Chapter 319 Fierce Battle Against the Powerful Klaus

Klaus's bone sword drew an arc during his charge, the trail of green light leaving a blinding trail in the air.

The flash of "戒" was only half completed, and its form had not yet completely blurred when the sword's edge arrived.

Her left shoulder was grazed by the green light. Although it wasn't deep, the crystallization began the moment it touched her. Dark green crystals spread outwards from the edge of the wound at a visible speed, several inches away.

"Jie" suddenly flashed backward, his expression beneath the mask twisted in disbelief, clearly not expecting Klaus to have been hiding for so long.

Klaus didn't chase after it, because '9' was already behind him.

'9's carapace arm was still slashing a second time with the momentum of the previous strike. This strike was initiated the moment Klaus charged out and was now falling toward his back.

Klaus's figure swayed, and four afterimages separated. The blade of '9' struck the afterimages, passed through them, and missed its target.

The bone sword swept back in the next moment.

The arc of green light slashed at the ribs of '9's' carapace.

A crack was cut into the carapace, from which a dark yellow fluid gushed out. However, the fluid solidified as soon as it reached the edge, and green crystals began to grow at the crack, spreading several inches along the surface of the carapace.

『9』The person was slashed and sent flying, his back hitting the wall of the side alley. Two bricks broke, and the fragments flew onto the street.

He glanced down at the spreading green crystals on his ribs, his expression changing drastically, clearly knowing that this thing was extremely troublesome.

J reacted extremely quickly, and black liquid gushed from the ground, simultaneously wrapping around Klaus's lower body from three directions.

Klaus kept flashing, but there was no way to avoid it. This time, Klaus didn't have Rex's help. The entire street was covered by the newly set-up domain of the Gray Pact Society.

The green light on the Klaus bone sword intensified, and as it swept across, the green light slashed into the liquid. At the point of contact, the liquid began to crystallize, and dark green crystals spread in the black water.

But J didn't panic. He quickly shook off the crystallized part, and the liquid re-condensed from another direction, continuously trying to slow down Klaus's speed.

In a four-order vs. four-order clash, J's judgment is clear: it's not worthwhile for a Klaus in a full state to engage in a direct confrontation.

But he doesn't need to waste time.

The silver piece in Lu Yuan's hand was trembling, and the light of the inscription was rapidly dimming.

The silvery-white ripples receded from the street, as quickly as the tide.

The dominance of Bronze City has returned.

The pale blue inscriptions on the wall lit up again, and the invisible shackles once more fell on Klaus.

The green light on Klaus's bone sword abruptly receded, shrinking from covering the entire blade to just a few inches from the tip. The bone sword shortened, its afterimage vanished, and his aura rapidly declined from its peak.

Lu Yuan witnessed the entire process. The effect of the silver plate only lasted for a dozen seconds, but during those few seconds, Klaus severely injured '9', grazed 'Ring', and forced J to retreat.

None of the three Grey Covenant members rushed in.

『9』 He stood up from the ruins of the wall. The green crystals on the cracked armor on his ribs were slowly suppressed from the inside by the black and yellow body fluid. The diffusion rate was slowing down. A layer of his armored arm peeled off, along with the crystal marks left when he blocked. New armor grew from below, thicker and with denser patterns.

Clearly, time is running out, and the Gray Pact needs to get serious.

"Jie" pressed her hand against the crystallized mark on her shoulder, her figure flickering. The small patch of skin with crystals seemed to have been wiped away from existence, revealing the clean muscle tissue underneath. Her gaze turned cold, all the previous mockery and ridicule vanishing.

J was more direct. His lower body liquefied and merged into the ground, and the black liquid spread outwards from his feet, creating a large area. His upper body remained humanoid, but the entire ground became an extension of his body.

All three began to prepare to make another move.

Meanwhile, Bronze City's suppression was wearing down Klaus for them; for every second he stood still, Klaus's condition decreased by one point.

But Klaus couldn't let the Gray Contract be depleted, so he activated "Rest" first.

Her figure flickered, followed by an invisible wave of mental erosion spreading from her body.

Under the suppression of the Bronze City, Klaus's movements visibly paused for a moment, the green light on the bone sword flashed, and the dark green in his eyes dimmed for half a second.

When suppressed, mental defenses also decrease.

'9' seized that half-second, its body suddenly leaping up, black liquid flowing continuously from the gaps in its body's shell.

His carapace-like arm crashed down from above, but the bone sword was already raised, clearly Klaus had blocked it. A green light flashed at the point of impact, and a crystal mark appeared on the carapace-like arm, forcing '9' to withdraw his arm and change the angle, in order to reduce the stalemate with Klaus as much as possible.

At the same time, the second cut grazed the outside of Klaus's right arm, tearing a gash in the fabric. Blood and flesh splattered, and a large amount of black liquid, as if smelling blood, tried to burrow into Klaus's body.

Almost simultaneously, '9' flung out a fist-sized ball of black liquid from his left hand, which slammed into Klaus's chest.

Klaus dodged the liquid bullet, which exploded against the wall behind him, sending white smoke billowing from the stone before it collapsed rapidly. But a dark yellow fluid had already seeped into the wound on his right arm, seeping along the edges and into the muscle.

Without hesitation, Klaus separated a wisp of green light from the bone sword and covered the area around the wound on his right arm, forcibly enveloping the fluid at the edge of the wound before peeling it off.

J gave Klaus no time to catch his breath.

The liquid beneath his feet suddenly surged up, forming a two-meter-high black wave wall that pushed directly towards Klaus. Klaus used the same tactic again, sweeping his bone sword horizontally. The green light slashed into the wave wall, and the liquid at the point of contact began to crystallize.

But this time J did not retreat; more liquid poured up from the ground, and the black liquid surged in at a rate far exceeding the rate of crystallization diffusion, directly submerging the green crystals.

The rate of crystallization cannot keep up with the rate of black liquid spread.

J was preparing to crush Klaus in a very short time.

At the same time, the "Ring" activated a second flash, and the mental erosion wave spread again, stronger than the last time, causing Klaus to stagger.

At the same instant, '9' charged in head-on, its armored arm charged down with power, and its left hand simultaneously threw out two liquid bullets.

J's liquid surged from Klaus's feet, wrapping around his left ankle, the black liquid beginning to corrode against his leather boot.

All three lines fell simultaneously.

Klaus's eyes turned cold, and a burst of green light erupted from his body. Several phantoms followed behind him, instantly crystallizing the liquid that approached him. At the same time, instead of retreating, Klaus advanced, and the moment the bone sword blocked '9', his left hand, glowing with green light, reached out to grab it.

'9' reacted quickly, its body surface was instantly enveloped in black liquid, and at the same time, as if it were shedding its cocoon, it instantly left from behind the liquid.

Klaus's left hand grabbed the liquid shell that '9' had left before it left, and in an instant, its entire body was covered by green crystals.

At the same time, the walls of the Bronze City suddenly lit up again, and an even stronger sense of oppression came from afar, forcing Klaus to abandon his pursuit.

J seized the moment when Klaus paused and immediately poured in more liquid to submerge the crystal.

Klaus's leather boots around his ankles were corroded, revealing the reddened skin underneath.

Klaus's green light grew dimmer, his bone sword shrank to the length of a short blade, and his breathing became rapid.

'9' struck again, the carapace arm unleashing its third powerful slash, each strike heavier than the last, striking Klaus's right shoulder and penetrating deep into his flesh, a large amount of dark yellow fluid seeping into the wound.

Klaus tried to seal the wound with greenery, but the wound was too deep. The crystallization only sealed the surface layer, and the bodily fluids had already seeped deep into the flesh.

J's fluid simultaneously enveloped his left calf. Corrosion began.

Lu Yuan watched all this from the base of the wall, extremely anxious, but he had no power to intervene.

After being activated for the first time, the silver plate seemed to immediately enter a cooling-off period, remaining unresponsive no matter how much Lu Yuan called out to it.

Finally, at the moment when Klaus was stabbed, Lu Yuan finally felt the faint fluctuation of the inscription on the silver piece, just like the first piece. But this time, he did not activate it in the same way as the first time. Instead, he forcibly poured his rationality into it, forcing the inscription to pry open the power of the Bronze City.

The silver inscription lit up, but the brightness was much weaker than the first time. The pale blue inscription light on the wall began to recede under his forceful intervention, fading away unwillingly.

The silver piece in Lu Yuan's hand suddenly trembled, and a crack appeared on the inscription.

The silver piece shattered the next moment, and fragments spilled from between his fingers. He originally had two more uses left, but they were forcibly used up.

But the silvery-white ripples still spread outwards.

The suppression of Bronze City has been temporarily relieved.

Klaus seized those few seconds, his bone sword swelled, and the green light swept back, first severing the liquid on his left calf, then kicking it away after it crystallized, and finally forcing '9' back with a sword strike.

Then he turned to "the precept".

This time, Klaus was determined to aim at the ring. He flashed away, and '9's armored arm caught up with him the instant he rushed out, slashing at his back.

Klaus remained unfazed.

Of the four afterimages behind him, one shattered with a crash. In the instant it shattered, the injury caused by '9' disappeared from Klaus's body, and the torn fabric on his back revealed intact skin underneath.

Klaus recovered not only from his back, but also from his right arm and ankle; all his injuries disappeared.

'9's pupils contracted sharply, clearly not expecting that Klaus's method would have such an ability.

Klaus didn't slow down at all; he grabbed "Ring" by the head, and the green light in his palm exploded the moment they made contact.

"Jie" let out a roar, his voice completely different from his previous coquettish tone, filled with pain and madness.

Her body suddenly withered, and she squeezed out from between Klaus's fingers in a posture that defied the laws of human anatomy.

Half of his face was burned by the green light, and a corner of his mask shattered, revealing a wound underneath that was a mixture of charred black and crystalline material.

She retreated ten steps away, her body trembling, clearly indicating that the attack had caused her great injury.

Lu Yuan witnessed the entire process; the shattered afterimage took all the injuries in Klaus's place.

Of the four shadows, one was shattered, meaning Klaus could withstand three more attacks.

This was the trump card he had been keeping hidden all along.