Wrath Patient, Red Giant

16: Wrath Patient, Red Giant

There was no time to marvel at NO.13 [Wall-Piercing Spell]. A brand-new rack was up next!

With that thought,

Chu Yunyi once again used his Control Power over the Round Table and made his move.

After learning from past experience,

Chu Yunyi no longer expected a miracle from a powerful one-shot strike. Instead, he focused on patiently setting up a two-shot play.

At once,

he swung, sending the yellow ball skimming past a purple ball.

The purple ball didn't budge at all. Instead, the yellow ball seemed to hit the hard edge of the Round Table and abruptly changed direction.

Eventually, its momentum slowly faded, and it came to a stop.

And it stopped in exactly the right position to make the next shot!

Chu Yunyi held on to his Control Power.

He split that power into several small bursts and used them one by one to push the yellow ball into the pocket!

In an instant,

a brand-new yellow billiard-ball ability appeared. Chu Yunyi immediately checked it:

[NO.14 [Welcome and Farewell]]

[Quality: Yellow]

[Description: You can exchange positions with any 'individual' you can see.]

[Note: An individual is a typical unit of something, such as 'a car,' 'a stone,' or 'a person.']

[Restrictions: Cannot be used on an 'individual' whose size differs from the user's by 400 times or more.]

Seeing this description, Chu Yunyi remarked,

"These abilities are getting more and more specific."

"They're even defining and limiting them now. At this rate, will future ability descriptions come with a whole essay?"

Chu Yunyi clicked his tongue, then left the Round Table Dreamscape.

[Void Gate]

Chu Yunyi slowly opened his eyes, feeling more and more practiced at entering and leaving the Round Table.

The next moment,

Chu Yunyi looked at the shadow not far away and immediately activated NO.14 [Welcome and Farewell].

In an instant, their positions switched.

As the scenery whirled around and his position changed completely, he felt a bit dizzy, though the sensation was much gentler.

For some reason,

Chu Yunyi thought of Sasuke from Naruto. In the later stages of the story, Sasuke had a skill called "Heavenly Hand Power," which let him switch places with anything in his line of sight.

There was even a meme about it.

Simple and easy to understand: "Heavenly Hand Power: head swap."

Unfortunately, Chu Yunyi didn't have much opportunity to do that, since the ability was so specific—unless his opponent happened to be unusual.

For example,

if his opponent were a skeleton monster with its head separated from its body, or a Headless Horseman whose head could come off.

But those were just things Chu Yunyi could imagine.

In practice, the situation might be a little more complicated.

With that thought,

Chu Yunyi stretched and got ready to head to his next fight.

Yunzhou City, West District.

"Smash it!"

A furious roar rang out, each blast louder than the last. Some of the cheaper glass shattered on the spot.

'Beep... Beep-beep...' Car alarms blared in waves.

As a door opened, Chu Yunyi stepped into the West District.

The West District was on the outskirts, with few tall buildings. It gave the impression of a vast area with a sparse population.

A suburban park had been built beside a great river.

It was practically a riverside park.

But right now,

every part of the place was being destroyed. The sounds of smashing and wrecking rang out without pause, making people's hearts tremble.

Chu Yunyi stepped out of the room and immediately spotted the hulking figure in the distance.

"Good grief, it really is the Hulk! Just like that police officer Zhou Ping'an described."

Chu Yunyi looked at the scene in the distance, the corner of his mouth twitching.

There it was.

In an open area nearby, a massively built figure was rampaging like the Hulk in the movies.

The only difference was that

the giant's body was bright red, with a row of bony spikes jutting out along its spine.

Its face was hideous, and there was little about its body that looked human.

Aside from being huge, it didn't have much in common with the Hulk.

In Chu Yunyi's opinion, this Wrath patient looked more like Abomination, the Hulk's villainous counterpart.

Still,

given its perpetually furious disposition, it really did look the part...

Chu Yunyi was at a loss for words. He instructed the shadow beside him:

"You, go in and make a feint."

He didn't know whether the shadow understood what "make a feint" meant, but the intent had been conveyed.

After all, Chu Yunyi had NO.6 [Words of All Spirits], which turned his commands directly into mental communication.

The next moment,

the shadow charged into battle, sliding across the ground as it rushed into the area.

It easily leaped over the railing, raised the Little Bee, and opened fire on the Wrath patient in an instant.

A burst of rapid gunfire rang out!

"Bzz~! Bzz~! Bzz~! Bzz~! Bzz~! Bzz~!!"

But

the bullets peppered the Wrath patient's body, leaving only faint scratches.

They didn't penetrate the Wrath patient's defenses at all. If anything, they only enraged him.

"Raaaah!" The bright-red giant roared, its body swelling again in an instant, as if it had become engorged with blood.

Then,

as the Wrath patient's body expanded, the bullets lodged inside him were squeezed out one by one by his muscles.

'Clink...' 'Clink...'

Bullet heads kept dropping, clattering against the ground.

But they did nothing to slow the shadow. It curled a finger around the trigger and kept firing.

"Bzz~! Bzz~!"

A string of buzzing shots rang out, but the bullets only left a patch of marks on the Wrath patient's body.

It was like the scratches left by a small knife on a sheet of iron.

Or like a scrape on human skin.

All in all,

the damage those guns dealt to the Wrath patient was growing fainter and fainter, barely more than a mosquito's sting.

"I'm angry! I'm angry!! Aaaaaah!!!" The Wrath patient bellowed, the veins on his face bulging.

In the blink of an eye,

the Wrath patient tore a streetlamp from the ground. He gripped it like an ordinary stick.

'Whoosh!'

The Wrath patient casually hurled the streetlamp, sweeping it toward the shadow.

A gust of wind rushed past, followed closely by the steel streetlamp.

In an instant,

the steel streetlamp struck the shadow, smashing it to pieces.

Meanwhile, Chu Yunyi felt that something about him had changed.

He looked back.

The shadow that hadn't appeared before, no matter how brightly he was illuminated, had reappeared.

"Don't tell me it's a one-time use?" Chu Yunyi wondered, but he quickly used his ability anyway.

NO.2 [Shadow Clone]!

The next moment,

a miracle occurred. The shadow was cut away again, gradually filling out until it became a solid figure.

Seeing the shadow reappear, Chu Yunyi couldn't help smiling.

"Try a different attack."

"This time,"

"aim for his eye sockets!"

Chu Yunyi didn't believe it.

Even if his skin could stop bullets, could his eyes do the same?

If they were really that tough, how could he see?

If a bullet could pierce them, then the Wrath patient wouldn't be far from death.

After all,

right behind the eye sockets was the brain!