Secret: I can play two paths

Chapter 239 [Return to Zero]

Backlund, East District.

Inside the Darkholm family's house, a man in his thirties with a distinctive wide chin and dark green eyes stood by the window, coldly waiting for the reckless gang leader who was suspected of wanting to investigate his whereabouts.

He wanted to kill this person, and even more so, he wanted to kill those who were investigating based on this clue.

He didn't care that this would expose himself, because compared to the extraordinary people or "demons" killing people in the East District.

"'Pirate General' 'Hurricane Admiral' Qilingos secretly sneaked into Backlund" must not be exposed - if this news is discovered, it will cause the official church's Beyonders to hunt him down with all their might.

As for those homeless people who were born as insects, Qilingos didn't think anyone would care about these worthless things. Backlund had countless homeless people, so what if a group of them disappeared or even died?

Therefore, it is highly likely that someone has made a fuss about the negative effects of "Creeping Hunger".

He glanced at the black glove on his left palm - in fact, if this wasn't a big city like Backlund, where the massacre of civilians would alert the church, he wouldn't have to carefully choose the homeless people to attack.

Everything would be much more convenient at sea.

However, a gangster boss certainly doesn't have the time to care about the homeless, as there are other people behind him.

Qi Lingos looked at the door with a cruel and happy expression. No matter what, he would take action against all the investigators who came later.

Even to the point of killing them.

First kill the man named Darkholm, and then use the "Frenzy" of the "Psychologist" to keep the people who come later.

He wanted to break the arms of all investigators, including Fors, and take out their internal organs, and then feed them to the "creeping hunger"...

However, before he could satisfy his fantasy in his thinking, a figure approached him quietly.

Although sneak attacks are not an easy operation, Star, who has the magical item of the Witch Path, does not have so many taboos.

Magical items are a kind of ability of oneself. Now he can hide in the dark and has the ability to be invisible, why not use it?

Therefore, he aimed at "Creeping Hunger" right from the start, using a Beyonder ability he gained after equipping the Beyonder characteristic of "Gatekeeper" - which was also his greatest killer move:
Nothing can be cut, nothing can be destroyed.

This is the most extreme destructive effect.

Its name: [Return to Zero].

This blow directly made Qi Lingos unable to feel the black glove on his left palm.

In his astonished eyes, he didn't believe his arm -

broken.

It broke cleanly.

Even the surrounding blood was obliterated in a sea of ​​"pure white".

The perception of pain was delayed by a split second, so Qi Lingos could only react later - and even a question lingered in his mind: Why didn't his inspiration give him a warning?
However, as a Beyonder who already knew Qi Lingos' intelligence, Star would not give Qi Lingos a chance to react.

Star had already prepared for this attack, using "dice rolling" to limit Qilingos's room for maneuver and ensure his success.

He even disdained to let Qi Lingos live one more second in this world.

"I'm sorry. I let you roam around in Backlund for so long. This is my fault."

This is Star's sincere reflection in his heart.

"Come, then, count your sins!" Knight, [Appear]!
At the same time, [Potential] was stimulated, and Star's reaction speed was instantly improved incredibly.

Without his Creeping Hunger and his arms, Qilingos, who was only at Sequence 6, was clearly no match for the "knight" who was said to have "killed his way through the Capin Villa."

Not to mention that he has now been further weakened by Sta.

"I've been ambushed!"

"Damn it! This is a trap!"

Qi Lingos finally reacted and knew that he had two choices:

One is to use the ability of "Wind Blesser" to fly away from here and create wind blades to hold Star back.

Another one is:

Pick up the Creeping Hunger!

For some reason, he had the "unwise" idea of ​​taking back "Creeping Hunger" from this Beyonder who was obviously at the Sequence 5 level.

Because, without the "creeping hunger", he would no longer have the "Lieutenant General" strength as a "Pirate General"?
This greed was gradually magnified under the "tease", to the point that it overwhelmed the rational level he should have in order to survive.

However, all this was unimportant. He saw the knight once again launch his "ultimate move" -

A huge skull, almost as tall as a person, condensed into a shape, with dark flames burning in its eye sockets and its white bones looking illusory and blurry.

Then Star kicked out, and Qilingos could only watch the skull swallow him up in nameless fear and oppression.

As a result, even his soul was almost dissolved.

……

The matter was resolved very smoothly, without even requiring Azik, the "Archon of Death", to take action.

That’s right, with such thorough preparations, even a secretive battle, a large part of which is the “intelligence war”. After collecting intelligence and then taking targeted actions, one is already invincible before the battle begins.

So much so that the purpose of letting Azik, the "Archon of Death", out was to "eradicate all evil" and not let the "Lieutenant General Hurricane" escape.

If he considered magical items as part of his own strength, then to some extent, Sequence 5 no longer posed a threat to him?

Star was a little curious: Should he find another "lucky villain" to take action?
After all, his last "ultimate move" was just a small application of the combination of the two abilities of the "Tampering" path sequence 5.

He finally understood the way of "tampering" and one of the manifestations of the so-called "illusion and reality" between "virtual and real":
To transform reality into illusion, and illusion into reality - this is the ability of idealism.

However, he seems to have certain limitations at present. Even with the help of "between reality and illusion", it is difficult to create something out of thin air.

Even this ability of [idealism] is related to abilities such as [potential].

One of its branches is to transform the courage, belief and will associated with the heart into powerful force.

Sta suspected that this was an integrated ability, far more than what he had demonstrated now, not to mention after being blessed by "Between Reality and Illusion".

And the other ability [Return to Zero] is also related to the power of [Idealism] that "transforms reality into illusion"?
No, it seems to be more than that. It is a partial manifestation of the authority of "death" under the source of the "Eternal Darkness" realm, the "River of Eternal Darkness"?
So, in the void that was rippling like water waves, Mr. Azik, who had walked out of the spirit world where various blocks of color overlapped, looked at Star with a gentle and puzzled expression:

"I just felt a breath of [Nirvana]."

(End of this chapter)