Her body uncontrollably flew to the far left, Julia’s expression filled with horror.
She couldn’t understand why her fiancé seemed to be known by so many people—and that they were all enemies, ready to draw swords the moment they met!
As for Yang Zicang, a person who rarely interacted with others, she hadn’t heard of him until a few days ago. But over the past two days, through the constant complaints of the flashing red Moxel, she had learned that he seemed to be the builder of this Demon King Palace.
Was there some connection between them?
–Morri!- Julia, who had fallen to the ground, immediately scrambled to her feet, intending to rescue her fiancé.
–Don’t come over. I… can handle it!-
Boom!
Morri actually used his fist to block Zilong Jun’s punch, which was infused with a vast amount of Chronos. With several violent tremors and booms, the man was slammed against the wall amid the dust, falling to the ground in pain.
Yet on his body, a faint golden glow still radiated.
–As expected of the rumored number one Chronos tycoon.- Zhao Yun stepped forward, gazing indifferently at the man who was climbing up by the wall.
Mark ran over to the Four Phases Heavenly Group and the others. –Yunze! I found a small zombie comparable to the Moon Angel. As expected of our city—there’s actually something like this that can reawaken its intelligence.-
Cheng Yunze glanced at him, feeling joy in his heart.
At least this person, who had once given him the greatest help, would no longer create a rift between them in the future.
–Unfortunately, I haven’t even refined ten percent of it after all this time. To completely control it like you, I’m afraid it would take a day or two.- Mark looked regretfully at the floating coffin beside him. If his mental strength were stronger, perhaps he could refine it faster.
Previously, the Moon Angel was completely uncontrollable. At least this time, with the stone coffin, there is a chance to control it.
Cheng Yunze nodded and said: –I know why. It’s simple—just drive the little zombie’s newborn intelligence insane.-
He looked at Julia, who was frantically running toward Morri in the distance.
–Kill her.-
The quietly standing Moon Angel suddenly raised its head, its hollow eye sockets locking onto the running woman in the distance.
Julia embraced Morri, who had blood at the corner of his mouth. She sensed immense danger. The moment she turned her head, the distant light skeleton was already upon her in an instant!
Boom!
Clang!
Just as the light skeleton’s claws were about to strike the woman, a long sword firmly blocked the skeleton’s claws.
A teenage figure appeared in front of Julia and Morri.
Morri, still a bit dizzy, suddenly felt ecstatic. This figure was the man who had appeared in his dream!
–Hong Haocheng!-
Hong Haocheng turned his head coldly, gritting his teeth and glaring angrily at this person who seemed to be on Yang Zicang’s side.
–Shut up. Don’t call me that so intimately, as if I know you.-
Cheng Yunze at the front of the hall shouted angrily: –Haocheng! What are you doing!-
The youth standing in front of Julia, bracing against the skeleton, roared:
–I’m right here, protecting my people!!-
Clang clang clang! Hong Haocheng’s sword trembled, golden light flashing in his eyes, and with a single stroke he flipped the Moon Angel over!
–Everyone with red Moxel in this city is under my protection! This is my bragging rights for my wife later! Ah, get lost!-
The long sword clashed violently and at high speed with the Moon Angel once more.
–Well done, Haocheng!- Morri praised.
–I told you to shut up!- Hong Haocheng glared with wide eyes.
–Hahaha!- Morri laughed heartily. He turned to look at Julia. –I thought I’d never see you again, my… beloved.-
Morri shoved the thorn claw in his hand into Julia’s. –Use it, so I can rest easy.-
–You…- Julia’s eyes glistened with tears. She clutched one of the man’s hands tightly with both hands, her voice choked: –No, you use it. I’m no longer the ordinary Julia. I’m now as strong as Knight Joan of Arc!-
Julia stood up, her gaze fixed on the enormous companion Enightmare, eyes brimming with resolve.
A red quadrilateral appeared on her chest.
–I, Julia. Morri, request to transcend ten thousand years…-
Hearing her surname changed to Morri, the man’s emotions suddenly exploded within him. Wincing in pain, he rose and yanked Julia behind him.
–If your knight learns that a man didn’t stand before his beloved, he’ll mock me.–
As Morri spoke these words, a dense red phantom flared to life around him. Its glow was even redder than the ordinary ten-thousand-year phantom Chronos.
–That’s—!–
Cheng Yunze’s eyes flickered, and his skeleton hastily retreated.
Zhao Yun, who had been on guard against Cheng Yunze and the others closing in, spotted the sudden, unusual red phantom and felt a stir in his heart.
–Lord Zilong, kill him!–
Sensing the threat, Zhao Yun no longer intended to keep the Void Zero Chronos for Yang Zicang.
Whoosh! The giant fist sliced through the heavy air. Morri spun, and as that fist came crashing down, his tiny fist shot upward to meet the sky!
–Thousand-Fist Art!!!–
The red phantom abruptly transformed into a brilliant orange radiance! This orange energy, born from within the golden-red phantom, flickered only faintly, yet it seemed to blaze with dazzling light in spirit!
The expressionless Zhao Yun sensed a terrifying, dangerous aura.
[I request maximum financing! No upper limit!]
Zhao Yun was about to urgently activate financing beyond ten thousand years… But Morri’s thrown fist instantly swelled with countless phantoms, colliding with Zilong’s fist.
Bang! Fist met fist, like a mantis trying to shake a giant wheel!
Boom, boom, boom, boom, rumble, rumble, rumble!
In that instant, a shower of fist shadows erupted like a dense volley of explosive shells, hammering Zilong Jun’s fist with relentless strikes. The speed was so blinding that Zhao Yun had no time to trigger his financing amplification; he abruptly canceled the superfinancing that would have steered him onto a new path of destiny after the match, instead relying on sheer willpower to make Zilong Jun ethereal, twisting and shrinking back in retreat.
Bang! A blast of wind exploded violently, the churning currents so fierce that everyone struggled to keep their footing.
{Ninety thousand years! Ugh!}
Ziyun Jun’s massive fist was torn to shreds in less than a second by the blur of fist shadows!
The rapidly deforming body of the enormous symbiotic Enightmare, like a deflating balloon, hurtled backward through the airflow, slamming into Zhao Yun and collapsing into a ball of gaseous shadow on the ground.
In both passageways, many who had just dashed out were nearly swept off their feet by the spreading gale, sending the already chaotic ground into a tangle of falling bodies.
Through the dust, a golden flash—the skeletal Moon Angel seized the chaos to charge at Julia once more.
Clang! Hong Haocheng’s sword desperately parried the Moon Angel’s assault, his arm muscles swelling and engorging with blood.
–Haocheng, take her out, and we’ll have a sure shot at crushing Yang Zicang.–
–Do we… have to kill?!–
Rage blazed in Hong Haocheng’s eyes.
–Whose side are you really on?!–
–I am my own side!-
–Hmph.-
Cheng Yunze weighed his options: Yang Zicang would be here soon. If he didn’t let Mark successfully take control of that little zombie now, the whole plan would go to pieces. And if that happened, this American would set his sights on Cheng Yunze’s own Moon Angel again.
Kill an outsider to gain a huge advantage, or plant the seeds of a rift with his own people? Cheng Yunze knew what to choose.
He walked forward step by step through the dust toward Hong Haocheng.
–Haocheng, if you refuse to see reason, I’ll have to take matters into my own hands.-
Morri, standing opposite, naturally knew that the man could transform into a psychic form.
–Julia, quick! Use the Thorn Claw!-
–No, you use it. He’s our city’s Chief; his strength is unfathomable!-
The title of Chief meant his overwhelming power was deeply ingrained in the hearts of everyone in City 23. Julia had always dreaded encountering people from that team. Almost as soon as she left the intersection area, she would hide in the dangerous building complex at the city’s edge where Enightmare was born.
Cheng Yunze’s voice grew ethereal. A humanoid phantom emerged from his body, and to his eyes, the people blocking his path were no more than grass and trees.
The phantom stepped out from his body, turned, and raised its hand. The bodies of his foes vanished into its palm.
No one could stand in his way—that was Cheng Yunze’s confidence.
–Miss Julia, forgive me for what I’m about to do!-
Yet at that very moment, blood suddenly splattered, and Hong Haocheng chopped off his own left little finger with a single sword stroke.
[Odd-Even Lake announces: now it’s odd and even numbers.]
Everyone here stared at this young man as if he were an idiot.
–I’ve said it before—all those with red Moxel in the city are under my protection.-
The long sword in the young man’s hand instantly turned translucent.
–Telekinetic Body!- Morri recognized the sword’s current state at a glance.
–My sword is the missing part of my body!-
With a low hum, a wave of air blasted outward from Hong Haocheng’s hand. The sword in his hand also flared with red light, and he transformed into an agile silhouette, leaping away.
{Hong Haocheng!}
Cheng Yunze was enraged.
Morri quickly crushed Yang Zicang’s ability ball, sending the last few treasures containing ten thousand years of Chronos along a controlled trajectory to Hong Haocheng, while also interfering with Cheng Yunze’s path.
Suddenly a voice rang out in everyone’s hearts.
{It’s… the ancient, unnamed Ring of Bloodline!}
In front of the stone door, the ape-like defender clone seemed to sense Hong Haocheng’s presence and let out an inarticulate roar.
The light abruptly dimmed, and a flickering red glimmer lit up in the darkness.
The red glimmer gathered behind the stone door, like the eye of some strange being peeping from the great hall. Umbilical cord-like energy tendrils continuously extended from the crack of the door.
{Those who present the Bloodline Ring, I grant them the chance to coexist with me!}
Cheng Yunze, blocked by Hong Haocheng, felt a sudden terror rise in his heart. An indescribable aura enveloped the great hall.
–Be careful! It’s the Defenders!-
–All the Defenders’ attention is focused here!-
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