Chapter 302 Corundum (Part 1)
Ten minutes ago, deep in the black fog.
"Could you please tell me where the strongest person here is?" Liu Lingshan said, looking down at the monster on the ground.
This strange creature has a similar appearance to humans, but his skin and muscles are translucent. Through his translucent skin, one can see his internal bones and internal organs. The bones in his body are more and denser than those of ordinary humans.
And now, this strange hand and foot have been cut off, lying on the ground, unable to move.
"Master Corundum will kill you all—"
Phew!
Liu Lingshan raised his knife and cut the strange body in half.
"I can't understand these weird brain circuits. If they die, they die. Why do they have to introduce themselves before they die? They are as stupid as the villains in the movies."
"Uh...it's really strange." Lin De shrugged. Actually, he wanted to complain about Liu Lingshan's focus, but after thinking it over, he gave up.
"And did you notice? They can all speak Chinese. This is very strange." Liu Lingshan glanced at the corpses and turned to ask Lin De, "Which one is this?"
"Eighteen," said Lind.
"Eighteen of them. Most of the monsters of this level are encountered in deep places. It seems that the closer you get to the inside, the stronger the monsters become." Liu Lingshan said casually.
"If it's the level of the one just now, an A-level team would definitely be wiped out if they went up." Lind commented on the monster's strength.
"That's right," Liu Lingshan nodded and asked, "Have you noticed the intimidation these monsters exude?"
"Deterrence?" Lin De looked at Liu Lingshan in confusion. He didn't feel any deterrence, nor did he think that these weird things could pose any threat to the two of them.
All the way here, they dealt with the monsters they encountered on the road like chopped melons and vegetables, not to mention using their trump cards. There was no opponent that they could fight with for more than ten seconds. He didn't think these monsters had any deterrent power.
"Linde, it seems that your perception needs to be improved. Although the aura emitted by these strange things is almost imperceptible, it actually exists."
Liu Lingshan spoke as he cut the strange corpse with the knife in his hand.
After cutting a few times, she gave up this tedious work, put the knife back into the sheath with a flick of her wrist, and turned to look at Lind.
"Burn this body into powder, carefully."
"well--"
Lind sighed and reached out his hand towards the body.
His fingertips produced dazzling electric currents, which connected to the grotesque corpse and flowed quietly through the corpse like bright blue liquid.
Soon, the corpse turned into powder and ash layer by layer as if the skin was being peeled off. After half a minute, the entire corpse turned completely into black powder.
Liu Lingshan squatted down in front of the black ash, reached his hand into the powder and fumbled around, then took out a few broken lavender crystals.
"Well, that's what I told you. Look what this is."
Liu Lingshan showed the other party the lavender crystal in his palm.
These crystals are angular, some are glued together, some are completely separate; some are dark in color, while others are very dark.
Linde took a look and frowned: "Chaos fragments?"
"That's right, chaos fragments." Liu Lingshan repeated with a sneer, as if mocking Linde's slowness.
Chaos fragments are actually another name. Their true identity is the fragments of the Chaos Demon's magic core.
The magic core is the core of the devil. To put it simply, it is the crystal formed by the aggregation of the devil's abnormalities.
Normal demons only have one magic core, but Chaos Demons are different. Chaos Demons are very, very, very special demons.
It is a demon without self-awareness, or rather, its only remaining self-awareness is the self-fusion between its magic cores.
Any living thing, even a corpse, can be parasitized by Chaos Fragments and then gain otherworldly demonic powers.
These parasitized creatures became strange. They could vaguely sense the location of other chaos fragments nearby, and then contact, devour, and merge with each other.
The more concentrated the power of chaos is, the more powerful the possessor of the power of chaos will be.
If we classify these parasitic organisms according to the method recorded in textbooks, then these monsters with chaos fragments should also be considered demons. After all, they all have broken magic cores.
But they do not possess the essential ability of demons, which is the aura of fear.
They only possess a special kind of deterrent power, and this deterrent power is overcome precisely by the strong will of human beings... This may be the only good news about Chaos Demons.
It is a very scary thing to let the Chaos Demon's magic core fragments gather. There was once a fragment owner who destroyed the entire island by himself. After the monster was finally eliminated, the Investigation Bureau found a fist-sized, pure black chaos fragment in its body that could absorb almost all light.
The Bureau gave the monster that destroyed the entire island the title of Chaos Demon, even though the Alliance knew it was not a true Chaos Demon.
So far, no one knows what will happen when all the chaos fragments come together. The only thing that is certain is that it is definitely not a good thing.
Finding the fragments of chaos and managing them is something every investigation bureau does on a part-time basis.
"I didn't expect there would be chaos fragments in the black fog. Do you think this black fog is related to these fragments?" Lind asked while playing with the chaos fragments in his hand.
"Who knows?" Liu Lingshan did not comment.
Lind's fingertips lit up electric light and he began to observe these crystals. The darker the crystals, the stronger the demonic power they contained. Fortunately, these small crystals were translucent and were the kind of fragments that did not contain much power.
"Fortunately, the power contained is not much," said Lind.
"But there are a lot of them." Liu Lingshan retorted
"We've killed a lot of monsters like this before. Should we go back and collect some?"
Liu Lingshan shook his head: "Forget it, the monsters here should be devouring each other. After such a long time, their bodies should have been eaten by others. After solving this black fog, let's gather everyone for a general cleanup, and then slowly collect them... By the way, this monster just mentioned a new name, it's Corundum, right? What was the name of the one mentioned before?"
"White Dragon, Bone Demon, and Big Snake, those are the three names."
"Hehe, why are there such stupid names? Did they choose these names themselves? Just like children." Liu Lingshan laughed.
Liu Lingshan turned his head and looked behind him, and Lin De also looked behind him.
In the dim fog, a tall figure slowly walked out of the rolling mist. This monster was covered with dazzling colorful crystals, like a precious mineral that had come to life and turned into a human form.
With every step it took, its body made a rustling sound, the crystals rubbed against each other, and sparkling debris continued to form in the air.
"It should be the corundum that those weirdos are talking about." Liu Lingshan said casually.
"Human, die." The humanoid crystal made a harsh sound.
In front of it, sharp crystals rose from the ground, extending towards Lin De and Liu Lingshan like spikes.
Linde frowned slightly, and lightning flashed in his hands. The bright lightning condensed in his palms, forming a spear made entirely of lightning.
The Thunder Spear flew out of his hand, and the electric current seemed to be rubbing against the air, making a crackling and whistling sound. The blue electric light went straight through, shattering the crystal wall made of crystal stones, and then smashing Corundum's arm into pieces.
"How is that possible!"
Corundum exclaimed. Although it didn't have a face at all, just by listening to the sound, one could imagine its surprised "expression" at the moment.
Lind half bent down, there was a crackling sound in the air, and the azure electric light enveloped Lind's whole body. He turned into a flash of lightning, and all the crystals along the way were shattered by the lightning.
A flash of lightning flashed across the place where Corundum's head and body were connected. The next second, Corundum's neck was neatly cut off, and its heavy head fell to the ground, leaving a small hole.
In the blink of an eye, Lin De had returned to Liu Lingshan.
"The intensity is much higher than the previous ones." Lind said, raising his hand.
Just now he used his hand knife to chop off Corundum's neck, and a part of the sharp crystal pierced into his palm. The fact that he could be hurt in the dominant state showed that the material that constituted Corundum's body was very special, an abnormal material that concentrated a large amount of high-dimensional energy.
Lind's hand emitted a blue light, and his palm temporarily broke away from the cellular structure and turned into pure lightning element.
After a few seconds, the lightning went out, and Lind's hand returned to its original state. The wound on it had completely disappeared, and the lightning element filled the damage to the flesh.
"If there are many monsters like this in the black fog, it will probably take some time to clear them all." Linde said seriously.
Liu Lingshan raised the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "Xiao Linde, you are really not careful. Can't you tell whether the enemy is dead or not?"
"What?" Linde frowned unhappily , intending to refute, "How can you——"
Before he uttered the word "can", Lin De also noticed something strange.
The crystals suddenly spread out on the surrounding ground, covering all the ground within sight, and the surrounding high-rise buildings were all covered with a layer of sparkling crystals.
Then, the scenery in the distance began to blur, and the surrounding black fog faded away. The dazzling skylight shone from overhead. As the light became brighter, the surrounding scene gradually became clear and recognizable to the naked eye.
"It's actually a barrier!" Linde exclaimed.
Where they were standing now was the bottom of a cave. At the top of the cave there was a circular opening through which the sunlight shone.
All around are colorful and breathtaking precious gems.
There is no doubt that this is the real self-contained barrier.
"It's really rare that there is something strange here that can open the barrier." Liu Lingshan said, as if talking to himself.
According to the existing recorded data and intelligence, except for demons, most monsters do not have the ability to open their own barriers, and there are only a handful of humans who have their own barriers.
