San Tian Liang Jue
Chapter 276 Cloak Scramble (12)
In the underground parking lot, the battle between Wu Si Can Xuan and Shiva had reached its climax.
The area where they were situated was shrouded in a hazy, colorful mist, and the ground beneath their feet was littered with empty paint spray cans.
"You've already consumed ten large doses of supplements. Based on the principle of diminishing returns... blood vials should be almost ineffective for you by now," Shiva said, his expression calm and his tone confident.
"Heh... 'almost'?" Wu Si Can Xuan's face wore a bitter smile. "Do you not know the specific data regarding the degree of diminishing returns after the cumulative use of three types of survival value supplements?"
"You know, so what?" Shiva retorted. "You people from Order always do pointless things. Can those insignificant data differences change anything? Can they make you win against me?"
"Heh... every time I fight you, your attitude really pisses me off..." Wu Si Can Xuan said. "To be able to be this strong without considering anything... that's what you call a fighting genius, right?"
Shiva replied, "I don't know or care whether I'm a genius. What I care about now is... you're at a disadvantage, choosing to only defend and not attack, dragging the battle into a war of attrition. You must have some strategy in mind..." He glanced around. "Is it these floating paints..."
"Ha! How enviable," Wu Si Can Xuan said. "To be able to make the right judgment based on intuition alone, but... to see through my strategy and yet disregard it, isn't that a bit too arrogant!"
Before his voice faded, Wu Si Can Xuan raised his hand and struck, a gust of wind rushing out, carrying a cloud of colorful mist in the air, and blasting towards Shiva.
Shiva's expression changed slightly. His combat instincts told him that he absolutely could not meet this head-on. He immediately stepped aside, barely dodging it.
The multicolored palm print was like a caged beast unleashed, its momentum fierce and evil. After brushing past Shiva, it continued flying, eventually crashing into a hapless SUV in the distance. The car instantly underwent a bizarre transformation, the entire vehicle, inside and out, being painted in different colors. Two seconds later, it exploded like fireworks, scattering in all directions.
This was no ordinary explosion, but a skill effect. After the SUV shattered, it turned into millions of small blocks of different colors. Upon closer inspection, one could even discover that the shapes of these blocks were all geometric figures from "Tetris."
"I see... when the concentration of the misty paint in the air reaches a certain level, your attack can be imbued with this amazing attribute," Shiva said, looking at the blocks scattered on the ground, his tone calm. "But... if I leave this area, wouldn't you have wasted all your efforts?"
"You can try..." As Wu Si Can Xuan said this, the outermost layer of floating paint in the area began to solidify. Soon, a circle of multicolored walls surrounded the two, even the cement above their heads and beneath their feet turned into tangrams.
"No wonder you were willing to use that cowardly fighting style, enduring it by consuming a large number of blood vials, instead of expanding the battlefield," Shiva commented. "I don't know if this is a skill, equipment, or a combination of the two... but it's indeed very powerful. Given enough time to prepare, this is almost an unassailable killing move."
"It's a little late to praise me now. Blame yourself for being too arrogant!" Wu Si Can Xuan jumped up and swung his leg horizontally, a gust of wind instantly shooting out. This attack was like a giant wave rolling in, leaving the opponent with nowhere to hide.
With a soft sigh, the stone discs floating behind Shiva burst out with a strong light. The eight differently shaped stone discs instantly converged into one, forming a large hourglass.
"I didn't expect to be forced to use this move..." Shiva murmured.
Instantly, a fierce force exploded with the hourglass as its core, the surrounding colored mist instantly dissipating, and the block walls crumbling. Even Wu Si Can Xuan's already launched attack vanished into nothingness.
This was one of the special effects of Shiva's spiritual energy weapon [Tian Wu Sandglass]: [Purified Land], which could clear all enemy skills and equipment effects (including passives) within range, lasting for one minute. After use, the Earth Stone Disc would shatter and could only be restored after returning to the login space.
[Tian Wu Sandglass] had eight special effects: "Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Void, Sun, Moon, Destruction." Currently, Shiva had only comprehended the "Earth" special effect [Purified Land] and the "Water" special effect [Absolution]. But only one of these two special effects was enough to show how heaven-defying this spiritual energy weapon of his was.
"Impossible..." Seeing all his efforts from the bitter fight come to naught, Wu Si Can Xuan felt a deep despair.
At this moment, the memories of his youth surged into his mind.
At that time, Wu Si Can Xuan was not a professional player. He was just a middle school student who loved to play a popular competitive game. He had a high talent and excellent skills, and he had almost no opponents in his circle of friends. Until one day, that game started selling paid items...
That day, he habitually entered the high-level game area, and he, who had a win rate of over 80%, was abused all day, only winning a few games. His operation was almost perfect, his strategy was well-thought-out, and his reaction and psychological quality were professional, but... all of this was meaningless in front of players with full RMB equipment. The efforts he had painstakingly made could be completely defeated by the other party just rolling their face on the keyboard.
And at this moment, Wu Si Can Xuan once again experienced that sense of powerlessness, that unwillingness to be defeated so helplessly.
"Nothing is impossible," Shiva said. "If you're not convinced, then get your own [Spiritual Weapon] as soon as possible and challenge me again." As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the hourglass separated again, but this time there were only seven stone discs left.
Wu Si Can Xuan did not move, and his expression was very calm. His stamina was running out, and even if he wanted to escape now, he didn't have enough stamina. As a strong man, he at least wanted to maintain his last bit of dignity.
The seven stone discs shot out beams of different colors and hit Wu Si Can Xuan. He did not dodge because he understood that when his skill effects dissipated... the outcome was already decided.
Seconds later, Wu Si Can Xuan, whose survival value was exhausted, disappeared into white light. In the menus of other players, the words [Deceased] immediately appeared next to his name.
"Huff..." Shiva also let out a long sigh and muttered, "I originally wanted to save the Purified Land move for 'that guy's' Blood Stone Demon... I didn't expect to be forced to this point..." He had fought against Zhao Ying Wang before and knew how difficult the other party was, so in his opinion, Zhao Ying Wang was the real threat to him in this script.
"But it's good to be able to get rid of Wu Si Can Xuan..." While Shiva was talking to himself, he opened the game menu to check the situation of other opponents. Unexpectedly, just as he turned his attention to the enemy team column, the words [Deceased] happened to jump up next to Zhao Ying Wang's name.
"What..." Shiva was instantly shocked. "He was actually killed!"