Curtain Falls / This is My First Time Seeing Someone So Competitive

Only Elysia, who still possessed the core of the Herrscher of Constraint, waved to Kevin after discovering that Kevin still had the energy to look outside, and then mouthed a message to Kevin.

[If you get distracted at a time like this, you'll get a really bad beating later.]

Well, even she says so, so it seems I'm really going to get a really bad beating.

After handing over the core to her, Lin Yu must have told her some secrets.

And now, these secrets are enough to make Elysia stand on Lin Yu's side, so...

"I can roughly guess that you've been thinking about a lot of things, but now..."

Unbeknownst to him, Lin Yu, who had already donned the Blank Key and wielded the Seven Thunders of Retribution, had instantly completed the connection to the Key of Judgment.

"—You were distracted while fighting me? I really underestimated you."

With a single thrust, Kevin felt his body being pierced so easily.

He was easily injured by the Seven Thunders of Retribution, which should not have been able to harm him so easily.

Chapter 341. The Curtain Falls

Kevin was attacked by the Divine Key more than 1,500 years ago.

Faced with Kevin's insistence on launching the Stigmata Plan, Su chose to fight Kevin inside the Sumeru Mustard Seed in order to stop Kevin's actions, which would definitely kill countless people.

It's true that Su, who used Black Abyss White Flower and Star of Eden in that battle, caused some damage to Kevin, but this damage only had a minor effect on Kevin before Kevin directly repaired it with the Hyper-Evolution Factor.

At that time, Kevin hadn't even used [Parvati] yet, let alone [Chimera].

With his defensive capabilities, even the Seven Thunders of Retribution, which are stronger than the Black Abyss White Flower in terms of pure destructive power, could easily break through the defenses of Asura Kevin without unleashing its rated power.

But now, feeling the cold, long blade pierce into his body, Kevin, no matter how surprised, could not deny the fact that it had already happened.

The Divine Key, which was originally unable to even break through its own defenses, now easily inflicted damage on him.

Since the power of the Divine Key has not changed, the biggest variable still lies with humans.

After connecting with the Seven Thunders of Retribution using the Blank Key, Lin Yu has obtained the power befitting a [Herrscher of Thunder]...

But that's far from enough.

I only felt my power being weakened by this magical barrier, but now that this strike has been delivered, I have to admit that my judgment was wrong.

This barrier weakened me to this extent even when it was on me; imagine what it would be like for anyone else facing it...

How much power can they retain inside the barrier?

At this moment, the people outside could easily see the movements that were originally difficult to capture with the naked eye because the flow of time inside the Phantasm Lantern Barrier had slowed down.

After watching Kevin's defenses break through with a single strike from Lin Yu, Vill-V, the creator of the Seven Thunders of Retribution, felt as if she were hallucinating.

Others may not know the destructive power of the Seven Thunders of Retribution, but as its creator, she certainly knows the exact strength of this Divine Key.

As a result, Kevin, who now possesses the Chimera Power, was completely defeated by Lin Yu with a single strike. Vill-V, who once dedicated herself to creating the "anti- Kevin weapon," now has very complicated feelings.

She's worked so hard for so long, and now someone's jumping out to tell her with facts—Hey sis, this won't work, watch me stab Kevin to death!

As victims who have been beaten up more than once, everyone has some idea that Lin Yu is very strong.

But now, after glancing at the core in Elysia's hand, Vill-V was certain that Lin Yu had not used the power of restraint.

Without using any restraining force, it immediately pierced through Chimera Kevin's body...

Although Lin Yu hasn't won yet, Vill-V feels as if she can already see the outcome of this battle.

It's not that she doesn't have faith in her comrade-in-arms, Kevin. The problem is that they've only exchanged two blows, and Lin Yu is completely unharmed, while Kevin, who should be suppressing Lin Yu, has been caught off guard. With the facts laid out before her, she can't blindly trust Kevin completely.

However, as the 'victim' of this attack, although Kevin was indeed pierced through the body by Lin Yu's blade, after the momentary shock subsided, he wanted to retaliate in time, but suddenly felt something was wrong.

Strength.

Unlike the power of Honkai Energy, this energy, along with the blade, flowed through his body after being injected into it.

This force is not here to destroy me; on the contrary...

—My weakened combat power has actually been strengthened by this strike?

Feeling that the attack was becoming increasingly suspicious, Kevin immediately withdrew from Lin Yu's sight and silently watched Lin Yu from several meters away.

To be honest, with Lin Yu's skills, it would have been an easy task for him to launch an additional attack at this moment.

But he didn't do that; instead, he let Kevin retreat to a relatively safe location.

"Can you feel it, Kevin?"

After gently waving the blade in his hand and scattering the chilling blood on the ground, Lin Yu calmly spoke to Kevin.

"To make you give up the Stigmata Plan, simply defeating you is definitely not enough."

"So today, after abandoning the Core of Constraint, I have directly shown you these two powers."

Looking at Lin Yu, who had completely abandoned his offensive stance, Kevin recalled the feeling from just now and murmured to himself.

"A special barrier that can weaken energy intensity and slow down time, and... a special power that can enhance living beings."

"These two special energies, in your hands, are enough to become trump cards to break the deadlock—is that what you're trying to say?"

"Yes, we'll need some special methods to assist us, but that's the general idea."

Seeing the obvious change in Kevin's expression, Lin Yu asked Kevin.

"To be honest, I originally wanted to tear you to pieces today to prove I was right, but after I started doing it, I suddenly realized that it was pointless."

"You're not Otto, so cutting you down doesn't seem to give me any pleasure. Rather than chopping you up now, showing my strength and then pulling you to my side to help me seems like what I should be doing."

"I see, but that's clearly not enough!"

Feeling the power within his body constantly stimulating him, Kevin immediately concentrated this energy in his right hand and then channeled it into the Flame-Chaser's Judgment.

At this moment, the Flame-Chaser's Judgment, which had already entered the Jie Mie Mode, suddenly erupted with an incredibly terrifying golden light.

Kevin could sense that the power Lin Yu transmitted to him was, in essence, incredibly powerful.

This special energy, completely different from Honkai Energy, not only gave him greater combat power but also increased his recovery ability.

Although Kevin's Chimera Power is now truly suppressed, the combination of the new power and the suppressed Chimera Power has instead unleashed an even greater destructive force than before.

But that's not enough.

This level of 'enhancement' is not enough for the opponent's Cocoon of Finality!

Even though Kevin had seen this new possibility, he couldn't just entrust everything directly to Lin Yu, even though he had forced himself to bear that responsibility.

To prove that Lin Yu is capable of resolving the Cocoon of Finality, it is necessary to use Kevin's defeat as a wedge to start a new story.

Since he dared to entrust this power to me, making me stronger, that is enough to show that he himself has this confidence.

So now...

"Lin Yu, there's no need to delay any longer."

"Yes, there's really no need to delay any longer."

At this moment, as if to prove something, Lin Yu, who had completely abandoned Honkai Energy, threw aside the Seven Thunders of Retribution and put away the Blank Key.

At the same time, after pouring several powerful Dimensional Force into his body, Lin Yu did not mix the various energies this time. Instead, he directly used the purest Dimensional Force to unleash that ultimate move.

"Special Weapon - Light Kill Cannon!"

Faced with the attack, Kevin, who had already Jie Mie, was surprised to find that his greatsword was 'damaged' before it even collided with the enemy's finishing move, due to the aftershocks of the force.

It should be noted that the Flame-Chaser's Judgment, as the most destructive [Key of Destruction], not only possesses extremely terrifying destructive power, but also has incredibly formidable defensive capabilities because it must withstand extremely strong destructive power.

This is not a one-time use weapon. Every time the Flame-Chaser's Judgment is activated, if there are casualties, the casualties will definitely be the warrior wielding the greatsword, not the Divine Key with the name of "destruction".

However, even before it expanded, the aftershocks had already caused cracks in the Flame-Chaser's Judgment, which had entered the Jie Mie Mode.

"Jie Mie... Unsheathed!"

With Kevin's roar, golden flames erupted from the Jie Mie, shooting directly towards Lin Yu's Special Beam Cannon.

However, this 'wave counterattack' didn't last long at all.

In a mere instant, the Special Beam Cannon had already broken through the strongest attack of the Flame-Chaser's Judgment since its inception, and directly pierced through Kevin's body with the aftershock.

While it's true that battles between experts often don't require much tedious probing, even Elysia, who already knew Lin Yu's intentions, never expected the battle to end so quickly.

Kevin, whose body had been pierced, was so severely injured that he was able to undo the appearance changes brought about by the Chimera Power and revert to his previous human form.

"This... how is this possible..."

Kevin, who was knocked to the ground, never expected that he, who had become even stronger, would be instantly killed by Lin Yu.

He had absolutely no intention of holding back. Although he had expectations for Lin Yu a moment ago, he had also attacked with the premise of killing Lin Yu.

Kevin firmly believed that Lin Yu could block his attack, but Kevin never expected that he would be the one to be killed instead.

"Wait... is that how it is?"

Kevin, realizing that his severely injured body was rapidly repairing itself, finally understood why he had been defeated so easily.

Then, a bitter smile finally appeared on his face.

He was right; Lin Yu had indeed shown him some potential in this battle.

However, because of Lin Yu's previous words, "Rather than killing you now, showing my strength and then pulling you to my side to help me seems to be the thing I should do," I subconsciously felt that Lin Yu had defined this battle as an "exhibition match."

Unfortunately, in hindsight, this was clearly just Lin Yu's rhetoric.

Lin Yu did intend to demonstrate enough power to try and win Kevin over, but the problem was that he never seemed to have said he intended to defeat Kevin fair and square.

In Kevin's eyes, Lin Yu was too lazy to argue about who would win. He simply presented his plan in a combat-style manner, letting Kevin know that his plan was better.

But in reality, Lin Yu dealt with Kevin first, and then dealt with the rest later.

It was precisely because of the implication in Lin Yu's words that Kevin immediately used the power that Lin Yu had 'given' to him, trying to force Lin Yu to use even stronger power to suppress him, this 'stumbling block'.

But in hindsight, Lin Yu's words were clearly meant to mislead Kevin.

Kevin's final strike was indeed the strongest attack that the Flame-Chaser's Judgment could deliver, but the special power attached to this strongest strike, [Dimensional Force], was a gift from Lin Yu to Kevin.

This energy had only just left Lin Yu's body and was still within Lin Yu's control.

By allowing the power contained within the Jie Mie Destroyer to collide with the Light Kill Cannon and directly merge into it to enhance the Light Kill Cannon, Kevin's strongest Precision Operation actually became a special buff for Lin Yu to enhance the Light Kill Cannon.

As the Light Kill Cannon struck Kevin, Lin Yu detonated the Dimensional Force within Kevin's body in the most brutal way. Under this pincer attack, Kevin, who was already suppressed by the Phantasm Lantern Barrier, naturally collapsed in a very unfavorable manner.

However, Kevin was relieved to see that Lin Yu hadn't gone all out to kill him; at least he genuinely only intended to demonstrate his power and methods, and didn't intend to kill Kevin.

Otherwise, with the weakened Chimera Power, Kevin probably wouldn't be able to repair his body so quickly.

Kevin's rapid recovery after being forced out of his demonic state wasn't due to his incredible luck, but rather because this special power, after injuring Kevin, was actually repairing his body.

"I feel bad for having schemed against you, but in my eyes, this is the fastest way to demonstrate that possibility."

After walking up to Kevin, Lin Yu stared indifferently at Kevin, whose body he had repaired and who was now capable of fighting again.

"If you want to continue fighting, I will certainly continue to accompany you, but now..."

"—Do you really think there's any point in this anymore?"

"... There is no need to continue fighting."

Kevin, who had stood up from the ground, let out a soft breath and spoke to Lin Yu.

"A special ability that can slow down time, and a powerful energy with both destruction and regeneration properties. The former is enough to suppress me as a karmic demon under your full power, while the latter has shown me even more possibilities."

"But even knowing all this, I still can't fully understand what your plan is, in the end..."

"—Because I haven't gathered all those trump cards yet."

After dispelling the Phantasm Lantern Barrier, Lin Yu looked at Elysia outside the barrier.

"For me right now, I still lack the powers of the [Backdoor] and the [Origin Herrscher]."

"It will take time to explore these powers, so—don't delay, hand over the powers to me after I've explained the general plan."

Chapter 342. I've never seen anything like this before.

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