in2ebook Chapter 362 Did he see me?
Chapter 362 Did he see me?
"What...what kind of skill is this?!" Chen Ming's mind could still function, but he couldn't open his mouth; he could only be filled with utter horror.
He saw a semi-transparent shield value bar plummeting rapidly at the edge of his field of vision.
Li Meng's eyes were bloodshot as he desperately tried to activate the "Berserk" skill to break free, but his body remained motionless. "Move...move for me—!" His roar was trapped in his chest, turning into a silent tremor.
Frost covered Sun Yue's shield, freezing Zhao Lin's healing spell at the tip of her staff. "Sister Lin... I can't protect you anymore..." In despair, Sun Yue tried to at least turn the shield, but not even her fingertips could tremble.
At this moment, the group of people who were imprisoned and unable to move appeared to Lin Tian as no different from a stationary target.
He remained standing in the same spot, his right index finger extended, and a dazzling starlight quietly shone from the tip of his finger.
[Astral rays].
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The first beam of starlight, condensed to the point of being almost tangible, only a finger's diameter, yet radiating destructive energy fluctuations, tore through the scorching air. With an almost straight trajectory, it traversed a distance of eight hundred meters in a fraction of a second, precisely penetrating the center of the force field—Chen Ming's brow.
The ice barrier (which was partially activated) on the Lv.27 mage was pierced through as easily as paper. His pupils dilated suddenly, his consciousness was instantly annihilated by pure star-destroying energy, and his body turned into white light and dissipated.
[Killed player "Fire Mage Chen Ming" (Lv.27), +1 point, +11 upgrade points, +16 Dominator's Power.]
The prompt flashed by at the edge of the field of vision.
Lin Tian's fingers, like the calmest conductor's baton in a death symphony, began precise and efficient "snapshots".
*Swoosh!* The second ray pierced through Sun Yue's throat, who had just cast [Holy Shield] on himself and whose golden light had just begun to glow—the Holy Light shield shattered along with its master's life.
"impossible......"
Sun Yue's last thought came to an abrupt end.
[Defeat player "Iron Wall Sun Yue" (Lv.26), score +1, gain +10 upgrade points, gain +15 Dominator Power.]
*Sizzle!* The third one, the berserker Li Meng, had a charred, bowl-sized hole explode in his chest.
The rage had not yet subsided in his bloodshot eyes, but his astonishment had already frozen in place.
[Defeat player "Berserker Li Meng" (Lv.26), score +1, gain upgrade points +10, gain Dominator Power +15.]
*Swoosh!* The fourth attacker, Zhang Xin, a thief, had a red glow on his forehead, then his entire body turned into white light. He didn't even see where the attack came from.
[Kill player "Shadow Assassin Zhang Xin" (Lv.25), score +1, gain upgrade points +10, gain Dominator Power +15.]
His movements were steady, swift, and without any redundancy. With each slight movement of his fingertips, a deadly starlight shot out, and with each flash of starlight, a player within the force field turned into white light.
Frozen by the Astral Imprisonment, they couldn't even let out a complete scream.
Only in the regional channels, a few IDs that instantly went gray, signifying their demise and exit, silently announced their end.
Five seconds.
Just five seconds.
Fifteen rays of starlight, fifteen roll calls of death.
When the final beam of light pierced through the corner where the priest Zhao Lin (Lv.25) was huddled, desperately holding up her shield, her face filled with despair, along with her faint holy light shield,
"Why..." She managed to squeeze out the last three words before they vanished along with the unfinished sentence.
The azure blue [Astral Imprisonment] field reached its maximum duration, shattered silently, and dissipated into countless ice crystals.
At the center of the force field, there was nothing.
Only a few pieces of dimly lit equipment, some consumables, and a metal box half-embedded in the rock wall lay scattered on the ground, silently telling the story of a brief but brutal encounter that once took place here—if one ignores the fifteen people who completely vanished.
At the edge of Lin Tian's field of vision, kill notifications and resource acquisition information flashed by like a waterfall.
Further away, some players who had vaguely witnessed or sensed the brief massacre in the nearby area, either through their skills or the terrain, fell into a deathly silence.
In the shadows of a lava cave, three solo players huddled together for warmth, holding their breath.
"Was there...were there three groups of people over there just now?" A young man with the ID "Wu Lei" asked, his voice trembling, his grip on the short sword almost giving way.
"Gone...all gone..." The female mage beside her, Su Xiaoyu, was as pale as paper, her staff trembling slightly.
"Fifteen people...five seconds...not even a decent resistance...what was that? Immobilization? Instant kill? What kind of monsters are we competing against in the same arena?"
"What skill? Instant kill in an area? I didn't see any large-scale magical effects..."
The third was Shield Guard [Wang Dazhu]. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, the sweat a mixture of heat and fear. He subconsciously moved his heavy tower shield closer to himself, even though he knew it was probably pointless.
"All I saw was... a flash of blue light, and then people disappeared one by one... like bubbles that had been popped."
"Look over there! That person... he's standing alone!"
Wu Lei pointed in Lin Tian's direction, his voice extremely low, as if afraid of being overheard, even though they were nearly a kilometer apart.
"Who...who is it? From this distance..."
Su Xiaoyu suppressed her heart palpitations and tried to cast an "Eagle Eye" spell, but as soon as the skill was activated, she saw the figure in the distance casually glance in their direction.
That one glance struck Su Xiaoyu like a thunderbolt; her magic instantly crumbled, and she staggered back a step, nearly collapsing to the ground, her lips trembling:
"He...he saw me? No...it's impossible, it's so far away...but...that feeling..."
"Shouldn't we...shouldn't we leave here? Immediately! Right now!" Wang Dazhu's voice was more urgent than ever before as he tugged at the arms of his two companions.
Just then, a voice message filled with terror suddenly burst through the regional channel. The sender seemed to be not far away, and the voice was distorted and hoarse from extreme shock:
"Coordinates (7543, 8921) are nearby! It's Lin Tian! That Lin Tian! He's in the Seventh Division! In the southwestern Scorched Lava Core Plain! I just spotted him with Advanced Scouting! Fifteen people! Instant kill! Run!!!"