Chapter 413 Low Combat Power Has Its Uses

Having low combat power also has its advantages. At least someone like Nangong Wuyue, even when berserk, could only continue to cast healing spells on everyone around her—at most, she just stopped aiming. It was estimated that the brain monster couldn't have foreseen this situation, but unfortunately, Hao Ren had no way to confirm it with the brain monster now.

"Vivian, Lily, you guys take these siblings out first," Hao Ren instructed, turning his head while dodging Nangong Wuyue's probing tail tips. Then, he grabbed the silver spear and charged toward Izhaks. "Old Wang, I'm here to help you!"

Wuyue hissed and turned to look at Hao Ren, unceremoniously throwing a large pile of water element barriers and Living Water Healing and other auxiliary spells at him. Lily grabbed Wuyue's tail and dragged her out. The latter struggled, grabbing the floor and muttering gibberish. However, her strength was as harmless as a little snake in front of Lily. She was directly dragged away backward.

Vivian, on the other hand, split into a swarm of bats and carried the unconscious Nangong Sanba away from this place.

The "Siren Queen" noticed the new enemy joining the battlefield. She let out a spine-chilling screech, and Hao Ren immediately felt it was difficult to move. His body felt as if it were surrounded by an extremely tough and rapidly solidifying superglue, and his shield capacity began to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye. The brain monster had ultimately mastered the various spells of the sirens during the century-long battle for control of the body. It was now increasing the water pressure around Hao Ren, almost giving the illusion that the water had solidified!

"Damn… this isn't very pleasant…" As the shield capacity rapidly decreased, Hao Ren felt a painful pressure that almost made him lose consciousness coming from all directions. He felt his eyes should already be bloodshot because the scene in front of him was quickly covering with a layer of light red. At the same time, the water around him surged, tearing at the foreign object in the water to crush it into powder.

Hao Ren used all his strength to barely move in this water flow. He was now surprised that Hasse had been fighting in such an environment all along—it seemed he had underestimated the power of the demon hunters. This water pressure was already at a level that ordinary heteromorphs could not withstand.

Izhaks waved his Demon Sword, stirring up a scorching vortex, and charged towards the Siren Queen. He didn't care about the water blades that were constantly cutting him. Those water blades cut extremely fine wounds in his rock-solid skin, and scorching magma and molten iron spewed out from them. This made him look like a scorching giant statue thrown into the water when he rushed out. The brain monster, which occupied the Siren Queen's body, was obviously startled by this attack method. It immediately pulled back to dodge, and Hao Ren seized the opportunity to raise his spear and fire a plasma cannon.

The Siren Queen dodged the cannon strike at the last moment. The scorching silver-white ball of light grazed the Living Water and hit a distant spire. With a dull rumble, the spire slowly collapsed.

"Hopefully, I won't have to pay for repairs for these snake ladies after everything settles down…" Hao Ren shook his head, wiped the blood seeping from his nostrils, and charged towards the "Siren Queen" with the protective crystal held high.

Seeming to sense the threat of the protective crystal to itself, a sharp howl came from the Living Water, and a shock wave rushed toward him. Hao Ren felt everything around him was boiling, and the entire group of buildings behind him began to disintegrate amid the screams. The magnificent high walls and the spaceship's circulation pipes, which had lasted for ten thousand years, burst from the inside like foam hit by buckshot. Countless huge building fragments were falling from the sky. Hao Ren dodged as much as possible in this collapsing world. He saw a flash of electric light shoot out from the smoke below. It was a huge crossbow bolt, wrapped in powerful holy flames, charging towards the Living Water protecting the "Siren Queen" with an indomitable momentum.

The crossbow bolt pierced a large hole in the Living Water barrier. The "Siren Queen's" body seemed to be torn apart once at that moment, but in the next second, she was resurrected. Then she rushed out of the encirclement and fled towards a distant spire. However, Izhaks was already waiting for all this. A barrier filled with green arcane runes suddenly appeared in mid-air, and the "Siren Queen" crashed into it solidly.

Hao Ren had already rushed to a very close distance at this time. He felt the protective crystal in his hand was gradually emitting heat. This thing automatically activated the built-in defense program after sensing aggressive mental energy. The electric field strength in the surrounding water finally weakened, and a strange buzzing and hissing sound also faded from his mind. The mermaid-like siren screamed sharply under the restraint of the arcane barrier, and she hugged her head as if out of control, rapidly changing her form. One moment she turned into a strange woman covered in scales, the next moment she turned into a sea snake, and then she turned back into a mermaid—the crystal was weakening the hostile soul's mental activity in the same way it dealt with the First Born, and the weakening of mental activity meant its control over the stolen body was decreasing. At this time, a large hand covered in lava and sulfur slag suddenly stretched out from the side, grabbed the "Siren Queen's" tail, and quickly swung it more than twenty times before throwing it towards Hao Ren.

Hao Ren conveniently stuck the protective crystal on the Siren Queen's forehead and looked up at Izhaks: "Your technique is quite skilled."

Izhaks grinned: "I used to dry Elizabeth like this after giving her a bath when she was a kid—we demons all do this."

"… It's not easy for her to be your daughter!"

The Siren Queen's body convulsed continuously under the impact of the protective crystal, and finally completely lost consciousness. The good thing was that her body no longer deformed, which allowed Hao Ren to tie her up. Then Izhaks returned to human form and came to Hao Ren's side: "Is this considered done?"

"I guess so, but we still have to find a way to 'swap' them back later," Hao Ren looked at the "Siren Queen" who was tied up by his tail and wrapped in a large pile of alloy cables, and then opened the communicator, "'Get' over here, Shakira. It's settled up here. Bring the big head out."

"What exactly happened?" Hasse swam to Hao Ren with the big crossbow on his shoulder. "How could the Siren Queen possess such strong mental control? Didn't you say that only brain monsters could do that?"

Hao Ren patted the snake ball beside him: "Because the brain monster is in her body. That thing can swap its consciousness with others, and even the Siren Queen was tricked. You should be glad that your brain is tough enough, otherwise, it would have desperately taken you as the second container at the critical moment just now."

Hasse was an honest man: "Why me?"

"The closest to this guy just now were you and Izhaks," Hao Ren pointed to the great demon next to him. "Look at his face. If you were a brain monster, would you be willing?"

Hasse subconsciously touched his face and nodded slightly.

Although the habit of Hao Ren's team was to badmouth whoever wasn't around, Izhaks seemed to be an exception.

The three dragged the unconscious "Siren Queen" back, while huge building fragments continued to fall around them. The water was filled with dust, oil droplets, fine sand, and the smell of sulfur. The buildings below were a mess. The Queen's bedroom was completely destroyed, and the stray spells had blown up at least three facilities outside the palace. The destructive power generated by the short battle just now almost completely destroyed the core control area of ​​Nassaton. Hao Ren noticed that the back half of the Queen's palace was a place like a bridge (there were many pipes and light strips extending to other places). Now, only a few sections of platforms emitting firelight were shaking in the water, which made him very regretful: "It seems that Nassaton can no longer fly… unless someone can find the design drawings of this thing."

"Uh, it seems we made a bit of a mess." Izhaks scratched his bald head.

Hao Ren looked at the wounds on Izhaks' body that were healing quickly: "Is your injury okay?"

"Just scratches, it doesn't matter," Izhaks grinned, "The Siren Queen is a strong enemy. It is indeed quite difficult to fight in her territory, but how should I put it… I am better."

Outside the completely destroyed Queen's bedroom, everyone reunited. Shakira and Gun also brought the "brain monster" that looked a bit clumsy and stiff.

Hasse looked at this wonderful creature in surprise. He marveled at its strange form: "This… where is its mouth?"

"I suggest you don't stare so rudely. The Queen's soul is trapped inside it," Hao Ren reminded Hasse, then turned to look at the "brain monster," "Your Majesty, do you know how to reverse this exchange process?"