Chapter 22: Suppression
Dust and smoke dispersed within the massive crater. Although this earth-shattering strike appeared terrifying, for Su Xiao, who had repeatedly drawn down world thunder, it was at most a superficial injury that left him slightly dazed.
Within the spreading smoke, Xian Lulu, stunned by the spatial tremors, barely recovered. She spoke urgently:
"Bai Ye, how are you? You..."
Xian Lulu's tone shifted from worry to confusion, then gradually to bewilderment. As Su Xiao's support, she could naturally sense his condition and confirm that he had withstood that strike rather than dodging it. But losing less than 0.5% of his vital signs truly left her stunned.
"The enemy is over there. I've locked onto his aura. Target is human, with three systems: magic, lightning, and soul. Judging from his energy fluctuations, he doesn't seem to be continuing his attack. He's hesitating. He wants to flee!"
Xian Lulu's speech was extremely fast. She used her own energy to condense a golden light point the size of a marble, pointing toward the enemy's location.
With a whoosh, Su Xiao transformed into a blood shadow and shot forward. Xian Lulu, hanging onto him, was naturally carried along at the same speed. This extreme velocity caused her cat pupils to contract to their smallest, and the entire cat instantly ignited with excitement.
"Wahaha, trying to run? Face your death, you despicable mage who only ambushes!"
As Xian Lulu shouted, Su Xiao had already rushed out of the crater. He saw a man in a mage robe with long white hair, located 2.5 kilometers away, with his hands clasped together activating a spatial equipment.
A blood qi apparition appeared above Su Xiao. Using a blood spear over three meters long as an arrow, he drew back a soul greatbow. From manifesting the blood qi apparition to shooting the blood spear, the entire process took but an instant. This was the result of Su Xiao repeating this practice thousands, even tens of thousands of times in the Land of All Beings, achieving such exaggerated fluidity.
Bang!
The blood spear shot out. It was a spiral blood spear with a hollow internal structure and wind holes all over. Its effect was to pursue extreme blood spear flight speed at the cost of sacrificing some attack power.
In an instant, the blood spear had reached 2.5 kilometers away, right in front of Lightning Law God·Aige. But Aige, as if possessing precognition, maintained his hands-clasped posture activating the spatial equipment while sidestepping to dodge.
Whoosh! The blood spear brushed dangerously past Aige's ear, blowing up his white hair and the hem of his mage robe, making him look quite dashing and elegant. Unfortunately, the blood spear that flew past his ear exploded the next moment.
Dong!
Aige rolled sideways as he was blasted out, flying dozens of meters before stabilizing himself on one knee. But before he could catch his breath, blood spears came shooting one after another.
Bang! Bang!
Two blood spears successively struck where Aige had been 0.1 seconds ago, then exploded with blood qi, sending dirt flying. The shockwave from the blood spear explosions caused Aige, who had just completed two "instant" teleports, to feel his blood qi churning internally.
Clearly, Aige had a fast spatial movement ability, but as it turned out, spatial movements with fast activation had short distances. For long-distance spatial movement, at least 3 seconds of charging was needed, not counting life-saving items.
After dodging several blood spears in succession, Lightning Law God·Aige couldn't help but feel anger rising. As a magic + lightning + soul type, he was dominant at mid-to-long range, yet here he was being suppressed at long range by a melee fighter. This was truly too much to bear.
As for immediately escaping, Aige had already tried. There was simply no chance to activate the spatial equipment. As for using a life-saving item to retreat, for some unknown reason, he had a vague feeling that even if he used such an item to teleport a hundred kilometers away, he still couldn't escape. The support cat hanging on his opponent clearly had ultra-long-range tracking ability. Combined with the fact that he was fighting a Hunter who was already extremely skilled at tracking, and with that cat, it was simply an unbeatable combination.
As the saying goes, since you can't escape, fight to the death with the enemy. Aige, who had climbed to this level of strength, certainly didn't lack the determination and courage to fight to the death.
'Soul Thunder Prison.'
Lightning Law God·Aige's eyes seemed to have soul thunder surging within them. This was one of his trump cards, one that had never failed against melee types.
A hundred meters away, Su Xiao, who was charging at full speed and shooting blood spears from his blood qi apparition, suddenly felt his entire body go numb. The next second, he was enveloped in blue-white lightning. The blue-white arcs surged with a chilling sizzling sound, even scorching cracks into space itself.
Upon discovering this situation, Su Xiao increased his charge speed further, but he found that not only did he not rush out of the lightning domain, but the surrounding lightning grew even stronger. This confirmed that these soul thunders were centered on him and would move along with him. From the outside, this looked like a massive lightning sphere several hundred meters in diameter.
In reality, the troublesome aspect of this "Soul Thunder Prison" didn't end there. This ability could be called a teammate killer. Besides the recipient suffering 700-1500 points + 5% of maximum health in lightning damage + magic damage + soul damage per second, nearby teammates would also be unlucky. Moreover, if they were too close to each other, there was a chance of triggering the "Thunder Prison Static" effect, resulting in a single, high-damage lightning chain strike.
At first glance, this ability's damage was very strong, with percentage damage judgment. The problem was that percentage damage judgment wasn't invincible either. It also had to face damage reduction from corresponding resistances. And more critically, as long as the corresponding resistance was high enough, percentage damage could potentially be reduced to 0% damage.
However, back at the eighth rank, Lightning Law God·Aige had used this move to nearly instantly annihilate a medium-sized eighth-rank adventure group from Watchful Paradise.
Now, this "Soul Thunder Prison" ability carried almost all of Lightning Law God·Aige's hopes. His gaze pierced through the arcs within the lightning domain, staring fixedly at Su Xiao. If Su Xiao had a single-use ability to reduce the damage he received, using it to reduce the damage from that previous ultimate technique, the World Thunder Spear, then this battle still had room for Aige to fight.
Within the lightning domain, the surrounding soul thunders briefly gathered power before surging toward Su Xiao in the next instant. Terrifying arcs surged with an extremely imposing momentum. Unfortunately, Su Xiao had quite a few means to negate Aige's damage, summarized as follows: