#512Chapter 512: Chris is a vehicle owner, but you are a Chris who is afraid of vehicles.AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 512: Chris has a ride, but your Chris is afraid of a ride.
Cheng Tian's eyes were still fixed on the spot where the Orochi Hakkesshu disappeared, but the True Eye of the Tai Chi Heavy Pupils on his forehead had already turned back and aimed at the much more distant, cloudless night sky to his upper left.
Currently, Cheng Tian has entered the Top 4 stage. The entire professional skill system corresponding to the Priest of the Heart has been sealed, but his main body's inherent skills are still within the normal range of use.
With the enhancement of the Tai Chi True Eye, Cheng Tian's maximum perception radius for humanoid creatures and machinery is as far as 5 kilometers.
And Gaoniko, who took the living and dead members of the Orochi Hakkesshu away, was still within the scanning range of Cheng Tian's Tai Chi True Eye.
Gaoniko herself possesses teleportation abilities. The "True Eight Maidens' Target" uses short-distance teleportation for sneak attacks, and extending this distance is not very difficult... But if she is moving with two living people and one dead person, then the teleportation distance will inevitably be greatly shortened.
Gaoniko, who originally thought she could easily crush the world like her father, was now quite shaken.
Especially after considering all factors, the act of fleeing with others caused her immense pressure and shame, as if her actions had defiled the will of the gods and her father's expectations.
"Be quiet!"
Gaoniko, who was flying with the wind, became increasingly irritable as she angrily rebuked Yashiro Nanakase, who was being carried along beside her and was in a furious state.
Yashiro Nanakase, caught in a small hurricane, was unable to easily break free from the hurricane's restraints because his feet were not on the ground, even in his rage.
At the same time, because his feet were off the ground, his interference with the earth was also cut off, and the earthquake subsequently stopped.
Just as Cheng Tian judged, teleporting two people and one corpse at once indeed greatly shortened the maximum teleportation distance, but the power of the wind could easily lift them and move them through the air, and this alone already meant that pure humans would find it very difficult to catch up to their escape route—
Then Gaoniko heard the rotating sound of something called a "propeller" carried by the wind.
Cheng Tian, driving the Helion, was chasing after them, and a Kyo Kusanagi was still suspended from the mechanical legs below the Helion!
Well, Cheng Tian didn't want to hug and squeeze into the cockpit with someone of the same gender.
Not far behind the Helion, the Lightning Rhythm motorcycle, which had been enhanced with the "Windwalk" effect by Irene, also displayed an uncharacteristic hovering ability and flight speed for a gliding motorcycle.
"...Courting death!"
Gaoniko, upon realizing that Cheng Tian and his companions dared to pursue them, had reached an astonishing level of anger. If she had an 'Rage Gauge' from the 'Samurai Shodown' series, it would definitely have maxed out.
Not only were they chasing, but they also dared to pursue her in her most proficient domain of aerial combat, truly looking down on her!
However, Gaoniko, visibly enraged, once again forcefully suppressed her anger, while manipulating the wind to interfere with the pursuers' vehicles and simultaneously accelerating their own flight speed.
Because, duty called.
As the current leader of the Orochi Hakkesshu, Gaoniko's primary mission was not to protect her companions, but to ensure the breaking of the god's seal and his safe arrival.
Shermie's death certainly infuriated Gaoniko, but the safety of Chris, the perfect vessel used for the god's descent, was the utmost priority!
Theoretically speaking, even if she, the one who blows the storm, and the one who parches the land, and the one who rages with lightning, all perished, the survival of the Flame of Destiny must be ensured.
And Chris, who had taken the full force of the high-pressure blood pillar head-on and unprepared, was clearly not in a good state.
It was not just a matter of damage, but also of bloodline contamination.
The high-pressure blood pillar spewed by ordinary zombie units was just pure mixed damage, but the blood spewed by Shermie had squeezed all the Orochi blood in her body to the extreme, and Chris, who bore the brunt, was partially eroded by the Orochi blood of his comrade.
As the perfect vessel most suitable for Orochi's descent, Chris's purity was a very important part, and this naturally included the purity of his blood.
And Chris's current situation, rather than being an injury problem, was more like he had been forced into a state of rejection. The purple flames of his self-combustion were fully forcing out the pale lightning that had permeated his body, making him completely unable to move freely for a time.
Even if he was the most suitable vessel for Orochi's descent, Chris was not Orochi now. Essentially, he was just a manifestation of the power of one of Orochi's heads, and naturally, he could not use his own power to be compatible with the power of other heads.
One dead, one crippled, and one seemingly insane, Gaoniko was truly struggling.
Although directly abandoning Yashiro Nanakase and letting him run wild to protect Chris was an option, having already lost Shermie, she still wanted to ensure Yashiro Nanakase's survival as much as possible.
The abilities displayed by Kyo Kusanagi on the opposite side had exceeded what Gaoniko remembered from her inherited memories, but Shermie's death clearly had nothing to do with Kyo Kusanagi. This ability, which clearly involved mental manipulation and physical alteration, had already exceeded the scope of the Kusanagi family's abilities.
The only person who could possibly wield similar abilities was Cheng Tian, who had launched a highly targeted attack against Shermie!
Gaoniko even suspected whether this man named Aoko, as he revealed on the stage, had an understanding of the three members of the Hell's Band, and even the Orochi Hakkesshu as a whole, that surpassed others' imaginations?
And that sun-like radiance released in cooperation with Kusanagi; with Gaoniko's current perception abilities, she could indeed detect a trace of obvious "divine presence" belonging to the great power of nature within it... But how was this possible?
Orochi is the only god! Gaoniko firmly believed this!
And those who can use natural power are, and only are, users of Orochi's blood!
Upon closer inspection, three clear groups of traitors capable of using Orochi's power have emerged.
One was the Yagami family, who betrayed the Three Sacred Treasures families and joined Orochi, causing their flame color to transform from crimson and bright yellow to a pale purple.
The second group was Leona's father, Gaidel, who had an incomplete awakening and chose not to obey Goenitz's orders due to marriage and having children.
The third one is the most special, and currently the only one among the inheritors of Orochi's blood who has no related bloodline connection, yet by his own power, he resisted the erosion of Orochi's power and incorporated a part of it for his own use—
Rugal Bernstein.
Regardless of whether he ultimately self-destructed or not, he was indeed capable of using a portion of Orochi's power.
With this information from her inherited memories, combined with the fact that Cheng Tian actually used the exclusive "Moonless Thundercloud" of the Raging Lightning, Gaoniko became even more convinced that Cheng Tian was actually a traitor who had obtained Orochi's power but chose to betray its origin!
This made Gaoniko even more enraged, while an unavoidable shadow fell over her heart.
The ritual must be brought forward!
The longer they were entangled with the pursuers, the more the ritual would be delayed.
However, Gaoniko, who was solely focused on escaping the pursuit, could not have known what it meant when The World emerged from Cheng Tian's body and spread its arms.
"Za Warudo!"
Time stood still, and along with it, Gaoniko and her group, who were desperately trying to escape the pursuit, were also frozen.
But the Helion transforming helicopter, piloted by Cheng Tian himself, was charging straight towards Gaoniko and the others at its original flying speed!
1 second passed... 4 seconds passed! (Cheng Tian's current MP limit has increased from 1250 to 1500)
Then, time began to flow~~
In Gaoniko's eyes, which quickly changed from shock and anger to fear, the unprepared Chris was instantly sliced in half at the waist by the helicopter propeller that suddenly appeared beside him!
Ch. 512 / 855