Chapter 279: Contest of Equipment
“Long Fu! I don’t believe I can’t pry off a dragon scale. Get over here so I can cut it off!” Xiong Ju roared, his face full of ruthlessness as he raised an even more wildly fierce offensive.
The dragonman youngster chose to avoid his blade, deciding to fall back and in between dodging, took every chance and gap to unleash counterattacks.
He quickly adapted to Xiong Ju’s attacks and was instantly struck far fewer times.
The audience was awed by Xiong Ju’s offensive and also amazed by the dragonman youngster’s adept sidesteps.
“He seems to be dancing across the blade’s edge.” The longbeard dwarf exclaimed in admiration.
Spring Boxer deeply sighed, “I didn’t expect that Long Fu, even in terms of movement, hadn’t used his full strength when doing battle with me.”
He didn’t understand that this was actually his contribution.
Even though Ban Lan Gen hated the dragonman youngster deeply, he too had no choice but to concede that the latter was outstanding, “Long Fu’s use of the Surge battle skill surprisingly makes me feel lithe. Against Xiong Ju’s arrogant offensive, it is very difficult for someone to handling that blade with ease like him.”
The Grand Arena Medal really was practical, who would have thought that this would have been impossible for the dragonman youngster to do this yesterday?
With Spring Boxer’s battle experience, the dragonman youngster’s last minute preparations last night had given him a breakthrough in his dodging capabilities.
The female snow elf adjusted her black frame glasses, her tone serene, “Although Xiong Ju is currently winning, if this situation continues, it will be more advantageous for Long Fu.”
“That’s right.” The old human next to her agreed, “Although Xiong Ju’s offensive is fierce and shocks the people, if it doesn’t hit his opponent, it is utterly worthless. Considering their expenditures, Xiong Ju is using up far mor than Long Fu.”
Xiong Ju hit the dragonman at a decreasing rate, making him incessantly vexed and impatient.
“Long Fu, you don’t have the guts to battle me outright. Are you a coward? You’re just avoiding me, what use is that!?”
The dragonman youngster calmly responded, “Xiong Ju, I am just cautiously watching your military strategy, this is giving you respect. If this is causing a misunderstanding with you, then I shall strike back.”
Xiong Ju was overjoyed to hear that, but a moment later, he saw the dragonman youngster pull back further, holding an alchemy crossbow in each hand.
The dragonman youngster proficiently nocked in arrows.
A moment later, an alchemy arrow shot out.
Xiong Ju rushed to evade it; however, he wasn’t very agile.
The dragonman youngster’s archery was very exquisite and hit almost every arrow.
After being shot a dozen times, Xiong Ju finally recognized reality.
He used the Gold Flower Hacksaw as a shield, placing it front of his body, then used the battle skill Barbarous Collision to charge the dragonman youngster.
His tactics were obvious; he wanted to close the distance between him and the dragonman youngster.
Seeing Xiong Ju coming towards him, the dragonman youngster calmly fell back while shooting more alchemy arrows.
The arrows hit Xiong Ju, breaking out in showers of different elemental sparkles.
Xiong Ju’s speed wasn’t impeded that much.
But at this moment, the dragonman youngster suddenly shot a silver level slow arrow.
The arrow hit Xiong Ju dead center, instantly decreasing his speed by 30%.
Due to this speed decrease, the dragonman youngster began to pull distance from him.
Xiong Ju roared loudly.
As if into response to his bellow, the dragonman youngster shot another silver level alchemy arrow.
It was a numbing electric arrow.
After Xiong Ju was shot by the arrow, electricity crackled across his body, causing his muscles to feel incomparably limp and numb all over.
In this split second of losing motive power, he came to a standstill and lightly shuddered.
The dragonman youngster seized that opportunity to put even more distance between him and Xiong Ju.
Xiong Ju’s tactics failed, and this also caused him to admit that he had to block the dragonman youngster’s alchemy arrows, otherwise, he wouldn’t have the chance to get close to them.
The dragonman youngster shot another three arrows.
These were silver level poison arrows.
After Xiong Ju was struck by those arrows, his field of view suddenly went dark, and with every breath, purple bubbles popped from the corner of his mouth.
Xiong Ju had just been paralyzed and slowed, and now because he was poisoned, he became dizzy too.
The audience was stunned to see this.
“I didn’t expect Long Fu to be adept at archery.”
Spring Boxer felt ashamed, “Lord Long Fu’s archery skills are amazing. When I fought him, I misunderstood what he was, believing that his long ranged abilities were weak, therefore, that was why he deliberately provoked me into close quarters combat.”
In fact, the dragonman youngster hadn’t shown off his archery skills much after leaving Mystifying Monster Island.
This was because his exquisite archery skills were inherent to a bloodline.
The Gold Needle Queen Bee was a legend level magic beast, and the dragonman youngster’s human form contained the Gold Needle Queen Bee’s legend level bloodline. It was that bloodline that gave him the gift of precision.
After leaving Mystifying Monster Island, the dragonman youngster had always remained in the dragonman form.
Due to this, the Flame Dragon King bloodline suppressed the Gold Needle Queen Bee bloodline, causing his archery skills to fade away.
That was the reason he didn’t do much archery.
The reason why he could use it now was because he was secretly using the Bloodcore.
Right now, he had two bloodlines augmenting each other.
This was one of the usages of the Bloodcore the dragonman youngster discovered on Mystifying Monster Island – compound transformations!
The transformations were mighty, but it had a massive systemic problem, it depleted the Bloodcore at an intense rate.
Due to the dragonman youngster’s arrow storm, Xiong Ju started to lose.
All of the spectators, without exception, were deeply moved.
“Who would have thought it would end up like this. For the longest time, most people favored Xiong Ju, who is currently taking a beating.”
“I heard the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ backer is an arms smuggling merchant. Putting that aside, look at his alchemy arrows’ actual combat effectiveness, they are indeed strong. If there is a chance, I want to purchase a large batch of them.”
Many spectators were watching the dragonman youngster creating this battlefield situation, seeing that his usage of alchemy arrows was a big element in doing so.
“Unfortunately, Long Fu isn’t a true archer, many of the arrows he shoots interfere with each other and are unable to display their maximum might.”
An archer was a fighter specialized at using long ranged weapons, they cultivated unique battle skills for continuous fire of arrows that didn’t offset each other, instead they would conform with and amplify each other, so that 1+1>2.
From a certain point of view, this was similar to spell casting.
Inside the VIP room, the Bayonet Gang’s human ringleader saw things were going south, and he couldn’t help but howl, “You idiot, use the Flowing Wave Armor I gave you!!”
The human ringleader used a battle skill, his voice ringing like a big bell.
The dueling arena didn’t strictly prohibit reminders from the audience, so the human wasn’t breaking any rules.
What was needed was that one’s voice had to rise above the noise of everyone present and reach the ears of the duelers.
Xiong Ju heard the human ringleader’s howl and immediately quivered in response.
The fretfulness he felt weakened somewhat, and he immediately used the Flowing Wave Armor.
The Flowing Wave Armor looked like an epaulet, and it was hanging on his shoulder. But after being imbued with battle qi, a large blue stream of water suddenly bubbled from the Flowing Wave Armor.
The stream looked like silk that quickly wrapped around Xiong Ju’s entire body; however, his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth were still exposed.
The alchemy master who designed this protection device had given sufficient consideration to how fighters really acted during wartime.
Many fighters during battle needed to use their senses to the fullest.
Apart from the eyes providing sight, the nose providing smell, and the ears giving hearing, many fighters also needed to have their mouths free to use their unique battle skills.
Xiong Ju’s entire body was wrapped with the stream.
The dragoman youngster’s alchemy arrows shot him again and were blocked by the water armor.
The alchemy arrows’ various elemental explosions caused flowery sprays to puff from the water armor.
The stream was rapidly depleted, and many parts of Xiong Ju’s body were temporarily exposed.
But a moment later, the Flowing Wave Armor’s epaulet produced more water that quickly plugged the gaps created.
This was a unique item, armor that could rapidly mend itself on demand!
When the dragonman youngster saw this, he immediately changed his alchemy arrows.
He no longer used elemental arrows, instead he used armor breaking and heavy arrows.
But after these arrows hit the water armor, the water armor flowed in a way that completely deflected the arrows.
The Flowing Wave Armor had amazing defense.
It was able to restrain those two types of alchemy arrows.
The dragonman youngster’s arrows were no longer able to menace Xiong Ju.
However, the dragonman youngster didn’t decide to stop firing, on the contrary, he increased his rate of fire.
The human ringleader had used the epaulet many times.
The Flowing Wave Armor had helped him get through many perilous moments.
Such important information about it had been acquired by the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
The dragonman youngster’s choice was undoubtedly wise.
Although Xiong Ju had remarkable defense, it was being depleted.
Although the Flowing Wave Armor was convenient, the stream of water that was constantly repairing the armor consumed large amounts of Xiong Ju’s battle qi.
By contrast, the dragonman youngster was only using a tiny bit of battle qi to fire his alchemy arrows.
This kind of exchange was obviously partial towards the dragonman youngster.
Of course, it wasn’t without its problems.
Every alchemy arrow was expensive, especially the silver level arrows.
In comparison, Xiong Ju was paying a lower monetary cost. His battle qi would be completely recovered in a day’s time.
Put into terms of exchange, the dragonman youngster was attacking with money to intentionally reduce Xiong Ju’s battle qi reserves.
“Long Fu, you wretched guy! Eat my hammer!!” After Xiong Ju used the Flowing Wave Armor, he had a spark of inspiration.
He took out the iron hammer in his belt and threw it.
This hammer was not something the dragonman youngster knew from intelligence reports.
Because this equipment was something the dwarf ringleader was quietly refining and hadn’t finished yet.
This had been lent to Xiong Ju for the duel, and it was the first time the hammer had been shown off in public.
The Small Thunder God Flying Hammer flew in a circle, then swung towards the dragonman youngster.
The dragonman youngster easily dodged it.
But a moment later, the iron hammer was controlled by Xiong Ju to circle back around and swing at the dragonman youngster in the back of the head.
The dragonman youngster had to dodge it again.
After evading it again, he used Demolition Fist to ruthlessly pound the iron hammer into the ground.