Chapter 124 The field unfolds, the mystery of time (two in one chapter)
Chapter 124: The expansion of the realm, the mystery of time (two chapters in one, please vote for me)
What a fascinating guy."
In a corner of the small square under the Imperial Palace, a man with long hair and a slightly feminine temperament wearing a navy blue windbreaker leaned sideways against the corner, his right hand gently pressing on the saber on his waist.
He is the new acting leader of the Third Investigation Team, Kimura Hakutaku.
Although he accepted the invitation of Foreign Minister Taku Amuro to join the "stability maintenance faction" of Wano's high-level officials, Hakutaku Kimura has never been interested in cooperating with the Judgment of Heaven to capture Captain Dragonfly.
The ability demonstrated showed a strong interest.
Although the opponent's main method of fighting has always been with the gray ability [Shadow Instant] that is completely beyond common sense, there seems to be some subtle change every time.
In the eyes of others, they might marvel at Captain Dragonfly's amazing talent, which has developed his abilities to such an incredible level in just a few months.
But what fell into the narrow eyes of Mimamura Hakuto was a completely different scene.
Reminiscent of the members of the [Funeral Society] at the Sakura Crossing last year, the man behind the dragonfly mask also appeared there at the right time to disrupt the operation of summoning strange demons.
Thinking of this, Kimura Hakutaku couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly as he leaned against the square, staring at the figure wearing a dark gold dragonfly mask in the fierce fight in the small square that no one else could intervene in.
You are here too.
"Dancing" with strange monsters?
The small square under the Imperial Palace.
In front of the gleaming, terrifying golden spear tip, Higashinohara's pupils shrank sharply at this moment, and his heart beat faster as if he felt a sense of urgency.
At this moment, he really felt the terrifying breath of death.
A terrifying spear that locks everything in place.
Terrifying rules like a cause and effect cycle.
This is.
A true demigod-level ability user?
Compared to the commander of the Beihai Dawn Revolutionary Army, Sirle, who has just entered the eighth level and is a first-stage semi-god-level ability user, the cold-faced and arrogant man in front of him undoubtedly has a more thorough control of the [Rules], which makes people rise from the bottom of their hearts.
Arouse an overwhelming feeling of despair for this person.
Rules.Rhinegold!
Gun of Dawn!
However, in the face of this line that runs through life and death, it seems that there is no way to avoid it, and the only choice is to kill it with the terrifying golden spear, but Higashinohara has more understanding than others.
The same is true for his compound ability of [Shadow Instant. Blue Thunder] [Flying Thunder without Step Continuous Slash]. As long as it leaves the mark of thunder and lightning on the target, when it is activated again, it can instantly cut out the law of cause and effect.
A "sure hit" slash.
As someone who has realized this ability on his own, Higashinohara is also aware that the so-called "must hit" is actually a false proposition.
Nothing in this world is absolute.
Where there is a cause, there is an effect.
Theoretically, as long as the opponent is fast enough and cannot let Higashinohara's blue thunder leave a mark, then Higashinohara will naturally not be able to execute the so-called "law of cause and effect" with a sure-hit attack.
So at this critical moment!
A flash of lightning flashed across Higashinohara's mind as his pupils shrank sharply, and the turmoil in his heart unexpectedly calmed down under the separation between life and death.
He realized something.
Since he can't say "must hit", then the feeling of "no way to avoid, no way to hide" is nothing more than a sense of death pressure in the current situation.
The way to get rid of this "sense of pressure" is very simple - just get moving.
Theoretically, as long as his speed is "fast enough" and he avoids the lock of the invisible and immaterial thread, the opponent will naturally not be able to hit the target that connects life and death.
But this simple method,
But there are not simple prerequisites.
How fast is "fast enough"?
Among the talents that Higashinohara currently possesses, [Shadow Instant] and [Time Hourglass] are both speed-based abilities.
During the duel with the commander of the Dawn Revolutionary Army in Beihai, his shadow speed reached the extreme speed that his body could only withstand for a very short time when his agility broke through the 100 mark.
Nine times. Shadow instant.
But now, with the 50-point temporary attribute bonus from Taku Amuro's crime value, Higashinohara's agility is only 94.7. It's not that he doesn't want to look for someone with a higher crime value, but where can he find someone in a hurry.
Even the eighth-level Celestial Judgment Master Marcus Rhine's sin value is not as good as Amuro Takuga's. Although it is judged as an obstacle in front of the mission and triggers the side mission, the side mission obviously does not provide any temporary conversion of the sin value.
Attributes.
And in the current state of agility attributes,
Higashinohara can clearly feel that he is still some distance away from the boundary of [Nine Times Shadow Instant] in Beihai. Now he can only touch the speed of Eight Times Shadow Instant at most.
This speed is obviously not "fast enough".
As for the other speed talent sequence 48 [Time Hourglass].
Since this ability slows down the flow of time around oneself, which is equivalent to speeding up one's own relative speed in the eyes of outsiders, rather than directly speeding up one's own speed, the bonus from one's own agility attribute is relatively low.
Now that Higashinohara is pushing with all his strength, he can only achieve "four times slow play", but this is obviously not "fast enough" under the current circumstances.
Can it be faster?
All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning.
In this moment of life and death, Higashinohara's continuously diverging thoughts were strangely stretched out for such a long time, making time seem to be stuck in a gel and passing extremely slowly. You can even clearly feel it in this thought.
My own desperate thoughts.
Realizing this, Higashinohara couldn't help but slowly raised the corners of his mouth with some self-mockery.
But in fact, Higashinohara only completed one upward movement of raising the corners of his mouth, and his face couldn't help but look a little startled.
Troubled in your thoughts?
A flash of lightning seemed to flash across Higashinohara's mind, with a thoughtful expression on his face, and he vaguely realized that he seemed to have grasped something crucial.
And also at this time,
Marcus Rhine smiled coldly.
In the flash of lightning, the golden spear in his hand followed the tight death ray, tearing the air so hard and coldly, and struck Higashinohara like a dazzling golden meteor.
No one thought of it!
Under the gunpoint of death, Higashinohara was like a novice chef standing next to the stove, staring at the hot oil pan that was simmering with heat and almost splashing on his face.
Thinking about what kind of "sauce" to put in first,
How many "sauce" do you put in at one time?
But only for a moment,
He had a decision in his mind.
So Higashino originally unfolded [Time Hourglass].
In an instant, with him as the center, everything around him slowed down.
But the extent of slow play is currently quite limited.
Higashinohara's limit is the hourglass of time. Four times slower.
And this time,
He only slowed down the time twice, so the whole person seemed calm and leisurely, with a sense of leisure and ease that came easily from his hand. Even the death ray with the golden tip of Marcus Rhein's gun was still firmly locked on his heart.
Where does this confidence come from?
The next moment,
Higashinohara added the second "sauce".
Six times. Shadow instant!
In an instant, his whole person instantly turned into an erratic phantom wave in the air. Something seemed to be spreading rapidly towards the surrounding area in the small square, and the dizzying flashes of light filled the east part of the palace in an instant.
The entire area in front of the court.
In an instant, the shocked expressions on the faces of countless people around seemed to be flattened and rounded by time, and the noisy voices from the people in the Imperial Palace Square further away were like light dancing slowly in the air.
Everything is pulled so slowly!
It was so slow that even the golden spear in front of him shrouded Higashinohara in a blinding light, and the tip of the spear that shot out like lightning drew two milky white air currents in the air.
It’s all so clear and visible!
wrong!
This is far from six times. The shadow instant ability can do it, and it is even less possible to do it with the time hourglass that slows down twice.
The [Time Hourglass. Double Slow Play] and [Six Times. Shadow Instant] that Higashinohara launched this time are both things that he can do easily and comfortably within his ability, and his body does not even need to bear too much weight.
burden.
But in fact, at this time, Higashinohara felt that his body was stretched to the extreme, and invisible chains of time and space stretched out from all directions and tightly wrapped around Higashinohara's body.
He could only carry the heavy shackles and dance under the extreme physical load. The familiar feeling of muscle tearing was instantly transmitted to the nerve endings in his mind, causing his body to tremble slightly unnoticeably.
If he's not careful, he might tear apart some body parts.
The reason why he fell into this dangerous and unusual situation is because the two abilities that Higashinohara developed this time were not just sequential as before, and had no connection with each other.
As in "wandering in long thoughts."
In that moment of life and death just now,
Higashinohara incredibly captured the fleeting thread between the two innate abilities, and combined the two abilities of the same attribute, [Shadow Flash] and [Time Rewind] together.
Having had the experience of combining Cang Lei and Shadow Shun, Higashinohara's reunion process went very smoothly this time, and he called the combined ability "Quicksand Scale".
It means that in the desert of time where the Dragon of Time inhabits, he, the intruding traveler, grabbed a piece of scale armor that recorded the mystery of time.
Six times. Shadow instant x time rewind. Double slow play!
Quicksand Scale. Twelve times speed!
At this moment, what Higashinohara didn't know was how the composite ability of the same attributes he thought would look like in the eyes of other people around him.
Standing across from Higashinohara, Marcus Lain, the celestial judge who was born in the Celestial Dragon Clan, suddenly revealed an indescribable look in his vertical pupils that showed a strange golden color during battle.
In the slow playback time, his static face, which was like a wax statue, also showed a thoughtful look.
field!
Is this the power of his field?
Similarly, Kimura Hakutaku, the acting leader of the Third Investigation Team, who was watching the battle from a distance, also clearly felt the power of this field.
You know, Higashinohara has always relied on extremely fast speed to win in previous battles, but has never expanded the field, so that some people even doubted whether the mysterious man behind the mask had mastered the field.
But there is no mastery of the field,
How to advance to the seventh level of absolute ability?
Have such terrifying strength?
This seems to be a very contradictory paradox.
However, at this moment, the power of the time domain was felt by countless people present. It turned out that he also had his own domain.
It just never unfolded during the battle.
In other words, no one has ever been able to force him to unfold it.
So this time, was it because he faced an eighth-level demigod-level ability user who controlled the rules, so he had to expand this time realm that had never appeared before and shocked the world when it appeared?
But will it be too late?
A field is a field after all?
How can we defeat the power of rules?
call-!
You still have time.
Gazing at the rapidly enlarging golden spear point in his eyes, carrying the aura of death, Higashinohara breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
The next moment,
The spear that connects life and death strikes.
But Higashinohara disappeared into the sunlight.
He disappeared very quickly, so abruptly that there was not even the slightest afterimage left in the air under the sunlight, giving people the illusion that the place was originally empty.
There was a loud bang.
Marcus Rhine's gun of dawn blasted into the Imperial Palace behind him.
It was a three-story side hall of the imperial palace. The gleaming and magnificent side hall, full of royal family, shattered to pieces under this shot.
The terrifying power instantly destroyed half of the side hall, turning it into a ruins of broken walls, filled with a heart-stopping aura of death in the blink of an eye.
Rules.Rhinegold.
Still connected to life and death.
It's just that the other end of death is no longer connected to Higashinohara, but an empty side hall. Now it has collapsed among the ruins of death. A long golden spear is inserted into the door plaque of the side hall of the Imperial Palace.
Trembling slightly.
At a certain moment, the fleeting lights that filled the entire small square with Higashinohara as the center suddenly disappeared.
The next moment, Higashinohara's figure suddenly appeared on the golden spear like a bird.
Under the cold spring sunlight, he stepped on the golden spear that connected life and death, and a smile suddenly appeared on the lips of the handsome face under the mask.
This is not a mockery.
But a smile of affirmation towards myself.
Obviously, his guess was not wrong. There is no such thing as a sure hit in this world.
As long as he is fast enough, the so-called "must hit" rule is just a joke, but no one has ever been able to be as fast as he is today!
Under the cover of the dark golden mask, Marcus Rhine couldn't see the smile on Higashinohara's face, but for some reason, he felt that the man standing on the tip of his gun was smiling.
Smile brightly!
Laugh wildly!
The laughter made him bored for no reason.
Because that's a human being.
And he is a member of the Celestial Dragon Clan who is extremely noble among heavenly beings.
Due to natural selection, the powerful talents given to the Tianlong clan by the Creator fully demonstrate their nobility and superiority over humans.
And now, a human being was actually laughing at him.
So Marcus Rhine slowly raised his hand, and the spear that Higashinohara was stepping on trembled slightly, disappeared suddenly, and returned to his hand steadily.
"You wouldn't think
Is this the end?"
Marcus Rhine, who stood motionless on the spot, raised the spear in his hand again, slightly raised his drooping gold vertical pupils, and showed a mocking smile on his face.
Just this time,
He suddenly let go of the spear in his hand.
He allowed the golden spear that shone in the sunlight to float in the air in front of him, his body standing proudly, his hands inserted into the pockets on both sides.
Without warning, golden rings one after another spread out in the surrounding air with the suspended spear as the center, like countless dense golden barrels. Just like what Fuma Ryusheng encountered before
General.
Only this time, an invisible and immaterial thread was ejected from each golden ring. In an instant, countless threads were remotely connected to Higashinohara's heart.
Rules.Rhinegold!
Thousands of guns are now available!
When countless people around saw this horrific scene, their hearts seemed to be clenched tightly by invisible hands. Ordinary people would suffocate and faint from nervousness just by being targeted by such a death ray.
At this moment, Marcus Rhine, who had revealed his murderous intent, did not have any unnecessary pleasantries.
I saw a flash of golden light in the countless golden rings, as if the sky was full of golden thunder and lightning streaking across the night sky, and the rain fell like a frenzied wave, carrying an unparalleled aura of death, and shrouded it in the direction of Higashinohara.
In an instant, countless spears covered the sky like golden meteors, attacking at a terrifying speed that was no less terrifying than before!
instantly,
Then Higashinohara's figure was completely disappeared.
This scene happened too fast.
As we approached the outer garden of the Imperial Palace, many ordinary people were not "qualified" to appreciate this horrific scene. However, those with abilities who were qualified to see this scene felt that the air around them was suddenly sucked out, their breathing became extremely rapid, and their pupils suddenly dilated.
Austerity, it is impossible to imagine the despair of being exposed to such fear.
In the blink of an eye, under this golden meteor shower that was both beautiful and full of destruction, Higashinohara's body was completely swallowed up.
While the faces of countless people around him were shocked, they also fell into intense confusion in their hearts.
They didn't know whether the man was buried in this gorgeous golden meteor shower in an instant, or what kind of tragic but helpless resistance he made when death came, and he died without any body parts.
However, in the next moment, Marcus Rhine, who had his hands proudly in his pockets, could not help but frown slightly on his extremely arrogant brow!
It was precisely at this time that a half-crouching figure appeared without warning from the golden spear suspended in front of him.
Marcus Rhine raised his eyes slightly and looked up. The light seemed to shift a little bit on his retina, and even the shadow of the person was lengthening a little bit.
Time almost stood still at this moment!
Higashinohara, who was half-crouching on the golden spear, was like a ghost traveling through still time and space. His body suddenly ejected and jumped high over Marcus Rhine's head!
His left and right hands crossed together, and the two long knives he held clicked in the air, merging into a dark-golden double-edged ancient sword with dense patterns!
Immediately, he grabbed the handle of the knife with both hands and slashed it down with a terrifying momentum like splitting mountains and seas!
Lion, show up!
Sorry for being a little late today.
My wife had a minor surgery on her foot yesterday and is now lying in bed unable to move. The 18-month-old baby can only come to me and smash the keyboard many times in protest every night while coding.
Then he was suppressed by my iron fist. Temporarily suppressed.
Repeatedly.
This chapter is two in one, so I should be able to write it better. I will take the time to work hard tonight, and the next chapter will be updated tomorrow morning.
Thank you all for your understanding and support~!
