Chapter 598: Fight? Let’s Run

Chapter 598 -363: Fight? Let’s Run

The coalescing blood seemed to be retreating, but in reality, Lin Qi was manipulating it, trying to forcibly shove it into MacLeod’s eye sockets.

Could it actually be stuffed back in?

That wasn’t important!

What was important was Lin Qi’s true objective: creating an opportunity for Master Ma to escape.

Master Ma instantly understood the Wizard’s intentions. His heart filled with gratitude, and just like King Arthur, he retreated without the slightest hesitation.

He even took roughly the same route as King Arthur.

Once they were out of MacLeod’s line of sight and beyond the range of any potential observational Extraordinary Abilities, with the cover of Guang Ling, no one could find a member of the Highest-Level Mercenary Corps in a crowd!

Any and all of their networked information had been wiped clean.

For the major powers that relied heavily on the cyber network, this method of concealment was virtually foolproof.

MacLeod sensed the Martial Artist retreating, but the sheet of scarlet before his eyes made him hesitant to act rashly.

Two seconds later, MacLeod felt the sheet of scarlet prodding at his eye sockets, but it couldn’t even breach the defense of his corneas.

It was only then that MacLeod realized something was wrong.

It was a trick!

‘Damn it!’

‘That Wizard hiding in the shadows is making a fool of me!’

MacLeod would never have imagined that the real reason for this maneuver was Lin Qi’s lack of power.

How could a powerful Wizard capable of affecting his very soul have such a weak individual Ability?

The force behind this Blood Manipulation would probably struggle to kill even a Tier Three Professional.

MacLeod reached out with his one remaining arm and wiped the blood smeared across his face.

He glared in the direction Master Ma had fled.

‘I can’t let him get away!’

‘He can’t have gotten far. With the speed of a Tier Four Peak Knight using Fearless Charge, I can definitely hunt down that freakish Martial Artist!’

Skills like “Fearless Charge” and “Round Shield Stance” weren’t exclusive to Tier Four; they were fundamental abilities of the Knight Profession.

MacLeod prepared to give chase. He took a single step, and an incomparably powerful force propelled his body forward.

A “Momentum” unique to Knight Professionals erupted around him. Spiritual Particles faintly resonated, their Phase State beginning to change.

In an instant, MacLeod’s body broke the sound barrier.

A violent sonic boom reverberated through the underground pipes.

A single step propelled MacLeod more than twenty meters forward, and he sped down the escape route King Arthur and Master Ma had taken.

MacLeod had no idea that as he made his move, Lin Qi’s expression turned peculiar once more.

Lin Qi didn’t know what “Fearless Charge” was. He only knew that a two-hundred-plus-pound mass was using the methods of an Extraordinary Professional to grant itself immense kinetic energy.

And so…

Momentum Manipulation!

This was another one of the powers Lin Qi had obtained at Tier One.

Just like Blood Manipulation, this power couldn’t affect the internal workings of an Extraordinary Professional of a higher tier.

But Lin Qi didn’t need to manipulate the momentum of the matter inside MacLeod’s body.

Lin Qi was manipulating the momentum of MacLeod’s entire body!

As it was an Extraordinary Ability obtained at Tier One, it had long since reached its limits.

The mass range for Lin Qi’s Momentum Manipulation was at most six times the weight of a standard adult, and at least one-tenth the mass of a normal button.

He could modify the momentum by a multiplier of 0 to 5.

The Ability didn’t have many uses, but this was the perfect moment for it.

This caused MacLeod’s stride to become rather strange.

On the first step, Lin Qi didn’t react in time, giving MacLeod the chance to burst forward and cover over twenty meters.

On the second step, Lin Qi activated his Ability, instantly bringing MacLeod’s total body momentum to zero.

A comical scene unfolded.

That second step should have sent MacLeod flying an even greater distance, with the phase-changed Spiritual Particles around him providing a further push.

But reality did not match his expectations.

He took a step, his body leaped, and his momentum vanished…

MacLeod’s second step looked like a small hop in place. He barely got any height, like a young child who fancies himself using a wondrous technique like “Eight Steps Chasing Cicada,” when in reality, he’d only shuffled his feet and failed to cross even a few dozen centimeters.

On the third step, instinct made MacLeod unleash tremendous power. But since his body was stationary, the posture of this step was severely compromised. To make matters worse, the Spiritual Particles around him were still in a state of “pushing” him forward.

And so, at 1:33:21 AM on April 15, 2089, in the sewers beneath the S-Class Pharmacy Society Mansion, the incomparably powerful Chief of the Round Table Conference, Grand Knight Commander, and Gray Knight MacLeod, performed a textbook “dog eating shit.”

The “dog” is a descriptor, a clever metaphor.

But the two words that followed, “eating shit,” were meant literally.

The escape route King Arthur had opened up was none other than the main sewage pipe for the S-Class Pharmaceutical Society.

The obscenely wealthy S-Class Pharmaceutical Society had built this sewage pipe to be incredibly lavish. This conveniently aided the escape of King Arthur and Master Ma, and just as conveniently, proved to be the downfall of the current Chief of the Round Table Conference, the incomparably powerful Gray Knight.

MacLeod was clearly stunned.

Tasting the bitterness spreading across his taste buds, MacLeod still hadn’t processed what had just happened.

His head was buzzing.

He couldn’t understand how his “Fearless Charge” had been interrupted.

In all his time from his Tier One Cultivation to reaching Tier Four Peak, MacLeod had never had his “Fearless Charge” interrupted in such a bizarre manner. In fact, no Knight Professional in the world had ever had their “Fearless Charge” interrupted this way.