Chapter 12 Queen Roderica's Ship

The cruise ship "Queen Roderica" ​​became a living hell in a very short period of time.

The battle in the ballroom was fierce. The multi-faced monsters were forcing everyone into a hopeless situation, and more and more people were being infected.

But suddenly, violent fighting erupted from the bottom of the cruise ship.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"..."

It was as if someone was firing artillery inside the hull. The exaggerated noise caused the entire giant ship to shake violently.

Low-level professionals who were not very perceptive might not understand what was happening, but fourth-tier professionals like Caroline immediately understood. They were all shocked, "A powerhouse is fighting!"

She thought of that "Mr. Nicholas," her crystalline eyes filled with disbelief.

Although she guessed that he might be very powerful, she didn't expect the commotion to be so great.

She also realized that the dangerous situation they thought they were in was just a small disturbance. Was the real fierce battle still in the bottom cabin?

It wasn't that Caroline hadn't thought that those Outer God believers might have other arrangements on the ship, but she had to protect the young master, Alex.

Moreover, the cabins below were the most densely packed with passengers, with thousands huddled together. It was hard to imagine what terrifying monsters they had mutated into.

Even this "Hundred-Faced Monster" above was already nearly invincible. Who would dare go down?

At the same time, Caroline also breathed a sigh of relief.

She had been worried that he would be afraid of trouble and leave.

He had taken action, which meant he wasn't just watching.

Although she didn't know who Mr. Nicholas was fighting, it was hard to imagine that if he hadn't restrained that powerful Outer God believer, this would have been a one-sided, certain-death ending.

Caroline prayed in her heart, "I hope he can win."

......

The fighting from the bottom of the ship became more and more exaggerated. Even the low-level professionals could feel it very clearly.

Alex's tarot cards kept flipping, but he couldn't divine any information about the battle.

But at this moment, he also understood something, and realized, "At least a sixth-tier professional is fighting. It seems Professor Virginia really has a problem. But, who is the other force?"

Logically speaking, given the current critical situation, the leading academy professor should have appeared long ago.

She was a sixth-tier professional. If she really came, she might not be helpless against this "Hundred-Faced Monster."

She might even have the ability to turn the tide.

But she had not appeared yet.

Then one of the parties fighting in the bottom cabin was most likely her.

Moreover, now the conspiracy was completely clear. Someone used the "Hanged Man" card to lure him onto the ship.

And the enemy expected the leading professor to be sixth-tier, yet dared to take action. Either they had overwhelming power, or... the sixth-tier had a problem to begin with.

The tarot cards told Alex that the latter was more likely.

At the same time, the battle in the bottom cabin shocked not only the passengers on the cruise ship, but also the Outer God believers who had planned this conspiracy.

Under normal circumstances, the Bishop and Cardinal Virginia would have taken action together, instantly subduing Alex and his shadow guards, ending the battle.

But now, someone had directly found the altar hidden in the cargo hold, and the Cardinal was being entangled by a mysterious powerhouse?

This was an unexpected situation.

Moreover, the order had come through the communicator that they had to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Just then, the bespectacled, refined middle-aged man hidden in the crowd suddenly launched an attack. He charged towards the group of royal students.

"Careful!"

Caroline's expression changed drastically.

Although she knew that this senior lawyer from "Dotkins Law Firm" was an Outer God believer,

She never thought he was a fifth-tier!

Seeing that man charging towards Alex, Caroline couldn't care about anything else. Her cat-woman talent's super agility allowed her to instantly break free from the enemy entangling her, and she flashed to intercept him.

Unfortunately, the bespectacled middle-aged man just snorted coldly, and his iron fist with leather gloves punched Caroline in the waist. This rapid punch compressed the air, and a visible spiral ripple condensed on the fist, and exploded.

Fortunately, Caroline's cat-like body was extremely soft, and she used muscle to buffer most of the force. With one move, she used a flying armbar to grab the opponent's arm, and used the force of the punch to throw him out.

Alex glanced at Caroline, a touch of aloofness of a superior person in his eyes.

But at this moment, he also confirmed that this woman was going to help him.

If he could survive, he would definitely thank her afterwards.

"Boom!"

In an instant, the bespectacled man flew out. Seeing that he was about to hit the stone pillar of the ballroom, he suddenly turned over in mid-air, stepping on the air to create ripples.

With a "snap" of exploding air, the wall half a meter away suddenly exploded with spider web-like cracks.

Looking again, the bespectacled man rushed over again with a cold expression.

Caroline still did not dodge, relying on her excellent melee skills and agility to entangle him for several moves.

Unfortunately, the suppression of a higher tier meant she had no chance of defeating him. The entanglement was just delaying time.

The experts brought by the gang in the distance were also entangled by the Outer God believers and couldn't free their hands. The little academy students were also frightened, and no one dared to shoot, even though they had guns.

Caroline's eyes were full of solemnity. She knew very well that she wouldn't be able to hold on for long.

Sure enough, with just a small mistake, she was grabbed by the bespectacled man and hammered violently. The heavy punches hit her body with "boom," "boom," "boom." Her body flew out like a sandbag, and scarlet blood had already soaked the collar of her dress.

But Caroline didn't mean to retreat in the slightest. She charged up again with her heavily injured body.

She thought that if she died here, it would be considered her best effort. If someone could pass the news out, it would also reduce some trouble for her big boss behind her.

The bespectacled man showed no mercy, and after a few rounds, grabbed Caroline again.

He strangled Caroline's neck with one hand like iron tongs, constantly exerting force. The violent squeezing of his fingers against her delicate skin made a cracking sound like bones breaking.

Caroline's face turned purple, and veins bulged on her forehead. She was about to have her neck snapped and die on the spot.

Just then, no one heard Alex in the distance murmur to himself, "Do it!"

Almost at the same time, the bespectacled man's expression suddenly changed.

Because in his shadow, a shadowy assassin holding a black dagger suddenly appeared!

Before the bespectacled man could react, the assassin quietly cut a terrifying, palm-wide gash on his neck, and blood spurted out like a fountain.

Caroline felt the big hand on her neck instantly lose its strength, and the feeling of suffocation disappeared.

She fell to the ground, gasping for breath. She was extremely grateful that this young master had brought shadow guards with him.

But this celebration didn't give Caroline any time to relax. From her perspective on the ground, she saw some flesh-like blood tissue quickly emerging from the wound of the fallen "corpse."

Looking closely, they were some red parasites.

"Be careful..."

Caroline wanted to warn, but before she could say the words, she couldn't help but spit out another mouthful of blood.

The shadow guard was not simple either; how could he not have noticed the anomaly?

Even when the bespectacled man was dying with his throat cut, he had continued to stab him, even digging out the man's heart and crushing it into minced meat with the dagger.

Unfortunately, this also didn't stop the guy from reviving.

Completely ignoring the bullets hitting his body, the bespectacled man slowly stood up. Those blood-colored worms quickly connected the cut on his neck, and a creepy, mocking voice came from his throat: "Jie jie jie, death is just the beginning... How can you lowly creatures understand the greatness of the gods."

After his revival, a strange black lace cross appeared in the center of this guy's forehead.

The aura on his body suddenly became gloomy.

Caroline smelled the scent of a monster, her expression changed drastically, and she finally caught her breath. She shouted, "Be careful, he's mutated into a monster!"

If it was a human, there was still a chance to kill him.

But if he became the kind of monster that couldn't be killed, what would they do!

The shadow guard didn't hesitate, raising his hand and slashing a few more times, neatly cutting off the monster's limbs.

The dagger was obviously not ordinary, with a corrosive poison on it.

With each cut, a large chunk of the monster's wound would rot.

However, the speed of rotting was ultimately not as fast as the monster's recovery.

The more he cut, the weirder the bespectacled man's body became after being revived by the worms. He even fused with several nearby multi-faced monsters, and gradually became less human.

More and more red worms emerged from the corpse's body. They were so dense that they looked like seaweed, trapping the shadow guard inside.

The shadow guard's dagger became more and more difficult to wield. He could cut off ten, but a hundred would emerge, and he couldn't cut them all down...

Seeing that the attack was ineffective, he could only retreat and merge back into Alex's shadow.

......

"Damn it! More and more monsters are coming out of the vents!"

"Someone save us... Professor Virginia, where are you? Come and save us!"

"..."

Studying alchemy was merely an interest and a necessary course of study for most noble scions.

They had never experienced a true life-or-death crisis.

The ballroom was filled with desperate cries for help. Great Wind Novel

The monsters surging up from the lower levels were increasing, becoming a breach. They couldn't be killed, and there seemed to be no end to them.

This made everyone feel a suffocating despair.

Moreover, the students also discovered that most of the monsters were coming for them.

No!

They were coming for Alex!

After fighting for so long, these Luen nobles understood what was happening, and instinctively distanced themselves from Alex.

Even classmates who were usually on good terms, when truly faced with a choice between life and death, only a few stayed by Alex's side, fighting against the monsters together.

Although sweat covered Alex's forehead, his expression was still relatively calm.

His shadow guard was currently using a special cursed dagger, and green ghost flames had risen around him, temporarily keeping him safe.

However, it was likely that he wouldn't be able to hold on for long.

The dagger was exerting ghost flame abilities beyond its current tier, and it was also consuming the shadow guard's life.

This monster couldn't be killed. Tonight was an unsolvable dead end!

Just as Alex had prepared himself for a desperate fight, he suddenly saw movement on the other side of the ballroom.

Everyone was avoiding him, but now someone was coming to help!

......

Because they deliberately avoided young master Alex, the Aberke siblings had not faced much pressure from beginning to end.

Moreover, with Keith secretly protecting them, there was no real life-threatening danger.

Listening to the violent movements from the bottom cabin, Aberke suddenly said to Karma, "Sister, I'm going to use the Thousand-Handed Mechanical War Demon."

Listening to his words, Karma asked suspiciously, "You're going to help? Didn't you say you wouldn't help before?"

Aberke calmly analyzed, "I didn't want to help before because I was afraid of attracting attention. Now that everything that needs to be exposed has been exposed, if we don't help, that guy will be killed, and it will be our turn soon. Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, these monsters are acting so urgently, most likely because something unfavorable to them has happened in the bottom cabin. In other words, Teacher should be confident in killing that sixth-tier enemy, otherwise they wouldn't be fighting so fiercely. We just need to hold on for a while, and we should be able to wait for victory. Moreover, this monster's attack methods are only physical attacks, and our mechanical war demon is perfect for restraining it, so it's not very dangerous."

While speaking and analyzing, he had already taken out several mechanical boxes. He looked at the young master Alex and said, "Since Teacher chose to cooperate with that woman, he definitely doesn't want this young master to die. That woman is already seriously injured, and Teacher can't spare any hands. We naturally can't just watch. While they still have some combat power now, concentrating our strength can delay them for a while longer."

How could the two of them not know that Soren had left them here, instead of taking them into the little void realm, to give them a chance to train?

Listening, Karma thought for a moment and also thought it made sense. "Oh."

With that, she also took out several mechanical boxes from her storage ring.

This was the Aberke family's inherited Thousand-Handed Mechanical War Demon.

However, the two of them were currently too low-tier to fully control it, so the siblings each kept a part.

Now that they took it out, the dense sound of gears and cogs meshing together rang out, and the mechanical secret boxes were decomposed and covered their arms, and then rune armor covered their entire bodies. Long mechanical arms suddenly grew from their backs.

With this fantasy version of the Transformers on their bodies, their combat power instantly skyrocketed and could no longer be measured by tier.

This was the advantage of the puppeteer profession.

If there were sufficiently advanced puppets, one could immediately skyrocket in combat power and even fight beyond their tier.

The siblings equipped themselves in an instant, without any delay.

In an instant, dozens of extraordinary arms were like long spears, charging towards the multi-faced monsters in the distance, as well as that Hundred-Faced Monster.

The mechanical arms of the Thousand-Handed War Demon used various gear winches, each comparable to a third- or fourth-tier strength-based professional.

The siblings simultaneously controlled dozens of mechanical arms to charge into the monster crowd. With the cooperation of several mechanical arms, they could easily control several monsters.

They didn't kill them. The mechanisms on the arms opened, and various chains and ropes instantly popped out, tightly controlling the monsters and suspending them in the air with the old method.

The mechanical arms were not afraid of being infected by the monsters. More than ten arms turned into sharp rune spears at the front end and pierced into the mountain of flesh that was the "Hundred-Faced Monster."

The spears, inscribed with fourth-tier Armor-Breaking Runes, could easily break through the elemental barriers of fourth-tier professionals. Dealing with this clumsy monster, they almost always hit their mark.

"Chih," "Chih," "Chih"...

Blood spurted out, and the monster was stabbed with many bloody holes. Several mechanical arms even pierced through the monster's fat body, firmly embedded in the floor.

It was roughly like embedding steel bars into a puddle of mud. Although it didn't fix it, it made it impossible for the mud to move flexibly.

The Aberke siblings knew very well that the monsters couldn't be killed.

They didn't try to seriously injure the "Hundred-Faced Monster." They just used various steel cables to reinforce and trap it.

Because of their intervention, the movement of this behemoth was restricted, and the pressure on those still alive in the ballroom was instantly reduced by a large margin.

At the same time, everyone looked at the siblings who were controlling dozens of mechanical arms and were so shocked that they couldn't speak.

Were puppeteers so ridiculously strong?

......

The bottom cargo hold of the "Queen Roderica" ​​cruise ship was the site of a fierce battle.

As Aberke had guessed, Soren had probed the situation and confirmed that he was confident in killing this Professor Virginia.

"Tsk, tsk... a second-awakening Anti-Magic User C-001. Fortunately, you met me, otherwise ordinary people really wouldn't be able to do anything to you."

Looking at the black-skinned woman in front of him who was panting, Soren also thought that the Giants' Hermitage Society had really had bad luck in meeting him.

This woman was a powerful fighter and had a very troublesome talent.

Her second awakening allowed her to form an "Anti-Magic Zone" with a diameter of one or two hundred meters around her body, isolating any elemental energy within its range.

This meant that in her controlled range, any alchemy that relied on external energy was useless.

It was like fighting without being able to breathe. Almost all professionals only had the combat power of that one breath in their body, and they couldn't replenish it once they used it up.

Even Soren's puppetry was greatly restricted.

The best way to deal with this kind of ability user was to cast spells from a distance.

Unfortunately, the area of this cargo hold was so small that it was almost impossible to avoid.

Moreover, this Professor Virginia herself was a super-strong melee-type professional and would not give her opponent a chance to escape, always outputting damage up close.

She herself most likely integrated a kind of implantation that could provide additional energy during her advancement, and did not need external replenishment.

The compatibility between this kind of profession and talent was very high. Close-quarters anti-magic and entanglement made anyone who faced her have a headache. Professionals below the sixth tier would almost always be killed in one face-to-face encounter.

Unfortunately, Soren now had the Alchemy Heart of Isaac, and his dark spirit energy was endless.

Even if he didn't absorb and convert external energy, he had inexhaustible energy to use.

The enemy's greatest talent advantage was instantly useless, and her own melee ability was not worth considering.

Moreover, it was one against two.

Gargoyles, as puppets with four-element hearts, also did not need external energy. One person and one puppet were almost hammering this Professor Virginia.

However, Soren also discovered that this guy couldn't be killed.

The blood-red worms on the wall would provide her with a continuous stream of injury repair.

In other words, the monsters on the entire ship were sharing the damage for her.

After trying a few times, Soren realized that to kill her, he had to destroy the blood-red altar first.

Although the Outer God system and alchemy were similar in magical appearance, their essence was almost completely different. They were two systems. Taking advantage of the fight, he used the All-Seeing Eye to study it for a long time before Soren finally understood the basic principles of this "Blood-Refining Altar."

After finding an opportunity to attack, he decisively took out the Black Scythe.

Before the other party could react, he slashed a few times to destroy several key nodes. Then, he used a technique of Elemental Theft to directly paralyze the altar.

In an instant, the Thousand-Person Blood-Refining Crystal Core, which had been intangible like an element before, suddenly condensed into a solid form.

While the black-skinned woman revealed shock in her eyes but didn't have time to react, Soren teleported over and directly put the crystal core into the little void realm.

This move was tantamount to snatching food from a tiger's mouth.

Virginia howled sharply, "Stupid, ignorant human, do you know what you've done! You have desecrated a great god!"

"Hmph!"

Soren snorted coldly. Although he wasn't afraid, he wasn't careless either.

He had seen the methods of the god believers several times. He thought this guy might use some means of divine will to descend, and he was ready to slip away at any time.

But after fighting for a while, he didn't see anything unusual about this woman.

Although she was fighting desperately and the movement was much louder than before, as long as it wasn't some inexplicable will descending, she was still a sixth-tier.

"Is that it?"

Soren determined that this woman didn't have the ability to summon an Outer God, and he was stable in his heart.

Suddenly, his aura soared, and an invisible aura surrounded him. His eyes were domineering and contemptuous!

He had been pretending to be weak to the enemy for so long, just waiting for this moment to kill him with one blow.

Soren didn't want such an important figure to escape.

He knew very well that this woman had those parasites in her body, and unless the corpse was burned to ashes, it would be extremely difficult to kill her.

Only domineering aura could completely solve the problem!

Seeing that Soren's body was suddenly surrounded by a domineering aura, Professor Virginia was shocked, "Overlord-class Haki! Who exactly are you?!"

At this moment, she truly felt the threat of death.

No matter how fierce the previous battles were, she knew very well that the other party simply did not have the ability to kill her. Even if the Black Scythe was a rare sealed item, it was impossible!

But now it was over!

Soren didn't give the enemy any chance to react. He raised his hand and pinched a sorcerer seal, making a triangular sorcerer seal forward: "Void Alchemy · Tenfold Gate Imprisonment Technique!"

Looking out from the triangle, he saw the black-skinned woman not far away with horror on her face.

She naturally also discovered that the space around her body seemed to have solidified, and her whole person was "embedded" in place. She was surprised, "How could he have such advanced space techniques!"

After all, this woman was a professor at the Royal Academy of Luen, and her combat power was very strong.

Trapped for a moment, she immediately prepared to save herself, her muscles bulging and she was about to forcibly shatter this spatial imprisonment.

Unfortunately, Soren's current spatial law ability was at the level of a sixth-tier professional. Trapping her for a moment was completely enough.

He changed his sorcerer seal again, grabbing with his ten fingers in the void, and then connected to another technique: "Control Thread Secret Technique · Titan's Grip!"

Looking again, the domineering resilience threads suddenly appeared and condensed into a large hand that firmly trapped her on the spot.

Casting two spells in a row, Soren fearlessly rushed forward and slashed at her neck with the Black Scythe!

This time he used not only space cracks, but also physical attacks wrapped in a domineering aura.

With a "shua" of the knife, her head fell to the ground.

The domineering aura directly destroyed nearly two fingers' thickness of body tissue on the woman's neck, and even those red parasites lost their activity because a section was missing.

Soren didn't wait for her to have a chance to revive. The Black Scythe slashed a few more times, cutting the corpse into pieces.

Moreover, because her body was severely damaged, the woman's soul also became "wandering."

Soren didn't hold back and directly unlocked his second-stage death god ability, devouring that soul fragment.

With her soul gone, it was no longer possible to revive!

「You have stripped the soul of 'Virginia Pozard'」

「You have obtained a 'sixth-tier power-type law perception', experience +2214」

「You have stripped the target's reading experience and mastered a large amount of alchemy knowledge」

「You have obtained a large amount of understanding about the 'Anti-Magic Field' and comprehended the techniques Advanced Elemental Theft Proficiency, Seventeen Ancient Anti-Magic Techniques...」

「You have obtained a fragment of a broken soul: I am the Cardinal Archbishop of the Giants' Hermitage Society. The church is in London... the great god can...」

「Spirituality +991」

「...」

Being a sixth-tier professor at the Royal Academy of Luen, the woman's knowledge was shockingly exaggerated.

It was like entering a library. After choosing for a while, Soren finally selected some of the fragments he wanted.

He originally wanted to strip some information about the Giants' Hermitage Society, but it was still disturbed by some mysterious force and only obtained some fragments.

However, even so, he had a better understanding of this Outer God sect.

This Cardinal Archbishop belonged to the top level of that sect.

It seemed that those of higher rank than her were only those hidden Outer God believers inside the royal family.

Correspondingly, she knew many secrets.

Even some incomplete clues were enough to point the way for specialized intelligence personnel.

Some names, place names, organization names, secret words...

If he followed the clues, he would definitely have great gains.

Soren was not familiar with the situation in the capital of Luen. He thought he would organize the intelligence and pass it on to Mr. Black later so that he could find a way to investigate first.

This hermitage society was very niche, but it had penetrated all kinds of elite classes in Luen.

From the Luen royal family to various members of parliament, high-ranking officials, and intellectuals.

The elite class controlled most of the social resources, and their influence was immeasurable.

Just like this conspiracy to intercept young master Alex and sacrifice the entire cruise ship, the resources they used even involved the Intelligence Agency and some secret means of the royal family, making it very troublesome to investigate. Moreover, if the plan succeeded, it would inevitably cause a violent shock in Luen's political arena.

Fortunately, the Freedom of Faith Act had not been implemented for too long, and the infiltration was not irreparable.

Soren felt that this trip to London seemed to be full of trouble.

......

While Soren was destroying the altar and killing that Cardinal Archbishop, the battle in the ballroom was still continuing.

The remaining one or two hundred survivors were fighting desperately with the monsters. But as they fought, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the monsters suddenly could not revive!

Moreover, the high-level monsters that had fused seemed to have their energy drained, and their combat power instantly dropped by a large margin!

"Look, those monsters can be killed!"

"Oh my god! It's true!"

"..."

As long as they could be killed, these monsters were no longer scary.

For a time, various guns and cannons bombarded them wildly.

Others might not understand why this sudden change had occurred, but Aberke and Karma, who were fighting hard, immediately understood: Teacher had succeeded!

Hearing the fighting at the bottom of the ship subside, the seriously injured Caroline also understood what was happening. She thought in disbelief, "He really succeeded?!"

Finally, after everyone worked together, they killed all the monsters in the ballroom.

No, rather than killing them, it was as if the monsters had been drained of their energy, and their combat power suddenly weakened.

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, everyone's faces showed joy after surviving the disaster.