Chapter 333
Chapter 333 Battle of Bugs and Vampires
The battle in the woods had reached a climax in a matter of minutes.
On the one hand, you had the merciless hunter, and on the other, you had the fearless prey.
There was absolutely no room for negotiation between the two. It was why this had turned into a battle of life and death in an instant!
No one present could stop the radiant knight with his indomitable power. Even Acteon, with his strange arts and magic, was slashed again and again by Soros. Corpses of bugs were sent flying everywhere. His body of bugs had already been crippled and severely damaged.
However, Acteon seemed to have turned into an immortal after completely turning his body into bugs. It didn’t matter how frantically the enemy ravaged his body. He was always able to recover with an endless swarm of scorpions within a second.
Moreover, more and more carcass beetles gathered around Soros as the knight was distracted by Acteon. They had gradually sealed all paths of escape.
Five carcass beetles might not have been able to do anything to a Second Grade knight. In fact, they were at risk of being killed if they showed even a momentary weakness. However, when two or three dozen of them gathered together and formed a wall of bugs, Soros could no longer slaughter them, even if he wanted.
When the carcass beetles had charged at her, her bloody claws had stabbed into the wicked mouths of two of the beetles. Her terrifying blood energy instantly corroded their insides and exterminated their lives. What she suffered in exchange were two bleeding and bloody hands!
Her two arms looked as if they had gone through a grinder. Countless cuts of varying degrees were scattered all over them. It was hard to keep track of the number of injuries she had sustained at the moment she struck the beetles.
Now that she had passed through the carcass beetles on the outside, Mary had to face the endless swarm of bugs and Acteon himself.
His body had already merged with the insects. It was hard to tell which was his real body and which were the insects he controlled.
“Kehkehkeh… want to kill me? Can you kill all of these? The entire swarm is my body and an extension of my will. If you want to kill me, you will have to kill every single one of these bugs. Kehkehkeh. Can you do it?” Acteon let out a maniacal hiss as he stood proudly amidst the swarm.
“We’ll know if I can do it once I try!”
A cold light reflected in Mary’s crimson eyes. She made a grabbing motion with her left hand, and a crimson longbow mysteriously appeared out of nowhere. She drew the bowstring with her right hand as a scarlet, crystalline arrow instantly formed on the bow.
Peng.
A sharp and explosive ring.
The crimson arrow had been on the bowstring the previous second, and the very next, it had already appeared in Acteon’s creeping chest.
He looked down in shock.
A short moment later, the ferocious blood energies within the arrow erupted. Red bloody mist immediately covered an area of five meters.
This blood mist was different from the usual mist that had formed from blood. It possessed an astounding corrosive ability.
Rustle.
Bug corpses fell to the ground.
The front of Acteon’s body started to peel off. Everything that had been corroded by the blood mist fell to the ground. The beetle corpses formed a thick layer beneath his feet.
However, a swarm of bugs instantly crawled onto his body and his missing parts were quickly reformed. He had just recovered when he was attacked.
“I already said it. You cannot kill me!” Acteon raised his creeping face and showed a smile to Mary, who was standing twenty meters away, “You’ve had your turn, now it’s mine.”
The moment he finished speaking, he raised his right hand. A hole collapsed in his palm. Countless tiny flying insects fired from his hand. They fell upon Mary like an ominous cloud.
Mary was a vampire adept with incredible speed and agility in the first place. Such a slow attack would never hit her.
Her body flashed, and a series of strange afterimages floated in the air. She appeared behind Acteon, fifteen meters away, like a phantom of the night. Another crimson arrow shot at her enemy.
Weng. Weng. Weng.
Mary demonstrated the prowess of her eight points of agility. She used her ghostly footwork to its limits and circled Acteon at her highest speed. She dodged the pursuing bugs and accurately put one crimson arrow into Acteon’s body after another.
The exploding blood mist always brought tremendous damage to Acteon. His body of bugs was continually missing pieces left and right. The pile of corpses had already covered his legs.
However, Acteon ignored all this damage. He continued to let out those small flying insects. It was almost as if he wanted to cover the surrounding space with these flying bugs completely.
Even Bloody Sorceress Mary couldn’t entirely avoid these bugs with her speed. Once they reached a specific density, she would be unable to dodge them, regardless of which direction she went in.
The crimson patterns on her armor repeatedly glowed and flashed. The flashes meant that it was enduring a countless number of attacks in a single instant. Individual bug bites might be so weak as to be harmless. However, it was hard to dismiss their attacks when a thick layer of them hung onto Mary’s armor.
She had no choice but to force her crimson energy to surge out every dozen seconds. The ferocious power would exterminate these annoying pests.
However, the lack of blood offerings posed a severe limitation to Mary’s regenerative ability. The wounds on her body were recovering at an exceedingly slow rate.
The blood energy reserves within her body rapidly plummeted as well.
The battle between the two adepts had turned into one of attrition with no swift conclusion in sight!