Chapter 143: The Wounded Face-Flower King

"Huff..."

"Huff..."

Talia, fleeing in panic, raced away at top speed.

While fleeing madly, Talia kept a wary eye on her rear.

Confirming that the mysterious enemy was not pursuing for now, Talia quickly found a building that looked like an abandoned tower.

Using the Face-Flower King's unique climbing ability, she silently entered the tower through a window.

Hiding in a corner, Talia took out a bottle of high-grade essence potion and gulped it down.

Only then did Talia breathe a slight sigh of relief, and gently moved her hand away from her chest.

There, on her chest, was a fist-sized tearing wound, shocking to behold.

As a newly promoted fourth-rank Face-Flower King, Talia's regenerative abilities were naturally beyond question.

And now she had drunk a bottle of high-grade essence potion.

Normally, the wound should have healed at a visible rate.

But the result was far from what Talia had expected.

The wound healed at an imperceptible pace, indeed showing no visible effect of recovery.

Moreover, the wound had begun to blacken, and the blood flowing out was pitch black.

This sight made Talia's expression grow even darker.

"Who the hell is that damned mysterious man in black robes? He's not afraid of my soul impact, and he easily withstands my soul enslavement techniques."

"And... his attack methods are quite bizarre. He can easily enter the shadow world, and even his blade can pierce from the shadow world into the real world."

"My defenses are not weak, yet he tore through them with one strike, and this wound is also very strange—it won't heal."

"Could it be... that these guys, like the Mother Goddess, also come from above the stars?"

"If that's really the case..."

A trace of unease surfaced in Talia's heart.

Their Face-Flower Cult's Mother Goddess had felt some kind of indescribable mysterious call, crossed the starry void, and came to this world.

Similarly, besides their Mother Goddess, there were other mysterious and powerful beings also from above the stars, responding to that mysterious call.

Yes, in this world, some indescribable existence was awakening, summoning beings from above the stars.

In the depths of the glittering stars.

Powerful beings abound; even their Mother Goddess had once warned them.

Toward those above the stars and those indescribable existences, one must always maintain reverence.

Their Face-Flower Cult was not weak, but in this world, there were forces even more powerful and more deeply hidden.

If they provoked those mysterious beings, even the Mother Goddess might not be able to protect them.

But after thinking carefully, Talia did not recall provoking any enemies.

Some time ago.

A new Flower Emperor was born in the Sugg Ruins City, and this Flower Emperor was very peculiar, receiving special favor from the Mother Goddess.

To pursue the new Flower Emperor, she had taken the pirates' magic ship from the "Deep Sea," crossed the "Black Demon Sea," and finally entered the human harbor area.

After much toil, she finally arrived at the Sugg Ruins City where the new Flower Emperor was born.

And her efforts had obviously paid off; the new Flower Emperor gave her very fertile "Pure Soil," which allowed her to advance to the fourth rank in a short time.

During this period, she had not provoked anyone.

Yet, on this Winter Extinction Night, after receiving the mission to attack the Second Police Substation of the Blacktu District, she had just stepped out.

That mysterious man seemed to have been lurking outside the door for a long time, ambushing and charging at her.

As a Face-Flower King, she was a powerful leader-level existence.

Among human powerhouses of the same rank, those who could contend with her were very rare.

However, before that equally fourth-order mysterious person, after her special soul means were suppressed.

She was beaten by the opponent without any power to fight back, and the several puppet guards accompanying her were easily killed by the opponent like chopping vegetables.

Talia, whose Flower King本体 was not here, fought with the opponent for about two or three minutes, and was cut on one arm, and her chest was almost pierced through by the opponent's knife.

The arm injury was bearable, but the chest wound was difficult to recover.

Even Talia felt that this knife not only dealt a devastating blow to her physical body, but also eroded her proud Flower King soul to a certain extent.

Her perception ability and soul attack ability dropped significantly compared to her peak state.

This deadly and strange knife was too bizarre and mysterious.

Fortunately, she ran fast enough; otherwise, today this Flower King human body would most likely have died at the opponent's hands.

If she, who had just advanced to the fourth order, died, the Flower King plant body would need to gestate another human body, and her realm would definitely drop.

……

In the dark shadowy corner, Gune clearly watched the Flower King climb hastily along the wall and flip into the abandoned tower.

The strong smell of blood allowed Gune to pinpoint her precisely even with his eyes closed.

Moreover, there was a faint smell of damage in the blood.

It was very much like some strange ability constantly causing destruction.

Gune, who possessed the bloodline of the Death Beast, had an almost instinctive reaction to this peculiar damaged smell.

"A weapon made using materials containing time characteristics. It disrupts the stability of time, making injuries extremely difficult to heal."

"And this 'material' is the Death Beast."

Feeling the peculiar smell of damaged blood, Gune had already understood many things in his heart.

"About the Death Beast, the time-characteristic weapon, and the injured Human-Faced Flower King."

"Because of the small amount of Human-Faced Flower King blood I left there, did those mysterious people find the Human-Faced Flower Church?"

"It seems they have already clashed."

In the shadowy corner, a rare smile appeared on Gune's face.

This move of diverting trouble elsewhere had an unexpectedly good effect.

Then, Gune turned his gaze to the path where the seriously injured Human-Faced Flower King had fled.

In the small alley filled with dim bloody light, there was no movement.

Obviously, the expert on the side herding the Death Beast hadn't chased after her for the time being.

Gune's gaze returned to the direction of the tower.

"The Human-Faced Flower King, and a fourth-order one, is very troublesome."

"More importantly, this Human-Faced Flower King's mental attacks are very powerful, and can even easily enslave ordinary second-order or even third-order human supernaturals."

"Even though she is already injured, and the injury should be serious."

"But my current mental strength may not be able to withstand the attack of this fourth-order Human-Faced Flower King."

"The only way is to lock her down, then keep distance and quickly bombard her from afar."

"I have the Soul-Fixing Divine Ring Curse, which can extend the attack range, even up to one hundred and fifty meters, but that Human-Faced Flower King cannot inflict effective soul damage on me at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters."

"Once the Soul-Fixing Divine Ring Curse is applied, that Human-Faced Flower King will definitely notice it immediately due to her mental sensitivity, and she might even break free from its restraint."

"Regardless, it's worth a try. Anyway, if she breaks free and chases after me, I'll run into the small alley she fled from earlier; she definitely won't dare to follow."

Confirming that this plan had no flaws, Gune generously poured himself another bottle of mid-grade essence potion.

Following the trajectory of the world framework, Gune directly cast a curse toward the tower.

The next second, Gune felt that the Human-Faced Flower King was fixed by his Soul-Fixing Divine Ring Curse.

"Die!"

Without any hesitation.

Gune, standing still and outputting, instantly raised the single-second overlap of the Magic Blade Strange Curse to its peak state of twenty-one curses per second, targeting the dilapidated tower where the Human-Faced Flower King was.

Even with the tower wall as protection, Gune would tear the tower apart and kill the Human-Faced Flower.

As a curse master, one must have this kind of destructive bombing combat capability.