into the hall, but

Klein would nimbly change direction, dodging with his agile movements

and timely somersaults.

Seeing that things weren't going as he wished, the old priest's belly

expanded once again, and his cold voice resounded in the ruins.

But this time, Klein was prepared. Although his body remained stiff and

bogged down, it was soaked by the seawater before turning into a pile of

soggy paper.

At last, the old priest moved. With heavy but swift steps, he attempted

to catch up to his enemy.

The colossal figure rushed to the door, and the colossal figure slammed

onto the collapsed roof and wall with a bang!

The door here was originally large enough for a creature like Kalvetua

to pass through, but the collapse of the ruins and the madness of this

Sea God before its death had caused the place to collapse. The collapsed

rubble left the door with an opening that was two meters tall and one

meter wide. As for the old priest whose mind was clearly abnormal, he

had slammed right into it, causing him to be stuck.

Klein, who had been waiting for this opportunity, stopped and turned

around.

He half-closed his eyes, straightened his back, and spread open his

arms.

A beam of golden light descended from the sky, pounding the old priest's

body directly.

Patches of his robe that hung over his body had ignited, and his

grayish-black skin and flesh fell to the ground in chunks, melting and

evaporating under the pure radiance.

It was only then that Klein made out what the oddity in the old priest's

belly was.

The swelling was intense, especially in several areas, forming the

complete outline of two eyes and a mouth.

It was as if there was someone hiding inside the old priest's stomach,

putting their face there in an attempt to escape.

Bang!

The old priest exerted strength with his legs which were covered by the

black serpent skin, causing him to be thrown backwards from the

collapsed door. Rocks were sent flying and the seawater surged.

He finally broke away from the pillar of light, but most of his body was

covered in hideous wounds caused by the collapse of his flesh. Even his

"face" was filled with signs of melting.

Tap! Tap! Tap! The old priest's blue tentacles flailed in the

air, bringing with them silver lightning as they lashed at Klein from

all directions. The "face" at his abdomen would occasionally make a

sound that made the Spirit Body quieten down.

Klein engaged in either running, somersaulting, circling, or calmly

twirling around with his opponent. He would go in the opposite direction

when his opponent headed in one, just like a wild dance between two

people.

During this process, he relied on Paper Figurine Substitutes to

withstand the ethereal, yet cold shrieking again and again.

Occasionally, he would let out a roar and use a Wraith's shriek to

agitate the old priest, forcefully interrupting the "face" in his

abdomen from producing any sounds.

Time passed, second by second, and the crazy, old priest who had been

keeping his hands down, suddenly raised them and pressed them against

his stomach.

He pulled with his arm, forcefully tearing the silhouette of the mouth

into a gash.

Blue pus gushed out of it as a dense array of sharp teeth grew out.

With another roar, the seawater around him gushed towards the mouth,

forming the terrifying whirlpool that Kalvetua had previously created.

Klein, who was dressed as the Black Emperor, was sucked in, and the

lightning tentacles around him were retracted, about to embrace him.

Klein didn't panic, and the glove on his left palm quickly transformed,

looking as if it was made of pure gold.

While floating in midair, he stared at the "face" on the old priest's

abdomen and the seawater whirlpool below him. His eyes suddenly flashed

with two bolts of lightning.

Interrogator's Psychic Piercing!

The old priest suddenly froze as the "face" in his abdomen wrinkled, and

the terrifying suction force from the whirlpool instantly collapsed.

In the waves that were rushing backwards, Klein lowered his body and

swam through the weak spots like a fish, dodging the random flailing of

the blue tentacles.

He rushed to the old priest's side amidst the constantly flashing silver

lightning, and at some point in time, the color of his gloves had

changed to a pale green.

The muscles on Klein's back bulged as he threw out two punches, striking

the old priest's thigh in the vicinity of his knee.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Flesh and blood splattered from the cold-emitting punches. His right leg

was covered in a thin layer of frost, and the surrounding seawater was

completely frozen.

This was a Zombie's control over ice!

As the old priest cried out in pain, he retracted his whip-like

tentacles, illuminating the entire ruin with silvery light.

At that moment, Klein wasn't greedy and stopped just in time. He

continuously somersaulted backwards, avoiding the crazy attack that

scorched the stone slabs on the ground.

He stood up, and while the old priest was still frozen in place, the

glove on his left palm once again glowed with the color of the sun.

Klein straightened up and took a pose of praising the sun.

A thick, bright, and holy pillar of light descended once more,

enveloping the old priest in it.

Klein saw the grayish-black flesh of his enemy quickly disintegrate. The

skin of the "face" on his enemy's abdomen melted, revealing the

situation inside---inside the old priest's abdomen, the heart, stomach,

intestines, and other organs were mashed together, forming the face of a

sea serpent.

*Kalvetua actually still has a little of its soul left ... The will of a

demigod is truly beyond my imagination...* Klein somersaulted

again, dodging the blue tentacle that thrust at him like a spear.

Wrapped with lightning, the tentacles, which had been melted away by the

pillar of holy light, stabbed into the ground, twitching, twisting, and

squirming.

The bright and clear light quickly disappeared, and the sinister

serpent's face on the old priest's abdomen stubbornly opened its mouth

once again.

At that moment, the old priest himself had bent his waist and let out a

fit of violent coughs. The effort on the serpent's face came to an

abrupt halt.

The Biological Poison Bottle had finally shown its effects!

Klein didn't miss the opportunity. He stood up straight again and spread

his arms out as though he was hugging the sun.

A pillar of light with many golden flames illuminated the area. The old

priest's figure first bent before shrinking, as if evaporating into thin

air. The serpent face at his abdomen let out a shrill cry before

completely vanishing.

By the time the light dissipated, the old priest had returned to his

original size. His bones had almost melted, with pieces of grayish-black

flesh still hanging from his body.

His aura quickly dimmed as his spirit rapidly disintegrated.

Klein rushed over and, relying on his state as a wraith, began to

channel his spirit.

He wanted to confirm if the old priest was guilty of heinous crimes.

He felt that he needed to maintain his bottom line, which was something

he wished for and a precaution against corruption and madness.

All of a sudden, he saw images of the old priest presiding over the

living sacrificial rituals.

Without hesitation, Klein reached out with his left hand to let the

long-starved glove taste a delicacy.

Flesh, blood, spirituality, and bone quickly surged into the gaping

mouth of his palm, along with specks of blue light that came with some

darkness.

During the spirit channeling, Klein confirmed that the old priest was

previously a Soul Assurer. His potion formula and Beyonder ingredients

all came from the Church of the God of Combat from the Feysac Empire.

And by the time he became a Sea God Guard, he had already lost his mind

and could only obey orders. After the death of Kalvetua, he had followed

his instincts and eaten the flesh and blood of the deity he believed in,

and in the end, the conflicting characteristics turned him into a

monster.

Just as Creeping Hunger was satiated, all the Beyonder characteristics

on the ground suddenly stirred, turning into a hurricane and sweeping

into the hall before plunging into the white fang that was no longer

curved.

When Klein looked over, he saw that Kalvetua's remnant corpse had

completely collapsed into something that resembled mud. As for the

serpent fang which had absorbed all the Beyonder characteristics of the

area, it had become a short scepter, quietly embedded in a

half-collapsed pillar.

On the tip of the white scepter, there were many tiny blue 'gems'

embedded there. Some of them dyed in black and others with the light of

dawn.

Seeing that Creeping Hunger was satiated, Klein rushed into the hall,

cautiously approaching the scepter.

Before he really came into contact with the scepter, he heard layers of

illusory prayers ringing in his ears, and he saw illusions. He saw

worshipers prostrating and praying, as well as members of the Resistance

crying over the shattered statues of their god.