Chapter 451: Even the fastest person can’t dodge a bullet—that’s a universal law.

Chapter 451: Chapter 451: Even the fastest person can’t dodge a bullet—that’s a universal law.

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"Damn! What kind of monster is this!?"

After more than a dozen rounds of combat, Diana finally couldn’t help cursing out loud.

The guy in front of her was not human at all. Clearly she had stabbed Darian’s stomach and various parts of his body several times with her sword, yet the opponent turned out to be completely fine.

Darian said cheerfully: "Don’t waste your effort. You won’t find my heart, because my heart has already been beating wildly up and down."

Diana:.....

Darian possessed the skill of Weakness Transfer, allowing him to move all the weaknesses on his body elsewhere at any time, so he didn’t need to worry about being instantly killed by a single sword strike at all.

As for those mere fatal injuries, for the current Darian, they could all be fully recovered in just a few seconds.

"Diana, I’ve come to help you!"

Arthur carried an Amazon longsword he had picked up from somewhere, strode over, and attacked Darian together with Diana.

He obviously hadn’t practiced swordsmanship much, but he had natural divine strength, and when he wielded the sword it brought up a whistling wind, forcibly giving him the momentum of an axe splitting mountains.

Facing Darian, such a powerful enemy, Arthur and Diana, this pair of exes, temporarily suppressed their old grievances and stood on the same side.

Furthermore, the two of them didn’t intend to talk about any martial arts code of ethics with such a crooked and weird person like Darian, and directly went up together.

After all, they were old flames who had intimate contact, and indeed they had great tacit understanding. They quickly found the rhythm of cooperation, combining their double swords, rotating attack and defense without leaving the slightest gap, and their offensive was quite fierce in a short period of time.

Darian couldn’t help sighing: "What an adulterer and adulteress... The Lovebirds’ Sword, truly extraordinary."

Facing their joint effort, he wasn’t panicked at all; it was just an extra pair of hands.

He had dozens of tentacles, which was more than enough to deal with both of them at the same time, and the remaining ones could even play a few tables of mahjong on the side.

Holding the holy trident, Darian met them along with dozens of pitch-black tentacles, easily taking on the two’s offensive.

Within a few rounds, Darian turned the tables, and several tentacles whipped toward the two like whips frantically from all directions.

You must know that each black tentacle had half of Darian’s strength, and how powerful it was. Even the thick-skinned pair did not dare to resist it head-on, and could only be forced to give up the attack and switch to defense.

Taking advantage of Diana and Arthur being flustered in dealing with the tentacles, Darian closed in, launching a round of frantic attacks with the holy trident in his hand.

While blocking the dense black tentacles, the two also had to fend off the holy trident, completely unable to cope. They continuously suffered heavy blows to their bodies, and blood spewed wildly.

Darian didn’t think there was anything to be embarrassed about.

It was the opponent who didn’t care about martial arts ethics first by two fighting one; him alone plus dozens of black tentacles soloing the two of them was also completely reasonable.

Very soon, Diana and Arthur’s breathing became heavier and heavier, their movements noticeably slowed down, their bodies were stained with blood, wounds kept oozing blood, and their condition visibly worsened, looking like they couldn’t last much longer.

"Damn it, who on Earth is this guy? Why is he so powerful?"

Looking at Darian in front of them without a single change, Diana and Arthur’s moods simply sank to the bottom.

The two of them joining forces still couldn’t beat the opponent. If this went on, they would probably both have to meet their end here.

Thinking of this, Arthur hardened his heart.

Since he couldn’t beat him, he shouldn’t be blamed for bringing about mutual destruction; at worst, they would die together.

Just as Arthur was about to activate Captain Atom, Darian suddenly stopped moving, his body swaying, and the surrounding black tentacles also became flickering and indistinct, as if they couldn’t maintain their form.

Diana noticed this detail, her eyes lit up immediately, and she hurriedly shouted: "Arthur, his ability must consume a lot, and he can’t last much longer now. Let’s go together!"

"Okay!"

Arthur immediately dismissed the idea of mutual destruction, rushed forward following Diana, and took advantage of Darian’s illness to take his life.

However...

Bang! Bang!

Two muffled sounds later, Diana and Arthur flew backward at an even faster speed, crashing heavily onto the ground.

Arthur bared his teeth in pain and struggled to prop himself up: "Didn’t you say he couldn’t hold on? Why does he still feel so fierce?"

Diana also had a bewildered look on her face.

Darian’s appearance just now clearly looked like he was about to not make it. Could it be that the opponent was just pretending?

Arthur gritted his teeth and said: "If worse comes to worst, I’ll blow up with him..."

"Ahem, ahem!"

Before he finished speaking, Darian opposite suddenly coughed violently, his whole body swaying as if he would fall down at any moment.

Diana’s eyes lit up again: "It seems this time he really can’t hold on. Keep going, don’t give him a chance to breathe!"

Saying that, she rushed up again.

Seeing this, Arthur had no choice but to grit his teeth and follow.

Bang! Bang!

Two more muffled sounds, and the two crashed back to their original spot once again, looking somewhat dumbfounded.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What am I doing?

Before they could recover their wits, they saw more than half of the black tentacles around Darian suddenly disappear.

He himself was also half-kneeling on the ground, coughing even more violently, looking like he was over-consumed.

Diana wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said excitedly: "Hurry up and attack! He is already at the end of his tether, don’t give him time to recover!"

"Uh... Alright."

Bang! Bang!

Darian laboriously knocked the two away, then spat a mouthful of fresh blood onto the ground.

"He vomited blood! He must be burning his own life to maintain his state. Hurry up, success or failure hangs on this one move!"

Bang! Bang!

"He only has a few tentacles left! This time it should finally be his limit!"

Bang! Bang!

"His tentacles are gone! Charge!"

Bang! Bang!

Diana and Arthur fell to the ground for who knows how many times, and this time they finally couldn’t stand up.

The two of them were covered in blood, with almost no good spots on their bodies, looking extremely tragic.

Ghost knows what they had just experienced.

Every time Darian clearly looked like he was about to fall down immediately, but when Diana and Arthur rushed up, Darian, who originally looked extremely weak, would suddenly erupt, easily shattering their offensive and beating them flying back.

Repeated like this more than a dozen times, Darian never fell down, whereas Diana and Arthur couldn’t hold on first.

The most aggrieved one was Arthur.

Several times he wanted to just blow up, but every time he made up his mind, Darian would put on a low-HP appearance to tempt him, making him dismiss the thought. This feeling of being neither up nor down made him very uncomfortable.

Diana looked at Darian in the distance, who was tottering but refused to fall down, full of reluctance and confusion.

"Why... why hasn’t he fallen down all this time?"

Arthur couldn’t help speaking: "Is there a possibility, I mean a possibility, that he is actually playing us?"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Diana denied it without thinking, and her reason was very simple: "Is he sick? What’s the point of doing this? He could have just killed us directly, why bother torturing us repeatedly like this?"

That’s right, what on Earth is this guy plotting?

Arthur was stunned, and a bad thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Could it be... the opponent was intentionally stalling for time to prevent himself from detonating Captain Atom?

"You finally figured it out."

Suddenly, an evil voice came from before them.

The two struggled to look up and saw Darian standing in front of them. Dense black tentacles emerged again, slowly wriggling around his body. Where was there any trace of that weak appearance from just now?

Diana had an incredulous look: "You were totally fine, you were tricking us!?"

Turns out her judgment just now wasn’t wrong, this guy really was sick.

"You’re the one who is sick."

Darian retorted and explained: "You probably didn’t know, your ex-husband hid a super nuclear bomb deep in the ocean, with enough power to directly sink the land beneath your feet, and maybe the entire Earth would suffer along with it."

"In fact, he had planned it long ago. Once Atlantis was defeated, he would activate this super nuclear bomb, dragging everyone down to be buried with Atlantis."

"What!?"

Diana’s face sank, and she immediately turned to look at Arthur: "Everything he said is true?"

Arthur didn’t answer directly, but stared fiercely at Darian: "I didn’t expect you to actually know this secret, but even if you know, so what? You still can’t stop me."

Seeing Arthur admit it, Diana was instantly furious and cursed loudly: "As expected of naturally evil Atlanteans, actually wanting to drag everyone down as a cushion, you lunatic!"

Although she herself wasn’t a good person either, wanting to kill all men and establish a kingdom entirely of women, compared to Arthur, it was simply pale in comparison.

Arthur ignored Diana’s scolding and swept his gaze around.

Under the fearless offensive of the Dark Army, the armies of Atlantis and the Amazon retreated steadily, suffering countless casualties, and defeat was only a matter of time.

Coupled with the fact that he, a major general, had already fallen into the opponent’s hands, there was no suspense left in the ending.

Madness showed in Arthur’s eyes, and he said sternly: "Atlantis has lost, but don’t expect to win either! There won’t be any winners in this war, especially you, you despicable and shameless bastard!"

He pointed at Darian and yelled angrily, then raised his hand without hesitation and pressed the hidden button on his chest.

Darian watched Arthur’s movement without stopping him.

He had already read the opponent’s thoughts and knew there was more than one way to trigger the detonation. Even if Arthur was crippled or killed directly, it could still trigger the detonation mechanism.

After pressing the button, Arthur closed his eyes and quietly waited for the explosion to arrive.

However, time passed second by second.

Waiting for a moment, the anticipated massive explosion did not happen.

Arthur opened his eyes and looked up at the sky in astonishment: "What’s going on? Why is there no response?"

Unreconciled, he pressed the button a few more times in succession, but still nothing happened.

Darian said cheerfully: "No need to press it. My teammates just rescued Captain Atom, otherwise why did you think I played along with the two of you acting for so long?"

He hadn’t killed Arthur and Diana before because he was worried that Arthur would be driven to desperation and detonate Captain Atom at the drop of a hat.

Just moments ago, he received news from Clark and the others saying that they had successfully rescued Captain Atom from the deep sea and transferred him to a safe place.

Arthur’s face changed drastically: "Impossible! I arranged Atlantis’s most elite troops to station there, how could it be breached so quickly!"

The place where Captain Atom was imprisoned was located in the deep sea, which was the home turf of the Atlanteans. Even Diana shouldn’t think of breaking in there easily.

Darian realized and said: "Oh, you mean those speed bumps? They really are quite formidable, managing to stall my teammates for a whole few seconds before finally managing to rescue Captain Atom with difficulty."

Arthur:...

"By the way, did you curse at me just now?"

Darian squatted down, patted Arthur’s shoulder, his tone full of kindness.

Arthur:...

Not long after, Arthur’s eyes were hollow, and his whole body collapsed on the ground like a puddle of mud. He wasn’t completely dead, but he was eighty percent dead.

Arthur: —(m)

Diana watched from the side with great satisfaction; scumbags deserved this kind of end.

Darian clapped his hands: "You have already lost. Immediately order your armies to stop all actions and announce the end of this war."

Diana gritted her teeth and said: "What if I don’t surrender?"

"Then it can only be a bit troublesome to hunt down the Atlanteans and Amazons one by one, and then wipe them all out. That way, the war can still be stopped."

Darian’s tone was very casual, but Diana didn’t doubt at all that he would dare to do so, and the opponent had the strength to do it.

Diana was silent for a long time, and finally spoke: "Fine, I agree..."

Before her words fell, she suddenly paused, slowly lowering her head to look at her chest.

Right at her chest, a longsword had appeared at some point, and blood was constantly gushing from the wound.

"Oh dear, we can’t let you agree, otherwise My Lord’s mission would be messed up."

Darian turned to look, and a man wearing a yellow lightning uniform stood not far away, with a frivolous smile on his face.

This person was precisely Barry’s arch-nemesis, Reverse-Flash.

"Thawne!"

Barry, hiding in the dark, couldn’t help it upon seeing this, instantly turning into a golden The Flash rushing towards Thawne, throwing a punch straight at the opponent’s face.

However, Thawne’s speed was even faster. He sidestepped to dodge Barry’s punch and kicked him flying directly.

Thawne’s mouth slowly cracked open: "I didn’t expect you to get the Speed Force back again. Truly worthy of you, Ba... wait, who are you?"

He looked at the black skin under the familiar uniform and was instantly stunned.

Kid The Flash, is that you?

In the DC Universe, there were quite a few speedsters possessing the Speed Force, among whom was a black speedster named Wally West, codenamed Kid The Flash.

Thawne had fought the opponent a few times and found them quite tricky. That speed combined with passive stealth skills was practically like a ghost in the dark, thank goodness the opponent wasn’t wearing a black uniform.

The first time he saw Barry, he thought Kid The Flash had also traveled along into the Flashpoint world.

Barry crawled up from the ground and said to Thawne: "Thawne, what on Earth are you doing appearing here?"

Thawne recognized that the black-skinned The Flash in front of him was Barry, and taunted: "Barry, shouldn’t this be said to me? Everything in this world is because of..."

Bang!

Without any warning, a gunshot suddenly sounded, interrupting the two’s conversation.

Thawne reacted instantly, his entire body wreathed in red lightning, his body suddenly accelerating as he turned and tilted his head to dodge the incoming bullet.

He looked at Darian who fired the shot and said disdainfully: "Attempting to kill a speedster with a gun, it’s simply a laugh—Ah!"

Thawne suddenly let out a miserable scream, clutching the back of his head as he collapsed to the ground.

Darian said cheerfully: "As expected, speedsters can’t dodge bullets is a universal law."