Tendo Temple.
A breeze blew across the endless grassland. Fangzheng held the vampiric sword in his hand and stared ahead quietly. Opposite him, Hecate held its staff and gazed calmly at its leader.
"Here I come, Hecate!"
"Yes."
As soon as Hecate's voice faded, a dark shadow flashed in front of Fangzheng. The next moment, the shadow disappeared and reappeared in front of Hecate. The vampiric sword in Hecate's hand slashed down at Hecate.
Clang!
Facing Fangzheng's attack, Hecate turned its staff and swept it sideways with a whistling wind. The triangular blade at the top of the staff pierced Fangzheng's chest. With a soft bang, Fangzheng, who had been penetrated, instantly exploded. Following that, three more dark shadows scattered in all directions the moment their bodies exploded. One of them raised its hands and a fireball quickly appeared in front of it, while the other two flanked Hecate from the front and back in an attempt to block Hecate's counterattack.
"Star …."
Just as the two shadows were about to succeed, Hecate raised her staff lightly and shook it in the air. Soon, an invisible wave erupted from her body and knocked the two shadows away. Then, Hecate pointed her staff forward and several rays of starlight pierced through the third shadow behind her in an instant.
But before Hecate could put down her staff, a fourth figure suddenly appeared beside her. There were no signs before this, as if it had always been there. The greatsword in its hand whistled as it slashed at Hecate's neck.
However, Hecate wasn't slow either. Almost at the same time that the figure swung its sword, Hecate retreated and raised her staff to block in front of her.
Clang!
The huge sword struck Hecate's staff and made a crisp sound. Hecate's expression didn't change at all. She swung the staff in her right hand and split the shadow in front of her into two again. Then, she turned around and waved her staff gently in the distance.
"Ding!"
Countless meteors fell from the sky with crisp sounds of collisions, enveloping the figures not far away.
"This is the end!!"
Seeing this, Tiria hurriedly jumped out. Upon hearing Tiria's voice, Hecate immediately retracted his staff. Soon, the burning blue flames disappeared and Fangzheng's figure reappeared from within the blue flames. However, unlike before, Fangzheng looked a little wretched. Although Hecate didn't kill him, the power of its existence still left marks on Fangzheng's body.
"Hey, can't you hold back a little?"
Seeing Fangzheng in front of her, Tilia frowned in displeasure.
"Look at Big Brother. You're still his maidservant."
"It's nothing, Tiria. This is my own request."
At this moment, Fangzheng had already walked over. He stretched out his hand to pat Tiria's head before looking at Hecate.
"What's the problem this time?"
"Just like before, the magical waves you release can't be hidden, Leader."
"Didn't I use the same wavelength before?"
"But the spells you used need to complete the final stroke before they can be activated. As long as you grasp that point, you will be able to find it."
"As expected, I still need to delay the casting time to try it again?"
Upon hearing Hecate's answer, Fangzheng knitted his brows and began to ponder carefully. After returning to the Tendo Temple, he began to create his own swordsmanship and battle style according to that figure's suggestion. In this aspect, Fangzheng also had some clues.
This was something he thought of after obtaining the Shadow Dragon's Essence.
After obtaining the Shadow Dragon's Essence, Fangzheng also obtained the Shadow Dragon's ability to control shadows. Just like the Shadow Dragon, Fangzheng could now use shadows to create his avatars. He could also use his teleportation ability to teleport between his shadow avatars. Due to this reason, Fangzheng thought of a battle style that was very suitable for him.
And that was to combine the power of time and the power of shadows.
Time was invisible, and the time that Fangzheng could manipulate was a vague concept. Besides, due to the different choices he made, the time displayed on each timeline was also different.
In the same second, according to Fangzheng's choices, he could attack the target from the front, sneak attack from the back, or release magic attacks from afar. Using the power of shadows, Fangzheng could materialize the scenes of the different timelines and use them as his clones.
This was actually the 'Timeline Scene' skill that Fangzheng used on the staff in the Gulf of the Dead. However, his power hadn't reached the level of the Time Dragon in the staff, so Fangzheng had to manipulate the power of shadows to give the scenes from other timelines a shape. He couldn't directly pull a scene from an abnormal timeline like the Gulf of the Dead.
This also meant that the other party would face three different attacks from Fangzheng in an instant. Besides, each clone had offensive power comparable to the main body. It could be said that if the other party encountered them unprepared, even if this move couldn't kill the other party instantly, it could still severely injure the enemy with the help of the Vampire Greatsword.
Moreover, this move was based on the timelines that Fangzheng built and wasn't an ordinary illusion. Hence, even if the other party used a prophecy spell, it wouldn't be possible to completely avoid this attack.
However, this skill also had a huge flaw.
First of all, just like the shadow dragon's clones, Fangzheng's clones had no defensive power and were basically a piece of paper that would shatter with one hit. Secondly, this kind of clones built on the timelines was more mentally taxing than pure clones because it required Fangzheng to multitask in order to achieve the simultaneous materialization of different clones in several positions within a second.
This was quite mentally taxing, and if he had to cast spells, it would be even more shocking. This meant that Fangzheng's willpower had to control two clones to attack Hecate at the same time. Then, the third clone had to chant spells at the same time and ensure that there were no mistakes. This basically meant that a person had to write three different programs at the same time every second, and they had to type at least one line per second.
Although Fangzheng had been strengthened by the Zerg and his brain activation potential far exceeded that of an ordinary human, this method was still a little too much for Fangzheng. He could only control three clones at the same time at the moment, and this also took into account that Fangzheng needed to monitor the overall situation of the battle so that he could transfer his attention to the clones at any time.
As for the second flaw, it was more fatal. This was also the problem that Fangzheng was currently racking his brains to resolve.
The essence of the doppelganger tactic was to make it impossible for the opponent to locate the main body, but the problem for Fangzheng was that once he cast a spell, Hecate would immediately locate his main body and bombard it indiscriminately. According to Hecate, Fangzheng's magical fluctuations could not be hidden when he cast a spell. This was a problem that gave Fangzheng a headache.
"Even if I use Time Stop, constructing spells on the clones is still a very complicated task … Looks like I can only practice. Or … Hmm, maybe I can consider improving the algorithm … Or should I try using multiple threads to call subroutines at the same time? "
While muttering to himself, Fangzheng opened his eyes and looked ahead. In his eyes, the river of time was like a surging river of twinkling stars. Three transparent threads stretched out from the river and were tightly held in Fangzheng's hand.
Time was not absolute, it depended on the actions of the observer in space. Space was not absolute either, it depended on the actions of the observer in time. Similarly, numbers were not absolute either, it depended on the actions of the observer in the tavern.
For everyone, it didn't matter how many customers there were in the tavern, how many chairs there were, or how many people had reserved them. The only important thing was that after drinking, you could lie on the table, raise your glass high, and brag to something around you that you didn't know whether it was a man or a woman, young or old.
"Maybe I should try the Tavern Math Drive."
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