My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 142 - 113: Xia Pingzhou’s Second-Order Celestial Driver, New Chess Species (Asking for Monthly Votes)_2

Chapter 142: Chapter 113: Xia Pingzhou’s Second-Order Celestial Driver, New Chess Species (Asking for Monthly Votes)_2

At this moment, Xia Pingzhou felt as if the ground beneath his feet suddenly turned into a swamp, and a strange gravitational force pulled him irresistibly downward, as if he was being swallowed by a shadow with gaping jaws.

Soon, Xia Pingzhou and Oda Takashige together slipped into the Shadow Lake under their feet.

The café was empty, with no sign of people.

Because the moving speed was exceedingly fast, Xia Pingzhou couldn’t see anything clearly, nor could he hear anything; he could barely squint to glimpse a bizarre gray curtain.

Oda Takashige dragged Xia Pingzhou’s body, taking him through the shadow world at high speed.

In less than a minute, they reached the interior of a large mall.

After freeing himself from the shadow, Xia Pingzhou leaned against the railing, hunched over and gasping for breath, thinking to himself that the experience of the Empress’s Paper Dragon is better; the sensation of walking in the shadows can probably only be accepted by trained ninjas like Uncle Takashige.

"With this move, how many people can you take at most?" Xia Pingzhou slowly raised his head and casually asked.

"Currently, my limit is to bring one person into the shadows with me; otherwise, everyone might get lost in the shadow world," Oda Takashige replied candidly.

Xia Pingzhou turned his head and looked around, seeing that at this time, no shops were open in the mall, and the lights in the walkway were turned off.

Only one fashion store stood out, with a sizable fire raging inside. Bright flames spread from within, illuminating the walkway and spewing flaming tongues outward. The fire had turned all clothes and models inside the fashion store into char. From time to time, strange laughter came from deep within the flames.

"Number 12, wait for me here."

After saying this, Oda Takashige rolled up his sleeves, and a Shadow Tachi coalesced in his right hand, advancing first toward the fashion store.

Xia Pingzhou released the Celestial Driver, extending his hand toward the black and white ring road surrounding him, summoning the Queen’s Statue.

Clad in an elegant silver and white Queen’s Statue, he followed Oda Takashige into the interior of the fashion store.

Inside the fashion store was a blazing fire, with three flames of particularly bright red emitting strange laughter.

Even more bizarre were the eyes and mouths on these three flames, sticking their tongues out at Oda Takashige and the Queen’s Statue, reminding Xia Pingzhou of Alshifa from Howl’s Moving Castle.

The battle was about to begin. Oda Takashige stood in a standoff with the three Flame Demons.

His Shadow Tachi, formed from shadow, couldn’t reach the bodies of the demons; physical methods seemed ineffective against them.

The first Flame Demon could spew out a column of flames with an open mouth;

The second demon churned the flames into a vortex, sweeping towards Oda Takashige; while the last demon charged at Oda Takashige, clawing and devouring flames.

Oda Takashige moved at lightning speed, darting around the interior of the fashion store, bouncing repeatedly off the walls.

The Flame Demon’s attack couldn’t touch his body, but the flames inside the fashion store were growing stronger, and the three Flame Demons were becoming more menacing, their bodies expanding continuously.

If the fire they stirred up spread to the entire mall, these three demons might turn into flame giants towering over skyscrapers.

Silently, Xia Pingzhou touched the ring road, summoning three Silver Soldiers. The Silver Soldiers quickly dropped their heavy shields and headed to three different fire extinguisher boxes in the stairwell.

With a clang, the soldiers used their great swords to break open the glass, then amidst the showering glass, they dropped their swords and picked up fire extinguishers from the boxes.

Then the three Silver Soldiers raised the fire extinguishers and quickly walked towards the fashion store, though their physiques were too bulky to reach the store swiftly.

At this moment, the three Flame Demons simultaneously inhaled and sprayed sheets of flames at Oda Takashige.

Oda Takashige seemed to want to take a gamble, to see if the Shadow Sword enveloped in flames could hurt the demons. So he blended the Shadow Sword with the flames, forming a strange red-black substance that resembled both fire and shadow.

Soon after, a pair of long wings forged from shadow sprouted from Oda Takashige’s back. He bent slightly and suddenly fluttered the Shadow Wings as if wanting to charge directly through the flames and confront the three Flame Demons.

But at that instant, the Queen’s Statue beside him suddenly placed its hand on his shoulder, releasing "Nihilization." Hence, Oda Takashige and the Queen’s Statue’s bodies simultaneously became transparent.

The flames sprayed by the demons fell to the ground, leaving a charred mark.

Oda Takashige folded the Shadow Wings behind his back, raising an eyebrow and turning his head towards the Queen’s Statue, which nodded gently as if saying, "You don’t need to take risks," with icy blue flames burning in the elongated eye sockets.

By now, Xia Pingzhou’s three Silver Soldiers arrived on the scene with the fire extinguishers.

The soldiers opened the fire extinguisher valves, and white sprays of mist issued from the nozzles, like handheld fountains, visibly dousing the store’s raging fire.

The three Flame Demons howled in unison, covering their faces with a panicked look, seemingly wanting to escape the store. But Oda Takashige swung the Shadow Sword, whipping up a gust that forcefully blew their bodies back, fully exposing them to the mist of the fire extinguishers.

Before long, the flames on their bodies were extinguished, revealing a palm-sized demon head. The three black heads drooped on the ground like withered seeds, ready for slaughter.

The Queen’s Statue bent down and lunged forward, using both a short dagger and a long dagger in hand, quickly slicing the three heads on the ground into countless pieces.

Then a series of message boxes popped up before Xia Pingzhou’s eyes.

He leaned against the railing, quietly reviewing the spoils of this battle.

[Detected that three C-level or higher demons have been slain, the cumulative kill count of the "Winter of the Wild Hunt" system has been updated: 17/18 (1 more kill to complete the task).]

[Current second body’s Celestial Driver "International Chess" advancement progress: 80%→100%]

[Congratulations! The second body Xia Pingzhou’s Celestial Driver "International Chess" has advanced to the second stage!]

[Advancement reward 1: Acquired a new skill: "Castling."]

[Advancement reward 2: Acquired a new chess species: "Bishop."]

[Advancement reward 3: Acquired a slot for a Contracted Demon in the Celestial Driver.]

[The current number of demons that can be contracted under this Celestial Driver: 1 (Contracted Demon: Shadow Demon).]

Gazing at the text on the panel, Xia Pingzhou thought contentedly: "Not only a new skill, but also a new chess species... Next, it’s time to think about where to find a Contracted Demon."

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