# 1316
Chapter 1317: The Death of Loki
Si Xiaonan stared at the incoming Loki with pale cheeks and no trace of color.
Even though she now possessed the peak Human Apex realm, this God's Ruins wouldn't grant her much positive combat strength. In fact, she'd already weakened herself considerably after twice interrupting Loki's "Trickery." Using "Trickery" to escape was absolutely impossible.
She could use "Trickery" to counter Loki, but Loki could just as easily use "Trickery" to counter her. Even if she attempted to flee from Loki using "Trickery," Loki would use "Trickery" to alter history and render her escape ineffective. And once Loki was determined to kill her, a mere human body would stand no chance against a god-empowered Loki—within ten seconds, she'd be beaten into a mist of blood by his physical form.
Just then, Leng Xuan's roar reached Si Xiaonan's ears.
Years of默契 allowed Si Xiaonan to react without thinking, throwing herself with all her strength toward the side!
BANG——!!!
The deafening gunshot echoed through the clouds. The next moment, a bullet grazed Si Xiaonan's arm, tearing through space with a whistle, and flashed toward Loki's face!
Loki's pupils contracted sharply!
This was Leng Xuan's final bullet.
After this shot was fired, the dark crimson heavy sniper rifle that Leng Xuan had gritted his teeth to hold in front of his body exploded violently. Countless parts of gun components, comparable to divine artifacts, scattered like rain. Leng Xuan was blasted backward dozens of meters by the terrifying aftershock, crashing into a thick stone wall. Crimson halos spread from various parts of his body...
He forced his eyes open and stared toward where the bullet had been fired.
The high-speed rotating bullet tore the surrounding space into a vortex, blasting a massive hole through Loki's body!
Both his arms were shattered into fragments within the破碎 space. His upper and lower body completely separated, his forward momentum suddenly halting. All at once, an intense sense of life-and-death crisis welled up in his heart!
Si Xiaonan's shadow moved.
A wisp of smoke and haze, ethereal as though intangible,弹射而出 from her shadow. In the span of a breath, it outlined a man in mid-air clutching a short blade.
The极致 of killing intent and the凌厉 of blade light merged into a white line that cleaved through heaven and earth, slicing open Loki's throat.
The God of Assassins, Number 27.
To fulfill his promise, Number 27 had, from last night's Miracle Square,潜伏 beside Lin Qiye and hidden himself within Si Xiaonan's shadow.
From the Miracle Square where Loki愚弄 Thor and the others, to the真假丹 scheme at the "Human Enclosure" church, to the Trickery battle just now—regardless of how dire the situation became, Number 27 had never made a move, not even a hint of his aura.
He had failed once before. He knew how troublesome Loki was, so he was waiting for an opportunity.
An opportunity for a single decisive strike!
He was like a hunter lurking in the winter snowfield, completely merged with his environment, waiting for the prey to unknowingly expose its fatal weakness...
And so, the hunter struck.
This blade light, as if tearing through a sheet of white paper, lightly separated Loki's head from his torso.
Loki stared in astonishment as the world inverted before his eyes. His peripheral vision caught his remaining half-body suspended in the air, and the fleeting smoke-and-shadow that flashed by. Only then did he understand what had happened.
He clenched his teeth tightly, and black threads once again condensed into "Trickery." But moments later, the "Trickery" automatically collapsed and dissolved.
Blooms of blood splashed in the wind as life withered in the smoke and haze.
His history had not been changed by him.
His final trump card for survival had still been interrupted by Si Xiaonan.
An unprecedented fury surged in Loki's heart. The head spinning through the air stared fixedly at Si Xiaonan and howled:
"Si Xiaonan! You think killing me means you'll gain freedom?!!
You are my servant! Your soul is bound to mine! If I die, you can't live either!!"
Si Xiaonan, who had interrupted Loki's Trickery, stumbled backward several steps. Blood flowed from her seven orifices. She looked at the raging head in the sky, and her blood-stained face suddenly broke into laughter:
"Live...?
From the moment I left Cangnan, the Si Xiaonan you knew already died... Loki, did you think I fought my way here desperately for freedom?!
I'll tell you, Loki!! I did all of this so I could use this life of mine to kill you, you tricksy god!!
You destroyed our Cangnan!! This old lady wants you to keep me company in death!!!!!"
Si Xiaonan nearly roared out these words. Her eyes were blood-red. Within her frail body, it was as if a volcano that had been suppressed for years erupted with a thunderous roar!!
Behind Loki's head spinning through the mid-air, Number 27, draped in a cloak and gripping a short blade, materialized once more.
Beneath the wide black hood, his eyes coldly gazed down at Loki. He raised the short blade in his hand once more...
One blade after another, he hacked Loki's head into scattered mist across the sky!
The凌厉 of blade light practically submerged everything within a hundred meters before him. Combined with Loki's limbs shattered by the bullet, everything was ground into tiny fragments. Only by doing this could Number 27 be certain that Loki had no possibility of resurrection.
No matter how many tricks you had, no matter how strong your survival ability, even if you could regenerate from a single drop of blood—as long as I hack you until there's not a single drop of blood left, what chance do you have of surviving?
As a dim blood mist dissipated into the漫天黄沙, the entire stone city fell into dead silence.
Loki was dead.
Unable to ever use "Trickery" to alter history, unable to use substitution to revive— this god who was claimed to be the hardest to kill below the Supreme God still died within the "Human Enclosure."
"Damn it, killing Loki really wasn't easy..."
Baili Pangpang, who had witnessed the entire ordeal from the side, couldn't help but speak.
"He is the God of Trickery after all." Cao Yuan spoke slowly. "Being able to use scheming to drive a Chief God to this point, Si Xiaonan is absolutely the first person in history..."
"Yeah, truly worthy of being from Cangnan... Wait, where is she?"
Baili Pangpang looked around and discovered that somehow, Si Xiaonan's figure had already vanished.
Cao Yuan raised an eyebrow, then bewilderment appeared on his face.
"Strange, Leng Xuan is gone too..."
...
Asgard.
Within the towering dense forest, a figure riding an electric scooter wove through the trees, quickly arriving before an ancient temple.
This temple was the passage between Asgard and the "Human Enclosure."
Lu Wuwu lowered his head to glance at the order in his hand, speaking thoughtfully, "Loki's hidden in the 'Human Enclosure'? No wonder I couldn't find him... However, the door seems to be closed."
Lu Wuwu got off the scooter and walked around the temple. Just as he was about to find a way to blast open the passage to the "Human Enclosure," a black light flashed from deep within the temple, followed by a shattering sound.
The passage to the "Human Enclosure" shattered on its own.
"Hm?" Lu Wuwu, seeing this, raised an eyebrow in surprise.
Suddenly, as if sensing something, he sharply lowered his gaze to the order in his hand.
On the recipient line, the two characters "Loki" that had been written there began to gradually dim, and finally disappeared entirely...
"Loki's dead?" Lu Wuwu widened his eyes in shock.