From the end of the world

Chapter 154 VS Great Perfection Level 1
I was immediately convinced.

This "wave" on the "dark sea" that was surging towards the "small boat" I was riding on was the "magic fluctuation" that Zhu Shi and Lu Youxun had always talked about.

It was the first time in my life that I felt such a violent fluctuation, just like I had been living in a windless room until now, and now I finally walked outside and felt the strong wind blowing on my face. Now, even if I don’t imagine the "sea surface" and "small boat" in my mind, I can feel it clearly in the natural and normal state.

Is this the mana fluctuation of the great master demon hunter that Zhu Shi mentioned?

But where did it appear?

It's not at the old base of the Humanitarian Department. I opened my eyes immediately and saw that Ma Zao beside me also showed a look of shock. She turned her head and looked in the southeast direction. The source of the mana fluctuation is far away in this direction, at least ten kilometers away from where we are.

"Great Accomplishment Level?"

Ma Zao muttered to himself in disbelief, then quickly ran outside the "clinic".

I ran out after her and searched my memory.

I have asked Zhu Shi about the Luoshan Wuchang active in this city. According to Zhu Shi, the Wuchang with the highest power level in this city is the Cheng level, and there are two of them. One of them is her grandfather, Mr. Zhu. As for the "Dacheng level", there are less than 20 people in Luoshan, and just one person is enough to represent a super strong force. Except for me, there is no demon hunter of this strength in Xianshui City.

So how should we explain the current fluctuation of magic power? Is it that an outsider of the great master level has entered the Xianshui City?

If it was just a normal entry, there would be nothing to say. But even someone like me who felt the mana fluctuations for the first time could realize that the mana fluctuations just now were not emitted by ordinary walking and breathing, but were explosive and powerful fluctuations. That foreign great success level must have suddenly burst out his power for some reason.

What kind of spell was cast? What object was intended to be destroyed? Or even... who did they fight with?

“Zhuang Cheng!” Ma Zao stared closely at the southeast where the mana fluctuations came from. “Looking at this direction and distance, the source of the mana fluctuations seems to be… Zhu Shi’s home!”

"what?"

I couldn't help but be surprised, and at the same time, a gloom rose in my heart.

Because the barrier of the Zhu Family Mansion could block my "fireflies", and the heat sensor could not easily penetrate the barrier over there, so I did not leave "fireflies" there. In other words, I could not immediately see what happened over at the Zhu Family Mansion, nor could I teleport myself there immediately.

But on second thought, I could rush over immediately by using the supersonic speed of the fire element form. And I have a more convenient way.

"Ma Zao, can you take me and transfer directly to the Zhu family mansion?"

"Now I can only transfer myself," she said.

"It's ok."

As I spoke, I planted a heat mark on her body and said, "You go over now."

She immediately understood, and the space around her body twisted and she disappeared on the spot.

And through the thermal energy mark, I sensed that she appeared in front of the iron gate of the Zhu family residence.

Ma Zao and I both have the ability to transfer ourselves to each other by marking each other, and Ma Zao can transfer herself to a place she has been to before. I can't go directly to the Zhu family mansion, but she can go directly. And as long as she goes there, I can go there too.

The next moment, I used fire teleportation. As my vision changed dramatically, the scene I was in switched from the entrance of the "clinic" to the iron gate of the Zhu family residence.

As soon as I landed, I sensed something very unusual.

Now I am in the form of a fire element, and heat perception is no longer my active skill, but a passive skill. It stands to reason that as long as I stand here, I can feel the existence of the barrier of the Zhu Family Mansion that isolates my perception. However, this barrier has disappeared now. My heat perception can penetrate the iron door unimpeded.

Behind the iron gate, I saw black smoke rising from the depths of the garden, and the mana fluctuations of the Great Perfection level that I felt earlier also came from there. Because the distance became closer, the mana fluctuations felt more intense. I only had psychological feelings, but Ma Zao seemed to feel more.

She seemed to become dizzy, her steps were unsteady, and she unconsciously held onto the iron gate railing, as if she was standing on the deck of a ship being shaken by the waves. Only in this way could she barely maintain her body balance.

"Hmm, this fluctuation..."

"Ma Zao, you wait here first, or retreat to a far distance."

The situation was urgent, so I didn't spend more time taking care of her physical condition. Instead, I quickly said, "I'll take care of the rest." After saying this, I sprinted directly behind the iron gate.

Compared with this action, my perception was even faster and reached the depths of the Zhu family mansion in an instant.

I saw what was happening there from a distance.

The Western-style villa that once stood deep in the garden has now collapsed, just like a fragile fortress built on the beach being smashed by a car. The huge house has become a ruin, and it is estimated that it touched some explosive and flammable materials when it was destroyed. Some parts of the ruins are still on fire. The black smoke seen earlier was released during the burning process.

I have some practical experience in destroying buildings, so I can tell by instinct that this villa did not collapse because the load-bearing columns and walls were knocked down, but was destroyed by an external force... some kind of overwhelming external force.

The strength of this force is in no way inferior to the force I used to chop down the unfinished building when I defeated Agent Kong.

The murderer has not yet left his crime scene.

He stood in front of the ruins of the building that was emitting black smoke.

He was a tall man with short white hair, wearing tight grey clothes and pants. Although he was facing away from me, I could see his true face through heat sensing. He had a solemn and tough face, his eyes were bright, and his body was strong and sturdy, exuding a temperament reminiscent of a martial arts master.

I don't know this person, but I can confirm that the source of the mana fluctuations is him. The ruins of the building are also filled with the residual mana fluctuations left over from his attack.

And a figure crawled out from under the rubble.

That was Zhu Shi's grandmother. I had seen her once when Zhu Shi and I sent Chang'an to the Zhu Family Mansion for protection after Chang'an was kidnapped by the Shadow-Changing Monster's clone. I seemed to have seen her again when I went to the Zhu Family Mansion to take the Monster Maker's head last time. In my memory, she seemed to be a strict person, because Chang'an was in awe of her. But in front of Zhu Shi and me, she actually acted quite gentle and kind, and even invited me to visit her when I was free.

Perhaps it was because she had some magical powers, or perhaps she had other means of self-protection. Although she was trapped under the rubble, she did not seem to be seriously injured. She just had blood on her forehead and palms, and her movements were weak and awkward.

The man at the Great Accomplishment stage didn't seem surprised to see that someone was still alive. He just walked forward expressionlessly while clenching his fists, exuding an irrefutable murderous intent.

There is no need to say more about all this evidence and signs.

That strange man is my enemy.

I came to a place about 20 to 30 meters behind him, and my burning right arm extended rapidly, while the palm part became huge and grabbed the target's body.

Although I had the urge to kill him on the spot, I still had the most basic rationality. It was necessary to first ask him about his true identity, why he attacked the Zhu family mansion, whether he had other accomplices, etc. If it was impossible to capture him alive, it would not be too late to kill him later.

The reason why I had this idea was probably because my previous battles were too smooth sailing; or maybe the few battles I had with Zhu Shi in the past were mainly about asking for information from the enemy, which made me develop a bad thinking habit. This attack aimed at capturing alive still lacked killing intent, and therefore lacked the corresponding power and speed.

This flaw was not a big deal in the past, because under my high-speed consciousness and movements in the form of fire element, all enemies seemed to be wriggling and crawling, even the monster makers in the past were at my mercy. It was a little slow, but it was slow in my senses, but it was lightning fast for the enemy.

However, the enemy this time is different.

As I launched the attack, he suddenly turned his head and looked at me. At the moment when he was about to be caught by the flaming palm, his body suddenly burst out at a speed faster than sound and passed through the fingers of the flaming palm.

He broke the sound barrier and ran on the ground like thunder, sending out bursts of roars and shock waves. The contrail that was supposed to appear only in the sky actually appeared on the ground. He turned into a white lightning and rushed straight towards me.

——Averted!
Surprised, I chose to face him head-on, raised my left arm and stretched it out to grab him again. This time, I made some changes. Dozens or even hundreds of arms grew out of the side of my extended left arm like a branch of a tree. Each arm stretched out at a speed exceeding three times the speed of sound, rushing towards the man like a net.

There's no way he could escape this time - just as I had this thought, his figure suddenly disappeared from my perception, and then suddenly appeared from behind me.

I turned around immediately and saw a fist rapidly enlarging in my field of vision.

An overwhelming force smashed my head on the spot.

In the form of a fire element, even if I am killed or injured, I will not die, and I won't even feel any significant pain.

——That’s how it should be.

However, when I was hit by this blow, a real pain exploded in my consciousness.

(End of this chapter)