Chapter 739: Long Fu vs Yun Zhong
The dragonman youngster’s duel with Yun Zhong began with a chase.
As an archer, Yun Zhong’s foremost tactic was controlling distance between his opponent.
He could use the battle skill [Swift Move] as the base, then add on [Wind Walk Step] to hasten himself.
Even if the dragonman youngster used [Surge], it was hard to overtake him.
However, although the dueling arena was expansive, it was still finite. When Yun Zhong was cornered by the dragonman youngster, he used the battle skill [Cloud Walk] to soar into the sky.
The dragonman youngster also had a flying battle skill [Dragon Wings] and immediately pursued upwards.
Yun Zhong fought and shot while retreating.
The two gold levels proceeded to fight in the air like this.
All of the spectators looked up, their eyes shining with excitement.
Flying battle skills were not common, and even if one was a gold level fighter, they normally fought on the ground most of the time. Seeing airborne combat like this was a true treat.
In the beginning, the dragonman youngster seemed unaccustomed to air warfare, but he was amazing at adapting, and his lighting speed improvement could be seen with the naked eye.
Yun Zhong flew in the air skillfully, in coordination with his battle skills. He was simply as nimble as a swallow, but regretfully, the dueling arena’s air space was also limited.
As the dragonman youngster adapted, Yun Zhong’s was forced into narrow space.
At this time, Yun Zhong took out a magic scroll, and tore it open, creating a large cloud that shrouded the skies above the dueling arena.
Battle skill – Misty Cloud Walk!
Yun Zhong used an original battle skill to step on the white clouds and curled thick fog around his body, increasing his speed and concealing himself, fading from the dragonman youngster’s field of view.
The dragonman youngster used three types of detection battle skill, none were able to find a trace of Yun Zhong, leading to a grave expression.
Battle skill – Dragon Pearl, Explosive Flame.
He condensed a few dragon pearls, then bombarded where Yun Zhong was last seen, as well as the space nearby.
Boom, boom, boom.
The flames exploded, clearing out some clouds, but a second later, the thick fog instantly filled it back in.
Yun Zhong was nowhere to be seen.
Battle skill – Piercing Cloud Arrow!
Arrows shot out from the clouds, not only were they continuous, but they also shot from every direction.
For a moment, arrow rains interweaved with each other.
The audience cheered.
With this, Lord Yun Zhong will bring down Long Fu!”
“To see [Piercing Cloud Arrow] again. This is indeed Older Brother Yun Zhong’s specialty.”
“Such a concentrated arrow rain, Yun Zhong is beginning to go all out.”
Yun Zhong has many supporters. He was the most popular duelist in the nation under the dragonman youngster.
Therefore, this fight between the dragonman youngster and Yun Zhong was aptly named a celebrity brawl, the seats were full to bursting, and it went without saying that it was a full house. Despite spatial alchemy technology being used to temporarily increase the amount of seating, it was still very difficult to get a ticket to this.
The dragonman youngster did his hardest to evade in the air.
“The arrows’ velocity has at least doubled.”
“Though I can’t see through this battle skill’s principle for the time being, based on practical results, the entire cloud has become a shooting platform.”
“But the real trouble is I still can’t detect where Yun Zhong is!”
Yun Zhong was hiding in the cloud, and if he couldn’t find the former, the dragonman youngster couldn’t counterattack.
The Piercing Cloud Arrows ceaselessly attacked. The dragonman youngster’s [Dragon Wings] were only a battle skill, and he didn’t possess actual dragon wings, so against an opponent like Yun Zhong, he was not agile, and despite doing his utmost to fly and weave, he still got hit with arrows.
However, the arrows that hit him did not do any meaningful damage.
The dragonman youngster’s defensive battle skills, along with Redirection Force produced an outstanding defense!
The vast majority of the arrows that hit him entered his redirection zone and were cast astray.
The dragonman youngster pursued Yun Zhong for a while, and endured many arrows, but they barely tickled him.
Long Meng’s insight was very sharp, and the concentrated training he gave the dragonman youngster allowed the dragonman youngster to obtain Redirection Force, it really restrained Yun Zhong massively.
Yun Zhong attacked for a long time, spending lots of battle qi, but to no effect. It gave him a headache.
He was forced to change tactics, releasing the battle skill [Cloud Dispersing Arrow].
After the arrow hit the dragonman youngster, although it was deflected, it rapidly exploded into a battle qi cloud.
The battle qi cloud twisted around the dragonman youngster’s body, and despite the latter flying at top speed, he couldn’t get away from it. Not only that, but the battle qi cloud was constantly seeping into and corroding the dragonman youngster’s defensive battle skill.
Battle skill – Cloud Mutter.
Yun Zhong opened his mouth and began to mumble.
His voice vibrated the immense cloud he was hiding in, then it resonated with the twisting battle qi cloud around the dragonman youngster.
When the dragonman youngster heard this series of faint mutters, his mind couldn’t help but fluctuate with fear, confusion, and other negative feelings.
As the negative feelings rapidly grew, the dragonman youngster saw things were going south and decisively decided to land on the ground.
This kind of mental and willpower attack was once the survivors’ weakness. Especially on Snake Rat Island, where the survivors suffer a big loss.
One learns from their mistakes.
After the survivors came to the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, they actively made up for this failing.
As their leader, the dragonman youngster went even farther.
He had many methods that could counter this kind of attack, but now he only chose the most surface level one - he activated a magic accessory to rapidly increase his spiritual power that washed away the negative feeling from his mental being.
Yun Zhong looked down to see the dragonman youngster struggling free from these negative emotions and decided to unleash his full might!
In a moment, Youn Zhong strengthened Piercing Cloud Arrows, Cloud Dispersing Arrows, and Cloud Mutter to their limits, at the same time, he also used the battle skills [Heaven Descending Guillotine Arrow], [Shuttle Arrow], and [Sky High Arrow Dance].
Snow white arrows nearly interweaved into lines, and their terrifying firepower shocked and frightened the audience.
“Is this Yun Zhong’s true strength?”
“This is my first time seeing it too, to think he has such formidable firepower.”
“Yun Zhong’s battle strength far exceeds intelligence records. This kind of power…he can annihilate a city’s magic battle squad by himself.”
Everyone gasped in surprise and admiration.
Yun Zhong’s supporters cheered continuously; the spectacle was in full swing.
By contrast, the dragonman youngster was suppressed and holed upon the ground, motionless and passively defending.
This caused many of his supporters to look worried and on edge.
Some were holding their breath; others were cheering with extra effort.
Judging by the situation, the dragonman youngster was clearly at a disadvantage.
In a private spectator room.
A magic image instantaneously showed the dragonman youngster’s distressed appearance.
But Zi Di didn’t take it seriously, her mind was on the contract she was giving to Xue Tuan Zi.
Xue Tuan Zi glanced at the dragonman youngster in the magic image, faintly smiled, then took the contract and carefully looked it over.
The truth was always grasped by only a few.
As duelists, Xue Tuan Zi and Yun Zhong understood that the dragonman youngster was “hiding his immense battle strength”. His 3 v 1 win remained a shadow in their hearts.
Therefore, none of them actually believed the dragonman youngster was stuck in a predicament, it was just a performance of his.
Xue Tuan Zi carefully read the contract twice, then signed her name onto it.
The magic contract was established, and to celebrate, Zi Di opened some prepared red wine.
The survivors’ and the duelists’ negotiations were just being done via the dragonman youngster. After all, although the latter challenging them one after the other was a virtuous way of communicating with them, it was too slow for their liking.
Zi Di was acting from another facet, and her chief target was Xue Tuan Zi.
Xue Tuan Zi was a duelist, and also an alchemist. She was the Alchemy Guild’s current representative individual of the youth, and her grandfather, the master of Snow Cake Tower, was backing her. The latter controlled a magician tower and was a powerful Alchemy Guild elder.
Zi Di was able to invite Xue Tuan Zi over by using some of War Merchant’s alchemy achievements.
Mainly through Zhong Yong’s abilities and also consulting Cang Xu, the three combined their talents to break apart these alchemy achievements and create some alchemy hypotheticals or semifinished products.
She then used these hypotheses and semifinished products to find Xue Tuan Zi, invite her to work together and jointly establish an alchemy project.
Xue Tuan Zi originally wanted to refuse; she was currently busy with the Warm Snow Cup Grand Contest.
The alchemy achievements she put on display didn’t yield good results, incongruous with her expectations, for this year’s Warm Snow Cup Grand Contest was too competitive! She was preparing to exhibit her trump card, and her mind was fixed on this, nothing else interested her.
Not interested?
Zi Di simply smiled and said, “Magician Xue Tuan Zi, you only need to glance at it, that won’t waste too much of your time and energy.”
Xue Tuan Zi glanced at it, and then glanced again, then again, then once more.
Another glance, then another, then it turned into a stare, a stare with shining eyes.
For a long time, she was unable to move her eyes away from it.
Until Zi Di coughed several times, interrupting her state.
Xue Tuan Zi was embarrassed.