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The Forgotten Trap
🕑 Added 2023-10-26 21:12:46 +0000 UTC--- Chapter 55 ---
"17th Layered Array Formation."
"Activate..."
Ling Ke's voice echoed on the battlefield.
As the attack unleashed by General Ji was about to reach her, an invisible barrier stopped and dispersed it into fireworks.
Hexagonal patterns appeared all over the sky, surrounding Silver Lake City and the one-mile radius around it.
"Let's see..." Ling Ke's eyes turned red, giving off a devilish feeling.
"1st Layer, Profound Vibration."
DING!
The surrounding area suddenly vibrated.
The profound strength in the atmosphere experienced the same thing, causing everyone not to be able to use their hard-accumulated energy.
Of course, Ling Ke and everyone on Yu Long's side could still use their profound strength.
General Ji's eyes widened as he fell from the sky.
"T-The Profound Floating Technique!"
BOOM!
General Ji crashed to the ground with a boom and released a painful groan as his body became weaker than it should have been.
He crawled from the crater and stared at Ling Ke, "What have you done to me?!"
"What do you mean?" Ling Ke curved her lips, smiling at the foolish general.
"I've never touched you before."
"Remember, you guys are the ones who come to my city."
"I didn't invite you guys here. You bring yourself!"
"You bitch, what kind of witchcraft is this?" General Ji brought out a bow and arrows, aiming it at Ling Ke.
He shot the arrow, but it crashed into the invisible barrier around Ling Ke's body.
Ling Ke looked down at General Ji, "I have to say, you're a brainless general."
"The first rule you must do when attacking your enemy is to know them."
"Their power and weakness."
"However, it seems your crybaby spoiled prince is so important that he lowered everyone's IQ in the Sunflower Dew Empire."
"Aww, little brat cries and complains at his parents. It's always the most irresponsible ones who never taught their kids common sense." Ling Ke mocked without holding back.
"Sending an army just because some trash was crippled. You should thank me for cleaning this world instead."
"How dare you mock the Emperor and Empress!" General Ji becomes angrier as he pulls out a jade bottle and eats some pills.
Yu Long raised his eyebrow because he sensed General Ji's sensitivity to profound strength increased by a leap. It allowed the green-armored fellow to regain his strength.
"Interesting."
BAM!
General Ji kicked the ground and soared to Ling Ke. His armor released a clanging noise.
'Die!" He pulled his fist and punched Ling Ke with everything he had.
"Elephant Galloping Fist."
A faint image of an elephant appeared and galloped toward Ling Ke's barrier, but she didn't react strangely.
"2nd Layer, Kinetic Energy and Shock Absorption."
BOOOOOOOOOM!!
The hexagonal barrier wobbled a few times yet didn't break.
Ling Ke casually placed her hand on General Ji's stomach and emotionlessly said, "Redirection."
Crack!
Everyone heard a bone-cracking noise.
"ARGH!" General Ji spewed a mouthful of blood and crashed to the ground again.
The soldiers were baffled.
What happened?
Shouldn't this woman be the one who crashed to the ground and cried miserably?
Why did their general fall instead? Something doesn't add up.
On the city wall, even Yu Long's family was dumbfounded.
"What's happened?" Cang Yue was the one to ask first.
"Kinetic Energy and Shockwave Absorption Array." Yu Long answered casually.
"Kinetic Energy/Shockwave?" Cang Yue and Lan Shirou tilted their heads in confusion.
Xia Qingyue pulled silver-framed glasses from her spatial ring and wore them, "Let me explain this, big brother."
"Kinetic Energy is the energy an object has because of its motion. An example of this is when one wants to throw a punch, one must apply force to move his arm, muscle, and even bones to accelerate his fist."
"On the other hand, Shockwave is a strong pressure wave in any elastic medium such as air, water, or a solid substance. General Ji's punch forced the pressure in the air to change and cause a shockwave."
"If my guess is right, the array Big Brother talked about stores these effects and diverted them back to General Ji."
"Am I right?" She gazed back at Yu Long with puppy eyes, yearning for praise.
Yu Long smiled and rubbed Xia Qingyue's head gently, "Yes, you're right."
"Well, you're missing one point."
"The array also recycles General Ji's profound strength and generates more force on the rebound. The increase wasn't much, maybe twice or thrice of what General Ji unleashed."
"Poor guy, he doesn't know what's coming to him."
"Hmm, how I didn't learn this from the 'Science' book you wrote, Big Brother?" Xia Qingyue asked while enjoying her pat.
"Then, you must learn more about Arrays." Yu Long chuckled. "The law of science is useful but bendable in this world. Some topics are 'inherently' better explained through personal understanding."
Xia Qingyue nodded in understanding while others wondered in cluelessness.
Even Hong Guan and Lily, who have been on Yu Long's side for the most prolonged, only know the base knowledge of it. They are better with cultivation and other stuff, but this otherworldly knowledge is just too much.
It's not like they're dumb, but everyone has their own interpretation.
The perspective of everyone is different.
Back on the battlefield, General Ji stood up again.
He looks horrible, with a pale face and falling hair. As if he just lost five years of his life.
Ling Ke noticed this and commented, "I see..."
"So, this is the side effect of the pill you consumed earlier."
"To strengthen your sensitivity and power increase, you exhaust your physique and vitality."
General Ji wiped blood from his mouth and shouted, "Soldiers, enter the Begonia Formation!"
"I shall end this witch's life with my strongest technique."
The soldiers roared, "YES, GENERAL!"
Thousands of cavalry entered a formation and channeled their strengths into one point. A spear appeared in General Ji's hand, becoming brighter and brighter as the accumulated strength rapidly stored inside it.
This energy also appears more unstable and vibrates so much than before, which cancels the 1st Layer's effect.
"Heavenly Spear that ends the night."
"Hear my call and strike my enemy..."
"HAAA!" General Ji rotated a few times and created a storm.
He jumped and threw the spear at Ling Ke.
A vortex surrounded the spear and rapidly moved to Ling Ke, aiming at her chest.
"3rd Layer, Muddy World."
"4th Layer, Silk-like Air."
The spear's speed rapidly slowed down as if mud appeared around it.
The vortex is also weakening rapidly.
Ling Ke stretched her hand and placed a single hexagonal shield before her.
The spear arrived and touched the shield.
DING!
A loud bell noise reverberated, making one deaf upon hearing it.
Crack!
"Yes!" A small crack appeared on the shield. General Ji and the soldiers are excited.
Ling Ke smirked and snapped her finger, causing the shield to release a green light and nullify the attack.
All that was left was a black spear made of an unknown material.
"N-No way..." The soldiers felt chill down their spines.
That's the 'strongest' move that makes General Ji famous.
Heavenly Night Spear!
Yet it doesn't even reach its target.
Of course, the person who's shocked most was General Ji himself.
"My ultimate attack..."
"No one in the Tyrant Profound Realm should be able to counter it unless..."
"M-Monarch." General Ji spewed another mouthful of blood and shivered like a drenched dog.
He kneeled on the ground, becoming a wrinkled mummy.
"G-General!" The soldiers were hysterical.
Their general was 'unexpectedly' reduced to such a state.
The two Sky Profound Realm Experts moved quickly and arrived on General Ji's side, checking his condition.
"This is bad..."
"He's losing too much vitality."
"Don't tell me he ate Life-Ending Pills..."
One of the experts carried the general on his back.
Meanwhile, the other stared at Ling Ke in the sky and shouted at the cavalry, "Retreat!"
"Everyone, Retreat!"
The battle ended in mere minutes.
The Sunflower Dew Empire's cavalry army lost and decided to retreat.
Too bad they can't simply run away.
Their horses crashed into an invisible barrier.
"What is this?"
"Barrier?"
"Hehehe~!" Ling Ke's playful laughter brushed their ears.
"Do you think you can run that easily after marching to my city?"
"Tsk, tsk. Come back here, little lambs. Let me hear your cries a little."
A nightmare had just begun.
...
Silver Lake City's wall.
"Well, that was anticlimactic." Yu Long commented while munching his popcorn.
Everyone stared at him and then at the cavalry army far away.
Sure, buddy. Let's forget the crazy shit that happened a few moments ago.
Maybe for Yu Long, it was nothing special, but for Cang Yue and Lan Shirou especially, they would never forget this moment.
He smiled and clapped his hand, "Well, I hope you guys were enjoying the little show."
"..." Yu Long's parents and grandparents sighed.
What show?
Everything ended too quickly.
Ignoring the look of disbelief on their face, Yu Long used sound transmission on Ling Ke and told her to proceed with the next step of their plan.
"Let's go back."
"Okay."
As they returned to the Silver Moon Hotel, Yu Long stopped on the stairs and frowned slightly.
"I felt like I was forgetting something." He murmured while rubbing his forehead.
"Ack, the scarlet dragon."
...
Hundred thousand miles away.
Scarlet Dragon Mountain Range.
Scarlet Dragon finally awakened from his deep slumber a week ago and noticed the unpleasant smell in his cave. At first, the profound beast didn't think much about it but soon realized his 'treasure' was fake.
The small pebble stopped releasing fiery energy and crumbled into dust.
ROAR!!
"MY TREASURE!"
"WHO STOLE MY TREASURE!" An angry roar shook the cave and the entire mountain range.
The scarlet dragon raged, "THIS SMELL, IT MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS SMELL!"
"JUST WAIT YOU THIEF! I WILL KILL YOU AND TAKE BACK MY TREASURE!"
