Chapter 295: The Windmill Turns Slowly, Creaking~
Although the Twin Goddesses were not true gods, merely descendants of the Long-Lived Race, everything they had done had deeply bound the world's logic to them.
Cangyue Leiya controlled the authority of Order, and Hongyue Fina controlled the authority of Freedom.
Only with reasonable freedom within order could the world function normally, but this was also a natural self-restraint of the Twin Goddesses; in order to ensure the better survival of the Kingdom of Ys and to bring more peace to the land, they chose to create and abide by rules.
However, being able to create and abide by rules also meant possessing the ability to break and disregard them.
Things the Twin Goddesses wouldn't do, Cheng Tian had no qualms about!
After activating the template skill, Rite of the Red Moon, Cheng Tian gained "freedom" at the permission level.
The wind-attributed Ys Divine Artifact, "Wings of the Azure Sky," which remained in Cheng Tian's inventory, glowed once again under his interference.
At the same time, Thor, who was being suppressed by Saulus on the ground, suddenly shivered, feeling as if a hand had touched him.
Almost simultaneously, a temporary skill named 『Skill of Divine Speed』 appeared in Cheng Tian's extra skills. This was a wind-elemental skill obtained in the original work when "Thor Fact," a playable character, resonated with the Wings of the Azure Sky.
The Rite of the Red Moon granted Cheng Tian the freedom to grab and use any skill within the "player's" usable range in the current instance, but he could only replicate 1 skill at a time.
This "player" was not a Chosen Player, but a true "player"—you, me, and him, beyond the 2D screen.
Thor, Unica, and Hugo were all within the scope of grab-and-replicate.
The effect of Thor Fact's Skill of Divine Speed was to grant the player the ability to dash a short distance instantly; if gliding in the air, the dash could be even further.
Of course, while called instant movement, it could only move within the line of sight and was not true teleportation... but in Cheng Tian's hands, it was different—
This thing had a BUG!
Cheng Tian, like a turtle in a jar, "madly" crashed around within the binding barrier, his chain hammer and chain blade repeatedly striking the barrier.
However, with the black pearl, which had merged with the Origin of Evil, repairing the barrier, it was repeatedly restored, ensuring Cheng Tian had no possibility of escaping.
Soon, the six heads of the Familiars, including the black pearl that Dalles had actively released as both a weakness and a core magical artifact, were at their peak charge.
"Don't worry, you won't truly die. As long as you merge into the Origin of Evil, you will also become an immortal existence. At that time, I can revive you, and the Kingdom of Ys can continue to be ruled by you."
Perhaps in a good mood, Demon King Dalles offered a strange recruitment.
It had the distinct flavor of a necromancer recruiting new employees, offering Cheng Tian and the Twin Goddesses post-mortem employment.
The accumulation of magic reached its peak, and seven energy cannons containing highly concentrated magic were simultaneously unleashed at Cheng Tian within the barrier, covering all angles without blind spots.
However, at this moment, Demon King Dalles noticed Cheng Tian's strange pause; despite the mask, it was as if he saw Cheng Tian's lips curl into a smile.
Then, Cheng Tian vanished into thin air.
"Wh—"
Demon King Dalles's mutated, demonic face was filled with disbelief; it couldn't comprehend how Cheng Tian had disappeared from a barrier that had transfer interference effects.
It wasn't invisibility; he was truly no longer there!
At this very moment, Cheng Tian had appeared behind Demon King Dalles, where its tentacles were numerous.
In the normal Thor route, players would only obtain the Bronze Key in the mid-to-late stages of the first layer of the Crying Domain to open the Bronze Gate, which was the special room where the blue-haired Shin-chan was imprisoned in the Unica and Hugo routes.
However, Thor's Skill of Divine Speed had a peculiar BUG: there was a chance to pass through fixed scene textures.
As long as one activated the Skill of Divine Speed after obtaining the Wings of the Azure Sky, faced the tightly locked Bronze Gate, and calculated the distance to activate the skill at a 45-degree angle upwards, there was a chance to directly pass through without a key!
In the game, unskilled players would need to test it multiple times, but in Cheng Tian's free hands, the probability of passing through the barrier was one hundred percent!
If he could pass through fixed scene textures, why would he fear your mere barrier?
Cheng Tian, habitually acting, merely wanted Demon King Dalles to consume as much of its mana bar as possible.
The seven devastating magical energy cannons shattered the binding barrier, but they didn't even singe Cheng Tian's hair... Oh, his hair had already been burned off by himself.
Cheng Tian, who had instantly moved behind Dalles, rapidly swapped weapons in his hands; Gale Blade and Heaven Chain Hammer were replaced by the Flame Dragon Sword and a blue Shock Orb.
The Flame Dragon Sword's blade instantly split into seven small flying swords. The fire element that originally propelled the flying swords was completely replaced by holy fire, meaning its final damage to Demon King Dalles was tripled, and all sword fragments were aimed at the black pearl that Demon King Dalles had revealed.
A dazzling seven-hit combo mercilessly struck the black pearl. At the moment the seventh strike was completed, Demon King Dalles's attempt to retract the black pearl back into its body was also interrupted.
At this point, the health reduction truly appeared on the health bar.
The Flame Array Strike of the Flame Dragon Sword instantly reduced the opponent's health by 525 points. While interrupting its actions, the effect of Flame Dragon Entanglement was also applied, causing the black pearl to suffer an additional 30 points per second, totaling 210 points, of holy fire burning.
The six Fact heads, controlled by the Demon King, all flew over, and magical light visibly emerged from their mouths again. At the same time, a large number of tentacles also followed.
In Cheng Tian's vision, dense health bars had appeared, indicating that all these heads and tentacles had independent health bars.
Facing the scene before him, Cheng Tian's choice was to immediately crush the blue Shock Orb in his hand.
The six heads and all the tentacles were instantly blasted away by the shockwave, and even Demon King Dalles was forced into a 2.5-second magic-sealing state.
As the final BOSS unit of Ys Origin, Demon King Dalles had extremely high hidden permissions. The magic-sealing effect, which would normally last 10 seconds on a boss-level unit, only lasted 2.5 seconds on it.
Not to mention that it was only this much time; even if it had truly been 10 seconds, it would have been a drop in the bucket. Demon King Dalles's lengthy health bar was enough for it to largely ignore this magic-sealing duration, not to mention it also had multiple demonic body transformations gained from assimilating Dalles.
But at this moment, Cheng Tian's hand, which had crushed the blue Shock Orb, suddenly held another strange item.
It was a paper windmill, mostly seen in children's hands. But as the paper windmill spun, the less than two-second magic-sealing duration above Demon King Dalles's head rapidly dwindled to zero... and then, it astonishingly became ∞!?
Demon King Dalles discovered in horror that the magical link between itself and the black pearl had been forcibly severed by an indescribable power of rules!
[Miyachi Windmill 30 Seconds: Easter egg item, consumable. Makaimura Easter egg item.
Can shorten the cooldown of 1 skill, the duration of 1 BUFF, or the time limit of 1 quest on the target unit by 30 seconds.
When the chosen time limit is already less than 30 seconds, the duration will become ∞ (infinite).]