Chapter 296: Kara

It is a doll made by Alchemical Art.

The gate opened, revealing no trace of light, like a deep abyss cave, and Hong Shangguangsheng also listened to Jiang Xia's words, retreating behind him.

Jiang Xia closed his eyes, took a breath, and when he opened them again, a roar suddenly echoed in the void.

His purple eyes, expressionless, looked down at the opened gate before him, and the destructive desire power erupted without reservation,

At that moment, even the coin tentacles constantly flying in the air trembled along with it.

That fear etched into their bones made them dare not move any further, realizing that this forbidden power had appeared once again.

Uniform footsteps echoed from within the opened gate, the rhythmic footfalls giving a sense of danger.

Medieval armor covered their entire bodies, they held gleaming silver blades, and their attire was that of warriors.

The power from the Dinosaur Core Coin erupted instantly, the space around Jiang Xia momentarily solidified, the warrior-clad dolls raised the long swords in their hands, and in the next moment they unhesitatingly charged at Jiang Xia in single file.

Jiang Xia alone walked toward the warrior launching the charge, and the next second his body was completely engulfed by purple radiant light.

At the same time it also swallowed those alchemical dolls, the violent roar and indescribably massive volume brought undeniable shock, causing the surroundings to violently shake.

Countless alchemical dolls were directly flung into the air, the immense force leaving them unable to control their bodies, and crackling flames exploded, suddenly igniting on their bodies.

Just as Hong Shangguangsheng thought Jiang Xia would use that terrifying purple combination to cut them down like slicing vegetables, a new scene that shocked him occurred.

Jiang Xia raised his right hand, lightly spread his five fingers, and all the dolls lost their power, floating in the air, while everything around slowed down with the explosion as the center.

The dolls bearing the blast shockwave and the cell coins streaming out of the seal were thus eerily frozen in midair.

"Time stop!" Hong Shangguangsheng clapped excitedly, "What a magnificent sight!"

The intricate pattern of the Dinosaur Conjunction lit up before Jiang Xia and covered his entire body,

White frost suddenly coated the bodies of the dolls floating in the air, and in this domain where time was infinitely stretched, all enemies were merely lambs awaiting slaughter.

Moisture in the air rapidly condensed, forming dazzling ice crystals under the sunlight, which slowly fell and covered the ground.

Here, no one can resist the passage of time.

Kara's Alchemical Art can indeed involve the realm of time under certain conditions, but that is merely using the rule of equivalent exchange.

Before Jiang Xia, who directly commands time, these appear especially laughable.

"Could this also be the power of the purple Core Coin?" Anku, who had rushed over, trembled as he saw the domain already covered in ice and snow.

In the world of stopped time, Jiang Xia gazed at the enemies that had already covered the sky here, his right hand's slowly clenching from an open five fingers.

At this moment, an intangible force swept over their bodies, the intensely condensed power having completely destroyed the connections within their bodies.

The sounds of shattering frost together formed different rhythmic scales.

The bodies of those completely frozen dolls began to rapidly disintegrate, and the clattering cell coins falling down were completely devoured by Jiang Xia's expanded domain.

Time stop combined with freezing everything to extreme cold is enough to destroy most life on this planet; although Jiang Xia currently cannot achieve large-scale time acceleration to make enemies automatically disintegrate, rendering them unable to resist is still possible.

"Has the forbidden power already awakened in this era?"

The scepter struck heavily against the ice surface frozen by extreme cold, the piercing sound causing most people here to unnaturally look toward the source of the sound.

After seeing the source of the sound clearly, most of the people present showed strange expressions,

Because this individual, who can barely be called a person, is wrapped in some fine clothing, and with a height of nearly two meters, they can look down on everyone present.

Its face bears a rather tattered mask, that high, raised hem and height,

make one feel as if it is standing on stilts inside a skirt, because the proportion between its lower and upper body is obviously abnormal.

"Forbidden? Could it be referring to the purple Core Coin." Anku furrowed his brows, "Just what is this strange feeling due to?"

In the distant forest, gold-yellow and green cloth slipped from the treetops, and ferocious shadows surged within the differently colored fabrics.

Kazhali lightly tapped his forehead with his claw, seeming to have a headache: "Looks like a big trouble has awakened; this aura is not something an ordinary alchemist could possess."

"Kazhali, I didn't expect you to be drawn here as well; my Core Coin, it's about time you returned it to me."

Wu Fan gazed at Kazhali standing aside, his heart burning with rage, and he almost wanted to smash the traitor Kazhali to pieces.

It immediately prepared to act, using force to seize back its missing body.

"Damn Kazhali, the grudge from your sneak attack on me last time should also be repaid."

"Ah, so it's Wu Fan, long time no see, but the most pressing matter now shouldn't be dealing with Ouzi? He has quite a few of your Core Cores in his hands."

Kazhali had no interest in Wu Fan's impotent fury, but was more curious about Ouzi and the current Anku, stoking the fire while dealing with Wu Fan's attacks.

Kazhali decisively extended his claw, crouched his body to aim at Wu Fan's attack full of openings, his eyes fixed unwaveringly on the Core Coins flickering inside Wu Fan's body, although he currently does not really want to fight Wu Fan, because a clear enemy has revived.

However, before fighting Wu Fan he still observed that the purple Ouzi obviously possesses top-tier combat power; if he could draw attention at that moment, snatching other Core Coins would also be good.

Wu Fan suddenly lifted his pair of locust-like legs, propelling his body toward Kazhali, the blade in his hand aimed at the insect-system Core Coin belonging to him inside Kazhali's body.

Kazhali instantly shrank downward, while the shadow of Wu Fan's attack flashed in his orange eyes as he bent his waist, and his legs suddenly burst forth a white mist, like compressed steam.

That yellow afterimage turned into a strike that fiercely rushed toward Wu Fan; Wu Fan's attack is indeed fast, but Kazhali, now evolved, is faster than Wu Fan! He raised his right hand's sharp claw, deeply piercing into Wu Fan's body and extending his entire wrist in, then thrust forward.

"It's over, Wu Fan." Kazhali thought, and he again exerted force with his hand, trying to seize Wu Fan's consciousness coin.

Wu Fan endured Kazhali's right hand stirring inside his body, and the horn on his forehead suddenly burst forth an electric arc, launching an attack.

The electric arc tore a long gash across Kazhali's chest, cell coins fell like blood, and the pain transmitted from his body made Kazhali want even more to absorb Wu Fan's Core Coin.

He felt he could now absorb more Core Coins to complete his own evolution.

"Wait, why do you have so many cell coins inside your body?"

Kazhali clearly aimed for the consciousness coin when attacking, but after probing for a while, he found nothing.

"Of course it's to deal with you, Kazhali."

Wu Fan laughed maniacally, then seized the opportunity to grab his own Core Coin from that long gap, yanking it out violently. Bang! Kazhali felt his body go empty, and immediately two green light orbs exploded in the air! "Kazhali, as long as you have enough cell coins, you can achieve the same effect as a Core Coin, and as the number of cell coins increases, the probability of finding a Core Coin also decreases."

He has been accumulating cell coins over a long period of time by possessing humans through discarded yummy.

Although this method does not earn as much as directly manufacturing yummy, it wins in safety and stability.

"Now there are five, Ouzi still has three in his hands, Kazhali, thanks for your help."

Wu Fan looked at Kazhali rolling on the ground in a miserable state and said happily: "I'll take the Core Coin for myself; next time I'll seize all the coins inside your body."

After speaking, he exerted force with his legs, repeatedly pushing off the surrounding tree trunks, leaping rapidly; his body turned into a shadow in midair and he fled quickly without looking back.

Kazhali, whose Core Coin had been snatched, also looked extremely grim; he didn't even have time to worry about his body constantly losing cell coins, and like Wu Fan, he panicked and fled toward the edge of the forest.

Boom— A deafening roar echoed from deep in the forest; the surrounding birds swiftly flapped their wings and flew toward the sky.

However, the invisible frost eventually caught up with them; in an instant, the birds that had just been flying in the sky were all turned into ice blocks and mercilessly fell to the ground.

Just before Kazhali and Wu Fan were about to fight.

The resurrected Kara silently watched the crowd; the forest, which had been noisy from fighting the giant serpents and warriors, suddenly fell silent, silence blanketing the place as if a mute button had been pressed.

Seeing that none of these people intended to speak, he spoke up on his own.

"In just 800 years, has human desire already sunk to this point?"

Kara slowly removed her mask, revealing a fairly beautiful face of a woman about thirty years old.

Her height, nearly two meters, gradually returned to normal; the wind blew open her robe, revealing legs resembling those of some reptilian creature, like an elongated crocodile's legs.

Possibly only her face was normal; the rest of her limbs were composed of reptilian parts, while Jiang Xia, clad in a dinosaur-themed ensemble, exuded an aura that turned everything into nothingness.

"Have you already devoured a human? This is getting a bit troublesome." Jiang Xia thought, looking at that face.

Jiang Xia and Kara silently gazed at each other, as if this were a mime scene where no words were needed—actions alone could convey the full meaning.

"Oz, who wields forbidden power, do you also want to obtain the whole world like the king from 800 years ago?"

Kara sensed that immense power within Jiang Xia probing, the destructive forbidden power of the Core Coin and the desire akin to a black hole devouring everything; she couldn't adopt a condescending attitude toward this modern Oz.

"I don't want to obtain this world; I have no interest in destroying or ruling it, and even the Core Coin isn't of much use to me. I probably have only one purpose now: to stop you from ruling the world."

Saying that, Jiang Xia suddenly recalled a joke.

"Traits of the righteous: no clear goal for the future; the value of life is to thwart the villain's actions, usually acting alone or with a few, always opposing others, relatively passive, only acting after events have occurred."

"Villain: possessing ambition and goals beyond ordinary people's comparison, devoting oneself wholeheartedly to achieve them."

"Every day they strive relentlessly, sparing no cost to succeed; even if they fail, they never give up."

"Although it seems funny, those who can become great villains indeed possess such execution and dreams."

"Jiang Xia currently has no goal of ruling the world; instead, his goal is to prevent others from ruling the world."

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Kara showed a strange expression: "If I don't act, what are you stopping me for? This world's desires are tangled; ever-expanding desires could even drive humanity to extinction."

"If I ruled the world, I could even let humanity continue developing; the only possibility would be needing some people for experiments, but humans are just consumables, endlessly supplied."

"You say such a great thing, yet you insist on blocking me here; you have great power but no interest in this world—what do you want the power for?" Even so, Kara still wanted to try, and she spoke:

"How about we each take half of this corrupt world? I only want half of Earth; the rest is yours to dispose of."

Just as Jiang Xia was about to act directly, a boy who looked about ten years old, face full of fear, clung to a pink small bag; his eyes occasionally glanced at Kara, who was speaking at length.

"Huh? How did you end up here?!"

The moment Kara saw the boy, her voice and tone suddenly turned cold, like a low rolling thunder, yet even in that coldness there was a hint of being at a loss.

It seemed they knew each other.

Kara's hand instantly elongated, like a flexible snake writhing in the air, and a dagger‑sharp claw lunged at the boy.

This strike had the power to split mountains and shatter stone; the claw, imbued with reptilian might, could easily tear open any creature's flesh, split its body, and kill it effortlessly.

Not to mention just a little boy; even if it were Huo Ye Yingsi's transformed Oz, under this sudden attack he could only be pierced through the chest.

The boy watched the whip‑like attack, his face deathly pale, eyes shut tight, his whole body trembling with extreme fear, yet he clung desperately to the pink bag in his arms, as if its contents mattered more than his life.

"What do you want to do? Isn't half of Earth enough?!" Kara shouted at Jiang Xia's actions.

The boy slowly opened his eyes at the sound; the expected pain didn't occur, but he saw the monster covering its arm that was emitting white smoke.

Standing before him was a knight clad in purple armor, wielding a purple dragon‑axe.

"You're called Wakaba Shun, right?" Jiang Xia said softly to the boy before him.

The boy silently nodded; he was terrified, even unable to make a sound.

"Now, follow those brothers over there and leave this place; your mother, Wakaba Satsuki, I will rescue her from inside that monster."

Jiang Xia extended his pinky: "Let's pinky‑promise; after you finish eating the lunch your mother made, she will return to be with you."

The one possessed by Kara as a vessel was this boy's mother, Wakaba Satsuki; Wakaba Shun had just had a falling out with his own mother.

He personally witnessed Wakaba Satsuki being seized by the monster and possessed; all that remained was the lunch she had just prepared for her son, fallen to the ground.

That is why the boy named Wakaba Shun appears here clutching the pink lunch bag.

The boy fell silent for a moment, then slowly extended his right hand toward Jiang Xia; seeing the boy's gesture, Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Pinky promise, pinky promise, no changing for a hundred years."

After the pinky promise, he turned to Huo Ye Yingsi and said, "Huo Ye, take this child away; I'll handle the rest."

"I understand." Huo Ye Yingsi pulled the boy away, and finally didn't forget to give Jiang Xia an encouraging glance.

(End of chapter)