Chapter 503: Domain Skill

New skill!

Ying Duo hasn't gotten a new skill in a long time, after all his previous skills already covered most major aspects, and after Yang Yixie officially took over, he could develop new applications from using the skills.

Over time, Yang Yixie seemed to have taken for granted that Ying Duo had unlocked all skills.

After all, his profession is mechanic, and the most important modification and Engraving for a mechanic he has already mastered; making Rune weapons has never been difficult for him, and when equipment can't win, he has teleport as a fallback.

The skill he uses most has already made him a qualified "mechanic".

A mechanic's Domain Skill?

What could it be? Something that lets him temporarily ignore the drawback of having only two hands while using a large number of Rune weapons?

Only two hand slots—this is Yang Yixie's eternal pain.

Facing the suddenly popped system window, Yang Yixie's gaze lingered vacantly for a moment, and the enemy wouldn't miss the chance, assuming Ying Duo was daring to go berserk on the battlefield, and launched a decisive attack.

Ying Duo swiftly sidestepped and glanced at the Team Channel.

Earlier, he only briefly noticed that Lu Mu had "come online", but didn't pay attention to his Blood Bar.

Compared with Fang Zhiyan's completely healthy all‑green Blood Bar and Ying Duo's missing segment but still green Blood Bar, Lu Mu's remaining half red dangerous Blood Bar looked especially perilous.

A spacetime rift is a place where one cannot linger long; staying an extra second inside, who knows how much time passes outside, not to mention a flood of shattered spatial fragments sweeping within.

Lu Mu's survival in emerging from it is a miracle; Fang Zhiyan was already on his way to rescue the barely surviving Lu Mu, when Ying Duo's side was attacked again.

【Fang Zhiyan: I can't get through for now; Han Huan used some tactics.】

【Fang Zhiyan: Since they made the first move, you can cause an even bigger commotion.】

Then he must also have that skill.

Flame City Cannon, Flame City Cannon, isn't it just that cannon in his backpack that he relies on?

With Fang Zhiyan's words, no matter how he causes trouble, someone has his back, but how he should act becomes a new problem.

Let's try the new skill.

It's precisely this moment, this disadvantage, this level.

The emergence of this new skill is a bit too coincidental, as if someone knew Yang Yixie had stepped onto the fatal line of destiny and forced a way out for him.

【Player 'Ying Duo' invites you to join the party, do you accept?】

Luo Jinyou received Ying Duo's party invitation.

He had previously wondered why he needed to go specifically to ask Hua Jian Lei for intel, but this party list seems the best explanation.

Yang Yixie hadn't added him to the team before, merely classifying him into the entropy‑increase group, naturally keeping him apart from Fang Zhiyan and the others.

But now adding him to the team is because he also doesn't know what a mechanic's Domain Skill looks like.

Hmm...

His demands aren't high; at least it should be like in "Jujutsu XX", a guaranteed hit, right?

Watching Luo Jinyou successfully join, Yang Yixie chose to use the new skill 【Domain】.

Luo Jinyou guessed that Ying Duo's sudden invitation meant a large‑scale lethal weapon was coming, but when his surroundings began to change, he was still caught off guard.

The world changed.

It was as if his vision was invaded by Ying Duo's energy; Luo Jinyou saw rows upon rows of vertical glowing green "0"s and "1"s everywhere.

The code streamed slowly, like a waterfall, like a luminous river.

Yet after seeing the sea of glowing green, he felt an inexplicable sense of calm.

Even though the world before his eyes was undergoing a cataclysmic transformation.

Countless block‑like things replaced the world before him, slowly covering the once‑clear world, blurring it, turning it into a lower‑dimensional embodiment.

The walls are still walls, the bricks still bricks, but now visibly "low resolution"; the dead vines in the corners turned into a series of deep brown, broken lines.

Is he really still alive?

In an inadvertent glance down, Luo Jinyou saw his own hands clearly.

His originally pale hands turned into stark white squares; seeing his arms and hands become two rectangles, Luo Jinyou began to doubt whether he was dreaming.

He instinctively touched his face, only to find his head had become a huge square.

Even without a mirror, Luo Jinyou seemed able to imagine what he now looked like.

How is this different from molding a player‑controlled avatar exactly to his own image, then directly transcending?

Oh, there are still some differences.

Luo Jinyou's gaze shifted from himself to the direction of those enemies.

Sunlight leaked through gaps in the clouds, falling on them; Luo Jinyou could even see the clear boundary between light and shadow on those pixel blocks.

They also turned into pixelated figures like Luo Jinyou, but something else hovered above their heads.

Luo Jinyou saw their Blood Bars, floating above their heads, composed of a short row of deep red square segments.

It wasn't his first time seeing Blood Bars above enemies; during his previous partnership with Ying Duo, he personally experienced the fun of fighting alongside Ying Duo.

Just like playing a game.

The first time Luo Jinyou participated in hunting Aberrant Species, an oddly untimely thought popped into his mind.

And now, as he must kill with his own hands, he feels it again.

Moreover, unlike last time, this game feels more immersive, as if a cognitive filter were added.

Whether it's the nearby grass now turned into a few pixel blocks, or the enemies before him now a swarm of pixel characters, the déjà vu it gives him feels like clearing a game in full immersion.

And those enemies hadn't even recovered from the world's transformation; some kept flipping their rectangular hands, as if they couldn't understand how their hands became that way yet still could grip a sword.

Someone looked up at the sky; the sky in their eyes was also made of pixel squares—clouds white squares, sky blue squares, the sun a tiny bright yellow square, even its edge jagged.

They differ from Yang Yixie and Luo Jinyou; although within the Dome, their origins aren't great, only after awakening Aberrant Arts did they receive heavy use above.

They rarely have the chance to experience the joy called "video game".

Naturally they can't comprehend what's happening before them, without Luo Jinyou's quick acceptance.