Chapter 189: Strike!!

Xilin, high above, looked down at the two people below like ants (especially the gray‑haired one who already seemed panicked), and the anger in her heart, sparked by their "not knowing gratitude," was finally slightly diluted by the pleasure of wielding such absolute power.

She liked this feeling, liked watching those tiny beings tremble in Despair under her unmatched Authority.

"Now,"

Xilin's cold and imposing voice rang again, echoing beneath a sky filled with Subspace Spears, each word seeming to carry the weight of space, "Do you know what the authority of a 'God' is? What is… Despair?"

Her gaze settled mainly on Kevin, the man who had twice deflected her attacks, the opponent worthy of her serious attention.

As for the gray‑haired girl beside him who already looked a bit stunned?

Just a stray fish to be cleaned up casually.

Kevin finally lifted his head again, his ice‑blue eyes calmly meeting Xilin's golden eyes; even when facing the Subspace Spear Array capable of erasing an entire army, no trace of fear or wavering showed on his face, only a cold Calm.

He was calculating, analyzing, how to respond to this wide‑area attack within a framework that limited his highest‑output methods.

And the gray‑haired girl beside him… also seemed not entirely worthless.

The battle seemed only now to enter the prelude of true intensification.

And Star, this "enthusiastic spectator," now faces a serious problem:

How to, in the forthcoming "Subspace Spear Storm" that could be a thousand times more terrifying than an Ice Cone rain, keep herself from dying in an ugly way.

Then Kevin moved.

No warning, not even an obvious charging motion.

The alloy floor beneath his feet, its surface stripped away by the gust, emitted an overloaded explosive roar the instant he stepped, spider‑web cracks spreading wildly!

And his figure vanished from the spot.

One moment he was below; the next, his tall, icy figure appeared in mid‑air less than ten meters from Xilin, almost face‑to‑face with the Void Arbiter!

The seemingly ordinary Metal Ball Club in his hand, bearing the power to freeze all, swung silently yet lethally toward Xilin's face!

The speed was beyond visual capture.

"What?!"

Xilin's golden cross‑shaped pupils suddenly contracted to needle‑point size.

So fast!

Caught between shock and anger, her battle instinct instantly took over.

Almost reflexively, a massive void over three meters in diameter suddenly opened between her and Kevin, the deep darkness attempting to swallow and exile Kevin and his attack to an unknown space!

However, this time, the usually unstoppable spatial devouring failed.

The Metal Ball Club Kevin swung, at the instant it touched the void's edge, suddenly displayed intricate ice‑blue patterns along its shaft.

Extreme cold spread as the club advanced.

The Imaginary Number Void, capable of devouring all, when its edge met this freezing force, emitted a "crack‑crack" freezing sound that made one's teeth tingle!

The void's edge became coated with a crystal‑clear yet terrifyingly cold ice layer!

The space "opening" was forcibly frozen, becoming an ice‑surface portal suspended in the air!

"Damn!"

When Xilin saw the ice layer appear, an alarm rang in her mind.

She felt her control over that void slipping rapidly, as if that space itself were about to be completely frozen by the dreadful cold.

This is not a force she can simply endure!

"Teleport!"

Her thoughts shifted abruptly, and Xilin's figure instantly turned into a spray of violet‑black light particles and vanished.

Almost the same millisecond she disappeared—

"Bang—Boom!!!"

Kevin's club struck solidly onto the frozen void.

The solidified space portal shattered like the most fragile glass, exploding into a rain of fragmentary ice crystals!

The terrifying power contained in the club remained undiminished, smashing hard onto Xilin's former hovering spot, piercing the air, forming a visible white shockwave that finally slammed onto the ground below.

"Thud—!!!"

The entire training arena quivered violently, like a drumhead struck by a massive hammer.

At the impact point, the alloy floor bulged and sank in a radiating exaggerated fashion, forming a large crater, and a ring of white icy mist mixed with Ice Shards surged outward like a tsunami!

Xilin's figure re‑coalesced in mid‑air dozens of meters away, her expression colder than before, with a hint of panic she could not fully conceal.

That moment earlier, if hit directly… she had no doubt her body would have suffered severe damage.

"Damn it…!"

Shock and anger instantly turned into a more ferocious killing intent.

She no longer held anything back, nor could she concern herself with any "Intellectual Duel" or "observation".

"Fall!" she swung both arms down forcefully.

The thousands of Subspace Spears hovering in the air, already primed, swarmed like a hive receiving a final command, emitting a deafening screech, turning into a destructive violet‑black torrent that poured indiscriminately toward the expanding icy mist area where Kevin stood, and… the gray‑hair as well, within the attack range!

The spear rain's coverage was so vast it nearly sealed off all ground‑evade space.

"Wa‑aa‑aa! What does this have to do with me!"

Star was originally staring dumbfounded at Kevin's earth‑shaking leap and Xilin's clumsy teleport, and before she could react, the death rain fell overhead.

She was so frightened her soul fled, she couldn't care about her image, turned and ran, letting out a meaningless shriek.

Running cannot outrun the speed of the spatial spears.

Survival instinct made her grasp empty air with her left hand, and the black Metal Ball Club reappeared.

She hopped left and right like a frightened rabbit, wildly swinging the club, trying to Blocking or deflect those incoming Subspace Spears.

"Clang! Ding! Shhh—!"

The sound of metal clashing and the tearing of energy rang continuously.

Xing's combat instincts were indeed outstanding; in this frantic scramble, they actually knocked away and deflected dozens of Subspace Spears with a bat, yet even more spear tips brushed past their body, leaving shallow marks on their coat, causing them to scream repeatedly and be in a sorry state.

"No! Can't just keep getting hit!"

After dodging a wave of dense volleys, Xing, with a corner of the eye, spotted Xilin hovering a short distance away, back turned to them, fully focused on directing a rain of spears toward Kevin in the icy mist, seemingly paying no attention to the little shrimp that was Xing.

The impulse of "Now's the chance" suddenly surged into Xing's mind.

"Who do you think you're looking down on!"

They abruptly halted, no longer fleeing.

The Flame Gun gripped in their right hand instantly burst into an even more intense glow, the Preservation flame coiling around their arm.

"Take my shot!!!"

Xing summoned all their strength, twisted their waist, and with a standard javelin‑throw stance, hurled the Flame Gun in their hand toward Xilin's back in mid‑air, throwing it with all might!

"Whirr—Boom!"

The moment the Flame Gun left their hand, it transformed into a crimson meteor that tore the air, trailing a long tail of flame, moving at astonishing speed—crossing dozens of meters in the blink of an eye—with its tip aimed straight at Xilin's back!

The high temperature of the Flame even set the air along its path ablaze.

However, faced with this sudden rear attack, Xilin didn't even turn her head.

Just as the Flame Gun was about to strike her Herrscher Skirt Armor, a fist‑sized Imaginary Number Void silently materialized behind her, precisely swallowing the gun's tip.

Immediately, the void vanished.