Chapter 75
"boom!!"
It was like a real sound wave spreading out in all directions. After trying to be attacked by the sound wave once and finding himself in a state of stiffness, Su Xingyuan began to avoid being attacked by the sound wave.
After being forced away by the monster's skills once again, the secretary and Su Xingyuan did not move for the time being.
"The gravity in this space is increasing." The secretary said expressionlessly, "It has no effect yet, but if we delay any longer, it will become very difficult for us to even move."
The blonde girl added: "In addition, it can also use sonic attacks continuously, making it impossible for us to get close to it - no wonder its magic power level is close to S-level."
The monster's abilities were far more than they had imagined, but they were extremely confusing and difficult to use. Otherwise, the difficulty of dealing with this guy would have directly risen to a higher level.
After hearing her summary, the secretary glanced at the blonde girl and noticed that instead of fear, her blue eyes looked even more eager.
After Leafa joined the battle, the secretary's pressure was visibly reduced, because the opponent was so good at attracting hatred -
It was as if once she stood out, she would be the most conspicuous one on the battlefield. In the eyes of the enemy, she would be like the only bright moon in the sky, flashing an extremely eye-catching light.
The secretary had seen the battle footage of a certain hunter several times because of orders, and now she couldn't help but feel that this situation was very familiar.
However, she had just observed during the battle that the weapon used by the blonde girl was a silver long sword, not the familiar short sword with concealment properties that the S-level hunter was familiar with.
Besides that, she plays very cautiously.
With teammates like this, we should be able to cooperate well.
The secretary narrowed her eyes slightly: "You hold back her hatred, I'm going to force a breakthrough--"
A wind so strong that it even brought a slight sting, suddenly passed by her.
Amidst the suddenly rising black hair that blocked the view, a golden figure suddenly jumped up, and in just a split second, it left a fleeting afterimage in the secretary's dark eyes.
...What passed?
The secretary didn't have time to roll her eyes, but she realized one thing belatedly: Leafa rushed forward alone while she was making tactical arrangements.
The secretary who just thought the other party would be able to cooperate well: "..."
It's hard to imagine that the other party didn't do it on purpose.
I was careless.
She shouldn't have thought that the hunter's fan could have any good character!
Also, is this speed really something a C-rank hunter can achieve? !
Wait, her eyes suddenly fell on the girl.
Did that blonde hair change color for a moment at some point?
From the golden color of gold, it turned into the blackness of the abyss.
This kind of black is too easy to be associated with a hunter.
She suddenly realized something, but the current situation didn't allow her to think too much.
——The blonde girl rushed out suddenly without saying a word, like a flash of golden lightning, crashing straight into the huge humanoid monster in the center of the swimming pool like a falling meteorite!
This speed seemed to the secretary to have almost reached the limit of human beings she could imagine, but when she looked over, she suddenly discovered that -
At some point, the monster's gaze actually followed the blonde girl who was moving at high speed!
At the last moment when the long sword reached its eyes, it released sharp sound waves from its throat again. At the same time, it raised its arms, blocked in front of itself, and took the attack directly.
“Squeak——”
The blade rubbed against its arm violently, producing strings of golden sparks.
After missing the attack, the blonde girl immediately kicked the monster's huge body with her legs and leaped backwards in a backflip-like posture, as if she wanted to adjust her attack. But at this moment, the monster's speed was actually faster than her!
One was doing a backwards somersault, and due to the stiffening effect of the sound waves, his perfect posture seemed to be slightly suspended in the air, while the other one pushed off the ground with his legs, stretched out his long arms, and directly grabbed the hunter who was still in mid-air!
The secretary's calm black pupils suddenly darkened.
She flipped her wrist without hesitation, and the ordinary black umbrella was immediately covered with a layer of magical power that was like a blessing. Then she took a step back, knelt on one knee, and carried the black umbrella on her shoulder like a fire arrow, aiming it at the monster.
"boom!!"
A sound that almost shattered one's eardrums suddenly erupted from the black umbrella on the secretary's shoulder!
An extremely dazzling beam of light, with terrifying high temperature and a sense of annihilation, rushed directly towards the monster's huge body!
A melting feeling appeared on its body, but soon, a layer of hard substance quickly formed on the injured area, which actually blocked the damage of the rays. It was only forced to retreat a few steps due to the powerful impact.
A man's somewhat crazy voice came from behind the secretary: "Ha, hahaha, you are late! This is my greatest work, can you believe it? Sometimes natural products are more powerful than man-made ones! And I just made a small contribution in it——"
“Did you feel it?”
"Resentment, resentment, pain... Why should I be the only one to bear this?!"
The secretary raised her foot expressionlessly, and the ten-centimeter high heel accurately attacked the back of the man's neck again, causing him to fall into coma for the second time.
She never listened to the meaningless words of her enemies, which was good for her mental health - as a person who was a secretary on the surface but a bodyguard and part-time thug in reality.
Her eyes followed the center of the battlefield closely.
Although the fire/arrow/cannon shot just now did not cause much actual damage to the monster, it successfully forced the blonde girl out of the attack range.
Or rather, not a girl.
The secretary looked coldly at the guy whose disguise had failed.
"You were just playing around at first, right?"
She questioned expressionlessly, what could she detect from this change?
Hearing her words, the "blonde girl" blinked, turned her head and gave an innocent smile.
Revealed from under the hood was the face of the S-rank hunter Su Xingyuan.
"Don't worry about these details," the black-haired boy said with a smile, "Whether I am a man or a woman doesn't affect our comradeship, right?"
The secretary raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Survive first and then discuss the details."
"Well - things may be a little troublesome." Even though his identity was revealed, the black-haired boy's tone was still very natural, even relaxed, but the words he said were not so friendly to the hunters who were now in the swimming pool.
"Hasn't that been enough trouble so far?"
The secretary maintained the original posture and fired another shot, saying.
"Yes. For example, these abilities are not originally possessed by it, but stolen from the hunters it encountered?"
The black-haired boy thought about it and added something else.
"It doesn't cost anything to patch it up."
The secretary had thought about this before, but she thought at the time that perhaps it would only be possible if the hunter was killed.
But what Su Xingyuan said means...
The two people fighting here now are also providing nourishment to its abilities.
The next moment, scorching heat that made it impossible to muster the slightest resistance suddenly swept over, and it was almost no different from the magic ray used by the secretary before!
The black-haired hunter seemed to have anticipated this and he grabbed the secretary and rolled him on the ground to avoid the terrifying rays.
“—Like this.”
He was even in the mood to give a commentary.
secretary:"……"
The secretary was calm: "We are done."
It was doomed enough already, and now with a guy like this around, the degree of doom suddenly doubled.
After all, whether an S-class hunter can deal with an S-class monster is questionable, let alone a creature so special that it can be recorded in history.
Secretary: "The Black Umbrella is not my ability, but the technology of Tongtian Tower. If even such technology can be replicated, Mr. Su Xingyuan, what we are facing is far from being as simple as an S-level monster."
"yes……"
The black-haired boy's gaze also fell on the monster that had retracted the cannon in its chest.
"A growth monster. It's never appeared before, right?"
He turned his head and looked at the secretary: "Is there any progress on the support you mentioned?"
The secretary replied, "From just now to now, the shortest time here has been ten minutes. The swimming pool is not far from the sports center for senior people, and it can be reached in three minutes. And up to now, it seems that everything outside is calm."
This shows that there is a problem not only with space but also with time.
The black-haired boy sighed softly: "What a hassle, this order will cost extra."
"..." The secretary couldn't help but glance at him and said, "Although I don't want to say anything to spoil the fun, whether it's adding money or anything else, we have to get out alive first."
"That's true."
Su Xingyuan: "But I didn't actually use my ability, so the situation can still be salvaged."
The secretary paused.
No ability to use?
In that case, the speed, jumping ability, reaction speed... were all his original physical qualities?
Yes, a new understanding of combat-type S-level hunters has been added.
But even if the ability was not replicated, if they could not kill the monster with one blow instantly, they would be the ones to be killed.
This is the problem. This monster has a very strong learning ability and will make the best response as quickly as possible - it is better to say, it is evolving.
The secretary could almost foresee the impact it would have on City A.
Just as she was thinking this, she noticed that the black-haired boy had changed his standing posture slightly.
Yet, such a small change brought an unprecedented sense of danger.
The smile in those emerald eyes slowly faded, replaced by an observation that had long been buried deep inside and devoid of any emotion. Even though the monster in front of him could kill her at almost any time, there was an imperceptible scrutiny in his eyes.
"It's resting." He said, "It can replicate the hunter's abilities, but after the replication is complete, it will be weak for thirty seconds."
Su Xingyuan did not use this period of weakness to do anything. He just took out a space ring and seemed to be looking for something in it. Finally, he found a small bottle of potion.
"I found it from the man behind you." He said confidently, "The others are poisons, only this one has the effect of restoring blood. You should be able to recover to your full strength after taking it."
"This is meaningless." The secretary said calmly, "It is getting stronger and stronger. Even if I recover now, I can't decide the victory of this battle."
The black-haired boy blinked and smiled, without any ambiguity, and simply stated the facts:
“But it means something to me.”
“…”
The secretary looked at him steadily, without saying anything else, and took the medicine, as if he had no doubt at all whether it might be poison, and drank it down in one gulp.
Visibly, the wounds on her body began to heal.
And now, the thirty seconds of breathing time has come to an end.
Su Xingyuan didn't even need to say much, the secretary took the unconscious man directly to the corner of the swimming pool, the outermost area of the battlefield.
But she still did not let her guard down and waited as she had just done. In case the black-haired boy made any mistake, at least she might be able to save him.
But Su Xingyuan would not let her go to the battlefield again.
He stared at the monster in front of him that was regaining its vitality.
To deal with such a monster is simple, that is, don't give it any chance to learn your abilities, use skills that can kill it with one blow, and directly make it die.
Coincidentally, Su Xingyuan has such a skill.
But I've been using [Fire Crossing] too many times recently, and while it feels great to kill with one strike, it's bound to make the game a bit boring if I keep doing this - and if I fail to control the speed well and the opponent copies me, I'll probably have to start over again.
So, he decided to use it to sharpen his knives.
In addition to using high-damage skills, there is another way to deal with this monster, which is pure physical skills, techniques, and control of rhythm.
——Especially when it’s in the game.
After thirty seconds, the monster stood up.
It began to radiate sound waves outward through its throat.
Almost at the moment when the black-haired boy's thoughts came to an end, a tangible sonic attack instantly spread throughout the entire swimming pool!
The look in the black-haired boy's eyes did not change at all.
His fingertips just tapped the sides of his legs leisurely, as if he was counting something silently.
Three, two, one.
Su Xingyuan, who was already familiar with the speed of sound waves, fell backwards the moment the attack reached him, avoiding the sound waves that were on the same plane as the monster's throat in a way that could be called perfect!
[Congratulations on achieving [Perfect Dodge]! 】
[Within ten seconds, your agility will increase by 20%! 】
Su Xingyuan seemed not to hear the prompt from the game system. Despite the sudden increase in speed, he still used the original speed without any change. Without hesitation, in the gap between the sonic attacks, he rushed directly towards the humanoid monster in the center of the swimming pool!
The humanoid monster's evolution speed was abnormally fast. This was reflected in the fact that after the black-haired boy had displayed terrifying speed before, it was able to bring its speed to the same level as him within just a few breaths.
It's not a replica of the ability, but a simple evolution.
The goal of the limited-time mission is to kill this monster. If it doesn't die here today, if the person who encounters it in the early stage is not a player, and if it is given enough hunter samples to make it grow...
This guy might become one of the biggest and toughest bosses in the later stages.
These insignificant thoughts only existed in Su Xingyuan's brain for a moment, and the time that passed in reality was almost negligible. It was as if it was just a blink of an eye. At such lightning speed, the two hostile parties had appeared in front of each other!
The speed of the monsters was forcibly raised to the same level as that of Suxingyuan. They reacted almost at the same time, competing in strength, defense, or some other unpredictable skills.
However, at the moment when the black-haired boy’s attack was about to arrive and the monster’s defense was about to be completed—
His speed suddenly increased in an instant!
The faster the battle goes, the more likely a slight fluctuation in the speed of one of the two sides will directly affect the battle situation. What's more, this is a 20% increase in agility!
The gap widened in an instant, and the monster's evolution speed had no time to rise to the same level as the black-haired boy!
[Strength: 114]
He held the silver long sword in both hands, without any time to think, and aimed at the tiny gap in the defense as if his body's fighting instinct, and then -
cut!
The long knife chopped down instantly!
The blade was like a silver moon, and the afterimage it left when it was slashed down was like a whole piece of connected moonlight. It was so cold and sharp, but when it was slashed down, it seemed to carry the bloody feeling as if it had walked through a sea of blood and a mountain of corpses.
The monster's huge, cloudy eyeballs moved slightly as if in disbelief.
——The black-haired boy in front of it was reflected in its eyes.
He swung the long knife downwards with both hands, the blade sinking into its body. It saw his jet-black hair blown by the wind, and his emerald cat eyes were filled with a terrifying extreme calmness, and...
Contrary to calmness, there is a sense of excitement that is not at all inconsistent.
It was as if a cold mirror was shattered, and the figure in the mirror was distorted into natural madness.
However, these are things that a monster with a confused mind cannot understand.
What it was really afraid of was the familiar, terrifying aura on him that came from somewhere.
The breath from hell.
The smell of blood, like a maggot attached to the bones, accompanied the long sword that chopped down like thunder. At this moment, it seemed to see the layers of dry bones under the boy's sword, and the monarch's crown burning with the flames of hell on his head.
An intense fear swept over me.
Its movements froze uncontrollably for a moment.
[Professional Basic Skills: Deterrence]
[Description: The races that once survived in Hell will lose their will to resist when facing players and gain the "Fear" debuff]
[Note: If the player is found to be weak, they will launch a crazy counterattack. The Hell race cannot resist the temptation to kill the Lord of Hell]
Players will use this skill after having tested it, of course. [Shock] is also very effective against demonized creatures.
But his purpose is not just to control it within this short period of time.
The long sword without any special effects penetrated into the monster's body, and the damage caused lasted only a moment. Almost instantly, the blood bar above its head began to recover, and the cut body glued together again.
For a moment, it had the urge to obey, and this urge was so strong that it could execute it without hesitation even if it meant death.
However, it is just a demonized creature after all, a special monster that has been "demonized", not the monster itself. Therefore, it quickly realized that the Lord of Hell can also be killed because he is not powerful.
But even so, [Shock] made it feel an unprecedented sense of crisis.
Therefore, it almost subconsciously copied the skills that the person in front of it had just used. This feeling of copying other people's things and using them against them made the monster feel very safe.
However……
Unlike other skills, the prerequisite for using [Shock] is unprecedentedly harsh.
——Even if it was copied, it would not be of any use and would only create more flaws.
——For example, now.
The weak period after thirty seconds of copying appeared as expected, but the monster was completely unable to use the skills it had just copied. Even when it thought about using it, its brain suddenly began to hurt sharply, almost as if it was being burned!
[Status: Fear, Weakness]
A clear status bar appears in the players' eyes.
There was no trace of surprise in those green cat eyes, as if every second from the beginning to now had been going as he had expected.
The next moment, a blinding white light suddenly lit up on the silver sword, which was infused with excessive magic power!
[Skill: Starry Sky]
——Broken Moon Slash is the exclusive skill of Broken Moon Sword, but it does not mean that Starry Sky is also the exclusive skill of Ding Fengbo.
However, this recovery speed is far slower than the original thirty seconds. So how many swords can the player swing?
He didn't calculate, but just swung the first knife without any hesitation.
【You attacked the enemy's weakness! 】
[You delivered a [Critical Hit]!] ! 】
Excessive magic power was instantly injected into the blade, and through the blade it slashed more forcefully into the body of the huge monster. In just a moment, the monster's health bar was cut by one tenth!
However, the tricky thing is not how thick its health bar is, but that even in the thirty-second weak period, when its defense and recovery speed have decreased, its health bar still continues to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Therefore, Su Xingyuan chose [Starry Sky].
Because he needs to be fast, extremely fast, so fast that he can completely cover the monster's recovery speed, using the shortest time and the greatest damage to cover all the blood it has recovered, until its blood bar is emptied!
There was almost no visible knife mark on the monster's body. The parts that had just been cut were perfectly reassembled. Due to its terrifying evolutionary ability, the monster's speed had caught up again. It was just a little bit away, and even the knife would be trapped in its body.
However--
With the second strike, the black-haired boy swung his sword a little faster, widening the speed gap again!
At this moment, Su Xingyuan could almost feel the sluggishness coming from the monster.
He didn't tell the other party that this was just the beginning.
[Starry Sky Skill Description 3: When the combo reaches the 27th sword, the next sword will be "Starry Sky", while adding 5% to the strength and speed, the sword energy with 50% of the previous attack's damage will be scattered around the target, causing area damage]
——The next twenty-six strikes can increase agility by 5% each.
In an instant, the knife light became heavier and faster, almost enveloping the two people.
The speed of the monster continued to increase, and it kept chasing the pace of the blonde girl, but each time it was one step late. Often when its speed increased, the next attack of the black-haired boy had already followed!
It’s always just a little bit short, this is the most frustrating suppression!
The monster did not have such rich emotions, but it could feel the airtight feeling of suffocation as if its every move was calculated. It tried desperately to break out, and in a flash, the laser beam that the secretary had used before condensed on its chest!
He must be interrupted!
Must interrupt...the impenetrable combo!
At such a close distance, even Su Xingyuan's speed cannot completely avoid it, and as long as the player is damaged, the combo judgment will be interrupted.
He used the skill without any hesitation.
[Skill: Flesh and Blood Sage]
[Convert 99.9% of physical strength into intelligence]
The attack has arrived.
[Switch title: What happened to you if you survived for three seconds]
[Enter suspended animation, immune to all damage]
[Duration: three seconds]
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