Sequence 57: Seventy-Seven Calamities

My child didn't do his homework, so I beat him up.

Feeling resentful after being beaten, the child went and beat up the cat.

The cat was beaten and howled, knocking the flowerpots off the balcony.

A flowerpot hit me as I was leaving for work.

After my death, my child was left unattended and unprotected. He was mutilated, had his kidneys and retina cut off, and died a tragic death.

In this series of events, some have attributed these behaviors to the continuous accumulation of malicious negative emotions, which ultimately backfired and harmed the instigator of the negative source.

Actually, it was just bad luck.

It is rare for so many factors to come together at the same time and for problems to erupt simultaneously.

It's like how, even though most of the universe is uninhabited, there are always people who think that the existence of civilizations in the universe is the norm.

Any error, if it has the potential to occur, will eventually occur if it is repeated enough times.

All luck is based on probability. As long as there are probabilistic events, these things can be tackled through mathematics.

But Aoneng different.

Aoneng, especially Sequence Aura, has been an authority left by the Creator from the very beginning, like the source code of a program, fundamentally altering the rules and laws.

With a wave of his hand, Li Aoz revealed a completely different world to him.

Unlike manipulating gravity, which creates a hemispherical field, or manipulating flames, which allows you to see combustibles ignite and explode at high speed due to the thermal motion of molecules, this method involves manipulating gravity.

Through the "scourge," he saw everything intricately connected.

[This Aoneng... it's so difficult to use!]

With his energy rapidly depleted, Li Aoz's Mental Power also plummeted. If he had a head at that moment, his face would surely be deathly pale.

In just a few seconds, [Calamity] drained forty percent of his mana. Thanks to the passive abilities of [Mage] and [Mountains Armor], he was able to recover in time in space; otherwise, he would probably have knelt on the ground on the spot.

But the results are also obvious.

He raised his hand and lightly touched Liu E's body, causing the accumulated misfortune on her body to erupt continuously.

As Liu E was flying, a high-speed particle was suddenly thrown from the distant sun and struck her left forearm radius.

The moment she was hit, her arm instantly became necrotic. The proton radiation destroyed her double-stranded DNA; while old cells could not replicate, new biochemical cells began to mutate into cancerous cells. Several of the auxiliary Aoneng she possessed immediately became ineffective due to the disorder in the pairing of extraordinary genes.

"Damn it!"

Liu E quickly cut off her arm and took out a spare implanted arm from the spatial ripples.

However, just as she activated her private space, something incredible happened.

Poisonous fog.

Green poisonous mist was continuously released from the private spacetime rift. Liu E's arm was slightly touched by it, and immediately became covered in a green hue, deactivating her armor.

"Damn it, the high-pressure liquid tank is leaking!"

Bang! Despite Liu E's repeated attempts to restart her implant and establish contact, Liu E was suddenly knocked away by a meteorite like a rag doll. She flew over a hundred kilometers away, and only after reprogramming her implant did the warning lights on her implant body light up again.

Liu E clicked her tongue and turned over.

As soon as she straightened up, the feeling of being shrouded in misfortune vanished instantly.

At this point, the distance between her and Li Aoz had far exceeded the limit of sight. The two communicated with each other using Gravity Wave, and Liu E asked bluntly, "Do you possess the Aoneng of probability?"

"Perhaps it's fate," Li Aoz replied calmly.

"The Creator rolls the dice; destiny is not predetermined."

Liu E flicked her hands, and the backs of her hands lit up with echoing blades of light. "I underestimated you, child. You can try to wield these two powers... but I don't think such responsibilities should be borne by young people."

"So?"

Li Aoz raised his hand and slowly pulled Jannia out of the ripples in the void.

[Soul-Inscribed Sword Saint]

The malevolent phantom instantly expanded to fifty meters tall, making the samurai armor and the purple flame Tachi he held appear even more lifelike, with even the scars and gaps on the armor clearly visible.

The significant increase in Primary Attribute and the advancement in tiers have also enhanced Li Aoz's Aoneng.

Liu E raised her weapon.

"I don't want young people to have to endure these hardships and torments again."

Li Aoz also raised his weapon.

"Don't be so arrogant, Mr. Liu E. You have no right to define the choices of young people."

The next moment, the two of them simultaneously initiated a time-space jump.

Liu E was the first to break out of the Space-time Ripple. She pressed down with both blades at the same time, but struck empty air.

"Hmm? My prediction of the location was definitely correct—"

Immediately realizing something, Liu E turned around abruptly, only to see Li Aoz's longsword swiftly and decisively slashing down towards her shoulder.

Clang—

Liu E raised her left hand, using a blade of light to block the longsword, and then thrust her right hand forward.

Smack! Li Aoz stomped down, stepping on the back of the other person's hand, then spun around and raised his knee to slam it into Liu E's chest.

*Pfft! Liu E was slightly injured and retreated. Li Aoz raised his longsword, burning with a faint resentment, like a purple flame, and thrust it straight forward.

Just as the sword was about to pierce through, Liu E's figure vanished instantly.

Without a second thought, Li Aoz twirled his sword with one hand, confidently stood with the sword on his back, and perfectly blocked the cutting blade of light.

Ding! "Is this also a probability?"

Liu E's voice came from behind.

"No, this is muscle memory."

Li Aoz suddenly swung his sword, tearing open Space-time Ripple, and leaped. This time, Liu E had clearly gained more experience and deliberately timed it perfectly.

The two completed their jumps at almost the same time, landing on an asteroid 40,000 kilometers away.

Li Aoz wiped his longsword and strode forward.

Liu E brandished her light blade and strode forward to meet her.

No further explanation is needed.

In this purely ideological debate, fists and swords are more powerful than any amount of reasoning.

With the longsword dragging on the ground, Li Aoz his slashing motion, creating a storm in the gaps between the meteorites, and then flung it straight toward Liu E.

With deft movements, Liu E swiftly raised her blade, the light blade precisely slicing through each piece of meteorite accelerated by gravity, restrained by the force of gravity.

Their battlefield had no gunpowder, yet it erupted with explosions more intense than any artillery battle. The destructive power of these purely cold weapons was more direct and terrifying than any technological weapon.

"I really look down on those artistic works that are still about close combat even though we've already reached the Interstellar Era."

Liu E unleashed both blades simultaneously, but it was a feint. She stepped forward with her left foot, her shoulder smashing through Li Aoz's blocking stance. She then pounced forward, her two blades piercing through Li Aoz's lungs, heart, and liver in succession. The scorching blades evaporated the flesh and blood, making him appear exceptionally ferocious and terrifying.

"Yes."

As Li Aoz tilted his head, the ethereal spatial ripples on his neck immediately lit up purple.

Blood of Immortality

"Science fiction, at the very least, has to involve guns."

"Heh, it's like using Laser Gun makes it sound like science fiction."

"What I'm saying is—to go into space, of course you need a matchlock gun."

Li Aoz replied in a lukewarm tone:

"Using swords in space makes artists seem unimaginative, but using matchlock guns immediately makes it seem more sophisticated."

"Why?"

"Because the audience had never handled a matchlock gun before."

"So this is what science fiction is like."

Two headless Echoers exchanged a few words, their blades clashing and colliding, their Aoneng surging, and their Gravity Wave constantly intertwining and transmitting information to each other.

Liu E's intelligence is somewhat frightening. At the beginning of their fight, she was a helpless old scholar, but the more they fought, the more she learned and explored. She constantly optimized her tactics, further studied Li Aoz's fighting habits, and delved into his weaknesses.

For Li Aoz, it had been a long time since he had played so enjoyably.

With the advantage of the ' Bloodfiend Style ', he was not afraid of his own endurance at all. Liu E's rank was higher than his, so his attacks on her were like scratching a thorn.

Both sides are intentionally conserving their personal Mana to prevent running out of Aoneng and ending up drifting in the universe as trash.

So as they fought, they both unanimously chose the most primal form of violence.

Melee combat.