Chapter 56: Foolish Love

  The flame lizard crashed into the stitched monster's body, its belly full of anger transformed into a frantic bite.

  The stitched beast let out a loud screech, and its pincers heavily struck and sent flying the several flame lizards in front of it. The pincers were hard and powerful, but for the flame lizards covered in thick scales, they weren't fatal.

  Those few flame lizards that were knocked flying fell to the ground, immediately got up, twisted their bodies and continued to attack the stitched monster.

  Roars, growls, earthquakes and flames intertwined, in an instant, the village entrance of Dusk Village became a battlefield where barbaric beasts and magical creatures vented their anger at each other.

  And Reiga, the instigator of this war, took advantage of the opportunity to return safely and stably among the villagers.

  "You really didn't lie to me."

  The deputy village chief came forward with an excited expression, "Although the reinforcements you brought are quite unusual, Muxi Village finally has hope."

  Lega simply nodded and checked his injuries, seeing that they were not serious, he focused on watching the battle between Flame Lizard and Stitched Monster.

  "What should we do next?"

  The deputy village head has now completely trusted Le Ga, and he will resolutely implement whatever Le Ga says.

  "Wait."

  "What?"

  The deputy village head blinked his eyes and said, "Shouldn't we take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack from behind the Sewing Monster's back and make it suffer internal and external troubles?"

  Lei Ga shook his head lightly, "We must wait until both sides are exhausted before making a move, otherwise even if we take down the Stitched Monster, we'll be attacked by the Flame Lizard."

  "Attacked by Flame Lizard?"

  The deputy village chief said with a stunned face: "I saw the Flame Lizard fighting so desperately, I thought they were friends with you..."

  "The enemy of an enemy is a friend."

  Lag's gaze remained fixed on the battle between Flame Lizard and Sewing Monster, his voice soft as he said, "In that sense, I suppose they're friends too."

  "I must say I really admire you, to have come up with such a plan."

  The deputy village head sighed anxiously, rubbed his forehead, "But what if they unite? Demons plus barbaric beasts, then our village..."

  "Don't worry, they won't."

  Lagia explained, "The Flame Lizard thinks the Stitched Beast is my friend, and the Stitched Beast thinks the Flame Lizard is a helper I've invited. They both hate me, so they both want to kill each other."

  "So it was."

  The deputy village chief said with a face full of admiration: "You're playing two powerful opponents like pawns in the palm of your hand, this calmness is truly worthy of a noble's descendant."

  Lei Ga pursed his lips slightly and didn't open his mouth, too lazy to make more explanations for the deputy village head's words.

  His main attention was still on the battlefield, and although the stitched monster was injured in many places, it didn't show a single hint of fatigue. However, several flame lizards were severely injured by the pincer-like claws, and then eaten by their emotionless companions.

  After all, the Sewing Monster is a third-class demon beast with strength equivalent to that of a ninth-class Dou Qi, and it has just swallowed two living humans, adding a few more points to its strength. On the other hand, the Flame Lizard is only a second-class wild beast, equivalent to a fourth-class Dou Qi in terms of strength. Although it won't be instantly killed by the Sewing Monster, it's basically at a disadvantage.

  However, the stitched monster was not easy to deal with either. Its brute force was unable to take effect in front of the Flame Lizards, and there were too many of them. As soon as one was knocked down, another would immediately fill its position. The corpse on the right had already been torn apart by the Flame Lizards, while the left side of the body wrapped in armor became difficult to move under the scorching flames.

  After another round of fierce fighting, the number of flame lizards decreased again. A few were injured by pincers and eaten by their companions, while a few were knocked out and didn't dare to return to the battlefield, fleeing with their tails between their legs. The remaining flame lizards had only half the original number, their anger had been worn off, their bellies were full, and they were no longer very aggressive in their attack.

  The stitched monster also paid the price, its heavy right foot was bitten rotten, and one of the pincers on the left side was completely scrapped. It let out a loud roar, several large mouths opened simultaneously from its belly, sucking towards the flame lizard, preparing to end this war by swallowing it whole.

  "Not good!"

  The deputy village chief said urgently: "If Stitching Monster swallows Flame Lizard, its power will increase by who knows how many times!"

  "It's not necessarily so."

  Lei Ga's mouth corners floated with a hint of a smile, "The blood of the Flame Lizard isn't that easy to drink."

  Just then, the three flame lizards closest to the stitched monster were sucked into its huge mouth. The other flame lizards lost their will to fight and let out a menacing low growl before strategically retreating from the battlefield.

  The stitched monster's belly began to squirm and twist, trying to digest the swallowed flame lizard. But just a few seconds later, the stitched monster let out a terrified screech, its massive body shaking violently, its pale belly turning red with burn marks that spread rapidly like growing tree branches across its entire body. Its large mouth retched several times before coughing up clumps of charred ash.

  "It's now!"

  Lei Ga drew out a black giant sword and charged forward on his horse towards the Sewing Monster.

  The deputy village head was taken aback for a moment, then waved his hand to signal the villagers to follow: "For dusk!"

  "For the dusk!"

  The villagers saw victory in sight and swept away all their unease from the bottom of their hearts, and then Lei Ga rushed up.

  The stitched monster weakly raised its pincer, and Lilia nimbly dodged to the side. She immediately countered with a Half-Moon Slash, directly cutting off the stitched monster's injured right leg.

  The stitched monster let out a miserable scream and fell heavily to the ground. The villagers who followed closely immediately tied up the stitched monster into a bundle.

  Lei Ga's continuous attacks had softened and deformed the Stitched Monster's shell, which was roasted by Flame Lizard, making it impossible to withstand the merciless slash of the black giant sword. The massive Stitched Monster began to tremble, unable to support its own body, while being burned by the blood of Flame Lizard inside, too weak to make a counterattack, and could only be slaughtered at will.

  "Go die! Devil!"

  Lei strengthened his tolerance of the foul smell and jumped onto the Stitched Monster's body, striking heavily at its stitched center point.

  The stitched creature let out a mournful wail, its swollen body slowly flattening down to the ground, eventually shrinking into a large puddle of foul-smelling sacs that could no longer move.

  The villagers of Dusk Village were stunned for a moment, then rushed to Leiga's side, excitedly grabbed his body and threw him into the air.

  "Long live! Long live! Long live!"

  Lei Ga was startled by the villagers' actions, his hand holding the black giant sword had been ready to attack, but when he heard the villagers cheering, his hanging heart finally relaxed.

  "No way! No way!"

  The night watchman in the cemetery jumped out with an excited face and shouted loudly: "You should shout 'Long live the young noble master'!"

  "Long live the young noble master! Long live the young noble master!"

  "Put me down!"

  Lei Ga saw the graveyard watchman, his face immediately tensed up. He waved his hand to stop the villagers' fervor and walked in front of the graveyard watchman. "How did you end up here? Shouldn't you be guarding the tomb?"

  Before, Lelouch had devoted all his energy to dealing with the Stitched-together monster and hadn't even noticed his existence.

  The night watchman of the cemetery was still immersed in the joy of his upcoming wedding, with a smile all over his face, saying: "When the village is in trouble, how can a man like me who is upright and just sit back and do nothing?"

  It's broken.

  The stitched monster is just a false flag! Xu Lingtian is probably already...

  Lei Ga took a deep breath, trying to suppress the anxiety in his heart. The proxy village chief's face was stern as he said: "Burn the corpse of the stitched monster with fire, burn it clean and leave nothing behind. Then you all go back home to rest, understood?"

  "What about Xu Lingtian? Can't just let him off like that!"

  "I'll take care of this matter, no one is allowed to interfere."

  Lei said coldly, "You want fairness, I will give you fairness, but if anyone dares to use the excuse of fairness to vent personal grievances and do what you did to Elisa in the past, my sword will not tolerate it."

  The villagers all shut their mouths tight, and no one dared to show any reluctance.

  The deputy village chief naturally understood what was important and immediately guaranteed: "We will absolutely not intervene."

  Lei nodded slightly and ignored the villagers, turning around and sprinting towards the direction of the cemetery...

  In the fog-shrouded cemetery, the tombstone with the inscription of love had been dug up, and a twisted female corpse with its hands and feet nailed to the coffin by long iron nails lay quietly there.

  The female corpse was withered and dark grey, her flesh had rotted away, but the twisted and terrifying expression on her face could still be seen.

  Xu Lingtian knelt beside the female corpse, pulled out the iron nail, and gently stroked the dry hair ends of the female corpse. His gray eyes were filled with deep and heavy emotions.

  "Yin Lisha, my love, we finally meet again."

  The female corpse had been dead for a long time, and her half-open mouth was completely unable to respond to his words.

  Xu Lingtian raised his head, gazing far away at the burning flames at the village entrance, then let out a wretched and bitter laugh. "Looks like the Stitched Monster is done for. What a pity I couldn't avenge you, my plan was originally flawless, but that guy called Leiga always manages to create miracles, it's really too astonishing. However, I quite like that kid, if you could wake up, I think you'd like him too."

  "My dear, I had a lot of things to say to you, but it seems we have to speed up now."

  He bent down, and lightly kissed the dry, grass-like hair of the female corpse. Then, with his bony fingers, he dug out a black mysterious medicine. "This is the last bottle, after drinking it I can take out my own heart for you, and also live a little longer. Although that will only be a very short time, but for this moment I have waited a lifetime..."

  He drank down the black potion, then shed his tawny grey cloak, and with a dagger slit open his own breast, carefully extracted his still-beating heart, and slowly placed it in the shattered chest cavity of the female corpse.

  "I love you, Yoon Lisa."

  Xu Lingtian, who had lost his heart, stood up shakily and with his last bit of strength took out the bottle emitting a faint green glow, the source of the plague, and muttered repeatedly: "Forever, forever, forever, I love you."

  "No!"

  Ley rushed into the cemetery with lightning speed and saw the scene in front of him, unable to help but shout loudly: "Alchemist, don't be foolish!"

  "It's too late..."

  Xu Lingtian's face wore a smile of happiness and despair, weakly saying: "Love is foolish from the start... one day you'll understand."

  After finishing speaking, he turned the bottle upside down and poured all the source of the plague onto the female corpse.