What a fascinating guy. ”

In a corner of the small square under the Imperial Palace, a man with long hair and a slightly feminine temperament leaned sideways against the corner of the wall wearing a navy blue windbreaker, and his right hand was gently pressed on the saber at his waist.

He is the new acting leader of the third investigation team, Kimura Hakutaku.

Although he accepted the invitation of Foreign Minister Taku Amuro to join the "stability maintenance faction" of the high-level of Wano Kingdom, Kimura Hakutaku has never been interested in cooperating with the Celestial Ruling to capture Captain Dragonfly, but he has shown a keen interest in Higashinohara's ability to show in battle after battle.

Although the main way of the opponent's battle has always been to shadow the gray ability that is completely beyond the norm, there seems to be some subtle change every time.

In the eyes of others, they may sigh in amazement that Captain Dragonfly's amazing talent has developed his ability to such an incredible point in just a few months.

But falling in the narrow eyes of Bai Tuo in Dumu Village, it is a completely different scene

Reminiscent of last year's funeral society] members at the cherry blossom crossroads, the man behind the dragonfly mask also appeared there very "just in time" to sabotage the action of summoning alien demons

Thinking of this, Kimura Shirakutaka leaned against the square's eyes and couldn't help but narrow slightly, staring at the figure wearing a dark gold dragonfly mask in the fierce battle in the small square that no one else could intervene in at all.

You're there too

"Dance" with demons?

The small square under the Imperial Palace.

In front of the brilliant and terrifying golden tip of the spear, Higashinohara's pupils shrank sharply at this moment, and his heart beat faster as if he felt a sense of urgency.

At this moment, he really felt the terrifying aura of death.

A terror spear that locks everything.

The rules of terror like a causal loop.

Here it is

Is it a true demigod?

Compared to the commander of the Beihai Dawn Revolutionary Army, Syller, who had just entered the eighth order, the man with an indifferent and arrogant face in front of him undoubtedly had a more thorough control of the rules, which made people feel a sense of irresistible despair from the depths of their hearts.

Rules. Gold of the Rhine!

Destroy the Spear of Dawn!

However, in the face of this line that runs through life and death, it seems that there is no way to avoid it, and it can only be killed by the neck, but Higashinohara has more understanding than the others.

His shadow instantly. The ability to fly thunder without stepping on the combination of thunder and thunder is the same, as long as the mark of thunder and lightning is left on the target, when it is urged again, it can instantly slash out the "must hit" slash like the law of cause and effect.

As a person who comprehends this ability on his own, Higashinohara is actually equally clear that the so-called "must hit" is actually a false proposition.

Nothing is absolute.

There is a cause before there is an effect.

Theoretically, as long as the opponent is fast enough to let Higashinohara's thunder leave a mark, then Higashinohara will naturally not be able to slash out the so-called "law of cause and effect".

So at this critical moment!

Higashinohara, whose pupils were constricted, suddenly flashed in his mind, and the waves in his heart unexpectedly calmed down under the division of life and death.

He realized one thing.

Since he can't say that he "must be hit", then the feeling of "no way to avoid, no way to hide" in front of him is nothing more than a sense of death oppression felt in the current state.

The simple way to break this "sense of oppression" is to move.

Theoretically, as long as his speed is "fast enough" to avoid the lock of the invisible and substantial silk thread, the other party will naturally not have the kind of life and death that must be hit.

But this simple method,

But there are not simple prerequisites.

How fast is "fast enough"?

Among the natural abilities that Higashinohara has now, Shadow Instant and Time Hourglass are both speed-based abilities.

During the duel between Beihai and the commander of the Dawn Revolutionary Army, his Shadow Instant once raised his speed to the extreme speed that his body could only withstand for a very short time when he broke through the 100 mark in agility.

Nine times. Shadow Moment.

But now with the temporary attribute bonus of 50 points of Amuro Taku's sin value, Higashinohara's agility is only 94.5, not that he doesn't want to find someone with a higher sin value, but where to find it in a hurry.

Even if it is the eighth-order celestial ruling, Marcas. Rhine's Sins are not as high as Amuro's, and while the side quests are determined to be triggered by obstacles that stand in front of the quest, the side quests apparently do not provide any temporary stats for Guilt Transformation.

And in the current state of agility,

Higashinohara could clearly feel that he was nine times away from the North Sea. There is still some distance to the boundary of Shadow Instant, and now it can only be touched at most eight times. The speed of the shadow.

This speed is obviously not "fast enough".

As for the other speed talent sequence 48, the Time Hourglass].

Since this ability slows down the flow of time around itself by using itself, it is equivalent to speeding up its own relative speed in the eyes of outsiders, rather than directly speeding up itself, so the bonus to its own agility attribute is relatively low.

Higashinohara can only achieve "four times the slow motion" when he is urging with all his might, but this is obviously not "fast enough" in the current situation.

Could it be a little faster?

Thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning.

In this moment of life and death, Higashinohara's constantly divergent and extended thoughts were so strange that they could be stretched so long, making time seem to fall into the incomparably slow passage of gel, and even he could clearly feel his desperate thoughts in this thought.

Realizing this, Higashinohara couldn't help but slowly curl the corners of his mouth with some self-deprecation.

But in fact, the action of curling the corners of his mouth Higashinohara only completed one up, and his face couldn't help but be a little stunned.

Pondering in your thoughts?

Higashinohara's mind seemed to pass through a flash of lightning, revealing a thoughtful look, vaguely aware that he seemed to have grasped something crucial

And it was also at this time that

Marcus. Rhine chuckled indifferently.

In the midst of the lightning and fire, the golden spear in his hand followed the taut death ray, and it tore through the air so stiffly and coldly, like a dazzling golden meteor that struck Higashinohara.

No one thought of it!

Under the tip of this death-approaching gun, Higashinohara was like a novice chef standing on the stovetop, staring at the hot oil pot that was boiling and almost splashing on his face.

Thinking about what kind of "condiment" to put first,

How many "condiments" to put at one time

But only in the blink of an eye,

He made up his mind.

So Higashino originally unfolded the hourglass of time.

Suddenly, with him as the center, everything around him slowed down instantly.

But the extent of slow motion is quite limited at the moment.

The limit of Higashinohara is the hourglass of time. Quadruple slow down.

And this time,

He only slowed down the time twice, so the whole person seemed to be calm, and there was a kind of leisurely ease at his fingertips. The death ray of Rhine's golden spear still locked firmly on his heart.

Where does this confidence come from?

The next moment,

Higashinohara put in the second "condiment".

Sextuple. Shadow Moment!

In an instant, his whole body instantly turned into a fluctuating phantom wave in the air, and something seemed to be spreading rapidly towards the surrounding area in that area of the small square, and the dizzying floating light instantly filled the entire area under the east courtyard of the palace.

Suddenly, the faces of countless people around were shocked as if they had been flattened by time, and the noisy sounds of the people in the main square of the Imperial Palace in the distance were like light dancing slowly in the air

Everything is being pulled so slowly!

It was so slow that even the golden spear in front of him shrouded the sky in front of him, and the tip of the spear that shot like lightning pulled out two milky white air currents in the air.

It's all so clear!

Wrong!

That's far from six times that. The shadow instantaneous ability can do it, and the time hourglass that is slowed down twice is even more impossible to do.

Higashinohara's time hourglass that has been unfolded this time. Double-slow-down] and six-fold. Shadow Moment], for him now, it is something that can be easily done within his ability, and he doesn't even have to bear too much burden on his body.

But in fact, at this time, Higashinohara felt that his body was tense and stretched to the extreme, and time and space stretched out invisible chains from all directions and firmly put them on Higashinohara's body.

He could only carry this heavy shackle and dance under the extreme physical load, and the familiar feeling of muscle tearing instantly entered the nerve endings in his mind, making his body tremble slightly imperceptibly.

If he's not careful, he'll probably tear at some part of his body.

And the reason why I fell into this dangerous and abnormal situation is because the two abilities that Higashinohara unfolded this time are not just expanding in sequence like before, and they have nothing to do with each other.

As in "pondering in an elongated mind".

In the moment of life and death just now,

Higashinohara unexpectedly grasped the fleeting silk thread between the two innate abilities, and combined the two abilities of the same attributes, the Shadow Moment and the Time Rewind.

Having had the experience of reuniting Canglei and Shadow Instant, Higashinohara's recombination process was very smooth, and he called the ability of the reunion "Quicksand Scales".

It means that in the desert of time where the dragon of time inhabited, he, a traveler who ventured into it, grabbed a piece of scale armor that recorded the mysteries of time

Sextuple. Shadow Moment X Time Rewind. Twice as slow!

Scales of quicksand. Twelve!

At this time, what Higashinohara didn't know was what he thought was the same attribute compound ability in the eyes of the others around him.

Standing on the opposite side of Higashinohara, Marcus Rhine, a celestial from the Celestial Dragon Clan, suddenly burst with an indescribable look in his pair of vertical pupils that had taken on a strange golden color during battle.

In the slow time, there was also a thoughtful look on his static face, which was like a wax figure solidifying.

Field!

Is this the power of his realm?

Similarly, Kimura Shirata, the acting leader of the Third Investigation Group, who was watching the battle from a distance, also felt the power of this field very clearly.

You must know that Higashinohara has always relied on extremely fast speed to win in previous battles, but he has never expanded the domain, so much so that some people even wonder if this mysterious man behind the mask has mastered the domain.

But without mastering the field,

And how to advance to the seventh order of absolute ability?

With that terrifying strength?

This seems to be a paradox.

However, at this moment, the power of the time realm made countless people on the scene feel it, and it turned out that he also had his own domain.

It's just that it never unfolds when fighting.

Or that no one has ever been able to force him to unfold.

So this time, is it because he is facing an eighth-order demigod-level ability who controls the rules, so he has to expand this time realm that has never appeared before and shocked the world as soon as it appeared?

But will it be too late?

A field is a field after all?

How can you resist the power of rules?

Whew!

It's still too late.

Looking at the rapidly enlarged golden tip of the spear in his eyes, wrapped in the breath of death, Higashinohara's heart breathed a sigh of relief.

The next moment,

The spear that connects life and death strikes.

But Higashinohara disappeared into the sun.

He disappeared quickly, and it was very abrupt that there was not even the slightest afterimage left in the air under the sun, and in a trance, it gave people the illusion that the place was empty in the first place.

There was a loud bang.

Marcus. The Rhine's dawn-breaking spear slammed into the Imperial Palace behind him.

It was a three-story imperial palace side hall, shining with the magnificence of the royal family, and the side hall collapsed under this shot.

The terrifying and incomparable power instantly collapsed half of this side hall, and the ruins that turned into ruins were filled with a palpitating dead silence in the blink of an eye.

Rules. Gold of the Rhine.

It is still connected to life and death.

It's just that the other end of death is no longer connected to Higashinohara, but an empty side hall, which has now collapsed in the ruins of death, and the long golden spear is stuck in the door plaque of the side hall of the Imperial Palace, trembling slightly.

At one point, the floating light that filled the entire small square with Higashinohara as the center suddenly disappeared.

In the next moment, Higashinohara's figure suddenly appeared on the golden spear like a bird.

Under the cold spring sun, he stepped on the golden spear that connected life and death, and the corners of his lips suddenly showed a slight smile on the delicate face under the mask.

This is not a mockery.

It's a smile for yourself.

Obviously, his guess was not wrong, there is no such thing as a so-called must hit in this world.

As long as he was fast enough, the so-called "must-hit" rule was just a joke, but no one had ever been as fast as he was today!

Under the shadow of that dark golden mask, Marcas. Rhine couldn't see the smile on Higashinohara's face, but inexplicably, he felt that the man standing on the tip of his gun was laughing.

Smile brightly!

Laugh presumptuously!

The laughter made him unprovokedly bored.

Because it's a human being.

And he is the most noble Celestial Dragon Clan among the celestials and men.

Natural selection, the powerful talent bestowed by the Creator on the Celestial Dragons has fully demonstrated their nobility and superiority over humans.

And now, a human is actually laughing at him.

So Marcas. Rhine slowly raised his hand, and the spear under Higashinohara's feet trembled slightly, disappeared suddenly, and returned to his hand steadily.

"You wouldn't think

That's the end of it, right? ”

Marcas standing still in place. Rhine raised the spear in his hand again, slightly raised his low-hanging gilded vertical pupils, and a mocking smile appeared on his face.

Only this time,

He suddenly let go of the spear in his hand.

The golden spear that glittered in the sunlight suspended in the air in front of him out of thin air, and his body stood proudly, his hands in the pockets of his sides.

Without warning, one after the golden rings spread out into the surrounding air around the levitating spear, like countless dense golden barrels just like the Wind Demon Ryusheng had encountered before.

Only this time, an invisible and textureless silk thread erupted from each golden ring, and in an instant, countless silk threads were connected to Higashinohara's heart.

Rules. Gold of the Rhine!

10,000 guns manifested!

Seeing this terrifying scene, countless people around them felt as if their hearts were clenched by an invisible hand, and ordinary people would suffocate and faint nervously just by being targeted by such a death ray.

And at this moment, the murderous Marcas. Rhine didn't have any superfluous pleasantries.

I saw a flash of golden light in the countless golden rings, as if the golden thunder and lightning in the sky crossed the night sky, and the rain fell like a frenzy with an incomparable aura of death, shrouding it in the direction where Higashinohara was.

The countless golden meteor-like spears struck with a terrifying killing intent no less than before!

In an instant,

The figure of Higashinohara was completely annihilated.

This happened too fast, too fast

Approaching the Imperial Palace, many ordinary people were not "qualified" to enjoy this terrifying picture, and those who were qualified to see this scene only felt that the air around them was suddenly emptied, their breathing became extremely rapid, and their pupils suddenly constricted, and they could not imagine the despair of being under this fear.

In the blink of an eye, under this beautiful but destructive golden meteor shower, Higashinohara's figure had been completely annihilated.

When the faces of countless people around him were shocked, their hearts also fell into a strong confusion.

They didn't know if the man was buried in this gorgeous golden meteor shower in an instant, or if he made a tragic but helpless resistance when death came.

However, at some point in the next moment, Marcas proudly put his hands in his pockets. Rhine's extremely arrogant brow couldn't help frowning slightly!

It was also at this moment that the golden spear levitating in front of him appeared without warning, a half-crouching figure.

Marcus. Rhine raised his eyes slightly, and when he looked up, the light seemed to shift a little bit on his retina, and even the shadow of the person was elongated a little bit

Time almost stood still at this moment!

Half-crouched on top of the golden spear, Higashinohara was like a ghostly phantom shuttling through static time and space, and his body slammed into the air, leaping high over Marcas. The top of the head of the Rhine!

His left and right hands were staggered, and the two long knives he held in his hands merged into a densely patterned black gold double-edged ancient knife with a "click" in the air!

Immediately, both hands slammed into the hilt of the knife, and slashed down with a terrifying momentum like splitting mountains and slashing seas!

Lion, manifest!