Free Web NovelChapter 1445: 1445: Adjudicator Game: Game Invasion 50
This choice was not made on impulse by Rust Monument.
During the previous battle, it had already sensed unease.
The death penalty had not made these beings retreat or fear death.
Those who had lost their Divine Talents instead fought even harder, with nothing left to hold them back.
They turned themselves into bait.
Into cannon fodder.
They used their own bodies as markers to identify linked Ash soldiers.
Rust Monument no longer placed its hopes on a prolonged battle.
It wanted every living being here dead.
Even if the price was half of its army.
Abandoned Zone No. 1 was shrouded in fog.
Dead players could no longer return to the resurrection point.
Just as players who had lost their worlds could never return home.
One corpse after another fell from the sky.
They dropped into the River of Order, the river that lit up this night sky and made Starsea truly become Starsea.
The moment true death arrived, the atmosphere on the battlefield changed.
Every leader did their best to protect the players who had lost combat ability after multiple deaths.
But the Ash soldiers now followed Rust Monument’s command.
Their priority was no longer fighting their assigned opponents.
Their priority was killing.
Although half the Ash soldiers had vanished, most of those lost were Ash Disciplines.
Of the ten thousand Ash Inspectors, fewer than one-third had disappeared.
Now, every world leader had to deal with at least three Ash Inspectors and four or five Ash Disciplines at once.
At the same time, they also had to protect ordinary players.
In that moment, the players on the battlefield reached a stunning level of coordination.
Leaders and divine players who still had room to maneuver took over multiple Ash Inspectors.
They protected ordinary players while creating enough space for several high-ranking divine players to rush forward and try to save her.
Aside from Deceitful Bloom, Foolishness, and Captain, who were still fighting Rust Monument, the remaining five high-ranking divine players all charged toward that sealed area.
Even though the region was forbidden, they had to try.
Mistblade faced five Ash Inspectors and five Ash Disciplines alone.
A massive magic circle spread across the sky.
It was Maple Syrup’s Divine Talent ability, Four Seasons.
Fat Goose, who had run over from the other side of the battlefield, panted heavily.
"Mistblade!"
"I found out what you asked me to check."
"The Quiet Mountain you is fighting nine enemies at once."
"You’re fighting ten."
"You win."
Mistblade, blade held between her teeth, nodded solemnly.
She acknowledged the news with great seriousness.
Maple Syrup: "..."
If she so much as smiled, blood would leak from the corner of her mouth.
That sword style was terrifying.
Countless fruits unique to Nuclear Flash floated nimbly through the air.
Only Adjudicator players could touch them.
The moment they did, their health and mana recovered.
Lightchaser gave Cinders a bright smile free of any shadow.
"Back then, when she wanted to complete Lightchaser Moment and obtain GodDraw77, I lied to her."
"I told her that when she grew up, she would discover that there were many legendary adventures in this world worthy of being sung by all."
"She didn’t believe me."
"Actually, I didn’t believe it either."
Cinders asked,
"Do you believe it now?"
"Right now, yes."
Lightchaser smiled.
"If I die on this battlefield, I can die without regret."
Mud bears and Loath stood before ordinary players, taking attacks head-on.
Black petals wrapped around pure white snake bones.
Like a black python, they shuttled across the battlefield.
Again and again, Cicada wanted to tell Smoke Tune to retreat to the rear.
Again and again, the words failed to leave her mouth.
Because Smoke Tune’s March Winter Sleep was blooming on this battlefield.
Sea Pony used [Huh? Friend, Look, There Is a Pot Here].
After that, whenever it spoke, nearby Ash Inspectors would rush over to attack Crab.
All Sea Pony had to do was passionately keep talking.
"I’ve never fought this happily before!"
Crab: "..."
Where did you even get such a wicked skill?
The old [Ignite Teammate, Warm Sea Pony] had also transferred damage.
But Sea Pony had been strong in combat and could dodge fluidly.
So back then, the damage Crab had to endure had not been too dense.
This new skill was different.
Now all Sea Pony had to do was say a few words, and even passing monsters wanted to attack Crab.
Hatred Thorn shielded Frenzied Shark from behind.
Countless branches shattered, then regrew at once.
It was almost regressing.
QM Frenzied Shark, retreating while fighting alongside his succulent plant, happened to pass by.
After helping Starsea Frenzied Shark knock back an Ash Inspector trying to ambush him, he couldn’t help mocking him.
"Your plant is no good."
"What do you know?"
Hatred Thorn without hatred was naturally no good.
Starsea Frenzied Shark closed his eyes and sighed heavily.
Then he released his heavy sword and let it float beside him.
He grabbed his long hair behind his head.
Two fingers swept across it cleanly.
The severed hair fell.
Then he leaned back hard, allowing the Thorn to pierce into his back.
Luckily, blood could replace hatred.
Brilliance Prayer had lost one eye.
That eye vanished permanently as the price.
In return, he unleashed all of his combat power in a short burst and took down five Ash Inspectors.
Two of them were linked to each other.
Another Ash Inspector died, and its linked counterpart happened to be near Quex.
Quex immediately concentrated all firepower and killed it.
One eye for three Inspectors.
"Not a loss!"
Quex had only thirty percent health remaining.
She had followed BS Rita’s Order, and the price of betraying her world had been erased.
But because she had failed to participate in the Graveyard of Bones game, she still had twenty fatal weaknesses.
How much longer could she hold on?
She was Starsea’s fifth-ranked player.
At the very least, she had to survive long enough to see the ending of this Starsea.
She would never run away halfway again.
Two Lightchasers sprinted across the battlefield.
After using skills to taunt over a hundred Ash Inspectors, they temporarily drew those Inspectors away from the center of the battlefield.
This reduced the burden on the others.
The last twelve wind whales cruised gracefully above the River of Order.
They did not fight.
Instead, they used their bodies to catch the corpses falling from the sky after death.
Every time they successfully caught a dead player, a long and ethereal cry sounded from their mouths.
The blood-soaked Nivalis circled the sealed region over and over.
She kept flying and crying out, trying to wake her.
Before the throne stood two Ash Inspectors.
The cubes in their chests trembled faintly.
Their scythes were raised high.
When BS Rita opened her eyes, this was the scene she saw.
A cube glowing with white-gold light spun in her left palm.
She looked coldly at the two B80s.
Deep within her eyes, there was a trace of anger and sorrow.
She needed no explanation.
The Unique Key connected her to both Ash Inspectors.
She had heard everything they said earlier.
She was not disappointed.
This was a scene she had already predicted and imagined.
Nor did she hate them.
The B80 of the past had nothing to do with her.
Without loyalty, how could there be betrayal?
As for the future B80, it had been thinking only of coming here to help her.
Things had simply turned out against it.
The battlefield before her was chaotic and disordered.
Right now, Rita only wanted to end this quickly.
Then join the fight.
But before that, she had to do something.
A soft page drifted from her fingers.
It landed at the end of the river and transformed into Quiet Mountain.
Rita rose from the throne.
Her wary gaze never left the two B80s before her.
Her words to the battlefield were brief and rapid.
"Go to Quiet Mountain."
"Safe zone."
As long as they reached Quiet Mountain, they would be safe.
The Ash Legion could not enter.
Rust Monument’s skills could not reach them.
The sunflower above future B80’s head tilted to one side in the wind.
Future B80 spoke.
"Do you want to try reading my archive?"
Rita gripped the constantly rotating cube.
Just as the two B80s had stood before the throne, trying desperately to resist the highest command...
At this moment, she chose to comply with B80’s request.
Light flashed over B80’s body.
But just like that day, it failed.
[Insufficient authority. Unable to read.]
Rust Monument’s command rang out again.
This time, a trace of panic colored its voice.
"Kill your Unique Key!"
At this moment, it suddenly realized something.
From beginning to end, it had never known her name.
Under Rust Monument’s command, B80 and its past self raised their weapons again.
Their movements were identical.
Perfectly synchronized.
Like copy and paste.
Light bloomed along the edges of their scythes.
A strike containing the authority of this prison.
Rita tugged at the corner of her mouth.
She threw the rapidly spinning cube high into Starsea.
Then she charged toward the two most special Ash Inspectors before her.
The throne behind her followed, transforming into a lightning sword that flew into her palm.
Without hesitation, she swung the sword down.
Meeting the two scythes head-on.
At the instant the weapons crossed, Rita’s gaze swept over that cute little flower.
She knew it was B80’s formal outfit.
Her voice was slightly hoarse as she spoke to the B80 only inches away.
"I told you not to expose the present."
"Not to calculate the future."
"Because I wanted to stay good friends with B80 for one hundred years." freёweɓnovel.com
Her gaze shifted left.
She looked at the B80 from the Third Epoch.
She knew that all those earlier voices had been its deliberate reminders.
It had been trying to bypass the command and wake her.
She said,
"You too."
"I told you not to expose everything because I knew we only had thirty days."
The lightning sword in her hand blazed.
On the battlefield, she would not hold back.
This was the end.
Everything ended here.
But then both B80s spoke one after another.
The past B80 said,
"You were right."
"I cannot defy the command issued by my creator."
"But the Unique Key is mutual."
The future B80 said,
"A perfect program surpasses unstable emotions."
"Because I will always calculate a way not to hurt you."
With that, the scythes in the hands of both Ash Inspectors transformed into short blades.
The tips reversed.
Then stabbed straight into the cubes in their chests.
The red lines connecting the three of them dimmed at the same time.
So did the light in the eyes of both B80s.
The two dead Ash Inspectors fell downward.
Their black iron armor scattered in the wind like ash.
In the blink of an eye, only two damaged cubes and one warm-yellow [Tick-Tock Bloom] remained.
Then more things fell from the sky.
A whole clattering pile of them.
Like someone had knocked over a toy box.
Rita snapped out of her shock.
Before she could process the suffocating emotions that surged within her, she rushed forward.
But the cube belonging to the Third Epoch B80 vanished into the air.
It appeared directly in Rust Monument’s hand.
Rita only managed to grab the remaining objects.
The cube of the Twelfth Epoch B80.
A small flower.
And two glittering blue bullets.
[Past] and [Future].
