Chapter 1633: Charge Out

Boom boom!! Boom!!! Boom! 「

In the cramped space, Lin An strained to attack the spatial turbulence around him.

Wave after wave of the reflected attack surged back like missiles exploding in this narrow space.

The space trembled and shook.

Clearly each attack could distort the space ahead.

But no matter how hard Lin An tried, no matter which angle he charged from,

The spatial turbulence enveloping him seemed to cut off reality, firmly trapping him in place.

A space fragment under ten square meters was like a glass bottle a child had placed over a worm.

He could clearly see the outside, yet he could not break out.

Damn it...!

Forcing down the blood spat out by the rebound force, Lin An stared fixedly at the space before him, constantly shifting like interlocking blades.

Everything happened too suddenly.

He didn't even know what this thing was!

"It can't be a barrier set by the system..."

"If it were, it would have appeared long ago, and besides, the mission hasn't even started yet."

He struggled to stay calm.

After realizing that whatever trapped him could not be broken by ordinary means, Lin An could only desperately think of a way to break free.

Scenes and memories flashed through his mind rapidly.

After a fraction of a second, as he strained to recall the anomaly before his confinement, Lin An quickly found the answer.

"Spatial fragments... fluctuations... I was attacked..."

"It's those people!!"

"... It's that worm-like man!"

His pupils contracted sharply.

In Lin An's mind instantly appeared the image of a Fifth Stage Insect Jaw Clan member looking at him.

If someone had acted against him, it could only have been the last group that appeared before him!

He clearly remembered that those people had glanced at him for a moment.

"No, perhaps it wasn't an attack... but just tossing some rule over."

Gripping his twin swords, Lin An saw before him flash the face of that man whose lower jaw resembled an insect's mouthparts.

He seemed to see a hint of contempt and mockery in the other's eyes.

While desperately rushing, he simply couldn't afford to pay attention to these Fifth Stage beings.

In fact, he had no way to dodge them.

He had thought the opponent, like those earlier Fifth Stage beings, would ignore him entirely—if noticed, just glance and walk away.

But now, thinking about it...

「We can't attack each other yet. 」

"So... so that person was like seeing a worm by the roadside and casually tossing some trash to trap me?"

Lin An was certain he and the other party didn't know each other, let alone have any grudge.

Then the simplest, and also most ridiculous, reason is...

That Fifth Stage being acted against him purely to toy with him, like a deity stepping on an ant.

To a Fifth Stage, such an "attack" isn't even a bother, but for Lin An it amounts to a dead end!

The gap in power...

What does destroying you have to do with you?

Lin An lowered his head, a flash of killing intent and unwillingness crossing his eyes.

Although he clearly knew he was being ignored, and even being casually pinched to death would be normal, this feeling of helplessness and humiliation he would not endure forever.

A difference of one First Level is like a heavenly chasm!

Above is god, below is ant.

"A difference of one First Level... Fifth Stage!"

Suppressing his useless emotions, Lin An merely etched that opponent's image deep into his mind.

Resentment, anger are meaningless.

What he needs to do now is figure out how to get out!

Watching the system countdown show less than thirteen minutes left, Lin An took a deep breath and simply tried again.

"Spatial turbulence, fragments..."

"In theory one could counter with rules! But I have no spatial-type rules..."

"So..."

Void Walk!

Forced to use his few displacement skills, Lin An risked being swept into the turbulence, instantly tearing a narrow rift before him and attempting to charge into another dimension to bypass this obstacle.

However, the moment he charged into the rift, a sudden surge of chaotic spatial fluctuation bounced him right out.

It was like opening a door in a wall, only to find behind his door the same impenetrable wall.

"Bang!!"

Thrown back by the instantaneous rebound, Lin An's heart sank; he felt as if his whole body were being sliced by knives, injured by the spatial turbulence.

Although his wounds healed rapidly, this also meant Void Walk simply couldn't penetrate.

Since void walking doesn't work..

Blink!?

Hum

Domain expansion.

With the effect of the Death God set activated, Lin An directly locked onto external coordinates and activated Blink.

Only a white light flashed, and the Blink ability that was instantly activated carried him in a jump, but the next second it turned into a Blink in place.

"This is..!?"

Seeing himself still trapped in the fragments, the outside land was right before his eyes.

Lin An's heart sank, and he could only activate it again continuously.

However, accompanied by bursts of white light flashing.

One second later, Lin An grimly discovered that no matter how he Blinked, he ultimately only teleported in place within this narrow range!

It seemed as if this space he was in had no other coordinates! The external coordinates he locked onto were completely invalid!

"Void walking doesn't work, Blink doesn't work.."

"What else can I do?"

Under ultra-effective thinking, he discarded all negative emotions.

Although all skills had failed, Lin An could not possibly give up.

Just..

While straining to think of what other abilities he had, Lin An discovered that theoretically he still had one ability to break the lock, but it was also useless.

Judgment space.

Theoretically, as long as there is a living being nearby, he can forcibly pull that being and himself into the space to accomplish displacement.

But the problem is, who is near him?

Even if there is, it's Fifth Stage!

At the moment of being pulled into the space, he would likely suffer a backlash from the Fifth Stage's power, sustaining severe injuries instantly!

"Skills are useless, can't even rush out.."

"What about the rules?"

Time trickled away.

In the space fragments, Lin An only felt like a trapped beast, everything seemed so desperate.

Especially, he simply had no time to waste!

This prison, as if mocking the Death God, tightly trapped him!

"If he still can't get out within seventeen seconds..."

"If he dies here..."

A fierce gleam flashed in Lin An's eyes.

Just a piece of space fragment!

If he can't even overcome this little obstacle, then he deserves to die!

Since rules and skills are useless, just cut it open!

If he can't cut it open, it's just that he didn't go all out; he's just "afraid" of getting hurt!

"How could I possibly be trapped to death here!?"

"Boom!!"

In an instant, Lin An simply erupted with all his power, and all the electromagnetic rules erupted along with it.

Originally a normal-human-sized body, in the cramped space fragment it swelled wildly.

He had previously attacked the fragments, but never used rule amplification.

Using too much power in this space is akin to detonating a nuclear bomb at close range; the uncontainable blast shockwave would also tear him apart!

But, there was no other way.

With the points rapidly depleting, Lin An roared and simply exchanged for an invincible state!

Accompanied by a layer of milky white light enveloping his whole body, Lin An's arm muscles swelled as if a hundredfold, and a large amount of violent electromagnetic rules suddenly bolstered his dual swords.

At this moment, Lin An, trapped in the space fragments, was like uncontainable lightning, erupting wildly.

"Break it for me!"

"Boom!!!"

The superimposed dual-rule azure sword light, under a power boost of up to a thousand points, instantly slashed at the prison.

In an instant, where the sword edges converged, like a supernova explosion, it burst forth with extreme light.

A massive energy attack focused at one point, and the ensuing blast instantly silenced everything.

Zero point zero one seconds later, a crisp glass-shattering sound rang out, a crack.

"Bang..!"

With the prison formed from these space fragments completely shattered, Lin An, his whole body wrapped in milky white light, instantly shot out.