Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 204 - 194 out of the cage 1

Chapter 204: 194 out of the cage 1

Divine Spear concluded that I couldn’t handle Chen Long, a judgment that seemed not based on emotions or likes and dislikes, but on rational thinking.

After seeing the data on "Portal Armor," he probably thought it wasn’t a skill that I, as a Flame Ability User, could conquer. However, he surely didn’t know that I could decipher that skill by overwhelming force. I had been advised before not to attempt to conquer Chen Long under equal conditions, so even if he now said this to my face, I would only see it as the same old tune.

"’Portal Armor’ can only be cracked by someone like you, a Flame Ability User, through overwhelming brutal force. Pure power is what tramples all rules—no matter how absurd the superpower mechanism, it must follow this truth. I guess that was your plan. But even if you hypothetically had the ultimate move to enhance your firepower to that dimension, you are doomed to fail against Chen Long, at least not in that independent reality space."

Divine Spear seemed to have seen through my real thoughts. He continued, "I have looked at the data on that independent reality space. I have a fairly good idea of why Chen Long can exert his full power there.

"All you need to do is focus on resolving Ying Lingyun’s ’possibility avatars’ and destroy that independent reality space.

"Chen Long... I will be the one to kill him."

Zhu Shi frowned and asked, "Why do you say Zhuang Cheng can’t do it?"

"Why should I tell you? You’ll know soon enough, just keep your headache here."

It wasn’t surprising that Divine Spear would make such a comment. Logically, since we were now on the same front, we should be sharing valuable information for combat. However, just like I considered him a target to be eliminated after, he surely didn’t see me as a real partner.

And he was perhaps a person who valued his own mood over the bigger picture—no, in his view, his mood was the bigger picture, and how smoothly the operation went could take a back seat.

Looking at the destroyed remnants of buildings, he barged into Luo Mountain Office by smashing its load-bearing structures to kidnap Mazao without much thought. It’s likely not that he intended to emphasize his domineering style, but he simply didn’t consider it much. Whether the building would break, whether bystanders would be caught in the crossfire—these issues wouldn’t even cross his mind, much like a player navigating a game character into someone’s house without bothering to dodge tables, chairs, and cabinets, crashing into them without realizing what’s amiss.

Perhaps rules are to people like him what the walls of this building are. Undying Monsters of Great Success Rank could single-handedly destroy a great nation; their perspective on mortal matters just can’t align with ordinary people’s. I faintly felt I was touching upon a set of values utterly different from everyone I had encountered so far.

Even the past self-proclaimed "superhuman" Undying Monster didn’t give me a sense of this super-individual perspective and values—they, although styling themselves ’superhuman’, still unconsciously revered the powerful, the law, and morality, their minds full of boundaries.

This transcendent thinking wasn’t unfamiliar to me because, for a long time, I had unconsciously looked at the world from a similar angle. I also had a hand in reducing this building to ruins.

While speaking, Divine Spear continued observing my expression. Perhaps he deliberately spoke like that, also intending to disturb my mental state before the operation. In that case, he’d just have to be disappointed; my intention from the beginning was to conquer the "Portal Armor" under equal conditions. If the brute-force method was really sealed off, it would instead stimulate my desire for a challenge.

His "trash talk" could even be construed as a sort of "good news" to my ears.

Seeing my expression unchanged, he clicked his tongue, turned around, and took a leap.

Just like a rocket launching, he shot up into the air, entering the high altitude, where even this simple jumping motion burst out with intense shockwaves and gusty winds. From the high altitude, he turned into a blurred speck, then burst into a silver brilliance like a meteor streaking across the night sky—drawing a straight contrail before disappearing at the horizon.

Did he actually run away?

I turned and asked Lu Youxun where he had gone. What if I wanted to kill him later but couldn’t find him?

"He’s gone to lay an ambush at the old Human Bureau stronghold," Lu Youxun answered.

"An ambush..." I glanced into the distance.

The demon hunter squad brought by Divine Spear was still idling in the distance. Since Divine Spear went to lay an ambush hundreds of kilometers away at the old Human Bureau stronghold, why were all these people still here? They aren’t capable of moving at several times the speed of sound like Divine Spear; isn’t it rather late now to head to the Human Bureau?

"They can’t stay tens of kilometers away from the target like Divine Spear to avoid detection by the Human Bureau. Rather than having this squad lie in wait near the old Human Bureau stronghold, it’s better to reach the battlefield directly through Space Transfer," Lu Youxun explained, "And this approach requires Mazao’s help. We hope she can recreate a Teleportation Door at the Weirdo Maker’s ’clinic’ to let our squad enter directly inside the old Human Bureau location.

Search the lightnovelworld.cc website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.