Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 857 The Shield of the Rift King
The opponent's arm passed through the mirror robe. Xia Shou immediately switched the teleportation space, trying to cut off the opponent's arm directly. However, although the teleportation space did change, his arm was not cut off!
Instead, Xia Shou's mirror cloak ripped open with a "rip" sound, leaving a long tear.

"Spatial magic? Hah!!" The man roared, and Xia Shou felt dizzy and his mind almost went blank for a moment.

But before he lost consciousness, the crimson mask had replaced the half of the mask that was originally on his face, completely covering Xia Shou's entire face.

Tens of thousands of hair-thin blood vessels floated behind Xia Shou's head, connected to the mask. The blood from the wound on Xia Shou's face behind the mask no longer dripped, but instead floated around the wound like space water.

【Pseudo-Blood Demon】—Can construct liquid limbs with blood and maintain their original functionality.

Xia Shou didn't want to use the Mask of Desire, but the simple first encounter made Xia Shou realize one fact: the person in front of him was not one of the small fry elites he had encountered before.

The opponent's attacks were methodical, but their speed and destructive power were exaggerated to the extreme. For some reason, their physical body was immune to spatial cutting and could even cut space in turn, rendering his mirror magic completely useless.

If you think about it carefully, this is actually normal.

This is the royal palace of the Three Scars Kingdom. The ruler of this country is the strongest in this era, and in retrospect, he is the strongest King of the Rift besides the First Rift King, representing the pinnacle of the Scar Era.

Behind the wooden door in front of him was the place where the most important items in his palace were kept. How could anyone be an ordinary person who could guard the door of this treasure trove in such a crisis?
But if you use Blood Demon mode, you can fight!

Xia Shou reached out and his palm touched the other's hard, iron-like forearm, but the [Eternal Shared Injury] skill failed to activate.

The effect of Perpetual Same Damage can only be applied to humanoid creatures of the same size. The opponent is undoubtedly human, but the size difference may be too great, causing Perpetual Same Damage to fail to kill the opponent instantly.

Of course, it could also be due to the abnormal level.

However, Xia Shou has not yet sensed any magical power emanating from the other party, which indicates that the other party's abnormality level should not be below level five.

Xia Shou originally intended to use the Owl's Roar Blood Boil technique, but considering that the cloaked man waiting at the courtyard gate might also hear the bird's song, Xia Shou ultimately abandoned this killing move and instead used his own blood to construct the Blood Terror Revolver.

A red bullet was fired, and the man standing opposite let out a cold snort. With a loud thud, the bricks and stones shattered under his feet, and his huge body, which was like a standing brown bear, disappeared from the spot in an instant, dodging the bullet with a speed completely different from his size!
Xia Shou made the bullets of the Blood Terror Revolver explode in mid-air, turning into a cluster of blood spikes. He crossed his hands and fired more bullets in all directions. In an instant, more than a dozen giant sea urchins in the shape of crystals bloomed in the space around Xia Shou.

"Too weak. I advise you not to struggle. If I hadn't held back, you would have been dead with the first punch." A deep, resonant voice came from above Xia Shou's head.

The enormous figure crashed down like Mount Tai, and the blood thorn crystals around Xia Shou ignited a second time, with clusters of red flames blooming in the air like spider lilies!

This is a special flame that can liquefy flesh and blood; any flesh and blood touched by this flame will turn into scalding hot blood.

And the last crystalline blood spike had just opened on Xia Shou's chest!

He deliberately placed the bullet in his chest because he knew what was going to happen next.

The war god-like, valiant man straightened his iron feet and stomped down on Xia Shou's head.

The moment Xia Shou's head was attacked, the second "Strike Flash" was activated, swapping positions with the opponent.

The instant their positions reversed, the blood spikes that had exploded in front of Xia Shou transformed into raging flames, engulfing the man completely in the blink of an eye. Xia Shou, with a nimble backflip, landed on the ground nearby. Without hesitation, he fled towards the courtyard exit the moment his feet touched the ground!

Something's wrong. Without reaching the pinnacle of skill, he can't beat this person!

Although he hadn't fully analyzed the other person's abilities, after several encounters, this person gave him the feeling of being an indestructible wall made of steel!
There are absolutely no tricks or shortcuts involved; there are only pure numerical values: exaggerated power, incredible movement speed, and an inexplicable passive ability to cut through space!
[Perpetual Injury] cannot be effective on the opponent. He felt that the flames of the Blood Terror Revolver would most likely not be effective either. And if the Blood Terror Revolver was also useless... Although he could still try to attack with the Mourning Staff and Three-Foot Water, the cost of such trial and error was too high.

Xia Shou felt something was wrong with the area on his face that had been blasted apart by the opponent. Although the pseudo-blood demon had already formed the shape of a chin, it felt different from when he used the blood demon before.

In addition, Xia Shou had another feeling that the other party was not exaggerating. Perhaps he did hold back with the first punch, using some technique from the martial arts of the mind to control the range of the kinetic energy wave, which is why only part of his face was blown off.

In short, let's run first. This person is guarding that door, so he shouldn't chase after us relentlessly. Anyway, we've already found out the exact location of the warehouse, so we've completed our mission. Let's go back and meet up with Hu Ling and the others first!
"Trying to run? Who do you think you're up against?" The burly man brushed aside the flames, his eyes filled with absolute confidence.

He was confident, of course, because he was Damian, the Shield of the King, and the number one warrior second only to His Majesty Sprite!

From the time he was born until now, he has never been defeated in battle, except for one time.

When he was twenty, he was practicing martial arts during a thunderstorm. As he ran past a bolt of lightning, the lightning broke in two on his body. He saw a truth about the world, and from then on, no enemy ever escaped his grasp.

Damian emerged from the flames, the flames so powerful they could liquefy flesh and blood that they licked his skin like a docile kitten.

Under the firelight, his body looked as if it were coated with a layer of shiny oil, while the strange fire of the Blood Fear Revolver was like a layer of sunscreen on him.

The next second, the ground beneath his feet cracked again, and he was launched like a cannonball toward the sprinting Xia Shou.

Just as he was about to reach his opponent's back, he swung his iron fist again.

Just as Xia Shou was about to be struck in the back, he suddenly shifted half a meter to the side, dodging the unavoidable blow!
Shunpo!

Damian was stunned, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes.

This footwork wasn't a particularly advanced skill for him; he was faster than his opponent. Yet, he was still surprised because he had always felt that this petty thief who had sneaked into the palace didn't practice martial arts, a fact evident in every detail of their earlier exchange.

But just now, that petty thief did indeed use Instant Step.

Damian's thinking slowed down his reaction speed, but his body still relied on instinct to change moves, sweeping one arm to the side.

This time, his arm slammed solidly into Xia Shou, like a steel spear striking a tender aloe vera stem.

Damian was immediately startled the moment the sweep hit him.

Oops!

I accidentally killed this mouse!
(End of this chapter)