Master of the Stars Chapter 310: Wheel of Time (Part 1/3)

Chapter 310: Wheel of Ti (Part 1/3)

Translator: Strivon

After killing its previous controller in a single move, the devil ray sank down. Its enormous body was practically touching the surface of the water, but it didn’t enter the water. It just flapped its powerful wing-like fins.

In the end, fins weren’t wings. The rate at which they moved up and down was very slow, but the air currents pierced through the center of the wave-like section, causing marvelous and powerful effects. The air converged layer upon layer, the density increasing to beco a sole source of motive power. This caused the heavy enormous body, which exceeded several tons, to be easily supported up in empty air.

The over-fifteen-ter-wide colossus hovered above the viewing platform. The sight might not be completely spectacular, but it inspired an abundance of horror. The water below was affected by the compressed air. Ripples and waves surged to bubble to the shore of the pool layer by layer.

Tian Si, who had fallen into the water a mont ago, was lifted up by the surging waves. She lay dazed at the edge of the pool. As for the dead Puppeteer, his body was completely drowned within the waves of water. Not a trace could be seen.

"Why go through such detailed work when you can already control Mutants?" At least half of Snake Tongue’s attention rested over at Heavenly Ocean Lake because of Puppeteer’s death.

The betrayal of the devil ray was within her expectations. Puppeteer, this half-assed puppet master, should die in such a fashion. It just happened sooner rather than later. And the Mutant, who had a strengthened fleshly body, wasn’t really a threat to her.

What Snake Tongue truly cared about was the thod Luo Nan used to control the devil ray.

She saw the devil ray’s performance. Tian Si and Puppeteer had both fallen into the water, but it had sent Tian Si to shore while leaving Puppeteer’s corpse to sink into the watery depths. The distinction was quite clear. What was hard to imagine was the fact that the devil ray still complied to its nature in using waves. This was the devil ray’s thinking, and it was a very human-like train of thought.

This proved that Luo Nan’s control over the devil ray was a surrender rather than a manipulation. Even for puppet masters, this was an extrely high-level skill.

Puppeteer used special techniques to entwine his victims. What did Luo Nan do to overpower Puppeteer’s control?

Luo Nan must have started formulating and executing a plan from the mont Puppeteer revealed the devil ray. During this process, whether it was Puppeteer or Snake Tongue, all were completely ignorant of it. Even when the devil ray betrayed Puppeteer, Snake Tongue still wasn’t certain of the techniques Luo Nan had employed within.

This skill was completely missing from the intelligence they were given.

Of course, Puppeteer was stunned by Luo Nan’s deadly long-range bombardnt, causing Puppeteer’s death by the devil ray and leaving Luo Nan open for direct attacks from Snake Tongue. But obviously, Luo Nan wasn’t restricted by Snake Tongue at all. What the heck did her wrestle on the ntal plane even an?

"This fellow is like a treasury... no, a weapons depot!"

Snake Tongue was completely unable to guess what this seemingly young, inexperienced, and biased teenager can fish up in the next mont. Formatting Theory and Coupling Theory, were they production lines for ntal weapons?

The impact of Puppeteer’s imdiate death made Snake Tongue clearly think things over much more. So much so that she forgot for a mont that now was not a good ti to go pondering things.

She felt a slight jolt, and the location of her soul body was locked upon.

Snake Tongue’s mind beca a bit heavy, and she saw Luo Nan turn his head to look at her from the edge of the viewing platform. Lightning stained with blood tore from his eye sockets to pierce through space. It was the sa move that was employed against Puppeteer.

Snake Tongue had already exposed the location of her soul body for the sake of better realizing a wrestle on the ntal plane with Luo Nan. She faced Luo Nan with Black Beetle’s ruined body between them. Back then, she was confident that Luo Nan could only struggle in a dirty wrestle on the ntal plane. She thought that it would be hard for Luo Nan to bring out long-range attacks. She had no fear, for she was confident. But Puppeteer’s death woke her up.

I made a completely wrong judgnt!

Snake Tongue knew that it was too late to avoid the attack. She could only rely on her fortifications to withstand it. But then, the tyrannical attack didn’t co as predicted. Only a strand of wind ca. A ray of light. It was a bit warm, but the wind blew with the heat of the sun, penetrating her thoroughly.

"What the...?" Snake Tongue felt that things were off.

On the ntal plane, creeping grass, leaves, and vines noiselessly shook as they intertwined over and over. They ford a special construction that covered most of the viewing platform area. The complicated structure on the surface would make one neglect the roots of the vines. But actually, every coarse vine had a spot in the soil from which to draw life.

Luo Nan had cleared the area early on, knocking out several dozen tourists. Snake Tongue used these people as compost to plant her Nightmare Vine Spell. She used the power of these dozens of people’s blood, energies, and souls to weave a net. This beca the foundation for her fortifications.

This thod was similar to Puppeteer’s safety line; it was just more exquisite. Not only could she divert ntal attacks, she could also forcefully stimulate everybody’s hidden potential and cause the Nightmare Vine to grow wildly. The vines would beco resources that Snake Tongue could control—suitable for attacking and defending.

However, Luo Nan’s ntal attack didn’t arrive. What did arrive was rely a slight brush of wind, a glimr of shining light. It passed through between the gaps in the Nightmare Vine Spell structure, exploiting the weakest and most fatal locations. Not a single hole it didn’t pass, and it made Snake Tongue feel that the layers upon layers of fortifications she constructed were already seeped with water....

An ominous dark cloud covered Snake Tongue’s mind for the first ti.

What Luo Nan chose to do made Snake Tongue much more wary than the thods he employed before. This young man easily disposed of a powerful enemy in retaliation. He should be using the montum of his victory to persist in seeking a second success. He should be carried by that victorious experience.

But Luo Nan didn’t do that! All intelligence showed that this teenager lacked combat experience. But after performing an inconceivable reversal of a situation, the kid used the most correct and the wisest thod to see through the trap behind her fortifications.

This was sothing hard to explain using experience or even intuition. It’s actually on the sa level of certainty and naturalness as writing the correct test answer.

Snake Tongue knew that if the wind, the light, continued to perate, then her foundation would be completely peeled clean. This was undoubtedly Luo Nan’s ntal attack, and it would completely tear apart her defenses.

What should I do?

Over a hundred thoughts flowed through her mind, but all were useless, because she couldn’t see through Luo Nan anymore!

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

A sound was coming from Luo Nan’s wristband. The control center of Gear had issued a warning remotely when Gear’s fire control system had lost connection.

Tank’s destruction still continued. It was just a matter of ti with the fire.

Luo Nan’s face was as dark as water. Snake Tongue could feel the mania within the soul strength that was casted over. A dense and cold killing intent shown through the glimring wind. Luo Nan held nothing back.

But the perating power wasn’t affected. Luo Nan just shifted his gaze away to turn toward the space above the Heavenly Ocean Lake and point directly at the devil ray hovering in the air above the water.

Then ca the sound of surging water, and the hovering height of the devil ray increased. the long wing-like fins flapped a bit, and it flew away from the space above the Heavenly Ocean Lake. It pressed to the edge of the viewing platform.

In this instant, the devil ray brought Luo Nan, Black Beetle’s ruined body, and Snake Tongue’s soul body under the shadow of its flat expanse.

Before Snake Tongue could realize what was going on, the devil ray’s wing-like fins struck out, and Black Beetle’s ruined body ahead was like a basketball exploding. His entire body shriveled as he was thrown nearly thirty ters away. He didn’t stop until he collided with a decorative statue on the viewing platform.

The explosive attack was of pure force. It didn’t knock Black Beetle off balance—it simply pulverized him. Snake Tongue’s heart was uneasy, so she didn’t react in ti. The at bomb couldn’t even explode before it was disposed of. At least 80% of the bones were reduced to smithereens, and the body was like a punctured sack of water. Blood continued to gush out.

With a broken foundation, Black Beetle’s wraith was like a candle fla within the wind. It flared twice before completely going out. Snake Tongue didn’t even have the ti to groan.

This attack was likely the expression of venting so feelings.

Then what did this an?

Controlling the devil ray. Killing Puppeteer. And eliminating Black Beetle. At the sa ti, he grasped dominance in offense and defense on the ntal plane. Today atop the viewing platform, Luo Nan was the master. Whatever he did was correct.

Snake Tongue lost a bargaining chip with the elimination of the at bomb. The situation turned for the worse for her.

Looking at the so-called wrestle of soul strength right now, Snake Tongue felt that this was a self-directed, self-acted, and narcissistic cody show by Luo Nan. The cody was insurmountable. Even now, she didn’t understand how Luo Nan was able to divvy out a portion of his strength to control the devil ray, kill Puppeteer, and co at her with a killer attack in the blink of an eye.

It can’t be that Luo Nan’s soul strength was infinite without bounds, right? His body.... How can his body endure it?

To the side, the devil ray’s body was excessively large. It was hard for it to control its balance in the air. It had just slapped the at bomb away, and now the tip of its other fin struck the protective glass at the edge of the viewing platform without a hint of caution. It directly broke open a huge hole.

Shards went flying everywhere, so falling atop Luo Nan’s and Xue Lei’s heads.

Xue Lei raised his head to look at the ferocious bloody mouth cavities on the belly of the devil ray and was a bit stunned. The belly looked like it shrunk a bit; the devil ray was certainly keyed up. However, Xue Lei didn’t understand how the situation reached this stage.

"Give a hand, Leister." Luo Nan supported himself against the protective glass as he slowly stood up, but his legs were still weak.

Xue Lei was unable to think too much. He rushed to seized Luo Nan by the arm. Only then did he grimace. "This... you did all this?"

"Relax, it’s quite obedient."

It was just as Luo Nan said. The devil ray behaved in very docile manner, as if it had regained traces of its nature before mutating. The tiny caved in part of its stomach possessed an invisible magnetic field, counteracting most of gravity. The compressed air that flowed around its wing-like fins stirred up faint ripples and waves, fine-tuning the balance of the devil ray based on its posture. The skill of low-altitude floating showed here.

The devil ray dropped straight down until it was only fifteen centiters above the ground. It acted as a first-class step, but it was just a bit too wide.

Its enormous body seed to ripple endlessly, but not even a hair of it touched the ground. It just sprinkled water droplets onto the floor tiles of the platform.

Luo Nan sized the devil ray up in silence. He felt the obedience and fear coming from the leviathan.

On a plane untouchable to the vast majority of people, the high-imitation version of the Human-Faced Arachnid had already assimilated most of its body into the devil ray. Incorporeal spider threads bore through the body, penetrating and winding around practically every vital organ of the devil ray. The devil ray was now a temporary host for the parasitic Human-Faced Arachnid.

If the situation was just this, the devil ray would still have so leeway to struggle. Its problem was, on a marvelous plane, within the star river landscape of Luo Nan’s ntal clairvoyance, dark chains invaded and locked the Life Sketch of the devil ray. Every one of its stars was punctured, weaving a three-dinsional drawing more abstract than before.

Within the deep vibrato of chains, the devil ray no longer had way of freedom from inside to out. It could only bow its head.

Luo Nan reached out with a hand, touching the side of its fins, which were making wave-like movents. The outside was covered in a layer of sticky liquid, making Luo Nan’s hand cold and slick. However, the strength was considerable. Luo Nan’s palm was numb from the shock.

"You’re.... Nanster, don’t!"

Xue Lei suddenly realized what Luo Nan wanted to do, but he had just opened his mouth when Luo Nan stepped on without speaking a word. The current devil ray was like a magic rug from folklore. It awaited its master for boarding.