Exploring Technology in a Wizard World-Chapter 619 - 617: The Final Battle at the Sea of Death

"Shush, shush, shush!"

In the dark of the night, Richard was moving rapidly, constantly glancing behind him with furrowed brows.

By now, it had been quite a while since he successfully broke out using the "Divine Blood (Intermediate)·Evil God Power."

During this time, he had tried changing directions multiple times but couldn’t shake off the pursuers behind him. Twice, they had seized opportunities to encircle him again. It had cost him a lot to break out each time, and he had sustained considerable injuries.

Continuing to move, Richard coughed lightly and reached up to wipe the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, squinting his eyes.

By now, he had guessed that among the group chasing him, there definitely was someone with a special ability to track his location. Unless he could escape the tracking range quickly, it would be hard to shake them off.

Or, he thought of another approach—what about trying to kill all those tracking him?

Just like, by killing everyone who sees him, it becomes a perfect stealth, and by destroying everything within the target’s line of sight, it becomes a perfect assassination.

Likewise, killing everyone chasing him would also make a perfect escape.

However, that method was not easy to execute.

The pursuers behind him numbered in the dozens; each one possessed powerful spells and was highly alert. If he wanted to stop and do something, the opponents wouldn’t give him any opportunity and would mercilessly initiate an attack.

What to do?

Richard continued to squint, flipping his hand to pull out the "Death Finger" from the Space Iron Ring.

After thinking it over, he put it back.

The Death Finger indeed had potent destructive power and penetrative capability, making it his strongest trump card. But it consumed a lot, and due to issues with the material of the Magic Chip, it would burn out after one use and needed a new Magic Chip to be operable again.

Therefore, unless all the pursuers cooperatively lined up and let him cast at ease, it wasn’t as effective as continuing to attack with the Magic Gun.

Then...

With a flip of his hand, Richard pulled out something else.

It was a silver-white metal tube, heavy and meticulously sealed multiple times to ensure that its contents wouldn’t leak easily.

The tube’s surface was painted with a black pattern—a circle in the middle with three pairs of goat horns stretching out from it, resembling a sinister laughing devil, the globally recognized symbol for biologically hazardous materials of the sixth major category, second minor category—indicative of infectious substances.

Inside it were the improved Pneumonia Fungus Spores.

As a biological weapon, in some ways, it was more powerful than Death Finger, and it dealt area damage because of its characteristics of acute contagion and rapid onset, not fearing large numbers—the more, the better, as more would spread it faster.

But after hesitating, Richard eventually put the metal tube back into the Space Iron Ring, deciding not to use it for now.

The reason was that biological weapons were hard to control, and even he couldn’t ensure the consequences after their deployment. In the current escape, everyone was moving fast, there was no enclosed space, and air kept flowing. Even if he really wanted to use it, it would be difficult to precisely deploy the fungal spores around the Black Robed Wizards, possibly not achieving any significant effect.

If Death Finger wasn’t viable and biological weapons weren’t either, then how to solve the current problem?

Continuing to flee, the situation would worsen, and even if he wasn’t yet exhausted, even if he still had the capacity to resist, the outcome was set—he would certainly die.

Certainly die!

Hmm? Die?

Death... Sea of Death?

Taklamakan Lake?

Suddenly, two names inexplicably popped into his mind, and Richard felt as if he had been struck by lightning, his body jolting sharply.

Taklamakan Lake!

Sea of Death!

The two names "banged" together in his mind, exploding into thousands of golden lights. In an extremely short time, Richard had a new idea to solve the problem.

His eyebrows raising, he turned his head in the night to quickly confirm his current location—he was situated southwest of Deep Blue Castle, not far from Taklamakan Lake, not far from the Sea of Death!

Then...

"Alright!" Richard muttered to himself, his expression becoming deadly serious, with a hint of danger, "Let’s take a turn in the lake then."

After speaking, Richard tapped his foot on the ground, changed direction, and burst into high speed, soaring towards Taklamakan Lake.

...

"Captain, the kid has changed direction again!"

"Captain, the kid has sped up, it looks like he’s trying to shake us off!"

Chasing them, Tu Ke suddenly heard his subordinates report back, snorted lightly upon hearing this, and said coldly while looking into the night, "The kid won’t escape! No matter how many times he changes direction or how fast he moves, he can’t get out of my grasp!"

"Keep chasing now! Groups Seven, Eight, and Ten pick up the pace from behind, keep a tight pursuit. Groups Eleven and Twelve, go straight ahead. As long as that kid doesn’t change direction again, we can intercept him from the side!" Tu Ke issued the order.

"Yes!" His subordinates responded and went to carry it out.

Next, dozens of Black Robed Wizards were in close pursuit, trying to close the distance with Richard.

Especially Groups Eleven and Twelve, who were chasing from the side. Relative to Richard’s position, they were closer to Taklamakan Lake, and while Richard moved diagonally, they moved in a straight line.

Thus, in a very short time, they caught up to Richard from behind, constantly casting spells to harass him, which, although they couldn’t make Richard stop, did slow him down bit by bit.

Moments later.

Groups Eleven and Twelve got as close as a few dozen meters to Richard, and a wizard with slender limbs suddenly swung his hand, causing the bones under his skin to transform dramatically, producing a row of bone spurs.

"Puff, puff, puff" noises sounded as the bone spurs pierced through flesh and flew out, accompanied by a string of blood droplets, attacking Richard with more ferocity than an Ice Cone.

At that moment, Richard was on a small mound. Once he spotted the attack, he stomped hard on the ground with both feet, propelling himself high into the air, dodging all the bone spurs.

After dodging, Richard continued to rise, reached the peak of his jump, and then plummeted like a cliff-falling stone to the other side of the mound, disappearing from the pursuing wizards’ sight.

The pursuing wizards were startled, hurrying forward to check, only to see on the other side of the mound, a large lake—Taklamakan Lake!

"Splash!" A huge splash erupted from the lake surface, Richard had already entered below the surface.

This—

The wizard was momentarily stunned, uncertain of how to proceed.

Should they follow into the water? Or perhaps, block off the entire lake surface?

Just as Groups Eleven and Twelve were struggling with the decision, the other pursuing wizards and Tu Ke arrived, quickly catching up on the circumstances.

Tu Ke, after hearing from Groups Eleven and Twelve, furrowed his brow in thought. Just then, two wizards from Group Seven, seemingly eager to show off, said "What are we waiting for," and quickly cast magic to jump into the lake.

"Splash, splash!"

Following two even larger splashes, two wizards successfully entered the water below, and then... there was no response for a long time.

Just as the group was growing impatient and preparing to have more people enter the water, a large amount of blood and torn flesh surfaced from the bottom, followed by many lake fish.

"Crackling!"

The lake fish slapped the water surface with their tails, frantically scrambling for food, creating a lively and noisy scene.

Many wizards had strange expressions, having guessed a possibility, and turned to Tu Ke, asking, "Captain, what do you think we should do now..."

Tu Ke didn’t speak, his eyes fixated on the lake water for a while, then he snorted coldly and slowly said, "Just a guy who resorts to petty tricks, able to kill one or two with a sneak attack, that’s all."

"At first, I thought he hadn’t used some special technique and it might be troublesome so we should be cautious. Now it seems like we overestimated him. He fled to this lake, perhaps wanting to use the water as cover, fighting like a cornered beast, aiming to kill a few more. If that’s the case, it ends here!"

"Next, there’s no rush to flush him out of the water. Let’s first seal off the entire lake surface, leaving him no chance or loopholes to break through! Then..."

Turning around, Tu Ke looked at one of his subordinates and instructed, "Folin, contact Deep Blue Castle and see if they can send a few more groups over. I want to make the guy in this lake suffer today, let him despair!"

"Yes."

Folin listened, didn’t hesitate, and swiftly went to carry out the orders.

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