Lord of Prayer

Chapter 602: Chapter 386: Bad Premonition

A deep knife wound materialized over his heart, imbued with a bizarre Ability that caused his blood to gush out like a waterfall, defying all norms.

Immediately after, tendrils of scarlet cursed energy slithered like venomous snakes toward his beating heart, coiling around it and causing the flesh to rapidly decay.

In Zhou Chen’s Soul, the Book of the Dead, bound by layers of the Star Chain, suddenly opened a crack. It revealed a profound Darkness like an entrance to the endless Abyss. A powerful suction force erupted from within, easily devouring the scarlet curse of decay.

A healing radiance lit up on Erin’s hand. With a push into the void, a warm light descended upon Zhou Chen, causing the decaying flesh to regenerate at an incredible speed and fill with life and vitality. The gushing blood stopped, and the wound on his chest slowly closed under the healing of the Holy Light.

But the very instant the wound healed, the flesh burst open again, creating an identical injury.

The terror of C-013, the Soul-Catching Camera, lay in the continuous damage it inflicted. As long as one was not free from the camera’s Curse, any damage done to the photograph would be constantly reflected onto the subject’s body. Even a Healing Priest from the Life Church could not offer a complete cure.

If the injured part was a vital spot, even a Tier Three Ascender could be brought down by such a cheap trick. Most Ascenders’ self-Recovery Ability couldn’t heal wounds instantly. Once a vital point was hit, it was tantamount to being dragged into a slow, agonizing death.

Seeing this, the man holding the photo gave a savage grin. He viciously slashed the knife across the photo, and a horrifying gash materialized on Zhou Chen’s neck, severing both artery and vein. A massive amount of blood sprayed out.

Erin’s heart clenched, and she began to cast the healing Holy Light again, but Zhou Chen raised a hand to stop her.

BOOM!

A pale, Fiery Fire erupted violently from Zhou Chen’s body. He had activated his Body of Steel Melting, transforming into an incandescent Divine Gold Statue that burned fiercely like a Fireplace. Scorching heatwaves swept out in all directions. The seals below scrambled in terror into the water holes, racing toward the connected aquarium tanks, while the tourists scattered and fled, screaming.

By activating the Body of Steel Melting, he shed the shackles of flesh and blood, and the fatal wounds to his heart and neck instantly became trivial.

"Damn it!" the man with the photo cursed, his dagger flashing like lightning toward another target in the picture.

At the same time, an invisible force pulled off Erin’s hair accessory, jacket, and purse, letting her blonde hair fall smoothly. The same invisible force quickly tied the fallen jacket onto Sasha and, for good measure, plucked off Sasha’s hair clip.

The appearances of the two girls changed drastically in an instant.

As the dagger slashed down, it tore a gash in the photograph, but the image of Erin on it remained completely unscathed.

The man’s expression turned ugly when he saw Erin and Sasha’s altered appearances.

This was the simplest way to counter the Soul-Catching Camera.

—As long as your appearance changes to be significantly different from the image captured by the camera, the Curse of the Soul-Catching Camera will automatically be lifted.

Zhou Chen had read the files on Forbidden Objects, so he naturally knew how to deal with the Soul-Catching Camera. He used Alchemy to manipulate the metal items on Erin and Sasha, slightly altering their appearances and easily nullifying the camera’s Ability.

And by entering his Body of Steel Melting state, his form had also become drastically different from before, thus freeing him from the Curse as well.

With a thought, Zhou Chen recalled his Dream Light and Shadow. Pushing off with his feet, he shot forward in an instant, appearing before the man holding the Soul-Catching Camera and bringing the sharp spear blade down on his head.

CLANG!

The woman with the Yingzhou features charged out, blocking the slash from Dream Light and Shadow with a blood-tinged Tachi. Her Power was unexpectedly immense; Zhou Chen could even feel his hands go numb from the impact.

The Yingzhou woman forcefully knocked aside Dream Light and Shadow and let out a full-throated roar, resonant as a mountain temple bell, that made Zhou Chen’s vision go black.

Her feet crossed as she took a step forward. Surging Essence poured into the blade’s edge, transforming into a Power that erupted like a volcano as she slashed forward. Her speed surpassed the limits of the naked eye; all that could be seen was a flash of crimson light streaking through the air.

SCHFF!

In his haste, Zhou Chen condensed a metal Shield, but it was easily sliced apart by the crimson light. However, that split second was enough for him to react.

The scarlet blade struck his arm, but the clean severing blow the Yingzhou woman had imagined—one that would snap him like a dry twig—did not happen. A look of astonishment crossed her face, because the feedback from her blade felt less like hitting a solid object and more like cutting through light air. Yet she was one hundred percent certain she had struck Zhou Chen!

In the instant the Yingzhou woman was stunned, Zhou Chen began to spin on the spot like a high-speed engine fan. He completed several rotations in the air, using the two supreme Martial Arts techniques of "Transforming Force" and "Dissipating Power" to easily neutralize her attack.

Then, amidst a howling, scorching gale, a blade of molten steel slashed down viciously. The Power it carried was the full force of the Yingzhou woman’s own previous strike!

An eye for an eye, returned in full!

SQUELCH!

With a flash of incandescent white light, the Yingzhou woman was cleaved in two from head to toe by the heavy, powerful blow. An expression of utter disbelief was frozen on her face.

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