Chapter 280: Too Frustrated
The sleeping man behind the door opened his eyes but showed no emotion. The next moment, the mechanical arm that was integrated with half of his body suddenly made a sound.
“Click~”
With a slight sound, the fine grooves on the robotic arm suddenly lit up, and the middle-aged man seemed to come back to his senses from his confusion, with a gleam in his eyes.
"Who are you?!"
The chief bishop and the surrounding magicians looked nervously at the man who woke up from the door, feeling a little at a loss.
The man put his hand on his neck, ignored the bishop's question, and looked around.
This arrogant attitude made the bishop a little angry, but in fact the bishop himself could not tell whether this sudden anger was due to the fear of the unknown or the panic of feeling like a thorn in the back.
"Who are you anyway? And why are you in the Mercurius Gate?"
The man still did not answer. Although the archbishop wanted to directly call on the magicians of the church to attack this unknown man, his remaining rationality suppressed this crazy idea.
"Charge your strength again, aim for Mercurius' Gate!"
After taking a deep breath, the Archbishop forced himself to ignore the man and waved his hand to give orders to the magicians.
Hearing this, the magicians raised their weapons, and the surrounding magic power condensed and quickly gathered at the top of the weapon, and waves of magic power came from the top.
The man who sensed the flow of magic power couldn't help but look sideways, but this powerful magic attack failed to meet the expectations of the bishop.
As the smoke from the explosion dissipated, the final door of the Mercurius Gate remained intact, without even a trace of a shattered fragment.
"this……"
The archbishop was speechless as he carefully looked up and down at the last door. The door engraved with a maze-like pattern was exactly the same as it was before the attack.
Cold sweat dripped from the bishop's forehead, and a sneer suddenly came from the side.
This sneer broke the string of reason, and the archbishop stared at the source of the sound with red eyes like a mad beast.
What he saw was a black-haired man, about twenty years old, who was looking at him mockingly with his arms folded.
The playfulness in his expression was as if he was watching a funny clown performance.
"Who...are you?!"
The bishop almost gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words from his throat. If the other party didn't give him a satisfactory answer, he would definitely turn this guy into pieces on the ground.
"Tsk tsk, don't blame me for being harsh. You rotten potatoes and stinky bird eggs want to blow up the Mercurius Gate? You are shit."
"you……"
Being humiliated like this, the bishop's face turned red with anger. His rage instantly suppressed his fear and reason. He didn't even think about why this man was so fearless.
"attack……"
“Boom—Puff!”
The bishop had just uttered a syllable when his body suddenly became like a balloon filled with water and was ruthlessly burst by the needle.
Blood was spattered all over the ground, and standing in the position of the head bishop was the man who came out of the Mercurius Gate.
"Are you strong? Yes, you are. That's really interesting."
After the man eliminated the chief bishop with one blow, he stared at Xia Yu, as if talking to himself, or as if speaking to Xia Yu.
"Damn it! Archbishop!"
"He killed the Archbishop!"
The magicians nearby looked at the man with hatred. They raised their weapons , and the tips of their weapons lit up with magical light.
The man who was hated by everyone had his eyes gradually turning red, veins popped up near his temples, and the next moment, the man disappeared.
Then, almost at the same time, explosions were heard, and balls of blood mist burst out from where the magicians were standing. Each ball of blood mist was once a complete person.
Gorgeous magic was flying everywhere, but the speed at which the blood mist appeared not only did not slow down, but was appearing at a faster speed.
Accompanied by screams, curses and wails, after just over ten seconds, all the people present disappeared, leaving only Xia Yu who was standing by with his arms folded and watching, and the man who had stopped.
The bloodstains on the walls and the ground seemed to prove that there were people there before, but the spreading smell of blood seemed to be telling us that these people had disappeared.
"Come on, play! Let's play together!"
The man showed a healthy smile, spread his hands and invited Xia Yu.
"Ah, another problem child."
Life is not easy, Xia Yu sighed.
The man in front of him who invited him to play was the old human Palutas, the guardian of the Mercurius Gate, or the gatekeeper.
But the person who gave him this responsibility had long been forgotten by Palutas, because that incident happened countless years ago.
It has been so long that Palutas has forgotten why he is staying here. His only wish now is to fight a good battle and then be killed.
Of course, he would not accept death obediently. He chose to either beat the other person to death or be beaten to death by the other person.
However, due to his great strength and regenerative healing ability, he has never failed, so he can only choose to continue sleeping and wait for the opportunity to kill him.
Now, it seemed that the chance of death had arrived.
Palutas looked at the seemingly harmless man in front of him, excitement in his eyes. His instinct told him that the man in front of him was very powerful, very powerful, so powerful that he was invincible.
But he has to be strong, so that he can seize the opportunity of death.
"Come and play!"
With an excited roar, Palutas flashed, the grooves on his left mechanical arm lit up, and he suddenly hammered towards Xia Yu's head with a force that could split a mountain.
Facing this attack, Xia Yu slightly tilted his body, raised his right palm and wrapped it around the flashing mechanical arm with boneless flexibility, then poked the inside of its forearm to deflect and resolve its attack.
But Palutas curled the corners of his mouth, suddenly raised his left foot and kicked towards Xia Yu's waist with such force that it even made a sonic boom.
Xia Yu's face darkened. He didn't hit the waist when he was hit. This guy wanted to destroy his future happiness. How could he tolerate this? He couldn't tolerate it at all!
Xia Yu immediately changed his tactics, twisting his waist and turning sideways while sinking his left palm to press the outside of Palutas' left calf. Then he took a step forward and pulled back his right hand to gather strength and make a fist!
Move! Block! Beat——!
boom--!
A loud explosion sounded in the chest of Palutas. Palutas, who was suddenly attacked, had his eyes bulged out and flew backwards.
I don’t know how many years it has been since I felt this kind of pain, this real pain.
Palutas showed a happy smile, and with the blood spurting out from the corner of his mouth, he looked like a pervert.
However, Xia Yu did not intend to wait for him to recover. While Palutas was still recovering, Xia Yu stepped on the ground with both feet, and spider-web-like cracks burst out from under his feet in the blink of an eye.
Then the body instantly left a solid afterimage in the air, as if a clone had appeared.
Palutas, who had not yet landed on the ground, suddenly stopped the next moment, but he did not stop voluntarily, but was stopped by Xia Yu's punch.
The next second, countless afterimages appeared around Palutas, and Xia Yu attacked Palutas from all directions at an invisible speed!
Palutas became soft like meat on a chopping board under the fine pounding, and even the bones gradually turned into powder and merged into the meat.
“Bang!”
Finally, at a certain moment, the piece of meat had been beaten to its limit and was turned into pieces under Xia Yu's attack.
"Huh, we're done."
Xia Yu quickly dodged to avoid being stained by the debris. He pressed his hands down and exhaled a breath of hot air.
Although he said this, Xia Yu did not relax. He knew that this old human Palutas still had a second stage, or his original form.
"boom!"
Along with a beam of light shooting up into the sky, the residue that had turned into flesh and blood suddenly began to merge towards the center.
A sticky pool of blood also appeared among the flesh and blood residue. The next second, an arm as white as jade suddenly stretched out from the pool of blood, and then pulled out the entire body.
He was a young man with blood flowing all over his body but without a single wound. He looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, but his left hand with a mechanical arm already revealed his identity.
The old human Paltas, perhaps this is his original appearance.
"You turned me back to my original form. You're quite interesting."
The young boy Palutas raised his lips, and a glow of energy appeared on his robotic arm. A small energy ball suddenly condensed from the robotic arm.
"To thank you..."
"puff--!"
Before Palutas could finish his words, Xia Yu suddenly rushed forward and punched him in the face, interrupting his words.
The fist was completely rammed into Palutas's face, and the huge force was transmitted from the head to the neck, then to the whole body, and the originally condensed energy ball also collapsed on the spot.
The next moment, Palutas flew backwards instantly, exactly the same as before.
"Let's fight, why bother?"
Xia Yu rubbed his wrist, then rushed forward again and punched Palutas in the face again, and this punch also hit the face completely.
He can't stand enemies who are more handsome than him. How come the old uncle with the same ugly face turned into a handsome little boy after he died once? He will change the unreasonable things.
The backward-flying Palutas left two traces of nosebleed in the air, and then he raised his left arm with a grin. Just as he was about to burst out with energy, Xia Yu had already arrived.
Xia Yu would not miss such a good opportunity to beat a fallen dog. He seized the weakness of Palutas, swung his fist to create shadows in the sky, and suppressed him with a fierce and violent attack.
Two guys who could be considered as people from the future in the Dragon Back World, fought in the most primitive way, that is, punching each other.
And it wasn't just a one-punch-at-a-time fight, it was a completely one-sided fight.
Xia Yu's fists were continuous, and countless phantoms hammered down on Palutas' body, beating it like a rag doll. Although Palutas had super self-healing and regenerative abilities, it took time to repair his body.
His self-healing ability is no match for Xia Yu's attack speed. If he continues to fight like this, he might be worn out to death.
After coming to this conclusion, Palutas felt very aggrieved. What he advocated was a battle between evenly matched opponents. If they could die together at the last moment, that would be what he considered the best outcome.
The next one was that the opponent was seriously injured and fell to the ground, and he died.
The worst situation is what is happening now. He has no power to resist at all. He is beaten around like a sandbag and then beaten to death.
Death would be fine, but the key point is that this death was worthless. He didn't even touch the corner of the other person's clothes.
The more he thought about it, the more aggrieved Palutas felt. He raised his head and yelled at the moment when Xia Yu didn't hit him in the face.
"enough……"
“Bang!!”
Xia Yu punched Palutas's newly recovered teeth and broke them again, causing his lower jaw to be shattered. He couldn't even say the words he wanted to shout.
Tears began to well up in the corners of Palutas' eyes. These were not tears of joy for the impending death, but tears of frustration, very frustration, extremely frustration.
As a gatekeeper, he had never felt so aggrieved before. However, he had no strength to resist. Although he was extremely unwilling in his heart, his body could only passively accept it.
Don’t say you can’t resist so just enjoy it. He tried, but the enemy was too brutal and he couldn’t enjoy it.
There is no other way, this is the only way.
Palutas curled up to protect his head, a look of determination flashed in his eyes.
Then he raised his head... As expected, Xia Yu punched him in the face again, but as long as he didn't faint, the battle would be considered a success.
As the thought came to his mind, the mechanical device on Palutas' left arm and left chest suddenly lit up, but this time, it was a dangerous red light.
A burning and deadly breath emerged from the device. Xia Yu's eyes fixed and he stepped back.
Although explosions and the like can no longer hurt him, his clothes can be easily affected, and he quite likes wearing this set of clothes.
"boom--!!!"
Just as Xia Yu was moving away from Palutas and wrapping himself with telekinesis, Palutas exploded. A dazzling light shone from inside the church, bringing with it a heat that seemed to extinguish everything.
The terrifying energy progressed layer by layer, sweeping in all directions. A vacuum area of thousands of degrees appeared directly in the center of the explosion. As the scope continued to expand, the walls of the church were also destroyed layer by layer.
The terrifying heat wave broke through the roof of the church like a tsunami, rushed straight into the sky and tore the clouds apart, and then burned downwards, melting the underground mud and sand into fiery red magma.
Amid the roar, a small figure was pushed out of the church by the heat wave. It was Xia Yu who used telekinesis to wrap himself.
Although the explosion was powerful and the heat wave was very hot, Xia Yu was somewhat relaxed. Since he couldn't be hurt anyway, he might as well continue playing.
However, Xia Yu, who had just flown out, caught a glimpse of the YoYa troops still guarding the church door and reacted immediately.
Although the YoRHa troops are all androids and can withstand high temperatures, the same cannot be said for their clothes and artificial skin.
Xia Yu waved his hand to expand the coverage of his mental power, directly wrapping the outward-expanding heat wave within the range of the church. After making sure that the impact of the explosion would not affect other people, he resumed his previous leisurely attitude.
After a few minutes, Xia Yu released the telekinesis shield. Although there was still some heat, it was just heat.
At this moment, the entire church has turned into a pile of ruins. These are not the kind of ruins with relics left, but rather ruins that look like the end of the world.
In the center of the ruins, only a dark gate and a tattered figure next to the gate remained.
