Come See Me
"Lu Xiu!!!"
Finn was the first to arrive, his eyes bloodshot, and he let out a roar.
It's this woman right in front of us! She's the one who threw this collective battle off balance, and she's the one who caused the entire Prison Rock camp to suffer repeated blows!
He had defeated himself not long ago.
She is the source of all the suffering and humiliation that Prison Rock is experiencing now!
And now, she's right there! And only half her health remains!
Finn's muscles were taut to the limit. Ignoring the Rampage dragon, he clenched his fists, assumed a fighting stance, activated his skill, and charged straight at Lu Xiu.
A terrifying wind pressure surged wildly at his fist, and a powerful straight punch was unleashed! It drew a piercing shriek through the air, aimed straight at Lu Xiu's face!
A strike imminent, fueled by hatred!
Lu Xiu blinked her crimson eyes, turned her wrist slightly, and decisively withdrew the Loathing Halberd she was holding upside down in her right hand.
Immediately afterwards.
Amid Midir's roar, he took a light Dodge Step back.
Call!
Midir's claws grazed just past Lu Xiu's nose, the violent wind whipping her clothes and sending sparks flying everywhere.
Just as Lu Xiu dodged the dragon's Dodge Step, she raised her left hand and met Finn's powerful punch head-on.
Block it, and then push it aside.
To Neutralize.
The familiar feeling returned.
Finn felt as if his punch, which should have been enough to shatter rocks, had suddenly struck a ball of cotton that he couldn't apply any force to. Then, an irresistible and strange pulling force surged up his arm.
He lost his balance and stumbled uncontrollably, falling forward in a disheveled manner.
I gritted my teeth and managed to pull myself together.
I forced myself to steady myself.
Finn had just caught his breath and hadn't even turned to look for Lu Xiu when he caught a glimpse of a huge black shadow out of the corner of his eye.
Side.
Midir's other claw strike arrived as expected, accompanied by a sonic boom that tore through the air, descending suddenly.
In the presence of a dragon, even just its claws make a human body appear as insignificant as an insect.
Bang!!!
Finn was hit and sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string! He tumbled several times through the puddles and rubble before finally managing to stop himself by gripping the ground with his hands.
But it felt like all the bones in my body were about to fall apart.
At the same moment Finn was sent flying, Lu Xiu kept shifting to the side, taking another Dodge Step, her figure moving like a ghost through the gaps in the dragon's attacks. By adjusting her position, she directly appeared behind Finn like a shadow.
Finn had just gritted his teeth and gotten up from the ground with his mouth full of blood.
I looked up.
What came into view was once again Midir's enormous, ferocious head, like a nightmare!
The dragon opened its jaws, flames already Power Accumulation in its gaping maw, the scorching heat of its breath almost scorching Finn's hair!
Use someone else to do your dirty work!
Lu Xiu is using the giant dragon as cover and a free henchman!
How could it be so perverted?!
You@&%!!!
Finn's pupils constricted sharply as he was on the verge of being completely engulfed by the dragon's breath.
"Domain Expansion - Heavy Burden!!!"
The second player to Prison Rock.
Gareth finally arrived, sprinting as fast as he could.
He roared and activated a defensive and damage-sharing domain, enveloping Finn. At the same time, he raised his Great Axe, incomparably powerful two-handed axe high, leaped up, and with a terrifying momentum capable of splitting mountains and shattering peaks, slashed fiercely at Lu Xiu's head!
When!!!
Lu Xiu gracefully shifted her body slightly, while the Nameless Blade in her right hand transformed into a streak of light, once again slashing upwards at an incredible angle.
A crisp metallic clang rang out!
The imposing Great Axe was instantly repelled the moment it touched the seemingly slender, Nameless Blade!
Gareth felt a numbness in his arms, and the violent recoil caused him to follow in Finn's footsteps, staggering forward and nearly falling headfirst into the mud, where he became completely paralyzed.
And just as Gareth stumbled...
Lu Xiu raised the Nameless Blade, about to launch a fatal blow.
But on the other side...
Thanks to Gareth's Heavy Burden aura and damage sharing, Finn, who had narrowly Outlast the deadly dragon breath, charged forward once again.
With his hair charred black and curly, his body billowing black smoke, and his eyes bloodshot, he pounced on Lu Xiu again like a mad beast!
Faced with this near-suicidal attack, and the charging Midir...
Lu Xiu decisively abandoned the idea of attacking Gareth.
Call!
A strong wind is blowing!
Lu Xiu touched the ground with her toes, her figure like an Ember dancing in the wind, and slid to the side.
With a deafening roar, Midir's ferocious tail sweep, which seemed capable of shattering city walls, slammed into the ground almost right past her back, splashing water everywhere and sending pebbles flying like bullets!
At the same moment she dodged the dragon's attack, Lu Xiu reached out with her left hand again, precisely landing on Finn's incoming heavy punch, and then pulling it away.
Neutralize!
Finn's violent power vanished without a trace, and he was thrown off balance by the clever force.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Gareth also forced his way out of his stunned state, roaring as he swung his Great Axe again, bringing it with the force of a thunderbolt, and cleaved it horizontally from the other side!
Faced with this attack.
Lu Xiu didn't even turn her head. She tossed the Nameless Blade in her right hand and caught it with her left. As if she had eyes, she drew an arc in the air with her left hand and parried it outwards.
When!!!
Sparks flew everywhere!
Amidst the crisp, metallic clanging sound.
Gareth's Great Axe was once again forcefully deflected by that unreasonable skill!
Perfect Deflect!
One against two!
In the dim cave, the girl with her hair burning at the ends not only handled the frenzied attacks of two top players from Prison Rock with ease, but also managed to dodge Midir's devastating pounces and breath attacks with the precision of a knife's edge!
even.
She even had the audacity to deliberately mislead Midir.
Every dangerous dodge, every Dodge Step and roll, skillfully wedged the dragon's massive body into the gaps between Finn and Gareth's attacks.
--They directly used this imposing dragon as their free cover and henchman!
When Gallagher finally arrived, this was the scene that greeted him.
Finn and Gareth kept attacking, but couldn't touch Lu Xiu at all. They struggled and stumbled, being attacked by Midir, looking disheveled and ridiculous.
The girl, on the other hand, seemed completely unfazed; her health steadily declined, but none of it was caused by the Prison Rock player.
His steps faltered involuntarily for a moment.
Fear, shock, and a profound sense of powerlessness intertwined wildly in his eyes.
Is this really a player?!
This kind of dominance, which seems to be able to manipulate all elements on the battlefield—skills, terrain, and even the boss's aggro—is simply despair-inducing!
But then—all fear was replaced by the madness of being driven to desperation.
"Lu Xiu!!!"
Gallagher, driven by hysterical madness, charged toward Lu Xiu.
But he didn't choose to attack Lu Xiu directly with his weapon like Finn and Gareth did!
He had confirmed that any straightforward physical attack would only be toyed with by this Architect!
Standard attacks! Standard skills! I can't even touch her!
"Give me a refund!!!"
Gallagher's eyes were bloodshot, and the muscles in his arms bulged like writhing dragons as he raised his jet-black greatsword high.
Then.
With an aura of annihilation, he fiercely planted the heavy sword under his feet!
[SSS Skill: Abyss Burial Prison]!!!
Click click click!!!
Accompanied by the sound of rock shattering, a visible purplish-black shockwave, originating from the point where the Gallagher Greatsword landed, exploded along the ground towards Lu Xiu's location.
Immediately following, countless sharp stone spikes, several meters long, mixed with violent dark-attribute turbulence, like pitch-black fangs bursting from the earth, indiscriminately stabbed and tore at everything in their path!
Purely area-of-effect attack.
Without any weapon clash, it's impossible to be Deflect the Nameless Blade!
The spikes cover a wide area indiscriminately, making them impossible to remove or Neutralize with manual skills!
Faced with this completely unreasonable area-of-effect attack.
Lu Xiu finally did not meet the challenge head-on. Her left hand, which was originally about to draw Finn's heavy punch again, was suddenly pulled back, and her toes slammed heavily on the rock that was about to crumble and pierce through.
Swish!
Lu Xiu's figure rose from the ground at the critical moment.
Three Extreme Speed Dodge Step, plus a roll, instantly widened the distance to nearly three thousand meters.
Boom!!!
The instant she left, countless sharp, incomparable spikes pierced through the void where she had stood, leaving it riddled with holes and even tearing her Afterimage to shreds!
They were forced to retreat!
Watching Lu Xiu's slender figure gracefully land amidst the sparks of Mars, Gallagher gasped for breath, his hands gripping the heavy sword trembling uncontrollably.
But can you even hide from that?
How can the speed be so exaggerated?!
As Lu Xiu forcibly retreated, the suffocating close-combat suppression, like a leech clinging to a bone, was finally torn open by violent means, creating a brief gap.
"Cough cough------"
The disheveled Finn and Gareth finally got a chance to catch their breath. They scrambled and dodged Midir's attacks once again, then stood back to back, staring at Lu Xiu in the distance as if facing a formidable enemy.
----Because they only forced them to retreat.
At this time.
Even Midir wasn't as intimidating as that woman.
real.
This moment.
Finn even had the illusion that there were two bosses on the field, one a young girl and the other a giant dragon, with the former in control!
Finn spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, forcibly suppressing the unsettling thoughts in his mind, staring at Lu Xiu's health points, which were steadily decreasing due to her domain. "We can't let her drag us into that melee -Neutralize rhythm anymore! This woman is a complete melee monster!"
"Use Domain Skill!"
Gallagher pulled his greatsword from the ground spikes. "Put all our domains together and smash it down!!! Domain stacking!!!"
First, neutralize her area of effect!!! As long as there are enough areas, it will give other players a breather and restrict her movements! Her constant health loss is her biggest death knell!
Upon hearing this, a resolute glint flashed in Finn's bloodshot eyes.
He instantly understood Gallagher's intention.
"I know! I've been waiting for you!!!"
Finn roared, clasped his hands together, and activated his Domain Skill once more. "Domain Unveiled: The Edge-less Prison!!!"
Buzz!
The domain expanded instantly.
Subsequently, it overlapped with areas of Heavy Burden.
"There's nothing left to play."
Lu Xiu felt the ever-expanding and intertwining domains of [Edge-less Prison] and [Heavy Burden], and felt the weight of the Nameless Blade in her hand suddenly increase dramatically. She thought with some regret.
However, this team battle is almost over.
There's no need to worry about saving skill cooldowns anymore.
Warm-up complete.
Lu Xiu raised her left hand, which was not holding the knife, and her fair and slender fingers suddenly spread open in mid-air.
There was no lengthy chanting.
Boom!!!
A sacred and pure golden lightning bolt, instantly tearing apart all the gloom in the cave, suddenly gathered in her palm!
The raging lightning gathered and intertwined wildly, emitting a piercing crackling sound.
A strong, dazzling golden light instantly illuminated the entire underground cavern.
Lu Xiu leaned back slightly, her slender waist twisting sharply like a fully drawn bow. With her movement, violent golden lightning suddenly condensed, and Lightning Spear took shape!
[Sunlight Spear]!
Laugh!!!
Lu Xiu's arm suddenly lashed forward!
The Sunlight Spear was instantly released from his hand, tearing through the air and layers of space with a terrifying speed that completely surpassed the limits of human vision, leaving a long-lasting golden trail in mid-air!
"Varied----"
100 meters away.
Finn didn't even have time to blink.
He felt a blinding golden light flash, and the next second, the Sunlight Spear crackling with arcs of destructive electricity had already filled his entire field of vision.
Time seemed to slow down at that moment.
Finn's blood-red pupils reflected the ever-growing Sunlight Spear.
In an instant.
Many things flashed through his mind.
He dodged his own underwhelming Domain Skill, dodged this team battle that seemed like a joke, and dodged the Architect, even with only a sliver of health left, still toyed with them like monkeys.
Why would such a monster exist?
A final thought occurred to me.
Immediately afterwards.
Pfft!!!
The Sunlight Spear pierced Finn's chest without any resistance.
The violent kinetic energy propelled his massive body straight up from the ground, sending him flying backward!
Then, the Sunlight Spear exploded inside Finn's body.
His health points didn't even have a chance to recover before plummeting from full to a freezing zero in an instant.
He couldn't even let out a scream.
Finn disintegrated in mid-air, turning into countless white streaks of light, and with the system notification of his death, he vanished completely into the dark cave.
"Fin-en?"
Gallagher and Gareth slowly turned their heads, staring in astonishment at the white particles drifting in mid-air. Their hearts felt as if they were being gripped by an invisible hand, and their breaths stopped.
----Instant kill?!
That player was protected by the [Heavy Burden] area damage reduction, and even Midir's laser couldn't kill them instantly!
One strike.
Just one hit, and his health points were instantly reduced to zero?!
With Finn's death, the [Edge-less Prison], which had lost its support, collapsed instantly.
Swish!
While Gallagher and his companion were still reeling from the shock...
Lu Xiu suddenly lowered her center of gravity, picked up the Nameless Blade, and transformed into a burning streak of fire, rushing towards Gareth!
"She's here! Gareth!! Defense!!!"
Hearing the rapidly approaching whooshing sound, Gallagher roared with eyes wide with rage.
Gareth snapped back to reality, breaking out in a cold sweat, and abruptly turned around.
bite.
A crisp sound rang out abruptly.
Lu Xiu ran at Extreme Speed, less than five meters away from Gareth.
With a light flick of the left thumb.
An old-fashioned copper coin traced a graceful parabola and bounced high into the air.
That is, at the moment when the coin pauses just before it falls from its highest point.
The ripples swept across the surroundings in an instant.
[Item Name: Genuine Copper Coin]
[Effect Description: The effect activates the moment a coin is tossed into the air and falls to its lowest point. Within a 15-meter radius of the user, the spacetime velocity is reduced to one-tenth. The user remains unaffected, and the effect lasts for three seconds.]
Gareth's entire defensive preparations abruptly halted in mid-air.
The splashing water all around, and the core players in the chaotic battle in the distance, including Midir, were all caught in a strange, sticky, and sluggish state at this moment.
Three seconds.
That's enough.
Lu Xiu took a large stride, lightly traversing the distance, and arrived in front of Gareth!
Step forward, press down.
Lu Xiu's slender waist suddenly sank, and her center of gravity suddenly dropped.
With a graceful side turn, the Nameless Blade in her right hand naturally retracted to her left waist.
Although there was no physical scabbard, the posture made it seem as if the long sword had already returned to an invisible scabbard.
[Special Skill: Secret Technique - Dragon Flash]
As the skill was activated, Lu Xiu's already declining health points were instantly drained by another 5%.
At the same time.
Buzz!!!
The air, which had been completely still because of the copper coins, suddenly became violent in that instant!
Visible air currents, as if drawn by a force, converged wildly towards the Nameless Blade hidden at Lu Xiu's waist, like a chaotic vortex!
Gathering energy, solidifying.
The air around the blade was compressed into a nearly solid, semi-transparent fluid.
Even the First Flame of Lord of Cinder attached to the blade was forced to adhere tightly to the blade by this pressure, turning into a thin, reddish liquid that clung to the surface of the blade like lava.
No more flames escaped from around the blade, as if all the heat and destructive power had been compressed into a single strike.
It was at this very moment.
In mid-air, the ancient bronze coin, which had been hovering at its highest point, finally began to fall.
bite.
The copper coin fell into the water.
It ends in three seconds.
The flow of time instantly returned to normal!
Gallagher's desperate defense had barely uttered a single, lingering note.
Midir's dragon roar had just shaken the air.
Gareth's muscles had just tensed as he prepared to raise his shield.
However, it was all too late.
Lu Xiu aimed at Gareth's neck, gathered all her strength, and suddenly twisted her body!
Clang!!!
Draw your sword!
A high-speed vertical slash!
The blade traced a glaring crescent-shaped arc from the lower left to the upper right in the dimly lit cave.
A sharp sonic boom pierced the eardrums of everyone present the moment the blade was swung.
Gareth's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints in that instant!
But he didn't have time to make any move.
Because at the same time, the power that had been compressed to its limit was completely released the moment Lu Xiu drew his sword!
The high-speed slash of the blade itself, and the straight vacuum slash wave released along with the momentum of the blade, exploded at the same time!
Two terrifying independent attacks were unleashed without reservation!
Boom!!!
Gareth's vision was instantly filled with a blinding white wave of energy!
Gallagher, not far away, stared in disbelief at the scene.
The moment he saw Lu Xiu draw her sword, Gareth's head flew off.
Immediately afterwards, the slash, like a dazzling streak of light, carrying the First Flame, pierced directly through Gareth's body. Its momentum continued undiminished, plunging across the ground and striking into the distance.
It only stopped crashing after shattering a giant stalactite column several kilometers away!
thump----
Gareth's mangled body had barely fallen when it was completely vaporized in that terrifying vacuum slash.
It was another instant kill, no doubt about it!
The white light drifted away in the wind.
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The players at the scene:
Neither the players from Nine Provinces nor the players from Prison Rock had any idea what was going on; they were all gaping in disbelief.
In less than a minute, under Midir's frenzied rampage, surrounded by the three top players of Prison Rock, and with his health points constantly dropping,
Lu Xiu instantly defeated two of them.
Gallagher also opened his mouth uncontrollably.
Lu Xiu slowly straightened up, her long, straight legs standing in the shallow water. The Nameless Blade in her hand pointed diagonally at the ground, and a drop of blood that had not yet vaporized dripped silently down the blade.
She flicked her ponytail, then turned her head, her crimson eyes quietly fixed on the last surviving commander Prison Rock.
""
Gallagher stood there, stunned.
Even after Zane was instantly killed, he could barely maintain a sliver of rationality, attributing it to carelessness and underestimating his opponent, and to the overwhelming power of the enemy's abilities.
But now.
Even with the damage reduction from the [Heavy Burden] domain, Gareth was instantly killed by Lu Xiu.
Completely powerless to resist.
Gallagher's taut string of reason finally snapped.
"No—I don't believe it! Impossible! This is impossible!!!"
Extreme fear and anger.
After reaching a certain critical point.
It turned into hysterical madness.
Gallagher's eyes were bloodshot, and he let out a hoarse roar. He clenched his fists and charged straight at Lu Xiu, who was standing with a knife in his hand!
"Three! The three of us are the strongest Chosen Player in Prison Rock!! And Midir!!! How could you possibly kill them all without taking a single hit?!"
As Gallagher charged forward, he raised his right hand and unleashed his Domain Skill —the strongest domain he had originally intended to use in conjunction with Finn and the others for a decisive blow!
"Domain expansion!!!"
Gallagher's roar echoed through the empty cave.
However.
Just as he was about to utter the skill name, and the skill had already been released...
Lu Xiu raised the Nameless Blade in her hand and gently swung it at a phantom line in the air that only she could see, connecting Gallagher's body.
[Effect and Cause Severance]
A faint sound, like a snapping string, rang out.
"The Abyss —what?!"
Gallagher abruptly stopped speaking.
He stopped in his tracks in surprise and abruptly lowered his head.
In his field of vision, the Domain Skill icon in his skill bar had suddenly turned gray, indicating that it was unusable.
"
Gallagher's blood instantly plummeted to freezing point. He looked up in astonishment at Lu Xiu.
And at the same time.
He heard the girl's voice ahead, tinged with a hint of complaint: "This is getting a little annoying—"
Next.
Gallagher then saw Lu Xiu raise her pale left hand, which was not holding a knife, palm facing forward, aimed at him.
The next second.
Gallagher discovered it.
Everything around her—the dimly lit cave, her companions in the distance, even the giant dragon that was opening its blood-red maw to bite Lu Xiu—
Everything became blurry and distorted in an instant, and finally turned into a chaotic gray-white!
The entire world seemed to be forcibly stripped away by an indescribable force at that moment.
Take Their Place, there was a vast, desolate, isolated Duel Arena enveloped in endless nothingness.
Here, there are no dragons, no chaotic battles, and no interference from any third party.
Only him.
And standing thirty meters away in front of him was that stunningly beautiful girl.
The health bar above the girl's head, which originally represented her life points, was now completely locked, turning into an untouchable gray.
A dark red bar stretches across the void, extending slowly to both sides like red-hot cold steel.
"Let's just fight."
Lu Xiu lowered her hand, and her voice rang out. "Come— to Audience me."