The Death List Novel - Chapter 488
Chapter 488 Forbidden Curse
“I’m kind of hungry!” Alcatel retracted his gaze and looked up into the sky. A ripple that originated from the depths of his soul spread out towards the entire City of London with him as the center. Suddenly, a strange movement occurred in the pool of corpses that covered the entire city, and they frantically rushed in a certain direction.
“Someone is coming this way. If they don’t escape, they will die here!” The vampire straightened his body, turned around, and looked at Qin Lun with an indifferent expression.
“Is that so? However, I still want to give it a try!” The blood in Qin Lun’s eyes became denser and denser. As a hunter, he had sensed something strange earlier than Alcatel. The missile attack had already lasted for about ten minutes. The superhuman experts gathered in Britain had finally figured out the main attack direction of the commandos and began to gather in this direction.
Qin Lun’s left hand trembled, and the Wind Chasing Frost disintegrated into the shape of a weapon box again. However, a triangular support suddenly popped out from the bottom. He placed the casing on the ground, and a cylindrical object slowly poked out from the bottom of the casing, gently sticking to the ground.
After doing all of this, Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he pounced on Alcatel again.
“Are you Germans always so stubborn?” Alcatel sighed softly, his hands drooping down. The black and white spears slid into his palms from his sleeves and began to block Qin Lun, no longer engaging in melee combat with the youth.
As he continued shooting, Alcatel stole a glance at the distant Hellhound, Baskerville. After seeing it clearly, his heart sank. The black dog was not a real Hellhound, Baskerville. The real Baskerville was a legendary creature, not something a Tier 6 Cyberlace could match.
It was just a soul mark that the vampire had obtained from a real Black Dog at some point in the Middle Ages. Through this soul imprint, he could condense the soul power in his body into a Baskerville Phantom Beast, roughly 30% to 40% of its original power.
However, the weakened version of the Phantom Black Dog was clearly no match for the real Abyss Magical Beast, the Hellfire Demonic Dog. Actually, this Baskerville phantom was still very powerful. Not only did its ferocious sharp fangs and claws possess powerful physical attacks, but its body composed of fallen souls also possessed corrosive and polluting abilities.
However, Cyberus was a demonic creature with an extremely high soul quality. He wasn’t afraid of the corruption of Baskerville’s phantom. It was like polishing a diamond with sand. Other than making the diamond more resplendent, there was no other effect.
As for the sharp fangs and claws of the Illusory Demon Hound, it was utterly helpless against Cyberus, who was covered in lava armor. On the contrary, the Hellfire Devil Hound’s body was covered in lava and strong melting body fluids.
The two Hellhounds were both enormous magical beasts. They fought in the distance until the sky was dazzling and the dust billowed. However, the Hellhound was clearly at an absolute disadvantage. Occasionally, its enormous body would be torn off by a similarly ferocious opponent, and it would be eaten raw into its stomach.
The summoned beast was exactly the same as its master, and its fighting style was completely restrained. However, Alcatel had countless lives to spend, and the Baskerville Phantom Beast was gone.
After just a few minutes of battle, it was already lying on the ground, dying. Its abdomen was completely cut open by Cyberus, revealing a pool of dirt inside. The Hellfire Devilhound seemed to like this huge pile of green food. It was pickpocketing the body of the Baskerville Phantom Beast and eating it happily.
This was the best evidence that quantity could not match quality, and it was also the biggest flaw of the vampiric species. Once they were suppressed by the bloodline of a superior creature at the food chain level, they would be unable to resist.
Alcatel expressionlessly withdrew his gaze. The Baskerville Phantom Beast was as immortal as he was. As long as the soul mark stored in his body was imperishable, it could be resurrected endlessly by relying on its soul power. Right now, the Hellfire Devil Hound was only devouring a few corrupt soul bodies.
The vampire raised his head, and his bloody pupils shone with a cold light as he looked into the depths of the night. At the end of the street where the two of them were fighting, he could already see traces of blood flowing through the cracks in the building, bypassing the corner of the intersection, and rushing towards him at an extremely fast speed.
Due to the distance, these seemingly detailed blood veins were actually formed from countless pools of blood flowing out of the corpses. In some areas, pools of blood even converged into rivers of blood, causing waves of blood that were half a person’s height along the way.
The strangest thing was that there were no traces of blood wherever the blood river went. It was as if it was a competent cleaner. It scraped all the blood along the way clean, like a blood-colored flood dragon crazily advancing along the street.
“Almost there!” Feeling a large amount of blood pouring into his perceptual vision, Qin Lun’s eyes lit up. He leapt backwards and landed on the top of Ayala’s weapon box, which was supported by a triangular bracket.
“The last gift!” Qin Lun revealed his white teeth and smiled as he looked at Alcatel. He stomped heavily on Ayala’s weapon sheath.
After fighting with Alcatel for so long, Qin Lun thought that he would never have the chance to kill a vampire. He was simply enjoying the fun of fighting. However, he had keenly discovered a weakness in Alcatel’s character.
This vampire was too arrogant. Even if he fought against an opponent like him, he still acted very lazy. Most of the time, he didn’t go all out.
If the two sides exchanged roles and Qin Lun was a vampire, the moment the young man realized that the enemy had the ability to cut off his soul power, he would immediately continue to replenish it during the battle and never give the enemy the slightest chance.
Alcatel, on the other hand, did not start to replenish his soul power until his vitality had fallen to the bottom, threatening his very existence. Or, as he had said, he had long since lost his sense of existence and had always yearned for a perfect ending from humans.
With Qin Lun’s abnormal smile, Alcatel’s entire body suddenly trembled. In an instant, he felt suffocated and instinctively felt a huge threat to his life. It was as if a god of death was staring at him from above, about to reach out and drag him into another world that belonged to the dead.
“This is … a long time no see, death!” Alcatel’s gaze fluttered as he raised his hands high into the night sky, as if he wanted to embrace the god of death.
“Alcatel, I order you to come back!” Just as Alcatel was overjoyed with relief, a valiant figure flashed past his eyes.
“Intergula!” Alcatel’s eyes suddenly became clear. He let out a long roar and his long black hair floated up. “No, I can’t die yet. At least I can’t die at the hands of non-humans!”
Alcatel paused for a moment, then turned around and flew back in the opposite direction to Qin Lun, quickly closing the distance between him and the blood river behind him. This was the first time he had avoided a head-on battle since the two of them had fought.
“It’s too late to turn around now, isn’t it?” Qin Lun sighed and looked at Alcatel with regret. Perhaps because the enemy was quite similar to him, the young man only felt that killing a vampire would not make him happy.
“Dry up the glacier!” Qin Lun silently closed his eyes as his stamina surged into Ayala’s weapon casing.
Buzz! The Ayala Weapon Box beneath Qin Lun’s feet emitted a faint terrifying aura. An icy cold current that seemed capable of freezing even the soul soared into the sky, like a pillar of heaven that instantly tore apart the floating clouds in the night sky.
In the next moment, with the column of cold air as the core, circles of shockwaves visible to the naked eye spread out in all directions, forming layers of ice rings that were like waves.
“Kakaka!” The nearby buildings quickly froze, and bamboo shoots of icicles rose from the ground, forming clusters of ice thorns. The temperature in the vicinity began to drop rapidly, and pure white snowflakes fell from the sky. The area where Qin Lun was in had completely become a world of ice and snow.
The humans hiding in the surrounding streets felt as if they were in the cold Arctic Circle, and uncontrollable drowsiness surged into their hearts.
Even though they instinctively felt that something was wrong and began to rush out of the room, wanting to escape from here, they felt that it was difficult to walk. His footsteps became slower and slower, and the surface of his body was covered with layers of frost. The blood in his body froze and hardened, quickly turning into ice sculptures with different postures.
With Ayala’s weapon casing as the core, other than Qin Lun and the others, there was not a single drop of liquid that could flow in the circular area with a radius of around 300 meters.
At the edge of the circular region, the river of blood that was gushing towards this place was almost impossible to enter. It only flowed in a meter or two before it directly solidified into blood crystals. The blood river that followed was thickening and widening the wall of blood crystals until it formed a blood-colored city wall that was more than three feet thick and more than ten meters tall.
Looking down from the sky, a slightly arched Blood Crystal City wall enveloped this area like a shield, leaving only a gap at the top.
The moment Qin Lun activated the Dry Glacier, all the superhuman experts in London seemed to be looking in this direction. The ability fluctuations of the Forbidden Curse level caused everyone to tremble inexplicably.
Ayala’s weapon casing was different from Light and Dark Burial. Although they were both Legendary equipment, Light and Dark Burial was a set. Each item of equipment was only Dark Gold quality, and the soul of the weapon had not reached Legendary rank.
However, Ayala’s weapon case was different. After Ayala awoke, he was a fake Legendary rank. In addition to the sub-legendary Ice Fairy, as well as the Frost Gem and Elemental Burst Bead that could store large amounts of ice elements, it was enough for Qin Lun to cast a pseudo-forbidden spell. On the contrary, the youth’s energy value only served as a catalyst.
“What kind of ability is this?” Alcatel stopped and smiled at Qin Lun with a relaxed expression.
Looking at Alcatel’s cracking body, the blood in Qin Lun’s eyes slowly faded. He calmly nodded at him and said, “Dry Glacier, one of my new spells!”
“Is it just one of them? If I knew it would be like this, I should be more serious and see more of them!” Alcatel grinned. The skin on his face shattered and turned into powder in the cold air.
“Alcatel!” Intgura, who was about to arrive at HELLSING headquarters, suddenly felt his heart palpitate. He poked his head out of the car window and looked at the north bank of the Thames River, “Don’t die ~”