Chapter 223: Iron Is Not Steel

The purple-haired girl attacked like a tide, slashing the hard skin of the demon millstone pumpkin with one knife after another, only to slash the debris flying everywhere.

However, her own blood volume dropped quickly. In addition to using the four-hit bite combo, the demon pumpkin also released a curse on the hellhound, which instantly reduced the purple-haired girl's defense by 10 points.

Fortunately, the immunity skill of the bird of paradise came quickly, helping the hellhound to remove the curse effect, and then began to cast a recovery spell to continue to restore the blood of the purple-haired girl.

And the millipede on the side was not idle either. When he saw the hellhound in danger and its blood volume dropped too quickly, he would stand up and help her share some attacks.

However, he had to retreat after blocking a few times.

The armor provided by the church is very effective when facing low-star activated plants, and it will hardly break the defense. However, it is a bit not good enough when facing activated plants above 4 stars.

The millipede only received 5 attacks before the alarm sounded in his ears, and the durability of the armor was almost gone, so he could only retreat to the audience.

As a result, the pressure on the hellhound increased greatly, and its health line began to go up and down. It was not until Ouroboros summoned water elements to share the damage for her that the situation stabilized again.

However, those water elements were not very strong in front of the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin. Under the condition of being restrained by the attributes, they could not resist the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin for two hits and they were gone. Ouroboros had to keep replenishing.

In other words, her upper limit of sin value was twice that of ordinary mages, and with the bonus of the formation, she could withstand such consumption.

As time passed, the HP of the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin had been reduced by more than half, and the passive hellhound became more and more ferocious and bloodthirsty after activating it.

Less than half a minute later, the HP of the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin was only 900 points, but at this moment it suddenly changed its attack method and stopped biting the purple-haired girl.

Instead, it used the pumpkin head to hit the hellhound directly, causing the latter to stagger.

The Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin then gave up the purple-haired girl in front of him and rushed straight to the bird of paradise behind him.

When the Bird of Paradise saw the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin rushing towards it, a trace of nervousness rarely appeared in its eyes, which were usually emotionless.

The collision between the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin and the Hellhound just now directly knocked away 52 HP of the latter, and this was under the condition of being restrained. If it were someone else, such a collision would probably lose hundreds of HP.

However, the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin only rushed towards her for two steps, and its speed slowed down visibly, becoming less than half of the original speed.

——Slow Trap. This new item that Millipede had just acquired came into play at this time.

Facing the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin whose speed suddenly dropped, even a magic profession like the Bird of Paradise could easily dodge it.

Then the Hellhound that was knocked away before also rushed over, and once again activated the active skill, starting a new round of output to the Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin, and soon knocked away another 500 HP.

The Demon Grinding Wheel Pumpkin only had more than 300 HP left at this time.

The witches focused their fire together, and finally cleared the remaining health bar before the slow trap ended.

Win!!!

Looking at the demon millstone pumpkin lying at his feet, Yun Que couldn't believe his eyes.

Such a powerful activated plant was killed by them together.

Malu looked at the huge reward of 1,200,000 holy silver coins and 13,000 redemption points estimated by the task system, and his face showed satisfaction.

The battle just now was still a bit thrilling. If any link in the middle failed to cooperate well, I am afraid that the team would have lost members.

In fact, when the battle was halfway through, Malu regretted starting this challenge rashly.

Even though he had mastered the attributes and attack methods of this demon millstone pumpkin before the battle, the pressure of being a 5-star ingredient was still very strong when he faced it in actual combat.

If he hadn't had the experience of hunting in the previous plane, Malu estimated that he would be in a mess.

Fortunately, this battle was undoubtedly a great success in terms of the result.

In addition to the estimated mission rewards, the demon millstone pumpkin also raised him two levels, and the knight level went from lv13 to lv15.

Malu got another virtual item and a new formation.

The name of the virtual item is - Backup Power Battery (7/7).

Its function is to repair the knight's armor and restore the durability of the knight's armor to 100 points.

Malu looked at the armor with only 6 points of durability left on his body, and did not use the backup power battery.

This thing is different from the previous virtual items. It has a number of uses, and it is used less each time.

After the battle just now, the status of Malu and several witches under his command has basically reached the limit.

Anyway, they have to go back to the city. At this time, of course, they should choose to take advantage of the free repairs of the church instead of doing it themselves.

After a simple packing, Malu returned to the warhorse and set off to return to the Temple City.

After landing, he went to Levi to report.

When Levi heard that he had killed a demon millstone pumpkin, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

This living plant has a B-level threat level in the Paladin's combat manual, and is a powerful enemy that even experienced veterans are unwilling to face.

And Malu, as a newcomer to the Knights, was able to defeat an opponent of this level.

Then Levi looked through Malu's previous record. He usually didn't pay much attention to such low-level tasks, so he only had a general impression.

The result was surprising.

Levi then discovered that Malu had unknowingly eliminated so many revitalized plants.

Although there were no powerful enemies of the level of the Devil's Grinding Pumpkin, there were some very powerful ones.

Considering that the newcomers of the same level as Malu were still struggling to survive outside the city, this achievement was even more amazing.

In addition, Malu had just passed the test of the church and proved his loyalty. Levi looked at Malu with a hint of appreciation.

The deputy leader of the Paladin Order liked people with real talents and hard work the most.

However, it was not easy to win his trust. Levi also planned to examine the young man in front of him again.

After thinking for a while, he said to Malu, "You did a good job. I have a special task for you next."

"Special task?"

"Yes, it's about hunting fallen witches." Levi said, "I just got the whereabouts of a fallen witch. Go and bring her back to me."

Malu looked embarrassed when he heard this.

"Why, you don't want to go?" Levi raised his eyebrows.

"No, mainly I'm going to retreat for the next two weeks." Malu said, "I'm afraid it will delay your work, deputy leader."

"Why are you retreating again?"

"I swore, and I've completed the number of tasks I promised you this month."

Levi looked at Malu, looking disappointed, but in the end he could only say, "Okay, then I'll find someone else, you can leave."

"Okay."