Because the stairs leading to the top were quite narrow, coupled with the Centaur's muscular and brawny body, they could only go up one by one but not walk side by side.
And the stupidest thing was they only sent 1 Centaur at a time into the statue to kill Lucifer and Nothing. To be honest, that was the dumbest thing Lucifer had ever known in his entire life.
Although these Centaurs could talk and act like a human, it seemed that their intelligence quotient was not that great.
This brought a huge advantage to Lucifer and Nothing. Thanks to this, killing the Centaur would become much easier for them.
It had been about 2 minutes since the next Centaur entered the statue to get up to where Lucifer and Nothing were standing, and it seemed like the Centaur was about to reach there because Lucifer could clearly hear the half-human, half-horse creature's labored breathing.
Nothing quickly propped up William's corpse, the purpose for this action was to make the other Centaur think that his friend was still alive, and he would be caught off guard for 1 to 2 seconds.
Although it was an extremely short period of time for anyone to do anything, for Lucifer, it was more than enough for him to kill the monster.
As he had planned, the first thing that caught the Centaur's eyes was William's lifeless body, but since it was currently nighttime, the monster couldn't tell that William had been killed.
Lucifer suddenly felt quite lucky that it was nighttime.
"William? Is that you? Are you okay? It's me, Craig! Do you remember me? I am one of your best friends, you remember?" The Centaur said.
'So this Centaur's name is Craig? What a stupid name. Who would have the time to name monsters?'
Craig hurriedly ran towards William and hugged his friend. But then he immediately realized that William's body was extremely cold and lifeless.
It was as if William was dead, even though he was really dead.
"William? What's wrong? It's me Craig, say something! Why are you so cold?" Craig said in a worried voice, Lucifer didn't expect monsters to care for each other, but that didn't matter much for him.
Not giving Craig a chance to continue speaking, Lucifer immediately fixed himself on the Centaur's horse's body and stabbed him multiple times in the back.
Craig died not long after. But even in death, he was still hugging his friend. It was a beautiful friendship, but Lucifer just found it disgusting somehow. This was even more horrific than Owen in his "unique" outfit to be honest.
Looking at two lifeless and bloody corpses hugging each other, who wouldn't feel terrified, right?
[You have received 4 Experiences from killing a special monster of the Giant level.]
Wasting no time, Lucifer immediately called out to Nothing:
"Hey Nothing, prepare to face the next monster! We don't have much time to waste!"
***
In the following period of time, Lucifer and Nothing had repeated that method over and over again to kill a few more Centaurs, or to be more specific, they had killed four more Centaurs.
Everything went smoothly, they didn't encounter any difficulties. If this situation continued, maybe they could really survive until the sun rose again.
Everything should have gone smoothly and easily when they faced the 7th Centaur, but no. Things had become much more challenging for Lucifer and Nothing.
The 7th Centaur slowly walked up the stairs, he was not like the Centaurs that Lucifer had killed before, there was something different about this 7th Centaur.
Although Lucifer had not encountered this Centaur yet, he was still trembling a little for some reason. This feeling was really familiar, it reminded him of the time when Lucifer had to meet the leader of the thugs in the slums.
Suddenly, the Centaur's voice rang out from under the stairs:
"Hey, what's your name?"
It was a gentle and friendly voice, but Lucifer couldn't help but feel that something dangerous and threatening was lurking deep within that seemingly normal voice.
'What is he talking about? Why is he suddenly asking my name?' Lucifer was extremely confused.
But then he realized something. The Centaur only said "what's your name?" and not "what are you guy's names?", this meant that the Centaurs thought there was only one person here.
Lucifer smirked. If this was true, then he would have a lot of advantages in attacking the monster by surprise.
'Nothing, introduce yourself, just tell him your name.' Lucifer used telepathy with Nothing.
Receiving Lucifer's command, Nothing didn't ask anything but introduced himself in a clear and loud voice, but Nothing's introduction was a bit different from what Lucifer had imagined:
"I am Lucifer!"
A vein appeared on Lucifer's forehead in anger. But he tried to suppress the anger that could erupt at any moment because it would ruin his plan.
'I swear I will beat that guy so much that his face will turn into the face of an ugly monster.'
Not expecting to receive a reply, the Centaur below burst into laughter for some reason. His laughter continued for about 20 seconds before completely stopping.
"Hello Lucifer, I didn't think you would tell me your name. Should I call this stupid or polite? But whatever. Please let me introduce myself, my name is Manuel, and I advise you to be careful and don't underestimate me because I'm much stronger than the Centaurs that you had killed previously."
A very bold and aggressive statement, if it were anyone else, Lucifer would be sure that the person was lying. But for this Centaur, he didn't feel that way.
Lucifer needed to be very careful when facing this Centaur, otherwise he would definitely die.
***
The footsteps created by the four brawny horse legs became louder and louder, indicating that the distance between Lucifer and Manuel was getting narrower and narrower.
Just like the previous Centaurs, the first thing that appeared in Manuel's vision was the corpses of the Centaurs that had tried to come up here to kill Lucifer, but Manuel's reaction was completely different from the previous monsters.
Manuel stood still looking at the motionless corpses for a while, then gained momentum and finally charged straight towards the corpses like a bowling ball charging towards the pins.
Manuel didn't slow down at all, but even accelerated.
Finally, Manuel crashed into the lifeless corpses to the astonishment of Lucifer and Nothing. Because of that collision, the corpses shot out in all directions and then fell to the ground.
The Centaur looked around, then, he let out a creepy smile.
"There are two of you here, not one! Are you fooling me, Lucifer? That's not good to be honest, you are making me feel quite upset."
In the next moment, Lucifer had had a chance to experience what true fear was like, an experience he would never forget.