Chapter 450

Chapter 450: Madness

Just when Hugue felt that he might be dragged to death under the mountain of meat, a moment of fear arose in his heart, and then dozens of sharp ice spears suddenly broke through the air and pierced into the bodies of several humanoid monsters not far in front of him.

At the same time, several support spells were cast on him, one of which was a spell that could restore his Magic Value.

“Hugue, run away!”

“Ellena!”

The young man’s expression changed, and he looked towards the direction from which the ice spears were flying.

He saw Ellena standing anxiously on a house about thirty meters away from the mountain of meat, ignoring Hugue’s earlier command for her to stay and protect herself and rushing over instead.

Even so, Hugue could not blame her at that moment.

After all, it was because of Ellena’s help that he had a chance to escape!

With the help of Ellena’s attack magic and support magic, Hugue unleashed all his strength and cut down the incoming tentacles and monsters one by one.

Just as he was about to carve out a path, he didn’t notice that the humanoid monsters and tentacles had stopped appearing around him.

Until a scream was heard—

“Hugue, it’s coming!”

It seemed that they realized they should take care of Ellena, the mage, first. Some of the tentacles and humanoid monsters, who originally intended to fight Hugue, suddenly turned around and rushed toward the roof where Ellena was standing, frightening the already scared mage even more.

“Not good, Ellena! Run away!”

“Hugue, come here! Hurry up!!”

Ellena shouted with a trembling voice, her face filled with terror, as she shook and pointed her magic wand at the tentacles and humanoid monsters coming down from the pile of flesh toward her.

Then, from the tip of the magic wand, several ice spears that radiated an intense chill shot out. This “ice spear” spell was one of the few attack magics she had learned and was also her most skilled and powerful attack magic.

The ice spear shot towards the tentacles and the humanoid monsters, but because of fear, it missed its target much more than before, only piercing through a few giant tentacles.

In the distance, there were hoarse shouting sounds from Hugue urging her to escape quickly.

Although Hugue’s condition improved a lot because of his own supportive magic, it was still not possible for him to reach her right away.

After a few whimpers, Ellena ran backward a bit unsteadily.

The rooftops of the houses in this area were almost connected, so Ellena didn’t need to jump down from the roof; she just ran and cried on top of the roof.

But with the weak body of a mage, how could she possibly run faster than those tentacles and humanoid monsters?

A thunderous sound came from behind, and when Ellena looked back, she was instantly terrified.

She saw the giant tentacles brutally smashing through one house after another, while the humanoid monsters jumped onto the backs of those tentacles, opening their tooth-filled mouths and roaring.

Right now, the tentacles were only about three houses away from Ellena.

“No, don’t come closer! You monsters!”

The woman mage ran backward, trembling, and aimed her magic wand at the chasing tentacles to shoot an ice spear.

Because they were getting closer, the ice spear hit a few tentacles, but Ellena, too flustered while retreating and attacking, suddenly tripped on a tile from the roof and lost her balance, falling backward.

After sitting down hard on the roof, the woman instinctively relaxed her right hand, causing the magic wand to clatter to the ground, then roll off the edge and fall to the ground below.

This is bad…

Ellena’s lips trembled as she looked pale, watching the tentacles and the creature getting closer.

Until the tentacles, along with the creature, leaped and landed on the roof where Ellena was—

“Fire!”

With a shout from a distance behind her, dozens, or even hundreds, of large fireballs came rushing in, crashing down onto the attacking tentacles and the creature.

However, compared to Ellena’s ice spear, these fireballs were clearly less powerful. Luckily, there were enough of them, so for the moment, they drove back these monstrous creatures.

“Miss Ellena! Hurry and get away from there!”

The previous voice sounded again. Ellena didn’t have time to reply; she quickly got up from the ground and ran back.

While running, she finally saw the presence that saved her.

It was an army, a cavalry that was much larger than the previous ‘Black Ant’ Adventurer Squad, with at least three hundred soldiers at a glance.

Are they the Imperial Guard? There should be more than a thousand of them, yet only three hundred came? But three hundred is enough! With their help, she and Hugue could escape together from these monsters. How wonderful!

However, just as she thought this, the moment when a smile finally appeared on her face.

Boom!!!

The loud bang by her ear stunned Ellena, and at the same time, the roof she was on suddenly cracked and shattered into pieces!

A huge tentacle broke through the ground, destroying the house where Ellena was.

The guards who came to help drove away the tentacle and the monster on the roof, but they didn’t expect the monster could still move underground.

“No!!! Ellena——!!”

At the same time she felt weightless, she heard Hugue’s distant roar.

In the next moment——

Ellena felt herself fall into a wet tunnel that smelled of blood, then she felt a sharp pain in her neck, everything in front of her became blurry, and her consciousness gradually faded away amidst Hugue’s unclear and echoing roars…

At that moment, Hugue saw his beloved woman falling through the air, and suddenly a giant tentacle shot up from the ground, snapping her body below the neck into its massive mouth.

The woman’s head, still looking confused, rolled on the ground, covered in dirt, and her eyes finally turned hollow.

After seeing Ellena being killed, Hugue went completely mad. He stopped running away and instead, with blood-red eyes, he attacked the nearby monsters in a fierce rage.

“Damn it, right under our noses…”

Among the guards, the strong Knight Commander shouted an angry curse.

“But this Devouring Demon Mountain seems much stronger than what His Majesty said. Your recent fireballs didn’t even manage to destroy those tentacles.”

“Knight Commander, what should we do next?”

The officer beside him frowned and asked, noticing that the tentacles that had killed Ellena were not coming towards them but were instead turning to attack Hugue.