Taking It Head-On

This sword strike reached the strength of Pillar, like a stream of light carrying all unfulfilled ambitions and indomitable spirit, Lock-On onto Su Luo, leaving her no way to avoid it!

Su Luo's eyes flashed. Instead of retreating, she faced the bald swordsman's thrusting sword, her raised hand outstretched, palm facing the cold light that pierced everything.

Just as the sword tip was about to touch her palm, a complex array of miniature Constant Spells suddenly lit up beneath Su Luo's skin, with layer upon layer of extremely thin yet highly ordered energy deflection Spells instantly stacked on top of each other!

The stabbing struck, but produced a strange sound like a dull knife scraping through layers of old leather. The terrifying penetrating power gathered at the tip of the sword, weakened by layers of Spell, pierced through Su Luo's arm and then flew helplessly into the distance.

Taking this opportunity, Su Luo left the spot. Her sleeves were completely torn, and her right arm hung down like a bitten pen, beginning to reshape and recover.

A flash of light appeared on the bald man's body; he had used his Second Life, and his eyes regained their clarity. He looked at Su Luo, who was leaving, incredulous.

"Are you kidding me!"

"With a Constitution Attribute of around 210, how could they possibly withstand the penetrating damage of my Lv.89 desperate strike? Even with Spell weakening... the maximum withstand would require at least 230 points in Constitution and specialized skills..."

The figure rapidly approaching the Astral Remains in the distance was knocked away by the Laboratory rushing towards it at high speed, crashing into Su Luo and quickly turning into a charred corpse.

The Knights charging towards the Astral Remains corpses were reduced to charred corpses; the assassins were reduced to ashes by the Flame Spears; the mage's chest was caved in and pierced, his fate unknown; the priest was decapitated; the bald man's mentality collapsed...

And all the remaining Legendary players have already used their [Second Life].

They were facing Su Luo, whose right arm was rapidly healing, who was in half-full condition, whose silver Laboratory was slowly returning to its floating position beside him, whose deadly trap domain was still active beneath his feet, and whose dangerous energy was beginning to gather again in the sky above his head.

The light spots, composed purely of highly concentrated compressed energy, began to fall again, sparse at first, then becoming dense.

Suddenly, a rain of light began to fall from the sky...

The first to navigate the hidden energy channel guided by Su Luo, winding its way through the still unstable energy turbulence, was Goushi.

When he finally stepped out of the Fire Domain and re-entered the spherical space where the core of the [Starry Sky Forbidden Land] was located, the scene before him made even this believer in Divinity, who was used to seeing divine Miracles, raise his eyebrows slightly.

The sky was no longer the tranquil deep purple that flowed with warm starlight, but instead presented a turbid and Disordered Trajectories after a great battle. The turbulent energy currents and stray rocks that had not yet subsided were flying around, stretching out flickering bands of light in the Void.

The ground was a complete mess. The once relatively flat surface of the special material was now covered with huge craters left by energy bombardment, glass-like protrusions formed by melting and then cooling at high temperatures, and deep ravines torn by Spell.

It was like a drunkard vomiting, then slipping on his own vomit and falling, then continuing to vomit—a complete mess.

Su Luo's guidance continued to flow from the silver-white cube:

"Ahead, there's a girl, and a Legendary player is constantly shielding her from Meteorite. Please quietly eliminate him and bring the girl over. Be sure to log out of the player's location. Thank you."

Goushi fiddled with the communicator, looking in the indicated direction, his senses penetrating the murky energy background, and quickly Lock-On onto the target.

Beside the Incandescent Fire Domain, [Please Cheat on Me with Me] eagerly awaited the bald man's message.

Since the battle began at the core, the scattered energy radiance has obscured everything, and she could only sense that the bald man had used his Second Life.

Everyone had used their Second Life, and their chances of survival were slim. She turned to look at the Legendary player who was protecting her.

A warrior covered entirely in matte black heavy armor, with only his cold eyes visible, eyes as cold as Siberian potatoes.

"Um... we should be able to leave now. Everyone's used their Second Life. There's no point in us waiting here anymore. According to the emergency plan, we should immediately force logout and preserve our forces..."

The black-armored warrior slowly turned his head. His face, covered by a mask, was expressionless, but his cold eyes scrutinized her through the slits in the mask.

He didn't answer immediately, but checked the communication channel again: it was completely silent, there was no message from his comrades, the last message on the channel was the bald captain's order to gather more than ten minutes ago.

He shook his head without hesitation, ignoring the plea, "[Please Cheat on Me with Me]," and resolutely carried out the pre-arranged plan:

Protect the strategic core units at all costs until a clear order to retreat or change the mission is received; if there are signs of irreversible collapse, ensure that the strategic core is not captured—if necessary, all means, including "execution," may be used.

Thanks to [Please Cheat on Me with Me]'s absurd move of pulling the BOSS into the link, the Black Armor Warrior didn't quite trust her.

Just then, something unexpected happened!

As it was being shaken, the black-armored warrior's head suddenly fell off, making a sound like a popsicle being broken, as if something inside had been instantly frozen and snapped.

The headless body stood frozen in place for half a second before collapsing to the ground with a thud. No blood spurted from the wound; instead, a layer of crystal-clear frost rapidly Spread and covered the severed area and the entire body, solidifying into a bizarre ice sculpture.

Almost simultaneously, a chilling coldness enveloped the message "[Please Cheat on Me with Me]" as the System Panel refreshed.

[You are affected by the "Extreme Deep Freeze" effect, your movement speed is reduced by 99%!]

[You are affected by the "Soul Freezing" effect; most active skills are disabled!]

[You have received...]

The next moment, an invisible force lifted her into the air, and like a puppet on strings, she was swiftly taken away from this small Safe Zone, rushing towards the Astral Remains Core.

In the blurry corner of her eye, she saw the headless ice statue of the black-armored warrior casually picked up by an invisible hand and tossed lightly into the churning Incandescent Fire Domain beside it, leaving not even a wisp of smoke behind.

After flying at high speed for a while, she was casually thrown to the ground. Only then did the freezing effect on her body ease slightly, allowing her to barely turn her stiff neck and see her surroundings.

The first thing that catches the eye is the "remains" amidst the chaos, some charred, some mangled, and some still in their final fighting poses.

Although their faces were difficult to discern, she recognized the features of the bald captain and his men from their tattered equipment and indistinct figures. None of the nine legendary Legendary made the final charge survived.

Then she heard the two talking.

"This is troublesome."

"It's nothing... What happened to your level? Did you get carried away in the fight and forget to turn off your Talents?"

Su Luo, who had inexplicably become Lv.89, shrugged, indicating that she didn't know.