Chapter 256 - Lord I (1/2)
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Within the dark, complicated tunnel, countless thorns were dancing in the air. They crisscrossed each other, stabbing and jabbing in an extremely complicated manner, creating holes in the metallic wall. Zero weaves through the dense vines of these dangerous thorns like a fairy, moving nimbly and evasively. He was more like a black mist, a mist that had been dispersed. No matter how dense the thorns were, they would not be able to catch his shadow.
Günabel's eyes were bloodshot. If they were not in an underground base but on the ground, he would have killed them long ago. How could he still be alive and kicking like this? In an environment like the underground base, even though Günabel could use Brambles' data to create 3D models in his mind, he was able to capture the movements of his opponents. However, there was still a slight difference between using the naked eye and using data modeling. After all, it was the same as using the intellectual brain. From the thorns on the vine to the brain, there was a delay in the transmission.
With Günabel's computational ability, this delay of at most a second was negligible. However, such a subtle time difference was enough for Zero to make a slight movement, causing Gunnabel's additional attack to either miss or miss.
As a result, the battle that should have ended early in the morning continued until now.
All of a sudden, the figure of zero in Günabel's 3D model stopped. He dodged one of the thorny vines that had passed over his head and crouched on the ground, facing Gunabel. Gounabel was glad that, in his opinion, he had used up almost all of his energy. This was a good opportunity to kill him.
Gunnar was laughing, and so was Zero. He no longer ran, because there was no longer any need. He had led Gunnar to a straight passage about five hundred meters long. There were no more obstacles, and Gunnar's head was exposed to the air.
Although other parts of his body could be transformed into thorny vines, from beginning to end, his head had maintained the appearance of a human. Plants were not living beings, after all, and they did not have a centre of intelligence for data manipulation. Although Gunnar could transform into a plant, he was not a real plant. He wanted to kill the enemy and think. Therefore, he needed to keep his head.
And Gunnar's head was his weakness! His body could transform into a plant anywhere, and the only thing that he could not transform into a plant was his head.
In the incubator, when Gunabel's head was exposed to Zero's muzzle, he felt a genuine fear. And now, Zero was going to turn his fear into reality.
In his right eye, the silver lines that were scattered around his pupils suddenly converged at the center. They converged into a single point, then suddenly expanded and formed a beast-like vertical pupil. When the right eye changed, the temperature of the body rose sharply. This was a sign that the biological energy was rising exponentially. If there was a thermometer, the temperature emitted by the body hidden under the tactical uniform would probably be enough to blow up any thermometer.
Exhale zero, and a thick, grayish-white steam is ejected from Zero's mouth.
At this moment, a few vines came slicing towards them.
He took another deep breath and a long golden flame shot out from his right eye. At that moment, he disappeared. Not only had he disappeared on the spot, but he had also disappeared into Günabel's three-dimensional model.
That was the result of the first time a zero was faster than the data transmission speed of the Gounabel Bramble!
After activating the [Rampage] skill, the basic stats increased. His agility had originally only reached the fifth step, but now it had reached the seventh step. The agility of a rank 7 Magus was not something that Günabel could keep up with. He no longer relied on his stats, but based on his intuition, the hundreds of vines around him were crisscrossing about, continuously weaving an inescapable net that was sufficient to cover the entire cross-section of the passageway.
At the same time, Gunnar knew that the battle was finally coming to an end. After this blow, the victor would be decided!
For some unknown reason, less than a second after the zero disappeared, his figure appeared in Günabel's consciousness once more. But strangely, in the blink of an eye, another figure appeared. Two figures, one on the left and one on the right, were still running at a very fast speed along the wall, trying to get around Gunnar's net and attack his main body.
Günabel revealed a cruel smile. Since his opponent had already materialized, there was no need for him to passively defend. The rattan net that was in the process of weaving suddenly dispersed, but it split into two sides. Each side had over a hundred thorny vines, which were like vicious beasts as they pierced towards the two figures. However, this movement seemed to be an attack at the same time. In fact, the speed was different.
Using the different speeds of the left and the right, Gunnar wanted to be able to tell which was the real zero.
In his 3D model, the vine on the right quickly hit zero. The hundreds of vines were like a speeding train. Not only did they hit zero, but they also crashed into the wall, breaking countless cables. In the model, the figure that was' Zero 'flashed and disappeared.
The real zero was on the left!
”Got you!”
Therefore, the vine on his left suddenly accelerated and bloomed from all directions like a man-eating flower. It enveloped the space within ten meters around him and nailed itself firmly into the wall. From the 3D model, he could see that Zero had been stabbed and its body was hanging on the wall.
Gunnar finally couldn't help but laugh, but the laughter stopped abruptly.
”I don't know what you're happy about.”
A 'zero' sound suddenly came from the back of his head, and Günabel suddenly felt a burning sensation on the back of his head. It was as if a sea of flames had appeared behind him.
He suddenly turned to look at the left wall and saw that the figure that was nailed to the wall was disappearing.
That figure was also fake!
This was Gounabel's last consciousness.
A ball of bright light lit up in the pitch-black passageway. A jade-green light brought along waves of air as it traveled across the passageway at a speed of two thousand meters. In the middle of this dark green light was a blazing white flame, and when it came in contact with the corner of the wall, it turned. The metal wall silently opened up a gap that was the same size as the ball of light, and the cables inside also silently melted.
When the barrier was broken, the green light had already disappeared, and the white flame inside had suddenly blossomed.
The entire base suddenly shook, and white flames burst out. The light carried with it an aura of destruction, causing crystallization of everything it touched. This was the result of the internal molecular structure being destroyed in a flash. The flames came and went quickly. They expanded the range to a hundred meters with the center of the explosion as their starting point before shrinking back and disappearing.
Zero looked at the gun muzzle that was still warm from the heat. He was quite satisfied with the weapon that Eva had gifted him. The invaders were as powerful as the tank's artillery bombardment, and more penetrating. It was just that the firing range was not as far as the artillery, and the killing range was relatively narrow, but its power was enough to make up for these shortcomings.
Günabel's entire head had disappeared, and the close-ranged blow at the back of his head had turned it to powder. The light from the invader's shell, the outer layer of the emerald light, was corrosive. Dissolving Gunnabel's head had only used up less than half of the corrosive light, and the white flame on the inner layer hadn't even been ignited yet, so Parkland's killer had died in Zero's hands.
As soon as Gunnar died, a green flame ignited each vine. Immediately, the hundreds of vines glowed with the same amount of fluorescent light. A faint green flame swept across the vines, burning them to ashes. For a moment, the burning vines made them seem like rivers streaking across the universe, beautiful beyond compare.
In this beautiful scene of death, Zero slumped to the ground.
In that short but intense battle, Zero had used Rampage and entered the calculation of the bullet's time limit. In order to attract Günabel's attention, Zero used the Phantom Shadow skill that came from Agility of the fifth step. And this time, he succeeded in creating another phantom. It was the double blunder that had fooled Gunabel, and Zero had come up behind him and taken the killing blow.