Chapter 124: The expansion of the realm, the mystery of time (two chapters in one, please vote for me)

What a fascinating guy."

In a corner of the small square under the Imperial Palace, a man with long hair and a slightly feminine temperament wearing a navy blue windbreaker leaned sideways against the corner, his right hand gently pressing on the saber on his waist.

He is the new acting leader of the Third Investigation Team, Kimura Hakutaku.

Although he accepted the invitation of Foreign Minister Taku Amuro to join the "stability maintenance faction" of Wano's high-level officials, Hakutaku Kimura has never been interested in cooperating with the Judgment of Heaven to capture Captain Dragonfly.

The ability demonstrated showed a strong interest.

Although the opponent's main method of fighting has always been with the gray ability [Shadow Instant] that is completely beyond common sense, there seems to be some subtle change every time.

In the eyes of others, they might marvel at Captain Dragonfly's amazing talent, which has developed his abilities to such an incredible level in just a few months.

But what fell into the narrow eyes of Mimamura Hakuto was a completely different scene.

Reminiscent of the members of the [Funeral Society] at the Sakura Crossing last year, the man behind the dragonfly mask also appeared there at the right time to disrupt the operation of summoning strange demons.

Thinking of this, Kimura Hakutaku couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly as he leaned against the square, staring at the figure wearing a dark gold dragonfly mask in the fierce fight in the small square that no one else could intervene in.

You are here too.

"Dancing" with strange monsters?

The small square under the Imperial Palace.

In front of the gleaming, terrifying golden spear tip, Higashinohara's pupils shrank sharply at this moment, and his heart beat faster as if he felt a sense of urgency.

At this moment, he really felt the terrifying breath of death.

A terrifying spear that locks everything in place.

Terrifying rules like a cause and effect cycle.

This is.

A true demigod-level ability user?

Compared to the commander of the Beihai Dawn Revolutionary Army, Sirle, who has just entered the eighth level and is a first-stage semi-god-level ability user, the cold-faced and arrogant man in front of him undoubtedly has a more thorough control of the [Rules], which makes people rise from the bottom of their hearts.

Arouse an overwhelming feeling of despair for this person.

Rules.Rhinegold!

Gun of Dawn!

However, in the face of this line that runs through life and death, it seems that there is no way to avoid it, and the only choice is to kill it with the terrifying golden spear, but Higashinohara has more understanding than others.

The same is true for his compound ability of [Shadow Instant. Blue Thunder] [Flying Thunder without Step Continuous Slash]. As long as it leaves the mark of thunder and lightning on the target, when it is activated again, it can instantly cut out the law of cause and effect.

A "sure hit" slash.

As someone who has realized this ability on his own, Higashinohara is also aware that the so-called "must hit" is actually a false proposition.

Nothing in this world is absolute.

Where there is a cause, there is an effect.

Theoretically, as long as the opponent is fast enough and cannot let Higashinohara's blue thunder leave a mark, then Higashinohara will naturally not be able to execute the so-called "law of cause and effect" with a sure-hit attack.

So at this critical moment!

A flash of lightning flashed across Higashinohara's mind as his pupils shrank sharply, and the turmoil in his heart unexpectedly calmed down under the separation between life and death.

He realized something.

Since he can't say "must hit", then the feeling of "no way to avoid, no way to hide" is nothing more than a sense of death pressure in the current situation.

The way to get rid of this "sense of pressure" is very simple - just get moving.

Theoretically, as long as his speed is "fast enough" and he avoids the lock of the invisible and immaterial thread, the opponent will naturally not be able to hit the target that connects life and death.

But this simple method,

But there are not simple prerequisites.

How fast is "fast enough"?

Among the talents that Higashinohara currently possesses, [Shadow Instant] and [Time Hourglass] are both speed-based abilities.

During the duel with the commander of the Dawn Revolutionary Army in Beihai, his shadow speed reached the extreme speed that his body could only withstand for a very short time when his agility broke through the 100 mark.

Nine times. Shadow instant.

But now, with the 50-point temporary attribute bonus from Taku Amuro's crime value, Higashinohara's agility is only 94.7. It's not that he doesn't want to look for someone with a higher crime value, but where can he find someone in a hurry.

Even the eighth-level Celestial Judgment Master Marcus Rhine's sin value is not as good as Amuro Takuga's. Although it is judged as an obstacle in front of the mission and triggers the side mission, the side mission obviously does not provide any temporary conversion of the sin value.

Attributes.

And in the current state of agility attributes,

Higashinohara can clearly feel that he is still some distance away from the boundary of [Nine Times Shadow Instant] in Beihai. Now he can only touch the speed of Eight Times Shadow Instant at most.

This speed is obviously not "fast enough".

As for the other speed talent sequence 48 [Time Hourglass].

Since this ability slows down the flow of time around oneself, which is equivalent to speeding up one's own relative speed in the eyes of outsiders, rather than directly speeding up one's own speed, the bonus from one's own agility attribute is relatively low.

Now that Higashinohara is pushing with all his strength, he can only achieve "four times slow play", but this is obviously not "fast enough" under the current circumstances.

Can it be faster?

All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning.

In this moment of life and death, Higashinohara's continuously diverging thoughts were strangely stretched out for such a long time, making time seem to be stuck in a gel and passing extremely slowly. You can even clearly feel it in this thought.

My own desperate thoughts.

Realizing this, Higashinohara couldn't help but slowly raised the corners of his mouth with some self-mockery.

But in fact, Higashinohara only completed one upward movement of raising the corners of his mouth, and his face couldn't help but look a little startled.

Troubled in your thoughts?

A flash of lightning seemed to flash across Higashinohara's mind, with a thoughtful expression on his face, and he vaguely realized that he seemed to have grasped something crucial.

And also at this time,

Marcus Rhine smiled coldly.

In the flash of lightning, the golden spear in his hand followed the tight death ray, tearing the air so hard and coldly, and struck Higashinohara like a dazzling golden meteor.

No one thought of it!

Under the gunpoint of death, Higashinohara was like a novice chef standing next to the stove, staring at the hot oil pan that was simmering with heat and almost splashing on his face.

Thinking about what kind of "sauce" to put in first,

How many "sauce" do you put in at one time?

But only for a moment,

He had a decision in his mind.

So Higashino originally unfolded [Time Hourglass].

In an instant, with him as the center, everything around him slowed down.

But the extent of slow play is currently quite limited.

Higashinohara's limit is the hourglass of time. Four times slower.

And this time,

He only slowed down the time twice, so the whole person seemed calm and leisurely, with a sense of leisure and ease that came easily from his hand. Even the death ray with the golden tip of Marcus Rhein's gun was still firmly locked on his heart.

Where does this confidence come from?

The next moment,

Higashinohara added the second "sauce".

Six times. Shadow instant!

In an instant, his whole person instantly turned into an erratic phantom wave in the air. Something seemed to be spreading rapidly towards the surrounding area in the small square, and the dizzying flashes of light filled the east part of the palace in an instant.

The entire area in front of the court.

In an instant, the shocked expressions on the faces of countless people around seemed to be flattened and rounded by time, and the noisy voices from the people in the Imperial Palace Square further away were like light dancing slowly in the air.

Everything is pulled so slowly!

It was so slow that even the golden spear in front of him shrouded Higashinohara in a blinding light, and the tip of the spear that shot out like lightning drew two milky white air currents in the air.

It’s all so clear and visible!

wrong!

This is far from six times. The shadow instant ability can do it, and it is even less possible to do it with the time hourglass that slows down twice.

The [Time Hourglass. Double Slow Play] and [Six Times. Shadow Instant] that Higashinohara launched this time are both things that he can do easily and comfortably within his ability, and his body does not even need to bear too much weight.
To be continued...