Life Game In Other World
Chapter 562: Father’s ’Legacy’ (Super-sized - , Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 562: Chapter 562: Father’s ’Legacy’ (Super-sized Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Arent swung the bone column, sweeping across the direction from which He Ao was running.

However, before he made this move, He Ao had already leaped into the air, jumping diagonally upwards towards Arent, with the whooshing bone column passing beneath his feet.

The combat model established by Super Memory had already taken basic shape; combined with the combat intuition formed over a long time, this allowed He Ao to predict Arent’s movements quite easily.

Of course, this was also related to He Ao’s groundwork attack just now.

He had previously caused the most damage to the legs, and Arent would naturally defend his legs—especially when he had already lost a significant part of his mobility.

Therefore, his attacks would likely focus on the lower part and at the farthest distance possible, hitting He Ao to repel his approach and inflict damage on him.

On this basis, holding the bottom of the bone column and sweeping it became the most likely attack choice for Arent.

Of course, He Ao also confirmed his own thoughts through the markers he had placed on Arent at the beginning of the fight.

Through these placed markers, He Ao could feel the stronger thoughts of the marker-placer, which had helped him a lot in previous fights. However, on Arent, this effect was not very good.

Arent’s mind did not have a single dominant thought, but was filled with various messy thoughts, and many times Arent didn’t think at all, acting without brain engagement, relying on fighting instincts to launch attacks.

This made He Ao’s ’Mind Reading’ almost useless, and he had to pick up the combat modeling ability of Super Memory, which he hadn’t relied on in a long time, to guess and predict Arent’s movements without the aid of mind reading.

However, He Ao’s withdrawal from the fight and the separation of those fleshy tentacles seemed to have restored some of Arent’s ability to think, allowing He Ao to get a sense of Arent’s probable moves.

This attack, from the very beginning, starting with Arent’s misjudgment of He Ao’s target, led him into complete failure.

For He Ao’s current physical condition, a distance of tens of meters was already very close.

The jumping technique he used was a diagonal forward somersault jump, which reduced air resistance by being angled forward at the takeoff and tucking into a ball during the somersault, allowing for a farther leap than the usual long jump.

This belonged to the common long-distance jumping method used in combat. Of course, if not executed properly, one could land headfirst and easily break one’s spine, resulting in instant death. Thus it required a certain base level and proficiency. But for Transcendents, this was not a big issue.

Dancing bone arrows grazed around He Ao and struck the wall at the far end.

These bone arrows were not numerous, and their accuracy was not as good as the bone arrows fired by the flesh figure at the start, so they did not harm He Ao.

Although the move was complex, the overall pace of the battle was very fast. Before Arent could complete his swinging motion, He Ao’s feet had already landed on the inside of the bone column.

Here, the speed brought by the swing of the bone column had already weakened, and He Ao tensed his leg muscles, borrowing force from the bone column for a secondary short-range jump, landing on Arent’s bony arm, and propelling forward, he hopped onto Arent’s shoulder in a couple of steps.

Mental Disturbance!

Then, without hesitation, he used the Mental Disturbance skill.

This skill would significantly reduce the usage time of Super Memory, and after the usage time ran out, it would cause damage to the soul, so He Ao wouldn’t use it lightly.

Arent’s soul was rather complex; to the eyes of Super Memory, this colossal creature’s soul was strong but chaotic, with various shades interwoven with the main soul and not blending with the shadows.

It was like a ball of yarn filled with threads of various colors.

Such a soul either required a more powerful soul to interfere forcefully or used skill to hit the critical points where the soul entangled, with the latter needing great control over soul power and consuming more divine sense.

He Ao could not choose the first option; the stronger the soul power used in Mental Disturbance, the greater the harm to himself. So he focused his mind and mobilized his mental power to strike the chaotic seams of Arent’s soul.

All these actions were extremely complex, but the effect was instantaneous.

A high price and a complex skill often meant good results.

Under the impact of powerful soul power, Arent’s massive body stiffened momentarily.

He Ao, wielding a dagger, didn’t hesitate; stepping on Arent’s shoulder, he covered the dagger with his Divine Sense and stabbed it through his single eye.

"AHHHH!"

As a viscous purple-red fluid splattered out, Arent’s bone column fell to the ground, and his skeletal hands reached for his cheeks in pain and rage.

By that time, He Ao had already sheathed his knife and done a backflip to land behind Arent.

However, he didn’t disengage from Arent’s body, but instead stabbed the egg knife into the flesh beneath Arent’s shoulder blade, creating a stable fulcrum to hang himself on Arent’s back.

At the same time, the strike disrupted a key energy nexus point inside Arent’s shoulder.

"You should die!!! You should die!!!"

Arent picked up the bone column and quickly crashed back against the wall.

He Ao gripped the knife handle, exerted a slight force with his arm, and flung himself onto Arent’s swiftly moving shoulder, avoiding the collision.

Boom——

The towering giant slammed into the wall, producing a roaring sound.

The wall, covered with purple lines, shook violently, with indentations and cracks spreading near the point of impact.

But like the floor beneath them, the broken wall was bound by those flashing purple lines, forcibly held together.

However, He Ao had no time to pay attention to these details, as Arent, failing to hit his target, immediately reached out, aiming for the shoulder and crashing into the wall once more.

At the same time, the fleshly humanoid shape on Arent’s back hurled bone weaponry towards He Ao.

He Ao narrowly dodged the weapons and seized the moment to pull out the dagger, frantically stabbing at energy nexus points on Arent’s shoulder to disrupt them.

In his previous attacks on the limbs, He Ao had realized that while disrupting local energy nexus points didn’t completely immobilize Arent, the entire body’s energy network was affected.

Arent’s energy nexus points were not completely scattered, each responsible for its respective areas.

While controlling parts of limbs and maintaining their energy supply, these points also contributed to the body’s overall energy network.

At the same time, some energy pathways within the limb did not fall under the nearby nexus points’ purview but were managed by the overall energy network.

This arrangement prevented a complete loss of use in a limb if a nexus point was destroyed, thereby maintaining the body’s basic combat capability.

This method of energy nexus distribution was clearly designed to counter those who could "see" the energy nexus points.

Prior to this, He Ao had already encountered numerous strategies designed to mitigate attacks on energy nexus points.

The designers of these strategies had either fought against those capable of seeing energy nexus points or had developed contingency plans with such individuals as their hypothetical adversaries, weakening the effect of energy nexus points as critical vulnerabilities.

However, no plan in this world was perfect. The way energy was structured within Arent, although it greatly ensured the overall mobility of the body, also raised the threshold for energy flow.

As the number of energy nexus points diminished, those originally responsible for just parts of the limbs had to take on other sections of the body.

And the flow of energy within the body wasn’t unimpeded; it needed to surpass a strength threshold to continue.

In other words, running this network required a minimum energy threshold.

If all energy nexus points combined failed to meet this minimum requirement, then the entire energy network would collapse. The remaining nexus points would be destroyed by the resulting energy surge, leading to the death of the body.

Therefore, He Ao didn’t need to destroy all energy nexus points to kill Arent, as he would with other Transcendents with multi-core energy nexus points.

All he had to do was destroy most of Arent’s energy nexus points, and once he surpassed that fatal limit, Arent’s life would come to an end.

Therefore, He Ao didn’t continue to attack the last remaining energy nexus in the thigh but instead targeted the nexus points in the shoulder and elbow.

However, to attack under Arent’s watchful eye, he first had to disable Arent’s field of vision, which he did by destroying Arent’s single eye.

Although Arent didn’t understand He Ao’s exact intentions, he seemed to sense that He Ao’s attacks were leading his life to its end, so he violently swung his body and once again crashed into the wall.

This time, He Ao leapt into the air, dodged the collision, and after the impact, dropped down again, grabbing the handle of the knife that was stuck into Arent’s body.

Like a falling leaf about to drift off a tree branch, he swayed up and down.

The gap He Ao had to attack was only the one or two seconds when Arent moved briefly and then hit the wall, but in this short time, He Ao had destroyed a large number of energy points.

Arent, who had lost his sight, was even more confused and acted more aggressively, causing the flesh-and-blood figures to also become frenzied. They continuously picked up bones from the ground, condensed them into bone swords and bone spears, and hurled them at He Ao.

These seemingly hard bones would shatter rapidly upon striking Arent’s body, turning into splinters that the flesh-and-blood figures would collect to create new weapons.

However, being shattered didn’t mean these weapons were harmless. He Ao, drifting in the air, struggled to dodge these attacks, narrowly avoiding a bone spear that whisked past his arm.

He Ao could feel that the blade of the bone spear could easily break through his defenses and pierce his body.

At the same time, he reached out and grabbed just below the tip of the bone spear, covering the tip with his Divine Sense and swung it fiercely, stabbing into the area near Arent’s spine.

The remainder of the spear, not enveloped by Divine Sense, suddenly shattered, turning into fragments, while the very tip wrapped in Divine Sense embedded itself into Arent’s body.

He Ao took hold of this section of the bone spear momentarily stabilized by Divine Sense, pulled out the short knife, and with a fierce swing, propelled himself toward the other shoulder of Arent. The remaining part of the bone spear that lost Divine Sense coverage quickly disintegrated.

These bone weapons were extremely fragile when they collided with Arent’s body.

By that time, Arent was no longer hitting the wall; he covered his eyes and rushed out, groping to pick up the bone column he had just thrown on the ground, and spun his body crazily trying to fling off He Ao.

His spinning speed increased, and He Ao could only cling tightly to the handle of the short knife, fluttering like a long flag.

At such high speed, he had almost no chance to gain leverage on Arent’s body. Worse still, those flesh-and-blood figures raised their long spears in unison, aiming at He Ao, as if waiting for the right moment to launch a volley.

The blade of the short knife was gradually being thrown out of Arent’s body due to the massive speed.

Just as he was about to be flung away, He Ao glanced at the half-extracted short knife, clenched the back of the knife with his other hand, gave up the enhancement of Divine Sense, and with a fierce twist, the knife broke into two pieces.

Without hesitation, he clutched the two pieces of the short knife and repeatedly stabbed them into Arent’s body, swiftly climbing from the shoulder toward Arent’s neck.

With every movement, he destroyed an energy point on the shoulder, and Arent’s movements became even more violent.

The faster the speed, the harder it was for the flesh-and-blood figures to catch He Ao’s movements, and they dared not throw their spears.

Taking advantage of this, He Ao climbed onto Arent’s neck, sitting astride it, with the broken knife blades embedded in the skull to stabilize his position.

The energy points inside the head were deep, and the short knife was already quite short and even shorter after being broken, unable to be inserted.

And at that time, as He Ao’s position stabilized, the flesh-and-blood figures were finally ready.

He Ao didn’t have time to hesitate; he immediately abandoned the short knives, leaned forward onto the back of Arent’s head, then gathered all his strength into his right fist, covering the fist with Divine Sense, and fiercely punched Arent’s cheek.

"Ah!!!"

The severe impact directly smashed Arent’s cheekbone and destroyed the energy point beneath it; Arent’s spinning rapidly lost control. The colossal bone column swung toward the flesh-and-blood figures, knocking them away like mowing grass, and some of them were smashed into pulp on the spot.

Arent barely managed to maintain his stance, holding onto the bone column and struggling to stand up, while the remaining flesh-and-blood figures also staggered to their feet, stabilizing the formation.

This time, He Ao’s left fist was ready. Gripping the handle of the short knife, he leaped up, smashing another punch from above onto the right side of Arent’s skull.

The unsteady Arent staggered, and the bone column in his hand swept toward the remaining flesh-and-blood figures, knocking them flying once more.

Immediately after, He Ao controlled his posture, stepped on Arent’s neck and leaped up, pounding his fists like torrential rain onto Arent’s skull.

After a few blows went through, the energy core inside Arent flickered, and the entire body’s energy network began to destabilize.

He Ao’s destruction was nearing this monster’s end.

"Profaner, you must die!!!"

His face’s two mouths opened and let out a fierce roar as he reached out to grab He Ao again, attempting a final struggle.

He Ao yanked the short dagger with a hilt from his head and leapt up, thrusting it into the left mouth and then fiercely pulling apart the two mouths into one.

He also tore through the energy core behind the two mouths.

The flickering energy network collapsed suddenly, the massive body tipped forward, knees hitting the ground before the upper body followed with He Ao’s descent, falling heavily to the ground and kicking up a hazy cloud of dust.

The surrounding flesh-and-blood figures shattered one by one, rapidly decaying into rotten flesh.

He Ao, who had landed on the ground, released the tightly held dagger handle, staggering a few steps forward, his body soaked in sweat, his once pristine clothes now torn in several places.

He deactivated Super Memory, and as the terrible power filling his body faded away, an overwhelming sense of fatigue swept over him, and his body lost its support and knelt on the ground.

The pendant stained with blood on his chest naturally hung down through the tattered clothes.

He Ao clutched the pendant, opened it, looked at Jess’s wife’s gentle smile inside, then slowly closed it again.

Then he laboriously turned over, letting the pendant hang in front of his chest.

Sitting on the ground, he looked at Arent’s corpse.

He stared at that terrifying colossus,

and suddenly burst into laughter.

The intense laughter echoed in the empty space, like the bell tolling for death’s arrival.

After laughing for a while, he regained some strength and struggled to his feet.

His body was in pain, pain radiated from head to toe, especially his hands. Even though he had coated them with enough Divine Sense, those powerful impacts still caused his hands to swell and ache to the bone.

He continuously gathered the energy inside his body to his limbs, causing them to operate beyond their limits, leaving him almost powerless.

Because of the excessive use of Super Memory, his soul also felt somewhat weakened.

But all these costs were recoverable. Overall, other than some physical depletion, he had no other losses, and rest would allow him to recover.

He moved slowly to the side of the dead Arent, gazing into those destroyed eyes.

He had defeated this powerful enemy, and except for the possibility of some finger fractures, he had sustained no injuries.

Finger fractures, for an ordinary person, might require many days to heal, but for a Transcendent with strong Life Force at the C-level, they were within the body’s ability to repair quickly.

He staggered to his feet and walked toward the huge bone column that had fallen aside, which had broken into several pieces with the death of Arent.

He Ao’s gaze searched through these fragments and then found in the center of the bone column, a piece about one meter high, somewhat resembling a solid cast double-bladed axe head.

This ’bone axe’ fragment was not large but it was heavy, weighing about two hundred kilos.

The edge of the axe head was broken and exceptionally sharp but uneven.

He Ao gripped the axe handle and swung it around, and with a sudden burst of explosive whistling, the surrounding network of lines seemed to sense the danger, starting to flicker.

The material was good. If he found another resilient weapon and attached Divine Sense to fix it, he should be able to craft a better weapon.

The bones that made up this huge column seemed to be reinforced with some special power, unusually hard, which is why He Ao attempted to select a suitable weapon from these fragments.

He looked up, his eyes scanning his surroundings, and at that moment, he finally realized where that familiar feeling towards these patterns came from.

From those esoteric teachings Jess had obtained from the old professor.

From that mysterious book in Jess’s father’s hands.