Chapter 379
Collapses at the First Touch
Chapter 379 Collapse at the slightest touch
At the Sisya competition venue, Sgorchen received a phone call from Yelena.
"Valery and his men have moved. Stochastic, you immediately proceed with the plan to seize the Security Bureau headquarters and take control of all the remaining agents."
Scrooge said sternly, "Yes! But Consul, are you sure you don't need my support?"
"Don't worry about me. The teacher has brought reliable helpers, enough to deal with the enemy. Keep in touch."
"understand!"
Upon receiving the order, Stochastic immediately took action, leaving a small group of personnel at the competition venue to maintain order, while she personally led the main force to the Security Bureau.
Valery had previously planted agents at the scene to monitor Stochastic's movements. As soon as she made a move, the agents immediately notified Valery.
"Schwarchin suddenly left?"
Valery, who was in the car, received a phone call and his face darkened.
"Looks like they're heading straight for the National Security Bureau."
Upon hearing this, the adjutant hurriedly said, "Chief, should we take countermeasures? The agents left behind can't stop Sgorchin!"
"No need! As long as we control Yelena, it's easy to just use treason as a pretext to wipe out Stochastic. Drive faster!"
"Yes!"
The driver sped off recklessly.
At this moment, Lucifer, who had gone ahead, had already flown over the Konia Manor with the high-speed mobility brought by his pair of fallen angel wings.
His cold gaze swept across the area below, trying to find his target as quickly as possible.
In the attic at the highest point of the manor, Yelena and the others stood by the window, observing the streets outside the manor from their vantage point.
Guan Tong's shadow surveillance team, deployed outside, has detected several large camouflaged vehicles approaching, each carrying fully armed agents.
But to his surprise, there was a figure flying in from the sky.
“Lucifer…”
Guan Tong looked at the person who was hovering above the manor with a pair of black wings and was pleasantly surprised.
The debt he was owed was only Lucifer's.
He didn't go to collect it because he was delayed by other matters, and he wasn't sure of Lucifer's location.
He knew that Lucifer had previously been a minor warlord in the Tulip League region, but had later disappeared.
Judging from his actions last time in helping Jiang Lanying leave Beixing, it's clear that he has transformed from a warlord into a mercenary who accepts a commission.
Finding a powerful Ascended mercenary who is homeless and prefers to act alone is not so easy.
Unexpectedly, this guy has now come to me of his own accord.
"Lucifer? That Soromagius Ascended who killed countless people?"
Ye Lianka didn't know Lucifer, but she undoubtedly knew the name. When she heard Guan Tong say it, her eyes turned serious.
"It seems that Valery used the remaining payment he was going to give to you, teacher, to hire this serial killer."
"You've come at the perfect time," Guan Tong said. "I was just looking for him."
"Do you need my help?" Shi Jingyi asked from the side.
“No, I want to deal with him myself.” Guan Tong looked at Shi Jingyi. “I guess Valery brought Lucifer here so that I wouldn’t be able to get away, allowing him to bring his men to deal with Yelena… I’ll leave her safety to you and Shangyuan.”
Shi Jingyi nodded: "Okay, you don't need to worry about this, just focus on dealing with Lucifer."
Uehara Zi also said, "Leave it to us."
Guan Tong pushed open the window, and his shadow condensed at his feet.
"Teacher, please be careful."
Guan Tong turned his head, and Ye Lianka's eyes showed some concern. Guan Tong nodded, and the shadow beneath his feet lifted him up and led him out of the window.
With Shang Yuanzi and Shi Jingyi protecting him, and Ye Lianka's own exceptional combat strength, he really didn't need to worry anymore and could focus all his attention on Lucifer.
As soon as he emerged from the attic, carried by his shadow, Lucifer, suspended in mid-air, immediately spotted him.
"Got you!"
Lucifer flapped his wings and his body traced a swift arc through the air as he approached Guan Tong.
Guan Tong didn't want to fight him around the attic, fearing it would affect Ye Lianka and the others, so she manipulated the shadow to move his body away.
Lucifer shouted as he gave chase, "What? Are you scared and trying to run away because you saw me, Shadow!"
"..."
Guan Tong stopped when they reached the spacious farmland at the rear of the manor.
Lucifer caught up in just two or three seconds, his body coming to an abrupt stop from high speed, hovering three or four meters above Guan Tong, looking down at him.
"What? Not running away anymore?"
“You seem to have misunderstood.” Guan Tong looked up at him. “Based on the results of the previous two encounters, you should be the one running away.”
These words struck a nerve with Lucifer. What he couldn't accept most was that he had lost to Guan Tong in their two previous encounters, once on the Holy Grail Island and once on the border of the Northern Star.
This had been a thorn in his side for a long time, so when he heard from the underground black market that someone had offered a high reward for dealing with "Shadow," he immediately accepted it, all for the sake of revenge and getting rid of this thorn in his side.
"You have defeated me twice. But don't forget, the first time was with the power of the Holy Grail! Before the second time I fought you, I had already fought someone else, which depleted my mental energy and injured me!"
Lucifer wasn't entirely wrong.
Especially the second time, he had indeed fought a battle with Dragon Soul before fighting Guan Tong.
As one of the captains of the official team, Dragon Soul possesses considerable strength. Even though he was defeated by Lucifer, it wasn't a crushing defeat; Lucifer also had one wing broken at the time.
“However, a defeat is a defeat, and I will not make excuses for myself,” Lucifer said coldly.
"If you're not going to make excuses, why are you even saying what you just said?"
"...Shadow, I just want to tell you that I will not lose to you a third time! This time I will kill you and plunder all your pitiful points, making them a stepping stone for me to claim the ranking rewards!"
Upon hearing this, Guan Tong glanced at the top of Lucifer's head.
The score of 4107 is particularly glaring.
“You know what, Lucifer, I’m very grateful to you,” Guan Tong said. “I had already given up on this competition based on the rules, but now I realize there’s no need to give up… If I just kill you and take your points, wouldn’t I be able to get the ranking?”
"Then why don't you give it a try!"
Before Lucifer had even finished speaking, he had already launched the attack.
He flapped his wings and quickly maneuvered, circling around Guan Tong.
Guan Tong stood still, but shadows provided vision even where his eyes couldn't see, allowing him to be aware of his sides and behind him.
"Why isn't your shadow attacking? Is it too slow for me?"
Lucifer's sarcastic remark came from different directions, demonstrating his incredible speed.
Guan Tong ignored it.
He was very familiar with Lucifer's fighting style, which relied on super-high-speed maneuverability to dazzle the enemy and create an opportunity for a fatal blow.
He himself was different. Although he couldn't be as fast or fly as Lucifer, he excelled at using his shadow to fight solid positional battles. If Lucifer was a high-speed assassin, then Guan Tong was like a positional mage. One excelled at lightning-fast assassination, and the other at controlling the battlefield. Neither completely countered the other; the outcome would depend on their individual strengths.
At this moment, Lucifer kept circling, but Guan Tong did not pursue him. Instead, he wrapped himself in thick shadow armor and manipulated his shadow to erect shadow walls around his body, blocking Lucifer's vision and preventing him from seeing his position directly.
Seeing Guan Tong erect a series of shadow walls, Lucifer sneered, "It's still the same old boring trick. You haven't improved at all after all this time. All you do is lock yourself in an airtight turtle shell. You're utterly weak!"
Guan Tong still ignored her.
This is a life-or-death struggle, not a friendly martial arts match. A single, effective trick will do you the most; as long as it works, who cares if it's old-fashioned or not.
Furthermore, while he might not mind making a few sarcastic remarks before the fight, he would never let trash talk distract him once the fight began. Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit, let alone an opponent as experienced as Lucifer.
Guan Tong thought to himself: Lucifer should be launching an attack soon. His high-speed flight is consuming a lot of mental energy and cannot be sustained for long.
The best strategy to fight against a high-burst, low-endurance opponent is a war of attrition—this is the conclusion Guan Tong reached after his last encounter with Lucifer.
In that battle, he launched continuous attacks, but the efficiency was mediocre, and he also wasted a lot of mental energy. This time, having learned his lesson, he adopted a defensive approach instead of an offensive one.
"Boring... Watch me destroy your shadow turtle shell!"
Seeing that Guan Tong wouldn't come out, Lucifer knew that dragging it out would be disadvantageous for him, so he took the initiative to attack.
He spun around, feathers constantly falling from his wings, creating a storm with the powerful swirling airflow.
"Storm Feather Blade!"
A new move?
Guan Tong had never seen Lucifer use this move before. All he saw was the horizontal "tornado" formed by feathers crashing against his shadow wall.
The outermost screen wall was pierced in an instant, followed by the second, third, and fourth...
Is it that these wings are much sharper than before, or that the energy transfer has been enhanced in the form of a tornado? It's probably both.
Guan Tong didn't create any more shadow walls to block the attack, as there wasn't enough time. He used his shadow to pull himself out of the tornado's attack range and activated his Shadow Domain at the same time.
As Lucifer watched as a large number of shadows rose from the ground, about to cover the entire area, a smug look appeared on his face: "Last time I suffered a loss because of your Shadow World. Did you think I wasn't prepared this time?"
He took out a prop, a white bead, and tossed it into the air. Instantly, countless dazzling lights burst forth from the bead!
……
The sudden burst of dazzling light from the farm could also be seen from the manor's attic.
Yelena frowned.
She knew Guan Tong had deliberately lured Lucifer away to fight, to avoid affecting their side. But this way, the others wouldn't know the situation of the battle and wouldn't be able to help him.
"Don't worry too much." Shi Jingyi saw Ye Lianka's worry and comforted her, "Guan Tong is not rigid. Even if he can't beat us, he won't stick to it just because of his pride. He will run away or come to us for help. With his abilities, if he wants to, Lu Xifa can't stop him."
Ye Lianka looked at Shi Jingyi with some surprise upon hearing this.
She had never seen the side of Guan Tong that the latter described.
This made her feel uneasy; clearly, Shi Jingyi knew Guan Tong much better than she did.
But now is not the time to think about such things. Valery has already led his special forces to the manor gate.
The gate had already been sealed off, and Valery ordered his men to break it open while simultaneously speaking into the building through a megaphone.
"I am Valery, Director of the Sisya Security Bureau. The Security Bureau has received an important report that international criminals have infiltrated the Konya Manor. To ensure the personal safety of the Governor, all personnel within the manor are requested to undergo security checks. Anyone who resists will be considered an accomplice of the criminals and will be executed without exception!"
Shang Yuanzi was puzzled when she heard the shout: "He's already led his men to attack directly, why is he still shouting these things?"
Yelena, standing to the side, said with an icy expression: "Valerian wants to kill everyone in the manor except me, treating them as 'accomplices'."
"So that's how it is..."
“The people in the manor have all gone into hiding.” Yelena said, as two ice swords materialized in her hands.
Her eyes turned cold and merciless, devoid of any pity: "I will personally eliminate these traitors."
Shi Jingyi and Shang Yuanzi exchanged a glance.
Shi Jingyi said, "So those at the door are the enemies. Leave it to me, fifteen minutes should be enough."
“Lecturer Jingyi, I want to go with you. As the ruler of this country, we cannot back down now.”
Seeing Ye Lianka's resolute attitude, Shi Jingyi and Shang Yuanzi said nothing more.
The three of them went down from the attic together. On their way to the gate, Shi Jingyi took out the [Passerby Transformation Device] and transformed into an ordinary-looking woman in her thirties.
As Guan Tong had said before, it was fine for her to help out of personal willingness, but given her position as an academy lecturer, it was somewhat inappropriate for her to appear here and get involved in the political turmoil within Sisia, so it was necessary to conceal it.
When the three arrived at the wide driveway in front of the manor gate, the gate had already been destroyed by the agents.
Valery led over a hundred agents in and saw Yelena not far away, with only two unremarkable women beside her. He was overjoyed and laughed.
"Hahaha! Your Excellency, it seems your famous friend is too busy to help you right now!"
"Valerian, you should be prepared to bear the consequences of treason."
Valery's expression stiffened, and his face slowly darkened. "Konya, I was willing to play along with your act for a few more days. But you, of all people, actually sent your shadow to tamper with my data. So I have no choice but to break off the mask. As for the death penalty... hey, I don't think I'll be the one dying now. But you, Your Excellency, are you ready to be a mascot?"
Yelena ignored Valery and looked past him to the hundred or so elite agents behind him.
“Valery is guilty of a capital offense. If you turn back now, I may spare you from prosecution for treason.”
The agents fell silent upon hearing this, while Valery's adjutant sneered, "Damn bitch, trying to turn someone to your side even when you're about to die? Do you really think your face has that much—"
Before he could finish speaking, he saw the woman in her thirties next to Yelena disappear and then reappear in front of him the next second.
"His language is foul; he needs no discipline."
"you--!"
Click click click!
Before the adjutant could react, Shi Jingyi kicked him hard in the chest. Accompanied by a series of cracking sounds, his body flew back twenty or thirty meters and crashed to the ground, his life hanging in the balance.
Valery and his agents were shocked. No one had seen how Shi Jingyi suddenly arrived, or how she could move so fast!
"Kill her! Kill her!"
At Valery's command, a hundred agents sprang into action. They were all professionally trained combatants and were themselves quite capable ascendants, yet they were like logs in front of Shi Jingyi, easily kicked and knocked down, unable to even touch the hem of her clothes.
The most outrageous thing was that a dozen agents standing in a row were all sent flying by Shi Jingyi's punch, spitting blood and collapsing to the ground!
The shockwave collapse... the first practical application of this mental martial art was indeed quite effective.
As Shi Jingyi was thinking, Shang Yuanzi and Ye Lianka also joined the battle.
Although Shi Jingyi's attacks were heavy, almost all of her victims were seriously injured, and none died immediately. Shang Yuanzi and Ye Lianka, on the other hand, were different; their attacks were meant to kill.
Especially Yelena's two sharp ice swords; wherever an agent is cut, the blade immediately detaches from their body. Even if they are lucky enough to miss, the cold air emanating from the sword will quickly freeze them into ice sculptures!
Not to mention Shang Yuanzi, her fighting style is even more bizarre. Agents who make eye contact with her either go insane or twist their bodies into snake-like monsters, scaring the other agents half to death.
Valery found it hard to accept that this special forces unit of over a hundred men was so quickly routed and on the verge of collapse by just three people.
He didn't know who the two women beside Yelena were or why they were so strong, but he knew he was no match for them!
"Damn it...you all just wait!"
Valery pulled out a teleportation item to escape, but before he could use it, Shi Jingyi, who was far away, stepped forward and used the mental martial art Repulsion Step, appearing in front of him in the blink of an eye.
Boom!
Shi Jingyi kicked Valery's right hand, which was holding the prop, and the prop flew out of his hand in pain. The next moment, Ye Lianka, who was holding an ice sword, was already close by.
"Wait, wait!" Valery raised his left hand to defend himself, begging for mercy. "Don't kill me, I'll implicate everyone else—"
puff! !
Ignoring Valery's words, Yelena thrust out her two swords, one through her chest and the other through her throat.
(End of this chapter)