Volume 4: People who challenge the light Chapter 49: The End of Doubt
I sacrificed more than a hundred Devouring Ghosts and a few remaining Black Warriors, and bought myself some time to rest and recover. I was finally able to keep running, but I did n't have much left to fight back. If I continued to passively consume like this, I might not be able to seize the opportunity even if it came. In view of Santos's strength, I had to modify my tactics. While I still had some strength, I might as well give it a try and actively counterattack to speed up its consumption. Maybe there was still a glimmer of hope.
While Santos was still entangled and had no time to escape, I urgently issued an order to gather all the remaining chips together, including Red Star , the Blood Bat couple, Xiaobai, more than two hundred Devouring Ghosts and seventy or eighty Dark Knights. I arranged them one by one and prepared for the battle. This will be the last battle against the "Enforcer". Either it dies or I die!
Santos caught up with me again, and I led it to an ambush. After so many battles, this was the most helpless time. The enemy was too powerful, and the means I could use were so few. I had no idea if they would be effective or successful. Everything depended on luck.
After a desperate run, they finally arrived at the designated ambush site before Santos caught up. First, a hundred or so Devouring Ghosts floated in the sky and blew dark winds at it, attracting it to use flying spears to kill it wantonly. Meanwhile, seventy Dark Knights, in groups of ten, had already been ready to take turns to launch "Flash Assaults" to see if a ten-man serial assault that could knock back the most powerful velociraptor among the seventh-level Warcraft could have the same effect against the weakest "law enforcer".
Very strong, facing the pressure, Santos showed his full strength, and he avoided the "flash attack" of the two groups of twenty dark knights one by one. It really didn't take a skeleton horse's lower body for its own. It was surprisingly flexible, jumping left and right, and even jumping over the heads of the dark knights. There were several times when it narrowly avoided them, making the twenty strongest skill attacks in vain, and it launched a counterattack and killed several dark knights. However, this was already its limit. Facing the subsequent dark knights who rushed up after my adjustment, it finally had no way to avoid it and was hit by the four dark knights in the third group one after another. Although it didn't seem to cause much damage, it was also in a mess and no longer as calm as before. The fourth and fifth groups that followed closely behind... gave it no chance to catch its breath. It was hit more and more often. It did not have a strong physique like the Velociraptor and could not withstand the continuous and violent impact. It staggered and had no strength to attack anymore. Finally, it fell to the ground and had to endure the trampling of the Dark Knight.
I left the seventh group of Dark Knights behind and cruised around Santos to lure it into attacking, buying time for the other Dark Knights to gather strength in order to launch a second wave of "Flash Assault" - based on experience, the "law enforcers" that were hit by this would definitely hate the Dark Knights to the core, and if I didn't leave some behind for it to vent its anger, it might give up on the Devouring Ghosts in the sky and turn to chase down the Dark Knights.
Sure enough, Santos, who had climbed up from the ground, looked extremely angry. He roared loudly towards the sky, and swung the javelin in his hand repeatedly, with a speed far faster than usual. After several consecutive attacks, the two dark knights had more than a dozen holes pierced through their bodies. They had no power to fight back at all and fell off their horses and died. The skeleton horse under them was closely related to its master and could not live alone, so it naturally died with him. The other dark knights who stayed behind all adopted the method of roaming and fighting. Even if they were attacked, they would never confront Santos head-on. They just dodged and attracted him to chase and kill them everywhere, trying to delay time as much as possible.
While dodging the attacks of "Thunder Fire Cave Heaven", I commanded the Dark Knights to adjust their positions and use "Flash Assault" in batches to collide with Santos and consume its strength. With the experience of commanding in the Dragon Slaying Battle and the trials and corrections of the previous batches, the cooperation within the same group and between groups became more and more tacit, showing more and more power. Although Santos gradually adapted to this attack method and killed several Dark Knights from time to time, the continuous impact was not so easy to dodge, and he still had to withstand a lot of collisions.
After four rounds of impact, only a dozen of the seventy dark knights who participated in the attack were left, and the casualties were extremely heavy. If this plan fails, I will not have the strength to compete with Santos. But it seems that my luck today is not too bad. The huge effort of gamble everything finally received the due reward. The black hole disappeared, the sky returned to normal, and the "Thunder Fire Cave Heaven" that had been tracking me and bombing finally stopped. I can finally breathe a sigh of relief and feel a little more at ease. After all, the basis of the tactics I adopted before was purely based on my personal conjecture. If I made a wrong judgment, I would have to pay an extremely heavy price. Now I see a ray of hope, proving that my strategy is still feasible.
Without the threat of "Thunder Fire Cave Heaven", I can finally free up my hands to deal with Santos with all my strength. More importantly, I have released the artifact "Death Touch". Because of the frequent explosions of thunder and fire, my mental power is constantly decreasing. In order to save my life, "Death Touch" has been used as a supply item and there is no way to attack. At the moment, Santos seems to be running out of strength, so we should concentrate our strength to launch a counterattack and deal with him as soon as possible.
The dozen or so Dark Knights can no longer organize an effective attack and can only fight Santos at close range. They probably cannot escape the fate of being annihilated. The remaining one hundred or so Devouring Ghosts are distributed in the sky between Santos and me, ready to launch harassment attacks at any time to prevent it from dealing with me with all its strength. Once it gets close to me, even if I have the Undead Shield and artifacts to protect me, I am afraid I will not be able to withstand a few shots.
Santos was already at the end of his strength, and the real main force was about to appear. If I still couldn't kill it, then I had no choice but to admit defeat. I slowly approached Santos, and once I entered the attack range, I used the "Touch of Death" to entangle it, concentrating my mind to absorb it, but Santos, who was suddenly attacked, would not let me do so. His body paused immediately, and a strong mental resistance rebounded, and he got rid of the restraint of the "Touch of Death" in an instant, and at the same time, he waved his arms and threw a javelin at me with all his strength.
As the distance got closer, I felt the speed of the flying gun increased. It flew in front of me almost as soon as it was fired. Even though I was fully alert without the interference of the lightning and fireball, I was still caught off guard and failed to completely avoid it, reducing my mental strength by 20%. However, I took the risk to induce it to do so. At the same time when it fired its weapon, the bat-man, who had already prepared in the form of a bat, quickly approached it and opened his mouth to spray a ball of "blood evil" at it. Although Santos was aware of the existence of the blood bat, it had no way to attack without a weapon in hand. It could only watch the blood bat fly in front of it. Such a close-range "blood evil" attack, no matter how agile it was, it could not dodge it. The blood bat could not spray a few "blood evil" in total, and it had to bear the heavy responsibility of attacking. Every mouthful could not be wasted, and it must be sure to launch it before it was launched.
Seeing Santos wrapped in the "Blood Evil", Xiaobai showed up and blew the dark wind fiercely. Red Star immediately used the "Flash Combo" and rushed straight at it, attacking back and forth. The Bat Lady also transformed into a human form and quickly pounced on it, cooperating with Red Star to launch an attack. As for the Bat Man, he was still hovering in the sky, ready to spit out the second "Blood Evil" at any time. Santos' strength was much greater than that of the Blood Bat, and the "Blood Evil" might not be able to trap it for long. He had to be prepared to make up for it at any time to facilitate the attack of Red Star and Bat Lady. The more than ten surviving dark knights retreated to the side first, and gathered strength again to perform the "Flash Assault", ready to go up at any time depending on the situation.
Red Star's repeated attacks forced Santos, who had lost all his senses, to stagger back and nearly fall down several times. The blindly waving javelin made it difficult to effectively resist. The bat lady also moved flexibly, looking for opportunities to sneak attack, using all her strength to grab a few claws fiercely, leaving a few small holes in its hard flesh. However, the "law enforcer" was indeed strong. It took only a short while to withstand the attack, and the "blood evil" quickly dissipated. I quickly to spray it again and trapped it again. Red Star waved the saber, and the bat lady raised the ghost claw and tried her best to attack. Naturally, I would not miss such a good attack opportunity. I rushed up on Tao Tao, and my left hand urged the artifact to perform "sucking essence and devouring marrow", and my right hand released "cloud of death". Tao Tao also spit out "hellfire ray" wildly, using all my strength to weaken the opponent.
After four "Blood Evils" were sprayed, the Bat Man was already on the verge of his limit and had to retreat to the side to rest. The Bat Woman took over and also transformed into a bat form. This way, the movements were more flexible than the human form, and he could chase Santos closely and keep his position ready to use the "Blood Evil". The scimitar that Red Star chopped down with all his might left scars on Santos' body. Although shallow, they also represented damage, and the Dark Knights also took turns to rush forward to launch "Flash Assaults". From time to time, those who were too weak due to their heavy consumption could not dodge in time because of their slow movements, and died tragically under the gun that Santos was swinging randomly.
The "Blood Evil" could no longer be sprayed. The Bat Lady sprayed five times, and the Bat Male barely rushed up and sprayed once. The couple was exhausted and flew to the side and fell into hibernation. They were unable to appear in the game in the short term. There were only four Dark Knights left, and they were all on their last breath. They couldn't even use the "Flash Assault" and could only attack with the saber. Santos, this big pervert, was already shaky but still refused to die. Seeing that it would soon get rid of the siege of the "Blood Evil", I used both hands to seize the time to attack with Tao Tao, not giving up every opportunity, and reluctantly withdrew the Red Star, accumulating strength for the last "Flash Combo". If I couldn't kill it by then, I would really be helpless and would not have the capital to fight it again.
After being depressed for a long time, Santos finally got rid of the restraint of "Blood Evil". He looked at me and roared in extreme anger. After several consecutive attacks, he killed the four dying dark knights around him. Then he roared again, raised his gun and pretended to be angry, but stood still, letting the cold wind blow from above, just staring at me. It made me feel creepy. I don't know what its intention is to pose like this, neither attacking nor retreating. It can't be that it knows that it has reached the end of the road and wants to face death in this way?
Although I was a little worried, I didn't dare to relax my hands. It was rare that it didn't attack, so I just attacked with all my strength and didn't have to waste time dodging. Seeing that Red Star was fully charged, I waited and waited... Seeing that Santos was still motionless and enduring the attack, I finally gritted my teeth and ordered Red Star to perform "Flash Combo" and rushed out, launching the final attack on Santos with all my might. Now there was no guard around me. If Santos took the opportunity to rush over, I would definitely be in danger.
Santos himself did not rush over, but his javelin flew over and pierced my body. Just as the red star rushed over, the statue-like Santos suddenly moved, with a flash of red light all over his body, which quickly condensed on the javelin, making the gray-white bone spear covered with a layer of strange red light. Then he raised his hand and threw it at me, as fast as lightning, as if there was no distance between us at all, and it flew in front of me in an instant. I had no time to react. The undead shield, the protective light shield generated by the artifact, broke through like a layer of paper, without any stagnation, and easily pierced my chest. 70% of my mental power immediately reached the bottom, my eyes went black, and I fell to the ground.
The "Heavenly Punishment" mission is over. I have exceeded the time limit and was kicked offline by the system. Did I fail? I think so. That damn flying gun gave me a fatal blow at the most critical moment. Santos's previous posturing was probably to accumulate strength. If I could see through this earlier and order Red Star to launch the "Flash Combo" earlier, maybe there would be a different ending. Now, the "Supreme Corpse Crown" is gone, and the upper limit of mental power has to be reduced by 5%. Do you regret it? Shouldn't I force myself to stand out when I am not strong enough and ask for trouble? My heart was in a mess. I ate something reluctantly, but I couldn't fall asleep lying on the bed, waiting to be able to re-enter the game.
I was resurrected in the room of the resident, extremely weak, with only one tenth of my normal attributes and abilities. I needed to endure for a while to slowly recover. I was shocked. How could this happen? Was it the sequelae of the death of the soul? I hurriedly ran out to die and entered the "Dead Soul Space" as soon as possible.
I was surprised again. I didn't see the dead old man as expected. I wanted to scold him. His sweet words were just to fool me and trick me into joining the pirate ship. I appeared in the same area where I fought Santos. It seemed to be the place where I was shot and fell. My soul was still extremely weak. My attributes and abilities were only one tenth of the usual ones. I was surprised and delighted that the "Supreme Corpse Crown" was still there and had not been taken away. I also had the title of "God-Defying Person". I could ignore most of the "Laws of the Dead" related to skeletons and zombies and enjoy a high degree of freedom to act.
So, I didn't die, and I should have defeated the "law enforcer", but apart from the title of "God-defying" and my extremely weak body, there was no other change, and I didn't get any of the so-called benefits of killing the "law enforcer". What on earth is going on? After the surprise of surviving a disaster, I am left with a lot of questions.
