CHAPTER 355: CHAPTER 222: DESPERATE BATTLE, DOUBLE ROYAL FLASH, DANCE ATOP THE PAPER DRAGON

"What?" Di Rejie furrowed his brows, "What kind of trick is this?"

The Paper Dragon and Di Rejie came closer and closer, the distance between them shortened to forty meters! Ayase Origami flicked her sleeve, releasing a flurry of paper butterflies towards Di Rejie.

Di Rejie stepped on a whirlwind, dodging the paper butterflies in mid-air, then sneered and snapped his fingers: "How about this?!"

As soon as he spoke, a meteor far larger than before descended from the sky.

This colossal object had a radius of thirty meters, casting a shadow like a tidal wave pouring down, instantly enveloping the body of the Paper Dragon.

The world in Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami’s eyes darkened at this moment, their pupils filled only with the approaching giant meteor. The meteor, carrying surging heat, scraped through the air with a violent fire curtain!

The atmosphere screamed, their hair blown to one side by the wind. The wings of the Paper Dragon twisted under the immense wind pressure, it propelled a fierce gust forward, using the recoil to pull back, attempting to distance itself from the meteor.

However, at that moment, a crisp snap sounded in the air, followed by a chilling scene: another meteor, half the size of the first, appeared fifty meters below the Paper Dragon!

The two meteors, one large, one small, above and below, pressed towards the tiny Paper Dragon from two different directions.

Xia Pingzhou contemplated: The Queen’s Statue’s Nihilization has already been used, even if the King’s Statue is summoned mid-air, it would be crushed by the shockwave of the meteor in an instant.

He could indeed try to have the Shadow Demon pull the King into the meteor’s shadow.

But it’s pointless. Once the meteor shatters, the shadow will also disappear, and in the end, the King would also be destroyed by the Tunguska explosion’s shockwave, and Xia Pingzhou would be killed by this explosion.

It seems... no matter what, this is a dead end.

The two meteors from the sky and ground approached closer, the roaring heat waves compressed Xia Pingzhou and Ayase Origami’s last inch of survival space.

The Paper Dragon struggled to spread its wings in the arc-shaped gap between the meteors, but due to the wind pressure from above and below, its body couldn’t move, like an ant on a hot pan.

"Dumb, aren’t they? You fools!" Di Rejie hugged his belly, laughing wildly as if having an epileptic fit, flipping his body up and down, performing a somersault mid-air.

Blood vessels spread from his eyes, his mind seemingly already picturing the scene of these two being crushed into pulp by the meteor’s force, then burned to nothing by the Tunguska explosion.

"Can we escape?" the kimono girl asked softly in the meteor’s shadow.

"No need to run, otherwise we won’t have a chance to get close to him... Trust me."

Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly, suddenly grabbing Ayase Origami’s right hand. The kimono girl glanced at him, nodded.

Immediately, he summoned all of his chess species on the Paper Dragon’s massive back: one Knight Giant, one Bishop Giant, as well as two Soldier Giants, two Cannon Giants.

The King raised his scepter solemnly, a black and white glow shining; fully armed soldiers raised their giant shields, fearlessly watching the meteors crashing from above and below; the Bishop’s Statue lowered its eyes, flipping through the pages; the Knight Giant proudly lifted its head on the horse’s body, raising the lance high.

The next moment, Xia Pingzhou summoned his second Contracted Demon— "Cloning Demon."

A little paper man appeared on his shoulder, looking at the meteor falling above, trembling and shouting: "Oh my god! Don’t kill me, don’t kill me—!!! Jesus, save me! God, save me!"

Its legs buckled, kneeling on Xia Pingzhou’s shoulder, hands clasped, frantically bowing.

The Cloning Demon was about to be blown away by the strong wind, fortunately, Ayase Origami’s ability is Paper Control, barely stabilizing its form, keeping the little paper man from falling off Xia Pingzhou’s shoulder.

"Clone the ’King’." Xia Pingzhou ordered.

The little paper man obeyed, jumping onto the back of the Paper Dragon, Ayase Origami diverted her attention during this time, balancing the Paper Dragon while maintaining the little paper man, preventing its fragile body from being swept away by the wind.

The instant the Cloning Demon landed, its shape transformed into the "King’s Statue."

"Sacrifice the Chess Species ’Knight Giant’, two ’Soldier Giants’."

Xia Pingzhou tightened his grip on the kimono girl’s right hand, ordering expressionlessly.

As the words fell, a scarlet light suddenly bloomed in the empty eye sockets of the King’s Statue, as if signing a contract with the devil, gaining power from Purgatory at this moment.

Then, a black-and-white system prompt box popped up in front of Xia Pingzhou.

[Sacrifice the "Knight Giant", two "Soldier Giants", meeting the conditions for authority release.]

[Hint: The ultimate authority of the King’s Statue—"King’s Flash" has been unlocked.]

Xia Pingzhou ordered: "King’s Statue, release the authority ’King’s Flash’ at the meteor above."

As the words fell, the figures of the knight and soldiers turned into a storm of blood rain in black and white, pouring into the scepter raised by the King’s Statue.

The top of the scepter accumulated a small sphere, sometimes expanding, sometimes contracting. A sphere the size of a fingertip underwent changes in black and white, containing powerful life force, as if it condensed a whole chessboard world.