Chapter 134 The Fourth Effect

Meng Jingchan brandished his sword and attacked, swift as a gale, his moves cunning and bizarre, his power unleashed to its fullest extent.

Feng Bujue transformed into a fleeting shadow, his bloody silhouette flashing past as playing cards scattered, their offensive strength now clearly above Meng Jingchan's.

Both of them knew very well that even if they gave it their all against the Derivative before them, they might not win. Probing and holding back were meaningless.

The two figures unleashed lethal moves in quick succession. K3, facing them alone, defended flawlessly, not yielding an inch. In terms of stamina, he surpassed the sum of the two; in terms of skill, he had honed his abilities on the edge of a blade; in terms of fighting spirit, every battle he had experienced was a life-or-death struggle.

The three-way battle formed a delicate balance. The two players temporarily suppressed K3 with their dense and rapid attacks, but they could not defeat him. If they continued to delay, Feng Bujue would lose his combat ability here in a few minutes, breaking the balance. But they didn't have the leeway to change their tactics first.

"You're a bit slow," K3 suddenly said with a leisurely tone amidst the airtight offense and defense. "And not strong enough." His right arm suddenly exploded with qi, and a localized qi shield opened up, actually blasting away Meng Jingchan's incoming sword.

Meng Jingchan felt a numbness in his palm, followed by a surge of energy that spread throughout his entire arm, causing his sword to fly involuntarily from his grasp.

"You're not bad," K3 said to Feng Bujue. "But your combat experience and skills are a complete mess..." He flashed forward, using a simple yet unexpected move to enter the gap to the right of Feng Bujue, slamming an elbow into Feng Bujue's ribs.

Fortunately, he had the Echo Armor. The enhancements that the Spiritual Consciousness Convergence Technique gave Feng Bujue also allowed him to make a defensive posture in time when he was about to be hit. This elbow strike knocked Feng Bujue back more than ten meters, but his survival value loss was only 10%.

Of course, this 10% meant that the duration of the Spiritual Consciousness Convergence Technique was reduced by another twenty-five seconds...

"If you don't have better performances, then this battle should end," K3 said. "I still have four people to deal with."

"So, that's your weakness..." Feng Bujue suddenly sneered, his gaze becoming sharp and cold.

"What did you say?" K3 asked, outwardly unperturbed, but inwardly feeling a faint sense of unease.

Meng Jingchan had already picked up his sword, gripping his right wrist with his left hand to stabilize his trembling arm. Clearly, he had not given up. This setback would not make him concede defeat.

"Even Derivatives can't possess unlimited stamina," Feng Bujue said, already regrouping and charging forward. "Your protective qi shield also needs stamina to support it. I've already figured it out... Whenever your consumption reaches a certain level, you'll use a move that's clearly stronger than your current level." Playing cards flew from his hand in rapid succession, not in combinations, but simply aiming to strike multiple points simultaneously.

"It's good to be able to kill your opponent, but even if you can't, they'll definitely be forced back by your powerful move, giving you a chance to recover." Feng Bujue, coordinating with dozens of playing cards, once again broke through to the front of K3. "Your stamina recovery rate determines your behavior pattern. The stronger your moves, the closer you are to defeat. When you use your strongest ultimate move, it means you have no way out."

Here, let me explain that K3's qi shield is a passive defense technique. When it encounters a powerful attack (a folding chair to the back obviously doesn't count), it automatically triggers, negating the force of the attack. What's even more powerful than the Echo Armor is that the qi shield not only protects the torso, but covers the entire body. And even if an enemy attacks at close range, it can still be triggered normally.

In addition, the qi shield also has an active release form. K3 has already demonstrated it several times before, such as localized qi bursts, full-body qi bursts, or using it to increase the power of ranged attacks, and so on...

However, this convenient and powerful ability naturally has a cost. If stamina is depleted to below 30%, the passive defensive effect of the qi shield will disappear, which would obviously put K3 in danger. Therefore, his combat mode is to attack instead of defend before his stamina reaches the critical point, reversing the situation.

Whenever K3's stamina value is depleted by more than half, he will use a powerful killing move. As Feng Bujue had predicted, even if this could not seriously injure the opponent, it could force them back. Then, while the opponent was catching their breath, K3 was actually taking the opportunity to recover. And the life and stamina recovery speed of Derivatives is incomparable to that of players. They are born from data, and the script world is also made up of data. For them, recovering health and stamina is like cultivators absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and the recovery speed is at least ten times faster than that of players.

Feng Bujue recalled the last time he met X-23, also a Level 3 Derivative. When she fought Pan Feng and Hua Xiong, she didn't show a particularly huge advantage, but won steadily and surely. But this time, the guy he met seemed to be so strong that he defied the heavens. It felt like even a GM would be killed instantly.

But Feng Bujue had finally seen through it... These were all illusions. K3's fighting style was somewhat deceptive, making people feel as if he could infinitely increase the power of his moves.

"This method of yours must be effective every time," Feng Bujue's playing cards this time were not blocked in any way, hitting K3 from all directions, but the qi shield on the latter's body surface was still working. "You've turned 'momentum' into an effective weapon... Most people, when facing an opponent who gets stronger and stronger, will have a gradually suppressed illusion, and this feeling will quickly turn into self-doubt and fear of you." As Feng Bujue spoke, his spiritually infused playing card slashed towards the opponent's throat.

Meng Jingchan also launched another attack at this moment, his sword pointing at K3's back, stabbing silently and suddenly.

Clang—

It was that sound again. The sword body was bent, but the tip still didn't pierce the qi shield. This sword was Meng Jingchan's full-strength attack. Although he didn't suffer any survival value damage, the stamina consumption to keep up with Feng Bujue's attack rhythm during this time was self-evident.

And Feng Bujue's wrist holding the cards was grabbed by K3, not even completing the attack.

"Good idea, and the continuous attack tactics are correct," K3 said in a deep voice, his expression becoming quite serious. "But your execution is insufficient." With a twist of one hand, Feng Bujue's right forearm was snapped in two, torn off directly, even the cross-section of the bone could be seen, and blood spurted out immediately.

The simulation of pain was very realistic, but it was still weakened by the system. If it were 100% restored, Feng Bujue would probably faint from the pain.

"If the two GMs were to fight me according to your ideas, they might have a chance of winning if they were lucky," K3 said coldly. "Of course, I seriously doubt whether they can withstand my killing move." He threw Feng Bujue's severed arm away casually. "As for you..." He turned around and kicked, stamping his foot on Meng Jingchan's shoulder. The latter's face was horrified, blood spurted from his mouth, and he flew backwards for dozens of meters before crashing into a tree in the distance. "I said, he's not fast enough, and not strong enough." He shifted his gaze to Feng Bujue's face. "You... You simply don't know how to fight. You're putting in twice the effort for half the results."

K3's right arm reappeared with a crimson glow, obscuring the bloody aura around Feng Bujue with a momentum like dark clouds swallowing the sun.

Feng Bujue's survival value quickly bottomed out again due to the heavy damage to his arm and the bleeding effect, heading towards 1%. The Spiritual Consciousness Convergence Technique should have the last few seconds to maintain, but whether this skill was activated or not, it was unlikely that Feng Bujue could successfully avoid K3's next attack.

"You're not worthy of making me use my strongest move yet." K3's movement should be preparing to use the Crimson Dragon Fist Flame again. "This punch that I couldn't use just now is more than enough to deal with you." He was right. If Feng Bujue hadn't used the leg sweep before, this punch would have ended the battle long ago.

In this fleeting moment, many thoughts flashed through Feng Bujue's mind: Should I say something to transfer the protagonist's halo away from me... It wouldn't be good to have my equipment destroyed again. Or should I just quit? Anyway, I've fought enough, and I've already lost. Although I knew from the beginning that I couldn't beat him, fighting so hard and racking my brains, I couldn't even seize a single chance of winning. It's really a bit unwilling...

The dragon's roar rose, and the crimson light appeared. The red dragon energy on K3's right arm surged out along his fist, blasting towards Feng Bujue's chest.

Feng Bujue's first reaction was, is this going to blow up my Echo Armor? I've only been wearing this piece of equipment for less than one script...

Bang—

The energy collided with an invisible force field, but it wasn't the Echo Armor's sound barrier, but...

[Your Spiritual Weapon Data Has Been Updated]

[Your Item ***-500 Has Been Consumed, Current Storage is (1920)]

"What?" At the same time as Feng Bujue heard the system prompt, he had already seen the barrier in front of him clearly. It was a golden phantom of a playing card, about the size of a door, that blocked K3's killing move.

The Death Poker has three special effects:

[Special Effect 1: Infinite (Automatically generates a damaged playing card every five minutes, stopping when it reaches fifty-four cards)]

[Special Effect 2: Combination (Attacking with certain suit combinations will increase power)]

[Special Effect 3: Spirit Seeking (The spiritual weapon will always fly towards the target the owner wants to attack)]

And at this moment, the fourth special effect appeared in a timely manner and was activated, [Special Effect 4: Shield "Card" (Randomly consumes ten cards to create an indestructible shield)]

This is really hard to explain. Is it due to Feng Bujue's increased proficiency with spiritual weapons, resulting in the appearance of special effects, or is it the result of the protagonist's halo forcibly guiding it? It's hard to say... Coincidentally, after the previous consumption of the Death Poker, plus the loss of these ten cards, there was only one card left.

And what puzzled Feng Bujue even more was, what was the consumption of ***-500 for? Although it was a panacea, it couldn't restore survival value.

"How is this possible..." K3 also showed a surprised expression at this time.

Feng Bujue followed the other party's gaze, looked down and realized that his arm was actually rapidly regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye. Blood marrow, meridians, bones, granulation tissue, skin, etc.... grew spontaneously in a rather bizarre way, and the cyan light formed by the data stream fluctuated at the edge of the wound. The severed right forearm was restored in more than ten seconds, but the sleeve of his clothes did not appear.

It seems that the forced consumption of ***-500 was to complete the repair of the arm.

"Why won't you just die!" For some reason, K3 became furious. He ignored his own stamina value consumption status and exploded with qi again, waving his palms in an x-shape. Between the interlaced fingers, he blasted a net-like qi wall impact forward.

After Feng Bujue's broken hand recovered, the bleeding effect also stopped, so his survival value did not reach 1%, but stopped at 17%, which meant that the effect of the Spiritual Consciousness Convergence Technique still existed.

The previous Crimson Dragon Fist Flame slightly widened the distance between the two, and Feng Bujue had room to maneuver again. Facing the charging qi wall, he did a not-so-standard somersault, moving to the side, unexpectedly... he actually dodged it.

"Tch..." K3 spat and said, "Don't think you can keep dodging by luck. I've been observing you too. You can't maintain this high-speed state for a long time."

"Ha?" Feng Bujue replied with a rogueish air, "You don't have to worry about that... I won't cancel this state until I defeat you." He was purely being stubborn, but in fact, there was less than a minute left before the skill would automatically deactivate.

"Die!" K3 roared, stepping up and flying up, launching three punches in succession, powerful, swift, and heavy... These three consecutive attacks combined strength, speed, and energy, and were very balanced and solid attacks.

[Your Equipment "M1911A1 Pistol" Has Been Destroyed]

[Your Equipment "Eye of Hatred" Has Been Destroyed]

[Your Equipment "Robots Must Die" Has Been Destroyed]

"Damn it!" Feng Bujue blurted out this word. Anyway, there were no other players around him, so he said it.

This time, his survival value was not reduced, because these three punches were all fatal attacks, so they directly destroyed his equipment...

K3 didn't know that the items in the other party's bag had disappeared. He looked at Feng Bujue in shock, looking at this guy who didn't move at all after taking three punches: "You're still not dead?"

"Die?" Feng Bujue's eyes were about to spit fire. With lightning speed, he grabbed Mario's Wrench and swung it towards K3, who was close at hand, aiming at his temple...

Bang bang bang...

K3 was actually smashed with the wrench until his head was bleeding. He quickly raised his arm to block, but his arm was also injured.

"Die! Die! Die!" Feng Bujue repeated fiercely while smashing, "You've consumed too much in a short period of time, right? Huh? Stamina value is below the qi shield maintenance baseline, right?" He launched a flurry of wild punches, beating K3 back and back in a chaotic fashion.

Being heavily smashed on the head a few times at first made K3 a little dazed. He didn't expect the other party to be like nothing happened after his three consecutive attacks. For a time, he staggered back, being chased and beaten by Feng Bujue.