stonecrandall Chapter 36 Changes
Chapter 36 Changes
Mo Ran dodged into an alley, leaning against the wall and gasping for breath. The two Abyss Apostles had caught up with him, so he had no choice but to run limpingly.
At a corner, Mo Ran condensed a wind vortex to wrap up the incoming fireball and thunder, and sent it back. The fire and thunder elements produced an overload reaction, causing a violent explosion.
The Apostle of the Abyss suffered minor injuries, while Mo Ran took advantage of the aftermath of the explosion to jump away more than ten meters, but due to his severely injured body, he did not stand firmly when he landed and fell.
"Uh, damn boy, serve the abyss!" The Thunder Apostle condensed a strange, terrifying, corrosive spherical object, while the Fire Apostle continued to attack with fireballs.
Staggering to his feet, Mo Ran barely dodged two fireballs and condensed a water ball to extinguish the remaining flames. At this time, the Apostle of Thunder threw his erosion ball over, followed by several lightning bolts.
Mo Ran was hit directly, his whole body was numb and he moved very slowly. The strange sphere brushed past his left hand, leaving behind deep erosion. His entire arm turned black and he lost consciousness.
However, due to the existence of the Purification Curse, Corrosion was locked in his left arm and could not advance any further. He struggled to use the little elemental power he had converted to condense a water ball and an ice sword to freeze the two apostles.
Using his left hand, which had turned into a monster, to pierce the vital points of two abyss apostles, Mo Ran collapsed to the ground, casting the Purification Spell to slowly purify the erosion from the abyss.
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After a while, the corrosive force on Mo Ran's body was temporarily controlled, and his arms turned back into human form, but his injuries were still very serious. He used the little remaining water elemental power to heal himself.
"Deputy Captain - where are you, Deputy Captain?"
An unfamiliar call came, and Mo Ran thought: "Have the people in the abyss already evacuated?"
"Deputy Captain? So you are here! Let me help you." The residents of Mond stepped forward and helped him up. "Deputy Captain, how could you be so careless! If you were killed, we..."
As he spoke, a cold light flashed, and Mo Ran kicked him away, and his shoulder was stabbed lightly, "There is indeed something wrong with you, you are a member of the Fatui!"
Mo Ran picked up the sword and put it on his neck, "You are worthy of being the vice-captain of the Knights Templar... But it's useless even if you find out, hehe..."
Mo Ran killed him with one sword, and threw the sword aside. Then he heard a loud shout, "The deputy commander killed someone - killed someone!"
The sad residents around the ruins were attracted and asked, "What are you talking about! How could the deputy commander kill someone?"
"No, I really saw it. Just now, the deputy commander...he killed my neighbor Wodi!" The man looked panicked, as if he was afraid of something.
"What! No way! Why would the deputy commander suddenly... No, why would the deputy commander kill your neighbor?" The residents still maintained an attitude of disbelief.
"How should I know? Go ask the deputy captain!" The man turned the topic to Mo Ran, and it was obvious that something was wrong.
Mo Ran pointed to the wound on his shoulder and said, "He wanted to kill me just now." It was a simple and clear explanation, and it was true. There was evidence from both witnesses and objects, so he was not afraid of being misinterpreted.
The Knights also arrived at this time. Qin was in a very bad condition, but she still asked, "Everyone, what happened here?"
"Captain Qin! You're finally here." A resident who claimed to be the deceased's neighbor cried out in tears: "The deputy captain... killed my neighbor Wodi... Wow--"
"We agreed to wait for the disaster to pass and travel together! But now... wuwuwa..."
Qin naturally didn't believe this statement, "You must have seen it wrong. Mo Ran has never killed innocent people since he came to Mondstadt. I believe him too."
After hearing the answer, the resident fell to the ground, his whole body shaking and he burst into tears. His cries attracted the sympathetic gazes of some residents, "Oh! How pitiful..."
"What are you pitying? That man just wanted to kill the deputy leader!"
"So what? You saw it? Who saw it? It's all his own story! Just like last time at the hotel, he beat someone up and refused to admit it, and in the end nothing happened!"
"Yes, I remember that time too, but what can we do? He is the vice-captain of the Knights Templar! He holds a high position..."
"Hey, hey, what are you two doing so weird? The deputy captain has saved us many times this time. Just because of this, you are talking to him like this?"
There were also residents who couldn't stand it anymore and started to defend Mo Ran, but after all, they didn't outnumber the other side. Qin and the Knights were also trying their best to suppress the speech.
Mo Ran didn't care. The slander and scolding from strangers and irrelevant people were just passing clouds. As long as the people around him believed in him, it was enough.
In addition, he would be leaving soon, so his reputation in Mondstadt seemed less important.
But while thinking in her heart, Mo Ran thought of Youla. She had finally gotten rid of the infamy. Would all her efforts be wasted because of him this time?
As if to confirm Mo Ran's inner problems, some residents began to criticize Youla and used this to belittle Mo Ran.
"Mond! Ha..." Mo Ran laughed at himself. At this moment, the system panel came to his mind.
[The corrosive power from the abyss is purified by the host and becomes its own power - Corrosion. 】
[In the erosion state, whatever the host's left hand touches will be eroded until it disappears completely. This is true for everything. It's just a matter of time.]
'It's just in time.'
Mo Ran made up his mind. He half covered his face with his right hand and laughed coldly as if he was crazy. "Ha...hahahahaha..."
The residents and the Knight of Favonius all looked at him, some were confused, some were worried, some were afraid...their expressions were all different.
"Well, I won't pretend anymore. It's really tiring to hide in Mond City!" Mo Ran's left hand was surrounded by a strange black air and turned into a monster-like claw.
Several dark purple lines extended from the palm to the shoulder, climbed up the cheek, and stopped after passing the left eye.
Mo Ran's left eye no longer had any human emotion or life. The weird, terrifying blood-red pupil swept across, sending chills down one's spine.
"Let me introduce myself again. I'm Mo Ran, the guard knight of the Abyss Cult, and I've come to Mondstadt! Hehe..." Mo Ran had a crazy smile on his face, and he casually tapped a few stones with his left arm, corroding them.
The residents stepped back in fear. "Look! I told you he was not a good guy!"
"The Abyss... The man from the Abyss... Captain Qin, get rid of him quickly!"
Qin frowned and walked to the front of the residents, "Mo Ran, are you...being controlled?"
“Haha, Captain Qin is still so naive! Connecting all the previous events together, don’t you understand? Hahaha——”
Qin was speechless. Putting everything that had happened before together, it was indeed suspicious, but she still didn't want to believe it.
"Now that my infiltration goal has been achieved, let me tell you about my specific execution plan! This is a perfect plan that you will never guess...hahaha..."
"He approached the Wave Knight and provoked a dispute between Lawrence and Mond. Unfortunately, the Wave Knight was too determined and was not moved at all."
"Otherwise, you residents would have been dead long ago. But the final result is still good. In order to get rid of your ignorant prejudices, Wave Knight has made a lot of efforts for this."
"You wasted a lot of her time. Even I, your enemy, can't stand it anymore! Ha, what a bunch of idiots!"
"Is this really the case?" The residents whispered, "Have we always been hurting those who are kind to us?"
"Yeah, it's ironic that we were actually grateful to this demon before."
"Please be nicer to Eula from now on. It's not easy for her either..."
"yes.."
Seeing that the effect was not bad, Mo Ran continued, "To be honest, during the time I lived in Mondstadt, it was really annoying. It was all because of you residents who wasted resources, slandered and abused me all the time. I almost couldn't help myself several times and wanted to kill people!"
"Who do you think you are? Haha, if it weren't for Barbatos protecting you, do you think you would be alive today?"
"That's perfect. Now I don't have to pretend anymore. I'll just kill a few more and that'll end my journey in Mondstadt!" Mo Ran snapped his fingers, and several rock elemental shackles fastened the residents who had the aura of the Evil Eye.
Mo Ran speculated that those people were probably the Fatui from Zhidong or were in collusion with them, so it would be a good idea to kill them.
Da, da..da....
Mo Ran walked towards the crowd step by step. With every step he took, the shackles became tighter. He waited until the residents were forced back, leaving only a few locked people.
Those people died of anger. In the eyes of the Mondstadt residents who were unaware of the inside story, Mo Ran, who was laughing in the field, was like a devil from hell. They all begged the Knights to drive him away.
Qin gritted her teeth, pointed her sword at Mo Ran, and said firmly: "After defeating you, I will find a way to help you get rid of the control. Now please fight me!"
"Oh? You want to fight me? Sure! As a former colleague, I won't use elemental powers to fight you. Haha... it should be fun!"
Mo Ran raised his hand to the sky, and with the traction of elemental force, the knight's sword that had fallen at the city gate flew back instantly, along with the broken sword and the man covered in scars.
"By the way, I'll give this back to you." Mo Ran threw the Knight's Medal over, "This boring thing is useless now, so I'll give it back to you, the culprit!"
After receiving it, Jean looked at the medal in her hand deeply, put it into her clothes, and held the sword in her hand with the tip facing down, just like she did in the knight assessment. "Acting leader of the Knights of Favonius, Jean Gunnhildr, please fight with your Excellency!"
On the other side, Mo Ran was no longer the same as before. He thrust his sword into the ground and said contemptuously, "Mo Ran, the Guard Knight of the Abyss Cult, you have no chance of winning this battle!"