"Weng — —" The lightning scepter that was more than ten meters long smashed down from the sky, bringing with it a low hum. There was also the sound of sparks flying in all directions. This sudden attack caught everyone off guard, causing them to be stunned. However, at least two-thirds of the people present were people who were experienced in battle and were invincible in terms of fighting. In the instant the giant attacked, I had already steadied the puppet on my shoulder. Reaching out, I pulled on the whip and easily dodged the attack. The others also protected the weaker members around them and dodged out of the giant's attack range. As for the professional MT, Elson, he instantly summoned his own golden greatsword and heraldic shield. Raising the shield above his head, he took the giant's simple attack head-on.
* Clang! * A deafening explosion of metal accompanied by a thunderous explosion erupted from the weapons of the two. With Elson as the epicenter, a shockwave of lightning erupted in a radius of a hundred meters, instantly vaporizing all the sand and stones in the area as well as half a meter of ground. The giant's control over his strength was rather high. Other than these harmless shockwaves that were used to disturb the enemy, ninety-nine percent of the energy of his attack was accurately focused on the target. Thus, Elson was sent flying back with smoke rising from his body, and he was lying horizontally.
"Brother!" Monina flew forward to catch this hot-blooded fool. "You... You're almost cooked!"
"My sister, please don't joke around when your brother is half-dead." Elson grimaced in pain as he straightened his body. In the previous exchange, he, who specialized in defense, was actually at a disadvantage and was even sent flying. This made the blond handsome man lose all his face, but he had to admit that he was in trouble this time. "Looks like I really can't beat him if I were to fight him alone. The damage caused by that scepter doesn't seem to be able to be reduced in any way."
"Any attack will definitely cause expected damage, huh? No wonder your iron shell is useless." Mo Nina unsheathed her Darkness Dual Blades and took a defensive stance. It was unknown when Dingdang had woken up from her jet-lagged state, but she had already begun to treat Elson's injuries. The little thing was not careless when it entered battle mode. A hundred meters away, the scepter-wielding giant did not make any further moves after the first attack. There was no expression on its silver-white metal face as it looked at the two of them indifferently.
Sandora frowned and looked at the giant. Her voice was as cold as the wind. "You want to kill the king?"
"That's the mission," the giant replied calmly. "The concept has been separated. According to the situation I've monitored for the past tens of thousands of years, the one who survived should be on the other side. So, the information in this box has been isolated. Whether you are my former master or not, everything here is destined to be unable to identify you, even if you are the Galactic Protoss. There is no common way for both of us to identify each other. The only way is to defeat the captain of the guards. Prepare for battle, the challenge is limited to one person only. Of course, you can also choose to leave. Since the outer sentries have acknowledged your identity as a dragon ancestor soul, you must at least have some relationship with the Star Region Protoss. However, do not try to force your way through, or all the guards will be awakened. "
After saying that, the giant didn't say anything else. He just stood straight in front of the huge arched door. The lightning scepter in his hand buzzed. He seemed to be giving us time to make a decision. The giant's words seemed to have revealed some crucial information. However, no matter how we looked at it, it didn't seem like he intended to continue explaining. My sister wanted to use other methods to prove our access rights, including pushing the kite angel who was floating around Little Bubble before us. However, the giant wasn't moved by any methods outside of the established procedures.
So, even though we were full of doubts, it seemed like the only way was to fight. However, before we started fighting, there were some things that needed to be confirmed.
"Defeating you will pass the identification procedure?" Sandora frowned. She already understood what the procedure meant. "Such a sloppy identification method? What if the one who defeated you was from another race? Even I don't think that the Shiring Apostles are so powerful that they can't be defeated by any other race. "
"It doesn't matter. This is the mission." The giant waited patiently. He didn't seem to mind answering our questions. "The initial setting didn't expect the return of the previous master. If a stranger who was powerful enough came, it would be possible to record the history of the Empire. Everything has been set up so that only the master can use it. Even if an outsider passes through the door, he can only obtain historical records. "
"Is it just a tombstone in the hope that future generations will come to pay their respects?" My sister looked at the silver-white metal giant statue. "Where's the tomb keeper … Alright, we will defeat you. However, I still want to know how to break … You know, this splitting effect? So that we can confirm each other's identity? This matter has always been in my heart, making me very concerned. "
The giant lowered his head to look at my sister. "It seems that you really intend to prove that you are the previous master. However, the instructions told me that I shouldn't believe any words. I can only look forward to what you have to say. As for how to break the splitting effect … If you can find the highest master who gave the order that day, you will naturally know what to do. Now, it's time to make a decision. Who will challenge the guards, or leave while there's still a chance. "
"I'll fight you!" Just as I was about to take a step forward, Shallow Shallow suddenly jumped out from behind. Her face was brimming with excitement as she jumped up and down in an attempt to attract the giant's attention. "I can go in if I defeat you, right? Then let's fight first! Either way, Ah Jun will find a way to restore everyone's memories. Isn't that right, Ah Jun? "
Shallow Shallow rattled on like popcorn. Then, she turned to look at me and said with a smile, as if I had really solved all the problems. This girl really has unconditional trust in me no matter what.
"Understood." The giant didn't care if Shallow Shallow had anything else to say. The moment the test subject stepped forward, his program had already been activated. He raised his lightning scepter high and stabbed it into the ground. "Activate the experimental grounds."
The surrounding land and sky disappeared, replaced by a boundless chaotic white fog. Just as we imagined, the giant had activated a special dimension before the battle. It was similar to the defensive system we encountered in the Mirage Tower. When the intensity of the battle reached a certain level, the environment on the surface would no longer be suitable.
When the special dimension was activated, three "people" were excluded, including Tracey, Chael, and Lin. It was understandable that the two dragons weren't considered as test subjects. However, I had no idea why Lin was excluded as well. Perhaps it was because she was the ancestral spirit recognized by the dragons, so the guards considered her as a member of the dragon race?
"Shallow Shallow," I confirmed the thoughts of a certain jumpy girl through our mental connection. "Are you sure it's alright? This giant looks like he would be a powerful fighter even in the old Empire. 123 was sent flying just now. "
"You should be waiting for my triumphant return, not worrying needlessly." Shallow Shallow said coolly. My little girl had also entered battle mode.
"Hah!" The giant waited for the surrounding space to completely stabilize before he mercilessly launched his attack. His first move was still the unadorned direct attack. He raised the scepter in his hand and brandished a blinding bolt of lightning towards the fragile canary-like girl in front of him!
The lightning that the giant used was definitely not the lightning that could be seen in the natural world, and it was not purely arcane energy either. 123 had endured it once, and he was certain that the lightning was many times more dangerous than the combination of the two. It might be mixed with some kind of Rule Power, causing all units that came into contact with the lightning to be completely damaged. Of course, Qian Qian knew this as well, so she appeared behind the giant the moment the lightning struck, pointed at the giant, and said, "Sands of Time, Gone with the Wind!"
The metal giant's body immediately froze, and the light around his body dimmed. However, this state of weakness only lasted for an instant before he recovered. He turned to look at Shallow Shallow with a serious expression. "It's not teleportation, but you've shifted your position in a dimension that I can't see." The giant spoke nonchalantly, but he didn't panic even though he couldn't discern the enemy's power. He raised his scepter again and aimed at Shallow Shallow. "Target, Information Conversion Javelin."
"Hum —" A grayish-white beam shot out from the tip of the lightning scepter and pierced through the thin fog that shrouded the battlefield. Shallow Shallow frowned slightly and vanished in the blink of an eye. The giant's attack had lost its target and vanished into the distance.
That was what we saw through our normal vision, but Shallow Shallow was sharing her senses through our mental link. After a second of delay, we "saw" a replay of the clash just now. When the giant's beam had traveled halfway, Shallow Shallow had tentatively moved her body to the side, and the grayish-white beam immediately adjusted its direction. Evidently, this attack had the vicious trait of being able to accurately guide its target even when it was moving at sub-light speed. Seeing that, Qian Qian immediately changed her tactics. First, she used the difference in seconds to free herself from being locked, and at the same time, she froze the time around her. Then, she moved closer to the beam and observed it for a while. She took out a mirror to reflect the beam, but the mirror disappeared the moment it came into contact with the beam. She then took out a star gold brick (don't ask me why she took out this thing) and used it to block the beam. Although the powerful divinity metal seemed to have blocked the beam for a while, a large hole was drilled through it. Then, Shallow Shallow took out at least twenty different items from her dimensional pocket to test the giant's attack limit. Among them were the Nookstone, neutron star matter, her stockings, a hairpin, a blessed cross, fried stinky tofu, and a slice of cake. All of her attempts failed, and so Shallow Shallow angrily ran to the still giant and kicked him with all her might. The giant's defense was at least battleship class. And so, Shallow Shallow was out of ideas. She once again entered the second gap state and released her time control — and what happened next was what we saw. Biu! The giant's attack missed, and Shallow Shallow stood a hundred meters away with a cold expression. The above proved that even after activating her ability and entering a dark state, Shallow Shallow's strange way of thinking never changed — the only thing that changed was her temper.
All of this had happened in an incredibly short amount of time. From the giant's attack, to Qian Qian calmly testing the nature of the attack, to her using Temporal Distortion to escape from the "Information Conversion Javelin", all of this had happened in a "period of time" that only Qian Qian herself could calculate. We had to rely on our mental connection with Qian Qian to share all the information we had in order to understand what had just happened. Meanwhile, the giant frowned in confusion. It was obvious that it didn't understand why its ultimate technique, which was capable of erasing any known substance, including stargold stones, and which was capable of tracking its target to the end in any situation, had failed to work.
It must be said, no matter who it was, as long as they didn't understand Shallow Shallow's power, fighting her recklessly would be strange and frustrating.
Because you wouldn't be able to find any opportunity to seize the initiative, and it would also be difficult to know what Shallow Shallow was doing.
As mentioned before, Shallow Shallow's power gave her the talent of grasping all 'moments'. In a battle against her, as long as your actions were based on time, then no matter how fast you moved, that extremely short 'moment' would be captured by her, and then magnified to the extent that she could leisurely formulate more than twenty action plans and experiment with them one by one. Therefore, trying to rely on speed or 'initiative' to fight against Shallow Shallow was the most foolish thing to do in the world. That girl herself was the spokesperson of all 'initiative'. Against her, one could only rely on absolute strength, and one must not be impatient, especially when one was faced with a bunch of incomprehensible natural phenomena.
Apart from Void Energy, there were only two types of attacks that could hit Qian Qian. One was psionic energy, which was extremely concentrated and strong. Psionic energy was effective in all dimensions of space and time. If one wanted to confine psionic energy, simply stopping time was not enough. One would need to confine all the information flow within a certain range, creating a "quiet field" that would not produce any phenomena. Such a difficult operation was a huge drain even for Qian Qian, who was getting stronger day by day. The other was advanced divine spells. Divine spells could also affect all the information in the world, and the amount of energy needed to resist divine spells was no less than the amount needed to confine psionic energy. When these two powers reached a certain level, they would naturally be able to break through the confines of time.
And the giant's ability did not seem to be good at condensing sufficient concentrated psionic energy or divine arts on a small target like Shallow Shallow.
It was not easy to attack Shallow Shallow, and it was even harder to defend against her attacks, and the reason was still that 'instant'. The concept of an instant had a completely different meaning to normal people and to Shallow Shallow. To Shallow Shallow, all of her effective attacks could be compressed into an instant. No matter how complex or slow her ultimate move was, she could compress it into an imperceptible short period of time, and no one would have enough time to react to Shallow Shallow's attack. In fact, the word 'reaction time' had already been deleted when you were facing Shallow Shallow. You couldn't block or dodge because you didn't have the time, and the only way to deal with it was to take it head-on. It was fortunate that Shallow Shallow's attacks were not that strong, and there was a limit to her expansion and compression of time, or she would really be invincible.
Just like now, the giant's problem was that any of her attacks required time to activate, and so she could never hit her target. Moreover, Shallow Shallow's specialty, Decay, and other effects were also ineffective against the giant whose design lifespan had exceeded tens of millions of years. She had also tried Time Tear, allowing every part of the giant's body to move according to different time scales, but it was not effective either. The giant's energy level was too high, and its entire body was filled with psionic energy and arcane spells, forming an environment with a huge amount of information. In such an environment, every additional timeline that was created would increase the consumption of Shallow Shallow's energy by a few dozen folds, and that was why the Time Tear effect was ineffective.
"Huff, huff … Damned steel body." After a few exchanges that were too bizarre to comprehend, Shallow Shallow stopped, panting slightly as she stood a few hundred meters away and looked at the giant. "How long is your design lifespan!"
"Infinite," the giant replied calmly. "I'm just a part of this system. The entire system is constantly evolving and repairing itself, and within the information domain that can calculate, there's no scenario where my lifespan is depleted."
Shallow Shallow's body instantly tilted, and the cold image that she maintained due to her change in personality was mostly destroyed. "You … Who designed this thing!"
"Perhaps my master. If I can remember his name, I'll proudly tell you." The giant raised his scepter again. "You're indeed unbeatable, and I'm guessing that your power has something to do with time. Don't be surprised, I'm still very familiar with the phenomenon caused by Time Distortion. I'll be frank, this power is extremely difficult to deal with in this current dimension, but the battle must continue. Next, I'll be using the power that my master left behind, and that might cause you a lot of trouble, since it's not restricted by time … "
"Doesn't matter. You're already about to piss me off," Shallow Shallow replied coldly, and then focused her attention again.
The giant swung his scepter down, and a thunderous roar echoed throughout the entire space. "Cataclysm!"
"Thousand Kills in a Blink!" Shallow Shallow's voice rang almost at the same time as the giant's, and after that, Time Distortion appeared once again.
This time, it wasn't the entire combat space that was affected by Time Distortion, because I quickly realized that the flow of time was still normal, and the only thing that was restricted was the giant itself.
Shallow Shallow flew over with a gloomy expression, and her mouth was full of resentment as she grumbled, "Arrogant, arrogant, let's see what you're going to do this time!"
Clang! With a loud clang, the Battleship Slicing Blade landed heavily on the giant's still leg, followed by a second, a third … Clang! Clang! Clang! The continuous clanging of metal against metal became more and more frequent, and in the midst of it, Shallow Shallow was counting, "One, two, three, four …"
"Ugh, girl, what are you doing?" I finally couldn't take it anymore, and the corner of my eyes twitched as I looked at Shallow Shallow.
"Thousand Kills in a Blink is a super powerful skill," Shallow Shallow coolly flipped her hair, "In the shortest amount of time, it allows the enemy to receive more than a thousand attacks, and now that the skill has started on this giant, I must open a bloody hole in his body … Ugh, what was I counting? Ah, forget it, let's start from the beginning: One, two, three, four … "
Me: "…"
"So that's how you do your Thousand Kills in a Blink?!" Icetis was shocked as she looked at Shallow Shallow.
"That's right," Shallow Shallow said excitedly as she chopped down the tree, "But in the past, I would stop the entire battlefield's time, or drag myself to a state of infinite speed, so you wouldn't be able to see the details of this skill. But this time, I used up a lot of energy, so I could only use a simplified version. But there's no difference, this giant won't be able to sense it — Oh, I forgot to count again, let's start from the beginning! "
Me: "…" This silly girl, did you forget that there's a limit to how long you can freeze the opponent?!
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