Forty-nine rules of the end times

Chapter 289 Desperate Suppression of the Powerful

"No one else was detected in the forest. Could it be that Shadow rescued the person and left without being with Yamata no Yukari?"

Inside the task force's room, the investigators looked at the detector readings on the large screen, which showed a total of seventeen detected targets.

The action team of fourteen people plus the three members of the Chosen Ones make a total of seventeen. If the Shadows are also hiding somewhere, there should be eighteen.

"We have to catch Yamata no Yukari first."

"Let's switch to the action team's live stream perspective."

Each member of the action team carried camera equipment, enabling them to broadcast the battle live.

This wasn't just about keeping records; some ministers and even divine beings wanted to witness the battle firsthand.

After the perspective changed, the screen immediately went black.

"what happened?"

"Blocked? Change it."

The operator switched to another team member's perspective and found that the screen was still black.

He stubbornly kept switching between the two feeds, only to discover that all the action teams' live streams were black.

The head of the task force felt a chill run down his spine: "Something's not right!"

Even if one or two devices malfunction, it's impossible for all devices to malfunction.

Could it be that Yamata no Yukari has a signal jamming device?
Just then, the phone rang. The team leader answered it. It was the administration building calling to ask what was going on. They had lost contact with the site.

"Minister, we have also lost our footage and may need to request access to satellite footage from another country."

"Satellite view... by the time it's brought over, it'll probably be over."

The person on the other end of the phone finished speaking coldly and immediately hung up.

They are currently in the forest.

After the smoke cleared, all members of the action team put on infrared goggles, which allowed them to see Shang Yuanzi's location in the fog.

However, they found that everything in front of them suddenly turned completely dark.

"what happened?!"

"Can anyone see this?"

"Everyone, stick together!"

Not to mention them, Shang Yuanzi couldn't see anything at this moment either.

Is it the power of shadows?

Guan Tong was standing on a high tree branch, arms crossed, looking down at the crowd below.

Just as the action team was about to launch an attack on Shangyuan Zi, he activated the Shadow Domain in its normal form.

After blocking out all external light, the shadow domain was naturally pitch black. Apart from him, the manipulator, who could still maintain his vision, no one else could see anything.

However, this team was well-trained, and they immediately stood back to back and took out defensive equipment. Some even took out lighting tools, but Guan Tong's attack had already begun.

He channeled his mental power, conjuring dozens of shadow spears that shot down from above, while simultaneously generating shadow spikes beneath the feet of the action team members, launching an attack from both above and below.

Several defensive items were breached in an instant, and the four people were immediately pierced by the shadows and died on the spot.

At that moment, someone used a lighting device. The instant the light came on, they saw the dead bodies of their own men and realized who the enemy was.

"It's a shadow!!"

"Where is he!"

With the help of the light, they saw a dark, human-shaped figure standing with his arms crossed on a high place.

"Damn it, what were those people in the intelligence support team doing? Why didn't they detect the presence of the shadow and tell us?!" "This is the shadow's 'Shadow World,' everyone, attack the shadow itself!"

At the commander's order, everyone used the light from the lighting equipment to launch an attack on the human-shaped shadow in the tree.

The Shadow World?

Guan Tong didn't know when someone gave his Shadow Domain such a name.

After a moment's thought, he realized that it must have been Lucifer who gave the name that was leaked, as that was the only one who hadn't died after entering the Shadow Realm.

The moment Wu Yan saw the shadow, she activated her disguise ability.

The ability was there, but only part of the success.

Half of her body turned into shadow, while the other half remained solid. To her astonishment, the mimicry ended before she could even attempt to manipulate the shadow, lasting less than three seconds.

"No! My abilities are completely useless... His mental power limit must be too high, creating an absolute superiority over me!"

Her teammate, Moon Fate, also used her [Moon Wheel] item, and a giant roulette appeared above the shadow's head, trapping the shadow inside.

But before the roulette wheel even started spinning, it shattered with a "crack".

Yueming's face turned pale, sharing the same despair as Wuyan.

Just how high is the Shadow's mental power limit? Why does it render her exclusive item completely ineffective?
Meanwhile, various attack items were thrown at the shadowy figure, but almost none of them had any effect.

"Just as I guessed... Their mental power limit is far greater than mine; their tools and abilities can no longer even suppress my shadow."

Guan Tong's true form was on the other side at that moment; the one who was discovered and beaten was just his shadow.

He wasn't too surprised by this situation. Even if an Ascended being trained by the government of various countries gets first place in the eighth rule, they will be suppressed by the Mind Lock for a long time afterward, and their Mind Power limit will remain between six and seven hundred for a long time.

He is about to break through the 1000-point limit, with a difference of several hundred points, creating a near-complete dominance. Their abilities and items will be significantly less effective against him, or even completely ineffective.

This situation nearly drove the team to despair. Then, two more people screamed and started running, slapping their bodies as they ran.

"Snakes! So many snakes!"

This was an illusion created by Shang Yuanzi. Guan Tong immediately manipulated the Shadow Assassin to pierce through the bodies of the two people and cooperated to complete the kill.

"Quick! Suzuki!" The commander, in his desperation, grabbed the girl beside him and shook her violently. "You can profile, right? Quickly profile the shadow's weakness!"

"I……"

Suzuki looked completely bewildered. Half of the action team had been killed as soon as they arrived, and one of the men who had been killed by a shadow spear had splattered her with blood, which terrified her.

She instinctively activated her ability, but immediately felt a sharp pain in her brain, screamed, and squatted on the ground, clutching her head.

This is completely different from the shadow in the profiling surveillance footage. Her mental power limit is too low, and even with spore enhancement, she still cannot profile Guan Tong on the spot.

Profile?

Guan Tong glanced at the one squatting down named Suzuki. This ability sounded somewhat useful; they could leave her for last.

The rest of the team were at a loss for what to do. They had used up all the offensive items in the storage box, but it was all in vain.

Before they actually encountered Guan Tong, none of them could have imagined the gap in skill would be so vast. They simply assumed that while Shadow was powerful, surely a dozen or so Ascended users, who were being heavily promoted by the Sakura Invoke organization, wouldn't be a match for him?

Ordinary strongmen and top strongmen are not even on the same level. The suppression of those above by those below is too despairing, and by the time they realize this, it is too late.

"It's almost time, I won't waste any more time with you." After deciding who would stay, Guan Tong channeled a large amount of mental energy, sending hundreds of sharp shadow spikes piercing from all directions!
Five minutes later, the support sent by Sakura Inori arrived.

They were so shocked by the horrific scene that they could hardly bear to look at it.

But they soon discovered that the number of bodies didn't match up.

Including Yueming and Wuyanshi, the action team consisted of sixteen people. However, only twelve corpses were left at the scene.

The missing individuals are the team commander, Suzuki, Tsukimi, and Muyan. Since there are no bodies, it means they were taken away by Shadow and Uehara Yukari.

(End of this chapter)