Chapter 7025 A Disappointing Future

Chapter 7025 A Disappointing Future

Unfortunately, Herbert was only using regular armor-piercing arrows, and even with nickel-steel arrowheads, they were somewhat inadequate against the extremely thick armor worn by the First Auxiliary Legion's Chief Centurion.

Of course, this really wasn't Herbert's problem; it was the arrows' problem. If the arrows had been reliable, Hasgard would have been eliminated on the spot, or at least he would have been waiting to die. After all, with so many powerful figures attacking him, Hasgard had no time to catch his breath.

However, the lower-level super-speed regeneration still requires far too much time to regenerate bones, lungs, and other organs shattered by super armor-piercing arrows.

Unfortunately, it was just a regular armor-piercing arrow. Although it severely injured Hasgard, the metal stream had no more power left after piercing through his armor. It barely tore through Hasgard's muscles and left only shallow marks on his bones, without piercing his lungs.

Even so, Hasgard was still seriously injured.

"Damn it, those bastards from the Fourth Scythian tribe, Yue Verus, you just wait. When I get back, I'll show them what I'm made of. And this armor-piercing arrow, don't let me find out who shot it. If I do, I'll show you what I'm made of!" Hasgard gritted his teeth, bandaging the wound as best he could, cursing under his breath as he did so.

However, Hasgard also knew that he probably had no chance of dealing with this kind of archer. Top archers, as long as they don't do anything too reckless on the battlefield and change positions after shooting an arrow, can actually cause terrifying damage. Many high-level elite veterans have been ambushed and killed by archers of this level on the battlefield!
Of course, it wasn't necessarily a direct kill, but rather forcing out an opening so that teammates at the front could finish them off. Hasgard had to be in awe of an archer who could hit him from such a distance, penetrate his armor, and inflict such injuries.

More importantly, Hasgard knew very well that the reason his opponent failed to achieve even more impressive results was because his arrows could not withstand the force. As for the shafts, they broke due to the recoil when they hit the armor.

"Isn't this Hasgard?" Just as Hasgard was about to find a place to rest, an old man emerged from the woods and looked at Hasgard.

"Hmm, Luo City." Hasgard glanced at the Yellow Turban leader who was preparing to retire after the Grand Martial Arts Tournament. If the other party were any younger, he would be a formidable opponent.

Unfortunately, the opponent has passed his prime. This time, he participated purely for the sake of his position and to get rid of some foul-mouthed people from the Sanhe Five Schools. Even the Romans know about this.

"Your injuries are quite severe. I heard you killed Yang Tuo and Yang Dandan." Luo Shi removed the flail wrapped in cowhide from his back. He had used this thing for over forty years, and as a weapon for over twenty years.

"Isn't Yangtuo one of the five schools in Sanhe?" Hasgart asked back.

"I didn't participate in the Small World Martial Arts Tournament to kill the Three Rivers and Five Schools. I only killed those Three Rivers and Five Schools members like Huang Xiu who had a foul mouth. As for Yang Dandan, he and I were just fighting for our own masters. When we were fighting together for survival and the future, he also saved many veterans from the Yellow Turban Rebellion. So, do you think he's my teammate or my enemy?" Luo Shi said calmly.

He is a man of principle, very clear about what he should do and who he should kill. Hatred is hatred, and gratitude is gratitude. One cannot forget the past, but one cannot live in the past either.

"People can neither forget the past nor live in the past forever, so guess what I'm here for?" Luo Shi said calmly, looking at Hasgard.

"You can't beat me." Hasgard took a deep breath and looked coldly at Luo Shi. "If you were in your prime, I would respect you, but you're past your prime now. Do you really want to get involved in this mess? You don't actually think you can defeat me in your current state, do you?"

As he spoke, Hasgard took a deep breath, and his body naturally radiated a bronze glow—the glow of life and muscle.

"To be fair, your judgment is correct, but in my life, I've fought too many wars that I knew I couldn't win. If I think about it carefully, in all the wars before Mount Tai, I wasn't confident of victory in any of them, and several of them were even wars where I was certain to die." Luo Shi said calmly. He was a man who didn't care much about life and death because he had experienced too much death. Conversely, he valued gratitude and loyalty very much.

"There's no other way!" Hasgard spat lightly, and without saying another word, he swung his heavy gun and smashed it. In response, Luo Shi swung his flail, creating a loud bang in the air.

"Boom!" The two huge shockwaves collided head-on, crushing the ground between them in an instant. Then, both of them pushed off with their back legs, their calf muscles bulging like writhing dragons, unleashing their maximum power as they sprinted forward.

The moment the flail and the heavy gun collided, the terrifying force of the impact sent both weapons flying backward due to the recoil. Both Luo Shi and Hasgard were holding onto their super-heavy weapons with one hand and using the other to blast their way towards each other.

The clash of fists, though merely thrown, created a storm of wind and thunder. Brilliant light appeared on their forearms, and then, carrying immense momentum, they collided directly with each other.

The moment Hasgard and Luo Shi's steel fists collided, they both felt the terrifying power transmitted from each other. It was a terrifying power that was enough to cripple a non-quality-type seventh level, like Zena. However, when such a terrifying power was transmitted to both of them, every muscle in their bodies contracted and vibrated like rubber, pouring that terrifying power into the surrounding atmosphere!

This extreme dissipation of force caused the air around the two to swirl in all directions. The two who had bumped fists spun around, flipped twice in mid-air, and forced their way to the ground, leaving several footprints before barely managing to stop the impact of the remaining force.

"This is truly outrageous. You are the most ridiculously strong guy I've ever seen besides that bastard Jiang Guang. You even surpass Jiang Guang in basic physical attributes." Luo Shi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. He hadn't vomited blood from being beaten; it was just that during a normal fight, he had gritted his teeth too much, causing some bleeding from his gums.

"I heard you only have one talent?" Hasgard glanced at his barely covered right chest, which was bleeding again from the previous wild collision, then looked up at Luo Shi and asked, "That's really domineering!"

Luo City only has one talent, and the original template for this talent is called Mirror Pursuit. However, he didn't hear it clearly back then and only heard "mirror". He had to fill in the rest of the content in his mind. So he didn't fill in the second half of the content in his mind, but instead filled in how to mirror!
To this day, Luo Shi can mirror all talents. Whatever talent the opponent uses, he will use the same talent. Moreover, the level of this mirroring is very deep. Basically, Luo Shi has never encountered anything that he cannot mirror.

This is also what makes Luo City so difficult to manage!

Of course, if that were all, Luo City would just be a purely idealistic version of the Fourteen Combinations, with Li Zhe, who has undergone sixfold refinement, being a prime example. Even with countless talents, he would still be no match for true top veterans; he simply couldn't beat them.

However, the difference between Luo Shi and Li Zhe lies in the fact that Luo Shi truly fought dozens of battles where certain death was inevitable, and was an elite who survived. Li Zhe, on the other hand, at most fought one or two truly life-or-death battles, and the opponents in those one or two battles were not that great, while Luo Shi's opponents...

The Three Rivers Cavalry led by Huangfu Song and the elite troops of the Five Schools led by Lu Zhi—forget about it, they were truly top-tier elites who would be hung up and beaten to death.

Under these circumstances, if Luo Shi failed to master his talent that year, it can only be said that Luo Shi was forced to master a large number of techniques that could simulate talent. As for why he was able to master so many techniques in one year, you can only ask the hundreds of thousands or millions of people who died. What would have happened if they hadn't mastered them!
With his supermodel skills, mirrored talent, and Luo Shi's battle intuition honed through countless battles, to be honest, this person is one of the top remaining veterans of the Yellow Turban Rebellion who haven't broken through the Inner Qi Separation stage.

Incidentally, this guy was also under Guan Yu's command.

“Yes, he only has one talent. Why do you find that incredible?” Luo Shi looked at Hasgard silently, took a deep breath. He had previously encountered the Huns and learned some techniques from them that were commonplace for the Huns but were actually quite outrageous.

Although, theoretically speaking, this kind of thing requires the wolf cavalry created by General Wei as a foundation, and then the open source technology from the god to be mastered quickly, Luo Shi only had to fight a few times with the elite Xiongnu troops before he naturally mastered this skill.

After all, some people have survived to this day precisely because of these extraordinary qualities. If it weren't for these unusual qualities, they might have already been taken away by now.

As Luo Shi took that breath, Hasgard clearly felt the other party's life level rise. Could such an absurd thing really exist?

"I've slightly modified the techniques I just learned from the Xiongnu. I've adjusted the number and location of the acupoints for qi circulation based on my intuition," Luo Shi said calmly. "It's a slight enhancement to my life essence. After all, with only a normal foundation, I'm completely inadequate to fight you for long. This is all I can do!"

As they spoke, Hasgard clearly saw Law's height increase and muscles expand. The originally frail and thin Law, with the overflow of the light of life, swelled up to a level that was in no way inferior to Hasgard's.

"Simply relying on talent to stimulate one's muscles cannot bring strength comparable to mine. Getting bigger does not mean getting stronger," Hasgard said with a sneer, then planted his cross spear in the ground and strode towards Luo City.

It's just a brutal brawl, and the other side has already extended the invitation. Do you think I, Hasgard, would back down? What a joke! Who are you looking down on?
Two wild mountains of flesh collided violently, and at that moment, a muffled thunderous sound even echoed through the forest, followed by a high-pitched roar like a tiger's howl. Collision, wrestling, impact, back throw, grappling, Hasgard was radiating waves of heat, his originally bronze skin now looked as if he had just come out of a steamer, his blood-red skin emitting billowing heat.

"You lost. To have such strength at this age, you are already very strong. Your skills and talent are top-notch, but your foundation is lacking. Even if you make up for it with other methods, you are still far behind me." Hasgard spat out a mouthful of scorching blood, then looked at Luo Shi lying in the deep pit and said coldly.

However, in the next instant, a beam of blood shot out from Luo Shi's mouth. It was all of Luo Shi's essence, energy, and spirit. It was the Sacrifice Arrow, the Sacrifice Method, the Altar of God, the Martyrdom Technique, the Severing of the Mind. It was a move that would definitely result in death. It was something that Luo Shi had been preparing for over thirty years since he first came into contact with such a thing. And this time, Hasgard successfully triggered it.

Blood spurted from Luo Shi's mouth. The heavy armor was completely meaningless at this moment. Faced with the blood sword that had been nurtured for more than thirty years, Hasgard's armor was easily torn apart, and his body, which had been tempered by thousands of times, was easily pierced by the blood sword, leaving a hole the size of a bowl.

"Too young..." After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Luo Shi's spirit and energy began to crumble from top to bottom, but before he completely collapsed, Luo Shi said to Hasgard with sarcasm, "What kind of mentality makes you dare to be so arrogant before your opponent is even completely dead?"

After saying that, Luo Shihua left, leaving behind Hasgard, whose chest had been pierced with a hole the size of a bowl, and everything inside had been blown away.

"How is this possible?" Hasgard coughed up blood, feeling his own power receding. An incredulity appeared in his eyes. He had considered all sorts of possibilities, but he never thought that he would be eliminated in the Grand Martial Arts Competition like this.

Unwilling and unwilling to accept it, Hasgard roared and stood up straight. Then, as if sensing his unwillingness, the blood-red high-energy matter in the world surged into Hasgard's body, and the huge hole that had been pierced in his chest was instantly healed.

"I..." Hasgard felt the power returning, felt his body recovering in an instant, and naturally began to chant the name of the god, preparing to welcome the arrival of that being.

However, before he could utter those words, Hasgard hissed, "I am Hasgard!"

In that instant, countless crimson substances that had already emerged from Hasgard's body vaguely formed a high-energy image of a mythical figure. Accompanied by this sentence, they disintegrated and were forcibly absorbed into Hasgard's body.

"Huh?" Chen Xi stared at the scene in disbelief, then looked awkwardly at Ji Zhong. "What's going on?"

"Hasgart is undoubtedly a suitable candidate, but his descent failed. His will resisted the divine descent. After all, the Lord of War has not fully awakened, and what fell was a hazy self. After breaking through the Zhou Tian Yuan Lock, he could not complete the descent instantly," Ji Zhong said with some speculation.

"Suddenly, I feel like Da You's level has plummeted. Even descending to break through the limits of will is so difficult for him. His strength..." Chen Xi said with a hint of complaint, his expression seriously lacking.

"That's not quite right. What makes gods stronger than humans is their power, not their will. After all, the difference between the upper and lower limits of human willpower is simply too great," Ji Zhong explained simply. However, to Chen Xi, this was still essentially equivalent to saying that Da You was far too low-level...

"Forget it, it's better that it didn't descend. It saves us some trouble." Chen Xi thought for a moment and said. The failure of the descent is only beneficial to the Han Dynasty. After all, if a Golden Core cultivator had actually descended, even if it was just a projection, the Han Dynasty would have had to expend a lot of effort to deal with it.

"The Lord of War himself has not yet awakened, and his first descent failed. He probably won't descend again, which is actually a good thing for us." Ji Zhong looked in the direction of Hasgard and felt that it was good that the Lord of War had not truly descended. At least it saved them from a big fight here to determine who was superior.

"Alright, Gonghe, you and Junqing keep an eye on things. If the same situation occurs again, report it to me. If not, just leave it aside for now," Chen Xi said to Zhao Shuang and Xu Yue, who exchanged a glance and both frowned.

"What do you two want to say?" Chen Xi asked immediately, noticing their hesitant expressions. "Did you discover something, but it's not something you can say?"

“No,” Zhao Shuang shook her head and said, “What we’re considering is, what if the super-energy matter we observed before was itself a reward after the sacrifice?”

Chen Xi was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, then looked at Ji Zhong, who was also stunned, and then sweat broke out on his forehead in fright.

“No, impossible. Unless Da You is really dead, and the concepts of the Lord of War and the God of War become an extension of the world consciousness, this situation is possible. But the records of the Shi Huang Clan are still there, so Da You cannot have passed away.” Ji Zhong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and repeatedly denied it.

But for some reason, Chen Xi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this denial. What did he mean by "impossible"? In the current situation where humanity is facing the curse of the world's consciousness, relying on luck or face is unreliable. In Chen Xi's view, Ji Zhong's words were basically a confirmation that the concepts of the Lord of War and the God of War had become extensions of the world's consciousness.

"Just tell me, if that's the case, what are the consequences?" Chen Xi said calmly.

“Other creatures in the world, and even inanimate objects, will absorb the accumulated knowledge and skills of humankind through this sacrifice,” Ji Zhong said gravely, wiping the cold sweat from his brow.

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