As a former boy, Su Qi, like most boys in his childhood, had been a passionate gamer.
And in many games, there were second playthrough settings.
Honestly speaking, for someone with clumsy hands like Su Qi, these settings were somewhat despair-inducing.
After all, he would carefully use all his strength to defeat a formidable boss, only for even more intense music to kick in immediately after.
And with only a sliver of HP left, that feeling of helplessness was truly despairing.
What Su Qi never expected was that a second playthrough scenario, something that only appeared in games, would actually play out in Reality today.
“Hehe… haha… hahaha.”
The several attacks launched by Little Red Pupil reached the True Demon King Black Dragon in just an instant.
Facing Little Red Pupil’s multiple seemingly ferocious attacks, the Demon King Black Dragon, whose size had already burst the Black Demon Castle, didn’t dodge this time. Instead, it took the hits head-on with its bare body.
For a moment, several black scales burst off its body, black blood falling away along with them.
Yet the Demon King Dragon turned a deaf ear to Little Red Pupil’s attacks.
At this moment, it seemed to have fallen into madness.
Its mountain-like black maw opened to its widest, emitting dragon roars filled with arrogance and pressure, sounding like laughter.
And while the Demon King Dragon laughed, its wounded scales and injuries—because the Magic Array was continuously draining the lives of the surrounding Pitch Black Beasts, transforming them into wisps of black mist—began to slowly heal.
The many girls standing atop Little Red Pupil’s head couldn’t help but furrow their brows slightly at the sight.
Although in the recent days of battling the Pitch Black Beasts, everyone had come to understand that the deathly auraç¼ ç»• around the Pitch Black Beasts did possess a partial Healing Ability effect.
But right now, with the Demon King Dragon’s enormous body and armor, it could actually recover as well. Moreover, as the Pitch Black Beasts were continuously devoured by the array, the Demon King Dragon’s body grew even larger.
A Second-Round Boss with infinite growth plus automatic recovery.
No matter how one looked at it, this was simply too unreasonable.
Just as Su Qi was pondering whether to have Little Red Pupil launch another round of attacks to test if they could wear down the Second-Round Demon King Dragon, she saw the Demon King Dragon spread its wings and turn its massive body toward the West Side.
Watching the Demon King Dragon’s movements, Su Qi and the others all became alert, worried the Second-Round Boss might have some special attack method.
But the next second, the Demon King Dragon didn’t even spare them a glance. Instead, as if in prayer, it devoutly closed its eyes and let out excited dragon roars toward the west, one after another.
“Great Death God Nox, your devout follower Nigal, after a hundred long years of barren waiting, has finally had his wish fulfilled.
Today, I have tamed the former Holy Beast and orchestrated the entirety of Segus. Soon I shall offer you the core of the World Tree, helping you grasp the twin authorities of life and death, ascending to the supreme divine throne!
May your greatness sink into eternal night, flooding the netherworld.
May your majesty crush all vitality, silencing all living things.”
Unlike the other humans, Elves, or Pitch Black Beasts present who couldn’t understand what “Nigal” was saying in his dragon roars and only felt waves of pressure, Su Qi, wearing the Dragon Knight Set, could understand the specific meaning within this dragon roar.
The Death God—Nox.
Hearing this address from Nigal’s mouth, Su Qi finally understood the source of the Black Qi surrounding these Pitch Black Beasts.
So in Segus World, everything was the doing of this Death God!
However, given the current situation, figuring out the full story of what the Death God had orchestrated wasn’t the main priority.
The most important matter right now was how to deal with the current Second-Round Boss.
But the problem was—it could heal, its body was enormous, and it couldn’t be taken down in one or even several hits. How were they supposed to fight it?
For Su Qi, a newcomer Adventurer, she truly had no good ideas at the moment.
And just as Su Qi furrowed her brows in thought, searching for a way to break the deadlock, an adorable loli voice rang out atop Little Red Pupil’s head.
“Sister Su Su, everyone, I think we should attack this black dragon right now!”
Following the voice, Su Qi instinctively looked toward An Xiaoling. She saw An Xiaoling extend her fair right hand and point at the wings of the giant dragon beneath them before continuing.
“Based on my observations just now, when this ‘Demon King Dragon’ turned around, its left and right wings weren’t coordinated—like it was trying hard to adapt. Also, look carefully, the wings aren’t symmetrical even now.”
Hearing An Xiaoling’s reminder, Su Qi quickly noticed this trait as well. She just hadn’t seen it clearly earlier because the Demon King Black Dragon’s body was simply too enormous.
And as Su Qi marveled that An Xiaoling truly deserved to be a Scout with a pair of eyes adept at discovering problems—no wonder she had been able to expose Su Qi’s “Su Su” identity back then—another devout girl’s voice rang out beside Su Qi at the same time.
“I agree with Little Ling’s assessment. I carefully observed this Dark Ritual Array just now. It’s a Sacrificial Array, meant to absorb the Black Qi around the Pitch Black Beasts to strengthen itself. And after Little Red Pupil’s attacks landed just now, many of the Pitch Black Beasts absorbed into the array completely vanished. Now we should take advantage of the fact that the ‘Demon King Dragon’ hasn’t yet familiarized itself with its body and can’t devour more Pitch Black Beasts—we should defeat it!”
Hearing the joint analysis from the Saintess Ye Fufu and An Xiaoling, Su Qi and everyone present quickly agreed with the plan to attack.
Although attacking while the enemy was still getting used to its body was somewhat lacking in martial honor, the other side served the “Death God”—clearly an evil faction. Why bother with martial honor with them!
“Little Red Pupil, let’s attack!”
As Su Qi, standing atop Little Red Pupil’s head, let out a charming shout, the next second, several powerful attacks carrying blood-colored whip marks, magic, and Dragon’s Breath once again flew toward the Demon King Dragon.
Boom, splash, pia~
Just like before, the various attacks produced many flashy effects, and countless wisps of black aura once again bloomed across the Demon King Dragon’s body, beginning to heal it.
In just a few dozen seconds, those gruesome wounds were restored to perfect condition.
However, this time, Su Qi and the others weren’t shocked by the power of the healing.
This time, Su Qi and the others focused more on observing the Demon King Dragon’s movements and the changes in the Dark Ritual Array.
When they saw the Demon King Dragon try to raise its wide wings to block the attacks without success, and when they saw the number of restrained Pitch Black Beasts inside the Dark Ritual Array decrease once more, Su Qi couldn’t help but grow excited.
Because based on the current situation, as long as they kept up the pressure—attacking, and attacking relentlessly, before ‘Nigal’ could fully succeed in Possessing the Demon King Dragon—then theoretically, they could deplete the Dark Ritual Array, and afterwards, deal with this Second-Round Boss naturally.
And just as Su Qi was confidently preparing to rally Little Red Pupil for another round of attacks—
“Ng~ (Mmm, I don’t have much strength left. My tummy’s empty ng, I can’t breathe out fire anymore ng~)” A slightly aggrieved whimpering sound rang out at that moment.
Hearing Little Red Pupil’s whimper, Su Qi, who was in the mysterious space within Little Red Pupil’s dragon horn, was taken aback and murmured to herself.
“That Little Guy Little Red Pupil is hungry now and needs Energy Supplement to continue fighting. But in this situation, where am I supposed to find food for Little Red Pupil?”
And just as Su Qi was furrowing her brows in thought, the next moment, she saw the five girls in the space leaning over with smiling faces. Seeing the smiles of the five young maidens, Su Qi was first delighted—could it be they had some snacks on hand?
But soon, as the five girls drew closer and closer, surrounding Su Qi completely, their smiles grew even wider at the corners of their mouths.
Su Qi suddenly had a bad feeling.
Ugh… so Little Red Pupil’s nutritional supplement was actually her?!
This meant she’d have to fight and Cuddle at the same time—ugh, what kind of shameless play was this!
This… this isn’t right!