Player Reload-Chapter 638 - 554: Bone Powder
"Do you understand what’s meant by delivering a strike across mountains?"
The copper disk has a diameter of two meters, protruding above and below, hollow inside, with a shell made of composite materials. The topmost layer was casually obtained as pipeline material from the [Zero Restart] mission, indestructible.
The middle layer is powdered high-energy, high-sensitivity explosive, while the lower layer and bottom part are entirely copper alloy, with the lowest section relatively thin.
The special effect of the [Skull Shattering Power Hammer] is penetrating oscillation. When the copper disk is struck, the oscillating force penetrates through the pipeline material of the killing field, detonating the high-energy explosives, and instantly melting the copper alloy into a high-speed liquid metal.
Due to the pipeline material being indestructible and naturally curved, the metal jet moves along the axis, forming a slender metal rod that shoots out of the gap at speeds exceeding ten thousand meters per second, pouring into the Phase Change Demon’s head.
This is somewhat different from the damage caused by a Light Speed Elbow Strike; the former utilizes the cavitation effect, compressing the space, and adding a secondary damage by igniting high-pressure, high-speed air.
Meanwhile, the metal jet splits and cracks once entering the Phase Change Demon’s body.
The Phase Change Demon’s body trembles as it activates its corrosive power, attempting to assimilate the intruding, cooling, and condensing metal, but the semi-melted copper alloy bubbles with microscopic crystalline particles on its surface, refusing to be absorbed.
[Item Name: Saint Bone Powder]
[Type: Consumable]
[Quality: Fine]
This bone powder was purchased from the slum, originating from a Script World where demons roamed rampant, causing suffering to mortals. Fortunately, some devout and pure religious figures were truly able to cast spells through faith, and the Holy Relics they left behind, or even their relics, could be used as casting materials.
This led exorcists to become a somewhat hereditary profession, before battling demons, picking up their parents’ swords and donning their grandparents’ armor, inhaling the holy ashes with Anti-Demon Attribute from their great-grandparents.
If they died, they too would be burned into ashes, handed to their descendants, or sent to a church—people in prolonged contact with Saint Bone Powder would find their bones sublimating and sanctifying, thus can be reused.
Such things are recorded in the real world as well, where in North America and Southeast Asia, the ashes of dead venomous insects are refined by drug dealers into new illegal drugs, sold to the next batch of drugging insects.
Of course, mere consumables of Fine Quality cannot stop the Phase Change Demon for long. Within a breath, all the Anti-Demon Attribute bone powder was worn down completely.
The Phase Change Demon then fiercely rotates its "head," with several voids, and "looks" at Gray Rain, unleashing a skill.
Invisible power sweeps in like countless nanometer-sized invisible threads, slicing through Gray Rain’s body.
Schlick schlak.
Including the memory sticks and CPU hidden in her hair, Gray Rain was cut into hundreds of segments by horizontal and vertical lines. Luckily, she quickly threw away the Skull Shattering Power Hammer and horizontally placed the glasses-shaped [Silver Wing Light Path] upfront, preventing herself from being severed.
This turned her into hundreds of figurine-sized little Gray Rains scattered all over the place.
Also, because of the Extraordinary Power attached to the skill, the little Gray Rains temporarily couldn’t restore themselves.
But it was enough—she had gained sufficient time.
The rustle of turning pages echoed in the pure white space as the [Disease Unclean Book] with a cover depicting a deer’s skull emblem in Li Cheng’s hand flipped wildly by itself.
[Special Effect 2: Sharing Suffering. Choose a directory, randomly flip to a page under that directory, and spread the disease effect to the designated range and oneself]
Chapter nineteen, External Injuries/Neck Damage/Multiple Fractures in the Neck.
The next second, Li Cheng’s neck suddenly twisted, with bio-neck armor protruding outward, revealing a hideous bulging deformity.
Correspondingly, the Phase Change Demon’s neck also bends significantly, halting the rate of absorbing bubbles abruptly.
Chapter six, Nervous System Diseases/Seizure and Sudden Disorders/Epilepsy
The [Disease Unclean Book] continued to turn, causing both the Phase Change Demon and Li Cheng to tremble and shake.
Sharing Suffering’s specific description is to spread the disease effect to the target range and oneself, with "disease effect" mentioned to include both the disease itself and its symptoms.
The relationship between the Phase Change Demon and carbon-based organisms is akin to Zhenzi and Zhen Zidan, completely unrelated.
Epilepsy cannot affect the Phase Change Demon itself, but the symptoms of epilepsy can.
Li Cheng trembles all over, forcibly separating the abnormal discharging regions in his brain with Assembly Puppet and Insect Transformation Gene, barely reclaiming control over his body,
holding the book with his left hand, while it keeps turning its pages, applying diseases to both the Phase Change Demon and himself at five-second intervals.
His right hand clutches a splendid NFC Card of golden, red, and silver hues, swiping it over the surface of the [Heat Death Corridor].
The surrounding space cracked like tempered glass, breaking faster than it seemed.
A gigantic shadow moving slowly out of the shattered space completely overshadowed the hundred-meter-tall Phase Change Demon. It was the enormous snake head of an Alpha Snake Head constructed of dark silver alloy,
with its surface covered in thick, dense armor scales, and its broken neck sparking. Its snout was lined with jagged hydraulic steel teeth, and its right red optical sensor was defunct, leaving only the left single eye flickering with electricity.
The strongest projection recorded within the Heat Death Corridor, the Alpha Snake Head.
"WTF..."
In the real world on Earth’s Holland, The Hague, in the GOC Headquarters Building’s strategic command hall, numerous personnel from the Global Supernatural Alliance stared dumbfounded at the screen.
The Special Affairs Bureau didn’t provide real-time broadcast to the GOC through the Eyes Communication Headset, but since that communication satellite belonged to the GOC,
they could, through simple black and white caricature form, roughly glimpse the battle scene between the Phase Change Demon and Li Cheng.
"Is that giant snake... a summon of Pifu?"
"Just the head is as large as Godzilla, its main body couldn’t possibly be Jörmungandr from Nordic mythology, could it..."
"No wonder Pifu dared to provoke at the Bell Tower before. If things really went ugly, just this colossal snake head rolling through London could flatten the Financial City."
Whispers filled the strategic command hall; they indeed thought correctly.
Accompanied by ear-splitting metal scraping sounds, the jawbone of the snake mouth was dismantled and expanded, slowly opening up, with a grand pure white plasma stream slowly accumulating power.
The Phase Change Demon struggled fiercely, but was firmly nailed in place by one disease curse after another, and finally...
Boom boom boom boom boom!
The pale beam pierced through the network space, engulfing the Phase Change Demo’s entire body. The star-like dazzling brilliance through the LCD screens in the GOC command hall forced everyone to instinctively close their eyes.
Once the light faded away, they saw the space left only with Pifu and Gray Rain, with no trace of the Phase Change Demon.
Celebrations and jubilations echoed in the command hall. When the killing field first commenced, most who refused high-paying purchases from multinational corporations and decisively joined the GOC held ideals of internationalism.
Resentment towards interdimensional invaders like the Phase Change Demon was naturally strong.
"It’s not over yet."
A cold female voice rang out from a corner, prompting everyone present to turn their heads instinctively, all standing up in astonishment.
It was a figure shrouded entirely in bright silver armor, with a longsword hung at the waist, exuding no extraordinary power fluctuations.
The founder of GOC, who single-handedly interrupted the guilds’ vicious competition and chaos, established order for the slum, and reached the level cap of Lv40 in the killing field’s early days. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
[Saint Hong Michael]
The command hall fell silent; Michael had not appeared in the real world for quite some time, the last contact with GOC executives via friendly communication was half a year ago.
"Your Eminence..."
The GOC executives subconsciously called out this privately-used honorific. They were very aware that without Michael establishing the GOC, the global order would definitely not resemble today’s; it would have long turned into a world where might makes right, mortals like straw dogs, and they held deep-seated respect for her.
Michael gestured to interrupt their greetings, looked upwards, seemingly seeing through the ceiling of the Global Supernatural Alliance building constructed with killing field materials, able to withstand nuclear blasts, to observe the near-Earth orbit.
In the next moment, the silvery white armor vanished on the spot, only the cold voice lingering in the hall,
"The Phase Change Demon still isn’t dead, I’m going for a look."
