Chapter 470 – Waterway Battle

Chapter 470 Waterway Battle
Living in a big city like Kaukoust must be very painful if the infrastructure is not laid out enough.

Fortunately, the owner of this city still paid more attention to these invisible building facilities.

When Saul and Julie entered the underground waterway, they immediately saw sorcery props for diversion and filtration in the main pipe.

On one side was clear water, and on the other side was a mud puddle.

“It should be this side.” Julie pointed to the pipe flowing with clear water and said.

Saul nodded back as he saw another black particle suspected to be soot near the clear water pipe.

Following Saul and Julie down were two more men from the Vigilantes.

They held straight flares in their hands, and the light had some repelling effect on the evil spirits. The two of them were not down to fight, but to play a supporting role.

One of the team members held a transmitter, and after a beat of communication looked up and said to the two Saul, “My lord, all the water valves passing through this main road have been shut down, and the purification facilities have been turned on.”

Saul, who had read the Guidebook, knew that this purification facility was not a water purification device, but rather a sorcery prop that prevented pollution from backing up down the waters into the superstructure.

Although this prop could only solve the simple problem of pollution spreading, it was already quite a reassuring facility for the residents living upstairs.

Julie cocked her head at Sol, “Let’s go.”

As soon as the words fell, Julie’s pale skin literally radiated light. When she jumped down the pipe, she surprisingly floated on the surface of the water like a colorful soap bubble.

Saul followed and jumped down, and seven or eight black tentacle-like vines suddenly grew out of the back of his neck, propping up in all directions and directly suspending the person in the air.

Algae was like a large spider, crawling forward on multiple legs, relying on the advantage of its long legs, it was extremely fast, and in no time it caught up with Julie who had set off first.

Julie felt the shadow behind her and looked back, “Wow! Every time I move with a sorcerer who majors in the dark attribute, I can’t always tell who is the evil spirit that should be hunted down.”

Saul thought to himself, “You haven’t seen what I look like when I transform.”

The two of them ran furiously along the way and finally found the Evil Spirit’s figure just before the pipe was about to merge into the underground cistern.

The Evil Spirit was a woman wearing a blue and black work uniform, with long hair cascading down her back from behind, very much like a female ghost.

And she was holding a man’s head in the palm of her hand, the two were whispering, listening to the content seemed to be discussing what to eat for dinner.

Seeing the man’s head, Saul whispered with some surprise, “It’s him?”

Although it had been a few days, Saul still recognized the agent who had introduced himself to the house.

I didn’t expect to see each other again, but the other party had changed so much.

While Saul was observing the agent John, Julie had already put one foot on the water and dashed straight out.

The evil spirit who was talking to her boyfriend finally realized the movement behind her and turned back, the expression on her face changed from sweet to hideous in an instant, as if she was blaming Julie for disturbing the two’s two-person world.

The woman’s mouth opened wide in an instant, and it was empty, with only a red twisted tongue remaining.

A dazzling ball of light instantly condensed out of Julie’s palm, which she threw directly at the evil spirit.

The ball of light emitted an even more piercing light right in mid-air. When the radiance landed on the Evil Spirit, it roasted her body to the point where she was smoking black.

The evil spirit immediately covered its face in pain, and the man’s head, which was originally in the palm of its hand, fell into the water with a “plop”.

Saul just wanted to go over to help, when he heard Julie shouting, “That man is also a problem, you go after him!”

The first time he did the quest, Saul did not force his way out, since Julie asked him to go after the man, she must be confident in solving this woman’s evil spirit alone.

Saul immediately let the small algae rise in altitude to observe this water surface, and soon found an unusual water ripple fluctuation.

He swooped over, ready to fish out this head.

Saul originally thought that John’s head was following the waves, but he got close enough to realize that this guy was actually paddling seriously.

A thin foot like a centipede had grown out of the hideous break in his neck, and was desperately flailing in the water.

It looked as if he wanted to run towards the deep pool.

But swimming was no faster than flying, and Saul pranced straight up, a black tentacle burrowing below the surface of the water.

The small algae opened its mouth as soon as it entered the underwater and went straight for the head, not having to worry about refraction at all.

But just at this time, a few black shadows that curved like ghost claws suddenly grew out from underneath the human head, breaking through the resistance under the water and quickly approaching the small algae. “There are still evil spirits?” Sol immediately retracted the small algae and pushed his other palm underwater, similar tentacles extending from his palm, but this time the tentacles were just light gray and translucent.

However, when his tentacle was the first to touch those ghostly claws, it drilled right through them.

“Not an evil spirit? Not even a spirit?” So raising an eyebrow, the direction of the tentacles remained the same, still reaching for the human head, while those ghostly claws suddenly extended several sharp nails, clawing viciously at Sol’s translucent soul drape.

The ghost claws that had just been unable to stop the soul angling this time but this time directly scratched the gray translucent tentacles with several five or six centimeter deep cracks.

It nearly tore off Saul’s tentacles.

“Instantly switching between material and spiritual attacks? What kind of creature is this?” Sol was immediately alert, and a black lingering touch instantly toppled the Soul Dangle.

The ghost claws continued to grab at Sol’s tentacles, only to be wounded by the corrosive damage attached to the Lingering Touch that caused them to nourish and smoke.

“Matter and spirit conversion?… I can do that too.”

Ever since realizing that soul angling would be targeted by Guido’s soul toxin, Saul took advantage of this period of tranquility to develop a small technique.

That was to have the Soul Pendant cast Lingering Place the moment it was targeted, replacing it to withstand the attack.

Soul Angling was essentially an extension of Sol’s spiritual body, so naturally it could also cast sorcery.

At the same time a burst of destructive power eroded down the ghost claws towards their essence.

However it didn’t take long for the agonizing erosive force to disappear once it entered the ghost claws, never to return.

Saul frowned, “This thing is insta-large.”

Sol ventured closer to the water and finally realized that those ghost claws were not the hands of evil spirits or monsters, but something that resembled a branch, no, something like a tree root.

Tree?
Saul surged up, his back pressed right up against the upper wall of the water pipe. The very second he was out of the water, a gnarled tree root instantly pierced the surface.

Several tiny grayish-white roots branched out from the rough main root.

Like a human hand, it scratched the air twice and slowly retracted back into the water.

At the same time, the diary, which hadn’t moved for a long time, suddenly flipped open.

[Year 317 of the Solstice Calendar, July 15th.
You have met a hospitable host.

He desperately wants to invite you to his residence.

You were careless.
You were taken away by him for a while.

From then on.

You will gradually turn from a guest to a slave.

]

It’s a crisis warning!
It’s written so clearly that it can’t be taken away from him …… Hmm? A little?
Saul suddenly made a forward thrust, his entire body panning ten meters to the bottom of the water pipe in front of him.

When he turned around, he saw a few slender, elongated tree roots sticking out from the gap in the pipe above him.

The roots formed claws and seemed to want to grab Saul up.

“The pipe is full of tree roots, how come it’s not leaking?” While nervous, Saul was still in the mood to spit out a sentence.

He began to constantly move his position with the help of flying and small algae, and those gray tree roots kept piercing through the pipes and grabbing at Saul.

Soon the pipe was covered with gray-white roots and black algae.

Though the small algae’s detachments were easily pierced and torn apart by the gray-white roots, when these black vines became more and more numerous and entangled tighter and tighter, even the strongest roots couldn’t easily break free from the small algae’s boundaries.

Saul, on the other hand, took the opportunity to drill out of the gap reserved by the small algae, and at the same time, he was holding a wet human head in his hand.

It was John’s head.

At this moment, the insect feet growing out of the wound underneath the human head were still trembling, seemingly wanting to climb up Saul’s arm along with it, however, Saul directly made a small fireball, burning these insect feet into ashes, and also sealing up John’s wound.

Despite the fact that he had just been chased by the tree roots, Saul didn’t forget about his pursuit mission.

He took another look at the vines and tree roots that seemed to be tangled into a ball of wool behind him, and decisively ordered Algae to decapitate the split, and twisted his head to run away, carrying John by the hair!
(End of chapter)