His left thumb pressed against the groove at the center of the cylinder, and a thread of sanity seeped in.
[Sanity: -1...99/140]
The central sanity slot lit up. A pure white bullet materialized in the middle of the cylinder, its surface flowing with fine inscription patterns that emitted a gentle white glow in the hall's dim light.
The cylinder clicked into place.
Lu Yuan raised his gun.
The muzzle aimed at the two Grey Covenant members who had lost their Transcendence. They were still crouching by the wall.
He pulled the trigger.
The central bullet fired first.
Bang.
White flame from the muzzle tore through the air. The pure white warhead streaked out with a tail of light, piercing through three dead branches and a floating cloud of spores along the way.
Every branch it pierced ignited with faint white flames, while the spores instantly carbonized and scattered along the path of the light trail.
Lu Yuan did not pause.
His trigger finger kept pulling—one shot, two shots, three shots. Orange-red muzzle flashes burst in succession, and shell casings spun through the air.
Seven shots... ten shots.
The Flame's cylinder was emptied in one go.
All ten Copper-Shell Incendiary Bombs had been fired. Scorching white smoke rose from the muzzle, and the copper barrel carried a rare trace of residual heat.
The gunshots echoed through the sealed hall several times before fading.
The bullets fired by Flame had not killed them, but the vines finished half the job for Lu Yuan.
The Sealing Disk had suppressed their Transcendence, stripping them of their control over the vines as well. The instant they lost their authority, the root network no longer recognized them as "masters."
One of them reacted too slowly.
He was still crouching by the wall, still trying