In the past, when Bai Xiaowen dealt with enemies with high Agility, the summoned creatures would surround them. The other party had no room to dodge and could only take the damage, quickly falling to the ground.
However, with 96 Agility, Markus could do whatever he wanted. All of Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures couldn't even touch the corners of Markus' clothes. Every time Markus slipped through a gap, they couldn't surround him at all.
Another point was that Bosses with high Agility usually didn't have high Strength. However, Markus' Strength was close to 50 thanks to the Night Demon Form's passive bonus!
Only the enhanced Skeleton Warriors with their 44 points of strength were close to him. As for the other skeleton sword-shielders, shadow assassins, and so on, even if they could block in advance, as long as Marcus lightly bumped into them, they would be knocked back several steps, making it impossible to encircle them.
The Butcher buzzed and activated the Decay skill. Poisonous fog spread all over his body! Bai Xiaowen turned around and hid behind the Butcher.
The only thing they could count on now was the Butcher's large body.
Markus smiled coldly and plunged into the Butcher's Decay poison fog! His Dual Resistance wasn't high to begin with. His damage reduction mainly relied on the passive of Advanced Cursed Body, so the loss of half his Dual Resistance wasn't great.
Markus clawed at the Butcher, and blood seeped out from the surface of the Butcher's body. This attack didn't do much damage, but Markus' HP was replenished by his Bloodthirsty Instinct!
Markus moved like the wind, circling around the Butcher, clawing and sucking blood while chasing after Bai Xiaowen.
This way, the damage of the Decay poison was shamelessly offset by Markus' Bloodthirsty Instinct.
One fled while the other chased. Bai Xiaowen was having a hard time. His Agility was his weak point. If it weren't for the other summoned creatures blocking him, Markus would have caught up to him long ago.
Li Shuyi wanted to rush over to help stall for time, but Bai Xiaowen sternly prohibited her from doing so in the party channel.
Li Shuyi was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of Agility. If she were to be caught by Markus, she would meet the conditions to be transformed into a blood thrall! If Li Shuyi was bitten, he would have no choice but to leave with a Return Scroll.
Markus was extremely pleased with himself. He laughed as he chased, "Don't run, little guy. Let me hug you properly!"
“Hentai！”
Bai Xiaowen cursed. Under the high pressure, he made a mistake in his positioning. He was actually on the same line as Keats, about to collide head-on! The two of them forcibly stopped in their tracks, and only then did they stop the momentum of their collision.
How could Markus let go of this opportunity? He pounced forward like a ghost, his sharp claws grabbing Bai Xiaowen's shoulders as he made a grabbing motion.
However, as soon as he made his move, Markus sensed that something wasn't right. The touch of his hands didn't feel the warmth of a living being at all. Instead, it felt completely cold, just like the temperature of his own skin!
Markus couldn't help but be shocked when he focused his eyes. The one he was grabbing wasn't Bai Xiaowen, but that vampire summoned creature! He forcibly resisted the urge to bite down and transform into a blood thrall. His teeth chattered.
Keats looked at him a little innocently, "Please conduct yourself with dignity. I don't like men."
One second before the time was reversed.
Just as Markus was about to grab Bai Xiaowen, the sound of flapping wings rang out, and bats flew over.
Keats, who was about to collide with Bai Xiaowen, also used his ability to transform into a swarm of bats and passed through Bai Xiaowen's body! He replaced Bai Xiaowen and was caught by Markus.
Taking advantage of Markus' momentary pause, the other summoned creatures also took a step forward!
Originally, the summoned creatures were all standing in a loose formation, but after taking this step, they formed a tight encirclement. With the Butcher and Keats as the main body, they once again surrounded Markus in the center!
Li Shuyi was a little surprised. Bai Xiaowen's escape just now seemed to be without any order, but in reality, it was leading Markus in a circle. The summoned creatures blocking the way during this time were also completing their respective positions! In the end, they pretended to collide and led Markus to pounce forward. Keats' swarm of bats was the final piece of the encirclement.
The encirclement this time was much tighter than before. The summoned creatures with lower strength, such as the skeleton swordsmen and so on, had already set up their iron shields and were ready for battle. Even though Markus's strength was as high as 48 points, it was still very difficult for him to forcefully charge out.
If it had been an ordinary Agility-type powerhouse, they would have already been declared GG after being tricked like this.
But Markus was different. Facing the iron barrel formation, he only smiled sinisterly and once again used the Night Demon Form's ability to transform into a swarm of bats to break through the encirclement!
"How can a mere encirclement trap a noble vampire!"
Markus was pleased with himself, but the moment he charged out of the encirclement, his pupils abruptly shrank.
Surprisingly, it was Bai Xiaowen. He made the same movement as before, a cluster of flames burning fiercely in his right hand! Although it didn't have the terrifying might of the magma from last time, this was the exact same starting position. It was obviously the Kusanagi Sect's ancient martial art — Oni Orochi!
Previously, Bai Xiaowen didn't know the exact health of each of Markus' bats. To be safe, he didn't hesitate to use up one charge and used the Oni Orochi's ultimate skill.
After some calculations, Bai Xiaowen found that the standard Oni Orochi was enough. As long as the bats were within the burning range, they would also be burned to death.
This was a chain reaction.
Bai Xiaowen knew that Vampire Lord Markus had the ability to transform into a swarm of bats, so the encirclement was meaningless against him. But he still painstakingly set up the encirclement in order to let Markus enter his bat form again!
"F * ck …"
Markus didn't even have time to curse before he was engulfed by the raging flames.
The bats exploded one after another amidst their miserable screams.
The Oni Orochi's flames were finally extinguished.
"Did we win?" Li Shuyi let out a sigh of relief.
Bai Xiaowen also smiled. This troublesome boss was really difficult to deal with if he didn't think of some tricks.
Suddenly, Bai Xiaowen thought of something.
If Markus was killed … why didn't the Black Soul Stone prompt him that it had grown?!
"Be careful!"
Bai Xiaowen shouted.
Behind Bai Xiaowen, a bat suddenly appeared and turned into a pale-faced Marcus with a large amount of wrinkles on his skin! This Vampire Lord had a sneer on his face as he clasped Bai Xiaowen's shoulder from behind.
Strength suppression, agility suppression! Bai Xiaowen had no power to resist at all and was firmly held by Markus.
Then, Markus opened his mouth and revealed his fangs, happily biting down on Bai Xiaowen's neck!
It turned out that when Markus used the bat swarm for the first time and reorganized his body, he had reserved a bat to hide on the ceiling! The second time Bai Xiaowen's Oni Orochi barbecue seemed to have included all the bats, but in fact, he had left out the one on the ceiling.
Bai Xiaowen couldn't be blamed for this. As a mental strength expert, although he had the ability to scan, Markus' bat was too small of a target. Moreover, during the fierce battle, Bai Xiaowen had been racking his brains to scheme against Markus and didn't have the extra energy to scan the irrelevant areas of the battlefield.
Markus smiled proudly. His blood began to flow into Bai Xiaowen's body and the upper limit of his HP began to drop, but his remaining HP slowly recovered!
Blood Slave Transformation!
Li Shuyi wanted to rush forward, but was stopped by Bai Xiaowen through the team channel.
"Unfortunately, we've still reached this stage."
Bai Xiaowen was captured and bitten, but he could still speak in the team channel.
"Now, we can only take a gamble. If we lose, we'll lose this time's gains. If we win, we can get rid of this guy in the shortest time possible … "
Bai Xiaowen's consciousness was already focused on the Town Return Scroll in the storage space. He could open the Town Return Scroll with a thought and return to Earth.
However, Bai Xiaowen didn't use it immediately. He was waiting.
The Spirit Realm's laws prompted the message:
"Vampire Lord has used the skill: Blood Slave Transformation. Blood Contract Judgement in progress … "
"Due to unknown interference, Blood Slave Transformation has failed!"
Markus suddenly felt a great sense of majesty, as if a huge blood-red eye was staring at him emotionlessly!
“NOOOOO！”
Markus screamed, and then his body suddenly stiffened. He actually fell into a dizzy state for 10 seconds!
These 10 seconds of dizziness weren't affected by Markus's High Leader Toughness.
"Looks like I won the gamble."
Bai Xiaowen heaved a sigh of relief. At this time, the other summoned creatures had already rushed forward. A round of attacks took away Markus' remaining HP. Markus only had a dozen or so HP in the form of a bat. Although he had absorbed a few dozen HP during the Blood Slave Transformation, he was still unable to withstand the combined attacks of the summoned creatures.
After all, the dizziness lasted for 10 seconds. It wouldn't be a problem to kill Markus ten times.
After Markus died, it was different from the death of a normal leader.
A soul shadow emerged, and Markus laughed wildly: "Okay, you win this time. But next time, you won't be so lucky! I'm eternal, I'm immortal! It won't be long before I'm reborn … Hmm? "
The black soul stone faintly glowed, and Delifa's sweet voice sounded: "What an arrogant little guy. You're only a few hundred years old? You dare to talk nonsense about the great word eternal. Become the nutrients of the black soul stone. "
"Roar, oh, oh, oh, oh …"
Markus shouted wildly, but no matter how he struggled, his soul shadow was still dragged inch by inch towards the black soul stone. It was just that the speed was very slow.
"You have some perseverance, but it's useless." The Soul Bewitching Demoness Delifer's projection appeared from the Black Soul Stone. Her voluptuous figure was fully revealed. She gently waved her hand, and Markus was suddenly dragged twice as fast.
When Markus's soul shadow saw Delifa, it was as if he had seen a ghost, and he shouted: "It's you … It's actually you!"
Startled, Markus's soul was quickly sucked in.
"Delifa, try to preserve his soul consciousness. It doesn't matter if you use his soul essence!"
Bai Xiaowen only had time to instruct. He covered his left eye, which was twitching wildly, and felt dizzy.
Bai Xiaowen once again confirmed that all the control skills such as charm, slave contract, and so on would be ineffective, and then trigger the counterattack of the "Eye of Evolution"!
The first counterattack was when he had just seen the soul stone. Delifa had tried to charm him mentally, and as a result, her vitality was greatly damaged by the counterattack. At that time, Bai Xiaowen hadn't been an Awakened.
This time, the counterattack was triggered by Markus' blood contract, and the counterattack was even stronger.
What was the origin of the Eye of Evolution?
Was the Eye of Evolution placed in my left eye random or selected?
Was it a coincidence that the Eye of Evolution took me through time and space?
Bai Xiaowen recalled the evolution of the Eye of Evolution, and there were many doubts before and after.
"The Eye of Evolution may be more important to me than the black soul stone. Although most of my current strength comes from the black soul stone, a hero exclusive equipment, the root of it is the credit of the Eye of Evolution.
"It's impossible to dig out the secret of the Eye of Evolution in a short time. But the secret of the black soul stone … seems to have some clues. "
Bai Xiaowen's thoughts returned. Markus's behavior when he saw Delifa just now was a bit too strange.
"Delifa, does this Markus … know you?"
Delifa shook her head blankly.
"Xiaowen, a lot of Delifa's memories have been sealed, so it's normal that she doesn't remember," Li Shuyi said.
"Markus should know Delifa," Bai Xiaowen said with certainty. "Although Delifa used the Soulcatcher Banshee as a carrier, her current appearance is her original Valkyrie form. Markus obviously recognized her."
After a pause, Bai Xiaowen said again, "I asked you to keep Markus' consciousness. Did you do it?"
Delifa said with a bit of difficulty, "Master, Markus is a chief-tier powerhouse. It's too difficult to keep his complete consciousness. It's completely different from keeping Mr. Kitts' consciousness. Also, there's not much Soul Essence in the black soul stone to begin with … "
After the battle in the mausoleum, the black soul stone's current growth rate was level six, with 181 points of Soul Essence stored. But compared to keeping the consciousness of a chief-tier powerhouse, it was only a drop in the bucket.
"Just tell me the result." Bai Xiaowen interrupted Delifa and called out to Li Shuyi at the same time. They quickly walked towards the spiral staircase on the second floor of the underground mausoleum.
"Yes, Master."
Delifa reported briefly, "Markus' complete consciousness was not successfully retained, and his memories have been declared broken. Currently, only about 30% of his memory fragments are left … I can use the black soul stone to analyze these memory fragments, but it will take time."
The memory fragments that Delifa was talking about were memories of Markus's social interactions, growth experiences, and other events. As for the memories that contained Markus's battle specialty, they were content automatically retained by the black soul stone and did not contain any information.
Bai Xiaowen immediately said, "Okay, go analyze them immediately. I won't summon you unless it's necessary for the following battle."
"Yes, Master."
Delifa was definitely a model in the world of maids. She did not question Bai Xiaowen's orders at all. She immediately withdrew into the black soul stone and went to analyze Markus' memory fragments.
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