chsdbacks Chapter 517 The Gradually Declining Battle Situation
Chapter 517 The Gradually Declining Battle Situation
Chapter 517 The Gradually Declining Battle Situation
After a brief standoff, the battle broke out again without warning.
Their figures crossed paths in an instant.
The black-robed wizard's figure "leaped" to Jemin's side, his palm silently imprinting itself with that eerie power that directly defined the "result".
A fierce glint flashed in Jemin's eyes. Instead of dodging or avoiding, he twisted his body and swung his arm, once again taking the initiative to meet the attack with his newly grown right fist!
In that instant, the two sides clashed once again in the same manner, as if in a replay of an image.
puff----
The arm disintegrated upon impact, turning into ashes.
Jemin activated the Tai Xu Step, his body leaping backward like a cicada shedding its shell.
The black-robed wizard followed closely, and the second step, the "result," was revealed directly, with his other hand almost touching Jemin's back.
Jemin instinctively parried with his left arm.
puff----
The second new arm followed the same path.
In two clashes, in the blink of an eye, Jemin lost both arms again, but thanks to this brutal "tail-cutting" tactic and the cushioning effect of the Return to the Void Armor, he once again widened the gap slightly.
However, this time, the black-robed wizard did not pause due to the burden of applying the laws as before!
His figure paused only slightly, then a flash of dark silver light appeared beneath his feet, and he shot forward at an astonishing speed!
Although it did not use the [Fiction] Law to directly erase the movement process, its burst of linear speed still kept up with Jemin who was using the Tai Xu Step!
"As expected—" Jemin's heart sank.
His worst fears are coming true.
As the hand that seemed capable of erasing everything broke through space once more and reached for his chest, Jemin's expression hardened. He quickly released the preparations he had made in advance!
Behind them, the air suddenly split open into ten dark vortexes!
Ten black giant priests, all dressed in black and wielding staffs, appeared instantly between Jemin and the black-robed wizard!
The moment they appeared, the dark red gems at the tips of their staffs burst forth with dazzling light!
Ten beams of Fiery Annihilation Divine Light, condensed like tangible spears, shot towards the black-robed wizard who was right next to him from different angles, blocking all his paths of evasion and pursuit of Jemin!
This attack was timed perfectly, at extremely close range, and was almost a face-to-face strike!
"snort!"
A cold, soft snort came from beneath the black-robed wizard's hood.
The pursuing figure came to an abrupt halt.
Faced with this concentrated attack that was enough to severely injure a level six enemy, he merely glanced at it indifferently.
The next instant, the ten sharp, incomparably powerful dark golden rays disappeared silently as they entered his surroundings, as if they had crashed into an abyss of absolute silence.
The [fictional] rule directly presents the result of "the attack being perfectly intercepted".
Seizing the opportunity created by the ten black giant priests, Jemin pushed the Tai Xu Step to its limit, his figure transforming into a pale golden streak that almost blended into the background, and suddenly leaped backward thousands of meters!
Meanwhile, Jemin's attention was also focused on the black giant priests, attempting to use the connection of the soul contract to bring them back to the cave.
But his movements were still a little too slow.
Or rather, the black-robed wizard's counterattack was faster than his "reaction" could possibly happen.
The black-robed wizard raised a hand and gently stroked it in the air towards the ten black giant priests who had just finished their attack.
The movements were gentle, as if brushing away dust from a painting.
The ten black giant priests, all at level six and with tenacious vitality, couldn't even utter a muffled groan.
Their bodies, covered in liquid metal, disintegrated and vanished silently in the same instant, like sand sculptures weathered over millions of years, turning into fine ashes that drifted into the air.
Ten powerful level-six combatants were annihilated.
Jemin's face instantly turned extremely ugly, not only because of the loss of valuable combat power.
More importantly, he understood a more cruel truth from the opponent's two consecutive smooth offensive and defensive transitions.
The opponent is gradually becoming "familiar" with his defense system!
The operation of the [fictional] law is based on the premise that it is "theoretically possible".
This "theoretical" difficulty assessment is clearly closely related to the depth of the spellcaster's understanding of the target.
As the black-robed wizard continued to fight with Jemin, constantly "contacting" the Void Armor and "senseing" its defensive principles and energy flow patterns, his understanding of "how to break the Void Armor" deepened rapidly.
This means that within the time, computing power, resources, and related "omission limits" that the fictional laws can skip, the proportion of the amount he needs to consume to "achieve the result of defeating Guixu Jia" is rapidly decreasing!
The saved "quota" can naturally support him to launch more attacks per unit of time.
Or, like before, complete a high-intensity defense.
This is a long time.
As Jieming moved his newly grown arm, which had just emerged from the flesh and blood of his shoulder and was still somewhat pale and wet, his heart sank to the bottom.
He originally thought that with the "adaptive evolution" brought about by the "Body Tempering Method", he would be able to gradually adapt to or even become immune to the other party's "fiction".
But now it seems the situation is far from optimistic.
His body might be able to evolve resistance to the laws of fiction, but the Guixu Armor itself is a fixed rune model and energy structure, and it cannot "evolve"!
As the battle drags on, the opponent's "familiarity" with the Guixu Armor will increase, the "quota" required to break it will decrease, and the attack frequency and changes will become faster and more unpredictable.
This is not a battle that can be won by attrition, but a desperate situation that is destined to slide into the abyss with the passage of time!
On the other side, the black-robed wizard standing in the void frowned almost imperceptibly beneath his hood.
He clearly felt something "strange" when he slapped Jemin's arm away just now.
The tactile sensation, or rather, the "resistance feedback" felt when the [fictional] force was applied, was noticeably different from the previous times.
He believed that through the previous encounters, he had already "modeled" enough the young wizard's physical strength, energy composition, and soul resilience, and theoretically, the "quota" required to damage the same parts of him should steadily decrease.
But the truth is, the "quota" consumed in those two instances did not decrease as expected!
What does this mean?
Unless—this kid's body, during the intervals between his attacks, has undergone a substantial enhancement or change sufficient to interfere with the assessment of the [Fiction] Law!
"Could it be—this kid is evolving rapidly?!"
The thought flashed through the black-robed wizard's mind like lightning, causing his dark red pupils beneath his hood to suddenly contract.
He had seen wizards or creatures with the ability of "adaptive evolution" or "combat growth" before.
However, those beings either have a high level and a strong foundation, or their evolution speed is relatively slow, requiring long-term battles or specific conditions to stimulate them.
But this little guy in front of me, who is clearly only level five, is evolving so fast that he can cause a perceptible deviation in the "difficulty assessment" of his [Fictional] Law in just a few exchanges?!
This is simply unbelievable!
Considering the opponent's absurd regeneration speed, the strange field that could withstand a [fictional] attack, the powerful attacks, and the black elemental creatures that were also quite strong—the black-robed wizard's determination to kill grew even colder and firmer.
"Truly—an unsettlingly exaggerated genius," he muttered to himself, his killing intent solidifying. "In that case, I'm even less likely to let you live!"
Their gazes collided once more in the void, sparks flying.
A new round of offense and defense has suddenly begun!
The process seemed to be a repetition of the previous one: the black-robed wizard launched a surprise attack with the power of [fiction], and Jemin either sacrificed himself by blocking with his arm, or used the Void Armor to buffer and maneuver, and occasionally used the black giant priest he suddenly summoned to interfere and counterattack, in exchange for a moment of respite and a chance to create distance.
But with each confrontation, Jemin's expression grew increasingly grim.
Although he had already adjusted the Black Giant Priest's position and equipment level within his inner world, minimizing the consumption of each round of Black Giant Priest rituals.
However, in each round of combat, he still needed to sacrifice three to five Black Giant Priests as a "price" in order to narrowly escape the opponent's deadly pursuit.
Jemin was helpless in this regard and could only do his best to adjust the operation mode of the Body Tempering Method according to the feedback from each contact, guiding the body to evolve faster in the direction of resisting the erosion of the "fictional" power.
He could clearly feel that the Body Tempering Method was operating at overload, and every cell in his body was screaming to adapt to the power that directly defined the "result".
With each regeneration, the newly formed arm bones seemed denser, the energy flow more effectively mitigating the corrosive effects of the "dissipation" effect, and the skin surface appeared to have a faint, protective aura against conceptual damage.
The body's adaptive evolution is real and is accelerating.
But the problem remains: Guixu Jia cannot evolve.
The opponent's "familiarity" with the Guixu Armor seemed to be increasing faster than his physical evolution!
As a result, with each attack, the "quota" required to break through the Guixu Armor decreased, and the saved "quota" allowed his attacks to become smoother and more varied.
Jemin's physical evolution barely offset some of the attack boost brought about by the opponent's increased "familiarity," but the overall situation was still irreversibly sliding in a direction that was extremely unfavorable to him.
To make matters worse, as the battle continued, the energy and life force consumed by the repeated regeneration of his arms began to show signs of strain.
Even with his Nascent Soul stage cultivation and powerful physique, he began to feel waves of weakness and fatigue originating from the very source of his life.
The rate at which spiritual energy within the body recovers is gradually failing to keep up with the high-intensity regeneration and the consumption required to maintain the Tai Xu Step.
"Huff—huff—" Jemin's breathing became somewhat heavy.
Fortunately, he was not entirely unprepared for this.
With a thought, the "inter-space energy transmission system" deep within his body, which was closely connected to the incense and divine path of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, had its operating mode instantly switched!
The flow of pure elemental energy that was originally being transmitted steadily to maintain the operation of the internal factory and replenish the element pool was temporarily interrupted.
Instead, another pre-prepared channel with higher privileges was forcibly opened!
The vast, pure, and vibrant spiritual energy of heaven and earth, like a torrent bursting its banks, swept across the endless void.
From the Sulfur Plane of Purgatory, through the network of incense and divine paths, it poured into Jieming's inner sanctum in a mighty manner. Then, through the transformation and guidance of the sanctum, it was frantically poured into his nearly dried-up meridians and dantian!
Jemin's body trembled slightly, as if a long-awaited rain had come after a drought, and every cell was greedily absorbing the pure energy that was most compatible with his cultivation system.
Her pale complexion returned to a rosy hue at a visible speed, her depleted spiritual energy began to recover rapidly, and even the fatigue in her body was largely washed away by the nourishment of this pure spiritual energy.
However, replenishing Reiki only solves the problem of "energy sustainability".
Even with an unlimited supply of spiritual energy, and even with the body evolving at an accelerated pace.
However, according to Jemin's calculations, before the Black Giant Priest is completely exhausted, it is almost impossible for his physical evolution to reach the qualitative threshold of "immunity to the effect of one attack of the [fictional] law".
In other words, when the Black Giant Priest runs out of his last "disruption chip," he will have to face the [fictional] wizard whose attack frequency and threat level have reached their peak.
That's practically equivalent to a death sentence.
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