“Motherfucker!”
Luke’s face was contorted with rage.
“You absolute bastard!”
“Despicable!”
This guy was a total snake!
No wonder Luke’s composure had completely shattered.
With Elias’s wicked gesture, the mountain of flesh’s head—which was disproportionately small compared to its massive body—actually began to turn slowly.
Its turbid gaze locked onto Luke, who was standing by the church entrance watching the spectacle.
In reality, the mountain of flesh was in terrible condition.
Due to the suppression of the Silence Cage, the surrounding dark erosion energy was completely locked down.
Trying to mobilize the corpse armor on its massive body was like trying to pass a stubborn stool.
It was agonizingly backed up and simply wouldn't come out.
Meanwhile, behind it, several investigators were taking advantage of its inability to replenish its armor, bombarding it relentlessly with radiance energy.
But it decided to ignore those ants behind it for now.
Killing its two main enemies took priority.
Thus, it settled for the next best thing.
The monster began to use its abdominal intestines for pure physical strikes, along with some storm spells it had known by heart before its death.
The mountain of flesh took several heavy, lumbering steps.
Its tiny head first glanced at the distant, cursing Luke, then at Elias, who was still connected to it by the blue energy arc.
Then, the monstrosity made a rather greedy decision.
It wanted both!
Only children chose; a monster would naturally crush both of these fresh pieces of meat.
Especially Elias—the energy arc from the Witch Bolt made him look like a high-powered neon sign.
It would be hard to miss even if it tried!
The mountain of flesh suddenly swung its grotesque giant hand, cobbled together from a dozen human thighs. It approached with an irresistible sense of pressure.
A massive icicle began to condense frantically in its palm.
“You want both at once?”
Elias let out a cold sneer.
This was exactly what he had hoped for.
However, he had underestimated the multi-threaded processing power of this heap of rotten meat.
The mountain of flesh hadn't focused all its attention on Luke.
Swoosh!
A foul wind rushed toward him.
Several intestines twisted into a massive braid, acting like a thick battering ram. With a shrill whistle, they swept directly toward Elias!
“Underhanded!”
Elias cursed under his breath, the orb at his waist lighting up again.
The recoil of Arcane Step erupted instantly, launching him into the air like a cannonball.
In mid-air, with nowhere to find footing, he didn't hesitate to shift the placement of his Moonlight Barrier downward.
Bang!
The heavy “intestine whip” swept past, but several strands immediately branched off to slam into Elias’s barrier.
The silver dome of light shook violently, feeling like a surfboard colliding head-on with a train.
It barely held.
Faint cracks quickly began to spiderweb across its surface.
But that wasn't the end of it.
The negative spirituality within the mountain of flesh surged once more.
From its other giant hand, a blinding light shot out without warning!
It was aimed straight at Elias in mid-air.
“Another move?!”
Elias’s pupils shrank. He twisted his body mid-air, using spiritual recoil once more to change direction.
He narrowly pulled off a bizarre, jagged trajectory in the sky.
But he had still miscalculated.
The light actually curved in mid-air, chasing after him relentlessly!
It gave Elias no chance to pull out a warding charm.
The light sank into Elias’s chest without resistance.
There was no explosion.
No bleeding.
But Elias’s entire body suddenly stiffened, and his vision went black for a moment.
An intense sensation of paralysis swept through his body, as if someone had plugged a live wire directly into him!
Mark of Sin!
That was the signature spell of the Storm Judge path.
It was specifically designed to track “sinners.”
Once marked, not only would the target be paralyzed, but their entire body would also gain a lethal vulnerability to lightning!
The mountain of flesh’s next move was now obvious.
Sure enough.
The giant hand that had been releasing Electric Claw earlier now slammed toward him, wreathed in countless arcs of wildly leaping blue lightning!
At the same time.
The massive ice crystal condensed in the monster's other hand hurtled toward the distant Luke with a roar that tore through the air!
Luke waved his hand again in a fit of pique.
Another brand-new alchemy puppet charged out of the church!
Having money truly allowed one to do whatever they wanted.
The moment the puppet landed, the spirituality within its core surged wildly, pouring into the ground through its metal arms.
Rumble!
The stone slabs on the ground seemed to come alive. They were forcibly rearranged and merged, and in the blink of an eye, a thick, massive stone wall rose in front of Luke.
Stone Shape activated.
The next second.
The massive ice crystal slammed violently into the stone wall!
Frost spread at a visible speed.
The hard stone wall, along with the alchemy puppet behind it, was frozen into a single, solid ice sculpture within seconds!
The sharp tips of the ice clusters, emitting a freezing white mist, were only a few centimeters away from the tip of Luke’s nose.
“You beast!”
Luke felt the bone-chilling cold that felt like it could crack his eyeballs.
He had almost been disfigured!
He immediately gave a final order to the alchemy puppet encased in the ice:
“Break the ice!”
The command was issued.
Inside the ice sculpture, the metal components of the puppet began to emit a dangerous humming sound.
Overheat overload!
The mechanical body gradually began to emit a blinding dark-red glow. The terrifying heat began to evaporate the surrounding ice from the inside out, causing steam to hiss violently.
...
On the other side of the battlefield.
Sizzle!
Elias pushed his arcane recoil to the limit, his body shifting two meters horizontally in mid-air in a ragged movement.
But he was still a beat too slow.
The blue electricity at the edge of the Electric Claw still grazed his shoulder.
Under the vulnerability added by the Mark of Sin, the power of this current was amplified several times over!
Agony pierced through every nerve.
His flesh was scorched black, and the smell of roasted meat filled the air.
Elias gritted his teeth and endured the inhuman pain, positioning himself directly beneath the mountain of flesh’s arm.
“My turn.”
His eyes were as fierce as a wild beast’s.
He raised his knife and brought it down!
The cold blade was driven with all his strength deep into the mountain of flesh’s forearm!
The blade sank in to the hilt.
Then.
Frostbite! Moonfire! Thorn Spell!
A triple-pronged attack.
He also drained every last drop of Finn’s supernatural blood stored within the knife in one go.
Squish, squish!
Soon, countless dark-red thorns burst out from beneath the layers of corpses on the monster's arm.
As the frost from Frostbite spread, the knife was frozen solid to one of the corpses on the arm.
Immediately following that.
The white-blue Moonfire spread along the wildly growing dark-red thorns.
Radiance flames soared into the sky, igniting the entire arm cobbled together from corpses.
“ROAARRRR!!!”
The mountain of flesh let out a roar of absolute fury.
Having succeeded in his strike, Elias did not linger.
He released the frost connection on his left hand and his orb flashed again.
Using the recoil to flip through the air, he landed steadily on the burning arm of the mountain of flesh!
Seeing this, the monster did not hesitate to retract the intestine whip from its abdomen.
The thick, braided intestine acted like the belt of a meat grinder, snapping tightly around its own burning arm.
Crrr-ack!
Bones shattered and flesh flew.
It actually used its own intestines to tear off its entire arm!
Cutting off its own limb to save the rest—a decisive move.
But Elias was faster.
At the moment the arm was severed and began to fall.
The Wind-Chaser Boots were running at full power.
He was like a bolt of lightning, surging upward against the flow of fire and severed limbs. With incredible speed, he sprinted along the monster's arm toward its shoulder!
This time, he was absolutely going to blow this hard-to-kill heap of trash into smithereens in one hit!
At the same time.
Due to the movement of the mountain of flesh, its massive body inevitably interfered with the battlefield below.
Down there.
Guss, who was locked in a bloody melee with three alchemy puppets, saw his bell-like eyes suddenly light up.
A chance!
Because of the mountain of flesh’s movement, one of the puppets—due to its absolute priority command regarding the pendulum—suffered an unavoidable moment of redirection and stiffness.
The demon roared, the muscles in its single arm bulging high.
The Ever-Burning Sword, carrying flames that could incinerate anything, swept upward from below in a perfect full-moon arc!
The massive force and scorching heat were like a knife through hot butter.
It sliced the stiffened puppet in half from head to toe!
However.
By succeeding in the strike, Guss’s back was now completely exposed to the other two puppets.
The eyes of those two killing machines glowed with intense red light.
They raised their silver greatswords high.
The light of Divine Smite condensed on their blades once more, carrying a holy pressure, ready to purify this abyssal creature into ash.
At the critical moment.
Elias’s mental message suddenly echoed in Guss’s mind:
“Make those two puppets attack that thing!”
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