Why is his holy light red?

Chapter 99 The Strongest Power

Mercury ignored the ravings of the deformed monster.

His gaze passed over Lucas, fixed on Bran, who seemed to be encased in amber in mid-air. Even the orange-red, high-temperature flames remained motionless, clearly demonstrating that his claim to control time was not an exaggeration.

Mercury has never encountered an opponent who can stop time.

I shouldn't have been thinking about anime just now, because the boss from anime immediately popped into my head.

Having never encountered time-related superpowers before, Mercury's red holy light certainly has no resistance to this ability.

Therefore, Mercury had no intention of approaching Lucas; instead, he set his sights on the glass jars on either side.

These poor people have clearly been used as biological batteries by this monster. To get rid of the monster, you have to cut off its energy supply first.

Mercury suppressed the urge to rush forward and grab the fist. His muscles tensed, and dark red holy light compressed to its limit under his feet, making him look like a cheetah ready to pounce.

"Since you refuse to kneel, then hang in my display room forever." Lucas let out a hoarse, cold laugh, raising his scaly claws and stretching them out towards Mercury.

"Buzz"

A translucent gray ripple expanded like a tsunami from Lucas's center.

The energy field should be invisible, but at this moment, the power seems to affect even light, and a distinct shadow appears where the field covers.

If it's visible, then there's no problem.

Just a fraction of a second before the gray force field was about to engulf him, he suddenly burst out with power, his entire body transforming into a red afterimage as he narrowly avoided the edge of the static force field.

The force field spreads relatively slowly, at least within Mercury's reaction range.

Having dodged the time-stopping force field, Mercury sprang up.

He completely ignored Lucas, who was covered in armored scales, and instead focused his attention on the intricate network of energy pipes.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A dull, resounding boom echoed through the laboratory. Two fists, wreathed in dark red holy light, pounded out like heavy pile drivers, instantly shattering three or four thick energy transmission pipes. Debris flew everywhere, and Lucas's belt immediately stopped charging.

"A futile struggle."

Instead of flying into a rage, Lucas let out a deafening burst of maniacal laughter. With a flick of his claws, a gray aura instantly shifted, enveloping the shattered ruins.

A chilling scene unfolded. The shattered debris, as if a videotape had been rewound, rapidly detached from the ground and flew back into the air against gravity. In just one second, the broken pipes were restored to their original state under the law of time reversal, and energy began to flow steadily again.

"In this realm, everything is under my control. Your sabotage is entirely unintentional—"

Lucas's triumphant declaration came to an abrupt end.

"thump!"

A sudden, heavy thud echoed from the other side of the laboratory.

Because Lucas redirected the time field to repair the pipes, Bran, who was originally "frozen" in mid-air, instantly lost control and continued charging forward, but he had already deviated from his course and crashed into the wall next to him with a loud, explosive roar!

Bran gasped for breath, staring in shock at his hands, clearly still reeling from the dizziness of the time gap.

Mercury's eyes lit up.

He discovered the monster's weakness: it could indeed manipulate time, but the stopping force field had a limited range!

When he covered the power supply pipe with the force field that reversed time, it could no longer cover Bran's position.

"Bran! Smash those pipes on the right!"

Mercury roared at Bran, who had just gotten up, "His time field can only cover one area at a time! He can't protect the entire lab!"

Before he finished speaking, Mercury had already transformed into a streak of red light and rushed straight toward another energy array on the far left of the laboratory.

On the other side, Bran, who had just escaped death and was burning with rage, instantly grasped the tactics.

Without even glancing at Lucas, she suddenly clapped her hands together, and two blindingly compressed orange-red fireballs, like miniature suns, materialized out of thin air and slammed into the pipe on the far right of the laboratory!

"BOOM—!!"

Physical destruction and high-temperature melting erupted simultaneously at opposite ends of the laboratory. Mercury ripped the pipes on the left apart, while Bran's flames melted several large holes in the pipes on the right.

"Damn bugs!"

Lucas's vertical pupils contracted sharply, and he let out a furious roar. The enormous lizard's tail pounded the ground wildly, and his scaly claws lashed out from side to side.

The gray realm of time has to be pulled back and forth.

He had just used time reversal to extinguish the fire on the right and repair the melted pipes; then, the main pipe on the left, pierced by Mercury, suffered a violent chain reaction of explosions. As he gritted his teeth and went to repair the right side, Bran's next high-temperature pillar of fire mercilessly shattered several living battery tanks on the left.

This battle turned into a race against time, a violent demolition, and a frantic, back-and-forth struggle to mend the damage.

Mercury had planned to continuously deplete the opponent's energy in this way, and once he was in dire need of it, he would naturally be able to defeat him.

However, just as Mercury narrowly avoided the time-stopping field, Bran was already engulfed in it. But this time, Lucas ignored Mercury and instead crashed into the time-stopping field himself, his claws reaching for Bran's throat.

He'd learned his lesson; rather than being played by the two of them like this, he figured he might as well deal with one of them first.

Mercury couldn't stand by and watch Bran be killed by the monster, otherwise the tug-of-war tactics would be completely useless.

However, I have no way to resist his time-stopping ability.

Mercury remembered the plot of that anime, how the protagonist broke the time-stopping ability again?

In that split second, several thoughts raced through Mercury's mind, but ultimately his actions were faster than his thoughts.

Just as Lucas's claws were about to touch Bran, Mercury slammed his foot on the floor, and a dark red afterimage crashed violently into the gray force field.

The violent tremor caused a violent ripple to spread across this absolutely still space, as if a super-heavy metal ball had been forcibly smashed into high-density gel.

But after advancing less than half a meter, Mercury's figure suddenly stiffened, and along with the red light surging on his body, he was completely frozen in mid-air.

Looking at Mercury, who was frozen in place before him, Lucas let out a wild, relieved laugh.

Bran wasn't his primary target at all—the monster in front of him, who had broken through three lines of defense and torn apart the entire base's armed forces like paper in three minutes, was the real nightmare that chilled him to the bone.

For a few seconds just now, he even doubted whether his "divine authority" could suppress this humanoid beast.

"No matter how strong a mindless person's strength is, it can't overcome the law of time!" Lucas spat out his forked tongue, the fear in his eyes completely transforming into a morbid arrogance.

He casually thrust forward, and the sharp lizard claws pierced Bran's neck without any resistance.

No blood spurted out, for the flow of blood had been frozen by time. Only three deep, bone-revealing piercing wounds appeared on Bran's neck, fatal wounds that utterly extinguished any hope of life.

Having dealt with the troublesome Bran, Lucas turned around and greedily eyed the frozen Mercury. Even in the time-stopped state, the dark red aura still exuded a chillingly heavy feel.

"What an incredible life structure! It's a pity you don't know how to kneel before God."

Lucas raised his right claw, aimed at Mercury's throat, and stabbed down fiercely with utmost killing intent!

"Snap—!"

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The crisp sound of bones breaking traveled through the bone to Lucas's ears.

Instead of the expected tearing flesh, Lucas let out a piercing scream. His sharp fingernails snapped cleanly when they touched the dark red holy light! The enormous recoil shattered and deformed his finger bones.

"Damn it! What's this guy's skin made of?!"

The excruciating pain caused Lucas's sanity to short-circuit for a fraction of a second.

As a "newbie" who had just obtained a god-level cheat, he almost instinctively and frantically activated the time reversal effect in an attempt to repair his crippled right hand.

"Buzz—!"

Within the gray space, time began to flow backward. Lucas's shattered hand bones rapidly reassembled and healed.

But before he could even show a smug expression, his face froze completely.

He suddenly realized a fatal, basic mistake: his current skill level was simply not good enough to perform precise backtracking on only himself.

He reversed the time of the entire force field!

The timeline is spiraling backwards.

Mercury's sprint was abruptly halted, and he was propelled backward as if launched, flying directly out of the edge of the gray force field and landing steadily.

"Fuck!"

Lucas turned his head in alarm to look in the other direction.

Bran was also "spit out" of the force field by the laws of time, completely intact. What made his eyes twitch even more was that, as his stabbing motion was pulled back along its original trajectory due to the reversal of time, the three fatal holes that pierced through Bran's neck healed rapidly, leaving not even a trace of white marks!

That was such a good opportunity, but it was all for nothing!

Mercury didn't understand what had happened; he only knew that he charged forward and returned to the starting point, while Bran, who should have died, was standing unharmed outside the time field.

What exactly happened just now?

Mercury tried to recall the feeling when he entered the time field, and vaguely, he seemed to have caught a glimpse of something.

But before Mercury could ponder this further, Lucas once again moved his gray field, enveloping Bran.

He wanted to repeat his old trick, kill Bran again, and then deal with Mercury.

But this time, Mercury was not about to let him have his way again.

Since the red holy light is not enough to stop time, then he will use his strongest power.

A dazzling golden light shone in Mercury's palm, transforming into a massive light cage that pierced through the time field and imprisoned Lucas within.

Mercury clenched his fist, and the golden holy light began to shrink, intending to crush the monster into a pulp!

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