Embers of Embers

Chapter 660 Overturning the Gambling Table
The darkness grows under the flesh and blood body, as if it has its own life, it keeps raving and tempting.
Shao Liangye's expression was dignified, his hand rested on the handle of the jackknife, and the weapon could be swung to slash at any time. Judging from his usual fighting power, his skills were astonishing, and he could easily cut off fallen leaves, but he didn't know that he Can they kill the being in front of them...or do they really have the concept of death for such a being?
Slowly retreating, Shao Liangye could only hope for Lorenzo's sanity, while he was lying on the ground, hunched over, with a ferocious expression.
"Roger Cruz."
In the shadows, Lorenzo stood up with difficulty, muttering to himself.
"You crave destruction and death, and you walk on a path destined to breakage."
Fireworks rolled in his pupils. Different from controlling the Black Angel before, this time Lorenzo was operating on two lines. While the flame bearer was fighting, he was also moving with difficulty.
This was a bit too much mental pressure, and he only felt an indescribable feeling of disgust. Soon blood flowed from his nose and dripped on the ground, like some kind of strong acidic liquid. The moment it came into contact with the ground, it made a hissing sound. sound.
Seeing this, Lorenzo was not surprised at all. He knew his body's condition better than anyone else.
As the height of his ascent continued to climb, Lorenzo, who got rid of the shackles of the Silver Bolt and obtained the [Certificate], has embarked on a path that few demon hunters in the past can take.
His soul is being sublimated, and the body in which his soul resides has become deeper and deeper.
At this moment, this body is like a furnace, smelting the forbidden secret blood, but soon, this forbidden power will continue to expand, and in the end, even the blood will not be able to bind it.
"What are you doing?"
Shao Liangye asked anxiously.
"Fight Roger."
Lorenzo showed an ugly smile, and in the distant horizon, there was a roar of thunder.
"It's more than that."
Shao Liangye could feel Lorenzo's pressure, and he could also find a slight...gap under this heavy pressure.
Like a cunning gambler, he has been cornered at the gambling table, but while fighting against his opponents, he is still looking for opportunities to cheat without giving up.
It's an uphill battle, and everyone needs a little... luck.
"You guessed it."
Lorenzo's smile showed his teeth, stained with blood, like a wild beast.
"I'm chasing him, Shao Liangye."
In the world of nothingness, two completely different consciousnesses are chasing and hunting, searching for the only point of light in the endless darkness.
"I'm almost there."
Lorenzo stopped moving. The excessive pressure made it difficult for him to continue moving. He leaned against the wall and fell down, urging Shao Liangye.
"Run away, Shao Liangye, as far away from me as possible."
"what happened?"
Lorenzo raised his voice vigorously, as if he was about to die.
"When I find Roger, he'll find me."
The pupils of his eyes turned completely blazing white, and Lorenzo was like a fallen god in a trance. This was no longer a battle that Shao Liangye could get involved in. He picked up his pace, backed away slowly, said nothing more, and immediately evacuated. , leaving Lorenzo alone here.
It was also with Shao Liangye's departure that Lorenzo was finally able to relax and deal with it wholeheartedly.
Chaotic and disorderly scenes flew before our eyes, and numerous thunder and explosions continued.
……
The lower town has turned into a vast ocean at this moment. The Thames River has risen to the bridge head and overflowed everything. The only buildings are still resisting tenaciously, but it is only a matter of time before they completely collapse.
They were crushed by the current, and the gravel mixed with soil encircled the floating corpses and kept impacting them.
It is also very close to the dock, where most of the strangers sneak over. At this moment, it is also integrated with the ocean. The flame bearer can only see the boats pushed by the rapids behind the rain and fog.
The flame bearer moved slowly, with water reaching its knees. The tall figure spread out its iron feathers, like a fighting beast, expanding its body as much as possible.
Not far away, ferocious monsters piled up in the water. As the flesh and blood spread, Lorenzo was not sure what it was. He just knew that things like this must be killed.
Consciousness is free from the body, and they are testing each other, just like swordsmen fighting.
The blade touched lightly, seemingly weak, but as long as there was a slight flaw, it would usher in a violent attack like a storm.
【You are looking for me, right?Holmes. 】
Roger's chuckle sounded, and blazing white fireworks ignited under the monster's body, lighting up the water.
[Then I guess, you are also looking for me, right? 】
Lorenzo responded.
Roger wants to destroy the [Final Echo] carried by Lorenzo, which is the only thing that can pose a direct threat to the Unspeakable. And Lorenzo also seeks Roger's location. The only way is to kill Roger. Only in this way can the heavy rain that has enveloped Old Dunling come to an end.
Both sides know the other's purpose, so all that's left is a fight to the death.
There was a sudden sound of thunder, and fire rolled behind the flame bearer, forming dazzling wings of light.
It propelled at high speed on the water, splashing heavy waves.
The Flame Bearer does not have too many weapons, and its deadly wings are the most terrifying weapons in themselves, but they are still not enough to fight Roger. They are powerful, but they cannot achieve a fatal blow.
The monster did not move, its flesh and blood was deeply rooted in the earth, like a big tree of flesh and blood, its branches were waving sharp blades, and they were dancing wildly, stirring up huge winds and waves.
The distance keeps shortening, and the two touch each other, shaking the mind.
The waves rolled up in regular circles and spread in all directions. The branches whipped the flame bearer's armor hard, cutting open the water and tearing the soil.
Countless branches whipped forward under Roger's will.
The flame bearer faced thousands of sword blades, and similarly, it also wielded its own thousand swords.
The iron feathers intertwined with the branches, and the flame bearer and the monster collided together. The temperature reached the extreme in an instant, and the raging steam surged, immersing both of them, leaving only a mist ball that continued to overflow.
The high-pitched sound echoed in it, like an uninterrupted movement, the orchestra played, singing the praises of death and mourning.
The pressure from his will was getting stronger and stronger. In the shadows, Lorenzo had lost all power and was slumped down like a corpse. If you didn't carefully observe, it was even difficult to detect his breathing.
Go deeper, go deeper...
Absolute will carries out the action, and the surrounding scene once again plunges into pure darkness. It is difficult to reach and see through, as if they have existed here since ancient times.
Like a fence.
"I saw……"
Lorenzo murmured softly, like a child in his sleep.
In the battlefield of monsters, the movements of the flame bearer and the monsters slowed down in an instant. Not only were they slowed down, the heavy rain, running water, gravel... everything was slowing down, as if frozen in the air. Generally speaking, it finally settles down.
In the stagnant world, Lorenzo could clearly see the whipping of the branches. One after another, they formed a heavy rain-like attack, leaving no gap for the flame bearer to break through.
But under this delay, the movement of the branches slowed down, and he saw the falling trajectory. There was a fatal gap between the intertwined trajectories. As long as he moved along the gap, he could hit the monster's body in one fell swoop.
The existence time of the gap is too short, so short that such a gap is not considered a flaw, but as long as the flame holder is fast enough, it can be as fast as lightning, or even faster than thunder.
As long as it reaches that level, this gap will become a fatal flaw.
Right, that is it.
Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate, use all your strength, and deliver a fatal blow along the gap.
Therefore, the picture in front of him began to be full of cracks, collapsing like broken glass, and the fallen branches reversed back to their original positions as if going back in time.
The scene returned to a few seconds ago, with the two preparing to attack, just like the night before the decisive battle.
A water droplet streaked across the monster and the flame bearer. It passed through the heavy iron branches and sharp feathers, and dripped on the water, causing slight ripples, and then the ripples turned into huge waves.
detonate.
Just as Lorenzo predicted, thousands of iron branches fell fiercely according to the predicted trajectory. The flame bearer also punched at this moment, but at the same time as he punched, the dense iron armor also continued to grow, along the A deformed and sharp fist blade grew out of his arm.
Not fast enough, still not fast enough.
Lorenzo could see the gap getting narrower and narrower, and the iron branches were about to cover it.
Blazing white fireworks erupted between the gaps in the armor. They were dragged backward by the strong wind, forming a burning stream of fire. The machinery was tightly locked together, and its power reached its limit.
This is a sword, an extremely sharp sword, with a speed that surpasses thunder.
Lorenzo believed it could cut through everything, just like the self-deception of a poor man, and the prayer of a soldier before he goes to battle.
There was thunder in an instant, and the heavy rain was shaken up. It fell again soon after, washing over the blood-stained armor and extinguishing the fireworks.
The flame bearer and the monster are deeply entangled, and it is even difficult to distinguish the two from a distance.
At the last moment, the iron feathers closed in, protecting most of the flame bearer's torso, while the iron branches were blocked. However, some of them broke through the iron feathers' protection, nailed into the flame bearer's body, and sunk deeply into the armor. under.
On the other hand, the monster maintained an absolute offensive until the end.
The dense iron branches strangled the flame holder's fist blade, but in the face of this thunderous strike, the iron branches still seemed too fragile.
Most of them were defeated from the front and split into several pieces. Some were deflected by the armor on them, and then hit the flame bearer's iron feathers. Others were lucky enough to penetrate the armor, one after another, and the flame bearer's iron feathers were shot. His right arm was riddled with wounds from whipping.
Most of the armor cracked open under the whipping, revealing the iron-colored skeleton underneath. The mechanical mechanism was also destroyed, the pipes were exposed and deflated, and the flesh and blood that had been entangled until now were cut off and strangled.
Even in this state, the flame bearer's fist still struggled forward, using all his strength to push up the iron bones one by one until it passed through the gap and hit the target.
The Flame Bearer wins.
The fist finally penetrated the monster's heart, and the sharp blade penetrated the body and protruded along the back, carrying blood and iron bones.
【I found you. 】
After a brief silence, the blazing light ignited again under the mask of the flame bearer.
Outside the mechanical yard, Roger's progress came to a halt. He stood in the heavy rain and seemed a little confused. He didn't know what happened at that moment, but he soon sensed the enemy's arrival.
Looking at the end of the rain and fog, a blurry figure was standing there, watching him, but in the blink of an eye, the figure disappeared, like ink, washed away by the heavy rain.
"Lorenzo Holmes..."
Roger whispered, wary and delighted.
"In this first round, you win."
He took a long breath and then closed his eyes. Roger could feel that an invisible road connected him and Lorenzo. Lorenzo tried to escape, but he still underestimated himself.
At the same time, Lorenzo stood up suddenly in the shadows. Even though the pressure on his body was so great that it was almost completely broken, he did not think about stopping.
Lorenzo staggered and vomited blood.
That's too late.
The moment Lorenzo defeated the monster and tracked down Roger, he knew clearly that it was too late.
But Lorenzo still has to do this, just like Gawain said, he is not a savior, he is just one of the many living beings.
Lorenzo should try to believe in others and believe that they can do it too, or even do it better than himself.
The erosion broke out in full force, and the will from Lorenzo covered the entire old Dunling in the blink of an eye.
It is not easy to maintain such a huge field, it completely collapsed after a few seconds, but in these few seconds, it was enough for Lorenzo to convey this important information.
[Roger Cruz is in the Mechanical Institute! 】
This time it was no longer a false body. Under the disguised puppets, Lorenzo followed the traces of erosion and finally found Roger's true body.
And then... what to do next?
Lorenzo took a deep breath, his pupils were bloodshot, and a little bit of scarlet overflowed from the corners of his eyes.
He drew out his nail sword and held it firmly to prevent himself from falling.
He knew very well what would happen next, but there was nothing he could do about it. Roger was too powerful. No matter how sophisticated the plot was, it would be defeated in the face of absolute force.
The battlefield with mountains of corpses and seas of blood flashed through my mind, and I saw dead faces one after another.
Lorenzo thought he had the power to confront the demon head-on, but when all-out war really broke out, he realized how much flesh and blood would be required for such a head-on confrontation.
"The rest is up to you, Anonymous."
Lorenzo muttered.
The death row plan was not perfect. From the beginning of his encounter with Roger, the plan was completely disrupted by absolute force.
But this does not mean that Lorenzo loses. He still has room to fight back. As a gambler with nothing, he still has the last choice.
Overturn the gaming table.
Lorenzo thought like this and tightened his grip on [Final Echo].
The next moment a huge will came here, and Roger Cruz found Lorenzo along the erosion.
(End of this chapter)