【Path of the Sovereign】 VS 【Mockery Calamity】
Thump thump thump——
The sound of spotlights transmitted from overhead. On the bright 【Stage】, a figure draped in red slowly opened his eyes.
Awakening after dying this time, Chen Ling no longer had the panic he felt the previous few times. He calmly looked at the audience seats, which were missing a section, his gaze falling on the screen in front of the 【Stage】.
"The 【Expectation Value】 remains at 15%... Very good."
Everything was exactly as Chen Ling had planned.
He turned his head, his gaze looking towards the great crimson curtain. Through the gaps in the curtain, he could see the scene of the 【Performance】.
In the sky between the mountain ranges, a 【Red Paper】 monster hung in the clouds like a red sun. Its long, thin paper slips were like tentacles, casually stretching and extending. The bizarre, scarlet 【Aura】 dyed half the sky red!
As the paper slips surrounding the 【Red Paper】 monster's body rapidly contracted towards its center, the next moment, they shot violently towards the earth like a rain of blood. The red paper slips, capable of piercing through anything, punctured countless dense holes into the mountains and forests, and a wave of red began to spread across the earth!
This undoubtedly played right into Chen Ling's hands. As he watched 【Ying Fu】's figure shuttle and dodge through the dense red rain, leaving afterimages on the devastated earth, a faint, bantering smile curled the corners of Chen Ling's mouth.
"So this is the joy of being '【The Audience】'..."
The original performer became the audience, and the original audience began to perform... The 【The Role】s of 【On Stage】 and 【Off Stage】 reversed following Chen Ling's plan. At this moment, he felt as if he had already taken a seat in the audience, becoming a member of the countless spectators seeking entertainment.
Boom——!!
Following a heavy, muffled explosion, tens of thousands of red paper slips that had pierced into the earth suddenly changed direction. Like red snakes roaming across the shattered ground, they swirled like a vortex towards 【Ying Fu】 in the very center, completely sealing off all his avenues of retreat!
Dense purple qi tumbled within 【Ying Fu】's pupils. His slightly upturned phoenix eyes narrowed, and an emperor's majesty unconsciously overflowed... The 【Imperial Palace】 hall behind him grew increasingly solid. A vast and mighty imperial aura suppressed the emptiness around him like a mountain, forcefully tearing open a vacuum region amidst the scarlet vortex.
"Just a beast, and you dare to offend the emperor's majesty?" 【Ying Fu】 raised his hand and pressed it in the air above the earth. Fine electric arcs roamed around his body, and the shattered earth began to tremble violently!
"【Reshaping】."
As these two words were spoken, the atomic structure of the soil was broken and reorganized. The roaming electric arcs became increasingly brilliant. At the same time, divine weapons flashing with golden luster began to separate from the shattered earth...
Sabers, spears, swords, halberds, axes, battleaxes, hooks, and forks. A dazzling array of cold weapons that made Chen Ling's eyes swim rose amidst the coiling electric arcs, hanging by 【Ying Fu】's side like piercingly bright golden stars.
Immediately after, 【Ying Fu】 raised his hand and pointed into the air at the 【Red Paper】 monster in the sky.
"【Sky Wolf】."
A massive wolf's eye opened in the emptiness, locking onto the irritable 【Red Paper】 monster in midair. A mysterious power began to weaken its defense and reaction speed. Even with the naked eye, one could see that the 【Red Paper】 monster's state was suppressed, its movements becoming incomparably sluggish.
The next moment, the golden divine weapons surrounding 【Ying Fu】 shot out simultaneously. Golden long arcs swept from the ground towards the sky, carrying ear-piercing sonic booms that rang through the heavens!
Boom boom boom——!!!
Successive explosions echoed from the sky. Intense firelight tore the sky-filling scarlet red to shreds. Amidst the deafening detonations, more than half of the 【Red Paper】 monster's body was blown apart, the burning fragments of 【Red Paper】 slowly floating down to the earth like a rain of fire...
Seeing this scene, Chen Ling's eyes narrowed slightly from within the 【The Theater】.
"At the same tier, he actually managed to suppress '【Mockery】'? Is this the strength of the 【Path of the Sovereign】..."
Looking from a third-party audience's perspective, Chen Ling could truly experience 【Ying Fu】's power. On one hand, he possessed 【Reshaping】, which allowed him to create divine weapons at any time. On the other hand, he possessed 【Sky Wolf】, which was best at hunting. The combination of the two allowed 【Ying Fu】's combat power to skyrocket by more than just a single fold.
This guy right now was completely a humanoid missile silo, and one with infinite ammunition, infinite range, absolute accuracy, and even the ability to reduce the enemy's resistance from afar!
However, winning against the "【Mockery】" 【Calamity】... wasn't going to be that easy.
【【Audience Expectation Value】 -1】
【Current 【Expectation Value】: 14%】
The instant this line of text floated up, the shattered red sky began to tumble once more!
The 【Red Paper】 monster, riddled with holes from the round of explosive attacks, swelled and regenerated at an astonishing speed. Countless red paper slips intertwined together, like a writhing red cloud spreading in all directions.
Atop that tumbling red cloud, a massive red sun stared fixedly at 【Ying Fu】 like an eyeball. Even though it had no expression, one could still feel an unprecedented sense of fury and oppression.
【Ying Fu】's brows gradually furrowed.
Although that 【Calamity】 was still at the 【Fifth-Tier】, he could feel that the opponent's current 【Aura】 had skyrocketed several times over compared to before. It was even just a hair's breadth away from the 【Sixth Stage】...
Even so, 【Ying Fu】 still didn't retreat. As electric arcs spread around him, another dozen divine weapons floated up from the earth, rapidly sweeping towards the sky under the guidance of 【Sky Wolf】!
The golden long arcs tore through the vast sky like the tail flames of missiles, crashing into the tumbling red cloud. However, this time, they failed to pierce through its body as intended.
Within the red cloud, countless red paper slips tumbled like tidal waves. They wrapped around the divine weapons and actively collapsed inward, easily dissipating the kinetic energy attached to them. Subsequently, the red paper slips coiled around them like tentacles, sealing all the divine weapons within.
A moment later, these paper slips uncurled and released. The divine weapons that were originally wrapped inside had completely vanished. In their place were flat pieces of paper with the divine weapons printed on them... It was as if the three-dimensional divine weapons had been forcefully compressed into two dimensions and sealed within this red cloud.
Seeing this scene, 【Ying Fu】's pupils contracted slightly...
Before he could make a move, the red cloud tumbled once again. The two-dimensional divine weapons were re-elevated to three dimensions and shot back at 【Ying Fu】 from the red cloud like raindrops. Accompanied by bursts of ear-piercing sonic booms, violent explosions engulfed 【Ying Fu】!
When the 【Audience Expectation Value】 dropped from -1 to 14%, the scales of victory tilted once more. 【Ying Fu】, who originally held the advantage, was once again suppressed into a disadvantage...
Chen Ling, who was watching the battle from within the 【The Theater】, could even feel the sinister smiles of the "【The Audience】" beside him growing increasingly brilliant.
They were thoroughly enjoying the show?
Chen Ling's gaze continued to fall on the curtain, only to see a figure rapidly fly out from the surging firelight. However, this time, he didn't launch another attack at the red cloud. Instead, he wisely began to sprint away from the red cloud's range of influence!