Chapter 802: Chapter 619: Leaping into the Future (Part 2)
Though there are mages whose assassination speed can catch Holy Sanctuary Mages off guard, such as the recent attempt by the Gun Technique Sanctuary to kill Ash. However, this kind of assassination has two issues: ① The Gun Technique Sanctuary needs to shorten the distance to within three steps of the ‘Trust Distance’, only then can his Miracle speed possibly render Ash unable to respond; ② At most, he can only manage one strike, if Ash isn’t dead, the next second he can raise a Holy Domain defense!
The Gun Technique Sanctuary is by no means a weakling, Ash was nearly caught by him. However, compared to Silver Lamp, the tricks of the Gun Technique Sanctuary appear to be child’s play.
The distance between Silver Lamp and them exceeds ten steps, yet she can instantly tear their bodies apart to an irreparable extent, and she even consecutively killed the Gun Technique Sanctuary and the Wind Skill Sanctuary!
Honestly, Ash and the others are still in a daze. Silver Lamp’s slaughter of the Holy Sanctuaries in a demonstration as if she were slaughtering fat cattle truly shocked their minds—they were just considering hunting Silver Lamp, but now it seems she could easily turn them into minced meat with a flick of her fingers.
When Silver Lamp looked at the Fire Technique Sanctuary, he no longer cared about his earlier plans to assassinate Ash and others, and quickly hid next to Ash and them. A few seconds later, Silver Lamp spread her golden and silver wings and left without a word, merging into the still night.
Even though Silver Lamp has left, no one dares to disperse their Holy Domains, as the two soon-to-be-scattered corpses are still before them.
However, soon, Ash took the initiative to disperse his Holy Domain and said thoughtfully, “I understand now.”
He raised his hand, and a golden Temporal Cicada emerged on his arm, crawling back and forth along it: “I understand the mystery of Silver Lamp’s move, her Fang Chan ability should be just as we speculated.”
The Fire Technique Sanctuary naturally couldn’t understand these words, but Igula and the others immediately reacted.
Ash’s Temporal Cicada has the effect of covering the state from three seconds ago to the present, he calls it ‘Three-second Cicada Shell’, used well, it can avoid almost all fatal injuries.
So they all speculate that Silver Lamp’s Fang Chan should have the effect of covering the state from three seconds in the future to the present!
The reason she could instantly kill two Holy Sanctuary Mages is that neither had raised their Holy Domains, so on the timeline observed by Fang Chan, Silver Lamp could tear them apart in three seconds, then cover this future onto the present, thus their bodies became shattered and fragmented!
She clearly intended to target the Fire Technique Sanctuary, but since he had already activated his Holy Domain, and Silver Lamp couldn’t break it within three seconds, Fang Chan couldn’t observe this timeline, thus she had to give up and leave.
Turn back to move forward, leap into the future!
Compared to Temporal Cicada, Fang Chan’s effect seems even more outrageous, but it also depends on who uses it. Like Temporal Cicada in Ash’s hand can only save people, but in Silver Lamp’s hand, it might become some self-destructive weapon restoration device.
Moreover, Silver Lamp’s move is not without counters—as long as she can’t kill someone within three seconds.
She kept this move hidden until now for a reason, if she had exposed it early on, Ash and the Four Pillars God Sect would have prepared trigger-based miracles in advance, that is, delayed miracles which activate upon attack, thus preventing Fang Chan from observing their deaths three seconds into the future!
Originally such delayed miracle defenses were not very effective, and they have instantaneous Holy Domains, so they wouldn’t usually invest time in this. But facing Silver Lamp’s threat, no matter how troublesome, everyone would lay out defensive traps before getting out of bed in the morning.
However, they couldn’t escape from the Dead City now, so finding help is impossible!
Silver Lamp saw this point and safely showed her new trump card, unless they keep their Holy Domains active at all times, Silver Lamp can harvest their lives at any moment!
Except for one person.
Ash exchanged glances with Igula and the others, a strange light flickered in their eyes.
He is the one protected by a delayed miracle.
Just a few days ago, when Ash was chatting with them, Igula suddenly raised a question: “Three-second Cicada Shell” is very strong, but what if Ash, you are the first to die?
Though Ash didn’t think he would lag behind, for safety’s sake, he still cozied up to the Temporal Cicada for a few days, petting and hugging it, unexpectedly, the Temporal Cicada actually got on board with him—it vaguely indicated that if Ash entered a state of death, it would automatically activate ‘Three-second Cicada Shell’ to save Ash!
Thus, the assassination by the Gun Technique Sanctuary could never succeed from the beginning.
Ash might be killed once by him, but he has three lives.
And these three lives, Ash can use them himself, or give them to others!
From this point, the Temporal Cicada is no worse than the Fang Chan—Ash can not only use the Temporal Cicada to protect himself, but also protect others!
If given the choice, Ash would still want the Temporal Cicada, just as Silver Lamp would probably prefer the Fang Chan.
Moreover, the relationship between Silver Lamp and Fang Chan should also be a half-master state, just like the Temporal Cicada will only give Ash three chances a day, Silver Lamp should be similar. And now she has already used it twice, while Ash hasn’t used his at all!
Thus, Ash doesn’t need to be afraid of Silver Lamp’s surprise attacks at all!
However… Ash looked at the Temporal Cicada, thinking it even got pulled into the ‘Sanctuary’. Clearly, it isn’t considered his Technique Spirit, it’s just a soul clinging closely to him, akin to a stray cat living on his doorstep. So, does the ‘Sanctuary’ target souls?