San Tian Liang Jiao
Chapter 1031 The End is the Beginning
“Even if you tell me to be careful…” Brother Long replied, “I don’t even know what that new weapon of his does…”
That was the truth. Faced with a weapon or move encountered for the first time, what could he "be careful" of…
“You’ll find out soon enough.” At this moment, Feng Bujue took over the conversation, stepping off the ground and using the instantly activated [Spiritual Consciousness Gathering Technique – Modified] and [Moonwalk] to quickly catch up to Long Aotian.
“What’s going on…why is he prioritizing attacking Brother Long…” In that second, Greed Wolf's mind raced. "With his analytical abilities… he should have known the effects of the Orihalcon Shield before the match. Shouldn't he be dealing with me, who has weaker defense, at this moment?" Thinking of this, a very ominous thought flashed through Greed Wolf's mind. "Could it be… he's already figured out a way to break through the 'Orihalcon Qi'?"
Shua shua shua shua shua shua...
The next second, a series of dense sounds of wind being torn apart interrupted Greed Wolf’s thoughts. The expressions of him and Long Aotian also became a mixture of shock and horror in that instant…
Feng Bujue’s stack of playing cards sprayed outwards from his palm like a geyser, instantly launching hundreds, even thousands, of cards. Those cards were like black feathers… swirling and dancing in the air, enveloping the sky within a hundred-meter radius.
“Damn…that’s a lot!” Brother Long couldn't help but exclaim as he looked at the black cards filling the sky.
“Yes, that's exactly how many there are.” Feng Bujue replied, then clamped a black light card in each hand and launched a frenzied flurry of attacks at Brother Long's great shield.
“Trying to cut through the Divine Shield with just two cards…” At this moment, Brother Long’s blood was boiling. Knowing that he couldn’t escape the opponent's speed, he gritted his teeth and used [Protective Stone Skin] and [Touch Kill Rebirth], two defensive skills, to withstand the attacks. “…Then try it!”
The effect of the two skills was one to increase defense, and the other to slightly recover health when attacked. Both were continuous skills, lasting one minute and thirty seconds respectively, undoubtedly very advantageous skills when facing high-speed continuous attacks.
However…
“If that’s a Divine Shield…” Feng Bujue, after "seeing" the effect of the opponent's skills, didn't think much of it, “Then this is the Devil’s Card.”
Zheng zheng zheng zheng...
Before his voice faded, the Death Poker had already scratched black marks on the Orihalcon Shield.
The effect of [Card Assassination Technique], which "increases speed, strength, and accuracy by 300% when using card-type weapons to launch close combat," made each attack that Jue-ge unleashed possess extremely strong destructive power. Even if Brother Long used defensive skills, he still couldn't achieve "unbreakable defense."
Of course, even if his defense was broken, the damage Brother Long received was not too much. Relying on the health recovery effect of [Touch Kill Rebirth], the frequency of his health dropping could barely be maintained at about 5% every 3 seconds.
“Good…really powerful…” Long Aotian said while parrying, “But… even if you can gain the upper hand in a one-on-one fight with me, don’t forget I have a teammate, and… didn’t you say you wanted a quick victory? This kind of attack probably won’t achieve that, right?”
“Teammate?” Feng Bujue replied with a cold smile, “Are you talking about him?” As he spoke, he glanced at the sky to the side.
In that instant, Long Aotian was actually afraid. He was afraid to turn his head in the direction Jue-ge glanced; because he knew… something he didn't want to see had already happened over there.
“Ah——”
Finally, amidst Greed Wolf's miserable scream, Brother Long turned his head and saw… his teammate being torn into pieces by hundreds of living-like playing cards in mid-air.
The scene was like a swarm of locusts devouring crops, piranhas devouring prey… the black light cards surging in from all directions were impossible to block or dodge. Greed Wolf instantly turned into white light.
“You…” Long Aotian looked at Jue-ge and said "you," but he couldn't think of anything else to say next.
He and Greed Wolf were not careless or slack, nor did they underestimate the enemy. They fought with all their strength, but lost… lost in the simplest thing – strength.
“Brother Long, we’re old acquaintances.” Feng Bujue said, “I said 100%… didn’t lie to you, right?”
“Heh…” Hearing this, Long Aotian smiled, and was also relieved. Even though he hadn't been killed yet, he understood that when those black cards surged towards him, everything would be over. The Orihalcon Shield couldn't resist this kind of all-round, no-dead-angle attack.
“Brother Feng, you’re different from when you were in S1…” Two seconds later, Brother Long continued, “This time in the competition… I truly felt that you ‘want to win.’”
“Indeed…” As Jue-ge responded, his offensive didn’t stop, “… Because of various reasons, I have to be a little more serious.”
“Hahahaha…” Long Aotian laughed, “But, the matches later on… aren’t something you can definitely ‘win’ just because you ‘want to win.’”
“No, I will win.” As Feng Bujue said this, streams of dark data flowed through his eyes, “I will use my hands to open up the future, to obtain what I want, to change this world.”
Objectively speaking… his words were quite chuuni, so many chuuni viewers were excited after hearing them.
“You can’t do these things with just a championship title, right?” Brother Long asked in a deep voice.
“Heh…” Jue-ge smiled coldly, replying with implied meaning, “Brother Long, you and I both know… this isn’t just a game, is it?”
As soon as these words came out, Long Aotian’s expression changed.
But before he had time to say anything, he was hit by the black cards attacking from behind, and his body was quickly devoured, turning into light and dissipating…
…………
On the other hand, outside the [Chaos].
After the midnight bell rang, Gu Xiaoling held a copy of the translated incantation that Xiao Tan had copied, and a charm in the other hand, and began to chant.
Li Ruoyu was responsible for guarding her, ready for battle. Although Dracula had retreated to a place more than ten meters away, standing there motionless very properly, the players would never let their guard down until the ritual was fully effective.
[Current Quest Completed, All Main Quests Completed]
[You have completed this scenario. Automatic teleportation will occur in 180 seconds]
When the chanting reached the final stage, two system prompts suddenly appeared in the ears of Ruoyu and Xiaoling.
They immediately understood that Jue-ge had ended the battle with the Blade; just like he said before leaving… he could solve the enemy within three minutes after midnight.
However, the two of them chose to remain calm and continue to maintain the status quo.
Before long, Xiaoling finished reading the incantation. Almost at the same time as she uttered the last word, a black hole the size of a human eye appeared above the charm…
“Now! Quickly throw the charm into the [Chaos]!” Dracula had already prepared himself at this time, shouting loudly at the two players.
[Side Quest Completed] The system voice also announced that all of their quest lines in this scenario had been completely completed.
At this time, the players had no scruples. Xiaoling glanced at Ruoyu, and the latter nodded, so Xiaoling followed what the Count said… and threw the charm into the [Chaos] entrance surging with black energy.
At that moment, an abnormal wave bloomed from the entrance, causing a mental impact on every living being in the entire space.
Fortunately, that feeling was fleeting, and some people didn't even notice the changes that had occurred in this world.
“Thank you… travelers from another world…” As Dracula said this, he was already kneeling on one knee, wrapping himself in his cloak, and his whole body began to tremble, “Now, if you don’t want to die… run for your lives!”
Whether he said this or not was debatable, because he had only said half a sentence when Ruoyu and Xiaoling had already started running…
The expansion speed and gravity of that “Gate of Purgatory” was truly exaggerated, not only did it expand its radius to more than five meters in the blink of an eye, but it also quickly sucked in everything it touched.
Fortunately, both of these two from Hell’s Frontline had magic broomsticks in hand, and flew far away in a puff of smoke, arriving a hundred meters away.
At this time, many viewers watching the game were wondering why Ruoyu and Xiaoling could just leave the scenario directly through "teleportation," why did they have to run?
In fact, the answer is very simple… After experiencing so many things, they really wanted to see if what Dracula had said in that long speech earlier was true, and… what would happen to this scenario world.
“Purgatory… witness my last strength!” They saw the Count, who had always maintained his demeanor, roar wildly. His trembling figure suddenly changed, expanding into a huge monster that seemed to be a mixture of many demons.
It seemed that everything he said was true. After revealing his demon king true form, Dracula really actively jumped into the Gate of Purgatory, and spread his limbs, releasing earth-shattering demonic energy, suppressing the expansion of the gate.
What he had to do… was to support it for a moment, until the spatial rift woven from chaos and divinity not far away expanded to a size larger than the Gate of Purgatory; at that time, the latter would no longer be able to reverse the gap, and the Count… as he said himself, if he was lucky, he could retreat into Purgatory.
Zi zi zi zi…
That spatial rift also lived up to expectations, its speed of derivation was faster than the Count expected, it seemed that it would be able to surpass the scale of the Gate of Purgatory in less than a minute.
But… the development of things really exceeded Dracula’s calculations. Even if he was one of the top demon kings in Purgatory, he was still like an ant in the face of the power of the entire space. His act of an ant trying to shake a tree made himself miserable and burdened, and failed to completely prevent the expansion of the gate…
“Ugh… this…” Thirty seconds later, Dracula was actually forced back into human form, and he was bleeding from all seven orifices, his whole body trembling violently, “… Could it be… that I will ultimately not be able to escape this cycle…”
Just at this moment, suddenly!
“Uh——” a low groan sounded, and a figure appeared next to the Count.
“You…” The Count didn’t turn his head, but already knew who it was.
The Mummy couldn’t speak, he just silently contributed his share of strength, grabbing the edge of the Gate of Purgatory.
Then, the second and third figures appeared.
The Werewolf and Gillman also emerged from the vortex of Purgatory, pulling on the edge of the black hole together with the Count.
Two seconds later, Frankenstein also came to the door and joined them without saying a word.
“You…” The Count’s pressure was immediately reduced a lot, and he seemed to be able to hold on, but he still said with a miserable smile, “Old friends… you may disappear because of this…”
Indeed, each of these classic monsters from the old movies possessed considerable power. However, even if the five monsters joined forces, they could only barely stop the expansion of the gate, and the energy of each of them was rapidly disappearing…
Seeing that the contrast between the space-time rift and the Gate of Purgatory was about to reverse, and the monsters had reached their limit, just when they thought there was nothing they could do…
“I never thought…” Another voice sounded from the edge of Purgatory, “There would be such a day…”
The person speaking was a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and black vest, with a goatee. His name was – Van Helsing.
“I… actually stood by your side.” Van Helsing became the sixth person to come to the door, joining Dracula and his group.
Now, he was naturally a亡魂 (wánghún, deceased soul), a 亡魂 (wánghún, deceased soul) who had wandered in Purgatory for a hundred years.
“Heh…” The Count smiled, “I just ‘did what I should do… and what I could do.’”
These were the words Van Helsing had said to him a century ago. Today, Dracula finally understood Van Helsing’s state of mind at the time.
Van Helsing was silent for half a second, and then said: “Let us…”
The Count continued: “…End all of this.”
A few seconds later, the space-time rift finally exceeded the edge of the Gate of Purgatory, and began to devour the power of the gate in reverse.
The six figures in the door also retreated tacitly after a simple exchange, and were swept into the vortex of Purgatory.
Seeing this, Ruoyu and Xiaoling chose to leave the scenario, because they felt that the plot was almost over, and the rest was probably a scene where the scenario map collapsed…
Sure enough, after they turned into light and left, two super-temporal energies were like two violent beasts…展开厮杀 (zhǎnkāi厮杀, engaged in a fierce battle) in this land of oblivion, and the winner was determined in an instant.
In the end, only a very small black spot remained in mid-air. In an instant, it released a hundred times the implosion force of the two "gates" just now, and swept the entire castle into it in a few seconds…
…………
Fifteen seconds later, Feng Bujue opened his eyes in a primitive world composed of data streams.
Yes, he didn’t teleport, he stayed in the scenario until the last second.
So, he came here.
“You… how is that possible!” At this moment, not far from Feng Bujue, stood a figure. When he saw Jue-ge, he showed a look of astonishment.
That "person" looked about thirty years old, with white hair that reached his neck; his head had the skin and appearance of a normal human, but everything below his neck was made of a mercury-like material, as if it were liquid metal that had just solidified, with outlines but no details.
“Infinite…” Feng Bujue directly called out the other party’s name, “Our last conversation doesn’t seem to be over yet…” Without waiting for the other party to reply, he continued, “The ‘second method’ you didn’t finish saying, the method to kill you… I’ve roughly deduced it.” He paused, “Is it to erase you at the server level through formatting?”