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Chapter 223 Death Battle, Double King Flash, Dancing Above the Paper Dragon (10,000 words, seeking monthly votes)
The twelve members of the White Raven Brigade crossed the whale's mouth and arrived above the island.

The crows scattered, and Qi Yuanli raised his head to look at the five members of the royal court team. Then, through the crows' gaze, he looked at the dark army descending from the sky on the suspended steps.

Then, without even looking up, he gave the order:

"Robert, find a place with a door open and wait outside. Come and get us if necessary; Tong Zizhu, Hacker, and I will infiltrate the palace and find the White King's Scepter."

"Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami, fight against the 'Tunguska Bomb'; Ripper, you are in charge of the 'Hyakki Yagyō'; Bernardo, as you wish, the 'Sword in the Stone' is there, go and kill him; leave the 'Tower of Babel' to Anlens; Andrew, White Wolf, and Bloodline, the three of you are in charge of stopping the royal army in the sky."

"receive."

The group members responded in unison, but one or two people seemed to still harbor resentment.

"Commander, do I really have to go and fight those small fry?" Bloodline sighed and looked up at the Royal Army walking step by step from the sky.

Wang Tingjun split into two groups, one in front and one behind.

Standing at the front of the line were soldiers wearing armor and holding long swords. Their only purpose was to reduce the number of deaths among the envoys of the strange tales; they were essentially "cannon fodder."
The group at the back of the procession were naturally the Tales Envoys, who carried the Tales Records and wore robes symbolizing royalty.

“There are quite a few of these small fry!” Andrew was already loading his sniper rifle. “Moreover, Oddity Sharrs have far more tricks up their sleeves than Superpowered Individuals, especially these low-level Oddity Sharrs who prefer to use dirty tricks.”

Bai Tanlang said coldly, "Enough with the talk. The commander has given his orders, so let's go and take care of it."

As soon as he finished speaking, his body began to deform rapidly, his muscles swelled up, and a scorching light, like that of the polar day, burst forth from the depths of his eyes.

"Yes Yes Yes……"

Bloodline muttered something, grabbed Andrew by the shoulder, threw him onto the back of the Sky Wolf, and then leaped onto the giant wolf's back.

The white wolf's limbs swelled further, its muscles bulging like small mountains and twitching. It roared, spread its enormous bone wings, stomped the ground, and carried the bloodline and Andrew high into the sky.

The two men and the wolf faced the suspended staircase, above which a massive, dark mass of hundreds of royal soldiers surged forth.

Tong Zizhu looked up as the three left, then put one hand on his hip, glanced at the group leader, and asked curiously:
"Captain, what about Ruth, the captain of the Royal Court team? Doesn't she have two Generation-level weapons? Are they just being left unattended?"

“Our two collaborators will handle it… leave it to them, and intervene only if necessary.”

Qi Liyuan spoke slowly, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the dark blue shark suspended in mid-air and the white-haired boy sitting on the sled.

"Tong Zizhu, Hacker, we're going in different directions." After saying that, Qi Yuanli's figure was shrouded in a curtain formed by a flock of crows.

The hacker yawned, summoned a data panel, and tapped an option on it. Instantly, his body transformed into a blurry string of data, becoming a digital life form that flowed into the phone in Qi Liyuan's trench coat pocket.

Tong Zizhu then summoned the Sky Chaser's "Fox Mask," put it on his face, and his figure twitched for a moment like a character in a TV freeze, before disappearing without a trace.

The center of the island suddenly emptied out, leaving only Xia Pingzhou, Ayase Origami, Ripper, Bernardo, and Anrons in the group.

Directly opposite them, Ruth glanced at the members of the White Raven Brigade, then turned her head to look at the ochre-red giant bird following above the sled.

She took a deep breath and murmured expressionlessly:
"Have all the White Raven Brigade members arrived? There are so many guests in the Little Garden today..."

Louis adjusted his glasses, scratched his head, chuckled dryly, and said, "Captain, it looks like they're planning to enter the palace... They've already gotten rid of a few of them."

"A bunch of arrogant bandits, what's there to be afraid of?" Direjie cracked his knuckles and sneered. "They can be as arrogant as they are outside, but do you think they can cause trouble in the Little Garden?"

Kuki Soya said expressionlessly, "Not necessarily. I heard that the Red Dragon almost fell into their hands last time."

"Captain, what do you mean?" Ryan clutched his broken ribs from the shark attack and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Spread out and try to keep them all on the island." Ruth's face darkened. "I'll take care of the Third Prince and that shark. You guys deal with the White Raven Brigade and keep them all here as much as possible, don't let them get close to the palace."

With the leader's order given, the five members of the royal court team moved.

Ruth turned around and faced the giant shark flying in from the sea and sky, and the boy on the sled, all by herself.

The other four members of Wang Ting's team quickly dispersed and stood on the edge of the island.

They formed a barely visible circle, surrounding the remaining members of the White Raven Brigade. They could intercept any member who attempted to break out from either side.

"They seem to be planning to stop us here..." Ripper summoned Sky Chaser, gripped his dark red katana, and looked towards the seaside. "Just as the captain said, the Royal Court Captain went to find the Third Prince and that shark."

After saying that, she picked up her katana and walked towards the "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons"—Nine Demons Soaring Through the Night—with the tip of her katana drawing a thin groove in the ground.

“They’ve scattered, which suits us just fine.” Anron said with a smile, his hands in his suit pockets. “Although our name is ‘The Brigade,’ we’re not exactly good at teamwork when it comes to fighting.”

He strolled slowly toward Louis, the "Tower of Babel," as if taking a leisurely walk.

Bernardo took a deep breath, removed the one-way mirror from his face, and looked at Ryan from afar, at the sword in the stone that was radiating brilliant light and fire in his hand.

“Old friend, long time no see…” Bernardo grinned and slowly walked over.

So at this moment, only two members of the White Raven Brigade remained in front of the whale's mouth.

The girl in the kimono raised her empty eyes, roughly scanning the four members of the royal court team, before tugging at Xia Pingzhou's sleeve. Xia Pingzhou was currently looking down, his eyes obscured by his bangs. She couldn't see his expression.

She could vaguely sense that Xia Pingzhou was somewhat angry for some reason.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Who are we going to fight?" Ayase Origami asked.

"Hasn't the division already been assigned by the commander?" Xia Pingzhou said, pointing to the spiky man in the distance and introducing him: "Direjie, the one with the spiky hair, his legendary story is the 'Tunguska explosion,' he is our opponent."

"Oh."

Origami Ayase released snow-white sheets of paper from her sleeve. Some of these sheets formed the framework of a dragon, quickly filling in bones and flesh. Finally, the sheets transformed into a layer of opening and closing scales, covering the surface of the white dragon.

Another piece of paper suddenly materialized above Xia Pingzhou's head, forming a gadget similar to the bamboo dragonfly from Doraemon. The paper dragonfly spun rapidly, making his hair rustle and instantly calming his chaotic mind.

"Can you stop joking around like this?" Xia Pingzhou asked.

"It's just a test of whether it can fly," said Origami Ayase.

“Obviously not…” Xia Pingzhou said, “You are Ayase A-Meng, not Doraemon.”

"It's breathing on it."

The snow-white paper dragon lay prone, and Ayase Origami and Xia Pingzhou rode on its back. The paper dragon flapped its wings, creating a whirlwind, and with a deafening whooshing sound, carried the two towards Direjie, who was guarding the beach.

Xia Pingzhou summoned the Sky Chaser in mid-air, and black and white streams of light revolved around his body like a Möbius strip.

“How courageous you bastards!” Dijrej said, his face darkening as he grinned menacingly.

He crushed the legendary "Tunguska event" and the popular "fire wheel" in his hands.

In the next instant, his right hand suddenly emitted light from its five fingers, making a "clattering" sound.

At the same time, two rapidly spinning wheels suddenly appeared beneath my feet. The friction between the wheels and the air created sparks, like two circles of flame.

In the blink of an eye, the Wind and Fire Wheel carried Direjie's body into the sky.

He grinned maliciously and snapped his fingers with his right hand. In an instant, a shower of small meteorites fell from the sky like shooting stars, hurtling towards the soaring paper dragon.

The giant paper dragon roared, turned slightly to the side, and passed by the meteorite with Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami. The surging heat wave scorched a corner of the paper dragon's wing and burned the hood of Xia Pingzhou's hoodie as well.

He felt the intense heat coming from behind him and frowned slightly.

Direjie grinned and snapped his fingers several times. Small meteorites streaked down from the sky, leaving crimson trails.

However, with a flick of her long sleeves, Origami Ayase's snow-white paper dragon suddenly flapped its wings and nimbly weaved through the gaps in the meteor shower in a zigzag pattern, perfectly avoiding all attacks and narrowly escaping the raging heatwave.

The dragon's roar grew closer and closer, and the distance between the two was only a little over a hundred meters. However, Direjie showed no sign of panic. He did not even use his Wind and Fire Wheels to create distance. Instead, his smile deepened.

He snapped his fingers in unison, and small meteorites swept in from all directions, forming a tight, seamless attack!

Countless meteorites, trailing streaks of light like shooting stars, surrounded the paper dragon in mid-air.

A fierce wind swept in from all directions. Origami Ayase turned her head and looked around, but couldn't find a way to escape. Those small meteorites blocked all of the paper dragon's escape routes; no matter which direction it flew in, it would be stopped immediately.

Then, Origami Ayase grabbed Xia Pingzhou's sleeve, seemingly wanting to jump down from the dragon's back with him.

Xia Pingzhou shook his head, braving the strong wind pressure, and said, "We don't need to leave. If we lose your paper dragon, we won't be able to adjust our position in mid-air, and he will seize the opportunity."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Pingzhou reached out and touched the black and white ring road, summoning the Queen's statue.

The magnificent and dignified giant statue stretched out its right arm and embraced Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami's necks. Then it bent down and placed its left hand on the back of the paper dragon.

All four entered a state of "nothingness," their forms becoming transparent for a fleeting moment. The small meteorite exploded, transforming into intense heat, and a vortex of flames swept wildly through the air.

However, the next second, a transparent paper dragon carrying three transparent figures flew out. As its ethereal form dissipated, the paper dragon's body once again stirred up a whirlwind, carrying two people and a giant statue into the air, soaring like a winged eagle, and hurtling madly towards Direje in the sky!

"What?" Direjie frowned. "What kind of move is this?"

The paper dragon and Direjie were getting closer and closer, and the distance between them had shrunk to forty meters! Ayase Origami fluttered her kimono sleeves, releasing a flurry of paper butterflies from her cuffs, which then fluttered and scattered towards Direjie.

Direjie, riding on his fiery wheels, dodged the paper butterflies flying towards him in mid-air, then snapped his fingers with a sinister grin: "How about this one?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a meteorite far larger than the previous one fell from the sky.

This colossal object had a radius of thirty meters, and its shadow, which blotted out the sky, poured down like a rising tide, instantly enveloping the paper dragon's body.

The world in Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami's eyes darkened at that moment, their pupils focused only on the ever-approaching giant meteorite. Bursting with immense heat, the meteorite carved out trails of raging flames in mid-air!
The air hissed, and the wind blew their hair to one side. The paper dragon's wings twisted slightly under the immense wind pressure. It blew a gust of wind forward and used the recoil to pull itself backward, trying to create distance between itself and the meteorite.

However, at that moment, a crisp snapping sound suddenly rang out in mid-air, and then a chilling scene appeared: another meteorite, half the size in comparison, appeared fifty meters below the paper dragon!
Two meteorites, one large and one small, one above and one below, pressed towards the tiny paper dragon from two different directions.

Xia Pingzhou pondered: The etherealization of the Queen's statue had already been used. Even if the King's statue were summoned in mid-air, it would be crushed by the aftershocks of the meteorite in an instant.

He could indeed try to have the Shadow Demon pull the king into the shadow of the meteor.

But it's pointless. Once the meteorite shatters, the shadow will disappear, and the king will ultimately be destroyed in the aftermath of the Tunguska explosion, just as Xia Pingzhou will be killed by it.

It seems... this is a dead end no matter what.

Two meteorites flying from above and the land were getting closer and closer, and the howling heat wave squeezed out the last bit of living space for Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami.

The paper dragon struggled to spread its wings in the arc-shaped crevice between the meteorites, but due to the wind pressure from above and below, it could hardly move, like an ant stuck to a hot pan.

"Are you stupid? You idiots!" Direjie laughed wildly, clutching his stomach, as if he were having an epileptic seizure. He tumbled and somersaulted in mid-air, riding his whirlwind.

Bloodshot veins spread across his eyes, and he seemed to already picture the two men being crushed into mincemeat by the impact of the meteorite, and then burned to ashes by the Tunguska explosion.

"Can we hide?" the girl in the kimono asked softly from the shadow of the meteorite.

"There's no need to hide, otherwise you won't have a chance to get close to him... Trust me."

Xia Pingzhou spoke expressionlessly, then suddenly grasped Ayase Origami's right hand. The girl in the kimono turned her head to look at him and nodded.

Immediately afterwards, on the huge back of the paper dragon, he summoned all the chess pieces in one go: a King Colossus, a Knight Colossus, a Bishop Colossus, two Pawn Colossi, and two Cannon Colossi.

The king solemnly raised his scepter, its black and white light shimmering; fully armed soldiers raised their giant shields, looking fearlessly at the meteorites hurtling down from above and below; the bishop's statue lowered its eyes, turning the pages of a book; the knight's colossus proudly raised its head atop its horse, holding its lance high.

The next moment, Xia Pingzhou summoned his second contracted demon—the "Copy Demon".

The little paper figure appeared on his shoulder, watching the meteorite fall from above, and cried out tremblingly, "My God! Don't kill me, don't kill me—!!! Damn it, save me, Buddha! Save me, Jesus!"

Its legs buckled, and it knelt on Xia Pingzhou's shoulder, clasping its hands together and frantically kowtowing.

The copy demon was about to be blown away by the strong wind, but fortunately, Origami Ayase's ability was to control paper, which barely stabilized its shape and prevented the little paper figure from falling off Xia Pingzhou's shoulder.

“Copy the ‘King’,” Xia Pingzhou ordered.

The little paper doll did as instructed, jumping onto the back of the paper dragon. During this time, Origami Ayase kept her attention on both the paper dragon's balance and the little paper doll, preventing its poor body from being blown away by the strong wind.

The moment the cloned demon landed, its form transformed into the shape of a "king statue".

"Sacrifice the chess piece 'Knight Colossus' and two 'Pawn Colossi'."

Xia Pingzhou gripped the kimono-clad girl's right hand tightly and gave the order expressionlessly.

As soon as the words fell, a scarlet light suddenly shone from the empty eye sockets of the king's statue, as if it had made a pact with the devil and gained power from purgatory at this moment.

Immediately, a black and white system notification popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou.

The sacrifice of the "Knight Colossus" and two "Soldier Colossi" has fulfilled the conditions for the release of powers.

[Hint: The ultimate power of the King's Statue—"The King's Flash"—has been unlocked.]

Xia Pingzhou ordered, "King Statue, unleash the power 'King's Flash' on the meteorite above your head."

As soon as the words fell, the figures of the knights and soldiers transformed into a bloody rain of only black and white, which swept past and instantly merged into the scepter held high by the king's statue.

At the top of the scepter, a small sphere, sometimes expanding and sometimes contracting, gathers. This sphere, no bigger than a fingertip, shifts between black and white, possessing a powerful vitality, as if it were a condensed version of the entire chessboard world.

The king's statue holds his scepter high, pointing the top of the scepter at the huge meteorite in the sky.

"Boom——!"

With a deafening roar, the fingertip-sized sphere shattered, and a massive black and white beam of light shot into the sky, blasting into the huge meteorite with a radius of thirty meters.

In an instant, a huge gash appeared in the center of the meteorite, followed by thousands of cracks spreading out from the center!
"what?"

Direjie was taken aback.

[Note: The King's Statue's ultimate power, "King's Flash," has entered its cooldown period.]

Seeing that one "Black and White King Flash" was not enough to destroy the meteorite above his head, Xia Pingzhou continued to give orders, but this time he ordered the "Copy King" transformed from the clone demon.

"Sacrifice the chess piece 'Bishop Colossus' and two 'Cannon Colossi'..."

The offering of the "colossal statue of the bishop" and two "colossal statues of cannons" has fulfilled the conditions for the release of powers.

[Hint: The ultimate power of the "Copy" King Statue—"King's Flash"—has been unlocked.]

"King clone, unleash 'King's Flash' on the meteorite," Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly.

The next instant, the cloned king raised his scepter high, aiming it at the meteorite that was about to shatter like glass. The figures of the two cannons and the bishop shattered in an instant, turning into a black and white halo that merged into the scepter.

“Such an attack… a second time?” Ditje murmured incredulously, his voice hoarse.

In an instant, a beam of black and white light shot out from the scepter and relentlessly bombarded the huge meteorite in the dome, creating another huge hole. The next moment, the meteorite shattered completely, turning into a meteor shower that fell in all directions.

The wind swept away the clouds, and the shadows that had covered the sky and sun dissipated in an instant, once again bathing Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami's faces in the warm sunlight.

The girl in the kimono was slightly taken aback, turning her head to look at Xia Pingzhou's cold profile, seemingly not expecting that he had actually destroyed the meteorite above her head from the front.

"Impossible! Impossible—!" Direjie's face was contorted in extreme pain. "I used this move to kill the Red Dragon! I used this move to kill the Red Dragon—!"

Now that the meteorite overhead has been dealt with and the wind pressure has subsided, it's as if the force of gravity has decreased by dozens of times in an instant, and the paper dragon's body has become light again.

In this way, the smaller meteorite that was pressing in from below could no longer catch up with its silhouette!

The snow-white paper dragon roared, flapping its wings and tearing through the air. It spiraled upwards and sped away like a white train, carrying the air with it as it approached Direjie's body.

Only at this moment did Direjee remove his gaze from the meteorite fragments scattered toward the island.

Just as Direjie was about to use his Wind and Fire Wheels to escape, the Queen statue leaped up from the dragon's back and approached Direjie in mid-air like a whirlwind and lightning. She twirled the dagger in her hand and instantly beheaded him.

The head was severed from the body. Direjie's head, still bearing a look of astonishment, was blown away by the gale.

Under the crimson twilight, the paper dragon roared and pounced, biting the head in mid-air and crushing it into a cloud of blood mist with its teeth. Then, the dragon spun and descended, catching the falling queen statue.

"Thank you." The Queen statue raised a finger and used blue flames to write on Ayase Origami.

The girl in the kimono rested her chin on her hand, seemingly deep in thought, before finally shaking her head.

Just then, a notification panel popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou's eyes.

[The second unit has been detected to have killed a "near-Cataclysmic" level character. The mission progress of the "Winter of the Wild Hunt" system has been updated.]

A near-Cataclysmic character will provide additional progress for the mission.

[Progress of Training Mission 4: 35/40 Superhuman kills (Reward: 1 attribute point)]

Ayase Origami remained silent for a while, then looked down at Xia Pingzhou's hand: "The little cat... has secretly become stronger."

"Otherwise, how can I protect you?" Xia Pingzhou said.

The girl in the kimono was taken aback.

Xia Pingzhou looked down at the earth from the paper dragon, while the battles on the other sides had already been decided.

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