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Chapter 388: The Shattered Array (Long - Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 388: Chapter 388: The Shattered Array (Long Chapter Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Almost as soon as He Ao made his move, the maid standing behind Elijah also leaped up at the same time.

In her hand, a slender knight’s sword appeared from nowhere, which seemed to have been kept behind Elijah all this time; her stepping back was not just for healing, but also for retrieving the sword.

A silver knight’s sword wrapped in an orange glow slashed towards He Ao.

He Ao raised his hand, and his two swords formed an X-shape to catch the attack.

At this moment, he was already very close to the first Energy Point.

Within this core Ritual Array, He Ao had identified a total of five special Energy Points: three in the midpoint of the triangle’s three sides, one at the triangle’s center, and one in the center of the pupil within the triangle’s embedded eye.

These Energy Points formed an array with energy flowing between them, constituting the energy core of the entire Ritual Array.

The array formed by these five points was very stable. He Ao estimated that destroying one point would still allow the array to remain operational. The specific conditions under which it would collapse could only be discovered by destroying them one by one.

The Ritual Array couldn’t be allowed to continue channeling contradictions and emotions; if a large-scale slaughter began, it would be irreversible.

He Ao glanced at the brilliance on the maid’s sword and said softly, "This is the first time I’ve encountered a Talent Sequence that isn’t far off from the ’warrior’s’ strength."

"Talent Sequence 122: Honor Knight."

The maid’s lips curled into a slight smile as she responded.

Then, she took advantage of the moment He Ao’s attention was diverted by her words and lashed out with another kick.

He Ao couldn’t dodge in time. He parried the knight’s sword with one of his and spun the other halfway around to block the kick.

The short sword, flickering with red light, collided with a leg full of explosive power and tightly flexed muscles. He Ao staggered, being directly knocked sideward.

Perfect.

The tossed He Ao rolled once, landing on the edge of the channel flowing with crimson fluid. The red sword light instantly plunged into the channel beside him.

A violent purple brilliance exploded instantly, brushing past He Ao’s soul with a sinister chill.

The entire channel, which was covered in purple glow, seemed to dim at this moment.

At that instant, Elijah, who had been sitting quietly at the very top of the Ritual Array, changed her expression dramatically. She looked up ’at’ He Ao, her beautiful cheeks filled with shock and anger,

"You should die!"

She hadn’t known there was a way to decipher the Ritual Array. In her experience, the core of a Ritual Array to summon the Grim Reaper would have to be mostly destroyed to cause the entire Array to shatter.

But He Ao’s actions told her there was another method to destroy the Ritual Array, and He Ao happened to know it.

At this moment, the threat He Ao posed was immensely magnified.

She had prepared for this day for who knows how many years; how could she allow everything to be ruined at the last hurdle?

She abruptly lifted her hand, and a ghostly figure rushed out from the crimson liquid beside He Ao; his face fixed with confusion and contorted emotions, then quickly focusing on He Ao, he charged toward him fiercely.

Instinctively feeling a chill, He Ao instantly activated Super Memory, looking straight ahead.

A massive and twisted visage appeared in front of him.

Vinc!

He Ao, seeing this ’familiar’ face, paused for a moment but quickly sidestepped, dodging the ghostly figure’s attack.

Manipulating the undead?!

Normally, a soul would gradually dissipate after death; it could only be gathered into an undead through external interference.

Elijah’s ability was to control the undead?!

Vinc’s undead appeared to have lost all reason, but He Ao sensed a danger level close to C-level in them.

As He Ao’s thoughts raced, the maid had already flashed behind him, thrusting her knight’s sword at He Ao’s back.

With enemies both front and back, there were only two options: left or right.

To the left!

He Ao quickly made his decision.

But in that split second, he felt a grave danger to the left, and without hesitation, he dodged to the right.

To the right, right into the path of the sharp knight’s sword.

At the very last moment, He Ao twisted his body and his short sword collided with that of the knight’s sword, diverting its course and avoiding a fate with his heart pierced and mangled.

However, the sharp knight’s sword still penetrated his left ribs, splattering bright red blood.

He Ao broke free from the knight’s sword and rolled backward in another direction.

In that instant, he looked up in the direction of Elijah.

Elijah’s ’gaze’ was still closely following him.

What was that ability just now?

Influencing someone’s thought process?

In such an intense battle, one wrong decision could mean the difference between life and death.

Elijah’s abilities already seemed somewhat beyond He Ao’s understanding: controlling the undead, influencing decision-making, taking complete control over another person. And these might not even be the full extent of her power.

Is this what a fully-powered B-level is like?

He Ao’s heart chilled, and he glanced at the two undead and the maid in front of him. His body quickly retreated; he had intentionally dodged this way because he was now very close to the next Energy Point.

What He Ao did not know was that Elijah was even more astonished than him at this moment.

Knowing the weak point of the Grim Reaper Ritual Array, being able to see the undead, having a strong and meticulous logic ability; was this really the same man who’d act without saying three words, the ’warrior’ she knew?

Could it be that He Ao lied about his Talent Sequence?

Regardless, Elijah was sure that He Ao had some kind of secret.

Her ’gaze’ was firmly fixed on He Ao, with a faint purple light glowing at the center of her chest just below her collarbone.

And in that moment, He Ao felt an extreme discomfort emerging from the depths of his soul, as if someone was attempting to peek into it.

Without pausing, he instantly called upon Super Memory, tracing along his soul.

At this point, the cost-free time of Super Memory had passed; with each additional second of use, He Ao’s soul grew weaker.

Soon, he discovered a faint purple shadow covering his soul.

Mental Disturbance!

He Ao called upon the power of Super Memory, and fiercely collided with the purple shadow, shattering it.

Immediately after, his body rolled forward, and his short sword plunged into the trench.

With the breath that made his soul shudder sweeping by, the purple glow in the trench dimmed once again.

The second Energy Point.

The entire trench boiled for a moment.

Under the view of Super Memory, He Ao saw an ethereal hand reaching out from the blood-red liquid, only to be quickly swallowed up again.

That seemed to be a soul drowning in the blood-red liquid.

He Ao activated his Divine Sense to take another look, and the energy circuit of the Ritual Array was already somewhat unstable.

It appeared that destroying one more point would at the very least, even if the ritual did not collapse, lead to the loss of its main power.

He Ao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

The two points he had just destroyed were key to the two sides of the triangle, while the midpoint of the third side was right beneath Elijah’s buttocks.

Elijah might not be able to see these Energy Points, but she likely had some awareness of particularly important areas.

Up to now, Elijah hadn’t moved, and her sitting position remained fixed.

This Array being so gigantic, from the perspective of mysticism, placed a greater strain on the host.

Elijah likely wasn’t unwilling to strike at He Ao directly, but most of her spirit was tied up by the Array, leaving her only a small portion of her energy to deal with He Ao.

Therefore, her initial strategy was to try and delay time by making conversation.

He Ao had also hosted several rituals before and had some understanding of them, gradually clarifying the situation Elijah was facing.

By making good use of the time Elijah’s energy was drained by the Ritual Array, he should be able to destroy it.

As thoughts flashed rapidly through He Ao’s mind, he suddenly charged towards the energy point at the center of the triangle. That point was very close to him, and the moment he moved, he would almost instantly reach it.

At that moment, He Ao suddenly felt an impulse, as if something was drawing him in.

Without hesitation, he leaned back and rolled sideways away from the trench beside him.

A giant, twisted Undead appeared where He Ao had just been standing.

Former chief of staff of the City Defense Army, Ruolanke!

This man’s Talent Sequences was the C-level ’Hunter,’ and it seemed that, like Vinc, he too had been turned into an Undead that Elijah could command.

Elijah must have used some special method to maintain their state as Undead and let them retain a part of their Talent Sequences’ power.

However, to give credit where credit is due, after being turned into an Undead by Elijah, Ruolanke’s ’Luring’ skill seemed to have improved under Elijah’s control, having at least started to slightly affect He Ao.

After the first Energy Point was destroyed, Elijah unleashed Vinc, and after the second one was sabotaged, she unleashed Ruolanke.

It looked as if with each Energy Point destroyed, the more power Elijah could wield.

He Ao looked up at the other side.

At this moment, the Knight Maid with the "Honor Knight" Talent Sequence and Vinc’s Undead were already blocking the Energy Point at the center of the triangle.

Elijah couldn’t see the Energy Points, but she could feel which parts of the Array were more critical. Combined with He Ao’s recent actions and relying on her intelligence, she should have already deduced the location of the central point.

He Ao took a deep breath and leaped out; this was the most troublesome enemy he had encountered.

These two Undead and one Knight Maid would definitely block He Ao’s path this time; there was no way to create an opportunity by dodging anymore.

So he just had to kill them.

Theoretically, if Elijah didn’t interfere with He Ao’s judgment, the Knight Maid wouldn’t have been able to harm He Ao just now, but it wouldn’t have been easy for He Ao to kill her either.

Hence, directly destroying the Energy Points through movement techniques and strategy was the fastest method.

But now this method was no longer available, so he had no choice but to force his way through.

Super Memory recorded the statures of the two Undead and one maid in that instant.

A red and an orange glow collided instantly, and two illusory figures swiftly crossed the bizarre space on the left and right.

Fighting one-on-one, He Ao could still gain the upper hand. With the boost of Super Memory, he was confident he could quickly end the battle. But one against three was a bit too much for him.

Though the two Undead weren’t quite complete C-level, they were particularly tricky and unpredictable under Elijah’s control, and their perfect coordination with the maid made it nearly impossible for He Ao to find an opening.

Moreover, Elijah’s ability to change decisions, which she hadn’t used since her attempt to probe into He Ao’s thoughts had failed, hadn’t been used again.

Perhaps that ability required intervals between uses, or maybe she was waiting for the right opportunity to employ it—it could be either or both.

Thud—

The knight sword, glowing with orange light, stabbed into He Ao’s right chest. At the same time, He Ao also pierced the Knight Maid’s chest.

A claw, chilling to the bone, reached for He Ao’s neck—coming from ’Vinc,’ who was lying in wait.

He Ao violently threw his head back, retreating and falling to the ground; bright red blood spilled from the wound on his chest, and apart from that, there were various large and small bloody wounds on his arms and legs.

C-level resilience was extraordinarily strong; even with such injuries, He Ao’s mobility was not significantly affected.

At this moment in He Ao’s mind, the combat model for the three ’people’ he was facing was now perfected.

The most troublesome thing about the Undead was that they couldn’t be seen and were hard to hit with physical attacks, but they could directly harm He Ao’s Soul and even cause some physical injury.

If he didn’t have Super Memory, He Ao would have been sneak attacked and killed as soon as Vinc appeared.

The short sword tinged with red light could cause some damage to the Undead but couldn’t kill them.

For a regular ’warrior,’ there was virtually no solution to this situation, but for He Ao, he still had other means.

Super Memory was capable of directly attacking the Soul, but having just shattered Elijah’s monitor on his thoughts, Elijah must have sensed something.

Thus, he had only one chance; once Elijah grasped his attack pattern, it would be even harder to win.

As He Ao clarified his thoughts, the attacks from the maid and two Undead were once again upon him.

He Ao looked at them, tightly gripping the twin swords in his hands.