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Chapter 24 - Chapter 24: Deadly Battle

Black beetles spewed from the wounds of the big man whose limbs had been cut off onto the mutated Lorenzo, crawling at breakneck speed over Lorenzo's bone-spike-covered body, desperately burrowing into the gaps between the bones when they saw them.

"Toothbeast" Lorenzo hissed horribly, ripping off the metal chain that held the metal box in his right hand as he shook his hand and opened the box.

Everyone was startled by Lorenzo's action, and their eyes focused on the inside of the crate.

At this moment, the area around the river harbour was already in chaos, the pedestrians who had not been scared away by the sound of gunshots before had already been scared by Lorenzo's frightening supernatural transformation and had nearly lost their minds, they were running around like headless flies, the two policemen were desperately trying to evacuate the crowd, the scene was very chaotic.

Instead, the centre of the maelstrom of events was relatively quiet, with all eyes focused on the open metal box.

"Kurt! Help me! They're using Bone Eaters!" Monster Lorenzo hissed, but no one knew who he was addressing.

The moment the metal crate opened, Lola and Shaun felt a massive wave of energy emanating from the crate.

"What is that!?" Shaun was stunned. This level of energy fluctuation, no matter what it belonged to, had the energy to destroy the entire city of Cologne.

"Whatever it is, it's dangerous, we're going to have to change our plan a bit, make that thing our main target, even if we have to rob that thing hard. Let's wait for Richard to do it first." Lola said through gritted teeth.

Inside the box was a rotting flesh-coloured interspersed with green globular substance in the form of a translucent gel, with a glowing tube wrapped inside the sphere.

After Lorenzo hissed, the sphere separated two thirds of itself and popped up to pounce on Lorenzo. The remaining third continued to wrap around the tubular device.

The rotten gelatinous substance that pounced on Lorenzo's body immediately turned into a sewage-like liquid when it came into contact with Lorenzo's body, flowing on Lorenzo's body like sewage with adhesion, wrapping around and devouring any black beetles that it encountered, and infiltrating into the crevices of the bones and knuckles like water when it encountered them.

At this moment, one of the four mercenaries who had previously surrounded Lorenzo suddenly appeared stiff for a few seconds before turning around and letting out a weird laugh: "'Corrupted Spirit' Kurt, sure enough you're here too!" The body moved stiffly but with great speed, reaching out to grab the tubular object in the box.

Just as the puppet mercenary was about to grab the tubular object, the rotting flesh-coloured substance wrapping the tubular object probed out a one-metre long long long needle the thickness of a human's little finger at a high speed that was hard to see with the naked eye, piercing through the puppet mercenary's forehead. The puppet mercenary collapsed without a sound.

At the same time, the two big men on the side of the container truck, who were trembling and fully concentrated on aiming randomly with their guns, suddenly and silently split apart, their blood and guts splattered on the car and the ground, adding a large amount of frightening atmosphere to the scene.

In the shadows next to the bodies, a black humanoid slowly gathered, floating like a shadow towards the metal box while Lorenzo was still dealing with the Bone Eaters.

The rotting flesh wrapped in tubes in the metal box probed out long needles at high speeds to attack the shadow, which separated into a long, thin black blade with a rich black body that seemed to be able to absorb light.

The long black blade flashed like black smoke, the flesh-coloured long needles were cut off with a poof, green pus spewed out from the break, and the meatball let out a squeaky scream.

The Bone Eater on Lorenzo's body had been cleared almost to the bone, and seeing the black shadow about to take the tubular device, the strange bulge on his left shoulder suddenly shot out a string of spikes, faster than a bullet, dispersing the black shadow into a few strands of black smoke, which drifted away and then gathered again in another black shadow.

The four mercenaries had been raising their guns to follow the black shadows with their sights, and when they saw the black shadows regrouping, they immediately raised their guns to fire a round of concentrated fire, and the black shadows were beaten into black smoke that dispersed and seeped into the shadows under the ground.

The four mercenaries walked towards the shadows in a scouting formation, the four were pulled out of four shadows by the street lamps, suddenly one of the shadows stood up, the black knife in his hand rolled wildly, limbs and blood and guts splattered in all directions, and the four mercenaries were soon turned into a field of broken corpses.

Suddenly Lorenzo's figure through the sky rain of blood, two arms of bone blade at super high speed to cut to the black shadow, bring up two channels of blood fountain, the black shadow screamed miserably disappeared into the shadow of the ground.

Lorenzo shoulder protrusion speed shooting out bone spikes, deep into the ground, poof sound several bone spikes left holes overflowed with blood.

On the other side, a big man as tall as a bear ran swiftly towards the metal box, his movement was smooth, unlike the stiffness of the previous puppets.

The "Corrupt Spirit" Kurt had already returned to the metal box in its full form and wrapped around the tubular device, the big man reached out and grabbed the tubular device, the "Corrupt Spirit" Kurt wrapped around the outside of the device suddenly popped up and stuck to the big man's face, and then quickly liquidised into sewage water which swam all over the big man's body. The whole body of the man was covered with the "rotting spirit".

The places on the man's body where the "Corrosive Spirit" Kurt had travelled were quickly corroded, but the man seemed to have no sense of pain, and still grabbed the tubular device that was shining with a strange light, and then the man's stomach vertically cracked open with a huge opening, and the man stuffed the tubular device into his stomach, and the opening closed up again.

After this action, green flames emerged from the man's body, and the sewage that touched the flames immediately burst into flames, emitting the same green flames.

The "rotting spirit" Kurt was burned and jumped away from the big man's body. The big man tried to run away, but fell down, it turned out that most of the muscles on his legs had been corroded cleanly, revealing the white bones with red flesh hanging on them.

The big man fell, his stomach burst open a big hole, hole drilled out an extremely small man, holding the tube device, jumped out of the big man's stomach with a body full of blood only a flash, has been in the ten metres away, looking to leave the prohibited area into the scattered pedestrians running away.

At this time, the small man forward route suddenly appeared a person, without warning appeared out of thin air, as if it had been standing there and the small man hard to bump into it.

The man who appeared out of nowhere was Old Theo.

Old Teal waved his hand at the little man, who fell without a sound. The tubular device was already in Old Tio's hands.

Old Teo, with the thing in his hand, showed his true colours, which were Richard. He didn't want to cause subsequent trouble for the real Old Teo, so he changed back to his original face.

At the same time, Lorenzo also arrived and swung his two bone blades with a shadow towards Richard. Halfway through the swing, suddenly Lorenzo felt a huge force with toughness pulling on his body, the bone blade missed Richard by twenty centimetres and could no longer be swung.

Lorenzo looked down and saw that at some point a strand of vines had already wrapped itself around his legs and arms, and was constantly tightening.

Not far away from the "rotten spirit" Kurt extinguished the green flame on his body, transformed into liquid and quickly flowed towards Richard, two metres short of reaching Richard's feet, "rotten spirit" in front of the sudden burst of three fireballs to block the way, and a fireball from the distance to hit the "rotten spirit". A fireball came from far away and hit the "rotting spirit". "With a miserable scream, "Corrupt Spirit" Kurt turned into humanoid flesh and beat the flames on his body.

The agent of the Spirit Realm has finally made its move!

Richard, who had his hands free, quickly put the tubular device in his hands, which was glittering with a strange light, into a metal box and locked it, and then threw it in the direction of the river, which made an arc and landed far away in the current in the middle of the Rhine.

At the same time, one kilometre away from the Cologne Cathedral, the white spotlights lit up at night hit the outer wall of the church, making the already towering stone Gothic epic more mysterious and distant tone. Plunging straight into the night sky, the north and south towers have a 7-centimetre height difference, with the south tower slightly lower and the north tower slightly higher. Above the 157.38 metre high spire of the North Tower, there was a silhouette, if any, dancing.

"Ahhhhh! The supporting characters have all made their appearance ah! The Water Demon guards the gold of the Rhine! La-la-la-la!" The silhouette looked like a doll made of glaze, and at a certain angle one could see his shape, vaguely a man in a tuxedo. From a certain angle, he could only see the distant light being refracted through his body with a seven-coloured glow.

"Brilliant! It should be set to the music from 'The Ring of the Nibelungen'! Ahhhh! Wagner is still the best! La-la-la-la!" Lord Caius danced his translucent figure excitedly. "The main character is about to make his debut ah! Ahhhhh! Come and wrap this up! My 'Siegfried'! La-la-la-la!" Lord Caius folded the fingers of his hands in front of his chest and stood independently on one foot on top of the cathedral spire, making an expectant gesture of looking into the distance.

At the Riverport site, Richard clapped his hands after throwing out the metal box, smiled gently and said, "It's all over." Then he punched Lorenzo, who was struggling to free himself from the vine entanglements. The bone spur projections on Lorenzo the "Tooth Beast" suddenly fell off in droves, and Lorenzo quickly reverted to his original form, shrivelling to the ground and gasping for breath.

Richard's silhouette flickered, and he reached the side of the "Corrupted Spirit" Cooter who was trying to extinguish the flames on his body, and slapped his palm on Cooter's body, the flames on Cooter's body immediately extinguished, but his size also suddenly shortened by a little bit.

Richard slapped him again, and again, and after three slaps, Kurt had shrunk back to a rotting ball of flesh, and was grabbed by Richard and thrown onto Lorenzo.

It was Shaun and Lola who had knocked down the minions in three taps and came to Richard's side as well.

"Call the church and have them clean up the mess. Luckily no ordinary citizens were hurt. That device is too dangerous, have Chloe hide in the river first. Didn't figure out what it was what purpose it had ..."

Speaking here, Richard suddenly stopped and turned his head in the direction of the river, his always gentle face showing a serious expression: "What's that?"

Shaun and Lola also followed Richard's gaze, but nothing could be seen on the dark river.

Suddenly several water columns on the river rose up to the sky, and under the surface of the water as if there were giant beasts fighting, rolling up several huge whirlpools, and there were also several strange loud sounds.

Immediately after that a black shadow flew up from the river and flew over in the direction of Richard's three people.

The vine plants on the bank of the river harbour suddenly grew violently, forming a large green net in the air to intercept the black shadow.

"It's Chloe!" Lola called out.

Chloe, dressed in a black diving suit, came down from the vines with a metal case and blood dripping from the corners of her mouth, staggered for a moment, threw the metal case to Richard, and hissed, "Run!" , after saying this word Chloe's body suddenly burst open, new blood and guts covered the body parts from earlier, colouring the red all over the place a few more shades brighter.

Shaun and Lola suddenly felt at the same time an extremely powerful aura coming from the direction of the river, it was mixed with a warring sense of evil, cold, bloody, with a kind of indifference that was completely oblivious to life and beauty.

Richard threw the box to Lola and said decisively, "You two run!" After saying this, his figure disappeared.

Lola gritted her teeth and shoved the box to Shaun, roaring, "Run!" Then the vines in front of him swayed and danced in the air.

Shaun took the box and froze for a moment, then turned around and ran in the opposite direction from the river port.