Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 315 - 294 VS Ancient Moon God 3

Chapter 315: 294 VS Ancient Moon God 3

Attacked from behind?

I immediately turned back to see that the Ancient Moon God had stealthily moved behind me, about to unleash an attack on me. It was only on the brink of launching that the massive energy fluctuations could no longer be concealed, captured by my Perception.

But the Ancient Moon God was clearly in front of me just a moment ago—As this thought flashed through my mind, I noticed the figure of another Ancient Moon God standing in the distance had a slight unnatural illusionary feel to it. I realized what happened: the Ancient Moon God in the distance claiming to want me dead was just an illusion to deceive me. Even the act of making threats was to attract my attention, all in order to hide her ultimate move.

One cannot afford even a moment of negligence.

However, although the illusion was fake, the threats she made were real. I could feel her intense killing intent. In her hand, a deadly light burst forth, intent on forcing it into my embrace.

It was the light of the sun—more precisely, the light of nuclear fusion.

Just like Yinyue had done before, her attack was a nuclear explosion.

This is bad.

Nuclear explosions lack lethal power against me, and Ancient Moon God should know this. This move is probably just a preliminary setup, like throwing a smoke bomb before the actual fight starts, to cover her subsequent actions. Nevertheless, this move will definitely cause devastating damage to the nearby area.

The good news is, when the mana fluctuations from me and the Ancient Moon God erupted, Mazao, according to what we previously arranged, quickly shifted outside the fog, and I confirmed this through the thermal energy marker.

The bad news, however, is that Dong Che remained in the Ancient Moon Village. Even though we have ascended to a thousand meters in the air, the nuclear explosion at this height will inevitably engulf Dong Che and the Ancient Moon Village together.

Did the Ancient Moon God do this intentionally? Was it to use the people nearby to restrict my movements? She previously claimed she did not want to cause trouble for those illusionary villagers, indeed that was all a pretense. Perhaps the indecent behaviors ascribed to the Ancient Moon God in Ancient Moon Village, as described by the village elders, were not distorted history, but horrific acts she truly committed in Ancient Moon Village.

This time, there is no Chen Long nearby to open a Teleportation Door barrier, I have to stop her on my own.

In the instance the nuclear explosion unfolded, I also unleashed my own power.

Even though it’s nuclear fusion, primarily consisting of light and heat, as long as it’s light and heat, it falls under my domain.

I can inject my Spirit into ordinary natural flames, turning them into my own flames, and I can do the same with ordinary light and heat. The nuclear explosion released by the Ancient Moon God wasn’t transformed from her Mana; her mana played only the role of prompting the natural atomic nuclei to engage in microscopic nuclear reactions, hence the light and heat are ownerless.

This is also why the nuclear explosion released by Yinyue last time didn’t cause any damage to my soul. If the attack was formed from Mana, it would inherently carry a soul attack effect, but the nuclear explosion she created is just another form of natural phenomenon.

Since it’s ownerless, it can be commandeered by me.

The light of nuclear fusion was injected with my soul as it erupted, and I immediately commanded it to retract inward. Instantly, the nuclear explosion’s Fireball unfolded high in the sky, with terrifying light and heat rampaging within a radius of hundreds of meters.

Even though I’ve injected my own soul, it doesn’t mean I can completely restrain the enormous energy of a nuclear explosion; at least I can’t do it now. Such immense energy accumulating together, even if the energy itself gains consciousness, can’t prevent its own expansion. The most I can do is compress its destructive range to within a radius of hundreds of meters. Within this range, all matter gets decomposed and evaporated, including the physical bodies of me and the Ancient Moon God.

Thus, although the Ancient Moon Village might suffer some collateral damage, it should avoid any fatalities.

I naturally remained unharmed and immediately reconstituted my Fire Element body. The Ancient Moon God also quickly reappeared in the distance.

She could also remain unscathed in the nuclear explosion, which is really strange.

To know that even during the last explosion, Yinyue quickly moved herself far away, for fear of being caught in the nuclear explosion. According to her own words, anything that exceeds an extreme will have different properties. Even if a nuclear explosion is a physical phenomenon, its overwhelming power can develop properties capable of damaging the soul. My being unscathed is only because I have a corresponding superpower.

Then why can she do the same? I might guess some reasons. On her, there seems to be a part similar to mine. It’s not that she is also a flame superpower user, but it seems like she also has the power to intervene in natural phenomena of heaven and earth. Simply put, she seems to also understand Fatian Xiangdi.

According to Mr. Zhu, certain special natural phenomena can harm the soul, such as thunder and lightning, and the souls of those who understand Fatian Xiangdi can be immune to this damage. Maybe a nuclear explosion, a physical phenomenon, can be classified similarly—no, I think phenomena like nuclear explosions that can damage the soul due to their overwhelming power are still different, but at least those who understand Fatian Xiangdi can possess higher resistance.

Yinyue also suspected that I was a candidate for Impermanence based on my unscathed state in the nuclear explosion.

Fatian Xiangdi is a trait of a candidate for Impermanence, could it be that Ancient Moon God is also a candidate for Impermanence? But even for Yinyue, I have not heard that she has the qualifications of Impermanence, let alone the Ancient Moon God who is equivalent to Yinyue’s retribution body.

Perhaps the Ancient Moon God is only simulating Fatian Xiangdi.

The "Water Moon" with the power of Yinyue at its core is said to be a Super Magic Treasure capable of replicating any Superpower. If even Water Moon can do that, it seems acceptable that the Ancient Moon God could mimic Fatian Xiangdi.

I vaguely feel the truth might not be that simple. If Fatian Xiangdi is so easily mimicked, why didn’t Yinyue do it last time? But right now, I don’t have the luxury to think further, as the Ancient Moon God seems to have caught my weak spot.

"It seems you care a lot about the village below."

Her beautiful and pure face showed a cruel smile, and then she dive-bombed towards the ground below.

I chased after her immediately.

However, this Ancient Moon God seemed to be an illusion; just as I focused my attention there, the figure facing me suddenly disappeared, then a dangerous presence emerged behind me again.

I wouldn’t fall for the same trick twice. Prepared for this, I unleashed flames behind me. But this counterattack did not hit anything; it felt like my power went through the air. Immediately after, the figure that had disappeared reappeared, this time closing in on me.

I instantly understood the truth. Smart thinking but misled by it. The so-called illusion of the Ancient Moon God was no illusion; she had just concealed her form and suppressed her presence, even my thermal energy perception didn’t pick up her invisibility, and the presence I thought was real was the illusion. Cunningly, she had used my perception against me.

Her hand burst into light again; this time, however, the light wasn’t destructive nuclear fusion, but a nebulous, multicolored light reminding one of dreams.

This strange light invaded not only my vision but also my spirit.

This was her Illusion Technique, and her real killing move.

Probably, she intended to trap me once again in a world of possibilities, making me experience real death there. In fact, this was her only possible way to kill me.

As she connected with my spirit, my fire inevitably burst into flames on her. That is the price of direct contact. However, she seemed to have prepared plenty of defensive spells in advance; I saw layered phantom armors appear around her, like myriad barriers, rapidly getting damaged and just as quickly increasing in number, trying to keep the flames at bay.

The light invading my spirit also differed from the spells used by Yinyue in the past. I felt it was specifically improved to target my spirit, probably evolved from the lessons of Yinyue’s failure, seeming more effective in blocking my perception in the illusion from my flames back in the real world. And that armor, including the layers of barriers, showed she had been charging up for a while.

Where did she find the time to power up? Probably during the time she feigned weakness and pleaded for mercy, she was secretly accumulating her ultimate moves. From the start of the battle to this moment, all steps were within her calculation.

"I win!"

Seeing her move hit the target, she let out a joyful laugh resembling wind chimes.

—But, there was something she probably didn’t predict.

I swiftly stretched out my hand and grasped her cheek.

She stared at me in shock.

"You, why..."

Incomprehensible sounds squeezed from her throat.

Why didn’t I fall into the illusion—she probably wanted to ask this. There’s no complex reason. Her tactics were clever, the skills impressive, and even though the battle was abrupt, she came up with a sufficiently reasonable approach within limited time, and her ultimate moves truly hit me. It’s just that I am too strong, so I withstood all her moves.

It’s evident that her knowledge about me still lingered in the past. She probably knew the details of my battle with Yinyue and thought the awakening of my powers then was remarkable enough. Even if I improved slightly afterward, it had only been a few days, how much stronger could I get?

She didn’t realize that my power’s release didn’t end there; that was merely the beginning. Even in these few short days, my power had automatically grown stronger. Particularly, the extremely brief encounter with Impermanence Ming Zhuo had significantly enhanced my strength.

Now, I would not easily fall into the world of possibilities she and Yinyue created.

Also, since it’s confirmed Yinyue won’t appear for her, there’s no reason for me to spare her life.

The flames burst out from the palm of my hand at point-blank range, shattering her skull and burning her entire body to ashes.

Ancient Moon God, dead.