novelraw Chapter 171-1: Fierce Battle Against the Multivision President, Star Demon Test Subject (1)
Chapter 171-1: Fierce Battle Against the Multivision President, Star Demon Test Subject (1)
Lin Xun unhesitatingly ruled out the second option first. To clash head-on with the already transformed monstrous President of the Multivision Association was undoubtedly courting death.
This left only the first option, to flee, and the third option, to call for help.
But as for the call for help… within the Celestial Prison of Captive Stars, the Child of the Stars had likewise employed a method to isolate the gaze of the Omniscient True Knowledge.
Perhaps it could not be called true isolation. More precisely, it was making the slumbering Omniscient True Knowledge’s gaze ignore this place.
Therefore, when Lin Xun’s Knowledge stat exceeded the limit, it would draw the gaze of Omniscient True Knowledge, and that ignoring technique would cease to be effective.
Unfortunately, the same trick could not be used here. He was still exactly 5,200 Knowledge away from overloading again.
Lin Xun took a deep breath and pressed the first option to escape.
The Ring of the Radiant Stars was merely a tasteless item to him. If he could trade it for Rona’s life, he would press that option without hesitation.
But he feared…
[You pull out a sparkling ring and hurl it forcefully toward the corner of the laboratory.][The gaze of the President of the Multivision Association closely tracks the arc of the ring closely. You seized the chance to grab the Grand Scholar Rona and the Battle Angel – Valkyrie and turned to flee toward the laboratory exit…]
[Just as you were about to step onto the staircase to escape the laboratory, a series of gloomy, sinister chuckles rang out behind you.]
[At the exit of the laboratory, a sturdy Knowledge Barrier rose abruptly from the ground, trapping you inside the lab.]
[Will you attempt to break through the Knowledge Barrier and escape the laboratory?]
[You raised your hand, and the Stored Spell Treasure Ring radiated a brilliant glow. Countless symbols emerged from thin air, converging into a massive spear wreathed in thunder…]
[The spear thrust fiercely toward the Knowledge Barrier but only stirred the faintest ripple across its surface.]
[You immediately understood that with your strength, you could neither breach the Knowledge Barrier nor escape this place.]
[You turned your head and saw that the President of the Multivision Association Who Gazes Upward held a somewhat familiar black box in its deformed limbs, its surface engraved with numerous intricate characters and lines.]
[With a moment’s recollection, you remembered that the black box was the Knowledge Barrier Activation Device, identical to what you had seen before in the Refined Copper Smelting Plant.]
[At your side, Grand Scholar Rona, seeing there was no hope of fleeing, raised a hand to conjure a Knowledge Barrier, shielding all of you within it.]
[The President of the Multivision Association Who Gazes Upward looked at Rona. Its mountain of flesh began moving rapidly toward you all, and its tone was full of regret…]
[Even if Rona was unwilling to join it in pursuing the stars, she should not have colluded with an envoy of the Omniscient True Knowledge.]
[Since that was so, it could only send you heretics together to meet the Omniscient True Knowledge!]
[As it finished speaking, the mountainous flesh charged toward you with terrifying speed…]
Lin Xun had feared precisely such an outcome.
Although the Ring of the Radiant Stars had successfully drawn the Multivision President’s attention, the president had hidden a contingency, trapping them inside the laboratory with no path to escape.
The situation was desperately urgent, leaving Lin Xun no time for further deliberation as he swiftly operated the interface.
[You hurriedly swung your staff, murmuring an incantation…]
[A Knowledge Barrier rose from the ground, shielding you all within it…]
[The mountain of flesh surged forward with unmatched momentum. As it moved, the entire laboratory shook violently, and countless bottles and jars fell and shattered.]
[You noticed that though the charge was overwhelmingly powerful, the movement of its body seemed disjointed and stiff to your eyes.]
[The terrifying charge of the President of the Multivision Association Who Gazes Upward instantly shattered the Knowledge Barrier Rona had raised.]
[Its momentum briefly paused, then it continued striking at the Knowledge Barrier you had erected.]
[Without the added force of the charge, its attacks were somewhat weakened, but your Knowledge Barrier still could not withstand it for much longer… at most two or three breaths, and the Barrier would shatter beneath its ferocious assault.]
Lin Xun clenched his teeth and pressed Knowledge Barrier repeatedly without pause.
After he had used the Scroll of Speed Reading (Legendary-grade Divine item), the Knowledge Barrier, which usually required a casting time, had become an instant-cast skill.
[You swung your staff, murmuring an incantation…]
[A Knowledge Barrier rose from the ground, shielding you all within it…]
[You swung your staff…]
[A Knowledge Barrier rose from the ground…]
[You swung your staff…]
[Knowledge Barrier rose from the ground…]
[The President of the Multivision Association Who Gazes Upward stared at you in startled disbelief, unable to understand how you could release spells instantly without any casting time.]
[It then let out an enraged roar and launched an even fiercer assault upon you!]
[The Knowledge Barriers before you shattered one after another beneath its attacks!]
[Rona’s expression was icy. She began chanting an incantation under her breath…]
[A pure white spear composed of characters materialized. Compared to the Knowledge Spear you had unleashed, Rona’s Knowledge far surpassed yours, and her Knowledge Spear possessed far greater power!]
[The Battle Angel – Valkyrie softly chanted a melody, and the arrow nocked on her longbow radiated a pure white light, countless tiny symbols flowing along its shaft.]
[She drew the bow until it was like a full moon, and the arrow transformed into a shooting star, streaking toward the mountain of flesh!]
[The spear and the arrow pierced through the deformed body of the President of the Multivision Association together, leaving two enormous, bloody holes.]
[It paid no heed and continued attacking you, the wounds on its body healing and regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye!]
[While ceaselessly breaking through the Knowledge Barriers, it boasted to you that after fusing the demon’s body with the eyeball of the spirit of the stars, it had already begun treading the path toward becoming a god.]
[Gaining extraordinary regenerative power was the most powerful proof!]
[It had not yet acquired the body of the ancient demon because it waited here in the laboratory for you… but as long as it killed you here, by relying on the Ring of the Radiant Stars and then fusing the ancient demon’s body, it could become a true god!]
[The Battle Angel – Valkyrie kept firing arrows at the mountain of flesh. The penetrating wounds still regenerated at a constant pace, showing no sign of slowing.]
[Seeing the attacks were ineffective, Rona joined you in repeatedly conjuring Knowledge Barriers to resist the president’s powerful assaults.]
[…]
[You swung your staff…]
[A Knowledge Barrier rose from the ground…]
[You felt somewhat fatigued…]
[You looked to your side at Rona and saw that her hair was soaked with sweat.]
Lin Xun continued summoning Knowledge Barriers, able only to slow the arrival of death.
Once the mana bar of the Mage Shell was exhausted and he fell unconscious, that would be the moment all of them perished.
He clenched his teeth. There was still an Epic+ grade item in his inventory, the High-Energy Particle Shield Generator.
Using this item would allow him to fear no attack from the President of the Multivision Association.
But the High-Energy Particle Shield Generator could only protect him alone. It could not protect Rona as well.
Moreover, as long as they could not kill the president, under the unending attacks of the mountain of flesh, even an Epic+ grade defensive item would eventually run out of energy and fail.
The only card left was the newly obtained Overlord’s Summoning Eye.
If he summoned the Veiled Aberration Overlord inside the laboratory, it would certainly destroy the terrain and turn the lab into rubble.
If there were any item rewards inside the lab, they would be buried beneath the debris, never to be retrieved again.
[…]
[You swung your staff…]
[A Knowledge Barrier rose from the ground…]
[You felt utterly exhausted…]
Lin Xun was about to use the Overlord’s Summoning Eye, but the text that popped up next made him furrow his brow.