Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 146 Storms and Flying Stars

The giant eye looked upwards the next moment.

The ceiling had long since disappeared, not because it was erased by Saigeia, but because a scorching figure had melted through the layers of ceiling, revealing the courtyard above the prison area.

Zheng Zha's face was also slightly pale. Whether it was the massive burst of red flames he had just unleashed as a deceptive attack, or the instantaneous ascent into the sky to gather power, it had all taken a considerable toll on him. Although Zheng Zha's total energy was extremely high, when facing an opponent of equal strength, he could not have both explosive power and composure.

But he had bought time. At this moment, the bat wings behind him unfolded in the sunlight. The dark red flames and the bristling dragon scales made the ferocious bat wings extremely powerful, blocking out the sunlight streaming into the courtyard.

On Zheng Zha's shoulders, two balls of red flame faintly revealed ferocious faces, each seemingly roaring something. The four arms that were originally formed by dark red energy disappeared, completely enveloping Zheng Zha's own arms.

Its entire body was engulfed in dark red flames, swirling and coiling along a peculiar trajectory. The intense heat did not spread immediately; instead, it was confined within these concentric rings of red flames.

Zheng Zha had a vague feeling that if he developed it further, or if he put in more effort now, these red flames could transform into dragon shapes or something like that... But he immediately felt that it was absurd. Wasn't this just flashy nonsense? Before he could think about it further, he focused all his mental energy on controlling the operation of the red flames.

Crimson flames continuously drained from his body, then condensed again, the dark red flames already faintly mixed with black flames. However, Zheng Zha was in the state of the Crimson Lotus Transformation, the boundary between the crimson flames and his physical body was blurred. During the Crimson Lotus Transformation, if the body was damaged, even if it wasn't reattached, a physical body could be condensed from the crimson flames; conversely, this reckless stripping of crimson flames would place a heavy burden on his physical body.

But… Zheng Zha had basically figured out Saigeya's tactics, and all he needed to do was end the battle with his strongest attack. Besides, if the battle wasn't ended soon, it would really give him a headache; keeping the third-tier gene lock active all the time was no joke. If he forcibly withdrew from the third-tier gene lock, not only would there be aftereffects, but his combat precision would also be greatly reduced, making it difficult to win.

Saigea also sensed a strong threat from Zheng Zha's actions. Its giant eye stared at Zheng Zha for a moment, but instead of attacking, it simply extinguished its power.

When the only light on its body disappeared, only its darkest color remained. But this was not the end; then, its darkest body seemed to swell!
The next moment, the entire prison area was plunged into boundless darkness... It turned out that it was not its body that was expanding, but rather its extreme darkness that sealed off the entire space.

Eyes emitting a faint green glow quietly appeared, like a green sun hanging in the boundless sky... The one that these giant eyes were gazing upon was Zheng Zha!

Zheng Zha was no longer suspended in mid-air, or rather, his previous spatial position was meaningless. Now he seemed to be standing in darkness, with only the giant green eye hanging high above his head still shining, except for the red flames around him that were either taking shape or swirling around him.

The giant green eye suddenly disappeared, then scattered into countless tiny green dots of light.

Zheng Zha glanced at them briefly and immediately realized that they were all Saigeya's eyes...

It was as if the sun had shattered and scattered into countless shooting stars... Then, the shooting stars surrounded Zheng Zha.

At this moment, Zheng Zha really wanted to push up his nose or sneer... Although he didn't know why he should sneer, or who liked to sneer so much? But he was indeed confident of victory.

That's all...

The crimson flames surrounding Zheng Zha surged, a defense he had prepared beforehand. Then, a dark red stream of energy burst forth from his arm, attacking in no particular direction, merely sweeping over the green eyes.

The dark red aura surged forth as soon as it left his hands, originating from both arms, one pointing forward and the other backward, twisting into a spiral. Within this spiral, the swirling crimson flames were guided, piercing the air with a sharp shriek. As they swirled, both the dark red aura and the crimson flames expanded wildly at an alarming rate, forcing open countless green eyes.

Then, with a fierce shout from Zheng Zha and the roars of the two faces on his shoulders, the terrifying red flame storm pressed down on Zheng Zha at an extremely disproportionate speed.

Even though he was pressing down on nothing, a smile appeared on Zheng Zha's lips.

"You can't fool me..."

The surrounding green eyes, however, seemed to have gone mad, hurtling towards Zheng Zha with afterimages, like a swarm of mosquitoes and flies that had spotted blood.

"The more anxious the enemy is, the more it proves that I did the right thing..."

These were Zheng Zha's last words. A trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and then two incredibly powerful wings, wreathed in crimson flames, suddenly enveloped him, shielding him from the countless green eyes.

The storm of boundless crimson flames plunged into the endless darkness below, then abruptly ceased. In that moment of stillness, Zheng Zha seemed to hear a piercing scream. Had anyone else been there, they might have instantly gone mad and died; but Zheng Zha merely felt a chill run down his spine. Such a reaction was insignificant amidst the bombardment of the green eyes.

"Defeat the Old One Seigya and obtain one B-rank side quest, rewarding 5000 points..."

The green eyes, not yet extinguished by the crimson flames, exploded amidst wails, and then the boundless darkness shattered abruptly.

Saigia's true form is indeed a giant green eye, but not the one that just dispersed. When using this technique, Saigia concealed its true form below, but this could not escape Zheng Zha's perception.

Its true form was completely destroyed by Zheng Zha's all-out attack, and the black domain and green eyes formed by most of its power could no longer exist.

As darkness dissipated, Zheng Zha, enveloped in bat wings, was suspended below the courtyard.

The next moment, the bat wings, whose red flames were gradually dissipating, shattered, and Zheng Zha spat out a mouthful of blood in mid-air before plummeting downwards.

As Zheng Zha crashed to the ground, he laughed with glee. His third-tier gene lock had been unlocked, and his Crimson Lotus Transformation and Three Heads, Six Arms abilities had dissipated due to exhaustion. Using overwhelming force to explosively destroy an equally powerful opponent, though it left him utterly drained, was undeniably exhilarating.

In this four-level battle, even this fairly sturdy and vast prison area could not hold out. When Zheng Zha landed on the ground, the prison, which had been mostly destroyed and melted down, collapsed like a camel that had been broken by the last straw.

Zheng Zha emerged from the ruins, absorbing the energy stored within Blood Kiss. ​​Chu Xuan was right; the Blood Kiss's description, stating "half the energy of a vampire viscount," wasn't the upper limit. After Zheng Zha obtained the third-tier gene lock, he actively tried compressing vampire energy. Within certain limits, compressed and condensed vampire energy could be stored in the ring.

Based on Zheng Zha's senses, Blood Kiss could only hold about 10% of the energy of a count-level vampire... any more and it might be destroyed. But it was still pretty good, equivalent to about six times the capacity described by the main god.

Although this amount of energy would be negligible for Zheng Zha under normal circumstances, it was enough to help him get through the most difficult period when he was completely exhausted. When Zheng Zha was training his vampire energy, he would deplete his own energy to the point of exhaustion, and then generate new vampire energy through his body's recovery mechanism. This was beneficial in terms of both the recovery speed and the quality of the energy.

Now that he has some vampire energy at his disposal, Zheng Zha is able to get things done again.

Zheng Zha took a vial of blood from the Blood Kiss. ​​He couldn't remember whose blood it came from. He had discovered this vial of blood of unknown origin earlier when he was searching for loopholes in the horror movie... He speculated that it came from a teammate who had vanished. Now that he had drunk it, he was finally certain of his speculation.

The remaining tasks can be carried out without a third-order gene lock… When he saw the research report before, he was certain of one thing. That black immigrant was indeed a newcomer to the Central Continent Team; he walked right into their trap from the start. But the decision to abandon him was probably made by that wise man. When that wise man's existence disappeared, the impression this newcomer left on everyone became blurred, and he was subconsciously ignored, which just happened to corroborate the erroneous inference of fifteen people in a horror movie.

And this newcomer is one of the core members of this experiment... He was among the first and fastest to undergo aberration!
Zheng Zha could only deduce that when the main god abandoned them in the bookstore, he allowed them to be corrupted... that bookstore full of madmen and Sutter Kane novels laid the initial groundwork for their contamination.

When this newcomer lost the protection of the Central Continent Team and was thrown into a detention center where he was further infected by the madmen, he became one of the most severely affected. Then he was sent to this prison as an experimental subject.

“So, we all have sources of contamination within us; and all those infected can trigger contamination… At the same time, the arrival of the Great Old Ones is becoming increasingly imminent.” Zheng Zha muttered to himself, following the deduction from his memory, “Therefore, we must take decisive measures.”

Zheng Zha answered the headset, his voice sounding tired: "Deal with all the infected newcomers... If you're worried about losing points, send them away."

"Is this the only way..." Long Taobing was the first to reply, also quite frustrated. "Besides, the noises coming from your power armor are getting increasingly strange..."

"Has Gao Hongliang gone completely mad?" Zheng Zha sighed. "Let's deal with it. That's all we can do... Every infected person is a source of contamination and also the power that brings down the Old Ones."

The other veterans responded from the other end of the headset, and Zheng Zha turned off the headset after hearing that.

"But this time it was my own choice..."

He walked step by step toward the other nine prisons on Rikers Island, and with each step, the red flames burning on his body swelled and deepened. The surrounding temperature also increased.

As Zheng Zha walked to the gate of another prison, his bat wings bloomed again amidst the crimson flames... and behind him was a dark sea of ​​fire.

(End of this chapter)