Apocalypse: Master of Soul Beasts

”We won’t know until we fight...”

The Faceless was straightforward. The Dream Come True Skill System continuously amplified his strength as the Faceless swiftly shot towards the nearest clown, his hands interweaving black and white light, rapidly transforming into chaos.

It seemed the soul-type powerful expert had left quite a fire in the Faceless’ heart with the instant kill earlier.

Wen Yu, meanwhile, watched the Faceless’ actions closely, hoping to find the real body of the enemy through his ”recklessness,” but an unexpected situation occurred...

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Faceless made contact with one of the clown’s carbon copies, moving extremely quickly, he raised his right hand, chaotic power enveloping his entire fist, and then he violently smashed it towards the clown’s head. However, the feedback sensation caused the Faceless’ pupils to constrict!

A cracking sound echoed, but it wasn’t the clown’s head. Instead, it was the Faceless’ right fist! Accompanied by the cracking of bones, bone fragments protruded, and the Faceless only saw the clown in front of him lightly raise the corners of his mouth, in the next moment, a cold gleam exploded!

A needle-like sleeve sword cleanly pierced into the Faceless’s chest cavity, followed by violent horizontal slicing, instantly creating a slender penetrating wound in the Faceless’s body. Yet this was not the end, accompanied by the echo from all directions of ”Guessed wrong, heee heee heee,” the clowns in mid-air shot forward, quickly surrounding the Faceless!

Like a blooming chrysanthemum...

Cold gleams quickly interwove, with blood and flesh wantonly spraying in the distance, the Faceless surprisingly was dismembered into fragments by the clowns in a short time!

The Blood and Flesh Badge was activated, Ultra Mortal Combat was triggered, Photosynthetic Spirit Motifs were stimulated.

Under this set of life-saving abilities, the Faceless naturally didn’t die, but judging by the recent display, as long as the clowns maintained this level of attack, even if the Faceless didn’t die, he would likely be tormented and battered until eventually meeting death when the Photosynthetic Spirit Motifs were fully activated!

Wen Yu just wanted to rescue, yet the clown’s next move left Wen Yu baffled...

They withdrew!

They paid no heed to the Faceless who was left with only a few pounds of flesh after being dismembered, and after finishing all this, they dispersed to all corners again, with hundreds of clowns floating in the air, hundreds of pairs of eyes fixed tightly on Wen Yu’s main body, once again they voiced:

”Let’s play a game, can you guess which one is me?”

Wen Yu was dumbstruck.

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This guy is tough to handle... Of course, Wen Yu knew this clown was probably the strongest opponent he had ever encountered, yet the clown’s actions still left Wen Yu at a loss.

Hundreds of clowns, each equipped with extremely strong combat abilities, highly powerful attacks, defense capabilities that even the Faceless couldn’t counter, extremely swift speed—from these aspects, the enemy had no weakness whatsoever! Hundreds of such enemies swarming around, even Wen Yu probably had no desire to fight.

However, instead of pushing the advantage to defeat the enemy, he opened his mouth again to ”play a game,” Wen Yu even suspected that this guy’s mental age might be only one year old?

In just the time of that sentence, the Faceless had fully recovered using the healing ability of the Photosynthetic Spirit Motifs, he looked at his boss who was bewildered, then looked at the hundreds of clowns ahead, and for a moment, the Faceless felt neither moving nor staying put was right.

Until Wen Yu voiced out again.

”Continue!”

Continue what? Continue fighting...

Upon hearing the command, the Faceless’ steps hesitated slightly, but eventually, he charged towards another clown.

Thus, the attack was in vain, the chrysanthemum bloomed once more, accompanied by the clown’s wild laughter of ”Guessed wrong, heee heee heee,” the Faceless was dismembered again, the clowns retreated once more.

”Let’s play a game, can you guess which one is me?”

Wen Yu fell silent completely.

This isn’t a battle, it’s a naked mockery...

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”No, it’s not a mockery, it’s just a game.”

The speaker was the Tongtian Immortal Emperor from another direction.

At this time, the Immortal Emperor had already withdrawn the Shadow of the Sky Slaughtering Divine Sword, just hovering in the air, observing the laughing clowns with a face full of wonder.

Wen Yu arched his eyebrows and looked towards the Immortal Emperor.

The Puppet Immortal Emperor used by Bai was very special; it was likely sealed with a part of the Immortal Emperor’s consciousness. In other words, this puppet wasn’t just a mere puppet; he didn’t only have part of the Immortal Emperor’s strength but also his experience and insights.

Hearing the Immortal Emperor’s voice, the clowns all turned to look at the Immortal Emperor, their eyes slowly bloodshot, filled with immense hatred, as if the Immortal Emperor had exposed some secret.

”Let’s play a game, can you guess which one is me?”

The clowns’ voices sounded again, but the Immortal Emperor showed no expression; he merely tilted his head and looked at the clown, and after a while, chuckled and shook his head.

”Turns out, there’s indeed such a thing...”

”What thing?”

Upon hearing Wen Yu’s inquiry, the Immortal Emperor paused briefly before voicing his speculations.

”An upgraded version of conceptual skills... or perhaps known as the power of rules...”

The power of rules... As soon as the Immortal Emperor uttered these words, Wen Yu immediately gained some insight into the clown’s state.

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”Conceptual skills are powerful but ineffective against Level 11 powerful experts. In our eyes, conceptual skills are just that. However, if Origin Energy is used to drive conceptual skills, it can cause some changes.”

”Conceptual skills themselves are a form of rule, whereas Origin Energy is comparable to foundational rules. Combining the two can produce some special changes, both good and bad, for instance, this clown.”

”If my speculation is correct, he should possess a conceptual profession; upon promoting to Level 11, this profession has changed, suggesting it might be some good changes, that he’s mastered some game rules.”

As soon as the Immortal Emperor finished speaking, Wen Yu immediately started pondering, while the clowns just stood still, yet the voice of ”Let’s play a game” became more urgent.

At this, only then did the Immortal Emperor break into laughter: ”Look, it’s like this, this rule is binding us, making us unable to keep up with his speed, break through his defenses, nor fend off his attacks. But it binds him too; within the game, as long as we lose, he’s invincible, but as long as we win, he becomes vulnerable. Of course, the rules are set by him, and winning is extremely difficult, but we can choose not to play this game. If we don’t play his game... can you guess what happens?”

Upon the completion of the Immortal Emperor’s words, Wen Yu immediately cast a peculiar glance at the clown.

”Faceless, come back!”

With a simple command, the Faceless immediately returned to Wen Yu’s side, while Wen Yu merely stared at the clowns, slowly curling a smile at the corners of his lips.

”Try to come over here?”

Provocation sounded; upon hearing this, the clown momentarily stalled in breath...

If he couldn’t play his game, he simply had to rely on his own strength to resolve the battle, and judging by his performance now, his own strength...

Wen Yu raised his middle finger at the clown!

And the clown pretended nothing happened...