Faced with a mysterious and elusive Grand Elemental Master who moved like the wind, the base personnel near the Teleportation Gate were clearly stretched thin.
BOOM!
BOOM!
At the edge of the fissure cliff, two tactical cargo holds suddenly burst into flames.
Struck by a Fireball Technique, the high-explosive armor-piercing missiles stored inside were set off in a chain reaction. Metal fragments and tongues of flame shot into the sky, dyeing the entire cliff face crimson.
An attack helicopter, which hadn’t even finished having its munitions loaded and calibrated, was also destroyed by a single sword strike.
Under the scattering force of the Sword Momentum’s wind pressure, the helicopter became a tumbling fireball and rolled right into the crowd.
The hurricane-force winds from the explosion swept through the area, uprooting more than a dozen tactical tents and even twisting, snapping, and flinging the communication antennas into the air.
"Hold your fire!" someone roared, but their voice was drowned out by the dense gunfire.
What made the situation so difficult was that this God of Slaughter was constantly shrouded in a spherical Water Mirror Refraction Barrier, which either deflected or reflected any bullets and Magic that hit it.
The 12.7mm Armor-Piercing Bullets from an M2 Browning heavy machine gun were like rain on a lake, futilely splashing up circles of ripples.
Even more outrageous...
Instead of retreating, he advanced, walking straight into the heavy machine gun’s line of fire and allowing himself to be bombarded.
RAT-TAT-TAT!
Muzzle flashes danced wildly. As the bullets were deflected and refracted by the Water Mirror, Su Chen imbued each one with the light of a Flame Burst.
In an instant, the stream of high-speed, deflected bullets transformed into what looked like beams of fire, obliterating the surrounding personnel along with the heavy machine gun nest.
The combination of a Water Mirror Refraction Rune equivalent to Lv. 8, the 100% effect bonus granted by his Elemental Mastery trait, and a dual-layered composite Telekinesis Barrier practically allowed Su Chen to do as he pleased in the chaotic battle.
While braving the dragon’s den alone, it was inevitable that his shields would break from excessive overflow damage. He could only constantly refresh and reactivate them, relying on his strange, unpredictable, and numerous movement techniques to continuously evade attacks.
"Can’t anyone stop him?!" someone shrieked in anger.
In fact.
It wasn’t that no powerful individuals had their sights set on him.
His old rival, the Magnetic Element Warlock Colonel Griffin, had been unable to find an opening. Griffin’s electrostatic field, which pulsed with strong magnetic waves, was a powerful area-of-effect crowd control skill. But his opponent was as sly as a monkey; after figuring it out, he kept weaving into the crowds.
The same was true for abilities like Thunder Strike and Lightning Chain.
His class trait was full-spectrum electromagnetic manipulation, allowing him to directly affect physical matter. Even non-metallic objects could be temporarily magnetized in an instant, enabling him to forcefully repel or attract them.
However.
Even though Thunder Element classes were inherently fast, no matter how hard Griffin tried, he couldn’t get close to his enemy. Every time it seemed he was about to lock the man down, the magnetic force lines would be violently snapped at the critical moment.
At most, he had only managed to force his opponent into a single physical Elementalization. The man’s flesh and blood had abruptly transformed into surging lightning, dissipating deep into the battlefield like a silent thunderclap.
"What class is this guy?"
The other colonel present, a Four-Star Great Priest of Life and Death, was a Wood Attribute class from the Life Faction. He could heal the wounded and save the dying, but could also make all things Wither with a wave of his hand.
Faced with such a highly mobile opponent, he and the Great Druid beside him found themselves completely unable to keep up.
"He was also able to turn his entire body into Dark Element just now."
A Four-Star Netherworld Priest who had joined the hunt had also come up short. His Dark Gravity waves had managed to envelop the target at one point, but it hadn’t stopped the man from transforming into a wisp of flowing shadow matter and departing unharmed.
"Probably a Five-Star hidden class. And he seems to be a master of Runes from All Elements," Colonel Griffin said, grinding his teeth.
Their class systems were mostly reliant on the Trial Tower, so they were completely clueless about an All-Elements class like this, whose origins were a total mystery.
"I heard he’s the one at the top of the contribution leaderboard right now. Didn’t even Wyatt manage to get the upper hand on him?" They had managed to pick up some rumors.
This statement, however, was a bit of a face-saving embellishment.
It wasn’t a question of getting the upper hand or not.
Griffin remained silent for a moment. In the end, he didn’t reveal the truth: that the Desert Beast Master had been at a disadvantage during their clash and had ended up in a sorry state.
That would be too damaging to morale.
"The enemy’s gone."
The good news was that the enemy had vanished without a trace, perhaps due to the heavy consumption of his Runes.
The bad news was...
This was only the first wave. Now that he’d had a taste of success, if no one could stop him, there would inevitably be another.
Looking around, the camp had been reduced to scorched earth.
Except for the two Teleportation Gates protected by the Barrier, nearly everything else was in ruins. The temporary command tent was nothing but a charred frame, and multiple ammunition stores had been detonated.
The ground was pockmarked with craters and scorch marks. Embers still smoldered, and black smoke rose slowly from the cracks in the wreckage like wandering souls. Mixed in were agonized moans; besides the corpses and mangled remains, the wounded were everywhere.
And all of this was the work of a single man.
Magic Guide Hub Crystal Pillars were extremely rare, with very few having been excavated from the ruins of Elemental City. Naturally, they could only be used to protect the Teleportation Gates, leaving the remaining facilities with no defenses.
"The message has been sent to headquarters. Those guys climbing the leaderboard will be interested in him."
The large number of soldiers now emerging from the Teleportation Gate was one way to salvage morale. At the very least, they could form a cluster to gain a numbers advantage, hopefully making it impossible for that Water Mirror Barrier to hold for even a second longer.
However.
You can call for backup, but Su Chen had powerful reinforcements of his own.
"This is bad, there are signs of a rout up ahead."
When it rains, it pours.
The hundred or so armed personnel sent to support the airspace ahead were now facing a rout. Despite having a numerical advantage, they had been successfully repelled by the Investigation Legion’s Shadow-Chasing Squad, who were working together with a group of independent experts.

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