The military magistrate picked up the badge from the ground and examined it carefully.
"I've checked, there's no trace of the Warcraft Rats here."
No, a bad feeling welled up in Lu Shi's heart.
Suddenly, Little Scissors began to sway in the consciousness space.
"Master, the Kunlun Mirror fragment is acting strangely. It senses that this patch of plants was originally a summoned creature of a wood-type mage, but it has been corrupted by other Kunlun Mirror fragments. These plants are now extremely terrifying; they are... bloodthirsty."
It seems to be a response to what Xiao Jianjian said.
"Plants! These plants are moving!" Zhou Renqing shouted, seemingly having discovered something strange.
"Run! Run!" Wu Chen shouted.
The building was already overgrown with thick, vine-like plants, and now there were corpses scattered all over the ground.
This place is a dead zone!
The tendrils wriggled, and the camouflaged branches suddenly burst forth, the plants constantly intertwining and closing, like a giant machine with gears turning.
Thick branches and vines sprang up rapidly, their tips transforming into sharp spears that pierced fiercely at the crowd.
The most dangerous of them all was the military mages still standing amidst the pile of corpses.
His reaction was noticeably slow.
Countless vines and spears pierced towards him.
"ah!"
The military mage let out a piercing scream as two sharp spears pierced his abdomen. Then, he was lifted up and dragged into the dense vegetation.
Bright red blood splattered all over the ground, and the military mages' mouths were also full of blood. They couldn't make a sound, and their bodies were still trembling and struggling.
The sight of a living person being pierced and dragged away was horrifying.
"Let's go!" Wu Chen shouted unwillingly.
"Save him!" Lu Shi suddenly exclaimed.
"How can we save him? Amin is doomed. Everyone, get out of here." Wu Chen said coldly, but his trembling body betrayed that he was not at peace.
"You all step back, I'll go save him." Lu Shi smiled and disappeared from the spot.
"Teacher Lu." Zhou Renqing only had time to call out once.
"Let's go, don't make unnecessary sacrifices." Wu Chen pulled Zhou Renqing along, and the two of them ran outside, stepping on the wind tracks and dodging the piercing spears of branches.
...
Lu Shi reappeared, now standing before the grove of plants, where the blood of the military mage could still be faintly seen dripping from the ground.
Black and white light rose from her hands, and a Tai Chi symbol surrounded her.
Click click click...
Countless vines pierced the Tai Chi diagram, producing a jarring noise.
"Open it for me."
Lu Shi quickly traced the outline with both hands, and a silver star map appeared.
【Space Wave Blade】
A sharp, semi-circular wave blade swept forward, instantly severing countless branches and clearing a path.
Lu Shi stepped on the wind track and quickly followed the wave blade forward.
The path torn open by the wave blade was incredibly wide. The vines seemed to be frightened by the power of this spatial magic, and the vines that were not struck loosened, allowing Lu Shi to travel smoothly all the way.
The moment the spatial wave blades subsided and dissipated, Lu Shi finally saw the military mage.
He lay on the ground, in dire condition. The spear piercing his body had been pulled out, but blood was still gushing out violently. The military mage was pale, unconscious, and blood was still trickling from the corner of his mouth. It seemed that without treatment, he could die at any moment.
In a flash, Lu Shi arrived beside the military mages.
He drew a healing spell with his right hand.
A white light enveloped the military mage's entire body, finally keeping him alive. However, due to severe blood loss and the lack of timely further treatment, his life was still in danger.
"I never expected that the one who came to save people would be a white mage. I really admire him." A man in black suddenly appeared fifty meters in front of Lu Shi.
All the vines were gathered to one side, and the vines closest to the man in black even affectionately brushed against his face, showing no trace of their previous ferocity.
"What's your number?" Lu Shi's fingers lightly traced a line in the air, as if dispelling an invisible aura of uncleanliness.
"I am Fifty-Two of the Shadow Demon Society. It is an honor to meet the renowned Goddess of Slaughter... Lu Shi." Fifty-Two touched the vines in front of him, his tone affected, and his words sounded more like sarcasm.
Lu Shi didn't care about the other person's attitude. Her gaze was as cold as a star, devoid of any warmth, as if she were looking at a dead person.
"Very good. Fifty-two, I hope your soul is heavy enough."
After saying that, he pointed with his right hand.
Burning
But the fire magic that had always been effective failed.
A vine suddenly stretched out and stopped the burning. The flames crackled and popped on the vine, but instead of damaging the plant, they seemed to irritate the other vines.
All the branches and vines stood upright, their sharp points aimed at Lu Shi, ready to attack at any moment.
"Hahaha, you actually dared to provoke my little darling. Then just wait to have your flesh and marrow drained and become a fragile skeleton."
Fifty-two laughed triumphantly.
"It seems the Huang family from N County also died at your hands," Lu Shi said seriously, withdrawing his right hand.
"Those worthless fools, they lost the Kunlun Mirror and still wanted to enter the Holy Land. They only deserve to be fed to my little darling. Now, you too will become food for my little darling." Fifty-two waved both hands forward at the same time, giving the order for the entire army to attack.
All the vines and spears instantly launched a frenzied attack on Lu Shi.
“Very well! I don’t like those people from the Huang family either. But as the one who obtained the Kunlun Mirror from the Huang family, I will help them avenge themselves.”
Lu Shi smiled broadly.
The Tai Chi diagram once again surrounded me, like a circular barrier that the branches and spears could not pierce through.
At the same time, a huge phoenix phantom rose up behind Lu Shi.
"Then, taste my flaming fist."
A cyan wind flowed through his body, while red phoenix flames danced in his right fist.
The fire was fueled by the wind.
The Phoenix Fist strike enveloped Fifty-Two in flames.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
This time, it was Fifty-Two's turn to cry out in pain.
His body was engulfed in flames, making him look like a human torch.
"You deserve to die."
A dragon-shaped flame erupted from his left fist and struck Fifty-Two's face hard, the dragon's head biting his head.
Then, it exploded with a deafening roar.
The headless fifty-two bodies fell backward.
Lu Shi looked at the mangled corpse and exhaled.
It's not over yet.
There was no kill notification.
As expected, the higher the number of members in the Shadow Clan, the harder they are to kill.
Lu Shi silently channeled her magic, watching the movements of the vines.
Suddenly, the entire building began to shake, the ceiling collapsed violently under the strain, large stones fell from the sky, and pillars collapsed one after another.
Lu Shi could no longer remain calm.
A Tai Chi symbol stood upright above his head. Wings of light unfurled behind him, and he flew upwards.
boom.
The roof was smashed open by the Tai Chi diagram, and Lu Shi's wings of light flapped behind him, hovering in mid-air.
She stared at the collapsing municipal building in front of her, her eyes radiating a chilling aura.
The branches and vines of the entire building were writhing, as if they had come to life completely. Most terrifyingly, from the ruins, a hideous, enormous head slowly rose—not an animal's head, but a tree stump's head, with countless vines like pipes delivering nutrient solution weaving beneath it.
What caught Lu Shi's attention was a mirror in the center of her forehead, which was... the Kunlun Mirror.
There was another face in the mirror, it was Fifty-Two's face!
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