Chapter 1655: Unexpected!

Dense system prompts accompanied a curtain of light, unfolding like a water curtain before Lin An's eyes.

Merely looking at the newly appeared interface and kill rewards, Lin An felt no excitement at all, only extreme fatigue and urgency.

He simply didn't have time to check it!

"Exchange for recovery!"

He directly closed the rewards.

After a low shout,

Lin An stood in the near‑collapsing Judgment Space, gasping heavily.

The vivid blood‑red hue and the "shattered" rule‑flames seemed to ignite the darkness.

Seeing the Flame Ghost's body torn apart, Lin An strained to rise and swung his sword again.

The sword light flashed, accompanied by a dull thud of flesh being cut; in the blink of an eye he lifted that unwilling head in his hand.

No time to feel excited, no time to rest, and certainly no time to think of anything else!

Sensing the violent surges beginning outside the Judgment Space, a fierce glint flashed in Lin An's eyes.

He knew—those Fifth Stage beings were sensing his position!

He must not reveal any weakness…!

The crisis is far from over!

Although the battle was fast enough, he also managed to kill a Fifth Stage!

Without exaggeration, with Fourth‑Stage strength he instantly killed a Fifth Stage—such a terrifying record, if made public, might shock everyone!

But at this moment…

Meaningless!

In fact, Lin An clearly realizes he has wasted too much time!

He really found it exhausting to kill!

Those outside probably suspect him even more now!

"Five more…"

"One second left!"

"I found the reason for the disappearance!"

"It's an Independent Space! The Flame Ghost was dragged into a spatial interlayer!"

"No! This method is too low‑level!"

"The Flame Ghost didn't die instantly! Can that Shatter‑Star not deal with him?!"

In that brief instant, the remaining Fifth Stage Awakened Ones who had charged into the fortress together were exchanging information at breakneck speed.

As time had already passed 'too long', even those who feared the Shatter‑Star realized the situation was becoming increasingly wrong.

Especially when they simultaneously sensed the location of the Judgment Space, everyone's doubts surged even more!

Lin An's displayed combat power so far has been too ordinary!

So ordinary that there's no sign he's a true Shatter‑Star!

As for this, if they could still use Shatter‑Star experts who deem it beneath them to swat mosquitoes with cannons, too lazy to exert any power to crush them.

But how could dragging people into a spatial interlayer be happening?!

Temporarily opening a special space, dragging them in then killing the enemy!

It might sound advanced, but for us Fifth Stages, this is literally a tactic only a Fourth Stage would use!

Too low‑level! Really too low‑level!

Compared to the spatial rules mastered by Fifth Stages, a temporarily opened spatial interlayer is extremely fragile! It can easily be torn apart, and if destroyed it may even backfire on the caster!

If those earlier Fourth Stages died this way, it shows this 'Shatter‑Star' has weakened to the point of having to personally fight Fourth Stages!

"There's a problem!"

In unison.

Their thought reactions were incredibly fast.

Several of them felt a surge of excitement and shock, their earlier timidity instantly swept away.

What they need to do now is to strike directly as soon as Lin An appears!

With the same idea in mind, the five who had been loosely huddled together instantly rushed toward the direction of the abnormal fluctuation, and moreover subconsciously kept distance from each other.

Although, for now we still can't be certain what's going on with this Shatter‑Star…

But…

If they could kill him… the reward would even be enough to change the fate of their world!

Meanwhile.

"Hum!"

Just as the five were about to violently break open the spatial interlayer to find Lin An, who was battling the Flame Ghost…

In an instant, Lin An walked straight out of the void.

Everyone instinctively gasped.

Their charging figures stalled abruptly.

"Dida ditda"

Only see not far from them, scalding hot blood flowed like flame across the ground, scorching the air into twisting distortion.

Lin An, his whole body wrapped in surging deathly power, casually held the Flame Ghost's terrified head, calmly looking at them.

Facing the five's unhidden murderous intent, Lin An at this moment seemed to stroll leisurely, his aura as still as a dead sea.

Beneath the mask, those eyes tinged slightly with blood‑red showed no emotion at all.

It was as if they looked at them as if looking at corpses.

You guys...

Looking for death?

A low laugh laced with cold.

Seeing the Flame Ghost skull in Lin An's hand, the five people's hearts leapt.

Dead!?

Although it was to be expected, the Flame Ghost should have died even faster!

But upon suddenly seeing a corpse of the same rank, the five still instinctively stepped back.

Not engaged in combat?

Although the killing wasn't fast enough, it also lacked the terror that a Star-Shattering Level should have.

But the Flame Ghost is, after all, a Fifth Stage, equal in strength to them!

Under the instinctive fear of death, several people suddenly realized that even if Lin An wasn't a Star-Shattering Level, he still had the power to kill them!

What to do!?

The atmosphere suddenly solidified.

But it didn't last long.

Within a fraction of a second, the fastest War Star Level first froze, then actually charged toward Lin An again.

"We're not dead!"

"Don't be fooled by him!"

"Absolute Freeze!"

"Boom!!"

"Utterly resolute!"

"Fear is fear! Not daring to confirm is not daring to confirm!"

Faced with unimaginable rewards, the dark-energy Fifth Stage, whose whole body was like icy mist, still chose to act.

"I don't believe you're a Star-Shattering Level!"

"All together, attack!!"

The instantly erupted Zero-degree Rule seemed about to freeze the entire fortress; the world at this moment seemed to lose its color.

Only seen were blossoms of brilliant, exploding ice flowers, like blooming death, suddenly enveloping Lin An.

At the same time, the remaining four, after snapping back to their senses, hesitantly decided to follow suit.

Don't believe it?

That's right, even if Lin An killed the Flame Ghost, it doesn't mean anything.

All of this is too slow, and moreover they aren't dead!

That guy looks fearsome, seems mysteriously unfathomable, and pays them no heed at all.

But facing their provocation, these ants, as long as they remain alive, that is the biggest problem!

Rules erupted one after another.

They could hardly endure the impact of the rules.

Beneath the mask, Lin An gave a wry smile, knowing that relying on acting alone could no longer deceive these Fifth Stages.

In the end, they still had to fight to the death.

At the heart, the conversion core and Causal Sequence pulsed with each heartbeat.

Clutching the final trump card, Lin An didn't know whether, after using it, he could survive at all.

Even if he survived, how could he face the siege of thousands of Fifth Stages, and even all Star-Destroying Levels, after fully revealing his strength?

"It's really come to this..."

"Is this a dead end..."

He slowly closed his eyes.

Without hesitation, at the moment his flesh was about to be torn apart by the rules, Lin An instantly projected his consciousness into the Causal Sequence.

If he must die, then he will fight until the very last second!

"Hum"

Fragments drifted out, instantly drilling into the brain.

Feeling that power, which seemed to still carry that corpse and also the will of Long An, an aberrant power, Lin An's heart filled with resolve.

"Come on!"

"Causal Reversal..."

"Aberrant...!!"

"Boom!!"

"Esteemed Star-Shatterer, we have no intention of being your enemy!!"

"Please accept... our gift."

"Attack! Kill the others!"