Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

As a Royal Slime, He Meng’s dual attack attributes are extremely low, insufficient to shake the mountain-sized Marbas, and as she transformed into a drill, she was bounced back by Marbas’s abdomen.

Retracting his sword, Yang Yu landed perfectly, catching the rebounding He Meng and holding her in his arms.

The next moment, a sharp long knife swung towards Yang Yu, who raised his shield to activate [Shield Block].

As the knife met the shield, a violent surge of magic power swept towards Yang Yu, the stones beneath him shattered, his body sank a few centimeters.

The expeditionary team attacked from all directions, maintaining an offensive posture, Marbas released five spiraling black whirlwinds from his feet.

”[Dark Explosion].”

The whirlwind rapidly expanded from the inside out, growing larger and larger, within the rotating range of the whirlwind, the ground completely shattered, beams of black light shot skyward, explosions echoed endlessly.

The members of the expeditionary team, attempting to charge in close, were all blocked by the continuous explosions, unable to advance.

Even if they muster courage and activate defensive skills to enter the explosion zone, they would be blown dizzy and confused by the continuous blasts.

The explosions slowly subsided, dust and mist again filled the air.

Activating [Copper Wall Iron Curtain] and [Steel Body], along with a series of enhancements released by Iyas earlier, Yang Yu, enduring [Dark Explosion] at close range, remained unharmed, yet was still heavily suppressed by Marbas’s long knife.

Yang Yu, holding up his shield, endured tremendous pressure, appearing unable to move an inch.

Unexpectedly, Marbas hadn’t pressed Yang Yu down immediately, somewhat surprised,

”You seem stronger than I imagined. The scent on you is extremely similar to theirs.

However, you can’t possibly be them, right?

Simply a coincidence born from magic power degradation.

Being able to block this move of mine, it’s worth being proud of. Unfortunately, it ends here.”

The biological mecha on his back continued to change, two cannons mounted on Marbas’s shoulders, aiming at Yang Yu under the knife.

Before Marbas could fire, He Meng leaped out from Yang Yu’s hand, transformed into a highly resilient python, crawling up Marbas’s long knife to his arm, reaching his shoulder in an instant.

Her body continually spinning, He Meng wrapped the two cannons layer by layer, causing them to deviate from their original position, aiming at Marbas’s head.

Marbas couldn’t help but praise: ”Outstanding maneuverability.

I never expected you could train such a primitive magic creature to be so obedient.

What method did you use!”

Both sides fell into a stalemate, Yang Yu intended to glean intelligence from Marbark but under the current circumstances, he couldn’t utter any calm words, nor dare to speak at all.

Showing any flaw would immediately bring Marbas’s attacks upon him.

Continuing this stalemate obviously isn’t a solution, a third-party is needed to break the impasse.

The third-party Yang Yu relied on had already flown high into the sky.

Utilizing her equipment and learned skills, Bai Jin perfectly evaded the missiles released by Marbas, after confirming her own safety, Bai Jin immediately formulated a strategy to counter Marbas’s attack.

A fireball suddenly enlarging in Bai Jin’s palm, from afar, it looked like a small sun burning in midair.

Without any hesitation, Bai Jin hurled the fireball into the sky, swinging her magic wand, the fireball expanded suddenly, diving down towards Marbas’s face.

In Marbas’s view, Bai Jin’s magic posed a greater threat than Yang Yu’s attacks. Raising the blade in his hand, Marbas leaped back before the flames swept over.

The blazing fireball exploded in front of him, and the raging flames continued to burn.

Manipulating the biological mecha behind him, the cannons Marbas had just manifested disintegrated into pieces, slipping away from He Meng’s restraint.

Seeing this, He Meng didn’t quickly leave Marbas but instead transformed into a big-eyed gecko, sticking to the back of Marbas’s biological mecha, ready to act.

Unless Marbas could produce a weapon to bombard his own back, relying solely on his arms, he was helpless against He Meng.

Marbas decisively chose to ignore He Meng, swung the long knife toward the right front, and released the skill:

”[Armed Destruction]”

The long knife surged with countless black currents, introducing a black wind blade, slashing towards Yang Yu who reached Marbas’s right front.

Increasing speed, jumping to the left, Yang Yu rolled to evade the sharp long knife.

Marbas’s combat experience was extremely rich, after Yang Yu avoided his sudden assault, he immediately launched a follow-up attack, his massive figure stepped forward a few steps, gripping the end of the long handle of the big knife, extending his attack range physically, then activating the skill [Attack Extension].

The long knife was covered by a layer of magic power, extending the blade forward, as Marbas’s attack formed a dual extension in both physical and magical senses.

Forced by circumstances, Yang Yu had no choice but to raise his shield to block.

”Boom,” the extended blade laced with black currents struck Yang Yu’s shield, knocking Yang Yu back several meters, black currents climbed onto Yang Yu’s shield, flowing through his body in an instant.

Quickly opening the equipment panel, Yang Yu saw a small icon appearing on his shield:

[Armed Destruction], causing equipment to temporarily lose its effect, each layer reduces equipment attributes by 20%, continues for 120 seconds, if one receives five consecutive [Armed Destruction], and if the quality of one’s equipment is less than or equal to the opponent’s equipment, the equipment will be completely destroyed.

Not only did the [Armed Destruction] icon appear on the equipment, but Yang Yu’s body also bore the icon, though the effect slightly differed compared to the equipment.

In the [Armed Destruction] status, Yang Yu’s dual defense reduces by 5%, damage received increases by 5%, what’s terrifying is the [Armed Destruction] on Yang Yu can also stack five layers, five layers means 25% dual defense reduction and 25% damage increase, to some extent, this counts as a bug-level skill.

Attack hitting Yang Yu, Marbas smiled slightly.

In an instant, it seemed like Yang Yu had been marked, a black mass descended over his head, pinning him to the spot.

Yang Yu focused, seeing two more icons adjacent to [Armed Destruction], one is [Dark Strong Restriction], understood as an enhanced version of the dark edition of Holy Light Restriction, and the other is a blossoming explosion flower icon, named [Bombardment Tracking].

[Bombardment Tracking], as the name implies, once the user hits the target, they can lock onto the target, subsequent ranged attacks will be trackable, lasting for 30 seconds, range 1000 meters. Within 30 seconds, if damage is dealt to the target, the duration refreshes.

Needless to say, this also ranks as a bug-level skill. Especially the point of refreshing target lock duration, it’s too unfair.

It implies, once targeted by Marbas, there’s a possibility of being bombarded and killed.