Infinity, The Arcade Age-Chapter 394: Soul Extraction and Rampage

"Qin Ming!"

Watching someone actually break through his storm, Goenitz, whose body was rapidly collapsing, suddenly struggled to raise his hand and point in that direction.

With a jolt of his arm, a flash of black light instantly lit up.

Seeing this, Qin Ming immediately launched a high-speed charge, twisting his body as he ran in an attempt to dodge the attack.

However, the speed of Goenitz's attack this time far exceeded his expectations.

Before Qin Ming could even shift his position, his body gave a slight shudder—he had already been hit.

What was even more shocking was that Qin Ming didn't even realize it at first and kept sprinting at full speed.

It wasn't until he had taken a few more steps that he suddenly sensed something wrong.

Glancing sideways, he saw that his left arm now had a circular hole about the size of a walnut—neatly punched through his shoulder! The wound was impossibly clean! It pierced straight through to the other side!

"Ah?!"

Qin Ming's face changed dramatically. He hadn't expected his steel-like body to be pierced so easily, almost without resistance. Seeing Goenitz lifting his hand to shoot again, Qin Ming hurriedly dodged for his life.

Black light kept flickering between Goenitz's fingers. One after another, black particles shot out like bullets, annihilating everything in their path. Nothing could withstand them even for an instant—anything they touched was instantly pierced and dissolved.

These black particles were divine power—superior even to the bloodline of the Heavenly Kings.

The Orochi skill—Black Particle!

Having now fused two Heavenly King bloodlines, Goenitz could just barely wield the power of a god. But only just.

This Black Particle skill wasn't complete; he could only shoot out a tiny black dot instead of a sweeping fan-shaped blast.

But even that tiny dot was deadly enough. Anyone hit by it would instantly cease to exist.

This wasn't about ignoring defense or dealing "true damage." This was pure spatial force—a dimensional collapse attack!

Goenitz, floating midair with difficulty and a stiff expression, kept aiming and firing at Qin Ming.

Already having taken one hit, Qin Ming was now dodging frantically, circling Goenitz while weaving closer.

At this point, Goenitz's body was on the verge of collapse. Though he had gained terrifying power, the price was steep. He no longer possessed his ghostly speed; even basic movement was now a struggle.

As a result, despite the power of his current skill, the slowness of his attacks actually made him weaker against a prepared Qin Ming.

Dodging dozens of black particle shots, Qin Ming finally managed to get close.

Before even closing the distance completely, he flung out a blood orb.

Modified—Tyrant's Roaring Fist!

The solidified blood orb roared as it accelerated, its momentum overwhelming.

Faced with the oncoming attack, Goenitz made no attempt to dodge. With a stoic expression, he simply lifted a finger.

The next second, as energy converged around him, a pristine white energy shield materialized out of thin air.

Divine Skill—Reflective Shield!

With a hum, Qin Ming's blood orb hit the shield, and instead of colliding, the two energies merged bizarrely.

Then, in the very next moment, the fused energies transformed into an even larger blood orb and fired back!

Seeing this, Qin Ming tried to manipulate the blood with a wave of his hand—only to discover the blood had completely gone out of his control.

In a rush, he formed a blood shield to block it, but the rebound exploded on impact, riddling his body with wounds and shards of his own blood.

Gritting his teeth with a muffled groan, Qin Ming didn't retreat. Instead, he forced himself forward and charged straight at Goenitz.

As he lunged forward and grabbed with one hand, he was struck head-on by another black particle beam—his arm pierced clean through from end to end.

Yet the injured arm didn't lose function—it gripped Goenitz's raised hand in return.

With a savage expression, Qin Ming locked eyes with Goenitz and raised his other hand, where blood condensed into claws. He slashed viciously at Goenitz's face, while Goenitz stabbed a sharp hand strike directly toward Qin Ming's chest.

With a tearing sound, they attacked simultaneously, both hitting their targets—but with completely different results.

Qin Ming's chest was completely pierced, Goenitz's arm running all the way through his torso, and his eyes widened in shock.

His hand, clawed tightly on Goenitz's face, left five deep bloody scratches, twitching with effort.

He tried to activate his powers—to detonate the blood, to blow Goenitz's head apart.

But at that moment, he realized in horror: he couldn't move!

His whole body had gone stiff! His reflexes dulled! His speed had slowed exponentially! Most importantly, all his abilities were sealed—he couldn't use a single one!

He had been frozen in place!

Ultimate Divine Skill—Soul Extraction!

Staring in disbelief at Goenitz, Qin Ming's eyes widened in a frenzy.

Meanwhile, Goenitz's face—already covered in cracks—slowly broke into a smile.

"Did you forget," he said quietly, "that the so-called powers of the Three Sacred Treasures' families were also gifts from the gods? If a god granted the power... how could it not master it itself?"

Soul Extraction: Spatial Freeze + Temporal Seal—representing the powers of the Yata Mirror and the Yasakani Magatama!

As for Sunlight's Radiance—the technique "Chaos: Return to Origin"—it represented the all-erasing force of the Kusanagi Sword!

Struck point-blank by Soul Extraction, Qin Ming was completely sealed in place, unable to move.

Looking at the immobilized Qin Ming, Goenitz's smile slowly deepened.

He let his face rupture as he forcefully yanked out the arm impaled in Qin Ming's chest and spoke in a low voice.

"Qin Ming, being casually crushed by a god like an ant is far too pitiful. So die as a fighter, on the battlefield against me. That's the final dignity I can give you!"

His voice turned into a roar as Goenitz suddenly pulled with full strength.

Incredibly, gripped in the hand he pulled from Qin Ming's body was a translucent soul—the soul of Qin Ming!

There's a reason why this move is called "Soul Extraction."

It immobilizes the opponent and forcibly rips their soul out of their body. Regardless of their abilities or trump cards, it's a one-hit kill.

That—was the true essence of Soul Extraction!

A fatal attack that strikes the very soul!

As a grating tearing sound rang out, another translucent Qin Ming was gradually being dragged out of his physical body.

Where the two Qin Mings—flesh and soul—were still connected, the links began to snap one after another under Goenitz's relentless pulling.

Staring wide-eyed as his soul was gradually wrenched free, Qin Ming couldn't do a thing—not even twitch, let alone resist. His pupils trembled violently.

He could feel his body steadily weakening, his flesh losing control bit by bit.

Qin Ming wasn't afraid of death—after all, he had roamed the underworld for years and had quite a few life-saving cards up his sleeve.

Let's not forget he still had a resurrection coin. Worst case, he'd revive. From the beginning, Qin Ming had already prepared to throw everything he had to kill Goenitz.

But this kind of death was completely beyond his expectations. Getting his soul pulled out—what exactly dies in that case, the soul or the body?

If the soul died but the body survived, he might end up in a vegetative state. And if the time in the Nightmare Space ran out, and his body got summoned back but his soul remained behind... now that would be awkward.

Frantically running through every trump card in his mind, trying to find a way to break the stalemate, Qin Ming ultimately found, to his dismay, that he simply had no counter to this move.

After all, with a combination of time seal, space freeze, and soul attack—this trio of powers was just too ridiculously overpowered.

Forget two S-rank skills—even if Qin Ming had a full set of S-rank abilities, he still wouldn't survive this kind of treatment!

Wasn't this the same combo the Three Sacred Treasures used against Orochi!?

Crack!

With a crisp sound, despite struggling with all his might, Qin Ming still couldn't escape. His soul was forcibly torn from his body.

His physical body suffered immediate brain death. With his soul sealed, Qin Ming's form finally broke free from the control of Soul Extraction—but it remained frozen, lifeless on the spot.

Floating midair, Goenitz turned to glance at the soul he had just extracted, and let out a wide, satisfied grin.

"It's over, Qin Ming. Farewell—foreverrrrrr!"

But just as he said that—an ear-piercing scream suddenly ripped from Goenitz's throat!

Feeling intense pain surging from his arm, he turned his head in agony—

Only to discover that the other arm, the one Qin Ming had grabbed, had already been severed halfway!

And the one who severed it—was none other than Qin Ming!

To be precise, Qin Ming's body!

His soul had been torn out, but contrary to what happens with normal people—he didn't go limp like a vegetable.

On the contrary, his soulless body began moving on its own! Or rather, "berserking" was more accurate!

Without its soul, Qin Ming's body suddenly tilted its head skyward and roared. Drool trickled from its mouth, its eyes blood-red, as it swung its arm and hacked down savagely on Goenitz's other arm, cleaving the already-weakened limb clean off!

Then his body exploded!

From his chest burst countless blood beads—launching a sneak attack so abrupt and vicious that blood sprayed from Goenitz's body like arrows!

Snarling and roaring, the body was now driven purely by instinct. And that instinct came from his Steel Body and Blood Devour skills!

With a swing of his hand, a blood-red claw cleaved open Goenitz's chest!

With a bellow, his gaping mouth lunged directly at Goenitz's face!

At this point, the berserking Qin Ming had no semblance of technique—just pure, animalistic violence. Yet this style of instinctual combat was now a hundred times more brutal than Qin Ming had ever been before!

His control over the two innate abilities had reached a terrifying degree!

Snapping back to his senses, Goenitz raised his hand and fired a blast of black particles. The dark beam struck Qin Ming's head squarely, blowing off half of his skull.

Yet even with half his head gone, Qin Ming didn't fall. Instead, he leaped forward and tackled Goenitz in a feral embrace.

The next moment—his entire body's blood began to boil! It surged outward violently, blasting at Goenitz at point-blank range!

In an instant, Goenitz was riddled with holes from the torrent of blood arrows. His throat was bitten into by Qin Ming—half his head missing—and torn open in a crimson spray.

The agony made Goenitz cry out instinctively. He fired more black particle blasts at point-blank range, desperately trying to force Qin Ming to let go.

But the rampaging Qin Ming didn't care how much damage his body took. Even as the black beams riddled him with wounds, he refused to loosen his grip, relentlessly ripping at Goenitz.

His head was split. His heart was pierced. His organs shattered.

Every kind of fatal injury appeared on Qin Ming's body—but none of it slowed him down! On the contrary—it only made this wounded beast more ferocious!

(End of Chapter)