novelraw Chapter 655: The game's strongest blow, and he's dead?
Chapter 655: The game's strongest blow, and he's dead?
The Black Knight nearest to them had already done its utmost, staking everything it had to protect Lu Ce.
At this moment, only it could react in time.
Boom!
A thunderous roar exploded in the air. A terrifying shockwave surged out, spreading through the sky and violently shoving aside the vast expanse of pink bubbles around.
It was like the tide during high tide, sweeping over the little crabs on the beach.
After the deafening roar subsided and the residual energy waves dispersed, everyone was shocked to discover that the Black Knight, under such a terrifying bombardment, showed not a single scratch!
Was it really that tough?
But Xie Antong beside them felt a sudden, sharp pang in her heart. Data streamed frantically across her retinas, and the entire world before her eyes magnified tens of thousands of times!
She saw clearly, beneath the cloud layer, a perfectly straight, nanoscale-thin pink ray of light, piercing through Lu Ce's body from above, right through the heart.
It connected the terrifying energy cloud layer above to the ground below.The previous punishment was absolutely not the true final force!
It was more like... a simple marker!
The All-Seeing Eye in the air swerved at high speed, instantly flying into Jiang Yuan's ear nearby, transmitting the same command at a high frequency.
"Protect him!"
"Damn it, why did you have to run your mouth like that just now?! You got him killed!" The Black Knight's voice simultaneously rang out beside Lust's ear.
Its voice now completely lacked the previous cheeky, annoying tone. Instead, it sounded like a waking dragon, roaring with fury.
"I'll... play a round with you!"
Boom!
The next second, the Annihilation Cannon mounted on the front of the motorcycle spewed forth a terrifying divine radiance, carrying the aura of death, and fired towards the dark clouds in the sky!
Amidst the thunderous roar, the pink-black clouds covering the entire city were instantly blasted open, creating a massive hole. The clouds parted to either side, as if a wormhole had been punched through spacetime.
"Heh heh..."
Lust grinned, completely disregarding the thread that had pierced through his chest. He raised a hand and gently stroked the Black Knight's metallic surface.
"Very promising."
Jiang Yuan on the side also didn't hesitate in the slightest. Upon hearing Xie Antong's command in his ear, he reacted almost instantly.
A blue light erupted. An energy shield materialized out of thin air, coalescing into a tower in the sky, anchoring itself in front of the Black Knight as a second line of defense.
Strangely enough, when Xie Antong had ordered him to attack earlier, he had been full of doubt and hesitation for a long time. Now, ordered to protect, he didn't hesitate at all and still went all out!
It just goes to show, sometimes when your brain can't make a perfect judgment, your body's instincts will lead you to make the choice your heart truly desires.
On the other side, Xie Antong had no time to set up any additional defenses. She knew the Soulburn Incense would likely have no effect on a God's power.
So, she chose Stimulation!
Simultaneously stimulating the world rank one and the world rank five.
Energy was sucked away like from a water pump. Her face visibly paled at a rapid pace, turning ashen. Her whole body swayed in the air, unsteady, and she began to fall.
At this point, all efforts were complete. All that remained was...
— Gambling with their lives!
Crack!!!
The sound of lightning seemed to split heaven and earth. In the blink of an eye, a terrifying pillar of energy condensed in the sky and blasted down along the thread that had pierced Lu Ce's heart.
That immense power pushed against the Black Knight's Annihilation Cannon, forcefully shoving it back!
Next was Jiang Yuan's first layer of defense. The energy tower shield shattered like an eggshell.
After that, it was the Black Knight's massive, extended frame, which also emitted the teeth-grating sound of metal fracturing.
Finally, everything, everything, was submerged within that terrifying pillar of energy, obscuring the situation inside.
In the entire world at that moment, it seemed only this single pillar remained, connecting heaven and earth, blazing with terrifying divine light.
All sound vanished. The air seemed to have been drained into a vacuum. The pink bubbles in the sky scattered and fled in panic. People could see the terror on each other's faces.
Xie Antong seemed to shout something loudly, but no one could hear it, not even herself. Everything became like a silent film, utterly quiet and soundless.
Jiang Yuan took two steps forward, but just as he was about to touch the light pillar, he was repelled by a powerful force of energy and sent flying backward.
Was this... the Game's Punishment?
This scene lasted for a full minute! During those sixty seconds, everyone watched the scene of absolute silence before them, breathless and speechless.
After what felt like an eternity, like a whole century had passed, the light pillar finally dissipated.
All that remained on the ground was a bottomless, massive crater.
A gentle breeze, sunlight, everything finally reappeared, as if everyone had regained the right to breathe again.
Xie Antong stumbled, stood up somewhat dazedly, and took a few steps forward, approaching the giant crater.
Only one question appeared in her mind—would the Gate of Death still work?
Could it really take effect?
Everyone knew this strike must be the highest lethality attack the Game could currently muster under its existing Rules!
Someone wanted to kill him.
And he also wanted to test whether the Game could actually kill him!
The whole world seemed to be watching that crater, anticipating any possible outcome, like watching Schrödinger's cat.
Beside her, Jiang Yuan, whose legs were relatively better off, leapt down, jumping directly into the deep pit.
Streams of air erupted from the soles of Xie Antong's shoes, accompanied by a burst of intense light, as she followed closely behind, jumping down after him.
The surrounding rock walls now looked nothing like rock walls;
they had been scoured by high-energy particles until they were unnaturally smooth and flat, glossy as mirrors!
At the bottom, amidst a pool of molten lava, a figure that already looked like a corpse lay quietly.
His body seemed to have turned to charcoal. Astonishingly, it hadn't turned to ash?
Jiang Yuan rushed over in three steps, immediately crouched down, and with a trembling hand, felt for his neck and the area over his heart.
No heartbeat.
No pulse.
Dead?!
His heart gave an inexplicable lurch. He looked at the other's face now, at that mask covered in cracks.
The purple face had already reverted to being a mask.
He raised his hand, trembling, and reached out towards it.