Chapter 435 - 435 The Vessel

435 The Vessel

Selma Payne’s POV:

“Then, we have nothing to talk about.” I stretched my muscles. “You know we’ll fight to the death today, right?”

Previously, I was still hoping to get some information from Locke, but now, my only hope was for him to die quickly. This was an out-and-out time bomb. One more second of living would cause a lot of trouble.

“My dear Princess, I think my Lord will like your soul very much!”

Locke laughed as he charged at me. His already burly body underwent another huge change in a few seconds. Sharp and thick bone spikes grew out of his joints like fish bones, wings covered in a thin membrane grew out of his back, and his sharp venomous fangs glowed with a green light that made one shiver.

The humid ocean mist gradually mixed with the smoke-filled air. The nauseating ocean stench was hallucinating. That was what New Flow told me the moment he touched it.

“Cover your nose and mouth! Don’t suck in the sea mist. It has a hallucinating effect!”

The moment I shouted, Locke was already in front of me. I caught his heavy punch and was surprised to find that he was completely different from before. There was probably no one present who could catch such a terrifying power.

The powerful Locke did not become clumsy because of this. On the contrary, he was even more agile than the most agile elf I had ever seen. The bone spurs could not stop his movements at all. His attack angles were so tricky that I could only take it head-on.

After a few rounds of fighting, I didn’t suffer any injuries, but Locke didn’t suffer much either.

Unfortunately, this didn’t mean that our fight was a draw. Looking around, I discovered that the hallucinatory mist had bewitched many elves. They were frozen on the spot as if something was extremely interesting in their illusions. Some wore gas masks, meaning the fog was pervasive and did not necessarily spread through the mouth and nose.

Even some of my team members were starting to lose their minds. As I said, there was a limit to how much New Flow could withstand without the ability to channel energy to me. Obviously, their protective barrier had reached its limit and was no longer working.

In this situation, most people couldn’t even protect themselves. The battle situation started to become sluggish with the sudden attack from Kafka.

Locke could also see the disadvantage that they were in. He snorted and said in a twisted and hoarse voice that did not seem human, “What should I do? Our little princess is going to be a lone hero.”

“Cut the crap. Everything can be discussed after I’m done with you.”

I took the initiative to approach him and gave him a punch that forced him to lean back. This caused his throat to be exposed to me. Unfortunately, the tissue that was like a fish’s gills but a thousand times harder than them protected it firmly. It could be imagined that all attacks would eventually be rendered useless.

Locke only dared to expose his weakness to me because he had no fear.

Unfortunately, my target wasn’t his throat.

When he turned around, countless silk-like New Flow slithered into the gills, trying to find a way in. Locke’s expression changed, and he quickly retreated. Unfortunately, unless I wanted to, the river would not break even if he left earth.

When I saw the fish-like tissues on his body, I wondered if they were just a layer of defense on the surface or if they were biological structures. Which parts of the body were they connected to? Would it lead to the blood vessels, nerves, and internal organs? If New Flow went through the crack, would it find the weak core under the steel?

Now it seemed I had made the right bet.

Locke’s gills were hard, but that didn’t stop them from connecting to his lungs. Locke’s internal organs had also mutated, but it didn’t matter. New Flow loved all kinds of energy that could be devoured.

In the end, the countless threads gathered into a black hole-like vortex in Locke’s body, continuously devouring Locke’s life force and the demon fragment that had been supporting him in stirring up trouble, just like the one in the Crown Prince’s body. No matter how Locke struggled, it was useless.

“Cough, cough, cough-”

After losing his power, Locke’s body, completely mutated by Leviathan’s power, began to fall apart. Large pieces of internal organs gushed out of his mouth and nose with blue-black blood.

However, Locke didn’t seem to care at all. After the initial panic, he quickly calmed down and even laughed crazily.

“This is so interesting! This is so interesting! The Lord will like you! The Lord will definitely like you! Ah no... Perhaps the Lord has long regarded you as her beloved actress, so she sent me to bring you back to her side! Haha... Hahahahaha! We’ve all been deceived! We’re all her actors, her puppets. Everything is in her script. Everything is a play to please her!”

I didn’t want to pay attention to the nonsense of my defeated opponent. A change occurred just as I was about to make him completely disappear from this world.

Unlike the demonic shards or Locke’s life force, this cold, damp, abyss-like, terrifying ball of underwater fire –

In that instant, I immediately controlled New Flow to leave Locke’s body, but it was too late.

“You’ve noticed, little princess.”

Locke’s eyes were filled with malice.

“She’s here.”