Chapter 206 - 113: Crushing Annihilation, New Trait: Steel Bones and Iron Flesh

The entire thing, as smooth and glistening as jade, throbbed like a living heart as mycelia frantically drew Life Energy from it. This immense Life Energy also caused the charred corpse to begin rapidly regenerating.

Though it wasn’t a rare earth-vein crystal, a Lingzhi was still a precious fungal fruiting body. It must have taken countless years to accumulate such immense Life Force.

"It’s over."

Su Chen’s gaze sharpened. His left hand became a blade, plunging into the charred corpse’s chest cavity. He forcefully ripped the Jade Lingzhi free from the binding mycelia.

The moment it was torn free, the last shred of the enemy’s life was extinguished.

The four remaining High-Level Runes inside its head floated out. Su Chen instantly recognized Lightning Flash Warp Lv6 and Thunderous Blast Lv6. As its Sea of Consciousness collapsed and its Tree of Spiritual Energy withered away, a Spirit Marrow Crystal also precipitated out.

’What a bountiful reward!’

The instant Su Chen collected his spoils, the temporarily repelled werewolf didn’t charge forward. It tacitly cleared the line of fire, because a lion-maned Warlock in the distance had just launched an accelerated Fireball at him.

The Fireball was accompanied by a piercing sonic boom, its speed too fast to be tracked by the naked eye.

However, under Su Chen’s ever-vigilant Global Perception, a Water Mirror Screen he had already deployed silently materialized twenty meters behind him. The Fireball slammed into the water mirror, resulting in a brief stalemate.

The next moment,

CRACK!

The water mirror shattered into a shower of crystalline droplets. But in that instant of breaking, the terrifying Fireball was deflected from its intended trajectory, crashing into a pile of rubble to the side and rear, erupting in a towering blaze.

’Acceleration Skill Lv7!’

Su Chen understood. This triple-linked Fireball Technique was also imbued with the power of Flame Burst.

A single Water Mirror Screen, equivalent to Lv7 and boosted by 100% mastery, could still take the hit alone.

This was clearly the power gap created by a class’s Authority.

In that brief moment, he directly absorbed Thunderous Blast Lv6 and fed the Spirit Marrow Crystal to Jingzhe, allowing it to also break through to Lv6. He stashed the rest of his spoils in his canvas backpack.

Then, his figure shot off the ground with the Weightlessness Skill, instantly floating into mid-air.

As if he had foreseen it...

BOOM!

In that instant, a tremor ripped through the ground from below as another Bear-man attacked using Earth Escape. He cast a Weighting Skill on the airborne target.

But crucially, the immense force field targeting a single entity couldn’t counteract Su Chen’s Weightless Gravity Field. Supported by a Telekinesis shield, he easily escaped the spell’s range.

SWOOSH!

SWOOSH!

Two metal missiles tore through the sky but both missed. Su Chen had simply manipulated the air currents with his movement technique to evade them. It looked like a narrow miss, but in reality, it wasn’t even close.

Having seen through their trajectory, he couldn’t be bothered to move an inch more than necessary.

Not to mention, his defensive redundancies were more than adequate. Beyond the lightning shield now protecting him again, he could cast Water Mirror Refraction at any moment as a backup.

HUMMM!

The Holy Sword in his hand was once again bathed in a brilliant glow. A stream of plasma flame, interwoven with lightning and fire, flickered from the blade’s edge. The moment the hiding lion-maned Warlock felt Su Chen’s gaze lock onto him, he immediately began to fly backward.

His figure was also shrouded by an invisibility spell, and he vanished without a trace amidst the ruins of the creative park.

But once targeted, how could Su Chen let him escape so easily?

WHOOSH!

A Tracking Arrow, fired from a low altitude in the distance, invisibly pointed the way. Locked on in advance, it prevented the Warlock from truly vanishing from the physical plane.

Yan Ruoruo, who had been catching up, was in position.

"I’m here."

Her calm voice came through the Spiritual Link.

Not only that, an Echo Arrow arced through the air and landed within the creative park. A ring of invisible psychic ripples spread out like a tide, covering a section of the structurally complex building area.

Immediately, the outlines of three invisible bodies were sketched out in his mind.

Su Chen’s eyes turned sharp. He activated Shadow Leap, traversing nearly two hundred meters in an instant, ignoring walls, collapsed floors, and all other obstacles to teleport to the entrance of a small alley.

In a sense, this was also a combination technique.

Using the long-range visual support provided by Yan Ruoruo, he could precisely anchor his spatial destination to such a fine point.

Almost simultaneously, an accelerated Wind Blade, compressed to its absolute limit, shot out from the shadows.

Realizing he had been exposed, the enemy had switched to an ambush. However, a Water Mirror Screen rose at the alley’s entrance, momentarily impeding the attack. Its trajectory was deflected, and it sliced off half of the ruined wall opposite.

But that wasn’t all.

Two Dark Element-reformed people materialized near the wall. One was about to cast Dark Shackles, while the other was preparing a close-range Curse Skill.

But...

A wisp of formless shadow flame had already ignited silently on their bodies. By the time their Shadow Armor was eroded away and half of their torsos had been rapidly reduced to charcoal, the two reformed people finally realized they were grievously wounded.

They couldn’t even cast their Runes. The backlash from their abruptly interrupted Magic alone was enough to hasten their deaths.

Their bag of tricks was empty; they had nothing left.

Driven into a corner, the lion-maned Warlock’s eyes turned crimson. A grating, metallic tremor emanated from deep within his throat.

"Die!"

Before the word was even out,

He cast Acceleration Skill Lv7 directly on himself. His flesh and bones trembled under the frenzied air pressure as his muscle fibers began to snap. His entire body had been pushed past its absolute limit.

The next instant, he became a living projectile, hurtling toward Su Chen wrapped in an immense, crushing wind pressure.

In that moment, the Bloodthirsty Fungus bet everything on the strength of its host’s chimeric torso, attempting to take Su Chen down with it in one final, desperate gamble.