Watching as Zheng Yichen simply jumped off his motorcycle, Baylock glanced at his own useless arm; the stark disparity filled him with a rage that caused him to roar, his arm inflating back to size like a balloon.
Under the influence of the erupting power, the muscle tissue squeezing from the wound and the broken bones were compressed and pulled back into place.
Baylock clenched his fists together, and an abnormal swelling appeared in his arms, like those of a gibbon. He plunged his arms into the ground, pulling out the Sky Pillar roots, and as he drew upon the Sky Pillar’s energy, he unleashed all of his strength.
His fists, carrying the montum of thunderous force, hamred towards Zheng Yichen.
Facing this strike, the pale glow emanating from Zheng Yichen’s wounds faded sowhat, and under the influence of the Sky Pillar’s energy, the blood dragon in his hand underwent further transformation. The pale dragon shadow collided with Baylock’s fist.
All around them, silence fell abruptly, and the blood-colored Qi mbrane on Zheng Yichen’s body lightly pulsated. A blast of violent airflow erupted, bending the streaks of radiant light that were about to fall, and so Devourers of insufficient strength were blown away.
Under the impact, Baylock’s arms were completely shattered, and he roared unwillingly. To have his proudest asset crushed outright, even as a Proxy Agent, was sothing he couldn’t accept.
Zheng Yichen’s long spear pierced through Baylock’s chest, his body rapidly withering away. Zheng Yichen’s eyebrows raised slightly; this ti, the blood feedback from his opponent was exceptionally intense.
It seed that the Sky Pillar’s energy rged into his body caused a subtle change in his physique. Although this change was minor, it beca a factor of additional feedback during blood absorption by Zheng Yichen.
Is this also a good thing?
The black spear spun, the strong wind tearing Baylock’s withered body apart, accelerating the blood-draining process, but the man’s head flew off with his body’s rupture!
"?" Watching the head fly away like a shooting star, Zheng Yichen’s body made a reaction before his mind did, and he imdiately took out a handgun from his cloak, firing a shot at that streak of light. The bullet was fast, and after being enhanced by the Sky Pillar’s energy, its initial speed was not slow either.
Though the ammunition was based on ordinary gunpowder, it had been influenced by the Sky Pillar’s energy; its bursting power maxed out, and the bullet also carried with it spatial distortion, which strengthened as the bullet sped up, making the bullet even faster.
The space-distorting bullet hit the flying head squarely.
"Aaaargh! I will make your death a miserable one!!"
The furious roar echoed from the sky as Zheng Yichen’s dimming light swiftly entered the clouds linked to the Sky Pillar.
It gave Zheng Yichen the sensation of an ani from his childhood, one of those revamped tales of deification, where defeated gods turned into a streak of light and ascended to heaven.
He didn’t encounter this situation the last ti he fought the Devourers, so could it be that the Devouring Faction he t this ti was not the sa variety as the last?
Having dealt with the apparent strongest here, Zheng Yichen looked towards the remaining Devourers with ill intent. Those struck by the storm and attempting to regroup paused, quickly scattering. Of course, the magic arrays that maintained their structure did not dissipate but instead concentrated.
Overlapping magic array formations coalesced into a sword, and a massive column of light swept towards Zheng Yichen. The engine of the motorcycle roared to life behind him, and without looking back, he leaped aboard and sped forward.
As he advanced, he also didn’t forget to pull out a Sky Pillar root exposed on the ground, gnawing on it like sugarcane.
anwhile, he felt the feedback from just before—enhancents using the Sky Pillar’s energy were expensive, extrely so, in Dusk.
It made Zheng Yichen feel that he couldn’t see any hope for enhancent in the short term, but now it seed there was another thod to attempt a similar ’enhancent.’
Take down those who use the Sky Pillar’s energy, especially when they use it intensively and their bodies undergo permanent changes.
There’s definitely a threshold, ordinary people can’t withstand the Sky Pillar’s energy; doing so would directly turn them into glass chunks. Without blood, he couldn’t possibly draw from their blood, and without blood to draw, he surely couldn’t just gnaw on a bunch of crystal chunks, could he?
That would be nearly the sa as directly gnawing on the Sky Pillar.
"So... who’s next??"
Zheng Yichen swung his black spear provocatively, and those overlapping magic arrays beca agile. The magic arrays rapidly split into even more formations, with the Sky Pillar energy they shed becoming more solid.
As they bombarded the area, they also weaved and changed, blocking the space ahead of Zheng Yichen. Then, the columns of light turned into laser beams, slicing towards him like a laser grid.
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Against the unavoidable attack, Zheng Yichen raised the long spear in his hand, and a pale, gigantic dragon shadow appeared alongside the advancing motorcycle, as if the dragon’s head, animated by the dance, torn into the light net above, deforming the vast light net, and the dragon’s head split into small pieces.
"Fine, the opposition is harnessing the Sky Pillar’s energy with backup support; this kind of clash is disadvantageous for . Better stick to high-damage bursts that focus on quality over quantity."
Though the ascending dragon’s head was shattered, it managed to block the descent of the light net for Zheng Yichen, allowing him to successfully escape the net’s coverage area.
Once the light net hit the ground, the earth was instantly turned into a ’field’.
Zheng Yichen stared at the figure controlling the magic array formations, uh, he couldn’t see the opponent, but in his thermal vision, the opponent looked like soone who had practiced for two and a half years... anyway, the chicken feet are already showing.
The enemy obviously realized that Zheng Yichen had set his sights on him, the heat source that Zheng had been watching showed so changes, becoming blurred, from a concentrated point to a widespread mist-like shape.
This prevented Zheng Yichen from accurately locking onto the target, and the wind gathered on the black spear dispersed as a result. If he could have locked onto the target precisely, he might have tried a powerful attack to take the enemy out. Now, he’d look for an opportunity to fight at close quarters. Although the opponent appeared to be a Mage, forcing them into a corner should push them into the sa combat state that the previous person was in.
Within the thick fog, a woman in disguise watched Zheng Yichen race by. The spatial distortion that was still present beside Zheng no longer served its initial camouflage purpose.
Baylock, having been defeated head-on by Zheng Yichen, had to return and soak in the spring water. If Baylock’s head had been preserved well, he might have recovered faster, but Zheng Yichen had shattered his head with a spear, making it not so easy for Baylock to return to his peak condition.
They wouldn’t abandon Baylock, who could withstand the impact of the Sky Pillar’s energy. This was a unique talent in itself, not sothing that could be resisted with just a strong physique.
And this Proxy Agent could also use the Sky Pillar’s energy, a surprising fact. Moreover, the intensity of the Sky Pillar’s energy used by Zheng Yichen was higher, sothing she had observed during his exchange with Baylock.
The people arranged by Dusk... they really co prepared.
In the past, they had encountered other Proxy Agents. One had an extrely strong physique that even withstood the bombardnt of the Sky Pillar’s energy. That Proxy Agent’s physique was the kind that repelled energy, and he almost pierced through their stronghold alone, but ultimately, he succumbed to exhaustion due to the nature of his physical condition and was worn down to death by them.
Even so, they feared the existence of Proxy Agents like him.
Zheng Yichen didn’t show the sa kind of unreasonable physique as the other Proxy Agent, but his ability to withstand the Sky Pillar’s energy was even more troubleso.
Their Sky Pillar would also beco Zheng Yichen’s support. However, Zheng Yichen’s access to the Sky Pillar’s energy was limited, unlike them who could directly use the Sky Pillar as support for continuous attacks on him.
The magic array formations shifted again, the scattered magic arrays ca together under the control of the Devourer, forming into a lightsaber, which was then slashed down at Zheng Yichen.
The already devastated land split apart under this strike, the cut extending beyond what the naked eye could see.
So of the operating Firmant Wheels captured the impact this strike had on the continent.
"...This, this is terrifying," said a man with glasses atop a Firmant Wheel, swallowing hard. From his position, he could see the destructive trail left by that sword stroke, the cut mark passing just thirty kiloters away from the Firmant Wheel.
Indeed, just passing by. The strike had co from the direction of the Sky Pillar and in the scale of a continent, thirty kiloters was a insignificant distance. A slight deviation in that strike and their location would have been dood.
It’s just that... the man thought of sothing, quickly made so calculations on his computer, and then his face fell into despair. According to the calculations of the cut’s trajectory, the strike would directly hit another Firmant Wheel. They were aware that there was an issue with the Firmant Wheel, which is why they usually stayed offline unless necessary.
As a result, they had not received the information in ti. Now that they had calculated the imminent danger, he imdiately applied to go online. After connecting to the network, he slamd his fist onto the console in frustration.
The affected Firmant Wheel was severely damaged, no longer able to maintain its protective effect. All the Firmant Wheel could do now, after connecting to the network, was to leave behind a will. As for thods like preserving the soul, they had them, but these were useless in such an imbalanced world.
Preserved souls without proper protection would be destroyed by the imbalanced environnt, subjecting those already dead to further tornt.
"Firmant Wheel number sixty-seven will utilize all its energy for final preservation, estimated to maintain thirty percent of the people for six days."
"Six days..." The man with glasses felt a heavy heart, and everyone else fell silent. Six days were rely a countdown to death. Why only thirty percent of the people? Because in the aftermath of that strike, nearly half of the people in the city within the coverage of Firmant Wheel sixty-seven died, and the remaining were killed off by the unbalanced environnt. That thirty percent of survivors remained was already fortunate.
The worst part was, they had no ans of rescue.
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