Chapter 1293 - 705: Illuminating the Path Ahead (3)

Chapter 1293: Chapter 705: Illuminating the Path Ahead (3)

After breaking into the second level of the dungeon, Lance discovered that the entire place was covered by the spreading mutated flesh. Before anyone else could react, he launched a sacrifice on the flesh.

If successful, the entire dungeon would turn into his nourishment, directly stealing all the retirement funds from the ancestor’s account in one go.

But unfortunately, the sacrifice failed.

To be honest, Lance wasn’t surprised. However, this meant that these ubiquitous mutated fleshes had a resisting consciousness. They were alive.

But in the next second, he made a very odd move, raising his hand instantly as some Dark Flame burst out, just enough to cover the clothing-burned arm, and then he plunged it into the mound of flesh.

The moment they made contact, the flesh began to react, wanting to resist, but Lance was faster. He yanked hard, pulling a mass of flesh from the clinging stone pillar.

How could the flesh withstand such brutal force? The torn gap started from the mouth full of sharp teeth, with half twitching on the clinging stone pillar and the other half falling into Lance’s hands along with a large chunk of flesh.

The thing still tried to parasitize Lance’s arm, waving its grown tentacles and blood vessels, but Black Armor prevented the disgusting attachment, only squeezing the core slightly to halt its movement as the tentacles drooped.

Then the Void Devourer arrived, and at that moment, Lance understood something.

The dungeon was like a giant steak, and there was no way to swallow it whole. It had to be continually cut into small pieces to be swallowed.

But this was only the second level, and who knows how much flesh was inside? If it’s about cutting pieces of flesh, who knows when it will be finished? Better focus on completing the task first.

"Get to work, disrupt the ritual first."

After some mental preparation earlier, Baldwin and the others quickly adapted to the second-level environment.

The main reason was Lance’s calmness. His leisurely demeanor gave everyone confidence.

The complexity of the second level was greater than the first, but Lance didn’t care; he planned to scour through it anyway.

Before long, they encountered roaming monsters.

Two Heretic Priests, and one Frenzied Cultist.

"Baldwin takes one, Barin and Junia, you handle one, and the rest take care of the Cultist."

Lance didn’t charge in directly, taking this chance to let them practice hands, turning out a conch to boost their spirit.

The grand sound of the conch rang out, and everyone felt a rush of blood and temporarily forgot the fear gnawing at them.

Currently, Baldwin was no longer plagued by illness, combined with that equipped enhancement, the Legendary strength was manifested as he dashed forward swiftly.

Instantly close, the wide-bladed broken sword already swung out in Baldwin’s hand, the force brought by the rapid speed was very intense, even the Priest found it hard to endure.

Luckily, the Priest was also in the melee system and very fast, under countless eyeballs’ propulsion, catching this moment at the last and quickly reacted, writhing the flesh on its body, narrowly avoiding being cleaved in two from the head, but the shoulder along with tentacles had been severed, exposing the tangled flesh and bone.

The Heretic Priest felt pressured as well, ignored the injury and directly went for the big move, the Spinal Blade ejected under the flesh propulsion shot towards Baldwin.

But this move was discussed on the way, even though the distance was close, how could Baldwin be unprepared?

He didn’t move a step backward, just side-stepping, raised his hand to lift his sword, the spine scraped across the blade with a crisp sound, yet did nothing, causing no harm.

But don’t forget the Priest’s tentacles, waving them at Baldwin.

If two tentacles attacked from both sides, even Baldwin would struggle to dodge, but the earlier severed arm had already set the groundwork. At this moment, leaving a gap in its attack, just moving one step to the Priest’s side easily dodges.

However, after just shooting out the spine, even with a fast reaction, the flesh still needed time, and this provided Baldwin the chance.

Not knowing if the Priest could evade Baldwin’s adjusted position taking a strike, but without surprise, it was already over.

The broken sword cleaved the Priest, including the spine, with half of the body split open with an exaggerated cut.

If it were a complete sword, it might have directly severed it in one swipe.

But the gap in the waist was too large, rendering the Priest unable to maintain balance, collapsing with its control lost. Although not entirely dead, it’s about done.

No fancy techniques or tricks, nor spells, just sword swinging.

However, such a straightforward battle resulted in victory within two swings, the Priest’s injury as the outcome.

Lance had always known Baldwin was strong, but now he had a clear comparison.

Yet the other side’s explosive force in combat also drew his attention.

After receiving orders, Barin charged at the Heretic Priest without hesitation, while before he got close, Junia had already raised a torch first, above it suddenly erupted flame, transforming into a bolt of lightning striking down.

Lance could capture it didn’t mean the Priest could too, it didn’t even have time to react. When the fierce Divine Power poured into its body, even if it was remodeled by great blessing, the flesh couldn’t withstand, the entire thing went uncontrolled and stunned.

Barin seized the opportunity, rushing up and fully swinging the large axe, the heavy weapon under brute force unexpectedly split it directly in half with one move.

A destructive strike!

Compared to such strong attacks, Lance sensed something strange in Junia; she had ascended to Champion!