The Viper fell silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Do you know what you're saying?"

"The Ephemeral embraced you when you were at your most difficult and confused, giving you a new life goal and a reason to live. And this is how you repay us?"

"At the last moment, personally destroying our magnificent dream that has been passed down for hundreds of years?"

He shook his head, looking at Li Ang coldly, "Since you refuse to cooperate, then I can only take some extreme measures."

Before the word "measures" could be uttered, the Viper violently shook his sleeves, blasting both fists towards Li Ang in front of him.

The reasons he wasted so much time talking to the other party were firstly, to try to salvage this member of the organization and see if he could persuade him to join his faction—

Within the Ephemeral, only a small number of people truly believe in the Great Harmony blueprint.

Every member needs to be won over.

Secondly, it was to build up strength to prevent the negotiations from breaking down and the two sides turning against each other.

Therefore, after Li Ang clearly expressed his protest, the Viper brazenly launched another sneak attack, smashing both fists towards Li Ang's chest.

Only by launching a strong surprise attack in the extremely short time before the opponent could react was it possible to achieve a one-hit kill and eliminate future troubles forever.

This attack was as fast as lightning and as powerful as a mountain.

The fists, like battering rams, easily pierced through Li Ang's body.

The latter's eyes widened, revealing a somewhat bewildered and incredulous look of astonishment.

However, the Viper's heart sank suddenly—his fist did not come into contact with anything substantial, as if it had pierced through a pile of slightly heavier air.

What he hit was just an afterimage.

In an instant, the Viper's thoughts flashed. Just as he was about to retract his fist, he felt a sharp stinging pain on the skin of his hand.

The afterimage still had the bewildered expression on its face, and electric currents were constantly erupting from all over its body, rapidly collapsing inward from the center where its chest was pierced.

It also created an invisible suction force, firmly "sticking" to the Viper's fist, preventing him from retracting his fist and retreating.

This electrified afterimage that could create suction was naturally Li Ang's doing.

Skill Scroll Name: Electrical Afterimage

Attribute: Consumable, disappears after two uses

Type: Psionic

Level: Perfect

Effect: Afterimage. Within 0 seconds of activating the skill, if attacked by an enemy, creates an afterimage of itself in place, and allows the skill user to enter a state of invisibility for 5 seconds. Attacking or being attacked will interrupt the invisibility. After being attacked, the afterimage will release an electronic vortex, creating suction to drag the enemy to the location of the vortex for seconds.

Consumption: 400 Stamina, 400 Psionic Energy, 00 Sanity

Cooldown Time: 0 minutes

Usage Condition: Intelligence attribute greater than or equal to points, Sanity value greater than or equal to 400 points

Note: You'll never hit the storm's face.

This skill scroll was a trophy Li Ang seized from the Wraith Demon's backpack after killing him.

The skill combined stealth, creation of a false body, and control effects into one, making it an all-purpose skill. If there was a drawback, it was the exaggerated consumption and the overly harsh usage conditions.

It not only required an Intelligence attribute greater than points, but also a total Sanity value exceeding 400.

Unlike other attributes, the channels for increasing Sanity were relatively limited and the rate of increase was slow. High-level players were fine, but low-level players could only accumulate Sanity slowly by stacking Intelligence and Perception attributes.

Presumably, the Wraith Demon had not used this Electrical Afterimage scroll before because the skill's usage conditions were too harsh.

Zzzzzz—

Serpentine currents tightly wrapped around the Viper's fist. Although it didn't cause any damage to his arms, there was a strong vortex magnetic force that firmly adsorbed his arms to the afterimage's chest.

The Viper remained expressionless, his black robe fluttering violently. He violently shook his arms, shattering the vortex afterimage directly.

At the same time, he used his equipment to summon three crescent-shaped black arcs out of thin air, each hovering above his head and the heads of his two companions.

The arcs were long and flat, resembling a mocking smile when viewed from above.

Buzz—

The three black arcs vibrated at high speed, like the big mouth in the old electronic game Pac-Man, swallowing the three Ephemeral members whole with lightning speed, forming three black spheres standing on the ground.

The Viper was very clear that the other party had used some kind of substitute and invisibility skill.

If he were the opponent, he would definitely take advantage of the duration of the invisibility to find an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

The black arc he summoned had excellent energy defense and refraction properties. Even the shells of main battle tanks could withstand two to three rounds, making it an essential defensive weapon when going out.

'As long as you are within the protection range of the arc light, you can ignore most attacks from the outside.'

The Viper's mind raced. He put his hands together, and his blood-colored pupils suddenly shrank, connecting his spirit to all the black arc spheres.

He caused the "equator" of the three spheres to rapidly and uniformly grow countless fine threads, connecting to each other to form a dense network.

After filling the surrounding open space, this black net did not stop. Instead, even more tiny and dense black thorns continued to grow on the surface of the threads.

This covered the space in a thicket of thorns up to three meters high.

There was simply no foothold. Even if there was an enemy, they would probably have been pricked into a sprinkler by the ubiquitous thorns.

As an excellent Wan Jia Xiong Meng player, the Viper always adhered to the principle of "fire first, observe later."

Even though the level gap between the Sacrificial Wine and him was vast, and he knew most of the Sacrificial Wine's skills and equipment like the back of his hand, he still had to go all out at the first moment.

'No trace found,'

The Viper looked around the outside from inside the black sphere with a gloomy face.

Because he was the user of the equipment, he could clearly see that his two companions not far away were still maintaining the progress of the ritual and had not been interfered with.

'Where, exactly, is he?'

Suddenly, the sound of rushing wind rang out behind him.

The Viper's spine went cold as if struck by lightning. Just as he was about to turn around to avoid it,

a broken bone spear blade pierced into the back of his head and out of his eye socket, replacing the position of the bloodshot eyeball.

Excruciating pain pierced his soul.

The bone spear blade rotated violently, and the sharp edges scraped against the Viper's sphenoid bone, splashing countless bright red blood.

"Looking for me?"

Li Ang's cold voice sounded behind the Viper.

Still disguised as the Sacrificial Wine, he held the trilateral bone-tipped spear in one hand, piercing through the Viper's skull, and held the Barrett against the Viper's chest in the other.

"Bang, bang, bang."

The muffled gunfire echoed in the narrow sphere, and the heavy bullets tore the Viper's head and chest into pieces.

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