54: Chapter 54 The Voidwalker

When Chen Mo emerged from the Trial Tower, the sky outside was already dark.

Lin Wei stood beside the pickup truck. She was stunned for a moment when she saw him come out.

"You..."

"I'm fine," Chen Mo said. "Still alive."

He sat in the driver's seat and started the engine.

Lin Wei got into the passenger seat.

The pickup truck drove back the way they came.

"What's it like inside?" Lin Wei asked.

Chen Mo was silent for a few seconds.

"There's a tower. Nine floors. I cleared three."

"What about the fourth floor?"

"I didn't enter," Chen Mo said. "There are more important things to do."

He handed the Apothecary's notebook to Lin Wei.

Lin Wei flipped through a few pages, and her expression changed.

"S-Rank?"

"Yes."

"You're going to fight an S-Rank?"

Chen Mo nodded.

Lin Wei fell silent.

She knew she couldn't talk him out of it.

She could only follow.

The pickup truck drove through the night.

Three hours later, they returned to the Farmhouse.

Chen Mo parked the truck in the yard and turned off the engine.

"Rest for the night," he said. "Tomorrow, we enter the tunnel."

Lin Wei nodded.

The two returned to the Basement and lay down.

Chen Mo closed his eyes, but he didn't sleep.

He was thinking about the information in that notebook.

Void Walker.

Location: The deepest part of the Reversal Tunnel.

Ability: Spatial Teleportation.

Weakness: A 0.5-second delay after teleporting.

0.5 seconds.

Very short.

But his Prediction was ten seconds.

Combined with the Eye of Sinister Sight, he might be able to find that window.

But an S-Rank was an S-Rank after all.

It was two whole Ranks higher than him.

Any mistake would mean death.

Early the next morning, the two set off.

The Reversal Tunnel was still the same.

Dark, silent, with Time Rifts floating everywhere.

But this time, Chen Mo was prepared.

He activated Time Perception, making everything within a fifty-meter radius clearly visible.

Those Time Rifts and hidden traps couldn't escape his eyes.

After walking for about half an hour, a massive space appeared ahead.

It was as large as the previous cave, but there were no rocks or light in the center.

There was only one thing—

A mass of black fog.

It hovered in mid-air, rotating slowly.

The mass of fog had no fixed shape, expanding at times and contracting at others, occasionally splitting into countless small pieces before reconsolidating once more.

[Target: S-Rank Wraith "Void Walker"]

[Status: Dormant]

[Abilities: Spatial Teleportation, Spatial Cleave]

[Weaknesses: 0.5-second delay after teleporting, core is at the center of the fog]

[Threat Assessment: Fatal]

Chen Mo gripped his cleaver.

He glanced at Lin Wei.

Lin Wei nodded, dual pistols in hand.

Chen Mo took a step forward.

The mass of fog suddenly stopped rotating.

Then, it moved.

Not moving, but splitting.

In an instant, the mass of fog split into hundreds of small pieces, flying off in all directions.

Those small pieces swirled in the air, and then—

They all vanished.

Within Chen Mo's Time Perception, those pieces appeared in different locations.

Some were ten meters away, some twenty, some thirty.

Then they vanished again.

When they reappeared, they were closer.

[Void Walker Ability Activated]

[Spatial Teleportation: Can move instantly to any location]

[Teleportation Interval: 0.5 seconds]

Chen Mo stared at the moving pieces.

0.5 seconds.

He could see clearly.

In his ten-second Prediction, the next appearance positions of those pieces were clearly visible—

Three meters east, five meters west, two meters north, four meters south.

Too many.

Hundreds of them.

Every single one was closing in on him.

Chen Mo activated Eerie Power Burst.

All attributes increased by 50%.

His speed increased instantly.

He rushed toward the nearest piece and swung his blade.

The piece vanished at the last moment.

Chen Mo's strike hit nothing.

It appeared behind him.

Lin Wei fired.

The bullets passed through the piece; they hit nothing.

It wasn't solid.

Just fog.

[Warning: Void Walker's true body has not yet appeared]

[Current targets are only Clones]

Chen Mo's pupils contracted.

Clones.

Hundreds of Clones.

Where was the true body?

He activated the Eye of Sinister Sight, scanning his surroundings with full effort.

The lines on those Clones were very faint, almost invisible.

But in one place, the lines were particularly dense—

Overhead.

Chen Mo looked up.

That black fog had moved directly above him without him noticing.

It was slowly descending.

[True Body Location: Five meters overhead]

[Incoming Attack: Spatial Cleave]

Chen Mo didn't have time to think.

He pushed Lin Wei away while simultaneously activating Infiltrator.

Seven seconds of invisibility.

He vanished from the spot.

The moment the black fog descended, the surrounding space was sliced open.

Countless black rifts appeared where Chen Mo had just been standing, like shattered glass.

Lin Wei was pushed away, avoiding those rifts.

Chen Mo materialized seven meters away.

His back was drenched in cold sweat.

Close.

Just barely.

The black fog rose again.

Those Clones flew toward it simultaneously, merging back into the true body.

The black fog grew larger and denser.

Finally, it condensed into a humanoid form.

A tall man wearing black robes, with no facial features.

Only a smooth layer of skin.

It raised its hand.

The surrounding spatial rifts began to move, closing in on Chen Mo.

Chen Mo didn't move.

He was waiting.

Waiting for that 0.5-second window.

Spatial Teleportation took time.

Every time it moved, there would be a 0.5-second delay.

As long as he caught that 0.5 seconds—

It moved.

Instantly vanishing from its spot.

In Chen Mo's Prediction, its next appearance position was—

Two meters behind him.

He turned and swung his blade.

But the position where it appeared was half a meter further than predicted.

The blade missed.

It vanished again.

Reappearing on the left.

Chen Mo swung again.

Still missed.

It was too fast.

A 0.5-second window, but for an S-Rank, 0.5 seconds was enough to do many things.

Chen Mo gritted his teeth, continuing to predict and swing his blade.

One strike, two, three.

Every time, it was just a little off.

That 0.5 seconds was much shorter than imagined.

The duration of Eerie Power Burst was almost up.

Ten seconds left.

Chen Mo stopped.

He closed his eyes.

No longer using Prediction.

Just feeling.

Feeling the spatial fluctuations, feeling the changes in time.

The ten-second Prediction was gone.

But he still had the Eye of Sinister Sight.

Those hidden rules, those invisible lines—

Were all before his eyes.

It moved.

Chen Mo opened his eyes.

This time, he didn't swing his blade.

He just reached out his hand.

Reaching toward that position.

His hand reached into the Void Realm and grabbed something.

Cold and hard.

It was its core.

It was stunned.

In that 0.5-second delay, it hadn't expected anyone to grab its core.

Chen Mo didn't give it a chance to react.

He squeezed hard.

The core shattered.

The black fog instantly exploded into countless fragments.

All the spatial rifts vanished.

Only a humanoid thing remained, lying motionless on the ground.

[Killed S-Rank Wraith "Void Walker"]

[Obtained: S-Rank Wraith Blood x1]

[Obtained: Void Core x1]

[Obtained: sequence fragment x50]

[Current Fragments: 306]

[Over-Rank Kill · Evaluation: Miracle]

Chen Mo stood in place, gasping for air.

Eerie Power Burst ended.

His hands were shaking.

That last move had taken everything he had.

Lin Wei ran over and supported him.

"Are you crazy?"

Chen Mo didn't answer.

He just looked at the corpse on the ground.

S-Rank.

He had killed an S-Rank.

Even if it was the weakest S-Rank.

It was still an S-Rank.

He took the bottle from his pocket and collected the blood.

Then he stood up and turned around.

"Let's go."

The two walked out of the cave and out of the tunnel.

Outside, the sunlight was blinding.

Chen Mo leaned against the pickup truck and closed his eyes.

Exhausted.

But alive.

That was enough.