Chapter 972
Chapter 972 - 958: Rule-Level and Carrots
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The rumbling of the earth ushered in the day of destruction.
When the war knights known as "Peacekeepers" were activated, it also meant that peace had come to an end.
Originally, this should be the last resort for a city, only to be activated after the failure of the enforcement officers (police) and at least a 30% reduction in the stationed troops.
But now, due to someone’s "whimsy," it was activated at the onset of this incident.
And once activated, it meant that, following protocol, the city’s entire permanent population began to enter emergency evacuation and migration procedures...
"...Surely not."
"Isn’t that gentleman being a bit excessive? This will affect the entire city."
"Isn’t it just a brawl among outsiders? It’s only a bit more widespread, is it really necessary..."
Before they could finish their complaints, they were overwhelmed by violent explosions and shockwaves.
The first to arrive were the enforcement officers, their hunting-dogs barking frantically as many quickly arrived at the battlefield with their judgment puppets.
𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
However, facing two rule-level combatants who had fully engaged in a bloodbath, they didn’t even qualify to approach the battlefield.
Many were forced to find cover on the spot, then call for support from local logistics and the military...
The whole world was filled with nothing but explosions and rainbow light.
Sun Yi had transformed into a mirror entity, each slash, each attack, reflecting a dazzling and lethal pillar of rainbow-colored light.
And this was merely the least of his offensive means... he had been shattered numerous times already, but each time, those fallen mirror fragments grew elongated limbs and began to crawl rapidly across the ground.
It itself didn’t possess a strong desire to attack, but in addition to emitting a weaker rainbow light periodically, it could also directly reflect the main body’s rainbow light shots and apply almost a double increase in power!
Yet another mirror monster was shattered, but this time, it did not revive, instead, it turned into crystal on the ground where it had fallen.
Taking it as the center, it slowly spread out, turning everything it touched into a mirror surface.
One by one, those mirror spiders, like sprouting flowers, began to disintegrate autonomously, spreading the beautiful but deadly domain of mirror surfaces.
Their efficiency was high, and soon, the entire area underwent a crystal transformation.
Everywhere, above and below ground, mirrors abounded, and eerie crystal pillars rose from the earth, as more and more mirror spiders were mass-produced in the strange nesting grounds.
This is the true power of a veteran rule-level strongman
He was fighting for control of the entire battlefield, transforming this area into his own "territory," strengthening his own rules, reducing his own consumption, and making things harder for his opponent....
And his opponent was behaving somewhat beneath the dignity of a rule-level combatant.
He did not display his "domain of rules," giving up the fight for dominance of the domain right from the start, and by all accounts, he should have been overwhelmed by now.
"...Is this the ’Three-in-One’?"
There were three appearances of Zhao Yan before him, and each one exhibited combat power far surpassing the peak of the decree-level.
One mud monster incarnation became a giant beast, taking on damage head-on with high-speed regeneration, nearly undying.
At the same time, the splattered mud from it also served as a protective shield and a floating turret, guarding the other two more fragile clones.
The larger and wilder it became, the more it disintegrated, and its entire body seemed to be turning into a sea of blood.
That "bat" was the most unresolved presence on the battlefield... It appeared and disappeared in an instant, bringing with it the shattering of numerous crystal spiders each time.
High speed? Or perhaps an existence at the level of supersonic speed?
But the most dangerous from the start was the girl-like Zhao Yan.
She exhibited the standard combat style of a Blood Saint.
Fast movement, vicious claws and teeth, and the occasional blood mist transformation attack... but if all of her existence were to multiply by tens and hundreds at times, it would be an unsolvable dilemma for a decree-level opponent.
The power of the "Avatar" was most evidently manifest in the girl-like Zhao Yan, with each action she multiplied into new bodies... and with each death, she created even more avatars.
"Undying-nature," is clearly one of the shared traits among the strongmen of this Path.
On both sides, they battled in the sky, killing each other whether out of joy, anger, or compulsion.
On the ground, they fought fiercely, as crystals shattered and clones turned into minced flesh.
Both sides searched, seeking the limits of their opponent’s Regeneration, searching for possible weaknesses...
"So this is what Rule-level is all about..."
Meanwhile, Lu Ping’an, who was gleefully watching all this through broadcasting means, was quite interested.
Unlike the fallen Snake King of that time, these two were genuine Rule-levels, with their lower limits already exceeding the Law Peak’s desperate upper limits.
The various combat methods and calculative abilities broadened Lu Ping’an’s horizons... He was certain that if it were a normal Path, he wouldn’t be able to beat either of them.
"But now, they’ve got to divide life and death first..."
Neither side had any room for retreat; their eyes were fixated only on each other.
Sun Yi was clearly stronger, a veteran Rule-level who even touched upon the threshold of a higher level.
He truly displayed his rule of "Rainbow Light," taking over the initiative of the entire battlefield, eventually transforming the whole world into "light."
While Zhao Yan, who was clearly new to Rule-level, didn’t even have his own "Domain."
But his three newly ascended Rule-level avatars, each with the might of only a Decree Peak, showed an extremely terrifying combat power when they truly fought together.
They were three exceptionally formidable forces that trusted each other, and in this moment, the pure combined strength Zhao Yan displayed was no lesser than the veteran Sun Yi...
"Hiss, this kid is so terrifying, he can’t stay long... Alright, alright, stop glaring at me, I’ll be serious, I’m sending the message to the municipal government right now."
The first batch of Peacekeepers didn’t even have the capability to approach a battlefield of this level.
And those like Dao Zhong in the core of the battlefield, those "background boards" who risked everything, naturally lost the ability to flee when the two Rule-levels started to get serious, with the majority ending up dead or injured on the spot.
Only Dao Zhong still managed to play a certain role on such a battlefield.
He glared fiercely at Zhao Yan... The fall of each of his comrades drove him completely insane.
He had transformed into a sea of blood, contesting with Zhao Yan’s clay avatar for control over the bloody domain... And because of his presence, Zhao Yan was completely unable to unfold his blood sea battlefield, greatly reducing his power’s upper limit.
And for Dao Zhong, who was still just at law extremity, to forcefully complete this level of transformation was quite remarkable... He probably didn’t plan to transform back into human form, given that he was this far without being Rule-level.
Now on the battlefield, two slightly different colored "blood seas" collided and wrestled for more control over the terrain.
This similar ability greatly limited Zhao Yan’s performance, also giving Sun Yi more and more of an advantage.
However, every time he tried to achieve some result, he was pushed back by the endlessly multiplying little girl’s avatars.
Those avatars, each as strong as a Decree Peak’s Battle-professions, were just too much of a cheat...
"...Zhao Yan is going to lose. Watch out for him trying to escape," Big Cat suddenly spoke up.
"Uh?" Lu Ping’an was mildly surprised. Just by observing the battlefield, the one who appeared more aggressive was Zhao Yan with his "Three-in-One" technique, pressuring Sun Yi as he fought.
"... Sun Yi has opened his Domain, every attack he makes is amplified, and his energy consumption has naturally dropped to the limit, he might even start to gain energy back over time. Whereas every attack Zhao Yan makes depletes his tactical reserve, splitting into three is good, but it also triples the consumption, and while the avatars are fierce, that consumption is too high to even calculate..."
This time, Lu Ping’an understood.
A high-end Life system’s internal war, without the ability to kill quickly on both sides, easily turns into this kind of "Life" consumption war.
Clearly, Zhao Yan’s energy consumption was far greater than his opponent’s; the more fiercely he fought, the more desperate he showed himself...
"... If the main character runs, the show can’t go on, so let’s give him a little outside incentive."
Lu Ping’an thought for a moment and issued an order.
"Have the Peacekeepers announce that they have become wanted criminals, the public enemies of the entire Feather Tribe, and this place is no longer a sanctuary for them..."
First, make him suffer, make him lose.
"Big Cat, inform your ’son’ that if he can capture Sun Yi, we can help him break through to the eighth-tier, tell him we have our own controlled Feather Tribe Territory, which can help him cleanse his record... Yeah, it’s a lie, but he’ll believe it, he’ll work hard to convince himself."
Then, give him a lifeline...
And the loud explosions, as well as the frenzied Zhao Yan, formed the most direct response.
— End of Chapter 972 —