CXnovel Chapter 276 Another Clone
Chapter 276 Another Clone
Celia clenched her fists so tightly that her nails almost dug into her palms.
She could sense that Kael'thas's aura was more solid and dangerous than before.
The other party had clearly recovered from the initial shock and made what he considered the most reasonable judgment—Lin Tian's clone was temporary, and his main body might not be invincible.
She looked at Lin Tian with concern, but saw that her master, from beginning to end, did not show the slightest panic on his face because of the disappearance of the clone, nor was he affected in the slightest by Kael'thas's long-winded and self-righteous analysis.
Lin Tian didn't even look at the original location of the shadow clone that had completely dissipated into the air, as if it had never existed.
He simply listened quietly as Kael'thas finished speaking, watching the other man's chest straighten again and the undisguised, rekindled confidence and killing intent on his face.
Then, as the echoes of Kael'thas's "ultimatum" still lingered in the air, Lin Tian finally, very slightly, moved.
He slowly raised his right hand.
His hands were empty; he had not grasped the incredibly powerful Star Devouring Staff.
His movements were so natural, so casual, as if he were simply brushing away non-existent dust from his shoulders, or perhaps pointing to some distant landscape.
But when he fully raised his long, strong, well-defined hand, fingers slightly spread, palm facing Kael'thas, who stood menacingly in front of him, believing himself to be in complete control—
An indescribable tremor, seemingly originating from the most fundamental rules of the world, quietly spread from Lin Tian's center.
It wasn't a surge of powerful magical energy, nor a dazzling display of skill effects, nor even any leakage of any elemental energy.
It was a kind of... a deeper level, an absolute will that seemed to touch the boundary between "existence" and "nothingness".
Lin Tian raised his eyes, his gaze calmly traversing the not-so-distant distance between the two, landing on Kael'thas's pale face, which was slightly flushed from emotional agitation.
On his perpetually calm face, a clear, unmistakable smile slowly curved his lips, a smile tinged with endless mockery and icy coldness.
Then, a word, so calm yet seemingly containing the power of thunder from the heavens, was softly uttered from his lips:
"idiot."
The two words Lin Tian uttered calmly, though not loud, seemed to possess a strange penetrating power, clearly reaching Kael'thas's ears and echoing in the deathly silence of the battlefield.
Kael'thas's newly formed smile, a mix of arrogance, cruelty, and an air of self-importance, froze instantly.
His scarlet pupils contracted sharply, and an extremely ominous premonition, like a cold, venomous snake, suddenly coiled around his heart.
He stared intently at Lin Tian's hand, which was raised flat with its five fingers slightly spread, his mind racing with alarm bells.
The palm was empty; there was no staff, no runes, and not even the slightest visible energy fluctuation.
"You..." Kael'thas's throat went dry. He instinctively wanted to question, to refute, to maintain his last shred of dignity.
But in the next instant, all his words and thoughts were abruptly cut off by the scene unfolding before him, which completely overturned his understanding, turning into a distorted, almost muffled cry of horror:
"impossible!!!"
Lin Tian's raised hand had its five fingers curled inwards very slightly and elegantly.
There was no earth-shattering gathering of magic, no complex and obscure incantations, and not even the violent ripples caused by the forced manipulation of spatial rules.
It's as if a painter is using the most delicate brushstrokes to gently outline the scene in the air; or as if water flows naturally into a channel, with light and shadow flowing naturally.
A dark, solid figure, identical to the clone that had vanished moments before, emerged silently from the void a step away from Lin Tian, gradually becoming denser and solidifying!
He still wore that robe that seemed to absorb all light, still wielded the [Star-Devouring Staff] with a deep, dark core spinning at its tip, and still had that face that was identical to Lin Tian's original self, except that his eyes were even colder and more indifferent.
Shadow Clone!
It has come again!
Moreover, it appeared so easily, so casually, so... without any sense of cost!
Unlike the slightly faint aura of the previous clone when it dissipated, this newly appeared clone was surrounded by solid and abundant magical power, and the pressure it exuded was even stronger than that of the one after the fierce battle!
It was as if it had not just been summoned, but had been waiting here for a long time, only to make its graceful appearance now, hidden behind a curtain!
"This...this is impossible! Absolutely impossible!!"
Kael'thas felt as if he had been struck hard on the head by an invisible hammer. He staggered back half a step, and his handsome yet sinister pale face instantly lost all color, turning ashen.
His bloodshot eyes widened to their limit, filled with extreme shock, absurdity, and a kind of madness akin to the collapse of faith.
"You just used it! That clone just disappeared! I saw it with my own eyes!!" His voice was shrill and piercing, almost a scream, trying to deny the undeniable facts before him.
"How could a clone skill of this level have no cooldown?! How could it be summoned continuously?! Even if you could forcibly summon it, the strength of the second clone could never remain intact! This violates the rules! It violates all known laws of power!!"
He couldn't understand it, he just couldn't understand it!
In his understanding, in the ancient memories of the Abyss, any top-tier clone skill that can perfectly replicate the strength of the original body, or even independently cast forbidden spells, will inevitably be accompanied by a long cooldown time measured in "days" or even "weeks," as well as a huge burden on the original body.
That is the law of equivalent exchange, an iron law that power cannot overcome!
But this human before him... he broke this ironclad rule! In an almost "casual" manner, he delivered a second, fully-formed clone to him!
"rule?"
Lin Tian finally spoke, slowly lowering his raised hand as if he had done something insignificant. He calmly looked at the crazed Kael'thas, his tone carrying a faint, almost pitying mockery:
"Kael'thas, you keep talking about the rules of the abyss, the laws of the world... but you seem to have forgotten, or perhaps you've never truly understood them—"
His voice paused slightly, then became as clear and cold as a winter's wind: