121: Cheap? Kill!

Old William had, at some unknown point, lured an Eight-Armed Lizardman to the edge of the lava.

As the Lizardman attacked him, his clothes tore open at the back, and a pair of small, half-meter-long wings sprouted.

Though the wings were small and couldn't even allow him to fly, they greatly boosted Old William's speed.

As the Lizardman swung four arms at him from different angles, he shifted his feet, turning into an afterimage, and appeared behind the Lizardman, delivering a kick to its back.

“Screech~”

Amidst the Lizardman's terrified shriek, groups of large red fish in the lava seemed to form a bridge, spreading their red-diamond-like fins, and swarmed onto the Eight-Armed Lizardman, pulling it into the lava.

The lava churned, producing a few scorching bubbles, then settled into calmness.

A moment later, a few large fish, seemingly full, slowly swam to the shore, flipped their red-crystal-like bellies, and formed a fish bridge.

‘So, the Lizardmen's method of harvesting the Golden Lotus is to feed the lava red carp and have them form a fish bridge?’

Lost in thought, Artoria suddenly held her greatsword, forcing back several Six-Armed Lizardmen in front of her with a single strike, then pointed her sword at Old William.

Yang Dian couldn't understand the gibberish that came out of her mouth.

After all, if his grades were good, he wouldn't have scored just over 400 points on the college entrance exam.

He could only tell from Artoria's tone that her curses seemed quite vulgar.

Old William, however, remained silent in response to Artoria's furious scolding.

He merely focused on killing the Six-Armed Lizardmen or kicking the already dead Six-Armed Lizardmen into the lava lake to feed the fish.

Clearly, his goal had always been very specific.

It was the wondrous Golden Lotus in the center of the lava lake!

Seeing Old William's silence, Artoria gripped her greatsword tightly, her eyes seemingly burning with raging flames.

“Hah~”

With an angry roar, a Holy Light instantly swept across the entire cave.

Old William sizzled as the Holy Light corroded him, his exposed skin looking pockmarked as if splashed with sulfuric acid.

Artoria, however, did not look at Old William; instead, her gaze fell upon Yang Dian, who had been forced out of his Unity of Man and Nature state by the Holy Light.

Yang Dian, who was not just an ordinary bystander, sighed.

‘My understanding of Unity of Man and Nature is still somewhat lacking.’

‘If I could grind for more experience, would I be able to remain in the Unity of Man and Nature state constantly during battle, without being knocked out of it by the aftershocks of others' fights?’

Yang Dian always felt that his idea was correct.

But grinding for experience was a matter for later.

The important thing now was to deal with Artoria and the others first.

“Do you believe me if I say I'm just a passerby, a bystander?”

He reached out and grasped the Starlight Longsword.

With a casual swing, he decapitated two Six-Armed Lizardmen charging at him.

Facing the Lizardmen and Foreign devils who looked at him with grave expressions, Yang Dian shrugged:

“I'll just watch, you all fight your battles, don't mind me.”

Before Artoria could speak, a Guardian Knight, who had taken advantage of an Eight-Armed Lizardman's eyes being blinded by the Holy Light to pierce its head with his knight's lance, had already pulled out his lance and pointed it at Yang Dian:

“Yellow-skinned monkey, this place belongs to the British Empire, leave here!”

Yang Dian paused, then smiled.

“Me?”

“Yellow-skinned monkey?”

“Who gave you the courage?”

Before he finished speaking, Yang Dian had already turned into an afterimage, and amidst Artoria's scream of “No!”, he appeared behind the unknown knight.

“Clang!”

With a clang of metal, the Starlight Longsword pierced through the back of his head and emerged from the front.

Driven by surging Qi and blood, splattering metal fragments and bone and blood sprayed onto Artoria, who was rushing over.

He casually flicked the tip of his sword.

Looking at the young woman who had stopped in front of him, her face and hair stained with blood, Yang Dian once again raised the longsword in his hand, its tip pointing directly at her glabella.

“You England, do you want to be enemies with us Huaxia?”

Artoria opened her mouth.

The young woman had never experienced the death of someone close to her.

She was still somewhat dazed.

Her remaining two Guardian Knights, however, directly abandoned the Six-Armed Lizardmen they were fighting, and after enduring two attacks, rushed to Artoria's front, shielding her behind them.

“Huaxia strong one, we mean no harm.”

“We are merely here to hunt down evil.”

“Shaquille's words only represent his personal views and do not represent our England.”

“We hold Huaxia, and a strong one like you, in great respect.”

The two Guardian Knights were on high alert, while Old William, seeing this scene, laughed loudly:

“Oh~ Hahahahaha~”

“My dear Yang, I told you, we would become very good friends!”

“Join forces with me and kill them!”

“The wondrous item on Artoria belongs to you.”

“That Golden Lotus in the center of the lava lake also belongs to you!”

“I only need one lotus seed to cure this damned bloodlust after my Awakening!”

Hearing Old William's words, Artoria's two Guardian Knights became even more nervous:

“Don't trust Old William! Old William is an inherently evil vampire!”

“According to our investigation, it wasn't Duke Sally who killed Old William and the people of the Family!”

“The people of Old William's Family were all drained of blood by Old William!”

“Old William wants to use the blood of his kin to enhance his strength, and he even fantasizes about consuming Old William's blood to gain Old William's talent for foreseeing the future!”

“He is inherently evil!”

“He should not be trusted!”

At this point, perhaps fearing that Yang Dian would go all out and kill everyone, he had no choice but to reveal his last trump card:

“Princess Artoria has the wondrous item, the Phantom Gem, on her.”

“The Phantom Gem is a pair.”

“Scenes occurring around one gem will be displayed around the other, and even endless space cannot prevent the transmission of the images.”

As he spoke, as if afraid Yang Dian wouldn't believe him, he turned around and bowed to Artoria behind him:

“Pardon me, Your Highness.”

With that, he extended his finger and pointed at the sapphire embedded in Artoria's sword hilt.

The surface of the sapphire shimmered like lake water, then a pale blue light curtain expanded, centered on Artoria, eventually revealing a huge and luxurious palace.

In the palace, female nobles dressed in English aristocratic attire stood up, came before Yang Dian, and bowed slightly to him in a noble's salute.

Because the image could not convey language, the woman in the image, fearing that Yang Dian would not believe it was a real-time phantom, also reached out and took an electronic clock from a guard's hand, pointing to the time displayed on the clock.

After doing all this, the female noble again curtsied to Yang Dian and pointed to the blue gem on her own neck.

The next moment, the surrounding phantom suddenly dissipated, returning to the underground cave where lava churned.

The remaining few Six-Armed Lizardmen once again raised their weapons, charging towards everyone as if to their deaths.

Old William covered his face, which looked as if it had been corroded by sulfuric acid, with one hand, and with the other, he raised his rapier and stabbed at the attacking Lizardman.

As if knowing that a joint effort was no longer possible, he once again let out a maniacal laugh:

“So-called morals and ethics are nothing more than shackles binding Mortals.”

“I am not evil; I merely see the truest face of this world more clearly than you!”

He pierced the Lizardman's skull with his sword, looking at Yang Dian with a crazed expression...