Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 193 Hellhound, Emotion Limiter and Sister Control (4k)

Wearing slightly tattered heavy armor, faint spiritual fluctuations suddenly surged around his body.

Shitou looked down at his palm covered by the old leather armor in astonishment: "What...what is going on?"

The chess piece was instantly sucked into the body by the stone?

Then in an instant, Stone became a transcendent being of the White Iron level?
No... this spiritual essence fluctuation may not have reached the White Iron Stage. It can only be considered half of the White Iron Stage at best.

[Completeness: 43%]

The information about the soldier that he threw at the stone appeared in Yuan Qingzhuo's mind, and he narrowed his eyes.

That means, an ordinary quality chess piece = an ordinary white iron step?
Give a chess piece to an NPC, and then let it become a superhuman... ordinary contestants will definitely not try this.

He doesn't even have time to use the upgraded chess pieces on himself, so how could he give them to an ant-like NPC?
But Yuan Qingzhuo still doesn't know whether this is a unique ability of his as a "chess player" or whether every contestant can do it but not many people have discovered it yet.

If it's the latter, then it's fine, but if it's the former...

Yuan Qingzhuo thought strangely:

Doesn't that mean that for other contestants it is a battle royale game, but for you it is a farming and development game?

——However, I still need to try more about this rule.

"Shitou, can you try to take back the armor on your body? Turn it back into the chess piece I gave you before."

Yuan Qingzhuo spoke, bringing Shitou, who was immersed in shock and joy, back to his senses.

The boy nodded quickly and tried it with his eyes closed.

Sure enough, in just a few seconds, the worn armor on Stone's body turned into a spot of light and disappeared, and the spiritual fluctuations also dissipated.

The process seemed instinctive and easy to Stone.

All of this turned into the small, broken chess piece [Pawn] in Stone's palm.

——It can be retracted and released freely...but it seems that the consent of the chess piece user is required?

While feeling the convenience, Yuan Qingzhuo also discovered that this mechanism required some thinking.

Giving chess pieces to NPCs may result in a "throwing meat buns at a dog" situation.

Of course, we don’t know whether chess pieces will drop again after defeating such an NPC - I hope Stone Boy won’t be the first one.

Without standing there to think about it, Yuan Qingzhuo said to Shitou: "Take this chess piece first, we have to set off to the royal city."

Spreading out the will of martial arts and maintaining a detection circle of about one kilometer in diameter, Yuan Qingzhuo began to move forward rapidly with the stone.

After all, this place is nearly a hundred kilometers away from the royal city.
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"Don't fight! Run!"

The group of adventurers that left the royal city quickly traveled through the dense forest.

"It's useless even if we kill all these monsters. Delaying the time will only attract more powerful monsters!"

The only sublimated-level captain in the team clenched his five fingers and squeezed the wolf-shaped monster blocking the way into a bloody corpse.

Just then, a scream of pain was heard from the end of the team.

"——Captain, some warlocks are having trouble keeping up!"

"Tsk."

The captain turned around and broke the necks of the two monsters. He felt that less than half of his spiritual essence was left in his body, and his expression was unfriendly: "I can only stop them for 30 seconds. During this time, you guys get as far away from me as possible!"

Perhaps I shouldn't have decided to leave the royal city...

No.

Sooner or later, one will become untenable to stay in a place like the Royal City. If one stays there waiting for the so-called angels to rescue him, in the end, he will only face despair with no end in sight.

First, tens of thousands of angels were summoned back to the royal city—and then, in less than a week, those angels disappeared.

"Holding an important position"?
Perhaps only a fool would believe such nonsense.

So staying in the Royal City is just waiting to die! The Royal City is just a mass grave where countless people will be buried!
Do you believe that the foolish new king can drive out all those monsters and lead Mercury to greatness again?
Hey man, you might as well believe that I can become a legend and wipe out these monsters!

——The truly wrong decision was to bring along these little guys who were only at the Mercury level.

The rest of the adventurers rushed past the captain who had stopped like a hurricane. He silently stared at the group of monsters that were crashing into the huge tree, wondering what he was thinking.

"It looks like you need help."

Before these emotionless words came out, the first thing that fell was the knight's sword as big as a door panel.

"Unfolding of the fundamental field: the gravity field."

Under the captain's gaze, half of the monsters that were originally rushing towards him were almost instantly pressed deeply into the ground and mixed with the soil fragments.

The white-haired knight dropped from the sky and stepped on the hilt of the knight's sword that was wedged into the ground.

She turned back silently and asked again: "It seems that you need help."

The captain was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously and quickly without saying any unnecessary nonsense.

"it is good."

Vina nodded, but did not swing the sword again.

Instead, he began to call out in the communication spell: "Kill the remaining monsters, brother."

"You don't treat your brother like a tool, do you? Besides, if the spiritual essence fluctuates too much, it will attract stronger monsters, Vina."

"That's just in time to get high-quality chess pieces."

Vina looked up at the sky a thousand meters high - the inconspicuous black dot that only she could see.

"Honestly, what's the point of saving these weak natives? You saved him once, can you save him forever?"

While complaining in the communication spell, the black-haired sorcerer named Vicchi began to construct a spell in the air.

Technique one: lock onto all moving monsters.

Technique two: distinguish the spiritual fluctuation levels of all monsters.

Technique three, condense spiritual waves of different powers based on technique two.

Technique four, decompose the spiritual wave into all the conventional techniques used by itself, in order to test each monster's tolerance to it.

The fifth technique...

Just five seconds later, all the remaining monsters were wiped out by precise strikes from a thousand meters above the sky.

The captain looked at this puzzling scene and wisely chose not to ask questions, but to express his gratitude directly.

"No need to thank me, this is just what I should do."

Vina turned the sword back to normal size and put it away. She asked, "I just want to know, when everyone else is rushing towards the royal city, why are you running in the opposite direction?"

The captain first looked back at the wounded being healed by the healing warlock, and then opened his mouth to answer...

Vina suddenly raised her eyes, gathered her strength, stretched out her hand and pushed the captain, who was close to her, dozens of meters away.

"Vina!"

Click!

The knight's left arm was bitten by a giant monster that appeared out of nowhere.

The steel teeth intertwined and then embedded into the knight's bones and blood.

The monster wanted to use the knight as a sandbag and swing him around under the burning of its own flames - the death head shaking plus the burning of the magic fire, thinking that few of its enemies could withstand this move.

Unfortunately, it doesn't have that chance this time.

The sword was unsheathed as the white-haired knight turned around, and was grasped by her right hand, cutting off her left arm without hesitation! In this gap of escape, Vina even had the energy to observe the type of monster that appeared.

She looked into the scarlet animal eyes indifferently.

"The three-headed hellhound...? No, it looks like it's just a two-headed hellhound."

"Ah."

But in a gap of one second, Vina quickly retreated a hundred meters, used spiritual essence to heat the sword, and then pressed it against the broken end of her left arm.

Accompanied by severe pain and a hissing sound, the blood was blocked before it even had a chance to flow out of the wound.

Vicky's voice came from the ritual: "Vina! What's going on over there?!"

"It's just a minor injury, it's nothing serious."

Vina replied casually, and then said, "The opponent is a Core-Forged Hell Two-Headed Dog with the attributes of [Dark] and [Fire]. It is good at sneaking before taking action. Its intelligence level is not very high. I feel that if I kill it, I can probably get a refined chess piece?"

"That's good...should I fall down?"

Vicki's voice was slightly nervous.

"No, brother, just help me add the buff and then raid the formation."

The white-haired knight grinned slightly and raised her middle finger towards the two-headed hellhound not far away. She even had the leisure to make a beautiful sword flower.

"—I can handle this bastard by myself."

"Be careful. If anything unexpected happens, tell me directly and I will..."

"Okay, okay, brother, why do you always keep talking before I start fighting? It feels like you're nagging more than my mom."

Vina leaned over and rushed towards the hellhound, and suddenly smiled:
"——Vic, are you really the legendary sister-con?"

"Who are you talking about? You're a sister complex! I can control anyone but you. And didn't you start a fight over there? Don't talk to me!"

Thousands of meters in the air, Vic was sweating profusely as he kept casting one enhancement spell after another on the knight.

"Tsk, this impure-blooded bastard can't hurt me except by sneak attack! Stupid dog, I'm going to poke your eyeballs out!"

The unexpectedly lively words in the communication spell made Vic's movements pause slightly. A magnification spell bloomed in front of his eyes, and he could barely see Vina's figure below.

——The figure with the broken arm.

Vicky's face twitched slightly.

No wonder my sister is as active as if she were on hormones - this level of injury can certainly temporarily break through the spell she uses to suppress her emotional fluctuations.

This is not just a minor injury.

Any deeper and my neck would have been broken!

How dare you hurt my sister?

Vicchi stopped what he was doing, and with a gloomy face, he began to chant for the first time since he came to the Martial God Festival.

Looking up at the sky that suddenly darkened and even blocked out the light of the chess pieces rising into the sky, Yuan Qingzhuo couldn't help but sigh, "Sister control is really scary."

The captain, who was hiding behind a huge tree, looked at this guy warily - when did he appear?

Five hundred meters, one thousand meters, two thousand meters...

Yuan Qingzhuo stared at the thunderclouds above his head as they expanded from one or two hundred meters to a full three thousand meters.

Even though he was not Lei Yun's target, Yuan Qingzhuo still felt a hint of threat.

The hellhound that was fighting with the white-haired knight not far away was barking at the air - it had no idea how this pressure that almost scared it to death came about.

"Vina, get out of the way!"

A rumbling sound came from the sky, just a moment after the disappointed white-haired knight was ejected and stuck out his tongue and raised his middle finger to the two-headed dog of hell.

Pure white lightning liquid as thick as ten meters fell from the sky like water!

It's like a punishment from God!

The corner of Yuan Qingzhuo's mouth twitched. He could hear the voice of the dog, which was more than ten meters tall, change from rage to pleading and then to nothingness in just zero tenth of a second.

After a few seconds, the lightning magma dissipated, and the core-casting-level hellhound disappeared along with it, without even a piece of charcoal left.

Fleetingly said yes.

So, don’t mess with a sister complex... and especially don’t mess with a warlock sister complex who can attack you beyond visual range.

The consequences will be terrible.

Yuan Qingzhuo was amazed - he had witnessed part of the strength of one of the twins up close, so this trip was not in vain.

Moreover, the gap between sublimation levels is indeed greater than that between dogs and humans.

The previous mercenaries were no longer considered weaklings among the sublimation class, and that kind of stuff was not even as good as the dog that was killed instantly.

Not even close!
Because after the thundercloud formed, Yuan Qingzhuo, who had expanded his perception circle, did not sense Vichi at all.

In other words, the other party manipulated the formation of thunderclouds one kilometer away and then controlled the point where lightning landed.

Yuan Qingzhuo was very skeptical whether ten Rush together could defeat these two guys.

"Huh? I finally saved him, and you can kill him just like that?!"

In the silence, Yuan Qingzhuo suddenly heard Vina pointing at the sky and cursing.

"But you lost an arm to save these insignificant natives, and you almost died when I was not prepared!"

Vicky suppressed his anger and said, "I might as well kill them first."

"My life is a life, but theirs isn't, right? Or do you think the value of their lives combined is not as great as mine?"

Vicky suppressed his anger and said, "It's not as big as a single hair of yours!"

So Vina sneered: "You can do it, you really can do it! Vicky, just go and fool around with those old guys, and wait until you use my life as a chip on the scale - hey, I don't want to play with you now, bye~"

"Don't you dare say that again!!!"

Veins popped out on Vichi's forehead in the sky: "Stop throwing a tantrum like a child, Vina! Now, immediately! Turn your emotional limiter back on!"

After feeling her brother's voice in her ears completely disappear, Vina couldn't help but stretch comfortably.

The long-awaited emotion limiter was accidentally broken, and not only was the fight not satisfying, but that cold-blooded brother even said he wanted to kill all the adventurers he had rescued with great difficulty.

Vina didn't know why the helpful old man a few years ago had become like this.

Simply outrageous.

Forget it, I don’t want to think about that guy anymore.

Vina glanced at the remaining ten minutes of limiter restart time and grinned at Yuan Qingzhuo:

"Vina Hidalgo, thanks to you for protecting them so I could fight without any worries just now... But I don't think I need to introduce myself."

She pointed at the white beam of light above her head, then put her hand on the hilt of the sword: "Fight? If you lose, I'll give you the chess piece."

You were halfway through the fight, and then your brother blasted you with a spell?

There is no need for the siblings to clash at this time, and there is no rush to get the chess pieces.

So Yuan Qingzhuo shook his head.

Then the white-haired knight stretched out his blood-stained palm towards Yuan Qingzhuo:
"That together?"

(End of this chapter)