Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 958 No Need to Test Me Anymore
"Your ability is to delay your impact on reality for a certain period of time. After that period, you will directly manifest that impact and erase your existence during that time!" Xia Shou shouted.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Shou felt a slight dizziness and his center of gravity became slightly unstable. He knew that this meant he had guessed the details wrong, so the price of the intelligence scissors was directly retaliating against him.

However... this also proves that he guessed a large part of it correctly!
"Crack!"

A non-existent scissor-like sound echoed in the air, and a large gash was cut open on the traitor's side.

It was a very dangerous spot; judging by the depth, it almost injured the spine. If the opponent wasn't exceptionally strong physically, then this scissor cut would have sealed the victory.

The luckiest thing was that the opponent's abnormal level was actually lower than his own! Xia Shou had never dared to hope that he would encounter a normal-level opponent in a battle of this level.

"The longer the night goes on, the more things might go wrong. I should just take care of them now," Xia Shou thought.

Just then, a large number of extremely complex indented patterns suddenly appeared on Xia Shou's liquid body, like indentations on a wall imprinted on Xia Shou's body. They spread and expanded rapidly, connecting and merging with each other, eventually becoming an incredibly complex magic array that covered his entire body!

What's going on? Xia Shou was utterly shocked.

He was completely unaware that he had been ambushed!

In an instant, Xia Shou's liquid body began to collapse to some extent. His smooth flesh began to drip, like an ice pop that was frozen solid being exposed to the scorching summer sun, melting and deforming at an incredible speed.

"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!!!" Xia Shou bent over and vomited a lot of blood.

He shouldn't be vomiting blood anymore; his body is made up of a large pool of blood!
In addition, my hands and feet feel numb.

No, it shouldn't be numbness, it's a loss of sensation! He's slowly losing his sense of touch, and he's completely losing his balance and center of gravity.

“I told you, you’re dead.” The traitor Mosaic’s face flickered, as if deliberately mocking Xia Shou, the pixels of the mosaic forming a harmless smile.

Blood bullets shot out from above Xia Shou's head, and the traitor clutching the cut on his stomach disappeared again. All the blood bullets hit the ground and missed their target.

Missing wasn't a big deal, but Xia Shou was shocked to find that the blood bullets he fired covered completely different areas than he had expected, and their speed and power were very strange. Some were incredibly slow, while others were even faster than his usual maximum speed.

The semi-transparent Alice flickered a few times in the air behind Xia Shou, and finally appeared directly. He could no longer reliably conceal Alice's figure with [Unpredictable Eyes].

"So that's how it is!" Xia Shou stroked the magic arrays covering his blood-soaked body with his dripping blood-stained hands, and a clue appeared in his mind.

He now knows the effect of this magic circle.

Spirit Origin!

The magic array that the opponent placed on him can greatly affect his spirit foundation rate and increase his spirit foundation deviation.

Deviations in the Spirit Origin (ability stability rate) can affect the precision of ability control. A 5% deviation will result in a 5% deviation in the output and landing point of the ability's power, which is normal for many ability users.

However, if the deviation reaches 50%, then a random release of superpowers will most likely miss the target, and the output power may be 50% more or less than 50%. If the deviation reaches 100%, there is even a certain probability that the superpowers cannot be released at all.

Xia Shou looked at his palm, which was made of his own blood. He saw that his palm was sometimes sticky like melted ice cream, and sometimes extremely fine. Even the veins that he would never normally build were built. It was almost indistinguishable from a normal person's palm, as if it had been painted with a layer of red paint.

No wonder he said he was dead, that's what he meant.

Yes, indeed. Once his spirit base is destroyed, he in his Blood Demon form could collapse and self-destruct at any moment; death is only a matter of time.

As time drags on, the probability of overall collapse increases, and it will eventually come to an end.

The traitor reappeared 0.5 seconds after disappearing. This time, he moved a very short distance. It was clear that he had also been seriously injured by the Intelligence Scissors, making it extremely difficult for him to move.

“I know you will use the pocket watch to deal with Sprite, but for the pocket watch to work, you must maintain the abnormal resistance at level one, which is why I had the opportunity to succeed.”

The traitor staggered over, saying, "It was really troublesome to create a suitable human host, but at least the goal has been achieved."

"It's been such a long time. You have no idea how much I paid to kill you."

His mosaic-like face revealed a mournful and aggrieved expression, and his voice became low and dejected. Just a second ago, he was a confident traitor, but now he looked like a child about to cry.

But soon, the pixelated expression on Mosaic's face disappeared: "I never thought I could win, not even just now. Lord Natsumori... How terrifying you are."

"You're just pretending now, aren't you? Until now, you've been pretending the whole time, haven't you? If you have any more tricks up your sleeve, use them all. I've already played all my cards; you don't need to test me anymore."

"I'm coming right now... I'm coming right now to kill you. If you haven't lost your memory, then kill me. I'll have no regrets even if I lose here. I've done my best." The traitor limped towards Xia Shou, not moving very fast.

Xia Shou was already sitting on the ground, unable to stand up, because his sensation in his lower body was intermittent. The destruction of his spirit foundation prevented him from perfectly controlling the Blood Demon's body, even with the complete Scorpion Spine.

The Scorpion Spine only enhances body control and perfects reflexes, but his current state is one of disappearing, reappearing, and disappearing halfway again.

On the lakeshore, Charles I and Lily of the Blue stared in shock, unable to believe what they were seeing.

They couldn't understand, couldn't imagine, what had happened in such a short time.

Why... why did the invincible Grand Duke Xia Shou suddenly fall down?
"How is that possible! This is impossible!? Why didn't he use the invisibility technique? He hasn't used it since just now."

"Heh, they must be toying with the enemy, that must be it. They haven't even used blood and fire yet," Charles I said with a stiff smile.

Xia Shou raised the Night and Fire Scepter and was horrified to find that the golden shaft of the scepter had dimmed considerably and was showing signs of rust!
Gold, under natural conditions, will certainly not rust, but this is clearly not a natural environment.

(End of this chapter)