by Chen Ran
Zero didn't mind the change happening to his body. To him, power was more important than maintaining the human form. Moreover, Zero did not believe that being able to be called a human was determined by the shape of the body. To him, having a human mind was more important than having a physical model of existence.
Persistence, not giving up, is precisely the quality that humans possess, so they are good at creating miracles.
The road they were coming from was getting further and further away, and they had no idea how far they had to go before they could reach the destination. However, on this path, there were already three companions who would never be able to return.
Johnny, Ma Pei, Agatha. Zero thought of them silently in his heart and engraved these three names in his mind forever. As long as he did not forget these adorable people, they would always be able to live within the heart of zero.
This is another form of immortality.
Zero no longer felt sad, the cruelty of the new era did not leave him much time to grieve. Moreover, life was originally a cycle of life and death. Even though there were three less familiar figures in the three carriages, there was still an additional young child.
Hedwig Joe Elizabeth, the child who had not even been Johnny's student for a day, had lost her mentor forever. However, Zero had already decided in place of Johnny to teach this child. Hedwig had potential, in the future, she would become an outstanding warrior like Johnny. In fact, it even surpassed him!
On the short-haired girl, Hedwig, the figure of another child could be seen. Where was this girl with long, pale hair like the Milky Way? If at that time, Zero possessed her current strength and identity, perhaps Moni wouldn't have to leave.
If it were not for the fact that Zero did not have enough strength, he would not have to lose so many respectable and adorable people.
I'm not strong enough.
His hand, which had been placed on the floor of the car, quietly clenched into a fist.
"Do you want something to eat?" Su who was sitting in the front passenger seat looked up and handed Zero a can of meat.
Zero smiled and said, "Thank you. I'm not hungry. You all can eat. "
It was not a courtesy, but a fact. After Agladis's modifications, the accuracy of Zero's food intake had increased to an inhuman level. If his previous life system was only efficient, now it was a squeezed out grab for food.
After all the food entered the body, it would be squeezed clean and the substance would be dissolved into pure energy, maintaining zero activity. If a normal nutrition tube Su gave her allowed her to maintain Zero Nourishment for a full day, then right now, eating the same amount of food would produce enough energy for three to five days of use.
Moreover, the source of energy from zero was not as simple as food. The pattern of energy intake through food is relatively crude and backward.
But no matter what, when he saw Su, he was fortunate that he did not choose to sleep forever that day. Otherwise, he would lose even more!
At one in the afternoon, the convoy entered a City Ruins. The city was not big, but the facilities were impressive. From the sewage system on the outskirts of the city to the skyscrapers in the center of the city, one could clearly see the prosperity of the past. But now, it only had an incomplete shell.
The Gothic building was barely intact when the car pulled up outside the downtown library. Apart from the broken windows on the first floor, the building was barely damaged. Thus, the servants entered the first floor of the library to clean up. After a short burst of gunfire, the work was over. Two living corpse s and a few Brutal Rats were dragged out of the library by the servants and casually thrown into the ruins of a building on the other side of the street.
Soon, sounds of muscles tearing echoed from the shadow of the ruins.
All of this was in exchange for a safe and temporary rest for the members of the caravan.
Everyone sat in a circle on the ground, enjoying the various meat products and pure water that the servants had heated up. At the same time, they also loudly discussed Jodtenheim's battle that almost made people lose hope. After that huge battle, Berrien's body had clearly changed. He no longer proudly left the group, but sat together with the others. Although they were still smiling like before, their relationship was much more harmonious than before.
Looking at Berrien, Zero suddenly remembered how determined he was when he insisted on staying behind with her to stall Lilith. From that moment onwards, Zero saw Berrien as his true comrade.
As if he had noticed Zero looking at him, Berrien said coldly, "Don't look at me, I don't have a strange orientation."
Feng who was drinking water could not control himself from spraying all over Jonah's body when he heard this. The pitiful Jonah who was holding a plate of fried calf that was covered with Feng's saliva caused Su and Hedwig, the two beautiful girls, to laugh out loud.
No wonder why it was said that a man's friendship was built on the wine table and on the battlefield. Indeed, it was not bad. Zero Heart said.
Just as he was about to destroy the food on his plate, Zero suddenly felt alarmed.
The next moment, there was a sharp sound of something breaking through the air. Zero bounced off the ground and darted to the window. Looking out, a missile that reflected the light of the sky soared high into the sky, then turned a corner. The tail of the missile shot out thick white smoke in a perfect arc in the air in the direction of the library.
Su Leng said, "It seems that someone does not welcome us home."
Chapter 348 - Return (V)
At the window, Zero raised his hand and held the sniper rifle. However, he didn't have any weapon in his hand. In the blink of an eye, a sniper rifle appeared in his hand. Looking at the pattern, it was the Colt that was previously destroyed in the Cossacks' base.
This was the strength that Agrandizia had granted him, as well as the materialization of his Discipline. It was just that Zero thought that the giant sniper rifle would appear, but he did not expect the Colt to appear. He was stunned for a moment before laughing, "So in my heart, you are more qualified to be a sniper rifle?" Then, let us fight together again, Colt! "
The barrel stuck out of the window, aimed, and snapped. From the long barrel of the reborn Colt, a mass of energy shot out. The energy instantly turned into live ammunition and exploded into air waves. Almost at the same time, the missile in midair exploded into an orange fireball.
At this distance, the distance between the missile and the library was only 142 meters!
However, this was just a signal to attack. Figures flashed outside the library, at least five to six capable fighters were rushing towards them.
"Su and the servants, stay behind. Everyone else, come together and let us welcome these guests!"
While speaking, Zero went out of the window and when he landed, the Colt in his hand had already disappeared.
Berrien groaned. "Stop giving me orders, and besides, I can take care of these trash myself."
Even though he said so, he left the library. However, he walked slowly, as if he was a nobleman attending a banquet. He didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. As Berrien strolled, both of his hands were intertwined with a ball of lightning. When he walked out of the library, thunderous booms followed.
Jonah looked at the figure of Su Li as she said in disbelief: "Heavens, are my eyes playing tricks on me? Zero out of thin air to produce a sniper rifle? What kind of ability is that? "
In Jodtenheim's final battle, the one who stood at the peak of the twelfth step was turned into a Radiant Knight. However, only Su and Feng could see his unrivalled strength falling back to the eighth stage after he fell into a deep slumber. Therefore, Feng and did not inform Jonah and Berrien about the change in Zero. Naturally, Jonah did not know of the true ability of Zero.
But coming back to it, Feng and Su also didn't know what kind of power Zero was controlling right now. Only, Feng knew that after Zero Awakening from the Right Eye of the God, whether it was str
ength or strength, it would only be stronger than his own Hand of God.
Therefore, he patted Jonah's shoulders and said: "It's better to ask him about this in the future. Right now, let's settle these uninvited guests first."
Jonah nodded and quickly ran out of the library with him. In the next second, sounds of fighting and tearing could be heard outside the library, occasionally accompanied by thunderous roars. It must be Berrien's masterpiece.
Battle broke out in the ruins outside the library, and the five people who came to attack were using tactical helmet s to cover their faces. Most of them were warriors of the fifth to sixth step. Although they had great teamwork, the difference between their strength and experience was too great for the few of them.
After experiencing the arduous battle with Jodtenheim, those who survived had all improved in terms of strength. However, what he gained the most was his experience in a battle to the death, as well as the perseverance and tenacity to never give up under the pressure of death.
Therefore, to them, it was just as Berrien had said, the ones with these abilities were just trash. It was just that they didn't need to give any instructions, Feng and the others knew that they had to keep at least one of them alive, so that they could see exactly who was the one who didn't welcome their return.
Zero abandoned the fact that it was clearly a melee ability user outside of the library and headed straight for the missile launch site. Zero's movement speed became even stranger than before. He no longer displayed his fast movement speed, but was instead moving in a flickering motion, similar to jumping through space.
He rushed forward, stepping into the shadow of the ruins. The next second, he appeared in the shadow of a shop on the other side of the street. In this way, Zero shuttled back and forth in the shadows of the various buildings, as if the shadows had become the medium for him to jump through space.
This was a special ability that allowed the wind shooter to advance and become a Shadow Wanderer. It was called the "Shadow Jump". Using shadow as the medium, the short distance space penetration is considered to be a higher moving mode.
When he woke up, he discovered that not only had his body already been modified by Agladis, the energy fragments from his previous evolution had also been shattered by Agladis. Currently, there was only one ability fragment in the zero-degree body, and that was his most important and ultimate ability — materialization of energy.
Agladis had originally intended for Zero to focus all the points of evolution into this ability. The higher the grade of materialization of energy, the higher the damage or defense of the weapon or armor that Zero could discover. As for the Radiant Knight's offensive and defensive battle mode, it was the ultimate use of this ability when it reached the twelfth step.
Not only was he in the Knight mode, but there was also the embodiment of the world's roots, Ranginus. Only a zero materialization could achieve this, which was only possible when he reached the twelfth step. Zero did indeed do the same, and he discovered that after casting the evolution points into this ability, it could only barely reach the eighth step.
The realm of rules was different from other domains. Zero was like the first person to taste a crab. Before this, perhaps no one knew that there was only one ability that could be created in the Edicts. Furthermore, the gene fragment of the ability would tyrannically monopolize everything, not allowing other domains' ability to be formed at all.
However, the materialization ability that he had obtained from Agladis was one of the rules of this world. For energy to produce matter, genes can also be considered a type of substance, so zero can use this ability to simulate the abilities of the other four domains to the same level.
The resident ability of zero choice was the advanced profession of wind shooter, "Shadow Wanderer". This profession strengthened the wind shooter's flexibility, and under the situation where his original ability leveled up, another ability, "Shadow Bind", was born.
Shadow Winding was a disruptive ability. It allowed the opponent in the shadows to be affected by multiple negative states, such as dullness, restrictions, and so on, thereby creating an opportunity for the Wanderer to create an opening for the opponent.
In fact, it was also a high-level occupation. The destroyer of the Fighting Domain, the Thunder God of the Meta-Su Region, the Flame Tyrant, and the Abyss Demon Generals of the mutation domain were all professions with great destructive power. It was just that to Zero, the profession of Shadow Wanderer was more memorable.
More importantly, this profession and ability were more suited to zero appetite.
Zero dove into the shadow of a street lamp and in the blink of an eye appeared at the staircase exit of the roof of a building. With the ability of Shadow Jump, as long as shadows existed, the city would be a zero-degree amusement park. In that short moment when the world warped through space, the world had reverted to its true nature of energy, and zero was freely traversing through the energy channel formed by the shadow and the shadow.
On the rooftop, the wind was blowing fiercely, but it couldn't mess up his vision. In his right eye, his vision was pulled in, revealing a shadow that was constantly hiding itself, moving stealthily in the direction of the library.
Smiling, he retreated into the shadows of the staircase. In an instant, he disappeared again.
Chapter 349 - Return (VI)
Jed was moving at a high speed. He used a cover to hide his body and continued to move in the direction of the library. He and six others were employed by a mysterious employer, and their task was to ambush them and bury a team of adventurers forever in the ruins.
The target was reached at the time set by the employer, indicating that the employer's information was very accurate. As Jed was a sniper, information was life to him. Therefore, when the target appeared on time, Jed started to like this employer a little, thinking that he might be able to receive a few more deals from him in the future.
Jed's team composition was reasonable. He was the leader of the team and was a sniper himself. As for the others, they were the experts of the Fighting Domain, so Jed led his team and established a reputation in the wilderness. The people there called their team "Blood Drop Bullets". This meant that even if Jed and the others targeted the target, they would not be able to escape from Jed's bullets.
Jed liked this name and was proud of it.
When the target appeared, Jed followed his plan and shot a Battle Mecha Missile towards the opponent. The missile had actually landed on a vehicle that was located outside of the library. Jed wanted to destroy their ability to move and act as a deterrent.
Unfortunately, the missile was detonated midway. From the looks of it, the other side also had a sniper.
As a result, while the other members attacked, Jed also began to move. He had to suppress the enemy sniper for the members of his team, or his team would suffer heavy losses.
With a roll, Jed arrived at the back of an abandoned car, and then ran into the alley while crouching. On the other side of the passageway, he could already see the library where his target was, as well as the intense battle taking place outside the library.
But Jed could not believe his eyes, from the time he had ordered the attack until now, only around two minutes had passed. However, two out of Jed's team members were already lying down forever, while the other few could not hold on much longer.
In the group of targets, a proud and aloof man was constantly releasing various types of lightning arcs with his hands, while the other two men were using Tang Dao s and fine swords, using quick and fine combo to force Jed's men to use all their strength to defend.
Obviously, they were all powerful experts, and this was far from what the mercenaries referred to as third-rate mercenaries.
He was cheated!
This was Jed's second thought, but the second thought that came to mind was: Run!
Therefore, Jed turned around, but his eyes suddenly widened. He didn't know when, but a black-haired Asian man appeared in
the shadows at the mouth of the alley. He was looking at himself, his right eye flashing with a strange golden light, like a burning golden flame.
Although he was unarmed, Jed could feel a dangerous aura coming from his body. The opponent was like a deadly killing weapon, a humanoid killing weapon!
Jed didn't know why he thought that way, but this didn't stop him from instinctively pulling out the two submachine guns hidden behind his waist. The automatic pistol that had the appearance of a large beast used small-caliber ammunition. With its small size, high firing speed and high accuracy, it was even favored by the gunners in the wilderness. Although it was a firearm from the old era, in the eyes of a Wild Gunner, it was undoubtedly the best choice for a short distance battle.
Pulling out his spear, aiming at the target, and firing at Jed, Jed did not even take a second to complete this series of actions. He was confident that his opponent would not be able to survive under the rain of bullets from the two submachine guns. After all, they were in a narrow alleyway with solid walls on both sides of the alleyway. There was nothing for them to use as a cover.
However, the moment Jed opened fire, Zero did not have any intention of dodging. He was standing right where he was, but in the shadows of the passageway, there was a little bit of radiance gathering in front of him. As it floated through the air, it turned into a material substance. It was a metal particle with a size of 1 cm. They continued to piece together like a jigsaw puzzle, quickly forming a tower shield that covered his entire body.
When the two submachine guns stopped firing, there were already more than two hundred bullet shells under Jed's feet. Jed stared dumbstruck at the tower shield that was formed out of thin air. Even after racking his brains, he couldn't think of any other ability that could do such a thing.
"You're done? Then it's my turn. " Zero reached out and patted the inside of the tower shield.