The Writhing Sands
"Don't let it take shape!" Philip shouted from behind.
Lu Yuan could sense the tension in his voice. This Priest had obviously seen something similar before and knew how troublesome it would be once it was fully formed.
Without a word, Alice raised her warhammer high, lightning gathered, and under the divine light, it struck the merging Flesh like a golden bolt of lightning.
"Boom!"
The warhammer crashed down, lightning exploding within the Flesh, blasting the entire arm into a bloody pulp.
The Flesh touched by the lightning emitted black smoke and immediately lost their regenerative ability.
"Focus fire!" Marcus shouted, his Gear hardening.
The two Born moved simultaneously as Marcus finished speaking.
One of the figures spread out its arms, and a built-in Flame Thrower spewed blue Flame, sealing off the left side of the Aggregate.
The other person's mechanical arm deformed, extending rotating saw teeth. Using the armor on their body, they ignored the arm extending from the flesh and cut directly into the Flesh with the saw teeth.
The saw teeth rotated at high speed, and the sharp saw blades shredded the arm that was wrapped around them.
Their appearance instantly drew the attention of the Flesh, which greatly reduced the pressure on Alice, who continued to unleash her lightning strikes.
The two Deacon who had been standing outside the cabin stepped forward, holding Holy Emblem, praying incessantly with devout expressions. The Holy Emblem, engraved with Angel patterns, trembled and emitted dazzling beams of light.
The light fell on the coalescing Flesh seemed to touch Flame, causing the faces embedded in the surface of the Flesh to emit painful howls.
Ed fired his gun at the shattered pieces of flesh, while Leonard drew his dagger and slashed at the severed limbs that were trying to return.
The two worked together seamlessly, constantly preventing the Flesh from re-merging.
Gray stood in front of Lu Yuan, sweeping away the occasional splatter of writhing flesh and Flesh.
Lu Yuan did not join the melee, because in this level of combat, unless he used Exorcism Gunpowder or Mithril, he really couldn't be of much help.
However, Lu Yuan was not idle either. His eyes remained fixed on the gray-robed man hiding behind the Flesh, constantly looking for gaps in the bombing.
Finally, the Flesh Aggregate was pushed back a few steps, revealing the gray-robed man hiding behind it.
Lu Yuan seized the opportunity and decisively raised his gun and pulled the trigger!
Despite being embroiled in a fierce battle, Flesh and Flesh managed to free an arm to shield the gray-robed man. Bullets pierced Flesh, splattering black liquid.
The blue light in the gray-robed man's eyes intensified, and he gave Lu Yuan a mocking smile.
Marcus stood at the back, his hands behind his back, his mechanical eyes flashing red, as if the battle before him was merely an experiment worth observing.
Finally, the trend of the Aggregate continuously merging came to an end, and the activity of the originally scattered Flesh and blood was greatly reduced.
"How fragile..." came the gray-robed man's choking voice.
At the same time, the heads embedded in the surface of the Flesh Aggregate raised themselves, their empty eyes surveying the surroundings, and their Flesh mouths opened simultaneously.
[WARNING: Target Flesh proliferation is accelerating, and Contamination activity is rising sharply]
But before Lu Yuan could even speak to remind him, Marcus, who had been standing at the back, lost his red glow.
"Let's do it."
The Judge standing at the very back moved the next moment.
A clear mechanical whirring sound rang out, and the steam pipes all over the Judge's body simultaneously burst open, spewing out white gas streams.
The mechanical prosthetic eye hidden beneath the helmet glowed brightly red.
The next moment, a crimson beam of light shot out from the device on his chest!
The beam of light arrived in the blink of an eye, piercing straight through the center of the Flesh Aggregate!
The fused heart was burned through, leaving a large hole, and black blood splattered everywhere.
The legs and feet, which were thrashing wildly across the Flesh, paused for a moment.
Alice had been waiting for this opportunity.
The Flame of the Born and the Holy Light of the Deacon poured down simultaneously, suppressing the remains of the Aggregate.
Alice's figure swelled dramatically, she raised her warhammer high, and lightning coalesced into a dazzling pillar of light!
"Break!"
The warhammer slammed into the Flesh, completely crushing the already pierced heart!
Lightning exploded inside the Aggregate.
Flesh and flesh splattered everywhere, bones shattered.
The Aggregate froze.
The expressions on their faces froze, and their mouths stopped moving.
Then, like a clay sculpture that has lost its support, it collapsed with a crash, and the melted, unrecognizable corpse kept falling off, eventually turning into a pool of Flesh.
The Deep Aggregate has been destroyed.
[Sanity: -1,54/70]
The splattered Flesh caused everyone present to involuntarily take a step back.
The moment the aggregated Flesh collapsed, Lu Yuan had already looked toward the location where the gray-robed man was hiding.
He's still here?
The man in the gray robe stood beside the pile of wreckage, a hint of regret flashing in his eyes.
"How frail..."
Lu Yuan raised his gun again.
This time, there was no Flesh blocking the way.
But the gray-robed man was faster. A layer of light shone on his body, and then... he turned and ran, rushing towards the hole in the middle of the cabin.
Stop him.
Marcus's voice remained calm.
A Born instantly activated; its mechanical arm extends, its built-in crossbow is loaded, and it fires.
An arrow was fired!
The gray-robed man suddenly turned to the side, and the crossbow bolt grazed his robe.
Then it exploded behind him!
The blast wave knocked the gray-robed man to the ground, the scattered shrapnel completely blocked by the faint light emanating from his body.
Taking advantage of the explosion, he squeezed into the hole and escaped from the cabin.
"Chase!"
Alice followed closely behind, gripped the warhammer, and jumped down.
Lu Yuan and Gray followed closely behind.
As I landed on the island, the sand beneath my feet felt soft and yielding.
The Born followed filed out and surrounded the gray-robed man.
The gray-robed man stood on the beach, his body shimmering with light.
He looked at the crowd surrounding him, a fanatical smile spreading across his pale face, his eyes looking at a swarm of ants.
"You shouldn't have come along..."
"Take him down." Alice ignored his nonsense and said coldly.
The two Born then stepped forward, and the robotic arm extended.
Just then, the man in the gray robe opened his arms and looked up at the sky.
"Mother..."
"Take me Home..."
The words were finished.
Lu Yuan felt a jolt beneath his feet.
Wrong.
It's the beach that's moving.
The entire sandy area was writhing.
Something is approaching rapidly!
"Back off!" Lu Yuan shouted.
The spreading sand began to climb up the gray-robed man's calves, enveloping and binding them.
The Born did not retreat, but continued to rush forward in an attempt to grab him, but the sand surged up like a tide, forcing all the Born back.
"Fire!" Marcus's voice rang out.
The Judge has struck again!
Another crimson beam of light blasted towards the gray-robed man—
Countless grains of sand surged up, seemingly attempting to block it, but the Judge's attack was not so easily withstood; the sand blocking its path was instantly melted away.
The crimson beam of light instantly burned a charred hole through the gray-robed man's body!
If it weren't for the sand beneath his feet forcibly shifting his position at the last moment, the gray-robed man would probably be dead by now.