Doomsday Jigsaw Puzzle

Chapter 157: Chapter 157: Only a Monster Can Defeat a Monster

Fang-like bone spikes stretched out from his back, complementing his bone wings and making Bai Wu’s Evil Fallen form look even more ferocious.

His entire body, though still in human form, was much larger than before, wrapped in a substance like white bone, as if clad in armor for battle.

It was as if he had opened the doors to the Underworld, a Bone General crawling out from the depths of hell.

The Xie Mo Corners at his joints were covered in black aura, containing destructive power.

His hair grew wildly, turning silver-white along with his bone wings, as crimson light flickered in his eyes.

Those blood-red eyes that had originally clung to his arms now seemed to have a life of their own, looking down with disdain at the monster nearby, as if mocking the ugly parasites infesting its body.

If Evil Fallen had a rating for looks, Bai Wu’s would be far higher than the twisted God of Wealth.

The most terrifying was the power that neither Bai Wu nor the God of Wealth knew the limit of.

Not just the power, but the Mutation Entries that Bai Wu had purchased had also fused into his body, which was why his physique had become so massive.

Not long ago, he had thought of using these Entries to arm Hong Yin, but in the end, he had to bear everything alone.

Beyond the powers gained in the casino, Bai Wu found that his Xie Mo Corners had become even sharper, and the ability from the eyes on his arms—Phantom Gaze—had evolved from a rare Mutation Entry to a perfect level Mutation Entry—Nightmare Eyes.

An oppressive terror, like the descent of a tyrant, made the whole casino suffocate.

Outside the martial arts area, in the first floor of the casino, all humans and Evil Fallen felt fear instinctively.

Within the casino hall, Wu Jiu and others turned towards the source of power.

"This is bad, bad, bad... This aura feels even stronger than the monsters we encountered during the martial training. Shit, can Bai Wu handle it?"

The emotion-detecting wristband Lin Wurou wore now showed a value over sixty.

The rest were also agitated and anxious, causing fluctuations in their wristband readings. freeweɓnovel.cøm

Wu Jiu’s expression was grave.

Even without the Innate Force, this oppressive aura was indeed much stronger than the Demon Evil Fallen they had encountered in the Martial Training Area.

If Bai Wu’s previous power had refreshed everyone’s understanding of human limits, then the current Evil Fallen was reshaping their perception of what an Evil Fallen could be.

"Is this really the Blue Zone... Why are there such terrifying creatures here?"

Now without the fervent bloodline, Shang Xiaoyi’s response to the fear of Evil Fallen was very real.

Yin Shuang looked towards the direction of the martial arts area, her fists clenched tight.

Though no one knew what was happening inside the arena, nor what kind of being the Evil Fallen emitting such an aura was, for the members of the Investigation Corps, this was undoubtedly a warning signal.

They scanned the hall and noticed that their group remained comparatively calm; this oppressive force seemed to have a deeper influence on the Evil Fallen within the hall.

The Rank-nine Mutant, Black Bone, looked towards the direction of the martial arts area with a face filled with horror. The other Evil Fallen trembled as well.

The casino had special rules to protect its patrons, but facing a top predator that far exceeded their understanding, these creatures, accustomed to constant combat, felt real fear.

This terror continued to spread until a minute later when a sound like a collapse came from the direction of the martial arts area and fear peaked!

A figure smashed through wall after wall of the Deep Sea Casino as if it were a meteor crashing down into the casino hall.

Every game in the entire hall was disrupted in an instant by this sudden surge of power.

This strong force caused even the "scenes" protected by the rules to be forcefully broken once again.

The clash of the two mighty monsters had spread to the entire casino.

Evil Fallen let out fearful wails as they fled in all directions amid the swirling dust.

Black Bone and Wu Jiu’s group all noticed one thing—that the monster plummeting into the casino hall like a meteor appeared grotesquely twisted.

It was flung in by a power even mightier than itself.

Realizing this, Wu Jiu and the others instantly looked towards the damaged area of the casino hall.

At that moment, the casino hall was so stunningly shocking that it seemed devoid of sound and color.

Every gaze and thought were dominated by a monster wrapped in white bone armor, its silver hair dancing about.

It was like a demon descended from hell, tearing at the seams of the casino with its hands as effortlessly as ripping paper to make way for its burly frame through the crack.

It was only after its entire body stepped into the casino that the eyes on its arms and the bone wings it spread wide flung open.

Below the feet of the Bone Demon, air currents spiraled out, with powerful winds battering every corner of the casino hall.

Bai Wu made an incredibly domineering entrance into everyone’s field of vision.

The duel between the two top Evil Fallen wasn’t over yet, but the outcome was quite clear.

The God of Wealth let out a disgruntled roar as it struggled to rise, its voice now like a ghost’s wail due to severe mutation.

In that instant, countless parasites, all-consuming vortexes, terrifying summoned creatures, and various powerful elemental attacks, without regard to cost, surged towards Bai Wu.

Bai Wu’s expression was unnaturally calm, and as his silver hair fluttered in the wind, the crimson eyes on his arms neutralized the Oblivion Parasites with beams of tangible gaze.

The Nightmare Eyes were not just capable of psychic attack; when opened, they served as vents for an immense amount of energy.

As for the various elemental strikes that could penetrate the defenses of a ninth-level Evil Fallen, Bai Wu dissolved them all in the same manner.

It was like two utterly opposing forces meeting, yet no explosion occurred. freēwēbnovel.com

Silently... the offensive of the God of Wealth dissipated like smoke.

Watching Bai Wu’s tranquil demeanor, a growing sense of fear began to claw at the heart of the God of Wealth...

Their strengths seemed to have switched all of a sudden, with it becoming the weaker party in this battle.

...

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Three minutes earlier, at the Deep Sea Casino arena.

When the Bone Demon emerged from the ruins, the first thing Bai Wu noticed was the remark from Prayle’s Eye.

[Ah ha! Finally, there’s no need to maintain the utterly boring high-speed mode; I was about to burst. In a headwind, I am quiet and sparing with words, cherishing them like gold, but with the wind at my back, I strike with heavy fists and never stop blabbing! You won’t get to experience this level of power from a top-tier creature for a long time, so consider this a limited-time trial card for high-rollers. A single moment of springtime is worth a thousand gold, let’s go wild!]

Although this message roughly indicated to save time and quickly deal with the opponent, Bai Wu suddenly had the feeling that Lin Wurou had gained a mouth.

The current situation indeed called for valuing every second as if it were gold.

The price of becoming an Evil Fallen was steep: no return to High Tower and permanent confinement to this area.

If it were not for the Temporary Save Device obtained in the heart of Jing Si’s area, Bai Wu would not dare use such power recklessly.

The save device would only work for thirty minutes.

This meant he had to finish the battle within thirty minutes.

"Now that I’m also an Evil Fallen, can you tell me the secret of the casino? I want to know where the casino’s humans come from, what kind of deal you have with High Tower. To which floor do they belong?"

Bai Wu did not get the case of missing children from the lower levels, and there was no such case in the Investigation Corps’ interrogation unit either.

Therefore, it’s possible that not all the casino’s staff, these children with old appearances, come from the lower levels.

Moreover, he was very interested in the four Garrison Corps rookies mentioned by Prayle’s Eye earlier, who had been guaranteed promotions.

Bai Wu had an intuition that these questions were at least related to some rulers of the fifth level.

It was quite clear that the God of Wealth was not going to tell Bai Wu.

"How could this be... How could you possibly undergo Evil Fallen Transformation?"

"Humans turning into Evil Fallen outside of the tower, isn’t that a very normal thing? Stop wasting time and answer my question, will you?"

Of course, it wasn’t normal.

As the casino’s Guardian, the God of Wealth knew the true situation.

In other areas, humans would become Evil Fallen when their negative emotional fluctuations reached a peak.

But the casino was different.

For three hundred years, many gamblers had experienced extreme emotional fluctuations after losing everything, and all the Evil Fallen reveled in tasting their prey’s despair.

However, this place actually had special rules that made it difficult for humans to turn into Evil Fallen purely from emotional fluctuations.

There were many areas with strange rules beyond the tower, and the reason the merchants chose this location for the Deep Sea Casino was because of this particular rule.

From the outside, the casino was already a huge palace, and it wasn’t that the merchants and ironworkers had built a casino from scratch.

Long before it took on the identity of a "casino," it had lain dormant in the depths of the sea for hundreds of years.

It was simply eventually discovered by the merchants.

And the truth about it—hidden inside a cruise ship as huge as a palace.

To ensure that the "livestock" obtained from the High Tower would not affect the normal operation of the casino, ensuring they could serve as humans in the casino by day and draw on their fears in nightmares by night—

The behind-the-scenes boss of the casino, the merchant, together with the ironworkers, constructed a huge elevator leading to the deep sea.

It wasn’t until three hundred years ago, when this engineering project was finally completed, that the casino was officially established.

The God of Wealth finally snapped out of his horror.

Bai Wu deduced from the God of Wealth’s reaction that this casino seemed to be more complex than he had imagined.

"The situation has changed, Lord Flisa, have you noticed my silver hair? I’m a Super High Tower person now. Surrender and lose half, cooperate with me and you might still live."

"Strutting clown, although I don’t know how you became an Evil Fallen, no matter what you turn into, I will tear you apart!"

Bai Wu said no more.

The duel between Evil Fallen began.

Under the effect of Prayle’s Eye at this moment, everything in Bai Wu’s vision slowed down tremendously.

It wasn’t that the surroundings had slowed, but that he had become much faster.

Within the arena, a storm raged, and before the God of Wealth could even understand what had happened, Bai Wu had already picked up Must Kill the Evil Fallen and began continuously striking.

This time, there was no feeling of being obstructed; the powerful force allowed Bai Wu to easily breach the God of Wealth’s defenses.

His blade was invincible, slicing through anything in his path—even the Xie Mo Corners and bone spurs on the God of Wealth’s body were cut off by Bai Wu!

"Impossible!"

"There’s nothing impossible!"

Abandoning his knife for attack, Bai Wu switched to using his fists.

Tremendous force gathered in his right fist, and the God of Wealth felt a terrifying force capable of piercing through the casino.

It clearly saw Bai Wu slowly gathering strength, and it also foresaw the immense power of this punch, yet it could not avoid it!

This punch looked so slow, yet it unreasonably hit its mark!

Boom!

The punch’s force penetrated the God of Wealth’s body, and while the body crazily healed itself in that instant, the horrific force still sent its body flying like a cannonball, breaking through the arena’s walls.

And so, that scene in the casino’s hall happened.

The body of the God of Wealth crashed through the walls of the martial arts area like a meteor and then again through the walls of the casino’s main hall, its entire body embedded in the other side of the main hall.

Subsequently, Bai Wu tore through the numerous barriers with an extremely domineering posture and arrived at the casino.

The strength of the God of Wealth was already overwhelming for all the Evil Fallen present, but Evil Fallen Bai Wu commanded the battlefield like an overlord, as if he were above all.

He casually neutralized a barrage from the God of Wealth.

There were no horrific explosions or energy fluctuations, yet it was this silent disintegration and collapse that shook everyone to their core.

The moment they clearly saw the Evil Fallen’s form, Wu Jiu’s emotion wristwatch value began to plummet.

But the values on the other members’ wristwatches kept climbing.

"We’re done for, done for, captain... Where’s Bai Wu? Why are there two Evil Fallen fighting? Where is that kid Bai Wu?"

The unaware Lin Wurou was both scared and worried, and Shang Xiaoyi habitually tried to sense around before abruptly realizing he no longer possessed the Innate Force.

They had given all their strength to Bai Wu, and now Bai Wu was nowhere to be found.

Only two monsters were fiercely slaughtering each other in the arena!

Yin Shuang was initially also worried, but the attentive her quickly noticed a change in the captain’s expression.

Finally, at this moment, Wu Jiu uttered a sentence that left everyone incredulous:

"The silver-haired Evil Fallen with bone wings, that is Bai Wu."

This revelation undoubtedly caused more shock than Bai Wu’s silent neutralization of the other Evil Fallen’s offensive moments ago.

The two Evil Fallen were fiercely clashing in the casino hall, and because of Bai Wu, no matter what means the God of Wealth used, Bai Wu could silently dissolve it.

As Yin Shuang watched the unimaginably powerful Evil Fallen battle, she noticed that this massive palace was indeed connected together.

The first and second floors of the casino, as well as the other rooms, were actually based upon a single colossal structure.

Wang Shi and Lin Wurou finally snapped back to reality:

"This is really Bai Wu? Can this motherfucker really be Bai Wu?"

The strength of the two Evil Fallen was so great, especially the silver-haired Bone General, whose strength had completely overturned the Vanguard Group members’ understanding.

They had originally thought Bai Wu was undoubtedly doomed, yet it turned out that the most powerful monster in history was Bai Wu!

Wu Jiu, observing the battle situation where Bai Wu was nearly overpowering the opponent, was inwardly astounded by Bai Wu’s Evil Fallen form, which was countless times stronger than when he last saw it, but he maintained a calm and composed face.

"This is indeed Bai Wu."

"So you’re saying, Bai Wu underwent an Evil Fallen Transformation during the battle due to some negative emotion? How is that possible... Wasn’t he not supposed to have the potential to become an Evil Fallen? No, captain, you seem so sure, have you seen Bai Wu like this before?"

Wu Jiu nodded.

"Bai Wu doesn’t have negative emotions, but during the operation to rescue Yan Jiu not long ago, he acquired a method to turn into an Evil Fallen."

"Can he turn back?"

"He can. But he can only use it four times."

"You can do that? Why does it feel like you and Bai Wu have a lot of secrets from us, captain..."

It was as if Destiny had already arranged many interesting choices together, leading to an exhilarating coincidence.

Jing Liu, who had once seen this coincidence, chose to let Bai Wu end this causality after forty-five years.

It wasn’t that the God of Wealth had underestimated the opponent, but rather it could not imagine that so many unreasonable things could all happen to one person.

In the end, both formidable Evil Fallen chose to finish their opponent with bone spurs!

They were like two knights clashing, raising their lances and piercing their opponents with the utmost speed!

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