The Death List Novel - Chapter 280

Chapter 280 Decisive Battle
Liu Biao stood on a building covered in green vines and looked at the buildings in front of him. This was a commercial district located in the center of the battle. In the center was a circular commercial square with a huge fountain in the middle.

The plaza is surrounded by department stores and high-end hotels. Of course, these modern high-rise buildings have now become reinforced concrete forests filled with green plants.

However, compared to the completely ruined military area, the buildings here were largely still in their original frame, and even the commercial billboards hanging on the buildings were intact.

Since the huge fountain in the center of the square is connected to the underground water channel, wild animals often come to drink in this large square. In addition, there were many high-end hotels around the plaza. It could be said that this was the most convenient area for hunting and was the most suitable place for rest and recuperation.

Many of the apostles were actually active here at the beginning of the battle for supremacy. Unfortunately, they quickly chose to stay away from this area, because the assassin had used this place as his hunting ground and his main area of activity.

None of the experts wished for other apostles to exist where they were resting. Although the assassin was very strong, he would also be tired. Naturally, he had designated this area as a forbidden area for the other apostles.

Liu Biao looked at the glimmer of dawn on the horizon and walked down the stairs. A moment later, he appeared beside the fountain. Last night, he had already scouted the surroundings and confirmed that there shouldn’t be any ambushes in this area.

Even so, he was still very cautious. After all, his opponent was the strongest apostle in this region. The topographic map of the treasure map fragment that Liu Biao had obtained only briefly depicted this commercial district and did not specify the location of the duel.

The bald man believed that the assassin had done this on purpose, meaning that he was allowed to choose the specific location of the battle in this area. Liu Biao did not give up this right. He used the fountain area in the middle of the commercial plaza as the dueling place.

Compared to those tall buildings, he felt that this place had a wide field of vision and was suitable for fighting against the assassin. It was also very difficult to set up traps and ambush their companions in advance, which was the best duel location for both sides.

Of course, there was also a possibility that the other party hadn’t called him here for a duel. Perhaps it was just to trade for treasure map fragments.

If that was the case, Liu Biao actually did not object to selling the treasure map fragments in his hands at a reasonable price. Since he could not obtain all the fragments, selling them to the strongest apostles in the war of hegemony was not a disgrace.

Liu Biao stood quietly by the fountain, his vigilance reaching its peak. If the apostles didn’t have any special orientation after each mission world, they would inevitably favor the important attributes of their career path. As an MT, agility and perception were weaknesses. Even if there were some precious medicines with body attributes, they could not make up for these two weaknesses.

“It seems that there are fewer bug cries!” The bald man’s expression became even more solemn. Although he could not detect the presence of enemies around him, he instinctively sensed something strange.

“We can’t stay here!” Liu Biao suddenly felt a trace of regret in his heart. His harvest in the hegemony battle was enormous. It was truly not worth fighting to the death with an expert for a few treasure map fragments. The battle intent that had been triggered by the duel invitation yesterday began to rapidly fade away.

However, just as he was about to leave, a knife and fork-shaped dagger that emitted a bloody light suddenly poked out from the space behind him and stabbed towards his waist with lightning speed.

The bald man’s eyes lit up as he roared. He turned around like a whirlwind, and his fist the size of a bowl smashed fiercely towards a blurry black shadow behind him.

“Humph!” The black shadow coldly snorted, and its body slightly flashed, dissipating like a mirror. At the same time, a streak of blood-refining light drew a beautiful arc in the air like a brocade belt and circled around Liu Biao’s body.

Chi! Blood splattered all over the bald man’s body, and several blood arrows sprayed out from his chest and abdomen. In an instant, his body had been stabbed several times, and his bear-like body spun away. At the same time that Liu Biao was sent flying, a slender figure wearing a black cloth mask appeared in his original location. It was precisely that powerful assassin.

After the assassin appeared, the blood-colored knife and fork in his hand twisted. Just as he was about to take advantage of the victory to chase after him, his feet suddenly softened and he knelt on one knee.

“Pu!” He could only feel a sharp pain coming from his chest and abdomen. He couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful, and the black cloth mask on his face was immediately dyed with a layer of blood.

“Anti-injury ability!” Black’s eyes were filled with ferocity. This was the first time he had been injured in a hegemony battle.

Ever since last night, he had felt that someone was probing his area. After this morning, the assassin found Liu Biao’s location, or the bald man did not deliberately hide it.

As the strongest warrior in this region, Black naturally wouldn’t avoid the battle. So far, he had more than fifteen invitations and eight treasure map fragments on him. He had let go of some of the apostles who had handed over the fragments of the treasure map. Otherwise, there would have been more than twenty invitations.

In fact, if Liu Biao hadn’t come to this area today, Black would have gone to look for a few other experts as well. He was different from other experts. Due to the restriction of the shattered starry sky, fifteen invitations cancelled out the punishment for murder. In fact, his profit was not much.

If he hadn’t found the half-plane of the Wheel of Heaven, he would have come to this city war in vain.

Liu Biao’s face darkened as he slowly got up from the ground. There were a few bloody holes in his chest and abdomen. However, the muscles around the wound were slowly contracting. In the blink of an eye, they had actually closed the wound and stopped bleeding.

“Very good, no wonder you dared to challenge me!” Black’s voice was extremely hoarse, and it sounded as harsh as metal. “I didn’t expect to meet such a challenging opponent at the end of the hegemony battle!”

Black flipped his hand and put away the knife-and-fork shaped blood-light dagger in his hand. He took out another narrow dagger full of serrations from his bosom. Its shape looked like a saw blade.

“Let me challenge you” Liu Biao frowned and a strange feeling immediately arose in his heart. “Wasn’t it your invitation to duel?”

‘”My invitation to a duel” Black was slightly stunned. His eyes lit up and he smiled sinisterly. “Hehe, it doesn’t matter! One mouse, or two mice, it doesn’t make any difference to me!”

“Wait! You” Liu Biao was shocked and was about to ask again when he discovered that the assassin’s figure had faded away again and a hoarse laugh came from all directions.

“Don’t worry, no matter who arranged this duel, I will definitely send him over to see you when I kill you!”

“Humph!” A ruthless expression appeared on Liu Biao’s face. He took a deep breath and revealed a mouthful of white teeth. “Then let me see if you have the qualifications to do so.”

There were no more sounds of assassins coming from the surroundings. After a brief exchange of blows, the fountain fell silent again. Only the bald man, who was hunched over, and the bloodstains on the ground indicated that a decisive battle was under way.

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“Bastard, why are you pestering me!” An angry voice came from a bear-shaped steel puppet. “I already said that I didn’t kill your companion. Someone must have wanted to provoke a fight between us …”

On the battlefield where the two of them fought, there were four or five steel puppets lying on the ground, and the broken parts of the puppets were scattered all over the place.

Long Feng’s eyes flickered. After he found this puppet master in the morning to fight one on one, his opponent’s performance was extremely negative. After he split up a puppet, the opponent had a strong desire to avoid battle.

While fighting and communicating, Long Feng quickly realized that the other party was not lying. Perhaps he didn’t kill the One-eyed Dragon Sniper. As the other party had said, it was likely that someone had deliberately provoked a battle between them.

However, the swordsman did not want to stop at this moment. He had already scouted the area last night and was sure that no one else was ambushing him here. The area where the puppet masters resided was relatively remote, and the surrounding terrain was simple. Even if someone rushed over to take advantage of them later, it would be easy for the two of them to find out.

In other words, this place is not a good place to be a fisherman.

Moreover, during the battle, Long Feng discovered that he had a great deal of professional restraint towards puppet masters. This puppet master possessed a wide variety of puppets, and the quality of the puppets was fairly good. There were even dark gold and purple gold puppets.

However, when a puppet master controlled a puppet, it was a puppet line formed by condensing magic power and spiritual power. And his sword qi could cut through the puppet thread, cutting off the internal connection between puppet masters and puppets.

Although the connection between the two only lasted for one breath, it was enough for Dragon Wind to explode with high damage skills, destroying the puppet’s control core and key components, making it impossible for the puppet master to control the puppet.

Of course, most of the puppets Long Feng could destroy were below dark gold quality. However, this puppet master’s strength lay in his precise control over the numerous puppets. Once the number of puppets he could control dropped to a certain extent, then his threat to Long Feng would basically be zero.

No matter how powerful this puppet master was, he was only a beginner apostle. It was amazing that there were three or four puppets of dark gold quality or above. The rest were mostly purple and blue quality. This kind of weakness wasn’t even a weakness in normal times, and only a highly attacking and sensitive swordsman like Long Feng could restrain him to such an extent.

“You really treat me like a meat dish. You forced me to do this. Don’t blame me if you die!” When Long Feng once again broke through a purple puppet, the puppet master hiding in the bear puppet finally became furious and had the thought of fighting to the death.

The number of his puppets had already dropped to a dangerous level. Although he still had some stock, if this continued, he would probably lose the ability to resist. Moreover, even if there were puppets, if the swordsman was unharmed, it would be very difficult for him to escape.

The puppet master took out a large piece of azure magic crystal stone from his bosom and slammed it into the bear puppet’s control core in pain.

“Kakaka!” The bear puppet let out a mechanical sound as the armor on its body began to deform. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a steel statue.

The steel statue opened its mouth and two small statues were sprayed out. They rolled on the ground and similarly turned into two smaller steel statues. As soon as the three steel statues appeared, their mouths lit up with the flash of magic crystal cannons. The surrounding beast-shaped puppets also gathered inwards and pounced towards Long Feng.