107: Chapter 107 The Roar of the Mother Beast!

Fujiwara Chiyo recoiled, trembling, her neck corroded into a bloody mess by the baleful energy. She suddenly tore open the front of her shrine maiden outfit, revealing a blood-red magatama embedded where her heart should be—

"With my flesh and blood, I summon the Underworld!"

The magatama burst, and countless cracks suddenly appeared on the arena floor as dozens of skeletal arms broke through the soil! The three thickest ghost hands grabbed Loran's legs tightly, their sharp bone fingers digging into the gaps of her scale armor.

"Now..." the shrine maiden laughed, coughing up black blood, "let's see who eats whom?"

Loran's response was to open her snake-like giant maw—

"Boom!"

A jet of dark green toxic flame erupted from her throat, instantly engulfing Fujiwara Chiyo! The toxic fire was mixed with baleful energy and the power of nature. The shrine maiden's skin melted like candle wax, yet her laughter grew increasingly shrill.

"It's useless... I was already a corpse..."

Sure enough, a translucent female ghost crawled out from the charred body; it was the true form of the Yin Ghost! It shrieked and lunged toward the crown of Loran's head, seemingly about to possess her—

"Splatter!"

An [Azure Green Vine] suddenly emerged from the long hair behind Loran's ears, swallowing the Yin Ghost in one bite like a Venus flytrap! The vine writhed violently, with chewing sounds vaguely audible, before a ghost-face-shaped lump bulged and then slowly subsided.

[Devour Baleful Energy · Feeding Complete]

The shrine maiden's shell, now lacking a host, collapsed with a thud, and those skeletal arms turned to ash.

A red light barrier rose, and the system announcement echoed throughout the arena:

[Round 2, Druid Loran VS Yin Ghost Fujiwara Chiyo — Loran wins!]

The Japanese team was dead silent.

At the edge of the stage, Tuaner whistled and patted Mia's chest. "So much for the 'thrashing' we were promised? That was basically swallowing her alive..." Ryan followed up and wanted to pat her too, but was stopped by Tuaner's murderous glare.

Loran dispelled her beast form and walked toward her teammates, large patches of charred skin falling off as the scales retreated. She took the healing potion Mia handed her and drank it in one gulp, then suddenly turned to look at the Japanese camp:

"Next. Who's coming to die!?!"

(The death arena enters a white-hot phase!)

Adventurer barrage comments:

[European Adventurer, Holy Light Be With Me: What the hell? A Druid this strong is wandering abroad? The management of the Paradise Lost European Coordination Office should resign in disgrace! If we had teammates with this kind of strength, how could our Lv0 war dungeon team have been chased down by the African team until no one survived??]

[European Adventurer, Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf: Isn't the Druid supposed to be the pinnacle of the summoner series? Shouldn't she be sending a wave of crows to peck eyes, keeping wolves and giant bears on the front line, while she hangs back to cast magic and vines clean up the corpses? The combat style is completely reversed.]

[Oceania Adventurer, I Shear Sheep With A Hammer: This Druid is alright. The violent aesthetics of her combat are maxed out. A Druid who can beat her opponent to death is a good Druid.]

[I Shear Sheep With A Hammer, tipped player Loran 1000 points...]

[Eating Watermelon Is Freedom, tipped...]

[Tipped...]

Followed by a barrage of abusive comments from a large group of European Adventurers and sharp critiques from Adventurers in other regions.

[The third deathmatch is about to begin. Will the Xia Kingdom Adventurer team change their combatants? Note that once a person leaves the stage, they cannot participate in the deathmatch again.]

Referee Rabbit announced the details in a programmed tone, looking at both teams with composure.

Loran was about to go up to continue the deathmatch but was beaten to it by Ryan. "Sister Loran, go check on Xiaoya. She's been through life and death just now. It'll be better if a mother stays with her."

Tuaner didn't get a chance to go on stage. Feeling a bit unbalanced, she started muttering to herself on the side, "The snake spirit is here, are the Calabash Brothers far behind? Ryan has obvious physical traits too. I'll go buy Mia a Little Red Riding Hood outfit tomorrow..."

Mia heard Tuaner's nonsense and laughed happily, ruffling her hair. "Let Ryan go. You can't keep giving him 'eye socket massages' to relieve his emotions every time. Besides, the team tank can't keep walking around with panda eyes; doesn't he have a reputation to maintain?"

[Round 3, Paladin Ryan VS Monk Kukai Numoku]

[Deathmatch Start!!]

Ryan went through the motions of casting buffs and blessings on himself; Master Kukai first recited a Japanese version of the Rebirth Mantra for Ryan.

"What the hell?!?" Ryan's mastery of the Xia language had improved after getting his naturalization certificate. "Exorcising the opponent before a fight? This monk is something else. Not only does he look kind, but he's also efficient. Can't find a single fault." Ryan was getting annoyed, activated [Holy Charge], and went in with a [Shield Bash], "Eat shit, granddaddy!!"

[Holy Charge] did indeed cause a short stun for Kukai Numoku, but Ryan's crowd control ability was typical of those that come and go quickly.

By the time he landed the [Shield Bash] on Kukai, Kukai had taken the beating and skillfully placed his Sha Wujing-style big necklace, the [Nine-Life Pagoda], around the back of Ryan's neck, then spun three and a half times to slam Ryan heavily into the defensive light barrier. After completing the throw, Kukai coughed up a mouthful of old blood and squatted on the ground temporarily.

In the first exchange, Ryan's heavy armor became a burden, making his fall even harder. At the same time, he suffered double damage from the skull bead curse and the throw. He looked a bit disheveled.

Kukai had injured his internal organs, but he looked slightly better than Ryan on the outside.

Ryan had taken a loss. His eyes were even more bloodshot.

He crawled up slowly and tapped on his heavy armor. The standard armor, which had been upgraded to B+ level by Mia's [Alchemy], shimmered with a blue luster. "Old friend, this is a deathmatch, no need for your help. Let me be selfish for once..."

He unbuckled his armor, and the heavy metal shoulder guards clattered onto the marble-textured fighting stage, making a huge noise. The helmet, breastplate, tassets, and boots fell onto the stage one after another, creating dents of varying sizes.

A nearly two-meter-tall red-skinned giant with streamlined muscles didn't look out of place facing a two-meter-plus mountain of meat wearing monk robes.

Ryan chuckled. "I'm not really a proper Paladin anyway." He grinned, "Little Red Riding Hood weighs at least 300 pounds, first time I've met one... Reason has suppressed instinct for too long, I've decided to leave the outcome to instinct this time!!" Ryan tore off the last piece of equipment on him, an earring — [Guardian of Silvermoon].

[Moon Howl], [Bloody Frenzy], and [Berserk] were activated simultaneously. Ryan grew a size larger in an instant, finally looking about the same size as Kukai. His werewolf physical traits were fully displayed. He used his remaining reason to say one last sentence to Kukai Numoku, "Run, meatball, I don't have the patience for Little Red Riding Hood with you."

After speaking, his figure moved at an incredible speed to get behind Kukai, and his huge wolf claws directly pierced the monk's shoulder. Then, to everyone's surprise, he lifted the monk—who could be called a mountain of meat—with one arm and threw him toward the red light barrier.

A huge vibration echoed through the arena. The berserk werewolf-form Ryan didn't pursue immediately, but instead watched his prey with composure, revealing a mouth full of glistening wolf teeth...

Seeing this scene, Tuaner realized her chance had come and hurriedly hugged Mia like an octopus. "Sister Mia, the big wolf dog is going crazy, Tuaner is so scared..."

Mia removed the clinging Tuaner from her body with a black line on her forehead. She gave her head a few hard knocks, "Watch carefully. He won't lose, but this might be a tough fight for Ryan..." Meanwhile, Tuaner was still sniffing the lingering scent of Mia on her hands...