<h4>Chapter 269 Battle for the Cape 12</h4>


    In the underground parking lot, the fight between Understanding Death and Shiva had reached its climax. They were standing in a zone covered in a blurry, colorful haze, and the ground underneath them was littered with empty paint cans.


    "You have used tenrge health potions, with the dwindling effect... Their effect is soon going to run out for you, isn’t it?" Shiva’s expression was unfazed, and he sounded like he had victory in hand.


    "Humph... ’soon’?" Understanding Death had a smile on his face. "Don’t you know the exact data of the dwindling effect after using three health potions in session?"


    "So what if you do and I don’t?" Shiva replied. "You people from Regtion always do these boring things. How can the small difference in data change anything? Can it help you beat me?"


    "Ha... every time we fight, your attitude always manages to ruffle my feathers," Understanding Death said. "A person like you who can get so strong without nning anything... I guess that is a fighting genius..."


    "I don’t care whether I’m a genius or not," Shiva answered as he looked around. "What I care about is... now that you are cornered, you still chose to defend and not attack, dragging the battle out. There must be a reason behind it. Right... Is it rted to these floating colors?"


    "Ha! That makes me envious!" Understanding Death said. "You can make the correct prediction with instinct, but... even so, you ignore it fully knowing that it is my tactic. You underestimate me too much!"


    Understanding Death struck with his palms, and it carried with it a ball of colorful st as it headed for Shiva. Shiva’s expression shifted; his instincts told him that he had to avoid this strike. He kicked the ground behind him and sidestepped the strike. The colorful palm strike was like an unleashed beast, ferocious and strong. After brushing past Shiva, it continued to st forward beforending on an unlucky dude’s SUV. The car had a strange change. The whole car, both inside and out, was dyed with different colors, and two secondster, it exploded like a firework.


    This was not a normal explosion but a skill effect. After the SUV shattered into pieces, upon closer inspection, they saw that the pieces all looked like shapes from Tetris blocks.


    "So, this is it... When the paint in the air reaches a certain density, your attacks will carry this kind of scary effect." Shiva looked at the blocks calmly. "But... if I leave this space, won’t your effort be wasted?"


    "You can try..." When Understanding Death said that, the outeryer of the floating color started to congeal. Soon, a colorful wall surrounded the two. Even the cement above and below him turned into colorful blocks.


    "No wonder you were fighting like a coward earlier and wasted such arge number of health potions to expand the battlefield as far as you could," Shivamented. "I don’t know whether this is your skill or equipment or abination of both... but it is indeed powerful. Give you enough time to prepare, and it is a wless ultimate."


    "It is toote for you to praise me now. This is your own fault for underestimating me!" Understanding Death jumped and kicked. A sickle of air shot out. This attack was like a huge wave, and there was no way to hide. With a sigh, the stone tes behind Shiva all showed a strong light. The eight stone tes with different shapes gathered to form a giant hourss.


    "I’m surprised that you would force me to use this," Shiva said darkly. In that moment, a st of energy, with the hourss as its center, charged forward, dispersing the surrounding colorful fog and crumbling the walls. Even Understanding Death was sted into dust by the attack.


    This was one of the effects of Shiva’s Sorcery weapon, Heavenly Hourss. The effect ’Sanctuary’ could remove the effects of all enemy skills and equipment, including passive skills, within the area for one minute. After that, the Stone te ’Earth’ would crumble and would only recover after returning to the log-in lobby.


    The Heavenly Hourss had eight properties—Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Void, Sun, Mood, Destruction. Currently, Shiva had only mastered the effect of the ’Earth’ Sanctuary, and ’Water’ Purification. But with these two, it was clear how powerful his sorcery weapon was.


    "Impossible..." Seeing all his effort waste away, Understanding Death felt deep despair.


    At that moment, the memory from his youth rushed into his mind. Back then, Understanding Death was not a professional yer; he was just a high school student who liked to y games and favored fighting games. He was hugely talented with great skill. He had no match in his circle of friends. That was until the day the game started to sell paying items...


    That day, he entered the high-tier game area like usual, and the young man with an eighty-percent win rate was destroyed the whole day, only winning a few battles. His tactics were perfect, and his reaction time and mind set were professional, but... before whales, they were pointless. He tried his best, but with the push of the button, he would be destroyed. And at this moment, Understanding Death once again felt that helplessness and the unwillingness of losing an unfair battle.


    "Nothing is impossible," Shiva said. "If you are not satisfied, go and get your Sorcery Weapon. Thene and challenge me again."


    With a wave of his hand, the hourss separated, but only seven stone tes remained.


    Understanding Death did not move, and he looked calm. He did not have many Life Points left. Even if he wanted to run, he did not have enough Stamina Point. As a fighter, he wanted to at least maintain hisst shred of pride. The seven stone tes shot out different color beams toward Understanding Death. He did not evade because he understood when the effect of his skill evaporated... the battle had been decided.


    Several secondster, Understanding Death morphed into white light and disappeared. In the game menu, his name now had ’Dead’ next to it.


    "Phew." Shiva sighed and mumbled, "Originally, I nned to keep Sanctuary to deal with that guy’s Blood Golem... Didn’t think I’d be cornered to use it now..."


    He had crossed path with King of Shadows before, and he knew how threatening he was. So, he realized that King of Shadows was the real yer who was a threat to him in this scenario.


    "But it’s good that I’ve dealt with Understanding Death," Shiva said as he opened the menu to confirm the other yers’ status. To his shock, when his eyes moved to the yer statuses, next to King of Shadows’ name, there was the term ’Dead’.


    "What?" Shiva was stunned. "He’s already killed?"