The End

As Chen Xi sprinted back toward the street, the battle erupted again.

He Guowei, a middle-aged man with a square face and a regulation shirt, used his ability to lead hundreds, even thousands, of survivors to safety.

"This way!" he shouted, pointing at the glowing white arrows on the ground.

This was Directional Arrow, the ability he had gained from wielding the Legend High-Speed Passage.

Any ally he recognized would gain a speed boost as long as they followed the arrows.

The survivors, who had been panting moments before, now ran off like sprinting champions as soon as they reached the arrows.

They couldn't escape the domain, but as long as they stayed away from the area where the Rain Lord was, they were sure to survive until the battle ended.

Beside him, a black-haired girl with thick purple glasses and a ponytail stood with her eyes tightly shut, pale green motes of light drifting around her.

"Shaoqi, how much healing energy do you have left?" Qiu Ye asked calmly.

Lu Shaoqi pushed up his glasses and replied coolly, "As long as they're not killed outright, I should be able to fully heal three injuries if I give it everything I've got."

Zhu Li was still maintaining a smaller fire barrier to protect everyone.

Behind her, Luo Li stood on tiptoe, both hands pressed to the red-haired girl's shoulders as she transferred her magic.

Aside from creating a domain of fire, she could also serve as a walking battery.

Noticing that this bug, the only one who could hurt it, was still putting up a futile fight, the Rain Lord drew in the water and unleashed an attack much like a high-pressure hose again.

But compared to the last regression, this time the water jet was nearly a meter wide.

It was no longer a jet of water. It was a water cannon.

Even a graze from it could casually erase half a person's body.

The water cannon collided with the fire barrier, and the scorching steam made everyone instinctively hold their breath.

"Miss Zhu Li, can you still hold on?" Qiu Ye asked, her expression grave as she gauged the Rain Lord's strength.

It was nothing like the predicted Upper First Rank. Its current strength would make it a formidable opponent even among those in the middle of the Second Rank.

It's not the same one...

And its ability had made up for the weakness in its eyes.

After advancing to the Second Rank, the Rain Lord had gained a thin shield of water to protect its eyeballs.

Unless the battle grew so intense that it ran out of magic to maintain the shield, going straight for its eyes would never work.

As she thought, Qiu Ye used her mental power to push away the streams of water trying to slip past the flames and attack the survivors.

Nearby, the remaining newcomers could only helplessly watch a battle far beyond their capabilities.

Chen Shuo gripped his blade, ready to use his teleportation ability to harass the Rain Lord at any moment.

"Just defending isn't going to work, is it? Senior Zhu Li, should we launch a counterattack?"

Luo Li, still standing behind the red-haired girl, was drenched in sweat. Zhu Li had nearly drained her dry with just half a minute's worth of magic.

Zhu Li didn't answer. She merely raised her chin toward the sky above the Rain Lord.

Everyone followed her gesture and saw a monster clad in shadow armor plummeting from above.

It was Chen Xi. She had suddenly come up with the idea of wrapping shadows around two buildings that hadn't yet collapsed, then using them like a slingshot to launch herself.

Quick-witted Qiu Ye understood at once and hurriedly shouted, "Shuo, back her up!"

At her command, Chen Shuo immediately readied himself to parry.

The next second, he teleported right in front of the Rain Lord, drawing all its attention to himself.

The Rain Lord extended its right claw, ready to tear apart the bug who dared provoke it—

"Boom!!!"

Chen Xi came crashing down from above, slamming a punch into the Rain Lord's back.

The gravity-assisted blow sent the enormous Rain Lord crashing to its knees. The concrete road beneath it split into a web of cracks.

Her shoulder's dislocated...

Chen Xi quickly shook out her arm, then used shadow to set the joint back in place.

Lin Yue's magic could keep the armor active in combat for three more minutes.

"Get out of the way!" a Countermeasure Bureau newcomer who couldn't join the fight suddenly warned.

At the sound of his voice, Chen Xi looked up sharply.

With the Rain Lord no longer controlling them, the streams of water were quickly burned away by the flames.

Luo Li and Zhu Li stood shoulder to shoulder, magic surging around them as they worked together to conjure a gigantic fireball.

The fireball hovered in midair, its crimson waves of flame billowing as the surrounding air warped from the heat.

If she got hit by that attack, she could just wait for Lin Yue to use Regression and turn back time.

Realizing that Zhu Li was about to deliver a fatal blow, Chen Xi quickly leaped onto a nearby high-rise.

Sensing death approaching, the Rain Lord tried to get up, but Qiu Ye pressed it firmly into the ground with her telekinesis.

The Rain Lord had to die here. If they missed this chance, their entire team would probably be wiped out.

With that thought, Qiu Ye unleashed her mental power without holding back.

In the ruins hidden in the shadows, Lin Yue secretly used tendrils of shadow to grab the Rain Lord's limbs.

With all three working together, the dazzling fireball finally swallowed the Rain Lord whole.

"Boom!!!"

The fireball exploded, and the shockwave of hot air spread in every direction.

Amid the flying dust and debris, everyone hurriedly took cover behind the rubble to shield themselves from the heat.

"It's over." A seasoned veteran, Qiu Ye quickly opened her panel.

[Third-Person Perspective (First Rank · Legend Degree: 97%)]

[Ghost Left Arm (First Rank · Legend Degree: 89%)]

That was one of the panel's functions. They could confirm whether a Legend was dead by checking if its Legend Degree had risen.

As the dust settled, the enormous tiger lay motionless in the middle of the road.

With its main body dead, the domain vanished, and all the survivors returned to the real world.

The ambulances and ordinary Countermeasure Bureau staff, already standing by, got to work.

After greeting a coworker she knew, Qiu Ye narrowed her eyes with a smile and casually pulled out a cigarette.

Another day survived.

"Zhu Li, what about you?" Qiu Ye asked, glancing meaningfully at the Rain Lord's charred corpse.

Zhu Li shook her head. Her Legend was far too incompatible with the Rain Lord's.

Trying to wield it by force could easily make her body explode.

"Then the Countermeasure Bureau will take the Rain Lord's eyes. Come by yourself and choose your compensation."

As for the Rain Lord's eyes having been burned away? That was impossible.

Some Legends left behind special objects after death, which Transcendents called Remnant Shells. They had extremely strong defenses.

Usually, only someone far stronger than the Legend could destroy the Remnant Shell it left behind.

Zhu Li might have to advance to the Third Rank to gain that kind of power.

Only the Countermeasure Bureau Chief had that level of strength in all of Tianhai City.

"I'll get them." Chen Shuo, who had put away his Tang Blade, volunteered and strode toward the Rain Lord's corpse.

But...

"They're gone?!" Chen Shuo's expression darkened.

"Huh?" The others cried out in unison.

"Someone took them while the smoke was still hanging in the air." Luo Li immediately figured out what had happened.

Qiu Ye joined her at the corpse. The Rain Lord's bright, piercing eyes had been dug out by the roots, leaving only empty sockets.

She looked around and sighed. "It was that Transcendent in the armor."

"Fast work," Luo Li grumbled.

Qiu Ye patted her head and said helplessly, "Forget it. At least everyone's safe."

"By the way, Miss Zhu Li, do you know who he is?"

In Qiu Ye's eyes, Chen Xi in the armor had clearly come close to reaching the Peak First Rank.

If someone with that kind of strength wanted to cause trouble, only a handful of people in Tianhai City could stop her.

The authorities were far weaker than they used to be, and disaster could strike at any moment.

Zhu Li's gaze shifted, but in the end, she shook her head.

Seeing her expression, Qiu Ye seemed to understand. She chuckled and said, "Come on. Let's celebrate tonight. It's on me."

"Yay!!!" At her words, Luo Li jumped for joy.