Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2609: Chapter 1233: Deadly Game · Continuation (IX) - Road to Survival_2

At the moment she regained her ’self’ from the chaos, the woman named Maeve had already gone completely mad.

After that, the increasingly twisted Maeve lived like a walking corpse, sickly. She thought of dying countless times, but would always dream of that Justice Knight, who held a toothpick and candy, though whose name she had forgotten.

She still wanted to see him one more time.

No matter how much she wanted to die, she wanted to see him one last time before doing so.

As long as she could take a look from afar, unnoticed by anyone, it would be enough. She wouldn’t appear before him, wouldn’t speak to him again, and wouldn’t pretend to be scared by the bug in his hand.

After seeing him, she would quietly leave and die.

Let the self that is no longer hers see him one last time, let the once pure self remain in that person’s heart forever. That is Maeve’s only wish.

A wish that is not excessive and should be fulfilled.

However—

[Judging from the current task progress, completing the basic goal shouldn’t be too difficult. Combined with the task rewards, there seems to be hope to achieve about 125%. But after that... it’s totally an impossible survival rhythm.]

Closing the task panel somewhat helplessly, Double Leaf quickly analyzed the structure of the crystal in front of her and sighed softly. If possible, she actually hoped that this woman named Maeve could leave here alive and meet that Justice Knight through the Holy Church Union.

It’s not that Double Leaf was moved, she just didn’t dislike stubborn people, nor did she resent Maeve’s distortions.

[At this rate, another ten minutes should be enough...]

With satisfaction, Double Leaf smiled. Seemingly standing and daydreaming, she was dismantling layer upon layer of Evil Power at an incredible speed. This was not a complicated task for her, although for the real Maeve Xiangluan, it would require a grand ’Counter-Barrier’ to neutralize the arena’s external barrier. But with the body that had magic, and which could perceive both magic and elements, Double Leaf could easily devise a more effective solution.

[Based on the task progress, the real Maeve did not die here either, so she should have ignored the outside alarm directly and started the Counter-Barrier under the interference with others’ support. Haha... so I should count as lowering the task difficulty.]

Glancing at the ’companions’ behind her who were focusing intently and being vigilant, Double Leaf licked the corner of her mouth with pride, then threw aside distracting thoughts, concentrating on speeding up the core dismantling of the barrier, striving to complete the task at hand as soon as possible.

At this moment, accompanied by hurried footsteps, several supervisors rushed in quickly, and after a brief stupor, they roared and launched an attack on everyone in the room.

However, although these people were stronger than normal guards, the prepared spellcasters still succeeded in turning the tables with surging spells, even if the process was not elegant, and even quite brutal, but it extinguished the enemy’s first attack with minimal cost.

Meanwhile, Double Leaf, mastering ’Fertility Magic’, squeezed the Cannibal Magician dry and compressed the small amount of magic power extracted from the latter into a ball, wrapping more than a dozen miniature arrays on the surface. Using the Mage’s Hand, she threw it out.

In the next second, a deafening roar exploded outside the room, leaving the second wave of enemies without even a chance to scream, swallowed by Double Leaf’s hodgepodge [Perpetual Element Storm], while the surviving ones at the rear gazed in terror at the countless [Fireballs], [Wind Blades], [Ice Arrows] pouring in as if at no cost, almost scared out of their wits.

One must know that although these lowest-level spells have no damage individually, making it difficult to break the defense of the average high-ranking supervisors, if these amounts become double or even triple digits, especially in such a narrow space, anyone not reaching Epic Level will surely suffer. Look at those few unlucky fools who were swept into the core position immediately, twisted to pieces unexpectedly.

If it were only a single-element spell, like a hundred [Fireball Techniques], but under this mix where all elements are basically integrated, even without considering the direct lethal spread, the reaction between elements alone is already lethal.

What troubles these supervisors most is that these indiscriminate magic torrents and element explosions all occur in the corridors where they stand, not reaching the thick composite magic shield at the door, and dispersing anytime soon is out of the question either.

To speak the truth, the magic that Double Leaf just cast, which she whimsically named [Perpetual Element Storm], absolutely meets Epic Threshold on the lethality level. However, strictly speaking, this is a one-time consumption spell, theoretically non-replicable.

The reason is simple because that compressed Magic Treasure Bead, the size of a fingernail, doesn’t conventionally exist, only condensed by borrowing the victim’s life force through Maeve’s ’Fertility Magic’. Its magic content is basically equivalent to a high-level mage’s total magic power, and what Double Leaf did was simply arrange an elemental cycle array around it and a heap of low-rank element arrays that can repeatedly recharge.

Honestly, this doesn’t count as magic, but rather a malformed magic scroll that Double Leaf accidentally created when realizing she couldn’t utilize the entire magic power from the Cannibal Magician.

Though the principle isn’t complex, thinking of and immediately applying this trick within a few seconds showcases that Double Leaf has almost turned the concept of ’magic’ into an art.

Anyway, due to this unexpected gain, those supervisors at the door were stalled for over three minutes until two Gray Lizard Hunting members, clad in lead-colored heavy armor, came to break the stalemate.

Their handling method was equally straightforward and brutal. The person on the left suddenly grabbed a supervisor beside them and threw him directly into the center of the element storm. While the other followed closely, pulling out the long spear from the side of the [Poison Horn Gray Lizard] under his crotch at a certain distance, piercing right through the supervisor before him and directly striking that unstable Magic Treasure Bead in mid-air.

"Follow up."

Issuing a cold command, the Gray Lizard Hunting member, who casually threw someone out, rode the mount and rushed over.

In fact, with their strength and this set of equipment, they could have broken through that self-collapsing storm bead without using that supervisor as a shield; it would just be slightly troublesome, that’s all.

However, the Gray Lizard Hunting always hated trouble, especially during task execution.

So, useless waste gets discarded.

Convenient and efficient, killing two birds with one stone.

Boom—

Two red-glowing Poison Horns directly pierced through the several layers of defensive shields at the door, and without any hesitation, let the mounts use the [Fire Poison Burst], usable only once every half month. Both outside Gray Lizard Hunting members then walked in ostentatiously.

"Hehe, the little darling has quite some guts."

Spotting Maeve standing on the central platform of the room at a glance, the leading Gray Lizard Hunting member grinned, infusing the battle energy into the highly magic-resistant heavy armor on them: "Do you believe I could kill you right no..."

"Kill him."

Double Leaf casually commanded.

Then... that person was killed by the spellcasters he so gravely underestimated, conservatively hit by at least a dozen high-level single-target spells, not a complete body part left.

"Fuck you."

Double Leaf sneered, spitting on the ground—

"Idiot."

Chapter 1233: The End