Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 613: Set within Set (Two in One)

hiss……

A group of disabled criminals and their escort equipment almost "melted in the mouth". After the fine bubbles passed, there was no trace of any foreign matter in the tentacles composed of liquid. Instead, the size of the liquid tentacles grew larger after swallowing so much matter.

As if it had become ferocious after devouring several lives, the liquid tentacles swayed a few times and rushed towards Stephen and K.K. like a giant python.

Esmeralda's blood-freezing method——absolute zero wind!
Stephen kicked out an extremely cold storm at the liquid tentacles that were rushing towards him and his companions. Wherever the white storm mixed with ice crystals passed, the green liquid turned into ice cubes and then shattered under its own gravity.

"Be careful and prepare to fight!"

After easily handling the green liquid, Stephen did not relax at all. He looked at the entrance of the cave with a frown.

Sure enough, a large amount of green liquid gushed out again from the deep corridor outside the cave passage, and its speed was so fast, like a fireball after an explosion in the narrow passage.

Of course, it also looks like a rat hole that has been watered down with a sprinkler.

However, Stephen and the others are the drowned rats, and these liquids are not just water. Judging from the information that the criminals have just tested with their lives, even if they are contaminated by a drop of liquid, it will cause great harm to themselves.

Faced with the surging waves outside the passage, Stephen did not retreat but advanced, quickly surpassing all the people and coming to the entrance of the cave. Without hesitation, he exerted his strongest power and activated his skills.

Esmeralda's blood-freezing method——Absolute Zero Shield!
A thick and transparent ice wall appeared out of nowhere at the entrance of the passage, blocking the passage that was only one person high.

And the thickness of the ice wall was still increasing. Stephen did not leave as quickly as before. Instead, he stepped on the ice shield and continuously supplied power.

hiss……

The acid wave that gathered with huge impact force in the narrow passage made a sharp corrosion sound as soon as it came into contact with the ice wall. However, the ice wall that Stephen spent so much effort to build was strong enough, and even if most of it was digested in an instant, it could still withstand the remaining impact force.

As long as he passes the first wave of impact, what Stephen wanted to do will be achieved.

With Stephen's continuous supply of power behind the ice wall, the acid that came into contact with the ice wall quickly froze into ice.

At this time, when the acid from behind rushed up, it faced an ice wall made of the same material as its own, but colder and more solid.

Without the most threatening corrosive attack, the acid filling the channel was quickly frozen, and before long, this channel leading to the cave was completely blocked by Stephen.

Looking at the green wave that was frozen in the passage, as if the explosion effect had been paused, K.K couldn't help but touch the gun on his body.

If she encountered this thing herself, she would have no way to deal with it because the restrictions on her fighting style were too severe.

"what is this?"

"I know, but this thing feels very familiar to me. I have a bad feeling."

Stephen looked at the frozen passage in front of him, took a few steps back with a serious expression, and gave orders to the special operations team behind him who were swallowing their saliva.

"You guys! Find a place to hide and try to find a high contact point. We won't be able to take care of you when we start fighting."

"Yes!"

The members of the special operations team were shocked when they heard this, and then quickly looked for usable shelters in the cave.

Finally, a group of team members built a small shelter with the surrounding rubble, using the wreckage of the submarine as the center.

On the other side, K.K was also not idle. He used the device in his hand to launch some tiny receivers onto the rocks above his head.

"Be careful later." Looking at the passage that was vibrating more and more violently, K.K nodded to Stephen.

"Don't worry, my ability can restrain the other party, and the distress signal has been sent out. By now, Chief Daniel Luo should have discovered that something is wrong here, and he will send someone over soon."

Stephen nodded slightly in response, and then watched K.K. shoot out a grappling hook with a steel wire from the launcher on his arm, which hit the receiver previously installed on the rock above his head.

Then, the machine in the arm began to work to recycle the wire, and K.K used this power to rise to the top of the cave.

After securing his body, he took out the heavy sniper rifle behind him, installed a special incendiary bomb, and aimed at the entrance of the cave, which was vibrating more and more violently.

"coming!"

boom!
As Stephen prompted, the entrance passage of the cave and a large section of the surrounding walls exploded, and large amounts of green viscous acid rushed towards Stephen who was standing on the ground like a tsunami.

Given the corrosive power of acid, even rocks do not have much resistance to it, so when it confronted the ice wall in the passage just now, the acid wave simply corroded the entire passage completely.

"trouble……"

Looking at such a large amount of liquid, Stephen couldn't help but feel troubled.

Esmeralda's blood-freezing path - the level of absolute zero!

The right foot stepped heavily on the ground, and the mirror-smooth ice surface quickly spread from the soles of the feet to the surroundings, soon completely covering the cave with a radius of hundreds of meters.

This is the move with the largest impact range among the Esmeralda-style blood freezing techniques that Stephen has mastered. Because the range is too wide, the freezing ability is greatly reduced. Under normal circumstances, it can only restrict the enemy's movement on the smooth frozen surface.

But when facing "liquid", it is enough to maintain the ice surface at a temperature of more than 100 degrees below zero at these moments.

Soon, the acid wave began to take effect upon contact with the ice.

Although it could not be frozen quickly due to the constant flow of liquid from the back, the originally viscous liquid inside the acid had formed a smoothie-like texture.

But for Stephen, that's enough!
Esmeralda's blood-freezing method - Absolute Zero Tornado!

The extremely cold storm appeared out of nowhere in the cave, and under Stephen's control, it surrounded him and spun rapidly, soon forming a white tornado that connected the upper and lower parts of the cave.

The acid, which had turned into a smoothie due to the ice on the ground, didn't even get close to the tornado, and turned into ice crystals under the influence of the extremely cold temperature.

Even with Stephen's deliberate control, the special operations team hiding in the bunker not far away was shivering with cold.

After the tornado dissipated, the surroundings fell into calm again, leaving only a sea of ​​acid that had solidified into the shape of waves.

"call……"

He let out a long breath, and as soon as the breath left his body, it was turned into white mist by the cold surroundings.

Looking at his finished masterpiece, Stephen's body swayed twice and he almost fell down. He managed to stand firm only by relying on his strong will.

Stephen has never stopped fighting since entering this underground base. Adding on the fact that he had to freeze such a large area of ​​liquid at once, even with his strength, he was exhausted.

What's more, the move he used was the Esmeralda style of blood freezing. This style can create low temperatures by consuming one's own blood. It is essentially a kind of blood fighting technique.

After releasing so many powerful moves in succession, Stephen also consumed a lot of blood. If his body had not been modified in order to become a tooth hunter, he would have died from excessive blood loss.

But after such intense digestion, in addition to the fatigue caused by excessive physical exertion, there is also weakness from within the body due to excessive blood loss.

Stephen, who always paid attention to his image, didn't care about anything else now. He put his hands on his knees and took a few deep breaths before he recovered.

After calming down and looking at the ocean of acid condensing around him, Stephen took a deep breath and said, "Come out, Gustavo!"

After a brief lull, a voice as if a person was stuffed into slime came from the depths of the frozen acid ocean: "I never thought you could do this, Stephen. You are much stronger than you were back then."

Click click click...

As the ice surface continued to crack, a figure made of broken ice and sticky liquid appeared on the ice.

Through the transparent green liquid, you can clearly see the human figure's body made of viscous liquid, including a complete set of internal organs, the brain, and a pair of eyeballs connected by nerves.

This set of internal organs floated up and down in the acidic solution that was strong enough to corrode rocks. The exposed eyeballs rolled in the acid for several rounds before finally finding a suitable position. They were embedded in the position of the figure's eyes, standing on the top of the frozen waves and looking down at Stephen below from a condescending attitude.

Seeing Stephen's tired look, the figure's lips made of broken ice opened into a smug smile.

"I crawled back from hell to find you!!!"

Stephen looked at the figure whose body was mostly made of liquid and frowned involuntarily: "Gustavo? How did you become like this? Is Gilder also your disguise?"

Gustavo Enrique Quinteros, Race: Human, Title: Acid Warlock.

He is a warlock famous for his use of acid-making and acid-controlling techniques. He was originally just an inconspicuous member of the Warlock Guild.

Because a large number of opportunities were created after the collision between the human world and the alien world, in order to be able to go further, he secretly assisted the people in the alien world in trafficking humans for rewards. In the end, he was captured by the newly established Libra and imprisoned by the Warlock Association.

Stephen had a deep impression of Gustavo because he was considered to be Libra's first business.

However, in terms of strength, Gustavo did not leave too deep an impression on Stephen. After all, his Esmeralda-style blood freezing technique was too strong against acid magic.

The activity of the frozen acid is reduced, and its corrosive ability will be greatly reduced.

Moreover, the acid, whose physical properties had turned into a solid, could no longer be controlled by acid magic. Besides, Gustavo himself was a researcher and was not good at fighting, so the battle did not take much time from beginning to end.

But Stephen at least remembered that Gustavo was just a skinny old man with corrosion marks on his face due to years of exposure to acid.

Although the monster in front of him had a complete set of human internal organs, it was obviously not a human.

"Of course! All I did was to lure you out for revenge! It was you who kicked my hands and broke them, causing me to lose my ability to cast spells, but it also made me realize my own limitations."

Feeling that he had already secured victory, Gustavo was not in a hurry to kill Stephen, but instead kept talking about his pride.

"The human body has a limit to how much it can control acid. If that's the case, why not turn myself into acid?! This way, I will no longer be limited by the human body, and my control over acid will be even better! See, now even if you freeze the acid, I can still control it easily!"

Gustavo waved his hand casually, and a huge tentacle made of broken ice immediately rose from the frozen acid sea and smashed towards Stephen without hesitation.

boom!
The tentacles hit the ground, creating a large cloud of dust. The terrifying power was vented outward unscrupulously. The entire cave seemed to be shaking. The special forces team hiding in the bunker in the distance even felt a stuffy feeling in their chests.

Even though the corrosiveness of the acid itself was reduced to a minimum due to the influence of low temperature, the pure physical attack exerted by sufficient mass was still terrifyingly strong.

As the smoke cleared, Stephen's dishevelled figure was revealed.

Even though he was weak, there was no way he could avoid this simple and brutal attack, but even the aftermath caused a lot of damage to his special warfare uniform.

boom!
boom!
While the smoke obscured the view, a gunshot was heard from high up in the cave, and the human body that Gustavo had transformed into suddenly exploded - it was K.K who took action.

The time she chose was quite clever; it was the moment when Gustavo was controlling the ice tentacles to smash the ground, the moment when he was most excited but also the most relaxed.

The special sniper rifle that could pry open tank armor accurately hit Gustavo's revealed human body, blasting all of his internal organs, brain and eyeballs into a paste.

But K.K.'s attack was not over yet, and the trajectory with blue arc appeared again.

Heavy weapons 954 blood bullet fighting technique-Electrigger1.25GW!

K.K attacked with all his strength without reservation, and the result was a sea of ​​thunder that was flowing freely with an entire ocean of acid as the medium!

Large patches of blue electric currents "swim" back and forth in the acid ocean, releasing large amounts of light and heat, making the entire acid ocean look like a glowing crystal lamp.

The high temperature caused by the electric current even caused a lot of frozen acid to evaporate out of thin air, turning into green acid mist.

"What a terrifying attack! It seems that little trick can't fool you."

The sound of sticky liquid appeared again, and Gustavo condensed into a human form again and looked at the people present.

However, this time, the humanoid body he condensed did not contain any internal organs. Just as he said, it was just a little trick.

Gustavo raised his condensed hand, looked at the electric current still flowing in his body, and a mocking smile appeared on his face.

"It's useless. No matter what kind of attacks you make, I can't be destroyed as long as the acid is still there! Simply changing the physical properties of the acid is meaningless and will only get you into trouble!"

With a wave of his hand, the green acid mist in the air that had just been evaporated by the electric current was controlled by Gustavo and condensed into a huge gaseous arm that grabbed K.K who was hiding above the cave.

Wherever the gaseous palm passes, any obstacles will be melted away by the acid mist.

"careful!"

Stephen kicked out a large amount of cold air, freezing the green acid mist in the air into ice again.

Although the ice cube's physical attack is stronger, its size has been greatly reduced, giving K.K. room to dodge.

Large pieces of stalactites above the cave were shattered. With the help of his previous arrangements, K.K used steel wire to flexibly escape and avoid the attacks.

But her deployment is limited in number, and she will be attacked sooner or later.

Seeing this, Stephen could only take a deep breath and kick again.

Esmeralda's blood-freezing path - Absolute zero fog!
White icy mist rose rapidly, and soon the entire cave became pitch dark.

Without knowing the exact location of the target, Gustavo's attack became much less effective.

On the contrary, Stephen and K.K. did not need to worry about their attacks missing due to Gustavo's huge size.

For a moment, the dark and vast underground cave was once again detonated by hot rain of bullets, flashing lightning and biting storms.

The humanoid body condensed by Gustavo was torn to pieces again and again under the torrential and intensive attacks, but it was re-condensed again and again, as if it had not suffered any harm at all.

"It's useless! You are just struggling to survive!"

Facing this overwhelming attack, Gustavo did not even show any fluctuation or uneasiness in his tone, but simply hardened his body and took all the attacks.

After tentatively waving the ice tentacles a few times and finding that it did not have much of an attacking effect, Gustavo immediately changed his thinking.

After leaving enough acid at all the entrances and exits of the cave to prevent the opponent from escaping, Gustavo released his control over the humanoid body and let it return to the acid.

Gustavo simply controlled the acid ball as big as a lake and crushed it back and forth throughout the cave.

It is impossible for anyone to dodge such a large-scale attack.

After so many attacks, a state of ice and liquid intertwined has formed inside the acid.

It retains both powerful corrosive abilities and terrifying physical attacks. No creature would want to confront such a thing head-on.

clack clack...

Gustavo heard a series of sounds of ice freezing, and then he saw a towering icicle standing in the cave.

At the top of the icicle is a temporary shelter that the special operations team had previously built using the wreckage of the submarine and rocks.

Inside the bunker, the special operations team and K.K, who looked a little disheveled, were hiding.

In addition to this icicle, there were also large icicles extending continuously in front of him.

"I see……"

Seeing this, Gustavo paused his attack and condensed into a human body.

"You know your attack is useless, so you plan to use this method to delay time?"

Gustavo had experienced the freezing power of the icicle. If he crashed into it, he would be able to destroy the icicle, but his body would also be frozen.

Although Gustavo can still manipulate the acid in ice form, the acid that is completely frozen into a block will greatly reduce its flexibility even if it can be manipulated, and the acid's most threatening corrosive ability will also disappear.

Relying on this method, we can indeed delay the time to the maximum extent.

"But you overlooked one thing. With your current physical strength, how long can you sustain such a move?!" Gustavo smashed an ice pillar in front of him without hesitation.

Although his body was indeed frozen again, Gustavo only paused for a moment before continuing to move.

Seeing this scene, the special forces members and K.K had to leave their original shelter and continue moving in a farther direction.

After breaking a few icicles, Gustavo clearly felt that the icy fog that was originally so dark that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face had become thinner.

“Hahahaha! Stephen, it looks like you can’t hold on any longer!”

Since Gustavo had turned into a block of ice, the sound of his voice turned into a hoarse friction sound.

Gustavo deliberately amplified this unpleasant sound and let it echo across the battlefield, trying to wear down the enemy's will to fight.

Gustavo once again condensed a large tentacle and slammed it hard into the ground. The surging shock wave blew away the fog that could not be dispelled no matter what.

As the air flow surged, Stephen's embarrassed figure was revealed.

"Hahahahaha! I found you!"

Gustavo once again controlled several tentacles to smash down, but even though Stephen was in a weakened state, he was still able to easily dodge such a heavy attack.

Seeing this scene, Gustavo continued to attack steadily, as if he was toying with his enemy.

boom!
After narrowly dodging a tentacle's blow once again, Stephen felt something was wrong as he jumped away.

"Strange, something feels wrong, what did I overlook?!"

Moving his eyes quickly, Stephen soon discovered that under the pursuit and blockade of the tentacles, he had unknowingly returned to the place where he had previously eliminated the underground gangs and leaders of criminal organizations.

The bodies of the criminal leaders were still scattered on the ground, including the remains of "Gilder".

When Stephen saw the remains of "Gild"'s body, he finally realized something was wrong. The large amount of green mucus that had splashed out had disappeared at some point.

"not good!"

The strong sense of threat was like a needle prick. Stephen tried to escape from here but it was too late.

"I won!"

Gustavo finally revealed a cruel smile, waved his hand, and the ambush that had been prepared long ago came into play.

Some corpses lying on the ground suddenly began to move rapidly, and the acid that had been quietly hidden inside the corpses suddenly rushed out, automatically exploding into an acid mist that enveloped Stephen.

The next moment, Stephen broke through the acid encirclement and escaped, but his body had been contaminated by the acid and was severely corroded.

"Ugh!!"

With a scream, Stephen fell to the ground, rolling and struggling.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha! I finally won! You lost!" Gustavo laughed excitedly.

"what!!!"

"Don't even think about struggling..."

"Wow!!!"

"This is the acid mist that I modified. Anyone who gets contaminated by it..."

"Ahhhhh!!"

"They will all turn into a pool of pus in a few seconds!"

“It hurts aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

"Why the hell aren't you dead yet?!"

Listening to the screams coming from Stephen, Gustavo suddenly realized something was wrong. It seemed that the screams seemed to be becoming more and more powerful.

"Oh, isn't the performance a bit too much?"

Stephen, who was rolling and struggling on the ground, suddenly stopped rolling when he heard this and stood up from the ground as if nothing had happened.

"Sorry, I haven't performed for a long time, so I'm a little rusty."

Looking at Stephen, whose body had been corroded for the most part but who was still calm and composed, even to the point of being a little scary, Gustavo's expression became serious:

"Who are you? You're not Stephen, who are you?!"

"Oh, you're not that stupid."

"Stephen" shook his head, which had been mostly corroded and exposed his skull, and then his entire body turned into particles and dissipated.

Instead, a burly man stood in Stephen's place.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Zheng Shu."

(There is an additional chapter today, but I am too lazy to divide it into chapters.)
(End of this chapter)