Somewhere in the void, a great power
A faint scarlet mist gradually emerged from a certain formation. In the center of the formation sat a woman with a scarlet veil over her face. At the periphery of the formation, people were looking at her with fascination and fear.
The woman opened her eyes, her scarlet eyes looked like they were flowing with water waves, just one glance could mesmerize a person.
"Interesting, someone involved in my karma? I wonder, which little cutie is it?"
Beneath the scarlet-colored muslin, the woman's revealed a rather interested smile. After saying that, she closed her eyes once again, and the scarlet colored mist around her body became even thicker.
Among those people in the periphery, the one in the lead looked at her with her eyes closed, and the weapon in his hand couldn't help but clench closer and closer, but in the end, he still loosened his grip.
This big shot just came over to ask for some spell formation materials, but in that case, it would be best if he didn't make a casual move. Otherwise, the price to pay is not the same as now.
That is an extremely beautiful face. Around the body lingering scarlet ribbon, the body of the clothing is not less, those who can not describe the place, almost all covered tightly. But I don't know why, when Rope saw this woman, he felt a strong sense of temptation.
This kind of feeling has nothing to do with ability, but the woman's dress and looks. Some people were like that, you were able to desire her at the first sight.
Of course, Rope wasn't out of line or anything, merely lamenting the magic of this world. Beautiful women were in the minority, but once you had progressed to a certain level, there were very few unattractive women that appeared around you.
Even if they weren't pretty, there was definitely something that was good enough to make people feel attracted to them. Although the vast majority of creatures are so-called visual creatures. But there was no doubt that there was definitely more than just one trait in a person that attracted other people to them, such as physical appearance.
Rope looked at this woman, who looked very much like a normal person, and asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?"
Rope didn't even ask what she was here for. Because there was simply no point. As she stood across the room, her position was already established.
It was the enemy.
Of course, Rope also remained calm enough not to make an immediate move, but of course, the bigger reason for that, was that Rope's body was sending him warning signs. The woman in front of him was enough to pose a certain threat to it.
Even this threat could potentially be fatal. Sometimes the call of these powerful people was just so unreasonable, like if a human were to make a move against a god, then the odds were that it would be taken care of by these gods who were naturally capable of avoiding good fortune and evil with all sorts of strange things.
"This is the Thousand Arm God, right? Hello, I've long heard of your great name, I've heard a lot about you."
A natural yet seductive smile appeared on the woman's face with a mature flavor. But there was clearly no intention to answer Rope's question.
"I'm asking, who are you?"
Rope's hands once again have reddish-golden flames gushed out.Rope has as much as possible in maintaining calm, after all, this kind of life and death crisis, honestly, he has not felt a lot.
The woman looked at Rope's reaction, instead, she was a bit strange. Was the Thousand-Armed God going to overreact so much? It seemed like this planet was even more important to him than they had originally expected.
"Heh, my name is Marianne, and I am an Abyssal Receiver."
The woman gave her name with a light smile.
"You're the human who took the initiative to accept the call of the Abyss?"
Rope's eyes instantly became dangerous. Yes, according to the warning signs given by Al's body, Marianne could indeed pose a threat to herself, even a threat to her life, but accordingly, she herself could tell from Marianne's stiff body, and somewhat trembling fingertips, that the threat she posed to Marianne was definitely much more terrifying.
If he really wanted to fight, Marianne's chance of dying at his own hands would be even greater. If he could really use all of Al's power skillfully, it might not even take much effort.
Al had seen the Abyssal Sage Kings before, and had even fought them. This Marianne in front of him wasn't as powerful as them.
Marianne did panic a bit the moment she saw Rope preparing to strike. After all, she really did have some idea of how powerful the guy in front of her was.
Thousand Arm God, the first general of the empire, is also the military forces of the bearer of the level of characters, behind the strength of the forces that people are afraid of not to mention, alone he is such a person, has also reached the legend.
Further, can be to go and those who can start a sect to fight for the rules of belonging. In the empire, besides some old monsters of the royal family, he should be the strongest. More crucially, he was young. Having reached such strength at this age, perhaps in the future, he could actually become someone who would go and fight for the rules.
Unfortunately, no matter where one was, there would always be those who were jealous of the best of the best, and it was inevitable that this kind of genius would be envied, or even framed, as it was now.
If their, or rather his guy was able to succeed, then the general in front of him, who had a great future ahead of him, might have really met his demise on this small B-class planet. Not so much a physical meteoric rise, but a meteoric rise in fighting spirit and future.
"Don't misunderstand me, I have no intention of bothering you. I just want to give you a reminder that we, the Abyss, are indeed naturally opposed to your position, but I'll tell you this."
Marianne had a gentle smile on her face.
"We technically have no grudges against you, so of course we won't think anything of you. But our appearance here is not our own idea or the arrangement of the Abyss, but..."
"Rather, it is the Empire again who has arranged all of this, and has had a deal with you, or an unspoken deal."
Rope didn't wait for her to finish before she directly interjected and said all she had to say.
And Marianne looked at would Rope's calm demeanor and suddenly had a bad feeling about it.
"Don't think you're the only one who's smart. I knew something was wrong here as soon as I set foot on this planet. This place was a trap for me. But I still sent a sigh of relief, after all, if this place in front of me didn't have any major problems, then I would indeed be able to deliver with my boss."
"After all, the man-made contaminated area, can be cleared, that's enough. As for those who want to frame me... naturally, someone will find them to clear it."
Rope spoke without a care in the world. After all, this matter had little to do with him, and even if he was to go against those who framed him, it was still Al's own business. What's more, things like illusions could be allowed to evolve on their own yes. But there was absolutely no need for Al to fool him with false illusions.
In other words, all this in front of him and the person behind it, Al's heart was clear, Rope didn't know if he had taken revenge or not, but Rope also knew that there was no need for him to say more or care more about anything.
"If you still want to live well, then get out of the way. As far as I know, even if one's Abyssal Affinity is high, it takes a short period of time to grow enough to enter the Abyssal Plane. And right now it's obvious that it hasn't arrived yet. So get out of the way and let me kill that guy."
Rope's face gradually turned cold.
"Or else, I'll get you killed along with him, and at most, it'll be just a few more minutes of effort."
Looking at Rope's determined look, Marianne suddenly realized that she had made a mistake.
The guy in front of her wasn't interested in the person behind the curtain at all. Whether he already knew who it was or it didn't matter who it was, the survival of the planet in front of him was clearly more important than the person behind the curtain.
This obviously made Marianne feel a little surprised. Come on, big brother, wake up, this is just a broken B-class planet! You can even exterminate such a planet with not much effort from one person right now!
What are you doing here? Allowing others to shade you behind your back, snatching your resources, encroaching on your territory, and even cutting off your future path during the time you've been away, but now you're telling me that you need to deal with things here first. Do you know how long it takes for the abyssal aura to dissipate? Do you know how risky it is to kill an Abyssal Receiver in an Abyssal Contaminated Area!
Is it worth it?
Rope didn't bother betting on the heart of the man in front of him. Or rather he couldn't read the heart of such a person who was not much higher than his own level.
But he knew that he was doing the right thing. How chagrined Al was at his failure to handle this was evident in the very act of having to pull this illusion out for Rope to do it all over again.
Of course, Rope agrees with Marianne. The smartest thing for Al to do right now would be to go ahead and get the guys who are prying themselves out of the way.
Now that the root cause of this place was clear, it was just a matter of sending soldiers inside. It was possible for those soldiers to push their way across here, and with the Abyssal Shadow and Abyssal Walker alone, there wouldn't be too many losses even if they added the Abyssal Receiver in front of them. But the outside world must be Rope himself to go and not use the army.
Otherwise, it would be a rebellion, an admonition to the army, and a purge of the ruler's side...
The nature of this could change all of a sudden.
Leaving on his own and having the military come in is actually giving the Abyssal forces a chance to struggle a bit. It doesn't matter if this contaminated area is there or not, the Abyssal Affinity Body must be preserved as much as possible. If Rope was allowed to advance, then the Abyssal Affinity would definitely not be preserved.
That was why Marianne would rather sell her partner than persuade Rope to leave.
"Thousand Arm God! You have to realize that just this Abyssal Affinity Body and this place were all recommended to us by that political enemy of yours. The one who wants to destroy you is not us, but that person! He is your true enemy!"
Marianne's face visibly changed. Because she could see that she might not really be able to stop the advance of the man in front of her. It was true that she had the chance to kill the Thousand-Armed God, but that was something she took her own life as a price!
None of the abyssal beings who had evolved to this level were stupid. A deal like paying for their own lives for a newborn Abyssal Affinity was clearly not a good deal where they were concerned.
"This planet, it's important to me."
The expression on Rope's face remained unchanged, only that the flames in his hands became even more violent.
As for why it was important, Rope didn't know.
And on the other side of the illusion that Rope and the others couldn't see, that queen sitting in the biggest castle of this planet looked at this childhood friend in front of her, with sadness in the bottom of her eyes.
"Why didn't he come to see me?"
She questioned as calmly as she could. But even so, the absolute sultriness could still be heard.
And the Al's lieutenant in front of her, her childhood friend shook her head and said, "You shouldn't get too excited, the slightest bit of moodiness could potentially taint the abyss."
After admonishing, looking up at the Queen who was full of stubbornness, he smiled bitterly and said, "How will you let Big Brother come to see you ah, if the Abyss is real, then he's going to destroy this place with his own hands..."
He's going to kill you with his own hands ah...how would he dare come to see you?
"Deadhead. I'd rather die at his hands than at anyone else's."
The Queen's eyes were filled with tears, but her mouth was hardened.
The adjutant, on the other hand, laughed bitterly... when he persuaded Al not to take this mission at that time, Al answered him the same way ah.
''I think that Ran might prefer to die under me rather than at the hands of others.''
It wasn't a kind of cruelty, more probably a kindness.
It's like someone who's infected with Ebola in some places, it's basically a certain death, and instead of struggling in all sorts of ways, it's better to give it a good one.
Shadow of the Abyss...
No one would want to take that form.
Going from intelligent creatures to mindless beasts was in itself the greatest punishment for intelligent creatures.
That's why even with all the Al that he endured in the same period of history, he ultimately chose to take matters into his own hands.
Of course, the situation that Rope was facing now was a situation that Al had simplified a lot... in fact... the investigation situation that Al was facing at that time was not something that could be finished by simply flying inside...
The Abyss is not as simple as Rope sees it now.
"The Abyss, it's not as simple as you think, Lord Thousand-Armed God."
Marianne wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and pulled out a sneering smile.
"It's not as simple as you want to kill me, either."
What responded to her was just another fireball from Rope.
At this moment, Rope had a ring of fire formed by 9 fireballs surrounding her, with golden flame patterns on her body. Of course, there were some other elemental shields and such in simple protection.
Although Rope wasn't skilled in the use of other elements, he could still do this kind of simple operation.
Holding a flame lance in her hand, Rope smiled and said, "Do you want to try it even if it's not simple." Saying that, the lance in his hand stabbed towards Marianne.
After the previous encounter with Marianne, Rope was certain that the fellow in front of her might have even less practical combat experience than herself. In other words, she was able to pose a threat to herself simply because she had a certain great killing weapon. Once this weapon was used, it would probably be a lose-lose situation, or even a double death situation.
That's why Marianne probably won't use it.
Then this is basically just giving Rope a meal. Rope's uppercut and stab, followed by a backstab and a downward slash, Marianne was unable to respond in time, but luckily her shield was thick enough, the blood red shield protected her from those fatal positions.
The scarlet red ribbons of abyssal mist around her were also coming towards Rope from time to time, and each time they were quite powerful. Rope also had to close her gun to block. Rope finally understood why people hated those kryptonite fighters so much at this time. After all, Kryptonite fighters could indeed have strength that others could only have if they worked hard.
However, Rope still had the upper hand.
After a bit of a tussle, Rope finally caught a break in Marianne's game. So with a smile on her face, she stabbed out hard. But Rope's confident shot failed to achieve the desired result.
It felt like going deeper into the mire, in, not an inch, pushing, not escaping.
Rope returned his attention to Marianne. Instead, he saw Marianne's teasing smirk.
In the next instant, Marianne disappeared in place.Rope also instantly put his gun back and took a defensive stance.
"Little brother, your use of power is really too poor Oh, the power of the Thousand Arm God is not this weak."
A charming and seductive voice rang in Rope's ears, and incidentally there was even warm air exhaled.
Rope only felt a wave of coldness rush from the soles of his feet straight to the Hundred Meeting Points at the top of his head.
Motherfucker, what is this situation.
"Not good! Something's wrong!" ×2
Al's face instantly became very ugly, while Year, who was in the void, instantly got up as he looked at that charming yet innocent, sacred yet seductive face.
That face they all recognized, or rather in the whole of the incident, the biggest cause and effect besides the Thousand-Armed God Al, was this woman.
Abyssal Receiver-Marianne.
Back then, she was still a nobody, but within a few years, the woman in front of her had become a big name in the Abyss, and even in the entire void.
If anything, back then Al had lost his future in the midst of this incident. The empire lost its generals and had its future thrown into uncertainty. Then the one who gained the most was the woman in front of him.
An Abyssal Receiver with relatively poor strength, all of a sudden becoming the number two spokesperson of the Abyssal forces in the void... it had to be said that this woman was really quite skillful.
So how could she not care about an event that had so much karma for her?
Year closed her eyes, and so did Al.
Rope thrust the lance in her hand towards her side.
All that could be heard was a silver bell and a half laugh ringing out.Rope didn't half feel like she had stabbed a physical object.
"Little cutie, don't be so fierce, let's have a good chat."
Marianne didn't know when she appeared not far from Rope's front again, showing off her good figure to her heart's content. With a seductive smile on her face.
Rope's face didn't have any half appreciation, what he had was only gravity.
This woman...is as strong as a ghost.Rope could feel that the energy within Al's body was indeed not much worse than this woman. But Rope couldn't, even in how strong the power was, it was impossible to use it skillfully without his familiarity.
Now Rope is like a 10-year-old child, holding the highest power of a country, but there is the problem of his own ability within, and the problem of energy resistance outside. To manage his own three-quarters of an acre of land is already very powerful. To
As for the rest, that's not what the current Rope should be wishing for.
Honestly, if he was still in the illusion, then Rope would be just like that even if he committed suicide. The most important thing is to wake up, and if he fails, Al will not fail to give Azure Flute to himself.
He also understood Al's character, if something really went wrong in this world, Al would never stand idly by.
But the current situation seemed to be a bit different... You would have to say that this Marianne in front of you, was the same MarianneRope style from the previous environment not to believe it at all.
There was only one other possibility. It's that Marianne who wandered in the void, borrowing the thread of causality to come to this immediate illusion or amongst some slice of time... I just don't know if this is the kind of situation where one commits suicide to go back, or something else.
Rope is in a quandary. Even Rope couldn't make a decision so easily when faced with such a big matter as life and death. In the end, Rope was only a young man. Those old monsters who had lived for tens of thousands of years were far behind.
And just as Rope was torn, Marianne closed her eyes as if she was feeling something. The moment she closed her eyes, Rope directly threw out the spear in his hand and struck it towards Marianne's head.
But the lance was directly twisted into pieces a meter away from Marianne's body. It turned into a bit of golden light and disappeared into the air.
It could be seen that Rope's attack was basically unable to break the defense by now. In this situation, Rope's best choice is to kneel. Seriously, kneeling black silk long legs, ripe girl sister, it does not seem to be a loss at all.
But Rope knows that the person in front of him is an abyssal creature! Rope has not seen how ugly the abyssal creatures were back in the day.
The Shadow of the Abyss is called the 'Shadow' of the Abyss, because they are really like shadows, in the beginning, without absorbing flesh and blood is basically like a piece of paper.
That's right. Secondary ecstasy! Of course, even if it wasn't an abyssal creature in front of her, but an elf queen it wouldn't help, Rope's heart, that's Cynthia's and no one can steal it!
Long black silk legs?
Heh, who's girlfriend doesn't have like!
"Heh, cutie, looks like you're really important to some people." Just as Rope was thinking all sorts of random thoughts, thinking that there might not be anything left to think about without thinking about it more, Marianne suddenly opened her mouth and said to Rope, "There are some people who are even sparing their strengths to be damaged, but also rushing to come and save you!"
Rope was about to open his mouth to speak when he heard a memorized voice.
"Damaged or not it can get you killed.Marianne."
Year appeared by Rope's side at some point and squeezed Rope's shoulder.
Rope was also relieved to see Year still wearing that suit.
"Boss you're finally here."
Year instead just waved a hand at him. Eyes stayed focused on Marianne.
"Marianne, are you making an enemy of the company? Destroying the Savior's salvation operation for no reason, do you think that the company can't do anything about you because your back is against the Abyss? Or do you think that you don't need to follow the rules of the Void anymore?"
Year's upper hand was the intimidating trifecta. It could be said to be and its skillful.
Marianne wasn't scared at all, she just laughed softly and said, "Boss Liu still doesn't want to think of putting a label on me. This bunch you're talking about, are there any abyssal creatures and spreading abyssal pollution crimes that are heavy?"
The corner of Marianne's mouth hooked up into an icy arc.
"If your rules worked, then people like me wouldn't even exist would they?"
Rope heard something different in those words and he looked over at Rope to see if he had any particular reaction.
However Year's face didn't even change a bit. Just looked silently at Marianne in front of him.
"While you do have a bit of truth in what you say, when we say things and sneak around behind our backs, it's because the world is too big for us to regulate. Nor can we manage it that tightly. And to really ride the face output in front of us...do you really think we're a dry run?"
"What's more, I'm not exactly a big shot, so it's simply useless for you to complain about this with me. Do you want me to contact the bigwigs of the Court of Life, the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the Temporal Affairs Bureau, and the Reincarnation Sanctuary for you? Or else, it's fine to bring the travelers here to give you justice!"
Year had a smile on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes.
It was true that the company wasn't a top-tier power in the Void, but Year himself was definitely not one of the little people that he was so modest about...
Just then, another person appeared by Rope's side.
"Rope are you alright?"
Al immediately checked Rope's status after entering this place. Seeing that Rope really didn't have any damage, he was once again relieved. If something had really gone wrong with Rope, then Al guessed that it would still be really hard for others to explain.
The first one that was hard to account for was Year in front of him.
Rope shook her head, "I'm fine, but Al..."
The corner of Rope's mouth twitched, "Isn't this an illusion? Why is there a real person???"
Al scratched his head a little embarrassed, then said, "How can an illusion be so real, this is a time fragment that I intercepted from the river of time, back then after this incident I have been practicing my time ability diligently, and eventually had some results, and also found out these so-called answers."
Rope hadn't heard of this thing called time fragments, so he looked at Year. year felt his gaze, then said, "Gotta have it, remember to apply for open access later, and since you've come across this area of intel more or less for you as well."
Of course the company was not lacking in intelligence, it could be said that apart from the three forces of the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Time Management Bureau and the travelers, it was the company that had the most intelligence. Of course, the company's biggest intelligence peddler was someone else.
There's no way around it. It was because none of these forces bought information from the outside. This kind of thing, selling intelligence, superficial to okay, buy some expensive intelligence for a big organization is definitely a loss.
Rope also nodded at his words, since this was the case, he didn't need to say anything more, just wait and go back to check the information.
And so the gazes of everyone present were focused on Marianne.
Marianne knew very well that there were four people in this time shard right now, and time shards certainly weren't afraid of death. But those pains could still be felt. There was no need for her to suffer those extra pains.
So Marianne straightened her back once again, smoothed out her messy hair, and then looked at Rope and spoke, "Little cutie, when you get to the Void, we'll have a good chat again oh~ Sister thinks that you and a certain little bastard from the Cultural and Administrative Bureau must have a lot in common."
After saying that, Marianne gave Year and Al another blank stare. Then directly disappeared in the same place.
Seeing her disappear, Year properly scoped out the neighborhood for a while, then finally sent a sigh of relief and spoke as if relieved, "Holy shit, she's finally gone. I was really afraid she was going to get into a fight."
"A fight you can't win?" Rope asked in a somewhat puzzled voice.
Without Year opening his mouth, Al said directly, "It's not that it's impossible to win, it's that it's hard to win. After all, this is within the Abyssal Contamination Zone."
"Try not to fight those sound support creatures whose strength is not far from yours within the Abyss's shrouded area, you won't be able to take advantage of them at all."
Al was still quite emotional about this matter. Back when he had entered, it had been too late to be organized, and the Abyssal contaminated area that could have been had become a true Abyssal contaminated area.
"The story here isn't quite right is it?"
Rope looked at Al and suddenly said so.
Both Al and Year looked at Rope with some surprise.
Rope simply continued, "You care about this time, to a terrible degree. I'm sure that if you were allowed to slaughter another planet that had little to do with you right now in exchange for a chance to change this past, you wouldn't hesitate to destroy a planet."
Al was silent for a moment, then stopped speaking, only shaking his head with a bitter smile, "Maybe, but I believe that even if there was that kind of opportunity right now, the price that would need to be paid would definitely be something I couldn't afford."
This was true, in the end, there were too many people involved in that story, and having a relationship with Al himself was already terrifying, not to mention Marianne, and even the Abyss...
Anyone involved with the Abyss is basically considered a big karma.
"Enough of this useless talk, let's go, don't stay here. Don't go around causing trouble, save me the trouble of keeping me busy."
Year said to Rope without any good humor. Although it seemed like a complaint, Rope knew that his boss was reminding Al not to get himself into trouble. If he dared to get himself into trouble, Year would dare to go after Al.
So Al and Rope nodded at the same time.
After saying that Rope felt that his connection with this body was weakening and this world was giving him a sense of rejection.
Soon Rope disappeared where he was.
Al was ready to leave as well and was just about to say goodbye to Year.
"Senior Thousand Arm God, please stay a bit longer, I have something to say."