Chapter 289: Fight Analysis (2)
“In the world of martial skill, nothing stands above speed. That is an eastern empire martial skill philosophy, a reasonable one at that.”
The dragonman youngster seeing it again, found that the origin of this qualitative change was not just the experience he absorbed from Spring Boxer, he had also greatly improved the Surge battle skill overnight.
There was one other reason, the Grand Arena Medal.
“This medal really suits duels. The more people paying attention to me and the longer they do so, the more the medal boosts me.”
“More wonderfully, the medal amplifies all attributes and won’t cause imbalances in me.”
The dragonman youngster subconsciously clutched it with his dragon claw.
His skin and flesh were aching and weary.
Because today’s fight had depleted him too much, even after resting until now, he was still in a weak state.
This hadn’t happened before.
Even the Battle of Two Eyes Islands hadn’t worn him out this much.
The moment the feeling of exhaustion spread through his body, the recoding show him fighting to his heart’s content, forming a distinct contrast.
The dragonman youngster inevitably felt a sense of frustration and yearning in his heart.
“My true strength was not recorded here.”
“This battle really felt refreshing.”
“I want to become stronger, until one day, I can rely on myself to achieve this level of power.”
“Getting stronger is the righteous path!”
The recording entered the final stage of the fight.
The demon eye attacked from Xiong Ju’s body.
A grey spirit ray quickly shot out, almost instantly hitting the dragonman youngster.
The dragonman youngster muttered to himself, “That eyeball is very weird, and there was no time to dodge its spiritual ray.”
Soon after, Xiong Ju decided to tear the demon eye out of his body and crushed it.
Xiong Ju looked very indignant.
When the dragonman youngster saw this scene again, he was more certain of his guess at the time.
“Xiong Ju wasn’t the one who used that artifact, it was probably outside interference.”
“Therefore, Xiong Ju was indignant about it and made his move.”
“Based on the intelligence reports, the demon eye has the aura of the Abyss and should belong to the demon hybrid ringleader.”
“He must have acted in the dark.”
“But to the vast majority of the people in the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, heroic dules are sacred and cannot be profaned. A silver level expert like Xiong Ju is like them.”
“That was what brought about such an outcome.”
After this incident, the dragonman youngster had a deeper understanding of the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s customs.
“If Men Shi and Chi Lai actually interfered in the heroic duel, then I fear our end would be dreadful.”
The dragonman youngster pursed his brows in deep thought.
Since the Bayonet Gang decided to secretly meddle in this heroic dule, then could he exploit this flaw?
After a moment of pondering, the dragonman youngster bitterly laughed and shook his head.
He didn’t have any evidence.
It would be difficult for him to prove that the demon hybrid ringleader slyly moved to meddle in the heroic duel.
This was merely his conjecture.
Especially after Xiong Ju had squished the demon eye, destroying the biggest piece of evidence.
Snow Bird Dueling Arena didn’t detect anything either.
“It seems that it doesn’t matter whether the demon ringleader played a trick. Since the other side has the guts to do this, it proves that they are confident they were able to conceal themselves.”
“Even if I investigate now, I fear that the other party has already removed all of the clues.”
The survivors lacked expert investigators.
In addition, the dragonman youngster was considering the position of Snow Bird Harbor’s inhabitants.
Were the proletariat masses willing to believe an outsider like him?
The recording finally showed the end of the duel.
Both sides stopped fighting for a moment, doing their utmost to ingest medicine.
The dragonman youngster let out a wheeze.
“Taking medicine so crazily is not the most effective way to use them. Medicine has to be absorbed over time when it enters the stomach, and it would be best to take it in intervals. Such hasty ingestion of medicine will have medicinal effects offsetting each other. Sometimes different medicinal effects will cause highly toxic reactions and harm the body.”
“This also exposes another of my failings; my battle qi reserves.”
“Normally it is fine. But when using my strongest form, all my battle skills will consume large amounts of my battle qi. Even with the Flame Dragon King bloodline’s recovery speed, it can’t match the depletion rate.”
The dragonman youngster didn’t think that one day he’d have the problem of having a battle qi shortage.
The last scene of the fight played out before the dragonman youngster’s eyes.
He and Xiong Ju roared at each other, receiving each other’s blow.
But he recovered first and knocked Xiong Ju out.
The dragonman youngster coughed, summing up everything to himself, “This was a challenging victory. Xiong Ju is the strongest silver level I’ve encountered on this island. He himself is powerful and was also outfitted with a lot of quality equipment, he was exceptionally troublesome. He and I both fought especially hard.”
“The greatest reason I emerged victorious in this heroic duel was that I came out on top of this intense confrontation.”
“This included the time I was attacked by the eyeball and was unable to defend myself. But at the time when Xiong Ju saw I was in poor health, he was only able to squat on the ground gasping for air, simply unable to grab hold of that chance for victory.”
The dragonman youngster wasn’t satisfied with one viewing and watched through another time.
From another spectator’s viewpoint, he gained many more things.
Every time he watched it, he would think back to how he felt, both physically and mentally.
Why did I choose this tactic?
Why did I attack or defend? What result did it produce?
Was there a better choice?
The dragonman youngster was good at reflection.
Every review and reassessment could give him all new ways of thinking.
Through contrasting notions, the dragonman youngster found his many inadequacies and places where improvements could be made.
As for what those improvements would be, the dragonman youngster also had a practical plan mapped out.
He had lightning fast improvement.
This progress was not on the surface.
It was unlike the Grand Arena Medal’s attribute boost, which clearly improved his attack, defense, and mobility, and speed.
This improvement was rather vague; it was the progression of his ideology.
He was constantly shoring up his foundation. Every minor shortcoming and every blemish that was improved and refined would make his skyrocketing strength less ephemeral and unstable.
And the battle with Xiong Ju was an excellent chance to learn.
The dragonman youngster seized this opportunity and exhausted his wisdom to unearth nutrients that could grow himself.
“I have never encountered an enemy as fearsome as Xiong Ju.”
“Although I can battle gold level enemies, those were just superficial dips before stopping, they didn’t last.
“Fighting a heavyweight opponent like him was enough to expose my deficiencies.”