A Night of Desperation-Chapter 245: Attack 243

Soon, desperate squeals of elephant worms echoed through the forest shrouded in Black Fog.

Ten minutes later.

Yu Hong stood in the thick mist, his body enveloped in a white halo of Inner Qi, watching the massive elephant worms in front of him mysteriously vanish, his expression curious.

The elephant worms seemed as if they were being erased out of thin air, their bodies disappearing piece by piece.

Until finally, their heads.

Puff.

All fell silent.

Soon, a pale crescent moon with a silvery edge appeared on the back of Yu Hong’s other hand.

‘Try summoning.’

With considerable anticipation, he lifted the back of his left hand, which bore the crescent moon.

‘How do I summon?’

After thinking, he tried sending a mental command to the crescent moon.

Instantly, a strand of Inner Qi automatically separated from his Dantian and surged into the crescent moon.

The surface of the crescent moon emitted a faint silvery glow.

Hiss…

In a moment, clusters of black smoke appeared out of thin air in front of Yu Hong, then began to condense into an oval vortex over a meter high.

The Black Fog inside the vortex flowed, faint and peculiar hisses emanating from within.

‘The Empire’s Human Spearman has responded to your call,’ the crescent moon relayed the information faintly.

Spearman?

Yu Hong was intrigued;if he could summon a sentient human, he might gain a wealth of information through communication.

Hiss…

In the vortex of black smoke, slowly, a burly figure began to emerge from the mist.

Bang!

Dark-red muscular thighs stepped out of the vortex first, setting down on the black earth and leaving a deep indentation.

Following that were another pair of thighs as thick as an adult’s waist.

Then the upper body—a mass of flesh as large as a balloon.

This creature was a misshapen dark-red muscle monster, struggling to squeeze itself out of the vortex.

The monster’s body was covered in numerous muscles, but those muscles were abnormal, covered in countless grape-like protrusions.

Overall, it looked like a dark-red muscular tumor with two legs!

“Gun… lead the way…!” The face of this muscle tumor, embedded among numerous muscles, contorted into a strange, horrifying smile aimed at Yu Hong.

His face, too, was all dark-red muscle lines, eerie and terrifying.

Under the skin, countless worm-like filaments could be seen constantly moving and protruding.

Hiss!

A black spike spear extended from its wide-open mouth, coated with a wet, disgusting mucus.

“…..” The hope gradually faded from Yu Hong’s face.

He suddenly remembered that the Moon God had also been contaminated by the Source Disaster, which he had initially thought was just the Black Disaster, but now it seemed a bit different.

“What can you do?” Taming his thoughts, Yu Hong figured since he had already summoned it, he might as well see what it could do.

“Gun leads the way…!” The Spearman repeated the same phrase, using a language Yu Hong hadn’t heard before, but somehow he understood its meaning.

“Smash it,” Yu Hong changed his approach, pointing at a charred dead tree nearby.

Bang.

The Spearman’s back suddenly bulged, revealing six blocks of muscle, each sprouting a dark-red tentacle spike.

The tentacles shot out, like actual spears, piercing the dead tree simultaneously.

After a series of back and forth thrusts, the tree was instantly perforated, filled with holes, and fell to the ground broken.

“Hmm…” Yu Hong observed the dead tree, feeling that this creature seemed slightly stronger than a dragon lizard.

“Let’s see how long the summoning can last, it’s a good time to test its strength around here.”

He ordered the creature to follow him, then took it on a rampage around the camp.

Along the way, they encountered Big Skin, shadow, and elephant worms, all easily impaled and killed by the Spearman.

Until they met a lone Level 7 Black Blood Rhino from Blood Tide Monster.

Moo!!

On a road five kilometers from the Black Wind Camp.

The Spearman and the Black Blood Rhino collided like two meteors, constantly smashing into each other.

Collision, retreat, accelerate, collide again!!

After numerous hits, the Spearman finally couldn’t hold on, gradually falling into a weak state.

Even so, the muscle spikes it swung left deep, indelible wounds on the Black Blood Rhino.

Bang!

With one final blow, the Spearman was pierced through the chest by the Black Blood Rhino’s horn, crying out in agony as it dissolved into a pool of dark-red blood, quickly evaporating into a red mist and vanishing.

“Does it exist until it dies in battle?” Yu Hong noted the information in his mind.

He raised his left hand again, commanding the crescent moon on the back of his hand to continue summoning, but there was no response.

‘Is there an interval?’ He pondered. ‘I still need to carefully explore the details.’

Without a glance at the severely wounded Black Blood Rhino, his figure flashed, and he pulled a dagger from his pocket.

The dagger, glowing white, slashed across the rhino’s neck.

He then tucked it away gently.

Boom.

The massive Black Blood Rhino collapsed on the spot, writhing in pain on the ground, and within seconds, its entire body withered, shrunk, and turned into black smoke, dispersing.

A single black unicorn horn was left behind, which Yu Hong picked up.

Back at the camp, Yu Hong continued to explore the crescent, also known as Moon’s Call, but he didn’t notice that, over time, his skin gradually started to shimmer with a silvery gleam.

To be precise, small silver spots appeared, adorning his skin. The Moon God’s Blood was taking effect.

The slight toxicity in the air began to place less and less burden on his body.

Snap.

Inside the courtyard, Yu Hong suddenly tore off his breathing valve and took a few deep breaths, feeling something stirring.

The cold dry air rushed through his nose and mouth, carrying away the excess moisture from his respiratory tract.

But before the moisture could evaporate far, it was harshly pulled back by the Condensing Water Technique and automatically inhaled through his nose and mouth.

Specifically, this was manifested when Yu Hong exhaled white vapor that circled around him before being inhaled back into his nostrils.

“The external toxic gases seem to have no effect anymore. It seems to be either a physical enhancement or acquiring some unknown property.

The recovery cycle of Moon Summoning is about once a day, with a summon possible only the day after death. Additionally, only one unit can be consistently summoned, namely the rifleman. Perhaps my qualifications are insufficient, or for some other reason, further testing is necessary.”

Near the camp, Yu Hong summoned the rifleman again. During the summoning process, he focused intently on the crescent to sense its response.

This time, he discovered that aside from the rifleman, there were several other presences trying to respond to the summoning but seemed to be restricted and unable to connect.

Although unable to summon them, he obtained several theoretically summonable special names from the feedback from the crescent.

“Swordsman with Shield”

“Elite Archer”

“Rotten Knight”

“Rotten Knight Commander”

“Gaze Scholar”

“Gazing Scholar”

“King of White Coral”

“Priest of Shadia”

“High Priest Knudis”

“Divine Blood Mengdu”

“Demigod Helsimora”

“Eternal Faye”

Yu Hong noted the names he faintly heard, listing them from weakest to strongest based on the intensity of the called aura.

“This enhanced Moon God’s Blood, though a diluted version of a defective product, still somewhat grants me this basic summoning qualification, which isn’t too bad.”

Yu Hong flicked the carbon powder off the paper. The earlier names were okay, but with the subsequent names, just receiving their name could feel a subtle pressure oozing onto the paper, suggesting their extraordinary strength.

Although the feedback from the crescent indicated these were holy and pure subordinates of the Moon God, mostly beautiful and noble with unwavering faith, needing only more Moon God’s Blood to increase blood concentration to qualify for calling higher beings.

However, from the rifleman, it was evident that these subordinates of the Moon God might have already fallen completely.

Summoning them might bring forth some unpredictable entities.

In the afternoon of the third day.

Yu Hong sat cross-legged in the cave. According to the list, he tried inputting more Inner Qi into the crescent, attempting to call other named beings.

But without exception, all attempts met with no response.

The only being he could summon was the rifleman.

Disappointed, he stood up. These past few days, his obsession with the efficacy of the Moon God’s Blood had almost driven him mad.

‘If I could summon a large number of powerful subordinates, we could significantly alleviate or even directly eliminate the problems caused by the Eternal Life Association and the Black Disaster. Unfortunately…’

Yu Hong felt somewhat upset. The rifleman was neither very strong nor weak, capable of handling danger level 7.

But to say it was helpful to him was debatable.

Now, he had assigned the rifleman to go out and patrol the surroundings with the dragon lizards.

With level 7 strength, it could suppress most of the Black Disaster head-on, indeed reducing the burden on the dragon lizards.

But that was it.

He boiled a pot of water with an electric kettle and took out two nutrition pastes to prepare for dinner.

Suddenly, a huge vibration quickly approached from outside the camp.

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Thump thump thump thump!

It seemed to be footsteps.

Yu Hong’s expression changed immediately, and he thought of the Black Giant. He quickly rushed out of the cave and, using the dragon lizards’ vision, looked outside.

All he saw in the distance, through the Black Fog, was a gigantic humanoid figure at least a hundred meters tall, passing near the camp and quickly moving farther away.

‘Just passing by… thank goodness.’ Yu Hong was currently most afraid of creatures like the Black Giant.

Unlike the ominous danger of the Evil Shadow, the Black Giant was purely brute strength—terrifying gravity crushing down, smashing everything.

However, just when he thought it was merely passing by, there was a sudden explosion in front of the Black Giant.

The explosion spread out, sending forth a large white halo.

Boom!

The Black Giant abruptly stopped, turned its head, and looked in the direction from which the white light had appeared.

Suddenly, without a second word, it turned and charged directly towards Black Wind Camp.

“….!!” Yu Hong watched the scene from a distance, his expression grim, immediately recalling the similarly white powder from before.

White powder, white halo—both were white!

“…Eternal Life Association!” He knew who was causing trouble.

Unexpectedly, even a level 9 Black Giant could be lured and misdirected. This power of the Eternal Life Association was somewhat underestimated….

Huge footsteps quickly approached.

Yu Hong took a deep breath. He simply took off his shirt, bared his upper body, and walked out of the camp, directly towards the Black Giant.

It was just the right time to test his own limits and see if he could handle the Black Giant!