Chapter 16 The Sixth Floor of Changmao Fortress

Changmao Fortress, Tower of Pillars, sixth floor.

"Oh? So there's a rabbit left here who hasn't run..." Blood Corpse God had just stepped onto this floor from the stairs when he saw a Rabbit Person in a white t-shirt and with ordinary looks.

Although this Rabbit Person looked no different from a common soldier, and even his appearance wasn't as sharp as theirs, he appeared unusually calm when he saw the invader, Blood Corpse God: "Hmm..." He slowly sized up the monster before him and asked, "...Are you the one who's been turning the city upside down?"

With just that one exchange, Blood Corpse God could tell that the other party had an extraordinary presence and was definitely not an ordinary soldier. He immediately replied solemnly: "Then you've misunderstood. The ones cleaning up your subordinates in the city are... three Earthlings. And I... am only responsible for raiding the heart of this fortress."

"So... you are my enemy," the Rabbit Person said again.

"Heh... hahaha..." Blood Corpse God laughed wildly, "In a sense, you could say that... to food, diners are indeed natural enemies."

"That's a very interesting analogy..." the Rabbit Person said again, "But I wonder... which of us... will be the one eaten..."

"You'll find out soon enough... um..." Blood Corpse God wanted to call out to him, but realized he hadn't asked for his name yet, "Oh right, what's your name?"

The Rabbit Person looked at Blood Corpse God and replied coldly, "I am... the Head of the Six Heavenly Officials of Changmao – Shangsheng Xingjun, Kelote."

"Kelote?" Blood Corpse God repeated the name, then smiled, "Heh heh... alright, Mr. Carrot, judging from your title, you should be a formidable character; and your words just now... have shown that you will not sit idly by, but will take the initiative." He paused for half a second, "In that case, I'll give you a chance..." He opened his arms, arrogantly continuing, "You may show me your martial skills to your heart's content... I will enjoy them as entertainment, so that when I eat you, I will have all the more flavor."

"Hmph... what a joke." Although Kelote said the words "what a joke," he did not laugh, but just snorted coldly, and replied, "Once you have witnessed my ultimate skill as the 'Strongest Man of Changmao Divine Fist' – Changmao Phoenix Fist, you will know... how ridiculous your words are right now!"

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On the other hand, Changmao Fortress, somewhere.

"Ah... so quickly dealt with..." Wang Tanzhi squatted on top of a building, looking at the Rabbit Person corpses all over the ground, muttering to himself, "Although Brother Jue told me to 'try out the actual effects of this thing'... is it really okay to show off the effects of the new equipment like this during the livestream..."

At this time, under Xiao Tan's assassin's hood, there was an additional pull-over mask. This mask had a very clear midline, with the left half of the face being orange and the right half being black; the mask had no other obvious features, no details for the nose, mouth, or ears, only the eyes were made of leather.

And the "new equipment" that Xiao Tan was talking about was naturally this...

[Name: Shadow of Deathstroke]

[Type: Armor]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Defense: None]

[Attributes: None]

[Effect: When equipped, the judgment level of all Fighting and Reconnaissance skills below A-rank will be regarded as A-rank; Fighting and Reconnaissance skills that were originally A-rank will be regarded as S-rank (skill consumption remains unchanged, power effect increases)]

[Equipment Requirements: Reconnaissance Specialization A, Fighting Specialization A]

[Remarks: This mask accompanied a tactical master proficient in various fighting arts and assassination techniques for many years, and has almost become a symbol of death and victory. Until one day, its master finally fell before the enemy's blade, allowing it to be stained with the blood, spirit, and soul of that cold-blooded warrior... From then on, the legend of the "Shadow of Deathstroke" began. ]

Without a doubt, this mask was one of the three "treasures" that Xiao Tan had obtained from Blackbeard's treasure cave...

Although the description of this equipment was not as complex as other legendary items, that simple and easy-to-understand passive effect was definitely worthy of the "Legendary" quality.

Just now... Xiao Tan had actually only used a [Reverse Blade Whirlwind Slash] on a group of Changmao Fortress slave overseers, but the power of this D-rank skill after being raised to A-rank... far exceeded Xiao Tan's own imagination.

This spin was practically like opening a thirty-second Musou mode, the effect was truly mowing the grass...

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The other end of Changmao Fortress – the slave market.

"Do you have anything else to confess?" When Xiao Ling asked this question, the muzzle of the Ultimax 100 in her hand was pointed at the forehead of a Rabbit Person.

And that Rabbit Person was so frightened that he was pissing and crying, kneeling on the ground and saying with a crying voice: "Re-really no-nothing, I've told you everything I know! I'm re-really just a supervisor, I've never killed anyone (rabbit)! Please believe me!"

"Hmph..." Xiao Ling sneered at him, "Whether I believe you or not... is not important..." As she said this, she raised her eyes and looked around. At this moment, besides the corpses of the Changmao Six Heavenly Officials' lackeys, many ragged, scarred men, women, old and young were gathered nearby, "Whether you've killed people or not, is also not important..." She paused, "Sometimes, people who don't have blood on their hands are more dirty than those whose hands are stained with blood... This dirtiness cannot be covered up by a glamorous appearance or hypocritical rhetoric, because it has clearly manifested in the eyes of these people who have been tortured by you to the point of wishing they were dead..."

At this point, Xiao Ling put away her gun and turned to leave.

As she stepped away, she left behind a sentence without looking back: "How to deal with this person... is up to you to decide." Her words were undoubtedly spoken to the surrounding slaves, "Oh, right... no matter what you do to him, you don't have to worry about anyone pursuing the matter afterwards, because today... is the end of these oppressors."

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Changmao Fortress – barracks.

"You... you monster..." A Rabbit Person with lion-like thick fur and brown fur all over his body sat slumped on the ground, looking at a solitary figure not far away with extremely horrified eyes, trembling and muttering, "...Yo-you actually... in an instant, turned our 'Changmao Five Chariot Stars' into..."

"Sorry," Ruoyu interrupted the guy's words, "I don't know what you're talking about. When I just took action, I didn't notice that there were 'any five' particularly outstanding people (rabbits) here." As she said this, she raised the Xuanyuan Sword in her hand again, "I'm afraid I don't have much time left, there are many guys like you that I need to clean up, so..."

She did not say what came after that "so," nor did the sword in her hand fall. Because... the guy on the ground had already suffered a sword wound earlier, and was in a state of lingering survival. At this moment, he was so frightened by her... his blood pressure soared, his wound burst, and he suddenly vomited blood and died.

This scene was nothing to her, but to the viewers watching the livestream... it was too cool.

Everyone has seen NPCs killed, but no one has ever seen an NPC scared to death. Although that NPC was indeed already injured, the wound was obviously not fatal, and the cause of his death was indeed mostly "scared to death."

"Could this heroine's performance be any more crazy, domineering, cool, and拽…"

"Hey hey~ Hubby~ Their team's crazy captain and this beautiful swordswoman are both so amazing, I feel like they can both take on ten people each!"

"Si Yu Ruo Li, huh... I haven't even seen her ID on the leaderboard, what's the situation?"

"Maybe she's just low-key. I've been playing since the closed beta and I've never heard of her, and I haven't seen any information about her in S1, but this strength... looks like it's super first-class..."

"I'm saying... isn't the overall combat strength of this Hell Frontline team a bit too exaggerated? As the top ten in the preliminaries, they completely crushed Corpse Blade Second Squad, didn't they?"

For a time, the comments on various livestreaming platforms ushered in a new wave of excitement.

At this stage of the competition, there was basically no suspense, because the outcome was already obvious... not to mention Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling's performance, just from the abilities shown by Brother Jue and Ruoyu, it felt like they were beating the enemy's entire team by themselves.

Therefore, the focus of the audience's discussion... also shifted from the competition itself to other things.

After this day, Hell Frontline became famous in one battle. In addition to Huajian, who had not yet appeared, Feng Bujue, Wang Tanzhi, Si Yu Ruo Li, and Bei Ling Xiao Gu... overnight, they had a large group of fans and supporters.

And among the four of them, the most popular was undoubtedly Xiao Tan.

This kind of high-rich-handsome young man who exudes a cute and weak shou aura, giving people the feeling of being very easy to bully, but can show strong strength at critical moments, has a great appeal to women of all ages. In addition... there is no shortage of male players who want him to pick up soap.

Of course, those are all things of the future, let's talk about them later.

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Let's turn our attention back to the desert...

Just as the three players of Hell Frontline and Blood Corpse God were wiping out Changmao Fortress in one fell swoop, Feng Bujue's battle was still continuing.

"Your summoned creatures aren't bad either..." Feng Bujue said to the manipulator hiding behind the summons in a relaxed and lazy tone while dodging the fierce attacks launched by the [Corpse Tiger], "To be honest... the characteristic of 'immortality' is really unusually practical."

Under the data perspective, Feng Bujue had already seen through everything about Sanyu Qiangxi. Take this [Corpse Tiger] for example. As one of the two strongest summoned beasts of an S-rank Summoning Specialization expert, its combat power is naturally not weak; in addition to its strong physique, powerful melee combat abilities, and extremely high physical attack and defense, the Corpse Tiger also has the characteristic of "immortality." That is—after this summoned beast is summoned, unless the user dismisses it on their own, or it suffers more than 50% annihilation damage on a physical level, it will not die no matter how it is hit. At most, it will fall into a state similar to "coma"... and the length of this "coma" state depends on the severity of its injuries.

For example, if the Corpse Tiger's head is chopped off, then the coma time will last until its head grows back... If it is cut in half, then the slightly larger half will become the new main body and immediately begin to grow back and make up for the missing parts, and the coma time will last until it grows back into a complete Corpse Tiger.

Seeing this, some people will definitely ask... what if it is chopped into eighteen pieces? That's okay too... No matter how many pieces it is chopped into, the body fragments of the Corpse Tiger after being separated will move towards the other separated parts at the fastest speed they can achieve. At the same time, the new "main body" is also undergoing self-healing. If the separated body returns to the main body when the self-healing is halfway through, the main body will devour it... This action can drastically accelerate the healing process.

In short, to kill the Corpse Tiger, the best way is to use a high-intensity energy impact to blast 51% of its body into nothing...

Of course, there is also a situation where it can be kept from moving for a long time without its body being annihilated. That is to hit it with a heavy blow with "very very very very... high" attack power. For example, a giant Saiyan more than ten times larger than the Corpse Tiger gives it a King Kong punch... Then, according to the principle that "the more severe the injury, the longer the coma time," it may lie down for ten days or half a month because of this.

Finally, one more thing that needs to be mentioned is... the duration of this summoned creature is infinite. However, after the user actively dismisses it, it will still enter the skill cooldown time.

In summary, it is not difficult for everyone to see that, in terms of Feng Bujue's abilities, the best way to deal with this Corpse Tiger is undoubtedly the [Spirit Gun]. However, this skill has a certain probability of causing the user to die on the spot, and Brother Jue doesn't want to take this risk in this situation.

Secondly, launching a powerful ammunition with [Yi Da] may also kill this summoned creature in seconds, but there is no such thing to take nearby for the time being. Besides... the ammunition effect sent out by Yi Da is random, and even if you hit it with something incomprehensible, it may not have an annihilation effect.

Third, using [Rankyaku] to cut the Corpse Tiger into multiple segments, making it unable to participate in the battle in a short period of time... seems to be a good way too. Unfortunately... judging from the result of the previous [Rankyaku - Ran], this thing has very high physical defense and thick skin, and may not be able to be cut open; and in this open desert... there is no barrier between the severed body fragments of the Corpse Tiger, even if they are cut open, they will recombine very quickly.

Therefore, after Sanyu Qiangxi manipulated the Corpse Tiger to defend with all its strength, using a defensive style of play to start a war of attrition with Brother Jue, Brother Jue has not made any achievements.

"It's been almost ten minutes, is it almost time..." After the one-man and one-monster entanglement went on for a long time, Sanyu Qiangxi thought to himself, "My survival, stamina, and spiritual power values are almost in a state of no consumption, while his stamina and survival values are being consumed at a certain rate; this guy is definitely not the kind of person who will sit still and wait for death, he will not allow this situation to continue to develop... When he thinks he has figured out the behavior patterns of me and the Corpse Tiger, he will definitely change his moves and find an opportunity to attack my main body. And at that time... he will be finished!"