My health recovery is incredibly fast.

The faceless man didn't recognize the meaning of the radiant patterns. His spell clearly paused for a third of a second, quickly assessing the consequences of a rash attack, before continuing to smash towards Xia Zuo, who was radiating golden light.

To the astonishment of the Faceless Man, the following scene unfolded:

Various spells that exist in the form of energy cannot even lift the hem of an opponent's clothes; they are like a breeze hitting an iceberg in the polar regions, producing no response whatsoever.

"Magic immunity!?" the faceless man exclaimed in disbelief.

The Shadow Giant, with its over 80% magic resistance and multiple hits, managed to escape from the lightning cage created by the high-frequency spellcasting.

Now, the rogue has actually witnessed true magic immunity; the opponent can be immune to energy bombardment without any spellcasting.

Oh, wait a minute… The faceless man, who had transformed into a spiky sphere, stopped. His gaze lingered on the glowing patterns above his opponent's head and the movement of his right hand.

Perhaps, magic immunity is caused by these unknown radiant patterns?

If we can break the opponent's current casting animation, will these radiant patterns disappear? Will magic immunity then be exposed?

The spiked sphere looked around, and the faceless man instantly had a few guesses in his mind:

After the opponent deployed this sub-plane that could imprison a single target, they did not take any offensive measures. Instead, they used some kind of light magic to put themselves into a state of magic immunity. This was clearly a way to buy time and wait for their allies to come and hunt down the target!

If that's the case, we need to quickly break the opponent's spellcasting and escape from the sub-plane! Otherwise, we might find ourselves in a desperate situation of fighting multiple opponents!

The faceless man thought he had figured out his opponent's tactics.

The spiked sphere suddenly spun around, throwing out two spheres of equal size.

Three spiked spheres form a "品" shape, rotating around the central horizontal axis, shooting out spikes like a multi-barreled machine gun.

"Tap tap tap tap tap~~" A long string of spikes aimed at Xia Zuo's right hand.

"I've been tricked..." Xia Zuo chuckled inwardly, slowly conjuring a black and white magical shield in front of him to protect his right hand.

A few days ago, he tried it in the desolate wilderness of the Western Continent:

Whether you attack his physical body or his magical shield, there is a 10% chance that he will summon the [Guardian of Light].

This is a pretty good feature, but the 10% probability is a bit of a pain. It really is 10%, not some kind of pseudo-random algorithm with a compensation mechanism.

If you're unlucky, you'll end up like Xia Zuo right now, getting shot by the torrent of earth spikes for a full five seconds before you can summon a Guardian of Pure Light that looks like a golden spark.

When good fortune arrives, each attack will summon a golden guardian, and more than thirty golden sparks will appear in just one second.

"What are these things?" The faceless man stopped his attack again, watching the golden sparks around his opponent spray out golden "saliva".

The faceless man flickered a few times, but was still relentlessly spat on by the "saliva," leaving many golden stains on the spiked sphere.

I don't know if it's just my imagination... but the Faceless Man doesn't find the golden stain threatening at all.

It didn't hurt or itch, and it didn't cause any damage to the spiked spheres; it was just like getting ordinary gold oil on your skin.

If Xia Zuo knew what the Faceless Man was thinking at this moment, he would definitely burst out laughing.

Hey.

The light pulses emitted by the Light Guardian caused no harm; this was intentional on Xia Zuo's part.

The purpose was to lower the faceless man's guard, making him think that the "spit" from the golden sparks was harmless, so that the guardians of the pure light could add more impure sins to him.

Before Shazo launched his attack, the Faceless Man had no way of knowing the effects of the Impure Sin.

This is a battle of information asymmetry. Xia Zuo can only achieve a fatal blow by exploiting the opponent's blind spots in magical knowledge.

"Come on, Inster Heguman, is this all you've got?"

Xia Zuo laughed loudly:

"If this is all you can do, you'll never escape from here. When my comrades arrive... you! Wild Elemental! Inster Heguman! will become a puppet we control, just like the previous Otherworldly beings! Hahahaha~"

In that instant, the image of a secret organization that committed crimes and robbed various powerful spellcasters and demons abounded in the Faceless Man's mind, and the opponent in front of him transformed into a cunning and treacherous villain with malicious intentions!

Under Xia Zuo's pressure, the faceless man launched a relentless attack.

Chapter 43 is stuck at 50%.

The torrent of earth spikes lashed out at Xia Zuo, and swarms of Pure Light Guardians spawned around him.

Xia Zuo intentionally made his figure appear more imposing.

He manipulated the Guardian of Light, which had the appearance of golden sparks, to condense a slowly rotating golden wheel behind him.

The more spikes the faceless man casts, the denser the golden runes spelled out by golden sparks on the golden wheel become, and the more dazzling the light of the entire golden wheel becomes.

At the same time, large swathes of "saliva" from the golden sparks sprayed out, landing entirely on the faceless man's three spiked spheres.

If there were any bystanders present, they would definitely have noticed the strange phenomenon behind Xia Zuo and suspected that Xia Zuo was holding back some kind of big move.

As a direct participant, the faceless man was filled with conspiracy theories about a gang attack and the hunting of wild elements under Xia Zuo's deliberate misleading. He only hoped to break Xia Zuo's spellcasting gesture as soon as possible, and never expected that it was all a lie made up by Xia Zuo.

When the three spiky spheres were all stained gold with "saliva," the faceless man, who was a little slow to react but still able to maintain his rationality, suddenly realized that he might have fallen into some kind of trap.

He stopped attacking Xia Zuo with his earth spike torrent and instead cast various cleansing spells to wash away the golden stains on his body.

The Cleansing Spell woven from water-based energy is ineffective.

The [Purifying Flame] woven from fire-elemental energy is ineffective.

All non-elemental energy spells such as [Swift Healing], [Awakening], and [Resilient Resurgence] are ineffective.

"What the hell is this thing?!" the faceless man shouted angrily, manipulating the three spiked spheres to merge into one, transforming back into humanoid form, attempting to remove the golden stains by changing its shape.

He discovered with utter despair that even though the form had changed, the golden stain, as if etched into his very bones, remained.

"Ah!" The faceless man roared as he tore at the energy skin on his body, peeling off a layer of water-based energy membrane. The golden stains remained unmoved on his energy body shell, and would not disappear even if he peeled off several more layers of skin.

"What? You're only realizing it now?" Xia Zuo sneered. "Heh, it's too late, Inster Heguman."

Thanks to Faceless for their all-out effort, and thanks to Faceless for sending the super spike torrent.

In just three minutes, as many as 6000 ground spikes helped Xia Zuo summon a total of 777 Pure Light Guardians, spitting out "saliva" 3178 times, stacking 3178 layers of impure sin on the faceless man.

With a global damage multiplier of 3178%, even a small stick hitting the faceless man's head can cause damage far beyond imagination.

Based on the principle that villains die from talking too much, Xia Zuo stopped uttering any more nonsense.

He swiftly and decisively brought up the spell template, selected all the Light Guardians, and infused them with the attribute-less energy he had been accumulating for so long.

"it's all over!"

Xia Zuo's solemn voice rang out in the fair duel sub-dimension.

The golden wheel behind him spun rapidly, and all the golden sparks merged into one as they sang the [Pure Light Pulse] at the same time.

As darkness fell, the blazing sun was obscured by golden pillars of light in the sky. The next second, the wind subsided, the clouds thinned, and sunlight once again bathed the earth in its warmth.

The golden dimensional barrier and the dueling platform disappeared, and the faceless man's energy body was scattered in pieces, with broken body components swirling in the air and falling to the ground, emitting blue smoke.

The energy clone summoned from the ground by the faceless man expanded and exploded like a bubble, ending its own life.

Xia Zuo's attack was successful, effortlessly crushing the faceless man's energy body.

But there's one last step to take before you can truly kill the Faceless Man.

The faceless man is essentially a composite of wild elements.

His usual human-like behavior, habits, and language are all legacies left by the temple mage who created the [Elemental Star Network] body for the wild elements.

Perhaps to commemorate the mage who created his spellcaster body, or perhaps to better integrate into the temple environment and prepare for future control of the temple, Wild Element did not abandon the character and personality of the temple mage and continued to call himself Temple Mage—Inster Heguman.

This approach cannot change the fact that the faceless man is a composite of wild elements, and cannot transform him from a monster into a human.

Xia Zuo's figure descended from mid-air and landed next to half of the faceless man's head.

When the high-powered light pulse struck, the faceless man fought desperately to protect his head, and now only a small portion of it remains.

The other half of the head, which was wiped away by the light pulse, still contained at least half of the mental ocean. The chaotic container in the remaining energy skull remained stable under the precise control of the faceless man, without collapsing inward and eroding the mental ocean inside.

The spiritual ocean of the Faceless Man is also the legacy of the Temple Mage Inster Heguman.

If this ocean of ideas is wiped away, everything about Inst Heguman will vanish, and the Faceless Man will cease to exist.

"You...can't...kill...me..." Fragmented images appeared from half of the faceless man's face, and sparks from the malfunctioning alchemy device emerged from the cross-section of his neck.

"Only the Chaos Arrow can cut through my Chaos Vessel. You have wasted your only Chaos Arrow."

“I don’t need the Chaos Arrow to kill you,” Xia Zuo said calmly.

He set up a privacy barrier around himself, then stretched out his right hand toward the half-head on the ground, and a dark and deep black hole appeared in his palm.

"No...impossible...only the Chaos Arrow can kill me..." The faceless man's head shook violently, trying to get away from the terrifying black hole in his palm.

He didn't know what the black hole meant, but his instincts told him that it was an irresistible ultimate force.

"Sleep well, Inster Heguman, and enjoy your vacation. I will take control of your abilities and resources."

Xia Zuo had to say a few words... all because the [Nurturing Sporangium] has a progress bar when it devours the target template.

The progress bar takes about 10 seconds to go from 1% to 100%, and it cannot be skipped or shortened, which is the only drawback of consuming the target template.

The good news is that the process isn't complete until the progress bar reaches 100%. The progress bar shows exactly how much has been consumed.

The faceless man stared at the purplish-black light emanating from the black hole in his palm, and roared through his nearly broken alchemy generator:

"No! No! I won't die here!!!"

Seeing that the progress bar for devouring the template had reached 50%, and half of the faceless man's broken head had been sucked into the black hole in his palm, Xia Zuo's worst fears had come true.

The faceless man's words appeared many, many times in the future timeline, and each time something unexpected happened after he finished speaking—the faceless man used some kind of magic to turn into a wisp of black smoke and disappear from Xia Zuo's sight.

This kind of unavoidable accident, like touching some kind of switch, gave Xia Zuo a real headache.

This time, as soon as the faceless man finished shouting those words, the black smoke that Xia Zuo had seen in the future timeline spewed out from the faceless man's head, and no matter how Xia Zuo tried to stop it with magic, it was to no avail.

Xia Zuo cursed under his breath, glancing at the now-empty energy head, his eyes filled with regret and confusion.

"The Faceless Man still managed to escape... What exactly is this black smoke?"

Xia Zuo stood there stunned for a few seconds, then sighed helplessly and dispelled the surrounding magical barrier.

He flew into the cave and arrived at the Faceless Man's underground base.

With the disappearance of the faceless man, all the magic arrays set up here became ineffective, and the alchemy room at the deepest part of the base opened its doors to Xia Zuo.

The spell on Rena and Hughie had been lifted. Instead of immediately taking them away, Shazo went to a corner of the alchemy room and stood in front of the only potted plant in the room.