Frosty light erupted, silver shadows danced.

The chilling sword's edge painted lotus blossoms of blood.

In a flash, Kuai Duo's sword had hacked Uncle Useless's upper body into pieces, a mangled mess.

Bang—

Just as Kuai Duo thought he had succeeded, the Mafu-ba's (Evil Containment Wave) energy beam looped back and struck him in the back.

"What's going on... the user is dead, yet the technique is still in effect?" Fighting to this point, Kuai Duo finally revealed a hint of surprise.

In his original estimation, as long as he could kill Uncle Useless before the Mafu-ba caught up, the skill would disappear. But unexpectedly... even though his opponent was dead and his corpse incomplete, the Mafu-ba was still working.

"Heh... you startled me there..." Uncle Useless's figure reappeared, but his position had shifted. His original body gradually disappeared, and a new body... solidified beneath his sunglasses.

"Such a thing could happen!" Kuai Duo exclaimed, his eyes wide with shock. Clearly, he was unaware of Uncle Useless's most crucial characteristic—the sunglasses were his true form.

As a Tier 1 Derivative, Kuai Duo could have known this in advance. However... completely opposite to D1-Long, J1-Kuai Duo was precisely the kind of Derivative who never looked at the tactical analysis interface.

If Long was a master of innate skill, then Kuai Duo was a master who had climbed to Tier 1 through sheer grit and experience earned on the edge of a blade. When he was still J4-Kuai Duo, he was accustomed to accumulating experience and finding opportunities for victory through combat itself. The "Tactical Control Options" were just a useless column that always displayed ??? to him.

Even after Kuai Duo advanced to Tier 1, he didn't correct this habit. Because from a Derivative's perspective, one could generally gauge the opponent's data strength. Therefore... when facing relatively weak targets, Kuai Duo usually didn't bother with tactical analysis. In his combat experience... the opponent would likely be dead before the tactical control options finished their analysis.

"Heh... done!" Uncle Useless's body reappeared, still in the posture he had assumed when using the Mafu-ba. Kuai Duo, bound by the energy sphere, was completely unable to move.

Uncle Useless clenched his open hands into fists, made a "throwing" motion toward the rice cooker on the ground, and shouted, "Go into the rice cooker!"

With his roar, Kuai Duo's body moved along the light track of the Mafu-ba... and was about to travel along the green energy beam into the rice cooker.

Just when everyone thought that Uncle Useless was about to save the world...

Suddenly!

"Are you kidding me?" A woman's voice came.

In the next second, a thunderclap erupted from the ground.

A white beam of light, roughly three meters thick, shot up from the ground, swallowing the rice cooker and most of the Mafu-ba's energy beam, obliterating them completely...

Uncle Useless was standing right on the edge of the light beam and narrowly escaped, but he clearly felt that his control over the Mafu-ba had been severed.

J1-Kuai Duo broke free from the energy, quickly flipped twice in the air, landed lightly, and wiped away a cold sweat. "Phew... thanks, Lute."

"Long is dead." Lute's figure barely appeared at the end of the street, but her voice clearly reached everyone's ears. "And he was killed by a player." She paused. "If even you are taken care of by them... even I would find you laughable."

"Careful... this guy is their leader!" Uncle Useless shouted quickly. He was lucky. After the Mafu-ba was interrupted, the skill was considered forcibly terminated, so it didn't consume any energy.

"Let me see..." Lute casually looked around at the players. "Hmm... those who obviously don't meet the requirements should be eliminated first..." As she spoke, she raised her hand and pointed to [Qu Ming Zhen Shi Nan] (Naming Is Really Hard) and [Zhen Nan Qu Ming Zi] (Really Hard To Name). "Kuai Duo."

"Yes." Kuai Duo responded immediately.

Before the words were finished, he had already moved.

Kuai Duo burst out with even greater speed than before, his twin swords moving in unison, aimed directly at the targets.

Old Qu and Brother Zhen, standing at a high place, suddenly had the feeling of being shot while lying down. To be fair, from the beginning of the battle to the present, these two weren't unwilling to help, but they were truly powerless. Old Qu, who specialized in healing and auxiliary fighting, couldn't find an opportunity to heal anyone. And Brother Zhen, who specialized in fighting and auxiliary spirit arts, was slower than sliced fish in terms of extreme speed. Even if he jumped out, he would be instantly killed.

Right now, J1-Kuai Duo, who had almost capsized in the gutter, was filled with burning anger. This round of attacks could be described as soaring with arrogance and radiating madness.

The two's fates were basically sealed...

Of course, they wouldn't just sit there and wait for death.

Brother Zhen raised his arm and extended his palm, his hands forming layers of afterimages, full of power and majesty. For a time, palm shadows rained down, filling the sky.

Unexpectedly, Kuai Duo's sword was even faster and more rapid than this!

His twin swords were more nimble than his hands, changing in thousands of ways with each move, their sharp shadows dazzling. His figure didn't pause for a moment, and he shattered Brother Zhen's palm screen completely, leaving nothing behind...

The nimble short swords unleashed power that resembled a mountain collapsing and thunder shaking. The buildings under the feet of the two players were torn to pieces by the surging sword energy, let alone flesh and blood bodies.

In the blink of an eye, the storm of blades swept past, and within the collapsing building, the two from Ice Emperor had already been torn to shreds.

Bang—

The gun fired again, but it seemed to have come too late.

Actually... even if it had come a little earlier, it wouldn't have made any difference.

Kuai Duo, who was in mid-air, didn't dodge the bullet, because he knew that this strike couldn't possibly hit him.

"That one over there..." Lute spoke as the gunshot sounded, "...also doesn't meet the requirements..." When she finished speaking, she slowly spread out her palm, and in her palm, there was an extra bullet.

No one saw how the bullet got into her hand. Perhaps she intercepted the sniper in the air with a speed far exceeding the bullet's; or perhaps she used a spatial ability similar to telekinesis...

Soon, this answer became unimportant. Compared to what Lute did next, this was truly insignificant.

"Judging from the sound... it's in that direction..." Lute turned her head and looked towards the location of [Ming Zi Zhen Nan Qu] (Name Really Hard To Get) with an expressionless gaze. "The distance is difficult to determine..." As she spoke, a white energy ball began to condense on her fingertip.

"Then... let's make it a one-kilometer radius." Her tone was like making a trivial choice. "That should make him disappear."

The white energy ball, in a second, changed from the size of a basketball to the size of a water tank.

Lute moved her finger, and the energy ball flew out with a whoosh.

About three seconds later, a violent burst of light energy erupted in the distant sky, engulfing that entire area of land. Although its power was still not comparable to Dragon Break, it was more than enough to kill the players within this range...