From the end of the world

Chapter 197 Field Expansion
Chen Long, who was slaughtering the demon hunter forces, had already been aware of my existence.

Perhaps his previous understanding was distorted to some extent by my false identity inside the secret base. Even though I had caused fluctuations in magic power here last time and even killed people with my fire ability, he might not be able to determine that it was me who was doing it in secret.

At this moment, he had witnessed my signature skill "Firefly" with his own eyes. If he still couldn't realize who was behind this huge riot, it would be unreasonable. Maybe now that I appear directly in front of him, he will no longer mistake me for "an innocent child who unfortunately became an experimental subject of the Humanitarian Department." The distorted cognitive filter has been completely shattered.

However, in his mind, there are still other distorted cognitions, that is, Ying Lingyun's brainwashing against him.

If there was a way to remove his brainwashing, then we wouldn't have to worry about how to conquer the "Portal Armor", and we could also turn the enemy's combat power into our own strength... I had this unrealistic thought.

At this moment, I was in sync with the girl Lu Chan. Unlike me who could only share sensory information, she seemed to be more skilled in this aspect and could sense my mental movements at a deeper level, even the occasional flash of thoughts could be captured by her.

"You don't even have any ill will towards me..." She sighed.

"If you're worried about being burned by my mind, you shouldn't connect with my mind," I said.

"I'm also planning to take a gamble. Since you can synchronize with the Lu Chan outside, you should be able to synchronize with me. However, I thought you would at least find me disgusting. After all, I should be a man in your impression. And you haven't completely believed that I am Lu Chan." She said, "Maybe I'm actually a weird thing full of lies, with unknown intentions - you must have thought about this, right?"

I do have this suspicion, and I have expected her to suddenly become an enemy, but I also like this kind of unpredictable danger. It is difficult for me to have malice towards others just because of the reason that "the other party may be dangerous to me".

"Also, you seemed to have thought about whether it was possible to remove Chen Long's brainwashing." The young girl Lu Chan said, "Although it is impossible to remove the brainwashing, I should be able to use my mental magic to have some influence on him."

Mental spells, are you talking about the quick-acting hypnosis spells like before? I wasn't surprised that she knew what I was thinking, so I just asked, "You mean, just like Ying Lingyun can brainwash Chen Long, you can also brainwash Chen Long in the opposite direction? But with your power, can you really affect the Great Perfection level?"

"Normally it's not possible, but now three special conditions have been met." She said, "First, I am now in sync with your mind. As long as you don't resist, I can borrow some of your strength and exert my mental interference power in its heyday. Second, Chen Long probably has some kind of mental illness, and there are major flaws in his mind..."

"He is actually mentally ill?" I was stunned.

"This is the inevitable sequelae of a person whose personality has changed drastically due to brainwashing." She asserted, "Even if he has no doubts about his 'current self', his mind still retains the memory of his past life as a hegemonic demon hunter, and memory is an important cornerstone of personality. Even if he can make up countless reasons to rationalize his 'past' and 'present' two completely opposite lives, his unconscious self-identity will still be full of loopholes."

"I see..." I said, "So, what about the third special condition?"

"Third, I was a comrade-in-arms who fought side by side with him when he was once normal, and was betrayed by him after he was brainwashed." She said, "When he realized that it was me who carried out the mental attack, the mental flaws that existed in his unconscious mind would be further magnified.

"If I were a user of great spiritual power, I might be able to brainwash him back to his original state right on the spot. Even if I can only exert spiritual power at the master level right now, it is enough to hinder him."

What does it mean to be “brainwashed back to the original state”... I just think this sentence is hard to describe.

However, in actual combat, it is not easy to create a situation where the young girl Lu Chan can successfully use mental magic on Chen Long. Her speed is too slow, and she may be killed by Chen Long before she can use mental magic in time. She can only take it one step at a time.

As Chen Long slaughtered at a high speed, more than half of the demon hunters were killed, and the remaining demon hunters fought desperately. Although the power gap was extremely large, there were a few demon hunters with very special abilities, which made Chen Long unable to kill them instantly. The latter could only use different means, or simply use greater power to forcibly break them.

In the process, the secret of how he was able to fight with all his might here gradually came to light.

The first person to realize the truth was the young girl Lu Chan. She uttered a voice of sudden enlightenment: "...So that's what's going on!"

"How did he do it?" I asked immediately.

She did not answer with words, but showed it directly in my perception.

I guess she used some kind of detection spell. Under the mental synchronization connection, I also got the information of the detection results. If the perception result of "firefly" is likened to a three-dimensional holographic projection projected in the air, what I see at this moment is that there are a lot of dense lines in this projection.

Those lines are Chen Long’s magic power. With him as the center, countless lines spread to the entire stronghold.

"He is expanding the scale of his own existence in this way." The girl Lu Chan explained, "If the space we are in is likened to the surface of water, then he is increasing his own volume so that he can float on the water." I suddenly realized.

It's like a magic trick.

Once the mystery is solved, it doesn't seem like a big deal, and you may even wonder why you didn't think of such a simple method.

"So, as long as I can do the same thing, it's fine, right?" I asked.

It is easy for me to expand the scale of my own existence. I just need to enter the fire element form and then turn my body into a sea of ​​fire.

Having said that, I don't think it may be that easy to achieve the same effect as Chen Long.

If I just rely on my own strength to summon a small fireball, I will be forced to log out. This independent reality space is also unable to support my fire elemental form. I am afraid that it will end in failure before the stage of "unfolding the sea of ​​​​fire".

In the final analysis, it may be because my existence is too "heavy", even much "heavier" than Chen Long, so it is difficult for me to do things that are easy for Chen Long.

But I quickly thought of a solution, and then I drew out the Outer Path Impermanence Sword, and asked, "You just said 'as expected'... Did you know from the beginning that he would use this method?"

"It was just a suspicion before, but now it's finally confirmed." She said, "Although you can't output power here by yourself, you can use the Outer Path Impermanence Sword to release flames, right? This is because the Outer Path Impermanence Sword is an external object to you. When you use an external object to output power, it will share the pressure you exert on this space. It may be a bit like a swimming float.

"At the same time, every time Chen Long attacks, he will first release a huge wave of mana, as if to remind the enemy to flee... This is because he needs to spread out his mana first before he can burst out at his fastest speed."

The second half of her sentence can be matched to my previous experience of avoiding Chen Long. No wonder it is so.

Now that I have found a way to fight with all my strength, it is time for me to attack. While listening to the reply from the girl Lu Chan, I injected my own strength into the Outer Dao Impermanence Sword, and the color of the sword changed rapidly, like a red-hot iron bar just taken out of a forge. On the battlefield in the distance, the battle between Chen Long and the demon hunters just ended.

I thrust the Outer Path Impermanence Sword into the ground. With the blade as the center, an orange-red flame rushed in all directions like a mountain torrent, engulfing the executive office we were in and the corridor outside.

Immediately, I connected my own existence with this wave of flames, and used this as a base to further expand the sea of ​​fire.

Since I would be forced to log out in the early stages of summoning the sea of ​​fire, I could just use the outer sword of impermanence to complete the early stages. From this moment on, the sea of ​​fire would share the pressure I exerted on this independent reality. I released my power in one breath, and the wave of flames expanded rapidly, and in the blink of an eye it spread like a flood to Chen Long in another part of the base.

The entire secret base was immediately engulfed in flames, and all the remaining anti-detection barriers were shattered. Not only that, all the surviving researchers were also included in the scope of the sea of ​​fire. I did not include them in the white list of those who could not be killed by the flames, so those researchers did not even have time to feel the pain before they turned into ashes in the sea of ​​fire. I felt their souls turn into "slag" and enter my flames.

“Zhuang Cheng——!!”

Chen Long looked towards the supervisor's office through countless walls. Without the obstructing anti-detection barriers, it seemed that his super hearing had also returned to its normal range. Shadows wrapped around him to form armor, and he crushed a large section of the corridor with his feet, then turned into an indestructible black meteor that crashed through the wall and rushed straight towards where I was.

The girl Lu Chan immediately hid deep in the supervisor's office, while I moved at high speed to attract Chen Long to a far distance, and then activated the flame transmission to move to another place.

After the sea of ​​fire started, I caught sight of the location of Doctor Silver Mask. He was in one of the cells - I'm used to it, now my cognition has returned to normal, it should be said that it was a laboratory. He was in one of the laboratories with heavy protection, even the sea of ​​fire was blocked by those protections for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, the door of the laboratory was completely broken through by the sea of ​​fire. I rushed in with the sea of ​​fire, controlling countless flames to sweep towards Doctor Silver Mask.

He stood in front of the laboratory table, still wearing the white coat and white suit dotted with blood, with a silver mask on his face. He turned around and looked at me calmly.

"Let's start over," he said.

Along with these words, the power of restart unfolds.

(End of this chapter)