In the extremely rhythmic movement, Ye Dui transformed into a giant over fifteen metres tall, his body covered in strange textures that looked terrifying yet somewhat cool. Ye Dui was not using the gigantification ability for the first time, but the previous two times, once he had only gigantified his arm, and the other time it was at night, so it did not give people much of a shocking feeling.
Now, the giant’s figure was displayed just like that in front of Debbie, Grylls and the others. While they fought against those sand people who could not be killed no matter what, they also cast shocked gazes towards the towering giant ahead.
“Little brother’s magic… is truly wondrous!”
“The guild leader is too powerful; so this is what a gigantified body looks like!”
“That knife actually grew bigger along with him!”
“Ye Dui suddenly got bigger; did his clothes get burst? Why is there no little JJ down there?”
Everyone’s bodies trembled, and they all turned to look at Debbie, who had uttered the last exclamation.
Debbie hurriedly coughed and quickly changed the subject: “Aiyo, these sand people are so annoying; no matter how much we kill them, they do not die.”
The seven sand people attacking Debbie and the others did not have particularly terrifying combat power each, but their attack immunity trait was endlessly frustrating. Guni’s greatsword bombardment could instantly scatter them into loose sand, but in the blink of an eye, they would recongeal into one. Xilesi’s flames and Lessa’s holy words had little effect on them too. After Dani’s summoned man-eating flower swallowed them, it chewed for a long time but could not help spitting them out, and they still suffered no harm.
“Perhaps we have to wait until the guild leader kills that old man to dispel the magic on these sand people!” Xilesi judged.
Now Ye Dui was gripping the greatknife, looking down condescendingly at the remaining sand dwellers.
The knife in his hand was called a forty-metre greatknife, but its length was actually far from that; it was only about seven or eight metres long. But what concept was a seven- or eight-metre greatknife? That was the height of a two-storey small building!
Held in the gigantified Ye Dui’s hand, just standing there emitted an indescribable sense of deterrence.
The sand dweller elder’s face no longer held the previous composure. He realised he had underestimated this outsider’s power. Not only him, but probably even the tenth prince’s guard, although that guard had described in terrified tones how remarkable Ye Dui was, he had still underestimated Ye Dui’s abilities. Transforming into a giant, by the ferocious spirits, what kind of power was this?
Almost the instant he made eye contact with Ye Dui’s giant form, the other few sand dwellers besides the elder suddenly let out cries of alarm from their mouths, then turned their sand beast mounts around and fled in panic without choosing a path.
The sand dweller elder let out a shrill, angry roar from his mouth, but it was utterly useless.
Ye Dui would not let them leave, so Ye Dui bent down and swung the greatknife in his hand.
The greatknife swept across like a hurricane passing through.
Ye Dui was now standing within this oasis. The black trees in the oasis were about three or four metres tall, barely reaching over Ye Dui’s calf in his giant sensory perception. In Ye Dui’s giant senses, this oasis was just a patch of grassland, and the fleeing sand dwellers felt like mice scurrying through the grass. His knife instantly uprooted a swathe of trees, and along with that, it also gouged up a section underground. Amid the roars of those sand dwellers and sand beasts, they were all turned into piles of blood and flesh fragments by the immense power brought by the greatknife.
The sand dweller elder hurriedly prostrated on the ground, thus dodging the strike.
Ye Dui retracted his knife momentum. After enlarging his body, the immense weight made him feel his movements sluggish, but of course, this sluggishness was just his own sensation. In the eyes of outsiders, even his slowed movements still carried terrifying lethality. Ye Dui’s gigantified eyes looked towards the blade.
This knife was now the “legendary knife”. This knife required 10,000 uses to upgrade, but Ye Dui now discovered that after killing that sand worm, a few sand dwellers, and a few sand beasts, the knife’s usage count had instantly increased by over 1,000. So, the “usage count” varied depending on the object attacked.
Previously, when Ye Dui used this knife, it was only against the small beasts, insects, and black birds living in the oasis. Although these animals varied in size and strength, killing one seemed to only increase the usage count by one. But if facing magical beasts or powerful warriors, killing one would grant much more increment.
Understanding this, Ye Dui’s giant eyes continued to look towards the remaining sand dweller elder. He had deliberately not killed this elder just now and still wanted to ask some questions from his mouth. Looking over now, this elder was straightening his body, raising his hands high, and beginning to chant some dry and stiff words in his mouth. It seemed he was preparing for a final struggle.
“Is this magic? Or a holy word? Or perhaps a summoner?” Ye Dui’s heart immediately tensed. He could sense the magic power permeating around the elder. He seemed to be using some kind of power, but that power was none of the types Ye Dui was familiar with.
In an instant, Ye Dui seemed to see a layer of illusory shadow float over the elder’s body. That shadow was like a swordsman clad entirely in heavy armour!
Flying sand and rolling stones, sand and soil, wood chips, weeds, all sorts of messy things began to gather continuously around the elder as the centre. Ye Dui did not act hastily; he had developed great interest in the power of the secret realm’s natives and even deliberately took a step back, wanting to see what kind of power this elder would use. Soon, accompanied by countless debris being drawn to the elder, a giant appeared in front of Ye Dui.
That was a giant piled up from sand and soil, fragments, and so on, looking unspeakably ugly and extremely ferocious, barely maintaining a humanoid shape. It raised its head and let out roars of anger towards Ye Dui’s giant…
That could indeed be considered a giant, if for ordinary people.
Its height reached three or four metres, looking quite deterrent. But for Ye Dui, who was over fifteen metres tall, it was a bit… When he saw this ferocious giant roaring and charging towards Ye Dui, Ye Dui kicked out with one foot.
Bang,
Debris scattered everywhere, and the giant collapsed.
The elder let out a miserable cry and tumbled out from that pile of debris. The illusory swordsman image on his body seemed to disappear into thin air as well.
Ye Dui looked at the fallen sand dweller elder and swung the greatknife in his hand, bringing it down from the sky.
Such a strike could probably cleave a mountain peak in two, right?
The sand dweller elder could see the white line formed by the greatknife’s blade descending from the sky, as if splitting the sky in his vision into two halves. As the “spirit-calling priest” of the Blood Scorpion Tribe, the sand dweller elder had fought all his life, with the ferocious spirit god witnessing his bravery and fearlessness. But now, he could not help trembling as he longed for his mother’s embrace…
“Do not…” Although stiff, the hoarse roar that could barely be understood shouted loudly.
The blade, carrying the might of heaven and earth, fell but halted two or three inches above his face. Yet after several hundred years like this, the knife qi still left a blood mark on his forehead, with blood flowing down continuously.
The greatknife began to shrink rapidly, and the giant also began to fade slowly. That massive body was rapidly turning into evaporating gas. Ye Dui’s figure emerged from within that giant’s body. He was still gripping that knife, with the shrunken blade still resting on the elder’s forehead.
The sand dweller elder’s face was full of terror. Trembling, he shouted at Ye Dui: “!@#￥!#￥#￥￥……”
Ye Dui: “…”
Although the people in the secret realm shared the same language origin as the outside and their speech could generally be understood clearly, several hundred years of isolation had created enormous differences, just like people from distant lands with completely different accents. Perhaps slow conversation could allow barely adequate exchange, but when one of them rapidly rattled off their native dialect in agitation, it sounded like a foreign language to the ears.
And just at this moment, Ye Dui suddenly heard Dani’s terrified cry.
…
While Ye Dui dealt with the sand dweller elder in just a few moves, Debbie and the others were facing the annoying sand people. Jacob’s combat experience was not as rich as Debbie’s or Grylls’s after all. Although he had not been injured by the sand people, his control over magic power usage was still somewhat lacking, and he soon became exhausted. Just as he prepared to dodge to the side for a rest, his foot suddenly stepped on a patch of loose sand.
That was a sand person previously scattered, who for some reason had not recongealed, but unexpectedly chose this moment to strike. Perhaps it had turned into loose sand as camouflage all along, lying in wait for an opportunity to attack.
These sand people did not have much intelligence, but they were not completely mindless like wild beasts. Although they had launched indiscriminate attacks on Debbie and the others from the start, their true target seemed to have already locked onto Jacob.
The moment Jacob stepped on that patch of loose sand, those grains immediately wriggled like ants and rapidly climbed up Jacob’s body. In the blink of an eye, they completely covered Jacob’s lower half. Debbie, Lessa, and the others noticed something wrong and immediately moved to rescue him, but the other sand people suddenly exerted more force at this time, attacking even more vigorously and entangling them.
The situation turned extremely critical in an instant.
The body covered in sand grains gave Jacob a numbing sensation, as if that part of his body was rapidly ceasing to belong to him.
The sand person was devouring him!
Then, at this moment, a strange figure suddenly appeared in front of Jacob. That was a man, seemingly gripping a long spear in his hand. With a bang, one spear thrust out.
That spear thrust was aimed at Jacob’s body.
The sharp spear tip instantly pierced through Jacob’s body. It was this strike that made Dani let out a terrified cry. Jacob also thought in that moment that his life was over, but he soon discovered that he felt no pain at all. Although that spear had pierced his body, it had not harmed him.
What kind of attack was this?
At the same time, Jacob also felt that the sand grains all over his body were suddenly guided by a strange force and peeled away from his body. Then those grains twisted into a mass in the air and fell to the ground.
The sand grains still writhed, as if trying to recongeal into a body, but ultimately they rapidly lost vitality and thoroughly turned into flying loose sand.
“You are…” Jacob looked at the person who had acted, revealing an incredulous expression.
Before his words were finished, that person, with a head of flying long hair, rapidly charged towards Debbie and the others. His figure was like an illusion, the long spear in his hand dancing like a mad flying snake, carrying streaks of silver light. Bang, bang, bang… That eerie, twisted attack landed continuously on those sand people. And under that eerie attack, the sand people collapsed, thoroughly turning into loose sand, unable to recongeal.
Everyone stood stunned in shock.
Debbie watched the long-haired spearman stop his movements, gripping the long spear as he stood in front of them, and said incredulously: “Master Kandinsky!?”
The person who had suddenly appeared and used that twisted spear technique to resolve the sand people that had left everyone helpless one by one was actually Master Kandinsky, the one whom Debbie had kicked out of the wooden vine villa with one foot!
“Master Kandinsky is just my alias. My true identity is actually…” The long-haired man smiled as he walked towards Jacob and knelt on one knee. “Thirteenth Prince, your Blue Knight, Konstantine, is willing to serve you.”
Everyone was shocked.
Rumours had it that thirty years ago, Master Kandinsky’s fame was unrivalled for a time, but he was caught with Blue Knight’s wife Yuwei, leading to his downfall and complete disappearance from the public eye… But in reality, Master Kandinsky and the Blue Knight were actually the same person?
Few people knew the Blue Knight’s real name; it was actually Konstantine, which differed from Kandinsky only in the letter order!
