Life Game In Other World
Chapter 741: Twisted Order (Vote for a Monthly Pass)

Chapter 741: Chapter 741: Twisted Order (Vote for a Monthly Pass)

The friction between the fragmented blocks produced a rustling sound, as the giant dodecahedron block flowed like a wooden cloud.

He Ao held a giant black broadsword and looked up at the flowing block cloud, a slight frown on his brow.

The view of Divine Sense accurately fed back to him the energy flow structure within the ’Carpenter’s’ body, which, unlike those he had seen before, did not converge at one or several energy nodes, but was dispersed in each block.

To be precise, in this enormous block cloud, every small block acted as a mini ’energy node’.

Those tens of thousands of blocks contained tens of thousands of energy nodes.

"You give me a similar vibe to that puppet outside,"

The rustling noise of blocks rubbing intensified, forming a voice shrill as a scream, "Kid, that puppet was much stronger when it was alive, and I wasn’t as powerful as I am now, but even then, I could easily kill it,"

A whooshing block transformed into a giant hand of blocks in the air, slapping towards He Ao, "You’ll pay for your stupidity."

He Ao activated Super Memory and rolled backwards, evading the giant hand.

The huge palm directly smashed the two bone mountains surrounding He Ao, and the scattered bone fragments grazed his body.

Then, the block palm lifted, shattered, and reassembled into a thick and oppressive cloud of blocks.

The flying bone fragments, as if a rewind button was pressed, swiftly retracted and formed back into two bone mountains.

And with the retraction of these bone fragments, He Ao felt his own flesh and blood also seemed to be drawn by some force, tearing to shreds to be pulled back with those white bone fragments.

However, as the pulling force emerged, the power of Super Memory dispersed throughout He Ao’s body trembled slightly and counteracted that twisted pulling force.

It seemed that the Carpenter’s ability to strip flesh, at a far enough distance without contact, had little effect on warriors of B-level and above.

As He Ao resisted the attraction, the block cloud in the sky seemed to have anticipated this result. The stacks of blocks once again writhed, instantly assembling into a block giant standing over ten meters tall, nearly reaching the ceiling.

The giant wielded a massive Block Hammer, appearing immensely large yet moving swiftly. Almost instantaneously upon taking form, it was in front of He Ao, raising the hammer high before thunderously crashing it down.

He Ao leapt forward, dodged the hammer, and sprung onto the block giant’s arm gripping the hammer. While standing on the arm, he spun his body in a circle and hurled his broadsword with abrupt force.

With this throw, he used Fist Technique to channel the energy within his body.

Boom—

The heavy broadsword, accompanied by a tremendous force, pierced the giant’s heart in an instant, with countless tiny blocks scattering along with the flying sword.

But in the next moment, those scattered blocks flowed back as well, refilling the giant’s chest cavity.

However, not all the blocks were reclaimed by the giant.

Among the blocks that were hit, some were cut open by the broadsword.

These damaged blocks inflated like balloons in the air before exploding, shattering, and falling to the ground as several twisted chunks of flesh.

These blocks were not actual ’blocks’ but were flesh compressed into block shapes.

The loss of one or two blocks did not stop the block giant from moving. As the black broadsword pierced the giant’s heart, the giant’s other hand passed over He Ao’s head, slapping towards him from the right.

At the same time, the hammer held tightly by the giant also shattered instantly, turning into a massive circular ’Giant Bowl’ floating in the air and swooping down on He Ao from the left.

This paired movement was incredibly fast.

The Carpenter seemed ready to take advantage of He Ao’s lack of weapon and the gap before he could draw the bone sword on his back, aiming to pin him down directly.

And it was in that instant, He Ao raised his hand.

Retrieve objects from the air!

The black broadsword that was previously flying in the air appeared in He Ao’s hand in an instant.

Straight after, he glanced at the closely aligned Giant Bowl to his left, hunkered down, held his sword horizontally in front, and springing off the giant’s arm, he leaped.

Force Shatters Mountains!

The tightly stacked "Giant Bowl" was unfolded by He Ao with a single sword stroke, creating an opening that allowed He Ao to leap out of the Giant Bowl.

The pieces of the Block Hammer that scattered in the flow scraped past He Ao’s clothes, shredding his garments.

He Ao rolled through the gaps between several bone mountains, landed on the ground, stood up with a broadsword in hand, and looked towards the towering figure of the Block Giant.

The Giant Bowl, floating in midair, congealed into a Block Hammer once again, appearing in the giant’s hand.

A few twisted clumps of flesh fell from the sky, landing on the ground.

The brief skirmish just now was actually an exchange where both parties probed the strength of the other side.

On the surface, He Ao seemed to have the upper hand, having inflicted some damage on the Block Giant, but actually, the Carpenter had managed to gauge several of He Ao’s main combat moves. The loss of those blocks was but a drop in the bucket for the Carpenter.

Of course, He Ao had also probed some of the Carpenter’s "limitations".

First, after sustaining damage, the Carpenter tended to immediately recover, possibly due to an obsession with "order."

Secondly, the transformations of those blocks were not done without consideration.

For example, in the last move just now, it would have been better for the Carpenter to directly shatter the arms of the Block Giant, causing He Ao to lose his foothold and fall, yet he went through the unnecessary effort of transforming the Block Hammer into a Giant Bowl, attempting to trap He Ao from another side.

Considering also the action of immediately restoring a damaged spot, perhaps the transformations of these "forms" cannot be easily changed; the weapons held by the forms can transform at will, but the forms themselves cannot, and must adhere to certain "orders."

At least during combat, they probably cannot transform at will.

He Ao watched the Block Giant, pointing the broadsword in his hand at the ground.

The "harvest" he gained from the recent exchange would help him resist the Carpenter to a certain extent, but it was not enough to bridge the vast "gap" between them.

This gap was not in terms of strength, but in terms of "life."

Every block on the Carpenter’s body had an energy convergence point, and through the recent "battle", He Ao had discovered that the destruction of a single block did not affect the energy points on the other blocks.

According to previous research records, the "Carpenter" originated from a single Core Block.

This meant that He Ao might need to completely destroy all the blocks to fully kill the "Carpenter".

Of course, it is possible that the Carpenter has a "Core Block", and destroying that block could kill the Carpenter.

But given the uniform and equal flow of energy that He Ao had observed so far, this probability was small. It’s more likely that all the blocks have an equal status.

After all, this was something left behind by an "Angel".

Perhaps the initial block had some specialty, but it might not be the kind of critical weakness.

And if it’s as He Ao hypothesized, then it was nearly impossible for He Ao to kill the "Carpenter".

No matter how strong his Super Memory and Fist Technique enhancements were, they had a time limit, they required the consumption of body and soul energy, and the actual strength the Carpenter could exert was much stronger than his own.

Continuing this way, he would eventually be the one worn down to death.

However,

He Ao looked up at the Block Giant once again,

Under the vision of Super Memory, the "souls" enveloping those blocks were emitting a twisted, abnormal sense of order.

"Seems like you’ve noticed,"

The huge Block Giant lifted the Block Hammer, sneered at He Ao and a shrieking voice emerged from its mouth, "Little fellow, I am immortal!"

The next second, its body suddenly crumbled, the blocks that crowded together split into several streams, surrounding He Ao on all sides, and eventually coalesced into twelve humanoid block figures of roughly He Ao’s height, each wielding a Block Hammer.

The moment they took form, they charged at He Ao from all directions.

Clearly, when the "Carpenter" transformed into the Block Giant, he had realized He Ao’s agility advantage and thus purposely miniaturized the size to outnumber and suppress He Ao’s agile advantage.

Bang—

He Ao raised his broadsword, blocking the hammer of the fastest attacking block person head-on.

His arm trembled slightly, and he squatted a little, his feet shattering the hard rocky ground beneath and sinking into it.

The power this block person could exert was close to 5,000.

The "Carpenter" had lived here for so many years, having consumed enough flesh and blood to pile up so many bone mountains, his strength was not weak.

This block person might not match his physical condition of over 6,000 after his Fist Technique had burst forth, but there were a total of twelve block people.

Boom—

In the next instant, another huge hammer swung at He Ao, who abruptly drew his bone sword to block it.

Then he forcefully pushed off with his legs, flinging the two block people aside as he suddenly leaped backward.

The other two block people, charging from his left and right, missed because of his leap, and their hammers smashed onto each other’s heads.

The heads of those two block people instantly crumbled, then gathered together again, leaving only a few scattered pieces of flesh and bone.

He Ao, having jumped back, had no time to catch his breath when two more giant hammers smashed down from behind him.

He immediately rolled to the front side to dodge.

Then, four more figures appeared; hammers came crashing down from all directions — front, back, left, and right.

He Ao swung his sword around in a circle and took a step forward.

Force Shatters Mountains!

The black broadsword sliced the block person in front directly in half at the waist, and the bone sword, following through, diagonally cleaved the block person on the left.

Taking advantage of the brief recovery period of the two block people, He Ao broke through the encirclement from the front left, charging out.

But in that instant, the block people on his right and behind simultaneously swung their giant hammers, hurling them at him.

At the same time, the last two block people also reached He Ao, raising their hammers—one high, one low—to smash at He Ao’s forehead and lower abdomen.

Crack!

He Ao spun and jumped up, wrapping Divine Sense around his feet, and using the Heavy Strike Technique of Force Shatters Mountains, he side-kicked with a snap, shattering the head of the block person whose hammer swung at his lower abdomen.

At the same time, he raised the black broadsword, blocking the hammer coming at his head from the right.

At that moment, suspended in the air with nowhere to leverage, the force of his jump was not strong enough to block the giant hammer.

The block person aiming at his head watched him, its block-stacked cheek seemingly twisted into a distorted smile.

At this time, He Ao’s other hand had already grabbed the bone sword, positioning it behind his back.

Bang—

Accompanied by a light sound, the two giant hammers thrown from behind struck the bone sword; at that moment, He Ao mobilized the energy in his body, allowing his body to contract and rebound, forcefully transferring the power from the hammer hitting the bone sword to the front to the black broadsword.

The giant hammer swung by the block person on the right was knocked aside by the black broadsword. He Ao then tilted the tip of the broadsword down, lifting upward at an angle, and, going with the momentum, cut off both the elbow and the head of the block person holding the hammer.

Then he landed, took advantage of the motion to roll and jump away, stopping at the side of a bone mountain.

Immediately after, a sweetness in his throat, a little blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

The giant hammer that hit the bone sword on his back still caused him some damage.

Although he successfully conducted most of the force forward, the dissipating force was enough to harm his body, which had only C-level strength.

His greatest weakness was his C-level body.

However, before he stabilized, his instincts screamed a warning, so he hesitated not a moment longer, retreating and rolling backwards.

And as he rolled away, blinding brilliance lit up before him like a rain of light descending from the heavens, scorching the silent earth.

Only after He Ao had retreated more than a dozen steps did the intense ’light rain’ briefly abate.

Pieces of clothing, shredded in mid-air, were scorched into ash by the scalding laser beams.

"Cough—"

He Ao covered his mouth, coughing up a bit more blood.

The violent motion had aggravated his already-present injuries.

"Little guy, you disposed of half my incarnation in a single encounter,"

a shrieking voice sounded once more.

Twelve Block people encircled He Ao from all sides, forming a wide ring and closing in on him again, six of them with noticeable gaps in their structures where the ’blocks’ had been damaged in the recent battle.

The one speaking was directly in front of He Ao, "I admit your strength is somewhat greater than I anticipated, but that is no grounds for arrogance."

"Cough——"

He Ao looked up at the laser cannons overhead and slowly backed away, "You took control of the Research Institute’s intelligence, and then these laser weapons?"

"Of course,"

the Block person tightened the encircling net even as it drew closer, apparently having learned from its earlier mistake when He Ao had broken through the separate attacks and incidentally destroyed half of them; this time the ’encirclement’ was more methodical and firm.

"These ’creations’ of ’humankind’ significantly obstructed my ’resurrection.’"

The screeching voice this time came from He Ao’s right side; another Block person had spoken.

"So naturally, I had to take control of these ’things’ first."

Another voice from the left Block person continued the dialogue.

"What’s the matter? Are you finally feeling fear?"

The Block person at the forefront watched He Ao with a semblance of a smile, accelerating the tightening of the encirclement.

"So, cough—"

He Ao eyed the narrowing ring of Block people and stopped in his tracks, now leaning against the console, "Is that why you are ’tied’ down here?"

"Hmm?"

All the Block people paused simultaneously, stunned.

And at that moment, He Ao had already lifted his bone sword.

The sharp blade sliced through the metal of the control panel, revealing a dense array of circuits.

He had taken such a wide detour just to draw the ’Carpenter’ away from the console so he could return to it and put enough distance between himself and the ’Carpenter,’ ensuring there was ample time to operate.

"What are you doing?"

The surrounding Block people, sensing something amiss, rushed at He Ao desperately.

"That so-called ’Great Being,’"

He Ao placed his hand with the Mechanical Core ring into the console, as countless tiny tendrils sprouted from the ring, "used this to ’threaten’ you, to make you obey, right?"

The slender tendrils connected to the dense web of circuits on the console.

All Block people stopped moving in an instant, crumbling into a myriad of shattered blocks.

The false and twisted ’order’ imposed upon the souls of the endless blocks shattered at that moment, and a turbulent, horrific corruption surged forth instantly.