HLnovel Chapter 352: Confident Demon Leader
Chapter 352: Confident Demon Leader
The leader of the phantom demons recalled the past, the man he killed for the first time, and experienced horrible hallucinations. In his ears, there were faint voices, sometimes whispering, sometimes screaming. These voices weaved into a crazy symphony, eating away at his sanity bit by bit. He began to see the faces of his relatives, which turned into hideous monsters in an instant. These images switched repeatedly in his consciousness, making it difficult for him to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Time lost its meaning in this illusion. His body gradually weakened, and his eyes became empty, as if he was trapped in an endless maze, unable to find the exit. Finally, his hands drooped weakly, and he finally stopped struggling. His breathing gradually became weaker, until it stopped completely, and his heart stopped beating.
However, his face still retained that expression of fear and despair, as if he could not break free from that illusion until his death. His body became an empty shell in the real world, and his soul seemed to remain in the abyss of illusions. This is what every phantom demon has to go through after birth, killing the first human, and then absorbing nutrients from the fear of humans to become stronger, so humans are the existence they despise the most. Now that he has become a magician and the leader of these phantom demons, he must show himself in front of the high-level demons.
The illusion was activated, and Xingluo saw a phantom demon suddenly grow larger and turned into a huge black dragon. Xingluo's eyes were a little strange, because although this black dragon was big, it was not as big as the black dragon Nicholas. Even the current Xiao Hei seemed to be bigger than the other. The dragon let out a deafening roar, and the phantom demon leader looked at the human with a mocking face, expecting the other party to show an expression of fear. Not to mention humans, even the phantom demons were extremely afraid when they saw the black dragon, but when he turned his gaze to humans, his mental fluctuations skipped a beat, and saw that Xingluo's face did not show any fear. Then he was a little unwilling, and began to use illusion to spit dragon breath at Xingluo. Xingluo took out a bottle of potion and drank it expressionlessly. Sure enough, the giant dragon in front of him disappeared like a bubble. Not only that, those phantom demons seemed to be much clearer. Xingluo had a strange look in his eyes and notified Mo with magic.
Xingluo thought for a moment, then began to show a "horrified" expression on his face. He spat out a few mouthfuls of blood on the ground, and then ran towards the mercenary group in embarrassment. The Phantom Demon Leader finally put his mind at ease after seeing the reaction of the human magician. It seemed that the human was frightened by the dragon and had a slow reaction. He showed disdain on his face, "Humph, a mere human."
After Xingluo returned to the mercenary group, he felt relieved when he saw that everyone had taken the potion. As expected, after paying a huge price, the demons escorted the phantom demons to the flank battlefield. The weirdness of these phantom demons made the mercenaries on Xingluo's side subconsciously tighten their weapons. They had never fought with phantom demons, so it was very good to have such a reaction, because no one retreated a step, but the fingers holding the weapons turned white. Xingluo nodded. These people will definitely go further after the baptism of this war, and these demons can be used for training.
When the Phantom Demon saw the people from the Sky City mercenary team, he was stunned at first, because there were not only humans but also many other races among them. However, the Phantom Demon leader didn't care about that. Any creature with mental fluctuations would be enslaved by the Phantom Demons and become their mental slaves, and then struggle and die.
Sure enough, under the mental attack of the Phantom Demon, all the Starfall forces seemed to have fallen into a stagnant state, but some people were still struggling, as if trying to break free from control. The Phantom Demon leader had long been accustomed to these creatures and ordered all of them to begin casting illusions. In the eyes of the Phantom Demons, these creatures were like lambs to be slaughtered. At this time, their numerous phantom dragons condensed into terrifying creatures, even transforming into the horror hidden deep in the hearts of the creatures.
The Phantom Demon used magic to submerge the forces of Xingluo in a distorted ocean of consciousness, and then broke through the rain of arrows and arrived here. The high-level demon creatures and all the demon dragons that followed the army launched an attack. They thought that the forces of Xingluo had no power to fight back, so they swooped down directly, intending to use close combat to tear apart these ants who dared to kill their own kind.
Other high-level demons also liked the thrill of close combat. They always enjoyed the feeling of having the blood of non-demon races all over their bodies. Just when they rushed to Xingluo, the Sky City Mercenary Group, which had been ready for a long time, began to release various magic that had been prepared long ago.
The demon dragon was caught off guard and rushed to the front. It was hit by magic on the head of the dragon, and then it was attacked by the horned hippogryph. They originally wanted to attack the Chimera whose anti-air ability was weaker, but who would have thought that they would be caught by the horned hippogryph that was not at all under the illusion. The red-bearded dwarf and the human knight also began to charge to block the demons who survived the rain of arrows.
These demons obviously did not expect that the Sky City Mercenaries, who had been under an illusion, had already prepared such a fierce attack, and they were unable to react for a while. The most shocked ones at this time were the phantom demons. They never dreamed that someone would be immune to illusions, and it seemed that they had not been under an illusion from the beginning, otherwise the attack would not have been released suddenly. Since these phantom demons had to cast an illusion, they rushed forward, and after being attacked by magic, even if they had no entity, they were all destroyed under the influence of the magic elements.
This is the Phantom Demon. He was supposed to be a master of illusion and a killer without bloodshed, but now he has become the target of slaughter. The Phantom Demon leader looked at Xingluo in despair and muttered to himself: "Why!!! Why is my illusion ineffective?"
Xingluo glanced at the potions all over the floor and muttered, "Fortunately it's an illusion." Xingluo and his companions had long been accustomed to living with the Mirage Dragon. They were in illusions all day long and had a very high resistance to illusions. In addition, they had potions made from the herbs around the Mirage Dragon. To ensure that there would be no mistakes, they had taken them all at Xingluo's reminder. At this point, let alone a mere phantom demon, even if the Mirage Dragon woke up and launched an illusion, they had the confidence to resist for a while.
The Sky City Mercenaries launched a charge towards the already scattered demons. Although these were not the main force of the demon army, each of them was a high-level demon with extremely fast movement speed, equivalent to the human Chocobo Knight troops. Together with the demon dragons and phantoms, these demons formed a temporary highly mobile army.
The original plan was to have this force quickly resolve the trouble on the flank and then return to support the main force, but the overconfident demons are now in a tough battle. These demons are fast in movement, but their defense is much worse. They trusted the phantom demons too much and gave up their high mobility, going deep into the encirclement of the Sky City Mercenaries. They are now being surrounded and attacked by the Sky City Mercenaries.