I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

Chapter 608 166: Tit for Tat (4,100 Words)_2

But at this very moment, the stealth ability the young girl was displaying was far stronger than that of any assassin he had known, and it was a whole level higher.

"How is this possible, could it be..."

Shen Ye suddenly recalled a rare sequence, one that you might only see once among thousands of Apprentice Death Gods, but each instance was immensely powerful, a born assassin.

And such a sequence also possessed extremely formidable close-range combat capabilities, though not as flamboyant as the Mad Dog.

"Could it actually be the rare sequence 'Invisible'... Miss Wu Ming, we've underestimated you!"

Shen Ye gritted his teeth and steadied himself, crossing his arms in front of his chest, intending to block the first wave of the Red Scale Giant Claw's attack.

He knew the power of this claw was quite exaggerated; in a previous battle with Hikamu, it could even topple a thousand-ton building bare-handed...

But what he thought was, no matter how heavy, it shouldn't suppress him, a Tier Four Apprentice Death God.

Because the physical strength gap between tier four and tier three was at least twenty times! Even the most powerful secret technique couldn't bridge such a gap, right...

However, at the moment his arm and the giant claw made contact, Shen Ye's expression changed.

The strength on this claw... something was wrong!

How could a mere Tier Three Apprentice Death God's maneuver possibly be this strong...

"Boom—!"

The steel plate beneath Shen Ye's feet was directly dented, and his arms emitted cracking sounds of bone fractures.

At this moment, he felt as though he wasn't bearing a claw but... carrying an entire mountain on his back!

"Creak... Creak..."

The large water tower began to tremble slowly, producing a series of teeth-gritting metallic tearing sounds. The tower's body and the foundation embedded deep underground were shaking continuously. If things continued like this, it wouldn't last much longer.

An ordinary Red Scale Giant Claw couldn't possibly achieve such an effect.

But the issue was that at the moment of swinging the claw, Yun You had activated "Super Heavy Transformation".

With the sequence class enhanced, the Red Scale Giant Claw's super heavy transformation was boosted accordingly. If previously it could only increase to a thousand tons for an instant, now, the power it unleashed was at least ten thousand tons, maybe even more...

Faced with such tremendous force, even an experienced Tier Four Death God like Shen Ye would find it challenging.

And the trouble didn't end there...

Shen Ye saw that Yun You, while pressing down with the giant claw, was also slowly extending another hand toward his heart...

He didn't know what effect this maneuver had, but his instinctive danger perception told him he must not let Yun You touch him!

"The earlier 'Sniper Style', consumed a lot of my spiritual power, causing the similar 'Melting Furnace Style' to enter a cooldown simultaneously. Now only the 'Cannon Attack Style' is usable."

"I must first use 'Cannon Attack Style' to create distance, or else in this close range I won't be her match!"

His brain whirred, and in less than half a second, he had made a decision.

Orange-red flames brewed in his palm, quickly forming a fireball the size of a human head.

"Is this the Tuner's ability, has the cooldown time recovered?"

Yun You slightly frowned, but wasn't overly worried.

She knew that a fire manipulator like Shen Ye must have abilities akin to "hand-crafted bombs", but she wasn't concerned.

In such a short combat distance and time, Shen Ye couldn't possibly brew a fireball with too much power, so most likely he just wanted to enhance the fireball's impact to temporarily force her back.

But with the super heavy transformation buffing her Red Scale Giant Claw, weighing ten thousand tons, Shen Ye could never blast her away with just a small fireball.

Forced into close combat, most of Shen Ye's techniques were rendered ineffective!

Yet, at the next moment...

Shen Ye's actions exceeded Yun You's expectations.

He slipped his hands, utilizing the power of the Red Scale Giant Claw to slide under himself, and then accurately tossed the giant fireball at his own feet!

"Boom—!"

The explosion, accompanied by a huge shockwave, completely engulfed the already precarious top of the water tower.

Yun You wasn't injured, but she saw that Shen Ye, by leveraging the explosive thrust, had managed to break free from the giant claw's restraint, soaring into the air...

Although he was a little disheveled by the blast, with his pant legs ripped and his shoes nowhere to be seen, and his face covered in soot, at that moment, he had indeed successfully put distance between himself and Yun You.

In order to regain an advantageous position, Shen Ye was willing to act against himself without hesitation.

Such decisiveness could only be possessed by mercenaries used to licking blood from the blade's edge.

"With distance, more options for dealing with the situation open up."

Shen Ye paid no mind to the severe pain from the burn wounds on his skin, his brain still racing.

He slightly adjusted his stance, summoning two fire membranes beneath his feet to create rising hot air, buoying his body.

Though this method couldn't enable full flight, coupled with the Apprentice Death God's agile body movement, it achieved a nearly "floating" effect.

"From here on, as long as I perform continuous long-range attacks, I can suppress that girl..."

Shen Ye thought silently, and his hands didn't stop, continuously mimicking a bow-drawing gesture, summoning ghostly blue flame arrows around him.

However, before he could shoot out the arrows, he suddenly noticed that Yun You's posture seemed to have changed...

The giant claw on her right hand had somehow transformed into a red curved blade, and her claw-swinging stance shifted to a two-handed blade-wielding posture.

"Could it be... she's intending to use Sword Qi to shoot me down?"

Shen Ye immediately considered this possibility but didn't believe Yun You could achieve it.

Indeed, many mercenaries and Death Gods who wielded swords could unleash Sword Qi or something similar, but it usually didn't have a very long range. It typically lost its power beyond a hundred meters in the air.

At this moment, he's at least two hundred meters away from Yun You, and at this distance, even a genuine Tier Four Apprentice Death God couldn't unleash Sword Qi that long.

And indeed, that was the case.

Yun You only swung heavily in his direction, and then... the sharp Sword Qi extended forward for less than fifty meters before slowly dissipating.

"Whew..."

Shen Ye let out a long sigh.

To be honest, earlier he was somewhat worried; if Yun You really could unleash Sword Qi two hundred meters long, he wouldn't be able to dodge it.

But now it seemed he had overthought it.

Even a genius like Yun You couldn't break through the class limitation...

However, strangely enough, just as the Sword Qi completely disappeared, Shen Ye suddenly felt a peculiar chill slowly emerging behind him...

The sensation was so odd that it reminded him of an encounter he had in the wilderness.

Back then, he had just become a mercenary, not fully aware of wilderness dangers. After killing a thirty-meter-long mutated king cobra, without further examination, he just confirmed the snake's heartbeat had stopped and began extracting its fangs.

Then...

He was brutally bitten by the supposedly dead Snake King through its residual nervous system, injecting a whole half a liter of venom.

That time, he nearly lost his life, barely saved after two months in the ICU.

From that day on, he developed this sense for extreme danger.

Shen Ye instinctively turned around...

Then, he saw a shadow.

Exactly, a shadow that looked identical to Yun You, currently raising the curved blade in its hand, slashing heavily at his head...

This was — The Phantom Blade Man.

A special ability possessed by the Red Scale in its curved blade form.

It expends a minuscule amount of power to summon a phantom blade man to unleash a full-force strike on Yun You's target

It moves smoothly, from its appearance to its action, without releasing any aura.

Only when it strikes will the enemy detect its presence.

Moreover, it boasts a ridiculously strong feature, which is...

The ability to lock on regardless of distance and traverse any terrain.