I, Lord of Prayer

What will happen in fifteen seconds?

In fifteen seconds, a normal person's heart beats fifteen times, pumping one thousand milliliters of blood to all parts of the body.

In fifteen seconds, a cheetah runs five hundred meters across the grassland, while a hummingbird flaps its wings a thousand times.

In fifteen seconds, five hundred trees in a tropical rainforest are felled, and 240 million tons of water evaporate from the planet's surface.

In fifteen seconds, sixty human babies were born and thirty humans died worldwide.

In fifteen seconds, four hundred and fifty stars exploded in the universe.

Zhou Chen had to do everything he could to stall the gentleman during those short yet long fifteen seconds.

He felt that with his current abilities, it wouldn't be difficult to hold off the injured gentleman for fifteen seconds. However, the gentleman had a clear goal: to capture Li Xiaoxiao and find out the whereabouts of "that thing" from her. He could put everything else aside and wouldn't necessarily waste time on him.

Indeed, that was the case. Faced with Zhou Chen's provocation, the gentleman showed no anger, only intense curiosity, wanting to know where Zhou Chen's confidence came from. However, this curiosity was not enough for him to take action against Zhou Chen, because he had a more important goal.

The gentleman's arm twitched slightly, and the magical wand was about to touch the ground.

Peng!

Gunshots rang out, flashes of light appeared, and a freshly fired heavy bullet was pushed from Zhou Chen's palm, hitting the magic wand accurately.

The bullet did not cause any real damage to the cane, not even leaving a scratch. However, the huge impact caused the magic cane to tilt and fail to touch the ground. If the gentleman had not held it tightly, the entire cane might have been thrown out of his hand.

A hundred kinds of martial arts, this is a modern martial art that incorporates alchemy - Bullet Push Palm!

The magic wand requires the tip to touch an object each time it activates its power. Zhou Chen guessed that this was the condition for using this forbidden item. In other words, as long as the tip of the wand doesn't touch anything, the gentleman cannot use the "Great Disappearance" teleportation skill or any other abilities.

After deflecting the magic wand with a bullet-shaped push, Zhou Chen quickly put on the forbidden C-027 blind man's sunglasses while the gentleman was caught off guard, amplifying his four senses fivefold, and made a wish in his heart.

"I wish to regain my sight!"

Thus, light tore through the darkness and returned to our sight.

The negative effects of the taboo item C-027 blind sunglasses were thus eliminated.

The gentleman's ability belongs to the highly concealed shadow element. To gouge out one's own eyes while wearing the C-027 blind man's sunglasses in front of him is practically suicidal. However, if one could regain sight with a five-fold enhancement of the other four senses, the situation would be different.

Visual restoration means that objects in the eyes have rich details such as shape, brightness, and color. When combined with the other four senses, it makes the "three-dimensional image" in the mind more realistic and concrete, and at the same time, it can prevent the gentleman's ability to appear and disappear without a trace.

Zhou Chen narrowed his perception range to ten meters; otherwise, his brain would be overwhelmed by the amount of information he needed to process. Within this range, no movement could escape his perception.

In an instant, he charged toward the gentleman, his entire body covered in tattered alloy armor. A sharp longsword suddenly shot up from his right palm, a flash of white flame from the blade, which then suddenly rose and burned fiercely.

He swung his knife fiercely from three steps away.

With coordinated effort from all the muscles in the body, the explosive power is gathered into a single burst—a powerful, honed strike!

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. A sharp, piercing sound burst forth, and the gentleman had no choice but to raise his cane as a longsword and clash head-on with the incoming blade.

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Zhou Chen felt as if he had struck a rock that was as solid as a fortress. The steel vibrated and trembled. He swung his blade horizontally and slashed down along the cane. Just as he was about to touch the gentleman's fingers, the gentleman flicked his wrist, and the cane deftly deflected the blade and thrust out the end.

It shot out like a venomous snake, or like a lance in the hand of a Western knight, piercing the air with deadly force.

With the enhancement of five times the senses, Zhou Chen suddenly leaned to the side to dodge, his palm bursting with blue flames. He grabbed the magic wand and pulled hard, trying to snatch it from the gentleman's hand.

It didn't budge.

"I vow to take this forbidden object into my possession!" he cried out in his heart again.

There was still no movement. I don't know if it's because I don't have enough wish points, or if this forbidden item has already been contained.

Instead, intense lightning crackled from the cane, striking the armor with arcs of electricity that left scorched marks. The electric shocks made his hands numb, and he quickly released his grip.

The gentleman withdrew his cane, assumed the stance of a fencing master, and his arm vibrated rapidly as a barrage of thrusts rained down.

As a former elite operator of the Star Alliance, Gentleman's combat skills had long been honed to perfection. Against a novice like Zhou Chen, he gained the upper hand in just seven or eight moves.

The gentleman was quite surprised that he could withstand seven or eight moves. He decisively increased the speed of his attack, creating a shrill sound as if the air was being torn apart and stirring up a gale.

As Zhou Chen dodged the cane's thrusts in a disheveled manner, a spark ignited from his chest, expanding violently as if boiling.

boom!

With a loud bang, a powerful burst of blazing white flames surged forth, unleashing their full power and releasing a dazzling light. This was an attack prepared with all of his extraordinary source energy.

"Eat my Special Beam Cannon!"

The gentleman was well aware of the strange flame's power, its ability to cause mental damage, and he didn't intend to take it head-on. But just as he tried to use Shadow Travel to move into Zhou Chen's shadow, he was stunned in disbelief.

I can't move over there...

It was in that moment of stunned silence that the gentleman was engulfed by the blazing white light that erupted like a tsunami.

This is all because of Zhou Chen's second wish.

"—I wish that my shadow will not be invaded by external forces."

During his previous battle with the Shadow Wolves, Zhou Chen noticed that they liked to move behind their enemies and launch surprise attacks. After watching the battles between Gentleman and Li Xiaoxiao, and between Gentleman and the Shadow Wolves, he became even more certain that the Shadow Wolves' habits were related to Gentleman—they both liked to ambush their enemies from their shadows.

Indeed, this is a very effective method of surprise attack, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, and very few people can defend against it.

So Zhou Chen kept a watchful eye and made a small prediction. He concluded that the gentleman would move into his shadow to launch a sneak attack as soon as he saw the cannon fire, so he made a wish in advance.

As expected, he clearly sensed the momentary stiffness when the gentleman's ability failed to activate, so he hurriedly made a third wish.

"—I wish that this shot would deal massively more damage to the Corruptors!"

As for how many times it can be multiplied, that's a mystery, but it certainly won't make the gentleman feel good.

At that moment, the light on the entire floor dimmed. The gentleman was blasted away by the raging torrent of light and fire, like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun, or like ice being placed on a hot stove. His spirit hissed and burned, suffering unbearable pain.

The flames of revenge are burning fiercely!

The external source material conversion device on Zhou Chen's back emitted a hum at maximum power, replenishing his depleted extraordinary source material and instantly filling it to full blue.

ten seconds.

At this point, ten seconds had already been wasted.

Zhou Chen extended his palm, and the armor on his arm stretched out as if he had eaten a rubber fruit. At the same time, the armor on other parts of his body quickly contracted to compensate for the length of his alloy arm.

The next second, the alloy arm caught the gentleman who was flying backward and quickly retracted, and his body was gradually covered by alloy armor again.

Pulling the gentleman in front of him, Zhou Chen transformed into a long sword, and with flames rising, he stabbed at the man without hesitation.

But it didn't feel real.

The gentleman's figure was dark and ethereal, entering a state of intangibility, and he escaped from his grasp.

Just like the Shadow Wolves, their ethereal state can provide some immunity to physical attacks, but it cannot protect them from the special mental attacks like Azure Flame.

As if fuel had been added, the already blazing fire of his spirit ignited once more. The gentleman let out a scream, lost his elegant demeanor, staggered and fell to the ground, writhing in agony amidst the dust and rubble, viciously scratching his face, leaving behind shocking, bloody marks.

The effect was so good... Zhou Chen knew that the power of a cannon alone could not reach this level; it was only after being blessed by a wish that it possessed such terrifying destructive power.

Just as he was about to step forward to try and snatch the magic wand from the gentleman, the gentleman pulled out a small silver knife from his pocket and, without hesitation, slit his own throat.

What the heck? Zhou Chen was stunned and bewildered. The BOSS committed suicide halfway through the fight?

As expected, things were not that simple. The gentleman's corpse began to shrink rapidly, turning into a tattered rag doll that looked exactly like the gentleman. The rag doll was holding a small cane. After revealing its true form, it quickly burned to ashes.

"A substitute for someone else to die?"

Zhou Chen recognized what it was, but where was the gentleman?

He sensed something and turned to look at the dark corner beneath the ruins in the distance.

The gentleman emerged from the shadows, seemingly unharmed, his clothes intact, though his face was deathly pale, devoid of any color.

"You have angered me." The gentleman's expression was extremely grim. "You should be afraid, always afraid, because I will come to take my revenge on you at any time."

Damn, this isn't the second stage, it's a second life!

Zhou Chen cursed inwardly, but the good news was that his teammates had arrived.

The bad news is that he's too far from being a gentleman to effectively delay him; the other man could simply tap his cane and vanish into thin air...

Before he could even think of the last word, Zhou Chen sensed a heavy alchemical bullet flying towards him at breakneck speed.

Peng!

The alchemical bullet struck the gentleman's head precisely, so fast that the gentleman didn't even have time to react.

By the time he realized he had activated his ethereal state, it was too late. Half of his head exploded like a watermelon, and thick red and white liquid spread out, splattering everywhere.

One kilometer away from the manor, on the helicopter that had just found the perfect angle.

The sniper rifle, gleaming with a cold, metallic sheen, emitted smoke. Yang maintained his sniping stance and whistled with delight: "Ten rings!"

As an ace sniper with the ability to "control the wind," after advancing to the second tier, his control and perception of the wind have reached a new level. Not to mention one kilometer, he can guarantee that he hits the bullseye every time within five kilometers.

Even with obstacles in his way, he can attach source matter to the bullets, activate it at crucial moments, change the bullet's trajectory, and form a bizarre technique similar to "gun-fu".

If he wanted, he could even make a bullet fly in a Cartesian curve in the air.

Yang looked at the scene through the sniper scope, somewhat gloating:

"Oh dear, so much brain matter has been spilled."

They say sniper rifles open your mind and shotguns open your heart, and that's certainly true. It's just that I haven't really felt like eating watermelon these past couple of days.

But just then, he exclaimed in utter astonishment, "Huh???!"

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Not only Yang, but even Zhou Chen, who was present, was stunned.

The corrupted are incredibly resilient, which is why the gentleman survived even after his mind was opened.

Zhou Chen and the others rushed forward, ready to take advantage of his illness and kill him.

Unexpectedly, a strange man suddenly appeared as if he had teleported. Before everyone's eyes, his full head of black hair turned white, and wrinkles and age spots appeared on his face, making him look as if he had aged decades in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the stranger grabbed the gentleman's shoulder, and the two of them vanished into thin air before everyone's eyes.

From the moment it started to the moment it ended, it only took 0.73 seconds.

"What's going on?" Zhou Chen was bewildered and confused. Who was that strange man? Why did he suddenly age by decades?