Alien Knights

It was only two months since we parted last time. The formerly full-haired and high-spirited heterogeneous elder has lost all his hair, lost his teeth, and his skin is as ugly as old knots. His body is as weak as a candle in the wind, and even breathing has to exhaust his whole body.

Noticing Todd's gaze, Clarence grinned his dry mouth, coughed and smiled, "The failed soul link caused irreparable damage to my body. My memory is slowly deteriorating, and my life is passing by."

Clarence paused for a moment, looked at Todd whose body was mostly mutated, and continued: "However, from this point of view, you are no better than me..."

Glancing at the girl next to the other party, Todd pulled Rachel behind him without a trace, and asked in a cold voice, "What are you doing here?!"

"The first reason. I, like you, put all my eggs in one basket at the last moment of my life, hoping to find a way of redemption here." Clarence looked at the tall Crow Feather woman on the viewing stand, and then turned his attention back, his eyes became sharp: "Second, there is a score between us, and we need to settle it carefully!"

"Wait a minute!" Rachel yelled towards the high platform: "During the trial of the kingdom of shadows, such private fights are allowed? Wouldn't this violate the norms that have existed for thousands of years?"

The Crow Feather girl shook her head slightly: "My duty is only to bring the candidates who have passed the test to my master. As for the personal grievances between the testers, the Kingdom of Shadows will not interfere."

"Rachel, I will settle your account with you later." Clarence said to Todd: "It seems that the last link that hindered us from resolving the conflict has been resolved."

The latter looked at the old man's broken body and slow movements, and said in a deep voice, "Clarence, I don't think you have the strength to stop me."

Clarence put his hands on his chest and laughed loudly: "King of Muxi! In the alien world, ignorance and arrogance blind your eyes. Today, maybe I can teach you what real power is!"

Stretching his dead branch-like arm forward, the ground in front of Clarence began to shake, and the dirt and stones slowly floated up, spinning around his body continuously.

The palm turned over, and the soil petrified into a spiral attacking hurricane, hitting Todd's body hard.

The pieces of cloth were scattered, and the robe used to cover Todd's body instantly turned into a pile of cloth strips and fell to the ground.

"Todd, I've given you many chances. You could have become the emperor of half the world!" Clarence shouted in the flying sand and stones: "Power! Money! Women! Everything you want is within your reach!"

Todd blocked the steel-colored arms in front of him, resisting the attack of the storm.

"However, you chose to give up everything and protect those useless people! Why? Why?!"

Clarence reached into the soil with one hand, and he lifted a giant stone ball with a diameter of one meter into the air and smashed it at Todd's position.

The latter activated the speed ability, and the mutated legs increased the speed to a level that was almost invisible to the naked eye. The moment before the stone ball fell, it seemed like an arrow from the string rushed towards the enemy.

Driven by speed and strength, the sharp steel claws cut through the space, ignited the air, and left several trails of white smoke on the moving route.

With just one breath, Todd's attack was less than ten centimeters away from the tip of Clarence's nose.

In the next second, a huge depression appeared on the ground, and Todd, who had lost ground support, fell into the trap prepared by the opponent in advance.

Clarence folded his palms together, and earth and rocks poured into the gap in the ground, instantly turning the bottomless ground into a tomb without a monument.

"In terms of combat, your experience is too shallow!" Looking at the tight soil under his feet, Clarence sneered.

Suddenly, a sharp steel claw stretched out from the ground, firmly grasping his ankle.

Todd broke the shackles of the earth and abruptly jumped out of the soil. The sharp claws flipped, leaving three scars with deep bone visible on Clarence's chest.

Covering his wound, Clarence retreated again and again, and looked at Todd in surprise: "King Muxi, your progress surprises me."

Standing on the ground, the mutation slowly spread along Todd's skin, completely eroding his limbs and torso, leaving only the head and neck, which still retains human characteristics.

Clarence stretched out his hand, licked the black blood in the wound, and said to Todd with a smile: "There is one thing you may not know, the more frequently and intensely you use the power, the faster you will mutate!"

His whole body was in pain as if being burned by flames, and Todd bit his lips tightly.

"Appetizer time is over..." Clarence stepped back with a smile, took out a golden copper tube from his arms, poured half of the liquid into his mouth, and bowed to Todd: "Next, it's the turn of the main meal."

The potion fell into the abdominal cavity, Clarence trembled violently, fell to his knees, his hands and feet sank deep into the soil.

The bones and carrion in the ground, like metal attracted by a magnet, gathered towards his body, were sucked into Clarence's body and turned into flesh and blood. And the originally dry and thin body rapidly swelled like a balloon.

Todd looked at the giant made of flesh and bones in front of him, slowly stood up straight, opened his round eyes and took a step back.

"The heritage of Sutherland is really a wonderful thing..." The flesh and blood troll, who was two meters tall, looked down at his hands and feet, and said with satisfaction, "As long as he finds a suitable way to use it, mutation is no longer a curse for the heir, but a horn of power! However, this kind of mutation that keeps awake can't last for too long. If you don't contact the "tyrant" in time, you will also fall into madness."

"But during this period of time, it is more than enough to beat you..." Clarence slapped his palm on the ground, and after shaking violently, a crack quickly extended forward along the ground.

Todd used his speed ability and was about to dodge the attack when dozens of stone thorns suddenly protruded from the cracks in the ground, imprisoning him in place.

Just when he was still struggling to break free, the Flesh Troll's fist hit Todd's body heavily, knocking him into the air, and after falling, he slid along the ground for a full ten meters before barely stopping.

Clarence strode toward Todd, the ground trembling beneath his feet.

"I don't understand, I really don't understand. Faced with the temptation of power, why do you still cling to human concepts!" Clarence looked at Todd, who was seriously injured on the ground, shaking his head and roaring in confusion: "What are alien species?! Alien species should be born to be the rulers of the world, and they are different from the existence of lowly species like humans!"

Clarence stopped in front of Todd, squatted down and looked at the tiny existence in front of him. Instead of anger, there was some calmness in his voice: "Todd, when I was in the Presbyterian Church, I once read a scholar's work. He roughly calculated some figures about human beings. Since the Genesis era, human beings have existed for almost 8,000 years. According to the growth and extinction speed of species, as well as the construction of mathematical models, there are more than 18 billion human beings who died in battle, disease, and accidental death. Now, so many kingdoms and cities , how much is the total population? 50 million!"

In Clarence's eyes, there was a rare emotion: "Todd, do you know what this means? Human beings, this kind of thing, are nothing more than consumables in the final analysis. Their birth and death are born to create the birth of heroes and gods!"