Chapter 296: Chapter 187: Siblings Join Forces vs. Mario
Facing these two colossal beasts, Xia Pingzhou remained still, standing like a rock amidst the raging tide.
He seemed steady, but his situation was actually quite precarious.
The King’s authority could indeed fend off all attacks, but he couldn’t move— the dinosaurs’ impact was not just for show.
He could only stand there, praying that the King was well protected by Su Zimai.
At this moment, any other Quasi-Calamity level Power User standing here would probably be torn apart by the brute force of the two dinosaurs.
But Xia Pingzhou was different; the King’s Statue’s power was almost like a cause-and-effect law; even a nuclear bomb couldn’t harm him as long as the King remained undestroyed.
"How powerful... Can this guy’s King even withstand a dinosaur’s attack?"
Su Zimai paused, suddenly feeling that her loss at the auction wasn’t unjust.
Seeing it again with her own eyes, this guy truly was a monster among monsters.
She forcefully steadied her trembling body, lifted her gaze, and looked up at Mario standing on the cliff.
"If only I could catch that kid, there would be a chance to leave here." Thinking this, Su Zimai’s eyes sharpened, she threw up the red cloak, and disappeared instantly.
"What’s she doing?"
Xia Pingzhou frowned. He had seen this trick at the auction; Su Zimai would vanish when she threw the cloak and reappear at the cloak’s location after few seconds.
The cloak danced in the storm, quickly flying to a thick branch. Su Zimai’s body suddenly appeared beneath the cloak. She slightly bent her body, her feet on the rough bark surface, pulled the cloak with her right hand, and draped it on her back.
Taking off the Magic Hat, Su Zimai released a pigeon the size of a hand from it.
With a slight tug of invisible Magic Silk Thread, the pigeon swiftly inflated into a giant bird with bright red eyes. Su Zimai jumped onto the back of the giant bird, riding it to fly upwards through the Primitive Jungle, aiming straight for the boy in hospital garb on the cliff.
Mario looked down from the cliff at the approaching giant pigeon and murmured, "Is it coming for me?"
He used the joystick to select the second icon on the console screen and pressed the "confirm button."
Soon after, a black prompt box popped up in front of him.
[Gold Finger activated: "Time-Limited Counter System" (Within ten seconds, any damage and control effect received will automatically rebound to the source).]
At the same time, the Wind God Winged Dragon changed its target, no longer attacking Xia Pingzhou alongside the Tyrannosaurus, but flapping its wings to fly upwards, pursuing Su Zimai’s silhouette.
Su Zimai turned her head, noticing the scene with her peripheral vision, swiftly turned back and raised her hand, gathering clusters of fireballs from her Magic Gloves, shooting them at the winged dragon’s head. However, the winged dragon merely waved its massive wings, dispersing the flames in the tempest.
At this moment, Su Zimai’s body was suddenly intercepted by a lightning-fast silhouette, embraced, and brought tumbling into the jungle.
With a "snap," the Magic Silk Thread snapped apart. The giant pigeon plummeted to the ground, instantly shattered into a spray of foam.
Su Zimai was stunned, glancing to the side; the one who intercepted her turned out to be the Queen’s Statue, which was now embracing her waist and dashing between giant branches.
The winged dragon pursued the Queen’s Statue from behind. Its piercing cries were deafening, its wings fierce and sharp like blades, slicing apart countless giant trees. The trees collapsed thunderously.
"What are you doing!" Su Zimai shouted in anger.
Originally, she was going to use the giant pigeon to approach Mario, but was rudely intercepted by the Queen’s Statue.
"We still don’t know what tricks he has, so don’t fight back." The Queen’s Statue raced through the branches with Su Zimai in its grasp, raising her finger and writing in the air with icy blue flames.
Mario looked down at this spectacle, disappointedly saying, "So, they didn’t come through? I’ve wasted my counter-time."
He shifted his gaze from Su Zimai to survey Xia Pingzhou in the forest. At this moment, the Tyrannosaurus was still trying to break through Xia Pingzhou’s barrier, yet the barrier showed no sign of cracking.
"Is that barrier really so rigid?"
Mario raised his eyebrows, suddenly noticing the luxurious statue holding a scepter not far behind Xia Pingzhou and realized, "Oh... It’s because of that statue, so I just need to destroy it."
He sighed, "Originally, I planned to save this move for self-defense, but I might as well eliminate him now."
Thinking so, Mario selected the third icon on the console screen and pressed the "confirm button."
[Used one-time item: "Descending Giant Rock" (A giant rock will fall at your chosen location).]
The prompt box quickly disappeared, followed by a top-down map view displaying on the console.
The map featured the silhouette of a giant rock, Mario used the joystick to adjust the rock’s position, placing it directly at the top of the King’s Statue and Xia Pingzhou, ensuring the rock’s shadow covered both, then he pressed "confirm deployment" on the panel.
Xia Pingzhou suddenly startled, shifting his gaze from the Tyrannosaurus, looking upward.
Just then, he saw overhead a gigantic rock with a radius of several dozen meters descending from the sky, its shadow enveloping him! If this rock fell, it would likely crush both him and the King’s Statue, and without the King’s protection, he would be squashed into a mist of blood!
"All thanks to the Diaper Demon, for not coming to protect my King."
Xia Pingzhou thought to himself, sighing inwardly, and in that instant made a decision, unleashing the power of his second Contracted Demon— the "Cloning Demon."