This strike shattered the armor on Aventurine's butt, but the power from the Aventurine stone soon repaired it.
"Why... is it like this?"
Aventurine recalled the details of the battle just now: it was obvious that this special Pink Cute Rabbit was summoned by Pei Guang using his dice.
Wait? He lost when gambling on the dice with Pei Guang?
At this moment, Aventurine's competitive spirit was aroused.
Pei Guang could actually beat him in gambling when he wasn't holding back at all?
Aventurine got excited. He wanted to play another round with Pei Guang.
As for Pei Guang taking the dice? It didn't matter, there weren't many dice, but playing another round with him was still possible.
But regrettably, Pei Guang didn't plan to keep playing with him.
While Aventurine was staggered by Dan Heng's super long-distance support strike, Pei Guang had already rushed up.
Aventurine planned to throw chips to stop these people's attack, but because his reaction was half a beat too slow, the four-in-one human armor had already rushed right into his face.
"It's like this again!"
Before, Stelle had performed a super high-speed sprint while lying on the ground for him. Now Pei Guang was carrying three people and could still run on his butt at a speed normal people couldn't reach.
Was there any justice? Did the laws of imaginary numbers still exist?
Facing the rushing human combination, although his head felt like it was buzzing, Aventurine still prepared to casually knock Pei Guang and the others away.
"Hmph, you can't withstand a single blow."
Aventurine waved his arm, preparing to take the hot-blooded combo skill from these four head-on.
However, when Aventurine reached out his hand, a scene that made him even more silent occurred. The approaching Pei Guang didn't dodge his attack but bounced his butt and sat directly on his hand.
After sitting on Aventurine's hand, Stelle smashed his head with her bat, while the War-Flaming Lance drilled against his glowing blue spade.
"Eat my bat! This is my War-Flaming Lance that will pierce the heavens."
While Stelle was attacking, a beginner staff appeared in Firefly's free hand. This was the 'Rock Sling' staff Pei Guang gave her before.
Stelle's bat was a pure physical attack, the War-Flaming Lance was a fire attribute attack, and March 7th provided an ice attribute attack.
Therefore, Firefly added a magic attack to the staff this time and smashed it ruthlessly against Aventurine's head together with Stelle.
Facing the combined attack of four people, Aventurine prepared to tank this hit while blasting these people off his body.
When Stelle's bat hit his head, he had already activated the power of Preservation, preparing to blast them away.
However, right at this instant, the staff in Firefly's hand hit his head. The staff triggered its passive stun effect.
Aventurine felt the whole world go dazed, and he even saw six perfect stars spinning around his head.
"Mm..."
Aventurine was a bit dazed, while Pei Guang, following the principle of kicking him while he's down, shouted directly: "Armor disassemble, collective attack!"
The other three didn't reply, but they used their actions to tell Pei Guang that they received the message.
The four people dissolved the combination in an instant, surrounded Aventurine, took out their respective handy weapons, and smashed them directly down on his body.
Pei Guang went up and kicked Aventurine down, then lifted his foot to stomp: "Take this, this is our righteous gang beating."
Stelle aimed at Aventurine's kidneys and attacked: "This is a righteous kidney shot."
"I am a righteous beautiful girl!" March 7th shouted this while aiming her bow at his head and firing at full draw.
Firefly waved the stone-flinging staff and hit Aventurine's head: "Righteous staff."
Himeko, watching this scene from afar while drinking coffee, commented: "Alright then, a righteous gang beating? Then is this Mr. Aventurine doing an evil 1v1?"
What Himeko admired most about Pei Guang was that he could always shout such chunibyo lines openly during battle.
It would be one thing if he shouted alone, but he could always get everyone to shout along with him.
The stun time was short. In a few seconds, Aventurine regained consciousness.
"Control state lifted, retreat!"
The four recombined at this moment. By the time the power of Preservation erupted from Aventurine, Pei Guang and his group had already run out of sight in an instant.
When Aventurine came to his senses, Pei Guang and the group had already run to a safe distance.
Looking at the four people in the distance and savoring the pain on his body, he smiled.
"Interesting. You are the first people to make me feel this interested. However, play time is over..."
Saying this, Aventurine's body began to fly towards the sky.
He didn't want to keep playing: he wanted to force Acheron to use her full power against him.
Watching Aventurine fly into the sky, Acheron continued to eat her peach and drink her coffee calmly.
The peach with the taste of an old friend, and the coffee that seemed to bring color back to the world, made Acheron feel completely rejuvenated. Recalling Pei Guang's request earlier, Acheron had absolutely no intention of moving.
Looking at Aventurine, it seemed he was going to unleash a large-scale AOE. If she stayed still, she should get hit by the collateral damage, right?
Forget it, why worry so much? Since she promised to fulfill their request, she just needed to do it.
As for other things? Better to eat peaches and drink coffee.
Originally, she didn't have any expectations of finding anything in the Dreamscape, but she never expected to actually find something useful for her and them there. This Dreamscape operation was already worth it; nothing else mattered.
Compared to Acheron who continued to watch the show, Stelle got nervous watching Aventurine fly into the sky.
"This is bad, he went up to the sky. We can't seem to hit him? March, can you do it?"
March 7th shook her head: "No, it's too far. I can't guarantee an effective hit at this distance. Firefly, how about you?"
Firefly shook her head: "No, the armor on him is very hard. My mecha isn't confident in breaking his armor."
An Emanator-level Imaginary energy reaction now appeared on Aventurine: the Aventurine stone could borrow Emanator-level power directly from the Amber Lord.
With this power, when Aventurine goes all out, he possesses power on the same level as an Emanator of Preservation.
This level of power wasn't quite enough to face a real Emanator, but for Pei Guang and the others, it was still an unsolvable problem.
Stelle: "At a time like this, shouldn't we let Acheron take the stage?"
Pei Guang pondered: "No rush. Although a scripted event can finish him off, my personal stance is that we should try to see if we can defeat him without relying on the plot."
Pei Guang could tell that with Aventurine going all out, he was no longer an opponent that a player of his level could handle.
But a scripted event is just a scripted event. After all, this was the Dreamscape, and having accepted Aventurine's quest, facing him was still much more relaxing compared to Phantylia.
It would be a waste not to make good use of the unique powers of the Dreamscape.
Stelle: "Then what do we do? He can fly. We can't fly under normal conditions, right?"
Firefly: "Should we use that four-leaf clover?"
Pei Guang rubbed his chin and thought: "That's too wasteful. The four-leaf clover is for real enemies. Besides, who said we can't fly?"
March 7th: "Eh? Can we fly up into the sky to fight too?"
NOTE: I'll go on holiday till the 12th so I'll post either 1 chapter per day or none at all, sorry for the inconvenience!