Terrifying Regenerative Ability

The monster, having lost its support point, crashed to the ground. After scrambling up, it let out a furious roar on the spot, enraged and impotent.

"Does it have no spellcasting ability?" Matthew looked at the monster rampaging helplessly on the ground. He waved his magic wand, using the bricks and stones from the roofs of several nearby houses as material, transforming them into a solid iron ball several meters in diameter. First, he used a Levitation Charm to lift the iron ball higher, then manipulated it to smash down onto the monster below.

A human face on the monster's body split in half from the center. The split pushed the original face to the sides, revealing a hollow cavity. Countless filaments, like horsehair worms, extended from the crack, writhing in the air.

A flash of blood light emerged from the hollow of the split. The cavity, like a high-pressure water gun, continuously sprayed out red liquid.

The red liquid struck the iron ball in midair, dissolving it within seconds. After dissolving the iron ball, the red liquid carried on with undiminished force, shooting toward Matthew.

Matthew quickly left his spot, leaping to the rooftop next door.

The monster adjusted the direction of the cavity, and the sprayed red liquid followed Matthew's movement. The roofs along the path were all dissolved by the red liquid.

Matthew's expression tightened. The space around him twisted, and he vanished from his spot, instantly reappearing on the rooftop of a house further away.

The split on the monster's body began to heal. The cavity stopped spraying red liquid. Countless filaments, like horsehair worms, intertwined and writhed continuously. After a moment, the split restored itself into a human face, but this face had become as withered and aged as a dried corpse, its eyes tightly shut, as if dead.

"So this attack method has a cost? No wonder it's reluctant to use it casually." Matthew looked at the withered face on the monster's body. He could perceive that the monster's aura had weakened somewhat.

After the monster released the red liquid once, its control over its body seemed to worsen. Several of the human faces became more conscious and started taunting.

"Too stupid." "Foolish." "Exactly, might as well hand the body over to me." "You're not Father, you're just a monster." "Rayne, it hurts so much." "Let me out quickly."

"ROAR!!!" The monster covered in human faces let out a furious, frustrated roar. Although its body was Old White's corpse, it only had some scattered memories of Old White, with an intelligence lower than a dog's.

At that moment, a fireball the size of half a person exploded on the monster's body, engulfing it in blazing flames.

Link and Anna had arrived.

"Be careful, its magic resistance is high, and it's fast and strong." Matthew's voice came from the badge pinned to Link's chest.

As the words fell, the monster charged out from the unextinguished flames, lunging at Link. Its outer skin was scorched black by the flames, but it quickly repaired itself.

Link swiftly conjured a shield composed of translucent polygons. After the monster struck the shield, Link was forced back a few steps by the monster's great force.

Link's expression shifted. This monster's strength was indeed formidable. He had already undergone two bloodline modifications and was a melee-type wizard; his strength was not something an ordinary wizard could match.

Anna cast a Vine Spell. Several thick vines coiled around the monster's body.

"Isn't that Sir Rayne and his wife?" Anna exclaimed in shock. She had also spotted the faces of Sir Rayne and his wife Trina among the human faces on the monster.

Link's face turned grim. They had met at noon, and now this situation was far too bizarre. He had never encountered a monster like this before.

The Vine Spell only hindered the monster for a very short time. Soon, it tore apart the vines wrapped around it.

Link quickly drew the longsword from his waist. He wiped the blade across his palm, and blood merged into the sword. The blade ignited with blazing flames, and the wound on his hand healed quickly.

His first bloodline modification had fused the bloodline of the Earthfire Giant Lizard. This modification granted him extraordinary healing abilities and flame manipulation. Through enchantment magic, he used his blood as material to temporarily enchant his weapon.

A flash of fiery red sword light. The Blazing Sword severed the monster's neck, and its head rolled to the ground.

Link's longsword was exceptionally sharp. This sword was a Second-Order Witchcraft Tool, typically used by Formal Wizards. Among Wizard Apprentices, only some of the wealthier ones would possess a Second-Order Witchcraft Tool.

Link asked Matthew through the badge, "It's done. Where are you?"

"It's not dead." Matthew's voice came from the badge.

Link's heart jolted. Even a humanoid creature beheaded was fine?

Countless filaments, like horsehair worms, extended from the monster's neck, connecting to the head on the ground.

Seeing this, Link swung his sword again, cutting the monster in half at the waist. After being bisected, the monster's body parts were still stuck together by the filaments.

"Give it a tug." Matthew's voice came from the badge on Link's chest.

"What is this thing? Its recovery power is too strong." After Link had chopped it several times, the monster still managed to heal its wounds.

In the gap during the monster's recovery, a dagger pierced into its back, straight into its heart. On the other end of the dagger, a vine was tied, extending into the distance.

After the dagger stabbed into the monster's heart, the filaments inside its body snapped one after another. The human faces on its body all showed expressions of terror, letting out miserable wails in unison.

After a moment, the monster fell to the ground, motionless.

Link couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If this had dragged on, he wouldn't have lasted much longer. A Second-Order Witchcraft Tool consumed a Wizard Apprentice enormously.

He looked at Matthew, who was walking over from a distance, and asked, "How did you do that?"

Matthew said with a smile, "I coated the dagger with deadly poison."

He had used basilisk venom. This monster's regenerative ability seemed to have no resistance against basilisk venom at all.

Several people stepped forward to examine the monster's corpse.

"This face..." Link was somewhat startled. "Hasn't Old White been dead for months?"

Old White's face was swollen. Link wasn't very familiar with him, and it took him a moment of careful looking to recognize him.

Link stroked his chin, thinking as he said, "So that means the recent disappearance cases in Whitestone Town were all done by Old White? But how did he come back to life? Was he faking his death?"

Matthew perceived the energy fluctuation in the corpse, which differed from the Ordinary Wizard's magic. His heart stirred—he recognized it. This fluctuation was very similar to what he had encountered from the Wolf Pack and the Phantom Demon when he first arrived in this world.

He crouched down, pretending to examine the corpse's condition, and touched it with his hand.

The Metal Disc in his mind glowed faintly. A red light, visible only to Matthew, precipitated out of the corpse and was absorbed by the Metal Disc.

It was indeed the same type of energy. He could sense that the energy within the Crystal had become extremely full!

This time, the red light absorbed was far more than what he had taken from the Wolf Pack and the Phantom Demon before.

He could perceive that when the Crystal absorbed energy, none of it leaked out. Once full, it would compress the energy inside to free up more space for storage. Now, the energy in the Crystal was enough for him to travel through several times!