Quadruple split.

Chapter 2787 Ka—

"fur……"

Artemis paused for a moment, then narrowed her eyes, looking around as she asked, "Where did you hide 'it'?"

"If you mean my overly quiet travel companion~"

The Proxy, wearing a mask that completely covered his face and with long silver hair flying in the wind, tightened his cloak and said in a light tone, "You were the one who knocked it away just now, I didn't hide it."

Artemis frowned slightly, turned her head to look in the direction where she had just blasted away what should have been this proxy named 'Qiu,' but it seemed to be her 'similar one.' She lightly stomped her right foot on the ground, clearly not wanting to waste any more words with the proxy in front of her, and turned to rush towards the monster.

however--

Please wait a moment.

A slender yet powerful hand, wrapped in linen bandages, suddenly landed on the girl's shoulder, abruptly stopping her in her tracks. The owner of that hand spoke with interest the moment the girl turned her head: "For some reason, ever since I first saw you, I've felt a very unpleasant aura. Although that's not enough to prove anything, I still can't allow you to take him away so easily. After all, according to our agreement with the Dawn Cult, the guardianship, surveillance, and monitoring rights of [Shadow] now belong to [Heavenly Pillar Mountain]."

"Go away."

Artemis turned coldly to look at her proxy behind her, her seemingly slender left hand slightly raised and gradually opened threateningly.

"I'm sorry to have to obey."

Qiu shook his head politely and said in a light tone, "Tianzhushan has no habit of going back on its word, and you obviously don't have enough weight to make us break our principles."

"..."

Dozens of shimmering strings of light flashed in her eyes, confirming that her 'target' was simply staying quietly in place and had no intention of leaving. Artemis breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the Executor with a hint of curiosity in her eyes: "You don't like me?"

"I didn't mean that."

Qiu shook his head, his mask revealing no gaps in his features, making one wonder if he would suffocate from it, and said calmly, "I simply hate you."

"I think it's the same thing."

Artemis raised her right hand, grasped the executor's left wrist, and asked curiously, "What's the reason?"

"Whether you like someone or hate someone, you don't need any reason, otherwise it would be exhausting."

Qiu smiled casually, then added, "But if you absolutely have to give a reason... let's put it this way, the reason I hate you is similar to the reason you have a strong liking for that [Shadow of Madness]."

"This is not a good reason."

Artemis's gaze gradually turned cold. Not only that, but her palm, which was holding the Executor's wrist, was also filled with wisps of frost, which instantly drained the heat from the latter's entire arm, causing him to lose his life in an instant.

Qiu looked at his left arm with great interest and asked curiously, "What's this?"

"Exchange of equal value."

Artemis released her slender hand that was tightly gripping the Executor's arm, and then slowly extended her other hand, which was now incredibly hot and capable of distorting the air, towards him, calmly replying, "High temperature, low temperature, very fair."

boom--! ! !
The next instant, accompanied by a blinding red flash, the Executor was sent flying backward in a scorching torrent. In just a few seconds, he was repeatedly battered by temperatures far exceeding those of ordinary epic-level beings nearly a hundred times, so much so that he vaporized and vanished into the air before even hitting the ground.

"Ok?"

However, Artemis, the instigator, frowned. The reason was simple: the system girl had never intended to kill the opponent from the beginning. Even the extremely lethal attack with alternating hot and cold conditions just now could only severely injure an epic-level powerhouse at most.

As for direct vaporization and such...

"After all, they are the representatives of Tianzhu Mountain."

Artemis dispersed the last trace of burning liquid from her palm, her brows furrowing slightly as she said, "I shouldn't die so easily, right?"

"Not necessarily."

Reappearing before Artemis, Qiu, whose clothes were not even scorched, shook his head and said softly, "I do not deny that the agents of [Tianzhushan] are all highly skilled, but since they can walk normally on the continent, it means that they are still subject to the restrictions of the 'rules'. And when everyone is subject to the same rules, even if the agents do have certain advantages, they have no right to underestimate the heroes of the world."

"I am not a hero, I am Artemis."

Artemis stared intently at the masked man before her, her gaze growing increasingly serious, and said calmly, "You have never underestimated me either."

"That's it."

The masked agent readily agreed, chuckling, "On the contrary, it seems you've been underestimating me all along."

"Because you are not the kind of person who, as you say, only possesses 'a certain degree of advantage' but is still bound by the rules as an agent."

Artemis slowly floated up, her expression somber as she stared at her representative, who stood with her hands behind her back. She tilted her head slightly and asked coldly, "Who are you?"

"The person who carries out the will of [Tianzhushan]".

Bathed in the other party's icy gaze, Qiu casually uttered a meaningless statement: "So you can call me 'the agent of Tianzhu Mountain'."

"That's not the answer I wanted."

Artemis shook her head, then slowly extended her right hand toward the Proxy who was standing on the ground looking up at her, and said in a deep voice, "But it doesn't matter. If you insist on stopping me, I will do my best to the best of my ability."

"Oh?"

Qiu let out a short, surprised sound of doubt, and asked curiously, "Is it just 'do your best within your capabilities' instead of 'crushing me, this overconfident scum, into dust'? Your personality seems much better than I imagined."

“Thank you for the compliment.” Artemis’s lips curled up slightly, but her tone became increasingly unfriendly: “Your character is far worse than I imagined, Agent.”

"I felt it myself."

Qiu let out a self-deprecating laugh and said in a rather sincere tone, "To express my apology, I will try my best to act like a gentleman in the following 'communication'."

"Equivalent exchange consumes fifteen units of redundant virtual memory."

Artemis slowly lowered her right hand and whispered, "Gravity correction."

boom--! ! !
In the next instant, the area within a ten-meter radius of Qiu's position collapsed several meters downwards. The Proxy, who was located in the center of the gravity correction zone and had no space to avoid it, was directly crushed into a shocking mass of biomass.

"Although things should have turned out this way..."

Standing perfectly at the edge of the sunken area, Qiu, still unharmed, shook his head, watching the non-existent remains vanish as their possibility disappeared completely, and said calmly, "But I still don't want to die."

"Equivalent exchange: Consume a total of 190 points of the 'Artemis' character's base attribute [Strength] in exchange for the legendary permanent eye enchantment [True Sight]."

Artemis trembled slightly, then reopened her eyes, which were frantically refreshing the data stream, and stared intently at the Agent in the distance, her hands outstretched: "Equivalent exchange, consume thirty units of redundant virtual memory, activate the Reality Marble [True Moon Ring]."

"Oh?"

Qiu looked around with interest at the inherent barrier that had appeared around him and the other party at some unknown time. It covered an area with a radius of about two hundred meters and covered the sky and the earth with a layer of pale blue moon shadow. He asked curiously, "Speaking of which, you are clearly not from another world, yet you can directly quantify your basic attribute [Power], and you can also directly exchange power using some kind of external storage space concept... I see, is it a creation used as a lower-level substitute?"

"I don't like that way of putting it."

Artemis, her eyes reflecting the shadows of two moons, narrowed them, took a deep breath, and said slowly, word by word, "Lunar Calamity."

——! ! !
As a silent, invisible, and intangible tide rose within the Reality Marble called the [True Moon Ring], the Proxy's movements were immediately slowed down countless times. Although his thoughts remained normal, he was as if he were trapped in bullet time, only able to move in absurdly slow motion. Even the most basic action, such as blinking, took more than five seconds to barely complete.

"Moonlight".

Without any hesitation, Artemis immediately pressed her advantage after gaining control of the strange proxy. Using her 'eye technique'—a technique that even the founder of the Lehman family wouldn't dream of and that is incomprehensible to normal mystical practitioners—she mapped the entire [Realm Grail] and directly used her core interactive window, the 'pupil,' which allows her to process large amounts of data in a short time, to perform a curse that attempted to conceptually erase the proxy who called himself Qiu.

"This is indeed a complex way of using power. Let me think. It seems that you have 'fabricated' a celestial body that does not exist in this world in your own field. At the same time, through your connection with that celestial body on a mystical level, you indirectly mobilize its 'existence status' to suppress an individual like me with the status of a celestial body."

Qiu turned his head at an extremely slow pace to look at the 'conceptual death' on his shoulder that had lost its color and was spreading at an unbelievable speed, trying to obliterate his entire being. Using mental resonance, he exclaimed in bullet time at a normal speaking speed: "This is truly a genius idea. I must say, although I have lived for a long time, this method is indeed beyond my imagination."

"so……"

Artemis looked at the Proxy, whose body was 60% already in 'conceptual death,' with only a small part above the chest still retaining 'color,' and asked, "You've given up?"

"Give up? If you mean a 'victory or defeat,' then I'm sorry, I never had the intention of continuing to compete with you."

Qiu was completely unconcerned about the 'conceptual death' that had spread to his neck, and continued to speak in the form of mental resonance: "If you are referring to 'my life,' then at least until now, I have not felt any sense of impending death or defeat."

After saying this, he closed his eyes, letting the 'conceptual death,' which could bypass logic and process and directly lead to death, completely engulf him, and then—

"In other words, if you think you can steal my travel companion with this much, you're really being naive."

As his body was completely stained with ash and turned into ashes that dissipated in the wind, the Agent, unaffected by Artemis's inherent barrier, reappeared in his 'own' place. Turning to Artemis, who was completely unable to sense his presence within the [Ring of the True Moon], he said calmly, "I can see that you are indeed learning, but compared to years of accumulation, even if your learning ability is as strong as that master craftsman named Fizlban on [Mount Tianzhu], it is impossible for you to control the situation in a short time. On the contrary, compared to you, who are constantly consuming your own cards... I haven't even taken it seriously yet."

"A pointless bluster."

Artemis remained unmoved as she watched Qiu forcefully leap out of her domain without shifting his physical position by even a centimeter, and said calmly, "Don't think I can't see it, Agent. Rather than 'not being serious,' your situation is more like 'being unable to be serious,' isn't it?"

Qiu shrugged and did not answer, seemingly accepting the other party's statement quite readily.

"Although your reaction is very fast, and you could even say that you are always consistently a fraction of a second or half a second faster than me, you were still pulled into the [Realistic Marble] for at least ten seconds."

Artemis calmly gazed at the composed Qiu, and said expressionlessly, "With my computing power, I could easily complete at least thirty rounds of 'analysis' on you in those precious ten seconds."

"so what?"

Qiu smiled slightly and asked casually.

"So I know very well that you can't really stop me. Even if you can use some means that I can't read for the time being to protect yourself, you can't give me the same strength of counterattack."

"I see."

"In that case, what I need to do is very simple."

“I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

"Since it's difficult to gain an overwhelming advantage no matter how long I argue with you, I can simply ignore you and take him away by force."

The next instant, the moment those words were spoken, Artemis had already quietly appeared next to the 'monster' she had just knocked away, through [equivalent exchange].

Then--

He struggled in panic as an arm suddenly grabbed his neck and lifted him up.

And then--

Ka!

With a not-so-pleasant cracking sound, Artemis's vision instantly went completely black.

Chapter 2778: The End