Apocalypse Gachapon - Chapter 2000: Able to delay

The old dean closed the book, stood up, and with a movement of his body, arrived at the window of the room.

His room was the highest place in the Library Palace, with huge windows on all four sides, allowing him to enjoy the beautiful scenery in any direction from Starshine City.

“Luo Chi.”

After softly uttering two words, a Librarian quietly appeared behind the old dean.

“Send someone to see who dares to take action in Starshine City. If their target happens to be the person we chose, then use some corpses to warn those who set rules for others but never follow them themselves.”

Luo Chi bowed his head in salute and then disappeared.

The old dean looked into the distance, his gaze profound; no one knew what he was thinking.

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Ye Zhongming, being in a transformed state, did not mean he lacked reason or thought; on the contrary, this state allowed him to observe the entire battlefield better.

That was exactly the case just now.

After Ye Zhongming transformed, he was immediately restrained. Even though his strength became immensely powerful, he still felt a sense of powerlessness.

But no matter what, he could not just wait to be captured. He saw the assassin who had landed beside him, and he also saw the golden-masked warrior’s all-out, life-risking attack.

He knew he had to do something; otherwise, both of them would surely be killed.

So Ye Zhongming directly chose his most advantageous strength as the main point of attack.

Mental power!

Even among the myriad races of the universe, Ye Zhongming felt he was first-rate in terms of mental power. Apart from some unique races and top experts, not many beings could surpass him in this aspect.

Moreover, during these ten days in the Library Palace, Ye Zhongming had made significant progress.

There was no other way; knowing his own advantage and not continuing to develop it was not Ye Zhongming’s style. Furthermore, among the three thousand Librarians, the six branches of the Mind Star Race, also known as the Three-Legged Race, made up the majority. Their strength also lay in mental power. Through discussion and learning with them, Ye Zhongming had made great progress in just a few days.

What he lacked in mental power was never the total amount of mental power, but how to use it more efficiently and with more methods.

This kind of thing, when not understood, was extremely difficult; one might think for a lifetime and still not understand. However, once someone provided guidance and clarified the key points, progress was very fast, especially for someone like Ye Zhongming, whose foundation was already very solid.

Now, he had received the true teachings of the Librarians. Perhaps there were still many things he hadn’t fully digested, and it would take some time to convert them into combat strength. But in terms of mental power, to use a phrase from the old dean of the Library Palace, he had reached a minor achievement.

If the human race itself were a mental power-type race, then he might have achieved a major accomplishment, standing at the cosmic peak in this aspect.

It was his race that limited Ye Zhongming’s talent in this area.

However, even with a minor achievement, he had surpassed the vast majority of the cosmic races. Even among the Librarians, only a few individuals were slightly stronger than Ye Zhongming in this aspect.

Such a Cloud Peak King, with all aspects enhanced after transformation, chose this area as his means of assault.

The assassins were not unprepared; they had even made sufficient preparations. However, they encountered Ye Zhongming after his mental power had undergone a significant transformation.

Ye Zhongming had progressed from having uncontrollable mental power after transformation to now being able to control it precisely.

He divided the mental power, which consumed seventy percent of his own, into two portions. One-fifth of it targeted the golden-masked warrior’s opponent, coordinating with the Earth Spirit’s Life-Severing Grasp to temporarily restrain that assassin whose Furelai exceeded thirty thousand.

It was by using this opportunity that the golden-masked warrior killed an opponent much stronger than himself.

The remaining more than four-fifths of the mental power was used by Ye Zhongming on his own opponent.

On the other side, he only needed to coordinate with the golden-masked warrior’s attack; he only needed to restrain that assassin for an instant. If not for fear of any accidents, he wouldn’t have even needed to use one-fifth of the mental power he released.

But his own opponent was different. His body was restrained. If he didn’t want the other party to deploy subsequent methods to deal with his transformed state, then the only way was to use mental power attacks to destroy the opponent!

Fortunately, Ye Zhongming was no longer the former Ye Zhongming. If his previous mental power impact was like a shockwave sent out, now it was like an energy spike thrust forward. The single-point attack power had increased immeasurably.

That assassin almost had no resistance and had his head directly scrambled by the sudden mental attack, becoming a corpse.

Indeed, they had taken potions beforehand to prevent mental power impacts, but hadn’t Ye Zhongming also taken one? What he took was even a good item from the Changxu Water Race. Coupled with the opponent’s carelessness, thinking they could defend against it, he killed him with one strike.

But now, how to deal with this person who had appeared? The restraints on his body did not disappear with the death of the assassin; they dimmed slightly and then returned to normal.

Two had died earlier, but clearly, this last one who appeared was stronger, and he was the leader of some Phantom Killer Clan.

“I learned about you. You have two methods of transformation, and some very special abilities, like summoning huge mountain shadows and being able to turn mountain peaks into giant apes. We analyzed that there should be a prerequisite, which is the existence of surrounding mountain peaks. Unfortunately, there are none here.”

This guy called Qiemen said while raising his hands and moving them constantly. With his movements, the red light net on Ye Zhongming’s body began to tighten.

Not only that, but the nodes on it were also crackling and emitting electric sparks outward, with energy constantly gathering around them.

They could actually absorb energy from Ye Zhongming’s body and then release it into the surroundings!

Ye Zhongming’s transformed black mist giant was shrinking at a visible rate.

“When others are unprepared, or when their strength is suppressed to the same level as you, I must say, that version of you is really difficult to deal with. But once you are under normal circumstances, you are actually pitifully weak.”

The sinister voice came through, as if not only wanting to stifle Ye Zhongming physically but also to destroy his will. No matter what he said, his hands did not stop, still controlling the net that Ye Zhongming’s struggling had little effect on.

“Hmm? You actually chose to burst your potential to maintain your current transformed state? Do you really think you can break free from my net? Or do you think that even if you break free, you can resist me?”

The man laughed with mockery, finding that this famous novice’s first place was so dumb.

What use was his doing this, besides making the end of this battle even easier?

Until several minutes later, Ye Zhongming could no longer hold on and reverted to his original form from his transformed state. Because of the huge consumption just now, he could only barely stand up.

But at this moment, Ye Zhongming was smiling brilliantly.

“It wasn’t very useful, but it could buy time.”