Chapter 110: Sword Slash and the Young Fox

Hilda... that girl never considered Venigo at all! The fiery rain mercilessly engulfed Venigo as well.

"That's truly Hilda's style," Venigo said with a bitter smile.

He waved his left hand, and the gusts blasting from the sky formed a chute overhead, funneling the falling embers and blasting them toward Lacyru like a volcanic eruption.

Such an attack was beyond Lacyru’s sword energy defense. He shouted fiercely, swinging his sword. Like a tidal wave, his sword energy clashed head-on with the descending fiery rain.

"Don't forget about me," Venigo squinted, staring directly at the gap in Lacyru’s ribs.

A flaw? Probably. Venigo didn’t bother to think further; he whipped his Meiying Poison and thrust sharply forward.

Triple strike: Fang, Horn, Phosphor!

Lacyru suddenly twisted slightly. Venigo’s certain hit grazed the spine of Lacyru’s sword instead.

"Damn!" Venigo hurriedly stopped the follow-up move. The flaw wasn’t major with just the first strike, and he managed to leap aside before Lacyru’s counterattack.

Lacyru snorted and continued fiercely attacking the falling fire rain. In moments, the fiery rain unleashed by Hilda was completely dispelled by Lacyru’s single sword.

On him, there were only sparse scorch marks.

"Not bad," Venigo praised. He took a deep breath and raised his weapon again.

Ah! Nearby, the female mage Flinwei let out a miserable scream. Her spellcasting was powerful, but given the phantom-like speed of the little wolf princess, it was already impressive that she had lasted this long.

The little wolf princess licked the blood splattered on her face and glanced toward Venigo. She gently withdrew the claws embedded between Flinwei’s bosom, avoiding the splattered blood, and grinned mischievously.

The next moment, she appeared behind Lacyru and slashed with a claw.

Lacyru responded with a storm of sword energy!

The little wolf princess screamed in pain and was sent flying far away. Venigo exhaled in relief. He could tell the little wolf princess’s reaction was faster than Lacyru’s; she successfully blocked with both claws in time but was thrown back due to the vast difference in strength.

However, Venigo would not miss this opportunity.

Cherry Blossom Slash!

A flower card, imbued with fierce sword energy, howled toward the unguarded ribs of Lacyru.

That was indeed his weak point. Lacyru’s previously calm expression had almost made Venigo think it was a deliberate bluff.

Lacyru frowned tightly, the wound in his ribs a testament to the opponent’s power. This strange attack method—using paper to extend sword energy remotely—was unheard of even to him, a sword master!

Venigo shifted his stance and suddenly leapt, eyes fixed on his opponent.

Sure enough, Lacyru had no intention of engaging him in aerial combat. He stood firm, holding his greatsword, ready to meet the strike.

A perfect chance!

Venigo laughed wildly as an inexplicable power surged from within him, flowing through his arms to the blade, which he brought down heavily.

Lacyru finally extended his left hand to steady the sword’s spine, catching Venigo’s attack with both hands for the first time.

So strong...

The sudden surge of power surprised Lacyru. Pressed by it, he tilted backward slightly. Before regaining his balance, he caught the little wolf princess rushing at him like the wind again from the corner of his eye.

"Damn it!" Lacyru was furious. His side had five people, while the enemy had only three, yet now he found himself surrounded!

"Akana, leave this to me," Venigo said.

The little wolf princess made a curious sound, quickly changing direction to leap behind Venigo, crossing her arms and tilting her head to look at him.

"Don’t worry, there are still plenty of prey ahead for you," he said gently, but his eyes fixed on Lacyru flickered with undisguised malice.

The Vengeful Flower Card Swordsman, a killer who believes in the sword as the ultimate executioner!

His kindness was reserved only for those he recognized as comrades or family.

As for enemies... he would show them what “the sword is execution” truly means.

“You’re strong, but not quite strong enough to take me down,” Lacyru said, ignoring the wound in his ribs. He raised his greatsword high and brought it down heavily.

Slash!

“Five Light...” Venigo murmured.

Slash!

Clash against clash. Although Meiying Poison’s form was not advantageous, under Venigo’s imagination, it wielded extraordinary power.

Right, the Five Light Slash was a secret technique capable of cutting through the opponent’s weapon as well.

Among the forty-eight flower cards, the five most valuable were called the Five Light.

The blade’s gleam swept lightly, like a dusting brush over Lacyru, then instantly transformed into a fierce ghost, descending fiercely with the five sword-energy-infused flower cards.

Curtain, Crane, Moon, Paulownia, Rain! Each flower card left a glaring scarlet slash on Lacyru’s body, while Meiying Poison inflicted even more brutal wounds.

And it shattered his greatsword into fragments!

“How is this possible? That toy-like little blade...” Lacyru’s sigh was cut off by Venigo’s strike. His dazed eyes watched Venigo until his body crashed heavily to the ground.

Venigo’s role construction ended at that moment. The divine power injection erupted instantaneously, granting the Five Light Slash the might to instantly incapacitate Lacyru.

Venigo stepped forward to collect the fragments of Lacyru’s greatsword—planning to use the Swordsmith profession from the Sword Forging Tale system to dismantle and reforging it, thus creating Lacyru’s greatsword.

When Venigo approached the Wind Elemental Realm’s gate, nothing unusual appeared. He summoned the Sky-Sea Leviathan, plunged into the Wind Elemental Realm, and began gathering everything visible nearby, dragging it out.

With Ramen as free labor, there was no reason not to make full use of it.

The Wind Elemental Realm was more vast and open than the Fire Elemental Realm. Endless and boundless, the sky and ground were a nearly transparent pale blue, interspersed with layers of bright yellow waves that swayed rhythmically like tides.

“Fun,” Hilda whispered softly.

“Hilda, you should head back first,” Venigo said cautiously. He didn’t dare leave this little troublemaker outside; with her around, she’d probably even blow up a Wind Elemental Giant Spirit.

Ramen thrived here, the powerful wind elemental energy allowing it to swim at twice the usual speed. From its body extended numerous tentacles that constantly swept up gemstones and crystals, tossing them onto its back.

Venigo’s task was to gather, purify, alchemize, package, and bind them.

This harvest exceeded what he had collected five times inside the Fire Elemental Realm’s gate.

“Too bad this kind of gate only connects to the outer reaches of the Fire Elemental Realm,” Venigo complained. “Safer, yes, but the yield is naturally lower.”

“Besides, this aimless blank expanse makes it easy to get lost.”

“Forget it, let’s head back. Ramen?” Venigo looked down at the excited magical pet, who seemed reluctant to leave.

“Ramen?”

Ramen raised its head and suddenly leapt toward a certain direction—though in this vast, empty, pale blue space, it was hard to keep a sense of direction.

Especially for someone like Venigo, whose sense of direction was not strong to begin with.

“Hey, where are you taking me?”

Accompanied by Venigo’s scream, Ramen charged excitedly toward the center of the Wind Elemental Realm.

Sure enough, the closer to the realm’s core, the higher quality the “original elements” one could find. But this area was also more dangerous; wind elemental spirits, lightning demons, and wind spirit dragons appeared intermittently, making Venigo sweat nervously.

Fortunately, these monsters seemed uninterested in Ramen, the juvenile mutated Sky-Sea Leviathan.

When Ramen finally stopped, Venigo saw before them a massive vortex formed from countless fiercely swirling wind elementals, faintly alive with countless crackling lightning bolts.

“Ramen, is this your destination?” Venigo asked in surprise.

Ramen nodded joyfully, circling the super-large vortex as if trying to bite off a piece from the edge.

Suddenly, a group of Sky-Sea Leviathans appeared from afar, arriving at the vortex’s edge—still a few kilometers away—but among them were several leader-class leviathans over two kilometers long. Even from that distance, the immense pressure of their colossal bodies was palpable.

“Could this be some feeding ground for the Sky-Sea Leviathans?”

Venigo wondered, watching a few young leviathans swim out from the group and dive into the vortex. Snapping back to reality, Venigo leapt down from Ramen’s back.

Sure enough, Ramen charged into the vortex with its load on its back.

“An adult ceremony?!”

Moments later, Ramen and several other young leviathans leapt out of the vortex. Behind them, ochre-colored electric currents extended into a long tassel, dreamlike and mesmerizing, holding Venigo’s gaze.

This tassel stretched over a thousand meters before bursting high in the sky. Electric sparks scattered as Ramen leapt from it and flew to Venigo’s side.

Strength, speed, the power to emit lightning! This was the true form an adult Sky-Sea Leviathan should possess.

The adult Sky-Sea Leviathan no longer moved slowly but darted swiftly and agilely like dolphins playing in the sea. As for strength, though Ramen’s body was not yet massive, its sheer power surpassed that of a mature African elephant.

However, due to parasitic biochemical substances, Ramen seemed to have lost the ability to spit lightning. It could generate lightning within its body but couldn’t project it outward, only flickering on its surface.

Yet, when lightning flickered on its surface, Ramen would injure itself. The only way to release it was through the regenerative biochemical substances inside.

It seemed Ramen had transformed into some extraordinary and bizarre elemental creature...

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