Dick opened his eyes and found that he was down to earth.
He looked around and saw that the surroundings were filled with a thick smell of sulfur, and everything was covered by the unknown.
At this time, a majestic and familiar voice came from the air:
"I, King Lioke, welcome you again, brave challenger - Demigod Dick. Your strength is enough to challenge me."
"I don't know what the challenge you are talking about is, and I don't want to care. I just want you to send me to Hell after completing the so-called challenge."
"Hahaha, as expected you also want to return to my hometown. Yes, I can fulfill your wish. Now, the challenge begins." The voice gradually weakened until it disappeared completely.
Three monsters quickly emerged from the thick fog around them.
The monster in the middle is three feet tall, with its body covered in gravel and two horns on its head. It is the Earth Elemental that I encountered before, but it looks stronger than the previous one.
On the left is a Humanoids female monster, covered with mottled green leaves, shaking the vine-like whip in her hand, with a hint of sarcasm on her face.
Dick knows that this is the kind of plant monster Alice mentioned.
The monster on the far right looks like a viper, but has nine heads. It is the Hell Viper that Dick has met before.
Dick did not move where it was, and the giant Earth Elemental suddenly erupted with a deafening roar, its arms covered with gravel suddenly waved, and the dark gray energy circle roared in with the pungent smell of sulfur.
Dick just turned sideways slightly, and the energy circle hit the ground, instantly corroding honeycomb-shaped holes.
Then, he tiptoed and flew to the side of the vine monster.
When the sword was swung out, before the vines in the female monster's hand could be thrown out, she was shocked to find that her lower body had been separated from her upper body and fell to the ground.
Just when Hell Viper was about to open its nine mouthparts and spit out magic breath, the cold light ring-shaped shock wave approaching in front of it made the scales on its body stand up.
The next moment, Hell Viper fell into endless darkness.
Dick used both legs hard, jumped up high, with his head down, and swung his right hand violently to the lower left.
With a "bang" sound, Giant Transformation's giant bronze fist smashed the giant Hell Earth Elemental into pieces with one blow.
After Dick landed, I found that there was no prompt on the panel.
In the afterglow, the bodies of the three monsters began to crack, and dark red magma-like blood seeped out from the cracks. The bodies curled and carbonized like burned parchment, and finally turned into ashes with sparks.
In the sky, King Lioke's voice sounded again, "Very good, Dick. Now your Demigod's strength is close to that of some weak Deity. Even the three little dolls I usually carefully carve can't stop you from attacking."
"Tell me, what's the next challenge?"
"So impatient? Me too. The taste of hometown is so nostalgic and exciting."
As soon as he finished speaking, a bright light shone like a searchlight above the entire space.
Dick narrowed his eyes slightly and noticed that 50 meters ahead, a white Bone King throne steaming with Flames slowly emerged from the ground. On top of the throne, sitting a huge skeleton 5 meters tall, it was King Lioke.
In the dense mist around him, densely packed skeleton soldiers were holding bone blades and roaring with their lipless mouths open.
King Lioke is a skeleton and cannot make any expressions, but Dick can feel him smiling.
"Next, as long as you defeat these men of mine, and then defeat me, the test will be over, and I will send you to Hell."
"Then let's get started."
Dick stopped talking nonsense, pulled out Dawn Blade, leaned over and galloped away.
The skeleton soldiers slowly held weapons and attacked Dick.
Dick The sword blade was swung at the skeleton soldiers. These soldiers did not dodge, but slowly waved the bone blade in their hands.
After Dick crushed the last skeleton soldier, he retracted his sword and looked at the king opposite him without saying a word.
At this time, several prompts came on the panel:
Kill ×70 Bone Guards and obtain Energy Points 900. The current total is Energy Points 1000.
Dick did not hesitate too much. When 1000 Energy Points was exhausted in an instant, Fighting was promoted to the master level.
[Fighting] (Grandmaster level), can cast "Three Heads and Six Arms".
He originally wanted to upgrade [Hypnosis], but the effect of gaining the domain is unknown. And if he could break free of the high-level Bloodsuckers's domain, then the Deity in front of him would naturally be able to break free of his own domain. Now he still chooses a safer method.
King Lioke held his chin with a skeletal hand and just watched quietly. It wasn't until the last skeleton soldier fell that he clapped his hands together and said, "Well done, Dick, you are really great."
Dick couldn't tell whether Deity's words were sarcasm or genuine joy, but it didn't matter.
He jumped up high, his appearance changed instantly, his eyes turned blood red, and his mouth grinned to the base of his ears - the talent "Blood of Madness" was activated;
His body expanded rapidly and instantly turned into a 5-meter-tall bronze giant.
When the muscles on his back trembled slightly, the two long swords behind him whistled happily and landed in front of him.
Immediately afterwards, Dick's body shook again, and the master-level Fighting "Three Heads and Six Arms" like Nezha was unleashed, with three palms firmly holding the three sharp blades.
Dick shook the sword blade, and the three blades roared at the same time, covering Sword Qi instantly.
When he landed, he was already at his strongest.
The reason why he is like this is because the King Lioke in front of him is Deity after all, and he is guarding the seventh floor of Hell.
Although the deeper the Hell layer, the better, but in "Dante's Journey to Hell", it is clearly mentioned that this person is the high-level Deity.
The shadow under the King Lioke skeleton Bone King suddenly distorted, and the entire body moved half a meter like a pulled marionette, violating the laws of physics. Three Sword Qi barely missed the throne, and made three parallel cuts in the dense fog behind.
He gently pulled out the bone knife from the gap in the green bricks and swung the knife at Dick at will.
The sword light wrapped in the long knife came at him. Dick used three swords to block it, but he still took five steps back to stabilize his body. At the same time, he noticed that his speed was much slower.
"Very smart." King Lioke After he stopped the attack, the soul fire in his eyes suddenly surged, and a dark red magic circle with a diameter of a hundred meters appeared on the ground.
"In this realm, the time flow rate of mortals will be limited to one-seventh of that of divinity - in your human terms, the attack speed is delayed to 7 times."
"Won't I pass you? I'm going to try." Dick shouted and rushed over again.
The three swords in his hand connected with King Lioke's long knife. During the collision, the Sword Qi shot out shook the surrounding blue brick floor into pieces and flew up, revealing the faint Lava lines deep below.
In the blink of an eye, the two had fought for 30 rounds.
When Dick and King Lioke were fighting again, they retreated into the air with the help of the reaction force.
At this time, he clearly felt that his strength was disappearing rapidly.
"Three Heads and Six Arms" Giant Transformation is indeed extremely energy-consuming. Normally, he could still perform it for an hour, but now it only took more than four minutes and he was already exhausted.
"High-level Deity is really scary."
In the air, the fingers of his other three hands that were not holding the sword danced rapidly, and the three blue Piercing Cold Shockwaves exuding cold air merged together, like a whale roaring in the sea, spinning like a spiral and galloping towards the King Lioke in front of them.
When Piercing Cold Shockwave was about to land three inches in front of King Lioke's head, he swung his sword forward.
In an instant, the entire shock wave was split into two pieces.
The two shock waves penetrated into the surrounding mist filled with the smell of sulfur, revealing an active volcano still sputtering Lava all around.
When King Lioke raised his eyes, he discovered that Dick was rushing towards him at a faster speed, with two streams of air spraying from his feet.
It turns out that Dick cast Piercing Cold Shockwave again in a short period of time.
As Demigod, you can cast Signs twice in a row, regardless of the interval, without getting mentally exhausted or affecting your combat effectiveness.
At this time, Piercing Cold Shockwave no longer destroys the upper.
When three sword lights flashed, King Lioke lowered his head, chuckled and looked at the three cracks on his chest, abdomen and patella, "You are fine."
Dick fell to the ground panting, and the sound of bones collapsing was heard behind him.
"Is it finally over?"
But when Dick turned around, his pupils suddenly shrank into needle shapes, and the withered white bone fragments slowly gathered together and transformed into the shape of a cross.
The whimpering of Hell came from the cross, and the surrounding space became more distorted and dark.
When Dick gathered strength, three lines of Sword Qi were drawn in parallel, but Sword Qi passed through the cross and was swallowed up by the thick black mist.
"It turns out this cross is an illusion. Not good!"
Dick can only stand ready.
Two seconds later, the illusion of the cross disappeared, and a half-kneeling figure reappeared on the ground.
"Witcher Dick, your condition seems not to be very good."
At this time, all the blessing effects of Dick have disappeared, and the states of "Three Heads and Six Arms", "Blood of Madness" and "Giant Transformation" have receded.
The black sword and the purple sword clanged to the ground, and he could only manage to insert the tip of the sword into the ground with one hand to support his body.
"You are indeed very powerful." King Lioke took three steps forward.
Dick gasped for air and pointed the tip of the sword at him again, "Even if you are a high-level Deity, you can't stop me from looking for my wife."
"Is this so? It's really touching. But you have won and the battle is over."
King Lioke said, casually throwing the bone sword in his hand into the thick fog behind him.
Seeing Dick's surprise, King Lioke tapped his skeletal fingers, "Hell Violence's Edge The ruler of the seventh level, do you need to explain your authority to the ants?"
As he spoke, the huge white Bone King seat appeared again behind him.
King Lioke stretched out his skeletal arms, leaned on them gently, and looked at the gray sky with his empty eye sockets, "I once made a bet with a damn devil."
When Dick mentioned "damn devil", he could clearly hear King Lioke's teeth rubbing up and down, making a tooth-piercing sound.
"You guessed it right, he is the guy you deported to Hell.
I lost the bet, and as a price, I had to be trapped in this world for ten thousand years.
For ten thousand years, I have been waiting for someone who can defeat me to appear, and now, you appear.
The contract has ended, I can return to Hell immediately."
"But I don't seem to have defeated you?"
"Hahaha. Defeat once is considered a defeat. Don't think that he is the only one who can take advantage of this kind of loophole."
King Lioke looked at the red light gradually appearing on the fingertips and said softly, "The laws of the world are expelling me to leave this world and return to my hometown.
By the way, what is your wish?" King Lioke ignored Dick's joy and gently rubbed his skull with one finger.
"I want to go to Hell." Dick's voice trembled slightly.
"It seems that we are still on the same road."
Dick The ground under his feet suddenly turned into a pool of boiling blood. Countless bones and arms stretched out from the pool to form a circular portal. The wails of millions of souls came from the door, and sulfur crystals fell from the void like a heavy rain.
"By the way, Dick." King Lioke's whole body was loomingly wrapped in red light, "My power in the human world is less than one-tenth of that in Hell."
Although you won this time, don't think you really defeated me, do you understand?"