Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 495: Chapter 250: Knight of Strife!_2

Joy’s face lost its carefree happiness, leaving only an angry glare. He sat in place without evading, waiting for Wu Chang to continue elbowing him.

Come on! If you have the guts, keep elbowing!

As long as Wu Chang dared to elbow forward, the eighteen Prayer Beads surrounding Joy would pierce eighteen holes into Wu Chang’s body!

Wu Chang saw this, his elbow filled with power, yet he truly did not dare to strike down.

Just as Joy suspected, the Mamba Iron Elbow is a trick move. Facing opponents whose strength exceeds Wu Chang’s, if the first use didn’t create an absolute advantage, subsequent attempts would be hard to succeed.

The reason is simple: the Mamba Iron Elbow can only guarantee a hit when activated, but if the target, like Joy, is surrounded by area Skills, the guaranteed hit of the Mamba Iron Elbow would also ensure a hit from the opponent’s attack, resulting in a situation of trading injuries.

The biggest problem with the Mamba Iron Elbow is that it does not cause damage, only control.

Facing Joy, who can disperse the control of the Mamba Iron Elbow, if Wu Chang hit again, the background music might as well start playing ”See You Again.”

Wu Chang couldn’t bring himself to strike with the elbow, but he had other actions available.

His eyes widened, shouting once more: ”Man!”

Joy immediately became vigilant, retracting the eighteen Prayer Beads around him to ensure no opening for Wu Chang.

However, Wu Chang only shouted loudly, his body utterly unmoving, and, taking advantage of Joy’s hesitation to act hastily, extracted the Four-sided Age Fire Lamp from his space, lighting the wick and throwing it into the white fog Schultz had transformed into.

As soon as the Four-sided Age Fire Lamp touched the air’s mist, its fire spread instantly, igniting the whole fog.

The Age Fire Skill triggered, and when the fire extinguished, Schultz’s nearly collapsed body re-condensed.

This was Wu Chang’s plan from the start, the use of Age Fire needed to be on Schultz.

If Schultz died, leaving him for a 1v1 true man battle with Joy, then Joy could kill him once and kill him a second time, even if he could live a few more times, it wouldn’t be enough for Joy to kill.

Only by joining forces with Schultz, with unified brotherhood, did they have the chance to win.

The Age Fire successfully saved Schultz, but the situation remained grim. The Age Fire merely spared one death but did not bring them back fully alive.

Schultz was only able to re-form his body using the power of Age Fire, yet his mental state remained unstable.

Wu Chang had his suspicions, as Joy previously mentioned that Schultz’s Praise Poem plan was imperfect, and Schultz took a gamble, treating himself as an experimental subject.

Human willpower is finite; Schultz absorbed too many people’s virtues and sins, each virtue and sin created through the entire life effort of its owner and carrying their will.

Schultz’s singular will couldn’t bear so many people’s wills. He managed it hall by the All-knowing Crystal, enabling him to barely control himself while virtues and sins balanced.

But when Joy broke this equilibrium, Schultz’s will directly contacted numerous wills, and his will was instantly scattered by countless wills, plunging into irreversible collapse.

Age Fire could extend his life but could not save it.

Perhaps due to Sean’s memory influence, Wu Chang felt somewhat sorrowful while looking at the pale Schultz.

In contrast, Schultz was exceptionally calm. He didn’t even concern himself with his own situation. Using Mind Communication, he directly spoke to Wu Chang:

”I know you. You’re among the Hymn Hunters. It always warned me to be careful of you; I never expected you to be even stronger than it imagined.”

”My plan has already failed, and my strength is slowly fading. Now, the only thing I can do is weaken him as much as possible and create the most favorable combat environment for you.”

Without waiting for Wu Chang’s reaction, Schultz once again merged with the ground body of the Child of Sin.

This time, he couldn’t transform into an ordinary persona; his body was distinctively black and white.

Forcing the Praise Poem’s power, he re-gathered the collective will of all Fairwilto City citizens, forming black and white energy sky-bound.

Utilizing temporary administrator access, Wu Chang saw Schultz control the Hymn Company to halt Plane Ascension, not only avoiding further integration into the Realm of Reason but even pulling the plane dungeon outward.

Schultz’s voice sounded in Wu Chang’s ear:

”His power comes from a higher-tiered world; the closer to his world we get, the stronger he becomes. Conversely, when we move away from his world, he grows weaker.”

”But I can’t completely disconnect from his world, or I will instantly vanish. If he obtains the All-Knowing Crystal, you will certainly perish.”

Wu Chang glanced at Schultz, his opportunistic cousin, who evidently knew of Abyss Second Layer’s existence, and began the Praise Poem plan from the outset to achieve Plane Ascension.

Just as Joy wondered why Wu Chang was in the Desolate Realm aiming to acquire so many anti-God skills.

Wu Chang was curious about Schultz as well, wondering why someone who could easily be the global richest man aimed for World Ascension, even treating himself as an experimental case.

But this was not the moment for inquiry because another movement came from Joy.

Joy noticed Wu Chang forsook another elbow strike, but no one was certain if Wu Chang wouldn’t unexpectedly deliver another. As such, he ensured the scattered Prayer Beads surrounded him, gradually dispersing them outward.

Confronting other players from the Desolate Realm, Joy would have ended the battle with a single slap. Despite his Resurgence at the Hymn Company plane, his clone could merely exert Level 45 strength. Yet the disparity between Desolate Realm and Realm of Reason wasn’t bridged merely by several Level attributes; it was a gap in realms.”