Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 567 - 144: Understanding Combat at Different Levels

Accompanying the final bullet in Wang Yunxiao’s magazine running out, the giant in front of him could no longer support its body and collapsed to the ground with a loud crash.

Everything in front of him vanished into thin air.

Hell, along with everything in it.

Guozi swung a punch into the air and stared blankly around him.

Beyond the wreckage of a nearby car, there was only a dark, empty wilderness, as if the enemy had never existed in the first place.

He looked up and saw Wang Yunxiao, carrying the Liuyun Rifle and walking towards him with heavy steps from a distance.

"Big brother, did you kill that thing?"

"Killed it? No, it just couldn’t hold on any longer," Wang Yunxiao replied.

What did that mean? Guozi couldn’t understand Wang Yunxiao’s words and felt utterly confused.

Wang Yunxiao waved his hand, too lazy to argue and turned to face Yan Yu’an.

Yan Yu’an’s face bore two dark circles under his eyes and his body teetered on the edge of collapse—a sign of overextending his spiritual power.

The battle just fought seemed fierce, but in reality, the pivotal role was not played by Wang Yunxiao but by Yan Yu’an.

In his hands, an image of a devil, nailed to an inverted cross and wailing in agony, slowly emerged on the paper.

This was the real "Throne Knight."

"He must be a rookie just starting out, fooled into coming here to die. If it had been one of those experienced Throne Knights, the three of us might not have managed tonight," said Yan Yu’an as he wiped the cold sweat from his brow and sighed uncontrollably.

Guozi, overhearing this at the side, felt like Yan was talking about him, and his face flushed red with embarrassment.

He had just fought a hearty battle, only to find out afterwards that it had all just been a dream?

"Do you still have any strength left?"

Seeing his severely depleted state, Wang Yunxiao frowned and asked him in a low voice, "There might be danger at the fishing village too, should we go back?"

"How to go back? We’ve come out four or five kilometers already, let’s stay here and wait for help, no need to worry for the headquarters’ troops. I need to sleep..."

"Okay, I’ll handle it here."

Wang Yunxiao did not contest Yan Yu’an’s decision. In handling special affairs, Yan Yu’an had far more experience than him. If Yan said they didn’t need support, Wang trusted they didn’t need support.

Trust is a precious quality.

Returning to his comrades, Wang Yunxiao glanced at the silent Guozi and told Youtiao, "Rest here until daybreak. Those who want to sleep may sleep. It’s crucial to rest and rejuvenate."

Youtiao tentatively asked, "What about the fishing village..."

"It’s not our concern."

After everyone had settled down, Wang Yunxiao sat by the roadside, took off his helmet, unfastened his armor, and started inspecting the Liuyun Rifle he held in his hands.

The action just now was a bit rough, and the Liuyun Rifle is a very delicate thing. By the end of the fight, he’d already realized something was amiss. Upon close inspection, sure enough, the rubber tube was scratched open, and the corrosive gas in his waist pouch had completely leaked out.

Guozi came over and quietly called out, "Big brother."

"Big brother... how did we win just now?"

He still couldn’t understand this question. That giant seemed so formidable; rifle bullets didn’t seem to cause much damage, so how did they suddenly win? And why didn’t big brother use his martial arts skill? Wasn’t the boxing technique he learned very powerful?

"Let me explain the principles behind it first."

Wang Yunxiao asked calmly, "What essentially is a Throne Knight? Don’t tell me you’ve even forgotten this knowledge point."

Although he himself hadn’t remembered much, as the fight went on, he gradually recalled it. If he couldn’t remember after this fight, he truly deserved to fail.

"Demon?"

"Right, a Throne Knight is just a cool-sounding nickname; fundamentally, it’s still a demon. I don’t know how much you remember about the nature and characteristics of demons that Teacher Liu explained in class."

Wang Yunxiao raised a finger, "First of all, whatever the demon or evil spirit, the amount of power it can exert in the Real World entirely depends on the Real World’s majority perception of it."

"A demon’s power can only be fully utilized within the belief system of the Christian Sect, and here in Tianmen, they lack that faith base. If it were our Nantong District, you probably wouldn’t even see a demon. It’s only in the Seaside District, where hundreds of thousands of overseas immigrants live, that they have the space to exert their strengths."

"And the very nature of demons is to contrast with angels; one tempts people into degradation, the other encourages righteousness, thus defining the boundaries between Heaven and Hell."

Although many Internet novels and anime games depict demons as utterly evil and given to slaughter and plunder, it is always humans themselves who engage in such acts.

Demons are only responsible for inciting and misleading.

"Demons are most skilled at psychological attacks on a spiritual level, magnifying the negative emotions inside you. If you like fighting, it encourages you to keep fighting. If you love money, it tempts you to make money by any means."

"When demons have the upper hand, they never opt for a real fight, as that would be playing to your strengths. For example, earlier, when we fell into a trap, it actually sent the Hell Army to battle us, which is quite against common sense."

"Once you realize this, you become aware of all the discrepancies around you. Our garrison soldiers have high resistance; if we are unwilling, no one can pull us into another dimension, especially in such a large group."

"But we also have weaknesses, which are lacking assistance from Advisors and Chess Heralds in dealing with phantom realms."

Yan Yu’an himself was cultivating the Advisor Dharma Gate, which is why he was able to suppress all the demonic and evil sorceries of the Throne Knight.

But there was indeed no Chess Herald in the team.

Not only Wang Yunxiao didn’t bring it, but Ito and the others also didn’t bring it when they left the house.

The rarity of Chess Herald is comparable to that of a panda. Before Chen Yan started cultivating the Chess Herald Dharma Gate, just by showing a glimmer of talent, she became a hot commodity sought after by various groups.

Now she can stay in school and study peacefully solely because the Astronomy Bureau considered Principal Zhou’s face and did not use harder methods. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to stay anywhere else.

Wang Yunxiao didn’t know much about the Astronomy Bureau and Secretary Bureau, nor did he understand why they were so short of people.

It couldn’t possibly be for using a Chess Herald to light candles...

"On the surface, it seemed we had entered the Hell Dimension, but if you calm down and think about it, you’ll realize that’s not possible. Thus, the truth becomes obvious; the opponent had summoned their Hell Dimension to the Real World, enveloping the area we were in. And his real purpose was to exhaust all our weapons, ammunition, and physical strength."

Simply put, the health bar wasn’t on the Throne Knight’s head, but on this phantom realm."

Lacking means to break the environment, Wang Yunxiao and the others had to take a different approach, wearing down the opponent’s spiritual power, making them unable to maintain the existence of this Hell Dimension.