Chapter 65 : Chapter 65
Chapter 65: Space Warlock vs. Void Hunter! The Martial Saint Rips a Mecha Apart Bare-Handed!
The moment Ye Ze finished speaking, Liu Anran’s heart suddenly jolted!
A spatial fluctuation—a spatial fluctuation so familiar to her appeared behind her.
Every nerve in her body instantly tensed.
She did not even bother to turn around. She immediately cast 【Spatial Teleportation】 and took all five of them more than ten meters away.
The mantis’s strike missed, cleaving a huge fissure into the ground.
“That was dangerous!”
“It’s a spatial-type Summoned Beast. Its strength doesn’t seem ordinary!”
“Good thing Sister Anran was here. We almost got ambushed by it...”
The members of the team all frowned, and the way they looked at Ye Ze immediately became far more guarded.
The one who spoke last was a petite girl around one and a half meters tall. She reached out and gently pressed a hand to Liu Anran’s back... and instantly refilled all the Mana Liu Anran had just spent!
Liu Anran’s brows drew tightly together as she stared at the Void Mantis.
“It’s a spatial-type too, just like me. I’m the only one who can deal with it...”
Beside her, the long-haired boy Leng Feng spoke with cold arrogance:
“I’ll handle that Instructor.”
“All right. Leng Feng, you all be careful.”
“Once I deal with this mantis, I’ll come help you.”
The moment Liu Anran finished speaking, the battlefield split into two sides.
She swung her staff and cast 【Spatial Collapse】 at the spot where the mantis had been. Vast dimensional power surged out from the rift in space.
But the mantis turned intangible and emerged without a scratch.
Liu Anran’s expression grew serious. “It can’t be hit? An intangibility-type skill?”
“Ye Ze’s Summoned Beast is this strong?”
Right after the Awakening Ceremony, she had been specially recruited into headquarters. She had only just learned that Ye Ze was a Summoner.
And yet, only after the mantis made its move did she realize...
that Ye Ze’s Summoned Beasts were even stronger than that.
The mantis’s blade flashed, and a streak of white light cut through the air, falling upon the place where Liu Anran stood.
But she instantly cast 【Spatial Teleportation】 and avoided the fatal strike.
Another fissure was carved into the earth.
The same scene repeated itself five or six times within the space of two seconds, the two of them blinking back and forth again and again.
“No... its spatial movement is actually faster than mine!”
During the first few exchanges, after being forced to teleport away, Liu Anran had still been thinking of counterattacking with her own skills.
But the mantis’s Void Traverse was faster than her Spatial Teleportation!
It forced her to teleport again and again just to flee, leaving her no chance at all to strike back.
And she could feel it clearly—if she made even one mistake, she would very likely be killed on the spot!
“This situation feels wrong!”
“Sister Anran is a Hidden Class with spatial abilities, and she’s actually at a disadvantage against just one Summoned Beast?”
The others began to worry.
Leng Feng, the long-haired boy, spoke coldly and proudly:
“It’s fine. My turn.”
In truth, with his strength, he could easily have joined Central China Team One.
But the reason he had chosen Team Two was, on one hand, because he valued Liu Anran’s abilities as a Space Warlock.
And on the other hand... he valued Liu Anran herself.
Leng Feng’s gaze swept over Ye Ze as he spoke one word at a time:
“Armament—Apocalypse Battle Armor!”
Leng Feng threw out both hands, and the battle armor core on his chest flashed with cyan light.
The armor’s individual components condensed out of the core’s energy and assembled themselves around him. The breastplate, shoulder armor, arm guards, and leg armor all locked into place in sequence, producing a series of crisp metallic sounds.
In the blink of an eye, a two-to-three-meter-tall single-soldier battle armor appeared.
Leng Feng was completely encased in a pale cyan battle armor infused with extraordinary power, radiating terrifying pressure far beyond that of the first advancement.
...
“So it’s the rare branch class of a Machinist, a Battle Armor Specialist!”
“At such a young age, he’s already successfully controlling a battle armor of at least Epic two-star quality. His future is limitless.”
“No wonder even Brother Hunter King wasn’t willing to bet!”
Inside the Monitoring Division, the crowd could not help praising him.
Machinists and Battle Armor Specialists were different from other classes. Their combat strength came primarily from their weapons and battle armor.
The latter, especially, was an enormously expensive class.
A single suit of battle armor often required the blending and forging of countless extraordinary metals, and the financial cost was utterly staggering.
But once successfully controlled, the results were equally obvious.
“With this Apocalypse Battle Armor, Leng Feng is now fully capable of matching a third-advancement Class User.”
Hearing Wei Zheng say that, the others all nodded and began to look forward to what would happen next.
But Wei Zheng himself showed no delight. On the contrary, his expression turned grave...
He looked at Liu Anran, who was being driven back again and again by the mantis, and fell silent.
At first, he had truly believed that Liu Anran alone, relying on the abilities of a Space Warlock, would be more than enough to kill her opponent instantly.
But now, a single Summoned Beast actually possessed spatial abilities stronger than those of a Hidden Class!
“What kind of race... what kind of Summoned Beast is that?”
Even Wei Zheng, the head of Central China, had never seen the abilities of a Void Creature before.
For a time, as they looked at the projected screen, both Wei Zheng and Wan Feipeng fell into silence...
...
As for Ye Ze himself, as he watched the fight between two users of spatial abilities, he too felt rather surprised.
What surprised him was this: Liu Anran’s equipment was unbelievably good!
Though both wielded spatial abilities, her attributes and skills lagged far behind the mantis’s. In theory, she should have been killed within two exchanges.
Yet relying on seven Epic-grade spatial equipment pieces, she had actually held out until now!
“As expected of someone headquarters is focusing its resources on...”
Ye Ze could not help smiling.
Then his eyes shifted to Leng Feng, clad in battle armor and brimming with ferocity, and he could not help feeling a little wistful.
When he had first learned of the Battle Armor Specialist class, he had been greatly interested as well.
Who could possibly refuse a suit of battle armor?
But an Epic battle armor set, without even counting the rarity of the materials, cost nearly a hundred million!
Ye Ze had immediately given up on the idea.
As he was thinking that, the petite girl on the other side added an extremely powerful speed buff to Leng Feng.
In the next instant, accompanied by the roar of a superpowered engine, the Apocalypse Battle Armor shot into the sky. An invisible wave of pressure spread outward, the surrounding air cracking like explosions, while a conical cloud burst spread evenly out behind it.
WHOOSH—Even Leng Feng’s teammates could not help feeling somewhat shaken.
Trailing a violent storm, the Apocalypse Battle Armor charged straight toward Ye Ze.
Yet the very first words out of Leng Feng’s mouth left Ye Ze speechless.
“What exactly is the relationship between you and Liu Anran?”
Hearing that, the trace of anticipation that had been in Ye Ze’s expression turned into a sigh.
“What a waste of battle armor...”
“Your teammates are buying time for you, and you’re wasting it saying this?”
Leng Feng’s anger flared at once. “It seems that unless I cripple you, you won’t answer.”
Once the Apocalypse Battle Armor had armed itself, its power, speed, energy output, and everything else had been greatly enhanced, giving him a feeling of explosive combat strength.
That overwhelming surge of power filled Leng Feng with the confidence that he could control everything.
BOOM!
The roar of the Apocalypse Battle Armor’s superpowered engine rang out once more.
But in the very next second...what greeted him was a fist the size of a sandbag.
An uppercut!
BANG—!
Leng Feng had actually reacted in time. He had met it head-on with a full-force punch of his own.
But before the Martial Saint panda, this Apocalypse Battle Armor, which was comparable to the third advancement, was as fragile as paper.
That punch, empowered by Martial Saint Aura, crushed one of the armor’s arms into fragments, spraying sparks everywhere before smashing brutally into the jaw of the Apocalypse Battle Armor.
Inside the armor, Leng Feng’s vision went black.
The damage alarms from the battle armor and the ringing in his ears blended together without end.
If not for the fact that this Epic battle armor had cost nearly a hundred million and still had fairly decent protective capability, Leng Feng would already have been outside the dungeon.
But that still was not the end of it.
The panda reached out, grabbed one leg of the armor that had just been blasted away, and slammed it viciously into the ground!
Amid a burst of shattering metal, the beam of light from the battle armor core’s superpowered engine abruptly went dark.
Two punches.
That was all it took to smash the battle armor to ruin!
At that moment, not only the Monitoring Division outside, but even the two remaining teammates of Central China Team Two felt their breathing stop...
That was the Apocalypse Battle Armor, something comparable to a third-advancement Class User!
Even if it was not unbeatable in the Ancient Battlefield, it was still among the top few strongest combatants here.
And yet it had been destroyed by two punches?
Inside the Monitoring Division, everyone’s pupils contracted violently, their faces filled with shock.
“This Instructor... is he really below the third advancement?”
Even when the panda had instantly killed the earlier teams, they had not been anywhere near this stunned.
Because in everyone’s judgment, the panda should have been a peak second-advancement combatant, and instantly killing first-advancement elite trainees was still within reason.
But now...You can instantly kill something with third-advancement strength too?
Isn’t that a bit too much?
Among all their reactions, Wei Zheng’s emotional fluctuation was actually the smallest.
Because the moment he saw the mantis holding Liu Anran off, he had already vaguely felt that things were starting to go badly!
Wan Feipeng, meanwhile, was instantly all smiles, as happy as if he had just won the lottery.
“Damn! That’s incredible!”
“Come on, come on, Old Wei, let’s bet!”
But obviously, no one responded to Wan Feipeng now.
Every one of them had focused completely on the projection.
...
After a brief moment of stunned silence, the remaining three members of Central China Team Two had no choice but to move to rescue Leng Feng.
They had originally believed Leng Feng had victory in hand and were about to go help Liu Anran deal with the mantis.
And now, he had not even lasted a single exchange!
Fortunately, because of Liu Anran’s Spatial Teleportation ability, all her teammates were close-combat fighting classes.
Among the remaining one boy and two girls, aside from the support, the other two were not as strong as Liu Anran and Leng Feng, but neither of them was weak.
But in the next moment...BOOM—!
Before the two combat classes could even make a move, a bolt of heavenly thunder came crashing down first!
The one-and-a-half-meter-tall support girl went deathly pale. But with no one protecting her, she acted in desperation...
Her body turned into a phantom, becoming completely unharmed, and drifted upward into the sky like a balloon!
The other two, however, had no such life-saving skill and could only rely on their equipment to endure the heavenly thunder.
But this time, the little fox, waving the orb as she cast, had grown smarter. All three tails moved together.
BOOM—!
The second, third, and fourth bolts followed right after the first—four consecutive Heavenfall Thunders!
Each strike was stronger than the one before!
Let alone these two—even if two extremely powerful Shield Guards had taken their place, they still would have been struck to death.
Their team should originally have been capable of dodging, but Liu Anran was being hunted by the mantis and had no power left to help them.
【You kill Trial Participants x2 and gain Experience +2000!】
【Ding! Your level rises to: Level 15!】
【Talent — You gain one draw chance for “Infinite Golden Traits”!】
On the other side of the battlefield, the two users of spatial abilities kept flashing back and forth through the air.
Hearing the rolling peals of heavenly thunder, Liu Anran vaguely felt that something was wrong.
But simply dealing with the mantis had already exhausted nearly all of her focus.
After hesitating for a moment, she gathered more than half the Mana in her body and activated her class skill!
【Spatial Lock】!
In an instant, the small section of space where the mantis stood was imposed with a faint Power of Laws that forbade displacement and barred passage into other spaces.
The mantis was locked inside a sealed section of space.
But the reason she had not used this skill earlier was because, at her current class rank, it came with a severe drawback...
She had to pour out her mental strength with all her might to maintain the Power of Laws of Spatial Lock.
In other words, she had been forced into a one-for-one exchange with the mantis.
And once Liu Anran’s mental strength was exhausted, the moment the mantis came out, she would have no strength left to resist at all.
Under the present circumstances, she had no choice but to place her hopes of victory on her teammates.
Having sealed the mantis, Liu Anran finally gained a moment to breathe and silently turned to look in the direction of her team...
In the next instant, her small face fell into a rare state of utter blankness.
“Where are my teammates?”