“Leave this to me. You should rest.” Luca patted Quagmire on the shoulder, and one by one, ice crystals began to form behind him. These quickly morphed into sharp arrows, their icy aura intense and chilling.
Quagmire glanced at the monster and warned, “This monster’s spatial abilities are very strong. Be careful. My hand was severed because I was careless.”
Luca nodded and replied, “Don’t worry. I’ll take its head off to avenge you.”
Quagmire blinked, slightly bewildered. Is that what you got from what I just said? His concern wasn’t about Luca’s revenge—was it?
“Yowww!!” The Void Crossing Silver Fox let out a sharp, baby-like cry, its fur bristling as it glared at Luca, showing its teeth.
“Don’t bother,” Luca sneered coldly, his body radiating a frosty aura. As his words rang out, the ice arrows behind him suddenly became streaks of light, shooting toward the Void Crossing Silver Fox.
The arrows sped through the air with a howling whistle, cutting through the silence.
“Yip—!” The Void Crossing Silver Fox howled in anger, a brilliant silver light bursting from its body. The surrounding space rippled, and a silver-white shield materialized, completely enveloping it.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
The moment the ice arrows struck the shield, they were sliced into pieces, shattered mid-air, and the remaining fragments slammed against the silver shield, exploding into thousands of fine ice crystals.
Luca’s expression remained unchanged. His feet glowed with silver light, and in the next instant, he appeared directly in front of the Void Crossing Silver Fox.
“Die!” With a twist of his wrist, Starseeker gleamed as it swung straight toward the fox’s head, aiming for a lethal strike!
“Luca, watch out!” Quagmire suddenly shouted behind him, and Luca immediately sensed something was wrong.
The instant Starseeker made contact with the silver fox, it passed right through its body as if it were nothing.
High-tier spatial skill—Mirror Image.
A sense of imminent danger suddenly struck from the side.
Luca’s eyes flashed with golden light. Without a moment’s hesitation, he flung out a ball of Divine Flame, the golden fire racing toward the source of the threat.
Boom!!!
The golden flames erupted explosively within the office building.
The glass of the floor-to-ceiling windows shattered with a deafening crash, and the violent shockwave sent papers, desks, and chairs flying in all directions. Quagmire reacted quickly, ducking behind a desk, narrowly avoiding the blast.
At the same time, outside, Drumph and his group were just about to enter Sunshine Tower to rescue the people inside when suddenly a deafening explosion shook the entire building.
They looked up in astonishment, only to see a burst of golden flames erupting on the 21st floor. Countless flames scattered and flew, dazzling like a firework exploding against the pitch-black night.
“What is this…?” Drumph paused for a moment, then quickly recognized the ability. A look of excitement appeared on his face as he clenched his fist and said, “I knew this kid wouldn’t die so easily!”
As they watched the golden flames raging on the building, both Stormlook and Yuel were stunned. Although they knew Luca was powerful, they hadn’t imagined his strength had reached such a terrifying level.
The group of aristocratic heirs from the capital, too, were drawn to the golden flames. Even from such a distance, the overwhelming force was clear to them, and they were shaken. This was on a level beyond human capabilities!
“It looks like I’ve struck gold this time.” Hearing Drumph’s words, Hummer’s eyes sparkled, a smile curling on his lips. If he could recruit Luca into his ranks, he was certain that the inheritance of the James Family would belong to him!
Meanwhile, on the 21st floor of Sunshine Tower…
“Roar—!” The Void Crossing Silver Fox let out a tragic cry as it was blasted away by the terrifying explosion.
The smell of burning flesh and skin filled the air.
Luca didn’t give it a chance to recover. Flames swirled around his body as he shot forward like lightning.
However, just before he could get close, he suddenly noticed tiny spatial fluctuations in the air.
His heart skipped a beat. He immediately raised Starseeker in front of him for defense, only to feel a massive force hit his hand!
Boom! Luca’s ferocious attack was interrupted, and he was sent flying backward.
“Luca!” Donlow and the others watched with tight expressions.
Just as they were about to rush to help, they saw a stream of black wind materialize behind Luca, lessening the force of the impact on his body.
“This kid really has a lot of tricks up his sleeve,” Quagmire remarked in surprise. Compared to Luca, he felt like a beginner facing a high-level NPC when he first entered the Eternal Game. They were simply not on the same level.
By now, Luca had adjusted his body mid-air and landed gracefully on the ground.
“What the hell was that just now?” He looked up and saw that the area he had just been in was now covered in invisible, transparent threads, stretching across the entire office like a spider’s web.
High-tier spatial skill—String of Space!
“Whine—!” The Void Crossing Silver Fox cowered behind the web made of the threads, baring its teeth and emitting a threatening whimper. Yet, it was still retreating, and its eyes showed clear signs of deep fear.
At this point, the Void Crossing Silver Fox no longer carried the arrogance it had earlier. Its fur was scorched black from the Divine Flame, looking like a stray dog that had rolled through a pile of garbage.
What terrified the Void Crossing Silver Fox the most was the aura emanating from the flame just now—it felt as though a deity had descended, shaking its very soul. The young man in front of it was unlike anyone it had ever encountered before!
“I still prefer the arrogant and untamed you from before,” Luca mocked, and from his back, wings made of swirling black hurricanes materialized. With a slight flap, he shot toward the Void Crossing Silver Fox like a cannonball.
In mid-air, he swung his Starseeker down fiercely. The black whirlwind transformed into wind blades that cut through the air toward the creature.
But to Luca’s surprise, the strike missed again. The black wind blade passed through the Void Crossing Silver Fox’s body, leaving a deep gouge in the wall, but it didn’t seem to cause any damage to it.
“Space-based monsters are always a hassle.” Luca realized that, in that brief moment, the Void Crossing Silver Fox had used a skill to escape into another space.
This wouldn’t work. Space-based skills offered too much survivability. He would have to change his approach.
Just as Luca was contemplating this, there was a noise at the entrance of the building.
Coarmy, Melania, Donlow, and the others appeared, supporting one another as they entered through the door. The battle outside had prevented the Void Crossing Silver Fox from maintaining its spatial prison, and everyone had managed to escape. They froze for a moment as they took in the chaotic, blood-soaked scene inside the office.
“Don’t come any closer!” Luca warned sternly.
But that brief distraction gave the Void Crossing Silver Fox the opening it had been waiting for.
Its purple vertical pupils flashed with brilliant silver light, and its form began to distort like a mirror, splitting into dozens of clones in the blink of an eye, all charging toward Luca. At the same time, the real Void Crossing Silver Fox began to fade and become intangible.
High-tier spatial skill—Phase Shift!
“Trying to escape?” A sharp killing intent flashed in Luca’s eyes. If he let this beast get away, not only would it harm more people, but he hadn’t even avenged Yelling and the others yet. There was no way he would let it go so easily.
A swarm of fox clones blocked his path, while the Void Crossing Silver Fox’s body continued to rapidly vanish. Time was of the essence, and Luca couldn’t afford to hesitate. With a powerful motion, he hurled his long blade forward.
Boom! The sound of the blade cutting through the air was deafening as Starseeker shot forward like a streak of silver lightning.
Whoosh! The Void Crossing Silver Fox didn’t even have time to react. The sharp blade pierced through its body, sending it flying backward and pinning it against the wall with a violent thud.
The wall instantly cracked into a series of deep fractures, and blood began to drip down its filthy fur. The Void Crossing Silver Fox’s skill was interrupted, and its shrill, ear-piercing scream reverberated through the air, sending Donlow and the others instinctively covering their ears.
Though gravely injured, the Void Crossing Silver Fox did not die. Its purple eyes glared at Luca with hatred, and once again, silver light exploded from its body as it attempted to flee.
“Your survival instincts are really something else, but do you think you can escape?” Luca sneered, no longer holding back. As his thoughts moved, silver runes began to appear in the air around him, then converged into his hand.
Superclassmagic runes — Void Shock!
Under the influence of this power, the space around them rippled violently, and the entire office building began to tremble, as though an earthquake had struck.
Sensing the terrifying aura, Void Crossing Silver Fox’s vertical pupils widened in disbelief. It couldn’t understand how a mere human could wield such a high-level space-based skill!
Fear quickly overtook it. This level of space ability—no, even if a Superclass monster were to show up, they might not be able to withstand it, let alone a mere Diamond-level monster like itself.
As Luca charged toward it, the Void Crossing Silver Fox had no intention of fighting back. Only one thought filled its mind:
Escape! The faster, the better!
“Ha!!” Its survival instincts pushed it to unleash all its remaining strength. The Starseeker embedded in the Void Crossing Silver Fox’s body was directly blown away.
Blood sprayed out as it gritted its teeth against the pain and used all its power. Silver light covered its body as it began to phase out, becoming intangible. In the blink of an eye, it was about to vanish.
Just as it seemed on the verge of escaping, and even Void Crossing Silver Fox itself felt a brief sense of relief, Luca’s feet suddenly flashed with a brilliant silver magic rune.
Then, a fist wrapped in silver light suddenly appeared in front of it.
Void Crossing Silver Fox’s eyes widened in shock.
The next moment, its vision was completely filled with silver-white light.
Boom!!
A deep, thunderous sound rang out under the night sky. Cracks spread out from Luca’s fist in all directions, and the spatial rifts quickly expanded under the influence of the magic runes, swallowing everything around them.
The entire building shook violently, with dust falling from the ceiling. Quagmire, Coarmy, Donlow, Fuzzsir, and Melania, who were holding onto desks and walls, watched the scene in stunned silence, their eyes wide in disbelief.
The space… was shattered?!