Xisiya National Security Bureau.
"Boom!"
The main gate was smashed open by a massive hamr, and the seven or eight agents behind it were all sent flying by the collapsing door, vomiting blood.
The other agents left behind looked on in horror. This door was made of alloy, incredibly sturdy, and yet...
"Listen up, everyone. I'll only say this once."
Sigaochin, gripping the large hamr with both hands, strode into the hall, her voice severe and icy.
Following behind her were ard troops directly loyal to Yelanka. Though not nurous, they were all loyal elites.
Sigaochin's gaze swept over the Security Bureau agents.
"Those who surrender and drop their weapons now will live. Otherwise, I'll turn you all into at paste under this hamr!"
"...I... I surrender!"
An agent who t Sigaochin's eyes couldn't bear the fear in his heart, threw down his weapon, covered his head with his hands, and dropped to the ground.
With soone taking the lead, the other agents also gave up the fight one after another, dejected.
The fact that they were left behind ant they were considered either not loyal enough or not competent enough in Valeri's estimation. Facing Sigaochin, who could blast open an alloy door with one hamr strike, they truly had no courage to fight her.
Death was one thing, but no one wanted to die by being smashed into paste by that terrifying-looking hamr.
"Arrest them all!"
At Sigaochin's order, the soldiers behind her stepped forward to apprehend the surrendered Security Bureau agents.
With these agents surrendering, the administrative staff upstairs naturally offered no resistance either.
Having taken control of the Security Bureau in less than half an hour, Sigaochin's face showed no smile.
She knew the elite agents had all been taken by Valeri to deal with Yelanka. There was nothing to be proud of in easily suppressing a weakly defended base.
"Administrator." She contacted Yelanka via her earpiece. "I have taken control of the Security Bureau with my team. Over thirty resisting agents left behind have been eliminated. The rest are detained. What is your situation? Do you require support?"
The brief three or four seconds waiting for a reply felt like an hour to Sigaochin.
Yelanka's voice ca through. "Well done, Sigaochin. Things are proceeding smoothly here. Valeri and the agents he brought have been executed."
"Excellent!" Upon hearing this, the stone hanging in Sigaochin's heart finally landed.
"I'll contact you again later. I still have so matters to attend to here."
Yelanka looked towards the farm. She didn't know how the battle between Guan Tong and Lucifer was going. Uenoshi and Shi Jingyi had already rushed over. She couldn't fall behind either.
...
The dazzling light emitted by the bead Lucifer threw flooded the sky, montarily suppressing the expansion of the Shadow, preventing it from closing and forming a Domain.
Seeing this, Guan Tong was quite surprised. He hadn't expected such an item.
"Before light, your shadow is useless too."
Lucifer's smug voice ca from the air.
"I spent no small effort finding an item to counter your ability... Now, let's see what else you can do!"
Lucifer's wings vibrated as he dove at extre speed towards Guan Tong on the ground.
The bead item floating in the air, emitting intense light, suppressed the Shadow, preventing the Shadow Domain from fully deploying. Lucifer's speed was also extrely fast. In just a few breaths, he closed in on Guan Tong.
"Die!"
The sharp wings swept down like two large scythes, sealing off escape routes. But the scene of blood splattering did not appear. Lucifer frowned, looking at the shadow in front of him that had been sliced into several pieces.
"Swapped positions with a shadow?"
He keenly judged Guan Tong's action, flapped his wings to turn his body, and saw the latter now standing in the distance, a silver scattergun in hand.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Several high-explosive rounds were fired, targeting precisely that bead floating in the air, emitting strong light. Its light could suppress the Shadow, preventing Guan Tong from using his ability to its fullest. It had to be destroyed first.
"Don't even think about it!"
Lucifer fired a dense barrage of sharp feathers from afar, intercepting the shells in mid-air. A series of explosions occurred overhead. Just as a look of triumph appeared in his eyes, he heard a *crack*. The bead item in the air shattered.
What happened?!
Lucifer's eyes widened. He had clearly blocked all the bullets with his feathers, so why was the bead still attacked?
Then, his sharp eyes caught so steel pellets falling from the sky, and his heart tightened: besides high-explosive rounds, there were also buckshot!
"Seems your understanding of this gun of mine isn't deep enough. You didn't know it can continuously switch between firing different types of ammunition."
Hearing Guan Tong's voice, Lucifer gritted his teeth in anger.
With the suppression of the strong light item gone, the Shadow rapidly rged and took form, becoming a complete Shadow Domain.
Simultaneously, Guan Tong fired several smoke rounds from his Silver Hunt, creating a large amount of smoke.
This way, even if Lucifer used illumination items like last ti, he would be trapped within the smoke, unable to discern direction or location.
"Darkness plus smoke can indeed turn your enemy into a headless fly trapped in this Shadow World, waiting to die... But don't forget, I am... Lucifer!"
Lucifer took a deep breath and then actively closed his eyes.
Seeing his action, Guan Tong was surprised. Could this guy actually fight without relying on sight?
*Whoosh—*
As if responding to Guan Tong's speculation, Lucifer, with his eyes closed, flapped his wings and soared forward.
Guan Tong continuously created various shadow obstacles to block and changed his own position, but Lucifer always managed to locate him, adjusting direction to pursue.
What was he relying on? Sound localization?
Guan Tong felt sothing was off. He moved almost silently in the darkness, especially since he had also fired several shots. The loud gunshots didn't interfere with Lucifer's pursuit either.
If only this rule didn't force a title change...
Guan Tong thought to himself. In this rule, all Ascendants holding the challenge tournant invitation were forced to equip the "Contestant" title.
This prevented the effect of his "Civilization Observer" title from activating. Otherwise, he could have used it to see through the effect of Lucifer's ability.
At this mont, Lucifer kept attacking, while Guan Tong kept using shadow constructs to block and changing his own position to dodge.
On the surface, he seed to be at a disadvantage, unable to fight back. In reality, this was just his cautious combat strategy.
He could afford to drag it out; Lucifer couldn't. If this stalemate continued, it wouldn't be long before Lucifer's Mind Power ran low, while Guan Tong still had plenty in reserve.
A steady, solid victory was much better than a risky one. Especially since Lucifer's speed was astonishing. Guan Tong didn't want to rashly get close to use his Small Space attack, as that might allow Lucifer to dodge and counterattack.
"Is all you can do avoid battle?" Lucifer tried to provoke him. "You don't even have the courage to face , coward!"
Guan Tong ignored him.
"I know this Shadow World of yours absorbs my Mind Power, but did you think I ca unprepared?"
As he spoke, Lucifer took out a blue crystal. It emitted a crystalline glow, continuously pouring energy into his body.
"Since I knew I'd be dealing with you before coming, did you really think I wouldn't prepare extensively?"
"...An item that restores Mind Power."
Seeing Lucifer's action, Guan Tong wasn't particularly surprised.
It was perfectly normal for a powerhouse of this level to have items that restored Mind Power.
Just as Guan Tong looked over, Lucifer suddenly flicked his left wing. It actually detached from his body, shooting forth like a throwing knife!
This attack was swift and fierce. If Guan Tong hadn't been fully focused and dodged sideways in ti, he likely would have been hit.
"Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!"
Missing with the first strike, that wing then shot feathers in all directions, each sharper than a steel needle.
At such close range, Guan Tong didn't want to rely solely on Shadow Armor to block. With a thought, he summoned the Greataxe Warrior, having it block those feathers for him while simultaneously swinging its axe at the detached wing.
"Here!"
Sohow, the Greataxe Warrior's axe-swinging motion caught Lucifer's attention. The wing that had missed its attack imdiately returned, piercing through the Greataxe Warrior's body on the way back.
A flash of insight struck Guan Tong's mind, and he instantly understood how Lucifer could pinpoint his location within the darkness and smoke.
It wasn't sound localization, but...
"*Whoo—*"
A sharp whistle sounded, followed imdiately by several figures running in different directions.
Lucifer flashed several tis, killing them one by one, only then realizing he had been tricked. "No! These are..."
He opened his eyes, looking down at a corpse he had just killed under his feet.
It was clearly not Guan Tong, not even human.
It was a living dead!
"Detecting the enemy's position by sensing disturbances in the air currents. That's your secret." Guan Tong's voice ca from deep within the fog.
Lucifer's face turned ugly. He hadn't expected his secret to be exposed so quickly.
He knew Guan Tong wasn't bluffing; otherwise, he wouldn't have summoned living dead to test it.
"That's right! After losing to you last ti, I've spent this period researching how to defeat you, to defeat your Shadow World. Later, I saw birds in the sky... They can adjust their movent by sensing air currents with their wings. Why can't I similarly use my wings to sense disturbances and changes in air currents to find your location in the darkness?!"
"..."
Although Guan Tong had guessed it, which was why he summoned living dead to test. But hearing Lucifer admit it directly now left him sowhat speechless.
Just to deal with him, spending so much ti developing such an ability... truly the epito of a Sworn Enemy.
But unfortunately, once this secret was discovered, it beca full of holes.
"How can you sense anything when many people are disturbing the air currents?"
Guan Tong blew the [Corpse Whistle] continuously. Nurous living dead erged from the ground. They were all humanoid forms similar to Guan Tong, and their movents caused roughly similar disturbances to the surrounding air currents, imdiately nullifying Lucifer's tracking ability.
"Damn it..."
By now, Lucifer could also see that Guan Tong had beco much stronger than before.
Not just in the proficiency and complexity of shadow manipulation, but also in analytical and judgnt abilities, even his emotions were much more stable than before.
Continuing like this, he would only be worn down to death.
There was only one thing left to do.
Lucifer's face tightened, as if he had resolved himself to sothing.
His aura changed?
Guan Tong sensed the change in Lucifer, knowing this guy was probably about to go all out, and imdiately heightened his vigilance.
He saw Lucifer catch the wing that had shot out from his back, re-fusing it with his body. Then, he pulled out a handful of pills from his Storage Box and swallowed them.
Instantly, vast amounts of Mind Power condensed around him!
Guan Tong's eyes sharpened. He hadn't expected Lucifer to do this.
There were many dicinal items in the Terminal shop that temporarily boosted abilities, spirit, physical strength, and even raised the Upper Limit of Mind Power. But most of these drugs ca with heavy costs after their effects wore off.
So would permanently lower the Mind Power Upper Limit; so would permanently lose part of bodily functions; so would even leave the user as an invalid, unable to move their limbs for a long ti... The side effects were nurous and varied.
Lucifer had swallowed at least a dozen pills in one go. This wasn't just a desperate gamble; it bordered on stupidity.
Watching Lucifer's aura continuously surge, his muscles swelling and veins bulging all over his body, Guan Tong said gravely, "Even if you can defeat
like this, you'll only end up dead yourself. My friends will easily kill you when you're defenseless after the drug side effects kick in."
"So! What! If! It! Does!"
Lucifer's eyes were bloodshot. One of the drugs he took granted him temporary ability to see in the dark. At this mont, he stared fixedly at Guan Tong.
"As long as I can kill you, I'll pay any price!"
"...Madman."
"Ahhhhhhhhh!"
Stimulated by the intense drug effects, Lucifer threw his head back and roared. The muscles on his back twisted, and then two more bloody wings actually tore their way out!
"Hahahahaha! Four wings!" Lucifer laughed maniacally. "I knew it! Once my Mind Power breaks through again, my Fallen Angel Wings can increase!"
Could the massive, temporary increase in Mind Power Upper Limit from drugs actually force a change in a Mind Power item?
Witnessing the two newly erged wings, Guan Tong made this discovery for the first ti.
But such a forcibly induced change was definitely temporary. Once the drug effects wore off, they would surely be lost.
"With four wings... I am... strong now!"
Lucifer's four wings flapped simultaneously, accompanied by a surge of violent wind. The next instant, he appeared right in front of Guan Tong.
His face, distorted and swollen from the drugs, was almost pressed against Guan Tong's.
"...!"
This terrifying speed greatly shocked Guan Tong.
He imdiately used Body Swap to exchange positions with a distant shadow, barely dodging the intersecting slash of the four wings. The shadow he swapped with was instantly cut into dozens of fragnts.
In that split second, he knew that if he simply used Body Swap to leave the battlefield, he could easily drag things out until Lucifer's drug effects wore off. By then, the latter would be a cripple.
But Guan Tong knew he couldn't do that... If he did, his own safety would be assured, but a furious Lucifer would certainly kill everyone else in the manor within the duration of the drug effects.
Uenoshi, Yelanka... Shi Jingyi. Leaving them to face a four-winged, drugged-up Lucifer was far too dangerous!
"Hahahahaha! Before the speed of four wings, how many more tis can you run?!"
Lucifer laughed maniacally as he pursued, closing in on Guan Tong once more.
This was the first ti Guan Tong encountered a situation where the 10-second cooldown of Body Swap wasn't enough. But he knew that against Lucifer in this state, stubbornly sticking to dodging would only expose flaws.
"Die!"
Lucifer roared wildly, his body spinning madly. The air currents stirred by the four wings instantly ford an incredibly massive storm! This storm was over ten tis larger in scope than the previous Storm Feather Blade. The sharp sounds were like the shrieks of a thousand birds. The farm's grassland and the soil beneath were completely torn up, gathering into a massive wave of earth!
Facing such a terrifying attack, Guan Tong had no ti to think. The Nano Swarm glove on his left hand instantly transford into a "Nano Swarm Net," acting as a shield. His right hand condensed a vortex of Small Space, ford from tens of thousands of units of Mind Power, acting as a sword.
Both hands pushed forward together. The next mont, two utterly different, yet equally deadly forces collided violently!
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