Chapter 1398: One-on-One Duel

Chapter 1398: Chapter 1398: One-on-One Duel

The violent explosion occurring in the field had no effect on Pei Yan, as if an invisible high wall stood before him, blocking all destruction outside. Once the dust settled, he was not in a hurry to attack the survivors in the field; instead, he decomposed the radiation in the surrounding space while releasing liquid nitrogen from his body to lower the temperature around. Now, if he was not using the internal breathing system within his mask, merely taking a breath of the outside air amidst the high temperature could cause some damage to his internal organs.

"Ugh~ Ugh~ Ah! Delacuri! This explosion’s impact is toxic! These toxins are infecting my body, slowing my healing speed! Help me! Help me!" The Blood Race Prince, who could still maintain consciousness, knelt on the ground, feeling the anomalies within his body as Delacuri’s figure reappeared, howling in pain.

Delacuri could also feel this anomaly, but he ignored his companion’s plea for help and instead looked up at the sky. As expected, the Blood Divine Country suffered severe damage from the explosion’s impact. Although it still hung high in the air, exerting its effect, the disc body had already shattered more than half, just waiting for the last stored power within the Divine Artifact to be entirely released; it would fall into sleep and, if not effectively repaired, this Divine Artifact might be scrapped forever unable to be used.

"What exactly did you do?" Delacuri turned back to look at Pei Yan, his eyes red, questioning.

Pei Yan fiddled with the newly named revolver, Shooting Moon, in his hand. Earlier, that bullet directly made one chamber’s cooling time enter half an hour, but the result it brought still made Pei Yan quite satisfied. Upon Delacuri’s questioning, Pei Yan did not even raise his head, teasingly saying, "Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand. You can consider it a forbidden spell in our world. However, in terms of power, it is far stronger than any forbidden spell; saying it possesses world-ending power is not an exaggeration. Before awakening to the eighth tier, I only dared to unleash less than one ten-thousandth of its power. Besides its destructive power being difficult to control, primarily, the aftermath has too many side effects making it too troublesome to deal with. After the eighth-tier awakening, I mastered various abilities more proficiently; as long as the energy is released by my superpowers, I can control the scope of destructive power and eliminate its potential radiation impacts. So no need to worry about those toxins, I’ve already cleared them, because such things can also harm me. However, the damage already penetrating into you all can only be borne by you yourselves."

After saying this, Pei Yan looked up at Delacuri, seeing the increasingly unsightly expression on his face, mocking coldly under his helmet, "Are you worried that I will keep releasing such attacks to hit you continuously? Rest assured! Such attacks mean enormous consumption for me as well, and even if I could continuously deploy them, this space wouldn’t withstand such impacts."

"Why do you explain these to me?" Delacuri took a deep breath, feeling those unknown elements harmful to his body in the surrounding air disappear as Pei Yan said, then asked.

"Because I want you to understand! You have completely angered me; I haven’t felt such rage in a long time." Pei Yan said, raising his hand aiming at the two blobs that could only wail but could never solidify into humanoid Blood Race Dukes. Bang! Bang! Two gunshots ended their pain, completing all this, he continued, "I hope you can be prepared. I will use your suffering to quell my anger; if you die too easily in this process, it would be very troublesome for me."

"Hahaha!" Pei Yan’s threat did not intimidate Delacuri, instead, it made this Clan Leader of the Vlad family equally excited. Amid the chilling sinister laughter, he walked to his fellow clan member’s side. The person let out a sigh of relief seeing Delacuri approach, stretching out his arm to him, "Help me suppress that peculiar toxin in my body, then we can join forces to eliminate this family’s major adversary."

"We are indeed going to join forces to eliminate him, but Rusfan, in your current state, you no longer have the qualifications to fight the opponent. To secure victory, for the future of our family, sacrifice your life and abilities for me." Delacuri spoke as if he were discussing the most reasonable thing ever, looking peacefully at Rusfan, whose expression gradually turned fearful, issuing an indisputable order.

"No! No! Delacuri! I am still of use; you can’t just sacrifice my life like this. I just reached the Prince tier; I have a long life ahead. I joined this operation upon hearing your call with such loyalty, you can’t do this to me." Rusfan looked at Delacuri pleading desperately. This was his first battle after breaking through the Duke limits. Upon reaching the Prince tier, as a member of the Blood Race, his lifespan would be greatly extended; he could enjoy higher status and the pleasure that power brings. But before he could realize all these, he was going to fall in this battle.

"I know! I know! I know everything! Rusfan, the family will not forget your contributions, and I also promise you, I will make our enemies regret everything they have done. I promise!" Delacuri gathered the crying, pleading Rusfan into his arms, promising softly like a mother comforting a crying child. In this seemingly magical whisper, Rusfan gradually stopped crying. This change was not due to emotional stability, but because his body was being compressed by Delacuri’s arm, gradually merging with him until the two completely became one.

"Seems you are very confident in truly defeating me, missing such a good opportunity for a sneak attack." The fused Delacuri turned to Pei Yan, actively provoking.

"Rather than a sneak attack, I’m more curious about how you made a person equivalent to the peak of Heavenly Dao offer his life to you so easily." Pei Yan was truly a bit surprised at Rusfan’s action. Even if he had just reached Heavenly Dao’s peak, in any faction, such a person is considered a top-tier existence, and he could hardly imagine such a person would offer his life to another under obvious unwillingness.

"This is the secret of the Vlad family’s control over its members internally; otherwise, how do you think our family has survived amidst encirclement for such long years?"

Every family sect has its unique means of controlling people, looking at Delacuri’s demonstrated attack method shows that such means among the Blood Race are only more bizarre and ruthless. Understanding this, Pei Yan suddenly became relieved, lowering his head to glance at the time displayed on his mechanical wrist, muttering to himself, "The timing is about right, it should start working now!"