Chapter 486: Throne of Reality and Illusion Silver Cluster · Ahn Jun-hyeon
Everything happened too fast. In a flash of lightning, Mercenary Tao settled the battle.
It wasn't until Lingxin's face was pressed against the shattered ground that the severe pain of her arm being forcibly torn off finally reached her nerve center.
"Ah!"
Lingxin roared as if out of control. It wasn't just pain, but also accompanied by fear, despair, and unwillingness. The turbulent emotions almost overflowed from her chest.
"Fck, fck, fck... fck!"
From her mouth and nose, blood streaks sprayed out along with saliva and snot. She wanted to get up but was stepped on by a foot. The terrifying strength easily crushed her less than twenty points of strength, rendering her unable to move.
Her left hand twitched instinctively, but in the next moment, a vigorous impact force arrived abundantly.
Bang!
"Ugh, ah! I didn't use any abilities!"
Lingxin completely lost control. She yelled and screamed like crazy. The intense impact force blasted her left hand and the ground together into pieces, leaving only a small half of her arm swaying.
[You suffered an attack from a special ability. Based on your Spirit attribute, you obtained the following information]
[You suffered the attack of Gaze of Arrogance. You suffered the effect of severed limbs...]
The information on the Space panel was not abundant. Even Mercenary Tao's Spirit attribute seemed to be much higher than hers. She completely couldn't judge what type of Reincarnator Mercenary Tao was. No, accurately speaking, Lingxin had already lost the ability to think calmly at this moment.
She was just yelling and screaming wildly, venting her emotions.
I managed to survive that team battle with such difficulty and went to such great lengths to obtain this Devil Fruit. I haven't played enough yet, haven't killed enough yet. How can I die here...
Various crazy emotions churned in Lingxin's heart, but having lost both arms, she was completely powerless to struggle at this moment.
...
"What do we do? [One Shot into Soul] has also been killed. Without his Stand control, we can't possibly win against Mercenary Tao in close combat..."
Black Box spoke very fast. Listening to Lingxin's miserable screams, panic also spread in his heart.
As Reincarnators of the same tier as him died one by one, the bad premonition in Black Box's heart became incomparably intense. Their group was considered a rather strong group in the mission worlds they were respectively deployed to, which was why they could hunt other Reincarnators and gain a fierce reputation.
But compared to a monster like Mercenary Tao, they were as weak as ordinary people. Black Box saw clearly that One Shot into Soul didn't even do anything before being instantly killed with one strike.
But if he were the one facing One Shot into Soul's disgusting Stand ability, because he wasn't a Stand User, he would instead have to avoid close combat.
"Hehe, in the end, you are all just Reincarnators of this level..."
A sigh came from in front of him, carrying contempt and mockery. The tone no longer concealed the other party's disdain for them.
Black Box turned his head and saw the Reincarnator who had hidden his identity all along, and indeed the only one he wasn't familiar with, slowly taking off his hood.
Under the hood was a young male with black hair and a baby face. The chopped black hair was trimmed very well, and his pupils were one blue and one gold. It was unclear whether it was deliberately made this way through his avatar or if he possessed some special ocular jutsu.
Black Box frowned.
"You are..."
He completely had no impression of such a strong-tier fierce person in the Space. Is he not a Reincarnator from the East District?
[Ahn Jun-hyeon] shook his head, then completely untied the robe on his body, revealing a robe with a white background and black edges underneath. That style of clothing made Black Box feel inexplicably familiar.
"Black Box, right? Thank you for collecting a little data for me in the previous battles. In return..."
Black Box suddenly felt a creepy sense of terror in his heart. He immediately realized the thoughts of the person before him. With a tap of his foot, a pitch-black barrier generated outside his body.
This layer of black barrier instantly cut the roof under his feet, and he fell straight through it.
At the same time, he spread his hands, the barrier reversed, and shamanic power began to rise, releasing indiscriminate curses to the outside.
"In return, I will let you die painlessly, without being tortured to death by Mercenary Tao like Lingxin."
The peaceful voice continued to sound beside Black Box's ear. He turned his head, only to see the black-haired man emerging from thin air, barely a meter away from him.
"You..."
Pfft!
A pitch-black light bloomed, like a sudden flash of a blade exploding.
In the next moment, warm blood sprayed out. The man coldly took a step to the side, and not a single drop of blood fell on him.
His right hand was covered in a pitch-black luster. Bringing his fingers together like a blade, he slashed open Black Box's throat. The movement of his strike was exactly the same as when Mercenary Tao killed Xingliu earlier.
Tap, tap, tap, tap.
Footsteps sounded from outside the building. Ahn Jun-hyeon knew without looking that Mercenary Tao had already arrived outside this pitch-black building. Separated by a wall, they looked at each other from a distance of about seven or eight meters.
"Hey, hey, hey. What exactly have you been doing?"
Mercenary Tao's voice was cruel and eerie, as if that voice were like a poisonous snake, pervasive and constantly displaying its aggressiveness, making people uncomfortable.
Ahn Jun-hyeon disliked this kind of guy very much, and found it even harder to accept that he and other powerful Reincarnators could only actively apply and be assigned to the [Silver Cluster]. Yet there was news indicating that high-level members of the gathering had issued an [Emerald Invitation] to a madman like Mercenary Tao.
That was a pass to enter the [Emerald Cluster], the cluster of the most talented Reincarnators under the Throne of Reality and Illusion spanning all four major districts of the Reincarnation Space.
Being able to become a member of the [Emerald Cluster] meant that the powerful Reincarnators of the Throne of Reality and Illusion ranked within the top 10 believed that Mercenary Tao could become a member of the [Golden Battle Group] and possessed the potential to become a [Supreme].
Ahn Jun-hyeon made no secret of his jealousy. But what he found even more unacceptable was that Mercenary Tao rejected that invitation.
Something he sought but could not obtain was cast aside like worn-out shoes by this madman.
"I deliberately left this group of guys for you and gave you plenty of time to prepare, not for you to kill them."
Kaito stood outside the wall, his voice calm, without the imagined anger or fury. Because he had already realized that the person standing inside the wall at this moment was probably the key factor for the Space issuing this [Deathmatch Mission] and conscripting this group of trash.
The Scarlet Drop Card generated by a sufficiently strong Reincarnator was enough to make up for the worthless drops of those weaklings.
Having reached his current level, Kaito even somewhat looked down on extracting one or two attribute points. Having experienced a bountiful harvest of extracting over a dozen attribute points twice, his greedy heart could no longer be easily satisfied.
He could feel that the aura and sense of existence of the human behind the wall were rapidly growing stronger right now. That magnitude, that speed, was shocking.
The sound of a beating heart, the sound of rushing blood, were undergoing tremendous changes every moment.
From a babbling brook, it had now become as turbulent as a surging river.
Kaito walked towards the wall step by step. The other party's footsteps also sounded in sync. Soon, the two looked at each other, separated only by a wall.
In the next moment, Kaito raised his hands.
Bang!
He threw a punch. The wall surface had no changes at all, but a surging force had already passed through the wall and violently exploded.
Boom!
The pitch-black building seemed as if someone had dropped a high-yield bomb inside, violently exploding. Wall fragments, reinforced concrete, and various debris flew directly towards the other side.
Boom!
Kaito's eyes moved. A surging force similarly came from the intact wall surface in front of him, directly hitting his body.
Kaito's figure instantly slid backward.
This feeling... is actually exactly the same as mine?!
(End of Chapter)
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