Four Split Personalities

Double Leaf grinned, "That’s right, some bitch and I have long suspected that the person secretly helping Baffi Marshal isn’t an NPC."

She dispelled the wind element surrounding her body and stopped five meters in front of Jiawen, gently waving a short wand that had appeared in her hand at some unknown time, and instantly summoned a dense flurry of Wind Blades slashing towards Jiawen. Meanwhile, two petal-shaped elemental shields burning with fierce flames also appeared by her side, spinning up and down around the frail body of the girl.

"Shift."

Jiawen slightly narrowed her eyes. She did not make any dodging movements but calmly stepped forward towards her opponent. As she walked, she raised her hand to grasp at the air and pinched out an aged page, pointing at Double Leaf in mid-air, "Lose Control."

The dense Wind Blades whistled past, but not even slightly injured Jiawen. Dozens of sharp winds that flew straight towards her mysteriously veered off angle at the last moment, slipping past her skin as though slicing through a layer of invisible water, deflected from their tracks.

Jiawen continued to walk forward at an unhurried pace, asking in a tone like she was chatting with a friend, "By the way, is it really okay for you to directly mention ’NPC’? Aren’t you afraid of stirring unnecessary suspicion and misunderstanding?"

"Ha ha, although I originally planned to keep it hidden, since the system didn’t block everyone’s recognition of certain ’sensitive words,’ even if we concealed it well, we would probably be exposed sooner or later... Oh shit!"

Double Leaf was cut off mid-sentence by two Fireball blasts she had just conjured, tripping her up. Furious, she glared at Jiawen, "You’re shameless!"

As if the person who had just tricked others with Spirit Bombs and Planet Destruction Bombs wasn’t her...

Jiawen didn’t even acknowledge the ’shameless’ remark, but just nodded slightly, "That makes sense, but I think there’s more to it than that. Could it be... someone by your side has already recognized ’our’ existence using their own abilities?"

"You’re quite sharp-minded."

Double Leaf didn’t intend to answer Jiawen’s question. With a casual wave of her hand, she summoned a ’forest’ woven from lightning and thunder and fiercely struck down at her: "It was you all along, thinking of ways to help Baffi! While I was planning to confine him in Sālāmù’ēn, it was you who somehow managed to inform Shuiyin City ahead of time!"

The storm composed of thunder and lightning offered no escape and no pattern to predict, and even if the enemy managed to dodge it entirely, the residual electricity in the air could paralyze anyone whose constitution was not higher than a middle rank melee combat professional. According to Double Leaf’s observation, Jiawen’s combat style was quite tricky and speculative, apparently not possessing that level of constitution.

Hit!!!

A massive amount of thunder guided by the caster mercilessly slammed into Jiawen, engulfing her in a blinding violet electric light, while Double Leaf began to continuously guide the spell the moment it hit, condensing the elemental energy disperse in the air into bolts of lightning that harshly fell on the spot where Jiawen was swallowed, with conical lightnings successively bombing down, looking from afar like a runaway top.

However...

"It’s surprising that someone as powerful as you hasn’t made it into the top ten rankings."

Jiawen, who had somehow appeared behind Double Leaf, shook her head and simultaneously pulled the triggers of two flintlock guns as Double Leaf turned around hastily. "This world really is too vast..."

[Is it some kind of displacement skill?]

As Jiawen addressed ’you,’ she covered herself with an elementally compressed shield and controlled the two "Flame Flower Shields" to rapidly intercept behind her, almost completely protecting all her vital points. Double Leaf wasn’t too panicked.

The imagined impact did not occur, however; only a barely perceptible sting on the shoulder, then Double Leaf found herself unwittingly propelled off the ground by a strange force.

It was a "Floating Bomb."

Having successfully completed a backstab with "Visual Deception" and "Phantom Coin," Jiawen didn’t believe she could instantly kill her opponent. She didn’t even have the thought of ’inflicting as much damage as possible.’ She had merely hit Double Leaf’s left shoulder, which was not protected by the "Flame Flower Shields," lifting her off the ground.

While Double Leaf could generally manipulate elements at will, she couldn’t use high-level mage flying techniques on the spur of the moment under these circumstances to escape. At most, she could only slightly adjust her posture without preparation.

So...

"Tar Bomb."

Jiawen deftly stepped forward, using a skill to stain Double Leaf’s robe with large patches of black oil. Then, she pressed the flintlock gun to Double Leaf’s waist and fired at point-blank range.

Bang!!!

Although it was just a normal attack, the sparks that flew ignited Double Leaf’s body, causing her health points to sharply decrease by 5% each second.

"I think I’ve underestimated you a bit!"

Despite the intense burning sensation that had spread throughout her body, Double Leaf still smiled as if nothing was wrong. She gently waved her magic wand and released a burning fireball that absorbed the stubborn flames clinging to her body, leaving no trace. Simultaneously, the two "Flaming Flower Shields" around her swiftly grew a layer of sharp ice crystals, rotating and slashing towards Jiawen like boomerangs.

This unheard-of spellcasting technique, which seamlessly transformed a fire defense spell into a physical attack with ice attributes and formidable cutting power in an instant, was something only Double Leaf could accomplish.

"Blazing Explosion" + "Spinning Blade Ice Flower" soared through the air!

They then passed directly through Jiawen’s body and landed not far behind her, setting off a significant explosion.

Despite Jiawen’s assassination team and the elite guard around Double Leaf instinctively keeping a distance, many were still affected by the blast, most of them members of the assassination team.

"Realizing the attack missed and simply letting the opposing forces of ice and fire merge to potentially kill enemies outside the fight, huh? Hehe, in some ways, we are quite alike."

Having activated "Visual Deception" the moment she set Double Leaf on fire, Jiawen appeared two meters away, her flintlock guns clicking rapidly as they spun twice. Then, quite contrary to the construction of such items, she fired off over a dozen shots. Temporarily endowed with epic-quality attributes, she managed, with ordinary attacks, to reduce Double Leaf’s health points by 30% before she could land.

"Bullshit! I’m way prettier than you!"

Enraged, Double Leaf reached into her bag for a Healing Potion to bring to her lips while raising the short staff in her hand high, "Flame Wind... eh?"

Bang! Swoosh!

The moment the Healing Potion was shattered by a bullet, her other hand’s magic wand also flew out, spinning into Jiawen’s hands!

Using "Distant Object Retrieval • Fake," Jiawen not only interrupted Double Leaf’s recovery but also directly ’snatched’ the seemingly powerful wand from her hands.

Then...

"Toy Magic Wand"

Weapon Category: One-Handed Staff

Quality: Common

Attack Power: Very Low

Attributes: Intelligence +1

Equipment Requirements: Ages three and up

[Note: A preschool version of a magic wand that is slightly better than a walking stick, containing no elemental power, cannot serve as any medium, and will not pose any danger to your children.]

The moment she saw the information on this item, Jiawen knew she had been tricked and leapt backward in the next second, but...

"Explo—"

Double Leaf said the last word with a beaming smile and snapped her fingers crisply.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

Three massive columns of fire almost simultaneously rose from beneath Jiawen’s feet, swiftly spiraling upwards and engulfing her in flames.

That wasn’t all; as the fiery storm surged, a two-meter-long conical solid ice, a half-meter-thick thunderbolt, and a three-hundred-pound Earth Elemental Puppet fell from the sky, smashing fiercely into the roaring flames.

Double Leaf revealed a ferocious grin...

"I’ve tolerated you for too long, bastard~!"

Chapter Five Hundred Fifty-Two: The End