This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!
Chapter 441 Lady Katherine

Chapter 441: Chapter 441 Lady Katherine

"Creak, creak..."

Chen Ke gently pushed open the front door of the mansion, and a layer of white mist appeared before him. It was exactly the same as the mist he saw in the secret passage beneath the statue of Goddess Fan Hede.

Behind the mist, a great battle awaited him.

Chen Ke had no weapons; the only things he could use were his Time Ability, his Spiritual Power Crystal Gun, which had lost 70% of its power, and bursts of Spiritual Energy. Moreover, he had to endure four times the damage.

However, in this dream, Chen Ke was not without advantages.

His time countdown was in a state of stasis. He had just thrown a Spiritual Power Crystal Gun, and it hadn’t consumed his lifespan, meaning there were no consumptions for himself in this dream.

The power of the Spiritual Power Crystal Gun, which contained 150 hours of energy, had been reduced by 70%...150 times 70%...

Chen Ke did the math on his fingers and finally concluded that it meant he could throw an unlimited number of Crystal Guns, each with the power equivalent to 45 hours.

That wasn’t too bad; when his lifespan’s upper limit wasn’t so generous before, even a few hours worth of power wasn’t considered slight.

Moreover, even now, Chen Ke himself couldn’t distinguish how powerful the Soul Crystal Gun was with how many hours in it; he only knew that the more life he invested, the greater the power.

As for whether there’s an upper limit to the enhancement effect of the life engine, he couldn’t know for now.

"I can wear her down to death, just need to be careful not to be taken out instantly," Chen Ke muttered to himself. Being killed in the dream would mean waking up in reality, but having lost so much strange blood, what the consequences would be for Lady Katherine were uncertain.

Chen Ke stewed over his emotions, took a deep breath, and because he was too close to the mist door, inhaled some of the mist, coughing several times.

"Cough, cough...huff..."

He walked through the mist door, and an intense scent of blood hit him in the face.

The interior of the mansion had become a huge circular space, with an abyss of impenetrable darkness overhead and a viscous Blood Pool beneath his feet, the blood surpassing the top of his feet, and the air carrying the warm, salty dampness of amniotic fluid.

Strangely, despite the lack of lighting inside the room, the deep blood-red of the ground was clearly visible. In the distance stood a mature golden-haired woman in a white nightgown.

When Chen Ke looked at her, a name appeared at the bottom of his vision: Lady Katherine.

Lady Katherine had her eyes closed, arms hanging naturally at her sides, her golden hair draped down her back, the hem of her nightgown stained with bright red blood, standing there barefoot, 20 meters away from Chen Ke.

Chen Ke observed and waited; if the enemy didn’t move, neither would he. He wanted to know what state Lady Katherine was in now; if she, like Baron Mox, still had her wits about her, that would make things much easier.

But that was impossible.

The time countdown had never been wrong in seeking out the enemy, and the name of Katherine was right under his own eyes, exactly the same as An Helei’s had been.

After waiting for over ten seconds, Chen Ke made up his mind. Whatever the situation, he would take a shot first and ask questions later...

Just to be safe, Chen Ke gathered a time bomb in his left hand and flung it towards Katherine. As the white orb of light exploded, all time within the orb’s range stood still.

At the same time, the Spiritual Power Crystal Gun in his right hand had finished forming, and with a raise of his hand, Chen Ke threw it.

With a whoosh, the blue spear of light flew towards Katherine, piercing straight into the field of the time bomb’s stasis, but it didn’t stop, instead plunging fiercely into Katherine’s chest.

"How could this be?" Chen Ke had just formed another Soul Crystal Gun and held it in his hand, not yet thrown.

By all logic, the Spiritual Power Crystal Gun should have been stopped mid-air, not proceeding until Chen Ke lifted the stasis field.

His calculation was to lock time and space around Katherine, then continuously throw Spiritual Power Crystal Guns at her, thousands of them, and then lift the time lock, turning Katherine into a pincushion and taking her out instantly.

But now this situation was completely beyond Chen Ke’s control.

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"Ah...uh...ugh...ugh..." Katherine vomited blood, staining her pale skin and white nightgown with a red mark.

She groaned and bent over. The fresh red blood on the ground climbed up her calves, sneaked under the hem of her nightgown, and healed the wound on her chest at a visible speed.

Chen Ke slowly backed away and suddenly remembered—if there was no concept of time in the dream, then the time control ability indeed wouldn’t work...

"Damn, this is tricky," Chen Ke frowned.

Katherine lowered her head, her golden hair hanging in the blood. The blood climbed up her hair, slowly dyeing it crimson, and the blood that had climbed up her calves had now spread to her arms.

Katherine now looked like a person made of blood.

"Do not disturb the sleeping," Katherine said, opening her eyes, revealing red sclera with blue pupils that were unusually bright and emitted an ominous light.

Chen Ke felt a ring of pain on top of his head, a massive killing intent rushing toward him.

"+70 hours"

"+70 hours"

"+70 hours"

...

"I’m sorry, Lady Katherine...but it’s time for you to wake up." Chen Ke sighed lightly, twirling the Spiritual Power Crystal Gun and giving it another toss toward Katherine.

Either Chen Ke had blurry vision, or the environment was too dark for him to see clearly. Just when the blue spear was about to pierce Katherine, she turned into a pool of blood, completely merging with the Blood Pool on the ground.

The next moment, Chen Ke tensed all over as a blood-red sharp edge pierced through his chest—his back had been viciously stabbed.

Chen Ke grabbed the blade with his hand and found it was just a pool of blood. He turned and snapped his fingers behind him—with a "pop," Spiritual Energy burst forth, blowing Katherine into a mist of blood.

She could instantly teleport within this Blood Pool...

Chen Ke looked around nervously, activating his Spiritual Vision to capture Katherine’s movements. In the distant darkness, a red silhouette shaped like a person seemed to be holding something, stabbing furiously at his abdomen.

The next instant, blood spikes burst from the ground and tumbled toward Chen Ke.

He dodged to the side, tossing the Spiritual Power Crystal Gun toward the red silhouette. As the spear of light flew, the blue glow of Spiritual Energy lit up the area within a half-meter radius.

Before being hit, Katherine turned into blood, melting into the Blood Pool.

"It’s too far... I need to find a way to get closer," Chen Ke said, feeling accustomed to talking to himself in battle, like playing a game—cheering when winning, cursing when losing, and muttering during stalemates.

Chen Ke was now on someone else’s turf, measuring by the amount of killing intent received, Katherine wasn’t too strong or too weak. If it weren’t for the dream suppressing his powers, he could have killed Katherine in an instant.

The situation now wasn’t that he couldn’t fight, but Chen Ke knew he needed patience. He had to see how many tricks the other party had and then, at a closer distance, continually weaken the opponent with the Spiritual Power Crystal Gun.

Although there was no concept of time in the dream, Future Vision should still work. After all, the opponent’s actions were consecutive; as long as Katherine could move, he would have three chances to hit her for sure.

Chen Ke now knew that Katherine could appear anywhere in the Blood Pool and attack with blood turned solid, covering both close sneak attacks and long-distance harassment.

The only trouble was that the life countdown couldn’t display the opponent’s life status. It would be much more pleasant if Chen Ke could know the opponent’s health and injury level.

However, this was not a video game. If life and numbers could be displayed, then that would indeed make things much simpler.

Katherine appeared on Chen Ke’s right side, arms extended, blood extending from her fingertips. Katherine flicked her fingers, and the blood flew at Chen Ke, forming thumb-sized cones in the air.

"A new move!" An exclamation point seemed to pop above Chen Ke’s head as he tumbled backward the next moment.

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