Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 900 The Needle of Fate
"So history has been reset?" Xia Shou still couldn't believe it.

"Hmm, I guess Senior Baihe will be back soon," Kehen said.

Not long after he finished speaking, footsteps came from the direction of the stairs, and Baihe, dressed as a commoner and wearing a black veil, came up.

"You run really fast," Baihe said.

"I just arrived," Kehen replied.

Xia Shou asked, "Brother Bai, is everything resolved?"

Baihe nodded: "It's all resolved."

Baihe spoke of it so casually, as if he had done something extremely insignificant, which greatly shocked Xia Shou.

"Splett was dealt with up ahead too?"

"Yeah, that guy is ridiculously strong. His most basic attack method is very similar to the minister's move. Before facing him, you have to experience a split in fighting spirit. So when he advances, none of the people in the front lines can stop him. No one fights him head-on, so he just comes up unimpeded."

"A split in fighting spirit?" Jiang Wengao showed great interest in this description.

"Well, it's like your fighting spirit crumbles. The description afterwards is that when you're near him, you won't have any desire to fight. It's not that you have no desire, but once the thought of attacking arises, you'll get distracted, unable to concentrate, and your thoughts will drift to other places."

For example, you might plan to finish a report in one morning, but every time you open a Word document, you forget what you were supposed to do and your interest is drawn to various short videos, game information, and news.

Spreadt's ability is similar, except it mainly targets offensive thoughts; he is most skilled at 'shredding' offensive ideas.

"How high is this ability level?"

"It's very high, because there are no targets above level six that can be specifically measured, so Sprite's anomaly level is tentatively set as EX level."

Any anomaly level above level six that has no defined range will be classified as EX level. In other words, Sprite could be level seven, eight, or even higher.

"So how did you win?" Jiang Wengao asked.

This was also a question on Xia Shou's mind.

If even the thought of attacking can be shattered, then it's impossible to fight head-on. After all, soldiers who can't even swing their swords at the enemy have no fighting power on the battlefield.

Xia Shou guessed that this ability must have limitations such as range, which allowed the Control Bureau to exploit loopholes.

"First, there is the attack from an extremely long distance. His fighting spirit can be broken within a radius of about five kilometers. There are quite a few combatants who can attack from an extremely long distance, but it is difficult for them to bypass his slashing attack method."

"Hmm... it should be fine to tell you, right? After all, Sprite has already shown the Control Bureau such a detailed explanation, so the Minister probably won't mind if you guys know. Besides, Xia probably already knows, right?"

"That kind of scar?" Xia Shou tentatively guessed.

During the War of the Divine Laws, Shangguan Yan asked him to open a box buried in cement in her apartment. Inside was a scar, described as "[An Unresolved Scar of Death]".

However, he didn't use the scar in the end; he gave it to Mo Ying for self-defense. Even without using it himself, Xia Shou knew that the thing must be extremely powerful, otherwise the minister wouldn't have secretly buried it under the floor tiles of his apartment.

Baihe nodded, stroked his chin and pondered for a while, then organized his thoughts and said, "It is called a slash, which does look very similar, but it is not a slash in essence. It is more like the damage of causality. This move does not release a slash to cut things apart, but directly makes the target into the state after being cut apart."

Before being released, it is in a state of storing the result, which means that the result is certain to occur, but it can be prevented from occurring as long as it is not used.

Sprite can imbue all attacks he receives with this special attribute, transforming all attacks into a special state that has not yet appeared but will definitely appear once he uses it.

You can simply think of his ability as damage reflection—a skill that can store damage indefinitely and then reflect it back at the user.

"Therefore, physical attacks are ineffective," Xia Shou concluded.

Baihe: "That's right, but mental attacks seem to be able to be reflected back, but mental attacks are invisible, so we can't understand the specific mechanism now."

Hearing this, Xia Shou felt that this monster was not worth fighting at all. In some ways, it was even more disgusting than the writer who was about to ascend to immortality.

Xia Shou was able to defeat the writer because he could completely ignore the writer's abnormal level when he reached the pinnacle in a secluded place, while the writer's own defense and vitality were not so impenetrable.

Therefore, after Xia Shou obtained the forbidden knowledge of turning flames into blood from Rosa, he sealed the writer's elemental defense, and the battle returned to the realm of regular combat, where other physical means also had a place to be used.

But according to Baihe's description, Sprite's defense method is not like Jiang Wengao's, which avoids damage by transforming his physical body into an element, nor is it like the King's Shield, which relies on extremely high physical strength to withstand damage. Instead, it directly takes the damage and modifies the attribute of the damage into something else!
In this way, ordinary attack methods have lost their value for discussion. Among the attack methods that Xia Shou currently possesses, perhaps only [Perpetual Co-injury] has the potential to harm the opponent, because the damage method of [Perpetual Co-injury] is transformation rather than direct destruction.

Whether it will succeed or not depends on Sprite's ability to determine.

"So, Brother Bai, how did you guys win?" Xia Shou asked.

“I used a mythical relic from my ancestors,” Baihe said. “That relic is called the ‘Needle of Destiny.’”

"The needle of fate?!" Upon hearing the word "fate," Jiang Wengao became excited as if a switch had been flipped.

Because Baihe's nickname fifty years later would be "Fate Cube".

"you know?"

"Huh? No, I don't know, it just sounds impressive." Jiang Wengao scratched his head and chuckled awkwardly.

"It is indeed very powerful. It is a special relic belonging to the belief of the Tailor. It can combine and transform the user's extraordinary power and the concept of life to give birth to and evolve new extraordinary power. My bloodline ability is to raise the limit level of the sealed object I hold by one level, but that is not actually accurate."

Of course, if I were to go into detail, it would involve some dry, scientific explanation, which I'm sure you wouldn't want to hear. Anyway, in the end, I combined that relic with my [Rubik's Cube] ability to gain a very powerful new ability, which allowed us to defeat Sprite.

Jiang Wengao held his breath and asked cautiously, "That ability... Brother Bai, have you given it a name?"

"Name it? Is it necessary?... Let's just call it 'Destiny Cube' then." Baihe replied casually.

(End of this chapter)