Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

A blood-red shield expanded from the Demon King’s body, completely wrapping him.

Various magic bombs exploded around the Deceitful Emperor, yet the Deceitful Emperor remained unmoved, slowly descending amidst the violent energy turbulence.

Gao Yuanyi activated [Laplace], brown patterns extended from the root of [Laplace]’s mechanical arm, adhering to the mechanical arm, converging at his palm.

”[Corrosion and Rust]”

He slammed his palm to the ground, and brown lines rapidly spread out across the snow surface, spraying a brown pillar of light that engulfed the Demon King, raining brown droplets from the sky.

The droplets pattered onto the Demon King, a cluster of rust spots flashed across the Demon King’s black armor.

[Corrosion and Rust] sounds like a defense-reduction skill, but it’s actually not; it’s a barrier-type skill. As long as you’re within this barrier, any recovery tools or recovery skills will be completely ineffective.

Currently, there’s no way to confirm if the Demon King has any recovery methods, but Gao Yuanyi doesn’t want his hard-earned damage output to turn into nothing.

The Demon King has forty percent blood volume remaining, roughly calculated, that’s more than 800,000 blood volume.

That’s not a small number.

Most would shy away at this point.

But being blocked one or two moves was within Gao Yuanyi’s expectations.

As long as he can land one hit of [Violent Disassembly] on the Demon King, there’s still a chance to defeat him.

Landing two hits would greatly reduce the pressure on Gao Yuanyi’s shoulders.

In order to deal with the Demon King, Gao Yuanyi had spent all his skill points, specifically learning several percentage damage skills.

Combining the tank’s strength, Gao Yuanyi felt more than capable of eliminating the Demon King’s remaining blood.

Landed on the snow, the Demon King issued a deep sound:

”The name of that weapon is [Laplace], right?

You really got your hands on an incredible piece of equipment.

This is a ’divine’ weapon.

It is unexpected that they truly managed to complete such equipment.

Unfortunately, ultimately, they couldn’t withstand the currents of history.

But it doesn’t matter anymore...

I have a question I want to ask you: what is the significance and dream in obtaining this equipment?”

”The answer, of course, is to utterly defeat you.” Gao Yuanyi revealed a proud smile, the horn on his forehead emitted a more dazzling blue light, a gigantic Ghost Shadow with claws spread appeared behind him, completely merging into his body, ”[Ghost Dance. Modified]”

Gao Yuanyi’s strength and speed rapidly increased by 20%, with an additional 20% armor penetration out of thin air.

”An upgraded Ghost Clan skill is indeed rare.

I have heard of it.

The Ghost Clan produced an exceptionally young and gifted Ghost King.

To pass such a test, you indeed are a remarkable talent.

If you hadn’t suddenly launched an attack on me, I might have wanted to incorporate you under my command, adding to our common cause.

But from your answer, I learned of your ambition.

Even after a hundred years, some ambitions never change.

They’re all foolish and boring ambitions.

Without completely shattering you, you won’t understand how foolish your ambition is; only when you realize how foolish your ambition is, will you completely bow to me.

Regrettably, time is tight now, there’s no time for enlightenment.

I cannot allow my plans to be disturbed by any uncertainties.

So from the moment you initiated the attack, you became my mortal enemy.”

Before the Demon King finished speaking, Gao Yuanyi had already charged up to him,

”A mortal enemy it is then!”

The Demon King showed no sign of panic, slowly raising his hand, [Binding Light Cannon] could hold a person in place for a while, but usually calculates the time for the whole body to thaw. If magic power is concentrated at a point, even if some parts of the body are still bound, there are places that can move.

The Demon King’s control of magic power was superb; of course, he understood the techniques to counter binding skills, standing still on the spot, yet his fingers, palms, and entire arms could move freely.

Raising his arm, the Demon King didn’t make any offensive or defensive moves, just snapped his fingers lightly at the spot.

Instantly, a gray barrier rapidly expanded from the Demon King’s center, enveloping most of the Snow Mountain.

Gao Yuanyi suffered no harm, nor did the status bar show any abnormal status; Gao Yuanyi was unclear about what exactly had transpired. But he had already reached the Demon King, his hand poised to unleash an attack, a [Shattering Fist] directly hit the Demon King’s chest.

The Demon King remained immobile.

The Demon King’s blood volume gently decreased by one layer, Gao Yuanyi indeed dealt damage, yet the Demon King still appeared unperturbed, as if even if he opened his arms for Gao Yuanyi to attack incessantly, he wouldn’t fall.

Gao Yuanyi gritted his teeth, reactivated [Laplace], sections of metal forming [Laplace] floated up, orbiting [Laplace] like satellites, the fifth square inside [Laplace] lit up.

”[Heavy Punch Destruction]”

Gao Yuanyi delivered a heavy punch to the Demon King’s chest, the metal hit the Demon King’s armor like raindrops, [Heavy Punch Destruction] reduced the enemy’s defense and special defense by 50% while causing damage.

Facing this great resistance reduction, the Demon King remained unmoved.

Gao Yuanyi sensed something odd, but still launched his next skill, [Damaged Heavy Strike], a skill causing 10% physical damage of the enemy’s lost life value, and applying a layer of bleeding if the enemy’s life value is below 60%.

Against high-defense, high blood volume monsters, applying some abnormal status on the enemy is quite a good choice.

Gao Yuanyi’s attack successfully struck the Demon King again, applying a layer of bleeding to the Demon King, Wei fired three magic laser beams of different colors from the tank, directly hitting the Demon King’s black armor.

The red beam caused fire damage while adding a layer of burn to the Demon King; the yellow beam inflicted lightning damage, adding a layer of paralysis to the Demon King; the white beam caused ice damage and added a layer of deceleration to the Demon King.

The Demon King remained indifferent, casting a cold question to Gao Yuanyi:

”Young Ghost King, I’d like to ask, how much do you truly understand about the Demon King?

Do you know why we Demon Kings exist?

Do you know why we Demon Kings invade another world repeatedly?

Even though there’s rarely a good outcome each time a Demon King invades, why do we still tirelessly invade a world unrelated to us, lacking magical power?

Is it simply our ambition, or an incomprehensible desire for conquest?”