Chapter 373 Wood: There is no truly invincible ability in the world!
"Gluttony" has the power of teleportation, so as soon as he disappeared, he was already in front of Wood in the blink of an eye.
And just like when it attacked Ram, "Gluttony" also called out his name when it attacked Wood.
As for why "Gluttony" knew Wood's name, it was because Ram had called him several times during the battle just now.
The people who obtained information from the battle were not only Wood and others, but also "Gluttony" and "Lust".
Since "Gluttony" had repeatedly tried to get close to Ram, even though Wood didn't know what the other conditions were for "Gluttony" to activate its power, he still distanced himself from him at this moment and used magic to fight back.
And at the moment when Wood had just escaped the attack of "Gluttony", the stone thrown by "Gluttony" towards Wood also hit him in an instant.
It was originally just an ordinary roadside stone, but now Wood's intuition told him that it was dangerous.
Not daring to be careless in the slightest, Wood clenched the long sword in his hand and raised his sword to strike. The stone struck the knight's sword. At this moment, a sound of gold and iron clashing was heard in the air.
But soon, something happened that shocked Wood!
Although the knight's sword in his hand is not a peerless sword, it is just the standard long sword of the Kingdom's Knights of the Guards. However, the Knights of the Guards are affiliated with Lugnika, and the quality of the sword is still very good, at least it is fine.
Made of steel.
However, when Wood's long sword hit the stone, something unexpected happened. The ordinary stone actually bent the long sword in Wood's hand in an instant. In the end, it even reached the limit.
The one that made a "ding-dong" sound was directly crushed!
Wood, whose long sword was broken, finally tilted his head to avoid the stone flying at high speed, and the stone finally rubbed the tip of Wood's hair and even penetrated a stone behind Wood.
Big tree!
"In the state just now, do you still have time to react and dodge the attack?
Even among the knights of the kingdom, you should be among the best."
Regarding the fact that the stone he threw casually could break Wood's sword, "Lust" did not show the slightest surprise. Instead, he showed a look of appreciation for Wood's ability to dodge the attack in the end.
"Your ability is to accelerate objects? No..., if it is just time acceleration, there should be no way to invalidate our previous attack.
If you follow common sense, after a stone is thrown by hand, after a certain movement, the force acting on the stone disappears, and the speed should become slower and slower. Needless to say, if it encounters an obstacle,
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And the stone you just threw can maintain its original speed even when it is blocked by the sword in my hand. This should be your real ability, right?
It can keep any material it comes into contact with absolutely still, and even thrown stones can keep moving with the same initial velocity, making it an absolutely lethal weapon."
Apart from the above speculations, Wood really couldn't think of any other characteristics of the "lust" ability.
As a "great swordsman", Wood is quite sensitive to high-speed attacks. However, the stone that just flew towards him can actually continue to fly out at a constant speed after shattering the sword. This is quite outrageous.
No matter how strong the force is, its power will be reduced when encountering resistance. This is an inevitable law!
But the stone just thrown by "Desire" completely violated the laws of mechanics. Combined with the power it displayed, Wood could roughly guess that the opponent's power should be "time stops".
When this power is used on oneself, "Desire" can escape from the constraints of all physical laws and become a superman in a certain sense.
Previously, "Desire" would be knocked back by Wood's slash, simply because the target of his power was Wood's slash, so the destroyed ground affected him.
But if this power is used on oneself, "Desire" itself will enter a "time standstill" state that is not affected by anything outside.
"Your powers of observation and analysis are really amazing, but even if you analyze the ability of my power "Lion's Heart", what will happen?
You are absolutely invincible against defense, and if your attack can throw matter with a constant muzzle velocity, you can do nothing but despair."
While "Desire" was speaking, he silently picked up a few more stones on the ground, preparing to carry out continuous blows to Wood.
In addition to being a talkative person, Archbishop of Lust is also a person who always claims that he is "satisfied with himself" and "has nothing to do with selfish desires" even when he opens his mouth. These words are always on his lips.
However, in fact, everything he does proves that he has established the habit of being "selfish" to others. If the person he is talking to interrupts the conversation or prevents him from making excuses, he will accuse the other person of "violating his rights"
” and launched an attack.
Wood's excellence made "Lust" feel uncomfortable, so even though it exceeded the original mission purpose, now the Lust Archbishop plans to kill Wood.
"You, the Sin Archbishops of the Witch Cult, are really interesting. First there is a "Sloth" who regards diligence as his duty, and now there is a "Desire" who considers himself "selfless".
In my opinion, you are just a selfish ghost who claims to be "desireless" while trying his best to show off your sensibility and existence value to others, force your own values, and use terror and violence to force others to take second place.
When seeing a being weaker than yourself, you will give the other person despair with your invincible power and show your own excellence.
When encountering a being who is better than yourself, you will constantly deny the other person and try to use violence to make the other person surrender."
Looking at "Desire", whose face began to distort in front of him, Wood once again used ice to condense a long sword, and this time he also used "Armed Color Haki" to cover it.
"In this reincarnation, it seems that I haven't met Sloth yet, but what I said to him before, I will say it to you again.
There is no truly invincible ability in this world. If you are like that idiot Reinhardt and have a power similar to "Phoenix Protection", then just pretend I didn't tell you.
Unfortunately, judging from the abilities you just demonstrated, your so-called ‘invincibility’ does not seem to be truly invincible. At least in my opinion, two possible weaknesses have been discovered.”
While Wood was talking, he stepped on the ground with both feet, using the "shaving step" of the six postures, to rush towards the lust priest at a speed that could not be caught by the naked eye.
"You arrogant fellow, my power is truly invincible, and there is no weakness as you mentioned!"
The power of lust is the transformation of one's own desires and desire to display. Now Wood's words seem to deny his value, and lust is naturally unacceptable.
Wood moved very fast, but Qian Lu was still able to barely pass through Wood's afterimage, capture Wood's position, and throw the stone in his hand.
It was originally just an ordinary stone on the roadside, but now in the hands of "Lust", it has become a real murder weapon.
The first stone thrown in the air landed at Wood's feet, shattering the ground instantly and leaving a large crater about several meters in diameter.
When the second stone was thrown, it should have focused on Wood's shoulder. However, when the stone hit Wood's body, he swung the ice blade in his hand and directly hit the stone flying at high speed.
And just as "Lust" looked at Wood with a ferocious smile, waiting for the skate in the opponent's hand to be shattered and the body to be penetrated, he soon discovered to his surprise that the skate in Wood's hand, which should have been extremely fragile, was actually at this moment.
With the stones he threw, a lot of sparks flew out!
Previously, the long sword made of fine steel was broken by the stones thrown by himself using his power, but this time when faced with the fragile magic creation, he felt like he was evenly matched!
Can ice be harder than steel? "Strong Desire" didn't believe it before, but when he saw the stone he threw using his power shattering at the same time as the ice blade in Wood's hand, "Strong Desire" was really stunned.
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"This is the first weakness of your ability. Even if the material you throw can keep moving at the same initial velocity, the properties of the material you throw will not change.
A stone is a stone. Although acceleration gives it terrifying power, once it reaches the limit of the material itself, it will also be crushed!"
Wood felt his numb arms, and then while talking, he condensed an ice blade again at an extremely fast speed, and quickly covered it with armed colors.
"Lust" looked at the scene in front of him, his head was so angry that veins appeared, and he threw the stone in his hand again without thinking.
But he didn't realize that after throwing several stones in succession, Wood had already approached him at a sufficient distance, and his body accelerated in an instant, and he directly raised the ice blade in his hand and stabbed him!
"I don't believe you are stupid. Even if you go to great lengths to get close to me, what can you do to me under my invincible power?"
Wood didn't care about the taunting words revealed by "Desire", but directly launched an attack on the opponent.
According to Wood's observation, the "Time Stop" power of the Priest of Desire should only be able to affect one target at a time.
This can be roughly seen from its two previous performances.
The first manifestation is that every time "Desire" throws a stone, it will only throw one stone, instead of throwing all the stones at the same time.
The second manifestation is that at the beginning, "Desire" can obviously use the power of "time standstill" to act on himself, so that he can always be invincible, so why choose to use his power on Ram at the beginning?
On top of his magic and his own slashing?
In order to verify this guess, Wood chose this risky charging attack method, and caught the moment when "Lust" threw the stone, and launched an attack on his body.
Assuming that Wood's conjecture is correct, then the "strong desire" that gave the stone power is not the so-called invincible state of the body now!
The ice blade covered with armed domineering spirit shattered... and the "Glorious Desire" that was definitely hit was nothing at all at this moment!
Not only that, seeing the long knife shattered in front of him, Qiang Lu breathed out at Wood with disdain. As a result, the gas directly knocked Wood away several meters with its initial velocity unchanged.
So far!
"Your intuition is indeed very keen. In such a short time of fighting, you have discovered so many things, and you even realized that my power can only affect one object at a time.
The second weakness you wanted to talk about before is probably this, right?"
"But unfortunately, although what you guessed is not wrong, my power can only affect one object at a time.
However, the ability to keep the initial velocity of an object moving and the invincibility of "time standing still" can affect one object respectively.
In other words, this way I can always be in an invincible state with both offense and defense!"
Seeing Wood being knocked away and his guess failed, Archbishop Qiang showed a proud look on his face.
The lustful Archbishop admits that Wood is a very smart person, but precisely because of this, crushing the self-confidence of such a smart person head-on will make him feel even more satisfied.
"Mr. Wood, if that doesn't work, let's choose to retreat first. Anyway, the people in Alam Village and Lord Roswaal have already left for a long time.
If we want to leave, even these two Sin Archbishops probably won't be able to keep us."
Seeing Wood being knocked away, Ram suddenly came to Wood in a flash, protecting him behind him and speaking to him.
Frankly speaking, in terms of magical power alone, Ram actually thinks that the Archbishop of Lust and the Priest of Gluttony are nothing special, but the point of the problem is that their abilities are too weird.
It is too dangerous to fight them with a serious lack of intelligence, so Ram now proposes that a temporary retreat is the best option.
The ability of "Desire" is quite invincible, but it has little mobility, so it is impossible to catch up with Wood and Ram who want to leave.
"Gluttony" will have the ability to move instantly, but as long as the opponent dares to catch up alone, Wood and Ram will dare to look back and kill the opponent.
Under normal circumstances, Ram's suggestion is indeed correct, but Wood knows that even if they retreat from here, when Natsuki Subaru is killed, the timeline will be reset again, so even if they leave here now
, and it is completely meaningless.
Rather than doing this, it is better to find out more information about "Gluttony" and "Gluttony" in the limited time, and try to kill the opponent in the next reincarnation.
Wood is now puzzled. If the Master of Desire's ability to "stop time" is not flawed, why he shouldn't just use the power on himself so that he can always remain invincible.
But when the Priest of Lust initially resisted Ram and his own magic, he used the power of authority to act on their magic.
It wasn't until he realized that Wood's melee skills were superb enough to threaten him that he chose to use the power of "Standstill Time" on himself.