My Liver Experience in the World of Cthulhu

Chapter 102 Mystery
This mental attack didn't have much effect.

Croun squinted his eyes and remained still, and the halo on the weapon in his hand disappeared. It seemed that he was still in a dazed state from the mental attack.He decided to wait until the last minute to take action and keep the demon bird leader forever.

There is a highly mobile, vindictive, and cunning enemy that keeps him at a loss.

His attention was unprecedentedly focused, and his eyes reflected the demon bird's increasingly approaching claws.

Only then did he realize that the lower limbs of the demon bird leader's feet had completely turned into bird claws, with inverted bone spurs growing on the black toes.

Those ordinary monster birds can still maintain the physical characteristics of humans. Could it be that the most powerful ones must be the ones with the most complete mutations?
Seeing that the thick bird claws on the lower limbs were about to reach the head of the human who killed his own tribe, the demon bird leader showed a cruel smile on his face, and his eyes flashed with a trace of joy.

The man also stabbed himself in the abdomen, and with its healing power, it took a long time for the wound to heal.

At this moment, the weapon in Crown's hand was raised, and it once again emitted a flaming orange-red halo.

At the same time, a silver light flew not far away from him, and the demon hunter also took action.

Both of them ignored the attacks of other demonic birds and had the same goal, to kill the leader of the demonic birds.

The demon bird leader's toe claws have touched the man's head, and it becomes excited. It can immediately lift the enemy's head and open up a big brain hole for him.

Then, it lost feeling in that leg.

Crown was not sure, so how could he use his body as a bait? He had already roughly estimated the speed of the demonic bird. He had the bullet time buff, so he could fully react. This time he was not unprepared at noon.

When the demon bird leader's lower limbs grabbed him, he clenched the hilt of the sword with both hands and slashed forward to meet the attack.

Facts have proved that he was faster and came first. As soon as the monster bird touched him, he had already chopped off its entire leg.

The sharpness of the blade was superimposed with the sharp special effects of the basic swordsmanship. Crown felt that the weapon successfully cut off the demon bird's legs without much resistance.

Geralt's attack was also quite effective. He jumped up and slashed. The monster bird tried its best to dodge, but the left wing was still cut in half.

At this time, the attacks of other demonic birds had arrived, and they swarmed up like crazy, preventing the two from causing further damage to the leader.

The two had to deal with the attacks of ordinary demon birds first. Every attack they made could cause considerable damage to the demon bird. On the other hand, although the demon bird's attacks were fierce, they failed to achieve any results.

There were more than a dozen wounds on the demon hunter's body, and Croun's golden light protection had not been broken yet.

Monster bird limbs began to fall on the ground.

"woo"

A shrill cry came from the air, and the remaining demon birds immediately flew high through the treetops and fled into the distance.

"This can also fly?!" Geralt looked at the leader of the demonic bird who was flapping his wings rapidly, a little unbelievable.

Crown saw many small demonic birds flying in the woods, and immediately took out his revolver and aimed at one of them.

"boom"

Aiming at the target's head, the little demon bird fluttered twice and fell straight down.

. . . .

In the church and dissecting room, several large demon birds have been dissected.

At this time, Nick took a scalpel and cut open the little demon bird bit by bit. Croun held a paper and pen beside him, recording various features of its body in detail.

It is only the size of a baby, and its face is somewhat similar to that of a human baby, but its skin color is green and black, four long pointed fangs protrude from its mouth, and its ears are pointed and have dark gray fluff.In addition to the fangs in the mouth, there are two rows of triangular sharp teeth on the upper and lower jaws.

The face is not as round and cute as a baby, but is naturally a bit cruel and deformed.

After the dissection was completed, Nick put the scalpel on the plate and began to organize the tools: "According to the results of the dissection, these monsters similar to vampire birds are all female. Are you sure that the physical characteristics of other monsters are similar to these?"

"Confirmed." Crown closed the note and said with a frown: "There are fourteen large demon birds in total, the leader's strength has reached the second level of extraordinary, and about half of the others can reach the first level of extraordinary. Their physical characteristics are obviously female. "

"Then how do they reproduce?" The priest's face was filled with confusion.

Hermaphroditism or asexual reproduction, Kroun thought about the possibility and suddenly felt dizzy.

Fortunately, ten of the large demon birds were killed and the leader was seriously injured. There was no need to worry about attacks from the demon birds for a short time.

I hope those demonic birds are not strong-headed, know how to be afraid, and migrate to other places.

These monster birds were obviously mutated from humans, and one of them died less. But they were able to reproduce small things, and the matter became very serious.

It was useless to think too much, so Croun began to sort out the materials on the monster birds. Their fangs could extract toxins, and the flesh wings were soft but tough, even tougher than cowhide, and could be made into leather armor.

After the death of the demon bird, the skin quickly becomes dehydrated and hard, loses its elasticity, and has to be discarded.

He decided to keep one big and one small as specimens and destroy the rest.

After finding a large wooden barrel to hold the garbage, Kroun quickly finished packing it. He was about to take the barrel out when he noticed Nick's eyebrows were furrowed.

"You seem to have something on your mind. What are you worried about? Those cultists?"

"No," the priest shook his head and said with some embarrassment, "I applied to the church for the second stage breathing method of flame breathing but failed."

"When did you apply? What was the reason for the church's rejection?"

"I sent out the carrier pigeons in the morning when the autumn rain stopped. I received a reply before we came back in the afternoon. The church's reason is that knowledge of level two and above must be taught in large churches at the city level, and you need to undergo a soul purity test. ."

"Is this the normal process? Everyone needs to be tested?"

The priest shook his head, "Not everyone needs to undergo the soul purity test. I thought that the current situation was dangerous and the church would handle it specially, but it was still rejected."

"What does the soul purity test mean?"

In this world, souls exist real and real, but this is the first time he has heard of testing purity.

"Test whether the soul is deeply polluted. Some people are born with a sharp mind and will be disturbed or bewitched by the dreams of evil gods, planting an evil seed in their subconscious. Normally, everything is normal for this person, but if the evil seed is activated , will be immediately replaced by an evil personality.

The church has developed a ritual specifically used to test the purity of the soul. If you are bewitched by the evil god, you can be the first to discover the problem. "

"You are not an extraordinary person who has been trained by the church since childhood. People like you must accept this test before you can obtain more advanced knowledge."

Small boats are afraid of wind and waves, but big ships have difficulty turning. A large organization will always have various rules and regulations, which will affect work efficiency at some levels.

Crown felt helpless, but also understood.

In this world where evil gods are haunted, caution is very necessary.

(End of this chapter)