Chapter 1740: On the Eve of the Downfall 12

e "Beep, do you want to spend 300 Apocalypse Points to exchange for a Star-Destroying Level Prop, 【Corpse Guard】?"

"Confirmed."

Inside the quiet exchange point, Lin An casually threw a ball of flame, burning the flesh under his feet to ashes.

Accompanied by the crackling sound of melting flesh, a sweet, even somewhat cloying bloody smell suddenly rushed into his nostrils.

Already accustomed to the taste of death, Lin An expressionlessly waved his hand, focusing more on the green stone tablet he had exchanged in his hand.

To be precise, this is a door without a handle.

"Silent guard..."

He felt a slight pang of pain as his points suddenly dropped by more than half, and Lin An instinctively reached out his right hand to touch the bones on the door.

Cold, warm.

Two completely opposite sensations actually arose simultaneously the moment he touched the stone door.

Just like this stone door capable of blocking a Star-Shattering Level attack, its structure is cold bones and stone, but inside lies a heart-warming power.

Such a peculiar, even somewhat twisted trait inevitably made Lin An think of something.

"Hard as cold ice on the outside, warm within—is this the guard of obsession?"

"I don't even know what the story behind this prop is..."

Watching the stone door floating before him, controlled by mental power, Lin An nodded, intending to test it first.

He had actually hesitated for a long time before exchanging the stone door at this point; after all, under normal logic, his points should first be used to strengthen combat power, and only then exchange this prop.

But for some reason, Lin An always felt something was off; he always felt that something exceeded his calculations.

Out of caution, he still decided to exchange the stone door now.

If an unforeseen accident were to occur, that brief exchange time would very likely become the last straw that breaks him!

A few seconds later.

After placing the stone door at the entrance of the exchange point, Lin An waited silently.

He needed to test how long it took to embed the stone door, and needed to test whether this Star-Destroying Level Prop was really as strong as described!

A prop worth three hundred points that only provides fixed defense—if it doesn't have the effect he planned, then Lin An would have to immediately change all his plans!

"One second or two?"

"If the fusion takes more than one second, then I can only place this prop in advance at the exchange point..."

He felt a little nervous.

Under Lin An's gaze, as the stone door aligned perfectly with the exchange point entrance, a strange ripple suddenly burst forth in an instant.

It was as if growing.

In Lin An's eyes, the bone corpses on the stone door seemed to come alive, suddenly lunging forward, then the limbs locked inside the door instantly stretched out in four directions.

"Shke!!"

A hoarse sound, like a death‑rattle roar, rang out.

Before Lin An could even blink, the stone door that had merely been embedded in the exchange point wall suddenly melted and expanded.

It seemed to have grown two inches; at a glance, the stone door had fused completely with the exchange point wall, leaving no visible seam.

At the same time, a faint sense of safety spontaneously rose in Lin An's heart.

It was as if he was very safe at this moment!

"So fast!"

Coming to his senses, Lin An's face instantly flashed with joy.

He had prepared himself for the stone door's fusion to be slow, after all, its price wasn't high for its effect.

Having flaws was almost inevitable.

But looking at it now, this door that can only block from one direction and cannot move after melting, its drawbacks are really just that.

"That's right—this thing is already heavily limited; if it had a bunch of flaws, it would really be undeserving of these points."

No longer thinking, after Lin An breathed a sigh of relief, a flash of white light appeared in his hand and a dark‑red Cain's Blade materialized.

"Hum!"

"Omniscient Domain!"

"Forward Thrust!"

"Rule Empowerment!"

Unadorned.

Directly using the Omniscient Domain to find a spatial rift, Lin An unhesitatingly unleashed his strongest regular combat power and suddenly struck out with a sword!

This sword might not match Star‑Destroying power, but shattering a War Star is no problem!

As long as he based it on the stone door feedback from the Omniscient Domain, he could estimate how much time this door could buy him!

"Boom!!"

Gear formation occurred instantly.

Accompanied by the blinding light of a nuclear‑like explosion spreading from a point to a surface, the spatial rift that instantly appeared and vanished between the stone door and the sword tip, as if swallowed by the door, was forcibly absorbed.

"Bang!!"

A huge force exploded; the recoil knocked Lin An back two steps, and in his astonished gaze the stone door seemed to grow a mouth, taking no damage and even strangely devouring the remaining shockwave in reverse.

"Such strong defense!"

He felt even happier inside.

Sheathing his sword and walking toward the stone door, Lin An curiously touched its smooth surface, unable to help but marvel.

It looked unremarkable, but at the instant of the attack's explosion he felt a surge like a rule, like a meme, being evoked from within the door.

This door's inherent material resisted the physical attack, while the spatial damage and electromagnetic rule he slashed out were devoured by the power inside the door.

With his all-out strike, let alone any damage to this door.

Lin An even wondered whether, if someone had been standing on the other side of the door just now, they wouldn't have heard a sound.

And in the information provided by the Omniscience Domain, the number representing this door's durability only twitched slightly.

It's obvious that attacks below Star-Destroying Level cannot possibly cause any damage to this door!

"At least it can withstand hundreds of Star-Destroying Level attacks!"

"Not only that, I seem to be able to reverse-charge this door?"

His eyes flickered.

In the final second of shutting down the Omniscience Domain, Lin An suddenly saw a white strip-like object appear in his vision on the door's information.

Moreover, under the effect of a slight forced cognition, he vaguely saw countless phantoms silently roaring behind the door; then, as these phantoms emitted some light, the door also grew larger.

How quick his reaction was; from this afterimage-like scene, Lin An instantly realized this was a scene of the door having been used before.

"Does charging increase defense?"

"If we calculate like that, even at the final moment, even if I'm surrounded and killed by all Star-Destroying Level attacks, I could still hold on for about ten seconds!"

"This time..."

Lin An's eyes turned cold, and he subconsciously looked up at the top of the exchange point above his head.

But his gaze seemed able to penetrate this impenetrable system wall, seeing the constantly moving Black Lock.

At the moment when heaven and earth collapsed.

This door is his last trump card!