Chapter 1542: Chapter 1543: An Unexpected Encounter with a Super Player
This unusual spatial ray can be seen not only by players like Xu Huo, who have undergone super evolution, but also by so advanced players, albeit less intuitively.
So, when the spatial rays randomly descended, a large number of players hidden in the city suddenly appeared and began to flee towards the outskirts since spatial teleportation devices had failed. So players opted for short-distance teleportation props or simply relied on their own legs.
However, this did not guarantee safety. After the spatial rays hit the ground, the colorful streams of light would gradually expand, and players dared not touch or approach them. As a result, most players chose relatively open high-altitude spaces. Once airborne, it wasn’t difficult to observe others’ movents, and within these re three to five seconds, many players unintentionally collided with the spatial rays—because short-distance teleportation tools typically follow a straight line. The fact that they were not visible to the naked eye didn’t an they would vanish from the air, so so players, not fully grasping the situation, recklessly used these props and rushed directly into the spatial rays, wasting their lives.
"Everyone be careful! New lines may appear at any ti, make sure not to touch them!" Soone shouted to remind their companions, "Especially those lines with cutting force!"
In reality, only a small portion of the rays in the air have cutting abilities. The occasional scene of a player inadvertently getting sliced while passing through is quite impactful, but to Xu’s comparison, they pale against other rays that can pass through the body.
He witnessed two players accidentally touching rays, causing their bodies to transform from the point of contact— with his current level of evolution, he couldn’t see the rays within the human body, yet once touched by the colorful spatial rays, the body began to "objectify," with tiny, colorful lights emanating from inside.
Like pottery developing cracks, the parts of individuals pierced by the spatial rays also "cracked" from within. Of course, except for those hit directly in the head or heart, who would die instantly, others with injured limbs could still move. So clever ones promptly amputated their limbs, while others, hoping for luck, did nothing only to be quickly overtaken by creeping "cracks."
Xu Huo could only feel a chill in his heart.
What Lady Palace had shown earlier, using spatial rays to kill, was similar in principle to the current scene. However, the difference lay in Lady Palace’s need for one-on-one control. Her technique subtly manifested, assimilating rays within the body to vaporize the blood, but the rays remained under her control overall.
The colorful spatial rays were different; they could still influence a person’s state even after exiting the body. Like glass obtaining a crack, this crack propagated further, producing new ones until the entire glass was covered. This seed akin to controlling rays on another level: needing just one contact to trigger a chain reaction!
He gazed up at the colorful lines forming and vanishing against the sky, unsure if they were constantly under a player’s control. Yet regardless of whether they were fully controlled or left to run free, those capable of producing such effects undoubtedly surpassed Lady Palace.
Ahead, a section of the rays suddenly thinned out. Sensing the subtle movents of spatial power there, Xu Huo accelerated, charging towards the city against most players’ directions. In the astonished gazes of others, he perilously dodged a dense shower of spatial rays that resembled fine rain!
A large spread of rays cascaded down closely, nearly brushing against his back, leaving no room to stand. In an instant, over ten players were hit—they didn’t have enough ti to reach a slightly more open area, nor did they escape into the ga, causing half of them to die imdiately after being penetrated by the rays!
The condition of the remaining half wasn’t much better, but no one cared about their status anymore because the entire city’s colorful rays suddenly grew dense, especially concentrated at the city edges, forcing so players who had already escaped to turn back.
anwhile, the four tracking Xu Huo also moved towards the city center. Unclear if there was an issue with the spatial instrunts, one disappeared into thin air just like before when the rays descended, but it lasted only for a second.
This turn of events caused a noticeable shift in their expressions, losing the detached coldness they previously exhibited.
Yet, they didn’t surrender their target.
Seizing the opportunity before him, Xu Huo deliberately paused, waiting for them to catch up before moving towards the city’s northwest corner, where spatial forces were most concentrated.
Even without relying on artifacts or instrunts, he could swiftly maneuver in the air. In contrast, the four appeared much slower, needing to asure each movent with wrist-mounted instrunts to verify the spatial rays’ positioning.
Xu Huo’s eyes shifted as he suddenly sped up and then quickly doubled back, appearing behind one mber with a flicker, and reversed the Black Blade towards his neck—only to find no sensation of hitting anything solid.
In fact, as the blade swung out, the person in front vanished, and he couldn’t adjust his action in ti before getting ambushed from the left, being propelled several ters away by a surge of force!
Ordinary defense props couldn’t withstand the colorful spatial rays, and even if spatial artifacts weren’t completely suppressed, using them might not safeguard him. In this crisis, Xu Huo could only repeatedly open portals mid-air, using circular backtracking to mitigate the force.
Fortunately, there was enough room for maneuver here. If the colorful rays were denser, they would have affected his spiritual world; at the very least, the portals couldn’t open freely anymore.
But when he erged from the last ntal portal, the individuals who hadn’t attacked him all along made their move, yet they took out not props, but energy weapons!
Their appearance was sowhat similar to what he retrieved from the Eye of Platinum, but judging by the inlaid minerals and seemingly significant engraved patterns, their power might be greater!
Xu Huo squinted, without ti to react when suddenly a massive black shadow swept over their heads. Peripherally, he barely glimpsed a shadow flickering past. In the next instant, his view included an additional person:
Clad in a black coat, a top hat sat immobile in the wind. Gloved hands steadily held a suitcase, with blue eyes fixed on the individual wielding the energy weapon.
"This toy is quite nice." His tone was laced with mirth, halting the three players in their tracks without any movent.
Then, Xu Huo watched as he slowly reached to take the energy weapon, following it with a flick of the suitcase latch:
In an instant, Xu Huo’s vision turned completely black; he vaguely felt his body moving uncontrollably, and as light returned, he found himself standing in a luxurious yet eerie castle corridor.
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