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As expected, the Fiery Heart Sword slashed through his seemingly delicate palm.
Immediately, blood gushed from the fat bandit's slashed palm.
But Arthur instantly noticed something unusual.
—That's the speed at which blood spurts out!
The fat bandit's palm, slashed by the Flaming Heart Sword, gushed blood at an unusually rapid speed.
Having already issued an early warning, he immediately devised a response strategy.
He dared not linger in the fight and quickly exerted his strength to pull back the Flameheart Sword, which was about to be seized by the fat bandit.
Then, he pulled on the reins, spurring his black-haired horse, Nightshade, away from the fat bandit.
"hold head high!"
Upon receiving the command, the black-haired horse Night Shadow let out a spirited neigh, gathering a powerful wind element around itself, and then unleashed a terrifying speed once again.
At the same time, he looked at the incredibly obese bandit.
next moment.
The blood that gushed out of his opponent's palm, alerting him, revealed its terrifying power.
The splattered blood, after leaving the body of its owner, the obese bandit, instantly congealed into a blood clot covered in countless spikes.
The blood clot exploded the moment it formed.
It instantly split into countless thin, long, bloody spikes, spreading outwards from the fat bandit as the center.
The exploding blood spikes indiscriminately attacked any living thing within five meters of the obese bandit.
Bloodthorn displayed a lethality comparable to that of a fine iron weapon.
His bandit companions were caught off guard and struck vulnerable parts of their bodies by Bloodthorn's relentless attacks.
Suddenly.
They screamed in agony and fell to their knees.
And look at Arthur.
Relying on his fast-moving, early-stage second-tier wind-type magical beast, he managed to escape the indiscriminate attack range of the Bloodthorn just as it exploded.
After witnessing the obese bandit's methods of manipulating blood.
Arthur finally understood why the other bandits had avoided him.
At the same time, a phrase Merlin had once said to him couldn't help but come to mind:
"The demon is adept at manipulating blood, and therefore possesses extraordinary flesh-and-blood self-healing abilities."
However, they are also limited by blood; anything that inhibits flesh regeneration is extremely effective at suppressing them.
This allowed him to determine the identity of the obese bandit in front of him:
He is a demon, a demon who is skilled at manipulating blood and feeds on humans!
And at this time.
"Lord Arthur, I'm here to help you!"
A familiar voice reached his ears.
It was Lancelot. He had followed Arthur's charge and led the Blackrock Legion soldiers into battle against the remaining bandits.
Of course, this also included the squire knight guard under the steward Leon's command.
They were all elite knights of varying levels, from the early to mid-stage of the Black Iron rank, equipped with excellent knightly gear, and their mounts were mostly black-maned warhorses that had been tamed for many years.
Therefore, after the battle with the bandits.
They soon found a formidable member of the bandits to confront.
Let's return to Lancelot, who came to Arthur's aid.
Upon seeing the incredibly obese and bloated bandit not far away, he uttered a startling statement:
"What a huge stomach!"
Lancelot's quirky remarks made Arthur raise an eyebrow and chuckle.
But looking at the target of this criticism, it was the fat bandit who was actually a demon.
His reaction was completely different after hearing Lancelot's complaint.
“This is not a stomach pouch; David doesn’t have a stomach pouch.”
He first forced a furious look onto his face, then raised his hands to lift up the bloated mass of fat that occupied most of his body.
After making extremely comical gestures, he vehemently denied it:
"This is David's belly!"
"Big stomach, I don't care if you call it belly or stomach!"
Lancelot didn't engage in further verbal sparring with him, but instead drew his sword and pointed it at him:
"Anyone who invades Blackrock Territory and massacres civilians will be killed without mercy!"
The demon David was thoroughly enraged by Lancelot's words:
"I already said my name is David, not Big Stomach!"
Having said that, this incredibly obese man unleashed an astonishing speed that defied all reason.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
But with each step he took, the earth trembled with a dull sound due to his extraordinary weight.
In the blink of an eye, he was close to Arthur and Lancelot.
"He is a demon. Be careful of his blood, as it can be used to create sharp weapons for attack."
Seeing this, Arthur immediately went into battle mode, while sharing the information he had obtained after his attack with Lancelot beside him.
soon.
He engaged in a fierce battle with Lancelot and David, a fat bandit who appeared to be at the late stage of the Black Iron Rank.
After several rounds of fighting.
He then took control of the offensive rhythm.
He learned to use the blunt side of the Flameheart Blade to attack, avoiding any substantial cutting damage to David, and instead using a striking-like technique.
In this way, the demon David would be unable to use the splattered blood from his wounds to launch a counterattack against them.
Seeing this, the enraged demon David chose to inflict wounds on himself.
He used his hand as a blade and stabbed himself in the abdomen.
Suddenly, blood splattered.
next moment.
The blood that had left his body sculpted into flying knives, which pierced towards Arthur and Lancelot who were attacking him.
Arthur and his dark-haired horse, Nightshade, managed to avoid them in time.
But Lancelot's ordinary warhorse didn't have time to adjust and its throat was slit by the Blood Blade throwing knife.
"Woo~"
With a listless groan, the ordinary warhorse ended its life, then collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Lancelot had no choice but to jump off the horse quickly.
Just as the two sides were locked in fierce combat.
"boom!!!"
A loud explosion instantly shook the entire area and drew everyone's attention.
Arthur stared intently.
On the battlefield on the main road outside Frostraven, not far from him.
After a bandit at the Black Iron Rank was killed by an elite knight from the Black Rock Territory riding a black-haired warhorse, his corpse suddenly exploded.
The explosion of corpses was terrifying, affecting everyone within a five-meter radius, resulting in heavy casualties.
Most of them were soldiers from his Black Rock Legion.
They had just defeated several bandits with coordinated tactics, but before they could expand their gains, they were caught in the sudden explosion of corpses.
At this moment, he lay on the ground, barely alive.
Especially the elite knight riding the black-haired warhorse, who was blown to pieces in the very center of the corpse explosion.
His warhorse was not spared either; after a brief moment of lucidity, it collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Seeing this, Arthur was deeply saddened by the loss of a valuable and elite knight.
Meanwhile, the other Blackrock Legion soldiers who witnessed the corpse explosion also felt a lingering fear.
As the war intensified.
Their morale began to decline.
After Arthur realized this, he also tried to save the soldiers who were dying from the zombie explosion.
He chose to reveal his first trump card in this battle:
Lv.2 "Blessing of Mercy"!
Chapter 96 The Witch Apostle, Franky
Arthur sat on the back of the black-haired horse Nightshade, with one hand outstretched and raised in the air.
next moment.
As a flower sculpted from golden light bloomed in his palm, he began to shout:
"The light of compassion shelters the weak."
The power of compassion soothes the wounded;
I swear in the name of knighthood, and by the Holy Light, that I hereby declare this.
"May the Holy Light, with its mercy, protect my people!"
He finished speaking in an instant.
Golden light then burst forth from Arthur's body, instantly spreading across the entire battlefield.
Arriving on the battlefield.
All the Black Rock Legion soldiers, bathed in golden light, felt a warmth at their wounds, and the intense pain and fatigue in their bodies began to subside rapidly.
The tension that had been building due to fear subsided after being soothed by the golden light.
Especially the innocent soldiers affected by the sudden corpse explosion.
After receiving the healing blessing of Arthur's "merciful protection," they were rejuvenated.
Immediately, they felt their energy return and were able to stand up again.
"This is the holy light and grace of the Holy Church!?"
Daiba, the black-armored knight and leader of the bandits, frowned and exclaimed in surprise after witnessing Arthur's miraculous reversal of the situation.
In his understanding:
This wide-ranging and highly effective healing blessing can only be cast by believers within the church who are at least at the priestly level.
but.
With his keen sense of life force, honed by his late-stage Silver Rank cultivation, he had clearly sensed that the blond youth who had released the golden light blessing was merely a mid-stage Iron Rank knight.
To him, this blond youth was nothing more than a weak ant that he could crush at will.
But right now, the golden-haired youth's divine blessing ability has truly slapped him in the face.
Thus, the misjudgment of the battle situation caused the black-armored knight Daiba to develop a strong desire to kill Arthur.