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Chapter 151 Killing the Magician and the Return

The battle began, and it was Marina who made the first move.

She moved with almost instantaneous speed, leaving a trail of afterimages, and appeared beside the magician in a flash. Two high-frequency psionic daggers in her hands emitted violently vibrating psionic blades, slashing towards the magician's ribs.

This dagger is a masterpiece of psionic high technology, costing a staggering $120 million to make. It's a genuine laboratory product, painstakingly handcrafted by several top talents.

In terms of resources, it's not much simpler than an alchemist creating extraordinary items. It's more like an extraordinary item obtained through technological means.

The psionic blades generated by this thing vibrate at an extremely high speed and are sharp enough to cut through gold and jade.

However, as the two daggers slashed past the magician's side, they shattered the illusion with a "pop," just like popping a bubble. Instead, Marilena was blasted several meters away by the explosive psionic energy.

Marilena adjusted her body like a cat in mid-air and landed lightly. Because of the tight-fitting combat suit she was wearing, she didn't suffer any serious injuries.

However, this magician's methods are indeed mysterious; when did he create this illusionary clone?

Zhao Hao activated his Demon Hunter Senses and Fate Prompts.

Lines and patterns of various colors appeared before my eyes, along with a text bubble: A Black Iron 5-star transcendent who suffered an accident while advancing to Bronze and was subsequently mutated...

The magician appeared not far away, and with a gentle wave of his sleeve, several white doves flew out from his sleeve, fluttering and darting about in the sky.

Then he took off his top hat and threw it on the ground. The hat began to swell and twist, as if something was struggling to crawl out.

The magician tapped the top hat with his cane, and with a "bang," a huge, bloated rabbit squeezed out.

It was a terrifying giant rabbit with a huge, deformed, and bizarre body, more than three meters tall and three meters wide, with an irregularly shaped head and eyes that were not aligned with each other.

As Zhao Hao raised his hand, a bright blue mark flashed above Marina's head, instantly increasing her intelligence by 3 points, and making her psionic energy more active and powerful. It was [Arcane Intelligence].

Meanwhile, Marilena launched another lightning-fast attack, this time even faster, appearing almost instantly behind the magician and unleashing no fewer than ten attacks with her two daggers.

The magician didn't expect Mariana to suddenly increase her speed, and he was cut into seventeen or eighteen pieces by Mariana with almost no time to react.

There were seven or eight bloody gashes crisscrossing his body, almost tearing him to pieces, and blood was seeping out.

But the magician raised his hand, and a black cloth appeared in his hand without anyone noticing. The black cloth swept across his body from bottom to top, completely obscuring everyone else's view. The next second, he was already more than ten meters away, and all the wounds on his body had disappeared, as if what had just happened was an illusion!

Zhao Hao felt a chill run down his spine; he hadn't understood the magician's methods at all.

Is it possible to turn back time?

In battles between extraordinary individuals, besides raw strength, tactics matter. The more bizarre and unpredictable the tactics, the greater the advantage, even to the point of torturing the opponent to death.

But there was no time for him to continue observing and thinking, or to use his Fate Hint Eye. The number of pigeons in the sky had increased to hundreds, and they fluttered down.

"Go!" Zhao Hao waved his hand, and dozens or even hundreds of paper soldiers in the form of winged monsters flew into the sky and collided with the white doves that were obscuring the view.

At the same time, he opened up a barrier to envelop himself, because he felt that there might be something wrong with the white feathers flying all over the sky.

Orange and Oliver met the fat rabbit together. The fat rabbit looked sluggish and stupid, but it was really scary when it got angry. When it opened its crooked and deformed mouth, its whole face was deformed, and its eyes were blood red.

With a sudden jump, the impact on the ground caused a small-scale earthquake, and even the psionic energy within the area trembled and surged.

At the beginning, the old cunning cat Orange and the tough guy Oliver were able to gain some advantages.

Especially the Orange King, that hook always seems to be aimed at the lower body.

But the same trick that made him successful also made him unsuccessful. Finally, the stupid rabbit got desperate and started kicking the ground repeatedly, making the earth tremble like a drum!

Orange had already fled far away, and Oliver, with the help of Little Soft Sticky Hands, scrambled and crawled away from the earthquake zone.

Orange was still mocking, "What? You're getting angry so you're taking it out on Mother Earth? You can't even hit her..." Before she could finish speaking, large holes appeared in the ground, and rabbits the size of fat pigs lined up and sprayed out! They surged towards Orange like a tidal wave.

To my utter surprise, it turns out to be a summoner class.

Meanwhile, Marina launched another attack. Since one attempt didn't work, she would try again; eventually, a weakness would be revealed.

However, surprise attacks work the first time, but not the second. Although not a Saint Seiya, the magician was already on guard.

Mariana appeared like a ghost behind him, but before she could make a move, the magician drew a rapier from his cane in the blink of an eye and stabbed it straight at Mariana's eyes with lightning speed.

At the critical moment, as if divinely inspired, she suddenly bent over backward, almost flipping her entire body to dodge the attack.

It wasn't that she reacted suddenly; it was a fleeting feline instinct that saved her. At the same time, the cat goddess pendant she was wearing activated her physical activity at the crucial moment, instantly increasing her speed by half, which allowed her to dodge the magician's deliberate attack.

His counterattack failed, and the magician remained expressionless, even with a slight smile. But inwardly, he felt regret; his move wasn't truly a display of superb swordsmanship, but rather a magic trick.

Unfortunately, it didn't work this time, and there won't be a next time. It can no longer be used for a while.

Just then, a clear barrier suddenly enveloped him. Zhao Hao observed for a long time before finally finding an opportunity to strike!

To prevent any unforeseen complications, he almost instantly contracted the barrier, intending to shatter it. However, the magician's hand speed was truly impressive; with another wave of his left hand, the same black cloth appeared, passing over a wooden box about the height of a person.

The magician instantly slipped into the box, and the next second, he and the box vanished. Zhao Hao's barrier exploded without a trace.

Zhao Hao stared at the magician who had reappeared from the wooden box in the distance and fell silent.

He sensed something was wrong; how come this guy's psionic energy seemed to be undiminished?

Logically speaking, with pigeons, rabbits, the resurrection cloth, and the teleportation box, these are definitely not minor tricks. But now he looks calm and composed, and his total psionic energy hasn't decreased much at all.

It's like when you're playing League of Legends, and the opponent unleashes a full combo, but your mana bar doesn't budge.

This isn't cheating, it's like playing unlimited firepower!

There must be some secret that I haven't figured out, and this secret is of utmost importance, possibly related to success or failure, life or death.

The opponent is a level 5 Black Iron Transcendent, but judging from his nickname, he's not the type to focus on combat. Moreover, all his key pieces have been destroyed, and this is his weakest moment...

Despite his exhaustion, Zhao Hao kept his Fate-Alert Eye constantly on the Magician, not missing a single clue: The Magician, a profession renowned for its cunning, can operate with impunity if you can't see his subtle movements…

Looking at the message from fate, Zhao Hao seemed to understand something.

Let's try it again, Vajra Master's Sky-Splitting Palm!

Manifest it, the Iron Tree Arcane Staff that can kill even without a spearhead!

Wangcai, you go too!

Use the rope to sneak into the village quietly, and don't fire!

Meanwhile, Zhao Hao also kept a demon-revealing mirror, a statue of Guan Yu, and a magic bottle readily available.

Aside from those few alternate accounts, I'm going to reveal my full strength this time.

……

"Drive! Drive! Drive!"

The Liberty City subway, which had only been parked in Infernal Town for three days, was already covered in rust. But now, it started moving.

They sped along the railway paved with bones and blood, their speed increasing rapidly.

The subway started moving, startling many monsters, who began chasing after it, trying to get on board.

Standing on the roof of the car, Zhao Hao used his golden mage hand to swat away the monsters that jumped up, as if playing volleyball. He couldn't bring these monsters back to the surface world.

At that moment, the magician's head was placed on the control panel of the subway driver's cab, the flesh gradually melting and penetrating the control panel.

That's right, the magician's head is also an important part of the subway.

Or you could say Zhao Hao's head or the magician's head, it doesn't matter.

The town of Inner Demons receded into the distance, and the subway disappeared into a thick fog.

The roar of a train suddenly echoed through the underground railway that had been closed for three days in Liberty City.

A station that didn't exist before has appeared...

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Chapter 152 Orange's Salty Fish Thrust

The subway line in Liberty City has been blocked for three days. Secret Service agents in black, along with some connected superhumans, are trying to figure out what's going on. But they've come up empty-handed.

If a haunted realm could be understood through research, then it wouldn't be called a haunted realm.

Each haunted realm is uniquely eerie and has no precedent for study.

Those small supernatural forces that relied on the federal government for their livelihood were so worried that their hair had turned white, and Colt was even more worried that his hair was falling out in clumps.

Besides worry, there was also sadness, after all, one of his generals and one temporary worker had both unfortunately fallen into a strange place and their fates were unknown.

Now it seems unlikely that he survives, especially since the orange cat that could have been a proof that Zhao Hao was still alive suddenly disappeared yesterday, which more likely means that Zhao Hao is dead.

Colt tugged at his hair in frustration. One moment he thought that if he had paid more attention to Marina's plan, she might not have ended up in this predicament. The next moment he thought that if he had given Zhao Hao extra work that day, he certainly wouldn't have died such a miserable death, leaving no trace of his body.

"Why is it always Marilena and Zhao Hao who are so unlucky! If it were anyone else who got caught up in this strange realm, I would accept being stripped of my entire career by the director! I would trade my career for your survival..."

Then they heard someone shouting from not far away, "Quick, look! A platform, a new platform!"

The person who shouted was a long-time subway worker. Normally, after something like this happens, the subway should be closed off, and ordinary people shouldn't be allowed to enter. The probability of someone's mental state being lowered in such a situation is too high.

But Colt and his team weren't professional subway workers; they knew nothing about subway operations and were completely lost in the tunnel.

The Liberty City subway operator simply sent ten experienced workers. As for problems... well, workplace injuries happen all the time anyway, so they'll just give you a little extra compensation.

The old worker pointed shakily at the mysterious platform that appeared not far away, his eyes wide with terror, and screamed, "No! No! There shouldn't be a platform here!" The old worker, who had worked in the subway tunnel for more than 20 years, could not believe his eyes.

If you look closely, you'll notice that his pupils are dilated and trembling violently.

Colt rushed over, grabbed the worker by the shoulder, turned him around, and then pulled out a "pen".

Hey, look here!

"Click~"

"You've just had an exceptionally tiring overtime shift. Go home and rest now; your boss will pay you triple wages. Sweet dreams~"

The old worker stood frozen for a few seconds after being struck by the flash of light, then muttered Colt's words and turned to walk toward the subway exit.

Colt immediately shouted, "What are you waiting for? Be on guard! Get your weapons ready!"

He could hear the rumble of the subway approaching in the distance, growing louder as it quickly entered the station.

"Could it be that you two came back alive? Cough cough, sorry, I was just kidding, don't take it seriously."

……

The fact that the magician McGeek was able to make rapid progress during the years when psionic energy was at its most dormant, even reaching the Black Iron 5-star level that ordinary superhumans could achieve at the time, shows that he was no ordinary person.

He even aims to be among the first superhumans to break through to the Bronze level in this great era of psionic resurgence.

Although it didn't succeed, it caused quite a stir.