Chapter 271 Battle for the Cowl (13)

Clap-clap-

Suddenly, a rhythmic clapping sound came from more than ten meters away.

Shiva narrowed his tiredness and slackness, turned his head to check around.

A sturdy man came. He wears military pants, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and a dark jacket outside.

“Seven Kill.” Shiva directly said his name, and it was clear that they had played against each other before.

Seven Kill stopped clapping. “The battle is wonderful, but I personally don’t like your miscellaneous skills.” He smiled. “As men, we should use our fists to win.”

“You’re a weird man,” Shiva said. “Since you’re already there … why don’t you take the shot while I’m fighting Die to be Mysterious? In that case, maybe you’ve killed us both now. “

“Oh…” Seven Kill laughed. “Because I believe in soloism.” He said as he started to move his neck, pinch his fingers. It looks like he was going to use the Hokuto Shinken 1).

“I’ve never heard of that kind of doctrine.” When talking about his opponent, Shiva quietly used a bottle of Survive Value Supplement to bring his health back to full value.

“It’s very simple. Whether it’s watching or participating, I want the fighting style to be one-on-one.” Seven Kill said, “It’s like sports … two top players, who go all out to fight to the last moment, but only one win.” He clenched his fists. “In that case … the winner is the strong one, undisputed. “

“Hmmm… winning and losing is always controversial. I have an excuse for this kind of thing now.” Shiva said jokingly: “For example… I just finished fighting with Die to be Mysterious, and the damage was huge.”

“Hahaha…” Seven Kill smiled cheerfully: “Forget it, you have a lot of Stamina Value, I can tell that. As for the Survival Value, you have been recovered more than ten seconds ago.” He is a very direct person: “Also, I’m not much better than you. I met a little sister called “Not Afraid”. I thought the little girl should be vulnerable but didn’t expect girls are fiercer than men these years, and even I was almost killed because of a small mistake.”

“This is where Thriller Paradise is interesting…” Shiva responded, “You should be noticed too, [King in Shadow] was killed.” He paused then added: “And he didn’t die because of you, me or Die to be Mysterious. “

“Yeah, it was really unexpected. I lost to him once. That guy’s Bloody Stone is really tough.” Seven Kill spoke: “But … I don’t think he died because of [Not Afraid], that girl doesn’t have that power.”

“So … you want to say that this thing was done by the level 28 player named [Feng Bujue]…?” Shiva asked tentatively.

“Speaking of it, I seem to have heard this ID somewhere …” Seven Kill scratched his head and said, “But I can’t remember when it is.” He shrugged. “Never mind, we can’t judge King in Shadow was killed by the player. There are still a lot of powerful characters in this city. Isn’t it? “

“That’s right,” Shiva said after a two-second silence. “The Bloody Stone is so noticeable. Maybe he got the attention of police or superheroes and was killed by the characters in the scenario world.”

“Okay, it meaningless to analyze things in detail like that. You said it to Die to be Mysterious just now.” Seven Kill said, “If you want to win this game, just take down all the other players to be the last stander.”

“Okay, believer of soloism, let’s have it,” Shiva replied.

In the next second, the two men were ready for their battle.

After exchanging the information, Shiva and Seven Kill have reached a consensus. This battle is likely to determine the winner of this killing game in advance. Because in their opinion, the other two players were not threating at all.

Just when the two were about to take a shot, suddenly, another change happened.

A figure flashed out all in a sudden. He instantly appeared among them, and said in a low voice: “You should be the so-called ‘super-criminals from another world’.”

Shiva and Seven Kill don’t know who this person is, but they both recede in an instant more than ten meters away. These are the two strong men in combat, reacting instinctively to danger.

The uninvited guest who entered the fight was wearing black-grey tights, a black hood, a white cloak, and a blood-red cross mark in the middle of the clothes; He held swords in both hands with bolt and boots, looks like the Crusaders’ dress in the Middle Ages.

“Who are you?” Shiva asked.

The figure turned towards Shiva, exposing a mask under the black cap. The mask is white, the lower half is printed with a pattern of unfolded red wings without exposing the nose and mouth.

“That’s what I want to ask you.” It’s still a low, deep response from under the mask.

…………

Hundreds of years ago, the Paladins joined the Knights Templar.

A group of selected knights participated in the Crusade and finally broke with the church.

They set up their own secret organization, curled up in Sweden, and built an angel of vengeance to guard the “Proverbs of the Lord”.

This guardian is called Azrael, the Death Angle. 2)

With the change of time, the candidate and feature of the Death Angle are constantly changing.

The man who appeared in front of Shiva and Seven Kill was called Michelle Washington Lane 2). He was a rugby linebacker when he was in college and later joined the Marines. After retiring, he entered the Gotham City Police Department as a patrol officer.

Let’s put aside the set of his dying families with the bizarre cause of death to talk about the key points … Michelle 4) once participated in a secret project in which the military cooperated with the GCPD.

The content of this project is … selecting and training a group of people who can be substitutes when Batman is injured. Michelle was one of the three candidates eventually selected, but with the other two candidates’ mental disorders, the project was left untouched.

But Michelle’s story is not over. Today, wearing the Suit of Sorrows, with “Sword of Sin” (wrapped in red flames), and “Sword of Salvation” (wrapped in blue flames), he became the new Azrael, protecting Gotham City together with the Network.

…………

“According to your tone, you seem to be volunteer police, it seems to have nothing to do with you about fighting here, man.” Seven Kill said. As a “believer of soloism”, he was interrupted at the moment just before he started, which undoubtedly made him very unhappy.

Hearing the words, Azrael turned his attention to Seven Kill. At that instant, a suffocating sense of oppression was revealed under the white mask. Just this invisible momentum has hinted at how powerful the superheroes in this scenario are.

“Among the two people who made holes in the East District, are you one of them?” Azrael replied: “Just because of the so-called ‘fight’ in your mouth, an innocent taxi driver and a couple died on the spot. Many more were injured in the car accident. “

Shiva was glad to hear that. Now he can use other’s hands to get rid of Seven Kill without risking by himself. Thus, he shouted to Seven Kill: “It seems he’s here for you, so I won’t be with you.” and tried to leave.

“I don’t think so.” Another voice sounded.

Shiva turned around suddenly, finding two people were standing behind him. Although Shiva wasn’t an Otaku, he knew the two. The handsome man with long hair wearing blue and black tights is Nightwing. Another beauty, wearing a purple-toned soft armour and showing thighs, is Huntress. It was Nightwing, Dick Grayson, who was speaking to him.

“I don’t remember I’ve done something hurting the citizens of Gotham.” Shiva responded immediately, “you have no reason to be my enemy.”

“I don’t think so, either.” Nightwing replied: “Just a few hours ago, a stranger who called himself “Anonymous” entered a bank and killed three robbers who were looting the bank and three police officers. And spilled millions of dollars of cash on the street. Before running away, he mentioned specifically that the police, a total of six “traveller from another world” criminals as him, would stir up Gotham City.” He paused, then continued, “I would like you to have your opinion on this matter, man.”

“I don’t know anything about this … the traveller you said has nothing to do with me,” Shiva replied. When he listened to the other person’s narrative, he gradually realized the truth of the matter and thought in his heart: Is that guy named [Feng Bujue] designed to frame us …

“Really, can you explain what is the stone plate behind you?” Huntress apparently did not believe him.

Before Shiva responded, Nightwing said: “Sir, in my opinion, your power is very dangerous to yourself or others. If you are not malicious, I suggest you disarm and make things clear. “

“Why talk nonsense to them, Shiva? Let’s to this … first, get down the three in front of us, and we’ll change places to fight.” Seven Kill said. Having said that, the deterrent power of Azrael was there, making Seven Kill didn’t dare to act rashly. He had to look at Shiva’s attitude first.

“Reckless man… you can kill yourself, don’t take make me go with you…” Shiva found the issue not going well. Speaking in a nonchalant tone would definitely cause hostility.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Nightwing and Huntress both made alert gestures, and their hands had touched their weapons.

“I surrender,” Shiva said, slowly raising his hands, and his spiritual weapons were collected and dissipated directly. “I was just fighting for self-defence.” He glanced back at Seven Kill, “The other five are all crazy, murderous man, I can’t help it. “

Seeing this, Seven Kill knew instantly that he had been abandoned. He is a straight person, and he could not “lie”. It would be impossible for him to pretend to surrender.

“Hum… You don’t dare to do anything to them, and try to get me with them…” Seven Kill angrily said, “Good for you!”

Then, Seven Kill slammed his feet, kicked and splashed a dust wall. By this force, he suddenly burst out in the other direction.

“Want to leave?” The low voice sounded again.

Azrael stared at Seven Kill and had long anticipated his escape. At this time, he was faster and stopped in front of Seven Kill.

“So fast…” At this moment, Seven Kill was startled. He originally thought that his physical skills were far beyond ordinary people in the game and that his skills could also stand against the so-called “superpower”, so he didn’t pay attention to the superheroes in these Batman stories. But he never expected… these heroes would have such exaggerated strength.

In fact, Seven Kill made a common-sense mistake, which is this is a “comic universe”, not the “real world.” Here, even heroes without superpowers cannot be regarded as “ordinary people”, they are all comic characters with the author’s protection.

For example, Batman, this guy jumped from three or four floors all year round without any injuries. The explanation is just: his cloak has a slow fall function.

Well……

Another example is Demian Wayne. Even if he was shot in the chest, he can fight and jump in several hours. Alfred’s calm statement on this is: “Your Kevlar tunic saved your life. But your lung is badly bruised and you still lot quite a bit of blood. Lucky for you I’m quite the tailor. Sewing up a bullet-severed artery isn’t for the inexperienced.”

It can be seen that for the heroes of this universe, suits are comparable to bulletproof vests. After suffering fatal injuries, they can get up in half an hour after surgery and continue to fight. Maybe combat effectiveness will be improved.

It is a pity that usually those civilians have no such treatment, they are truly “ordinary people”.

And if players consider those who do not have superpowers among superheroes and super-criminals as ordinary people wearing strange costumes, they will be very wrong…

“God is a righteous judge, yea, a God that hath indignation every day.” Azrael started to make the quotation: “If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; he bath bent his bow, and made it ready. 5)” Two swords burning with red and blue flames were spreading beside his body. His melee capabilities are flawless. Even though the assassins of League of Assassins joined forces to siege, they can’t take Azrael down.

So far Seven Kill hasn’t faced the opponent, but he has been soaked with cold sweat. His Combating Specialization has reached level B for a long time, coupled with the active and passive skills, he rarely had an opponent in melee. Even facing Shiva, the second player in the ranking, he feels that he has a 50% chance of winning. But he didn’t expect… Facing Azrael in front of him, he couldn’t even fight.

Masters like Seven Kill, before the attack, will naturally have a prejudgment of the next scene in the mind. But in the face of Azrael. All the hypotheses in Seven Kill’s eyes were amputated by the swords within two moves…

“Wait…” Seeing that Azrael tended to do something, Seven Kill hurried and raised his hands. “I surrender too… you shouldn’t kill anyone, right? Heroes.”

…………

The dark night came to Gotham City, this night shall never end in calm.

In Gotham Police Police Department.

The glass of the Batsignal was shattered and projected into the black bat pattern in the air, revealing the three light characters “RIP”, which seemed to announce something to the city.

Commissioner Gordon always wears a brown trench coat, shirt and tie. He stood in the wind with tidy hair and firm, sharp eyes.

A young man in a red suit, black cape and a blindfold came to his side. “The good news is… Nightwing has found two of them and put them to the police station.” He paused. “The bad news is that there are four more… still missing. But Network will find them soon. “

“For me, the news is just news,” Gordon said. “The family of three police officers today lost their father, husband, son… New super-criminals suddenly appeared in this sensitive period. It’s hard to imagine what will happen next… “

Tim Drake (the third Robin) replied: “No matter what happens, Network can handle it.”

“Son, you are confident that, this is good.” Gordon sighed. “It is undeniable that Network prevented Gotham from collapsing. But now Gotham is like a dyke with a lot of holes. Once we fill one, three new ones will emerge. It is only a matter of time…” He glanced at Tim: “Nightwing knows that we know that, those criminals who lurk in the dark also know that… they are ready to destroy this fragile city. “

“We will not make this happen.” Tim said in a rather excited voice: “Batman… will stand up.” He also knew very well that it will either be him or Dick, there will be one person, in the end, put on that cloak.

“Alright, boy, I have a possible clue here about those out-of-bounds travellers.” Gordon changed the topic. “Tonight, the police station received a message and someone offered us, Victor. Professor Fries’ hiding place.”

“Mr. Freeze?” Tim’s expression slightly changed. “Where is he?”

“In a factory building, but that is no longer important.” Gordon said: “About half an hour ago, there was razed to the ground by a huge explosion. The specific cause of the explosion needs to be investigated. But my instinct tells me that this has a direct connection with those ‘travellers’. Maybe you can…”

Gordon was turning to Tim when he said that, but he only saw the air before he finished his line.

In the wind, the commissioner lit himself a cigarette and smiled bitterly. He couldn’t help recalling another man who often suddenly disappeared as the conversation neared its end. Unfortunately, that old friend is dead…

1. See reference at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star#Pachinko!
2. The reference is not clear. According to what I searched, Azrael is the character of Iranian. Did the author made a mistake?
3. The writer mentioned clear that this Azrael is Michael Washington Lane but no Jean-Paul Valley, who also acted as Batman. See at: https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Azrael_(Michael_Lane) There are also reasons why the author roasted his family members are having a bizarre death.
4. The author kept calling him Rane, thus I replaced it…
5. Reference from Psalm 7:12.