allendalepharm Chapter 58: The labyrinth leads to a boss battle.
Chapter 58: The labyrinth leads to a boss battle.
Lu Mingfei drew his twin swords, their cold gleam flashing continuously, and beheaded a large number of bronze statues.
At this moment, he was glad that he had brought a double-edged sword. In this narrow passage, he would definitely not have been able to use his beloved halberd.
He swung his twin swords in two windmill-like circles, moving forward at a speed somewhere between running and walking.
Susie used her sword to manipulate the magnetic field, sending a rain of bronze fragments flying towards the distant enemy to assist Lu Mingfei.
Unfortunately, the bronze passageway is long and narrow, and contains eighty-eight bronze statues.
Lu Mingfei felt as if he had ingested a lethal dose of bronze with his eyes, and if he saw bronze again, he would want to gouge out his own eyes.
But it didn't end there. Lu Mingfei heard Susie's exclamation.
"What's wrong!"
"There's another magnetic field resisting my sword control! There might be other life forms here!"
Lu Mingfei thought of something, and he kicked the chest of the statue in front of him, shattering it.
Sure enough, in his eyes, the other person's chest was trembling as if trying to return to normal.
If Susie hadn't used her sword to manipulate the fragments that Lu Mingfei had shattered, it would have been a disaster.
Many of the bronze statues that Lu Mingfei knocked down have probably already been reassembled and brought back to life.
"Tap tap tap tap—"
Footsteps echoed continuously, and at the end of the lights on their diving suits, more bronze statues were charging towards their position.
The bronze-cast body struck the ground with the sound of a bell tolling, and the knee-deep water splashed everywhere.
The bronze statues behind them were coming back to life, and the enemies in front were still pouring in. It seemed that they had reached a dead end. Lu Mingfei frowned.
"No wonder this stuff is so bad, Susie, let's change tactics."
Lu Mingfei used his double-edged sword to pierce through the two bronze statues that were charging at him, then pressed down on his body and gathered strength in his hands.
Without hesitation, Susie used her sword control to pull at the double-edged sword in Lu Mingfei's hand.
This is a combo they practiced, using the magnetic field controlled by the sword to power Lu Mingfei's Hundred Steps Flying Sword like a bowstring.
Susie activated her sword control to the fullest extent, and the magnetic field was so strong that it even pulled on the metal fragments that Lu Mingfei had previously shattered.
Numerous fragments emerged from the knee-deep water, forming magnetic field lines between Lu Mingfei and Susie, like a bowstring.
"Now!"
Susie released her sword control and instead used all her strength to push Lu Mingfei's twin swords forward.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two heavy explosions followed in quick succession—the sound of swords being thrown and scraping against the air!
In the passageway, all the bronze statues were cut in half at the waist, as easily as someone slicing through a canvas with a sharp knife.
"run!"
After saying this, Lu Mingfei took big strides and ran without hesitation, without even looking back to see if Su Qian could keep up.
Running to the end of the passageway, Lu Mingfei pulled the double-edged sword from the wall where it was embedded in the hilt. He sheathed the two swords and turned to Susie, extending his hand.
Yes, Susie arrived just as he was about to arrive.
Lu Mingfei was too fast. She gripped his hand tightly and rolled over onto his back.
"Hold on tight."
"Um."
A steady voice came through the earphones. Lu Mingfei nodded and ran wildly through the water to prevent the bronze statues from "coming back to life" and blocking their way.
There's nothing that can be done about it. Although she's an A-grade hybrid, Susie's physical abilities are really just average.
Strictly speaking, she is actually quite good. Even on a school-wide scale, her qualities are among the best.
Lu Mingfei felt that Susie's combat power was probably weaker than that of Mai Shude before she activated her enhancements.
But to be honest, Mai Shude is just so-so.
It's too much to ask Susie to keep up with Lu Mingfei's rapid pace.
The result is that, as it is now, Lu Mingfei is carrying Susie on his back and running wildly.
To be honest, it wasn't running too fast; Susie felt it was flying too low.
She never dreamed that she could feel a push-back sensation when being carried while running. Is this even human?
At first, he rushed forward at full speed, but Lu Mingfei found that running in the water was still too slow.
The bronze statues chasing them were being manipulated by an invisible magnetic force, almost flying as they pursued them.
He frowned, but had no choice but to continue.
Hold on tight.
"it is good."
Without saying much, since you're told to hold on tight, then hold on tight. At times like this, don't worry about men and women not touching.
Then Susie was glad that she hadn't worried about that at such a crucial moment.
Because Lu Mingfei really did fly.
He simply stretched his foot up onto the wall of the passageway, just like a martial arts master in anime, leaping across rooftops and scaling walls.
Ignoring the knee-deep water, Lu Mingfei exerted his strength and sped rapidly through the narrow passageway.
The passageway was not a straight line, but rather a maze of twists and turns, but this was not a difficult task for Lu Mingfei.
In Twisted Three Kingdoms, the climate, geography, and even the location of cities will change randomly.
He had fought in that incredible world for fifty years and had long since mastered the skill of finding his way.
Susie was dazzled as Lu Mingfei repeatedly rushed to the right-angle turn at point-blank range, then spun sharply by stepping on the wall, embedding the bronze fragments chasing them into the wall.
Several times she felt that they were about to crash into the wall at extremely high speed at any moment.
Manstein on the ship was dazzled; on the screen he used to give instructions, there was a small screen displaying a map of Bronze City.
He can give Lu Mingfei voice commands at crucial moments.
But Lu Mingfei ran too fast. He had just found a place and was about to tell the other person which way to go when Lu Mingfei had already passed through it in the blink of an eye.
Fortunately, Lu Mingfei had an exceptional memory, and he made the right choice. They had now exited the maze of the bronze passageway.
Arriving at an open space, Lu Mingfei habitually looked up at the low-lying, neutral ambushes above.
But above them was a huge bronze dome, with a Chinese parasol tree sprouting from the top, growing countless branches and petals.
Below was a lake, the water almost black, and the chill could even be felt by those on the shore.
Manstein breathed a sigh of relief, but then his heart clenched again.
Because Lu Mingfei lowered his head, the camera captured something he absolutely did not want to see.
A nearly 20-meter-tall bronze statue with a snake's head and a human body sits there, its head held high, like the king of those bronze statues.
Even though it's just across the lake, its size is enough to make one despair.
It just goes to show that Manstein hasn't played enough games. A place this prestigious definitely deserves a boss battle.
"This...this won't move too, will it?"
Manstein's trembling voice reached their ears.
"Even though we haven't moved yet, are you sure you want to gamble that this giant statue that suddenly appeared in what looks like a boss area is the boss you're supposed to fight?"
Lu Mingfei interrupted in a calm tone, seemingly unsurprised, and then continued speaking in a calm manner.
"Put on your oxygen masks!"
Upon hearing Lu Mingfei's words, Susie quickly put on her oxygen mask.
Lu Mingfei had also put on his oxygen mask, and then he... drew his sword?
Lu Mingfei used his sword to cut off the glove part of his diving suit, then tore the fabric into strips and tightly bound his wrists. His gloves were torn, so this was the only way he could do it.
Susie glanced back into the depths of the passageway. Well, no need to look anymore; the clattering sounds were already coming.
Ahead stood a colossal bronze statue nearly six stories high, sandwiched between them, creating a desperate situation.
"What should we do?!"
Susie raised her voice nervously, but Lu Mingfei remained calm.
"that's all."
He leaped and landed right in the middle of the lake. He remembered the 3D map; their destination was below this spot.