Chapter 141: Ripping
“I’ve already waited a long, long time for this day... Those bunch of beer-bellied human carcasses makes me sick!”
“If... if it’s Teacher, you’ll definitely be able to understand me, right??” Lan Yu shifted his slightly-hopeful gaze to Manda.
“...Then why did you spur the demons and coerce them to besiege this town? You’ve even gone as far as to turn off Border Town’s barrier on purpose??” The expression on Manda’s face was constantly changing.
“Hahaha... That matter? I actually wonder if that had frightened that bunch of fools at the top.” Said Lan Yu with a somewhat derisive smile.
“So, what do you aim to achieve by doing these things??”
“Teacher, rejuvenation isn’t just an empty word that can’t be accomplished by mere lip service. Lan Yu is also not someone who only relies on his gift of the gab. I’ve already been planning and preparing for this matter for a very long time...”
Manda looked at the wiggling meat walls around him.
As they were talking, the duo had entered what seemed to be the deepest area of the meat cave.
Unlike before, formations of all sizes were attached to the surface of the surrounding meat walls like cogs with their own respective functions.
An eye-dazzling radiance accompanied by dense magic made Manda feel somewhat uncomfortable.
A thick slab of profound metal stood upright in the center of what seemed to be the end of the cave.
“However, purely relying on human strength is not enough, not enough at all... Teacher, have you ever wondered why the starting point of some species can naturally surpass the upper limits of others by a wide margin? It has all to do with one’s body constitution. As existences that leak magical energy by nature, it is virtually impossible for humans to retain [Magic]. This, in and of itself, is a form of innate shackle.”
“Why? How can the superior-annihilation magic that humans can’t grasp in an entire lifetime be obtained by demons with just a casual flick of their fingers?? How is this fair??”
“What are you saying...?”
“But, not anymore...” Muttered Lan Yu as he walked towards the thick profound metal slab.
“Whoosh...” The magic formations speedily accelerated its operation. Manda could faintly feel something was converging on Lan Yu’s body.
[Destructive Class — Spirit Channeling Arm]
“I understand...” Lan Yu shrugged helplessly.
“Since even Teacher has said so, I guess it’d be best to give up.”
“Really??” Manda was slightly stunned.
“Of course. Teacher has always treated me like his own child. How could I dare not listen to Teacher’s words?” Said Lan Yu in extreme disappointment.
“My original plan was to have Teacher see my achievements... I never thought that it’d make you this unhappy. It’d be better if I forget about it. I’ll turn myself in with you.”
“That’s great! Lil’ Lan, you must carry a repentant heart and face any mistakes you make...” Manda felt slightly reassured upon seeing that Lan Yu could listen to his words despite his frighteningly extreme obsession with power.
“Scrape!” Manda’s expression froze, his eyes slowly losing their focus.
“Lil’ Lan, you...” Manda let out a gasp as he pulled an icy-cold blade out his abdomen with some difficulty and took a few steps back.
“You’ve grown old, Teacher.” Spoke Lan Yu and revealed a smile of ridicule.
“Since continuing to live like this would only be a humiliation to the title of “Sacred Flame Knight”, how about you contribute a little to your disciple’s plan instead!” Lan Yu’s smile was one of treachery.
“You... Lil’ Lan, you...”
A somewhat familiar magical incantation brushed past Lan Yu’s ears.
Manda’s pupils incessantly shrunk. He remembered this type of language would be used before demons unleashed their superior annihilation magic...
“EL eleltomastea......”
“Boom!”
Thick and solid violet thistles and thorns bore out from the magic formation on the meat wall. Following which, they incessantly flung outwards like massive snakes preparing to strike1.
[Destructive Class — Summon: Vines of the Phantom’s Beard]
Manda endured the sharp, incessant pain in his abdomen and drew out his longsword.
[Sacred Martial Ability — Demon-Exterminating Divine Flames]
Golden, intense flames continuously spurted out from his blade, seemingly raising the temperature of the entire room by several degrees. This caused blisters to continuously emerge on the meat walls.
“So what if you materialize that pitiful speck of [Magic] inside a human body? Hehe.” Lan Yu revealed a smile of disdain upon seeing the lump of magical vines surrounding Manda, who had resorted to using his Sacred Martial Ability.
The original meaning was sticking their tongues out, but it doesn’t make much sense in this context, so I changed it to this instead.