From the end of the world

Chapter 115 VS Monster Maker 2
The monster maker who appeared before us seemed certain of his victory.

Just like the image described by the Immortal Monster and the Shadow-Shadow Monster, in such a strange environment, facing three enemies restrained by him, he behaved in a high-profile and calm manner, and spoke in a pretentious tone, revealing a hint of arrogance.

However, these are probably just his acting. If you are really fooled by this kind of superficial performance and think that he is a strong-looking character with a weak heart, you will probably fall into his hands. The real him is probably a calm and cautious person.

It seemed that he had foreseen our attack and ambushed us in return. On this basis, he also prepared for me. As I made the elemental starter movement, he controlled my right hand very accurately, preventing me from burning myself with the fireball.

At this stage, not many people know that I can transform into an element. Ma Zao and Zhu Shi will not tell anyone about my information, and Lu Youxun has also promised me that he will not reveal my true level to the public. The immortal monster and the shadow-changing monster who have seen my elemental transformation are all dead. How did the monster maker know that I can transform into an element?
To put it another way, we who are present here should be the only ones who knew that we would ambush here. Lu Youxun could barely be considered half a person. Although he didn't know that we would be able to find him tonight, he at least knew that there was a possibility that we would find him.

So - is it possible that the information was leaked from him?
He is probably the least likely person among us to be secretly colluding with the Monster Maker, but now that my elementalization and our ambush have been exposed, it is necessary to take even the most extreme possibility into consideration.

The Monster Maker seemed to have something else to say, but I didn't wait for him to finish. I ignited the flames again with my eyes, instantly vaporizing his body from the head down.

His head fell to the ground again.

I didn't let my guard down right away. Since the person who died last time wasn't the real one, it's possible that the person who walked in front of us now wasn't the real one either. Unless he was really so arrogant that he got carried away when he saw the situation was in his favor.

Obviously, he was not. Even though the head fell to the ground, the black mist around it did not dissipate, and even changed. The black mist above the head suddenly shrank, then expanded, and a figure emerged from the air like a mouth. It was the man in the white suit and the silver mask.

Is it still a clone that appears this time? Or is his ability not "clone" but "resurrection"?
"You are so impatient." The Monster Maker turned to me and smiled again. "I advise you not to waste your efforts. You can't kill me. But if you make too much trouble, I will have to dig out your eyes first. You are my precious experimental subjects, and I don't want to do something that would waste natural resources."

It turns out that the reason he only tied us up was to turn us into experimental subjects like he did with Lu Youxun. In addition, it seems that he also knows that my fire attack just now was launched through my eyes. This is another suspicious point.

Although it was just a simple interaction, I was already convinced that he was definitely not the same person as the weird person who appeared in my dream four and a half years ago. Maybe I was just worrying too much from the beginning, and the weird person four and a half years ago might not even be real.

I didn't rush to break free of the chains that bound me. Chains of this level were useless to me, but if the other party thought they were useful, then it would have its meaning. Zhu Shi was now observing the other party carefully. As long as she could use "Buzhou Mountain" to crack the secret of the other party's continuous resurrection, she would be able to point out the direction for me to solve the problem next.

Or maybe I can also be like the Great Impermanence described by Zhu Shi, and crush the rules of the opponent's supernatural powers simply by relying on my powerful strength?

I had the idea of ​​trying, but I thought about the Shadow Changer and suppressed the impulse. When I came into contact with the Shadow Changer, I could use the power of fire to crush his ability, but just like it is difficult for a person to control the force of stepping on an ant, I couldn't accurately leave a part undestroyed. The consequence of forcibly burning the opponent with violence is that the "trophy" will be destroyed along with it.

Suddenly, Zhu Shi asked: "How did you do it?"

"Oh, what did you say?" The Weirdoamer didn't seem to mind communicating more.

"The two who were killed earlier were probably your clones, right?" Zhu Shi said, "But if they were clones..."

"Are you trying to say that if the clone is summoned by supernatural power, it cannot be hidden from your 'Buzhou Mountain'?" The Monster Maker laughed disdainfully, "This is your flaw, Zhu Shi. You rely too much on your eyes."

Hearing the other person's tone not sounding like a stranger, Zhu Shi was stunned: "You..."

"I'll tell you the truth. The two who were killed just now were my clones, but they were not clones formed by superpowers, but clones that I remotely controlled." The Monster Maker said, "Your 'Buzhou Mountain' is a superpower born for fighting, and it has the power to find the enemy's flaws. The stronger the enemy, the more likely you are to find its flaws. If the enemy is so strong that there are no flaws, you can even forcibly observe flaws that should not exist.

"On the other hand, if your enemy is very weak, even so weak that he has no supernatural power at all, and does not emit any malice or hostility towards you, your eyes will become dull... or it can't be said to be dull, after all, if the enemy is so weak that he will die if you press your finger, then it is equivalent to having flaws all over his body. As the saying goes, the leaves are hidden in the forest, and it is difficult for you to catch the disharmony from them.

"Of course, if you are in combat, your eyes will definitely be able to overcome even that kind of obstacle. After all, they are the eyes that manifest divinity. But I know that when you are not in combat, your eyes cannot manifest divinity, right?"

The Eye of Divine Manifestation... This is the first time I've heard of this nickname for "Buzhou Mountain" from the Monster Maker. It sounds very cool. Although it's a bit inappropriate to have this thought now, I feel that Zhu Shi's ability is much more fashionable than my simple and unpretentious control of fire.

And in this way, I can figure out some problems.

When Zhu Shi uses her supernatural power, sometimes only her eyes become penetrating, and sometimes not only does her eyes turn lake blue, but her temperament also changes drastically. I have wondered why these two differences occur. It is not quite right to say that she sometimes deliberately lets go, because she does not seem to be someone who lets go unnecessarily when using her supernatural power. Now it seems that it is because of the different situations.

Her eyes only change color when she's fighting.

"You actually know my abilities to this extent..." At this point, Zhu Shi revealed an angry expression, "Did Lu Chan betray us? Or... are you Lu Chan?"

The weirdo maker said nonchalantly, "Who knows."

"Then I will tear off your mask now." Zhu Shi raised the sword with difficulty in the black mist, and the sword body burst into a lake blue light.

It seemed that some powerful force was about to be released from this sword.

"Wake up, Yama--"

"It's useless." The Monster Maker waved his hand in the direction of the sword.

More black mist wrapped around Zhu Shi's sword, causing the lake-blue light to suddenly go out, and the powerful force that was about to roar also receded. "What?" Zhu Shi was incredulous, and at the same time seemed to see through the nature of the black mist, "This black mist... can block the power of the supernatural power itself!?"

"You haven't completed the communication with the Sword of Yama yet. I can't seal the power of this sword itself, but I can still block the fragile connection between you and it." The Monster Maker said lightly, "It's really sad. If you were praised as a genius in your childhood, you would have been recognized by the Sword of Yama long ago, but now you can only stay at the master level."

Forged Yama Sword? No wonder Zhu Shi couldn't hide it like he carried the Impermanence Sword, but had to carry it in a guitar case. It turned out that the sword was not the Impermanence Sword from the beginning?

I guess the Forged Yama Sword is Zhu Shi's real trump card, but I haven't seen her use its special power in battle before. Does it require some special conditions to be met, or is there a heavy price to pay when using it?
There must be some special reason behind this. What I am most concerned about now is not this, but the black mist in front of me.

At the moment when the black mist extinguished the light of the sword, I clearly had a strange and familiar feeling. It seemed that I had encountered a similar power somewhere not long ago. Without thinking too much, I immediately recalled the gray mist in the misty dream.

In the dream shrouded in gray mist, I was unable to use my superpowers, and even No. 4 Xuanming seemed unable to show his power as the Great Impermanence. And the black mist in front of me was actually identified by Zhu Shi as having the power to block supernatural powers, which made me ring the alarm bell in my heart.

But judging from the tone of the monster maker, this blocking power seems to have limited effect, and it is very likely to be ineffective against a force that is too powerful.

My thermal sense has not disappeared yet, and I can still feel the changes around me. The black mist is slowly shrinking around us, and I feel that the space itself seems to be undergoing strange changes.

And through the "fireflies" distributed in the black mist, I felt as if I could burn the black mist.

The monster maker stopped paying attention to Zhu Shi and turned his head to look at Ma Zao, who remained silent, with interest. Ma Zao remained calm and observed him intently.

Finally, he looked at me.

"Thank you for being so quiet just now. As a reward, you can ask any questions you have now." He said as if giving alms.

"He wants to divert our attention." Zhu Shi seemed to calm down. "This black mist is building a super long-distance space transmission program from scratch. The space we are in will be transported away in one piece in three minutes."

"Three minutes?" I thought for a moment and decided to ask the Monster Maker one last question, "Why did you tie my right hand?"

"Are you asking why I know the conditions for your elementalization?" The Monster Maker seemed to have misunderstood something, "It's simple, I can connect to their vision through the Heart Seed inside the monster's body.

"Last time, the weirdo who could use 'Damage Transfer' used the maze space I gave him. I received the signal and looked at his situation out of curiosity, and then I saw you and Zhu Shi breaking the maze space. To be honest, I was really shocked by you. I didn't expect that there would be a super flame ability user who can use elementalization in Xianshui City.

"So I also paid special attention to your fight with that weird guy who was full of class leaps. Although the fight was short, you still revealed a lot of information about your abilities. Combined with your performance in the maze last time, it is not difficult to conclude that the condition for you to enter the elemental state is to use your right hand to create a fireball and ignite yourself.

"This action is very redundant, but in your normal form, you are willing to perform this action in the ever-changing battle, and even risk being killed by the enemy before you transform into an element. This shows its necessity. This is undoubtedly an indispensable ritual action, just like the spells and hand seals required for a demon hunter to use certain spells.

"And your performance just now confirmed my judgment - after I stopped you from doing this, you really were not able to successfully enter the elemental transformation.

"You are powerless now."

After listening to his eloquent analysis, Zhu Shi seemed to be recalling the various times I had used elementalization in front of him in the past, and then looked at me in shock: "Is that so, Zhuang Cheng?"

of course not.

I decided to answer with action.

As a thought came to my mind, my body began to burn. My flesh and blood body turned into a body condensed by flames. The black mist chains that bound me were like spider webs burned by a lighter and instantly burned to ashes.

The Monster Maker reacted violently. He immediately manipulated the black mist, as if reflexively trying to stop my elementalization as if he was extinguishing the light of Zhu Shili's sword.

But it was useless. I could feel the black mist seem to have a little bit of restraint when it came into contact with my body. However, it was like trying to put out a forest fire with a basin of water. The gathered black mist was burned up instead.

The Monster Maker stopped his useless movements, he watched the scene in silence, and then asked: "...In other words, your action of summoning a fireball to ignite yourself is not necessary?"

"Not necessary," I replied.

"Then why do you do that every time, as if that action is necessary?" he asked.

"Because I want a transformation that's cooler and not too embarrassing," I said.

Hearing this, he was silent for a moment, then took a long breath and shouted, "Are you sick?!"

I waved my arms forward, and as the blazing flames lit up, a sea of ​​fire appeared out of nowhere and engulfed the entire street.

(End of this chapter)