Chapter 165 - Holy Blood
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Chapter 165: Chapter 151 Holy BloodA slender hand clutching a Chinese-style ring-head knife emerged from beneath the ruins, effortlessly tossing away tons of concrete slabs as if shoving aside building blocks.
The woman, with her long black hair imbued with oriental charm and dressed in armor, or rather, Hua Mulan transformed from the princess doll, leapt out of the wreckage with an agile figure. She surveyed her surroundings with a cold gaze, locking onto Andre, the closest to her.
She slowly bent her knees, tensing the muscles in her thighs as if compressing them, and then explosively released them.
So fast.
Even with the vision of a Transcendent, one could barely see more than a shadow diving down like an arrow. Andre was sent flying more than ten steps, his feet skidding on the curb steps before he could stop his backward momentum.
He crossed his straight swords over his head, his blades tightly catching Hua Mulan’s ring-head knife. His forehead’s veins bulged as he resisted the kinetic energy of the knife’s downward slash with all his strength.
Without any expression, Hua Mulan maintained her oppressive hold with her right hand that wielded the knife. She took a half step forward, her left hand transforming into a blade and thrusting straight into Andre’s right shoulder.
The sluggish palm-blade, bolstered with brute force, pierced through the bulletproof vest hidden beneath Andre’s priestly robe, delicately pinching the bone and carelessly tearing.
Shrrp.
Andre’s entire right arm was torn off at the shoulder, with blood wildly spurting out, yet there was no sign of dizziness or pain on his face. Instead, he laughed maniacally, facing his bleeding shoulder towards Hua Mulan.
"Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed, for in the image of God has God made mankind, even so, I will demand an accounting for each person’s life from their fellow human!"
With Andre’s zealous chanting, his blood, flickering with specks of Holy Light, splashed wildly towards Hula Mulan.
The latter, seemingly sensing something, didn’t pursue, but swiftly dodged aside and raised her forearm to shield her face, preventing the blood from splattering onto her visage.
As a member of the Holy Temple Knights, Andre had injected himself with the before embarking on this mission.
Now that the triggering condition was met, all the spilled drops of blood ascended into dazzling Holy Light. Under Andre’s control, they converged into a beam-like river of light, blasting towards Hula Mulan.
The beam was not a straight shot but curved like a close-quarters fighting missile.
Hua Mulan kicked a bench on the roadside up in front of her as a shield, and she used the brief moment when the bench was incinerated by Holy Light to pull away swiftly like a soaring falcon, relying on her agility to continuously dodge the relentless pursuit of the Holy Light.
In the world of the Transcendents, energy conservation is also a principle; it’s impossible to maintain such a high-energy-consuming state indefinitely.
Andre stood in place, his complexion visibly paling at a speed observable to the naked eye, as Su Jie stood by his side releasing Medical Skills, sealing off exposed blood vessels on the broken shoulder surface, while Andre himself focused entirely, driving the Holy Light to pursue his target.
"What a thorn in the flesh! When dealing with such evil demons, there’s no need to abide by the rules of chivalry. Let’s join forces and go at her!"
Li Cheng bellowed. Amid Su Jie’s weak complaints of "Why would you say the kind of line only third-rate villains say, hey, isn’t this just asking for trouble?" Li Cheng lunged forward, sweeping his Straight Blade across the path that Hua Mulan must cross.
The rusty Straight Blade was heavy and forceful. Hua Mulan tumbled sideways in the air, her black hair fluttering in the wind. She narrowly avoided the blade, with strands of her hair getting cut off and falling to the ground, immediately turning into cotton fluff from a doll.
Having dodged this attack, there was still another move coming. Gray Rain flashed out from behind Li Cheng, two chain saws transformed from Liquid Metal blocking her path.
With chain saws in front and Holy Light behind, Hua Mulan held a knife in her right hand and pressed her left palm against the hilt, using all her strength to reinforce the Ring-head Knife, breaking through the chain saw defense and plunging deeply into Gray Rain’s heart area.
Splurch.
Pierced through by the Ring-head Knife, Gray Rain was unaffected, instead wearing a sinister smile and wrapping her arms around Hua Mulan.
As a Liquid Metal Robot, Gray Rain possessed an extraordinary physical recovery capability, requiring only a small amount of energy to regenerate. Even when subjected to burning, freezing, or electrocution, it could recover but would require more time and energy.
By the way, the operating principle behind Gray Rain’s Liquid Metal was still unclear. It seemed she could recharge her energy through charging and regular eating. Whenever she felt sluggish, she’d touch the electronic lock in her house to perk herself up.
All we can say is that Liquid Metal is pretty magical.
Just then, Bai Lang took action. He summoned more of Medusa’s little snakes and used Petrification Gaze to forcefully immobilize Hua Mulan, stopping her from continuing her struggles.
The pursuit of Holy Light from Andre had already arrived from behind, and all the players held their breath, waiting for the outcome.
Twenty meters, ten meters, five meters.
The Holy Light veered sharply at the last moment, missing the target by a hair’s breadth and exploding into the grass, carving out a trench more than twenty meters long.
Li Cheng and Bai Lang turned their heads in unison, looking towards Andre.
It wasn’t that Andre had run out of strength or done it deliberately, but rather, a shell fired from the rubble interrupted his Casting, forcing him and Su Jie to dodge in opposite directions and thus interrupting their control of the Holy Light.
"Elliot!"
Bai Lang squeezed out the name through clenched teeth, only to see the disheveled Pink Hair Rabbit Elliot climb out from under the rubble with a briefcase in hand.
He had been buried deep under the ruins, and the Princess Doll did not bring him along when she escaped. It was only now that he managed to crawl out on his own.
Also, it was precisely this distraction that provided Hua Mulan with a moment to catch her breath. She sliced upward from below, cutting through Gray Rain’s upper body, then took the opportunity to break free and retreated several paces. Her form first shrank and then expanded. Her hair turned from black to white, and the soldier’s armor from the Northern and Southern dynasties she wore changed into a blue sequin long dress.
"Get out of the way!"
Li Cheng’s pupils contracted, and with a loud shout, Gray Rain, unable to restore her upper body in time, stepped back rapidly on the ground, retreating more than ten meters.
The transformation of the broken doll was not without traces; each time she transformed, she would first revert to the doll form. And each time after changing, the patches on her that represented that particular Princess would fade and turn gray.
This form was precisely that of the fourth Princess, Queen Elsa from the story of Frozen.