"What's wrong?" Kyle, who was about to charge again and try harder to break Stan's turtle shell, felt confused when he heard Mark's words.

He thought he hadn't provoked Mark.

After Mark's initial shock, he suddenly remembered what that touch was.

He looked down and saw a small pink slime condensing a long tentacle that was wrapped around his body.

The cloth bag that originally contained Xiao Mu had been cut by the sword of the Blood Armor Paladin at some point.

"Mmm~Mmm~"

Xiao Mu climbed up Mark's waist and onto his shoulders, then pointed the tentacle in Stan's direction and whispered coquettishly to Mark.

"You said you wanted to eat him?" Mark didn't know why he could understand what a slime said.

But compared to being able to understand what the slime said, what the slime said made him want to complain even more!

You, a mere lv. 5 fire slime, actually want to eat the humanoid BOSS whose defense even a tier 4 paladin can't break. If I really let you eat him, where will your master's face be?

"Hmm~"

But before Mark could finish his complaint, Xiao Mu couldn't wait to fly off Mark's shoulder.

Yes, fly!

When Xiao Mu left Mark's shoulder, a pair of black gauze-like wings grew on both sides of his body.

It flew clumsily across the five-meter distance between Mark and Stan, and then "Pia!(ｏ‵-′)ノ" hit the barrier in the area of ​​Stan's face.

The moment it came into contact with the holy light barrier, it sprayed a mouthful of red and black liquid towards the barrier.

Then a thick white mist rose above Stan's holy light barrier and was greedily sucked into Xiao Mu's mouth!

"What is this!? Why can a slime corrode my holy light barrier? How can a fire slime survive in a space with such a rich holy light magic?"

Stan was frightened by Xiao Mu's sudden face, and he tried to pull Xiao Mu off the shield in panic.

But when his hand touched Xiao Mu, the holy light barrier on his hand melted away faster than that on his face.

Xiao Mu wrapped Stan's head area tightly like an octopus, but in a few moments, the barrier that Mark and Kyle had spent a long time trying to break was melted into a big hole by Xiao Mu, and no matter how Stan replenished his magic power, he could not restore it.

When Xiao Mu fell from the hole in the barrier and landed directly on Stan's face, the hissing sound of hot molten iron pouring on snow was suddenly heard in the cave.

"No--!" Stan screamed with a faint smell of burning as he collided and bounced off the rock walls in the crack space.

His proud body fused with holy light melted like an ice cream in the scorching sun.

Mark seized the opportunity and took several steps to rush in front of Stan. The cross necklace turned into a dagger and stabbed into the gap in front of the priest, leaving an inch-deep wound on the gap in the stone skin that was corroded by Xiao Mu's body.

What oozed out of his wound was not blood, but milky white holy light that had turned into liquid.

At this time, Stan hurriedly summoned the Blood Armor Paladins in the cave, and more than 30 healing auras were activated at the same time.

The holy light that was supposed to heal Stan instantly turned into a deadly poison. The backlash damage converted by the [Profane Brand] flowed back through his veins, swelling the fifth-level priest into a glowing balloon of holy light.

"Xiaomu, come back!"

By the time Xiaom flew back to Mark, Stan had expanded to his limit.

Kyle ran to Mark in two steps and threw Mark and Xiao Mu to the ground.

"boom--!"

Stan's body, which had expanded into a ball of light, exploded with a loud bang. The violent torrent of holy light swept the blood crystal fragments on the surface of the Blood Armor Paladin and set off a hurricane in the cracks.

The pouring holy light rushed out of the crack and rushed upward along the mine, rushed through the mine car platform, and rushed out of the blood crystal mine.

The entire night sky of Shichui Town was suddenly illuminated by holy light.

Thousands of crystal clusters hanging from the dome of the mine poured down like a rainstorm. Fist-sized blood-red crystal clusters smashed against the rock wall, emitting bright white sparks. The entire mine seemed to be stuffed into a furnace forged by holy light and was being roasted.

“Ka-la-la!”

The load-bearing pillars supporting the mine were burned out by the holy light, and the dome-shaped cave on one side of the mine car passage collapsed into several cracks several people wide. The entire rock dome also tilted, and the spiral plank road originally used for miners to climb was shattered into sawdust in the aftermath of the holy light.

"Everyone, get out of here quickly and escape from this mine!"

Orson on the mine car platform just grabbed the collar of Monica who was trying to look into the crack of the mine, and saw the circular rock wall more than ten meters away was like a shortbread gnawed by a giant. Large chunks of scarlet rock fell down with the last few dozen blood-armored miners.

After the initial shaking, everyone on the minecart platform steadied themselves and fled out of the mine under the protection of the shields held up by the few magicians in the team.

Fortunately, they had the command of Orson who remained calm in the face of danger. Even though some of them were seriously injured in the previous defensive battle, they were now carried out of the mine by people who had no fighting ability.

As members of the caravan on the Holy Dragon Continent, this group of people knew that they were all in the same boat in the mine this time.

If someone abandons someone who was seriously injured in fighting against monsters in order to escape, he will definitely be despised and will never be able to stay in the caravan near the Lily Kingdom again!

After the group had struggled to climb out of the mine passage that was hundreds of meters long, they heard the shaking sounds of rocks cracking and mine tunnel collapse from the mine below.

Before the group could catch their breath, they were shocked to find that on a flat ground outside the mine, there were more than two hundred fully armored kingdom cavalrymen forming a charge formation and staring at them coldly.

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On the other side, deep in the mine, hundreds of meters deep.

The afterglow of the holy light slowly dissipated without guidance.

"Hmm~"

A tentacle glowing red swept away a circle of rubble, revealing two figures trapped underneath.

"Uh, good job, Tom."

Mark struggled to support himself and squeezed out of the rubble. His eardrums, which had been bleeding from the roar of the explosion, were still buzzing.

Gravel mixed with melted blood crystals stuck to his back like syrup. Ignoring the burning sensation on his back, Mark shook his dazed head and began to pick up the gravel on the ground.

When Stan was blown apart by the holy light, he watched Kyle's body, which had swelled to more than three meters in height, quickly shrink under the impact of the holy light. The holy light shield condensed behind him only lasted for 2 seconds before it collapsed and shattered.

In the end, the two were pushed by the air wave and plowed a ten-meter-long gully on the rocky ground. Most of the damage caused by Stan's self-explosion was borne by this clergyman of the Holy Light Church.

If Mark had any prejudice against the Church of Holy Light before, he would take it back now.

There are still good people in the Holy Light Church.