Mini World Game Console-Chapter 763 - 764: Overwhelming!
The North Greenwich Arena fell silent.
Door of Truth.
Gatekeeper.
In the Global International Conference on Transcendental Science, before dozens of Fourth-tier Transcendents, just as everyone was about to connect through combat... he appeared?
Inch by inch, ice blossoms burst forth, spreading from the Gatekeeper's feet towards the Door of Truth, swiftly transforming it into a bizarre ice monument. The surface of the ice was like transparent glass, clearly revealing the seven lit, circular flames of the Door of Truth, with not a wisp of white vapor rising.
Although the temperature in London was very low, and Yu Kuangtu had to constantly rely on awakened spells to keep warm, it hadn't reached the point where ice couldn't liquefy.
After staring blankly at the Gatekeeper for ten seconds, Wizard Council Chairman Tisrael finally broke the silence. "We are now in global broadcast time," he announced. "According to previous incidents, the arrival time of the Door of Truth and the Gatekeeper is between approximately eight to sixteen minutes."
He stated only these two points, and then everyone sprang into action.
Yu Kuangtu had always been curious about what Seekers truly were. The first battle with the Earth Spirit was one thing, but during the second battle against the Six Hunters and the third with the Federal Armed Forces, there were clearly many ordinary people around. Yet, the true Seekers—those recognized by the Door of Truth and the Gatekeeper—were still only a few powerful Transcendents.
From videos, the miraculous nature of the Door of Truth was indiscernible. To Yu Kuangtu, it was just a gate filled with fantastical elements. Religious Scholars and Mystic Scholars on the internet had wasted countless gigabytes of data arguing over the style and patterns of this door.
Only upon seeing the Door of Truth with his own eyes did Yu Kuangtu understand why it was always powerful Transcendents who became Seekers.
It was the All, and it was the One. It was that which good pursues, and that which evil reveres. It was the aspiration of light, the yearning of darkness. It was an existence transcending all, the color with which God imbued all things.
Yu Kuangtu's Qi Cyclone was spinning wildly. He felt that the Spiritual Energy of this world was no longer the disorganized and inactive mob he had previously sensed; instead, it was a great current formed of countless rivulets of Spiritual Energy, with Destiny hidden within its mystery, proclaiming the future in its flow.
His perceived strength, his perceived flame—in this vast cosmos, they were but a drop in the ocean, utterly insignificant.
Newly ascended to the fourth transformation, he had felt invincible in the world. Upon witnessing Truth, he found it hard to take even a single step.
Yu Kuangtu suddenly realized a grand yet minute fact: his body was constantly being washed by infinite Spiritual Energy, each atom within him stemming from an exploded star.
The atoms forming his left hand might have come from different stars than those forming your right. The Spiritual Energy flowing through his left eye might have originated from a different spell than that passing through his right.
We are all stardust; we are all spells.
In the end, when all thoughts settled, when all knowledge sublimated, Yu Kuangtu was left with a single, fervent thought—
To hear the Way in the morning, to die content in the evening.
The combatants who had just been driven back by the Gatekeeper's storm charged back into the fray!
The cultivators from various countries, who had no prior communication, now naturally coordinated: eight intercepted the Gatekeeper, while seven worked to shatter the ice encasing the Door of Truth!
"Let's dance," the Gatekeeper said, unperturbed as he stood atop the Door of Truth to meet the encirclement of eight Fourth-Stage Cultivators.
"I understand your desires."
The Bead Rotation Matrix simultaneously triggered five Earth Pearls. The Gatekeeper's 'Armor' stacked three layers, while concurrently activating the Five Earth Pearls spell, 'Blade Armor,' reflecting all ranged attacks!
"The human heart cannot be tested," the Gatekeeper stated, "for the moment you seek to test it, you have already begun to doubt it."
The Gatekeeper clasped his hand around the lightning-fast right hand of a European Transcendent, who was charging towards him like Sprinting Thunder. In the Transcendent's horror and bewilderment, his own right hand burst into a fierce gale, smashing him straight back into an African Transcendent.
"An incurable illness is not an illness; it is fate," the Gatekeeper remarked. He slightly sidestepped, avoiding the Soul Hall Warrior's fierce slash, then crashed into the warrior's embrace and, with a kick, sent him flying. The warrior collided perfectly with a wizard preparing the Five Fireball Spell in mid-air!
"In the mortal realm, aside from matters of life and death, all else is trivial," the Gatekeeper declared. His form turned elusive, avoiding an assailant who leaped out of the shadows, and with a counter-punch, he sent the attacker tumbling down!
In the blink of an eye, the Gatekeeper had dealt with all the assailants!
Meanwhile, the Transcendents trying various methods to break through the ice layer outside the Door of Truth were making no headway. Corrosion, fiery flames, impact... They had tried all sorts of spells, but the ice layer covering the Door of Truth was not only hard but also recovered with extreme speed. As soon as they managed to create even a small crack, the ice would instantly reform.
They naturally turned their gaze to the Gatekeeper, who was positioned on the Door of Truth itself.
At this moment, Tisrael suddenly said, "Mr. Gatekeeper has been continuously casting Ice System Spells to reinforce the ice layer on the Door of Truth. Unless you first defeat the Gatekeeper, or compel him to leave the Door of Truth, you will not be able to break through this protective ice."
The Gatekeeper looked toward Tisrael on the dais and said with a smile, "Chairman, you have sharp eyes."
"It's just a trivial observation," Tisrael said modestly.
The Gatekeeper advised, "Chairman, in the future, when you feel sorrow, just imagine yourself as someone else."
Tisrael's usually composed and sagacious expression finally changed as he looked at the Transcendents who had been flung away by the Gatekeeper. After a few words from the Gatekeeper, nearly all of these proud Transcendents seemed utterly despondent.
Tisrael let out a light sigh. "Indeed, the Door of Truth knows much."
"Everything is arranged by the Door of Truth," the Gatekeeper said lightly.
The Gatekeeper looked around, eyeing the strongest Transcendents from various nations, and said with a smile, "Aren't you going to attack together? Time is running out, you know?"
"You've been goading us to attack you all along," Angel Zack, Immovable as a Mountain, said from his seat. His scar-covered face was filled with suspicion. "A chaotic melee would be more to your advantage, wouldn't it? We would be concerned for the safety of other cultivators, allowing you to freely use them as human shields."
The Gatekeeper just smiled and said nothing.
Meanwhile, Karen went to lie in her sister Euphy's arms behind the dais.
Euphy, who had been intensely focused on the Door of Truth, trying to grasp its secrets, suddenly snapped back to her senses.
Holding Karen, Euphy breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the Door of Truth and the Gatekeeper, a sliver of lingering fear touched her heart.
She had been silently drawn to the power of the Door of Truth. If Karen hadn't been there, she definitely would have been unable to resist joining the battle.
"Karen, Karen," Euphy whispered, "what are you thinking now?"
Karen blinked her large eyes, tilted her head, and uttered something Euphy couldn't understand, "Not every empty fortress is a ruse."
Meanwhile, after consulting with the other Watchers, Angel Zack announced loudly, "To avoid being exploited by the Gatekeeper, each of the Six Great Supernatural Organizations will dispatch two members to fight. We must ascertain the Gatekeeper's current combat power as quickly as possible!"
Angel Zack did want to rush over and give the Gatekeeper a thorough beating, to wash away the shame of being defeated twice by these transcendent beings and the humiliation of the Federal Armed Forces being suppressed by the Gatekeeper alone.
But the Watchers had stopped him—after all, battle was fundamentally an exchange of intelligence. To avoid any mishaps, it was safest to first send people to probe the Gatekeeper's specific combat power.
After all, the Gatekeeper was backed by the Door of Truth. He might possess an easy method to subdue or even control an Angel. If so, Angel Zack would face humiliation for a third time...
Five seconds later, twelve individuals landed on the surface of the Door of Truth. Because the Gatekeeper had thickened the Door's icy covering, the twelve of them barely found enough space to stand.
"Do you also wish to dance?" the Gatekeeper asked with a smile.
The two Fourth-Stage Cultivators from "Iron Sun," Dai Ze and Hasuka, attacked first!
The flames on Hasuka's mask seemed to engulf his entire body. With a loud laugh, he stabbed his own heart with a dagger. The gushing boiling blood formed a flaming spear on the blade and ignited an endless torrent of blood-flames all over him. His towering figure suddenly hunched over, resembling a hungry wolf as he charged at the Gatekeeper!
Dai Ze raised his crystal skull magic wand, and shadow radiance wove around Hasuka as a black light descended from the sky, converging on him!
"Boiling Blood Frenzy!" All of Hasuka's blood was now fused with seething Spiritual Energy. The more boiling blood he lost, the more Spiritual Energy would infuse his body, continuously increasing all his resistances and his Combat Speed! The outflowing boiling blood would become spears to pierce his enemies, even capable of igniting their flesh and blood!
"Shadow Weave!" Dai Ze transformed the power of shadow into a black light that constantly shielded Hasuka's vital points and enhanced his recovery. Even if Hasuka lost all his blood, he would not fall!
Hasuka roared furiously, hurling the boiling blood spears one after another at the Gatekeeper, as if intending to pin him to the ground!
The Gatekeeper chuckled. "Ten years of drinking ice can't cool a fervent heart... or can it?" He raised a hand, and an Ice Wall rose abruptly from the ground, blocking all of Hasuka's boiling blood spears!
But the next second, Hasuka smashed directly through the Ice Wall, his body boiling with blood-flames, and thrust his dagger towards the Gatekeeper's chest!
"Blood Assault!"
Simultaneously, the Watchers Tulius and Ufrek, positioned on either side of the Gatekeeper, opened their mouths and emitted a massive roar, the sound waves themselves sweeping toward the Gatekeeper!
"Dragon Roar!"
Two Fourth-Tier Wizards from the Wizard Council had finished their incantations. Two huge bolts of yellow lightning erupted from the tips of their magic wands, shattering all the lights in the arena. It seemed as if only the spell's lightning, the red glow of heated blood, and the resounding Dragon Roar remained between heaven and earth!
"Thunder Spear!"
In that instant, the Gatekeeper was assailed by Transcendents from three directions—front, back, and flanks—surrounded on all sides!
BOOM!
With the tremendous roar, all spectators eagerly stood up, desperate to see the state of the battle.
However, the crisscrossing sounds of numerous Spiritual Energies and an array of bizarre, multicolored lights polluted the entire arena space. Tisrael raised his magic wand and chanted a phrase; a huge sphere of light emerged from its tip, illuminating the entire area.
As the warm light of the sphere spread, the onlookers' expressions slowly turned to astonishment.
"How is this possible..."
On the gate of the Door of Truth, the Gatekeeper held Hasuka by the collar with one hand, his feet stepping on the back of a Fourth-Tier Wizard. Tulius, Ufrek, and Dai Ze had been directly knocked out and thrown onto the arena floor, unconscious!
In the mere few seconds while the lights were out, the Gatekeeper had utterly crushed the six who had attacked him!
And he himself was completely unharmed!
Many faces in the crowd changed dramatically; even Angel Zack showed a look of astonishment. Although the Gatekeeper had previously suppressed the Seekers in the first three challenges with ease, their numbers had been small, and the Gatekeeper had merely managed them, not displaying overly terrifying strength.
However, "managing to suppress" and "instantly defeating" were two entirely different concepts!
To this day, no one had managed to push the Gatekeeper to his limits!
Just how strong is he!?
"It's Space Spells."
Tisrael suddenly stated, "Just now, space fluctuated. The Gatekeeper teleported multiple times in the darkness to instantly defeat those six."
Spatial Teleportation!?
Everyone considered it highly probable. At the same time, many also secretly noted the information Tisrael had revealed—only a Transcendent capable of using Space Spells could detect such teleports.
The Gatekeeper nodded in appreciation, threw aside Hasuka whom he was holding, and lightly lifted his foot. In the next instant, he moved above two warriors of Winter Castle!
Elegant, instantaneous, Unpredictable as Shade!
"Dong Chengling's Spatial Walking Technique."
However, the two warriors of Winter Castle also reacted with extreme speed!
"Earthshaker" Rigg directly slammed both fists onto the ice surface. A violent tremor spread through the entire space, momentarily stalling even the Gatekeeper! He then raised the massive totem from his back, causing the entire space to shudder!
"Echo!" Every move Rigg made could create Spiritual Energy echoes, affecting everything in the world, making the earth resonate and space itself tear!
"Thunder Bear" Ursa let out a furious roar, his claws crackling with lightning, and tore through the Gatekeeper's Spiritual Energy Barrier with lightning speed!
"Thunder Claw!" Tearing all things asunder, swift as Sprinting Thunder!
Behind the Gatekeeper, "Gun Supreme" Sakura Kyoko wielded a long spear that tore through the air, Spiritual Energy coalescing into a golden-winged giant bird that swept through the space!
"Fantasy Martial Skill: Golden-Winged Bird King of Hazy Moon!"
Suddenly, black dust rained down from above. Just as the Gatekeeper noticed, a Wild Tachi slashed down from within the dust. The black dust instantly exploded into a shower of thundering sparks, obscuring all vision! Within the sparks, the blade's shadow multiplied into thirty-six slashes, assailing him from all directions like a torrential downpour!
"Sword Ninja" Ukon Hasei's "Fireworks Technique" and "Flying Whirlwind Clouds!"
The close-combat experts from Martial Soul Hall and Winter Castle, in their first cooperation, had formed a killing strike!
They naturally understood how powerful Space Spells were. Thus, they knew that while Spatial Movement offered momentary invincibility, it was not without counters!
Spatial Movement requires a clear line of sight to jump and stable Spiritual Energy to execute! Now, with agitated Spiritual Energy, obscured vision, and even the space itself disrupted, Gatekeeper, how will you dodge!?
How will you dodge!?
I won't.
"Mere grains of sand," the Gatekeeper's calm voice echoed throughout the arena. Simultaneously, an endless vortex of storms erupted!
"They don't compare to even a fraction of me."
In an instant, sixty-four roaring vortexes of dark lightning shattered all the besiegers' attacks. Simultaneously, thirty-two Ice Dragons erupted from the Door of Truth's icy facade, their overwhelming numbers unstoppable as they blasted all combatants onto the spectator stands!
"How is this possible!?" This time, even Tisrael was shocked.
What terrifying spells! What a terrifying number of spells! How could the Gatekeeper cast so many spells in an instant!?
"Lin Xianyu's Storm Law!"
"Ren Xingmei's Time Rule!"
"Bai Ji's Crystal Love!"
Within a mere minute, the Gatekeeper had effortlessly defeated ten of the twelve individuals from the six factions who had joined the siege!
Only...
The Gatekeeper turned his head, looking at Yu Kuangtu, who sat cross-legged on the ice, hands clasped, his body engulfed in flames, his hair almost entirely transformed into fire.
Chen Liao, standing guard before Yu Kuangtu with dual swords, noticed the Gatekeeper's gaze and smiled. "With your strength, Gatekeeper, surely you wouldn't mind my companion taking a little longer to charge his ultimate spell?"
"No," the Gatekeeper shook his head and said, "He is the most dangerous one."
Hm?
To be assessed by the Gatekeeper as 'the most dangerous' one?
Angel Zack, who was about to make a move, glanced at You Jiu in the distance and saw that You Jiu remained Immovable as a Mountain.
Could this Transcendent from the Mysterious Country truly have a chance to defeat the Gatekeeper?
Thinking this, Angel Zack suppressed his impulse, and the others did likewise. Since the Gatekeeper regarded this Transcendent from the Mysterious Country with such importance, they would wait for an opening to appear in their fight before intervening.
"Such a pity," Chen Liao said, taking out a talisman from his breast pocket. "If you, Gatekeeper, had demonstrated your teleportation ability earlier, I would have given this to them then... You truly are cunning. But it's not too late now."
The talisman ignited without a flame, turning into ash that scattered over Chen Liao and Yu Kuangtu.
"This is a Space Restriction Talisman produced by the Great Wall. Although it only lasts for a short period, and I initially thought we wouldn't have a chance to use it, it now seems everyone should have been equipped with one."
The Gatekeeper hummed. "Interesting. However, I merely cannot Teleport *inside* that area. I can still walk over, or blast this Fire Man away with spells from a distance."
Chen Liao shrugged, holding an alloy longsword in each hand, his arms extended to form a 'cross' shape on the icy surface of the Door of Truth.
"Perfect." Chen Liao noted that his sword's length was just enough to reach the edge of the ice layer. "This is the range I excel at."
"Gatekeeper, like you, I am also a Guardian," Chen Liao stated. "Gatekeeper, since you know so many secrets, you must also be aware of Taoist You Jiu of our Great Wall's 2,500 miles of mountains and rivers, correct?"
"Of course."
"Then do you know who I am?"
"You are Chen Liao, the Great Wall's new Measuring Ruler. Your duties include being You Jiu's secretary, nanny, and..." the Gatekeeper said flatly, "...Guardian."
WOW!
Everyone stared at Chen Liao and You Jiu in shock. Taoist You Jiu, a man who dared to pierce the heavens and even tread upon the Fairy Palace, actually had a Guardian? Wasn't he the one who protected others?
Chen Liao grinned. "You really do know a lot. I'm flattered by the leadership's misplaced esteem, but frankly, my strength is no match for Mr. You Jiu. More often, it is he who protects me."
"My spells are unrefined, and my Cultivation is not strong. As his Guardian, I am truly unworthy of the title."
"The only strength I have to offer is..."
Chen Liao executed a dazzling and intricate flurry of sword movements, then smiled.
"No one has ever breached my Sword Enclosure. Not even Master You Jiu. Can you?"
