Chapter 500: Chapter 500
500: Chapter 480: The Rising Candle Flame 500: Chapter 480: The Rising Candle Flame Lu Ping’an was fleeing, running with all his might.
After someone carelessly pressed a switch, the entire underground tomb collapsed at an unstoppable speed.
[Ugh, I’m so tired, so hungry.
In movies, this kind of underground tomb just self-destructs in the end.
There shouldn’t be all these messy mechanisms set up here, right?]
If he knew that this was the reality created by someone’s thoughts, he would have thrown them out long ago.
But now, everyone was in his courtyard.
This was the so-called Plan Zero he had mentioned before, also known as the “Roll Up Your Bedding and Leave” plan.
In the chaos, Lu Ping’an quickly sent out the last “entrance invitation” and completed the transfer of the entire team…except for Evil Bone, still following behind, whose companions had already been cleanly killed.
Lu Ping’an was very fast.
He chose to run as a backup plan, not because he was self-sacrificing, but simply because it was the fastest and had the highest survival rate.
Lu Ping’an stepped on the ground, and the next moment, the Rune on his shoe engraved a glintimbus symbol.
With a crisp sound, he was directly bounced away.
But in this process, he recalibrated his direction, bouncing back and forth between the walls, switching between Feather Walking and Spider Walk, like a pinball being shot upwards.
Before becoming a 2-tier Runner, Lu Ping’an had mastered practical skills like “Feather Walking”, “Spider Walk”, and “Shrink Land”, which earned him praise from Big Cat for having great compatibility with the Runner Department.
However, as useful as these abilities were, they all shared a common trait – they were too passive and limited to support roles.
These mobility support abilities were well-known and effective, but were only considered support.
The low-level Runner’s abilities were focused on enhancing existing mobility, without resulting in any qualitative change…
The key point was that they couldn’t generate any additional power.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Ping’an created another wave point on the wall panel and stepped on it.
The force ejected him straight up, giving him enough power…just like a wave-chaser riding a wave, adjusting his movements and turning into a high-speed projectile again.
Wave-chaser – if there were no big waves, they would chase and even create their own.
This 2-tier Runner profession had already deviated slightly from the conventional Runner path.
Compared to ordinary Runners, he had given up precise control of his body in favor of utilizing external forces.
Traditional Runners disliked this, but it was considered the most suitable profession for Lu Ping’an.
It allowed him to create “wave points” for adjusting movement and allowed Runners to execute a variety of mobility tricks.
The more advanced third-tier Wave Dancer could even dance with the waves.
However, ordinary senior Wave-chasers couldn’t create “wave points” so frequently.
Lu Ping’an had been running all the way, relying on his special circumstances to push through.
With a kick, he shattered a wooden door.
If it wasn’t for the help of Heavenly Boots, he probably couldn’t have endured this terrible reaction force.
Lu Ping’an’s judgment was accurate.
His speed and mobility were exaggerated, at least Evil Bone, who was also known for his high-speed, couldn’t keep up with his movements.
Along the way, he repeatedly used his abilities to create “wave points”, completely disregarding spatial constraints, smashing doors and breaking walls wherever he found them.
Those wandering Mutated Demons and reawakened dead spirits could neither keep up with his speed nor block his way, as he’d just kick them away.
The only problem was that he now had an unbearable headache.
The limit had come sooner than expected…
“This is the result of you not being in a perfect state.
Your body is out of balance…”
“Weren’t the Heavenly Boots supposed to forcibly make me enter the perfect state?
The three attributes should be balanced.”
“Your body was forcibly brought to this state.
Your consciousness and soul cannot bear it…
It’s like an old lady who usually plays gateball suddenly regaining fifty years of youth and being dragged to play baseball.
Even if her body can endure it, the balance between her spirit and body cannot.”
Taboo items are not omnipotent, and the temporarily enhanced state gave Lu Ping’an a hard time during his first full-power outburst.
However, he could not stop, as every moment of mastering “Wave Points,” calculating force fold points, and simultaneously using various “Runner Abnormal Abilities” required accelerating his reflex nerves.
With each step, the reaction force acted as the driving force but also as the brute force destroying the original balance.
Lu Ping’an had to make adjustments instantly, and only by touching it by himself would he realize its subtleties and difficulties.
The headache grew worse, and his limbs began to twitch uncontrollably.
It is hard to say whether Lu Ping’an’s Runner Ability overheated first or if his body first failed to withstand the overload.
Fortunately, before that, he ran out of the underground tomb first.
He did not stop, distancing himself immediately, and this time, his feet alone were enough.
And in his eyes, the massive underground structure disintegrated little by little.
Just escaping the tomb-like underground maze, he breathed a sigh of relief…
at least for now, he could either fight or run.
After maintaining a safe distance, Lu Ping’an did not leave; he knew some things were inevitable.
He waited a full two and a half minutes before seeing another survivor…
Even following the path that Lu Ping’an had taken, Evil Bone still fell far behind.
Seeing Lu Ping’an, Evil Bone was overjoyed…
as behind him followed a group of magical beasts and reawakened undead spirits.
Lu Ping’an had no intention of helping, instead, he subtly blocked Evil Bone’s escape path.
Lu Ping’an just smiled silently and casually pointed behind him…
The meaning was obvious, you brought the trouble upon yourself, clean it up yourself.
At that moment, Evil Bone gritted his teeth and turned around.
At the entrance of the collapsing ruins, he began to fight alone.
However, compared to the unknown strength of Lu Ping’an, the undead spirits and magical beasts before him were nothing.
Evil Bone finished them off in two or three moves.
Taking advantage of the situation, Lu Ping’an also identified the opponent’s deliberately hidden fighting style.
Two daggers similar to the spirit of a venomous snake, a hook lock inside the sleeve for assisting in free movement, and a poisonous hook behind the head… Quite in line with the common perception of a spy, a profession of an assassin and espionage agent.
Several minutes after Evil Bone also left the tomb, finally, the mechanism’s collapse reached its final step.
The part of the Beast God Temple left on the surface also began to avalanche-like collapse.
Boom!” The continuous explosion sounds traveled far in the night.
The collapsing pillars made the towering Sanctuary fall like broken building blocks.
One by one, smoke, dust, and explosion noises became the main theme of the world.
When everything settled, a desolate scene of ruins lay before them.
But regardless of the onlooking Lu Ping’an who was laughing, or the heavily breathing Evil Bone, they both knew this was far from the end.
After a short wait, suddenly, daylight broke.
Yes, daylight appeared, as the long night suddenly ended at this moment, but it was not because a Sun God had finally ascended to the throne.
The new source of light was right before their eyes.
At some point, a huge opening appeared directly in the underground ruins.
A “Sun” was slowly rising.
It illuminated the forest and also signified that he had awakened the power within his bloodline, the gift from the Sun God himself.
“Tsk, the second phase now, huh?
But this time it’s easier to deal with.”
With the open terrain and ample preparation time, Lu Ping’an had already completed preparations for the next round of battle.