Chapter 394 Gorefiend

...this is actually a blood demon.

Caressing the dead head, Philip lost his mind for a while.

He actually didn't expect that his new recruit could actually kill the notorious Gorefiend.

These fallen ones who followed Nicholas Flamel and acted in the capital under the name of "Hermes Scholar"... always made Philip feel vigilant and uneasy.

As a prince, Philip could not have lacked mystical knowledge.

He knew very well that the fallen ones were fundamentally different from the transcendent ones who were walking on the path of ascension.

On the path of transcendence, the silver stage is a very important and indispensable stage.

Because if you want mortals to have extraordinary power, they must use curses to corrupt their souls. Only the soul that has undergone this kind of treatment can spontaneously absorb the power of the curse from the outside world.

Whether it is strengthening the body to a heterogeneous realm, or infiltrating the soul to deepen perception, or using the curse to temper one's own will... The premise is that the soul needs to be able to absorb the curse.

Although these curses will strengthen the body and soul, they are also mixed with many impurities.

Resentment, pain, **, sadness... Absorbing the curse with a mortal body means that it is also absorbing these wills floating in the curse.

- These are "impurities".

It itself will strengthen some of the negative characteristics of the superhuman, such as gluttony, lust, irritability, jealousy... In addition, the superhuman has just acquired powerful power and has not seen much of the world, and usually his xinxing is also will expand accordingly.

This is also the reason why superhumans of the bronze rank are the easiest to succumb to.

But when reaching the silver level, the moment the soul condenses from the gaseous state to dew, these external impurities will also be discharged - this does not mean that a person will become a saint, it just purifies those negative influences that do not belong to oneself. Just dropped.

And the fallen are not only subject to these negative qualities.

They even have to increase the erosiveness to reinforce this negative trait and make it manifest.

Extract one or more kinds of ** in order to transform itself, so that one or more heterogeneous abilities can be permanently acquired by oneself. And the stronger the **, the more new mutations will be added to them; each time the degree of erosion is increased,

Heterogeneous abilities will also become stronger.

- This means that every Fallen is a paranoid and lustful lunatic.

It's just that what they care about is different.

For example, Kaphne is relatively stable.

Although Philip didn't know what kind of **** her ability came from. But it must have something to do with the ability she showed-

The ability to turn shadows into powerful tentacles may be due to her low self-esteem for her weak and powerless body...

But in short, the threat level of "Shadow Demon" is not very high.

She hasn't shown any demon-oriented "appendages" or other parts, which means that her sex isn't too strong, at least she's a normal person.

But this "gorefiend" is different.

Of course Philip knew the true identity of the Gorefiend—

His apparent identity is a newly recruited apprentice of the famous curse material store "Hall Antique Store". But in reality, he was a serial killer on the run, dubbed the "Ritualist Killer" by the authorities.

He often lurks in various magical material stores, used bookstores with mysterious books, and tries to see if the owner of the store is a ritualist. If not, he would steal the money from the store and leave quietly.

And if it is, he will find a way to learn rituals from the shopkeeper, learn occult knowledge, and quickly master this knowledge.

——And then use the new ritual he learned to kill his teacher.

These teachers of his were all found out after they were killed by him. But also because they were all killed by the ritualist killer, which directly caused them to have no idea what rituals the ritualist killer mastered.

The investigation soon stalled.

No one knew what the Ritualist Killer was trying to do.

But what is certain is that he is an extraordinary person himself. The general occupation is hunter, the specific occupation is uncertain, and the rank is uncertain, but it is definitely either bronze or silver.

Three years ago, the ritualist killer disappeared.

Some people say that he may have been seen through and killed by an experienced ritualist, but others say that he may have studied under a learned old ritualist, so he did not act.

When the police station found the ritualist killer again, they were surprised to find that... he had already embarked on the road of depravity.

——He is one of the Hermes scholars in the capital, the fallen person codenamed "Gorefiend".

Similar to Kaphne's abilities.

His characteristic ability as a fallen person is that he can control his own blood at will. Not only can the blood float out of the body and turn into a hard shield or dagger, it can also accelerate the blood flow to improve strength and agility, and it can also turn the blood into needles, which can be stabbed at a long distance or through traps. Enter the enemy's body, swim through the blood vessels, and destroy the enemy's heart or brain.

And the blood in the body of the person he killed will be completely drained.

This should be the special ability of his hunter class.

Unlike before, Gorefiend was loyal to Nicholas...or temporarily loyal.

He had never killed anyone outside his target before, but under Nicholas' command, he roamed and killed many wild and dark wizards. Even when Nicholas asked him to kill the wizards from the towers of various countries, he did not hesitate.

He is also proficient in crossbows, poisons, daggers, melee combat and traps. As well as mastering many rituals, and being very familiar and understanding of the way wizards fight.

This made his hunt without fail.

...but in a sense, it was also thanks to the Gorefiend.

It was precisely because of the undisguised hunting of the Gorefiend that Nicholas was secretly hunting wizards. It was also that Nicholas dared to accept the follow of such a person, and finally aroused the vigilance of the top officials of the kingdom to Nicholas.

After that, Philip finally found out the true identity of Nicholas.

"...the inventor of the Sage's Stone, right?"

Philip narrowed his eyes slightly and muttered in a low voice.

He had absolutely no idea which side Nicholas belonged to.

But he may have been killed by now.

- A few months ago, with the disappearance of Nicholas, the actions of the Gorefiend became more and more frantic.

On the basis of constantly hunting wizards, he returned to the previous hunting mode again... lurking in the "Hall Antique Store".

However, this is the capital after all.

Unlike the field - the crows quickly found out his identity.

But none of them dared to act rashly.

While the Gorefiend is on a hunt, the ritual he uses for disguise becomes ineffective. It is easy to see that there are incantations visible to the naked eye on his face, and a horn has grown slightly on his forehead.

This means that his strength is quite close to the golden rank, and he may break through the last layer of membrane at any time.

By the time his horns are fully formed, real, rational "devils" hatch.

At that time, Gorefiend's ability can affect people other than himself.

Originally, Philip wanted to wait and see.

At least wait until his plan is completed, and then mobilize hidden troops or elite extraordinary teams to encircle and suppress them.

But as the Gorefiend's hunting frequency accelerated, his strength increased faster and faster. Seeing that he is about to completely degenerate before His Majesty's death...

However, he did not intend to send his men to kill.

Not that he had good intentions.

It's just that he doesn't believe that a few of his subordinates can kill the Gorefiend.

Although the Gorefiend has never done anything to a silver rank wizard... but when he kills a bronze rank superhuman, he won't even get hurt. It's as simple as killing a chicken.

But after Tasty Wind Goose heard about Gorefiend's ability, he suddenly claimed that the ability he held was restrained by the opponent and might be able to kill him.

Under the insistence of Delicious Wind Goose, Philip reluctantly assigned the task to him.

At that time, the delicious wind goose was already dead in Philip's mind.

In the end, who would have imagined it... It only took three hours for the delicious wind goose to successfully kill the Gorefiend.

He wasn't even seriously injured!

- How on earth did he do it?