Damn it! Let’s smash the darkness together!
Chapter 414 - 98 Lance: You think you can leave without taking my crystal today? (Vote for monthly ticket)_3

Chapter 414: Chapter 98 Lance: You think you can leave without taking my crystal today? (Vote for monthly ticket)_3

"You, why do you resemble her so much? Could it be, you two, share some blood relation?!" Xu Shu deliberately said so.

This hit the mark accidentally, and Earl Lance looked at Xu Shu with a shocked expression, "Compassion? Me? No, this, it’s impossible..."

I, Lance, a third-stage alien species, have eaten more than a hundred people!

And now I’m breaking down in tears because of a logically absurd story?

He muttered to himself, his rational mind telling him it was impossible to feel any sorrow for a human catastrophe.

But the tears streaming down his face could not lie to anyone.

This was too damn maddening, today’s tears were surely more than the sum of urine I’ve peed in the past eighteen years!

The tears had begun to blur his vision, and Lance started to cover his face.

At that moment, he plunged into an immense panic and confusion, his core values profoundly shaken, and his emotions violently clashing with reason.

Seeing this, the "shocked" expression on Xu Shu’s face suddenly disappeared.

His gaze swept over the Tai Chu Scroll’s props section, and Xu Shu smiled confidently.

Now was the moment!

Currently, among his items, not a single one was capable of a strong attack, at least none like the Final Twilight that could outright level jump and kill the Black Widow with a powerful forbidden curse.

And "[Boundless Love (Excellent)]" and "[Widow’s Sorrow (Excellent)]", on their own, could not have such an outstanding effect.

But when combined, they offered a chance for him to escape into the borderlands.

At that moment, as the Black Widow Count Lance was utterly engulfed by confusion, the transparent plastic socks on Xu Shu’s feet began to exert force, generating wisps of ice and snow.

The item: "[Walk in the Snow (Fine)]"!

This too was an artifact with a specific advantage against the widows; it might have not been originally meant to be worn on the feet as socks, but placed elsewhere could greatly enhance speed and launch attacks from various angles.

If used against a true widowed woman, it might even serve as an offensive artifact.

Of course, Xu Shu could not use it against Lance like that now.

Not to mention that he was male, even if he were a female black widow, it wouldn’t be possible to attack him like that—fine-class artifacts couldn’t kill a third-stage being.

So he used Walk in the Snow purely as a buff-type item.

Within ten seconds, his agility and speed would be greatly enhanced.

There was no time to explain any further.

Whoosh!

Xu Shu burst forth.

At this very moment, he was an arrow released from the bow, a shell burst open, a snow leopard pouncing upon its prey!

His target was inside the border.

The scenery around him wildly retreated, becoming a blur, the speed reaching its limit, the border now within reach.

But just then, a powerful suction grasped Xu Shu, like a goose struck in the neck, he plummeted from mid-air and crashed heavily onto the ground.

"Deceitful human, you’ve fooled me again, aaaaah!"

Lance leaped forward, his foot landing on Xu Shu’s back.

Still with tears on his face, his eyes now burned with rage and indifference, "Dare to move again, and die!"

Saying this, he branded down fiercely, crushing the Jingwei Shield that Xu Shu had activated, shattering his skin, merging into his flesh, and emitting a sizzling sound of flesh being seared.

"Damn!"

Xu Shu gritted his teeth.

Damn it, just eighteen centimeters short.

Just that little bit and I would have made it in!

Yet, at this point, he knew it was over.

He had played his last card, and still, it was one move short.

The gap between First Rank and Third Rank was despairingly wide.

As a strange power rose within him, he shattered the invasive slave brand on his back and expelled it from his body—declaring the "forced ownership" branding ceremony a failure.

"Impossible, how can you, so weak, resist my brand..." Lance paused, then his tear-stained eyes widened as he seemed to understand something, and he said indifferently, "No, my Empress, she actually, actually..."

Seeing this, Xu Shu inwardly sighed, resigned to his fate.

The fact that he had "consumed" the Black Widow Empress had been exposed.

Now he was surely done for.

But still, he decided to make a last-ditch struggle.

"Count Lance, crying for so long must have made you thirsty, have some water. Drink this, and you’ll quench your thirst," Xu Shu said while being pressed down so hard that his organs ruptured and he spat out blood, passing over a transparent water bottle—"[Self-cutting Meridians (Epic)]".

But Lance was not fooled.

"Human, you must die! You dared to destroy the last hope of my kind; I will tear you into pieces!" Furious beyond measure, Lance pressed down harder, about to crush Xu Shu completely.

Just at that moment.

A hand reached out from the side, holding back Lance, preventing him from applying further force, uncontrollably pushing him several steps back.

Then, a gentle and bright female voice came to Xu Shu’s ear:

"This alien benefactor, please release my comrade."