In the beginning, Tang Hao indeed didn't know what world he was in, even though his body seemed to be frozen. However, when he saw the giant doll turn all the people around him into blue and white flames and swallow them, a light bulb went off in his head, and he finally remembered.
"Shana the Scorching Eye"!
This was an anime from a long time ago. He couldn't remember whether it was 2005 or 2006, because it was quite a long time ago since the last time he watched this anime, and it wasn't like the production of sequels and games from time to time. Therefore, even the plot of the story was basically forgotten. The only thing he could still remember was … Shana, Yuji Sakai, Ten Thousand Hands, Mist Warrior, Red Eyes, and a few other keywords.
Compared to the anime itself, what left a deeper impression on Tang Hao was a sentence that came from the background of the anime. Almost every year, in every battle of moe, there would be a group of people shouting: Shana owes Shana a Moe King.
Of course, as the memories from a long time ago were uncovered, the things that he thought he had forgotten naturally surfaced in this life and death situation.
For example, the still space in front of him — Absolute Seal!
Absolute Seal was a magic that could isolate the space inside and outside of the world by the Red Disciples and Mist Warriors in this world. In this world, it was called the Freedom Spell. Tang Hao couldn't remember the specific operating principle, he only knew that it could completely "freeze" everything in the Absolute Seal. Whether it was people, things, or even consciousness, everything would be in a state of absolute stillness. When the Absolute Seal was cast, the time in the real world would be in a state of relative stop. Ordinary people who weren't involved in the Absolute Seal would also be unable to sense the existence of the Absolute Seal.
Of course, it wasn't correct to say that the Absolute Seal caused the time in the real world to stop. To be more precise, the Absolute Seal was a "world" that was artificially separated, as if someone had cut a small piece of the world. In this small piece of "world", the concept of time didn't exist. When the Absolute Seal was removed, it would return to the real world, and both would be at the same time.
Therefore, for those who could move within the Sealed Extinction, time in the real world had stopped.
However, there were not many people who could move within the Sealed Extinction. Only the Red World Apostles, the Mist Warriors, and those who had specific items or Freedom Spells could move within the Sealed Extinction. For example, the panicking high school student was Sakai Yuji. He was the male protagonist of the story. He had a relic called the Zero Time Particle in his body, which allowed him to be immune to the freezing effect of the Sealed Extinction.
As for those who couldn't move, they could only become food for the disciples of the red world and be devoured.
At this moment, there were close to a hundred people trapped in the Sealed Jue. When the giant puppet appeared, close to 20% of the people turned into flames and were devoured, and this speed was still increasing.
Tang Hao walked slowly and was at the edge of the crowd, so the flames hadn't reached him yet. However, it was only a matter of time. As long as he couldn't fight back, he would end up the same as the others.
Of course, he knew that this was only the beginning of the story. When the monster was halfway through eating, the female protagonist of the story would appear and fight the monster back. According to the distance, the three of them had a high chance of being saved. However, just like what Zoro said, the original story could only be used as a reference. There was no reason to treat it as a bible. One's fate could only be controlled by oneself.
'Move!
I have to move! '
Seeing that the blue-white flames were only four to five people away from him, Tang Hao started to feel anxious. He tried his best to break free, but other than being conscious, no matter how much he shouted in his heart, there was no response from his body.
There were only three people left. Tang Hao felt as if he could feel the scorching flames roasting his body.
'Move! Move! Why aren't you moving?! '
"You're too anxious. Calm down first."
At this moment, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.
Amethyst.
Although it was forbidden in the Sealed Jue, Amethyst and the others were like an audience watching an anime through the chatroom. Even if they didn't understand what was happening, the situation in front of them was enough to make them nervous. And Amethyst's timely warning made Tang Hao's anxious heart instantly sober up a little.
That's right, I'm too anxious. I should be calmer at this critical moment.
Thinking about it carefully, although the chatroom increased the difficulty of the quest, it wasn't as cruel as the big light ball. Even the big light ball wouldn't issue a mission of certain death to the Reincarnators, let alone the chatroom.
Back in the world of the Sword and Sword Realm, even Kaguya's cheating was tacitly approved by the chatroom. When the world's will attacked her, it even provided protection. Therefore, it was impossible for the chatroom to throw them into a world of certain death. There must be a solution to the crisis in front of them … But, what should I do?
I've lost my ability to move, I can't contact Amethyst through the chatroom, and I can't confirm the situation of Amethyst and Youzhu, although Amethyst knows that I'm still conscious and gave me a warning … Uh, wait!
Suddenly, Tang Hao had a flash of inspiration.
I'm still conscious?
Why?
The chatroom has removed the interference effect, and the people trapped in the Sealed Jue will not only be unable to move, but even their consciousness will be "frozen". Then, why can I still maintain a clear consciousness?
No matter what the reason is, at least this means that the restraint of the Sealed Jue is not perfect!
Since his consciousness is not frozen, as long as he can find the reason, his body might be able to regain its freedom.
What is fighting against the Sealed Jue?
Divinity? Unexpected? Or … a second soul?
A second soul!
Although there is no concrete evidence, Tang Hao made this judgment immediately. This is because the second soul originated from the Ice Soul Stone, and the Ice Soul Stone has the same origin as the chatroom. At most, it's one level lower than the chatroom … If the power of the Sealed Jue comes from the source of this world, then the power of the second soul tempered by the Ice Soul Stone comes from the source of a higher world!
I'll take the risk!
Thinking of this, Tang Hao gritted his teeth and immediately sent his consciousness into the second soul.
…
"What is this … What is this … What is this?!"
Just as Tang Hao was trying to think of a way to move, Sakai Yuji was shocked by the scene in front of him. He stood trembling on the ground, not daring to move an inch. He questioned himself over and over again in his heart.
I'm just an ordinary fifteen-year-old Japanese high school student. At least, that's what Sakai Yuji thought. He always thought that he and the world were ordinary, and those absurd and bizarre stories only appeared in comics, movies, and novels. He never expected that his ordinary daily life would collapse to such an extent in less than a few minutes.
What is going on?
He could not understand it at all.
However, when the blue and white flames floated past him, he noticed a person.
It was a girl who was wearing the same uniform as him, standing not far away from him.
He recognized this girl. Her name was Yukari Hirai, and she was his classmate. On the first day of school, she had helped him many times. Not long ago, on the way home from school, the two of them had met at the music store and chatted happily. They had talked about how the girl had a crush on his best friend. At this moment, she had turned into a ball of blue flames and was rising into the sky.
"Hirai-san!" Sakai Yuji was anxious and instinctively wanted to rush forward.
"Huh?" However, because of his sudden voice, the giant puppet that was sucking the blue flames stopped moving. It turned around and stared at him with its pale, colorless eyes. "What is this thing? Why can it move in the Sealed Jue? "
The eyes of the mask collective that was floating in the air flashed, as if it had made a surprising discovery. "This thing … isn't just a shell. It's Mystique!"
"Mystique? Is there a torch with a treasure inside? "
"That's right, and it's a rare variant. If I give it to Master, he will be very happy."
"That's great! This is a great merit!" The giant puppet immediately ran toward Sakai Yuji.
"Wh … What?" Hearing the footsteps that sounded like the ground was shaking, Sakai Yuji's face turned pale. He did not even have a chance to escape. The next moment, he was grabbed by the giant puppet, and he could only watch as it opened its mouth and bit him …
Bang!
At this moment, a gunshot was heard.
The bullets flew through the air and hit the giant puppet's head, causing it to lean back slightly. Then, three more bullets hit its fingers, and Sakai Yuji managed to break free and fall to the ground.
"What is this?" The giant puppet turned its head and looked around. Soon, its gaze landed on Tang Hao. "Why can you move?"
"That's right. Why is that?" Tang Hao held Liangchen in his hand and smiled. "This isn't my job, but I'll treat it as an eye for an eye. Unfortunately, bullets don't seem to work."
According to the original story, Shana should have arrived at this time. She was the one who cut off the giant puppet's arm and saved Sakai Yuji. However, she was nowhere to be seen. If Tang Hao did not help, Sakai Yuji would have died.
Tang Hao did not know why Shana was late, but the development of the situation was slightly different from the original story. Fortunately, Sakai Yuji had shouted and attracted the attention of the two monsters, causing them to stop absorbing the power of existence of the people present. This bought more time for Tang Hao. Otherwise, he would have been in danger.
This was because when Sakai Yuji spoke, the last person in front of him had already turned into blue flames. If Sakai Yuji had not spoken, he would have been the next one.
"This thing … No, what are you?" At the same time, the mask amalgamation flew over and looked at Tang Hao with a puzzled look.
"No comment."
Tang Hao looked back. Yuzhu and Mikoto were standing motionlessly behind him. Just like the people present, they were completely frozen. Although he had a way to recover himself, he could not use this power on others. There was only one way to restore their mobility …
Turning his head again, Tang Hao's gaze suddenly became sharper. The gun in his hand also turned into a longsword. "Now, it's time to settle the score between us … Come out, Federation!"
Whoosh!
As soon as Tang Hao's voice fell, a bright white light overflowed from behind him. The moment it rose up, it gradually turned into a human figure.
Its body was formed purely of light and shadow. After all, it was a soul body and lacked the feeling of a physical body. But even so, it was still easy for people to observe its overall outline … Its body was tall and straight, and it had a pair of slender legs that were filled with justice. Countless thin ribbons of light danced brilliantly behind its head, just like long hair that was fluttering in the wind.
This was Tang Hao's second soul.
Yes, the second soul was a female body.
There was Yin and Yang in the world, and Yin and Yang complemented each other to be right. It was the same for humans. Men were Yang, and women were Yin. But no matter if one was a man or a woman, he or she had Yin and Yang in his or her body. The only difference was the proportion. If there was more Yin and less Yang, it would be a woman, and if there was more Yang and less Yin, it would be a man. Although most of the time, the rare side would not be the dominant side, there were occasional exceptions.
Of course, exceptions were exceptions. Normally, a human's soul was proportional to the Yin and Yang of their gender, so the potential that a human body could activate was also based on its gender. The purpose of the second soul's existence was to dig out the hidden part of the soul of the opposite sex, so as to achieve the true harmony of Yin and Yang. Therefore, the gender of the second soul was the opposite of the original.
In the beginning, Tang Hao did not know about this. It was only after the second soul had awakened that he realized it. In the first few days, he was actually a little conflicted. Because no matter how reasonable the reasoning was, as long as he revealed his second soul, the idiotic netizens in the group would definitely say: Don't explain so much, you just want to cross-dress!
In all honesty, as a straight man, he would never cross-dress. But the fact that his second soul was the opposite sex was a foregone conclusion, and he could not change it. He could only learn to accept the reality, and conveniently gave it a name — Radiance.
Firstly, it was to effectively distinguish it from himself. Secondly, since his villa was called the Royal Brothel, and his second soul was born in the Royal Brothel, and it was so righteous, then it could only be called Radiance … It couldn't be called War Weary or Elizabeth, right? They didn't have justice.
Alright, back to the main topic.
In fact, Tang Hao had not completely mastered the second soul. In the seven stages of Awakening, Splitting, and Joint Attack, he had only just entered the fusion stage. Although he had already fused with the second soul, the degree of fusion was not even 30%. Originally, it had to continue to lurk in his body, and after a long period of running-in, it would reach 100% fusion. Only then could it truly become a fighting force.
But because of the sudden incident, he could only activate it in advance. So in reality, the main consciousness of the second soul was still in a deep sleep. Without self-awareness, it could not act on its own, and could only be controlled by Tang Hao. Its fighting ability was also far from being complete.
But at this moment, Tang Hao had to borrow its power, because the bullets just now had almost no effect.
Different from magic, martial arts, superpowers, and other systems, in the world of "Burning Shana", the fundamental energy that drove the disciples of the Red World and the Mist Warrior to survive and fight was the power of existence, which was also the energy that maintained the existence of everything in the world.
The two monsters in front of him turned humans into blue flames, which was to transform them into the power of existence and absorb them to achieve the effect of becoming stronger. The Mist Warrior also used the power of existence to suppress the disciples of the Red World. In other words … only the power of existence could fight against the power of existence.
Although everyone had the power of existence as long as they were alive, how to transform it into fighting power was something that Tang Hao did not know. At least the bullets that were imbued with spiritual power just now had little effect, and there was no spiritual power for him to absorb in this world, so he could not further strengthen it.
In that case, it would be very difficult for other fighting methods to be effective.
So for now, the only thing he could rely on was the second soul.
"Go, Radiance!"
Without waiting for the two monsters to react, Tang Hao ordered, and then the figure of radiance floated forward, stopped in mid-air, and did something that a flat-chested monster would never do — raise its head, and puff out its chest!
Whoosh!
In the next moment, boundless radiance blossomed outwards, illuminating the dim space until it was even more gorgeous than daytime.
"So dazzling …" The Giant Puppet was stunned, but then the holy radiance pierced its eyes, and it immediately let out a miserable cry. "Ah! My eyes … eyes … "
"Ahhh … my body is melting … impossible …"
Compared to the Giant Puppet, the other one was in a worse state. It looked like a big ball, but it was formed by countless puppet masks, and each mask had a pair of eyes. Although it could see further, because of this, when the radiance shone on it, it suffered more damage.
The more eyes there were, the more blind it was.
Some of the eyes even fell off the mask and turned into a pool of pus, which looked a little disgusting.
Radiance's attack was effective, and Tang Hao was relieved. Although he was almost eaten before, the root cause was that he lacked a way to fight against Feng Jue. Now, the two monsters were obviously no longer a threat to him. After all, they were just two newbie monsters, and it was impossible for them to be that strong.
However, Radiance's attack was still stronger than he imagined. Not only were the two monsters in trouble, but even Yuji Sakai instinctively covered his eyes. "So … so bright …"
"My hands are a little rusty." Tang Hao mumbled to himself. After all, his fusion rate was only 30%. This was also his first time using his second soul in battle, so he could not control it well enough. To avoid harming the innocent, he immediately made some minor adjustments so that the light was mainly targeted at the two monsters.
However, Radiance's attack was a full-screen AOE, and Yuji Sakai was still shrouded by the radiance. So, Tang Hao walked up to him and picked him up. "What a disgrace. Get out of the battlefield immediately!"
"… Waaaah …" Yuji Sakai was still in a daze when he was thrown to the back by Tang Hao.
Then, Tang Hao smiled coldly like a dragon and walked toward the Giant Mannequin with his sword in hand.
"You thing, how dare you …" The Giant Mannequin felt Tang Hao's aura and tried to open its eyes a slit. It gnashed its teeth and swung its fist at Tang Hao.
Bang!
The fist hit the ground, but Tang Hao dodged to the side.
"It seems that you still don't understand."
"What?"
"The place where the light shines is the place where we return in triumph … Go to hell!"
Swoosh!
The sword flashed, and one of the Giant Mannequin's arms was instantly cut off.
After being corroded by Radiance's light, the Giant Mannequin's body became very weak. Even physical attacks could do enough damage to it.
"Ahhhh … My hand …"
The Giant Mannequin screamed in pain. Tang Hao did not care. "You were so happy when you were eating people, but now that you've been cut off, you look like you're crying. As a villain, you're really too low level."
Swoosh!
Another slash. This time, it was the Giant Mannequin's left arm, left leg, and right leg. In an instant, the Giant Mannequin was reduced to a human stick by Tang Hao. Yuji Sakai, who was sitting at the back, was shocked.
Hearing the Giant Mannequin's screams, the Masked Monster opened its eyes. Seeing that its companion was completely suppressed by Tang Hao, it knew that it was hopeless. So, it rushed toward Yuji Sakai.
"At least get Mister …"
"Hmm?"
Tang Hao hurriedly turned his head and was about to give chase. Suddenly, he saw a wisp of crimson flame from the corner of his eye, and he couldn't help but stop.
Is it finally here?
Yuji Sakai was in a terrible situation. Seeing the Masked Monster rushing toward him, he struggled to get up. But just as he got up, his ankle twisted, and he fell to the ground again.
"Got it!"
The Masked Monster let out a sinister laugh. At this time, it was less than a meter away from Yuji Sakai. Suddenly, a hand stretched out from the joint of the mask and stabbed toward Yuji Sakai's chest like a sharp blade.
Just then, a red flame flashed in front of its eyes. Before it could understand what was going on, it found that half of its arm flew up high, and the fiery light pierced its eyes.
"Ahhh …"
Amidst the screams, the Masked Monster was cut into pieces.
At the same time, Yuji Sakai was also stunned.
In just an instant, a girl that he had never seen before stood in front of him. The girl looked to be about the same age as him. She was petite and stood on the ground with a longsword in her hand. She wore a long black robe, and her fiery red hair fluttered violently in the wind. Sparks fell from her hair, making her look like a dream or a fantasy.
Looking at her fiery red eyes, Yuji Sakai was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
It wasn't because he was saved, but because … the girl in front of him was so beautiful.
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