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Chapter 58 Skirmish
In his final moments, Fang Senyan sent a message to Shadow:
"Have you ever seen a pond completely isolated from the outside world? Initially, it might teem with fish and shrimp, seemingly full of life, but stagnant water is dead water. The fish will die, the shrimp will rot, and eventually, it will become a foul-smelling swamp, ultimately drying up. Only the ceaseless flow, the surging tides, even the great rivers that gather hundreds of streams, can be truly vibrant, overflowing with even more formidable life! Goodbye!"
Upon hearing Fang Senyan's words, a bright light flashed in Shadow's deep eyes, though it vanished in an instant. However, Fang Senyan's words cut through his mind like a blade, deeply engraving the mark of his existence!
Fang Senyan had no idea that this unintentional remark would ignite a dramatic upheaval here centuries later. Shadow, who had by then gained the power to control the deified artifact, recognizing that this place was indeed on the verge of becoming a putrid swamp, boldly splintered and reintegrated into the main group. Of course, the resulting bloodshed need not be mentioned, as it's a story for another time.
With the charging complete, Shadow, preoccupied, was about to press the activation button. Facing the grim reality back on the surface, Fang Senyan immediately asked another question:
"Right, before I lost consciousness, I was fighting a special Zerg creature. If I'm not mistaken, it should be a special life form created by the Zerg Queen, Kerrigan, extremely powerful. Where is it now?"
Shadow coldly replied:
"You were able to survive because the deified artifact could recognize the Protoss imprint on your body, so it automatically shielded and protected you. If that creature you mentioned had no recognizable imprint, then its chances of turning to dust are no less than 95%."
"What about the remaining 5%?" For Fang Senyan, this question was a matter of life and death. He needed to be clear on it. Otherwise, if he teleported out and that thing was waiting nearby for an ambush, it would be utterly fatal.
Fortunately, Shadow's answer put Fang Senyan at ease:
"The remaining 5% is becoming food for the deified artifact. The deified artifact is also a living being, and it's very interested in any powerful life form."
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It must be admitted that the Protoss teleportation technology is truly unparalleled. Fang Senyan didn't feel much of anything this time and was directly teleported out. He only felt a slight dizziness in his mind, which was quite normal.
You have to know that the instant large-scale teleportation initiated by the Protoss Arbiters is even more terrifying, capable of moving several legions to locations light-years away and immediately deploying them into battle. What Fang Senyan experienced at this time could only be described as outdated technology.
It was broad daylight outside. The sky, ravaged by the storm unleashed by the deified artifact, had a boundless feel. The dense dark clouds seemed to have vanished, so the feeling in people's eyes was an unusually high and clear sky.
So much so that Fang Senyan was slightly squinting his eyes, stung by the somewhat intense light outside. Beneath his feet, and in the distance, the iron-blue earth had turned a deep green. The mosses that had been dormant also sensed the arrival of rare good weather and began to absorb light, striving to extend their roots into the barren soil, absorbing nutrients, and flowering, dividing, and reproducing in a short time.
At this moment, Ronnie groaned in pain. Fang Senyan immediately noticed that the pustules on his body were once again deteriorating rapidly. The surviving parasites were beginning to wriggle under his skin, as if awakening from hibernation. Once they burrowed into his internal organs, the only recourse would be to immediately return to the Nightmare Space, as there would be no cure.
However, Ronnie was infected with so many parasites that even if Fang Senyan immediately took action to remove them, just clearing the parasites from his torso would take at least twenty minutes. In that time, the parasites on his limbs could directly swim into his heart through the blood vessels...
Just then, Fang Senyan's brows twitched imperceptibly, but he continued to pick at the sores on Ronnie's body without a word.
Just two seconds later, a figure suddenly emerged from behind Fang Senyan, wielding a wrench that radiated a silver light. He swung this thing fiercely at the back of Fang Senyan's head. Although the wrench came at a violent speed, there was no sound of wind.
The ability this guy was using was a common one among assassins: the sap.
And after the sap ability is learned by different assassins, it often mutates into various effects. However, this assassin's sap requires him to hit the back of the enemy's head, which will immediately put the enemy into a fifteen-second stun, unable to attack, move, cast spells, or use items, but this state will be removed upon taking damage. And after breaking free from this sap state, the target will immediately suffer additional damage, with a damage value = duration of the sap x caster's agility.
However, just as the other party attacked, Fang Senyan seemed to accidentally turn his head... as a result, this sap hit him squarely on the shoulder! So this skill actually failed to be released, and other than knocking off a few dozen points of Fang Senyan's health, it was almost a complete failure!!
The other party failed with one blow, but instead of immediately fleeing after a missed attack like ordinary assassins, he pulled out another unconventional weapon from his waist: a mace, forming an unconventional weapon combination of mace + large wrench, and pounced on Fang Senyan with fierce intent.
Fang Senyan dodged sideways, his face
looking very unpleasant as he said:
"You've been guarding Ronnie here all along?"
Only then did Fang Senyan clearly see the assassin in front of him. He was short and stocky, with a fierce glint in his triangular eyes, like an alligator rapidly crawling in the mud, strong, sturdy, and ferocious. Hearing Fang Senyan's question, he immediately sneered:
"Of course, we want to see him alive or dead. Hmph, I didn't expect that I, Dongs, would get this great credit."
Fang Senyan angrily said:
"I won't let anyone touch a hair on Ronnie's head."
"Hahahaha!" Dongs laughed wildly: "Everyone we have is within ten kilometers of this place, kid. Everyone will be swarming over within five minutes! Let me tell you, although killing you can also get me benefits, but... Achoo!! The reward I get for killing Ronnie alone will be greater, so... cough cough... if you get lost right now and don't get in the way, then I can spare you, spare you... Achoo... one life."
"Oh." Fang Senyan suddenly realized and said, "I understand what you mean, which is to say, if I kill you in ten seconds, I can free up four and a half minutes to heal Ronnie, and then twenty seconds to run away will be enough."
"You... you... Cough cough, kill me in ten seconds, don't make me laugh my head off, Achoo! Huh?"
At this time, Fang Senyan had suddenly activated Horn's Wrath! He rushed to Dongs's face in an instant, but just as Fang Senyan was about to connect with the next attack, Dongs's chest flashed strangely, and his whole body leaped instantly, as if he had been knocked away, instantly widening the distance between himself and Fang Senyan.
Even more strangely, the moss and whatnot under Fang Senyan's feet also grew wildly, tightly entangling Fang Senyan's feet, drastically reducing his movement speed by 40%! After landing, Dongs suddenly clenched his pair of strange weapons, and a scarlet light suddenly emitted from the weapons, then suddenly surged and churned, bursting into flames!
Weapon Enchantment: Flames!
Then Dongs took a step and strangely disappeared into the air, but his ability to refract light for invisibility was really difficult to use for a sneak attack against Fang Senyan, whose perception was extremely high.
Suddenly, a giant spiral fireball flew from Fang Senyan's side. Fang Senyan couldn't avoid it and could only block it head-on!
He took this move head-on, and his whole body was blasted into the air, wrapped in flames, and slammed seven or eight meters away! In mid-air, Dongs slowly appeared, his two flaming weapons slamming fiercely toward Fang Senyan's head.
This was Dongs's other ability, which could install the same invisible magic device. The giant fireball was attached by the magic device, and he had already calculated the trajectory, waiting like a hungry wolf for Fang Senyan to be knocked over and delivered to his door!
Up to now, everything has been unfolding according to Dongs's script.
However, just as he was about to attack Fang Senyan, he suddenly coughed violently!
The attacking weapon suddenly stagnated. Fang Senyan seized this opportunity, but without dodging, the two enchanted weapons struck his head, exploding directly and scattering into flames all over the sky! But at this time, Fang Senyan rushed out like a demon god, as if nothing had happened, and punched him in the jaw!
Uppercut!
Dongs was completely unable to compete with Fang Senyan in terms of strength, and was immediately sent floating into the air. Fang Senyan threw out three punches in a row. Each punch seemed light and casual, but his feet stepped on the rocks, causing gravel to fly and leaving deep footprints, one for each step, with amazing momentum! When the last punch was thrown out and Dongs was about to land, he stretched out his hands again, grabbed Dongs's feet, and used a tactical throw to hurl him into the sky.
Then, Fang Senyan lowered his head, unable to see any expression on his face. Only the right hand, raised high, had a set of clearly defined knuckles that were rapidly changing like melting candles, and then... the demon sword Apophis quickly took shape!!!