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'For the sake of caution, let's take a look——

'——Crimson King Epitaph. '

The picture of the future came into Diablo's eyes.

Diablo saw the scene where his heart was gouged out by the black bullet hole.

"—The Crimson King!!!"

something wrong.

There must be something wrong with this golden cutter!

Seeing such a bloody future, Diablo jumped time again without any hesitation.During this process, Diablo watched helplessly as the golden knife fell towards him, and when it landed on the ground, it turned into a pitch-black bullet hole, but he kept wandering in his direction as if he couldn't find the target. position".

"I see, something like a "bullet hole" will be formed the moment it touches it?

"If I hadn't been careful just now and used the Crimson King's fist to break this kind of attack carelessly, I would have... died again right now? Although I can't understand how the ability of the Stairway to Heaven derives from this kind of attack. It's a skill, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that I already know the effect of your ability.

"Next-"

Thinking of this, Diablo came near a huge reef.

The Crimson King raised his fist high.

"—Time is engraved again."

"Um?!"

The moment the time jump ended, Nero's gaze changed instantly.

Immediately afterwards, a loud "bang" attracted Nero's attention. It was the sound of King Crimson's fist smashing a rock into pieces.In the field of vision, Diablo controlled the Crimson King, gently picked up a piece of sharp-edged gravel, and held it in his hands like drinkers gathered in front of a dart board in a bar.

Then, throw it out.

"The Crimson King——!!!"

Whoosh!

Diablo is obviously a good player at darts, and the sharp gravel instantly tore through the rain and whizzed away.

Nero instantly realized Diablo's thoughts, his neck tilted and his head was turned sideways for a moment, and the sharp gravel rubbed a few strands of hair and melted into the rain.Immediately afterwards, Nero backhanded another golden knife, and Diablo knew what was wrong, so he withdrew to the side without the slightest obsession.

However, as soon as the front foot opened the distance, the bullet hole on the ground of the back foot was chasing straight towards him.

"I didn't expect to have the ability to "track" in the future? "

Diablo was taken aback.

But for Nero, it was just another stunned appearance, and Diablo's figure flashed in another place again, far away from the disappeared bullet hole of the golden knife.

"Ten seconds.

"Your golden cutter can maintain the "bullet hole form" for only ten seconds. "

Diablo already understood.

Nero raised his eyebrows: "So what if we know?"

Diablo casually pointed at Nero with his index finger: "Got it, I'm one step closer to dragging you out of the sky, Nero Zeppelin."

Nero snorted.

Although the smell of gunpowder was full, both of them were extremely calm.

The passionate deduction like a boy's hot-blooded manga is obviously completely irrelevant to Nero and Diablo at the moment.Compared to warriors who chanted dreams and creeds, Nero and Diablo were like students in a mathematics examination room, constantly using their meticulous brains and cold logical thinking to think about the current situation.

"..." Nero.

"..." Diablo.

The two looked at each other.

Obviously they are incompatible enemies, but because both of them maintain such a harsh way of thinking, they have reached a certain consensus by coincidence——

If this continues, it is impossible to tell the winner.

The king of time cannot touch the realm of the sky, and the overlord of the sky cannot break free from the shackles of time.

"Let's go, Trish."

"……Hey?"

Trish was taken aback.

Nero didn't look at Trish, but calmly looked down at Diablo on the beach.

"It doesn't make any sense to continue entanglement on this coast. Instead of doing this, it's better to do other meaningful things.

"— Stairway to Heaven."

Nero's figure gradually faded away.

Diablo watched Nero's figure disappear into the world without saying a word, without the slightest anxiety.He knew what Nero was going to do, he didn't have the ability to stop it, but he didn't have the idea to stop it, he just whispered softly:

"—The Crimson King."

Diablo's figure also disappeared.

The Emerald Coast under the heavy rain is so quiet, only the broken reefs are left to announce the extraordinary night.

Chapter 94 The Secret Emperor Part [-]

Apache parked the car quietly on the side of the road, looking around at the surrounding rain.

The vehicle shook back and forth slightly, because Apache didn't pull the handbrake at all.This former police officer with little combat effectiveness is now ready to step on the accelerator and run away if something goes wrong around him.

"Yah ah ah..."

Waiting was a little boring, Apaki simply took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms.

However, just as the smoke came out——

"boom!"

Something landed on the roof with a dull thud.

Apaki's hands trembled, and a pack of cigarettes fell under the driver's seat.Just as Apache was thinking about what to do to fight back or slip away, Nero had jumped off the roof of the car with Trish on his back and landed on the ground beside him, allowing Apache to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Is it resolved, boss?"

"It's early."

"……Um?"

Apache had a sense of foreboding.

Nero said seriously: "The enemy's ability is the ability to "delete time" - just like when you watch a video and use the mouse to click the progress bar directly. "

"...?"

Hearing Nero's explanation, Apache was a little confused.

Shocked.

Is this the substitute ability that humans can have?

Nero opened the car door and threw Trixiu in: "Trichu, you will be in charge of Apache's guard work next. I will definitely not have the slightest energy to focus on protecting you in the next battle. "

This is definitely not good news for Apache.

Apache can't imagine what "deleting time" is at all, but it must be a terrifying ability that can make people like Nero say such things!

"I see!" Apache nodded immediately.

"Terry Hugh, are you okay?" Nero looked at the girl again.

Trixie didn't speak, but nodded slightly.

Nero rubbed Trish's hair, and said to the lost girl: "After experiencing such a terrible scene of reunion of father and daughter, I'm afraid it's impossible for you not to think about it right now. But Trish, everything will pass Yes, everything will be fine. But at the moment, no matter what, please cheer up, Apache needs your protection."

"..." Apache didn't speak.

Trish met Nero's eyes, and immediately nodded seriously.

And the hot girl who seemed more reliable than Trixie slowly appeared at the side and spoke.

"Leave it to me and Trish, Nero."

"Then Apache, when you were protected as a princess, you should work as a psychiatrist part-time. The police should have experience in comforting victims or reporting crimes, right? I hope you have not forgotten your professional skills."

"……give it to me."

Apache nodded, took out a cigarette from the unfinished box, lit it, and put it in his mouth.

At the same time, Nero closed the car door with a "snap".Immediately afterwards, Apache kicked the accelerator and drove onto the ring road in Sardinia, disappearing into the distance.When the car finally lost sight of the figure, Nero spoke softly.

"Let's go, Suzumi."

"Ah."

Suzumi Sugimoto nodded slightly.

The avatar named "Diablo" was displayed on her map openly.

The wind blows.

Nero's figure disappeared without a trace.

A moment later, Nero came to the place where Diablo was located - a place named "Rio Mulinu" by archaeologists north of Olbia and south of the Emerald Coast.Here, like other places in Sardinia, there are flat-topped conical buildings made of stone blocks.

"...Nuraj civilization."

Nero recognized the buildings.

These buildings called "Nuragi" on Sardinia are the cultural heritage left by the Nuraghi people from around 1500 BC to 400 BC.What is even more amazing is that there are no beams and pillars inside the building, and there is no adhesive between the stones.These buildings rely entirely on the precise stacking skills of the ancient Nuraghi people to stand upright the year before last, and they have been preserved to this day.

At this moment, Diablo was in the largest Nuraj in this ancient building.

"Crash-"

The rain continued.

Nero quietly appeared outside the stone house, watching Diablo's back.

"There is no need to hide, Nero Zeppelin.

"As early as the time of Sha Lei and Mario Ziquero, the information that you could be invisible appeared on the table of the intelligence team, and at this moment, the changing sound of the rain has already betrayed your whereabouts—your wind , and blew the rain into disorder."

Diablo turned his head slowly and looked at Nero.

Nero's figure gradually appeared, appeared in Diablo's sight, and walked into the stone house.

Diablo looked at the interior of the stone house, and opened his mouth like a tour guide introducing attractions to tourists.

"Nero Zeppelin.

"Although you have a goddaughter, you seem to have no interest in faith from the information. You never went to worship when you were in school, and you don't have the slightest respect for the gods."

"So?" Nero asked.

Diablo pointed to the wall where only stone bricks remained.

"These buildings left by the Nuragi, there are about seven thousand in this island of Sardinia. The small ones are the houses of the Nuragi, and the large stone houses like this are their fortresses for defense. And the temple used for sacrifice. In other words, although we don’t know which god the Nuraghi people worship, we have no doubt——

"The battle is fought in front of the eyes of the gods."

Nero gently paced along the wall of the round stone house: "How can you believe in God, a demon like you? Could it be that you are thinking, whether the gods will protect me, an unbelievers, or kill you, a demon? sent to hell?"

Diablo was also pacing, looking at each other in the temple of stone like a duo, chatting about theology and history, but thinking about how to deal a fatal blow to the other party.

"I just want to tell you, Nero Zeppelin, don't say you're just walking on the stairs to heaven. Even in the center of heaven, the angels will be terrified of me!"

The voice fell.

Diablo stopped at the entrance of the stone house, and the figure of the Crimson King appeared again.

Nero, who was standing in the deepest part of the stone house and in front of the altar of the Nuraghi people in the past, also stopped. He was dressed in golden armor. Behind the gap in the helmet, there was only a dark stairway to heaven standing quietly beside the main body.A dazzling golden knife slowly appeared in front of the five fingers of the ladder to heaven.

"Come here, Diablo."

"It seems that you are very confident that you will react the moment my Crimson King launches an attack, and use the "Golden Cutter" in your hand to strike first?It seems that you are very confident in the speed of "Stairway to Heaven". Do you want to compete with me like a cowboy in a western movie? "

"Ordinary means can't kill you, Diablo. Someone said, stay closer to your friends, but closer to your enemies! And now, I'm coming closer to you, Diablo ——In order to break your backbone and end our grievances."

Having said that, Nero hooked his fingers.