Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 120 - 116 VS Weirdo Maker 4

Chapter 120: 116 VS Weirdo Maker 4

The Weirdo Maker’s power was more formidable than all the opponents I had ever faced combined.

Agent Kong, the Undying Monster, the Shadow Swapping Monster, and even Zhu Shi, Mazao, Lu Youxun... Without considering special abilities and just from the perspective of pure strength, even if we combined all six of the aforementioned individuals, they probably still wouldn’t be a match for the Weirdo Maker before us.

Even accounting for special abilities, the six of them at most could manage to escape with their lives. For example, Mazao could perform Space Transfer, and the Shadow Swapping Monster could switch places with its other selves in different locations. But the other four probably wouldn’t even have a chance to run. Shadow Transfer would be too late, as it requires an action to enter a shadow, and by then, they would have already been intercepted by the high-speed movements of the Weirdo Maker.

Now it all made sense. If one had such level of combat power, even if those brutally fierce monsters were to collectively rebel, suppressing them would be a cinch for him.

Yet, even such a Weirdo Maker was no match for me.

My right arm, transformed into a fiery dragon, grasped the Weirdo Maker who was a full hundred meters away from me. His speed was swift, and he surely had the consciousness processing speed needed to control such physical velocity. Yet, capturing him was as simple as picking up an earthworm from the ground.

Then I incinerated everything below his head to ashes once more.

This time, though, my "handfeel" was different from the previous three times.

It seemed the same as grasping a person, but my "handfeel" was like grasping "a group of people." It was truly incredible. He then resurrected again, and the form of this resurrection was different too. Previously, he was always spit back out by the black mist, but this time he reappeared dozens of meters away in the air.

"...Indeed, that level of attack is useless against you," he said, piercingly looking at me.

Was he referring to the invisible shock from earlier? I didn’t know why he would say that, as it was patently obvious that physical attacks were ineffective against me. Could it be that he had mixed another type of attack in with the physical assault earlier?

Without waiting for him to take further action, I grasped him again and burned him to cinders.

The handfeel was similar to before. Despite only grasping him, it was like grasping a group of people. Specifically, it was like grasping a dozen people. If there was any difference from before, it was that "one person was missing" this time.

He resurrected again nearby, so I continued to repeat my previous action of slaughter, while a realization dawned on me.

If I was not mistaken, he had not only doubled his strength through merging with his other selves, but he had also increased his "Life Quantity." It was like a video game character with multiple lives—every time they died, their body would disappear, and then they would return, ready to fight again.

Honestly, wasn’t I encountering this type of "enemy that cannot die even after being killed" all too often? Though it seems I am of the same type myself.

But it didn’t matter. Having dealt with this type of enemy frequently, I had gained experience. No matter what kind of undead existence, none could resurrect indefinitely. Even with the Undying Monster and the Shadow Swapping Monster of the past, as long as the killing continued, there would eventually be an end to them. The Weirdo Maker was no different.

I still didn’t know whether he was the original or a clone, and even if he was the original, I didn’t know when he would truly die, which made it impossible to coordinate with Zhu Shi. The only option was to exhaust him and then see if I could use his head as material for Mazao to investigate the authenticity and gather more information.

With that in mind, I had a better idea. Even if I couldn’t see through more of his secrets, what about Zhu Shi? Although I couldn’t coordinate with her, that didn’t prevent me from communicating with her right now.

Through the thermal energy marker left on her body, I saw the scene where she was.

She and Mazao were escaping the Fire Sea and moving in the direction of me and the Weirdo Maker. Mazao could directly Space Transfer to my location, but probably refrained from teleporting rashly because she saw that she couldn’t make a difference.

Meanwhile, there were other people in the streets taken over by the Fire Sea. Even though it was an ordinarily desolate street, it was still situated in a city and couldn’t possibly be completely devoid of people. The black mist that had engulfed the street had caused some people outdoors to faint, but as the Fire Sea replaced the black mist, they awoke in panic, clueless amidst the flames.

Some were indoors and unaffected by the black mist, but the continuous thunderous events outside left them in extreme panic.

As long as I didn’t mean to, the flames wouldn’t damage the buildings on this street, and they certainly wouldn’t harm the people, but I supposed this incident would likely appear as a headline news story afterwards in newspapers and on television. The seemingly all-consuming fire and the successive roaring explosions looked as if an invisible giant monster was invading the city.

Compared to the Weirdo Maker who only spread black mist, it seemed now I was the villain. I didn’t know if I was really okay with that, but on the battlefield, there wasn’t much room for consideration; everything was prioritized by the objective.

I noticed that black mist was appearing around Zhu Shi and Mazao as well, seemingly about to expel a new Weirdo Maker to attack them. Without waiting for further developments, I maneuvered the Fire Sea to obliterate these mists. My decision not to immediately dispel the Fire Sea was also with the thought to prevent the black mist from causing more trouble there.

In other directions, the black mist also arose, but it didn’t seem to be expelling additional Weirdo Makers, rather it was absorbing the enemy’s decapitated heads that had fallen to the ground. Furthermore, the mist seemed to be collecting the ashes of the enemy bodies burned beyond recognition.

On my side, the Life Quantity of the Weirdo Maker had been halved. Far away, the black mist spat out another entity, which as a flash of black light fused into the body of the Weirdo Maker. This must have been to restore the Life Quantity of the Weirdo Maker.

Initially, I thought the clones were all prepared in advance and then transferred over here by the black mist. However, considering the actions on the other side, could it be that the black mist could also use the remains as materials to reconstitute clones within itself?

It seemed that the real trouble wasn’t the Weirdo Maker himself, but this black mist that reminded one of the Mist Dream Realm.

At the same time, during the process of continuous killing, that indescribable sensation in my hands became more and more apparent, to the extent that I felt as if I was contacting the metaphysical plane just like last time I encountered the Shadow Swapping Monster.

On this plane, there seemed to be lines hanging down, akin to the strings of puppets, manipulating the Weirdo Maker before me.

However, all this was just like looking at flowers through the fog.

I summoned a Fireball next to Zhu Shi and let out my voice through it, "Zhu Shi."

"Zhuang Cheng?" She immediately looked towards the Fireball.

"It’s me," I said, "what are the Weirdo Maker’s abilities, have you figured them out?"

"...I have," she said through clenched teeth, "Zhuang Cheng, you just took off the Weirdo Maker’s mask, right? Was Lu Chan beneath it?"

"It wasn’t," I said, "it was someone I don’t recognize."

She paused in astonishment, then said, "But the abilities he displayed are unmistakably the spells that Lu Chan was once most proficient in."

Was the Weirdo Maker using Lu Youxun’s skills? Could it be because Lu Youxun was once researched by the Human Bureau and the Weirdo Maker, and his abilities were somehow replicated by the other party?

"Tell me the details."

"The spell that Lu Chan was once most proficient in was ’possibility avatars,’" Zhu Shi rapidly explained, "He could summon other possibilities of himself as avatars in the form of spiritual bodies. If he hadn’t become Evil in the past, he might have directly achieved the level of a Patrol, or he could have become a scholar, a common person... Even as Evil, there were possibilities of choosing different combat system paths. He could summon those ’versions of himself that took different life paths,’ enabling them to act as his avatars.

"Of course, there are strict limits to this, and it’s not as easy as it sounds, but even just using them as average avatars is enough to be powerful. The earlier skill used by the Weirdo Maker to merge avatars into his own body was also one of Lu Chan’s spells from the past, with the effect of doubling his combat power and increasing his Life Quantity.

"Now, the Weirdo Maker possesses achieved level strength, comparable to a clone of Lu Chan at his prime."

"But those avatars didn’t look like what you’d call ’spiritual bodies,’" I couldn’t help but point out. In fact, I didn’t even know what spiritual bodies were, but those avatars appeared to be made of flesh and blood.

"The Weirdo Maker must have combined the spiritual bodies with his own clones, and after being embodied, these spiritual bodies aren’t easily expelled by spells designed to banish spiritual entities," Zhu Shi explained.

"So, where’s the main body?" I inquired, "How should I lock onto the Weirdo Maker’s main body?"

"...You won’t be able to lock onto his main body," Zhu Shi said gravely, "Although I used the term ’avatar’ earlier, the different possibilities of oneself are still truly oneself. After Lu Chan would summon his possibility avatars in the past, a consciousness network would form between him and his avatars.

"Under this consciousness network, every individual that appears before you is his main body. If you have to point out which one is the real main body, it’s the consciousness network itself.

"And to destroy the consciousness network, you must destroy all individuals under it."

To think that Lu Youxun had such an overpowered ability in the past, I had truly underestimated him.

"But this doesn’t make sense, even if the Human Bureau could decipher Lu Chan’s powers, they wouldn’t be able to fully replicate them," Zhu Shi was still concerned, "The ’possibility avatars’ are not only the product of Lu Chan’s cultivation but also a manifestation of his personal talent. Even if someone else were to learn his spells, they wouldn’t be able to train themselves to achieve an identical effect.

"...Could it be that the reason Lu Chan lost his powers in the past wasn’t due to his body being ravaged by experiments, but because his very powers were completely taken away?"

She continued to speculate on her end. Meanwhile, I had absorbed the information she provided and began to probe further.

Even though she said to destroy the consciousness network, I must destroy all individuals beneath it, what if I found a way to reach the consciousness network itself?

Each time the Weirdo Maker resurrected, a black fog would appear around him, emitting dark light to replenish his Life Quantity. Later, presumably fearing that the black light would be intercepted by my flames, the black fog emerged directly inside his body, replenishing his Life Quantity at point-blank range. All this was crystal clear to my fire sensing.

And now, I no longer cared whether his Life Quantity was high or low. After acquiring accurate information about his abilities, my consciousness seemed to have found a clear direction. By continuously burning his body, I sensed even more clearly the lines that existed on the metaphysical plane.

It seemed there was not just one line but numerous lines, forming a vague network.

It still wasn’t clear enough, just one last step, and I would be able to physically contact this network.

Meanwhile, the Weirdo Maker revealed a victorious expression amidst the flames.

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