Chapter 1646: Dark Metal Domain

In the half-collapsed basement, Su Xiao and Stan stared each other down, while Naloi stood at the entrance.

The Blood Gate members in the Holy Grail World were almost completely wiped out, leaving only Stan and Naloi, yet Stan didn’t fly into a rage. It was like even if the sky caved in, he could accept it calmly.

One thing had to be said: what Su Xiao defeated wasn’t Blood Gate in its complete form, because they were missing the brain of the team, that super cunning old fox type like Qing Ye. Stan’s cunning wasn’t low, but he was similar to Su Xiao, a muscle type, still some distance from those super schemers.

But no factor could change the fact that Blood Gate had lost. Besides, Stan still had a chance: as long as he killed Su Xiao, this major hidden threat, after returning to Reincarnation Paradise he could consider rebuilding. Of course, that would be very difficult. Blood Gate had plenty of grudges out there, and given the current state of the Blood Gate Adventure Group, lots of hostile Adventure groups were bound to come for revenge.

The basement was deathly silent. Long knife in hand, Su Xiao stood where he was without moving, because he could afford to wait. As soon as A Mu arrived, it could help him block either Stan or Naloi, and Su Xiao could butcher the other in a short time.

Su Xiao’s side could wait; Stan and Naloi clearly couldn’t. Black-gold energy surged over Stan’s body, several dark metal armor plates separated from his chest, and an invisible pulse spread outward.

As that pulse swept across Su Xiao, he felt stinging pain on his skin. Invisible forces of gravity appeared all around, pulling his body from all directions, like they wanted to tear him into pieces by five horses.

[Hint: Hunter has been affected by Dark Metal Domain.]

[Power Attribute check in progress… Check passed.]

[Agility Attribute check in progress… Check passed.]

[Physical attributes check in progress… Check failed (enemy possesses High-Tier physical check ability).]

[You are suffering the Negative effect of Dark Metal Domain. Moving speed reduced by 30%, Healing Effect from external sources reduced by 50%, you will take 240 points of Dark Gravitational Turbulence True Damage per minute.]

[Due to the effect of Dark Gravitational Turbulence, your Physical Defense is temporarily reduced by 29 points.]

[Due to the effect of Dark Gravity Field, there is a 5% chance to trigger Gravity Dizziness when moving. This Control effect is a Physical-type control; Sword Grandmaster cannot be Immune to it. Control duration: 0.3–1.6 seconds.]

Gravity and attraction appeared around Su Xiao at the same time. One moment it felt like a mountain pressing down on his shoulders, the next moment attraction was pulling at his body. This abrupt switch made Su Xiao very unaccustomed.

As soon as he sensed the gravity, Su Xiao immediately thought of Iron Rat. This ability was very similar to Iron Rat’s. No—this was a strengthened version. Or rather, Stan had used those metallic armor plates to lend this ability to Iron Rat, instead of it being an ability attached to Iron Rat’s arm shield.

One of Stan’s moves confirmed Su Xiao’s guess. With a wave of his hand, a dark metal armor plate flew toward Naloi. After the plate stuck to Naloi’s chest, she became Immune to Dark Gravity and Dark Gravity attraction.

Stan’s ability was to manipulate Dark Gravity and Dark Gravity attraction, forming a large-radius Domain for weakening + killing enemies. 240 points of True Damage per minute was already a terrifying Effect, especially since Stan only needed to stand there.

Stan’s ability didn’t Enhance himself; Su Xiao had already realized that. Large range, suitable for various situations, can control, can weaken enemies, can defend—this was precisely the kind of Ability leaders valued most.

As Dark Metal Domain activated, Naloi’s appearance also changed dramatically. Her lower body turned into a spider form, the abdomen huge. Those eight armored legs were extremely sharp, emerald green, like they were forged from alloy.

Right now Naloi’s upper body was human, her lower body spider, yet Su Xiao had a feeling that the spider-form lower body wasn’t Naloi’s actual body, but some kind of alloy armor.

Clink, clink, clink…

Naloi’s armored legs stepped on the ground, making crisp ringing sounds. Wherever she passed, wisps of bluish smoke rose from the floor, a pungent acidic smell spreading—this was definitely acidic lethal poison.

Stan and Naloi both opened their Big Move straight away, the whole process almost instantaneous, with no chance of being interrupted.

Light blue energy drifted over Su Xiao’s body. He now had 100 seconds to kill these two; Demonic Hunt Time had already begun.

Obviously, the three had started by greeting each other with Big Moves the moment they met, with no probing at all.

With a swoosh, Naloi streaked across in a green blur, appearing in front of Su Xiao in an instant. Even with True Attributes at 99 points, you couldn’t have this kind of Speed.

Two green armored legs lifted, lunging at Su Xiao like two Sharp alloy fangs.

With a thunderous boom, rocks exploded from where Su Xiao had been standing. Knife in hand, he had already vanished from the spot. When he reappeared, he was standing atop Naloi’s spider abdomen behind her.

The long knife noiselessly tore through the air, slashing toward the back of Naloi’s neck. Naloi sensed the danger, but this strike was just too fast, and too sudden.

Just as the Blade was about to land on the back of Naloi’s neck, a pitch-black fist formed of Dark Gravity appeared, conservatively the size of a millstone, smashing down at Su Xiao from above.

Su Xiao now had two options: use Dragon Shadow Flash ability to get out, or tank the punch and take Naloi’s head with one blade.

In that instant of thought, Su Xiao vanished from where he stood. The pitch-black Dark Gravity Fist stopped in front of Naloi’s spider abdomen.

Naloi looked a bit disappointed, Stan narrowed his eyes as well. This kind of tag-team play between the couple had buried more powerful enemies than they could count.

Su Xiao used Dragon Shadow Flash ability to tear open Space and appear in front of Naloi. The corner of Naloi’s eye twitched, and she cursed inwardly: “This bastard is way too slippery.”

Slash!

Blood sprayed. Under Naloi’s stunned gaze, Su Xiao appeared at her side. One blade severed her right arm.

Seeing this, Stan slowly lifted his foot and stepped forward. His foot sank deep into the ground, buried all the way to his knee.

Boom!

As Stan’s foot came down, the area within half a kilometer shook. A powerful gravity suddenly descended over Dark Metal Domain from above, like an invisible sky dome smashing down at Su Xiao.

Spatial fluctuation rippled around Su Xiao. As he pierced through Space, he paused for a moment, dodging the indiscriminate attack from above.

Right now Stan could only be described as Unmoving as a Mountain, and each step he took would trigger an indiscriminate attack across the Domain, except for allies whose bodies were covered with Dark Metal Armor.

Su Xiao never moved closer to Stan, for a very simple reason: the Dark Gravity and Dark Gravity attraction around the man repelled each other, twisting the air itself. Closing in on him now was definitely not wise; cutting down Naloi first was the best choice.

“Stan, find a way to pin him down.”

Naloi clutched her severed arm with one hand, murder in her eyes.

Stan said nothing. He wanted to pin Su Xiao down too, but Su Xiao’s Spatial Movement was almost uninterrupted; he couldn’t even lock onto the man’s position.

Just as Naloi shouted, Su Xiao appeared silently behind her and brought his blade down.

With a click, Naloi’s true body separated from the spider abdomen lower half. As expected, that thing was a light mecha, not Naloi’s actual body.

Suspended mid-air, Naloi hooked a finger. The spider-like light mecha quickly disassembled, eight armored legs stabbing toward Su Xiao simultaneously.

Slash!

The long knife plunged into Naloi’s chest, cutting through muscle and bone, slicing apart a large number of organs. But Naloi wasn’t some pushover either. Several strands of spider silk shot out from the already separated Spider Armor, wrapping around her waist and yanking her back a short distance, just enough to keep her from being cut clean in two by that single blade.