Chapter 827: Lan Jue's Counterattack

As soon as Wraith Orphan · Sius appeared, Lan Jue immediately detected its attributes. Seeing the title 'Lord-level creature', and that its Strength, Agility, and Stamina attributes were all above 70, Lan Jue's expression didn't look very good.

When Lan Jue saw that Wraith Orphan · Sius had a full seven skills, he immediately understood that this thing was a big boss from some world, now summoned here.

What gave Lan Jue the biggest headache was 'Soul Infection (Aura Lv. 20)', 5% true damage of the enemy's maximum health per minute. This thing would cause a chain reaction. If eroded by this aura for a period of time, he would very likely be killed by Su Xiao in seconds.

If there were only one big boss, Wraith Orphan · Sius, Lan Jue would have the confidence to solve this thing, but Wraith Orphan · Sius + Su Xiao?

Lan Jue only considered for two seconds before turning and fleeing. What duel, what life or death, he wasn't even sure of winning 1v1, let alone the enemy summoning such a monster. This fight was a fart.

"Command · Suicide."

A large group of mechanical bees rushed toward Su Xiao. Su Xiao didn't even look at the flying mechanical bees; Wraith Orphan · Sius had already greeted them.

Lan Jue's speed was not slow. His agility attribute was already very high, plus the escape skill, his escape speed was even faster.

Su Xiao didn't chase after him. Although the battle hadn't started yet, the opportunity to beat a drowning dog had already appeared.

Taking out the Spider Queen, Su Xiao crouched on the ground, pulled the bolt, and aimed the crosshair at the fleeing Lan Jue.

While being locked by Su Xiao, Lan Jue stopped in place and turned to look at Su Xiao.

Peng.

The muzzle of the Spider Queen sprayed a puff of smoke, and the bullet shot out from the smoke, heading straight for Lan Jue's head.

"Command · Guard."

Hundreds of mechanical beetles appeared, forming a wall in front of Lan Jue.

Hong! Hong!

Two explosions came one after another. The first was the mechanical insect wall in front of Lan Jue, and the second was

Seeing Su Xiao take out the Spider Queen, Lan Jue had already abandoned the thought of fleeing, because he could not escape.

According to Lan Jue's observation, that was a semi-automatic heavy sniper cannon. His preliminary judgment was that the weapon's rate of fire and power were not weak, and the bullet's effective range was not short either.

After Su Xiao fired the first shot, Lan Jue roughly judged that to escape Su Xiao's range, he would need to take at least 5 to 7 shots.

Not to mention whether he could withstand these shots, just the brief pause during each defense would allow that skeletal creature to catch up. If he were entangled by that skeletal creature, with the enemy's long-range and close-range coordination, he would not last long.

What was even more terrifying was not the enemy's long-range and close-range coordination, but rather that if they both engaged him in close quarters, he would die very quickly.

Since he could not escape, Lan Jue decisively gave up on fleeing. A mechanical beetle appeared in his hand; this beetle was the size of a fingernail and entirely blood-red. Lan Jue looked at this mechanical beetle with a complex expression.

"I am the best, I am the strongest, I won't die, I won't die, I won't die, I absolutely won't die."

As Lan Jue muttered to himself, the blood-red beetle burrowed into his palm, and he received a large number of Apocalypse Paradise notifications.

【Prompt: You have been parasitized by the Mechanical Insect King. Stamina, Intelligence, and Willpower attribute checks are in progress... If any check fails, you will trigger an instant-death state.】

【Stamina check successful. The Mechanical Insect King has successfully parasitized one-third.】

【Intelligence check successful. The Mechanical Insect King has successfully parasitized two-thirds.】

【Willpower check successful. The Mechanical Insect King has successfully parasitized your body.】

【Prompt: Due to being parasitized by the Mechanical Insect King, Strength -15 permanently, Stamina -20 permanently, HP -200 permanently, Intelligence +15 permanently.】

【Prompt: The Mechanical Insect King will die in 30 minutes.】

【Prompt: Your Mana is temporarily +3000. This bonus will disappear after the Mechanical Insect King dies.】

【Prompt: The limit on the number and type of your summons has been lifted. This effect will disappear after the Mechanical Insect King dies.】

【Prompt: After the Mechanical Insect King dies, you will undergo a Stamina attribute check again. If the check fails, you will trigger an instant-death state.】

A sense of weakness washed over him. Lan Jue used the ability he least wanted to use, letting the Mechanical Insect King parasitize him. If any of the three checks during the parasitization process failed, he would die immediately. Even if the parasitization succeeded, he would lose a large amount of attributes.

After being parasitized, there were three benefits: Intelligence +15 permanently, Mana temporarily +3000, and the temporary removal of the limit on the number and types of summons that can exist simultaneously.

In other words, Lan Jue could summon all the summons in his inventory, provided his Mana was sufficient. Lan Jue had a total of 12,604 mechanical insect summons, and summoning all of them required 4,653 Mana points.

Summoning over ten thousand mechanical insect summons at once was not the ability Lan Jue wanted most; what he wanted was the ability to lift the summon limit. Of course, Lan Jue really did not want to use this ability; after using it, it was almost equivalent to perishing together with the enemy.

Although Lan Jue passed the initial three checks, after the Mechanical Insect King died, he still had to undergo a Stamina attribute check. That would be a check performed after he had fought until exhausted and with his Stamina attribute permanently reduced by 20; the hope of passing was very slim.

This was the first time Lan Jue had used this ability, and there was a 98% or higher chance that it would be the last time he ever used it.

A bullet flew toward Lan Jue. Lan Jue lowered his eyelids, and mechanical bees appeared out of thin air. This time, he didn't even use a summoning gesture, summoning them directly.

Over a hundred mechanical bees formed a circle, just happening to block the bullet's path.

Boom.

An explosion sounded. Although the mechanical bees could not block the bullet, they could use the powerful explosive force to deflect the bullet from its trajectory.

Whoosh~

The 17.36mm caliber bullet flew past Lan Jue's ear; he even felt the scorching heat on the bullet.

"Three against one, huh? But not anymore."

Lan Jue took a deep breath. He had been driven to a dead end by Su Xiao, and as a 'reward,' he was going to send Su Xiao to hell within half an hour.

Moreover, if he could kill Su Xiao, it wasn't as if Lan Jue had no chance of survival. If he were fighting other enemies, Lan Jue would have a 98% or higher chance of dying after the battle, but Su Xiao was different; Su Xiao was a Hunter of Reincarnation Paradise.

Once Lan Jue completed the Apocalypse Paradise mission and successfully killed the Hunter from the enemy Paradise, would Apocalypse Paradise let him die in such a humiliating way? It was very likely not.

Densely packed mechanical insects appeared: mechanical bees, mechanical dragonflies, mechanical beetles, mechanical fireflies, and dozens of other types.

Over ten thousand mechanical insects appeared. From a distance, these ten thousand-plus mechanical insects looked like a black cloud, and within the black cloud, red lights flickered—those were the eyes of each mechanical insect.

After seeing these ten thousand mechanical insects, Su Xiao immediately felt that things were not looking good. A few hundred mechanical dragonflies could blow up his Counter-Shield; if ten thousand exploded simultaneously and he were near the center of the explosion, he would be reduced to nothing immediately. Of course, the possibility of him being hit by these ten thousand mechanical insects was low; if things went south, he could retreat to a distance and let Sius bear the explosion.

"Ultimate Command: Chimera."

Lan Jue held his hands in a void grip, and the ten thousand mechanical insects gathered together. About 500 gathered into a cluster, melting rapidly like snow and fusing together.

Soon, the ten thousand mechanical beetles disappeared, and 25 metal arrows appeared in mid-air—these were the Ghost Bees.

The Ghost Bee beside Lan Jue drifted into the 25 Ghost Bees, totaling 26 Ghost Bees.

"I don't have much time. Let's begin."