Chapter 447

Chapter 447: 447

“hmm?” At that moment, another ROOT raised her head to look at the sky. Suddenly something dawned on her... in few seconds, her expression changed, “What’s happening!”

Warning: Discovery of high energy reaction

Data Analysis: Pegasasu Ryūsei Ken!

Tactical defence option: ???

Survival Rate: 0 percent

“How is that...” The ROOT with the energy ball gasped in shock. “That kind of trashy skill... has a 0 percent survival rate?”

“impossible...” The other ROOT added, “His many points are at their bottom. He is so seriously injured that he has difficulty breathing. How is it that he can use any skill...”

“Blasphemous!” ROOTs growled and whipped her arm forward. The energy ball soared towards the sky. At that moment, everyone stopped their battle... they all turned in unison to the sky. Even the audience in the livestream held their breath to see this moment. But, the expected light explosion... did not happen.

“It disappeared?” Including the two ROOTs, everyone was asking this question.

Of course, this kind of attack would not evaporate into thin air... it was merely... consumed by the energy latent within the body of the universe.

Several seconds passed...

In the night sky, among the stars, that bit of light, soared like a shooting star.

“Heroes... will never admit defeat...” The man who was bludgeoned beyond repair mumbled as he fell, pulled by gravity.

“Heroes... will never give up...” It drained him deeply to even speak but the determination and passion in his eyes never wavered.

“Is it the awakening of Soul’s Eyes?” The two ROOTs said in unison. The shock on their faces was also perfectly replicated. “Such ridiculous Soul’s Eye should not exist! The calculation and formula does not add up!”

“Ah!!!” Pegasus burned through the last store of his energy, worked his arms and shouted loudly. “Pegasasu Ryūsei Ken!”

It was still that same skill because the man only knew that one skill. But does it really matter in the end?

For heroes, the skill never mattered in the first place.

...

“Hue hue hue hue... Well, this sure is surprising...” Woody in the conference room looked at the livefeed and laughed. “The one person that no one betted on somehow became the key person in this scenario...”

“Hah... These human beings are always full of surprises, aren’t they?” Vincent continued.

Sid who sat to the side counted on his fingers and said, “Then... the miscalculation has been corrected right?” He paused. “Xu Huai Shang that did not get into the final and Yama who has already used dragon slave, the responsibility that they had basically had been completely by Pegasus alone.”

“Hue hue hue... not entirely.” Woody replied. “Actually, the name list of the ‘ten’ is merely a safety precaution to raise the success rate of the plan. Base don the players’ different skill, item, character status and playing habit, an overall calculation and analysis had been done... to select these ten people to specifically counter the ten different forms that ROOT would have.” He explained further. “Theoretically speaking, it does not even matter even if none of the ten got into the final. As long as one of the players, the anomalies or the NPC manage to destroy one of ROOT’s forms with their own power, then the result that it will lead to will be the same.”

“I am very curious... what if a wrench was thrown into the plan, and caused ROOT’s intention to dominate the world to succeed?” Sid asked.

“Hue Hue hue... then it will be even more interesting to observe...” Woody pushed on his glasses. “What kind of world will the human world turns into...”

“Hey... you did not really answer my question, did you...” Sid pressed. “That just sounds like I do not care ‘what will happen to this world’.”

“Perhaps that is exactly the attitude that he holds...” Vincent offered. “After all, this is not a mission given by Satan, to be frank, it does not matter who wins... It does not matter what is the result...” He scoffed. “First the man went to ROOT to tell her, ‘this is the stage that I have provided for you Origin, have as much as fun as you can.’ Then after the match-making has been messed during the Battle of the Butterfly, the man went to unload on Feng Bujue...”

“oh... so I have been seen through all along...” Woody gasped in fake shock.

“Naturally...” Vincent said, “The excuse that you used, ‘it is to prevent Feng Bujue from digging further into the secret of Wang family that I had no choice but to interact with him’, that just sounds like a blatant lie on the surface... you really think Simon can’t see through that? He was just too tired to care about it.” His finger knocked several times on the table. “The bunch of people from Heaven... had just done something guilty so they did not dare to stand forward to question you for what you have done... but what they did not know what you have been hoping for them to do exactly that and you have been allowing them to do that because it worked perfectly into your own plan...”

“Hue hue hue.... Fine...” Woody shrugged. “It does not matter that I am exposed or not... no matter how the situation is laid down... the most important thing is whether the ‘process is interesting or not’ right?”

“Perhaps.” Vincent looked a good long look at Woody and then he turned his focus back to the screen.

...

And now back to the battle in the city...

Suddenly four shadows darted out from the street. They moved like water, and their attack fiery as fire. They cut through the circle of Anomalies and it did not take long for them to deal with the group of Anomalies and gave a new breathe into the battle.

“You’re finally here....” Seeing the arrival of reinforcement, Uncle Worthless could not help the sigh of relief that escaped from her lips. He went down on one knee and the breath sounded hollow in his chest...

After such a long continuous battle, and he was dealing with 10 Anomalies on his own, even Uncle Worthless could only hold on for so long. The revive ability through the sunglasses could not be used repeatedly within a short period of time so at this moment, he could not receive any more fatal damage.

“I am sorry... we ran into quite some resistance along the way and that gave us quite some delay...” Shiva said as he took a quick around. He looked at the dead bodies that were ravaged beyond recognition but based on their guild logos, he could have a good guess of who they were.

“Even Smiling Divine Question is...”

“Not only him... even our Lying Drunk is dead.” Zen Dream got the chance to catch his breath and the first thing he did was to pull out a cigarette, dangle it on his lips and light it up. “But his carcass is so chopped up that you won’t be able to see it.”

Hearing that, Shiva’s face shifted. He looked around for a few more seconds before he asked, “Where is Phantom Dawn?”

“He flew away.” Zen Dream replied. “But he is... probably still alive... so he will... eventually return.” He took out a can of beer and tossed back a generous gulp. “Burp... Hopefully we will be alive until then.”

“I have great suspicion...” ROOT’s voice returned as they expected. “...with regards to that.” This time, she had turned into a giant, metallic looking snowflake.

“What the hell is this?” Shiva asked.

“This is the leader of the Anomalies that we have encountered all over the scenario.” Uncle Worthless answered. “In any case... she seems to possess many different forms and every time she dies, she will transform into a different form.”

“And this is her...” Shiva prompted.

“Fourth form.” ROOT helped Uncle Worthless answer this question, “and the end of your life...”

“Ha ha ha...” Uncle Worthless laughed drily for three times. Then, he suddenly focused and turned on the offense without warning. “Mafuba!” This attack was indeed suddenly. Before the pool of green light appeared, no one suspected anything. Actually... the few seconds of relaxation that Uncle Worthless showed earlier was done purposely to numb the enemy. The eyes under his sunglasses had never left the movement of his enemy. Even when he was being surrounded by the other Anomalies, his eyes had been following ROOT. The gaze that Lying Drunk had before he delivered his fatal blow was fresh in his mind. Uncle Worthless knew that if he was able to seal the enemy with this skill, then the battle would be over. Therefore, this was a bet that he was willing to place his life on.

Hong..

The sound of energy collision signified that Mafuba had hit its target. But... the color drained from Uncle Worthless’ face. It was like he had turned into a ghost. That was because he did not hit ROOT but he hit a normal Level 3 Anomaly. This Anomaly from Origin from very close to ROOT. When the light beam from Mafuba rushed towards his leader, he leaped into the attack and managed to successfully block the attack.

“Damn it...” Uncle Worthless sighed weakly. Since he had already hit a target, there was nothing he could do about it but to finish the skill that he had already started. He pushed his palms together and then threw them open and with a swing of his arms, shoved the Anomaly into the rice cooker. Uncle Worthless wanted to run towards the rice cooker to slam the lid close but at that moment... his life point dropped to zero.

“I am so... sorry... I...” Uncle Worthless was unable to finish his dying words. With a trip, he crumbled to the ground and his sunglasses shattered into blinding shards.

Zen Dream turned around and with a dart, moved to close the rice cooker by stepping on the lid. “Aiz... so be it...”

Hmm hmm hmm hmmm...

“Move your leg...” ROOT’s voice came from inside the giant snowflake. At the same time, a hexagram prism the size of a palm materialized before her and it was buzzing like a thousand of bees. “...Away!”

Tsk hmm...

With this strange sound, a light beam shot out from the hexagram prism. When Zen Dream realized what was happening, the part below his right knee had already been severed...

To be able to amputate Brother Zen without him realizing it, that went to show the immense speed of this light beam. At that moment, Zen Dream did something that surprised everyone, he laughed. He laughed like he had no care in the world.

“Ha ha ha ha.... Run....” He said, as he tossed another gulp of beer into his mouth. When the moment his leg was cut off, Zen Dream came to the realization of many things. It was why he would come up with these dying words.

Tsk hmm—another sound echoed.

There was a hole about the size of a bowl that appeared on the centre of Zen Dream’s chest. Even if he had two complete legs, he would not be able to avoid this attack much less when he only had one leg remaining.

“Even Quick Bell has been killed...” ROOT said. “Looks like you guys are not as weak as I thought, thankfully I have made all the preparation already...”

The four from Brahman naturally did not understand what she was talking about. Of course, even if it was someone else, they might not understand her either. The ‘preparation’ that ROOT mentioned referred to the level 3 Anomalies that had currently surrounded them. Naturally, they did not come here because they heard or saw the commotion of the battle. If that was the case, they would have arrived when ROOT was fighting the leader of the demons. In reality... the Anomalies gathered at this place because ROOT gave them the command to do so.

Before ROOT pushed Phantom Dawn down the horizon, she said something along the lines of ‘since it has already been decided that it will you... then things will be much simpler,’ it was at that moment that she gave all the Anomalies from Origin a silent command through her mind telepathically—instantly kill or escape from the enemy that you are fighting at the moment. No matter the enemy is a player of an NPC, return to the Blast Tunnel from the east side to help with the battle as soon as possible.

It was also at that moment that Red Iron had just shown up and the players had just finished her in her twin form. Even though ROOT managed to deliver a heavy blow on Red Iron given the first chance she got but she still had this reservation left... the main reason was to prevent something like Mafuba. Theoretically, she needed to eliminate any possibility that might cause her plan to fail. And thus the situation that happened earlier happened.

The four from Brahman was already way past their optimum status. While they were on the way here, they had been ambushed many time by many level 3 Anomalies and a level 2 Anomaly. To deal with them, they had exhausted quite some skill and Life Points.

Currently, they looked to be surrounded by more than 20 enemies and that included ROOT in her fourth form and this was already the worst of the worst. However... that was not even the worst that it could get. The other Anomalies from Origin were still hurrying here from the other parts of the city. In the few minutes after the four had arrived, about another 5 to 6 Anomalies had joined the fray.

And with regards to Red Iron... The man had lost without a trace after he disengaged from Quick Bell, who knew where he had gone into hiding to deal with his injury.

And with the situation could not getting any worse... suddenly...