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Chapter 904: 745: Presumptuous_2

Chapter 904: Chapter 745: Presumptuous_2

This time is different.

How did he approach again?

Wald XVIII’s thoughts raced, but his movements were quick. The book tucked in his arm vanished in an instant, and then his other hand drew a short dagger and thrust it forward.

Splurt!

Yet in the next moment, his entire dagger-wielding right hand suddenly broke off and flew away!

Wald XVIII’s eyes widened in shock.

The attack came without warning.

He couldn’t sense any abnormality either.

Xu Shuo’s left hand gripped a bloodstained axe, which appeared abruptly from the void and then chopped upward, severing the arm.

“Damn it!”

Wald XVIII’s expression twisted as he quickly pressed his other hand to the wound, retreating while glaring fiercely at the man before him.

In the next moment, Xu Shuo’s right arm also suddenly burst open with a wound, blood spurting wildly!

Not to mention the toll on his stamina.

But his arm rapidly regenerated, even the torn sleeve grew back as if time had reversed in an eerie restoration. All that was left on the ground was an identical arm.

Xu Shuo looked over with a grin: “Worried? Don’t be. I promise I’ll last until then. You better hold on too.”

As his words fell, he raised the axe and instantly closed the distance!

This time, the axe aimed for the other hand!

Wald XVIII swiftly slid back a fair distance, but as Xu Shuo’s figure reappeared eerily in front of him, the axe came down!

[Special Skill “Hunt Moment”: With one axe in hand, I rule the world! While in Hunt Moment, a special weapon can lock onto the target’s position for attacks. Skill duration: 10 minutes. (Skill upgradeable)]

But this time, during his retreat,

Wald XVIII had already summoned the book, his fingers flipping over its pages at an insane speed, almost like a demon at work.

In the next instant.

The hand holding the book was also severed.

But simultaneously, his other arm had already grown back, though his restoration left only a bare arm without a sleeve to cover it.

Wald XVIII screamed in pain, watching the pursuing youth, his gaze finally revealing a flicker of fear.

—What kind of lunatic is this?!

Tonight was meant to be a simple test of each other’s strength.

The war technically hadn’t even begun.

How could one start depleting their own power like this?

This isn’t “kill one thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred.”

This is “kill eight hundred, lose two thousand four yourself!”

After Wald XVIII’s right arm regrew, his expression turned ruthless as he executed something, causing Xu Shuo’s left arm to receive the same level of damage.

But as the arm had already been severed repeatedly, the returned triple damage consumed his stamina instead.

However, this loss was negligible.

Because the violin named “Heart” was silently and indulgently playing in the background.

Which meant—better pray someone wasn’t in the Script World or conducting any high-risk activities at this time; otherwise, the debuff would likely leave them collapsed on the ground, open for slaughter.

Xu Shuo faintly smiled with an ambiguous expression, regenerating his injured left arm, then glancing at Wald XVIII, who knelt half upon the ground in the distance.

After the previous attack.

The opponent’s left arm and the book had both fallen to the ground.

Now, Wald XVIII appeared to abandon any attempt at fleeing, instead lunging forward to press his palm upon the book.

A series of runes flashed swiftly.

But his right arm hadn’t even regrown halfway when a shadow suddenly emerged in the sky behind him. The bloodstained axe swung unrestrainedly toward his body!

Wald XVIII swiftly rolled sideways to evade, but the earlier attack had already proven to him that this skill could lock on!

During his roll, Wald XVIII’s fingers traced a rune.

Boom!

Xu Shuo’s axe slammed into the ground.

Pausing briefly, Xu Shuo turned to look at Wald XVIII, who was already scrambling to his feet and retreating.

The rune he just used looked familiar.

It was the same one Wald XVIII forcibly carved while under Catalina’s bloodline suppression.

Judging by the rune’s trajectory.

It was indeed identical.

Could it be a “Control Release”-type power?

And aside from this rune…

Xu Shuo tapped into Alpha’s brain to recall.

From the beginning of their confrontation until now, Wald XVIII seemed to have employed numerous spells, but in reality, he only repeated a limited set of runes.

Altogether now… seven runes?

No, there should be eight.

The “Silver Greatsword” and “Ice Spike” runes appeared very similar, but there were subtle differences, as if they were modified from an identical base rune.

Pondering this.

Xu Shuo’s spiritual power began imitating the trajectory of the runes.

The Mind Network had already recorded the complete formation of the runes. He replicated the patterns using his spiritual power, then attempted to channel energy into them.

But whether using his own mental power or the magic energy of this world.

The rune refused to manifest.

Xu Shuo’s gaze shifted slightly.

He glanced toward Wald XVIII.

—Although, at this point, the man had fled so far he was out of sight.

It seemed Wald XVIII’s capacity to cast runes required physical contact with the book he summoned, even under pursuit, still compelled to reach for the book at the expense of his own body.

So only direct contact with the book allows him to unleash the rune’s power?

This particular artifact intrigued Xu Shuo more and more.

In the span of a moment, Xu Shuo reappeared directly in front of Wald XVIII, and without uttering a word, he froze the man’s body in place.