Chapter 453 - 212: Mechanic Showdown! I Reflected Your Reflection
Chapter 453: Chapter 212: Mechanic Showdown! I Reflected Your Reflection
Soon, he noticed something was wrong.
The stone bridge beneath their feet, at some unknown point, was no longer just black rock.
A thin layer of gray powder, writhing slowly as if it were alive, now covered the bridge’s surface.
Wisps of black gas, nearly invisible to the naked eye, rose from the powder and merged into the surrounding dense fog.
’It intentionally created this area!’
A guess instantly flashed through Lin Ye’s mind.
’Could it be that as long as I’m in this contaminated zone, it can freely transfer any damage I inflict?’
With this thought, Lin Ye stopped lingering in battle. He pulled back abruptly, creating distance from the Curse Bone Race member.
He turned, feigning an escape toward the other end of the stone bridge.
"Trying to run?"
The Curse Bone Race member let out a piercing shriek. Its figure flashed, instantly blocking Lin Ye’s path, postured as if to prevent him from leaving the area at all costs.
A thought stirred in Lin Ye’s mind.
’Its reaction already reveals part of the truth.’
’If you won’t leave, then I’ll go by myself!’
Without a moment’s hesitation, Lin Ye enveloped himself in his Gravity Field and shot straight up into the air, drifting toward another stone bridge dozens of meters away.
The Curse Bone Race member didn’t pursue him. It just hovered in place, seeming to wait for a show.
Landing steadily on the new stone bridge, Lin Ye looked back at the Curse Bone Race member, which remained where it was.
He raised his hand. This time, he held nothing back!
Five head-sized orbs of acid materialized before him, exuding a heart-pounding, corrosive aura.
SWOOSH!
The five acid orbs shot out like cannonballs, carving five treacherous arcs through the air, sealing off all of the Curse Bone Race member’s escape routes from every direction!
This time, Lin Ye clearly saw a fleeting moment of panic and astonishment in its eyes.
But he didn’t let his guard down.
This opponent’s cunning far surpassed that of any Celestial Abyss Race member he had encountered before.
Sure enough, just as the five acid orbs were about to hit, the Curse Bone Race member pulled its old trick again.
It stopped in place, motionless, abandoning all resistance.
Lin Ye’s eyes narrowed. With his thoughts racing, he had already devised a countermeasure.
He waved his hand sharply, and four of the five acid orbs abruptly changed direction in mid-air, grazing past the Curse Bone Race member’s body and falling into the bottomless darkness below the bridge.
Only the last one remained, unavoidable!
SPLAT!
The acid precisely struck the Curse Bone Race member’s chest.
In the next instant, Lin Ye’s body trembled violently once more.
That soul-melting agony erupted from the depths of his spirit again!
The Curse Bone Race member was completely unharmed.
"Heheheh..."
A sinister cackle echoed.
"You didn’t really think my curse would fail just because you left that area, did you?"
"How naive..."
The Curse Bone Race member dragged its bony claws across the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"All this was just to mislead clever little humans like you..."
"Now, feel despair!"
Before its voice had even faded, the Curse Bone Race member’s figure transformed into a bolt of white lightning, shooting toward the newly injured, staggering Lin Ye, preparing to deliver the final blow!
However, just as it was about to reach Lin Ye, its body froze abruptly in mid-air.
Within its hollow eye sockets, two wisps of eerie green ghost-fire flickered violently, revealing utter shock and confusion.
It was completely motionless.
It was as if it had been hit by a Body Fixing Skill.
Lin Ye slowly straightened up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and a smile touched his lips.
"Surprised? Did you think I couldn’t pull the same tricks you can?"
In "An Eye for an Eye" mode, whenever Lin Ye took any damage, he would immediately reflect 1% of his maximum Life Value as damage back to the attacker!
Lin Ye’s total Life Value was now close to 600,000 points!
One percent of that was nearly 6,000 points of damage!
And the most critical part was that the Curse Bone Race member was still maintaining its bizarre Damage Transfer ability!
Thus, a strange, recursive loop was formed.
Lin Ye attacked the Curse Bone Race member with the acid from Soul Melting Bone Erosion.
The Curse Bone Race member activated its ability, transferring the damage it received to Lin Ye.
Lin Ye took damage, triggering "An Eye for an Eye," which then reflected the damage back to the Curse Bone Race member.
The Curse Bone Race member maintained its ability, once again transferring this reflected damage back to Lin Ye...
An infinite loop!
At first, the frequency of the damage bouncing between the two of them wasn’t that fast.
Lin Ye only felt the pain once every second.
But as the number of reflections increased, the frequency began to accelerate at a terrifying rate!
Lin Ye could even clearly see his own Life Value plummeting at an insane speed!
Waves of excruciating pain, like a never-ending tsunami, crashed relentlessly against his spirit.
At this moment, the battle had completely transcended a conventional contest of strength.
It had evolved into a pure showdown of willpower and trump cards.
A bizarre scene unfolded.
On the two stone bridges, Lin Ye and the Curse Bone Race member faced each other from dozens of meters away, neither of them moving.
Lin Ye didn’t press his advantage because he understood that in this state of an infinite damage loop, any further attacks he launched would be equivalent to attacking himself, rendering them pointless.
As for the Curse Bone Race member, the moment it realized Lin Ye possessed a similar technique, it wanted to deactivate its ability.
But to its horror, it discovered it was too late.
Lin Ye had over 600,000 health.
But this Curse Bone Race member was a true glass cannon.
From a system’s perspective, its total Life Value wasn’t even 20,000.
The frequency of the damage reflection and transfer was increasing exponentially with each cycle, becoming so fast that it was impossible for it to react!
It was completely locked down by the very ability it was most proud of!
If it dared to stop, it felt like it wouldn’t last even a second.
"This is impossible... How could you...!"
The Curse Bone Race member finally lost its composure and let out a terrified shriek.
"At this rate, we’ll both die!"
"Quick... stop it!"
Lin Ye endured the excruciating pain—enough to make an ordinary person’s Spirit collapse instantly—but the smile on his face only grew more savage.
"No."
"In the end, the only one who dies will be you."
He was waiting.
Waiting for the boss mechanic, Healing out of combat, to trigger!
Ten seconds had never felt so long.
When the Life Value on Lin Ye’s panel dropped to less than 40%...
HUMMM—!
A surging, majestic tide of life force suddenly burst forth from the deepest part of his body!
Like a parched riverbed welcoming a torrential flood, the wounds on his spirit and his constantly falling Life Value began to recover at a frenzied, visible rate!
’It worked!’
The great stone hanging in Lin Ye’s heart finally fell.
Lin Ye himself had never been sure about the system’s logic for determining whether he was in a combat state.
He had even prepared for the worst, ready to switch his reflection ability to the "Ten Years is Not Too Late" mode just before his Life Value hit rock bottom, ending this life-or-death gamble.
Fortunately, his gamble paid off.
At this moment, he was invincible!