Life Dungeon Game

The dark figure stared blankly at He Ao.

"time bomb,"

He shrugged. "I left myself a little extra preparation time, but it was just right."

In the memories he inherited from Robert, there were memories of Robert setting up some special 'scenes' in the Moonlight Branch according to the instructions of the Dawn Deputy Leader.

Robert didn't know what it was, but Heo knew very well that it was some kind of 'ritual array'.

However, the memories he inherited were incomplete, and he did not know where these magic arrays were set up.

Fortunately, Rob held a high position, and he used Rob's identity to find all the 'traitors' of Dawn who were lurking in Moonlight. He had each of them recall a little bit and piece together a rough outline of the magic circle, and even found him a time bomb.

Some of these time bombs were even planted with the help of Dawn's men.

Even the most powerful rituals cannot continue once the magic circle is destroyed.

Upon hearing He Ao's words, the twisted black shadow widened its eyes, its head seemingly covered in question marks, and froze on the spot.

Logically speaking, the locations where these magic arrays were set up were top secret, and he couldn't figure out how the 'Hao Yi' in front of him knew about them.

However, he quickly realized what was happening and looked at He Ao, "I admit, you..."

You've certainly given me many 'surprises,' it seems I have to completely destroy you in order to continue my grand plan."

His figure twisted rapidly, and some invisible force surged from all directions, gathering within his body and causing his aura to rise rapidly.

He raised his hand, which transformed into a huge black claw, and slashed at He Ao.

A power that seemed capable of harming the soul trembled within those claws.

He Ao raised the Shadowless Sword and swung it, slicing through the shadow's 'claws'.

Then he stepped to the side, took a step forward, and the sword light flashed through the void, severing the body of the dark figure.

The black shadow, now split into three, flickered and twisted, staring in surprise at the Shadowless Sword in He Ao's hand. "Your sword can actually hurt me?"

The severed body writhed, then coiled up again, reforming into a human-shaped shadow, with an ever-growing power emanating from its body.

He looked up at Heo, "I've never felt so good, you fool! You can't kill me, I'm immortal, my power is limitless!"

His body swelled further, looming over Heo like a gigantic shadow. "I will devour your soul and use your body for my own purposes!!!"

He looked up at him, took out a coin, and then tossed the coin into the air.

The shadowy figure's eyes widened. He didn't know the purpose of the coin, but his intuition told him to stop Heo.

He reached out to catch the tossed coin.

Just then, his twisted feet swelled upwards with the gathering energy, further increasing his height, causing his outstretched hand to reach higher and grab nothing.

The green gemstone petals on the brooch attached to her chest deepened in color, and the coin fell smoothly back into He Ao's hand.

In that instant, the entire city seemed to fall silent.

"what is this?"

He looked up, glancing around blankly. "Some kind of strange space?"

Then he looked at He Ao, grinned, revealing a hollow, pitch-black mouth.

He sneered and swung his claws at He Ao again, "You want to kill me with this space? Impossible. I've said it before, I am immortal."

His strength has grown stronger and stronger, surpassing the threshold of B-level.

He Ao ignored him and jumped into the dressing mirror next to him the instant he entered the mirror space.

The shadowy figure followed his steps and jumped into the dressing mirror.

The next instant, two figures appeared one after the other, almost simultaneously, in a small stone house.

The shadowy figure sensed something was wrong, and at that moment, He Ao had already jumped into the mirror in the center of the stone house.

Without hesitation, the shadowy figure gave chase.

call--

The undulating waves crashed against the rocks. It was still night, but the sound of the waves, when it reached the ears of the shadowy figure, was like the whisper of a demon.

"Weren't you curious about how I 'got in'?"

He Ao stood at the entrance of the stone house, smiling as he looked at the dark figure still inside. "That's how I 'went in'."

The shadowy figure stared blankly at He Ao, at the thick fog that enveloped everything behind He Ao.

He 'came out'.

From that

The city, shrouded in the power of the servants of the great being, 'emerged'.

This time, he didn't immediately attack He Ao. Instead, he stood in the stone house filled with mirrors, raised his hand, and spoke in an icy voice.

“Your abilities are indeed somewhat strange. I can give you another chance to join the glory of the great beings, but if you are unwilling to cooperate,”

The shadowy figure raised his hand, and one after another, twisted and tormented figures solidified in his palm. "I've killed real 'Federals' before, and death is your only end."

"I know,"

He Ao raised the Shadowless Sword, "When the disaster broke out, you took advantage of the moment when the 009-2 riot was being suppressed on the fourth floor to run from the fourth floor to the third floor, and then followed the researchers on the third floor into the second floor."

"You were discovered by them in the stairwell on the second floor. They were preparing to close the gate completely, so you incited them to kill each other."

"At that time, you made contact with what you call the Great Being, and through praying to Him, you gained the support of the second layer of vines, preventing the gate from closing completely."

"In the end, the researcher you misled survived, led you into the second level, and then from there into the first level."

"Ultimately, you lured all the survivors out of the 'sanctuary,' leading them to their deaths and destroying all the 'survivors' in the research facility."

"Your power actually comes from those you've 'bewitched,' doesn't it? The more people you bewitch, the more support you'll receive."

"What you call 'immortality' is actually the ability to continuously draw power from the 'bewitched' within the area you've manipulated."

"And now,"

He Ao looked up at the dark figure before him, gripping the Shadowless Sword. "The energy within you has stopped increasing. After leaving the 'zone' you had bewitched, you've lost the power support of those you've been bewitched."

"Judging from your consistent behavior, your abilities are parasitic. I'm afraid you won't be able to 'survive' outside of the Bewitcher for long, will you?"

He calmly stared at the shadowy figure. "Now, you will die."

In fact, if there aren't enough people being manipulated, the shadowy figure would probably have difficulty even maintaining prolonged detachment from the body.

Otherwise, when he was in the stairwell on the second floor of the underground palace, he wouldn't have needed the vines to hold up the gate for him and insist on protecting some of the 'survivors' he had bewitched. He could have easily escaped from the 'bewitched' people on his own.

Based on the concept that the more people who are bewitched, the stronger the shadow's power becomes, it is likely that once the bewitched people completely disappear, the shadow's power will rapidly weaken, and it may even fall into a 'slumber' where it can be easily killed by some wild monsters.

The method to deal with the shadowy figure had actually been given to He Ao by the researcher in the stairwell on the second floor of the underground palace.

Those were the two words left on that rusty Gauss gun: 'isolation'.

Of course, this isolation, in the hands of the researchers at the time, might have been a method to 'seal' the shadow.

After all, their actions—"by closing the gates and confining all those who had been bewitched to the stairwell between the second and third levels of the underground palace, isolating them from the outside world"—reveal that this "isolation" was in fact a way of cutting off the shadowy figure's channels for bewitching others.

He was completely weakened and then 'sealed' in the stairwell.

However, Heo was facing a situation where the entire city-state of Newland was 'bewitched' by the shadows, and he was unable to isolate all the bewitchers of the shadows and complete the 'seal' of the shadows.

However, through this 'sealing' method, He Ao successfully deduced the 'shadow's' weakness, and he happened to have a particularly good 'isolation' area.

The entire Newland city-state is shrouded in that distorted spatial power, and is now almost completely cut off from the outside world. Previously, the Verola could only not surface in Newland, but now it can hardly reach the deep space beneath Newland.

The city-state of Newland is almost like an alternate dimension to the main world, and similarly, the main world is almost like an alternate dimension to the city-state of Newland.

That solves the problem: the shadowy figure cannot stray too far from the person being bewitched, which means that the transmission of power to the person being bewitched is attenuated and cannot be ignored due to distance.

He was directly transported to the main world, which had become a 'different dimension' relative to the city-state of Newland, and his connection with the bewitched was naturally severed.

He cannot isolate and destroy all those who are bewitched by the Shadow, but he can isolate the Shadow from those who are bewitched.

The so-called 'immortality' was naturally broken.

The shadowy figure's offer of "another chance" only revealed his cowardice.

"Impossible, impossible!"

As He Ao revealed his background and the things he had done, the shadowy figure, which had been calm, began to flicker violently out of control.

He felt as if he had been stripped naked, with all his secrets laid bare before Heo.

Ironically, he still believed he was 'clothed'.

He shook his head blankly. "Everyone who knew about these things is dead. How could you, in this world, know so much about that world?"

"Perhaps I happen to have some access to information,"

He shrugged. "For example, I also know that you came here through that door that opens from this side."

Upon hearing this, the shadowy figure's eyes widened.

Is there a mole among them?

No, that's not right. There are always people in this world who can read information from the past. This guy must be backed by another great being.

After a violent flash, he finally calmed down and looked at Heo. "I don't know which great being you follow, but all obstacles that hinder the cause of our great being will be mercilessly crushed."

He also stared at He Ao, "I admit, you're a smart man, but through the fight just now, I can sense that your body isn't strong. Killing you will solve all the problems."

Here he was in the middle of the sea, surrounded by no human habitation, and with no intelligent life to tempt him. Escape was impossible for him; only by killing Heo could he have a chance of survival.

He has no choice.

He raised his hands again, saying, "You are honored to be the first person to witness my true power."

boom--

A vast and terrifying power emanated from his body, shattering the small stone house into pieces. Flying stones and fragments of the mirror scattered across the tranquil sea.

Countless tiny fish burst uncontrollably from the sea, converging in the sky to form several enormous 'fish streams.' Then, as if gripped by an invisible force, these 'fish streams' were torn into twisted, bloody pieces in the sky, which then coalesced together.

Almost in the blink of an eye, a black monster, five meters tall, with a minotaur-like body and writhing, twisted flesh, appeared in He Ao's field of vision.

A terrifying sense of oppression emanated from this minotaur.

He Ao stared calmly at the monster.

He wasn't actually sure how the shadowy figure came from the underground palace to the main world, so he first laid out a long deduction, and then tricked the shadowy figure at the end.