CHAPTER 579: CHAPTER 391: ELDRITCH, THE GOD-EATER (PART 2)

Before Lulu could finish speaking, she saw the opponent preparing to jump up and attack again, completely ignoring her words.

The aura Elsa emitted made her tremble with fear. This power felt like it exceeded her usual strength by more than tenfold!

She had long known that the power growth of a Hero was different from normal people, but isn’t this growth a bit too fast? Lulu shivered in the corner, as the overwhelming heat prevented her from offering any support to the opponent.

The ten-meter greatsword slammed heavily onto the protective shield. In the next moment, she instantly flickered to the other side, evading attack magic while launching two more heavy slashes, the speed of the shield’s flickering increased.

Elderly rotated the magic wand in his hand, releasing a massive number of tracking attack magic like light points, pursuing Elsa’s flickering figure.

Taking advantage of this time, the decayed flesh in the hall began to surge, falling like raindrops from the ceiling, intertwined with partially undigested bones and armor, among which were figures familiar to many adventurers.

These bones and armor were enveloped by the decayed flesh, rapidly forming into various black silhouettes.

Lulu took a closer look, recognizing many familiar figures amongst them.

Wandering Souls, Attached Maggot Corpses, Silver Knights, Church Knights, Crow Men... and many monsters that were completely unfamiliar, it was simply a hodgepodge.

All of these were once lives devoured by Elderly, and now they’ve been brought back to become his army, fighting by his side!

This scene was like a dance of demons, truly bringing Hell to life in this moment.

Elsa’s attention was entirely on Elderly, but when she saw Lulu surrounded by a multitude of monsters, the flames covering her face paused, and she turned and rushed over to battle the flesh-transformed monsters.

When she shifted her attack target, the dark protective shield quickly repaired itself, and as she killed a certain number of monsters, the shield would flicker, and its thickness seemed to diminish slightly.

Understood, this was one of those classic boss designs—defeat the minions to weaken the boss’s protective shield until it’s broken.

The greatsword kept swinging, its blade slowly extending, while the more enemies were slain, the more fiercely the flames burned.

The strength of the monsters summoned by Elderly even increased, starting with animated corpses that a mere farmer could fend off, to well-equipped Wandering Souls, then Losric Knights, until finally, the battlefield was left with a squad of fully armed Silver Knights!

The arrow shot by the Dragon Hunting Bow didn’t just pierce... no, it blasted through Elsa’s shoulder, leaving her left arm barely attached, and Lulu’s eyelid twitched as she hurriedly tossed a Healing Potion over, though it was evaporated by flames midair.

Something miraculous happened, the flame automatically filled in Elsa’s missing flesh, not healing her injuries but allowing her to continue fighting without hindrance!

"Is it really that uncanny?"

This scene seemed quite horrifying to Lulu, who could only dodge the heatwaves and keep hurling Luminous Stone Magic Gravel to attack the enemies, helping Elsa to share the burden.

[Escape... quickly...]

A hoarse and weak voice appeared in her mind, it was Gwendolin’s voice.

Lulu thought she misheard, but looked up to see that indeed, the head of Gwendolin’s remnant body was facing her, lips moving.

However, the other party’s arms were manipulated by decayed flesh, and the power gathering on the Dark Moon Longbow grew increasingly strong, seemingly ready to launch an attack rivaling the Full Moon Queen’s decisive big move at any moment.

This isn’t good!

You can’t even save yourself, yet you’re worrying about us, Lulu felt touched and then took a cold breath, realizing she had to quickly break through the shield to stop the Dark Moon Longbow’s attack.

To resist the heatwave, she endured the risk of freezing to pour a whole bottle of Freezing Potion over herself, leaving her covered with frost. Seizing this moment, she rushed over to attack the dark protective shield furiously, for fortunately, the monsters’ attention was entirely on Elsa.

The monster bodies formed from flesh were much more fragile than the originals, and the flesh seemed particularly afraid of the power of the flames on the greatsword. A whole squad of Silver Knights was nearly cleared by Elsa’s tactic of trading injury for injury without any defense. But at this moment—

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the entire hall trembled, as lightning danced wildly like a serpentine scourge, catching Lulu off guard and electrifying her to where she could only move her eyes, looking toward whatever released the lightning.

And the one releasing the lightning was someone she was very, very familiar with, a formidable enemy she had never been able to defeat:

"Executioner" Smough!

At this very moment, Ornstein’s comrade was also composed entirely of decayed flesh, with only parts of his body still covered in that golden armor, making his identity barely recognizable!

How were you also devoured? Don’t tell me Ornstein is also inside Elderly! Lulu’s eyes widened as far as they could go.

Corrupted Smough swung his enormous hammer toward Elsa, who instantly raised her greatsword to block.

What should have smashed her to a pulp was now firmly resisted, only shattering the floor below her, embedding her several centimeters into the ground!

"Get out of the way!"

With a roar, Elsa exerted force to push Corrupted Smough back, and at this moment, two large arrows pierced her body, while the Silver Knight’s electricity-wreathed longsword pierced her abdomen, about to cleave her open from behind!

A dark cloud loomed over the hall, summoned by Elderly’s power, from which emerged an endless array of arrows, ready to unleash upon everyone at the next moment!

Gwendolin’s remains displayed slight resistance, seemingly reluctant to release any arrows.

At this critical moment, there was a sudden sound of something shattering.

It was the dark protective shield, and Lulu successfully broke it!

In the next second, both Smough and the Silver Knights disappeared without a trace, interrupting the charge of the Dark Moon Longbow for an instant, even causing Elderly to be momentarily paralyzed.

Elsa, engulfed in flames, appeared before him in the blink of an eye, swinging the greatsword in a horizontal sweep!

The flesh-constructed body had very little defensive capability, but it was highly resistant to slashing, so normally Elsa’s greatsword should not have dealt much effective damage.

However, the flames attached to the blade compensated for this, as the flesh born from the Abyss feared the light of the flames. When touched by the fire, it melted like sludge and evaporated, making Elderly shrink a bit!

This strike, accompanied by an explosion of fire and the wailing of flesh, maximized the visual impact!

"Go, Elsa!"

Overcome with excitement, Lulu inadvertently shouted out her true name!

Elsa raised the greatsword high, roaring flames coiled around the blade shooting skyward, ten meters, twenty meters... finally reaching forty meters high, truly a Fire Blade piercing through the hall!

Elderly didn’t seem panicked or, rather, being a mass of flesh, had no way to express emotions. Gwendolin’s remnant body was manipulated to wield a long-handled weapon, the light of the Dark Moon converging on the blade, exuding a chilling and dangerous aura no less than Elsa’s.

Lulu took a step back to avoid the collision of the two strongest attacks, her palms sweaty for her companion.

"Huh?"

But at this moment, she suddenly noticed that many gaps appeared on Elsa’s body, blood flowing out from them.

When did she get injured? Wait, these are injuries from battling the mobs, always concealed by the burning flames, making them invisible.

But why are the wounds visible now, where did the flames go?

A sense of unease crept into Lulu’s heart, not understanding the source of Elsa’s power at all. If there was a time limit on it and it just expired now...

The sound of burning flames suddenly reduced, with the heatwave seemingly disappearing, and at the moment when their attacks collided—

The flame extinguished.