Camilla

Linley carefully observed and found that most of these blood slaves were expressionless with empty eyes like living dead, and only a few had ferocious, crazy expressions, as if they were still struggling and resisting.

Swish!

With a single slash, lightning surged like a dragon.

Clatter!

The two blood slaves coming straight at him fell on the spot, and two blood leeches dropped to the ground, wriggling their plump bodies, stained with smooth bloody slime and looking extremely disgusting.

Linley reached out to grab one from a distance, examined it closely, and smiled with a chuckle, "This thing is quite interesting."

He also practiced the Life Law and Death Rule, and although his current level was not high, he could still tell a thing or two.

These blood leeches were things that could only be refined by experts proficient in the Life and Death Rules, and they also utilized the means of Alchemy, making them worth spending time to study.

The mission only required handing over one blood leech, but Linley would collect as many as possible on his side.

"So weak? It seems these blood slaves aren't very strong."

Linley's performance was relatively outstanding, and the scene of him finishing off two blood slaves with a single slash fell into the eyes of several nearby examiners, instantly causing misjudgment. As a result, they suffered huge losses in the battle against the blood slaves; those with good luck were wounded, and those with bad luck fell on the spot.

Only then did some people suddenly realize that blood slaves were not so easy to deal with; it was simply that this person's strength was much more formidable.

A Night Elf Race mid-level god said through gritted teeth, "Everyone be careful. These blood slaves feel no pain at all and are even less afraid of death. Their fighting style is to trade their lives for wounds. As long as you don't finish them off immediately, you will get entangled, leading to death or severe injury."

He looked at Linley with uncertain and startled eyes, having happened to witness this person's earlier attack. The sheer strength was an absolute suppression, not resembling a mid-level god at all, and he thought with envious admiration from the bottom of his heart, This person is truly amazing! He must have fused two Mysteries!

Having fused two Mysteries of the Lightning Element Law, once he became an upper-level god, he would at least be a Five-star Demon at the worst.

This was already the strength and status that countless god-level entities dreamed of, yet this person had locked it in advance while still at the mid-level god realm.

Linley took a liking to these blood leeches and no longer restrained his strength, frequently striking. Wherever his red long saber passed, the scorching and domineering lightning raged like a wandering dragon, destroying everything in its path and wiping out a large number of blood slaves. It was just like mowing grass, and completely no one could withstand him for a single round.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The castle shook for a moment. Linley roughly sensed it and found that the source seemed to come from the basement. Those two Five-star Demons from earlier had also vanished without a trace, having killed their way out not long after the blood slaves appeared, showing no intention of lingering in battle whatsoever—their sole target was the master of Bloodthirsty Castle.

Linley thought silently to himself, It has nothing to do with me.

He tidied up the spoils of war on the ground, greeted Thomas and Corey, and prepared to retreat. Whether the master and housekeeper of Bloodthirsty Castle lived or died was entirely unrelated to him.

Linley did not push things to the extreme either, harboring good intentions by leaving some blood slaves for the other examiners who had endured until here and were still alive.

He turned around to retreat, heading out through the window he had entered from.

Just as the three of them reached the outside, they heard a huge explosion. They saw the castle wall blasted open by a massive hole, and five figures flew out one after another. They were precisely Claude, Joseph, Kaos, and two alluring women who looked identical and wore red and black tight bodysuits.

"The master of Bloodthirsty Castle..."

At a single glance at this situation, Linley figured out the woman's identity with a little thought. He didn't feel surprised to see that she had two divine avatars with Five-star Demon strength, having vaguely guessed it when listening to the intelligence before coming.

"This Magnetic Field Power... her Life God Avatar should be close to a Six-star Demon!"

Linley's expression was somewhat serious. He only needed to roughly sense it and compare it with his own magnetic field strength to naturally judge a person's strength.

"What about that housekeeper who excels at magic arrays? He's probably dead already. Oh well, why bother managing so much?"

Linley didn't overthink it, and without the slightest hesitation in his movements, he transformed into a stream of blue arc light and rushed toward the outside of the Blood Lake, with Thomas and Corey closely following behind him.

"You useless fellows come back! Camilla has activated the magic array. Unless she dies, don't even think about getting out without Six-star Demon strength."

Suddenly, a loud shout rang out from behind. The Blood Lake surged with a intense luster, and a red light curtain abruptly appeared in front of Linley, blocking his path like a Wall of Sighs.

"What a hassle."

Linley muttered a word, hesitating somewhat whether to forcibly break through the magic array. He happened to meet the strength standard of violent suppression, but after a slight hesitation, he still gave up.

The three of them looked at each other in dismay, neither of them having any intention of joining the battle among the several Five-star Demons.

Why bother? They signed up for the One-star Demon assessment, yet ended up doing a Five-star Demon mission—it was simply too much of a disadvantage.

They just watched the show from a few hundred meters away!

Although Claude's side held the numerical advantage, the two avatars of Camilla, the master of Bloodthirsty Castle, cooperated tacitly with each other, and their individual strengths were also somewhat stronger, fighting one another to a standstill.

Claude shouted to Linley's side once more.

"The magic array has two cores. One was destroyed by us in the basement, and there's another at the bottom of the Blood Lake. Find a way to locate and destroy it, or the blood mist will become increasingly dense, and her strength will also grow."

Linley gave an inner chuckle.

This Blood Lake contained a massive amount of soul-eroding energy, and even upper-level gods couldn't rashly release their Spiritual Sense to investigate. To actually expect mid-level gods like them to do it—it seemed the pressure was truly immense.

Yet there was one point Linley could not deny.

As the blood mist increased, Camilla's strength was indeed gradually growing.

Although it was very faint, as time dragged on it could not be underestimated, and she was slowly approaching a Six-star Demon.

Linley thought to himself, This should be some kind of secret technique of the Life Law, but it needs to be used in conjunction with a magic array. When encountering enemies with stronger strength, there is simply not enough time to prepare.

During the few seconds while they were speaking, the examiners inside the castle successively retreated outside and also learned the current situation from Claude. Each of their faces looked unsightly and quite depressed, yet no one dared to risk releasing their Spiritual Sense to investigate where the magic array core was.

The battle was fierce.

A burly man suddenly appeared in front of Camilla's Death God Avatar. He was three meters tall, with muscles as robust as if cast from steel, except he was expressionless and lacked the vibrant, lively vitality of the living.

"Death God Puppet!"

Claude and the others' expressions changed slightly. As Five-star Demons with broad horizons, they were not unfamiliar with this thing.

No sooner said than done.

Relying on this Death God Puppet of relatively good material, Camilla briefly hindered Kaos's ax attack.

Taking advantage of this gap in time, her Death God Avatar abruptly sent out a black arrow, entwined with chilling bloody mist.

Kaos was caught off guard and struck. The arrow pierced straight into his shoulder, and neither his energy defense nor his upper-level defensive divine artifact could stop it. In an instant, a freezing numbness spread throughout his body, his movements stiffened, and a chilling energy seeped into his brain. Very soon, his eyes dimmed and he lost his breath of life.

"Hahahahaha!!"

Seeing this, Camilla let out an arrogant and pleased laugh. Having taken down a Five-star Demon, her pressure was abruptly reduced by a lot.