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Chapter 885 Special Warfare Methods on the Historical Line (Part 1) (4.4K)

Moreover, and most importantly, the etherealization of the Raven Crow Ritual is directed at itself, so it does not involve a clash of abnormal levels, which makes Damian's attack even more inexplicable.

Smith quickly explained, "Based on this person's performance in later battles, this should be a power capable of shattering anything within a certain space; it should be some kind of forbidden knowledge, or you could say a shattering phenomenon."

"Broken phenomenon?" Shangguan Yan leaned forward slightly, his fingers interlaced and resting on his chin.

“That’s right.” Smith’s projected virtual arm drew an arc in the air and created several new video windows next to it. “It’s hard to summarize without creating new terminology. To make it easier for you to understand, I’ll give you examples of the series of abilities he has already demonstrated.”

The small windows displayed images specially selected by Smith, including the scene of Damian "shattering" the light.

In ordinary reality, when a beam of light shines on the ground, if someone walks through that beam of light, it will briefly block the light, causing the illuminated ground to turn dark again.

In the footage captured by Smith, the light no longer resembled light, but rather something akin to a physical entity. When Damian ran past, the light was not blocked, but rather broken at the point of contact!

Smith went on to explain in more detail and gave his own analysis: "According to observation and analysis, he can make the destruction process and occur. The etherealization of the crow sacrifice is a continuous phenomenon. Under his attack, this phenomenon is broken, and the phenomenon presented by the etherealization is itself the crow sacrifice. Therefore, it is equivalent to him completely bearing the responsibility for the attack."

Therefore, describing the process of the battle in chronological order, the phenomenon manifested by the ethereal form was shattered by Damian at the moment the Raven Priest also died. Naturally, the dead Raven Priest could not use the extraordinary power to maintain the ethereal form of his physical body, and thus transformed from ethereal form into physical form.

The shattered ethereal phenomenon, after solidifying, looked like a pile of minced meat.

"What is meant by the shattering phenomenon? What kind of phenomenon causes shattering?" Shangguan Yan spread his hands, making a more specific request to Smith, "In more detail."

“…I can’t understand it. I can only explain the superficial aspects of how inductive ability manifests in reality,” Smith replied regretfully.

“I see.” Shangguan Yan nodded slightly. “Then… perhaps it’s like the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, where the other party can perceive something that we can’t perceive, and interfere with reality by influencing that thing.”

Su Weiyu bit her lower lip lightly, seriously considering the guess that Smith had just made.

She deeply empathized with Smith's explanation of "inexpressibility," and her own understanding of the taboo that "flesh and blood come into being after life" was also impossible to express accurately in words.

If I really had to describe it, I could only vaguely apply a feeling, using something that others could understand to indirectly convey that feeling.

However specific such a description may be, it is impossible to achieve 100% accuracy. It is like "something that shines like the sun, is a bit like the color of an orange, gets hot when you get close, and whose light only reflects off silver, scaly metal."

This complex expression is extremely difficult for people to understand, but if you use a small electric heater, it's easy to make the connection.

Unfortunately, what forbidden consciousness "sees" has no definition in reality, and even if one were to create one, it would be meaningless because others cannot observe it with their own eyes. This leads to forbidden consciousness being able to make complex but extremely imprecise descriptions.

“My understanding of forbidden senses is the same,” Su Weiyu said softly. “I estimate that this person also possesses forbidden senses.”

Xia Shou nodded.

He understands.

Just like the Blood and Fire Secret Technique, why is blood fire? And why is fire blood?
There is no reason at all, because this is the truth. The mistake lies with mortals who mistake fire and blood for two different things.

It's estimated that the Shield of the Rending King has also comprehended some kind of forbidden knowledge, which is why it can easily shatter certain phenomena.

"So, if I encounter him, my physical transformation into a fire elemental will be completely useless?" Jiang Wengao said.

“That’s very likely,” Xia Shou replied.

Blood and fire are also forbidden knowledge, and they can transform into each other. However, Xia Shou believes that blood and fire are unlikely to be restrained by Damian's forbidden knowledge, since there are differences in strength between forbidden knowledge.

Although both are forbidden knowledge, Rosa's blood and fire can become the qualification for ascension, while Damian also has forbidden knowledge but failed to ascend, and is not even the strongest in the Scar Era. Comparing the two, it is obvious who is stronger.

No, comparing these two is an insult to Rosa. Not to mention Damian, even Sprite probably can't compare to Rosa.

The battle scene continued to play. After Damian killed the Raven Priest, the flesh at his wound kept writhing, as if crows were about to grow out of it. Although his expression remained resolute and calm, it was clear that this strange injury had caused him considerable damage.

It wasn't just physical, but also mental. This was evident from Damian's slightly twitching eye. Smith even zoomed in on the analysis in the small window, annotating the results: [80% probability of being affected by the Swift Raven, recalling extremely painful experiences in life, but the level of pain is still within the range where the emotions can be suppressed by willpower.]

At the moment the Raven Priest died, Duchess Bloodscar, who had been standing to the side, made her move, pointing a finger at Damian from a distance.

The next second, Damian's right shoulder seemed to be hit by an invisible force, and his entire right arm and a large part of his right shoulder were blown off. This huge injury made him kneel down on one knee.

Xia Shou already knew how the battle ended, or rather, the battle was already over.

Because the Bloodscar Lady's attack can only be launched once, her ability is: she can only launch one attack on a target, gathering as many possible damages as possible, causing great damage to the spirit origin and physical control, and she cannot launch another attack on the target afterward.

Duchess Bloodscar is a believer in the Blood God, but her family bloodline actually flows from an ancient family that worships the Forest Horses. This gives her an innate and exceptional sensitivity to "possibilities," which ultimately led to the development of her special abilities.

Duchess Bloodscar never engages in prolonged battles, or rather, she never has any exciting battles. Her battles are always decided in one go, like rolling dice to determine the winner—big is big, small is small, and there is never any element of tug-of-war or strategic maneuvering.

Countless powerful anomalies and superhumans have died at her hands; only one in ten thousand survived, and even those who did were often severely injured and finished off by their companions.

The fact that Damian wasn't killed in one move already proved that the Shield of the Rending King truly lived up to its name.

He slowly stood up, then ran over and threw a punch at Duchess Bloodscar. The speed of this punch was also very fast, but it was already within the scope of human movement, and could not be compared with the superhuman speed of the punch just now.

The duchess easily dodged to the side; she was no longer able to attack Damian, but dodging his attacks was more than enough for her.

Damian threw several more punches, his speed increasing, but Smith's slow-motion replay showed that Damian's movements became increasingly distorted and his accuracy was terrible. His last punch even caused him to lose his balance and fall to the ground.

She could do nothing more to the Shield of the Rending King. Ignoring Damian, she walked straight toward Slade, who had transformed into a demonic hound.

After taking a few steps closer, Duchess Bloodscar suddenly stopped, her back seemingly lost in thought for a moment.

The next second, one of her arms was ripped off! It was as if an invisible beast had bitten off her arm!

But at this moment, the demon hound remained standing still, without moving an inch.

"I know! She was pulled into an illusion!" Su Weiyu exclaimed. "I was the same way. I was pulled into an illusion, and the injuries I sustained in the illusion were directly reflected in reality. It was the same in my dreams on the island!"

Immediately afterward, Duchess Bloodscar turned and left the battlefield without hesitation. "Did you already attack Slade in the illusion? So you can't do it again in reality? But does it count in the illusion?" Xia Shou was somewhat confused.

Smith fast-forwarded the scene, and Xia Shou saw many people enter the scene reflected by the bronze mirror. Smith immediately explained: "These are the combatants responsible for support. All of them are at level three, unaffected by the dissipation of curse power, and each of them has an excellent ability mechanism. Under these circumstances, they can be responsible for the cleanup."

Of course, the outcome this time is not optimistic, please see.

As soon as the scene showed these people approaching Damian and Slade, their bodies were torn to pieces, each bearing severe, fatal wounds of varying natures. The only common thread was the extremely brutal appearance of their injuries.

“Miss Su Weiyu, you seem to know information about this monster. Could you tell me? I can gather the information and share it with everyone,” Smith said to Su Weiyu.

Smith is an anomaly, so it was able to observe Su Weiyu. However, the way it addressed Su Weiyu surprised Xia Shou, who had always thought that Su Weiyu was very familiar with these non-human anomalies that were friendly to humans.

For example, Su Weiyu could chat with 678 and the half-baked Panda Teacher, but Smith addressed her so politely, as if their relationship was not very close.

Thinking about it, when Smith appeared, neither he nor his machine greeted him in any particular way. Could it be that they hadn't met before?

While Xia Shou was still pondering, Su Weiyu had already begun to describe in detail what she knew, and Smith quickly summarized Slade's abilities.

"The ability of this Spear of the Rending King should be related to possibility. Based on this battle and the battles that have occurred since, it can be inferred that it can make anyone who gets close to it within a certain range enter an illusion created by possibility, or a mirrored future, and fight against it."

In this battle, any damage suffered by the person involved will be directly reflected in reality after the hallucination ends, and the same goes for death, while Slade herself will not be affected in any way.

In addition, according to another historical study, people who encountered Slade and survived a potential battle would subsequently dream of Slade suddenly appearing and attacking any living creature in their dreams. The creatures attacked in the dream would then suffer corresponding harm in reality.

Baihe: "You mean, even if I haven't come into contact with this monster, but if someone around me has, has come into contact with this monster, survives the monster's hallucination attack, and then dreams that I'm being attacked by this monster, I'll also get hurt?"

Smith replied very carefully: "That's very correct. However, the damage will not be the same as in the dream. The greater the difference between you in reality and you in the dream, the less damage you will suffer. If you only met the person in the dream once, and you just happened to appear in their dream as a passerby and were attacked by Slade, then you won't even be hurt."

Shangguan Yan tilted his head and thought for a few seconds: "Ignore the abnormality level?"

"It cannot be determined because there are currently no ultra-high-level samples that have been harmed in dreams, but the possibility of ignoring the anomaly level cannot be ruled out."

"Such a complex mechanism doesn't seem like Forbidden Knowledge, nor does it seem like its own ability. It's more like something like a positive memetic virus... Perhaps it's similar to the Killing Flesh Paste, a parasitic anomaly," Shangguan Yan analyzed to himself.

“The second line of defense has also been breached,” Smith suddenly said.

At that moment, Father Charles pushed open the office door and walked in carrying the coffin: "Baihe, let's go, we can get ready over there."

"Oh." Baihe put away his phone, got up, and followed Charles outside.

Jiang Wengao stared in shock, then turned to Shangguan Yan in disbelief: "Minister, Brother Bai isn't going to fight them, is he?"

"What's wrong? Isn't this normal?" Shangguan Yan said calmly.

Jiang Wengao was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.

He didn't know if he had misjudged Baihe's strength, or if Baihe had always been hiding some trump cards that others didn't know about.

Could it be that... Brother Bai has become the "Fate Cube"?

No way, the crucial plot point of Divine Law hasn't even been completed yet, how could something like that happen in such a short time?

Shangguan Yan glanced at Jiang Wengao and explained, "The extraordinary families that have survived to this day have basically all had a particularly glorious period in the past. Some are because of the geniuses in the family, some are because of some kind of sealed object, ritual, or something else."

Therefore, even descendants of fallen aristocratic families can receive tremendous benefits in that cyclical history if they can travel back in time to find their family's glorious past, and if that glory was due to some kind of ritual or external factor.

Xia must know this all too well, right?

...I've been called out.

Xia Shou nodded and said "Mm".

He wasn't from an extraordinary family, but he truly understood the principle the minister was talking about, because he had actually experienced something similar.

When he took Rosa's Ring of Repentance to the Blood Dynasty, he was able to immediately eliminate the Bloodhounds' hostility. Later, because of Rosa, he obtained the scepter and was able to use the power of the scepter and spells to use blood, fire, and invisibility magic, almost reaching the pinnacle of the Blood Dynasty.

From this perspective, it makes much more sense for descendants of prominent families to benefit from the legacy of their clan.

Upon realizing this, Xia Shou seemed to suddenly understand something and abruptly turned to look at Shangguan Yan: "Minister, could it be..."

Shangguan Yan nodded: "Hmm, otherwise why do you think you'd be in this temporary department?"

Xia Shou frowned. The power of the self-discipline notebook calmed his mind like a still lake. After considering this aspect, he felt that this arrangement was very reasonable.

Su Weiyu, standing to the side, was even more anxious.

"What does the minister mean?"

“The Blood Dynasty, where Rosa is located, is also on the path they must take to get here. If the battle reaches there, I’ll probably have to take the lead,” Xia Shou said.

"You're going to do that?! Is that even possible?"

Xia Shou shook his head: "I don't know, but it's not entirely hopeless. I can use Rosa's Night and Fire Scepter to perform the Invisibility Technique and the Bloodfire Secret Technique."

At the time of the battle against Handman, he had not yet condensed the second Mask of Desire of the Self, and could only enter the Blood Demon Mode on his own after death. Therefore, he had a very difficult time fighting against Glendale, who was specifically targeting the Blood Fire Secret Technique.

But now... if it were me using that scepter again...

We should be able to win!

(End of this chapter)