Chapter 745 - 101: Demon’s Blood
The demon raised its hand with yellow nails high, about to strike the building, but with a loud noise, it fell heavily to its knees.
The black long hair quickly turned into a dark mass, and the hand still followed through, smashing in Su Changxing’s direction and collided with the building.
Holding the walking staff, Su Changxing limped toward the window and jumped out before the hand struck down.
The building tilted and collapsed upon impact, spewing a massive amount of dust, obscuring vision.
Su Changxing glanced backward and saw a huge black shadow emerging from the black mist, striking at him again, stirring up a whirlwind in the air.
Ring-ring-ring～
With the melodious sound of a bell, Su Changxing’s body transformed into a phantom and appeared in a higher position, dodging the strike.
Before the third strike arrived, he successfully landed on the ground and retreated toward the main entrance.
The huge commotion attracted all the rune warriors in West City to rush over.
One of the rune warriors near the building approached the demon’s ankle, spinning the blade to slash at it.
The blade bounced off like it had struck a diamond, leaving only a shallow mark.
Then, it was crushed underfoot, scattered into a pile of transformed parts.
This is undoubtedly a terrifying existence; for the people of this world, their perception is bound, and almost no one possesses the strength to operate against it.
Streams of black blood exploded on the demon’s upper body, falling like flowers from the sky, landing on the street, corroding uneven pits.
Su Changxing couldn’t avoid it, stained by the black blood on his face, hands, and chest, which corroded from his skin until it pierced through his bones.
This demon, without Karis’s protection, is rejected by the entire world, pinned firmly to the ground.
Su Changxing was shocked by the demon’s potency; just the toxicity of its blood can effortlessly corrode his flesh.
Especially the blood dripping on his forehead, penetrating the skull, as the brain burst out from the jaw, causing intense pain that made his body tremble.
Due to his position, his body had long lost deadly weaknesses and possessed astonishing recovery abilities, so this injury wasn’t significant.
However, as this blood traveled through his body, his flesh instinctively absorbed some substance from the demon’s blood, containing immense blood energy.
The extraordinary’s alienation is two-way; spirit can lead to alienation, and flesh can cause alienation, where one side’s alienation inevitably impacts the other to follow suit.
This is why Mu Donglai’s flesh would transform, as the flesh is the vessel for the soul, which also determines the body’s form to some extent.
The demon knelt on the ground, unable to move, seeming to be chained by countless invisible chains.
More black blood exploded in the sky, showering down like rain.
At this moment.
Su Changxing ran out of the range of the black blood, arriving at the previous position, and his whole body was scarred due to the black blood.
The phone vibrated.
[Discovered materials for high-tier promotion]
[Demon’s Blood 78/1000
Demon Flesh 0/1
Demon Bone 0/1
Extraordinary Crystal (Tier Nine) 200/200
Extraordinary Crystal (Tier Eight) 100/100
Extraordinary Crystal (Tier Seven) 50/50
Extraordinary Crystal (Tier Six) 20/20
Points 50000000/5000000]
He initially planned to leave, but upon seeing the information, he stopped, looking back at the massive demon being besieged by rune warriors.
Although he didn’t know what kind of demon it was specifically, it was definitely much higher grade than the previous juvenile demon.
Its flesh can be used as materials for high-tier promotion.
This was undoubtedly an unexpected delight for Su Changxing; the more promotions for an extraordinary, the harder the subsequent promotions become.
Unlike other players, he can not only rely on rewards from the Doomsday Game for promotion but also collect suitable materials through the discount shop for promotion.
But promotion materials aren’t easy to find; in their original low-level ordinary world, there were no materials enough for promotion.
"You finally came out, where are those heretics? Weren’t they with you inside?"
Kasmin, hiding in the ruins, saw Su Changxing and ran out.
"All dead... Weren’t you supposed to leave first if I didn’t return soon?" Su Changxing saw Kasmin coming over and spoke sternly, only thinking this Princess was truly bold; she couldn’t handle even one rune warrior.
"Why are you so serious?"
"Besides, you all didn’t stay inside for long. I was going to leave when I saw some Rune Warriors coming."
Kasmin said with a hint of grievance.
A short time?
Su Changxing listened to Kasmin and understood that not only was space distorted inside the building, but time was too.
They had been inside for a long time, but to Kasmin outside, it seemed like not much time had passed.
This situation was similar to when they were in the Zombie World; space and time were distorted to a certain extent, causing even perception to become chaotic.
It seemed like only a day passed, but in reality, a long time had gone by.
He could roughly conclude that the giant hand acquired by Shield Company was the arm of a Divine Spirit, and merely releasing a portion of the flesh’s power had distorted the world’s rules.
Was that arm deliberately thrown into that world by someone, or accidentally left there?
He leaned towards the former; in the Extraordinary world, there aren’t many accidents, especially for Gods. Many things are predestined, with a foreseeable future.
Kasmin looked at Su Changxing, worried, seeing him full of injuries: "Are your wounds okay? What on earth is that monster? A legendary Demon?"
She wasn’t surprised by the monster’s appearance, as this world had real Divine Spirits, what else could be fake?
Some legends were often seen firsthand by predecessors, and then spread by word of mouth, only because they never reappeared were they deemed fabricated, made-up by later generations.
"Just a Demon."
"You need to leave West City now, it’s too dangerous here, you could die at any moment," Su Changxing instructed Kasmin.
Kasmin frowned and asked, "You’re not leaving?"
Su Changxing didn’t turn back and waved his hand: "I need to deal with this Demon."
Of course, he wasn’t a match for the Demon, but since the world repelled Demons so strongly, the Demon was destined to perish.
He could wait until the Demon died and collect its body as materials for promotion.
Kasmin hesitated for a moment, said nothing more, and turned to leave. She knew Su Changxing’s strength, staying wouldn’t help, and might even become a burden.
A dozen Rune Warriors rushed over, surrounding the gigantic Demon and launching attacks. They changed their combat approach, opting for ranged attacks with firearms instead of melee combat.
Engaging directly could easily result in being crushed by a casual move from the Demon.
Someone was controlling their actions from behind; Eric likely noticed the Demon’s appearance.
Eric and Karis should have no relation, rather they’re opposing forces, possibly because Eric wanted to take away the statue, prompting Karis to alter the building’s spatial rules.
The Divine Spirit behind Mu Donglai intervened as a third party, aiming to seize the Ratman Statue as well.
To Gods, the Ratman Statue is likely a precious item, capable of developing followers and spreading Faith, just by altering the target indicated in the Divine Text.
Su Changxing came to understand the cause of this conflict—it was the Ratman Statue in his possession.
Moreover, the half of the Ratman Statue placed in the building was the main body, capable of significantly greater effects.
Among the shadows behind this struggle might be three Divine Spirits, yet the one who seized the upper hand was a mere mortal, a half-god.
This might sound somewhat theatrical, yet entirely logical, because Su Changxing possessed formidable strength and could directly compete for the Ratman Statue.
Whereas the three Divine Spirits could only influence the situation from another world indirectly.
He was like a piece that suddenly appeared on a chessboard, belonging to no player, with his own immense power, disrupting the situation.
Karis attempted twice to make Su Changxing a follower, but failed both times, losing control over the Ratman Statue.
On both sides, the Ratman Statues are part of a process of input and output; Karis drew Faith through the Ratman Statue in the abandoned factory, then used that Faith in the building to alter rules and introduced a powerful Demon from outside the world.
Su Changxing noticed the black blood on the ground gradually disappearing, being decomposed by the world itself.
He needed to collect enough Demon’s Blood before it vanished, and acquire a piece of flesh and a bone from the Demon.
Su Changxing hid, collecting Demon’s Blood from the edge, and threw it into the Pocket Galaxy.
The black blood formed puddles upon the street, while small puddles had a dozen drops, large puddles had dozens of drops.
The battle between Rune Warriors and the Demon reached a fever pitch, but the Demon was nearly immobilized due to bodily restraints, it spawned black small creatures charging towards the Rune Warriors.
These creatures were less than half the size of the Rune Warriors, albeit not many in number, their combat prowess was astonishing, soon half of the Rune Warriors became scrap, lying on the ground.
Su Changxing concealed his form, continually gathering Demon’s Blood from the street.
Neither the Demon nor the Rune Warriors noticed him.
A thousand drops of blood seemed like a lot, but could be collected from a dozen or so puddles.
In this short period, Su Changxing collected over three thousand drops of Demon’s Blood.
These droplets of Demon’s Blood, even within the Pocket Galaxy, kept writhing, struggling, clustering together, attempting to return to its original owner’s body.