The Yellow-Haired Villain in Soaring Phoenix’s Novels Also Desires Happiness - Chapter 212
137. The Weeping Serpent (Part Four)
The terrifying pressure emanating from the female demon made Mu En’s breath catch in his throat.
The peak of the third tier was already a significant distance above Mu En.
With other means combined, she had surpassed Mu En by a wide margin in terms of visible strength.
Mu En couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
The female demon was indeed a terrifying opponent.
Her terror was not only reflected in her strength but also in her extreme caution.
From the lethal schemes of the Red Fire Gang to the recent expendable tactics.
Even when engaging directly with herself, her initial approach was to confuse her through Shali’s personality, subsequently issuing suggestions, aiming to take her down without a fight.
Only after these plans failed did true confrontation begin, but the initial moves were also to test her strength and techniques.
Step by step, cautiously probing, only revealing her full strength when she felt victory was assured, ruthlessly trampling her enemies, treating them like worthless ants, making one question who truly needed to be cautious at the second tier, and who was the one vastly stronger at the third tier.
Under such meticulous calculations, even those with slightly greater apparent strength than hers would be dealt with in the shadows.
It could only be said that she was indeed a ruthless person, willing to create a new personality for herself to infiltrate the academy, no wonder the Silent Mechanism had been hunting her for so long without a single trace.
It’s just a pity that she might never realize that some aspects of herself were completely beyond her calculations.
“I never expected I would have a day of receiving protagonist treatment… No, I seem to have suffered much more than the protagonist from the start.”
The protagonist at least encounters enemies that can be defeated with effort; look at the things I’ve stirred up, like the Corrupted God of Love and the Silent Moon. Are those things meant for a small-time villain like me to deal with?
But those who intend to escape their fate will inevitably face fate’s enmity. This truth, Mu En understood far better than the size of An’s underwear.
Mu En took a deep breath, raising her head to meet the gaze of the first true life-and-death enemy she had faced since arriving in this world, aside from those chaotic evil gods. Suppressing the emotions in her eyes, Elizabeth lightly touched, and like an arc of electricity, the alchemical field unfolded, softly saying:
“Come on, demon.”
“Hehe, it seems you’ve already made up your mind about death.”
Like observing the dying struggles of an ant, the demon, confident she could crush Mu En, quietly watched her contemplation, after all, it wasn’t her who was pressed for time, so there was no need for her to rush.
However, when Mu En tightened her grip on her twin daggers, the demon no longer hesitated and immediately launched an attack against Mu En!
Like thousands of threads falling in a heavy rain, suddenly disturbed, the demon sprang from the shadows like a venomous snake, fiercely striking at Mu En’s weak points.
The two crescent moon-shaped blades resembled newly risen crescent moons, the cold moonlight casting a pale hue on Mu En’s face.
The demon’s attack was incredibly fierce, and with the enhancement of the third-tier fighting spirit, even without employing any martial techniques, the clearly honed moves were still a notch above the previous assault.
A prickling sense of impending death stimulated her nerves; this time, Mu En followed her instincts and did not recklessly resist, but instead, dodged!
Her back gradually grew hot as the alchemical core activated, ten times the time, initiated!
In Mu En’s eyes, the demon’s movements slowed down, while in the demon’s view, Mu En’s speed seemed to increase exponentially, transforming into a fleeting shadow in an instant.
Not only did she evade the demon’s attack, but in the moment of bending down, she swung Elizabeth in a particularly clever motion, upwards, lightly flicking!
A light flick did not mean it lacked power; with Elizabeth’s sharpness, even a gentle pass could slice through the demon’s scales, which were as rigid as steel.
Yet at this moment, the demon showed no signs of panic; the mockery in her eyes grew more pronounced.
I’ve seen your suddenly accelerated move; do you think I would be unprepared?
In the darkness, a sudden howl of wind pierced through.
A heavy serpent tail, almost as if it had broken the rain and air at the moment Mu En raised his blade, struck fiercely!
Mu En launched his attack, leaving his chest wide open, defenseless, and thus the serpent tail accurately slammed into his chest.
Even with tenfold time to slow down, clearly seeing the incoming serpent tail, Mu En’s expression remained unchanged, allowing the tail, with immense force, to crash into his chest.
But in that instant, his technique suddenly shifted!
With just a light flick, without applying any force, it was evident—this meant Mu En could change his moves without any resistance!
A glint of ruthlessness flashed in Mu En’s eyes, his raised hands suddenly bulging with veins, radiating a sharp cold light, and then—he struck down!
Blood splattered.
The female demon howled.
Under the sharp edge of Elizabeth, the demon’s tail was directly severed!
The demon, still wearing a mocking expression, faced the sudden ferocity, and in excruciating pain, she naturally disregarded everything to retaliate.
But Mu En had already used the immense force from the tail’s attack to fly backward, successfully evading the demon’s frenzied counterattack.
“Cough, cough, how’s that? Satisfying?”
Mu En sprang up like a carp, coughing out blood mixed with flesh, a similarly mocking smile on his face.
The crimson flame in his eyes flickered and vanished; the flame of the Withering King was already mending his body, rendering injuries that could be fatal to an ordinary person insignificant to him.
Conversely, the severed tail was nothing to the demon, yet at this moment, she was so furious she could almost explode.
Suppressing a higher realm and laying out layers of schemes, yet in a single encounter, her tail was cut off by Mu En—how could she endure such humiliation?
“I will kill you, I want to kill you! No, not only will I kill you, but I will also make you endure the most terrifying pain in this world!”
The tip of the demon’s tail writhed, clearly recovering rapidly, but her anger made it impossible for her to wait for her tail to regenerate; she shot forward, lunging at Mu En.
“Just right, that’s what I wanted to say too.”
Mu En smiled, once again focusing his mind and dispelling distractions.
The brief clash reaffirmed Mu En’s certainty that he had no chance in a direct confrontation unless he directly used the flame of the Withering King.
However, the distant sounds of the silent mechanism battle still echoed, growing closer. The alchemical domain could conceal his aura, allowing him to use the flame’s restorative abilities, but to use it to burn the demon alive would be like raising a lighthouse in the night, akin to shouting for the Silent One to come and kill him.
Thus, this battle would ultimately require true close combat, something Mu En had anticipated from the start, which is why he had used those props without hesitation.
But even in close quarters, there were methods.
If hard confrontation wouldn’t work, then he would crush his opponent with the field he excelled in!
Coincidentally, the layers of the demon’s schemes had already exposed her greatest flaw: her experience in direct combat with others was clearly lacking.
Otherwise, if it had been the maid assassins or that adventurer from the black book, they certainly wouldn’t have made such a mistake.
Even more fortuitously, having been tortured countless times and killed innumerable times in those two records from the black book, what Mu En lacked the least was experience in life-and-death struggles!