Chapter 170: Boundary Of Before And After
[Faced with Jade’s question and her expectant look, you sighed, "Don’t look at me like that. We know it’s wishful thinking."]
["Just like the case when I’m extracting innate talents, it won’t grant the opportunity to awaken an innate talent, but instead, the innate talent of the Terran I extracted it from."]
["From the looks of it, the Skull Crusher Hammer is useless to us, but I might as well get it since who knows? We might have a future train crewmate who would need it. I have infinite storage space anyway."]
[Hearing your reply, Jade knew that she was indeed too expectant of that. However, she wasn’t too disappointed as you already had the precedent of extracting innate talents, and those extracted innate talents didn’t grant the opportunity to awaken an innate talent.]
[After you listed all the resources that the Level 22 Train, whose Train Conductor was called Jordan, possessed, you no longer hesitated, letting the Zenith Train leave the void parking space. Afterwards, you used the Psychic Holder Turret on Jordan’s train.]
[Before he could even activate early departure, what you attacked first were the train wheels, using Psychic Holder to pull them apart, causing Jordan’s Train to be wheelless.]
[With the removal of wheels and the fact that the Level 22 Train was stuck in place, Jordan couldn’t even activate early departure even if he wanted.]
[Without any hesitation, Jordan and the train crewmates inside his train immediately left the train.]
[Since the train was useless and the turrets on his train couldn’t be used, Jordan could only resort to close combat.]
[As soon as Jordan left his train, he summoned his Skull Crusher Hammer and started waving it in the air countless times.]
[Looking at Jordan’s Chinese-style martial arts attire, you had already informed them beforehand that Jordan’s power system was specialized in the Martial Path, which was from a High Martial Arts Fantasy World.]
[The world he trained martial arts in was even the same world the Heavenly Essence came from. Not only that, Jordan had even consumed a drop of Heavenly Essence twice!]
[Specializing in hammer-based martial art techniques, the martial art technique Jordan was currently using was based on charging his hammer’s power by stacking countless hammer intent and shockwaves through repeated hammering.]
[If it were fully stacked, it could even approach the attack power of a Half-Step Diamond rank!]
[Of course, you weren’t going to let him continue. Old MacDonald had already manned the turrets and shot his train crewmates, especially the weaker ones who couldn’t tank those attacks and could only die.]
[Leaving the Zenith Train, you used your index finger as a wand and pointed towards them, "Seven Circle Magic: Magic Gun Arsenal - Gang Banger Variation!"]
[Behind and above you, the muzzles of a hundred magic guns appeared. They all aimed towards Jordan’s train crewmates.]
[Before they could react, the loud sounds of gunshots resounded as magic beams of light pierced through the bodies of each of Jordan’s Train Crewmates, banging them up as their bodies were riddled with holes.]
[Like dead flies, Jordan’s train crewmates who had flown to the sky with him all fell as their corpses littered the ground.]
[Jordan gritted his teeth and continued stacking his hammer, inwardly thinking that he would make you pay for being foolish enough not to attack him first and letting him stack up his hammer intent.]
[You merely shook your head and watched his efforts of hammer stacking, ’I knew he’d not care to protect his train crewmates. With all of them dead and him only being alive, that saves me the trouble of one of them escaping.’]
[You specifically targeted his train crewmates due to that. If Jordan had used his stacked hammer intent to block the magic gun bullets instead... well, he’d still die alongside them.]
[No way his flimsy hammer and mediocre martial arts technique could withstand Seven Circle Magic, especially when the weakest attack power of a proper Seven Circle Magic offensive spell was at Initial Diamond rank.]
[Even at full stack, Jordan’s hammer could only deal damage of Half-Step Diamond rank, so regardless of what he would do, the outcome would be his inevitable death.]
[Looking at Jordan, who had almost finished stacking his hammer intent, and an exhilarating expression appeared on his face, before he could perform his last hammer swing, you pointed your index finger towards him, "Bloodline Magic: Absolute Boundary!"]
["Boundary of Before and After!"]
[Using your bloodline magic to manipulate the boundary of before and after, you used it on Jordan’s actions.]
[Because of that, you managed to remove the result of each hammer strike by erasing the "after" entirely.]
[Jordan’s "before", which was his hammer swings, they all still existed. However, the shockwave never manifested, and the hammer intent never formed.]
[Much to Jordan’s despairing look after he discovered what you did, it no longer changed the fact that all he did was swing a normal hammer!]
[All his actions and efforts were rendered futile, the sole reason why you never took him seriously!]
[Looking at his hammer in despair, Jordan screamed, "Impossible! How come someone has such cheat-like power!?"]
[He was so self-absorbed, focusing on finishing hammer intent stacks, disregarding the well-being of his train crewmates. Because of that, you and Old MacDonald took advantage of it and focused on eliminating his train crewmates first, which was met with no resistance.]
[Otherwise, if you attacked and interrupted Jordan first, he would have activated his trump cards and would have fled first.]
[But since you didn’t, you managed to give him false hope that his attack could do something, but in the end, all of it was futile.]
[Seeing Jordan regain his composure and about to take out one of his trump cards, an escape-type item, you immediately used your bloodline magic again, "Bloodline Magic: Absolute Boundary!"]
["Boundary of Motion and Stillness!"]
[Jordan’s movements were halted, making him unable to move an inch. Like a statue, fear was still present in his eyes.]
[Without any hesitation, you summoned Order King to your side and used World Order, "Order! For he dared to attack this king, not knowing his place, insulting my majesty!"]
["I hereby command! He shall offer his soul-bound artifact, the Skull Crusher Hammer, to appease this king’s anger!"]