Chapter 192 VS Divine Sniper 1

My focus returned to the Luoshan office.

The powerful fluctuations of the Great Completion stage magic surged in from afar like waves. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Ma Zao beside me looking uncomfortable; Zhu Shi and Lu Youxun also frowned and looked into the distance.

We're indoors, and following their gaze, we can only see the walls. However, my perception has already extended beyond the walls, receiving information about fluctuations from extremely far away. At this moment, the source of that Great Completion level mana fluctuation should still be tens of kilometers away. Despite such a vast distance, I can already feel the opponent's unbridled aura.

Moreover, the source of this fluctuation is moving very fast; at this rate, it should reach our location in about twenty seconds.

There must be only one person at the Great Completion stage who has come to this place.

"Divine Sniper..."

Facing this enormous surge of magical power, Lu Youxun uttered the other party's name.

If I could, I would prefer to speak with Asahi privately first and share the information I just received in the supervisor's office. But for now, I have to focus on the sharpshooter.

According to Zhu Shi, Shenqiang is an arrogant and self-willed Grand Completion level Wuchang. Even Lu Youxun had told me beforehand that although Shenqiang was reinforcements, he might be carrying a mission detrimental to Ma Zao. Therefore, I was mentally prepared for the possibility of friction with him.

The Divine Gunner might have the Great Impermanence as his backer, and at the same time, there might also be a Great Impermanence watching over Ma Zao in Luoshan... I had always wondered why the Great Impermanence would pay attention to Ma Zao, but after receiving the information that "the prototype of the strange technology was handed over to another blessed cultivator of Ying Lingyun", I had other ideas.

Did that Blessed cultivator from the apocalypse really do nothing besides helping Ying Lingyun develop the strange technology? Perhaps he did something in this era that might attract the attention of the Great Impermanence, and revealed his identity as a person from the future and a Blessed cultivator... And the reason why Ma Zao attracted the attention of the Great Impermanence was because he was implicated by that Blessed cultivator?

What is this sharpshooter's intention now?

I plan to talk to Shenqiang first to see if I can uncover the truth. Although I'm not good at rhetoric, as long as I cooperate well with Zhu Shi, we should be able to use the power of "Buzhou Mountain" to see through lies and obtain some useful information.

However, the situation developed far more dangerously and violently than I had anticipated.

Or rather, the sharpshooter is a far more domineering character than I imagined.

When the source of that Great Completion level mana fluctuation approached the Luoshan office and was only a few hundred meters away, it still did not slow down. I immediately realized something was wrong and entered the fire element form without hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, the hundreds of meters were wiped out. The other party smashed through several walls of the Luoshan office from the outside to the inside as if smashing clouds, and directly invaded the guest room located deep inside while completely destroying the building's load-bearing structure.

In a vision that seemed to slow down, I saw the sharpshooter—a man in his early thirties with a rugged and arrogant face. He was dressed in dark gray clothes, unarmed, and moved through us like lightning.

Then, without saying a word, he stretched out his right hand and reached out to grab Asa, seemingly wanting to take advantage of the situation and kidnap Asa.

Seeing this, I kicked him in the head without thinking.

In my fire elemental form, my movement and attack speed were even three times faster than his in his current state, and the kick I unleashed was engulfed in flames. His reaction speed was also quite fast; almost at the same time as my attack, he retracted his right hand and raised it in front of him along with his left.

Suddenly, a silver metal spear appeared between his left and right hands, its shaft blocking my kick.

The kick struck the gun barrel, sending him sliding backward. With the power of my kick, he could easily have been sent flying dozens of kilometers away, but perhaps due to some kind of force-dissipating technique, he only retreated a few meters.

The force that had been released exploded behind him, instantly creating a strong wind. The wall and ceiling directly behind him—half of the Luoshan office building—were blasted away, revealing the outside sky.

"—What are you doing?" the sharpshooter asked in a menacing voice.

"This is what I wanted to say." My voice was so cold it caught even myself off guard. "Are you looking for death?"

The shockwave swept through the room, leaving it in a mess. Ma Zao teleported back to a corner not far away, Zhu Shi was still able to stand up, while Lu Youxun was knocked to the ground by the blast.

Lu Youxun scrambled to his feet, staring in disbelief at everything, then cried out, "Wait—!"

However, the sharpshooter ignored me. He seemed to be enraged by my words, pointed the tip of his gun at me, and said, "Hand over that girl, and I can forgive you for what you did to me earlier."

"Let bygones be bygones? You're quite lenient," I said. "I don't know who you're working for or what interests you represent, but since you attacked her here today, this matter isn't over."

"You need to think this through..." he said in a deep voice, "That girl is connected to the fate of countless people suffering from amnesia. These include not only cultivators like us, but also many innocent mortals. If you hand her over, they will all see a glimmer of hope. You wouldn't want to ruin so many people's futures for your own selfish reasons, would you?"

"This is the first time I've heard of your transcendentalism caring about ordinary people."

I didn't believe for a second that he was looking for Mazao because of her amnesia. If he had good intentions and needed something from her, he shouldn't have started with such an overbearing kidnapping attitude. Besides, he's an extreme supernaturalist, yet he keeps talking about the "fate of innocent mortals." To say he wasn't sincere would be an understatement.

No, perhaps I'm mistaken. If true superhumans treat ordinary people like livestock on a ranch, then it's understandable that they'd worry about whether or not they contract infectious diseases.

I've heard that most transcendentalists believe that transcendence will only turn ordinary people into slaves in the future. Since he's one of the fewer than twenty Great Completion-level Impermanence cultivators in Luoshan, he shouldn't be in that majority; even if he is, his performance isn't convincing. Only a good person like Zhu Shi would say something like that to make me take it seriously.

He seemed to have lost all patience.

“Don’t you understand? I’m giving you a way out. If you know what’s good for you, at least you can land with some dignity,” he said. “But it seems… you still prefer to be shattered to pieces!”

The silver spear in his hand erupted with an extremely dangerous light, and a huge surge of magical power swept across the field. A thunderous strike pierced towards me.

(End of this chapter)