From the end of the world

Chapter 45: Fallen Demon Hunter vs Super Power 8 (End of the third update and first volume)

It was not until then that I realized that I seemed to have made a very serious mistake.

Zhuang Cheng said that his flame is his spirit. My understanding of this sentence is that his spirit is just an ordinary spirit when it is in standby mode. Only when he activates his superpowers will his spirit serve as fuel for the flame, or directly turn into the flame itself.

But what if this is not the case?
Zhuang Cheng is a person with super powers who can freely transform himself into flames. If his spirit in standby mode is not an ordinary spirit, but also has the property of burning flames, it is even closer to the form of "flame mimicking spirit"...

Then wouldn't what I did be as stupid as reaching into a working incinerator?

The reality even transcended the metaphor, and at this moment, I had a vision of seeing the sun.

The moment I used my supernatural power on Zhuang Cheng, I felt like I was running head-on into a blazing sun. Destruction, death, ashes, vaporization and sublimation... I had seen such endings very realistically.

At the same time, many questions that I couldn't understand in the past were also solved in my mind. For example, why did Zhuang Cheng say that he had never encountered strange things in the past.

He wasn't lying, I'm afraid he really had never encountered it.

It is common sense that weird things attract each other, but this old-fashioned common sense cannot restrain the truly strong. It may even backfire and make other weird things stay away from it.

Monsters that act on instinct will avoid them out of fear, monsters with wisdom will unconsciously avoid paying attention to them, and even monsters that appear purely as phenomena will pass them by due to unknown laws.

Now I can understand why I can't sense the mana fluctuations from him. It's not that he has any special attributes, but that we are not in the same dimension. Just like the existence of the second dimension cannot sense and interfere with the third dimension, unless the object I sense is the flame that is his spiritual fragment, or he deliberately lowers his level, otherwise I can't sense the mana fluctuations from him.

He was too huge for me, and I was too small for him. I was afraid that he could not sense the fluctuation of my magic power, just like when I attacked his soul before, he was totally unaware.

This is clearly the realm of the Great Impermanence...

Wait…why haven’t I been burned to death yet?

I came to my senses and the illusion was over. Zhuang Cheng was standing in front of me, still waiting for my move.

"What's wrong? Aren't you going to call me?" he asked. "If you don't come, I will go over there."

As he spoke, he took a step towards me, and I couldn't help but step back, while hurriedly checking my spirit and supernatural powers.

I immediately understood why I hadn't died yet. Before I was burned to death by the phantom sun, the activation of my supernatural power stopped on its own.

Originally, it would only take a moment for the phantom sun to burn me to death, but the time from activation to stop of the ability was less than a moment. Just like the mantis shrimp can produce an instantaneous temperature that exceeds the surface of the sun, but it cannot cause any serious damage, less than a moment of contact cannot kill me. But the problem is not here, the problem is why the ability stops by itself.

It's not because Zhuang Cheng used his magic power to block my superpower, nor is it because my superpower has any protection mechanism. It's just because the duration of the superpower has ended.

The length of time my ability keeps the target in the dead-end illusion depends on how much emotion the target's mind will have towards this illusion, just like I did at the time. And if the ability ends immediately after contacting the target... that means, it means...

Before my ability could be broken by his magic power, I was overcome by his spirit first...

"No, it's impossible, I don't admit it... I don't admit it!"

A surge of rage that came from nowhere made me roar in an indecent manner.

"What are you not admitting?" He looked puzzled.

The contact with my superpowers was too brief, and he seemed completely unaware that my superpowers had been activated.

I no longer cared about his reaction. Instead, I ignored everything and tried my best - even beyond my ability, to control all the shadows around me that I could.

Countless shadows surged out from the cracks and corners, turning into sharp blades and shooting at Zhuang Cheng from all directions. He manipulated the sea of ​​fire around him to create waves, sweeping away all the shadow arrows from all directions. But this was just a tactic of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. At this moment, I even controlled the shadows on the floor below. When he focused his attention on the attack he could see, the floor under his feet was broken by the tide of shadows, swallowing him up.

The shadow dissipated immediately, but Zhuang Cheng, who was originally in the middle, disappeared without a trace. He just evaporated from the face of the earth.

It wasn't that he dodged my attack, but that I directly transferred him to the shadow world.

Banishing a target to the shadow world does not bring any benefit to me, so I have never thought of using this method against others in the past, and I didn't even think of using it at the first moment.

And now, I just want Zhuang Cheng to die!

According to common sense, even he should not be able to think and survive in a world without the concept of time and space, let alone return!

However, what happened next completely shattered my hopes.

Zhuang Cheng appeared again, and with a flash of fire in the air, a human-shaped figure made entirely of flames appeared in the sky where there were only countless layers of reinforced concrete stacked and crisscrossed.

I couldn't understand why he could come back, so I quickly gathered all the shadows around me and turned them into a giant snake to attack him. But I knew very well that this seemingly powerful attack was just a facade and was useless to him.

He simply raised his right hand and made a downward chopping gesture in the direction of the shadow snake.

I didn't understand what was happening. I just saw a dazzling flash of fire before my eyes, and then my whole body was enveloped by the explosion. My body was blown away by the shock wave like a fallen leaf in a storm.

I was blown outside the unfinished building by the explosion, and even flew higher into the air than the unfinished building.

In the upside-down vision, an extremely spectacular waterfall of fire was seen rising upstream, splitting the entire unfinished building vertically in half!
The shadow snakes and their ilk had completely vanished, and the deafening sound of explosions continued to ring out.

How can I fight against such a ridiculous opponent? If I immediately escape into the shadows after landing... I will definitely be caught up...

No, even if I could escape...

I also……

Scenes from my past life emerged in my mind one after another.

When he was young, he yearned for a magical and bizarre world. When he was young, he knelt down in despair in a dead end. When he was middle-aged, he gave up his conscience and killed in pursuit of power...

The past words of the monster maker are also interspersed in it:

——When you feel hopeless and resigned to your fate, and believe that you are powerless to change the situation...

——The seed of heart will leave you.

The last thing that froze in my mind was Zhuang Cheng’s expression, which showed that he was completely unaware that I had activated my supernatural power.

I closed my eyes feeling extremely empty.

The seed of heart that I had cultivated until now disappeared from my body like a dream bubble.

The power throughout my body lost its center and began to run wild, tearing my body into pieces from the inside...

(End of this chapter)