"Get out of the way!"
"Bullets are useless against these vine tentacles; they are all inanimate. Attack them with the incendiary bottles the Merchant supplied earlier."
Seeing countless vine tentacles spreading towards them, Javier quickly put away his Barrett and switched to Executioner Verdugo's tail blade, beginning to hack at the vine tentacles attempting to entangle him!
"Pfft—!"
With a light swing,
a vine tentacle was immediately cut into two pieces and fell to the ground, but even so, it could not stop the advance of these vine tentacles.
They continued to regrow, causing Javier's expression to change. He quickly shouted to Luis and Leon to attack with incendiary bottles.
Javier was quite familiar with dealing with plant-type monsters.
Although these plant vine monsters could ignore physical attacks like bullets, they were extremely afraid of the high temperature of flames.
The Merchant had given them many incendiary bottles in addition to grenades before, and now they could finally be put to good use!
"Bang—!"
"Pfft…Boom…!"
Lighting the rag on the incendiary bottle, throwing it high into the air, and then drawing his pistol to shoot, the familiar flame magic operation was completed again.
The bullet shattered the glass bottle, causing the flammable liquid inside to touch the flame, igniting a large fire. The cavitation effect produced by the spinning bullet also rapidly accelerated the momentum of the flames.
The incendiary bottle attack, like a fireball, exploded out of thin air, and scorching flames splattered onto the vine tentacles.
The moment the flames touched the vine tentacles,
they ignited fiercely, as if dry wood had met a raging fire.
And these vine tentacles seemed to possess life; when they encountered the burning flames, they painfully thrashed and slammed against the ground, as if extremely afraid.
Seeing how effective the incendiary bottle attack was, Luis and Leon, standing nearby, followed suit, imitating Javier and quickly throwing incendiary bottles at the surrounding vine tentacles, rapidly repelling them and temporarily avoiding being surrounded.
"Cough, cough…!!!"
However,
the drawback of using incendiary bottles quickly became apparent.
Ashley couldn't help but start coughing, covering her mouth. The air was filled with black smoke produced by the incendiary bottle flames burning the vine tentacles, which was incredibly pungent and irritating to the eyes. Ashley, being a frail young girl, naturally couldn't endure being surrounded by the intense fire.
"…"
"This isn't a long-term solution. While flames can effectively curb these vine tentacles' attacks, living people can't endure the scorching heat of a large fire, and someone is controlling these vine tentacles…"
Looking at Ashley, who was constantly coughing while covering her mouth,
Leon's expression changed. Realizing this wasn't a sustainable method, he immediately pulled Ashley towards an area where the flames were weaker, trying to minimize the impact of the burning black smoke on her.
At the same time,
through his recent observations,
Leon also discovered that these vine tentacles didn't have their own consciousness but were being controlled to attack. Even though these plant vine tentacles feared fire and strongly resisted its scorching, they still forced their way in.
From this, Leon could basically infer that someone was behind them, forcibly controlling the vine tentacles to attack.
Thinking of this,
Leon suddenly raised his head and quickly spotted the dwarf Ramon on the high platform railing.
Yes… he had previously overlooked Ramon, this dwarf goblin. This guy was the true master of Salazar Castle. His servants and cultist subordinates had all been dealt with by them, so how could he remain so calm and composed?
Sure enough—
these plant tentacles earlier were Ramon's doing, and it was precisely because of Ramon's control that these vine tentacles would forcibly ignore their fear of fire and still try to squeeze in to attack.
Seeing this,
Leon didn't hesitate. He quickly raised his Lee-Enfield Rifle, instantly locking its dark muzzle onto Ramon's pale-haired head.
His bicorne hat had been shot off by Ashley earlier, and now his wrinkled forehead was exposed to Leon.
To catch the bandit, first catch the king…
Leon naturally understood this principle. Since Ramon was controlling these vine tentacles, Leon quickly pulled the trigger without any hesitation!
"Bang—————!!!"
A gunshot rang out,
and an orange bullet rapidly shot through the air, drawing a graceful arc. Almost without exception,
the high-speed spinning bullet head directly hit Ramon's head, making the dwarf's expression instantly become dull and stiff.
It was as if Ramon himself was utterly astonished, never expecting someone to ambush him. By the time he reacted, there was already a bloody bullet hole in his forehead, and crimson blood continuously flowed from his forehead down to his cheek.
The intense pain constantly reminded Ramon of the fact that he had been shot dead, and the vine tentacles he controlled also abruptly stopped, losing their original fierce offensive and flopping limply to the ground.
Even his most loyal servant, Pesanta the Houndsman, abruptly turned its head the moment Ramon was attacked, its eyes staring in shock at its master, seemingly wanting to rush to his defense, but it was quickly blocked by Ada's MP5 submachine guns, which infuriated it!
But the next second…
"Buzz…"
"Rumble—!!!"
The entire palace suddenly began to shake violently, as if an earthquake had occurred. Ramon, who was shot in the head by Leon, did not die immediately.
Instead, he reached out with his wrinkled hand to wipe his head, and looking at the blood in his hand, his ugly face was filled with shock.
He could not accept the fact that his head had been pierced.
Even more, he could not accept the fact that he, the dignified master of Salazar Castle, had been ambushed by hateful, damned rats!
This made him lose all face, utterly humiliating—
"Damn it… hateful!"
"I've had enough! You filthy rats, you must die here, you must, right now, this instant! I can no longer tolerate your unreasonable behavior. No one can stop me from tormenting and punishing you, ugh… Aaaah… You annoying, damned ants…!"
Almost gnashing his teeth,
Ramon, hit in the head by the bullet, trembled violently, his words and expression incredibly ferocious as he roared in a low voice.
His heart was filled with an unspeakable rage. He now only wanted to quickly dismember Javier, Leon, and the others, and then devour them all alive to appease his hatred—!
Chapter 73: Giant Squid
Ramon did not die immediately,
but at this moment, his posture was even more hideous and terrifying than when he was dead. His hysterical appearance was just like a raging devil. His already withered hands frantically clutched his pale hair, like a frenzied demon—
"What's wrong with him…?"
Meanwhile, Leon, the culprit, frowned slightly at Ramon's bizarre outburst, completely unable to comprehend Ramon's behavior at this moment. Without any hesitation, Leon raised his Lee-Enfield Rifle and shot Ramon again!
"Bang—————!!!"
Since he likes to shout so much,
let him shout his fill. Although Leon couldn't understand why Ramon was so angry, as long as he could stop this guy's attack, it would be fine. Anyway, if Ramon was injured, the surrounding vine tentacles wouldn't move.
But in reality,
if Leon could put himself in the shoes of a noble young master who suddenly gets covered in cow dung by a country bumpkin, then Leon would probably understand Ramon's feelings at that moment.
The bullet did not cause much damage to him. Possessing a Dominant Plaga parasite, he could even ignore the attacks from the Barrett in Javier's hand. However, Leon's headshot attack earlier, although not very lethal, was extremely insulting.
It was like a pile of cow dung,
unable to pose any life threat to Ramon, but capable of making one incredibly furious—
At the same time…
"Ugh… Ah ah ah ah…!!!!"
A sharp, strange shriek rang out.
Ramon, hit by another bullet, finally couldn't hold back. Overwhelmed by rage, he completely unleashed his power, revealing the strength granted to him by the Dominant Plaga parasite within his body, right before everyone's eyes.
For Ramon to disregard everything and unleash the power of the Dominant Plaga parasite within him, there's no doubt that the insult Leon inflicted upon him was truly profound.
After all, as mentioned before,
the Plaga parasite is different from a virus; it doesn't have regenerative capabilities. Once the power within is unleashed, it will permanently exist in a new form and cannot revert to its original human form. As the only remaining descendant of the Salazar Family,
he naturally cared deeply about his human identity. He certainly didn't want to live as a giant monster forever.
But now,
Ramon could actually be blinded by rage, and indeed, one had to acknowledge Leon's aggressiveness. Without any verbal psychological attacks, even the simplest gunshots could inflict insulting damage. Truly admirable!
"Buzz…"
"Gurgle gurgle…!!!"
And under everyone's gaze,
Ramon's dwarf goblin body suddenly began to swell, once again disregarding the so-called law of conservation of energy. His tiny human body continuously expanded outwards like a tumor, and at a very fast speed.
Large amounts of tumors continuously surged outwards until they stopped expanding when they reached the size of a truck. You simply cannot imagine how this tiny dwarf goblin body
could swell into tens of tons of flesh. Even if it were thrown into water to bloat and rot into a giant, it wouldn't be this big.
One can only say that the transformations in biohazard are the most unscientific parts; the law of conservation of energy is directly thrown out the window.
"Heh heh heh…"
And as time passed,
Ramon's outermost flesh turned into a deep red mass of meat, and it split into nine tentacles like a squid's. Although these tentacles couldn't entangle and attack enemies like vine tentacles, they could provide Ramon with very powerful propulsion.
This caused his body, despite being incredibly massive and heavy, to slowly float up propelled by the nine tentacles, just like a squid leisurely traversing the deep sea.
And on both sides of its enormous body, there were blood-flesh-like wings, used to control the direction of Ramon's massive body as it flew in mid-air.
"Hiss hiss hiss—!!!!"
And the next second,
the triangular fleshy valve at the very front suddenly opened, surrounded by dense white teeth, and inside, Ramon's true form was directly revealed.
At this moment, his small dwarf body was pale grey, firmly embedded in the center of the tumor, like the pistil of a flower. Ramon was exposed from the waist up, and half of his head had already mutated into an insect-like form, standing within it.
As the piercing hissing sound rang out,
this giant squid finally began to quickly traverse the spacious castle palace, moving very fast. With a swing of its nine tail tentacles, it could instantly accelerate!
Although it's impossible to understand why Ramon's enormous body, weighing over ten tons, could float effortlessly in the air, this seems to be the true ability of his Dominant Plaga parasite: directly ignoring the constraints of gravity, the air directly transforms into a deep sea, allowing him to swim freely…
"Have you witnessed this form of mine…?"
"This is the power of a god, and you ants, upon seeing the form of a god, must all be executed and die here!"
Suddenly leaping high,
the entire massive squid body wildly roamed in mid-air. Ramon looked down at everyone from above, his three fleshy lobes spread open. Ramon, located in the center of the pistil, extended his pale arms, his voice incredibly hoarse and eerie as he muttered. His half-insect face appeared exceptionally ugly and terrifying.
"Especially you!"
"Leon Scott Kennedy, you damned stray dog, white-skinned monkey, vile commoner spewing filth, I will make you pay for everything you've done, including all the insults you've given me, until nothing remains…!!!"
And turning the spearhead,
Ramon's voice once again became incredibly sharp. His entire massive body directly faced Leon below and began to curse him.
His tone was extremely frenzied, looking as if he truly hated Leon to the core. And facing Ramon's hatred,
Leon also expressed being flattered, quickly pushing Ashley away from his side, making sure not to let that girl get involved. He didn't want to be distracted by taking care of Ashley while dealing with this ugly dwarf.
"Damn it, well, I'm truly honored then…"
"But your genes are truly lamentable. You possess your so-called divine power, yet even so, the form you transform into is still so… small and ridiculous."
"Do those disgusting tumors around you make you think you've completely transformed into a colossal being? Does the ability to fly make you think you can look down on humans like a god?"
"No, no, no… all of that is wrong. Your grayish-white skin is your true body. Even if enveloped by enormous, disgusting tumors, your true body remains tiny, no different from a dwarf goblin. So, you truly are deceiving yourself, Ramon Salazar—!!!"