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Chapter 3024: Embarrassing

Chapter 3024: Embarrassing

Dean had been standing on the side the entire time, waiting for Fang Heng to call for help. It wasn’t until he saw Fang Heng heavily injured and collapse to the ground that he heard Fang Heng’s call and immediately flashed out from the right side, chasing after Essekelina.

"You brat! Why the hell are you being so reckless!"

Dean was already cursing Fang Heng furiously in his heart.

Demonic seeds were inherently indestructible. Destroying one just meant another would pop up later.

Was it really worth depleting his own origin power just to take one down and buy a little peace?

But what was done was done. Dean had no choice now. He had to step up and forcibly block Essekelina’s path.

"Holy Court!"

Essekelina had already spent a good portion of her strength in the fight with Fang Heng. With the added restriction from the demon binding chains, she was no longer at her peak. The Tongues of Jealousy around her body surged toward Dean wildly.

"Guardian Shield!"

Dean condensed a shield in front of him, completely isolating the power of the Tongues of Jealousy.

"Bang!!!"

The Tongues of Jealousy shattered one by one.

Huh?

Essekelina was surprised to find that the Tongues of Jealousy couldn’t bypass Dean’s holy shield.

"Heh..."

Dean chuckled.

He represented one of the Twelve Sages — the Guardian.

A melee-type, more oriented toward support and tanking damage.

The holy shield was said to be capable of blocking all forms of damage.

His Holy Court Honor Guard was even nicknamed "Kings of Turtle Shells" by players outside the Holy Court.

Dean could tell Essekelina was trying to flee. From her condition, he judged she was badly injured and restrained. He said coldly, "Demon, you’re not leaving here. Surrender."

"Dream on!"

Essekelina flickered about, trying to slip past Dean and escape.

But every time, Dean managed to intercept her attacks and block her path.

What a coincidence, wasn’t it?

Dean just happened to specialize in guarding.

Not that great at burst damage, but when it came to control, he had a thousand ways to play his opponent to death!

A perfect match-up!

The more frantic Essekelina got, the calmer Dean became, methodically blocking her escape again and again.

They were locked in a stalemate for three full minutes.

Until Essekelina’s pupils shrank.

Not good!

She could feel her magical pet weakening.

"ROAR!!"

Essekelina’s eyes turned blood-red. Dense hellfire burst from her body in a surge.

The Tongues of Jealousy extending from her heart exploded. Her skin split open, and flesh tore as she forcefully broke part of the enchanted chains’ suppression, even at the cost of injuring her origin!

The berserk Tongues of Jealousy swelled to dozens of times their size and swept outward in all directions.

Not good!

Dean’s heart skipped a beat.

She was going all out!

What shocked Dean even more was that the Tongues of Jealousy surging from Essekelina weren’t aimed at him — they shot past him and headed straight for the Holy Court team battling the high-level demons in the rear.

"Aksu! Fall back!"

Dean shouted, condensing his mental strength to forcibly unleash a holy barrier to block the attack.

"Bang! Bang bang bang bang!!!!"

The violently whipping Tongues of Jealousy slammed into the barrier, cracking it in multiple places.

On top of the physical impact, the vertical pupils attached to the tongues added illusion effects.

Dean could still manage, but many of the Holy Paladins fell into confusion under the illusion.

At the same time, from the backs of the hell demons fighting the Holy Court, tiny Tongues of Jealousy stretched out from beneath their skin.

Under their influence, the high-tier hell demons began entering berserk mode.

In berserk mode, the hell demons’ strength surged!

With a double blow from both illusion and brute force, the Holy Court’s front barrier was shattered instantly, allowing a flood of demons to break through the front lines. The entire Holy Court team was on the verge of collapse.

D*mn! Despicable!

Dean swore under his breath. He could no longer hold Essekelina back and rushed to support his team.

Those were Holy Court elites — precious assets of the Holy Court.

He couldn’t let them all fall here!

Holy light poured down as Dean shielded the team behind him, stabilizing the front line.

At the same time, he could only watch helplessly as the chaos-spreading Essekelina slipped out of the cavern like a phantom.

There was nothing he could do.

Dean felt frustrated.

In front of everyone... he had promised Fang Heng to block the demonic seed, but was now forced to give up.

A little embarrassing, honestly...

Dean sighed and cast an apologetic glance toward Fang Heng in the distance.

Fang Bai had gone so far as to burn through his Great Sage origin power to wound Essekelina badly, but still couldn’t stop her from escaping.

After all, the demonic seed had sacrificed her origin and left so many subordinates behind to cover her retreat — he really couldn’t do anything more.

This was hell, after all. Not their main battlefield. Otherwise, maybe they’d have had a chance...

Wait—

What?

While he was deep in thought, Dean looked in the direction where Fang Heng had fallen. But instead of the expected sight of a nearly-dead Fang Heng lying weakly on the ground, he saw him flipping up agilely and chasing full speed in the direction Essekelina had fled!

Huh?

Wasn’t he badly injured? How was he still moving so fast?

Dean’s heart skipped a beat.

Something was wrong!

He was still chasing?

Hadn’t he just been completely drained by Essekelina’s Tongues of Jealousy? His holy power had been almost entirely depleted — it’d take more than a hundred years of cultivation to recover. Where was he getting the confidence to give chase?

...

Meanwhile, in the cavern on the twenty-ninth level of hell, where the magical pet Echidna resided—

The central head of Echidna’s three-headed serpent body had a long sword deeply embedded in it. Her body shook violently, and finally, after a combined assault from over twenty demonic seeds, she collapsed with a crash into the lava below.

The blue liquid coating the magma gradually faded.

The temperature of the entire cave rapidly increased, returning to its normal molten intensity.

At the same time, the blue secret engravings on the five demon cores spinning around the stone pillars vanished.

The demon cores had completely lost control. Instead, they spun even faster around the pillars.

"Whoosh!!!!"

Jing Ge’er and Zhuang Yufei had been ready for this. They leapt toward the demon cores simultaneously.

But they were a step too late.

Several demonic seeds had already locked onto the demon cores.

Now that the magical pet Echidna had been defeated, the backlash from the demon cores had disappeared. It was the perfect time to snatch them!

Whoosh!!

As soon as Echidna fell, two demonic seeds — as if they’d planned it — rushed from the left and right toward the spinning demon cores.

"Stop!"

The two ignored Jing Ge’er’s shout from behind. Greed gleamed in their eyes as they reached out to grab the demon cores.

"BOOM!!!"

Just as one of them was about to touch a core, a massive force erupted from the five spinning cores, blasting both of them backward with immense power.

"Stop right there!"

Jing Ge’er, Zhuang Yufei, and an elderly companion took advantage of the brief pause to catch up. The three of them stood firmly in front of the demon cores, guarding them and glaring coldly at the other demonic seeds.