Cultivation Online novel Chapter 2642

Chapter 2642: Fighting the Void Hunter

"Prove... your worth!"

The Void Hunter responded to Yuan’s question before suddenly attacking again.

Yuan gritted his teeth and fought back.

"Fuck! You already claimed that I wasn’t worthy! How the hell am I supposed to prove myself?!"

Yuan cursed aloud as he fought with everything he could muster, even relying on his affinity—something he had been using from the very beginning.

However, for some reason, his affinity simply didn’t work on the Void Hunter.

’Whenever I attack with ordinary Eternal Essence, I can at least feel the impact. But whenever I use my affinity, it’s different... It’s like the attack never connects at all, as though the power simply vanishes the instant it makes contact. What the hell is going on? Is the Void Hunter immune to my affinity?’ Yuan pondered inwardly as he continued his futile struggle against the Void Hunter.

The way the Void Hunter nullified his affinity felt strangely familiar to Yuan, who had achieved true immunity to several elements himself.

’Since an element can also manifest as an affinity—like Shiva’s cold affinity—it would make sense for someone with a fire-based affinity to possess a natural resistance against hers,’ Yuan continued to ponder.

With an unknown number of affinities existing in the world, it wasn’t unreasonable for some to naturally counter or even fully nullify others, and Yuan began to suspect this was exactly what was happening.

Unfortunately, since he still didn’t know the true nature of his own affinity, that only made the situation more difficult to understand.

After all, if he couldn’t even identify the nature of his own affinity, what hope did he have of figuring out his opponent’s?

’There’s also a chance that...’

Yuan swallowed nervously after realizing another possibility.

’What if it has the same affinity as me?’

After all, the way it vaporized the soldiers earlier was similar—identical to when he used his affinity on the Ember City soldiers.

Time passed quickly, and Yuan’s battle with the Void Hunter continued for several days. Although Yuan was nowhere close to defeating it, one thing had become increasingly obvious.

The Void Hunter had no intention of killing him. Instead, it seemed content to continue playing with him, like a child messing with ants because they knew there was nothing the ants could do against them.

Their battle was so intense that every Void Specter in the vicinity had been annihilated by the ripples produced whenever their Eternal Essence clashed. The tremendous energy radiating from their fight had also long since alerted every city in the world to their presence.

"T-This energy! There’s no mistaking it! The Void Hunter has appeared!" 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Fucking damn it! Which fools summoned that monster?! Every time the Void Hunter appears, there’s a chance it could wipe out all of humanity!"

The emergence of the Void Hunter immediately sent every city in the world into a state of panic.

Yet not a single city dared to send soldiers to investigate, fearing that doing so might draw the Void Hunter toward them.

As a result, all they could do was remain hidden within their safe zones and pray that the monster would disappear as soon as possible.

"Wait... who the hell is fighting the Void Hunter? For the hunter to be releasing this much energy, its opponent must be incredibly powerful!"

As the battle continued to drag on and the Void Hunter’s energy showed no signs of diminishing, people across the cities quickly realized that whoever was fighting it was far from ordinary.

Unfortunately, none of these people had any information or record of this second energy, so they could only guess.

However, among the nine cities, there was one that had a fairly good idea of what—or rather, who—might have caused the Void Hunter to appear.

Of course, that would be Ember City, which had sent out nearly ten soldiers to investigate a newly discovered humanoid Void Specter.

Although the Void Hunter wouldn’t appear unless a group exceeded ten people, they suspected that their soldiers might have encountered another squad during the investigation and inadvertently crossed that threshold.

After all, similar incidents had happened more than once before.

With that said, the higher-ups at Ember City couldn’t fathom how they were lasting so long against the Void Hunter.

"What are the chances that the humanoid Void Specter is the one fighting the Void Hunter?"

"Extremely low... but if the alternative is that our soldiers are the ones fighting it, then it’s practically guaranteed."

"A Void Specter fighting the Void Hunter? That doesn’t make any sense at all."

"The existence of a humanoid Void Specter already makes no sense."

"If it really is the humanoid Void Specter... wouldn’t it be a catastrophe to have two monsters of such level exist at once? We still don’t know anything about it, either."

"..."

Nobody responded, afraid of the implications.

Time continued to pass, though for everyone except Yuan, each day seemed to crawl by painfully slowly.

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