Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 614 The End
Since Stephen had already realized from his conversation with Inspector Daniel Low that something might have happened to Gild, it was impossible for him not to take any precautions for this mission.

Besides, he was also worried about being backstabbed by Inspector Daniel Lowe after the incident, so Stephen simply found Zheng Shu and hired him as backup assistance for this operation in exchange for some criminal-related materials he had collected.

Zheng Shu was not very interested in this matter, but considering the materials of many criminals with special skills, he didn't mind doing something.

What's more, after defeating the illusionist last time, Zheng Shu wanted to find some time to test the illusion techniques he learned from him.

It just so happened that the commission given by Stephen was a good opportunity to test the illusion, so at the beginning, he used illusion to replace a member of the special operations team and sneaked into the team.

As for the test results, it can only be said that Zheng Shu was quite satisfied. This illusion was indeed an ability at the "rewriting the world" level. No matter in a fierce battle or when the body was injured, there would not be any flaws.

Even if his body was completely surrounded by acid mist, he could use illusion to simulate the appearance of being injured without being noticed by the other party.

It can be said that even if this illusion is only maintained at its current level, it can still be of considerable help in battle.

After all, in an extremely dangerous battle, even a distance difference of just one millimeter can lead to completely different results. With the effect of this illusion, it is easy to toy with the enemy to death in battle.

What's more, in Zheng Shu's opinion, if the effect of this illusion can be further improved, it might be able to go beyond "rewriting the world" and break through the boundary between "illusion" and "reality".

At that time, it would be easy to create the necessary materials or things out of thin air, or to turn the damage suffered by oneself into illusion.

After considering this, Zheng Shu realized that the essence of this illusion was so close to the power of King Hope.

Maybe the illusionist who was defeated by him at that time was able to reach such a level because he received the power of the King of Hope in the endless void.

This is not impossible, and is even quite likely.

After all, based on Zheng Shu's understanding of the Thirteen Kings, if that group of idle guys meet someone who asks them for help, if they are in a good mood, they will definitely not hesitate to give them power.

However, for Zheng Shu, this seemingly boring mission, whether it was testing the effect of illusion or getting Stephen's reward, was not the biggest gain.

The biggest gain is actually the guy in front of me!
Looking at Gustavo, who was completely dissolved in the acid, and one could even say that he was the acid himself, Zheng Shu's eyes lit up.

This is a huge harvest beyond imagination!

Feeling that there was something wrong with the look in Zheng Shu's eyes, Gustavo's eyes became fierce, and he swung the huge frozen tentacle down without hesitation.

boom! ! !
The cave was shaking again, but Gustavo's expression did not relax at all, and even became ugly.

The smoke cleared, and Zheng Shu still stayed in the same position without moving at all, while the frozen tentacle that Gustavo had just waved, which was as thick as a building, broke into two.

Except for a large area around the ground where Zheng Shu was standing that became spider-web-like, there was no change at all inside the cave.

Everyone could see at a glance that Zheng Shu was directing all the power of his tentacle attack into the ground.

"who are you?!"

Gustavo retracted his frozen tentacles, and his body, which had the texture of smoothie, moved restlessly, causing visible ripples to appear in the acid ocean surrounding the entire cave.

"Didn't I just say that? My name is Zheng Shu, and I'm the bodyguard hired by Stephen."

Zheng Shu didn't care about being hit, as if Gustavo's overwhelming attack just now was just a joke.

Raising his hand, Zheng Shu looked at the ball of smoothie-like liquid that he had just scooped from the tentacle during the opponent's attack, and his eyes revealed visible interest.

"You...when did that guy Stephen escape? Or was it just you from the beginning to the end?" Gustavo looked at the thing in Zheng Shu's hand, and a sinister look flashed in his eyes.

Zheng Shu fiddled with the liquid in his hands, looking like he was studying something, and answered without even looking up:
"Oh, that's why you ask that. Actually, the one who fought with you at the beginning was indeed that sinister man Stephen, but later he created a fog and switched identities with me."

"fog?"

Gustavo immediately recalled the pitch-black fog just now. It turned out that Stephen forced himself to release the fog not only to cover his own vision, but also to take the opportunity to replace people.

Thinking of this, Guswota turned his head and looked at the special forces team in the distance.

Seeing Zheng Shu speak out about himself so unreservedly, Stephen felt helpless.

However, with Zheng Shu's support, he was not too weak, so a seemingly ordinary member of the special operations team stood up and took off his tactical helmet, revealing Stephen's face, and greeted Gustavo elegantly.

"Ha! A sinister man?... That's a very accurate description."

Gustavo sneered at Stephen in the distance and turned his attention back to Zheng Shu.

Through the battle just now, he has confirmed that those guys have no effect on him at all, and Stephen's own abilities will even make him stronger.

So what is worth paying attention to now is this guy who has been a little hard to understand since he appeared.

"Hey! That Gu...what's his name?"

Just when Gustavo was alert, Zheng Shu suddenly spoke, but he got stuck when he said the name, and then turned to look at Stephen.

"...Gustavo."

"Yes, Mr. Gustavo, I want to ask, what is the principle behind your transformation of your body into acid? Is it a transformation of the physical elements? Or is it a transformation of the soul, or is it..."

Snapped!
Before Zheng Shu could finish his question, Gustavo condensed a long and thin whip and lashed towards him.

"Use your own body to find the answers to these questions!"

Having learned from the lesson of the previous round of attack in which the hard ice tentacles were directly broken, Gustavo this time used a softer "whip" made of acid with the texture of smoothies.

With the help of the whip effect, even an ordinary person can swing the end of a long whip at supersonic speeds.

The "crackling" sound you hear when you crack a whip is the sonic boom produced when the end of the whip breaks the sound barrier.

The long whip condensed by Gustavo was over a hundred meters long, and the power it carried was so strong that it was unimaginable.

After the whip was swung out, terrifying power gathered at the tip of the whip, and even the ice-like whip body evaporated due to the high temperature.

boom! ! !
A deafening explosion sounded, acid splashed, but Zheng Shu's feet remained firmly nailed to the ground.

Without even making any defensive gesture, Zheng Shu just endured the entire force of the opponent's attack.

By directing all the force to the ground, a radial crack appeared on the ground beside Zheng Shu.

"Humph!"

Seeing Zheng Shu's unharmed appearance, Gustavo was not surprised at all, but sneered.

At that moment, the acid mist evaporated by the high temperature around Zheng Shu's body and the acid in his hands jumped up at the same time and drilled towards his mouth and nose.

Feeling a large amount of acid invading his body, Zheng Shu immediately closed his mouth and covered his nose.

"No matter how strong your outer protection is, your inner body is still fragile!"

Feeling that part of his body had already penetrated into the enemy's body, and watching Zheng Shu's "death struggle", Gustavo smiled triumphantly:

"Die!"

……

The cave suddenly fell into an awkward silence. The scream that Gustavo had expected did not appear. Even with the passage of time, his perception of the part of Zheng Shu's body was rapidly declining.

"What's going on?! What did you do?!"

Facing the furious Gustavo, Zheng Shu shrugged and released his hands that were covering his mouth and nose.

Some of the acid mist tried to escape during the breath, but Zheng Shu sucked it back into his body with more force.

"Sorry, my digestive system is a bit powerful, so I absorbed these things."

Smacking his lips as if savoring the taste of the acid mist and acid liquid, Zheng Shu nodded with satisfaction.

"Not bad, not bad. This stuff must be great for dipping dumplings."

"What do you take my acid for?!"

Under Zheng Shu's continuous stimulation, Gustavo was on the verge of losing his mind. The entire ocean of acid was gathered by him, even the acid used to block the entrance and exit of the cave was gathered together by him.

"Die! This is the punishment for my acid insult!!"

A huge green wave flew down from above the cave, launching a flood-like attack on Zheng Shu and everyone in the cave.

"boring."

Zheng Shu didn't make any big movements, just glanced at Gustavo, and he felt his body suddenly lose control and stagnate in mid-air.

"What have you done to me? Let me go!"

"It's noisy."

With a wave of Zheng Shu's hand, the acid in the air automatically gathered into a huge sphere, almost filling up the entire cave.

"You are too big. It will be inconvenient to torture you. So let's shrink you down a bit first."

Ignoring Gustavo's struggle, Zheng Shu stretched out his fingers and casually drew a few strokes at the liquid in the air, marking out the area he wanted to destroy.

"Well, these two should be enough. As for the rest...just destroy them first!"

buzzing...

Several huge magic circles appeared out of thin air in the air, completely surrounding Gustavo.

boom! ! !
A dazzling beam of energy gushed out from the magic circle, completely covering the huge liquid sphere in the air.

Zheng Shu's method of reducing Gustavo's body size was simple and brutal. He used a huge amount of energy to completely destroy the acid molecules in his body.

This is a solution that Zheng Shu discovered when he was digesting the acid. As long as molecular-level destruction is achieved, Gustavo's "body" can be completely destroyed.

Gustavo felt like a piece of meat hung in an oven. He could only watch his body gradually dissipate and shrink, powerless to do anything.

On the other side, Stephen and the others looked at the several giant magic arrays in front of them that were continuously releasing energy, and they couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

"Isn't this energy output power... a bit too exaggerated?" K.K quietly approached Stephen and asked.

The corner of Stephen's scarred eye twitched. He said nothing, but just looked down at the personal terminal in his hand.

From the moment the magic circle appeared, he quietly used his personal terminal and tactical helmet to try to measure Zheng Shu's energy fluctuations.

However, the truth was that he was overthinking it. Even the lowest energy peak of Zheng Shu's magic circle exceeded the measurement limit of the personal terminal.

Fortunately, the equipment researchers at the police station don't have any bad tastes, so the equipment won't actually explode after the energy reaches the limit.

However, from this aspect alone, Stephen already knew how powerful these magic arrays would be if they exploded out of control.

“It’s off the charts?” K.K came over and looked at the numbers on Stephen’s personal terminal, his face turning pale.

"Didn't those guys in the police station say that this thing can even calculate the energy of a nuclear bomb explosion?"

Stephen said nothing, but nodded heavily.

Zheng Shuke didn't care how scared the two people behind him were. He kept adjusting his "firepower" according to the situation inside the magic circle to prevent himself from using too much force and completely destroying the opponent.

"This size... is about right."

He snapped his fingers to end the magic circle, and looking at the ball of acid falling from the sky, which was not much bigger than a computer case, Zheng Shu reached out and caught it in his hand.

"How is it possible?! How could you do such a thing? How could my acid have no effect on you?!"

Gustavo was still in a broken state, mumbling about various things.

After listening to his complaints carefully, Zheng Shu nodded with satisfaction.

"It's quite interesting that his body has shrunk to this extent, but his mind and thinking ability have not been damaged."

Zheng Shu weighed the ball of acid in his hand and felt more and more that this mission was worthwhile.

Gustavo's ability to merge with acid is completely different from ordinary body elementalization.

If a normal elemental body is divided into too small units or one part is too far away from the body, that part of the elemental body will be out of control forever.

But Gustavo is different. Even a drop of acid splashing on the ground can be perfectly controlled by him.

Moreover, a normal elemental body will lose control once its physical properties change, but Gustavo can even transform his body among the three states of gas, liquid and solid at will.

Such ability has completely surpassed Zheng Shu's attainments in this area.

(End of this chapter)