Chapter 2: During Battle, His Blood Contains Azure Steel Shadow Energy.
Su Xiao could barely feel his own existence anymore. The only reason he could still confirm his own presence was due to his high soul strength. The enemy's darkness devoured his five senses, but in a short time, it couldn't reach his soul.
Relying on the equipment verification effect of Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao unequipped [Wild Hunt Night]. He then used Dragon-Slaying Flash to cut open his own chest. The blood that flowed out all floated up, turning into blood beads around him.
All of this seemed like a long process, but in reality, from the moment Su Xiao was plunged into darkness to when he cut open his chest, only 3.6 seconds had passed. The Twin Lord, who had just endured two consecutive World Lightning strikes, was only just recovering.
In the darkness, Su Xiao felt the blood beads in front of him suddenly surge towards him. This meant something was charging in at super-high speed. Using the distance between the blood beads, the height of the Twin Lord, and the varying speeds of the blood beads' positional changes, he judged the direction from which the Devouring Annihilation Greatsword was swinging.
‘Perfect Block!’
Clang!!
Under the Twin Lord's astonished gaze, Su Xiao blocked this heavy and powerful sword strike with a single-handed blade. For a moment, the Twin Lord even mistakenly thought his ability had failed.
The gap of several dozen points in strength was temporarily ignored by Perfect Block. Now, it was the Technique Grandmaster's time.
Zheng~
The long blade scraped against the sword's edge. The angle of the blade's edge caused the pressing greatsword to slide sideways along the sharp edge. Then, following this momentum, the long blade naturally and gracefully slashed towards the Twin Lord's throat. The Twin Lord could only block with his greatsword.
Clang~!
The long blade struck hard. Taking this blow with a [+71 Rank Bonus to Blade Weapon Slashing Power Judgment], the Twin Lord felt his blood and Qi surge. How could this be a slash from someone with lower strength than him? The deterrent force of this blade was too fierce.
Clang, clang, clang, bang!
Su Xiao delivered three consecutive slashes. After successfully suppressing his opponent, he followed up with a straight kick to the spine of the Devouring Annihilation Greatsword. The Twin Lord was sent flying backward. This straight kick was an explosive release of full power.
The reason Su Xiao kicked the Twin Lord flying was that, while still in the darkness, he was beginning to feel his own existence blur. Or rather, his sense of his own position was becoming fuzzy. Once he lost his sense of position, he would enter a state of weightlessness or a feeling of falling.
Su Xiao couldn't see the Twin Lord, but he was certain he had kicked him away. Just before, he had manipulated a few drops of blood to hit the Twin Lord. The damage value was indeed 0, but through these blood drops, he could determine the Twin Lord's position.
After kicking the Twin Lord away, Su Xiao felt the surrounding darkness recede somewhat. Although he still couldn't see anything around him, he could now feel that he was holding Dragon-Slashing Flash.
This meant that the Twin Lord's ability to steal all of an opponent's senses with darkness was stronger the closer the enemy was. Once the distance exceeded a certain point, the effect of this ability would be greatly reduced, or even completely fail.
Su Xiao assumed a half-squatting stance and slapped the ground with one hand. With a bang, layers of crystal as thin as cicada wings rose from the ground around him, appearing every half meter.
On the opposite side, the sensory feedback of the crystal layers being shattered one after another came back. Besides this, Su Xiao also felt the sensation of being completely submerged in darkness intensify again. The only good news was that he still had the sensation of holding Dragon-Slashing Flash in his right hand.
‘Perfect Block.’
Clang!!
The Twin Lord charged forward, and his heavy sword strike was blocked by Su Xiao's blade again. The blood evaporating from the Devouring Annihilation Greatsword was the key to Su Xiao being able to track this strike.
“Roar!”
Su Xiao formed a Blood Beast and pounced fiercely, hitting the Twin Lord opposite him.
With a crack, a golden World Lightning bolt struck down. Although Su Xiao's perception was pitch black, unable to see or hear anything, he seemed to have precognition, leaping backward out of the World Lightning's range.
The Blood Beast consumed 30% of his Blood Qi, so this attack was bound to draw down World Lightning.
Dead Silence Force surged. Su Xiao drew Dead Silence Annihilation from the gray mist of dead silence, aiming it at the Twin Lord who was still paralyzed by the World Lightning. This caused the opponent to enter a slowed state. Already paralyzed by World Lightning and now slowed, it was even more impossible for him to dodge the subsequent Annihilation bullets.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
All five Annihilation bullets hit. The last one even struck the Twin Lord's head, blasting off a part of his head along with a wooden horn.
[Annihilation (Core · Active): Release Dead Silence Annihilation and hold it in your hand. Within the initial 3 seconds, you can designate a target, greatly reducing their speed. Initial slow is 70%, decreasing by 10% per second until the slow effect completely disappears.
Tip: The initial attack power of Dead Silence Annihilation is fixed. It contains 5 Annihilation bullets.
Tip: Annihilation bullets are enhanced by Soul Strength, gaining additional attack power equal to Soul Strength × 0.82 (729.8 additional attack power), and additional penetration equal to Soul Strength × 0.82 (729.8 additional penetration).
Annihilation Bullet: Old-style bullets composed of a large amount of Dead Silence Energy. If multiple Annihilation bullets hit the same enemy, the erosion of Dead Silence Energy will reduce the enemy's defense, causing damage from subsequent bullets to increase. The first bullet deals 100% damage, the second 150%, the third 200%, the fourth 300%, and the fifth 500%.
Tip: If all five bullets hit, a 'Dead Silence Devouring Explosion' can be triggered, destroying all of this enemy's defensive equipment and defensive abilities (this bonus has high priority).]
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Dead Silence Force wafted from the Twin Lord's body. Su Xiao, holding Dead Silence Annihilation, used his thumb to flip the explosion bolt.
With a bang, a Dead Silence explosion occurred. The scales all over the Twin Lord's body shattered, and black blood splattered everywhere.
In the darkness where he could perceive nothing, Su Xiao advanced instead of retreating. In this state, he charged forward for a distance before successfully activating the Blade Demon Spirit. A dark blue smoke appeared on the long blade in his hand.
Calculating the distance in his mind, combined with the sensory feedback from the dozens of blood beads around him, Su Xiao took another step forward before activating the Dragon Shadow Flash ability.
Wind pressure swept through. The Twin Lord, covered in black blood with an incomplete head, gripped his greatsword with both hands and slashed at Su Xiao's neck. He had, of course, judged that Su Xiao had entered a Space Penetration state, but he still swung this sword. This strike, containing all his remaining Devouring Annihilation Force, was sure to kill Su Xiao even in the Space Penetration state.
Zheng~!
The Devouring Annihilation Greatsword tore through space, slashing across Su Xiao's neck. However, it cut out bloodstains that looked like black iron sand.
Why was this? Su Xiao had been burned for over 70% of his health by the Devouring Annihilation Black Flame. He had naturally judged that attacks empowered by Devouring Annihilation Force could ignore Space Penetration. So, after his senses were completely plunged into darkness, he deliberately used Space Penetration to dodge this attack. In reality, his true method of evasion was to swap positions with the Demon Spirit twice in succession.
Just as the Devouring Annihilation Greatsword was about to slash Su Xiao's neck, he swapped positions with the Demon Spirit. The greatsword then slashed across the Demon Spirit's neck. Immediately after, he swapped positions with the Demon Spirit again, returning to stand before the Twin Lord.
This created the illusion that the Twin Lord's greatsword had slashed through Su Xiao's neck, but produced black iron sand-like bloodstains.
Just as the Devouring Annihilation Greatsword finished slashing through Su Xiao's neck, the long blade in his hand had already reached the Twin Lord's throat.
The Twin Lord's pale pupils gradually contracted. A gleam of elemental characteristic light shone from the pupil of his right eye.
‘Time Light.’
A white light flashed. In this critical moment, the Light Lord's ability to slow time erupted. This ability gave the Twin Lord a chance to continue leaning his body backward. If he could successfully dodge this blade, then the ultimate winner would be him.
Crack, crack, crack~
The bones in the Twin Lord's body creaked under the strain of his desperate backward lean. Everything around seemed to slow down. In reality, the Twin Lord displayed an unprecedented dodging speed, which convinced him that continuing this evasion would allow him to dodge this blade.
Unbeknownst to him, a crystal layer had climbed onto Dragon-Slashing Flash, extending a crystal blade edge. Dark blue smoke clung to it. Under normal circumstances, this crystal blade edge couldn't cut through the Twin Lord's body. But just moments ago, the full hit of the five Annihilation bullets' 'Dead Silence Devouring Explosion' had stripped the Twin Lord of his former powerful defense.
With a swoosh, the extended crystal blade edge slashed across the Twin Lord's neck. The cut was swift and somewhat graceful, about two fingers deep. But all the dark blue smoke on the blade poured into this wound on the Twin Lord.
The Twin Lord took a large step back and fell heavily to one knee. Half of the Devouring Annihilation Greatsword in his hand was embedded in the ground. The pale pupils in his eyes began to dim rapidly.
The Twin Lord was powerless to draw his sword again. Using his last strength, he clawed into his own chest, grabbed a Dark Mark bestowed upon him by the Archbishop of the Abyss, and crushed it with a crack. This made him grin a ferocious, satisfied, and brutal smile. He wouldn't let Su Xiao get this Dark Mark, nor would he betray the Archbishop of the Abyss.
In Su Xiao's perception, the darkness around him gradually thinned. His sense of touch recovered first, followed by hearing, sight, and so on. Finally, even his perception recovered. The surrounding darkness all evaporated, and all his senses returned to normal.
Su Xiao took a deep breath of the cold air and looked around. The black flames burning on the surrounding ground were quickly dissipating, revealing a cracked surface.
Su Xiao looked at the Twin Lord opposite him. The Twin Lord finally lowered his head, dying here. On the cracked ground, snowflakes slowly drifted down. The Twin Lord's corpse gradually dissipated, turning into the most basic Dark Energy and dispersing into the air.
[You have killed the Twin Lord.]
[You have gained 20.8% World Source.]
[You have gained 9280 Soul Coins.]
[You have obtained Eternal Grade Chest: Twin.]
[You have obtained Source Matter Chest (has a chance to drop upon defeating a powerful enemy).]
[You have obtained Astral Disk (This is a key item required for your Main Mission/Talent Awakening Mission/Bounty Mission).]
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