Chapter 16: The Hunt
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"I am not a demigod of the Mutant pathway; that's a fallacy."
He said softly, simultaneously transforming into a Wraith state and deactivating his Concealment, only maintaining the Concealment Blessing granted by the badge.
Then, in an instant, Lin Ruo plunged into Harras, who was in the middle of cutting his steak.
Harras only felt a chilling sensation suddenly invade his body, occupying every corner of it. Immediately afterward, his mouth and limbs no longer belonged to him.
Not good! Wraith Possession!
Because his mind was unaffected, Harras, who had read relevant information, immediately reacted.
But that was useless. Wraith Possession was inherently a forceful control skill. If Lin Ruo were only Sequence 5, Harras might still have a sliver of a chance to resist, but the current Lin Ruo was not a Sequence 5 Wraith, but a Sequence 4 Puppet. Using a demigod's power to forcefully control a Sequence 6, the result was self-evident.
All of this happened in just one second.
To outsiders, Harras's movements only paused for a moment before he continued cutting the steak on his plate as if nothing had happened.
At the same time, something seemed to be changing silently on the long table.
The slightly overweight Capim looked in almost bewildered astonishment at the tablecloth that seemed to have suddenly gained life and was binding him. Before he could react, the hand holding his dinner knife was suddenly tugged, and then the knife pierced his neck.
"Ah—"
A scream echoed throughout the restaurant. Capim almost instinctively wanted to pull out the knife from his neck, but to his astonishment, the knife seemed to have a life of its own, relentlessly stabbing inward. This made it impossible for him to even howl in a few seconds, because his vocal cords had been severed and his trachea had been cut open.
This was not only happening to Capim. In fact, the moment the anomaly occurred, all the inanimate objects in the entire restaurant turned into deadly playthings. Lin Ruo had given these objects life and the command to kill.
In the entire restaurant, Capim was undoubtedly the most miserable. As an ordinary person, he had almost no power to resist these anomalies and was directly reaped of his life. And among the Beyonders, the most disheveled was Harras.
He was the strongest of the Beyonders responsible for protecting Capim, but for that very reason, he was the first to be targeted by Lin Ruo. In the Wraith Possession state, he had no power to resist the attacks from the surrounding objects and was severely injured almost instantly.
However, the other two Beyonders were not in much better shape. Their cutlery attacked them, their food tried to choke them to death, and their chairs exploded with a bang, catching them completely off guard.
A demigod's power was inherently overwhelming to low and mid-sequence Beyonders, especially when the demigod was intentionally launching a surprise attack against the low and mid-sequence side. No one could hold up under such circumstances.
And now, it had only been ten seconds since Lin Ruo had broken free from his Concealment.
Ten seconds was only enough to say a few words, but almost everyone in the restaurant, whether Beyonder or ordinary person, was already covered in blood. Those who were in better condition were only injured, while those in worse condition, like Capim, had directly lost their lives.
However, the Beyonders who came to protect Capim were not completely useless. Although they were caught off guard by Lin Ruo, they still reacted somewhat.
Harras, the highest sequence among them and the one being forcefully controlled by Lin Ruo, was obviously the one who wanted to die the least. Taking advantage of the fact that Lin Ruo was controlling the inanimate objects in the restaurant to attack and his main focus was not on him, the iron-black metal glove on Harras's hand suddenly emitted a sense of majesty.
Although this did not change his fate of being attacked by inanimate objects and severely injured while under forceful control, it did interrupt Lin Ruo's control over Harras's body for a moment afterward.
Taking advantage of this moment, Harras solemnly spoke at an extremely fast pace:
"This place is forbidden to ghosts and wraiths!"
But this had no effect on Lin Ruo. It wasn't that the level of the Beyonder power wasn't high enough, but because Lin Ruo, having already understood in an instant what the other party might do after his control over Harras was shaken, simply withdrew from the Wraith Possession state himself, and simultaneously, almost in sync with Harras, said:
"I am not a demigod of the Storm pathway; that's a fallacy."
In an instant, Lin Ruo completed the transformation from Puppet to Cataclysmic Interrer, appearing beside the dying Harras.
His sudden appearance naturally startled people. Belize, who was lying on the side with broken legs but still enduring the pain, instinctively raised his gun in the direction of Lin Ruo. But before he could make his next move, he saw Lin Ruo smile at him.
The next second, silver-white lightning filled the entire restaurant. Because everyone's legs had been intentionally injured by Lin Ruo during the attacks from the inanimate objects, no one could make an effective escape from this area-of-effect attack belonging to a demigod of the Storm domain at this moment, and all were swallowed by the silver lightning.
At this moment, it was only thirteen seconds since Lin Ruo had appeared!
His Beyonder power within his body was still considered abundant, but Lin Ruo would not wait for the lightning in the restaurant to subside before canceling the maintenance of the Cataclysmic Interrer state. In fact, after launching the attack, he had already withdrawn from the demigod state, and then activated the Concealment Badge, waiting for the lightning to subside in a concealed state.
This could effectively prevent him from being counter-killed with a sliver of health, and also ensure that if there were really any lucky survivors after this round of lightning, Lin Ruo could deliver a timely finishing blow.
After the lightning in the room had completely subsided, no one in the room except Lin Ruo was still breathing.
This was not surprising. As one of the pathways with the strongest attack power among the 22 pathways, the lightning of a Storm demigod was enough to incapacitate even a normal demigod if they took it head-on, let alone this group of Beyonders and ordinary people who had been reduced to low health by Lin Ruo.
Seeing this, Lin Ruo, in a concealed state, couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth. He then withdrew from the concealed state, and while searching the bodies of the few people for valuable items, he waited for the extraction of their Beyonder characteristics.
This did not take much time, but unfortunately, it was probably because the power of the lightning was too great, and among the three people present, except for the iron-black metal glove on Harras's hand, the other items were basically not made of Beyonder characteristics, but were merely magical items with added spirituality, so almost none of them survived the lightning.
Fortunately, however, the Beyonder characteristics of the three people were enough to make up for these losses. After Lin Ruo collected these Beyonder characteristics, he looked at the mess on the ground and couldn't help but smile:
"Is this considered a great hunting success?"
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