Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

Elsa looked around and knew that her attack had missed.

There was nothing she could do about it, because she didn't have anything suitable to use as a throwing weapon - something like a copper coin would be vaporized instantly if thrown with too much force, and there was no way to ensure a sufficient shooting distance.

"Looks like I'll have to find a chance to get some proper throwing weapons."

As Aisha pondered this, she looked at the stunned magicians and suddenly asked, "The person who just escaped was your former leader?"

Elsa had only met Kus Hegerman once. Elsa didn't know much about him. She only knew that Hegerman died in the vampire attack, but now he suddenly appeared here again. How could this not be strange?

What's even more strange is that Elsa clearly saw those black flesh whiskers on Hegerman's body - and Hegerman's legs had turned into some kind of creature that was completely non-human-like.

Or rather - there is a slight resemblance between him and those filthy people.

Elsa recalled the appearance of Hegerman that she had just seen from afar. Although her original appearance was still recognizable, Hegerman's body was now covered with strange black abnormal limbs. Elsa became more and more certain that Hegerman was transforming into a filthy being. His entire body was almost completely occupied by those black fleshy tentacles. His old body seemed to have become a piece of rotten land, and those black fleshy tentacles were densely packed earthworms.

So, not only the Winged Clan, but humans can also be transformed into Filthy Ones?

Elsa immediately thought of necromancy and those black dead branches, so she confirmed it again.

"Yes, yes...but he looks very strange and weird..."

The person who spoke shuddered, as if thinking of the strange scene of those black flesh tendrils entwining Hegelman's body.

Elsa nodded and didn't ask any more questions - no matter what the truth was, just capture Hegelman.

"Does anyone know where he teleported to?"

Elsa asked, causing the magicians to look bitter.

"We can read the transmission message he left behind... but it will take quite some time for us to reactivate the magic circle. By the time we try to catch up with him again, Captain... no, with Kus Hegelman's methods, he will have already escaped..."

Elsa just shook her head: "Just tell me the direction and distance."

Seeing that Elsa was a little stubborn, the magician hesitated to speak. In the end, he just pursed his lips and shook his head: "I will take a little time to read..."

"no need."

A clear female voice interrupted the magician. The magician looked up and saw a strange crow with flashing lightning flapping its wings and circling around Elsa. At the same time, it spoke in human language: "Elsa, I will guide you. From now on, it's up to you."

"Sage!?"

The magicians immediately bowed respectfully - in fact, in the eyes of these magicians, the status of the arcane sage is always nobler than anyone else.

But the crow ignored them. It hovered in mid-air, facing north, from where it could see the ravines that stretched out from the Rydes Mountains. It opened its sharp beak, and a flash of lightning gathered, growing brighter and brighter. Then, a dazzling beam of light, wrapped in arcs of electricity, erupted into the distance. Before the magicians could understand what the Mystic Sage was planning, a terrifying roar like thunder erupted in the air.

The next moment, a sharp roar spread throughout the entire fortress. Despite being cushioned by hundreds of layers of ice, the violent impact still cracked some of the more fragile buildings, sending countless clouds of dust flying into the air. At the same time, the second sun in the sky slowly disappeared, and the overflowing life energy began to dissipate.

Everyone couldn't help but look up at the sky. Under the azure sky, the white cone disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving only a dazzling flame tail where the magic element was squeezed and ignited.

In an uninhabited mountain forest far away from the city of Dammas, a dazzling shadow of light slowly rose and fell. The light column was too obvious. Elsa took only one look at it before stepping on the ice and rushing down. In an instant, even though Elsa had deliberately controlled her speed and used countless layers of ice as a buffer, the mountain was razed to the ground by the violent shock wave in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately, there was no one around.

Elsa looked around and came to the pillar of light. At this time, the pillar of light gradually changed from a shadow to a solid one. After a while, a figure staggered and fell to the ground. He was crawling on the ground, gasping for breath, as if he had experienced a long-distance run of several thousand meters.

The figure was Hegelman.

"As expected, the hastily set coordinates are still a bit unstable... Fortunately... I managed to escape at the last minute..."

Hegelman muttered to himself, lying on the ground, looking a little exhausted. He glanced at his mutated legs, a hint of disgust flashed in his eyes, but at this moment, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Shouldn't this be a forest? Why is it all just reclaimed soil..."

Hegelman frowned and staggered to his feet. As soon as he turned around, he saw the nun, Aisha Faris, who was looking at him with interest with her arms folded across her chest.

There were only five steps between them.

"It's our second meeting, Captain Kus Hegelman."

Elsa smiled.

Hegelman felt as if his heart had stopped beating, and his head felt as if it had been slammed into the bronze bell of a bell tower. Hegelman's eyes widened, and black whiskers stretched out from his eyelids, twisting and wriggling.

"You, you are... you are... how could you... how could you appear here..."

He can no longer speak in complete sentences.

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285. No chance of winning

Hegelman spent countless years waiting for the day when the demon general would be revived. He put in countless efforts in all his plans and everything, just for his wish: to stay alive.

Live forever.

He used the knowledge and intelligence he had, and with the help of the mysterious demon, he prepared everything, and even the secret magic sage could not stop him.

But all that was shattered by the appearance of Elsa.

Elsa's appearance was so abrupt, just like now.

He risked everything and thought he had finally escaped from Dammas, but nothing had changed, just like now.

Hegelman stared at the nun in front of him, Elsa Faris. This woman destroyed everything he had - and facing Elsa, he knew that he was completely doomed.

Everything came to nothing.

After preparing for so long, I still couldn't escape the fate of death. After preparing for so long, everything was disrupted by this nun.

After being captured and brought back to the fortress, is there any chance of survival?

joke.

The fear in his heart was swallowed up by anger, and sadness and despair ignited the last will to fight.

"It's all you!"

Almost instinctively, Hegelman suddenly clasped his hands together, and a ball of creepy icy light condensed in his hands. The next moment, a blue magic circle emerged from his hands, and with the huge magic power poured down to the ground, circles of transparent ripples spread out like ripples.

A violent tremor roared like an earthquake, and in an instant, frost and icicles rose from the ground under his feet and pierced Elsa.

"Why, why are you here!?"

This advanced magic without chanting, this advanced technique represents the full strength of Hegelman as the leader of the magician group.

"Go to hell!"

——The extraordinary magician, when he touches the most difficult mysteries of magic, has already become qualitatively different from other magicians.

"Don't even think about stopping me! Die, die, die!!"

Hegelman almost frantically exerted all his strength. Ice oceans exploded from his body. The ice mist condensed into ice crystals, and the ice crystals combined into ice spikes. There were hundreds of thousands of ice spikes, like a huge net rushing towards Elsa. But Elsa just raised her foot and stepped on it. The icicles crackled and shattered into pieces in front of Hegelman's horrified eyes, and the magic circle under his feet also collapsed. The magic elements condensed in the air instantly disappeared.

Seeing this, Hegelman immediately flipped his hand, and the ice chips that had not yet dispersed immediately condensed into an ice wall blocking him and Elsa. He suddenly jumped back, trying to increase the distance, but the next moment, a wave of air surged up, and a dull loud noise was heard in the air. The ice wall shattered, and Hegelman felt his eyes go dark, and the corner of the black and white nun's uniform fell in front of him.

And the soles of Elsa's boots.

The sound of the nose and teeth breaking and snapping was like wood being split in his mind. Ripples of vibration appeared in the air. The black blood vessels on Hegman's face shattered one by one, spurting out black blood. He flew backwards before he could even stand up. At the same time, Elsa clamped his arm and tore it off from his shoulder.

"Ahhh-"

Hegelman was in excruciating pain, black blood spurted out, and his body fell rapidly. He instinctively wanted to mobilize his magic power to hold up his body, but was shocked to find that the magic power in his body seemed to have stagnated and could not be mobilized.

Bang.

Hegerman slammed deeply into the soft soil, while Aisha grabbed Hegerman's broken arm and looked down at him in disgrace - they still kept a distance of five steps between them.

Elsa took a look at the broken arm - the black flesh whiskers in the broken arm struggled for a moment and then retracted into the blood vessels and disappeared. Soon, the black in the blood vessels of the arm faded away inch by inch, and the breath of the filthy person quickly disappeared.

But the arm, which was full of holes, blood vessels, and covered with black tumors, did not return to its original state - it was no longer a human arm.

"Permanent alienation..."

Elsa was not surprised by this scene. Elsa had come into contact with many filthy people. Those filthy people would not return to the appearance of the Winged People just because Elsa's magic dispelled them. The power of the black dead branches could not reverse the changes in people.

"Are you calm now?" Elsa threw away her severed arm and looked expressionlessly at Hegelman, who lay prone on the ground. "Is this our first official meeting, Your Excellency? But I know you, and you know me, so let's skip the small talk. If I were you, I wouldn't offer any unnecessary resistance. Tell me, what is your purpose?"

Elsa did not act in a hurry, but continued to observe the changes in Hegerman's body. At this time, almost half of Hegerman's body had turned into the appearance of those filthy people seen in the western forest, but he was stronger. His broken arm had been slowly twisted together by black flesh tentacles to form the shape of an arm, and it seemed to be recovering. The shiny shell-like structure was attached to the outside of his mutated leg, and the sole of his foot became covered with sharp barbs like the feet of an insect. The whole leg was arched, and it seemed that it had been separated from the human body structure.

Even the face that was kicked to pieces by Elsa was slowly recovering under the wriggling of the black flesh whiskers. Now Hegerman was probably no longer a human being.

No, perhaps Hegelman is no longer human.

Meanwhile, Hegelman gritted his teeth as he struggled to his feet, his body covered in mud and looking rather disheveled. He stared intently at Elsa, feeling an unprecedented pressure. While the magic he had just cast wasn't a forbidden spell, it was still powerful magic, exerted with all his might, yet it seemed so powerless against Elsa. This was the first time he felt the difference in strength between him and Elsa.

He knew Elsa was powerful, but that was just a rational assessment; he hadn't witnessed it himself. Imagined things were ultimately unrealistic. He knew that Alman's group of vampires had been wiped out by Elsa alone, without even a fight; they had surrendered completely.

Now he finally understood the hopelessness and the complete lack of chance of winning.

At this moment, he wanted to turn around and run, but there was obviously no such opportunity now. There was a distance of five steps between him and Elsa, which was fatal to a magician in a battle of equal strength.

There is no other way but to give it a try.

"Cough cough..."

He stood up and spat out black blood mixed with a few broken teeth. His tongue could feel sticky tendrils of flesh extending from his broken gums - he knew what those tendrils were, and the feeling made him sick.

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286. Hegelman's Dead End

Cold sweat dripped down Hegelman's forehead. He stared at Elsa intently, and his back, which had become old and hunched again, was soaked with sweat.

He had already changed in a direction that was no longer human... Hegelman could feel that this change was eroding his heart - it was the power from the black dead branches. Before using this power, he had not expected this to happen.

No wonder the mysterious demon clan member specifically said not to try to devour the dead branches.

Even Hegelman, who was an extraordinary wizard and also proficient in abyss magic, could not resist this alienation. He felt that his will was increasingly not his own, but at this point, he knew that he had no way out.

As long as he could escape from Elsa Faris, there was still a chance.

"To escape..."

"escape……"

"I want to escape..."

Hegelman murmured, and he subconsciously glanced at his own mutated arm with a serious look in his eyes. He raised his head with lingering fear and looked at Elsa - he found that he could not see Elsa's expression clearly because his eyes were bleeding and his vision was damaged.

Only at this time did he finally feel the strength in his body reviving.

The power is back.

Although he didn't know what method Elsa used to seal his magic, this would not make him give up resisting.

"Elsa Faris..."

Hegelman said as he drew strength from his body.

His voice had become hoarse, not the hoarseness of old age, but the hoarseness that was not human, like the sound of dense worms gnawing on rotten wood, sticky and turbid.

"I know you. You are stronger than I thought, so...are you going to take me back?"

Hegelman's dry throat moved as he took a step back. His huge, abnormal hind legs made his body bend awkwardly, as if he was crawling or squatting, which looked particularly strange.

"Or...are you going to kill me here?"

Elsa blinked.

"Why, are you scared?"

There was no special expression on Elsa's face, which made Hegelman completely unable to guess what Elsa was thinking.

Hegelman gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "I just want to leave here... You won't believe it even if I tell you, but this is the truth."

Aisha shook her head: "It is somewhat credible, but this is not the answer I want."

Hegelman took a deep breath and roared through gritted teeth: "Can't you just let me go! Just once, I swear I will never appear in front of you again!"

Yet Elsa shook her head.

"If we let you go, who will comfort those who died?"

Hegelman took a deep breath.

He knew there was nothing more to talk about, and without hesitation, a brown staff emerged in his hand. He clasped it tightly with his only remaining hand, his eyes wide open. At the same time, obscure runes flashed in front of him, and a purple-black beam of light pierced Elsa obliquely. He squinted his eyes, and his blurred vision made him lose his accuracy. The deep beam of light did not hit Elsa at the first moment, but passed by Elsa and instantly pierced through hundreds of meters of mountains and forests. All the trees that were swept through were broken in the middle at this moment, and the cut surface was as smooth as a mirror.

He gritted his teeth and pointed his staff at Elsa, but Elsa also pointed her finger at him.

Puff, a wave of air broke his staff and arm, and threw him several meters back. He struggled to get up again, but his pupils suddenly shrank.