Chapter 281: No Challenge At All! Let’s Start Feeding Them Kills!
“Energy erosion, how can there be such a martial skill?”
Palius felt the energy in the space drilling into his body through every gap, and the energy seemed alive, constantly wearing away the blood qi in his body, leaving him utterly shocked.
This kind of blood qi depletion forced him to divert his focus to mobilize all his blood qi to resist it. If he did not resist this erosion, the speed of blood qi consumption would drain him completely in less than a minute, resulting in instant death.
Such a martial skill was simply unheard of.
“This martial skill is strange! Everyone, withdraw from this space immediately!”
At this moment, Bai Shou Kalad also quickly gave the order for everyone to get away from the guard robot in front of them, with no intention of continuing the fight.
While distracted by mobilizing their blood qi to resist the energy erosion, let alone sequence extraordinary level martial skills, it was difficult even to use advanced martial skills. Experts as strong as him were like this; for others, they might not even be able to use ordinary martial skills.
In a situation where bone forging realm martial artists like them could not use martial skills, their physical fitness was only slightly stronger than extreme advanced level bone forging realm martial artists. Facing a guard robot whose overall physical parameters had reached initial stage blood coagulation, going up against it was simply courting death.
“Want to leave? Do you think you can escape?”
The guard robot’s eyes flashed red. In clumsy half-beast race speech, it let out a cold laugh, took one step to appear in front of Bai Shou Kalad, and brought its greatsword down in a vertical slash.
This slash contained no technique, but it was the fastest strike so far in this battle. It was as if when the sword came down, the air parted on its own, without any air resistance, cleaving straight toward Bai Shou Kalad.
However, Bai Shou Kalad was no ordinary person. Even when facing this peak-speed strike, he still raised the battle axe in his hand, chopping head-on at the blade of the greatsword.
A twist and a turn.
With two simple movements of his hands, as natural as if practiced tens of millions of times, he forced a sword strike with more than fifty tons of strength to deviate from its original attack trajectory. It grazed past Bai Shou Kalad’s cheek as his whole body was sent flying dozens of meters away.
“You little rat do have some skill, actually reaching high microscopic level, forcibly unloading part of my strength.” The guard robot looked at the blasted-away Bai Shou Kalad, a trace of surprise in its voice. It clearly had not expected that after the energy domain was deployed, a bone forging realm martial artist could still take its sword head-on and live.
Though the guard robot said this, anyone with eyes could tell that Bai Shou Kalad’s current state was far from optimistic.
From just one sword, the hands of half-beast Bai Shou Kalad were torn open and bleeding at the tiger’s mouths. It was obvious he could not block many more blows.
And Bai Shou Kalad himself knew even better how bad his situation was.
“Just one sword has injured me. Among all the prisoners, this prisoner’s strength is probably in the first tier. Palius has really screwed me over this time.” Bai Shou Kalad glanced at the silver-blue battle axe in his hand, then looked at the guard robot, full of vigilance.
If he were not wielding the third-tier weapon Rage Mountain, which under blood qi enhancement boosted his strength by about twenty percent, his hands might already have been crippled by that strike.
But while Bai Shou Kalad was on guard against the guard robot, the guard robot looked at the crowd trying to flee out of the energy domain. It thrust its two greatswords into the ground, as if drawing power from the earth. In just the blink of an eye, the two greatswords slashed up from the ground.
In an instant, two sword qi waves easily tore through the air, slicing the energy domain within a radius of two hundred meters into four sections. The two sword qi were so fast that even Xie Feina watching from afar did not react, and dozens of people struck by the sword qi were cut in half along with their tier 2 battle armor.
“How is this possible!” Xie Feina looked at the two streaks of sword qi lingering in the air, her beautiful eyes full of shock and terror.
It was not that she had never seen powerful experts or monsters who could easily kill her; she had seen quite a few.
But the martial skills displayed by the guard robot before her gave her a feeling of utter helplessness. Even though she was not inside that energy domain and could normally use sequence transcendent martial skills, she still could not have defended against those two strikes just now.
Fast.
Too fast.
From the swing of the greatsword to the sword qi sweeping two hundred meters away, everything happened in an instant, as if the sword qi teleported and appeared directly two hundred meters out.
Facing such a fast strike, unless one maintained a constant state of manifested blood qi, they would definitely be instant-killed, unable even to block.
“So this is the martial skill of an advanced civilization?”
Lin Qi watched those two inconceivably fast sword strikes, deeply shaken.
Although he had long known star energy civilization was not simple, something already evident from the star energy construct secret method they had created, he had not expected the martial skills they commanded to be so formidable.
Those two slashes were as if wielding two greatswords more than two hundred meters long. As they swung, everyone within two hundred meters would be struck at the same time. Facing such swords, trying to block was far too difficult.
“Retreat! Retreat quickly!”
Palius looked at the dozen or so team members cut down beside him and could not help urging everyone to withdraw quickly. He himself no longer bothered resisting the erosion of the energy, immediately using a supernatural level footwork technique to flee rapidly.
While the two teams from Mist Mountain Domain City and Earth Star Pharmaceuticals were desperately fleeing for their lives, the escaped-from-the-energy-domain Palius and Bai Shou Kalad also saw Lin Qi and the others a few hundred meters away.
But whether it was Palius or Bai Shou Kalad, they only gave Lin Qi and the others a single glance before using supernatural level footwork to flash past them at high speed, heading for the entrance to the middle level, not daring to stay here for even a moment.
Due to the guard robots’ orders restricting them, prisoners in the lower level could only move within the lower level at most. As long as one escaped to the middle level, no matter how powerful the prisoners were, they could do nothing. This was the experience all the major powers had gained over long-term exploration of the lower level.
Watching the two figures sweep past, Xie Feina quickly reacted and reminded Lin Qi, “Hall Master Lin, we must leave quickly. If that prisoner chases over here, we’ll be in trouble.”
At this moment, she had completely given up on confronting this prisoner.
Let alone fighting this prisoner, she did not even dare entertain the idea of getting close.
Even someone as strong as leader Palius and Bai Shou Kalad, relying on third-tier weapons, could only withstand ordinary attacks. If it were that martial skill from before, they would likely die instantly.
In such a situation, it could no longer be called a battle; it was purely one-sided slaughter.
“Leave? Why should we leave?” Lin Qi looked at the guard robot still slaughtering people all around, and shook his head slightly, his gaze incomparably calm. “Right now is the best time for us to act.”
Lin Qi’s words left both Xie Feina and Precia stunned for a moment.
“Is Lin Qi crazy? Even now, he still plans to capture this prisoner?” Precia looked at Lin Qi, who was still preparing to make a move, not knowing what to think.
When the two teams of Mist Mountain Domain City and Earth Star Pharmaceuticals were no match, even if Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had a foundation comparable to the two major teams, facing this prisoner, it would still just mean a few extra swings of that sword.
“Hall Master Lin, are you confident?” Xie Feina looked at Lin Qi’s calm expression and hesitated for a moment before asking.
Though she did not believe Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could take down this prisoner in his current state, if it was possible, she did not want to give up the opportunity. Especially after seeing the prisoner’s skills, it would be impossible not to be tempted.
That sword technique alone was likely above her sequence extraordinary level martial skills, not to mention that energy domain, which was practically invincible in group battles.
“I have some confidence.” Lin Qi nodded as he watched the guard robot still pursuing and killing in the distance.
Although the prisoner before him was much stronger than expected, Lin Qi did not plan to defeat him head-on anyway, only to wage a war of attrition. So it did not affect what he wanted to do, especially since the two major teams had already worn the prisoner down considerably. If they did not continue now, and waited until the prisoner replenished his energy, dealing with him later would only be more troublesome.
“Do you need us to do anything?” Seeing Lin Qi still so confident, Xie Feina could not help believing him a little.
Although she had not interacted much with Lin Qi, from his words and conduct, she could tell he was not a madman. And everyone only had one life; even a madman would care somewhat, let alone a genius like Lin Qi who would never resign himself to dying casually.
“Help us keep an eye on Palius and Kalad and the others, and prevent other teams from coming over to interfere.” Lin Qi looked at the slightly excited Xie Feina, thought for a moment, and said, “As for the rest, leave everything to our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.”
“We don’t need to take action?” Precia could not help being a little surprised.
Both she and Xie Feina were experts who had mastered sequence extraordinary level martial skills, especially Xie Feina, who could normally fight one-on-one against an expert at blood condensation realm intermediate level. In the whole prison, that put her firmly in the first tier, not much weaker than leader Palius and Bai Shou Kalad.
Compared to the disciples of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall who were only at bone forging realm beginner level, they were much stronger.
“No need. You just watch from a distance. Better yet, focus on keeping others from approaching.” Lin Qi answered with absolute certainty.
What a joke.
For his tactics here, the fewer people who saw, the better. If Xie Feina and Precia joined in, they would only make things worse.
Precia wanted to say more, but Xie Feina directly stopped her.
“Alright, the two of us will keep an eye on the leader and the others. We’ll leave this side to you, Hall Master Lin.” With that, Xie Feina took Precia and ran toward a more distant area to prevent people from other teams from coming closer.
Only after Xie Feina and Precia left did Lin Qi sweep his gaze over the players quietly watching everything from behind him.
“You have all seen the situation here. Next, I will leave that prisoner to you. I will be watching from the side, observing your growth during this period. I hope you won’t disappoint me.” After Lin Qi finished speaking in the tone of an NPC, he leapt to the courtyard gate a few hundred meters away and stood there quietly, watching these players, as if declaring that the opening plot of the boss battle had ended, and now it was time for their performance to begin.
Everything went just as Lin Qi had anticipated. Once he stood at the courtyard gate, all the players grew excited.
“That long dungeon plot is finally over. I really thought the game was about to show us a demonstration battle.” Twilight of the Gods stared, eyes shining, at the guard robot still chasing and killing not far away. “But this boss story was just too cool. It even sent that leader from Earth Star Pharmaceuticals flying with one sword, then wiped out dozens from the domain city team with one move. This boss’s strength is maxed out. I wonder what good stuff will drop after we beat this boss.”
“Yeah, I didn’t expect this dungeon plot to even bring in the domain city. I wonder if the new map the game manufacturer opens next will be the domain city. I heard the domain city is like a provincial capital, a great place, and lots of geniuses from different cities want to go there to develop.” Fang Zhen nodded, thoroughly enjoying the spectacle.
He had originally thought this super dungeon was just a simple version event to let everyone class change into hidden classes, but it turned out to be an extension of the main story, even expanding to the domain city mentioned in the game’s lore.
That was like opening the main city in the game. They could finally leave the novice village and go see the main city.
“Alright, this dungeon has a limited duration, only three days in total, including the time we spent getting here. If we can’t complete the task, forget about any main story.” Luo Wu Shang looked at the overexcited crowd and quickly reminded them, pulling them back to reality. “For now, we should think carefully about how to deal with this boss.”
“This boss is indeed a problem. Not only is its level high, it also commands a domain that weakens anyone inside it. Its skills ignore distance, and inside the domain they must be guaranteed hits, making them impossible to evade or block. That means whoever the boss locks onto in the domain is guaranteed to die.” Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang raised their little chin as they watched the guard robot still chasing down members of the two teams. “If we don’t have a way to evade and block, then we can only throw lives at it. I just don’t know if the system will allow that.”
“It should.” Fang Zhen said, “On our way here from the resurrection point, there were no dungeon fog walls or sealed spaces, and the event description also said that these guard robots can’t be killed. They can only be captured by depleting their energy. So it all comes down to whether we can drain this boss’s energy while preventing it from replenishing.”
“If that’s the case, then it’s much simpler.” Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang laughed. “We just need to plan our death timings and have people go die in turns. Of course, we have to make the boss use skills as much as possible. The longer we can hold out, the better. And the key point of this boss should be on its way back to recharge. As long as we can exhaust its energy on the way back, we win.”
“And consuming the boss on its way back is easy. We just attack it at high frequency from outside the domain. Fang’s squad is good at that. All we need to do is stop the boss from getting close to them. It’s a very specialized boss, not really that difficult.”
Fang Zhen nodded and looked around at everyone. “In that case, let’s get started. Who’s going to go feed it first?”
