Chapter 1162: Super Evolver Showdown
Unfortunately, the Magician was not so easy to talk to. He tapped his magic wand in the air, and familiar colorful paper strips fell from above, instantly transforming this laboratory building into a stage.
The swirling colored paper turned into finger-width blades, targeting the person who had just begun to evolve and several others, including the staff members who were isolated by Xu Huo and not on this list.
This laboratory was not within the jurisdiction of the Special Defense Department, so the staff hadn't completely left the building. The remaining seventy-one people, including the cleaning crew, were now all dead.
The dense colored paper made visibility unclear, and occasionally, a strip close to the eyes would cause a brief moment of blindness. However, neither of the two present needed their eyes to see, so they didn't need to take advantage of the limited visibility to clash.
"Your colored paper is almost finished falling," Xu Huo spoke up. "I noticed last time that your spiritual realm isn't very large, but within a controllable range, you can directly kill people with materialized objects. The latter is very much in line with the strength of a high-level A-grade player, but the former doesn't seem to fit."
"Or rather, when you kill with materialized objects, you can only temporarily shrink the range of your spiritual realm. But if you expand the range, your spiritual power isn't as lethal."
"So I want to ask, are you really an A-grade player?"
"Or, are you really the Magician—the original owner of the 'Magician's Gift'?"
The Magician squinted his eyes. "You ask too many questions."
As he finished speaking, the colored paper that had fallen to the ground suddenly surged up again, forming a giant vortex that surrounded Xu Huo. The high-speed flying paper pulled into a tornado with dense serrated edges, then contracted inward in an instant!
Xu Huo didn't forcefully break through. Instead, he opened a door in the ground and dropped directly to the floor below.
Of course, when he went down, the Magician followed.
The two jumped from the sixth floor to the first. Upon landing, both ignored the building walls blocking their path. At high speed, they opened several doors in succession and clashed head-on in the center of the laboratory building.
Xu Huo didn't have a more suitable prop, so he still used the "Eye of the Dead." But when it collided heavily with the Magician's prop, the blade didn't break. However, Xu Huo was physically inferior to the Magician and was forced back, needing to retreat to disperse the force.
This was the Magician's spiritual realm, but it was also his spiritual realm. So he could summon the Library Tower. Over a dozen Library Towers rose simultaneously, carrying the two of them away separately.
Within the spiritual realm, very far distances could become very close, and very close distances could become very far. This was one of the realities blurred by spiritual power. However, the Magician could jump directly from one spiral staircase to another, unaffected by the gaps between the towers.
The two began to chase each other within the spiritual realm.
Xu Huo used the Library Towers to constantly shift his position, while the Magician used colored paper to continuously destroy spatial portals and block him. In the span of a few breaths, the two went from downstairs back to the top floor, then from the top floor back to the ground, piercing through the building left and right several times... After this brief but intense exchange of blows ended, and the two stood on the sports field outside the laboratory building, the entire building began to collapse from the middle!
Falling curtains and shattering glass kicked off the collapse. Then, diagonal cracks appeared on the building's facade. The steep incline caused sections of the structure to slide off like slices of cake, colliding with each other, pushing and pulling the entire building down. Some parts of the building even shattered into fist-sized stones before hitting the ground. Among them, those embedded with colored paper strips exploded again mid-air, turning into pebble-sized gravel!
The dust kicked up by the collapsing building carried countless sharp stones that could be used as weapons. Xu Huo used "Inviolable Domain," stacking "Three Hundred and Sixty Defenses" and "Ideal Skin" to withstand the Magician's attacks and the aftermath of the tower's collapse.
But after fighting until now, the Magician had observed the flaws in Xu Huo's high-level props. For example, "Three Hundred and Sixty Defenses" and "Ideal Skin" had limits on usage count and duration, while "Inviolable Domain" was more comprehensive but had a more obvious restriction—it had a gap every three seconds.
For a powerful player like the Magician, this meant an attack opportunity every three seconds. He only needed to break through the spatial barriers and spatial weapons created by the Cube Space.
Of course, Xu Huo wouldn't just stand still and let him attack. He could use his positional shifts within the spiritual realm to exploit the gaps between those three seconds. Within this time, which was less than 0.1 seconds, the Magician's success rate wasn't that high either. The two or three times Xu Huo couldn't directly dodge were blocked by "Cat's Triple Life Loan" and "Realistic Wax Figure." At the same time, the newly purchased "Flexible Mechanical Suit" also proved very useful, because the Magician was also a Spatial Super Evolver. This prop was bought specifically to guard against the influence of spatial power.
As for other newly acquired props, like "Indiscriminate Kitchen Knife" and "Distant Dining Table," they were destroyed before they could even be used. "Height Limit 1.8 Meters" and "Find the Area of Psychological Shadow" were also broken through in a second, barely playing any role in the battle—in high-speed combat, these props with indirect effects and low lethality generally don't have much impact on the situation. If they ever had a miraculous effect, it would be when they caught the opponent off guard. But with both sides possessing spatial perception, such opportunities were rare.
"Paying audience!" The Magician used his trait to immobilize Xu Huo while simultaneously manipulating the spiritual realm's portals. From the fluttering colored paper, he thrust sixteen long swords at him: "Pierced by a Thousand Swords!"
This seemed like an inescapable magic trick. But Xu Huo could also open portals to send the swords away one by one. However, he was closer to the prop. When the Magician repeatedly used portal attacks, each time Xu Huo stacked a portal, the distance between him and the prop shortened, making the danger increasingly imminent.
But the trait's duration was limited. After five seconds, Xu Huo broke free from his position and sent the Magician a "Written Intensity."
The Magician twisted his head unnaturally. Looking at Xu Huo, he formed a triangle with his thumb and index finger. Immediately, the space around Xu Huo developed a visual thickness, like layers of ice stacked together, or countless transparent rhombuses pieced together, only becoming visible due to the refraction of light—these transparent spaces formed a giant pyramid, trapping him inside!
Upon noticing this change, Xu Huo's first reaction was to escape. But the pyramid could move with him during its formation. After evasion proved futile, he tried using "Inviolable Domain" and "All Things Want to Cut Everything" to break a corner, but neither succeeded. Seeing the pyramid's tip about to seal shut, he had a sudden idea and stuffed the "Angel's Fangs" into the gap, while simultaneously taking out the "City Sand Table."
(Chapter End)
Author's Note:
Went to a wedding banquet today, so no update. Everyone, sleep early. The weather has been so hot lately. Remember to guard against heatstroke.