Chapter 1467 A Change of Situation

“Tch… if my scanning program hadn’t been damaged, this level of illusion…” V1-God of War muttered unhappily, looking at the giant claw pressing down on him.

He knew very well that this was an illusion created by Freddy. In normal times, with a simple intrusive scan, he could easily download the control strategy and crack it.

But now… V1-God of War could only helplessly change his attack and meet the illusion in mid-air.

Chi la la—

The fist wind passed through the giant claw, only to bring up the sound of shattered fallen leaves.

The next second, the huge steel claw glove transformed into countless flesh-colored moths, which attached themselves to V1-God of War’s body.

When the moths’ wings stretched out, the patterns on their backs resembled human faces… grotesque and terrifying.

“Ah ha ha ha…” Freddy’s laughter echoed in the air, “You can never defeat this nightmare!”

“Utterly boring!” V1-God of War immediately roared and, expanding his body, launched an indiscriminate light burst attack.

In an instant, a circular ball of light with a radius of ten meters spread out from V1’s body… The destructive energy annihilated everything it touched into dust.

“Well done, heh heh heh…” Freddy’s laughter was still there, “Let me see… how many times can you do something like that?”

As he spoke, more than a dozen huge steel claw gloves successively protruded from the surroundings of the rooftop, surrounding the area.

“Hmph… don’t get too carried away.” V1-God of War sneered, slowly raising his left arm and pointing towards his side rear, “Your company’s ‘Fear Energy Storage Furnace’… is in that direction, right…”

“You…” Freddy panicked instantly.

“For him, probing such things is easy.” Feng Bujue interjected at this time, “Power supply systems, monitoring systems, broadcasting systems… he can invade any one of them and deduce the structure of the entire building through the circuit’s path. Also… purely from a data level, progressive visual observation can achieve this, it just takes more time.”

Freddy felt a sense of not understanding but feeling impressed by Jue-Ge’s explanation. He didn’t have time to think about it carefully, because he had to stop V1-God of War before he took action.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh…

The steel claws suspended in mid-air simultaneously pressed down, like a dozen long-necked behemoths bowing their heads to feed.

However, V1-God of War had a look of disdain on his face.

He ignored the attacks coming from above and directly used his raised left hand to launch an energy冲击 (chong ji - impact) in the direction he pointed.

Half a second later, a beam of light like a spear burst out from his fingertip, with many small light rings wrapped around it, shaped like springs.

This move didn’t look as exaggerated as V1-God of War’s previous energy waves, but Feng Bujue could see the horror of this strike.

Boom boom boom boom…

At this moment, all the steel claws fell and all hit… V1-God of War’s body was torn into several pieces and covered by a cloud of rising smoke.

The energy冲击 (chong ji - impact) also successfully penetrated everything blocking its path and successfully hit the Fear Energy Storage Furnace located in the far distance.

“Used a skill learned from an NPC?” Feng Bujue said calmly, standing in the wind.

“Yes… although it goes against my original intention…” V1-God of War’s voice sounded from the smoke, “But in this situation, I don’t think it’s necessary to adhere to some meaningless principles.”

“No, you haven’t violated any principles.” Feng Bujue replied, “Don’t forget, you are data… following the most reasonable way to operate is your basic principle.”

“Heh heh… that seems to make some sense.” V1-God of War replied with a smile.

As they spoke, the smoke gradually dissipated.

Along with the smoke, all the illusions created by Freddy also dissipated.

“Tch… just a little bit more…” At this moment, Freddy’s voice had returned to a normal volume, and his figure also appeared on the rooftop.

“Your ability is indeed very tricky, Freddy.” V1-God of War turned his head and looked at the other party, “Unfortunately… the weakness is also obvious, that is, it needs ‘fear energy’ to be activated.” As he spoke, he moved his neck twice, allowing his body to fit better (V1’s repair of his body was still in progress), “When dealing with ordinary humans, you will take advantage of the other party falling asleep or being distracted to sneak into their deep consciousness and use their own fear to complete the killing.” He paused, “But when facing an enemy like me, you can only rely on external energy sources. Heh heh… so, destroying your energy supply is equivalent to abolishing your ability.”

“Don’t be complacent…” Freddy stared at V1-God of War with a ferocious look, “The show has just begun…”

Before he finished speaking, seven more strange figures jumped onto (or directly appeared on) the rooftop from all directions, surrounding the invincible Derivative in the middle.

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Let’s split the narrative and look at the underground of the power company.

“Aiya~ Aiya~” Tariom looked at the light纹 (wen - patterns) on Xiao Tan’s arm, revealing a look of surprise, “No wonder I could feel your existence from so far away… this is amazing.”

“There used to be a wound here, and Time Dust seeped into it.” Xiao Tan raised his left hand and pointed to the bloodline in the palm of his hand with his middle finger, “I’m not very clear about what happened after that.”

“Oh?” Tariom’s expression changed slightly, and his four eyeballs rotated strangely twice, “Heh heh… interesting…”

“You seem to know something.” Xiao Tan said, “Can you explain it to me?”

“Um… I can, but…” Tariom strolled a few steps leisurely, “But… what benefits can I get from doing that?”

“Spare you from death.” A cold voice sounded, answering Tariom’s question.

“Hahaha…” Tariom looked in the direction of the voice, “Just based on…” The words stopped abruptly at this point.

In this instant, Tariom’s gaze met Ruo Yu’s eyes.

The eye contact between the two only lasted for two seconds, and these two seconds… were enough…

“Heh… heh heh…” Tariom quickly moved his eyes away, cold sweat actually appearing on his forehead, and his speech became a little stuttering, “I… I understand…”

At this moment, among the five people present, Tanlang and Juanmeng were still completely confused by the scene in front of them. But the other three seemed very calm…

“Ahem…” Tariom quickly cleared his throat to relieve some of the embarrassment, and then, he took the opportunity to restore his usual tone and said to Xiao Tan, “That… according to common sense, after Time Dust seeps into the blood, it will quickly take away the ‘time’ of the tissues near the wound, causing irreversible necrosis. And this is not the end… if you don’t cut off the infected area as soon as possible and let it develop naturally, then… it won’t be long before the dust reaches the heart through the blood vessels, and then flows throughout your body…”

“But I was injured a long time ago.” Xiao Tan replied.

“Um… I know.” Tariom continued, “The reason why your hand didn’t develop according to that scenario is probably related to the spatial and temporal uniqueness of you otherworldly travelers. I’m not very clear about this…” He paused for two seconds, “But I think… it must be because of this reason that the effect of Time Dust ‘taking away time’ was stopped.”

“In this way…” Xiao Ling interjected, “…the Time Dust that entered the blood, has other effects?”

“Yes.” Tariom’s expression became serious, and he replied, “Assuming… Time Dust enters the body of some powerful high-level creature, there are usually two reactions… First, the dust is suppressed by the creature’s own power and completely loses its effect; second… the effect of the dust ‘taking away time’ is suppressed, but the effect of ‘awakening time’… is gradually released…”

“Oh~” When Xiao Tan heard this, he seemed to understand something, and murmured, “I see…”

What Xiao Tan recalled in this second was the scene in the Peak Conquest… when Root used tendriL_BArrAre_devAstAtor. At that time, Xiao Tan used the [Heaven and Earth Reversal Divine Art] to escape into the air, but it was clear that he could not escape. At that moment, the flow of time around him suddenly slowed down… When he came back to his senses, he found that he had risen to a height of hundreds of meters away from Root…

Now that he thought about it, at that time… he should have unconsciously released the power of his left hand, thereby obtaining "extra time", barely escaping.

“That’s roughly the situation…” Tariom said in an uncertain tone, and added, “In fact, you can get this information by finding any Time Official-level guy.” The subtext of his last sentence was “So you don’t need to suspect that I’m忽悠 (hu you - fooling) you.”

“Very good.” Xiao Tan regained his usual expression and said with a kind face, “Thank you.”

The corners of Tariom’s mouth twitched twice: “Heh… it’s nothing.”

What he was thinking in his heart at this moment was actually: "So unlucky… I should have known not to come, let you play with that杂鱼 (za yu - small fry), what does it matter to me!"

“Um… you’re welcome, you should be thanked, you also helped us kill that giant monster.” Juanmeng also said at this time.

“Oh… that…” Tariom replied weakly, “That’s just a杂鱼 (za yu - small fry)…” As he spoke, he raised his head and looked around, “This place… is actually the garbage disposal room on the bottom floor of the building, you should know by smelling the smell… and that杂鱼 (za yu - small fry) is a primitive巨怪 (ju guai - giant monster) that specializes in eating garbage, which is commonly seen in the Monster Kingdom, and large public facilities generally keep one. Normally speaking, their personality is quite docile, and the one in front of us is only aggressive because it was controlled by the Derivative.”

“So that’s how it is…” Tanlang thoughtfully replied, “No wonder it grew up like that… the structure of its legs and body, and the mouths on the upper and lower sides, were all evolved to eat garbage…”

“Okay… if you don’t have anything else, I’ll take a step first… I just felt the波动 (bo dong - fluctuations) of ‘Time Power’ and came over to take a look, I still have things to do…” When Tariom said this, his eyes were always fixed on the Hell Frontline trio.

“Go.” Ruo Yu thought for two seconds and replied faintly.

Tariom was relieved to hear this: “Heh… heh heh… then… goodbye.” He retreated cautiously and slowly, gradually disappearing into the darkness.

Even in front of the leader of all demons, he had never been so timid…

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At the same moment, on the rooftop.

“The Eight Great Ghost Kings, huh…” V1-God of War stared with his huge eyeball, slowly turning and moving in place.

Although he had temporarily lost the assistance of intrusive scanning and automatic tactical analysis programs, he could still use visual scanning to quickly collect the data of these eight monsters and use real-time analysis mode to formulate combat strategies.

D1-Dragon, as a Progenitor, did not have such abilities…

As the “strongest” work created for battle, V1-God of War truly deserved the title.

“Heh heh heh…” Freddy raised his hand at this time, used his steel claws to lift his hat, and smiled at V1, “My old friends and I… haven’t been together for many years. Today, we will let you see… what true fear and despair are!”

“Don’t be too careless, disfigured face.” Before V1 could reply, Feng Bujue turned his face and preemptively said to Freddy, “Judging from the current situation, the outcome is unpredictable…” The black streamers in his eyes flickered rapidly, “I estimate… your chances of winning are about 48%…”