novelraw Chapter 417 - 117: Final Showdown! Yu Jin vs. Han Ling! Divine Skill—Mirror Flowers, Water Moon! (Part 2)
Chapter 417 - 117: Final Showdown! Yu Jin vs. Han Ling! Divine Skill—Mirror Flowers, Water Moon! (Part 2)
He looked at the enormous virtual image of Han Ling before him, muttering to himself:
"Growing bigger like this is so childish."
"I haven’t done it for a long time."
"But..."
Yu Jin’s voice carried a hint of amusement amidst its calmness.
Then...
Buzz——!
Buzz Buzz——!
The energy source in Assault Freedom’s chest suddenly erupted with dazzling brilliance.
Its energy pressure visibly surged at an incredible speed.
In just a few moments.
A similarly towering virtual image, tens of thousands of meters high, but shaped like a mecha, coalesced.
At this moment.
Seeing this scene, Han Ling was slightly taken aback.
For one simple reason.
On the surface, he had been belittling Yu Jin, but in reality, he had already increased his perception to its limit.
Yet ironically!
At that very moment, he still couldn’t clearly discern where this mecha virtual image originated from...
It seemed not to come from the mecha itself, but from some ability of Yu Jin.
And that was precisely the critical point.
Despite having his perception maxed out, he couldn’t ’see’ clearly when or in what manner Yu Jin had activated this ability.
Let alone...
The time was so brief.
Bear this in mind.
The giant virtual image now enveloping him seemed matchlessly imposing, but it had actually consumed a significant amount of Han Ling’s energy and effort to complete.
He had condensed this virtual image partly to stabilize the military morale of the Celestial God Civilization and partly to make a show of force to Yu Jin.
But now?
This show of force seemed to backfire onto himself...
"Crooked ways!"
Though his heart was turbulent, Han Ling’s face remained contemptuous and indifferent.
He merely responded to Yu Jin with a cold snort.
Inside the Gundam cockpit.
Yu Jin was smiling slightly.
At this moment, before him appeared lines of textual information about Han Ling, courtesy of the Eye of Insight.
Bad news—
The panel was full of question marks, scarcely showing anything.
Good news—
The identity section clearly displayed two words: [Main Body].
Yu Jin, who had once battled Han Ling on Z99 Planet and slain his projection clone, was well aware that Han Ling possessed the ’Puppet’ attribute and had the extraordinary projection clone capabilities.
Because of this.
In today’s battle, the only thing Yu Jin needed to confirm was that Han Ling wasn’t playing any tricks, wasn’t sending clones to fight while hiding the main body backstage.
That was enough.
"Since you’re here, don’t leave."
Yu Jin’s voice echoed from inside Assault Freedom Gundam.
"Ha?"
To this, Han Ling merely sneered.
At that moment.
Yu Jin still hadn’t emerged from the Gundam, further confirming Han Ling’s judgment.
It seemed likely Yu Jin himself hadn’t broken through to Tier Twenty.
Which made sense, given how little time had passed since his promotion to the Star System Wasteland?
If he had truly reached Tier Twenty...
Wouldn’t his Divine Bloodline seem pathetically inadequate before Yu Jin?
"Reasonable, very reasonable."
"This Tier Twenty mecha..."
After scrutinizing Assault Freedom’s body for a while, Han Ling had a thought.
"Like those twenty thousand super large fortresses, it came from Athena."
Thinking of this.
The big stone in Han Ling’s heart finally settled.
Though he was extremely displeased with Athena ’favoring’ Yu Jin so much, even feeling a bitter owner’s resentment — after all, he had long regarded Athena as forbidden.
But...
He knew very well that as long as he killed Yu Jin today.
Then in the future, what should belong to him would still belong to him.
He would become the Ophelia Federation’s sole Divine Bloodline awakener, the beacon of hope for the entire Ophelia Federation.
At that time...
What is Athena, what is the Nash Clan, before him, they would all have to humbly lower their proud heads.
With his thoughts settled, Han Ling focused entirely on the battle ahead.
Boom——
Rumble——!
Inside him, the sound of giant thunder exploded.
His surroundings were enveloped in dazzling brilliance.
His aura, too, for the first time was completely and unreservedly revealed!
"Tier Nineteen is the limit of this server."
"But..."
"It’s not the limit of me, Han Ling!"
Han Ling’s voice resounded through the starry sky.
The tens of thousands of meters tall humanoid shadow solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye.
And above the head of the human figure.
The true form of Han Ling appeared like a blazing sun, too dazzling to look at directly.
From his body emanated a terrifying pressure beyond words.
Under this breath, even the Tier Eighteen and Nineteen Evolvers who were originally engaged in combat across the starry sky felt their breaths catch.
"Tier Twenty!"
"This is the invincible lord!"
"This is the true... celestial being!"
The commanders and soldiers of the Celestial God Civilization were even more exhilarated at this moment.
But soon.
Their cheers abruptly stopped.
Boom——
Rumble——!
The starry sky exploded with a great sound once again.
And this time, the source was that tens of thousands of meters high mecha giant shadow.
At some point.
Assault Freedom, like Han Ling, was treading above the head of the giant shadow.
However, this red, white, and blue mecha did not emit endless radiance like the sun as Han Ling did.
On the contrary.
Behind Assault Freedom, a profoundly deep vortex of a black hole appeared out of thin air.
The black hole rotated silently, absorbing almost all the light sources in the starry sky.
The endless starry sky should not have day and night.
Yet.
At this moment, everyone, including Han Ling, inexplicably felt ’night had fallen’.
"Eye protection mode, understand?"
Yu Jin’s voice sounded faintly.
Like Han Ling, his voice, though light, resounded through the entire starry sky.
At this moment.
The commanders and soldiers of the Dawn Fortress’s major corps all cheered and shouted.
Brother Gang, Old Cui, and other die-hard followers of Yu Jin even paused their battle for a moment to burst into laughter.
"Damn eye protection mode!"
"Old Yu’s move is damn sneaky!"
"They’re celestial beings~~ do they not care about face!"
Chen Gang shouted in a strange voice.
Even these few words of his were infused with the energy of a Tier Nineteen Evolver, spreading across half the stellar battlefield.
"..."
Above the giant shadow, Han Ling’s face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
The second time!
This was already the second time!
He wanted to intimidate Yu Jin, only to be outmaneuvered by him!
Exhale——
Han Ling took a deep breath.
He had resolved completely not to mess around with these flashy tricks.
He intended to, with the fastest and most thunderous means, completely erase the greatest threat and enemy to his divine bloodline path thus far, Yu Jin!
"God!"
"Heed the call of your descendant!"
"In the name of the god, with bloodline as the fuel!"
"Divine Skill——"
"Mirror Flower Water Moon!"
Han Ling formed a double-handed seal, and the blood in his body burned drop by drop.
The scalding sensation made his expression reveal a slight hint of pain.
This was his strongest ability, the true ability granted by the authority of the divine bloodline.
In theory.
The battle between him and Yu Jin should have involved several rounds of probing.
But now?
He had no patience left!
This ’Mirror Flower Water Moon’ would cost him significant expenditure, potentially requiring a long time to recover the burned divine bloodline.
But...
To completely eradicate Yu Jin, he believed it was totally worth it!
"Divine Skill?"
On the other side.
In the cockpit of Assault Freedom, Yu Jin slightly raised an eyebrow after hearing these words from Han Ling.
He retracted his previous joking demeanor, his face showing a bit more seriousness.
He wasn’t sure if the concept of ’Divine Skill’ existed in the game Wasteland itself or if it was something Han Ling, this leader of charlatans, had invented.
Meanwhile.
While Yu Jin pondered.
In the starry sky.
The body of Han Ling, originally above the giant shadow, gradually became vague and blurry.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
Apart from Yu Jin, who controlled part of the time attribute, no one else among the tens of billions on the stellar battlefield saw clearly what happened.
They only felt a momentary daze.
Then...
One Han Ling turned into three Han Lings.
And the terrifying aura of Han Ling’s Tier Twenty not only didn’t weaken but visibly strengthened!