Chapter95 I want to know you
"Foolish worm, how can the Bishop's summoning of the dead have such a laughable limitation. Do you feel despair? The limitless army of the undead will tear you to pieces!"
The Arch-Cardinal was floating high in the sky as he laughed in a cruel and ruthless manner.
The eighty red-colored skeleton soldiers held a bone saber in hand and wore a suit of armor. They charged at Shi Xiaobai the moment they appeared. That lone, trembling ordinary skeleton soldier seemed to find its courage when it found its cadres.
When Xiao Xiao saw this scene, she was both nervous and curious. She could not understand the Arch-Cardinal mode of actions. If the undead summoning did not have the limitations as she said, why didn't he just directly summon a gigantic army and overwhelm them?
Time was likely something very valuable for the Arch-Cardinal.
The Church of Virtuality's acts of terror were typically carried out in the real world. The virtual world was only the place where they "lured talent". This was because once a parishioner of the Church of Virtuality did anything big in the virtual world, the various statistics that were connected to the World Divine Realm would reveal their location in the real world. This could be said to be fatal for a terrorist who was hiding from the authorities.
The existence of the Church of Virtuality had once caused the virtual competitive industry to decline, but the various countries could not harden their hearts to ban virtual competition. Firstly, there was a reliance on this piece of technology and secondly, the danger caused by the Church of Virtuality in the virtual world was nothing compared to calamity fiends or astral beasts.
If every parishioner of the Church of Virtuality could freely invade the virtual world like the Arch-Cardinal, or even cause the system to crash and the death of players, then would there be any reason for the virtual competitive industry to exist any further?
The Arch-Cardinal definitely had paid a huge price and taken a huge risk for the present situation to occur. But even so, he still had the limitation of being unable to attack in this world.
Hence, the most important thing for the Arch-Cardinal was time. To reduce the risk of exposing his location, it only made sense for him to end the battle as soon as possible. Why did he use an attacking strategy that sent wave after wave that gradually increased in strength?
"Time!"
Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up slightly. "Different levels of undead summoning requires a different casting time!"
Xiao Xiao finally understood why the Arch-Cardinal was using an attacking method with a gradual growth. There was no other reason—Shi Xiaobai was too fast with his killing. Furthermore, every time he was done, he would taunt the Arch-Cardinal with the words "anymore"!
The Arch-Cardinal could not tolerate such humiliation and gave up on a long casting time. After Shi Xiaobai was done with a wave, he would immediately use the undead summoning again. As such, even though the undead summoning was being improved every time, its increase was not that much!
Xiao Xiao found the reason quite amusing, but immediately became alert.
"Once the speed at which the army is cleared slows down, the next undead summoning will become stronger."
Realizing this gave Xiao Xiao a huge fright. At this moment, Shi Xiaobai was battling eighty red skeleton soldiers. If nothing surprising happened, the next wave would be a hundred and sixty, but once he slowed down due to exhaustion, the next wave might even increase to three hundred and twenty.
Their situation was currently no different from wading upstream!
She could not let the pervert wade alone. She had to move the two oars as well!
With this thought in mind, Xiao Xiao immediately raised her crystal bow, and shot out a Psionic Arrow!
"Peng!"
Xiao Xiao's eyes could not help but widen as the arrow hit a red skeleton soldier in the peripheral. All it did was cause a few bones to break!
Although she had used ordinary archery techniques in order to conserve Psionic Power, the red skeleton soldiers' defenses caught her by surprise. The defense was more than a grade higher than the normal skeleton soldier from before.
Xiao Xiao turned her head to look at Shi Xiaobai, who appeared to be swimming in a crowd of red skeleton soldiers. With that, she was completely dumbfounded. Although his dodging took more time because he was heavily surrounded, Shi Xiaobai's speed at killing the skeleton soldiers did not slow down. The red skeleton soldiers were as weak as tofu under his blade. They shattered to the ground upon contact.
Apparently, the knife technique was called Pig Slaughtering Knife?
That sure was some fucking divine Pig Slaughtering Knife!
For the first time, Xiao Xiao found her intelligence lacking. Gritting her teeth, she raised her crystal arrow and shot out another arrow. This time, the arrow was "Crimson Netherworld" that contained her grievance!
"Boom!"
With an explosion, a large swath of skeleton soldiers was reduced to smithereens.
The corner of Xiao Xiao's lips suffused a slight smile as she regained a bit of her confidence. However, her tiny face scrunched up once again. In order to produce a Psionic Arrow that could be the medium for "Crimson Netherworld", the arrow had consumed a great deal of her Psionic Power. At this rate of consumption, her remaining Psionic Power could only allow her to produce a few more "Crimson Netherworld" shots.
But...
"Crimson Netherworld!"
Xiao Xiao gritted her teeth and resorted to Crimson Netherworld once again. She felt the pinch as she experienced the loss of her Psionic Power.
"Boom!"
Another skeleton soldier was blown to smithereens by the arrow.
Under the combined efforts of Shi Xiaobai's Pig Slaughtering Knife and her Crimson Netherworld, the wave of skeleton soldiers was quickly cleared. The Arch-Cardinal appeared dumbfounded as he fell into inaction.
A sly smile suffused on Xiao Xiao's lips as she faced the Arch-Cardinal and deliberately taunted, "Any~more?"
"Courting death!" The Arch-Cardinal immediately gave an angry laugh. With another wave of his hand, the door of darkness appeared before red skeleton soldiers walked out with surging killing intent.
Xiao Xiao scanned and immediately smiled. There was indeed only eighty red skeleton soldiers for this wave! Her guess was correct. The longer the casting time, the stronger the undead summoning would become!
"Since you are such a cardinal, then don't blame me for a little scheming."
Xiao Xiao found the Arch-Cardinal truly stupid. As long as he held back with a bit of tolerance, he could produce a gigantic wave of skeletons to drown them to death. The battle would be over, but he...
Xiao Xiao felt somewhat lucky. The path she took was a stable and safe academic route since she was a genius that had been pampered from her childhood. Although she appeared composed on the surface, she had never experienced true danger. She only experienced such a life and death situation when she was still very little.
When she first encountered the Arch-Cardinal, she was startled at the beginning. She even felt a tinge of despair after knowing that the virtual system had crashed.
But...
Xiao Xiao focused her eyes on the dancing youth who was appearing everywhere amidst the pile of skeleton soldiers. He was elegant and appeared like a cold grim reaper. He wore a funny clown costume, and was using funny Crab Steps and a knife technique with the name of Pig Slaughtering Knife, but this actually gradually settled down her panicked heart.
This was the coolest clown she had ever seen.
"We have been saved."
As Xiao Xiao told herself in her heart, a smile appeared under her veil as arrow after arrow of Crimson Netherworld was shot.
"As long as enough time is delayed, Grandpa will definitely think of a way to save us. We just need to hold on a little longer and we will be able to leave this world that has reality turned on its head."
She opened her mouth, but no sound came out of it.
"When the time comes, I want to know you."
...
The final skeleton soldier was shattered to bone rubble by Shi Xiaobai's Pig Slaughtering Knife. The eighty skeleton soldiers wave was once again completely wiped out.
Xiao Xiao was just about to carry on taunting when she saw the hovering Arch-Cardinal slowly rise up. He was floating several hundred meters high, but he did not continue summoning the undead. Instead, he calmed down like a statue.
Suddenly, a black glow appeared from the Arch-Cardinal's hands.
Streams of black gas began to emit from the ground as they surged towards the sky, into his cassock. A dark wail resounded through the sky as if it was the roar of a ferocious ghost.
Shi Xiaobai immediately shouted, "Be careful, the little pig is going to use his super move!"
Xiao Xiao: "..."
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Chapter96 Door of Darkness
Exactly as Xiao Xiao guessed, the undead’s strength that were summoned depended on the casting time. Due to Shi Xiaobai's taunting, The Arch-Cardinal had choose not to hold back for a bigger and more powerful move. Instead, he would immediately summon the undead once a wave of skeleton soldiers was destroyed.
By considering the Arch-Cardinal's actions, be it taking the risk to forcibly intrude into this world or lose his calm and composure from Shi Xiaobai's taunting, it was easy to tell that the Arch-Cardinal had a high opinion of himself but had an easily enraged heart made out of glass.
Xiao Xiao keenly sensed this point and planned to use it to buy time.
Although her imagination was perfect, reality was cruel. Despite possessing a heart of glass, the Arch-Cardinal did not have a brain made of tofu. He could not have become an Arch-Cardinal in the Church of Virtuality if he was that stupid.
He knew how the risk increased the longer he stayed in this world. After he struggled for a moment, he finally decided to choose the most secure method. In fact, this was what he should have done from the very beginning, but he had let his anger get to his head.
But it was still not too late!
As the black gas constantly rose up from the ground, they surged into the black halo in Arch-Cardinal's palm. The heaven and earth resounded with the wails of ferocious specters as an eerie atmosphere enveloped the jungle, turning it to a shade of gray.
The next undead summoning would end everything.
...
Xiao Xiao spaced out slightly as she realized the gravity of the situation.
The Arch-Cardinal was using all his strength to channel the undead summoning, and it would definitely be a level that could crush them.
"We have to interrupt his channeling!"
Xiao Xiao hurriedly shouted at Shi Xiaobai, who was about a thousand meters away. However, she seemed to realize something after she shouted. She could only shake her head with a wry smile plastered across her face.
The Arch-Cardinal was obviously quite afraid of Shi Xiaobai's Pig Slaughtering Knife. He deliberately flew to a height of a hundred meters to channel his super move. Unless Shi Xiaobai could fly, there was nothing they could do to the Arch-Cardinal.
The only person who could interrupt the Arch-Cardinal's channeling was her!
However, could her arrow break through the Arch-Cardinal's defenses?
Xiao Xiao smiled bitterly, but her eyes immediately turned resolute. Regardless of the outcome, she had to give it a try.
Xiao Xiao raised her crystal arrow and aimed at that cassocked figure. Psionic Power surged to her fingertips from her body, condensing into a hard Psionic Arrow. As she pulled the bow open, she took a deep breath and released the arrow!
"Crimson Netherworld!"
Xiao Xiao did not dare to have any reservations for this arrow.
"Boom!"
A black barrier suddenly flashed, blocking the arrow in mid air!
"Barrier of Darkness!" Xiao Xiao sighed. If WindWithoutTrace could be protected by the Barrier of Darkness, it was only natural for the Arch-Cardinal to also be protected by the Barrier of Darkness.
Just thinking back on how the Barrier of Darkness could perfectly withstand four of her Crimson Netherworld arrows, she immediately felt somewhat discouraged. She could not even cause the Barrier of Darkness to quiver with crystal arrows, what more Psionic Arrows that were one grade lower in hardness?
Against this black barrier, the weak her was powerless.
Suddenly a voice shouted from afar.
"This barrier is ten times weaker than before!"
Xiao Xiao hurriedly traced where the sound came from and she saw Shi Xiaobai's figure disappearing into the jungle. Despite that, his voice still echoed out of the jungle into her ears.
This sentence was specifically meant for her.
Wait, did this pervert said the Barrier of Darkness was ten times weaker than before?
How did he tell?
After a moment of thought, Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up. If she did not remember wrongly, Vision of God had an ability known as "Eyes of Numeric Data". It could reduce all sorts of information into numbers. If Shi Xiaobai possessed the Eyes of Numeric Data, then he could indeed see how much the Barrier of Darkness had weakened.
However, wasn't this little pervert's Vision of God "Discerning Weakness"?
Xiao Xiao was somewhat puzzled. Although there were many forms and abilities for the Six Senses of God, there had been no records of people having multiple abilities or having such amazing abilities. Theoretically speaking, "Eyes of Numeric Data" and "Discerning Weakness" could not coexist in the same pair of eyes.
Xiao Xiao shook her head and flung her doubts temporarily away. She did not have the time to consider these academic issues.
"It appears that when the Arch-Cardinal is channeling his skill, he is unable to place emphasis on his defense, which results in the Barrier of Darkness being ten times weaker."
Upon coming up with the most reasonable judgment, Xiao Xiao felt a glimmer of hope rise up in her heart.
Since the Barrier of Darkness had weakened by ten times, it was still possible for her to shatter it!
Xiao Xiao released her Psionic Power again as she formed a new Psionic Arrow.
...
Moments later, Xiao Xiao languidly lowered her crystal bow.
Ten times. She had shot "Crimson Netherworld" a total of ten times. She had used all her strength to shoot ten "Crimson Netherworld" consecutively. But in the end, the Barrier of Darkness did not shatter. It did not even have the slightest tremor!
Didn't he say that it was ten times weaker?
Xiao Xiao faintly sighed as she looked up into the sky. The black halo that was gradually condensing was becoming extremely large. It was slowly forming the outline of a gigantic door.
Xiao Xiao could not imagine how many undead legions would pour out once the Arch-Cardinal was done channeling his super move. It was probably a number that would throw them into a state of complete despair.
"Is this the end?"
Xiao Xiao's lips trembled slightly as she felt a tinge of despair.
But at that moment, a shout suddenly resounded from the jungle. A figure suddenly appeared in mid air!
Xiao Xiao focused her eyes as her pupils constricted violently. The figure that had leaped high into the air was none other than Shi Xiaobai. With a knife in hand, he stabbed into the sky with his Pig Slaughtering Knife, as though he wanted to poke through the black fog that filled the sky.
However, the highest height Shi Xiaobai reached from jumping was only slightly more than ten meters.
As for the Arch-Cardinal, he was situated about a hundred meters in the sky.
His knife had without any suspense, stabbed into nothingness. After struggling in mid air for half a second, Shi Xiaobai fell to the ground in a funny posture.
What was this fool doing?
Xiao Xiao was dumbfounded.
Just as she was in a daze, she saw Shi Xiaobai rapidly ge
tting up from the ground. This time, she saw the entire process.
She saw Shi Xiaobai look around his surroundings to find a relatively tall tree. Next, he climbed up the tree like a monkey. After reaching the top, he would stagger to stand up before leaping high into the sky.
However, the tallest trees in the jungle were still less than twenty meters tall. His jump was destined to never touch the Arch-Cardinal, who was a hundred meters high!
Without any suspense, Shi Xiaobai failed, but he immediately got up and continued repeating these attempts that were impossible to succeed.
"Does this fool think he can jump ninety meters?"
Xiao Xiao fell into stunned silence, but for some reason, she felt somewhat upset.
She was very tempted to yell at Shi Xiaobai, "Give up. You are doing something foolish." However, it was as though there was a fish bone stuck in her throat, preventing her from saying anything.
If this was in the past, she would definitely scoff at such ridiculous behavior. She might even secretly mock in her heart.
However, at this moment, her eyes turned slightly red.
She was somewhat touched, but it was mostly guilt.
As she was about to give up, he was still persisting with his laughable efforts.
He was still hopeful when facing the huge distance of ninety meters.
As for her, she had felt despair when she looked at the few centimeters where her fingers moved when releasing an arrow.
He did not say "don't give up" to her. He did not request for her to persist on in this life-and-death juncture. He was just silently giving his all without wavering in his resolve. He was doing everything within his power.
As for her...what did she do?
"What a fool."
Xiao Xiao exhaled. Her heart felt like something was slipping away, but it also felt like something was filling it up.
She raised her crystal bow as streams of white Psionic Power surged out from her fingertips, gradually forming a Psionic Arrow.
Not enough! Not enough! Not enough!
Xiao Xiao gritted her teeth and did not stop releasing her Psionic Power. The white energy constantly flowed into the Psionic Arrow, condensing it into a harder and more solid arrow.
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