Heroes Return

“We are not actually who we think we are…” Delis’s expression instantly turned serious: “Then what are our true identities…”

"Want to know? Come over and act all cute with me, and maybe I'll tell you, hahaha!" Ivan looked at the two girls in front of him mockingly: "How did you realize that you're not actually who you think you are? That sounds like a tongue twister! Hahaha!"

“Because my memories contain many instances of altering other people’s memories, and my own memories also contain some strange elements, I’ve always wondered if my own memories have been tampered with as well. Kuhuhu, but now that this has been confirmed, I think we can guess our true identities.” Alice said with a smile, “Actually, our true identities are Alice Elaine and Delis Elaine, the sole heirs of the Elaine family, Kuhuhu. That’s why, in this technologically advanced information age, I was able to create such a flawless identity as heirs to a large family—because these identities are genuine.”

"Sure enough, after my memory cleansing, your intelligence has improved a lot. Speaking of which, I have the memories you originally lost, hahaha! Do you want to know what you were like in the past? What you went through? It's right here!" Evan said, taking out two memory storage devices...

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"How about it? Do you want your past memories? There are memories of important people in your lives, your relatives, and your past lives! Maybe even memories of your mother telling you stories in bed at night, hahaha!" Evan said, fiddling with the two memory storage devices in his hands while looking at Alice.

Alice's expression remained unchanged, while little Delis clenched her fists slightly. However, because Alice didn't speak, she didn't move either. Even now, little Delis still chose to believe Alice's decision, because Alice was more intelligent than her.

“Kuhuhu, why do you have to get those memories back? I think I’m fine now!” Alice said to Ivan with a smile. “Even if there are important memories or people about me there, they mean nothing to me now! Kuhuhu, at least those things are unnecessary for me now!”

Hahaha!! To be precise, I've already gotten used to my current memories and appearance. In fact, if I were to regain those memories, it would probably affect me. Besides, do you really think I'd be devastated if you told me I'm not the real Ivan? Kuhuhu, maybe others would be affected, but I have your memories! Do you really think we'd struggle with something as trivial as the meaning of our existence?

"That's really something! Just because she inherited my memories, she's become such a crazy girl! That's not ladylike at all, ahahahaha!" Ivan laughed heartily, throwing the two memory readers on the ground and stomping them to pieces. "Since you've made your decision, from now on you'll never know your past selves again, ahahahaha! As for your relatives' past, you'll never see it again, ahahahaha!"

But just as Ivan looked at Alice again, like a child who had successfully pulled off a prank, he found that Alice still had a faint smile on her face: "Anyway, you've definitely killed me, so whether I remember or not doesn't really matter to me! Kuhuhu, rather, thanks to you, I've gained a brand new target!"

"As expected of someone who inherited part of my memories! You didn't seem to waver at all! So what exactly is your new goal? Hahahaha! To kill me for revenge?" Evan looked at Alice with a little excitement!

“Indeed, I will kill you!” Alice’s expression remained calm. “Kuhuhu, but not for revenge! I’m not so bored as to seek revenge for something like that! Rather than revenge, I plan to replace you and become Ivan! Just like a clone replaces the original! It’s better if there’s only one Ivan in the world! Ahahahaha!”

As Alice spoke, her expression turned eerie and distorted: "Ah! That kind of horrific art is my greatest pursuit! I'm really looking forward to the screams you'll let out when I break all your bones, kill you, and take everything from you! Hahahaha! You might as well just die now, and then I'll defeat Zero. Hahahaha!"

"Uh, being told to die by a girl really did cause me a lot of mental anguish, hahaha! Just kidding, how could I possibly die? And I'm not going to give you my precious game time." Evan laughed at this point.

However, at that moment, a loud bang reached everyone's ears. The black mist that had been swirling outside the window was instantly dispelled. At the same time, the heart in the golden-haired angel's hand emitted a dazzling light, and not only that, mysterious and eerie runes appeared within it.

"Hahaha! The energy has finally been collected!" Evan laughed excitedly at this moment, and at the same time, the pea shooters on the pea vines in the temple fired at Evan.

……

Rewind a bit, back to the outer perimeter of the central temple, and a chaotic battle officially broke out at that moment.

"Boring is mine, you guys deal with the others." Leng Yan said coldly, then threw a punch at Boring, and at the same time a terrifying blue pillar of fire swept along his fist towards the Boring Master.

Suddenly, a gigantic, wrathful Vajra appeared behind Master Boredom. At that moment, the Vajra unleashed a punch directly at Cold Flame's pillar of fire.

A golden light collided with the blue pillar of cold flames at the same time. The pillar of fire was actually shattered by the powerful force emanating from the golden light. However, at the same time, a ball of blue flame spread from the fist of the Angry Vajra to the entire body of the Angry Vajra. In less than a few seconds, it extended from the body of the Angry Vajra to the body of the Bored Master.

However, just as the blue flames were about to extend to Master Boredom's body, the connection between Wrathful Vajra and Master Boredom's body was suddenly severed. Boredom merely took two steps forward, moving away from Wrathful Vajra, who had now turned into an ice sculpture.

"Kid, your Cold Flame is pretty powerful! If I hadn't reacted quickly, I'd probably be frozen solid by now." Bored looked at Cold Flame with some satisfaction: "Indeed, there are still many outstanding young people in the world! By the way, don't even think about ambushing Ivan from behind! Those three are just there to lure you in! They're surrounded by something like X-fields!"

As soon as the Bored Master finished speaking, Kira, who had already appeared not far from the three Ivans, suddenly clutched his groin and collapsed.

"What... what kind of power is this..." At the same time as the excruciating pain in his testicles, Kira was also shocked by the power of the Bored Master, because he had not sensed any power at all, yet he had been hit by it.

"I told you not to attack so blatantly! Do you think I'm blind?" Master Bored shouted at the two people beside him.

And what were those three Ivans doing beside the battlefield? They were playing cards...

In fact, as soon as the battle started, the first one of them started playing cards on the spot.

"What just happened?" Ivan asked with a smile, looking at the two people in front of him. "I'm the landlord this round, right? Four twos and two kings, hahaha!"

“Who knows what happened? I can’t afford it,” another Ivan said bluntly.

The fact that the three Ivans were playing cards so casually in this setting was infuriating to everyone present! But there was nothing they could do, because every time they tried to attack the three Ivans, their heroic spirits would block their attacks.

The person who had previously wielded the rapier and musket had now multiplied into three, all attacking Rocky, Blast, and the Child of God simultaneously. Meanwhile, the man with the scissors launched a fierce attack on the girl who wielded the swift light.

The remaining Captain Justice and Kira originally planned to attack the main bodies of Ivan directly, but Kira was hit by the Bored Master's groin kick as soon as he made a move.

"Watch out!" Master Bored suddenly shouted to Leng Yan beside him.

Leng Yan realized that Master Boredom intended to use the same move as before, but he merely sneered. At the same time, his body transformed into a blue flame.

"Oh? Your body has become elementalized?" Bored looked at Leng Yan with interest: "But it's useless! Haven't you all heard of intent? It's the so-called martial arts intent! Elementalization and such are useless against enemies who have truly mastered intent!!"

As the words of the Bored Master faded, Leng Yan reverted to his original form, his sneer replaced by a painful sweat. The Bored Master then reappeared beside Leng Yan, a golden kick aimed directly at Leng Yan's head.

However, the kick missed its mark, because at the crucial moment, Captain Justice appeared beside Leng Yan and instantly pulled him away from his original spot. The instant the two were gone, a bottomless pit appeared beneath Leng Yan's feet.

"I don't need your help." Once it was safe, Leng Yan pushed the Justice Captain away.

“Master Boredom is definitely not as simple as the enemies we’ve encountered before, so we’d better cooperate to deal with him!” Captain Justice said to Cold Flame beside him.

“You just need to watch from the sidelines, I’ll handle this guy.” Leng Yan ignored the Justice Captain’s good intentions: “It’s precisely because he’s no ordinary opponent that he’s worth my full effort to defeat.”

"Then be careful! Master Boredom possesses the ability to penetrate any defense and attack the enemy directly. In other words, theoretically, no attack from Master Boredom can be defended against! You can only take it head-on." Captain Justice knew he couldn't persuade Leng Yan, so he could only remind him.

"Is this the power of the bored master of the bachelor temple?" Leng Yan sneered, and instantly the whole world turned into a snowy wonderland.

Snowflakes began to fall heavily at that moment. Simultaneously, the surrounding scenery seemed to slow down. Almost all the powerful figures on the battlefield who witnessed this scene ran out of the snow-covered area at the same time, because the temperature there was dropping too rapidly. Even the three Ivans playing cards quickly ran into the black mist.

At the same time, both sides in the battle, except for Boredom and Cold Flame, fled outside the heavy snow. They clearly saw that the snowflakes fluttering in the sky were actually tiny blue flames.

"Alright. Now let me witness your power!" In this slow-motion world, Leng Yan attacked the Bored Master at an extremely fast speed.

Just as the blue flames formed in Leng Yan's hand, Wuliao Master was about to take action, but at the same time, snowflakes fell from the sky, and when they landed on Wuliao Master, they turned into a huge iceberg.

As snowflakes continued to fall, the Bored Master was unexpectedly buried under a massive amount of icebergs.

Chapter 28

"Let me end the reign of your generation of powerhouses!" With a cold laugh, Leng Yan moved. As the Bored Master was being crushed by the ever-appearing giant icebergs, Leng Yan simultaneously slammed the blue flame in his hand down towards the icebergs.

A massive amount of blue flames ignited across the entire iceberg. And as those blue flames burned, the previously separate pieces of iceberg transformed into a single, unified entity.

"It seems it's nothing special after all." Leng Yan prepared to leave after seeing that the iceberg had completely become a single entity.

But the next second, an invisible force struck Leng Yan's face. He was sent flying, crashing into several buildings before finally coming to a stop.

The moment Leng Yan stood up, she jumped to the side. At this moment, Leng Yan could vaguely feel a force approaching.

Just as Leng Yan narrowly dodged the attack, the building behind him was pierced through by a force invisible to the naked eye. A massive palm-print-like force pierced directly through the building where he had just stood. A huge palm-print-like mark appeared in the ruins.

"A power that can penetrate all defenses? That means you weren't frozen inside that iceberg at all." Leng Yan immediately realized. Undoubtedly, this attack was launched by Master Bored through the iceberg. And just as Leng Yan was intently focused on the iceberg, a gigantic golden arm pierced right through the iceberg, which Leng Yan had reinforced.

In an instant, massive chunks of shattered ice began to fly outwards. A fierce-looking Vajra appeared in Leng Yan's eyes, and then, under his gaze, a second Vajra appeared. Then came a third, a fourth... and finally, eighteen Vajras rose up within the iceberg.

Meanwhile, these "King Kongs" are all carrying various weapons. There are folding stools, bricks, bottles, watermelon knives... basically, all the common weapons used in street fights can be seen in their hands.

At the feet of these Vajras, the Bored Master stood quietly, completely unharmed.

The snowflakes in the sky continued to fall, but just as they were about to approach the Vajra, they were all neutralized by the powerful golden light that rose up.

"Hmph, as expected of the Bored Master." Leng Yan said indifferently, and at the same time, a large amount of wind and snow began to sweep towards the Bored Master and those golden Arhats.

"Be careful," Wu Liao said casually, without making any significant movements. However, Leng Yan knew what this meant. Wu Liao had once again used his "Child-Severing Kick."

However, this time, Bored Master's kick missed its mark, and Cold Flame disappeared from Bored Master's sight.

"I never imagined I'd encounter two people in one day who could break my 'childlessness-severing kick' technique. Truly, the younger generation is formidable." Bored, he turned his head with a smile. At the same moment, in the direction he was looking, the small snowflakes suddenly burst into flames of cold fire. And in an instant, the cold fire transformed into the true form of cold flames.

As Leng Yan appeared beside Master Wuliao, he immediately threw a punch at him. A surge of cold fire engulfed Master Wuliao. Simultaneously, Master Wuliao's fist retaliated with a counter-attack from Leng Yan.

A golden light and a massive blue pillar of fire rose directly from the two figures. But at that moment, both the golden light and the blue pillar of fire seemed to slow down time by hundreds of times, entering an eerie slow-motion state.

Leng Yan's figure suddenly appeared on the other side of Master Boredom, but at the same time, a Vajra holding a brick seemed out of place with the surrounding scenery and smashed the brick down on Leng Yan's head at an extremely fast speed.

Even though time had been slowed down to an extremely low level within the cold flame's ultra-low temperature range, the Vajras behind Master Boredom completely ignored the slowing of time and launched an attack on the cold flame at an extremely fast speed.

At the same time, Leng Yan's figure disappeared once again. When he reappeared, a huge folding stool was being swung towards him. Leng Yan had no choice but to disappear from his spot again. After failing to attack Master Boredom with teleportation more than ten times, Leng Yan could only retreat to a relatively safe position for the time being.

Before him, the enormous, wrathful Vajras formed a massive wall, blocking Leng Yan's attacks. At the same time, Leng Yan noticed that the Vajras' positions were not random; their seemingly chaotic formation subtly protected every blind spot around Master Boredom.

Meanwhile, the figure of the Bored Master gradually sped up from its initial slow motion.

"I'm used to it, be careful!" After giving this warning, Master Boredom unleashed an invisible force towards Leng Yan.

"I've already gotten used to your power!" Leng Yan merely sneered at Master Wu Liao's words before disappearing from the spot. As Leng Yan vanished, a massive chasm appeared where he had stood.

In an instant, Leng Yan appeared next to Master Wu Liao, but what came towards him was a huge wine bottle.

"What a nuisance!" Frustrated, Leng Yan threw a punch at the giant beer bottle. Instantly, the bottle froze under the force of Leng Yan's fist, freezing the Vajra wielding it as well.

But the next second, another Vajra's attack directly blocked the gap created by Cold Flame, and with a single punch, Cold Flame was sent flying. The Vajra that had been frozen also broke free of Cold Flame's ice seal with the help of the other Vajras.

As Leng Yan was knocked away, Wu Yi threw a punch at him from a distance.

"Damn it!" Leng Yan, who was flying backward, also felt the invisible power that Master Wuliao had unleashed. He gritted his teeth and his body disappeared into the air once again. At the same time, his figure reappeared beside Master Wuliao, and his fist, burning with blue flames, slammed directly towards Master Wuliao.

But just when Leng Yan thought he could succeed in this sudden attack, a huge golden hand blocked his attack. The golden hand was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture by Leng Yan's punch, and then immediately turned into snowflakes and scattered in mid-air.

When Leng Yan shattered the golden palm, what he saw instead was a boring heavy punch.

The Bored Master's punch, delivered with a delayed restraint, struck Cold Flame directly, who had transformed into his elemental form due to sensing danger.

Suddenly, a blue humanoid flame was sent flying by Master Boredom's punch. At the same time, Cold Flame also disappeared from its original spot when it was punched away.

The next second, Cold Flame appeared on the other side of Boredom, only to disappear again when it encountered King Kong's obstruction. Moreover, Cold Flame's speed was increasing.

Since your defense is practically flawless, then I'll disrupt it. With this in mind, Leng Yan's figure began to flicker continuously around the entire snowy landscape. At the same time, countless afterimages appeared around Master Boredom, attacking him.

Each time the cold flames appear, they disappear again after the attack, and their speed is constantly increasing.

Leng Yan knew very well that to break through the defenses of Master Wu Liao's Vajra, he needed to constantly accelerate, so fast that Master Wu Liao wouldn't even have time to recover before suffering even more severe injuries. So fast that Wu Liao couldn't react.

And so it kept accelerating, accelerating, and accelerating again.

Each of Cold Flame's attacks would inflict large areas of frostbite on King Kong's body next to Master Boredom, while Cold Flame would immediately disappear from Master Boredom's sight.

As the Cold Flame's speed increased, most of the Vajras around Bored were destroyed by its attacks. The Vajras around Bored were now recovering at a rate far slower than the Cold Flame's destructive speed.

Because of the destruction of King Kong, the Master of Boredom was left completely vulnerable.

Having finally found an opportunity to attack, Leng Yan appeared right next to Master Boredom, his hand, burning with cold flames, grabbing Master Boredom by the neck: "It's time to say goodbye."

Leng Yan sneered at Wu Liao, while the cold fire in his hand condensed and burned wildly. So what if he was called the world's strongest martial arts master? In the end, he still fell to his own power! A hint of pleasure appeared on Leng Yan's face at this moment.

However, just as Leng Yan was about to celebrate his victory, the Bored Master, whose head had been turned into an ice sculpture by Leng Yan, suddenly clasped his hands together. A beam of Buddhist light appeared behind the Bored Master, which not only restored his head to its original state but also directly shook off Leng Yan's hands.

"Damn! The fact that you forced me to use my Buddha Light shows how amazing you are!" Master Bored suddenly shouted at Leng Yan, who had been blasted away, "Run! You can't win now! I've already figured out your trick of moving with the snowflakes!"

"Hmph, so what?" No sooner had Leng Yan finished speaking than Master Wuliao and all the wrathful Vajras around him simultaneously clasped their hands together. Beams of Buddhist light erupted from behind Master Wuliao, enveloping the entire Holy Capital.

However, the Buddha's light had no destructive power whatsoever. The once lifeless holy city was suddenly covered with green grass and flowers, and the walls were covered with vines blooming with beautiful flowers. The dawn's light illuminated the entire holy city at this moment.

The mist that had enveloped the holy city was dispelled, and the black mist that had shrouded the central temple was also dispelled at this moment.