Chapter 125 The Sand of Dark Corrosion <TOC> Chapter 127 The Gaze of Dalopitda
Translator: SumTLMan
Such a dense barrage of sand bullets was impossible to dodge, but Li Mu had no intention of dodging them.
He crossed his arms, his psychic power pushed to the limit, and the energy form of the Ancient Scales almost condensed into a solid substance.
The howling sand bullets bombarded his body, shattering directly on the Ancient Scales, turning into a sand mist that enveloped him.
Suddenly, Li Mu reached out and grabbed a stone spear that had silently flown towards him.
The entire spear was as thick as a bowl’s mouth, and if it pierced through, there would be almost no chance of survival. The spear had no handle, and its entire body was sharp edges, rubbing violently against the Ancient Scales, sending sparks flying.
With a forceful grip, Li Mu stopped the rapidly flying stone spear in its tracks. He held the heavy spear in both hands, swinging it as if it were as light as a reed, creating an impenetrable barrier.
The incoming sand bullets were all exploded in mid-air by his blows.
Li Mu advanced forward, stopping halfway to knock away several flying stone spears in succession. Then, he suddenly accelerated to one side and thrust the stone spear forward.
“Ptui!”
The sturdy stone spear suddenly crumbled in Li Mu’s hand, but the high-speed sand stream still pierced through Hicks’ body. The damage caused was even more severe, directly shattering his body.
The awakened’s superior constitution allowed Hicks to survive the initial attack. He struggled to raise his body and looked at his now riddled corpse.
“Who are you people?”
Due to the massive blood loss, his face had turned a sickly white, devoid of any color.
“It has nothing to do with you.”
Li Mu brushed the fine sand off his hands, took out his gun, aimed at Hicks and pulled the trigger.
Various holy relics were strange, and the awakened’s abilities were even more diverse. Li Mu had already learned this during his bank and cash transport robberies.
Therefore, he didn’t waste any words and didn’t let Hicks die slowly. Instead, he chose to directly blow up his head.
“Bang!”
With the sound of the gunshot, Hicks’ head exploded. The high-speed bullet even left a spider-web-shaped dent on the ground after piercing through his head.
After its owner’s death, the Sand of Dark Corrosion began to gather automatically, forming a black sand ball that wriggled slightly.
This curio was very powerful, but Hicks hadn’t been able to unleash its full strength.
Li Mu held the Sand of Dark Corrosion in his palm, and the wriggling sand ball emitted a strong sense of repulsion, becoming agitated.
This curio had been biased towards the shaping power since it was created, and it was very resentful of the simple and crude psychic power of the enhancement type.
Li Mu was preparing to suppress it, then rummaged through the scattered brains on the ground, trying to see if he could find the holy relic.
Not every battle could result in obtaining the holy relic; it was necessary to kill the enemy quickly before they could react in order to possibly obtain the other party’s holy relic.
Although the chances of finding the holy relic were slim, Li Mu was still willing to take his chances.
At that moment, a strange change suddenly occurred on Hicks’ corpse. The air around him seemed like ice cubes, with extensive melting and cracking occurring.
The sharp cracking sound was incessant.
Li Mu retreated several steps in an instant, cautiously distancing himself from the situation. The eerie anomaly gave him an extreme sense of unease, making his hair stand on end.
He flicked his foot and picked up a stone weighing more than ten kilograms from the ground, holding it in his hand and hurling it with all his strength.
The heavy stone was like a cannonball, flying through the air and annihilating into black ashes upon contact with the cracked air. The ashes dispersed into the air, leaving no trace to be found.
Hicks’ corpse, which had already been scattered all over the ground, suddenly floated in mid-air, piece by piece, forming a broken human figure.
Behind the cracked space, a faint glimpse of another world could be seen, with black viscous liquid surging and hazy black figures writhing. Numerous palms pressed against the space, scratching and pushing, trying to enter the wasteland.
The human-shaped flesh and blood only lasted for a moment before it collapsed. It couldn’t bear the enormous force exerted upon it.
The collapsing flesh quickly shrank in volume, as if an invisible giant hand was forcefully squeezing and kneading it. The color transformed into a deep black, presenting a gel-like fluid.
A surviving resident in the street ruins accidentally caught sight of the floating flesh and blood and let out a piercing scream that almost tore his vocal cords. He frantically clawed at his eyes, gouging out his eyeballs.
But it was too late. His body underwent a horrifying transformation, with blood vessels appearing to have their own consciousness, wriggling under his skin as if he was infected with some terrifying parasite.
Even Li Mu felt his entire body itching, and it was only by circulating his psychic power throughout his body that he managed to suppress this strange itch.
He was horrified, and with a powerful stomp on the ground, he accelerated like a bolt of lightning, distancing himself from Hicks’ corpse.
Such a terrifying change was the result of the intervention of some higher-dimensional existence.
The floating flesh and blood rapidly collapsed, eventually turning into a terrifying eye. It was an eye similar to a compound eye, composed of countless tiny eyes forming a basketball-sized eye, surrounded by short tentacles resembling sea anemones, wriggling slightly in the air.
The moment the eye took shape, the entire street seemed to be instantly pulled into an alternate space. The heavy air was like mercury, and almost all the survivors were subjected to an invasion of a bizarre psychic energy, causing their bodies to undergo strange transformations.
Countless small eyes within the compound eye shook wildly, then locked onto Li Mu’s figure.
A chill rose in Li Mu’s heart, and a pain-like tingling sensation spread across his back, making him want to stop and scratch off the flesh on his back.
It almost turned into an afterimage, chasing after Li Mu. In just a few breaths, the eye had caught up to a spot more than twenty meters behind Li Mu.
Li Mu stopped in his tracks, deciding not to run anymore.
Amidst the piercing crackling sound, several electric arcs danced on Li Mu’s body, then instantly merged into one, leaving a dazzling bright trace in the air, striking the approaching eye.
The eye’s flying speed was too fast, and even Li Mu, who had practiced the Divine Eye Technique, couldn’t be sure that he could hit it with 100% accuracy. Only the holy relic’s control over electricity could firmly lock onto it through the changes in the electric charge in the air.
“Boom!”
With a loud noise, the high-voltage electric arc instantly released a large amount of energy, striking the eye and even causing a not-so-small explosion.
Li Mu didn’t slack off for a moment, instantly drawing the Blade of Annihilation from the Exile Realm and then operating the Dragon and Tiger Astral Specter.
The surging psychic power was like a set of armor, enveloping his entire body and resisting the pervasive psychic erosion.
The domineering psychic power poured into the Blade of Annihilation.
“Dragon of the Blazing Sun!”
Chapter 125 The Sand of Dark Corrosion <TOC> Chapter 127 The Gaze of Dalopitda