Bang, bang, bang!
Above the night sky, Death's Leader accelerated by continuously shattering himself, breaking free from the dominion of the "Shadow Monarch" at an altitude of several thousand meters!
Below the night sky, Alister, clad in a shadow cloak, also chased relentlessly within a few hundred meters, using the shadow teleportation.
Passing countless tall buildings, he listened to the whispers of the late-night world...
Alister looked up at the night sky, his dark eyes profound like an abyss.
Death's Leader, like a tiny black dot, was beyond reach of the low temperature in high altitude, stimulating his nerves and causing adrenaline to surge, igniting his killing intent.
Bang! Another burst, Death's Leader locked onto the "Shadow" in the high sky.
"The strongest single-target damage of a B-rank item. Can you withstand it?"
Ignoring the strong air pressure, Death's Leader raised the heavy, slender barrel of the Barrett M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle.
The Barrett fired bullets that surpassed physical laws, and each super-heavy bullet signified the death of a player.
"Here it comes..." Death's Leader murmured and fired forcefully while the gravity was imbalanced!
Thud—The sound was heavier than Himizuki's gunshots, and Death's Leader's shots had an overwhelming aura.
The bullets erupted like piercing through the world, creating cyclones that pushed away the night clouds!
Unreasonable speed, unreasonable power—the bullets reached Alister in an instant!
The shadows shattered in response to the gunshot, and Alister dodged the attack at the critical moment, simultaneously activating the Shadow Stab Assault.
All remaining psychic energy was consumed!
The myriad shadows around the buildings violently grew, extended, and intertwined, rushing towards the night sky over a kilometer away!
Not enough... Death's Leader grinned and shattered himself again, plummeting to the sky like a meteor.
At the same time, he raised the Barrett once more, shooting a merciless and deadly shot!
Bang! Surpassing physical laws!
The night wailed, and Alister, with no psychic energy left, seemed unable to avoid the gunshot this time.
Just an illusion.
Converging his gaze, Alister flipped the precious black card in his hand and spoke, as if decreeing the world.
—"Ability Exchange."
"Concentrate a bit, psychic energy."
The system promptly responded to the player's will, paying the price of Himizuki's 50 million bank card and providing an immense amount of psychic energy.
"Player has acquired the status—Limit Breakthrough."
A simple system prompt created the most spectacular scene of the night.
From E-rank, D-rank, C-rank, Alister's psychic energy skyrocketed from just over one thousand to over ten thousand, nearly reaching C-rank!
The bullet was about to hit him, and Alister lowered his hood, no longer curious about the outcome.
"—Shadow."
As he spoke, the dormant super-sized Shadow Dragon obeyed its master's command, opened its moon vertical pupils, and looked down at the tiny undying ants.
Have you ever seen such a sight...
That night, all the players trapped in the Northern District of A City looked up at the existence that devoured the night, as if it were the ultimate force!
The vast Northern District of A City was already surrounded by the Shadow Dragon, and the gigantic dragon head let out a roar from the depths of concepts!
Dominating all shadows and their extensions, possessing an innate talent that absolutely suppresses all inferior shadow abilities—the final gift of S-rank, the Shadow Monarch.
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...
"Cough... cough... It's really something, that... wounded... street..." The patrolmen, who had been devastated by Death's Leader, were barely healing each other's injuries while looking up at the spectacular battle.
Although they were only E-rank, they had reached a height they could never achieve in their lifetimes...
"They say early-stage ability users are weak, but now it seems..."
"Mask" covered his wounds and said, "If he advances to A-rank, both 'Purple Night's Radiance' and the 'Dixian' ancestors would be..."
"Shhh... cough..." "Taiji" wrapped "Talisman Paper" with bandages, warning, "That's a topic we shouldn't touch... be careful..."
"What do you think... Lady Ji Yi?" "Talisman Paper" looked at the dignified woman sitting on the bench.
Ji Yi seemed to be meditating.
After a few breaths, she opened her eyes and looked up at the extraordinary Shadow Dragon, gripping her Tang Sword made of mysterious iron.
"Perhaps... the world's structure will be rewritten in the not-too-distant future..."
After she spoke, the patrolmen all smiled bitterly and lamented their weakness, while feeling that the world was about to be rewritten.
"Shadow"...
He's just an E-rank player...
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...
Outside the B-rank sequence game, Qingxian, Himizuki, and Evil Annihilation stood on different tall buildings, watching the vast system boundary trembling with power that exceeded the B-rank limit.
Roar! All the shadows in the Northern District swore allegiance to the monarch and devoured the night!
Against the evening breeze, Qingxian frowned, gazing at the spectacular Shadow Dragon, unable to sever her perplexity.
"Shadow?"
"Probably him."
Himizuki appeared by her side, speaking with displeasure:
"An E-rank player causing such power in A City's shadow ability users. There's no one other than him who could do it." Even so, Himizuki was also lost in a mixture of doubt and astonishment.
In the B-rank sequence game, how did "Shadow" intervene as an A-rank player?
The system rules were absolute and unbreakable, or...
In an instant, a bad thought emerged in her mind.
Qingxian, with the same thoughts, looked at her, and in a cold voice, she said the suspicion:
"Shadow, is he below A-rank?"
Himizuki seemed unwilling to accept this reality, glared at the Shadow Dragon, and gritted her teeth:
"Below A-rank, yet he possesses power comparable to an A-rank. Could his ability be S-rank? I don't believe it..."
"Maybe it's SS-rank." Qingxian made a rare joke.
"Haha, I don't believe there's anyone stronger than me..."
Himizuki was still competitive, flipping her luxurious ink-black hair and proudly declaring:
"He'll eventually become my dog!"
Hearing this, Qingxian asked with a tone devoid of emotion, "Seems like you have some grudges with him?"
"Tsk, no."
Himizuki crossed her arms, turned her face away, and walked off nonchalantly.
On another rooftop, Fujitani Nisuke, masked in armor, looked at the Shadow Dragon with an expressionless face—or rather, with seriousness.
"Just a B-rank... yet possesses the power of an A-rank ability user..."
The common sense of the sequence game told him that a player who stirred up such overwhelming power must either have a high rank or a strong ability, or maybe he used a legendary-grade item.
But regardless of which point, the pressure on Evil Annihilation suddenly increased, and he was deeply struck.
"Oh well, forget it, there's always someone better..."
Evil Annihilation returned to its defeated slacker state as an office worker, finding a clean corner on the rooftop and sat down, watching the turmoil within the boundary.
Just thinking about the A-rank national-level sequence game that followed, where an S-rank ability user might intervene...
"No~, my righteousness value needs some anime to recharge..."
That night, the shadows shocked the world...