Seeing the scene unfold, Chu Yunyi covered his forehead and pondered.
"As expected..."
Still, the Wrath Patient had changed. His body was battered, and he seemed to have lost a lot of strength.
The Wrath Patient spent considerable effort climbing up from the rubble.
His enormous size meant that moving around consumed more energy.
He looked like some kind of abnormal monster, but he still had to obey the laws of science to some extent.
He couldn't just keep recovering and have infinite stamina like a perpetual motion machine.
At that moment,
the Wrath Patient had just climbed out and was looking around. Seeing him, Chu Yunyi greeted him from the rooftop.
A smile on his face, he waved with delight.
If not for their earlier battle, they might have looked like old friends catching up.
But—
Chu Yunyi was an enemy in the Wrath Patient's eyes.
To Chu Yunyi, however, the Wrath Patient was a living source of Control Power!
That meant a whole host of brand-new abilities!
Just thinking about it made him excited.
Although Chu Yunyi's eyes were full of excitement, the Wrath Patient wanted nothing more than to chew him to pieces.
The moment the Wrath Patient saw Chu Yunyi,
he immediately sprang into action. Like King Kong scaling a building, he climbed to the rooftop in an instant.
In just a few blinks,
the Wrath Patient had reached the rooftop. He loomed over Chu Yunyi, the difference in their size overwhelming, and reached out to grab him!
The next moment,
Chu Yunyi's form shifted, and he slipped straight into the floor.
Who said a rooftop couldn't count as a wall? Anything made by stacking materials together was a wall!
There,
Chu Yunyi was sprawled on the ground, his perspective suddenly turned vertical. The floor in front of him abruptly rose into view, becoming a "wall."
NO.13 [Wall-Piercing Spell], activate!
The Wrath Patient watched helplessly as Chu Yunyi sank into the concrete floor and vanished.
Like a fish diving beneath the water or an earthworm burrowing into the soil, he disappeared without a trace.
"Ah... Ah!!"
The Wrath Patient was hoarse with rage. His body and mind had both endured immense torment in a short time.
The Wrath Patient's strength was truly terrifying.
Even with most of his stamina gone, he still tore through a floor with his bare hands.
When he couldn't see Chu Yunyi,
the Wrath Patient dug even more frantically, working his way down from the top floor.
Every so often,
Chu Yunyi would show himself to taunt him, keeping him from losing hope and giving him a reason to press on.
Before long,
the Wrath Patient's shovel-like fingernails had all been bent back, leaving them bloody and mangled.
He had torn through several floors, but somehow the building still hadn't collapsed.
Only the upper section had caved in a little, with rubble piling up. The main framework had held firm.
Bang!
Chu Yunyi fired a shot without much thought. He hadn't intended to hit anything and hadn't even aimed.
And yet,
the bullet struck the Wrath Patient's injured left eye.
"Graaaah!" The Wrath Patient felt the wound flare with pain and roared again. Then he fixed his eyes on Chu Yunyi.
He grabbed a leather sofa from one of the apartments and hurled it at Chu Yunyi.
Whoosh!
The Wind Wall stopped it, leaving the sofa suspended in midair.
As soon as the sofa fell, Chu Yunyi fired another shot, hitting the Wrath Patient!
The Wrath Patient's skin split, and the bullet sank into his flesh without passing through.
It remained lodged deep inside.
The Wrath Patient said nothing. His eyes were terrifyingly vicious, as if he wanted Chu Yunyi dead a million times over.
"Boom!"
A crash rang out right in front of Chu Yunyi.
"Time to go." Chu Yunyi leaped backward, passed through the wall behind him, and emerged outside the building.
The Wrath Patient crashed through after him.
His injuries were even more obvious now.
Still,
Chu Yunyi didn't want to kill the Wrath Patient this way.
The Wrath Patient might have looked wounded,
but Chu Yunyi knew that even if he used up every bullet he had, he still wouldn't be able to kill the injured creature before him.
Boom...
The Wrath Patient crashed to the ground with a deafening impact.
His eyes were fixed on Chu Yunyi. Other than killing him, he couldn't think of anything else.
Seeing this,
Chu Yunyi knew he had achieved his goal. He kept backing away, leading the Wrath Patient along.
Before long,
Chu Yunyi reached the western edge of the city, where a wide river flowed.
The western part of the city had been built along this river.
It was a pleasant sight, but the dampness was unbearable. Many longtime residents had complained about it.
Over time,
as the city center expanded, the western part of the city gradually fell into disuse.
The remaining homes were either vacant or occupied by elderly people who had bought them for retirement.
But that wasn't what mattered to Chu Yunyi.
His target was the river!
Whoosh!
Chu Yunyi activated his ability, NO.2 [Shadow Clone], pulling off his shadow and giving it substance.
Then, using NO.6 [Words of All Spirits], he gave it an order in an instant.
Chu Yunyi plunged straight into the river!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The Wrath Patient was still hot on his heels, endlessly chasing the culprit behind everything—Chu Yunyi.
But he hadn't expected
the human in front of him to dive straight into the river nearby.
His eyes burned with rage. He was so consumed by anger that he rushed in after him.
But—
Chu Yunyi wasn't about to give him the chance. At a glance, NO.14 [Welcome and Farewell] activated!
Whoosh!
Their positions switched in an instant!
Caught off guard, the Wrath Patient found himself in the water, flailing his arms and legs.
He glared at Chu Yunyi on the shore, still full of hatred.
Seeing this, Chu Yunyi remained calm.
In the water,
no matter how strong the Wrath Patient was, he had nowhere to use that strength.
Chu Yunyi had calculated the river's depth. The water was two or three times deeper than the Wrath Patient was tall, forcing him to swim.
But—
the Wrath Patient still refused to give up. He thrashed desperately toward Chu Yunyi.
The next moment,
Chu Yunyi walked to the middle of the bridge and spotted the shadow that had already sunk beneath the water.
That was the shadow he had sent ahead earlier!
As the Wrath Patient swam, he suddenly realized that he had somehow ended up underwater again!
He had just reached the surface and was swimming toward Chu Yunyi. Instinctively, he tried to take a breath of air—
but instead, he sucked great gulps of water into his lungs.
After that,
it was as if he had fallen into a cycle!
The Wrath Patient swam upward, desperate to find Chu Yunyi and kill him, only to plunge back to the riverbed again!
The closest he ever came to the surface,
he could only see Chu Yunyi on the bridge, sometimes appearing as a dark shadow, sometimes in his true form.
And then,
he—the Wrath Patient—would sink to the riverbed once more!
Again and again!
In less than ten minutes, the Wrath Patient could no longer rise.
His body filled with river water. No matter how strong he was, he couldn't reach Chu Yunyi, who was so close and yet impossibly far away!
The Wrath Patient's body bloated, and his eyes went blank.
Consumed by rage,
he had died of rage.
He was dead.
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