From the end of the world

Chapter 104 Shadow Changer 7
The man's charred body seemed to have turned into a fragile eggshell, and what broke out of the eggshell was an alien monster that was even larger than this body.

A head as ugly and ferocious as that of a Damascus goat, angry and swollen black muscles, a three-meter-tall body...a monster that can only be described as a "devil" appeared in the eyes of the people in the nightclub's lounge area.

The short girl who was standing behind the massage chair sat down in fear and uttered a trembling voice, as if she wanted to scream but was unconsciously suppressing it. Because she was wearing a rabbit mask, I couldn't judge her at first. Now I am sure that this short girl is probably one of the nightclub workers mentioned by Changan, who is seven or eight years younger than Jinyu.

But I don't have the energy to pay attention to that for the time being. The monster has appeared, and he is my target. After showing the fighting form, the monster is still wrapped in flames and keeps howling.

I guess his consciousness is still very confused. Who could have expected that he would be burned by fire while enjoying himself in the nightclub? It seems that he, as the original body, did not sense the shadow clones summoned by the man in the black suit when I killed him earlier. Just as the immortal monster said, the monster and the shadow clones do not share senses.

The crowd seemed to finally react and fled in terror. However, the Shadow Changer did not attack others as they might have thought, but instead attacked him first.

He transformed his right arm into a blade and tried to cut his own throat.

This is an obvious act of suicide. But when it happens to him, things are not that simple. Once he commits suicide, his ability to change his shape will be triggered passively, and he will exchange his spatial position with his clone, whose location is unknown, and exchange the flames entangled on his body with the clone. In other words, he wants to escape.

At first I thought he might not be able to think of this use, but I underestimated him. But I was prepared for this. The moment I noticed his abnormal behavior, I had already manipulated the flames wrapped around him, turning them into a huge palm, and in turn locked him in my palm.

His movements were immediately restrained, and his body could not move. Then, a huge flaming hand threw his huge body diagonally upwards.

Just like throwing a discus with all his strength in a room made of fragile glass, the Shadow Changer's huge body smashed through the wall. After penetrating the wall, his momentum continued unabated, and after smashing through several layers of walls and the ceiling, he flew straight into the sky outside the nightclub.

The huge flaming palm I created had extremely strong power. The monster that was thrown out flew five or six hundred meters in the air after leaving the nightclub, and finally landed in a small woods far away from the downtown area.

If it were a normal mortal, he would have been smashed into a pulp. However, the other party was a weirdo, and his body was stronger than steel armor. He could withstand a hail of bullets, let alone a fall from a high altitude. After the fall, although he was hit hard, he seemed to be just dizzy and not seriously injured.

Through the thermal energy marker implanted in his body, I can sense the scene within a certain distance around him, and can also summon fire at will within this range. The next second, I summoned a ball of fire far in front of him and teleported myself there.

As soon as I closed my eyes and opened them again, my vision switched from a busy street to a sparsely populated grove. Twenty meters away was a strange man who stood up staggeringly.

He raised his face and caught my eye.

Then, his nose twitched very noticeably. Because his head was now more animal-like than human, I suspected that he was not only strong in muscles, but also had an extremely sharp sense of smell. I don't know if he judged from the smell that I was the "murderer" who set off fire in the dark to attack him last night, but he suddenly became furious and roared: "It's you!?"

"It's me." I intentionally attracted his attention, raised my palm, and summoned a volleyball-sized fireball.

"Do you think I'll give you a chance?"

He seemed to think I was going to attack, and he charged at me the first moment.

It seems that he has no plans to escape for the time being. He has suffered so much at my hands but he still refuses to retreat - no, maybe it is precisely because he has suffered so much that he wants to vent his anger on me. As for whether he can win or not, maybe he has not even considered it.

His confidence was undoubtedly his ability to change his shape. If you think about it carefully, this line of thought is quite easy to understand. The ability to change his shape not only allows one to be immortal, but also guarantees that one can evacuate the battlefield at any time. His own safety is absolutely guaranteed, so he can be as bold as he wants. What's more, I seem to be a lone flame user, so he is even more unscrupulous.

The ability to change shape and change shadows is also a problem we must overcome. For us, it is easy to defeat him, but the real difficulty is to kill him, especially to kill him under the premise of ensuring that the information in his brain is not destroyed by the Heart Seed after his death.

For this purpose, Zhu Shi is indispensable.

At the moment when the shadow-changing monster's attention was all focused on me, Zhu Shi, wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat, holding a sharp sword, his eyes a cold lake blue, appeared silently behind him.

Ma Zao also appeared from another direction. She had taken off her cat whisker mask and was rushing here from a distance.

This grove was the battlefield we had chosen on purpose, and Zhu Shi and Ma had already ambushed around it. Having said that, the parabola I threw at the Shadow Changer was not very accurate, and the landing point had a huge deviation. Fortunately, we had discussed this in advance, and the two of us ambushed at different locations in the grove. This way, after the monster landed, we could ensure that at least one person was relatively close.

Now it seems that Zhu Shi was closer. After she got close, she aimed her sword at the back of the Shadow Changer's neck. At the same time, the Shadow Changer seemed to sense her murderous intent and turned around to look.

Zhu Shi's fatal attack ultimately failed to take the Shadow Changer's life. Just when she was about to succeed, a dark arm inexplicably grew out of her shoulder and grabbed her sword-holding wrist.

Although the distance was a bit far, I was able to see the truth of this shocking change with my thermal perception. It was an arm formed by shadows. It was the shadow-changing monster who manipulated the shadows to stop Zhu Shi's attack.

When it comes to shadows, people always think of them crawling on the ground, but shadows can appear anywhere. They can be projected onto walls or onto people. If I'm right, the shadow of a tree may have been projected onto Zhu Shi, and the Shadow Changer was manipulating the shadow.

More shadow matter emerged from Zhu Shi's body, transforming into sharp blades to attack the host.

Soon, a silver sword light suddenly appeared, covering Zhu Shi's body and flickering wildly, and all the shadow matter was crushed. It turned out that Zhu Shi had switched the sword to his left hand, and processed all the shadow matter on his body at a speed that could not be captured by the naked eye.

The Shadow Changer didn't chase Zhu Shi, but continued to sprint towards me. Perhaps in his opinion, the most important thing was to deal with me, the enemy with the greatest firepower. Compared with the last immortal monster, this Shadow Changer was obviously better in both the technique of manipulating shadows and the way of thinking in battle.

This is good. I just want to try and see if I can overcome his ability to change shape on my own.

Taking advantage of the brief time Zhu Shi bought for me, I hit the fireball on my chest with my backhand and set my body on fire.

I entered the fire elemental form.

In this form, I don’t have as many inconveniences as in the normal form. My consciousness runs so fast that the passage of time seems to have stopped in my eyes.

The fallen leaves seemed to be frozen in the air, the sounds around me were stretched and distorted, and the weirdo who had just rushed towards me like an arrow from a string now looked as slow as an earthworm crawling. And I seemed to be able to further speed up the speed of my consciousness.

After dealing with the shadow matter, Zhu Shi was catching up. Although her speed was also slow in my perception, she was visibly faster than the Shadow Changer. Considering that I might fail later, I wanted to give her a chance to participate, so I waited patiently for her to close the distance before launching my attack.

I stretched out my right hand towards the Shadow-Changer, and like using my fingers to kill an ant, a pillar of fire several meters wide fell from the sky and crushed the Shadow-Changer, who was unable to react in time.

Under the baptism of flames, the shadow-changing monster's body vaporized on the spot.

Of course, I still controlled the intensity. After I consciously distinguished it, the flames only burned the part below the neck of the Shadow Changer, while the head was intact, not even a single hair was burned.

At the speed of my consciousness at this moment, the head even looked like it was floating in the air. In fact, that was not the case, it just hadn't had time to fall. The next part was the difficulty.

Through the flames surrounding my head, I once again had the incredible feeling as I did last night - something metaphysical that could not be described in size and shape appeared, and this thing wanted to escape from my flames as quickly as possible.

Perhaps this is the "cause and effect" that Zhu Shi mentioned. The very existence of the Shape-Shifting ability attempting to swap the original body and the clone symbolizes that the cause and effect of the original body of the Shape-Shifting Monster is escaping.

Last time, I was not prepared and could only watch the thing run away; but this time, I was well prepared and entered the strongest fire elemental form in advance. Now I no longer have the problem of being slow to react, and the speed of the shapeshifting ability even seems slow to me. I have plenty of time to observe and study.

So, can I now directly interfere with cause and effect itself?

Observing this cause and effect, I quickly came to a conclusion.

I can directly interfere with this cause and effect by force.

But this kind of interference doesn't seem to be what I want.

(End of this chapter)