The Golden Throne

Chapter 197: Mandragora Mother Plant

“Maybe they made a mistake? I mean, even demons aren’t perfect, are they?”, Liu Feng suggested. 

“The dragon kid and the phoenix are not having a good time, clearly. The mandragora mother plant, unlike how its name suggests, is not weak against fire. In fact, it overpowers fire. You are the only one here with the ability to control earth. Join the fight.”, Pyrus commanded Liu Feng.

“You didn’t need to tell me. I would have joined in even if I was at a disadvantage.”, Liu Feng nodded as he charged into battle.

The two, who were concentrated on the battle, saw Liu Feng enter the battle field.

“Human, When did you arrive? This is not an easy battle. You must be out of your mind, to enter it. You will only distract us.”, Feng Huang said, without even attempting to mince her words.

“That demon is weak against the earth element. Lucky for you, I have the earth element, and I can use it quite well actually.”, Liu Feng smiled.

“The earth element? But you are a fire contractor. I refuse to believe that someone as prideful as Pyrus will allow a human to use another element, and that too the stupid magic that the mortals have gotten used to these days.”, Feng Huang shook her head. 

She suddenly jumped up, and in her place, a tentacle of the Mandragora Mother plant struck the ground, causing a huge crater.

“How were you able to keep this fight so quiet? I could not hear it, even though I was within the city for quite a while.”, Liu Feng asked Arad.

“It was not our intention to keep the battle private. It just happened to take place in the most secluded place in the city.”, Arad shrugged.

Liu Feng looked at Arad suspiciously. He felt as if the both of them were hiding something from him. But, he disregarded it. Being a human himself, he knew that a human was the hardest person to trust. In fact, humans were the cause of the current situation, so he had no right to complain of the lack of trust that was put on him.

Liu Feng punched his fists together.

“Let us take care of this demon first. Pyrus told me that this is a very precious demon and that it was very valuable to the demon army? We should kill it before the demons realize that they have made a mistake in leaving one here.”, Liu Feng said.

“What did you think we were doing till now?”, Feng Huang retorted in response.

Liu Feng raised his hands. “I didn’t intend to offend you by saying this.”, he said bitterly. He jumped towards the demon. His hands were raised together, and his lips moved, muttering something. He seemed to be chanting something.

Liu Feng felt that the demon itself was different from other demons. It did not exhume corrupted mana like the rest of the demons that he had faced before. In fact, it was like there was a lot of corrupted mana sucked into the demon itself. 

“That demon has so much mana within it, it is like a reserve. If he is killed, all of that mana will blast out, and we will face a full brunt attack of a mana blast.”, Liu Feng said all of a sudden.

“We were aware of that. That is why the fight has been going on for so long. You better not screw this up for us. This is supposed to be a battle of attrition, not a battle to kill the demon.”, Feng Huang warned Liu Feng.

Liu Feng nodded. He then let his hands separate, and a brown glow came from his hands. Below the demon, the ground started shaking, and cracks started appearing. The plant clearly had a mouth, because it started screeching. Liu Feng retreated and clutched his ears, because he couldn’t bear the sound. 

Arad and Feng Huang did not even bother to do that, and it seemed that the sound did not affect them as much as it did to Liu Feng.

“What is that sound? It is piercing my eardrum like no other. It is very irritating, and it breaks my concentration.”, Liu Feng said.

“Just fight, and stop complaining. Since you came, the fight has only gotten louder, and no better.”, Feng Huang said coldly.

“What the hell did I do, for her to be so cold to me? Did I do anything wrong?”, Liu Feng thought to himself as he looked at the demon. 

It regained its lost balance, and now, it was enraged at Liu Feng. It started directing all of its tentacled towards Liu Feng. Liu Feng moved quickly to evade most of them. His spatial ring shined, and a great sword appeared in his hands. 

He was about to cut off one of the tentacles when a bullet of what appeared to be fire struck his sword. The sword fell off of his hands, and onto the ground.

“What was that?”, Liu Feng shouted at Feng Huang. He knew that it was Feng Huang who had attacked him, or rather, his sword.

“Do you think that we are idiots? Sitting here for close to two hours, doing nothing but evading tentacles? Do not injure the demon. Just wait for it to drain its power, and once that is done, kill its offspring that will be released from its stomach. If you injure the demon, then it will start releasing all the mana within it, and we will be forced to give up the entire city, and all of the civilians with it. We will have to kill the demon, and that will cause a blast so big, that even your dear army on the other side will get affected.”, Feng Huang said.

Liu Feng paused. He then bowed down to her. “I apologize if I have been rude to you. But since the moment that I have come here, there seems to be something that is causing the two of you to be a little hostile to me. That cannot continue. It will hamper the relationship between us, and this war will be forfeit.”, Liu Feng said.

“You are thinking too much, human. Either fight or go back to the luxuries that await you. For some of us, this war means so much more than not living a life of slavery, but rather, fighting for our mother. Fight, or go home.”, Feng Huang told Liu Feng coldly.

Liu Feng looked at Feng Huang. He was shocked at her sudden reverse in attitude towards him. He then looked right. The demon was still standing strong, and priorities meant that the demon needed to be vanquished before anything else happened.

He gritted his teeth and nodded. He retreated from where he stood to the position where his greatsword fell down. He took the greatsword back into his spatial ring. He then brandished his fists, stretched his fingers, and took up a proper stance to fight.

Feng Huang did not bother looking at him, and her entire focus was on the demon. Liu Feng glanced at Arad, hoping that at least Arad would take his side, but nothing. Arad did not say anything to Liu Feng and looked at the demon.

“I have to sort this out before we move tomorrow. Or else, a whole lot of problems might ensue.”, Liu Feng thought to himself.

He then started circulating his mana towards his fists, to make them harder temporarily. Seeing an incoming tentacle, he jumped and punched the tentacle. There was a bruise that was immediately visible where Liu Feng hit the tentacle, but no cuts and no blood coming out.

Liu Feng then jumped back a few steps, and let the demon take back the tentacle. He did not let his eyes leave the particular tentacle that he hit. His suspicions were soon confirmed. The demon took the tentacle closer to itself, and what appeared to be the mouth of the demon. It dipped the tentacle into the mouth, and took it out after a few seconds.

Liu Feng’s eyes narrowed sharply as he looked at how the tentacle came out. It was completely healed, as if nothing happened to it.

“The mana source can be accessed from within its mouth. We can speed things up if we just suck all the mana into spatial stones.”, Liu Feng exclaimed.

“We will not be wasting mana crystals on something like this. We will exhaust the mana supply of this demon, and let it recuperate its wounds. After that, it will get exhausted, and it will collapse. That shall be the plan. No other.”, Feng Huang shook her head.

Liu Feng couldn’t believe what he was hearing. 

“Why do you want to waste so much time? We cannot afford to not kill this thing.”, Liu Feng said.

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