Chapter 162: Temporary Cooperation.

“If you ask him for these potions, he will turn around and ask you to settle the debt later, my brother. This Easterner is a standard miser, a miser. Compared to a Vampire, the stench of coins on him is even stronger.”

Neither of them paid any attention to Callisto’s interruption. Xiao Fen closed his eyes and continuously produced three kinds of potions in less than a minute, tossing them to Lycaon.

Lycaon did not inject them into his body as he had done before. In fact, with his current defensive thickness, Xiao Fen really could not think of any needle that could pierce Lycaon for injection, other than a large-caliber autocannon.

The sturdy Trialist suddenly inhaled forcefully, inhaling all three potions into his nose together. Looking at Xiao Fen, Lycaon smiled slightly and said, “This is a little trick of Trialists. If potions cannot be injected, just inhale them into the lungs. It might be a bit painful, but it can also react directly with the blood and takes effect faster than swallowing.”

Xiao Fen smiled bitterly. Inhaling a tube of liquid into the lungs with the nose, that probably could not be called just “a bit painful.” If one was not careful, a person could die from this little trick.

Just then, the monsters in the main hall could no longer hold back. Two black animals that looked like hyenas suddenly rushed out and bit down on Lycaon, who was blocking the door.

Xiao Fen simply could not imagine such a scenario of seeking their own death. In his mind, even if they had no intelligence, they should at least know what danger was and know what things could not be touched. But these two hyenas before his eyes were clearly not within Xiao Fen’s consideration.

With two “hissing” sounds, Lycaon’s body did not even move, but the bodies of the black hyenas had impaled themselves on Lycaon. A large amount of blood continuously flowed onto the ground through the gaps between the steel spikes.

The suffering of the two hyenas did not end there. Lycaon suddenly spun around and slammed forcefully against the door of the main hall.

The huge impact caused the entire house to start shaking slightly, and dust fell rustling from the roof. The bodies of these two hyenas, due to this collision, were completely embedded in Lycaon.

After struggling for a short while, the two hyenas lost their lives and stiffened on Lycaon. Then, they suddenly split into countless particles and dissipated into the air. Lycaon casually picked up a key crystal from the ground and asked Xiao Fen nonchalantly, “Do you want it?”

This kind of simple, crude, but unusually effective combat made Xiao Fen’s eyelids twitch.

A huge meteor hammer sweeping through a crowd would probably look just like this. Compared to Xiao Fen’s previous fighting style of killing enemies slowly with one strike at a time, Lycaon’s combat was simply too easy.

Regarding Lycaon’s question, Xiao Fen shook his head and said, “No, you can give it to your sister. Maybe she can open a bottle of potion; at least that way she’ll owe me one less potion.”

Lycaon shrugged, and his armor made clanking sounds as he did so. He said, “That’s exactly what I intended.”

After saying that, Lycaon casually tossed the key to his sister and said in a low voice, “Follow me closely. My armor can only last no more than 15 minutes. Also, watch out for those magic attacks. Sally… oh, Callisto, you handle those guys who can launch magic attacks. Let’s clear this hall first.”

Callisto opened the key casually, but her expression changed rapidly. She whispered, “Damn it, Yggdrasil told me that I am still in the penalty period for mission failure. I cannot keep any potions or equipment until I leave this Trial World and settle the score. Things obtained from keys will also be confiscated by Yggdrasil.”

Xiao Fen turned his head, held back a laugh, and said, “Hey, complaining about the World Tree isn’t a good thing. Be careful, the World Tree is watching you.”

Callisto suddenly turned her head and said to Xiao Fen, “Shut up, you miser. Being lent money by you is definitely my biggest failure. Move faster, let’s go in together.”

As soon as the words fell, Lycaon, who had been prepared, suddenly sank his body. The bluestone floor beneath his feet suddenly cracked. Then, like a huge cannonball, Lycaon charged towards the thick black mist deep in the main hall.

It should be said that the current Lycaon was a cannonball.

In the space he swept through, the air seemed to be completely torn apart. Those monsters in the mist that were ready to move and blocking Lycaon were now firmly pinned dead by the spikes on Lycaon’s body, rushing with him into the depths of the mist.

What finally remained in front of Xiao Fen and Callisto was an empty safe passage with no monsters in it.

In this passage, even the black mist did not exist, as if it had been cleaned by a powerful vacuum cleaner. In an instant, an incredibly clean path had been cleared in the hall.

“I have a rough brother, and a creditor even more detestable than a Vampire. Alright, Yggdrasil, tell me, what else can I have? Or rather, what else can I not have?”

Callisto walked into the room muttering. The moment she stepped over the high threshold, the female Trialist suddenly raised her head, looked at another dark corner of the hall, and chanted a few words in a low voice.

In an instant, in the corner where the female Trialist was looking, the air temperature rose noticeably. By the time Xiao Fen realized something was abnormal, the temperature there had already risen to a scorching level.

A phantom black shadow struggled constantly in the air, making hissing sounds. It seemed to be holding something in its hand. Based on Xiao Fen’s understanding, it was most likely something like a staff.

However, all of this seemed insignificant amidst the rising air temperature. Moreover, Callisto did not increase the temperature indefinitely. At a moment Xiao Fen could not understand, perhaps 2 seconds after the temperature rise or even shorter, the female Trialist snapped her fingers, and the temperature rise ended abruptly.

The phantom black shadow seemed somewhat unable to comprehend surviving this heating process. It paused for a second and was about to turn its head to look at Xiao Fen’s side. Callisto, standing behind Xiao Fen, chanted a few strange words again.

A strong cold aura burst out from the spot where the monster was standing and spread rapidly. The surrounding air, which was still at a considerably high temperature, was impacted by this cold aura, making cracking sounds.

Xiao Fen saw with his own eyes that a large amount of snow suddenly appeared around the monster and then rapidly turned into water droplets, falling onto the ground.

In a brief moment, Xiao Fen witnessed the entire process of the birth of rain, and also the entire process of the death of a monster capable of using magic.

The sudden heat and cold caused a large number of ghostly patterns to appear all over the monster’s body. Accompanied by the “pat-pat” sound of raindrops falling on the ground, the monster’s body also suddenly decomposed. In a short time, it collapsed into scattered particles.

Facing this effortless combat style where one could kill a Level 3 monster with a mere wave of a hand, Xiao Fen, who basically got injured in every battle, had the urge to burst into tears.

Long-range combat was his heart’s desire, and remaining unharmed was his greatest goal.

This reverie vanished in an instant. At the moment the monster died, Xiao Fen suddenly felt a strong aura pouncing from the side of the hall door.

His eyebrows raised slightly, and he suddenly pounced forward. With one hand, he held Callisto in his arms and rolled a few times on the ground. With the other hand, he raised Berela’s Lingering and continuously released attacks at he-knew-not-what behind him.

“Bang bang bang bang bang.”

The huge sounds caused by five Qigong explosions rang out one after another in this hall. The damage caused by Qigong suddenly appeared before Xiao Fen’s eyes.

Before this, in the process of coming to the hall from the rockery, Xiao Fen had stored 5 Qigong skills in his staff. He had hesitated then whether to choose some other skills. But now it seemed that in such a narrow environment, fully utilizing the explosive effect of Qigong to knock back enemies rather than eagerly killing them was definitely the right choice.

“Your Qigong deals 55 explosion damage to the Filth Demon.”

“Your Qigong deals 55 explosion damage to the Filth Demon.”

“Your Qigong deals 55 explosion damage to the Filth Demon.”

Only three of the five Qigong attacks hit, but the knockback effect produced by the Qigong explosions was very obvious.

When Xiao Fen stood up from the middle of the hall holding Callisto, that mass of dark mist that had originally attacked Callisto at the door ultimately did not charge forward to launch a pursuit.

That mass of mist stood not far from Xiao Fen and the others, trembling slightly. It seemed to have considerable fear regarding Xiao Fen’s skills just now.

At this moment, the black mist in the entire room also appeared much sparser due to this explosion. Even though it was late in the day, the explosion just now still made the entire room much brighter.

Callisto frowned, glanced at Xiao Fen, and said, “This is really terrible. Saved by you again. How much more Gene Points do I owe you?”

Xiao Fen smiled bitterly. Before he could answer, Callisto had already turned her head to look at that pitch-black mist. She suddenly opened her mouth, and a cry sharp enough to rupture Xiao Fen’s eardrums was abruptly emitted.

Accompanied by this sound, a sonic impact beam that almost condensed into substance immediately appeared in the air. This sonic beam seemed to pause for a moment in the air, then rushed fiercely towards the black mist not far away.

There were no other sounds; all sounds were masked by Callisto’s cry just now. Even after Callisto stopped crying, the remaining echo was enough to make Xiao Fen unable to hear other sounds.

He could only see the black monster in front of him constantly shaking its body. Eventually, its entire body was cut into two halves. Not long after, it completely shattered.

A key crystal fell on the ground and rolled no more than twice before a large hand picked up the crystal and threw it fiercely to Xiao Fen, who was still dizzy from the terrible sound just now.

“There’s no space in my ring. Your backpack is nice; use it specifically to store keys.”