The battle in the corridor had reached its climax.
*Bang!* Wang Ange’s whip kick swept across, instantly flattening the dark creature’s head, but it quickly regenerated.
After its head reformed, a fierce counterattack ensued. The dark creature’s right arm transformed into a long spear, thrusting towards Wang Ange’s head. Wang Ange leaped to the left, dodging the fatal blow, and the wall behind her was pierced by the spear.
*Sssslurp~* After missing its target, the black spear lost its rigidity, rapidly shortening and thickening like liquid before transforming back into a black arm.
The dark creature shook its head, grabbed its left wrist, and tore off its left arm, which then morphed into a black longsword. It swung the sword at Wang Ange, the blade glinting with sharpness, no longer showing any of its previous liquid softness.
Wang Ange clenched her five fingers, causing the air around the dark creature to collapse, forming an invisible cage that squeezed the creature into a ball. However, it soon liquefied and flowed out through the gaps, reforming into a humanoid shape before swinging its sword again.
Feeling her spiritual energy dwindling, Wang Ange sighed softly. As a control-type, team-fight oriented ability user, her output was purely physical, lacking any large-scale attack skills to instantly destroy this dark creature with its liquefaction ability. This meant she was destined to be on the defensive.
If only there was an output-type ability user! Wang Ange dodged a swing from the dark creature. Although her spiritual energy was decreasing, she wasn’t particularly panicked.
Just as she, with control but no strong output, couldn’t deal with the liquefying dark creature, the dark creature also couldn’t inflict effective damage on her, who possessed defensive and control skills.
As they fought, Wang Ange felt that enough time had passed. Yu Zhibo and his friends should have left by now. She prepared to use her last bit of spiritual energy to restrain the monster and then make her escape.
Heh heh, after seeing me risk my life to save him, that young man would surely be devoted to the Sacred Bureau. Alas, don’t blame me for being too cunning, it’s just that you’re too naive, young man.
Thinking this, Wang Ange began to circulate her spiritual energy. However, a glimpse from the corner of her eye caught a lewd figure in the corner, watching her with blood-red eyes.
Wang Ange froze for a moment, and when she realized what was happening, she almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
Isn’t that Yu Zhibo? Why is he back?
I’ve been working so hard to hold off the enemy for you, and you’re pulling this stunt of not leaving?
Wang Ange felt deeply touched and simultaneously wished she could beat Yu Zhibo to a pulp right then and there.
Suppressing her anger, she cast the Void Cage to restrain the dark creature. Wang Ange pushed off with her long legs and agilely darted towards Yu Zhibo.
She intended to drag him away, but halfway there, she saw Yu Zhibo already standing in the middle of the corridor, making strange hand gestures and shouting, “Get out of the way, I’m going to power up!”
Yu Zhibo’s eyes were blood-red. After shouting to the charging Wang Ange, he looked at the dark creature trapped in the air.
His Sharingan could clearly see that the dark creature was restrained by compressed air mixed with spiritual energy. Now was the best time to attack.
巳, 未, 申, 亥, 午, 寅! With the proficiency of the Great Fireball technique, Yu Zhibo completed six hand seals in two seconds. Soon, his spiritual energy began to circulate.
As Yu Zhibo’s movements quickened, Wang Ange felt an inexplicable sense of danger. She temporarily abandoned her plan to pull Yu Zhibo away and quickly dodged to the side.
With the completion of the last hand seal, Yu Zhibo felt his spiritual energy in his dantian suddenly empty, circulating rapidly within his dantian before transforming into a surging hot current that rushed towards his throat.
Great Fireball Jutsu!
As if he had done it thousands of times, Yu Zhibo puffed out his cheeks, brought his thumb and index finger together near his mouth, and then a thin stream of flame shot out from between his lips and fingers. It extended about a meter forward before suddenly expanding, transforming into a scorching, violent fireball that engulfed the dark creature trapped in the air.
Under the immense heat, the Void Cage was first burned and rendered useless. Then, the dark creature within the cage melted like ice and snow upon contact with the fire, finally turning into ashes that scattered in the explosion of the fireball.
*Plop,* a black crystal, about the size of a thumb, was blasted into a corner.
Yu Zhibo was immersed in the exhilaration of casting the Great Fireball for the first time. He glanced at it briefly and then paid it no further attention.
The walls on both sides of the corridor were cracked, and a large hole had been blown in the ceiling, revealing the old light bulbs above the second-floor corridor.
How is this possible? He’s just an F-class awakened being. Wang Ange stared at the scattered ashes in disbelief. The scene before her had surpassed her understanding.
Crimson eyes, a bizarre substitution jutsu, a giant fireball, and those strange hand seals. What kind of bizarre ability has this young man awakened?
Wang Ange looked at Yu Zhibo’s profile, her eyes no longer holding the playful gaze of a senior looking at a junior.
The spiritual energy in the air gradually dissipated, and the residual flames from the Great Fireball were extinguished. The corridor returned to darkness, with only Yu Zhibo’s pair of glowing red Sharingan blinking gently.
“How was it? Am I awesome?” Yu Zhibo closed his Sharingan, stood up straight, and grinned at Wang Ange, trying to calm his slightly uneven breathing.
Without a doubt, Wang Ange’s earlier act of covering for him and Chen Bo had made him completely regard this older sister from the post-90s generation as a friend.
The corridor was dark, but for awakened beings, this darkness did not render them blind. And for Yu Zhibo, who possessed the Sharingan, it was even less of an obstacle, so he could clearly see the shocked expression on Wang Ange’s face.
For a moment, the young man’s vanity was greatly satisfied. What made him grin even wider was that killing the dark creature had earned him 100 energy points.
With a thought, the shop opened, and a dense array of purchasable ninjutsu appeared in his mind, making him incredibly excited.
He had just acquired the Great Fireball Jutsu and could immediately buy a new skill. How could he not be thrilled by this growth rate?
Forcing down the urge to purchase, Yu Zhibo closed the shop. He spent two points of spiritual energy and casually planted a substitution jutsu marker on the shattered half of a door on the ground, just in case of any unexpected situations.
After all, playing it safe is a lifelong endeavor.
Having made his contingency, he walked up to Wang Ange, who had a complicated expression, waved his hand, and said, “Sis, what’s up? If nothing’s wrong, shall we go?”
Wang Ange looked at him with a constipated expression and sighed, “It’s nothing. I’m just a bit discouraged. I awakened two years ago, and the skills I’ve developed in conjunction with my abilities aren’t as impressive as yours. I feel like I’ve wasted my life.”
“Hahaha, you’ll get used to it. You’ll be even more shocked later!” Yu Zhibo laughed heartily. When facing people he approved of, the passionate young man never hid his feelings.
Looking at the genuine expression on the young man’s face, Wang Ange felt a sense of closeness, as if she were looking at her mischievous younger brother. She couldn’t help but grab Yu Zhibo by the scruff of his neck and gritted her teeth, “Although my skill development ability isn’t as good as yours, dealing with you now is more than enough!”
Just as Yu Zhibo was touched by her covering for them, Wang Ange was also moved by Yu Zhibo’s fearless return.
Although she was very angry when she first saw Yu Zhibo return, it didn’t prevent her from being touched.
As she spoke, she suddenly slapped her forehead, “I was so shocked by you that I almost forgot to take this thing with me!”
With a wave of her hand, a black crystal from the corner flew into her hand.
“What is this?” Yu Zhibo looked at it curiously, only feeling that this black crystal contained a gray energy similar to that of the dark creature, like its essence.
“This is an energy crystal. It can be converted into spirit crystals that ability users can absorb through special techniques, or it can be made into spirit-replenishing potions. It’s proof that we’ve killed E-class dark creatures. We’ll split the merit points fifty-fifty when they’re awarded.”
Wang Ange played with the crystal in her hand, a happy expression on her face.
Yu Zhibo didn’t pay much attention to it, as he now had a hundred energy points and his mind was filled with the new ninjutsu that had appeared in the shop. Therefore, he didn’t ask any further questions and let Wang Ange handle it.
As the two walked out of the hospital, Wang Ange was bewildered by Yu Zhibo’s actions:
“Why are you carrying this half of a wooden door? You’re a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but carrying a wooden board always makes you look inexplicably lewd.”
“Uh, this wooden door can be taken back to be used as firewood!” Yu Zhibo scratched his head and casually made up a reason.
In the Naruto anime, ninja intelligence cannot be easily leaked. The reason? Recall a classic battle in Naruto. Hidan, who possessed immortality and brutally killed Asuma, was beaten into a mess by Shikamaru after his intelligence was leaked.
Wang Ange walked alongside Yu Zhibo, recalling how the young man’s body had inexplicably swapped positions with the wooden door by the entrance. She vaguely understood something.
She couldn’t help but rub Yu Zhibo’s buzz cut and said somewhat seriously, “The Sacred Bureau will not forcibly require its members to reveal all their secrets without reservation. You can rest assured about that, but we still need to assess your specific strength, so I will report your combat performance truthfully to facilitate assigning you tasks later.”
“Okay, but can you stop patting my head? It’s finally grown a bit!” Yu Zhibo understood Wang Ange’s words. “If you can figure it out, that’s your skill. I’ll hide mine, and you do as you please.”
“The more I pat it, the faster it grows!” Wang Ange ruffled the young man’s buzz cut again. “Come to think of it, it feels really good.”