Lower Water Moon.
March 29th, 11:26 AM.
The Demi-human force, led by the Beast General Hector Weiss, began to clear the battlefield of the many Undead.
The human side was located in the center of the battlefield, warily watching the movements of the Demi-humans, like a wounded lion licking its wounds.
The 51 corpses of Paladins were quietly laid out in front of everyone, 10 of which had already been transformed into Undead and had to be killed again.
Anri sat hugging her knees not far from the corpses.
The Emerald Witch and the Evil Spirit Dog stood quietly to the side, and a female Shrine Priest was squatting opposite Anri, seemingly comforting her.
This female Shrine Priest was the one Anri had given a handkerchief to earlier.
Tang Zheng came to an injured Paladin, raised his palm, and released a gentle Holy Light from his palm:
"*Serious Injury Healing!*"
The injuries on the Paladin's body began to heal, and the suppressed, painful breathing gradually became smoother.
"Thank you."
The Paladin thanked Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng nodded lightly and walked to another Paladin, continuing to repeatedly cast Healing Magic.
By using Experience Points Casting to cast Third Tier Magic, each cast consumed 150,000 Experience Points, and his level finally began to drop.
[Comprehensive Level: 52Lv → 51Lv]
[Sword Saint: 7Lv → 6Lv]
[Experience Bar: 1/630000]
As the Experience Bar was emptied, each level drop only retained a little Experience, meaning that using Magic at all would cause a level drop.
As long as the Experience consumed did not exceed the current depth of the Experience Bar, only 1 level would be lost; exceeding the current depth would cause a loss of 2 levels.
The subsequent level drops became rapid!
Each time Tang Zheng used Healing Magic, he immediately dropped a level.
[Comprehensive Level: 51Lv → 50Lv]
[Sword Saint: 6Lv → 5Lv]
[Experience Bar: 1/560000]
↓
...
↓
[Comprehensive Level: 46Lv → 45Lv]
[Sword Saint: 1Lv → 0Lv]
In just a moment.
Tang Zheng's level had dropped from 52 to 45, and the Sword Saint class had disappeared from the Attribute Panel.
"Thank you," the Paladin beside Tang Zheng said gratefully.
"You're welcome."
Tang Zheng responded softly, got up, and his face suddenly turned pale, taking a step back.
"Are you alright, Team Leader Tang?"
"Do you need to rest?" The Paladin, seeing Tang Zheng's appearance, thought he had consumed too much Mana and quickly asked with concern.
Currently, the entire Paladin Order was filled with goodwill towards Free Will.
This was not only because of the powerful Tang Zheng, but also because Anri, an ordinary girl, had fearlessly brought back the corpses of their comrades.
"I'm fine."
The paleness on Tang Zheng's face faded instantly, and he steadied himself, waving his hand with a smile, indicating that he was fine.
What was that just now?
A hint of surprise flashed in Tang Zheng's eyes.
The rapid level drops just now made him clearly feel a brief weakness as a certain power disappeared from his body.
"It's not just weakness."
Tang Zheng focused slightly, sensing his physical condition, as if his very life level had been reduced:
"Clearly, the change in physique wasn't that strong when leveling up, and I've dropped levels before, but it wasn't as obvious as it is now."
Could it be that after exceeding level 50, there's an invisible increase in the level of life?
That strange feeling just now...
Tang Zheng was reminded of how he felt when he first took the Special Class [Valkyrie].
"Captain!"
"Sister!"
Panicked voices came from not far away.
All the Paladin Order members turned their heads to look, their eyes full of worry, but they dared not leave their positions.
They needed to pay attention to the movements of the Demi-humans!
Remedios sat cross-legged on the ground, the Holy Sword stuck in front of her, her once fair face was pale, and her originally rosy lips had turned extremely white.
This was a sign of excessive blood loss!
"Drip!"
"Drip!"
Droplets of red blood continuously flowed from the wound, dripping onto the ground along the grooves in her armor.
Several Shrine Priests and Quartet, the High Priest, surrounded Remedios, constantly casting Healing Magic.
However...
Although Remedios's complexion had improved slightly, there was no sign of recovery in the wound, and the blood continued to flow.
The massive blood loss!
Made Remedios's aura become increasingly weak. If the bleeding could not be stopped quickly, no amount of Healing Magic would have any effect.
"How could this be!" Quartet was somewhat incredulous, and a look of panic appeared on her usually calm face for the first time.
"Rot Sword..."
Remedios's pale lips parted slightly.
"What?" Quartet didn't hear clearly.
"Rot Sword - Crocodabar," Remedios said weakly.
"One of the four Demon Swords of the Black Knight, one of the Thirteen Heroes of legend, the 'Rot Sword' that possesses the ability to inflict wounds that cannot be healed."
Quartet's pupils shrank, and her voice trembled.
If that was the case, then it would explain why Healing Magic had no effect on Remedios's injuries.
But—
Quartet looked at her sister's increasingly weak aura, her eyes turning red. She had never seen her sister so weak before.
Could she only watch helplessly as her sister died from blood loss?
"I might have a way."
A calm voice came with the sound of footsteps.
Quartet quickly turned her head to look, an excited look on her light blue eyes, and found that it was Tang Zheng.
"Team Leader Tang, are you serious? This is an injury caused by the 'Rot Sword'."
Quartet was both doubtful and hopeful.
"I can't be sure either, but we can give it a try."
Tang Zheng walked forward and looked at Remedios, who could only be described as embarrassed and dying at the moment, and took out a potion from the Magic Leather Bag on his waist:
"This is undiluted Regeneration Potion, drink it first."
Tang Zheng handed the potion to Remedios.
Remedios weakly opened her eyes, looked at Tang Zheng, who had short black hair and a serious expression, and turned her head to the side: "I don't want it."
The two had had several disputes before, and Tang Zheng had always acted as if he didn't care, which made Remedios feel a little annoyed.
What really made her angry was Tang Zheng's attitude towards Demi-humans.
Whether it was the female Demi-human in his team, or his friendly contact with Go Gin, Remedios found it unpleasant.
The other party was an Adventurer and a citizen of the Re-Estize Kingdom, so she had no right to interfere with Tang Zheng's attitude towards Demi-humans.
But—
The Holy Kingdom and the Demi-humans had a century-long feud.
Remedios disliked and even hated people like Tang Zheng, who were close to Demi-humans, from the bottom of her heart.
Now...
To be rescued by him, what was this!
"Sister."
Quartet didn't care what her sister was thinking. Seeing her refusal, she grabbed the potion from Tang Zheng's hand, pinched Remedios's mouth open, and poured it all in.
"Cough, cough."
Remedios couldn't help coughing, and said angrily and weakly, "What... are you doing?"
In just a few breaths.
The surrounding Shrine Priests suddenly exclaimed in delight, "It's working! The blood is flowing slower!"
Quartet could also see this, but she wasn't particularly thrilled. Although the blood flow had decreased, it hadn't stopped completely.
"One Regeneration Potion doesn't seem to be enough."
Tang Zheng observed the injuries on Remedios and thought to himself, As expected, it's the power of a curse.
"Quartet, if you don't mind, we need to remove Team Leader Remedios' armor."
Quartet nodded without hesitation, "No problem!"
With Quartet's approval, several High Priests, disregarding the weakened Remedios' protests, quickly removed her Paladin armor.
After Remedios was stripped of her full body armor, she wasn't wearing anything elaborate, just a pure white undershirt and trousers.
Her slender, fair neck and deeply set collarbones were exposed.
The material of the clothes was somewhat smooth, looking like pajamas, but slightly form-fitting, similar to activewear, with her prominent curves clearly visible.
Blood had completely dyed the white undershirt red, making it somewhat translucent, revealing Remedios' taut skin, the result of years of training.
"I'll gouge out your eyes!"
Remedios, feeling Tang Zheng's gaze, spoke with some anger and ferocity.
She had never been looked at like this by a man before!
"Don't overthink it."
Tang Zheng said calmly, shifting his gaze away from the exaggerated curves and towards the festering wounds on her clothes.
"You're older than me."
"Besides, you're a Paladin. Returning kindness with enmity goes against the Paladin's code."
As he spoke.
Tang Zheng took out several more Regeneration Potions and handed them to the Shrine Priests beside him, saying softly, "Pour this on the wounds, but don't pour it all at once."
"Use the potions to heal while using Healing Magic to dispel the negative energy on them."
"You—"
Remedios, hearing the description "older," glared fiercely.
Tang Zheng ignored her and nodded slightly to Quartet, "It should be fine now."
With that.
Tang Zheng turned and left.
The effect of the Regeneration Potion could provide some healing for injuries caused by curses. He had used this potion to treat Renners' rotting face.
Although it failed.
However. The root cause wasn't the healing potion, but the continuous influence of the Cursed Knight class.
The injuries on Remedios were just pure curse damage. Without the replenishment of Curse Power, the curse could be consumed and she could fully recover.
"Oh my～
"To be able to heal injuries caused by one of the Four Demon Swords, the Rot Sword, no wonder you're called the 'Black-haired Genius Alchemist.'"
Clementine crossed her arms in front of her chest, tilted her head, and said with a grin as she watched Tang Zheng walk over.
"Miss Clementine."
Tang Zheng looked at her, "You don't have any injuries, yet you were entangled with an Undead for so long."
"Well, it couldn't be helped."
Clementine shrugged her shoulders, her purple pupils blinked, and with a flick of her waist, a Short Cone appeared in her hand. She played with the weapon, feigning a headache.
"My specialty is thrusting, and I can't exert my strength against Demon Creatures like skeletons."
"Is that so?" Tang Zheng replied with a smile.
"That's right, that's right."
Clementine nodded, her fluffy golden hair swaying slightly, obscuring her eyes full of smiles.
Within this battlefield.
Although the number of Undead was large, they were quickly eliminated by the equally numerous Demi-humans.
Soon.
The Demi-human forces regrouped and stopped to camp a hundred meters away from the human forces, without getting any closer.
After a moment.
Tang Zheng, Quartet, Captain Nigun, and Go Gin met with the two Demi-humans fifty meters between the human and Demi-human sides.
These two Demi-humans!
One was the Beast General Hector Weiss, and the other not only gave off a stronger pressure and more imposing manner, but also had a dazzling, iridescent feel under the sunlight.
The opponent looked like a snake-person from the Demi-human Race, but in reality, it wasn't. It was the extremely rare, two-armed race known as the "Snake King"!
Similar to a Naga in appearance, yet completely different.
To be precise!
The Snake King before them was a mutated species!
Its entire body was covered in crystal-like scales, reflecting light as if wet, emitting a dazzling, seven-colored glow.
It was none other than Kokash, one of the Demi-Human Ten Heroes, and the strongest among them—"Seven Color Scales."
Tang Zheng couldn't help but take a few more glances; the scales on the opponent's body were truly too unique.
These scales, which emitted an eerie, seven-colored light under the sunlight, were not just beautiful. It was said that they possessed a hardness comparable to dragon scales and a high degree of Magic resistance.
This was also the first time Tang Zheng had seen this "Seven Color Scales" Kokash.
Its appearance.
Made him strongly suspect whether it had the bloodline of the "True Dragon Lord," the Seven-Colored Dragon Lord.
Tang Zheng remembered that the Seven-Colored Dragon Lord seemed to be a dragon who extremely liked hybrid offspring; the queen of the Dragon Kingdom was a descendant of the Seven-Colored Dragon Lord.
Quartet and Captain Nigun's expressions were grave; it was also their first time seeing the Demi-human "Seven Color Scales" Kokash, who was far more terrifying than they had imagined.
"Why are you only arriving now?"
Go Gin spoke in a muffled voice, striding forward to stand before the Beast General Hector Weiss and "Seven Color Scales" Kokash.
"We also just detected the movements of the Undead," the Beast General Hector Weiss said in a detached voice, making it impossible to discern any emotional changes.
"Thank you for your arrival!"
"I am Kokash, known as 'Seven Color Scales' by the Demi-humans in the Hills."
"Seven Color Scales" Kokash moved its dazzling snake body, stepped forward, and bowed slightly, speaking with a unique magnetism in its voice:
"On behalf of all the Demi-human Races in the Abelion Hills, I thank you humans for your support."
"This disaster caused by the Undead is not only a problem for us Demi-humans but also a common enemy of humans."
Its words were full of goodwill, but Demi-human facial expressions were different from those of humans, so it was impossible to tell its true thoughts.
That pair of scarlet snake eyes also made people feel somewhat chilled.
Tang Zheng exchanged a glance with Go Gin without speaking. Captain Nigun remained cold-faced and also had no intention of speaking.
Quartet narrowed her long eyes slightly, displaying a friendly and gentle expression on her face: "Kokash, if it weren't for your support just now, our losses would have been even greater."
"Now we need to rest and reorganize. I wonder if you could take us to a safe place first."
Quartet displayed a weakened state.
"Human Miss."
"Having just experienced a battle, you indeed need to rest and reorganize, but I have a reckless suggestion."
"Seven Color Scales" Kokash smiled and said, "The enemy has also experienced battle and also needs to rest and reorganize. Now may well be an advantageous opportunity to press the attack."
"We have already pinpointed the enemy's lair. Attacking now might give us a better chance of victory."
As soon as these words came out.
Quartet and Captain Nigun's expressions suddenly turned cold.
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