Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 758 - 337: Cursed Space_3

But the space distortion, which could even destroy game items, failed to injure Hercules. As the space distortion ended, the twisted flesh on his chest reverted back, as if he had never been hurt.

Wu Chang frowned slightly and secretly took out the All-Knowing Crystal, seeking the reason.

The All-Knowing Crystal’s revelation effect activated, and after a brief analysis, it informed Wu Chang that Hercules’ immunity to the space distortion came from the Lion Skin Armor on his body.

In mythology, the Lion Skin Armor on Hercules is a signature skill and item, originating from the Nemean Giant Lion he killed during his trials. The Nemean Giant Lion was invulnerable to mundane powers and could not be harmed by ordinary abilities.

The player version of Hercules before him had similar effects with his Lion Skin Armor; while wearing it, the bearer wasn’t harmed by non-divine attacks.

Space distortion was immensely powerful, strong enough to pierce divinity, but its attacks lacked divinity, hence were countered by the Lion Skin Armor’s capability.

But the Lion Skin Armor was not without its weakness; if the strength judgement surpasses the wearer’s, it does not require divine powers to directly damage the wearer’s essence, and the damage caused is double.

Aware of the opponent’s secret, Wu Chang couldn’t help but grin.

To be safe, he used his True Self to rescue Xu Dejun. Hercules truly lived up to being the legendary Heracles; his strength values were impressively high. Without stacking strength, without triggering Master of Breaking the Game, Wu Chang’s Strength Value was far below the opponent’s.

But it’s normal to have such high strength attributes with such abilities; if slightly lower, this set of armor could be renamed to Abrupt Death Armor.

It’s no wonder that guy’s attitude turned dismissive when he heard Wu Chang was from the Desolate Realm; with other Desolate Realm players, even if he didn’t resist, he wouldn’t get hurt.

Hercules looked at the shattered Bone Tooth Necklace on his chest, his eyes instantly filled with blood, his pupils glowing red, as if entering a berserk state.

"Damn mortal, look at what you’ve done!"

Watching the frenzied Hercules, Wu Chang couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, indeed Hercules and Berserker were a perfect match, the taste instantly matched.

If there were a legal white-haired loli, it would be a deadlier combination.

Not knowing what Wu Chang was thinking, Hercules jumped and lunged directly at Wu Chang, fiercely swinging his longsword down, intending to cleave Wu Chang in two.

Hercules’ actions were swift, but no swifter than space teleportation.

Wu Chang grabbed Xu Dejun’s shoulder, and their figures flickered, instantly teleporting to five hundred meters behind Hercules.

Hercules slashed down, creating a massive crater on the ground, causing huge stone pillars within a hundred-meter radius to collapse.

Before the shockwave from the swordsman’s slash could spread, Hercules had locked onto Wu Chang’s position again, kicking off and flying towards Wu Chang once more.

If it was before, facing Hercules’ relentless pursuit, Wu Chang’s teleportation wouldn’t have time to cool down.

But now, having become a Grandmaster Level Spatial Magic Master, Wu Chang continuously teleported short distances, flashing again with Xu Dejun hundreds of meters away.

His short-distance teleportation was limited to within a kilometer, the reason for only moving within hundreds of meters each time was to align with the All-Knowing Crystal’s effective distance.

He wasn’t blindly escaping but utilizing the time gained from teleportation to activate the All-Knowing Crystal’s Weakness Perception skills, seeking Hercules’ flaws.

He couldn’t believe the opponent, a demigod, could be completely without weaknesses.

After the third teleportation, the All-Knowing Crystal conveyed a message.

In mythology, Hercules had crazily killed three of his children and once murdered his friend in madness; these experiences were his nightmares.

Due to Hercules’ divinity, it fully replicated the original god, resulting in the player’s weakness being like the mythological Hercules, being a heart demon.

Having perceived the opponent’s weakness, Wu Chang shook his head at the fourth charging Hercules.

"Unsteady will, blessed to meet me."

This time, he did not use teleportation again but activated his recently upgraded Talent, "Calamity,"

The upgraded Calamity received new effects besides the original three abnormal statuses, affected by the Cursed Plane.

"Talent Effect: Cursed Space"

"Talent Description: If the target’s Inspiration Will combined is less than the user’s, the target will be forcibly dragged into the Cursed Space and enter the special status of Resonance of Mental Images. The effect cannot be immunized. Cooldown: seven days."

"Special Status: Resonance of Mental Images"

"Probe the target’s psychic loopholes, materializing psychic monsters from the loopholes. If the target is attacked by psychic monsters, their very essence will suffer soul damage. During the psychic monsters’ survival, the target loses 20% of attributes, Will drastically reduces, and the skill failure probability increases by 30%."

Thick black fog surged from Wu Chang’s body, enveloped Hercules, transformed into countless black long thorn brambles, directly dragging him into a pitch-black world.

Wu Chang released Xu Dejun, said "Wait here," then stepped into the Cursed Space.

Inside the Cursed Space, the imposing Heracles disappeared; his body shrank from a massive two and a half meters to a little runt over one meter, his hand bearing the number, 46.

Behind him, three uniformed guards, holding special metal rods, chased him while laughing.

"It’s break time; Amanda’s management is looking for you all, come out now, and we can act like nothing happened."

"Little mouse, your buddies have all returned to their dorms, the naughty kid staying out will be hung in the plaza."

"Did you see number 82 hanging early today, eyes bulging out, so disgusting, you don’t want to end up like that, right?"

The guards taunted number 46 with a teasing tone, tapping walls with metal rods, searching for 46’s trail.

Without surprise, the panic-stricken, trembling Hercules was indeed the little mouse as called by the guards.

And the guards mentioning Amanda management, seemed that number 46 and Amber were from the same secret research institute.

Younger version Hercules wore the Lion Skin Armor and also possessed high strength, yet in his eyes, the guards appeared as the most terrifying monsters, making him unable to resist.

Leveraging his agility, he crawled through the complicated ducts of the secret research institute, eventually hiding inside a storeroom via the ventilation pipes.

According to his experience, the guards wouldn’t notice a locked storeroom; once they moved away, he could crawl back to the dormitory through the ventilation pipe, successfully evading capture.

Of course, all premised on only three guards and him being here.

Upon entering Cursed Space, Wu Chang observed below from a bird’s-eye view and thoughtfully wrote a line on the storeroom door using Condensing Void into Reality.

"Shh, the mouse is here."

Within the storeroom, Hercules curled up among the goods seams, ears pressed to the ground, listening for the guards’ footsteps. When hearing footsteps fading away, finally out of hearing range, he breathed a sigh of relief, standing up.

Cautiously removing the paper box overhead, ready to exit the seam, he looked up to meet three kindly gazes.

"Hehe, this little mouse is indeed hiding here."