Life Game In Other World
Chapter 707: The Enemy on the Same Path (Super-sized - Asking for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 707: Chapter 707: The Enemy on the Same Path (Super-sized Chapter Asking for Monthly Tickets)

Vellent didn’t launch an attack the first moment, he merely gave a tremor of his wrist, seemingly activating some ability of the weapon in his hand.

In the silent night, an invisible force slowly surged.

He Ao stared at the surging void around him, his gaze slightly focused.

In reality, his current state wasn’t too good. A chaotic and boisterous waltz kept echoing in his ears.

This noisy sound even affected his hearing to a certain extent, like a giant bass cannon continuously exploding beside his ear.

Just as Vellent had guessed, the reason he had recovered from his injuries so quickly was that he had accepted the contamination from Winding Hill.

He completed the pattern he had never finished before, letting this body fully fuse with the power of Winding Hill.

Indeed, in some sense, he had gone farther than Vellent before his eyes.

The contaminating power from Winding Hill had remodeled parts of his body, enabling him to quickly regain strength and granting him partial ’knowledge’.

This knowledge was simple; in summary, it was the method to ’summon’ Winding Hill and connect it to the real world.

That is what Vellent was doing now; He Ao possessed the same knowledge of rituals as Vellent.

In this world, the people who understood these Sacrificial Arrays the most were Vellent and He Ao.

Of course, accepting this contamination was not without cost.

Although the power of Winding Hill helped him recover his body, it also filled every inch of his flesh with contamination, and the power from Winding Hill constantly tried to tempt him to construct rituals to ’sacrifice’ to Winding Hill.

He Ao himself had some resistance to contamination, so he wasn’t too worried about the influence of this contamination and temptation.

But the contamination could also affect people around him; staying too long would lead to others becoming contaminated as well, which was why he hadn’t met YiXiya or Jia Xi during his ’fake death’ period, appearing as if he had completely disappeared.

This was also the reason why he initially dared not attempt to deeply engage with the power of Winding Hill.

Indeed, up until now, the power of Winding Hill was still continuously transforming his body, increasing the level of contamination within.

The reason Vellent could sit here and chat with He Ao without worry about contamination was that this old fellow was also deeply contaminated by Winding Hill; he just found a way to shield this contamination.

He carried strong contamination from Winding Hill on him, so he could be sure that He Ao had certainly accepted Winding Hill’s ’Grace’.

Strictly speaking, he and He Ao were of the same kind.

Of course, Vellent wouldn’t show mercy because of this ’kindred spirit’.

The invisible ’weapon’ in his hand rapidly trembled.

Invisible and ethereal shadows started to appear little by little in the silent night, these shadows carrying a sharpness, like the wail of a fierce wind scraping through mountain passes, rushing towards He Ao’s face.

Almost the instant these shadows appeared, He Ao realized what they were.

Undead

Undead carrying an extreme sense of resentment.

Normally, He Ao couldn’t see these undead, but because he had activated Super Memory from the beginning of the battle, these shadows streaking through the void clearly appeared in his vision under Super Memory.

Their speed was extremely fast, almost instantly reaching in front of He Ao, stretching out their distorted, no longer complete claws, sweeping across He Ao’s body.

A cold chill from the soul surfaced in He Ao’s mind.

These undead were attacking directly at the soul.

He Ao had no doubts that a swipe from these undead could easily shatter an ordinary person’s soul.

Even for Transcendents whose souls had been strengthened by their ascension, they likely couldn’t withstand many attacks.

Vellent was very strong, but that didn’t keep him from being underhanded.

If one couldn’t see the undead, perhaps they would have had their souls torn open just as the battle started.

He Ao lifted his head to glance at Vellent, his gun barrel swept through, directly thrusting at Vellent’s neck like a swimming dragon.

Simultaneously, the foremost undead reached He Ao’s body, but as soon as it made contact, it was torn apart by the twisting contamination.

His body, now full of contamination, was not something that weak undead could withstand.

And as the tip of his gun thrust forward, Vellent also raised the weapon in his hand, blocking the thrusting guntip, stepping half a step back.

Clang—

The sound of metal clashing followed suit.

He Ao didn’t hesitate, the gun swung forward, he took half a step, and then stabbed towards Vellent’s brow.

He had only three minutes. This was the longest time he could stall the sacrifice by exploiting a loophole in the ritual.

During the time he "faked his death" and disappeared, he did another thing besides using two character cards.

That was, according to the ritual knowledge obtained from Winding Hill, to figure out Vellent’s ritual layout. It was then that he learned that the Pollution Cleaning Department building, the Evolution Acolytes headquarters, and Central Park were the locations of the three sacrificial altars for this ritual.

Of course, it wasn’t just about gathering intelligence. After understanding the ritual’s structure, he used his knowledge of mysticism, especially the control array mastery obtained from Jess’s "Peering into the Truth" in the last copy world, to try and influence this ritual array.

He constructed a miniature model of the ritual and used the power of his Divine Sense to explore the energy pathways of the ritual, then added something to the ritual.

After dozens of failures, he found a way to influence this ritual array.

The sacrificial ritual of Winding Hill had an interesting aspect: the part of its ritual array responsible for sacrifice involved some physical objects.

These objects were disguised by Vellent as roads, streetlights, fire hydrants, and the like.

Array upon array could not disturb the original array, but He Ao could etch control arrays pointed towards "K" on the ’physical part’ of the array responsible for sacrifice.

In principle, this would make He Ao the master of the sacrificial part of the ritual, but in reality, these sacrificial parts were part of the overall structure of the ritual.

The actual effect was that when it was time for the ritual’s sacrifice to begin, the force of Winding Hill would try to wrest control of this sacrificial part from He Ao.

Then, the entire sacrificial process would be directly stalled.

However, He Ao couldn’t draw these control arrays in advance, because Vellent, cautious as he was, would definitely check these arrays beforehand.

So this task was given to the warriors from the Nolanka Mercenary Corps who entered the city.

This time, He Ao almost emptied out Nolanka Group’s resources, bringing all five hundred miniature Mechas with him.

Some of these Mechas were commanded by Fiss to help the City Defense Army fight for control of the high walls, while others assisted He Ao in quickly drawing his simplified arrays with the help of Eve’s offline system.

Only high-performance, high-mobility Mechas could complete the volume of array painting He Ao had planned in such a short time.

And three minutes was the limit for these control arrays to stall the sacrificial process. After three minutes, the control arrays would be completely crushed by the force of Winding Hill, and the ritual sacrifice would resume normally.

During these three minutes, the main pollution from Winding Hill would also spread to He Ao through this array.

However, he already bore a lot of pollution from Winding Hill on his body, so this additional pollution wouldn’t affect him much.

Bang—

The sound of Vellent parrying He Ao’s spear with his weapon interrupted He Ao’s train of thought.

At the same time, more Undead swarmed from all directions towards He Ao’s body.

It seemed they were intending to dilute the pollution on He Ao’s body with sheer numbers and thus harm his Soul.

He Ao immediately lifted his spear and swept to the left, the shaft grazing the edge of Vellent’s invisible weapon.

It was a knife.

An outline of that invisible weapon rapidly crossed He Ao’s mind.

At the same time, the spear in his hand also rotated counter-clockwise as he threw it out; the sleek shaft executed a conical spin around his body and quickly shattered the souls that were rushing at him, being filled with Divine Sense.

Then, as the shaft swung back to its original position, He Ao raised the spear with both hands and leaped up, delivering a thrust towards Vellent’s face.

This time, Vellent didn’t block; he dodged to the side. As He Ao’s thrust hit empty air, the tip of the spear immediately turned towards Vellent’s body.

After undergoing the pollution and transformation by Winding Hill, He Ao’s body had significantly strengthened.

The most important change was that his basic physical attributes had broken through the 800 limit, and with Super Memory and Fist Technique amplifications, they should have reached the standard of an ordinary B-level.

Also, due to the strong regenerative abilities gained from the pollution, the time he could use Fist Technique to amplify his strength increased to over a minute.

This meant that as long as he used his strength wisely and allocated the timing of his bursts sensibly, he could maintain consistent, B-level strength throughout these three minutes.

But as a consequence, the longer and more intense the battle, the higher the degree of pollution his body would absorb. He wouldn’t be driven mad by the pollution, but he would increasingly lose his human form and completely turn into a monster.

"Nice weapon,"

Vellent, who dodged He Ao’s sweep, did a backflip to again increase the distance between them and said with a laugh.

His praise for the long spear was simple—this seemingly unremarkable spear could effortlessly shatter the incorporeal Undead.

This made him feel slightly surprised.

"Your strength is great, but your combat skills are quite a bit worse than Deres’s,"

He Ao, holding the spear, watched him.

Deres was top-notch in both strength and skill, endeavoring to achieve twelve times the effect with immense effort.

While Vellent’s strength was formidable, his combat skills were not on par with Deres.

Of course, this didn’t mean Vellent was weaker than Deres. Deres could exert twelve times the effect with great effort, whereas Vellent couldn’t achieve such a superlative display, but he inherently possessed the power of fifteen points.

Moreover, this guy could also command the Undead to assist him in battle.

Naturally, most of the time, one couldn’t expect someone who always operated behind the scenes to have strong combat skills.

Had it not been for He Ao stalling the Ritual, trapping Vellent in a position where he couldn’t withdraw from the Ritual, even if Vellent was very powerful, once he realized that He Ao’s burst strength was very potent, he might have decided to cancel the Ritual and flee.

And now, with the Ritual reaching this stage, if Winding Hill failed to receive the Sacrifice, it would "consume" the Ritual master.

So, at this moment, Vellent had no way out either.

But indeed, it had been a long time since he had fought so vigorously and unrestrainedly.

He looked intently at He Ao before him and, without hesitation, leaped forward, his hand slashing invisibly towards He Ao’s neck.

He Ao immediately held his spear vertically and deflected it diagonally, blocking the cleaving blade.

Hum—

His spear, covered by Divine Sense, visibly trembled together with He Ao’s wrist and then, led by the invisible blade, continued to sweep towards He Ao’s neck.

The sharp blade grazed He Ao’s shoulder, cut through his clothes, left a bloody mark, and eventually stopped just before He Ao’s neck, unable to advance further.

The invisible and icy blade nearly touched He Ao’s neck, and blood interwoven with faint red and purple glows trickled from his neck.

Not only had this invisible blade cut through his flesh, but it had even injured his Soul.

However, what surprised He Ao the most was Vellent’s secondary burst of strength after his invisible blade had been blocked.

Dark energy?

He Ao looked up at Vellent.

Just now, Vellent had used that phased burst of dark energy, applying force again at the moment the blade collided with the spear shaft, catching him off guard.

If it weren’t for the fact that He Ao had learned to dissipate the force from his battle with Deres, and had managed to withstand this wave of dark energy, then with that burst just now, his spear would have been split apart, and he would be headless by now.

Vellent’s combat skills were only weak compared to Deres; he was not weak at all.

This time, Vellent, seeing his attack had failed, didn’t hesitate and immediately drew his blade from another side, slashing horizontally at He Ao.

This attack, too, was blocked by He Ao with his spear deflection.

Following that was another eruption of the dark energy, pushing the spear shaft that blocked the blade further, but He Ao still defended it before the critical point.

Simultaneously, He Ao’s Divine Sense-covered eyes were also observing the flow of bodily strength during Vellent’s burst.

Bang—

Vellent drew his blade once more and chopped down, this time at He Ao’s lower body, which was parried by He Ao’s spinning spear.

That was another eruption of dark energy.

The spear in He Ao’s hands vibrated slightly, this time not pushed too far away.

At the same time, He Ao began to mimic Vellent’s energy manipulation, directing the energy within his body.

Vellent’s dark energy flow was somewhat similar to the sudden burst of energy that He Ao had exhibited earlier, but not quite the same.

This dark energy was actually a two-stage burst force.

During the first stage of exertion, when Vellent swung his blade down, the force was not that strong; the entire process of the first stage of force exertion was, in fact, a preparation for the second stage.

When the first stage of force was blocked, the waist, hips, and shoulders adjusted seamlessly into one unit, aligning the convoluted energy pathways into an optimal line of burst through the adjustment of the body, just like the straight spear in He Ao’s hands, unobstructed.

Then the waist and hips exerted force, and the entire body exploded forward like a swift spear, producing a ’dark energy’ burst far surpassing the first stage.

The difficulty of learning this technique actually lay in how to control the body’s muscles to align the body’s energy pathways into the most optimal route.

Of course, this was not a particularly difficult task for He Ao, who was already accustomed to manipulating the energy within his body.

Kang—

Vellent’s invisible blade once again aimed for He Ao’s heart, blocked by He Ao’s sweeping spear, followed immediately by a second-stage burst, bringing Vellent’s blade right up to He Ao’s chest.

This time, Vellent’s burst of power was even stronger than before, instantly closing the distance between himself and He Ao; the blade tip sank into the flesh before He Ao’s chest.

But that was all, his blade got stuck in front of He Ao’s chest and couldn’t advance any further.

Just as his strength waned and he prepared to withdraw his blade, a surge of immense power suddenly emanated from where blade met spear, catching him off guard. His unseen blade was directly knocked away, leaving him wide open.

Dark energy?

He looked at He Ao with a bit of disbelief.

However, shocked as he was, his other hand almost simultaneously raised in a defensive position, blocking the trajectory where He Ao’s spear might thrust.

But He Ao didn’t thrust his spear as he had anticipated; instead, He Ao spun the spear around, turning his body backward, and diagonally thrust the spear into the ground.

Then gripping the spear shaft, He Ao used it to propel himself into the air and kicked Vellent in the chest, sending him flying.

"Pfft—"

Vellent crashed into an artificial hill nearby, spitting out a mouthful of purple blood. Countless cracks instantly spread across the surface of the hill, and finally, with a soft ’bang,’ the entire hill shattered.

He Ao too had used dark energy in that kick, which was even more ferocious than the burst from his hand. Even Vellent had broken a few bones now.

"This Talent... I see why Deres wanted to kill you so badly."

Vellent got up from the ground, wiping away the bloodstain from the corner of his mouth.

God knows how much time he had spent learning this technique in his younger years.

Meanwhile, He Ao’s movements didn’t cease. He immediately turned and kicked the spear shaft, causing the spear tip stuck in the ground to tremble and lift a barrage of cement and gravel flying toward Vellent.

The shower of stones somewhat obstructed Vellent’s vision.

While Vellent’s vision was obscured, He Ao leaped forward, thrusting his spear toward Vellent’s neck.

The kick just then had again widened the gap between him and Vellent. Long weapons have the advantage over short ones when there is distance.

Vellent quickly raised his blade to block. He Ao withdrew his spear and thrusted again, this time from below aiming at Vellent’s forehead.

Bang—

With a soft sound, Vellent held his unseen blade horizontally in front of him, blocking the downward thrust of He Ao’s spear.

He Ao quickly withdrew his spear slightly, then pressed it down rapidly, followed by a fierce upward flick.

These actions were extremely rapid, occurring in the blink of an eye. Before Vellent could react, the spear had smashed upwards against the back of his unseen blade.

Vellent’s original force was intended to block He Ao’s downward thrusting spear tip. When the force was directed upward, he didn’t expect He Ao to quickly change from a thrust to a flick, also an upward force. Under the action of the two forces, Vellent’s blade was directly knocked upwards.

Vellent’s defense was wide open with no guard left.

Then, without hesitation, He Ao took a half step forward, his spear striking out like a dragon, thrusting directly toward Vellent’s heart.

Vellent immediately leaned back, trying to dodge the attack, but the spear tip still grazed his chest, leaving a trail of blood.

As the blood splattered into the night sky, Vellent returned his blade and locked He Ao’s spear shaft, pushing it upwards to deflect He Ao’s thrust.

In that instant, He Ao suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He immediately pulled his spear down, swinging it horizontally at his waist, sweeping behind him.

A soul that was about to reach him was grazed by the sharp spear tip.

However, this undead was not like the other undead that He Ao had scattered with a direct hit, but instead approached him again.

This undead was not an ordinary one; it could withstand pollution and harm him.

A thought crossed He Ao’s mind: he could now dodge the undead’s attack, or he could move forward and completely disperse it.

In that moment, with no time to think further, he instinctively raised his spear and thrust it through the undead’s body, swinging it to completely scatter the soul.

And just in that moment, his heart tightened, and he immediately twisted aside.

Pff—

An invisible blade pierced through his right chest, causing blood with a reddish-purple glow to spurt out.

If it weren’t for his quick response, the blade would have pierced through his heart.

Ease Thought!

His decision had just been altered.

Vellent was an ’Orator,’ belonging to the B-level Talent Sequences of the ’Chess Master.’

Whatever supernatural abilities a Chess Master possessed, he had them too.