Chapter 399
The ninja was surrounded by seven or eight players, constantly moving as golden lightning. Finally, there was the 'magical girl' who could control time. She had just been torn to pieces and was only 'resurrected' by time reversal.
"These two won't last long and will escape, then the two little girls in Valhalla will be doomed." Deldore was itching to act. The intensity of these lamps was quite good. According to the pre-arranged contract, whichever faction killed them would keep the loot.
Should we make a move? While that madman is trapped by Emiya, let's grab a few kills!
The woman hesitated. The Slothful Bishop and the Cardinal had already vanished from the battlefield. This was the result of the creation of the inherent barrier, but its usage was met with disdain by Deldore.
If they were clearly outmatched, they should have retreated with their companions. At least two of them could have escaped. Even if they could kill the Slothful Bishop, he would be exhausted. What if they came back to be surrounded by a dozen players?
A foolish brute.
Deldore instinctively took a step forward, already locking onto Mona. The latter had many items on him, and it would be a sure profit to rob a few. However, he stopped in his tracks, his slightly constricted pupils scanning his surroundings.
It's snowing?
In an instant, a chaotic blizzard appeared all around, blocking her outflowing spiritual energy and making her unable to see anything.
The night was already deep, and one could only be seen by lamplight. Now, even the lamplight was obscured by the dense snowflakes, and everything became hazy.
This is certainly not a natural phenomenon; rather, it's because a player used a powerful concealment item.
A brief silence fell over the battlefield; both sides were stunned, except for Mona, who cheered with joy.
He's here! He's finally here!
"Did Valhalla player activate an item and try to escape in the chaos?" Deldore was full of doubt. She had been monitoring the entire battlefield, so it was impossible for any player to suddenly intervene. Visually, the center of the blizzard was near her location.
If newly joined players are active at the edge of the battlefield, it seems more like Valhalla is trying to escape in the chaos.
But a second later, she shivered.
Behind them, the tides are outside the monitoring range.
Wait, aren't those Night Watchers behind them?
Turning around with a sense of doubt, she saw a light rapidly approaching through the wind and snow. In the hazy light, she could see a black uniform and a distinctive tricorn hat.
It was that Night Watchers; how did he manage to defeat Asura?
Even more puzzled, because he couldn't think of any reason for Asura's demise, another second passed, and then his pupils contracted to needle size.
No, he created the blizzard!
She saw the Night Watchers, noticing the thin layer of ice on his black uniform and the obvious aura of a level 6 item. Then she realized that what he was holding in his hand wasn't a musket at all, but a blood-red longsword.
A player! This is a player! An extremely powerful player!
Swish--
Without a word, Yuki flew over and with two swift strokes, sliced the two unsuspecting players in half at the waist, so fast that the players didn't even have time to pull out their defensive items.
"Psychic Shield!"
Deldore screamed as he activated his skill, seeing the crimson longsword embedded in the air, slicing it open, before using the momentum to deliver a heavy knee strike.
Splash!
The shield shattered, and the woman's mind went blank, unable to function.
Good news, she guessed right, it really was a player.
The bad news is that this player's close-combat ability is even stronger than that of the Ashura Rhinoceros Beetle.
'Retreat, find cover, and at least leak the news out.'
Feeling fear, she instinctively retreated. Yuki let her go? Like a tiger pouncing on a rabbit, he either didn't attack at all, or when he did, he went all out.
Blood-Burning Heart. Combustion.
Secret Technique: Lion's Frenzy.
With greater strength and faster speed, Destiny is ironic. The head-on clash that Asura had always dreamed of was used by Yuki against Deldore.
Dazzling, dynamic vision couldn't keep up with the trajectory at all; suddenly, blade marks appeared within the range of the lights, slicing through the shield and tearing apart the force field.
A support player was Yuki, and even struggling was a luxury. One by one, defensive items were destroyed due to overload. He wanted to escape, but he could not move an inch.
With his mental energy shattered, Yuki leaned forward, slicing through the last layer of defensive force field with a single strike. His Soul Blunderbuss was almost pressed against the woman's chest. Ignoring her pleading gaze, he pulled the trigger directly.
Bang! Bang!
Gunshots echoed through the blizzard-stricken night, leaving the players in the midst of battle bewildered and uncertain.
Are Night Watchers?
They couldn't see anything, only hear the distinctive gunshots, and were momentarily confused about the situation.
The snowstorm obscured the view, but the Night Watchers couldn't have arrived so quickly. Could it be the Night Watchers fought the Ashura Rhinoceros Beetle?
That's not right. Asura is no longer an ordinary Monster IV player, how could he possibly be no match for a Night Watchers?
Theoretically, it shouldn't be like that, but nobody knows what's going on on that battlefield. It's more like they're playing dumb to take advantage of the situation and defeat them one by one?
And what's with this blizzard? Has another player joined the battle?
Continue? Retreat? Or regroup first?
The players scattered throughout the mountains hesitated. The Valhalla was already at its last gasp; with a little more effort, they could win. Who would be willing to retreat now? But mental communication was blocked, and the Sloth Bishop was not around. Who would take charge?
"Concentrate on me, continue the attack, eliminate at least two players!"
The Roar echoed through the wind and snow. William Birkin, now a monstrous tumor, howled. He had lost several comrades in the fight, yet gained nothing. How could he possibly be content?
It transformed into a mountain of flesh several meters tall, its body covered in pustules, with fleshy whips emerging from its back that lashed out repeatedly, making it impossible for Saber-form Illya to lift her head.
Within a radius of several kilometers, the entire area was a virus-infected zone, where even inorganic matter like rocks would mutate. The flesh whip, however, regenerated infinitely, allowing Illya's gleaming golden longsword to cut through it, each strike releasing a large amount of highly concentrated virus.
They can't hold on much longer!
As a PhD, William was also adept at calculations and could naturally tell that the two men were at their last gasp, while four or five groups of lights were already attacking from the flanks, and just as they were about to advance further—
Bang!!
A thunderous gunshot rang out, so intense that it made ears ring, and a cluster of lights along with hundreds of meters around it were instantly extinguished.
Are Night Watchers? What kind of power is this?
The blizzard obscured his view, but gunshots never lie; a second shot confirmed that he hadn't misheard.
Bang!!
Another flame of soul fire extinguished. The hunters emerged from the wind and snow, hunting in the darkness. The Night Watchers' Soul Blunderbuss were used to their Limit; all they needed to do was fire at the lamplight.
However, they had seen Level 1 Night Watchers before; their shooting power couldn't possibly be that terrifying.
"Of course it's terrifying. A sneak attack in the dark, a single shot is all it takes to kill. That's the true form of the Night Watchers."
The Gravity Staff sucked a fist-sized 'material' from the ground into its hand. Without Yuki it, Yuuki shoved it into the chamber of his gun and, under the cover of the wind and snow, lunged at the next bewildered ball of light. On his back lay Mena Ryougi.
The second step is to roll the snowball and hunt in the dark.
One step leads to another. Asura provided 6 enhancement points, the slightly weaker Deldore provided 5, and with the remaining 1, Yuki directly upgraded the 'Hunter's Double-Barreled Musket' to Chaos Grade level (Level 6).
This was planned in advance, and it's in line with the usual evolution of Reincarnation Game within dungeons. The black gun body, the silver ivory-like grip, and the gold patterns covering its entire surface make it look like a work of art.
[Chaos Item. Double-Barreled Hunter's Firelock (Chaos Grade)]
[Reloads two bullets every 10 seconds, including shotgun shells, buckshot, soul-burning rounds, armor-piercing rounds, and explosive rounds. The power is proportional to the user's reload capacity, and it has extremely high load-bearing capacity.]
[Special projectiles, capable of being filled with a substantial soul; their power is directly proportional to their mass.]
[Hunting Shot, two-shot capacity, ignores item carrying Limit]
[Side effects: The projectile is forged from the user's soul, and its power decreases significantly with distance. Requires a physical constitution of level 8 or higher, extremely abundant soul energy, and master-level or higher energy manipulation skills.]
[Description: This is a weapon born from the soul; please do not use it repeatedly.]
This is a shotgun with a range of only a few hundred meters. It doesn't Death Knell the absolute lethality of Deathstroke, which is practically a law of causality, nor the extremely long range of Kaguya Shinomiya. It also consumes a lot of resources.
After receiving the upgrade to the 'Special Bullet', Yuki started a 'pay-to-win' strategy. All the Soul Crystals dropped by players were materials for crafting Chaos Item, but he used them all as disposable items.
The drawback is its poor load-bearing capacity; bullets of Monster II and above will damage the barrel after only a few shots. Yuki didn't upgrade it before using incendiary bullets, since level 6 items are bound to the user.
"But this instance has to be upgraded."
The excessively loud gunshot startled all the players. Since they couldn't see anything and could only locate things by sound, Ice Snow Goddess's Heart couldn't distinguish between friend and foe, and Yuki could only see the nearby lights.
It moved at high speed and irregular movements, clearly knowing how to dodge shots, but it was far slower than Yuki and was brought into range within seconds.
"Mona."
"Hmm." Without saying a word, Mena Ryougi activated her Noble Phantasm, choosing the player's future.
Causality calibration, Yuki pulls the trigger.
Bang!!
The gun fired, the lights went out, and William was stunned. Not only was the attacker powerful, but they could also shoot so accurately?
Damn it, I can't see anything.
He wanted to retreat, but his excessively mutated body was clumsy, and the gunshots were still echoing as the dim lights pierced through the wind and snow.
He had shouted the loudest just now, so naturally he was noticed. Without thinking, he quickly retracted his flesh whip, forming a swaying chrysanthemum in front of him.
crouching down with hands covering head in defense?
Yuki saw the enormous thing through the wind and snow, paused, opened the magazine, and Deldore's soul material.
Hunting Mode.
Click.
The bullet was chambered, and this time, without the aid of the Mona, Yuki pulled the trigger directly.
Bang!!!
The gunshot was louder than before; the Roar torrent of souls pierced through the snow, illuminating the night, and slammed into Dr. William.
Countless chunks of flesh flew in all directions. The behemoth had been nearly halved by a single shot, but the 'Survivors's' faction talent activated, causing it to regenerate at a visible speed.
"After all, it's only a level 6 item; it's difficult to kill this kind of immortal monster instantly."
Yuki was not disappointed, for golden sword marks appeared from the side, and the Roar magic exploded on the monster's body, slicing its remaining remains in two.
Class-specific Noble Phantasm: Excalibur.
Illya, with her ponytail tied back, gasped for breath. She saw a blurry figure flicker, and the silent ninja plunged headfirst into the wildly lashing flesh whip, the blade burning with purple flames.
Ninja Kill.
"It's up to you now."
Yuki turned his head. "There is no true immortality in the Reincarnation Game. If there is, it's because your damage output is insufficient."
Ignoring the dying monster, he raised his gun and aimed to his right. A moment later, a hazy light burst out from the snowstorm, and he abruptly stopped.
Players rushed to help, only to see the shattered ball of flesh being sliced apart by purple flames and golden light, and the Black Hole muzzle of a gun right in front of them.
Dressed in black, wearing a tricorn hat, the Night Watchers, wielding Soul Blunderbuss, raised the gun with one hand. He exuded neither oppressiveness nor needed to, only needing to pull the trigger to unleash a storm of bullets.
"What the hell is going on?!"
In the sky, the Sloth Bishop stared wide-eyed, a lingering joy on his face.
As it turned out, Emiya couldn't defeat him, nor could he kill the red-clad Heroic Spirit. After finally breaking the Reality Barrier and returning to reality, he witnessed an incomprehensible scene.
Upon his return, he was filled with joy, while also mocking the indolence of the heroic spirits.
The battle is definitely over. Once he returns, at least ten players will be watching the heroic spirit, making it difficult for him to escape.
But reality was unexpected. At first, he shivered in the snow and thought it was a trick set up to escape, but then he was stunned.
There were no players waiting in ambush, and there wasn't even any light in the air; only bursts of gunfire could be heard, and the Soul Bullet were extinguished in an instant.
Where is Asura? Where is Deldore? Is this Night Watchers?
The excessively loud gunshot indicated that its power was considerable. He looked up and saw the equally bewildered spirits.
The fierce battle left many wounds on both sides. When Emiya stepped into the snowstorm, his first reaction was disbelief. He had even prepared to sacrifice himself to cover the retreat. Then, he couldn't hide his ecstatic joy.
Mona, that girl, has actually become reliable?!
Emiya drew his twin swords and lunged forward, only to be blocked by an invisible wall of air, leaving him only as afterimages swirling around him.
What happened? What happened? What happened...?