Chapter 342: The White Mist Has Vanished

Within the Deep Sea Dragon Palace, the invincible Excessive Reducing Carp Overlord Lord set free its closing roar. Seven fissures started to type on the bottom, every one on the verge of breaking open. If these fissures weren’t sealed, the water from outdoors would flood in, drowning the eight sorcerers preventing valiantly!

Thus, gamers needed to sacrifice their lives to seal the fissures. But when all seven fissures have been sealed with out killing the Excessive Reducing Carp, it could nonetheless unleash its Miraculous Fury, overturning the Dragon Palace and leading to a complete celebration wipe!

Carp Sacrifice—that is the Epic’s berserk test mechanism current in each Final Mode and Phantom Mode occasion. It’s the last word take a look at for participant teams! In the event that they fail, all their efforts could be in useless!

Ashe by no means anticipated that the random staff he joined would attain the berserk part so easily, with near-flawless efficiency from everybody. It was so seamless it was nearly touching!

Because the therapeutic sorcerer with the bottom harm output, Ashe naturally needed to be the primary sacrificial providing. When his character was fastened on the fissure, bearing the strain of ten thousand tons of water, his occasion mission was full. The remaining job of dealing harm was left to his teammates.

With the Excessive Reducing Carp’s well being all the way down to 12%, so long as Ashe didn’t depart the occasion prematurely, which might set off a berserk wipe, they have been assured to clear it.

“Lastly, we’ve cleared this occasion… With this achievement, I can problem a Phantom Mode subsequent…”

As Ashe was considering which Phantom Mode to sort out subsequent, he abruptly felt his coronary heart skip a violent beat.

Thump!

The heavy pulse echoed by his cranium, reverberating in his mind. The height of his heartbeat erupted, shattering his consciousness into fragments, slowly coalescing right into a piercing ring in his ears.

The sport pod detected Ashe’s irregular situation and ejected him instantly. Nevertheless, the sunshine and air outdoors couldn’t soothe his convulsing nerves. Ashe felt as if his backbone had been ripped out, his life, vitality, and can drained away, abandoning an empty, agonized shell.

Thump!

Thump!

The center loyally pumped vitality into his veins, trying to reboot the poisoned central system. The best hemisphere of his mind joyfully deciphered the chaotic notes emitted by the low-energy performer, whereas the left hemisphere mobilized its whole grey matter to suppress the rebel neural info movement. The frontal and temporal lobes cheered on as a supportive viewers, all working to power his consciousness again into his shell—

Sigh.

With an extended exhalation of turbid air, Ashe’s metaphysical self forcefully took command of all his underlying organs. The neurons that had been going berserk trembled in concern, the loosened screws tightened as soon as extra, and his physique stabilized and rebooted.

Ashe sat upright, glancing on the sport pod’s display screen.

“Properly, leaving the occasion early and inflicting a berserk wipe… I’m positively going to get flamed on the boards by my teammates,” he calmly narrated what was going to occur subsequent, as if it have been another person’s expertise.

It was Ashe’s first time getting into “A Flash of Perception” in actuality.

Within the Digital Realm, he would enter “A Flash of Perception” state every time he confronted a significant disaster. As an illustration, in the course of the automobile chase with Commander Demilo, he was in “A Flash of Perception” nearly the whole time. Each motion was as exact as a scalpel, permitting him to narrowly defeat Demilo.

On this state, Ashe appeared to drag his ‘self’ consciousness out of his physique, observing all the pieces from a third-person perspective with calm detachment.

And since ‘I’ and ‘myself’ have been untethered, ‘I’ might utterly disregard ‘myself’s’ ache, anger, disappointment, pleasure, concern, and different physiological reactions and psychological feelings. It was like taking part in chess, making ‘myself’ a chunk for use to its fullest potential.

In truth, this state matched effectively along with his operator codename. To any extent further, he would name this state “Observer Mode.”

Actually, Observer Mode was fairly good, and Ashe wished he might preserve it on a regular basis. If he might voluntarily enter Observer Mode throughout cases, he might deal with mechanics with zero errors even with no wheelchair. Neglect Phantom Mode, even Final Mode could be a breeze.

Sadly, he might solely enter Observer Mode passively throughout vital and harmful moments, and its length was uncontrollable.

As soon as Ashe was out of hazard, the ‘Observer thread’ in his thoughts would loosen up, and his overclocked mind would shortly downshift into power-saving mode—

Similar to now.

“Ugh!”

Ashe groaned. The second he exited Observer Mode, a powerful sense of vacancy pressed down on him like a lead weight, making it onerous to breathe. He felt as if he have been submerged within the depths of the ocean, every cell and organ being crushed by the strain of ten thousand tons of water, making him want he might simply move out.

Struggling out of the gaming pod, Ashe might barely preserve his cerebellar stability. The world round him appeared like a still-wet oil portray, with each shade leaving a heavy path. The disruption in his visible cortex pushed his abdomen strain previous the edge, inflicting him to vomit his whole dinner.

The abdomen acid burned his throat, but it surely additionally barely stimulated his willpower. Ashe took just a few deep breaths, lastly rebooting his working system, reconnecting all peripherals, and barely restoring fundamental motor capabilities. Nevertheless, the virus nonetheless severely slowed his processing velocity, making Ashe doubt his effectivity was higher than that of 1% of his friends within the Gospel.

There weren’t many individuals on the gaming ground; most have been of their gaming pods. The night time sky outdoors the window was clear, and tonight’s Vamora was peaceable. Ashe seemed round however couldn’t discover any suspicious people who might need cursed him.

He struggled to the entrance desk to hunt assist, solely to search out the receptionist slumped in her chair.

Nevertheless, till Time Dissonance Agency is totally eradicated, each service they supply means a bunch of individuals is about to face an sudden blow.

“Affirm the mission goal,” Cleos mentioned into the radio. “Ashe Heath, whoever captures him, the credit score can be break up seventy-thirty. Seventy p.c goes to me.”

“Subsequent are Annan Dolan and Banjeet Dolan. Though they don’t have any legal data but, they’re near Ashe, they usually would possibly current themselves as criminals in the course of the upcoming Weaving Pageant. Tomorrow is the day the second rating listing is launched. We have to detain them for 48 hours beneath the pretext of helping within the investigation. If something occurs, we are able to arrest them instantly.”

“This wasn’t the deal!” a voice from a close-by hovercar shouted. “Ashe goes to the Purple Hats, Annan goes to the Agency!”

“After the second rating listing is out, if Nabistin doesn’t concern a bounty for Annan and Banjeet, I’ll launch them. Then, your Agency can deal with your individual disputes.”

The affairs commissioner muttered one thing however finally lacked the braveness to confront the Purple Hats.

After Cleos turned off the radio, ‘Deadshot Purple Hat’ Leite glanced at her. “Are you attempting to guard the Purple Moth?”

“My goal is Ashe Heath,” Cleos replied. “Not Annan.”

“However she will create chaos that might have an effect on the Weaving Pageant. What if—”

“Wouldn’t that be even higher?” Cleos sniffed and laughed. “Capturing only one Ashe might make me the primary Purple Hat. Sadly, I’ve to share the glory with you… But when one other Ashe comes alongside, I’ll be the highest Purple Hat for the following fifty years!”

“The world is about to finish, and you continue to care about rankings?”

Cleos hesitated and mentioned, “However… I’m a Purple Hat… After all, I care about my rating…”

Leite was silent for a second, then waved his hand. “Neglect what I simply mentioned… However conserving Annan secure gained’t be simple.”

“Annan continues to be a law-abiding citizen. Who would dare hurt her?”

“There’s somebody within the automobile behind us,” Leite mentioned calmly. “Don’t overlook who dispelled the white mist that had Entangled Vamora for a whole bunch of years. The key guard from Nabistin is a judicial catastrophe that even the Gospel Guide can’t constrain.”

Via the rearview mirror, Cleos might see the armored guard sitting within the automobile behind them. Wearing full Black Knight armor, not an inch of pores and skin was uncovered, and even the eyes have been hidden behind a masks.

It sat within the backseat like an historic tombstone.

Since gun sorcerers turned the mainstream in fight, armor was relegated to the dustbin of historical past. Virtually no sorcerers would put on such heavy armor until they have been cussed adherents of historic traditions.

And the key guard, certainly, inherited centuries-old traditions. They have been probably the most loyal protect and the sharpest blade of the Yisuo Royal Household. Since their look, they walked the Kingdom of Gospel as darkish sentinels. Nobody knew who they have been, and a few even doubted in the event that they have been human—on condition that they neither ate, drank, excreted, nor entertained themselves. Many sorcerers believed that the key guards have been, in truth, animated fits of armor.

These strolling armors represented the best authority of the Yisuo Royal Household.

Not solely did they characterize this authority, however they may additionally immediately mobilize royal sources to attain any objective—equivalent to dispersing Vamora’s white mist.

Neither the Agency nor the Purple Hats had the flexibility to disperse the white mist.

A couple of days in the past, Leite and Cleos have been ready outdoors Vamora, hoping Ashe and his group would go away voluntarily. It was then that the key guard approached them, claiming it might disperse the mist and help in capturing Ashe Heath.

Dispersing the mist protecting a complete metropolis with out inflicting hurt is not any extraordinary miracle; it might solely be a Divine Intervention granted by the Gospel.

Certainly, after the Purple Hats and the Agency have been prepared, the key guard summoned the Gospel Guide. After some operations, the white mist of Vamora disappeared.

Cleos couldn’t think about what number of Gospel factors this Divine Intervention value. Maybe if she spent a century’s value of financial savings, she would possibly afford it, however she would by no means waste factors so lavishly.

The factors {that a} Sanctuary sorcerer won’t earn in a lifetime have been simply spent on what was primarily an environmental cleanup. Solely the rich royal household might afford such extravagance.

Cleos initially thought the key guard was representing the Yisuo Royal Household to seize Ashe and Annan. Nevertheless, the key guard shook its head, indicating it could not intervene within the seize.

It had one other mission this time.

“To be trustworthy, the key guard actually helped us,” Cleos mentioned. “Dispersing the white mist not solely paralyzed all of Vamora but in addition ensured that Senhaeser’s patriarch, who ought to nonetheless be in a Dream, couldn’t return with out the mist as a medium. For not less than an hour, we’ll solely be dealing with a Senhaeser with no commander.”

“In return for the key guard’s assist, we’ll make as a lot noise as attainable, drawing all of Vamora’s consideration to us. This manner…”

“The key guard can extra simply discover its goal,” Leite completed.