Detective Agency of the Bizarre-Chapter 1349 - 189: A Battle Unbefitting One’s Status
"It seems our hero has a new idea again."
Mayor Burb still spoke in a theatrical, dramatic, yet sincere manner.
Blue Blood Chief, pondering Lu Li’s actions, was indeed intrigued: "What do you plan to do?"
"Clear the fire demon tribes entrenched in Beautiful Lake."
"But, Mr. Hero," Mayor Burb comically raised his short eyebrows, putting on a worried expression, "there are thousands of fire demons there; once they merge, even Advanced Demons want nothing to do with them. How will you clear them out?"
"The same way I resolved previous quests."
Mayor Burb shook his head, and the flesh on his neck swayed: "I believe in your abilities, Mr. Hero, but Beautiful Lake is a thing of the past; let it remain buried in memory."
He rejected Lu Li’s proposal.
Blue Blood Chief wanted to say something but remained silent due to the Mayor’s authority.
Lu Li also maintained his silence.
This Advanced Demon with devil blood wasn’t just bringing these things up for nostalgia.
"But hero, may I entrust you with another task?"
Just as Lu Li guessed, the sentimental Mayor Burb gently asked Lu Li.
"What is it?"
"Many things were left behind during our migration; they’ve completely disappeared, melted in the magma. But there’s one thing there that’s very important to me and to the town. Could I ask you to retrieve it?"
The Mayor revealed his true motive.
Lu Li was concerned with only one thing: "How many souls can you pay for this?"
"Perhaps the hero would require something else? Hell houses many things more precious than souls. Weapons, servants, equipment..."
"I only need souls."
"Don’t rush to a decision."
Mayor Burb lightly clapped his fleshy hands; a servant dragged a tray into the study room, where Lu Li saw the meat grinder he’d seen in the tavern.
"I heard from Blue Blood that you need a meat grinder. Upon completion, it will be yours."
Mayor Burb knew these things weren’t surprising to Lu Li, but they indeed offered help to him, providing what he urgently needed.
But Lu Li was not particularly in need of the meat grinder now: "If I choose souls, how many can you pay?"
"Hmm... how about 500?" Mayor Burb asked with a negotiating tone.
"Deal."
Lu Li agreed with a straightforwardness that would drive Hades mad.
"Mr. Burb..."
As Lu Li listened to the details of the commission, preparing to leave, Blue Blood Chief said: "I would like to go too; maybe I could be of help."
Burb seemingly understood Blue Blood Chief’s thought: "Alright, also have a look for me."
Leaving the Mayor’s mansion, Lu Li and Blue Blood Chief descended the steps back to the street, meeting the Yog Demon from the tavern. Like it knew they had a new commission, it crawled towards Lu Li like a horse.
Lu Li mounted the Yog Demon, and he and Blue Blood Chief left the town once more, heading in the direction he came from.
No maps needed, no followers required, Blue Blood Chief ran faster than the Yog Demon.
Approximately five minutes later, the boiling "Beautiful Lake" appeared in the distance.
At the same time, Blue Blood Chief and the Yog Demon synchronously spoke: "Yuglas is asleep..."
Lu Li indeed felt an indescribable aura gradually emerging in this scorching wasteland, becoming tangible as if the dark red sky, twisted and turbulent like a storm cloud, slowed. The restless barren earth ceased its insatiable demand for souls; the boiling Beautiful Lake gradually calmed, with the Inferior Demons behind slowing their pace.
Furthermore, the Yog Demon beneath him became sluggish, unwilling to move.
It was as if the world had fallen asleep.
Yuglas...
Lu Li silently mouthed the hellish name, momentarily diverting his attention.
"We’re quite lucky,"
Blue Blood Chief gazed at the tranquilizing Beautiful Lake in the distance, now resembling a careless painter who mistakenly used blue paint as red.
He and the Yog Demon were reminded by Lu Li to stay away from Beautiful Lake; it would not remain peaceful.
Two Mid-Level Demons could not comprehend the mottled halo that emerged behind Lu Li, as this human soul seemed to possess wings, flying closer to the sky above Beauty Lake Town, circling once, yet did not provoke the dormant fire demons beneath the lake.
Lu Li temporarily returned to the lakeside, excavating a clump of adhesive rock-soil to remind the approaching Yog Demon, suspended above Beautiful Lake and threw it down.
The falling rock-soil splashed into the lava, thick ripples spreading, finally attracting fire demons to attack Lu Li skimming the lake surface. Initially, it was only spurting flame pillars, then lava wrapped around him, and then a section of the lake surface boiled, merged fire demons surged forth, failed, and fell back into the lava solidifying into volcanic rock. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Lu Li finally alerted all the fire demons, and the entire Lava Lake surged like a tsunami, and a giant fire demon, seemingly awakened from ancient times, slowly rose from the magma.
This scenario conflicted with Mayor Burb’s commission — the commission was to retrieve an item left in Old Beautiful Lake Town, not to clear out the fire demon colony.
"These fire demons are almost as strong as flame demons..." The Yog Demon gazed at the giant fire demon rising from Lava Lake, nearly a hundred meters tall, lava waterfalls flowing down its body, trembling for the first time due to the Inferior Demon’s aura. It saw Blue Blood Chief clench his claws, "You don’t want to help, do you? That soul cannot defeat it, nor can you."
Because the merged giant fire demon swung its hand, slapping the tiny figure hovering before it into the lava, creating huge waves.
Crash — Crash —
The ripples in the lake’s center spread across the entire Lava Lake, the splashes lapping the lakeside turned the shoreline into a shallow beach.
But when the giant wave receded, the tiny figure re-emerged, unchanged in position — the giant fire demon could not harm Lu Li, although it did pose some trouble — the Dreamwalker’s range was insufficient.
Lu Li could only maintain a halo smaller than the giant fire demon’s lava claw, flying close to its heavy body, as if an eraser erasing the notes of the giant fire demon, little by little.
The giant fire demon’s roar and the Lava Lake’s rampage were completely powerless to affect him. When the incomplete giant fire demon decomposed and fell into the lava, Lu Li plunged into the lake after it.
Blue Blood Chief and the Yog Demon watched the gradually calming Beautiful Lake in shock.
"Is it resolved?"
The Yog Demon stomped, the raised dust reminded it of the awe-inspiring battle it had seen before, akin to two Advanced Demons locked in combat in an arena, not a side being a mere human soul as food and the other the hell’s refuse Inferior Demon, "But why hasn’t it emerged yet?"
It no longer felt this Lava Lake or the shattered fire demons could find a way to kill him...
The tide-like lava receded from Agate Lake, becoming shallow and revealing the riverbed composed of volcanic rocks and obsidian. The lower water level of the Lava Lake also revealed the large Lake Heart Island once devoured, leaving only the remains of the Obsidian Mansion in Old Beautiful Lake Town.
Blue Blood Chief gazed at his former home, now visible, lost in thought, revealing emotions not belonging to a demon.
And at this moment, a tiny figure with a mottled halo flew out from the Lava Lake.
