The five of them wasted no ti in launching their attacks on their respective targets.
"Leave the bald guy covered in ice to ," Diana roared, transforming into a blaze as she charged forward. She spun her body, wielding two large swords—one red, the other blue—leaving a trail of afterimages in midair.
The bald man raised his hands and conjured six large ice cones out of thin air, hissing towards Diana. She deftly dodged aside, using the moonlight to cleave the next cluster of ice cones. Then, the force of her blow shifted the ice cones’ trajectory, curving them at a low altitude. Her eyes lit up as two searing beams skated across the ground towards the sky, scorching their way towards the bald man.
A massive ice shield condensed in front of the bald man, blocking the searing beams. With his movents, the ice shield floated closely, moving with him.
Li Moyang’s leg armor peeled away, revealing the nozzles inside. After ignition, the cumberso and huge ch body charged towards the bald man. His iron fist ruthlessly smashed onto the ice shield, cracking it. The chanical energy likely reached tens of tons, and although it was purely physical collision, it was so powerful that even the bald man was startled.
Chen Ke held his breath, his eyes flickering with an unusual blue sheen. It was not Spiritual Vision this ti but Future Vision. He seldom used this ability—it could only be used twice before requiring an extensive recovery period—so Chen Ke wanted to save it for the most critical mont.
The scene that had just unfolded was all from Chen Ke’s Future Vision. In the next four seconds, the Earth manipulator would approach Li Moyang from behind, use a rock-ford chisel to pry open his armor, and yank him out from within, twisting him into a piece of jerky. anwhile, Diana would get pierced through the abdon by several ice cones while trying to save Li Moyang.
"Leave the bald guy covered in ice to ," Diana roared.
"He’s mine. You deal with the Earth guy," Chen Ke said. His entire armor transford into the Ascension suit from An Helei. With a forceful push from his legs, he charged close to the bald man’s side.
The charge was much faster than the speed at which the bald man could form his ice cones, frightening him into hastily retreating. Ice shields ford around him, but Chen Ke leaped into the air and then vaulted again, grabbing the Spiritual Power Crystal Gun from his right hand and hurling it fiercely towards the bald man’s head.
Seeing a blue glow approaching from above, the bald man recognized it as the Crystal Gun and quickly raised his hands to form a white mbrane in front of him. Ice shields were stronger in defense, but they could only defend on a flat plane; he still had to rely on himself for sloped defenses.
The Spiritual Power Crystal Gun also had a Magic Attribute. For a professional with a Magic Attribute, defense was not difficult, but damaging him with this skill was not Chen Ke’s intention.
Li Moyang’s leg armor peeled away again, revealing the nozzles inside. After ignition, the heavy ch charged towards the bald man, his iron fist slamd directly into the ice shield, creating cracks. Shocked, the bald man couldn’t react in ti when Li Moyang delivered a second punch, smashing the ice shield to smithereens.
At this mont, behind Chen Ke and Li Moyang, the Earth manipulator was about to hurl a javelin at Li Moyang when Diana’s heat vision disrupted him. A mud fountain dragged him in the opposite direction, forcing him to change his target.
Diana turned into a blazing fireball and pounced forward, spinning her body with the two large swords—one red, the other blue—alternating and leaving a streak of afterimages in mid-air. The Earth manipulator summoned rock walls, but they were all cleaved by moonlight and the banshee’s alternating strikes. In a flash, Diana had reached the professional’s side, unleashing a fierce combustion.
The Earth guy was enveloped in flas, the white mbrane on his body evaporated by the heat, and he fell from the mud fountain, curling into a fetal position on the ground, burned alive by Diana’s Magic Flas.
Just as Diana landed, on the other side, Li Moyang grabbed the bald man’s wrist. The pair of eyes on his helt flashed green scanning beams, scanning the man thoroughly.
"The distribution of Spiritual Energy inside is quite unique... so evenly spread, not just in the spine..." Li Moyang mused.
In an instant, Chen Ke arrived, pulling out a shotgun and firing at the bald man’s chest and wrist, shattering his wrist bones, and the bald man fell from Li Moyang’s grip.
Before Li Moyang could ask Chen Ke to wait, Chen Ke, without a word, burst with Spiritual Energy, sending the bald man’s body flying dozens of ters away.
"Boom!"
Two seconds after the bald man was flung away, his body exploded in a burst of ice. A powerful chill released from within him, instantly freezing everything in the vicinity, and the forest, ablaze monts before, was now draped in frost.
The cold spread out rapidly, rolling towards Chen Ke and the others from hundreds of ters away, visible to the naked eye. Li Moyang’s armor suddenly lost connection, with most functions locked due to the low temperature, and one of Chen Ke’s feet was also frozen to the ground.
Diana imdiately flew in front of Chen Ke, igniting her own body into fla. The intense fire initially struggled, and she showed a pained expression as a thick layer of ice ford on her back. But soon, the fires grew stronger, the space around them gradually ward, and Diana knelt on one knee, stabbing both swords into the ground and igniting the surrounding wood.
After a while, the chill faded, and Diana breathed a sigh of relief. She returned the two swords to their Holy Diamond form and collapsed, exhausted, into Chen Ke’s arms.
"How did you know he was going to blow himself up?" Li Moyang asked.
"I see," Chen Ke pointed to his eyes.
Diana had exhausted herself tonight; her clothes had been entirely burned away. Chen Ke handed her a set of An Helei armor to put on—the Black Knight armor.
Li Moyang’s MK1 was completely wrecked; the extre changes in temperature had caused many circuits to be moisture-damaged or lted. Moreover, the batteries on the back were also depleted. He simply jumped out of the ch suit and straightened his business suit.
"It seems your eting with the company wasn’t pleasant. You know this is just the beginning, right?" Chen Ke asked.
"I’m sorry to have dragged you into this, but I’m afraid we’re all on the company’s blacklist now," Li Moyang said, spreading his hands.
"We can’t stay at the manor any longer, do you have another place?" Chen Ke said.
"I’m still looking... But for now, the only place we can go is the Lescott Company," replied Li Moyang, resigned.
The company probably wouldn’t expect their assault to fail, and even if they did, by then Chen Ke and the others would have already left. The Lescott Consortium tower might be the safest place for the mont.
"Diana, can you still walk?" Chen Ke asked.
Dressed in the black armor, Diana sat on the ground with the posture of a young girl; she shook her head.
"If it’s just walking... no problem... but I can’t fight anymore..." she said with difficulty.
Chen Ke helped Diana up, and they walked towards the manor with Li Moyang. The MK1 would have to be left behind for now. Before leaving, Li Moyang removed a hard drive from the armor, which appeared to be data collected during the combat.
It took the trio over ten minutes to walk back to the manor. There, several bodyguards who had rested for so ti and Lucina were waiting for their return. Initially, Lucina thought the person in the Black Knight armor was severely wounded, thinking it was Chen Ke, but after a closer look, she saw that the one beside them was Chen Ke, and her mood relaxed slightly.
Li Moyang instructed the bodyguards to prepare the vehicles for evacuation, and sohow procured two body bags, ready to collect the bodies of Sleery and Pankia.
"Rainbow Pony died... and her dad, too," Lucina said softly.
"I have a way to save her, just like I saved Diana," Chen Ke said.
"You’re right, the Witch of Yasla... you still have her power, don’t you?" Diana asked.
"Yes," nodded Chen Ke.
"What about Pankia? Can you bring him back?" Li Moyang asked.
"No, the Witch’s Inheritance is only recognized by females," Chen Ke stated.
"Miss Sleery is truly fortunate," a bodyguard couldn’t help but say.
Chen Ke hesitated, looking at Sleery’s bullet-riddled body, her eyes already closed by Lucina’s hand.
"Co on, what are you hesitating for?" Diana urged.
"The Witch’s power is very strong... Once Sleery has it, she’ll have to follow . You understand what I an, right?" Chen Ke looked at Lucina.
"Umm... Rainbow Pony can be annoying, but I can box with her," Lucina said.
Chen Ke clasped Sleery’s cold hand, and purple mist slowly seeped from the palm of his hand, pulsing toward Sleery’s palm.
Seconds later, Sleery abruptly opened her eyes, her pupils radiating a purple glow.
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