Chapter 428

This was the fourth time hound!

It took advantage of Luo En being focused on the battle in front and silently sneaked into the consciousness space from another crack.

Moreover, it had clearly already watched the entire battle process just now and knew the difficulty of the prey in front of it.

So it went all out from the very first move, even burning its own essence just like the first hound.

When the cone stabbed out, it carried a soul-stirring, wailing monster sound!

——Flowing Protective Barrier

The silver-gray liquid barely formed a barrier in front of him.

But the power of this attack was far greater than before; although the cone was hindered for an instant, it still pierced through the defense.

"Puchi——"

Sharp pain spread throughout his body instantly, and Luo En felt a heart-wrenching agony.

His right arm of the consciousness body was completely pierced, and spiritual energy flowed out from the wound like a spring.

He could feel the barbs on the cone squirming frantically, trying to tear out a larger wound.

"Stabilize the state first..."

The silver pocket watch sensed its master's crisis and automatically activated the time reset function.

Warm time energy wrapped around the wound, and the damaged consciousness body structure began to repair rapidly.

But just as the healing was about to be completed, the second strike from the hound in an explosive state had already arrived.

This time the target was the head.

If hit, it would be an instant kill, and even with time reset, it would be impossible to save his life!

The cone whistled over like a grim reaper's scythe, carrying a malicious intent for a sure kill.

The shadow of death reflected in Luo En's eyes, and time seemed to stand still at this moment.

At the critical moment, the substitute puppet suddenly rushed out from the side.

Although it had been attacked just now, the puppet's abyss crystal core was still barely operating.

The purple-black body blocked in front of Luo En, taking this fatal blow with its own body.

"Crackle——"

The puppet's chest was completely pierced, and the internal crystal core shattered into countless fragments.

But it bought precious time for Luo En.

"Thank you, old partner."

Luo En gritted his teeth.

In a desperate situation, he made an extremely dangerous decision.

He took out the cursed Paradox Paradox Dice and activated it without hesitation.

"The warning of the King of Absurdity... I can't care about that anymore!"

The polyhedron vibrated violently in his palm, and the points on its surface began to change frantically.

1, 3, 6, ∞, ?, ※...

Every change was accompanied by a slight distortion of the laws of reality.

Space began to present unreasonable geometric structures, and the flow of time became erratic.

Under the influence of this paradox power, the attack trajectory of the fourth hound deviated unexpectedly.

The cone that was originally a sure hit suddenly deflected fifteen degrees to the right at the moment it was about to pierce Luo En's head.

It grazed his ear narrowly, shaving off only a few strands of hair.

But the backlash of the paradox power also arrived immediately.

Luo En felt his consciousness body bearing immense pressure, and an invisible giant hand was twisting the essence of his existence.

Blood gushed from his nostrils, and his vision began to blur.

However, the influence of the paradox power on the enemy was even more obvious.

The fourth hound appeared extremely uncomfortable in the paradox field, its movements becoming sluggish and stiff.

Its silver body began to show cracks like spider webs, and its time manipulation ability almost completely failed.

"Opportunity... only once..."

Luo En endured the severe pain and mobilized his last bit of spiritual power.

The remaining mental power was injected into a "Mental Blast," forming a destructive shockwave around the hound.

The hound let out a final scream, the sound as piercing as broken glass.

It struggled desperately, wanting to activate time reset, but the interference of the paradox power made this ability completely unusable.

——Sonic Oscillation Erosion State

Twisted whispers echoed in the consciousness space like a funeral song, and the ancient and evil syllables tore at the hound's existence foundation.

Finally, the body of the fourth time hound could not withstand the multiple blows and began to collapse from within.

Silver light bloomed like fireworks, then turned into countless light spots and scattered, all of which were absorbed by the pocket watch.

【Charging complete! New function unlocking...】

The price of victory was extremely heavy.

Luo En's mental power was almost completely exhausted, the consciousness space was cracked in many places, and he was so weak that he was almost about to faint.

The backlash of the Paradox Paradox Dice was still continuing, and he could feel that his consciousness structure was undergoing some kind of irreversible change.

"Still... three left..."

He leaned against the canyon wall, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth with a trembling hand.

At the edge of the consciousness space, unprecedented commotion came from the remaining three space-time cracks.

The three surviving hounds lingered behind the cracks, their outlines looming in the darkness.

Sometimes gathering, sometimes dispersing, as if they were having some kind of intense "discussion."

Through the deep perception of the "Eye of Observation," Luo En could capture the information fragments they transmitted.

It was a pure conceptual exchange that transcended language:

"Danger. This wizard is not prey."

"Four kin. All dissipated. Unseen resistance method."

"...Must report to superiors."

The miserable death of four companions completely overturned the cognition of these predators.

In their long existence, time hounds had always been at the top of the food chain.

They hunted existences that left traces in time and space, like spiders preying on insects trapped in a web.

Few prey could counter-kill the hunter, let alone kill four of the same kind in a row.

………………

Although exhausted to the point of being unable to stand, Luo En's reason told him that he must never show any weakness at this critical moment.

He braced his weary body and stood up quickly.

"Micro-Structural Adaptation. One last time."

Light surged weakly from his body, constructing a phantom giant figure at the edge of the consciousness space.

Twisted syllables swam around the projection like living snakes, emitting a strong sense of reality erosion.

"Who's next?"

Luo En's voice was amplified through the projection, carrying the bloody deterrence of having just killed four of their kind.

The voice was transmitted out through the space-time cracks, echoing layer by layer in the dimensional angle.

The faint echoes of high-dimensional whispers were still reverberating.

Those remaining twisted syllables were like invisible vipers, constantly reminding these hounds of the danger level of the wizard in front of them.

The discussion of the three hounds behind the cracks became more intense.

Their outlines began to fluctuate violently, and it was clear that a serious disagreement had occurred internally.

Two of the smaller hounds clearly tended to retreat immediately.

Their forms became increasingly blurred, ready to escape into the depths of the river of time at any moment.

But the elite hound, whose body was significantly larger and led them, seemed unwilling to give up just like that.

It paced back and forth at the edge of the crack, constantly releasing tentative spiritual fluctuations.

Luo En could feel the meaning of these fluctuations: the leader wanted to confirm his true state.

"Very smart, but not smart enough..."

He maintained the majestic posture of the projection while calmly analyzing the situation in his heart.

Although time hounds are smart, their thinking patterns still follow the basic behavioral logic of beasts.

When facing uncertain threats, they instinctively look for the action plan with the least loss.

The key now is not to over-provoke them, and to make them believe that the cost of continuing the attack far outweighs the benefits.

"iai'leth"

Luo En whispered a fragment of the whispers.

In the perception of the time hounds, the whisper was more terrifying than a roar.