Absolute Choice 10

by Pear Lands In The Autumn Spring

Speechless glanced at Sunless, who was in the distance.

  She looked like she was eager to strike, and with her close to madness willpower, it was unlikely for her to succumb to 'Soul Suppression', right?

  However, was it really good to let her join the battle?

  The most important thing to do now was not to defeat Earthbound Yaksha but to kill Field Marshal Awesomo to save Shi Xiaobai!

  The plan could not change, so he could only hold back Earthbound Yaksha himself!

  Speechless decided firmly on the spot as he charged at Earthbound Yaksha once again. At the same time, he shouted at Sunless, "Sunless, try finding an opportunity from the side. Remember, your goal is Field Marshal Awesomo! Leave Earthbound Yaksha to me. You just need to think of ways to kill Field Marshal Awesomo!"

  Sunless nodded and expressed her agreement to his proposal.

  Earthbound Yaksha responded with a sneer, "What's the point of struggling?"

  Struggle?

  A cold smile suffused in Speechless's heart.

  Arrogance was a fatal weakness. People who belittled others would typically pay a terrible price.

  As he was blessed by God, he possessed the most outstanding human genes. He had awakened his S-class superpower—'Mirror Replication'.

  'Mirror Replication' had several usage limitations.

  First, 'Mirror Replication' was automatically triggered. When someone near him used a move, the move would be automatically replicated and stored.

  Second, 'Mirror Replication' could only store ten moves. When the eleventh move was stored, the first move would be deleted.

  Third, the storage time of 'Mirror Replication' only lasted an hour. The move would be deleted after an hour.

  Fourth, moves that surpassed his own strength could not be replicated.

  Although there were many limitations, the usage effects were extremely monstrous. It perfectly matched the evaluation of a 'S-class' superpower. And its effects were—zero energy consumption, zero cost, perfectly stored moves.

  The concept of perfect replication lay in delay time, duration, released strength, and various other aspects. However, Dawn had previously spotted certain flaws in it, proving that it was not perfect replication. It actually had very minute differences.

  Despite the many limitations and flaws, Speechless's superpower still allowed him to have inestimable upper limits to his strength.

  Although Mu Lengxi and company had their attacks interrupted, thankfully, his automatic replication was triggered, so he had stored ten mirrored moves.

  Therefore, he alone was able to complete a plan that needed six people!

  Speechless charged straight at Earthbound Yaksha and used familiar psionic conjuration to construct a psionic samurai sword. His first blade he slashed out was 'Vaiśravaṇa Heavenly Slash'!

  A look of surprise flashed in Earthbound Yaksha's eyes. It never expected that the human was able to ignore its 'Soul Suppression', and was able to slash out a 'Vaiśravaṇa Heavenly Slash' that was extremely close in strength as the one it could produce. However, it faced the attack in a composed manner. It easily shattered the black blade beam as though it was teasing its prey.

  At that moment, Speechless suddenly leaped high into the sky and used psionic power to give him a forward burst. He stayed in mid-air for a few seconds as he quickly chanted, "Vileness Begone From the Heaven and Earth, Mysteries and Gods Encaved in Unfathomable Profoundness, Imbue Me with World Power of the Highest Order, Announcing to the Nine Heavens, Inviting the Purifying Generals and Ambassadors, The Slaying of Demons, A Sending for Myriad Souls..."

  In the short period of time taken to chant, he was able to construct more than a hundred psionic talismans with the stored memories of 'Mirror Replication'. At the final instance of his chant, he scattered the talismans into the sky.

  "Incantation for Purifying the Heaven and the Earth!"

  A divine white light fell from the sky and shot straight at Earthbound Yaksha.

  Liu Yu stared in disbelief.

  However, Earthbound Yaksha only sneered, "Trivial tricks!"

  Following that, it swept its blade towards the sky. Black smoke that billowed immediately devoured the holy light.

  But at the same time, Speechless had already landed. When he stepped on the ground, two bolts of lightning meandered straight at Earthbound Yaksha's feet like snakes.

  "Daw!"

  Earthbound Yaksha shook its head in a mocking fashion. It suavely slashed towards the ground, producing a fine crack. When the bolts struck the crack, they turned to smoke with a sizzle, but lost all momentum to proceed forward.

  However, at that split instant, it was unknown when Speechless managed to traverse more than a kilometer. With psionic spear in hand, he thrust it at Earthbound Yaksha.

  "Courting death?"

  Earthbound Yaksha finally lost its patience as it raised its blade. It was prepared to slice the charging human that did not cherish his life into two. However, just as it raised its blade, it keenly felt something strange.

  A sneer suffused across Speechless's lips. At the moment Earthbound Yaksha was not paying attention to its back, a six-pointed star nexus had already lit up with a gorgeous brilliance.

  Charging head on with a spear was just a trick to divert Earthbound Yaksha's attention. His only target from the very beginning was to use 'Spatial Transference' to move the hiding Field Marshal Awesomo near Sunless!

  "It all depends on you! Sunless!"

  Speechless roared in his heart!

  However, just as he believed his plans had succeeded, he saw Earthbound Yaksha suddenly turn its torso around and stab the ground behind it. It exposed its waist completely to his spear.

  "What!?"

  Speechless did not expect Earthbound Yaksha to so quickly notice his goal, much less expect that it would make such a choice.

  Did it completely turn a blind eye to the damage he could cause?

  Foolish creature, you shall pay the price for your arrogance!

  Speechless thundered angrily as a cold beam preceded before his spear thrust forward like a dragon. It stabbed straight into Earthbound Yaksha's waist, but when it hit its mark, it felt like it had stabbed straight into a mud pool. The spear had been devoured by Earthbound Yaksha's body!

  At the same time, Earthbound Yaksha's black blade had ruptured the six-pointed star array, forcefully ending the channeling of 'Spatial Transference'.

  "Knowest thou not this? Feeble human!

  Earthbound Yaksha sneered as it turned back and slashed 'Vaiśravaṇa Heavenly Slash'!

  Speechless hurriedly retreated but due to the close distance, he was injured by the blade beam despite managing to partially dodge it. The already injured him immediately turned pale as he knelt to the ground.

  So close. Success was so close.

  But he had ultimately failed.

  He never expected that the Earthbound Yaksha could keenly smell the scent of magic, much less expect that its body could turn around in such a freakish manner.

  "As a Yaksha, evil spirits from hell art extremely comptible to magical elements. It is unfortunate. Thou art clever, but thee hadst hath used a wrong strategy."

  Earthbound Yaksha sneered as it raised its blade at Speechless, "Thou art the most dangerous, so it’s most important that thee kicketh the bucket."

  Earthbound Yaksha had identified Speechless as the greatest threat and it had decided not to spare his life.

  From afar, Sunless sighed as she walked towards Earthbound Yaksha with her sword raised.

  Although Speechless had failed, wasting a great deal of her time, the kind her was not one to leave him in the lurch.

  However, in the end, it required Earthbound Yaksha to be defeated before Field Marshal Awesomo could be killed.

  In the end, she still had to battle alone.

  In the end, she still could only trust herself.

  Sunless felt somewhat disappointed.

  Earthbound Yaksha glanced at Sunless as a light smi
le suffused across its lips. From the looks of it, the game was about to end. Its appearance had completely broken the balance of the game. It only wished that the last toy was able to struggle a little longer. But before that, it needed to dice up the youth that had nearly embarrassed it.

  Earthbound Yaksha raised its blade slowly and was about to let it fall.

  Speechless knelt on the ground while holding his chest. His face was pale and his gaze looked clouded. He did not seem like he had any strength left for resisting.

  The other injured ones limped over, but the moment they made contact with the formless 'Soul Suppression', their already weakened bodies were left rooted to the ground.

  The fog of despair had already covered the heavens.

  Who could save this battle situation of defeat?

  "Lalalalalalala..."

  A hymn of 'lalala' suddenly sounded.

  At the moment the song sounded, a miracle happened.

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  Chapter453 Proclaiming loudly to the sky

  At the instant the Shell of the Black Turtle shattered, Dawn slashed out the Sword Soul she had readied.

  This time, Shi Xiaobai managed to appreciate the immensity of the Sword Soul from close proximity. He could not help but feel a longing for this third realm of sword techniques.

  The moment the Sword Soul landed, white light immediately filled the world in front of them. Tragic wails resounded through the clouds but it only lasted for a moment. The might of the strike had vanquished at least a hundred monsters, while a path had been blasted forcefully from the interior zone.

  Logically speaking, the power of the Sword Soul should have consumed a great deal of Dawn's mental energy, but it did not stop her from immediately charging out after the slash.

  As the opening she had forcefully blasted open would very quickly be filled by the surviving monsters, every second was crucial. Every second determined the outcome of their survival.

  Dawn's flash motion technique focused on speed, and when compared to Shi Xiaobai's Crab Steps, its dodging ability was slightly inferior, but its speed was clearly much faster. And even more remarkable was that instantaneous burst of speed she could muster. Its impressiveness took Shi Xiaobai's breath away.

  Even though she was carrying him, Dawn was able to rush out to the periphery of the encirclement in the blink of an eye. The surrounding monsters did not even manage to react in time.

  Shi Xiaobai finally understood why the gargantuan had been beheaded in one strike. Other than underestimating the amount of power Dawn's strike had, a very important reason was that her instantaneous burst of speed was just too sudden.

  However, rushing to the periphery of the encirclement did not indicate their safety. It only meant the beginning of their escape.

  As the white light dissipated, the monsters began to react. The monsters in the inner ring immediately surrounded them from the back, while the monsters in the periphery roared while attacking them from the front. The monsters that were circling the skies charged down as they issued sharp screeches.

  The monsters inundated them from every direction like a flood. Their overwhelming killing intent seemed to signify the apocalypse.

  However, Dawn demonstrated her stunning strength and state of mind at that instant. Her extreme calmness prevented the threat of death from binding her. Amid the densely-packed monsters, she would keenly detect the fleeting cracks in between the monsters. Finally, with a tremendous burst of speed, she would tunnel through them.

  If she were to encounter a monster blockade that had monsters being shoulder to shoulder, she would determine the weakest point of the blockade in the shortest possible amount of time and use the power of her Sword Truth to break through the blockade.

  And what impressed Shi Xiaobai the most was how she would ingeniously use the monsters she attracted as meat shields against the black beams of light that she was dodging. It sounded simple, but it needed massive amounts of observational and improvisational abilities.

  This girl, who grew up to become the Hero King, had been deemed to be the strongest person in all of human history. She had perfectly demonstrated the outstanding comprehensive qualities she possessed—fast speeds, impressive bursts of power, mental state of mind that were nearly nonhuman, accurate judgment, excellent observational skills and improvisation.

  So despite carrying a person, it was because of all these qualities combined that allowed her to dart through the monsters that filled the world like there were none at all. At a stable pace, she proceeded towards the periphery where there were fewer and fewer monsters grouped together. Gradually, she pulled a gap between the monsters that were in hot pursuit.

  Shi Xiaobai was able to acutely sense how powerful she was by being carried by her. He was secretly awed by her. Although he had once traversed a sea of demonic beasts, he had used the dodging and confusing traits of Crab Steps to make his breakthrough. Furthermore, he had used wine with aphrodisiac to cause confusion by making the demonic beasts to go into heat. As for Dawn's method of progress, it was as smooth as flowing water. She was like a sharp sword that tore straight through the encirclement of the monsters.

  All Shi Xiaobai could do was try his best to lower his body and ensure that he would not affect the girl under him. Then, he would silently shout the numeric thumbs up, '666'.

  Due to Dawn's excellent performance, the escape process became surprisingly successful. They quickly penetrated the most densely-packed interior and middle regions and came to the periphery were the monsters were relatively scattered apart. However, the monsters in front of them did not seem to have an end. After passing batch after batch of monsters, they failed to see an end to it. It was as if the entire world was filled with monsters that were gathering towards them.

  There was a steady flow of monsters streaming in front of them while there were monsters in hot pursuit behind them. There was no time for her to rest.

  Shi Xiaobai could not help but worry over the girl's stamina as he whispered, "Put This King down. The periphery is already safe enough. This King will be fine alone."

  "There's no need."

  Dawn responded in a firm manner, "If you are worried about my stamina, your concern is unnecessary. This bit of expenditure is nothing to me. Your weight does not have any effect on me. The problem you worried about in the beginning about dodging has been resolved. If the inner circle failed to stop me, there is no need to worry about the periphery. If you find it embarrassing to be carried by a girl, why don't...you carry me the next time?"

  Dawn's voice sounded more energetic and bright than Shi Xiaobai had expected. She did not sound exhausted at all and it made Shi Xiaobai heave a sigh of relief. From the looks of it, he had underestimated Dawn's stamina and endurance. Maybe carrying him really did not affect her much.

  Shi Xiaobai decided to abide to her decision this time. He said, "This King will abide to your decisions for now, but try not to force it. If you are tired, honestly tell This King. This King's strength is about to recover as well. When the time comes, let This King carry you instead."

  "Alright!"

  Dawn responded with a clear sense of joy in her voice.

  "It's so boring. Shall we chat?"

  Suddenly, she turned her head and said a single sentence. Although she turned her head back the next second, Shi Xiaobai had managed to see the yearning in her bright ice-blue eyes.

  "Won't it distract you?"

  Shi Xiaobai inquired softly. Having a chat in a land fraught with dangers would be considered quite an oddity, but Shi Xiaobai did not mind. However, he was a bit worried that it would affect the girl who needed to focus to dodge the monsters and the black beams.

  "Of course not. Although I'm unable to triple-task like you, I'm still able to dual-task. If you keep looking down on me, I'll turn angry. Let me ask you again, do you want to chat or not?"

  Probably because they were getting more familiar
, Dawn began to demonstrate the feminine side of hers to Shi Xiaobai. Her tone had a little emotion in it, and a little willfulness, but it was mostly the coquettishness of a girl.

  Shi Xiaobai naturally did not reject her as he said with a nod, "Alright, what do we chat about?"

  Dawn pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, I always wanted to know what is the name of the final strike you produced during that battle with me?"

  Shi Xiaobai faltered for a moment.

  The final strike during the battle?

  Wasn't that Excalibur?

  Come to speak of it, the strike's appearance and name were an imitation of the blond woman's slash with Lucifer's Sword in his mind. And that blond woman was the grown up Dawn Li.

  The feeling was somewhat strange when the creator asked about the sword technique he imitated.

  However, it was clear that Dawn at her present age had yet to create the real 'Excalibur'. This strike was still a strange and mysterious one to her.

  Just as Shi Xiaobai was hesitating to reply, he heard the girl mutter, as though she was in reverie, "That strike was really pretty..."

  It looked like she really liked that strike.

  Shi Xiaobai chuckled to himself and said, "That strike's name is 'Excalibur'. The meaning behind it is to 'use every bit of strength to produce the final strike that would clinch victory'. The general principle is..."

  Shi Xiaobai unreservedly described his understanding of 'Excalibur' to her. Dawn listened in relish and quickly understood Shi Xiaobai's thoughts. She even began giving her own suggestions.

  The clever girl was no doubt a sword genius who had created the 'Three Thousand Li Sword' at the age of eight and the improved version of the 'Hundred-eighty Thousand Li Sword' at the age of nine. Her understanding of swords was much higher than Shi Xiaobai's, so she immediately pointed out several flaws of Shi Xiaobai's Excalibur as well as where it could be improved.

  Using Shi Xiaobai's line of thought when he created Excalibur as the foundation, Dawn was able to constantly add her own ideas to it, making the technique approach perfection.

  Shi Xiaobai was left in shock. His ability to comprehend was equally stunning, but he lacked the relevant knowledge when it came to sword techniques. With Dawn pointing it out, he immediately understood how his Excalibur was indeed a flawed copy.