The Arch-Cardinal frequently "hunted"; hence, he knew that killing a prey was nothing interesting. He found that having his prey lose themselves in despair was most fascinating.
It needed to be said that after he spouted those nonsense, Xiao Xiao truly felt some despair. With her wide breadth of knowledge, she could easily judge if what the Arch-Cardinal said was true.
Xiao Xiao quickly pondered over it, but regardless of how much she racked her brain, she could not think of a way to resolve the situation.
Suddenly, a figure appeared in front of her, shielding her from whatever was coming.
"This King hates fools who keep harping on despair. Foolish mortal, have you ever experienced despair?"
Shi Xiaobai raised his knife and pointed it at the Arch-Cardinal with a disdainful look before he turned to say to Xiao Xiao softly, "Wait for This King to kill a pig before a good battle will be fought with you."
After saying that, Shi Xiaobai strode forward, his back appearing extremely cool.
At that moment, Xiao Xiao's hand that held her bow trembled slightly.
*The full meme is “Time is a pig slaughtering knife, it blackens fungi, darkens grapes and softens bananas”. It refers to how time ages people, with certain analogies to certain body parts of both male and female.
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Chapter93 Anymore?
Xiao Xiao's hand trembled for a moment as she suddenly recalled a distant memory. There was once a man that stood in front of her when she was in peril. Before the man left, he said to her with a smile, "Wait for me to come back, I want to eat the birthday cake together with Xiao'er."
After that, the man she called father never returned.
At this moment, Shi Xiaobai's back seemed to merge with the man that never returned.
"Wait...Wait for me!"
Xiao Xiao hurriedly chased up. She...had already sworn never to stay in the spot and wait.
"Why did you follow me?"
Shi Xiaobai cocked his head and glanced at Xiao Xiao curiously.
Ignoring the fact that This King is going to have a melee battle with the cassocked strange person, but as an archer, shouldn't you be kiting from afar, why did you take the initiative to shorten the distance?
"I felt like it, why do you care?"
Xiao Xiao said with a bit of resentment before she suddenly felt odd. Why did the words she had said sound like she was being coquettish?
Pui, I must be too incensed. It's been a while since I met such an annoying guy.
"To be able to flirt, I guess the both of you have not thoroughly understand the cruel reality."
The Arch-Cardinal became further incensed when he saw how the two of them appeared void of fear. He coldly said, "It looks like the both of you have yet to understand the true meaning of how 'this world is completely separated from reality'. Pitiful worms, under His Grace Bishop of Virtuality's favor, this virtual world is an independent reality of its own. In other words, this virtual world is no longer virtual. Do you get it? This place has become a real world!"
Xiao Xiao wanted to refute the term 'flirt', but she felt her heart go cold the moment she heard the Arch-Cardinal's words. She immediately thought of a possibility and hurriedly stretched out her hands and made a grip in an attempt to summon a crystal arrow.
However, her hand remained empty after several attempts. Xiao Xiao immediately exclaimed, "The virtual system has crashed!?"
Upon realizing the possible harsh reality, she hurriedly reached out to pull at Shi Xiaobai, who was still slowly walking towards the Arch-Cardinal. She said quickly, "Be careful. Death in this world...means we will die in reality!"
"Die? No, no, no. I won't die that easily."
The Arch-Cardinal was pleased to see Xiao Xiao finally frown, as he used a cold tone to say, "In this world that has received the favor of His Grace Bishop of the Virtuality, you will experience pain to its fullest extent. You will feel exhaustion and be drained of your stamina. You will experience the same pain and despair as the real world."
The Arch-Cardinal's vicious words made Xiao Xiao draw a gasp. She could not help but tighten her grip on her crystal bow.
So this was the true face of the Church of Virtuality. Under the lead of a madman who was able to turn a virtual world into reality, they could wreak wanton destruction in the real world without fear because of the ability to create a near-realistic world.
This group of madmen had no humanity or reason in them. This was because they no longer could tell what was reality or virtuality.
At this moment, an angry voice bellowed.
"Why do you keep putting the words death so easily on your lips? Why can you describe pain in such a deadpan manner? How much do you really understand death and pain?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Xiao turned her head in shock. Her eyes met a pair of eyes that were burning with fury and grief.
Once again, Shi Xiaobai took a step forward. This time, Xiao Xiao did not make an attempt to stop him because she knew he would not stop.
"Since death is a reality in this world, you too will die, right?" Shi Xiaobai asked.
As if he heard the most preposterous joke, the Arch-Cardinal let out a piercing laugh, "So what if it's true?"
"Even a big white pig will feel pain when it's killed. Reducing this period of pain to its shortest period is the last benevolence of a butcher."
Shi Xiaobai's footsteps sped up, but the flames in his eyes suddenly transformed into a pool of still water.
"So, This King will kill you with utmost kindness!"
The moment he said that, Shi Xiaobai jumped up like a strong gust of wind. With a short knife in hand, he was like a valiant soldier who had no fear!
The Arch-Cardinal laughed, a laugh that resulted from extreme anger. With a gentle wave of his hand, five skeletons with shields on their left hands and sabers on their right hands suddenly appeared in front of him.
The five skeletons charged at Shi Xiaobai at an extremely abnormal speed. As their raised their bone sabers, their assault surged with an aggressive momentum.
A cold beam flashed in Shi Xiaobai's eyes as he abruptly used Crab Steps the moment he pulled close to the five skeletons. He transformed into a confusing phantom and dashed through the five skeletons.
The sound of five slashes scratching through rocks resounded moments later, and in an instant, the five skeletons collapsed as dozens of bones shattered, leaving behind a heap of broken bones.
As for Shi Xiaobai, it was unknown when his figure appeared beside the Arch-Cardinal. As he raised his knife, a cold beam sparkled under the sun's reflection.
This scene dumbfounded Xiao Xiao as her tiny mouth slowly gaped.
Similarly, the Arch-Cardinal's pupils constricted as he felt a strong sense of danger. At the same time, whatever else he could see on his left was the blade that was already inches away from him.
"If I don't dodge this strike, I will die!"
With this thought generated, the Arch-Cardinal desperately escaped, fleeing to a distance about a hundred meters away.
At a hundred meters, he turned around to see the youth standing at where he previously was. The way he held the knife made him look like a cold grim reaper.
He did not even have the courage to defend against that strike!
Acknowledging this reason made the Arch-Cardinal fall into an uncontrollable rage.
Shi Xiaobai, who had missed, frowned. From this dodge, he once again felt the powerful strength of the Arch-Cardinal. It was clearly a strength that could have easily steamrolled him hundreds of times.
But why...
"He can't attack!"
Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up and shouted at Shi Xiaobai, "Little pervert, that guy can't attack! Although I do not know the reason, he is unable to attack in this world!"
Upon hearing this, Shi Xiaobai immediately figured out his doubts. The cassocked strange person clearly had the power to crush them and
he was filled with anger, but all he did was shoot off his mouth in an attempt to break them down mentally. All of this was because he could not attack.
The Arch-Cardinal's expression changed slightly. Clearly, Xiao Xiao's deduction was correct.
"Heh heh, naive worms. Do you think I have no way of killing you?"
The Arch-Cardinal sneered before waving his hand gently, causing ten skeletons to appear in front of him.
In this world, he could summon undead soldiers wantonly.
"Do you feel despair?" Hahaha..."
The Arch-Cardinal raised his head and guffawed. He loved to reveal the despairing naked truth after bugs like these thought they had seen hope.
"Anymore?"
A calm voice caused the Arch-Cardinal to turn his head over. Immediately, his gaze glazed over.
He saw the ten skeletons that he had just summoned reduced to a heap of bones in less than three seconds. As for the knife-wielding youth standing in the middle of the heap of bones, his gaze was calm, as though he had done something trivial.
Basically a hit-and-run technique commonly used in (but not limited to) MMORPG games (attacking monster then running, then attacking again.)
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Chapter94 Don't kill them all
The ten skeletons he had just summoned were reduced to a heap of broken bones in less than three seconds. This stiffened the Arch-Cardinal's face for several seconds before he let out a dry laugh. He was like a speaker who had his train of thought interrupted. He was at a loss for words, embarrassed as to what to say.
"Anymore?"
Shi Xiaobai repeated the word again.
"Very well, very well, very well."
Embarrassment naturally transformed into anger. After the Arch-Cardinal laughed angrily thrice, he waved his hand, causing a door of darkness to appear in front of him. Twenty skeletons walked out from it. The moment they exited the door, they charged at Shi Xiaobai with an intense killing intent. They seemed to lack the stiffness a collection of white bones should have.
Shi Xiaobai was naturally unafraid. He shook the knife in his hand and just as he was about to charge forward, he suddenly realized something different.
These twenty skeleton soldiers appeared different from the first ten!
Not only were they faster, but they were also bigger. Most importantly, these twenty skeleton soldiers had fewer "red lines"!
Shi Xiaobai could clearly see a red line that indistinctly appeared through each skeleton soldier's body. When he first attempted to slash at those red lines, it was like he had cleaved into tofu. A gentle slash at it would reduce the skeleton soldier to broken bones.
Shi Xiaobai immediately figured out that these looming red lines were the skeleton soldier's weakness. Just like the virus black cocoon's holes and the Barrier of Darkness' constant flickering, seizing their weaknesses allowed him to easily destroy them with a single strike.
Shi Xiaobai could precisely capture the trajectory motion of the red lines and use an extremely fast speed to slash at them. The motions he made that bordered on instinct were natural and smooth, as though he had gone through practice that numbered thousands of times. It easily allowed him to shatter the skeleton soldiers.
But for these skeleton soldiers, not only did they have fewer red lines, but the red lines were even finer and shorter. The speed at which the red lines moved was also much faster.
This meant that these skeleton soldiers had fewer weaknesses!
Or it should be said that they had become stronger!
Shi Xiaobai was slightly surprised, but he quickly flung those thoughts to the back of his head. After a slight pause, he charged straight at the twenty skeleton soldiers!
As long as the red lines existed, he could easily destroy them!
Shi Xiaobai charged into the twenty skeleton soldiers, causing a red glow to effuse from their eye sockets. As they raised their sabers to slash at him, the sharp sound of air being sliced through rang one after another.
Too slow! Too slow! Too slow!
In Shi Xiaobai's eyes, the skeleton soldiers' attacks were too slow. Their movements were overly simple too. They were completely not on par with Thomas' "Wraith Bullet" or Xiao Xiao's "Crimson Netherworld"!
Using his intuition for danger and his ability to spontaneously react, Shi Xiaobai easily dodged the dancing sabers in the clump of skeleton soldiers. He did not use any fake moves or sudden changes in speed, nor did he use any fancy moves. In the dance of the saber flashes, he was like a relaxed dancer, so calm and elegant.
"Keng! Keng! Keng! ..."
The sound of clashes continued as Shi Xiaobai slashed out his knife with each step he took. Every strike was one that no one could see clearly, but after each strike, numerous skeleton soldiers would be reduced to a heap of shattered bones.
Moments later, not a single skeleton soldier was seen standing.
...
"Phew."
Xiao Xiao, who was standing at a distance, could not turn her gaze away, but she finally heaved a sigh of relief. Her eyes were sparkling with light.
She had seen countless people much stronger than Shi Xiaobai, and had seen a mighty person use a stunning offensive skill to instantly reduce skeleton soldiers to dust. Even she herself could easily destroy these skeleton soldiers.
But this was the first time she saw such a delightful battle. Crab Steps, which was nicknamed "funny steps", appeared like the coolest dance moves that made her heart palpitate.
Shi Xiaobai's Crab Steps caused her to recall of a person she saw on video—Yaris, who was referred to as the "divine crab". He was a famous world-class hero from America who stood atop the world.
People said that "after Yaris, there would be no more Crab Steps". Xiao Xiao had also expressed similar notions in the past, but now, she felt that despite the pervert in front of her being greatly lacking compared to Yaris' Crab Steps, it was as if Shi Xiaobai had grasped the essence within. His Crab Steps had a similar soul as Yaris'!
And what was more shocking to Xiao Xiao was Shi Xiaobai's knife technique. Although the pig slaughtering knife termed "Knife of Time" by the Arch-Cardinal appeared simple and plain, it gave one a feeling of awe.
Every slice at the skeleton soldiers was so simple that it did not contain any Psionic Power or any bursting blade beams. It even appeared as though he did not use much energy, but just this simple knife technique alone allowed him to reduce the skeleton soldiers to pieces.
This knife technique was indeed unbelievable, a truly convincing technique!
Xiao Xiao had never encountered such a knife technique. Not only had she not seen it before, but she had also never heard of it!
As Xiao Xiao was sighing, she noticed the Arch-Cardinal once again sneer in anger. With a wave of his hand, the door of darkness appeared out of thin air once again. This time, forty skeleton soldiers walked out. And this time, all the skeleton soldiers were wearing armor!
Every wave of skeleton soldiers increased in number and their strength increased!
Xiao Xiao took a deep breath and realized that she had to join in the battle. Who knew when this wave after wave of skeleton soldiers would come to an end?
Xiao Xiao raised her crystal arrow as she slowly pulled her bow open. Beams of white light began to condense where her bowstring was, and quickly, they converged to form a white Psionic Power arrow.
Although the virtual system's crash prevented her from summoning her crystal arrows, Xiao Xiao naturally had mastered the most basic technique as an archer—"Psionic Arrows". This was an alternative archers used in an emergency situation when they were out of arrows.
Although "Psionic Arrow" was quite draining on the user's Psionic Power and stamina, Xiao Xiao could not care about that at this moment.She could not let Shi Xiaobai face so many skeleton soldiers alone.
After Xiao Xiao did a simple aim, she shot out her arrow. She did not use "Crimson Netherworld" but used an
archery technique that was relatively low on power consumption. Thankfully, the arrow was able to kill a skeleton soldier but barely. Just as she was about to shoot her second arrow, Shi Xiaobai had already taken down more than ten skeleton soldiers.
Xiao Xiao gave a helpless laugh. This pervert seemed really fearless, it appeared as though her actions were superfluous?
However, with the forty killed, another eighty might appear, so how long could this pervert last?
Upon thinking of this, Xiao Xiao suddenly had a flash of brilliance as an idea came to mind.
"Don't kill them all. Leave one behind!" Xiao Xiao hurriedly shouted.
Shi Xiaobai had just raised his knife to shatter a skeleton soldier. When he heard Xiao Xiao's words, he involuntarily paused and turned around. Amidst the messy pile of bones, there was one skeleton soldier standing there, shivering.
"The Arch-Cardinal's summoning of skeletons have a growth rate. Every time all the skeletons are destroyed, he would be able to summon another batch. I suspect that the destruction of all his skeletons is the condition for the skeleton summoning to grow! Hmph, by sparring one, he will not be able to summon again!"
Xiao Xiao's tone was somewhat agitated and a bit excited. There was even a tiny tinge of hoping to gain credit that she did not even notice.
After giving it some thought, Shi Xiaobai found what Xiao Xiao said to be reasonable. Although these skeleton soldiers were temporarily no threat for him, they would eventually exponentially increase to a point where they could just use the tactic of a "sea of skeletons" to take him down.
Xiao Xiao's discovery was no doubt a major boost!
Shi Xiaobai gave Xiao Xiao a big thumbs up. He was prepared to have a nice chat with the remaining skeleton soldier about life, talking about his ideals and discuss what hairstyle would make him look smart.
And at this moment, a door of darkness appeared once again. Eighty red skeleton soldiers walked out of the door with terrifying killing intent.
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Xiao Xiao's face immediately flushed red.
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