Apocalypse: Master of Soul Beasts

Chapter 507: Chapter 92 Arthur_1

So far, Wen Yu still hadn’t noticed anything amiss.

It had to be said, the trap Mara set was indeed meticulously crafted.

Faced with threats and benefits, Wen Yu—no, most people—would first consider dealing with the central control core rather than questioning the authenticity of the images on the ”monitor.”

And between quickly resolving the central control core issue at the cost of personal injury, or slowly resolving it while also enhancing one’s own strength, coupled with a flawlessly realistic fake ”monitor,” the choice most people would make was self-evident.

Of course, this trap itself also had flaws.

And the flaw lay in...

...

BANG!

The crisp clang of Iron Armor resounded from afar. Arthur barely managed to control his body, but in the next instant, a Sword Light slicing through space struck him directly in the chest.

The damage wasn’t severe—Arthur already knew this from his past encounter with Qin Tian’s duplicant. Without the Hundred-fold attack sword, nurtured for seven days, Qin Tian would find it very difficult to break through his defenses.

However, Arthur completely absorbed the force contained within the Sword Qi.

Already unsteady, Arthur was sent flying by this Sword Qi, tracing an arc through the air before crashing to the ground dozens of meters away.

COUGH, COUGH...

The immense impact left Arthur’s chest feeling tight, and he couldn’t help but cough twice, as if to relieve the suffocating pressure.

Lifting his head, he saw four duplicants approaching from not far away.

Unhurried...

Unruffled...

Unperturbed...

”Hell... this is FML!”

Even Arthur himself felt utterly helpless about his current situation.

He was being kicked around like a punching bag, yet he didn’t have any effective countermeasures. This feeling of being passively beaten was truly awful.

...

Planting his giant sword into the ground, he pushed down hard, using it as a support to slowly pull himself up.

Again...

This was the fourteenth time he had been knocked down or sent flying. Throughout this battle, Arthur had also sensed something strange.

The four duplicants before him didn’t seem to be aiming to kill him; instead, they appeared to be herding him toward a specific location.

And that destination...

Looking at the familiar surroundings, Arthur swallowed hard.

This position... it was already very close to the Red Stone Hotel...

...

「East.」

This could arguably be called the most intense battlefront in the entire Red Stone Hotel defense zone.

Faceless was outnumbered seventeen to one; defeat was already apparent!

No matter how powerful Faceless was, he was merely a castrated version of Tang Haofei.

If Tang Haofei himself had been present, he might have had a chance to win in such a situation. However, Faceless, facing seventeen duplicants, truly couldn’t overcome them.

The sky-filling Thunder couldn’t conceal Faceless’s decline. Although under the dual Control of Thunder and earth, the twelve Arthur duplicants were indeed unable to attack. Other than possessing tougher shells, they couldn’t inflict any substantial damage on Faceless.

However, the focal point of these duplicants’ attacks was the five Qin Tian duplicants.

From a hundred meters away, five Qin Tian duplicants swiftly drew their swords. Pale bone swords tore through space, appearing directly around Faceless and instantly carving gruesome wounds upon him.

Under the effects of the True God Dominant Body, the wounds healed rapidly, but not nearly fast enough to keep pace with the damage Qin Tian’s duplicants inflicted.

If Arthur was the strongest shield, then Qin Tian could be considered the sharpest sword.

Disregarding distance, cleaving space, and wielding the incredibly explosive Profound Sword Technique...

For a time, the entire battlefield was filled with flying Sword Lights, and the roar of explosions was incessant.

A total of seventeen duplicants showed Faceless absolutely no mercy, intent on driving him to his death!

...

But Qin Tian’s situation was different from Faceless’s...

Sword Qi was indeed flying everywhere, but it wasn’t the life-or-death struggle one might have imagined.

Three Qin Tian duplicants formed a perfect encirclement, completely trapping Qin Tian within their attack range, yet they made no further moves.

The signal conveyed by the three duplicants to Qin Tian was crystal clear: ”Don’t move. Stay here quietly, and we can discuss anything...”

And considering the power disparity, Qin Tian truly couldn’t make a move—for him, managing to tie down three of his own duplicants was already more than he could ask for...

Currently, Qin Tian felt more than just confusion; he was primarily tense and worried.

This was because, from Arthur’s direction, the violent roar of explosions was drawing ever closer to the Red Stone Hotel.

This meant the flames of war were about to engulf the Red Stone Hotel, this supposed ’safe zone’...

...

「North.」

When thirty-four duplicants appeared on the northern defensive line, no words like ’terrible’ or ’dire’ could adequately describe the situation there.

The nearby city blocks had completely become hunting grounds for the duplicants. Humans and mutant beasts had absolutely no room to resist.

At this moment, Claus was hiding beneath the rubble of a building demolished by an Energy Wave, daring not even to breathe loudly. Peering through the light filtering through cracks in the stones, he observed the situation outside while tightly clamping his hand over the mouth of a professionist beside him, desperate to prevent the man from screaming in agony...

The lower half of the professionist beside Claus had vanished entirely, as if vaporized.