12dz Chapter 89 Declaration: Time
Chapter 89 Declaration: Time
The author unleashed the third bomb – Bites the Dust – rewinding time to an hour earlier.
Xing Liang walked out of the VIP lounge with a gloomy face, waved away the staff who tried to approach, and headed straight for the door.
Because of the presence of the Royal City Stele, he was unable to activate the Defender's ability, and after entering the Royal City, his psychic power could only cover a one-meter radius around himself.
However, items formed in advance using telekinesis will not disappear, so when he was at the city gate, he wrapped a band of telekinetic energy around everyone's wrist. In case of an emergency, he could sense if the band was broken.
Just now, Daisy and Sera simultaneously broke their bracelets.
As Xing Liang went downstairs, he ran into Men Te, who was coming to the lounge to find him.
"Teacher Nianzhong, someone is looking for you..."
"I'm busy. Also, please settle my bill."
He tossed the membership card to Ment, strode out of the store, and quickly shuffled his deck, pulling out three cards.
Mente opened his mouth as if to say something, but seeing the dark expression on Xing Liang's face, which was so gloomy it could drip water, he realized that something might have happened and chose to keep quiet.
Xing Liang gazed at the four stone tablets in the center of the royal city and placed three cards on the duel disk.
Since the stone tablet suppressed the elf's effect, he dismantled it.
The first face-down card, the Normal Trap Card "Soul of the Tyrannosaurus Rex," is activated, ignoring its Summoning conditions and negating its effects for Special Summoning.
【Tyrannosaurus Rex-Zach】
Above the thick clouds, unnoticed by anyone, the creature once regarded as the guardian beast of this nation appeared silently.
The air currents surged, energy converged, and Zach's entrance destructive effect was about to activate. But unfortunately, it was just an empty shell without a soul. Just as this earth-shattering attack was about to fail, Xing Liang opened the second face-down card.
The Quick-Play Spell Card "Book of the Moon" is activated by targeting "Tyrannosaurus Rex - Zark" and changed to face-down Defense Position.
The pages turned, and the dragon slumbered. But the energy that was about to dissipate was preserved, its aura restrained, ready to be unleashed.
The third face-down card is revealed, and the Quick-Play Spell Card "Cosmic Cyclone" is activated, targeting "Court Rules".
C1 Zack, C2 Book of the Moon, C3 Cosmic Cyclone
No chain reaction, the effect is satisfactory, proceed with treatment.
A strange breeze drifted leisurely toward the "Court Rules," and unnoticed, it touched the stone tablet.
One second later, the stone tablet began to twist and collapse from the center, and even the sound of it shattering was swallowed up. Apart from Xing Liang, who was staring at the stone tablet, no one noticed that the stone tablet was disappearing.
Then, the dazed dragon spewed energy, its aura concealed by the Book of the Moon, at the remaining stone tablets.
Without the protection of the "court rules," the remaining three stone tablets developed spiderweb-like cracks...
Ignoring the clamor of the crowd below, Xing Liang, after confirming that the [Skill Extraction] stone tablet had completely shattered, summoned the psychic defender and recited the opening words for tonight's execution:
"Declaration: Time".
Xing Liang had thought about this a long time ago: the declaration of the psychic defender could erase the effect of a card from the rules, and even a card with full resistance would not be spared.
What would happen if he declared a person's name, or the name of something, or even some abstract concept outside of the duel?
The result is satisfactory; processing will begin.
Smash Varudo!
From a normal person's perspective, Xing Liang vanished into thin air. Then, at the same time, the people surrounding Sera and the others disappeared, and Xing Liang reappeared in that alley.
Although he felt very sorry for the sanitation workers who cleaned the trash cans the next day, Xing Liang couldn't find a place to dispose of the body for the time being.
After extracting the information he wanted and the final rendezvous location from those people, he once again declared that he had arrived at the church outside the city.
It was a small village church, some distance from the town center. Its dilapidated state from years of neglect meant that no one would usually approach it, let alone in the evening.
Using his telekinesis, he sensed that someone was hiding behind the church door (if time truly stopped, even the movement of light particles would cease, and people would be unable to see anything; therefore, the protagonist here continuously releases telekinesis around himself, like sonar, to locate the person). He controlled the telekinetic chains to pass through the church's glassless windows, hovering at the temples of the two individuals, and then released the time stop, piercing their heads.
(When time stops, the state of all atoms is fixed. In other words, when time stops, you can only move objects but cannot change their state. To destroy this, you have to cancel the time stop.)
Pushing open the creaking wooden door, Xing Liang walked past the two corpses without looking to either side. After searching the entire church, he found the downward staircase under the pastor's pulpit.
As he descended the stairs, he came to a heavy wooden door, and without thinking, he began to knock.
Hello, food delivery!
After a short period of time.
Xing Liang rubbed his temples, looked around, trying to find a place to sit down and rest, and said as if to himself:
"Phew, to be honest, I really regret it."
He found a chair and tore a piece of cloth from the still-bleeding corpse to wipe away the bloodstains.
"Sigh, I shouldn't have been lazy and chosen to go to the card shop. The card shop is so safe, I should have let Reishardt lead the team. I wanted to use less Nen, but now look what happened, not only did I use more, but I also overdraw my Nen."
Avoiding the pieces of entrails on the ground, I found a relatively clean spot, placed a chair, and sat down.
"This body isn't mine. At first, there was no problem, but the more I use my mental power, the more this body rejects me."
After arriving in this world, my phone and backpack were fine, but my body and clothes were not right.
The clothing tags were gone, his fingerprints couldn't unlock his phone, and most importantly, his blood type changed on the test report when he was hospitalized.
This means he has died on Earth, and only his soul and personal belongings from when he died have come to this world. This is not his body, which explains why he suffers from unbearable pain every day even though the hospital test results show no problems.
How could a hospital possibly detect a rejection between the soul and the body? Ordinary painkillers are ineffective; only special painkillers that numb the nerves can alleviate this deep-seated pain.
Xing Liang squinted, trying to see the person in front of him clearly, but after several unsuccessful attempts, he had to give up.
"My eyesight is so bad now that I can't see people clearly even if we're face to face. Everything is just a blurry patch of color in my eyes. Without using my telekinesis, I have difficulty even taking care of myself. But if I use my telekinesis again, I'll probably go blind."
Taking a few deep breaths of the slightly fishy air to calm his rapid breathing, Xing Liang continued in a low voice, "Because of the rejection, every heartbeat and every flow of blood drives me crazy with pain. The painkillers are almost out of effect. If I increase the dosage, I'll probably die suddenly from improper medication before I can't bear the pain and commit suicide."
His mental power enveloped Xing Liang's pupils again, turning his slightly grayish black eyes back into emerald green. He sat up straight and approached the man slumped on the ground.
"But I still don't know who killed me, Xiaoya hasn't gone back yet, and there are still those who could threaten my family. Tell me, how can I close my eyes in peace? How can I die in peace?"
The man, sprawled on the ground, shook his head frantically, letting out weak whimpers, tears of fear streaming silently down his face. He wanted to run, to scream, but all four of his limbs had been broken by Xing Liang, and a severed hand of his companion was stuffed into his mouth.
Blood was still dripping from the severed limb. He wanted to gag, but with his mouth blocked, he could only swallow the mouthful of blood.
The man had given up begging Xing Liang for mercy; the demon before him would never let him go, and the corpses scattered on the ground were proof enough.
Piercing throats, twisting skulls, disemboweling... the deaths of each person were extremely gruesome. They were not suicide soldiers; in fact, they had already stopped fighting and surrendered when the second person died.
But Xing Liang refused.
"It's because of you that my aversion has gotten worse. You bastards, feel my pain!"
The door was sealed shut by Xing Liang's telekinetic power, leaving them nowhere to escape.
Surrender was not allowed, resistance was futile, and in despair, they were slaughtered by Xing Liang until only one man remained.
All he wants now is for Xing Liang to give him a quick death.
Xing Liang didn't keep the man for intelligence; the leader of this group was one of the corpses he threw into the trash can, and the leader revealed everything that should and shouldn't have been said.
They were just lowly soldiers, and this dungeon was merely one of the strongholds where elves were imprisoned. Their contact with their superiors was only one-way, making it impossible to trace their origins.
They did clarify their purpose: to absorb power, revive Zach, and seize power.
Boring as hell.
The reason the man is still alive is because Xing Liang needs to confide in someone; he has too many secrets bottled up inside, but he doesn't want anyone to know.
"You should have guessed it by now. I am a deceased person, a deceased person who has been resurrected through a body."
The man who knows Xing Liang's secret is destined to die.
Xing Liang placed his finger on the man's forehead, and his mental power pierced through the skull, shattering his brain and giving him a final release.
The elves in the dungeon huddled in the corner of their cells, trembling, because Xing Liang's voice wasn't loud, so they didn't hear what he said.
"Ugh... I'm so tired. You all died a quick and painless death, but I have to grit my teeth and keep living. What the hell is this?"
No one answered his question, because the dead cannot speak.
[Skill Extraction] The stone tablet was destroyed, and the elves imprisoned here regained their abilities, but they remained silent because Xing Liang was still here.
They had witnessed this human kill those who had captured them in the blink of an eye, so killing them would probably be even easier.
The murderous aura emanating from that human was almost tangible; who would dare to mess with him?
Xing Liang glanced at the cells and took out a stack of blank magic cards.
"Those who want to leave, come in yourself; those who don't, stay here and fend for yourselves."
He was truly exhausted. The mental strain from repeatedly launching large-scale declarations, coupled with the drowsiness caused by the painkiller he had just taken, meant that Xing Liang had only managed to stay awake this far because of his anger.
Half of her anger stemmed from the group's attempt to kidnap Sera, and the other half from witnessing the elves' miserable state in the dungeon.
There are many humanoid female elves among the elves. If your favorite sister appeared in front of you in person, completely defenseless, what would you do?
Their plan to revive Zach requires a large amount of elven power, so they must ensure that the elves are alive.
In other words, as long as you don't die, it's fine.
These people all deserved to die.
Xing Liang withdrew his gaze from the depths of the dungeon, slapped the stack of magic cards on the table, and sat down in his chair to fall into a deep sleep, completely unconcerned that the elves would harm him.
Xing Liang was asleep, but the telekinetic defenders weren't.
The defender picked up the blank magic card and approached the cell. After hesitating for a moment, the elves transformed into streams of light and entered the blank magic card.
Victorica stared blankly at Xing Liang, who was asleep in the chair, muttering to herself.
"The dead cannot be brought back to life..."
Because she fought to the death, although she is now disheveled, at least she has not yet been harmed.
Years later, every time Xing Liang and Mi Te thought about this incident, they would go crazy with anger, and then they would run to find Halakti to duel until their anger subsided before leaving the realm of gods.
Just then, the wooden door that Xing Liang had sealed with his telekinetic power was broken open by brute force, and two masked men in white robes burst into the dungeon.
Both the defenders and the man in the white robes were stunned.
The defender was stunned because there were other enemies, while the man in white was stunned because he saw the corpses all over the ground.
"Holy crap, what kind of psychopathic killer has come here?"
Judging from the patterns on the masks, the newcomers were the "criminals" who had taken Mo Yu away.
"Was this... done by the Order of the Fathers?"
Judging from the voice, the other person in white robes was Mo Yu, who had also joined the "convicts".
The "criminals" who took him away that day told him that one of the "criminals'" missions was to rebel against the Order of the Church. Knowing that he could not take revenge on his own, Mo Yu joined the "criminals" without hesitation.
Xing Liang: zZzZ…
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