129: Chapter 129 Killing the Rewind Man

Inside a command center at the G District Hero Association base.

After receiving the recording sent by the Rewinder, his assistant had been waiting attentively in the communication room.

Every A-Rank Hero is assigned an Advanced assistant, selected from the elite of various fields among those without Special Abilities.

These chosen individuals must not only possess top-tier professional competence but also pass rigorous tests of loyalty to the Transcendent.

In addition to providing remote support during hero activities, these assistants must also handle all the trivial matters of the heroes' daily lives.

It could be said that each A-Rank Hero's personal assistant is the absolute executor of their commands.

But at the end of the day, assistants are still human, not machines.

No matter how faithfully they execute orders, there will always be room for their own independent thinking.

"The Rewinder ordered me to upload the recording if he didn't send word within half an hour."

The Rewinder's assistant glanced at the time and thought to himself,

"There is still plenty of time, so I might as well verify the integrity of the recording first."

"After all, that master often makes mistakes in some details."

This was not a simple overstep of authority, but the ultimate demand for professional standards by a top-tier assistant.

Only by injecting professional judgment into the requests made by heroes can one become their true right-hand man.

Besides, it was just a check; regardless, he would still strictly execute the order.

After the waiting time ended, if he still hadn't received any news, he would immediately submit the recording to the Hero Association.

On the operation interface shimmering with blue light, the recording unfolded frame by frame.

The assistant watched carefully, frame by frame.

As expected, when the Rewinder uploaded the scene through his special sunglasses, he likely wasn't standing in the shadows, nor had he turned on the sunglasses' light-correction mode.

Most of the footage was somewhat dim and distorted, interspersed with blurry spots of light.

The assistant's ten fingers turned into blurs on the virtual keyboard as he entered string after string of command parameters.

Complex algorithmic parameters were input into the program, beginning to calibrate the color temperature and clarity of each frame.

Soon, the entire recording was calibrated and restored.

At this moment, the assistant's pupils contracted sharply.

He mechanically dragged the progress bar, his brow furrowing tightly as the footage Advanced frame by frame.

"The Explosive Flame King has actually been killed... Why wasn't such a major event reported immediately?"

The assistant didn't quite understand, but he still chose to follow the orders given by the Rewinder.

He immediately closed the restored recording and stared intently as the time ticked away second by second.

But those images from the recording lingered in his mind, unable to be shaken off.

In the education he had received since childhood, Transcendents were beings comparable to gods.

Yet, in the footage, only a head remained, begging desperately for mercy.

In the end, the head exploded into a mist of blood, dying on the spot.

These images were too shocking for him.

"Is that... a demon?"

The assistant thought again of the black-haired young man in the recording holding a thunderous long blade, and his heart trembled.

"Hey, you seem to be thinking about something quite interesting, don't you?"

Outside the closed communication room door, a teasing voice came.

Hearing this voice, the assistant's heart skipped a beat.

Currently, because the Continental Carnival was about to be held, many heroes who were originally scattered in various places were wandering around the base.

As an Advanced assistant, he was required to have a thorough knowledge of all registered heroes in the local association.

He immediately recognized who was outside by their voice.

C-Rank Hero Insight Hero, whose Special Ability is [Mind Reading], allowing him to read the thoughts of those whose Soul strength is weaker than his own.

The images that had just flashed through the assistant's mind had all been captured by the Insight Hero without missing a single detail.

...

"Damn it, this is going to get me killed!"

Looking at the transparent dome covering the entire sky, the Rewinder cursed inwardly,

"As expected, one cannot trust this trash without Special Abilities!"

In his view, it must be that the assistant, who usually obeyed his every word, had failed to follow his orders this time.

And had submitted the recording ahead of schedule.

This meant that the bargaining chip he had intended to use to make Chen Moxuan hesitate and save his own life had instantly vanished into thin air.

Although before this, he had never imagined he would end up in such a state.

The Rewinder suddenly felt a bone-chilling cold creep up his spine without warning.

The blood in his body almost froze, and even his breathing became sluggish.

The Rewinder's eyes flickered, and he hurriedly shouted:

"Wait! I can tell you some other information..."

"No need."

A burst of flames tore through the Void Realm like the karmic fire of Hell.

Without the slightest hesitation, explosive flames erupted from Chen Moxuan's palm, instantly engulfing the Rewinder's entire head.

Flesh and bone turned into dust in the high temperature, and were blown away by the airwaves before they could even hit the ground.

At almost the same instant, Chen Moxuan turned quickly and threw a punch, reducing a sharp stone flying at high speed from behind him into powder.

This was a fragment of the ground that had been blown away earlier.

In his final moments, the Rewinder had used all his strength to reverse this fragment, attempting to pierce Chen Moxuan's body to create an opportunity to escape.

He foolishly thought that Chen Moxuan didn't know he could even reverse the fluctuations emitted when using his Special Ability, making it impossible for his opponent to perceive.

But in reality, the psychological fluctuations the Rewinder had while plotting had long been exposed by the Spell in Chen Moxuan's hands.

Combined with the opponent's gaze, he could guess what the other party wanted to do without needing to use a Special Ability to analyze it.

Furthermore, he had no intention of listening to the Rewinder continue to spout nonsense.

Just as before, an energy orb surrounded by blue runes slowly appeared as the Rewinder's Soul dissipated.

The blue runes searched for a while in the Void Realm but were unable to find a target to mark.

Soon, it dimmed and slowly disappeared.

The moment the runes disappeared, the Qi orb inside, as if having lost its restraints, was about to scatter in all directions.

Chen Moxuan was well-prepared, and a net of Spiritual Sense descended instantly.

After some pulling, he compressed the scattered Qi back into an orb.

His blade flashed, and the blade, imbued with a Divine Ability, cut in precisely, splitting the Qi orb in two.

In an instant, golden runes, like greedy gluttons, madly devoured the Qi orb from the cut, stripping away the Law of the Special Ability contained within.

This concentrated Qi orb was originally the carrier of the Special Ability Law; as the Law was stripped away, there was little Qi left in the orb.

However, it was enough to recover the losses Chen Moxuan had sustained in this battle.

He immediately circulated his Cultivation Technique to digest and absorb the remaining Qi.

As for the Rewinder's Special Ability Law, it also appeared in his mind bit by bit, analyzed by the Divine Ability [Po Yuan].

[Starting analysis of Special Ability: Reverse Orbit Shadow Trace, estimated time required: 5 days, 5 hours, 38 minutes]