Chapter 495 - 369 Madness and Curtain Fall
Upon the battlefield,
Mei Lulan watched Lis in disbelief, her mouth agape as if she wanted to say something, but soon the organs inside her body and her throat were turned to ashes by the lightning, and all she could emit was a rasping "heh heh" as she gasped for air. Moments later, the light faded from her eyes.
Plague Sect’s Golden Assassin Mei Lulan, dead!
"Phew~"
Lis let out a sigh of relief, flicked his longsword, and Mei Lulan’s body, now like a heap of rotten meat, was casually thrown to the ground aside.
Her body had completely turned to ashes inside, and not even a single drop of blood stained Lis’s longsword.
It was not easy, but finally, he had succeeded!
Lis looked at Mei Lulan’s corpse in front of him and relaxed quite a bit.
At the start of the battle, he had set Mei Lulan as his first target to resolve.
The rationale was that she belonged to the Plague Sect, and her Plague God Divine Technique was just too troublesome.
Moreover, compared to Duke House transformed into a giant bear, it was clear that Mei Lulan, as a fragile assassin, was an easier problem to solve.
Initially, Lis only revealed his abilities as a mage and a warrior while concealing his mastery over the Shadow Power-related assassin professional skills.
Indeed, Lis hadn’t even let on that he could detect the traces of Mei Lulan’s stealth state. Using spells like "Flash Dust" had, in effect, made Mei Lulan even more confident in the safety of her stealth capabilities.
Even so, Lis didn’t strike immediately.
He knew he only had one chance; once he exposed his assassin abilities, Mei Lulan would become much more cautious.
With the support of Duke House, landing a fatal blow on Mei Lulan would be much more difficult,
so Lis was patient, waiting until Mei Lulan, in an attempt to escape the detection of "Flash Dust," used her "Shadow Cloak" ability.
In her efforts to get away from Lis, she used escape skills like "Shadow Shuffling."
When Mei Lulan was disrupting Wendell’s Earth Elemental Giant, Lis used a special skill called "Mirror Body," and just like before, he launched a magic attack to capture the majority of Mei Lulan and Duke House’s attention.
It was during this brief period that Lis seized the opportunity to inch closer to Mei Lulan’s back, executing the fatal blow.
Mei Lulan had been careless; she hadn’t expected Lis could also use the Shadow Power to enter a stealth state, and Lis’s affinity with the Shadow Plane was even higher than hers, a Gold-level assassin.
All these factors combined to create Lis’s opportunity to strike a killing blow.
"Seems like my silent steps practice wasn’t bad, huh?"
Lis looked at Duke House, whose face was now dark and grim, and said with a light chuckle.
How the transformed bear could make a grim face was a mystery, but Duke House did exactly that, and even the frenzied atmosphere had somewhat dissipated.
How could this be?
Duke House looked at Mei Lulan, who was now irrevocably dead, and couldn’t believe what had just happened before his eyes.
He had just eliminated the troublesome Earth Elemental Giant with Mei Lulan’s help and was preparing to engage Lis in combat.
But in the blink of an eye, his comrade had been casually slain by Lis—who could accept that?
He refused to believe it, although Mei Lulan was a recent acquaintance, her strength was not an issue.
Among Gold-level professionals, she counted as a strong one, especially with the Plague Sect’s unique abilities making her very tricky to deal with.
Who could have imagined that she would be so easily killed by Lis?
Freak!
A thought flashed through Duke House’s mind.
In his prior plan, the part of the Extraordinary Magical Beasts that hadn’t been sent into the city during the last Blood Sacrifice Chaos had already been handed over to the Legendary Strongman "mourning bird," as sacrificial offerings to set a trap for "Judgement Flame."
While Lis was strong, having defeated the Blood Shark Patrick and Bodich Royal Mage Group Leader Wendell, Duke House had also been confident in his plan to defeat Lis with Mei Lulan’s help.
Who would have thought his most important ally had just been killed by Lis.
She was an ace brought in from the Plague Sect! He had even confidently assured the two Legendary Crowns in front of him that there would be no problems on his end.
Duke House could no longer worry about the potential retribution from the Plague Sect.
He couldn’t accept it, but the fact was evident.
Duke House looked at Lis with chilling eyes and said darkly,
"Good, you’re truly a disciple of ’Judgement Flame.’ Mei Lulan actually died just like that."
Lis didn’t care about Duke House’s attitude, and he jauntily twirled his longsword into a flower maneuver, much like he did in his previous life to show off.
"What, you mean I should have just stood there quietly and let you kill me?"
Hearing Lis’s taunt, Duke House did not say more. Find adventures on novelbuddy
He no longer had any options left, now only hoping that the intense battle before had depleted most of Lis’s strength; otherwise, he would have to resort to using his role as a Divine Envoy—a situation he did not desire.
Lis looked at the increasingly mighty bear of blood and shrugged his shoulders.
Although the recent battle had drained a lot of mana, especially since both "Mirror Body" and "Wendell’s Earth Elemental Giant" were heavy mana-users.
But Lis’s mana value, boosted by several specialties, had already broken through 300,000, enough to sustain his current consumption.
After all, though Lis’s life value was continually being eroded by the plague, he noticed that under the effect of the specialty "Advanced Life Source," his life value still maintained a very healthy state.