Chapter 16 "You're Actually Still Alive?"

"You're actually still alive?" Honghu exclaimed. His surprise was understandable, because… logically speaking, no player had any chance of winning a one-on-one fight against a boss like "Juror."

"Sometimes miracles do happen…" Feng Bujue shrugged with a smile. "Don't they?"

"No, they never do… and they never will." Honghu narrowed his eyes, speaking quickly. "Stop acting mysterious… you must have used some unconventional method to escape Shagula's pursuit."

"Alright, now's not the time to dwell on that." Jue Ge smoothly changed the subject. "This Derivative before us is probably even stronger than Juror, Time Official, or the Nine Dreadful Wraith Lords…" He turned his gaze to y2-Shining. "Even if the four of us join forces, we might not be able to defeat it…" He paused. "Why don't we think about how to solve this immediate threat first?"

"Hmph! No need to join forces at all!" Pegasus Sky crossed his arms, stood with his feet apart, and held his head high. "I alone will defeat this villain!"

"Hmm… you must be Pegasus Sky…" Feng Bujue's eyes changed slightly as he muttered, "Just as the rumors say…" Jue Ge's pre-match research was very thorough. He not only recognized the appearance of each player, but also knew a little about their other information.

"Hehehe…" y2-Shining had already walked to a spot less than twenty meters away from the group. He faced the four players and still smiled calmly. "Courage… is an excellent quality. But courage based on ignorance is both ridiculous and pathetic."

"Pegasus Meteor Fist!" Pegasus Sky ignored the opponent's words. Obviously… he couldn't understand that kind of veiled expression.

With a shout, silver-white fist shadows suddenly scattered, striking y2-Shining's body like raindrops.

"Ha…" y2-Shining's laughter was full of mockery. "This kind of attack… its power is probably about the same as the energy I unintentionally leak out." Like Observer, he simply stood in place, neither dodging nor blocking.

To put it simply, Pegasus Sky's moves couldn't break his defense…

"Aah… oh…" Pegasus Sky's attack failed, and he immediately adopted a stable stance, his face contorted in an expression of straining, and he let out a pig-like howl.

"I'll be damned… is he about to become a Super Saiyan…" Zhao Yingwang couldn't help but complain about this overly prominent flaw.

"Oh! He's burning his Cosmo!" Feng Bujue, however, had a look of understanding on his face, his eyes shining.

"These two are indeed kindred spirits…" Honghu thought to himself. "Even a normal person like me can faintly feel the chuunibyou (middle-school syndrome) level around me rising…"

"Take this! Pegasus Meteor Fist!" Pegasus Sky took a big step forward, bent his knees and thrust, swung his arm and threw another wave of fist shadows.

"Is there something wrong with your brain?" y2-Shining snorted coldly. "Knowing it's ineffective, you continue to use the same move. Does it change the resu…" Before he finished speaking, his expression changed abruptly.

At this moment, the light-gathering armor on y2-Shining's body was struck by the flying fist shadows, creating many cracks. He himself also retreated several steps under the impact of the meteor fist.

"What's going on…" There was a flash of light in y2-Shining's eyes. "The data is actually increasing…"

"Villain! Have you witnessed my fighting spirit!" Pegasus Sky glared at the other party with sharp eyes. "There's still time for you to surrender!"

"What did you say?" y2-Shining's bell-like voice suddenly sank. He gritted his teeth and muttered, "Surrender? Me… surrender… to you?" The light emanating from his body gradually brightened. The cracked light-gathering armor was quickly broken by the light energy, and fragments scattered on the ground. "Humans… perhaps you have become accustomed to treating battles as child's play… but for me… this is a mission that risks my life." At this point, the armor on y2-Shining's body had completely fallen off, and his entire body was emitting a full of light energy.

"Those who are stubborn and resist to the death…" y2-Shining raised one arm, extended his index finger forward, gathering a violent energy on his fingertip, ready to be released. "...turn into dust for me!"

Boom—

A roar announced the arrival of the attack.

A terrifying pulse leaked from y2-Shining's fingertips, sweeping towards the three players on the street.

At this instant…

"Get out of the way!" With a light shout, Zhao Yingwang jumped up and rushed forward, taking the lead in front of Pegasus Sky.

In the few seconds that y2-Shining was charging up, Zhao Yingwang had already sensed that something was wrong, so he had also prepared to respond.

[Name: Summoning Art - Rashomon]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Learned]

[Skill Category: Summoning]

[Effect: Summons Rashomon to block attacks (no cooldown time, existence time 20 seconds, multiple Rashomon can exist at the same time, no quantity limit)]

[Consumption: 30% of Maximum Spirit Value]

[Learning Condition: Summoning Specialization A]

[Remarks: Advanced defensive magic, summoning the "Gate of Severing Life and Death" from the Spirit World to defend against enemies.]

Crack— As the skill was activated, the road in front of Zhao Yingwang suddenly cracked open, and a giant gate more than six meters wide and ten meters high rose from the ground.

The body of this Rashomon was made of white bones, as thick as a city wall, and the door was engraved with strange totems of demons and monsters, filled with a chilling aura of death.

Bang! The pulse arrived, hitting the gate directly.

In the second when the two forces clashed, the entire street was shaking…

"Not bad… it actually blocked it…" Honghu thought to himself, standing in the back. "But the opponent's strength is indeed far beyond expectations… I have to do something quickly."

On the other side…

"Hmph… futile resistance…" y2-Shining didn't seem to take Zhao Yingwang's defensive ultimate move seriously at all. He immediately shouted, "Try to block it if you can!" He changed his finger to a palm, and used his other hand to hold the wrist of the hand that was casting the move, doubling the force.

"Who's afraid of who!" Seeing that the first gate was on the verge of collapse from the pulse, Zhao Yingwang immediately retreated and continued to cast his move. "I'm going to fight you to the end today!" He was very angry at the moment, the revenge for the arrow he was ambushed with earlier, and y2-Shining's various words and deeds, made him very unhappy. "Try to break through it if you can! Double Rashomon!"

At the moment when the first Rashomon was penetrated, Zhao Yingwang's follow-up move happened to keep up. This time, two giant gates rose up at once, extremely solid… it felt like they could withstand a missile strike.

"Ridiculous!" But y2-Shining could still add strength. He slightly rotated his wrist, and the pulse beam became a few times thicker.

Whoosh—

Suddenly, a ray of arrow light came from y2-Shining's left side.

It turned out that Honghu had circled to the side of his opponent and launched an attack with a light arrow. "How can I let you do whatever you want!"

Hoo hoo hoo…

At the same time, on y2-Shining's right side, continuous fist shadows flew over.

"Pegasus Meteor Fist!" Pegasus Sky, who felt uncomfortable not shouting the name of the move, had also rushed over.

"Courting death!" y2-Shining craned his neck towards the sky and roared. Then, he actually used his ears to release beams of light to both sides of his body at the same time…

"What!" Honghu and Pegasus Sky didn't expect such a move. The attacks of these two were actually very similar to y2-Shining's beams of light. They were all energy attacks, but their power was slightly weaker. Now that the opponent's pulse counterattacked, it instantly turned from defense to offense, turning the tables.

Just in this flash of lightning, two crescent-shaped slashes suddenly flew down from the air, cutting off the two pulses.

"As expected… I still have to rely on me to solve it…" Feng Bujue's voice came from above.

Everyone looked up and saw Jue Ge hovering in the air above y2-Shining, holding his hands in front of his chest, his palms open, circling a range with the index fingers and thumbs of both hands, aiming at the Derivative under his feet.

"Hmm?" y2-Shining finally realized something…

Although in these short few seconds, one of the double Rashomon had already been shattered, y2-Shining still chose to stop attacking and looked up.

It was okay not to look up, but when he looked up, he was shocked…

Warning:

—High energy reaction detected.

Data Identification:

—[Spirit Gun]

Tactical Control Options:

—Evasive action must be taken immediately.

Survival probability:

—23%...21%...16%...9%...