I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 56 - 54 Refuel_1

Chapter 56: Chapter 54 Refuel_1

The advantage of being on horseback lies in kiting and pursuing. In complex terrains, it’s better to fight on foot. The Headless Knight, once on his legs, was no weaker in strength. However, when a swordsman faced a lancer, this was not like playing a game where lancers were weak to swordsmen.

In fact, the advantage of pole weapons was clear. If the swordsman could run a little faster and close the distance, the lancer would lose his advantage. The problem was that Zheng Yichen was somewhat weaker than the Headless Knight in strength, but he was faster.

The Headless Knight couldn’t outrun Zheng Yichen, and his sword skills were difficult to exhibit. His weapon could parry Zheng Yichen’s thrusts, but a prolonged fight led to negligence. The long sword, burning with a ghostly green flame, struck the black spear, shedding some black fragments. At the same time, the Headless Knight’s body was pierced by the black spear and nailed to the Tree of Death.

Ignoring the pain, the Headless Knight tried to sever Zheng Yichen’s black spear with his sword. After several strikes, the outer layer of the black spear had shattered, revealing the fishing rod inside.

Zheng Yichen, of course, would not let the Headless Knight continue chopping. He took out the shotgun slung over his shoulder and fired at close range at the Headless Knight’s shoulder. It was inaccurate at a distance, but hitting a live target nailed to a tree was no problem.

The immense power of the shotgun slug blew open the Headless Knight’s shoulder, revealing the shattered bones and flesh inside. Then a second shot was fired, further tearing the wound. The Headless Knight’s sword-bearing arm could no longer swing.

Zheng Yichen emptied his magazine into the Headless Knight’s arm and tossed the now empty shotgun at Katrina’s feet. The Headless Knight, nailed to the tree, was completely deprived of means to attack. The remaining arm grasped the black spear, attempting to pull out the weapon that had impaled him.

The weapon that fell to the ground was snatched up by Zheng Yichen first. He didn’t go for the weapon but grabbed the Headless Knight’s severed arm. Having retrieved the desired weapon, he immediately retracted the black spear. The fishing rod serving as the spear’s carrier was now deformed, causing Zheng Yichen some distress.

This thing, once broken in this world, had nowhere to be repaired.

Looking at the severed arm that was still writhing and even trying to attack him, Zheng Yichen pulled out some steel wire he carried and tied the limb up tightly. His gaze returned to the Headless Knight, who had lost an arm, filled with malevolence.

A Headless Knight with weapons was difficult to defeat, but a Knight of Death who had lost his weapons was a different matter altogether. After disarming the opponent, the ghostly green flames burning on the ground disappeared as if they had never existed, vanishing quickly without a trace.

The toothless tiger, pinned to the Tree of Death by Zheng Yichen’s revealed black spear, had its draining blood swallowed by the black spear. The life force absorbed from the Headless Knight was severely diluted, yet continuous absorption could add up.

In the process, the Headless Knight resisted, but his resistance amounted to little. The light armor on his body decayed like it was weathering away, and his muscular flesh started to ’rot’. The skin disappeared first, the flesh on his body gradually melting away to reveal a ghastly skeleton.

The skeleton started to display numerous decay holes, and the decaying bones lacked the strength to support themselves, crumbling into debris on the ground. The horse that had been trying to ram into Zheng Yichen also lost the strength to maintain its existence after the Headless Knight turned back into a skeleton, dissolving into a puddle of filthy blood and spreading across the ground.

The twisted Tree of Death also started to wither due to the absorbing power of the black spear. The Headless Knight was an extraordinary creature, the blood-flowing Tree of Death was similarly an extraordinary creature.

"How about that?" Zheng Yichen slung the black spear over his shoulder and turned to look at the Forest Witch, whose expression was indescribable.

The Forest Witch looked on with a complex expression as the Headless Knight’s undead body was indeed formidable. After Zheng Yichen had shot off its arm with his gun, the limb simply needed to be replaced to immediately heal back to normal, but under her watchful eye, Zheng Yichen had turned it back into a skeleton.

The Headless Knight’s undying body was completely obliterated, and as a result, the Tree of Death began to wither, as if drained of its essence.

"Are you really human? And not some mix of demon and human?" the Forest Witch couldn’t help but ask. The power that Zheng Yichen displayed with his black spear was beyond any normal human’s capabilities, something even she, as a witch, could not achieve.

"Definitely human." Zheng Yichen came to the severed arm. His black spear pierced through it, giving him feedback that was still like drinking water mixed with a little sugar, except this time, the sugar content seemed notably increased.

The arm that was still slightly struggling soon turned into a skeleton, and the sword it was clutching fell to the ground, its ethereal green flames completely extinguished.

Zheng Yichen picked up the sword. It felt even colder than when he touched it before, and while holding it, he could feel the sword extracting something from him, but Zheng Yichen could resist this draining power.

"Now this sword is the Sword of Hell. Ordinary people would have their Life Force sucked away by it," said the Forest Witch, looking at the sword in Zheng Yichen’s hands.

"I can resist that kind of absorption. The key is how to produce those flames?" Zheng Yichen waved the sword in his hand. Without the eerie green flames, the sword looked quite ordinary—that wasn’t what he wanted. He desired an enchanted weapon that blazed with green flames like special effects.

"I don’t know," admitted the Forest Witch with a shake of her head. The Headless Knight’s sword was inherently the Sword of Hell, and even if someone acquired it, they would not use it. On the contrary, those who obtained such weapons usually died thereafter, for the swords were ’cursed’.

Zheng Yichen slightly loosened his resistance to the sword’s inherent absorbing power, and a wisp of ghostly green flame emerged on the cold blade.

"Oh heh," Zheng Yichen raised an eyebrow slightly at this sight. "So, it needs fuel."

He did not continue to test further, since the weapon drew upon the bearer’s Life Force to generate the green flames. As a human, he had no desire to burn his own Life Force, only considering using it in some critical moments.

Mainly, he was unclear if the Life Force burned counted as depleting his own lifespan, or if it was simply draining vitality that could be slowly recovered after the battle.

If it were the former, then the weapon was indeed a double-edged sword—not worth using and shortening his lifespan just for the sake of a sword. If it were the latter, it might be acceptable.

"No, the Sword of Hell will only absorb the Life Force of ordinary people and will not cause any additional changes," the Forest Witch said, her gaze growing even stranger at Zheng Yichen. Was this black-haired young man truly human, and not the offspring of some Hell creature mixed with the human race?

Otherwise, how could he wield the Sword of Hell, a weapon only the deceased could use?