Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1397: Disappearance (Large - Asking for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 1397: Chapter 1397: Disappearance (Large Chapter Asking for Monthly Votes)

The boiling lava surged into waves of fire, flowing in all directions, and at this moment, bright yellow dots of light slowly emerged through the flames.

Like water droplets gathering in the air, they formed a long river of light, falling into the scimitar in He Ao’s hand.

And as these yellow lights gathered, the boiling and spreading lava rapidly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only charred and molten steel debris and some associated newly formed lava around.

The intense heat spread under the silent night, burning the moonlight and neon lights into waves of distortion.

Vigina stared blankly at this scene, she opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but the thousand words in her mind seemed to turn into blankness at this moment.

She thought she had seen enough bizarre extraordinary powers and had a sufficient understanding of this extraordinary world.

But until this moment, she realized she knew nothing about this world.

The scene before her was something she had only thought would appear in mythological stories or epic fantasies, but now it was truly unfolding in front of her eyes.

The molten ground, the burning waves of fire, the light traversing the sky, and the figure standing under the brilliance.

The reality of it all was far more astonishing than any virtual reality film or game.

For a moment, she even felt that she and ’Paxiu’ were probably not in the same version.

While she was still playing the extraordinary duel version, others had already moved on to the epic fantasy.

As countless thoughts crossed Vigina’s mind, He Ao’s attention was focused on the yellow glow in the sky.

These glows were rapidly merging into the scimitar in his hand, altering the structure of the scimitar.

This was a part of the residual power of that ’demon’ giant.

Normally, this life that had received grace would have both its body and soul reclaimed by the great being bestowing the grace upon death.

But at this moment, there was a small ’flaw’ in the process.

The new moon scimitar in He Ao’s hand was originally part of the bull-horned giant’s horn, a transformation of its bodily structure.

The bull-horned giant could even to some extent control this new moon scimitar.

But later, He Ao inscribed a control array onto the scimitar, completely controlling it.

And He Ao already possessed an angel designation, pointing towards him, this scimitar underwent a certain metamorphosis, completely severing the ’control relationship’ with the B-level bull-horned giant.

From that moment, this scimitar was no longer a part of the bull-horned giant’s body, and the bull-horned giant couldn’t control it anymore.

At this point, it was merely a typical weapon snatch, but the problem lay in that although this scimitar was no longer part of the bull-horned giant, it was inherently a part of the bull-horned giant and had been used by it for a long time, carrying a strong connection in mysticism with it.

Moreover, considering He Ao’s high positional grade in terms of mysticism, the scimitar controlled by He Ao had a certain degree of ’control power’ over the residual power of the bull-horned giant.

And compared to the great being bestowing grace, He Ao was so much closer.

The mystical attraction that spans countless times and spaces, no matter how high the positional grade, would be severely weakened.

But this proximity of mystical attraction was almost unweakened.

Although mystical distance does not entirely equate to spacetime distance, according to He Ao’s observation, it can be approximately similar.

And all of this ultimately resulted in a large portion of the power that should have wholly belonged to the ’sacrificial’ bull-horned giant flowing into this scimitar.

Previously, He Ao had always displayed high positional grade power through transcendent items, never having encountered such a situation.

This was his first encounter with some kind of extra ’benefit’ because of his high positional grade.

Although this situation is challenging to replicate, after all, not all granters just happen to like to use a part of their body to craft a weapon, and furthermore, that part has a strong mystical connection to themselves.

It seems that there is still a bit of difference between the positional grade borrowed from external forces and the one obtained personally.

Allowing the yellow glow to flood into the blade, He Ao raised his hand.

Whoosh—

With the sound of scorching air vibrating, a massive sniper rifle fell from the sky, landing in He Ao’s hand.

This was the sniper rifle the scarred man had placed in front of the statue earlier.

Just as He Ao used a dagger to pierce an energy convergence point of the bull-horned giant, he consumed the divine sense covering the dagger, causing it to shatter.

However, the divine sense on the dagger was not completely consumed; some of it adhered to the shards of the blade, and during He Ao’s intense battle with the bull-horned giant, that divine sense took the opportunity to move next to this sniper rifle, infusing divine sense into the rifle.

This allowed He Ao to move the sniper rifle amidst the bull-horned giant’s collapse and the ubiquitous lava, preventing it from being melted by the lava.

This is also why He Ao ’designed’ the dagger to shatter, as the small fragments were less likely to be noticed in a fierce battle and could use the splatter from the dagger’s shattering to cover the fragments’ whereabouts.

Of course, He Ao could directly infuse divine sense into the sniper rifle remotely as well, which would be very straightforward and convenient, but the only drawback was the significant consumption of divine sense when done this way, much more than indirect infusion.

Using this indirect infusion method, the final effect achieved was the same, without affecting any battle tempo, and saved a large amount of divine sense.

Holding this heavy Gauss sniper rifle in one hand, He Ao inserted the scimitar into the scorching rock underfoot, extending his other hand to open the magazine.

This particular sniper rifle was produced by the Evis Spatial System, and although it seemed to have undergone some transcendent modifications, its basic structure had no solution.

The magazine of this sniper rifle could only hold two bullets but allowed one bullet to be loaded into the chamber, achieving the effect of having three bullets in the mechanism.

Additionally, the sniper rifle needed a short recharge time between two shots, basically consistent with He Ao’s previous speculations.

Currently, there was an ordinary high-explosive sniper bullet in this sniper rifle’s magazine, and He Ao opened the chamber, ejecting the bullet stuck in the chamber, another high-explosive sniper bullet.

The scarred man hadn’t lied; that really was his last extraordinary bullet just now.

If he’d had a few more bullets of that power, even if He Ao could use Ease Thought to modify his ’choices’ in the end, it might not have been so effortless to defeat him.

Yet this guy, as a sniper, had such formidable strength; it appears that assassination organization certainly had a ’violent’ assassination contingency plan.

Bringing his thoughts back, He Ao loaded the bullets and magazine into the sniper rifle.

He looked up at the still somewhat dazed Vigina, as the lingering melted lava was almost at Vigina’s feet.

"Cough," He Ao covered his mouth with a light cough, hoarsely saying, "Watch your step."

"Huh?" At this moment, Vigina suddenly snapped back to reality. She looked down at the lava beneath her feet and quickly stepped back a few paces, widening the distance.

He Ao, on the other hand, glanced at the hand filled with blood, gripped the sniper rifle with one hand, and stepped forward to stand in front of Vigina.

"What was that just now?" Vigina, now back to her senses, glanced at the lava on the ground and cautiously asked He Ao.

She had seen that massive horned giant while chasing in this direction, which led her down this path.

"An assassin," He Ao said casually, then handed the sniper rifle to Vigina.

"The ’explosion’ that attacked us was manufactured?" Vigina reached for the sniper rifle, feeling its heavy weight, and looked down at the barrel, "Was it bullets from this gun? Used to ’kill’ us?"

Although she was puzzled about what kind of bullet could have such power, looking at the lava on the ground and the unscathed He Ao, she felt her thoughts might be unnecessary.

The extraordinary world was too complex; now she felt nothing would surprise her anymore.

"It’s also the one used to kill the President." He Ao chimed in nonchalantly.

"What?!!!!" Vigina gripped the sniper rifle tightly and stared at He Ao with wide eyes, "So you mean..."

"Yes, this guy is the assassin who tried to kill the President," He Ao nodded lightly, continuing amidst Vigina’s stunned expression, "But unfortunately, he’s just a ’knife,’ knowing nothing about the assassination itself."

This scarred man was just like those who initially came to silence ’Paxiu,’ just completing tasks without knowing or wanting to know why they were done.

When first communicating with the scarred man, he did not detect his mind-reading ability, so He Ao gained much intelligence on the ’assassination.’

Firstly, the scarred man entered the red building directly on the day, and from his observations, it seemed the guards were arranged by the city government.

Even though He Ao had no experience in presidential security, he knew such protection was somewhat ’crude.’

The possible outcomes are either the city government is indeed negligent, not caring about the President’s life, or certain ’connections’ within the city government have been smoothed over.

And the old President was from Denno City, having connections with all walks of life there based on Paxiu’s memory.

Theoretically, the Denno City government should not ignore him.

Besides the assassination-time intelligence, He Ao also obtained partial details of today’s ’assassination.’

The scarred man had a communication device identical to Moli and the others.

The ’order’ he received was to ’snipe Paxiu and Vigina, and if sniping failed, execute them by other means.’ _{fr\(e)ew(e)b.(n)o (v)(e)l.com}

That’s why he deliberately lured He Ao here.

This order itself wasn’t unusual, but the accompanying information was very ’interesting.’

"Some kind of ’death warrior’?" Vigina recovered slightly from her shock, looking at the lava on the ground, "Yes, doing such things, it’s impossible to let the assassin know everything; if caught, they could spill everything,"

She looked at He Ao, "Doesn’t that break our clues?"

"It doesn’t," He Ao shook his head, glanced at Vigina, and said slowly, "Even though he knows nothing, those controlling him know everything, such a thing, even if kept secret, won’t have too many levels in between."

"You mean," Vigina realized, "The person giving orders may very well be the true ’mastermind’ behind this assassination? And the security minister’s ’superior’ could also be this person? But,"

Vigina frowned slightly, looking at the lava on the ground, "We don’t have any lead on this superior, and this guy doesn’t even know who his superior is."

"Actually, there is," He Ao looked at her, smiling, "Do you remember where he attacked us?"

"The Chief Executive Officer’s office?" Vigina was slightly taken aback, "What’s the ques──"

Then she quickly realized, her eyes widening as she looked at He Ao, "Only a very few Kewort Group executives know about accessing the vault from the top-floor Chief Executive Officer’s office."

She stopped mid-sentence, "No, the security minister might have told the mastermind, as he also knew where the vault was and how to get there."

"That security minister took only two years to become the Kewort Denno branch’s security minister and had the authority to enter the vault." He Ao spoke calmly beside her.

No matter how well someone covers their tracks, they will always leave traces in subtle places.

When the scarred man received orders to attack, He Ao and Vigina had just arrived at the Kewort Tower.

When required to aim at the Chief Executive Officer’s office, He Ao and they had just entered the vault.

The mastermind clearly grasped He Ao and Vigina’s movements, knowing exactly where they were and when they were at certain locations.

Of course, this might be achieved by acquiring indirect intelligence and making pre-judgments; He Ao often does such things himself.

However, combined with the security minister’s experience and the scarred man’s ’smoothness’ in attempted assassination on the President, a hypothesis can be made:

There’s a very high-ranking ’member’ of the assassination organization in Denno City, greatly reducing the assassination difficulty.

This ’member’ might be in the city government or the Kewort Group, but He Ao is more inclined toward the Kewort Group.

And Vigina also seemed to arrive at the same judgment as He Ao. After hearing his words, she briefly contemplated and said, "The person above them is very likely among the Kewort Group’s executives, possibly even among those we met."

"Not among those people." He Ao shook his head.

The executives who followed the silver-haired elder mainly were aligned with him, lacking real power in Denno City, so they were sent to work overtime in the building.

"Is that so?" Vigina was slightly taken aback, though she hadn’t figured out the key point, she knew He Ao must have a reason for saying so.

She nodded, clapping her hands and quickly said, "I’ll immediately dispatch people to ’bring in’ those executives who weren’t there tonight, including the Kewort Group’s Chief Executive Officer. This ’attack’ provides a perfect excuse to find them."

There was a bit of excitement on her face, evidently noting a significant breakthrough in the case.

Meanwhile, He Ao lightly coughed into his hand, looking at the New Moon Scimitar stuck in the stone, falling into brief thought.

Buzz——

At that moment, the walkie-talkie on Vigina’s waist buzzed. She picked it up, connecting the communication, "This is Vigina."

"Director, those Kewort Group executives said," a tense voice came from the other end, "Their Chief Executive Officer is missing."

"What?" Vigina was stunned.