Chapter 1345 You Can't Win

“Tch… if my scanning program hadn’t been damaged, this level of illusion…” V1-God of War muttered unhappily to himself, watching the giant claw bearing down on him.

He knew very well that this was an illusion created by Freddy. In normal times, he could easily download the control strategy and crack it with a simple invasive scan.

But now… V1-God of War could only helplessly change his attack, meeting the illusion in mid-air.

Whirr—

The fist passed through the giant claw, only stirring up the sound of scattering fallen leaves.

The next second, the giant steel claw glove transformed into countless flesh-colored moths, which attached themselves to V1-God of War’s body.

When the moths spread their wings, the patterns on their backs resembled human faces… grotesque and terrifying.

“Ah ha ha ha…” Freddy’s laughter echoed in the air, “You can never defeat this nightmare!”

“Utterly boring!” V1-God of War immediately roared, expanding his body and launching an indiscriminate light burst attack.

In an instant, a circular sphere of light with a radius of ten meters spread out from V1’s body… The destructive energy annihilated everything it touched into dust.

“Well done, hehehe…” Freddy’s laughter was still there, “Let me see… how many times can you do something like that?”

As he spoke, more than a dozen giant steel claw gloves gradually extended from the surroundings of the rooftop, surrounding the area.

“Hmph… don’t get carried away.” V1-God of War sneered, slowly raising his left arm and pointing towards his side and behind, “Your company’s ‘Fear Energy Storage Furnace’… is in that direction, right…”

“You…” Freddy panicked in an instant.

“It’s easy for him to investigate this kind of thing.” Feng Bujue interjected at this time, “Power supply systems, monitoring systems, broadcasting systems… he can just invade one at random, and deduce the structure of the entire building through the circuit layout. In addition… he can also do this by simply performing visual progressive observation from the data level, it just takes more time.”

Freddy felt a sense of vague awesomeness at Brother Jue’s explanation. He didn’t have time to think about it carefully, because he had to stop V1-God of War from acting before he made a move.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh…

The steel claws suspended in mid-air simultaneously pressed down against the wind, like a dozen long-necked behemoths bowing their heads to compete for food.

However, V1-God of War had a disdainful expression on his face.

Ignoring the attacks coming from above, he directly used his raised left hand to launch an energy shock in the direction he was pointing.

Half a second later, a beam of light like a spear burst out from his fingertip, and many small light circles resembling springs were wrapped around the beam.

This move didn’t look as exaggerated as V1-God of War’s previous energy waves, but Feng Bujue could see the horror of this attack.

Boom boom boom boom…

At this moment, all the steel claws fell and all hit… V1-God of War’s body was torn into several pieces and covered by a cloud of rising smoke.

The energy shock successfully penetrated everything blocking its path and successfully hit the Fear Energy Storage Furnace located in the far distance.

“Did he use the skill he learned from the NPC?” Feng Bujue stood in the wind and said calmly.

“Yes… although it goes against my intentions…” V1-God of War’s voice sounded from the smoke, “But in this situation, I don’t think it’s necessary to adhere to some meaningless principles.”

“No, you haven’t violated any principles.” Feng Bujue replied, “Don’t forget, you are data… following the most reasonable way to operate is your basic principle.”

“Hehe… that sounds like it makes some sense.” V1-God of War replied with a smile.

As they spoke, the smoke gradually dissipated.

Along with the smoke, all the illusions created by Freddy also dissipated.

“Tch… just a little bit more…” At this moment, Freddy’s voice had returned to its normal volume, and his figure also appeared on the rooftop.

“Your abilities are indeed very tricky, Freddy.” V1-God of War turned his head and looked at the other party, “Unfortunately… the weakness is also obvious, that is, you need ‘Fear Energy’ to activate it.” As he spoke, he moved his neck a few times, allowing his body to better fit (V1 was still repairing his body), “When dealing with ordinary humans, you will take advantage of the other party falling asleep or being distracted to infiltrate their deep consciousness and use their own fear to complete the killing.” He paused for a moment, “When facing enemies like me, you can only rely on external energy sources. Hehe… therefore, destroying your energy supply is equivalent to abolishing your abilities.”

“Don’t be complacent…” Freddy looked at V1-God of War with a ferocious gaze, “The show has only just begun…”

Before he finished speaking, seven more strange figures jumped onto (or directly appeared on) the rooftop from all directions, surrounding the invincible Derivative.

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Let’s split the scene and look at the underground of the power company.

“Aiya~ Aiya~” Tarrium looked at the light patterns on Xiao Tan’s arm and showed a look of amazement, “No wonder I could feel your presence from so far away… this is incredible.”

“There used to be a wound here, and it was infiltrated by Time Dust.” Xiao Tan raised his left hand and pointed to the blood line on his palm with his middle finger, “I’m not very clear about what happened afterwards.”

“Oh?” Tarrium’s expression changed slightly, his four eyeballs rolled strangely twice, “Hehe… interesting…”

“You seem to know something.” Xiao Tan said, “Can you explain it to me?”

“Um… I can, I can.” Tarrium strolled a few steps leisurely, “But… what benefits can I get from doing that?”

“Spare you from death.” A cold voice sounded, responding to Tarrium’s question.

“Hahaha…” Tarrium looked in the direction of the voice, “Just with…” The words stopped abruptly at this point.

In this instant, Tarrium’s eyes met Ruoyu’s eyes.

The eye contact between the two only lasted for two seconds, and these two seconds… were enough…

“Heh… hehe…” Tarrium quickly shifted his gaze, cold sweat appeared on his forehead, and he stammered a little, “I… I understand…”

At this moment, among the five people present, Greed Wolf and Weary Dream were still confused about what was happening in front of them. The other three seemed very calm…

“Ahem…” Tarrium quickly cleared his throat to relieve some of the embarrassment, and then he took the opportunity to restore his usual tone and said to Xiao Tan, “That… according to common sense, after Time Dust enters the blood, it will quickly take away the ‘time’ of the tissues near the wound, causing irreversible necrosis. And that’s not the end of it… If you don’t cut off the infected area as soon as possible and let it develop naturally, then… it won’t be long before the dust reaches the heart through the blood vessels and then flows throughout your body…”

“But I was injured a long time ago.” Xiao Tan responded.

“Um… I know.” Tarrium continued, “The reason why your hand didn’t develop according to that situation is probably related to the special nature of you interdimensional travelers in the space-time dimension. I’m not very clear about this point.” He paused for two seconds, “But I think… it must be because of this reason that the effect of Time Dust ‘taking away time’ was stopped.”

“In this way…” Little Ling interjected, “… does Time Dust that enters the blood have other effects?”

“Yes.” Tarrium’s expression straightened, and he replied, “Assuming… Time Dust enters the body of some powerful high-level creature, there are usually two reactions… First, the dust is suppressed by the creature’s own power and completely fails; Second… the effect of the dust ‘taking away time’ is suppressed, but the effect of ‘awakening time’… is gradually released…”

“Oh~” When Xiao Tan heard this, he seemed to understand something, and muttered, “So that’s how it is…”

What Xiao Tan recalled at this moment was the scene in the Peak Hegemony… when Ruote used tendriL_BArrAre_devAstAtor. At that time, Xiao Tan used the [Heaven and Earth Reversal Divine Art] to escape into the air, but it was obvious that he could not escape. At that moment, the flow of time around him suddenly slowed down… When he came back to his senses, he found that he had risen to a height of more than a hundred meters away from Ruote…

Now that he thinks about it, at that time… he should have unconsciously released the power of his left hand, thus obtaining "extra time" and barely escaping the disaster.

“That’s pretty much the situation…” Tarrium said in an ambiguous tone, and added, “Actually, you can get this information by just finding a Time Official-level guy.” The subtext behind his last sentence was "So you don't need to suspect that I'm fooling you."

“Very good.” Xiao Tan regained his usual expression and said kindly, “Thank you.”

The corner of Tarrium’s mouth twitched twice: “Heh… it’s nothing.”

What he was thinking in his heart at this moment was actually: “So unlucky… I knew I shouldn’t have come, just let you play with that miscellaneous fish, what’s it to me!”

“Um… you don’t have to be polite, you should be thanked, you also helped us kill that giant monster.” Weary Dream also said at this time.

“Oh… that one…” Tarrium replied weakly, “That is indeed just a miscellaneous fish…” As he spoke, he raised his head and glanced around, “This place… is actually the garbage disposal room on the bottom floor of the building, you should know it by smelling the smell… and that miscellaneous fish is a primitive giant monster that specializes in eating garbage, which can be seen everywhere in the Monster Kingdom. The bottom floor of large public facilities usually raises one. Normally speaking, its personality is quite docile, but the one in front of us is aggressive because it is controlled by Derivatives.”

“So that’s how it is…” Greed Wolf thoughtfully replied, “No wonder it grew up like that… the structure of its legs and body, as well as the mouths on the upper and lower sides, were all evolved in order to eat garbage…”

“Okay… if you don’t have anything else to do, I’ll take a step first… I just felt the fluctuations of ‘Time Power’ and came over to take a look, I still have something to do…” When Tarrium said this, his eyes were always fixed on the three-member team of Hell Front.

“Let’s go.” Ruoyu thought for two seconds and replied faintly.

When Tarrium heard this, he felt as if he had been granted amnesty: “Heh… hehe… then… goodbye.” He cautiously and unhurriedly retreated, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

Even in front of the head of all demons, he had never been so timid…

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At the same moment, on the rooftop.

“The Eight Great Ghost Kings, huh…” V1-God of War stared with his huge eyeball, slowly turning and moving in place.

Although he had temporarily lost the assistance of invasive scanning and automatic tactical analysis programs, he could still use visual scanning to quickly collect the data of these eight monsters and use real-time analysis mode to formulate combat strategies.

D1-Dragon, also a Source, does not possess such abilities…

As the “strongest” work born for battle, V1-God of War truly deserves it.

“Hehehe…” Freddy raised his hand at this time, used the steel claw to lift his hat, looked at V1 and smiled, “My old friends and I… haven’t been together for many years. Today, we’ll let you see… what is true fear and despair!”

“Don’t be too careless, Scarface.” Before V1 could reply, Feng Bujue turned his face and preemptively said to Freddy, “Judging from the current situation, the outcome is difficult to predict…” The black streamers in his eyes flickered at high speed, “I estimate… your chances of winning are about 48%…”