Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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Author's Note: It was a tough day. Things kept happening at home, so updates were infrequent. I'll make up for it later.

Chapter 93 Vascular Mutations

The six-armed serpent demon with eyes like two balls of emerald fire coiled on the mast, raised a snow-white jade arm, and gently beckoned.

In the blink of an eye, the "Blade Barrier" swept across the deck, and more than a dozen sailors with red scale fragments implanted in their eye sockets were instantly minced into a bloody pulp.

She was about to continue casting "Blade Barrier" to expand her gains, but the force field rotating the blades only lasted for less than a second before disappearing without a trace.

The six-armed serpent demon looked up at the lightning-streaked dark clouds.

Grendel, now adorned with dragon wings, hovered in the air, a long tail trailing beneath his body. It seemed he was one step closer to becoming a dragon.

That exaggerated "advanced dispel magic" was the work of this resurrected red dragon.

More sailors appeared on the deck, numbering over a hundred.

They didn't come up the stairs or corridors, but rather climbed up the outer wall of the ship quickly using both hands and feet through a large hole pierced by the "sword-blade wall" at the bottom of the hull.

Ivy-Beate cast two spell-like abilities, "Blade Barrier" and "Projection," in quick succession. However, the spells were cleanly and decisively dispelled by the Sky Enemy as soon as they took effect.

Not only that, a ninth-ring arcane spell, "Mordoncan Disintegrate," descended from the sky and struck her demonic body squarely.

However, it had no effect; the magical darkness of the "Evil Aura" still protected the six-armed serpent demon and the weapons and magical items she carried.

A sound of "Eh!" came from mid-air.

The next second, an unknown surge of negative energy struck the six-armed serpent demon, actually breaking through her magical resistance.

The six-armed serpent demon looked up at the sky and let out a blood-curdling scream.

Dark blue veins appeared on the surface of her crystal-clear white skin, like countless living snakes writhing, before bursting out of her body and exploding into a cloud of dark blue blood mist!

The protruding blue-black blood vessels transformed into countless blue-black tentacles, stretching wildly in all directions.

It not only tightly bound the six-armed serpent demon's arms and body, but also entangled everything around it, whether it was the mast, the crossbar, or the sail. It firmly secured her to the mast.

This was none other than the Necromancer's eighth-circle arcane spell, "Vascular Mutation".

This insidious magic causes the creature struck to lose half its blood, while its mind is stunned and it is firmly trapped by the blood vessels that grow out of its body, rendering it unable to move. Moreover, the mutated blood vessels will tighten more and more, pulling at the body and making it impossible to break free.

The six-armed serpent demon, who had suddenly lost half of her blood, was dizzy and lightheaded, but her strong physique did not prevent her from losing her ability to think.

She endured the excruciating pain and struggled desperately, but her hands could not reach the dimensional bag beneath the layers of blood vessels. She could only turn the six swords and sever the blood vessels growing out of her skin one by one.

However, these blood vessels all grow from the softest part of the skin, manipulated by Glendale's magic, turning into a multi-layered, extremely tough tissue, covered in mucus, and wrapped with an equally large number of proliferating nerves.

Three of the most densely packed mutated blood vessels grew from the tip of the six-armed serpent demon's tongue and the mucous membrane of her mouth, while the other two grew from the front of her pectoral muscles, wrapping around her and attaching themselves to the mast and sails. Each blood vessel was tauter than a bowstring. The sword's edge barely touched them, stimulating the proliferating nerves, and the pain was so intense that she questioned her existence, losing ninety percent of her strength.

"How does it taste?"

Amidst Glendale's boisterous laughter overhead, the six-armed serpent demon, sweating profusely from the pain, gritted his teeth and swung his sword, severing the tough, mutated blood vessels one by one.

She couldn't speak, but could only curse in her heart: You bastard, I'll kill you!

Just then, a sharp blade pierced her lower abdomen with a "whoosh".

The six-armed serpent demon looked down and saw a magnificently dressed dragon-scaled-eyed creature just climbing up the mast. This creature wore a captain's hat, one hand gripping the mast, the other holding a longsword, which it had just pulled from her abdomen. A large hole was torn in its chest, its internal organs and broken bones clearly visible, yet it showed no awareness of its own death.

She immediately activated her spell-like ability, "Mind Control." Her intense will transformed into an invisible hammer, slamming the captain in the hat away.

However, another dragon-scaled sailor climbed up, then another, and then yet another.

Just as she was about to cast "Mind Control" again, a "High-Level Dispel Magic" hit the Dragonscale-Eyed Sailor, dispelling the telekinesis she had placed on him.

The six-armed serpent demon gritted its teeth, watching helplessly as the dragon-scaled sailor howled and pounced on her, who was still unable to move.

Just then, a green vine grew from the crossbar beneath her feet, wrapped around the three dragon-scaled sailors, and tied them upside down to the mast.

A sharp cry came from below: "Guuu guu!"

Another "dispel spell" was fired. The numerous proliferating, mutated blood vessels instantly shrank into dry, brittle forms and detached from the six-armed serpent demon's body.

The six-armed serpent demon, still shaken, caught his breath when he heard Medusa shout with joy, "Oh my god, I finally hit her in time!"

The six-armed serpent demon immediately pulled the "dispel magic" wand from its dimensional bag and pointed it at the horizontal bar in front of it.

The vines created by Xiong Gu's natural magic "Entanglement" were thus released and disappeared. The three dragon-scaled sailors who had been unbound screamed in agony and tumbled off the mast.

She quickly looked down to look for Xiong Gu and Medusa, only to find that they had also climbed onto the three-masted sailing ship at some point.

Chapter 94 I'll kill you

The six-armed serpent demon looked down from the mast and saw the dinosaur Raphael, using both claws and feet, charging into the crowd and rampaging through everything in his path.

Medusa, a flamboyant young woman, sat steadily on the neck of the Devil Claw monster, her legs dangling on either side of its vulture-like head. Two bubbles and several owl bear cubs sat on Raphael's shoulders and back.

"Giddy up! Giddy up!"

Steo waved his hands excitedly, rambling incoherently, "Hahaha, a badass life needs cycling!"

Some sailors, unable to dodge in time, turned into terrified stone statues as their eyes met Steo's. Even with their eyes replaced by dragon scale fragments, they were no match for Medusa's signature "petrifying gaze." They were then smashed into a pile of stone fragments by the tank-like Deinonychus.

The rest of the men were terrified and turned to run away, not daring to look back.

A wall of rotating blades appeared just in time to cut through the crowd of fleeing sailors. The fastest ones were instantly shredded into pieces.

The six-armed serpent demon took the opportunity to absorb a dozen or so weak souls, which was better than nothing.

Seeing this, the other fleeing people didn't know where to go, and their pace slowed down.

In the blink of an eye, numerous vines rose from the deck, tripping everyone's feet and making it impossible for them to move. Then, the ravenous claws, relentlessly charging forward, caught up with and crushed them, killing them no better than those who had been turned to stone.

The next second, a large-scale "Advanced Dispel Magic" came again, dispelling both "Blade Barrier" and "Entanglement" at the same time.

Glendale's roar echoed through the air.

Throw stones at him

The six-armed serpent demon, the telepathic dinosaur Raphael.

She remembered that Raphael, the Devil Claw, had a special attack on his character panel called "Stone Throw." It was an ability that only large creatures could master, allowing them to throw stones weighing up to fifty pounds far away, hitting targets hundreds of yards away—truly a "human cannon." And now, thanks to Medusa, the deck was overflowing with stones of all sizes.

Raphael the Devilclaw understood.

It nodded vigorously to show that it had received the order accurately, then stopped and swung its hooked claws, smashing a nearby lizardman statue to pieces.

The lizardman statue's head rolled off with a clatter, and was then caught by Raphael.

Raphael hooked onto the statue's head, turned his body, and swung his grappling hook with all his might.

Amidst the screams of the people on the Devilclaw's back, the stone statue's head transformed into a cannonball, whooshing through the air and whistling past the six-armed serpent demon's ear before disappearing to who-knows-where.

At this moment, Grendel was in the direction behind Raphael, the Devil Claw Monster.

The six-armed serpent demon's long black braid was blown up and then fell back down by the strong wind swirling around the stone statue's head.

Its emerald green vertical pupils widened in terror.

The six-armed serpent demon stared in disbelief for a full three seconds before it came to its senses.

Her hands were ice-cold, her whole body was covered in cold sweat, and her scalp was tingling uncontrollably.

—If the stone had been just a little higher, half of my head would be gone!

Where are you going to throw it?!

Sorry, Master.

Raphael, the Devil Claw Monster, replied earnestly: "I can't see it."

The six-armed snake demon remained silent.

She just remembered that the Deinonychus creatures live deep underground, where there is no light, and possess an extremely high level of blindness perception—a biological echolocation system similar to that of bats. They can emit high-frequency sound waves from their heads that are inaudible to most creatures, and then use their sensitive hearing to capture the echoing high-frequency sound waves, thereby determining the distance, size, number, and range of enemies or objects within a foot.

However, due to this very environment, the Deinonychus's eyesight is unexpectedly poor. No matter the environment, it can only see things within ten feet, making it extremely nearsighted, almost like being blind.

With eyes like that, what good is being able to throw stones?!

However, before she could speak, she heard a clear voice from below: "Listen to my command, Raphael!"

Green Bubble, perched on the back of the Deviljaw, peeked out from beside Medusa's rear, clutching a spike from the Deviljaw's thick shell, and gestured toward the sky.

The dinosaur obediently picked up another stone from beside its feet, which looked to be the buttocks and crotch of some broken stone statue.

"Three o'clock position, 70 degrees elevation. Ready—"

Qingpaopao suddenly raised his voice, "Fire!"

The stone statue spun around and flew away.

Everyone heard a heavy "thud" and watched as Glendale plunged headfirst into the sea, splashing water several meters high in the distance.

"Yay! Oh my god, the God of Cannons!"

Steo, the punk girl, cheered with raised arms, while Qingpaopao shyly shrank back behind the Devil Claw monster.

"Oh my god, what a great opportunity!"

Steo looked up at the six-armed serpent demon and shouted urgently, "Clear the area! Clear the area, sister! Use your sword's protective barrier to wipe them all out!"

The six-armed serpent demon remained unmoved and ignored Steo's clamor.

Less than half a second later, the fluctuations of teleportation magic came, and the six-armed serpent demon saw that the soaking wet Grandel had appeared on top of the bridge.

The six-armed serpent demon looked down at Grandel, a cold smile appearing on his lips.

as predicted.

Ever since she shifted the battlefield from her own trimaran to her three-masted sailing ship, that bastard has stopped recklessly spewing fire. His offensive magic has been aimed at her with precision strikes, and he has used "disarming magic" to protect the sailors and crew from the large-scale destructive weapon "Blade Barrier" he uses against her.

why?

There was only one answer: he didn't want to damage the three-masted sailing ship.

He still needs the ship, and he needs these sailors to do things for him!

The six-armed serpent demon was unsure how many ways the self-proclaimed red dragon, Grendel, had managed to leave alone and cross the sea.

Teleportation, flight, or even opening a portal to another dimension for dimensional travel? Don't forget, although this bastard failed to retrieve the soul fragments of legendary magical attainments, he is still a top-tier spellcaster capable of casting ninth-circle arcane spells.

If Glendale really wanted to leave, he could have simply burned the ship to a crisp and then walked away.

No one could stop him.

This is also the source of his confidence in dealing with them here.

But as long as we spare those hundred or so sailors, keeping this bastard hanging, giving him hope of winning while making him hesitant to act rashly, he won't easily resort to a desperate, all-or-nothing strategy, and won't be able to bring himself to burn the ship and flee.

Ivy Beatrice still felt a chill run down her spine, a mixture of shame and anger, when she recalled the terrifying necromancy magic he had just unleashed.

She narrowed her emerald green vertical pupils at him.

—I'll kill you!

Grandel, who called himself the Red Dragon, was breathing heavily, his eyes flashing with furious flames.

His right wing was folded awkwardly behind him, its internal bones broken by the stone struck by the dinosaur, temporarily robbing him of his ability to fly. Even with the troll's regenerative abilities, the injury would take some time to heal.

His eyes turned bloodshot, and he roared furiously, "I'm going to kill you all!"

Seeing his own legendary magical soul fragments shattered by the six-armed serpent demon, the red dragon was enraged.

He tried his best to control his reason.

He had to do this, or he would tear everything he saw to shreds and burn it to ashes!

If he didn't need to rely on these manipulated sailors and this large ship to reach the site where the dragon head fell and retrieve more fragments of the "Demon Soul Jar," especially those containing "divinity"...

Just as he was struggling between rage and clarity, he suddenly heard the six-armed serpent demon shout from the mast crossbar: "Charge into the bridge!"

--What?

Glendale immediately shifted his attention, looking at the Deinonychus on the deck with surprise and suspicion. Just then, he saw the Deinonychus, which was carrying everyone on its back, rushing straight towards the bridge beneath its feet without hesitation!

Just then, countless force field rotating blades suddenly appeared around him!

Glendale quickly raised his arms to protect his head and face, enduring the pain of being slashed all over his body. Just as he was about to cast a dispel spell to remove the "Blade Barrier," he heard the six-armed serpent demon shout: "Go to the lower deck and destroy this ship!"

Glendale roared, "Don't even think about it!"

Ignoring the fact that his wings had not yet fully grown and the omnipresent force field rotating the blades in the air, he protected his head with his arms and leaped off the top of the bridge!

Amidst the pervasive blood mist, Glendale leaped onto the deck, his heavy body causing the entire ship to tremble.

He lowered his battered arm and just then saw the Devilclaw monster crawl into the bridge and slam heavily against the cabin door in front of him.

Anger raged through Glendale's mind. He roared, ripped open the bridge door, and charged into the bridge corridor with the force of a thunderbolt.