nycdaug Chapter 53 The Death of the "Divine Messenger"
Chapter 53 The Death of the "Divine Messenger"
"Hey, Shinzo, don't you think she's getting stronger and stronger?"
Once again, she was sent flying. Liz touched the bloodstains on her face, realizing that her opponent was becoming more and more adept at using their weapon.
Every time she tried to get closer by taking advantage of the shadows, that strange woman would slap her away.
"It feels like she's being supported by divine power. I've had a similar experience; an endless stream of power output, an absolute suppressive force against those in a lower position."
"Then why don't you hurry up and pray to your gods?"
"All of this is a trial."
"This is all so strange. Never mind, let me get closer to her."
Xin Zang held up his battle axe.
Liz stepped onto the axe face.
The fierce Vajra image behind him overlapped with Xin Zang's movements, suddenly exerting force upwards.
With the force of the thrust, Liz was propelled into the sky like a shooting star.
The "divine messenger" raised his head, pointing the bone spear in his hand at the half-drow in mid-air.
In the brief moment when her attention was drawn upwards.
Xin Cang stepped forward, and the flames on the Hundred Scenes Map exploded with a roar. The crimson heart fire transformed into a rolling wall of fire, obscuring the "divine messenger's" vision.
But the strange woman in front of them didn't seem to rely on her eyes to determine the enemy's location.
Two white bone spears extended from her hands, their tips precisely striking the nodes of the fire wall.
Before the flames had fully subsided, Vajra's giant axe had already cleaved through the firelight and struck down.
Instead of retreating, the "divine messenger" advanced, his spears clashing in his hands as he thrust them into the handle of the giant axe. His second-tier transcendent strength, combined with skillful deflection techniques, redirected the powerful blow.
The giant axe missed its mark, carving a deep furrow in the ground.
Just as the old force was gone and the new force had not yet been generated, Lis fell from mid-air.
Her skull dagger was pointed directly at the back of the "divine messenger's" neck.
"A trivial skill."
The "divine messenger" released one of the spears and reached back with his free hand to grab Liss's wrist.
The short blade hung in mid-air, unable to advance an inch.
Liz twisted her waist in mid-air, her legs twisting towards the enemy's neck.
Seizing the opportunity, Xin Zang released the giant axe that was stuck in the mud, and crashed into the "divine messenger's" arms, his fists, imbued with inner fire, raining down like drops of water.
Caught between two attacks, the "Divine Messenger" finally abandoned her defensive stance. She flung Liz away, her body sliding backward several feet like a fish, avoiding Xin Zang's heavy punch.
Without pausing after landing, Liss once again transformed into a shadow and merged into the surrounding bone spear graveyard. Xin Zang drew his battle axe, his fierce and imposing aura rising once more, pressing closer step by step.
One attack was overt, the other covert; the offensive surged like a tide.
With their increasingly coordinated attacks, they finally achieved some success.
[Evolutionary hunters 92%]
Liang Jiu couldn't help but feel delighted as he looked at the flashing notification.
The brief exchange of blows actually progressed faster than an entire war against the undead.
It seems that the evolutionary hunter's progression logic is not much different from that in the game in the previous life.
Within the Empire, each unique species different from your initial race provides a bonus to the progress of the situation.
"I knew it. We still need to intervene. I don't want my family members to go down such a strange path as 'biodiversity freedom' in the future."
He flexed his wrists and increased his control over his divine power once more.
The puppet was also overwhelmed and cracks appeared.
"Then I'll make the water even hotter."
Jane's voice rang in his ear, "Master, as you increase your output of divine power, your win rate is starting to decline."
"Because I'm about to break this toy?" Liang Jiu looked at the battle below. "Don't worry, it's more durable than you think. Its previous owner took very good care of it."
"Increased pressure and stimulation from you may force them to choose more aggressive coping methods."
"Isn't that what we wanted to see?"
Leaving the path of evolution entirely to nature is an inefficient and slow approach.
Since we already possess genetic memory, why not take the leap in biological evolution and ascend to immortality?
For a long time, natural evolution can only be described with one simple and crude word—failure.
And now, he has successfully customized it himself.
The battlefield below.
The cracks on the surface of the "divine messenger" became increasingly dense, emanating a violent, eerie light.
After several exchanges of weapons, dirt and bone fragments flew everywhere.
She ignored Xin Zang's sweeping axe, letting the blade cleave her left arm, and used the momentum to suddenly turn around. The bone spear in her hand pierced directly into the elongated shadow beneath her feet.
Crimson blood splattered from the dark shadows.
Her concealment was forcibly broken, and Liz stumbled out from behind a pile of bones a few steps away, a bloody hole running through her ribs, her face deathly pale.
Before Xinzang could return to help, the divine messenger drew his spear and swung it backhand.
The gun swung through the air in a sharp arc.
The spear danced, its sharp bone edge tearing through the dark golden Buddhist light time and time again.
Xin Cang's leather armor was easily torn apart, and several deep, bone-revealing gashes appeared on his body. Warm blood flowed down his arms, staining the Hundred Scenes Painting scroll red.
[Evolutionary Hunter 95%]
The spears, accompanied by a fierce wind, attacked again.
The "divine messenger" launched a full-scale attack, the tip of his spear piercing through Xin Zang's shoulder armor, leaving a trail of blood droplets.
Xin Zang swung a backhand horizontal slash, but it was deflected by the bone spear. The recoil forced him back half a step, leaving his chest wide open.
The messenger seized the opening and thrust his spear straight into his heart.
Liz crashed in from the side.
She lunged forward, letting the spear tip pierce her left shoulder.
Blood splattered.
The spear got stuck in the flesh of the half-drow.
The immense force propelled her backward, but Liz gripped the gun barrel tightly with both hands, using her weight to forcefully lower the messenger's weapon.
Only for a moment.
[Evolutionary Hunter 98%]
Xin Zang trampled the pool of blood on the ground.
The flames on the map were all swept back into the battle axe. He gripped the axe handle with both hands and swung it in a half-circle towards the divine messenger's neck.
The axe blade sliced through the frost and severed the neck bone.
The head flew off.
The headless corpse swayed and then fell heavily to the ground.
[Evolutionary Hunter 100%]
[Gain Trait: Storm's Touch]
[Immerse yourself in the storm, let the storm's touch soothe your soul; even mortals can draw strength from within in the face of adversity.]
A crimson light shone on both of them simultaneously.
The new life force surged into his limbs and bones, suppressing the worsening of the wound.
The trait not only appeared on Xin Zang, but also on the half-drow elf's stats.
In fact, all the traits that the Salarymen had previously acquired had quietly taken root within Liz.
[Genetic Memory] [Exceptional Talent] [Strength]...
As the divine messenger fell, the surrounding forest of bone spears and corpses rapidly weathered away, turning into ashes that scattered across the sky.
Shinzo helped the exhausted Liz up, and the two of them collapsed into the ruins.
In a corner of the ruins, out of their sight.
A headless body groped for the head on the ground and pressed it back onto its neck.
The cracks in the skin were repaired by the death energy.
She was preparing to leave.
Ahead, Chang had been waiting for a long time, kneeling on one knee.
"When did you find out?" Liang Jiu asked curiously.
Chang lowered his head: "When the deity spared Xin Zang, he already had a suspicion."
Through this body, Liang Jiu delivered a divine decree.
"The war is over."
"Take them back. And that half-drow, from now on, she will be incorporated into the tribe as a member of the Cinder."
Chang placed the heavy axe aside, knelt down, and kowtowed deeply.
"Yes, ma'am."