“Careful! His Spiritual Energy Weapon has changed!” In mid-air, Tanlang slightly adjusted his posture and cast a [Chain Heal] toward Long Aomin from afar, bringing both of their Survival Values back above 80%.

“Even if you tell me to be careful…” Brother Long replied, “I don’t even know what the effect of his new weapon is…”

That was the truth. Facing a weapon or move he was encountering for the first time, what could he possibly “be careful” of…

“You’ll know soon enough.” At this moment, Feng Bujue picked up the conversation, stomping off the ground and rapidly catching up with Long Aomin using his instantly activated [Ling Shi Ju Shen Shu-Modified] and [Moon Steps].

“What’s going on… why is he prioritizing attacking Brother Long…” In that second, thoughts flashed through Tanlang’s mind. “Based on his analytical ability… he should have been very clear about the effects of the Orichalcum Shield before the match. Shouldn’t he be dealing with me first, since my defense is weaker?” Thinking of this, a very bad idea flashed through Tanlang’s mind. “Could it be… he’s already figured out a way to break the ‘Aura of Orichalcum’?”

Shua shua shua shua shua shua—

The next second, a burst of dense wind-breaking sounds interrupted Tanlang’s train of thought. The expressions on both his and Long Aomin’s faces changed in that instant, becoming a mixture of horror and shock…

All they saw was Feng Bujue’s stack of cards in his palm erupting outwards like a fountain, instantly spraying out hundreds or thousands of cards. Those cards seemed like black feathers… swirling and dancing in the air, enveloping the sky within a hundred meters.

“I’ll be damned… so many!” Brother Long exclaimed, looking at the black poker cards filling the sky.

“That’s right, exactly this many.” Feng Bujue replied, then, with a Blacklight Card clamped in each hand, he launched a frenzied flurry of attacks against Brother Long’s shield.

“Trying to cut through the Shield of God with just two cards…” At this moment, Brother Long’s blood was boiling. Knowing that he couldn’t escape the opponent’s speed, he simply gritted his teeth and used [Protective Stone Skin] and [Touch Kill Rebirth], two defensive skills, to forcibly withstand the attack. “…Then try it!”

The effects of these two moves were one to increase defense, and the other to slightly restore health when attacked. Both were continuous skills, lasting for one minute and thirty seconds respectively. Undoubtedly, both were very advantageous skills when facing high-speed continuous attacks.

However…

“If yours is the Shield of God…” Feng Bujue said dismissively after “seeing” the effects of the opponent’s skills, “Then mine are the Cards of the Devil.”

Zheng zheng zheng zheng…

Before his voice faded, the Death Poker had already scratched black marks on the Orichalcum Shield.

The [Card Assassination Technique]'s effect of "increasing speed, strength, and accuracy by 300% when using card-type weapons to launch close combat" made every strike from Jue-Ge possess extremely strong destructive power. Even though Brother Long used defensive skills, he still couldn’t achieve “unbreakable defense.”

Of course, even if his defense was broken, the damage Brother Long received wasn’t too great. Relying on the health regeneration effect of [Touch Kill Rebirth], the rate of his health decrease barely managed to stay around 5% every 3 seconds.

“Good… truly powerful…” Long Aomin said as he parried, “But… even if you can gain the upper hand in a one-on-one fight with me, don’t forget I have a teammate, and… didn’t you say you wanted a quick battle? I’m afraid you can’t do that with this kind of attack, right?”

“Teammate?” Feng Bujue replied with a cold smile, “Are you talking about him?” As he spoke, he glanced sideways into the air.

In that instant, Long Aomin was actually afraid. He was afraid to turn his head in the direction Jue-Ge was glancing; because he knew… something he didn’t want to see had already happened over there.

“Ah——”

Finally, amidst Tanlang’s miserable screams, Brother Long turned his head to look, and he saw… his teammate being torn into pieces in mid-air by hundreds of poker cards that seemed like living things.

The scene was like a swarm of locusts devouring crops, piranhas devouring prey… the black light cards surging in from all directions were impossible to block or dodge, and Tanlang instantly turned into white light.

“You…” Long Aomin looked at Jue-Ge and said the word “you,” but he couldn’t think of anything else to say next.

He and Tanlang hadn’t been careless or lax, nor had they underestimated their enemy. They had fought with all their strength, but they had lost… they had lost to the simplest thing of all—strength.

“Brother Long, we’re old acquaintances.” Feng Bujue said, “I said ten out of ten… I didn’t lie to you, did I?”

“Heh…” Hearing this, Long Aomin smiled, and felt relieved. Even though he hadn’t been killed yet, he understood that when those black cards surged toward him, everything would be over. The Orichalcum Shield couldn’t withstand this kind of all-encompassing, no-dead-angle attack.

“Brother Feng, you’re different from S1…” Two seconds later, Brother Long continued, “This time in the competition… I truly felt that you ‘want to win’.”

“Indeed…” As Jue-Ge responded, his attacks didn’t stop, “…For various reasons, I have to be a little more serious.”

“Hahahaha…” Long Aomin laughed loudly, “But, the matches after this… aren’t something you can definitely ‘win’ just because you ‘want to win’.”

“No, I will keep winning.” When Feng Bujue said this, a stream of dark data flowed through his eyes, “I will use my own hands to pioneer the future, to obtain what I want, to change this world.”

Objectively speaking… his words were quite chuuni, so many chuuni viewers became excited after hearing them.

“You can’t do all that with just a championship title, right?” Brother Long asked in a deep voice.

“Heh…” Jue-Ge sneered coldly, replying with a deeper meaning, “Brother Long, you and I both know… this isn’t just a game, is it?”

As soon as these words came out, Long Aomin’s expression changed.

But before he could say anything, he was hit by the black poker cards that attacked from behind, and his body was quickly devoured, turned into light, and dissipated…

…………

On the other hand, outside the [Chaos].

After the midnight chimes rang, Gu Xiaoling held a copy of the translated incantation that Xiao Tan had copied on one hand, and a talisman on the other, and began chanting.

Li Ruoyu was responsible for guarding her, on full alert. Although Dracula had retreated to a place more than ten meters away, standing there motionless in a very proper manner, the players would never let their guard down until the ritual was fully effective.

[Current mission completed, all main missions completed]

[You have completed this scenario, will be automatically teleported in 180 seconds]

As the chanting reached the final stage, two system prompts suddenly appeared in Ruoyu and Xiaoling’s ears.

They immediately understood that Jue-Ge had ended his battle with Dagger; just like he had said before he left… he would be able to defeat the enemy within three minutes after midnight.

However, both of them chose to remain calm and maintain the status quo.

Before long, Xiaoling finished reading the incantation. Almost at the same time as she uttered the last word, a black hole the size of a human eye appeared above the talisman…

“Now! Quickly throw the talisman into the [Chaos]!” Dracula, who was already prepared, shouted loudly at the two players.

[Side mission completed] The system voice also announced that all their mission lines in this scenario had been concluded.

At this point, the players had nothing to worry about. Xiaoling looked at Ruoyu, who nodded. Then Xiaoling did as the Count had said… and threw the talisman into the [Chaos] entrance, which was surging with black energy.

At that moment, an unusual fluctuation bloomed from the entrance, causing a mental shock to every living thing in the entire space.

Fortunately, that feeling was fleeting, and some people didn’t even notice the changes that had occurred in this world.

“Thank you… travelers from another world…” As Dracula said this, he was already kneeling on one knee, wrapping himself in his cloak, and his whole body began to tremble. “Now, if you don’t want to die… then run for your lives!”

Whether he said these words or not didn’t matter, because he had only said half a sentence when Ruoyu and Xiaoling had already started running…

The expansion speed and gravity of the “Gate of Purgatory” were truly exaggerated. Not only did it instantly expand its radius to more than five meters, but it also quickly sucked in all the matter it touched.

Fortunately, both of these two from the Hell Front had magic brooms in hand, and they flew away to a very far distance in a flash, arriving more than a hundred meters away.

At this time, many viewers who were watching the match were wondering, Ruoyu and Xiaoling could just leave the scenario directly through “teleportation,” so why were they still running?

In fact, the answer was very simple… after experiencing so many things, they really wanted to see if what Dracula had said in that long speech earlier was true, and… what the world of this scenario would ultimately become.

“Purgatory… witness my final strength!” However, the Count, who had always maintained his demeanor, roared, and his trembling figure suddenly mutated, swelling into a huge monster that seemed to be a mixture of many demons.

It seemed that everything he said was true. After revealing his Demon King form, Dracula really took the initiative to jump into the Gate of Purgatory, spread his limbs, and released terrifying Demonic Energy, suppressing the expansion of the gate.

What he had to do… was just to hold on for a moment, until the spatial rift woven from Chaos and Divinity not far away expanded to a greater extent than the Gate of Purgatory; at that time, the latter would no longer be able to reverse this gap, and the Count… as he himself said, if he was lucky, he could still retreat into Purgatory.

Zi zi zi zi…

The spatial rift also lived up to expectations, and its rate of derivation was faster than the Count had expected. It seemed that it would be able to surpass the scale of the Gate of Purgatory in less than a minute.

But… the development of things really exceeded Dracula’s calculations. Even if he was one of the most powerful Demon Kings in Purgatory, he was still like an ant in the face of the power of the entire space. His act of an ant trying to shake a tree made him miserable and burdened, and he failed to completely stop the expansion of the gate…

“Ugh… this…” Thirty seconds later, Dracula was actually forced back into his human form, and he was bleeding from all seven orifices, and his whole body was trembling violently, “…Could it be… I can’t escape this cycle after all…”

Just then, suddenly!

“Uh——” A low groan sounded, and a figure appeared beside the Count.

“You…” The Count knew who it was without turning his head.

The Mummy didn’t speak, he just silently contributed his own strength, grabbing the edge of the Gate of Purgatory.

Then, the second and third figures appeared.

The Werewolf and Gill-man also emerged from the vortex of Purgatory, and together with the Count, pulled on the edge of the black hole.

After another two seconds, Frankenstein also arrived at the door, and joined them without saying a word.

“You…” The Count’s pressure suddenly lessened a lot, and he seemed to be able to hold on, but he still said with a miserable smile, “Old friends… you might disappear because of this…”

Indeed, each of these classic monsters from old movies possessed considerable power. However, even if the five monsters combined their strength, they could only barely stop the expansion of the gate, and the energy of each of them was rapidly dissipating…

Seeing that the comparison between the space-time rift and the Gate of Purgatory was about to reverse, and the monsters had reached their limits, just when they thought there was nothing they could do…

“I never thought…” Another voice sounded from within Purgatory, “There would be such a day…”

The person speaking was a middle-aged man in a white shirt and black vest, with a goatee. His name was—Van Helsing.

“I… actually stood by your side.” Van Helsing became the sixth person to come to the door, joining the ranks of Dracula and the others.

Now, he was naturally already a dead soul, a dead soul that had wandered in Purgatory for a hundred years.

“Heh…” The Count smiled, “I just ‘did what I had to do… and what I could do’.”

These were the words Van Helsing had said to him a century ago. Today, Dracula finally understood Van Helsing’s state of mind at that time.

Van Helsing was silent for half a second, and then said, “Let us…”

The Count answered, “…End it all.”

Seconds later, the space-time rift finally exceeded the edge of the Gate of Purgatory, and began to devour the power of the gate in reverse.

The six figures in the door also retreated tacitly after a brief exchange, and were swept into the vortex of Purgatory.

Seeing this, Ruoyu and Xiaoling chose to leave the scenario, because they thought the plot was almost over, and what followed would probably be scenes like the scenario map collapsing…

Sure enough, after they turned into light and left, two super-time-space energies were like two raging beasts… launching a fight in this Forgotten Land, and instantly decided the outcome.

In the end, only a very small black dot remained in mid-air, and it instantly released a hundred times the collapsing power of the two "gates" just now, and swept the entire castle into it within seconds…

…………

Fifteen seconds later, in a primeval world composed of data light streams, Feng Bujue opened his eyes.

Yes, he didn’t teleport, he stayed in the scenario until the very last second.

So, he came here.

“You… how is it possible!” At this moment, not far from Feng Bujue, stood a figure, and when he saw Jue-Ge, he showed a look of astonishment.

That “person” looked about thirty years old, with shoulder-length white hair; his head had the skin and appearance of a normal human, but everything below his neck was made of a mercury-like material, as if it was liquid metal that had just solidified, having contours but no details.

“Infinite…” Feng Bujue directly called out the other person’s name, “It seems like our last conversation isn’t over yet…” He didn’t wait for the other person to respond, and continued, “The ‘second method’ of killing you that you couldn’t finish… I’ve roughly deduced it.” He paused, “Is it to erase you on the server level in the form of formatting?”