#663Chapter 663: One Monster, Two Kills, One Redemption, One SacrificeAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 663: Two Ways to Handle One Monster, One Redemption, One Sacrifice
[Extreme Desire Poison Pukei-Pukei: Champion Template. Demonic Unit, Fused Unit. HP = 4000/4000, MP = 3600/3600. Strength 40, Agility 45, Spirit 36, Charm 15.]
[Unit Traits — Paranoia, Venom]
Even more terrifying than the uncanny valley effect was this chimera-like demonic creature before him.
The basic structure of its torso remained as Cheng Tian remembered a Pukei-Pukei should be, but the head and face, highly similar to a human's, easily caused physiological discomfort.
It was somewhat like a harpy from a mythological bestiary, without any embellishment, purely as it would appear in legends.
There were no such bizarre anomalies in the Monster Hunter world, so it could only be a product deeply influenced by the Soul Sacrifice rules. Moreover, just from the information fed back by the Shadow Serpent, Cheng Tian felt a hint of strangeness.
It was as if the monster before him wasn't purely a Pukei-Pukei.
"Pukei-Pukei armor is the best in the world!!! Hehehehe!!!"
Just as Cheng Tian took a moment to observe the Pukei-Pukei before him, the Pukei-Pukei, with eyes swiveling like a frog's, suddenly spoke human words, startling Cheng Tian.
Before Cheng Tian could make sense of it, the Pukei-Pukei, with its human head and face, opened its mouth to an impossibly wide arc, and a fat, entirely purple tongue lashed out towards Cheng Tian.
At that moment, Cheng Tian's Bond Stone lit up. Accompanied by a loud dragon roar, the Savage Deviljho, on standby within, emerged from the void head to tail. Its terrifying club-like maw met the Pukei-Pukei's tongue, which was filled with venom.
Splat!
Juices splattered!
A mixture of blood and venom splashed onto the Deviljho's body and the surrounding soil. The originally dark red Deviljho's head immediately had a string of small purple bubbles —
This indicated that the Deviljho had entered a poisoned state.
However, the poisoning did not diminish the Deviljho's ferocity in the slightest. With a shake of its head, it dragged and pulled the defenseless Pukei-Pukei into the air, then slammed it heavily in front of the Deviljho, leaving it dazed and disoriented.
The Pukei-Pukei was probably mentally stunned in every sense of the word.
If it had known that Cheng Tian had such a fierce and malevolent creature by his side, it would never have tried to provoke him, let alone directly stick out its tongue.
But now, it was too late to regret.
Before the Pukei-Pukei could recover from its daze, the Deviljho's massive maw clamped down on the Pukei-Pukei's relatively slender neck!
Skin, muscle, and bone simultaneously suffered almost irreversible fractures and pulverization. Immediately after, the Pukei-Pukei, with pain reaching its brain, felt a lifting force.
Its entire bird body was dragged into the air, and then it was slammed heavily onto the ground again. Under the force of the heavy impact, more of its internal fluids were forcibly squeezed out.
And this was just the beginning.
The Deviljho, like a Tyrannosaurus-shaped Goro Daimon, used its mouth to perform close-quarters grappling-like techniques, repeatedly smashing the Pukei-Pukei!
It seemed that the Savage Deviljho did not want a poison-element Pukei-Pukei Great Sword; it just wanted this thing dead.
Violent slamming and pure physical collisions quickly left the bruised, toothless, and still bleeding demonic Pukei-Pukei near death.
Accompanied by an effect like dissolving sludge, the Pukei-Pukei's original head emerged from the dissolving demonic sludge. This indicated that the demonic part of its body was being forcibly interfered with and dispelled by external forces. At the same time, a humanoid soul, visible only to those with mastery over related powers, also emerged from the dissolving sludge.
It looked like a hunter wearing a low-rank Pukei-Pukei armor set.
This soul and the dying Pukei-Pukei still had a soul-level connection and were still considered a single unit.
Cheng Tian speculated that this hunter might have been killed by the Pukei-Pukei, and his strong will to live caused his soul to undergo an anomaly, leading to a soul-level invasion of the Pukei-Pukei, completing a disguised Soul Parasitism to survive until now.
The connection between the two was very deep and could not be easily severed. Moreover, the current separation was only temporary; once its health recovered, it would revert to its original human-headed Pukei-Pukei form.
However, it was also in this state that the "Redemption and Sacrifice" icon on Cheng Tian's body transformed into an executable special icon, and his body also underwent corresponding changes.
His left hand glowed with sacred radiance, capable of redeeming demonic units and restoring them to their original form.
His right hand, meanwhile, had dark demonic fluctuations constantly surging. It would, in the name of justice, permanently consign the soul of the demonic target to oblivion.
"I don't want to die! I still don't want to die!!!"
The hunter's soul wailed. It was precisely this intense desire to live that twisted his soul and ultimately led to the invasion of the Pukei-Pukei.
Cheng Tian, however, paid no heed and simultaneously raised both hands.
His left hand aimed at the hunter's soul, and his right hand aimed at the Pukei-Pukei's body.
Again, Redemption and Sacrifice, he wanted both!
Under the incredulous and incredibly excited gazes of several peeping observers, the powers representing sacred purification and demonic sacrifice were simultaneously activated by Cheng Tian, acting upon the two entities respectively.
The cleansing power of Sacred Redemption visibly and rapidly calmed the twisted hunter's soul, while Demonic Sacrifice seemed more like constructing a bridge of communication, packaging the Pukei-Pukei's remnant soul and body together and offering them as a Soul Sacrifice to some entity, which would then feedback some power in return.
The hunter's soul, whose features were originally twisted to the point of being almost inhuman, had completely returned to normal. After giving Cheng Tian a relieved smile, it left behind a red heart on the spot.
[You redeemed the "Soul of the Enthusiastic Ecologist". Your Charm attribute permanently +1, and your Investigation-type skills receive a slight effect enhancement.
You obtained a Soul Reward — "Innocent Soul (Large)" .]
[You sacrificed the "Body of the Pukei-Pukei that killed the Ecologist". Your Strength attribute permanently +1, and your Poison Resistance permanently +2%.
You obtained Materials/Offerings — Pukei-Pukei Shell * 2, Pukei-Pukei Throat Sac * 1, Pukei-Pukei Feather * 1, Poison Sac * 1.]
The Holy-Demonic progress bar, which was originally supposed to influence each other's unlock progress, simultaneously increased by one point after Cheng Tian completed the Redemption and Sacrifice.
Under normal circumstances, both Redemption and Sacrifice would cause irreversible permanent changes to the caster's arm, but in Cheng Tian's case, there was no change whatsoever.
The Grand Master and Merlin couldn't help but exchange glances, seeing surprise in each other's eyes. Then, as if sensing something, they almost simultaneously turned their heads away, both showing expressions of disgust.
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