Six-Armed Serpent Demon

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Patrick had a bad feeling: Could this be another escape, like on the dockside?

But the words that came through the cube the next second dispelled his doubts.

“I need it,” the six-armed serpent demon said hesitantly, “I need to think about it.”

Patrick smiled.

【attack】

Upon receiving the order, Countess Lana was the first to strike.

She waved her hand gently.

Six brass demon-binding symbols spun around the iron chains beneath the cube, then disappeared upwards behind it.

They heard a series of rapid clanging sounds, the sound of the brass beads carrying the demon-binding insignia colliding with the armor on the target's body.

The magical aura of the Oathbinding Circle, activated by Lana's thoughts, suddenly shone through the cube.

Everyone heard the six-armed serpent demon's furious scream echo throughout the cabin!

"We caught her!" Lana screamed excitedly.

She lunged forward, trying to bypass the cube to see her captured prey and retrieve her demon-capturing bottle. It was an iron bottle inlaid with silver runes, its cap made of brass and engraved with numerous hand seals, symbols, and strange markings. By simply speaking the command to the captive marked with the demon's emblem, she could trap her inside the bottle.

Tusu was even more excited than her, and slid under the cube in a sliding tackle.

Patrick stopped, whistled, and watched as the snake-man priest and mantis-man charged towards him from the left.

However, in the next instant, his expression changed drastically.

Amidst the faint buzzing sound of the "blade-protected wall," large swaths of blood were splattered on the ground.

Patrick saw Lana next to him instantly engulfed in countless rotating force field blades, screaming as she turned into a bloody mess!

Moreover, the coverage area of ​​the "blade-like protective barrier" is expanding.

The iron chains snapped one by one, and cubes slowly floated up.

After breaking free from the encirclement of three Hesladi clones near the hatch, the six-armed serpent demon, disguised as squad leader El, swiftly rushed into the cube jungle.

After running to a larger cube, she caught her breath.

She didn't have time to dispel the "dimensional anchor" magic on her body; she immediately immersed her mind in the dark aura of the mental phenomenon.

She absorbed the souls of hundreds of warriors in one breath, and this unprecedented amount of soul energy made her head feel heavy.

She gritted her teeth, focused her mind, and tried to use this enormous soul power to improve her mortal hunter profession.

This was a plan she had envisioned beforehand.

—Collect as many souls as possible from the city's inhabitants who have been killing each other, raise your Mortal Hunter level before the Bronze Dragon and its enemies are both weakened, and seize the opportunity to take the Bronze Dragon's place and become the ruler of the city.

However, just as this thought crossed his mind, an indescribable anger and hunger suddenly arose from the depths of his mental vision.

The demonic nature of the six-armed serpent demon awakened within her.

Driven by rage and hunger, the circular darkness at the center of the mental imagery ceased to be the pure darkness of a black hole, but transformed into a strange black mirror or a circular surface of water. It was as if one could see another world through it.

A faint, shimmering light, like ripples on water, appeared on the dark disc, vaguely forming countless faces and hands struggling in agony.

If you look closely, every face is a reflection of herself—the reborn Ivy Beatrice, the squad leader El, the six-armed serpent demon, and, above all, her past life on Earth. They surged toward the dark, circular back, pressing their faces against it, their mouths agape in hunger. Countless hands pounded angrily on the other side.

The six-armed serpent demon screamed silently.

The omnipresent, excruciating pain made her feel like her body was about to collapse.

Around the dark disk of the spiritual world, a massive blue-purple halo, resembling an asteroid belt, involuntarily accelerated its rotation. Countless points of light were flung away from the blue-purple halo, rapidly disappearing into the darkness surrounding the spiritual phenomenon. The pale purple outline of the dark disk began to expand rapidly.

Just as she was about to scream in agony, a name Patrick uttered brought her back to her senses: "What should we call you... for example... Chu Shixin?"

She clenched her teeth, her face contorted in agony from the unbearable mental anguish.

But the name "Chu Shixin" allowed her to cling tightly to the last remaining glimmer of clarity.

—No, it can't be that name.

—I am her, but I am no longer her.

—I don't want to be her anymore!

“...Ivy, Ivy-Beate.”

As she revealed this pseudonym.

The countless faint faces on the dark disc gradually transformed. Their originally distinct features dissolved and eventually faded away, merging into a single face.

Ivy Beatrice.

On the dark disc, countless Ivy Beatrice faces became calm and then vanished without a trace.

Then the dark disc transformed into a deep, circular darkness.

The demonic nature was satisfied and retreated from her mind and body simultaneously.

She blinked her emerald green vertical pupils, her eyes changing from rigid to lively again.

The agony of impending collapse was like a nightmare, and she has now awakened from it.

She now felt stronger than ever before.

The endless magic and skills belonging to the six-armed serpent demon slowly awakened from her brain and muscles.

An even stronger demonic body;

The ability has been upgraded to a spell-like power called "Blade Barrier" that can be cast at will.

The "Advanced Teleportation" spell can be cast at will...

Etc., etc.

The demonic core behind the mental anomaly has been fully restored.

Her demonic body finally recovered to its full glory as the six-armed serpent demon, and even surpassed it.

Her legs had unknowingly transformed back into the body of a giant serpent, and six arms had silently pushed open the paladin armor covering her upper body. Her upper body was also growing rapidly, making her vision increasingly higher. Only when she realized her height had returned to 2.7 meters did she understand that she had unknowingly revealed her true form as a six-armed serpent demon.

The abilities of the "mortal body" profession crumbled under the surge of demonic power.

However, the phenomena in the spiritual world also changed.

The vast number of souls absorbed have been completely absorbed, and not a single one remains.

The blue-purple accretion disk surrounding the black hole became much dimmer, almost invisible, and the light particles that detached from the accretion disk also became much sparser.

There was another change that even she herself hadn't noticed.

That's her face.

Originally, in her six-armed serpent demon form, although her face was beautiful, her features were completely those of her predecessor, the demon concubine of the exorcist Ariel van Boto.

Things are not the same now.

This face still possesses extraordinary beauty. However, its features are closer to Ivy Beatrice's, yet not identical. The gentle eyes and brows of a woman from Earth in her past life softened it, diluting Ivy Beatrice's overly harsh and sharp side.

—I have been completely reborn.

she thinks.

She immediately turned her head alertly, and faint sounds from two directions reached her ears.

Patrick's voice was still chattering in the distance:

"...As long as you hand over the numerous souls needed to activate the Dragon Madness Lock, my master can help you destroy Zaire. Everyone's happy, isn't that wonderful?"

The six-armed snake demon ignored it.

She took out the corpse of Squad Leader El from her dimensional bag, used "mind control" to manipulate the corpse into posing it in the exact same position as herself, and then pricked her fingertip, dripping her own blue-black demonic blood into the corpse's forehead and mouth.

She hoped this would confuse the enemy's detection magic.

She then cautiously retreated into the darkness, until she reached a corner of the lower deck.

“I need to think about it,” she said, as six arms emerged from behind her, holding up six swords, waiting silently.

She saw the brass ball activate the Oathbinding Array on the corpse of Squad Leader El, and she also saw the large crowd rushing towards them.

She pretended to scream in anger.

The enemy charged even faster. At the forefront, besides Tusu wielding a cold iron spear, were three mantis men holding four daggers each.

A flash of murderous intent appeared in his emerald green vertical pupils.

A wide barrage of blades formed from transparent, rotating force fields. Squad Leader El's corpse was instantly shredded to pieces, and the surrounding enemies were sprayed with blood.

Then came the second and third shots.

The iron chains securing the fragments of the "Dragon Madness Lock" were all severed by the "Sword Blade Barrier".

In an instant, cubes of all sizes slowly rose up, rolled silently, and collided with the ceiling of the lower deck, which was full of pipes.

Suddenly all the "blade barriers" disappeared, and the enemies' injuries were rapidly healing.

But Tusu, who was at the very front, was nowhere to be seen.

The six-armed serpent demon turned its head following the magical fluctuations and saw the serpent priest lower his staff.

The snake priest's blood-red eyes met his emerald green vertical pupils.

“She’s there,” she hissed.

The snake priest's voice was interrupted by Lana's clenched teeth scream: "My face, my face!"

Countess Lana's face was covered with deep, bone-revealing cuts, and she had lost an eye. Even the snake-man priest's "group healing spell" could not regrow her eyeball or heal the scars.

She raised her hand, attempting to telekinetically control the brass demon-binding emblem. But when she looked down at her palm, an even more piercing scream erupted from her.

The finger wearing the mind-control ring had been severed by the rotating force field blade of the "blade barrier" and was now nowhere to be found.

She screamed incantations almost frantically, and the firelight illuminated the lower deck.

That was the seventh-circle arcane spell of the Bane of the Witcher class, and also the most powerful area-of-effect attack spell in this school of magic!

The snake-man priest's expression changed: "Are you crazy? In such a confined space, how could we possibly escape—"

Lana's eyes were fixed on the six-armed snake demon opposite her, and she shrieked, "I'll kill you!"

Before she could finish speaking, a sharp blade appeared out of nowhere from behind Lana, circled around to her chin, and sliced ​​open her neck with a "shh".

The brewing "firestorm" magic vanished instantly.

Lana's eyes widened, and she hissed. She covered her throat with her mutilated hand, but still couldn't stop the blood gushing from her throat.

She tried to turn around to look at the killer, but lost her balance and fell to the ground, whereupon she stopped breathing.

As Lana fell to the ground and died, Patrick was revealed, gently wiping the blade.

"What an idiot, I had really high expectations for her."

Patrick said with a hint of regret.

“Ms. Ivy Beatt,” he said calmly, “although we are currently in a state of hostility, I would say that my advice just now is still valid.”

The six-armed snake demon gave a cold laugh.

Before she could say anything, three fearless mantis-men, having recovered from their injuries, immediately charged and leaped towards the six-armed serpent demon's head. Wielding gleaming daggers, they soared high towards the demon's face.

The six-armed serpent demon took a deep breath.

With heavy breathing, a chilling magical darkness rose around her—her newly revived skill, "Evil Aura," the strongest shield of the six-armed serpent demon race.

This ability, comparable to an eighth-tier divine spell, represents powerful defense, immunity to magic, complete immunity to "mind-affecting" effects, and the ability to reflect damage to the muscles of benevolent creatures in melee combat, thus weakening the enemy.

Six swords cleaved through the darkness, transforming into a torrential rain of blades.

The dagger failed to penetrate the six-armed serpent demon's defenses at all.

Most of the thrusts were blocked by the greatsword, and the few that broke through the sword's net were also blocked by the dark protection of "Evil Aura".

In a single exchange, the two mantis-men were nearly disemboweled. One lost an arm and a leg, while the other suffered a deep stab wound to the chest.

The last mantis was brutally dismembered, cut into countless pieces, and lay sprawled out in front of the six-armed serpent demon.

The body of the pitch-black giant serpent moved.

The six-armed serpent demon raised its six greatswords and charged towards the opposite side with the force of a thunderbolt!

However, her target wasn't Patrick, but the snake-man priest standing against the cabin wall to her right.