Chapter 181: Sit Still and Don’t Ruin the Plan
Jiang Taotao went to gather information again.
It was indeed similar to what Lin Moyu said.
In each group, the Eagle Country national teams that had been advancing smoothly all encountered setbacks.
With no tactics and only knowing how to attack, they ultimately failed.
In the White God’s courtyard, at the small tea table, Ning Tairan had joined them.
Ning Tairan said, "Those Eagle Country guys failed."
Meng Anwen closed his eyes, a stream of tea flying from his cup into his mouth.
"I said it early on, you can’t have your cake and eat it too."
"Even a berserker’s berserk state comes at a price."
"Breaking limits with potions at the cost of losing rationality is nothing."
He spoke with certainty.
When Eagle Country first started researching the potion, he had already made this judgment.
The facts proved his judgment correct.
Bai Yiyuan and Meng Anwen were of one mind. "That Shrine Maiden from Cherry Blossom is a bit interesting though."
Meng Anwen snorted, "What use is that? It’s just a variant of the Onmyoji career. Those so-called divine spirits are actually just shikigami. You know what shikigami are."
Meng Anwen had a steady, traditional personality. This kind of career didn’t impress him at all.
In his eyes, whether it was Eagle Country’s potion or Naiko’s career, they were all trash.
It wasn’t arrogance - when it came to understanding careers, if he claimed second place, no one would dare claim first.
Bai Yiyuan and Ning Tairan didn’t refute him.
Bai Yiyuan changed the subject, "If those guys are going to make a move, it’ll probably be in these few days. Old Meng, keep an eye out."
Meng Anwen grunted in agreement, "Don’t worry, I’ve been prepared for a long time."
"The old man’s side is definitely prepared too. Just waiting for them to act."
Ning Tairan didn’t understand for a moment, "What are you talking about?"
Bai Yiyuan didn’t conceal anything, explaining how Lin Moyu was being used as bait.
Ning Tairan jumped up, "What did you say? You’re using Lin as bait? My granddaughter is there too!"
Bai Yiyuan waved his hand, "Don’t worry, we’ve prepared everything. Besides, Lin Moyu isn’t the only bait. There’s also Lin Mohan. The old man’s side is waiting too."
Meng Anwen said solemnly, "Sit still and don’t ruin our plan."
Ning Tairan thought for a moment. He understood the reasoning.
"Fine, I’ll wait here then."
He decided not to go anywhere, just waiting here.
If anything happened, he would rush over immediately. He absolutely wouldn’t let anything happen to Ning Yiyi.
...
The finals continued.
The teams from Vatican Holy Domain and Summer Capital University clashed.
The arena was filled with dazzling light, so bright it was hard to keep one’s eyes open.
The entire arena became like a small sun.
Within the light, the career holders from Vatican Holy Domain appeared outside the arena one after another.
They had been eliminated.
After being eliminated, they all looked confused, not even knowing how they were eliminated.
There was just a flash of light, and it was over.
Jiang Taotao said solemnly, "His name is Su Sheng, a Holy Light Mage, a legendary career holder."
"He’s already been admitted to Creation God Academy. He should have reached level 30 two months ago, but deliberately held back his level for this Career Holder Tournament."
"He once said his goal for this tournament was the championship, but actually it’s for the Shining Junior Skill Scroll."
Su Sheng used just one skill to directly eliminate the Vatican Holy Domain team, extremely dominant.
Their team had been like this since the start of the tournament.
Except for Su Sheng, no one else had even acted.
Su Sheng would just use one skill and win.
The problem was that all the teams he eliminated didn’t even know how they were eliminated.
Su Sheng stood on the arena, white light shining from his body, holy and aloof.
His gaze swept across the arena. When he saw Lin Moyu, a flash of disgust passed through his eyes.
Holy Light Mages had holy attributes, while Lin Moyu had undead summons.
Just like when Mo Yun first saw Lin Moyu, this was an instinctive disgust brought by career attributes.
In the last match of the first round of finals, Holy Battle Divine Domain faced off against Holy Supervision Church.
Their battle was eye-opening.
Holy Battle Divine Domain had a special career called Star Fighter.
Star Fighters had extremely high and balanced attributes, with gorgeous and powerful skills.
Like Holy Battle Divine Domain, Holy Supervision Church also had their own exclusive career.
Holy Army combined the advantages of knights and warriors, balancing attack power and defense.
The two sides were evenly matched, fighting back and forth in a spectacular battle.
The battle lasted a full ten minutes before a victor emerged.
In the end, the Holy Battle Divine Domain team won by a narrow margin, advancing to the next round.
The Divine Summer Empire’s top healers all acted, restoring all the career holders.
The next round of matches would begin in an hour.
Now only four teams remained in the level 20 group.
They were Lin Moyu’s team, Summer Capital University’s official team led by Su Sheng, Zhendun University’s official team, and Holy Battle Divine Domain’s Star Fighter team.
Lin Moyu was matched against Holy Battle Divine Domain.
Summer Capital University would face Zhendun University.
Jiang Taotao shared the information she had gathered with Lin Moyu.
Strong skills, balanced attributes.
Attacks carried both elemental and physical damage.
They also had the Star Armor skill, providing high defense against both elemental and physical damage.
Overall, this career had no obvious weaknesses.
But no matter how strong their attributes were, could they be stronger than skeleton warriors?
As long as they had no control skills, it was almost impossible to overpower skeleton warriors head-on.
Lin Moyu had observed the battle between Star Fighters and Holy Army. Neither side had used any control skills.
They had both fought to their limits without using control skills, indicating they simply didn’t have any.
Since they had no control skills...
The result was obvious.
Lin Moyu stepped onto the arena, still alone.
The five from Holy Battle Divine Domain also came up.
With the help of top healers, they had fully recovered.
Their spirit and energy were at their peak.
Four Star Fighters and one Battle King support.
They had abandoned the prophet in favor of the more versatile Battle King support.
One Battle King support was worth two, allowing an extra slot for more attack power.
The four Star Fighters looked at Lin Moyu with high spirits.
"Lin Moyu, we know you’re very powerful, but we’re not weak either."
"Our Star Armor skill can greatly reduce damage. We can completely bypass your skeleton warriors and kill you directly."
"You’re just a mage. You won’t last two seconds under our attacks."
"Your curse skills may be powerful, but curses are what we fear least."
They were full of confidence, as if they had found Lin Moyu’s weakness.
And they even said it openly.
Their frankness made Lin Moyu feel a bit embarrassed.
Lin Moyu said calmly, "I wish you success."
"Don’t worry, we will definitely succeed."
They spoke without restraint, as if the outcome was already decided.
As the match start signal sounded, the Battle King support quickly began applying buffs, while the four Star Fighters charged towards Lin Moyu like lightning.
A layer of golden light enveloped their bodies - this was their skill, Star Armor.
It greatly increased defense while reducing both elemental and physical damage, very effective.
Star Fighter was Holy Battle Divine Domain’s exclusive career. Star Armor was their signature skill.
Facing the rapidly approaching Star Fighters, Lin Moyu lightly pointed a finger.
The entire arena was instantly covered in red light.
Red shackles appeared above all five of them, instantly slowing their advance.
Then golden light flared up on the four Star Fighters. Their Star Armor rapidly expanded, enveloping the red shackles within.
Under the impact of the golden light, cracks quickly appeared in the red shackles.
Though they didn’t completely shatter, their effect was greatly weakened.
Lin Moyu understood. This was why they said they weren’t afraid of his curses.
Though they had no elder to remove curses, their Star Armor skill itself had the ability to suppress curses.
"Truly an impressive skill!"
The Star Fighters were right in front of him.
Just as they were about to attack Lin Moyu, suddenly their vision went dark, then a large blade swung towards them.
Skeleton warriors!
The Star Fighters were prepared. They quickly dodged to the side, attacking Lin Moyu from the flank.
Just as they dodged, another large blade came at them.
Dodge again!
Then another blade!
Dodge again... yet another blade.
Then light flashed before their eyes as spells landed on them.
With several bangs, all four Star Fighters were hit by spells and sent flying.
Only then did they see clearly what had happened.
Ten skeleton warriors and ten skeleton mages had formed a circle, protecting Lin Moyu in the middle.
There were no gaps at all. To attack Lin Moyu, they would have to break through the defensive line of skeleton warriors and mages.
This situation was beyond their expectations.
They hadn’t expected Lin Moyu to use this tactic.
The skeleton mages’ attacks were already descending. They hurried to dodge.
Thunder and lightning flashed as the Star Fighters were electrocuted.
They could dodge other spells, but lightning spells were impossible to avoid.
The Star Armor absorbed most of the damage. Combined with the Battle King support’s healing, they could hold on for now.
Lin Moyu moved slightly. Several skeleton mages stopped attacking them and turned to attack the Battle King support instead.
The truth was only within spell range.
The entire arena was within the skeleton mages’ attack range. The Battle King support had nowhere to hide.
The Battle King support suddenly became extremely vulnerable.
Seeing this, the Star Fighters shouted in unison, "Attack from above!"
The four leapt high, trying to jump over the skeleton warriors and attack Lin Moyu from above.
As they jumped, the skeleton warriors also leapt up, accurately intercepting them.
The two sides collided in mid-air.
The skeleton warriors suddenly did something unexpected.
They tightly grabbed onto the Star Fighters.
One hand gripping, the other wildly swinging their blades.
This action terrified the Star Fighters. How could there be such a fighting style?
The skeleton warriors could actually grab and hack at people.
What kind of bizarre summons were these!
Grabbed by the skeleton warriors, they couldn’t dodge.
In the blink of an eye, they had taken several hits.
At this point the Battle King support could barely protect himself, let alone heal them.
The four struggled frantically. Their Star Armor burst with brilliant light, finally breaking free from the skeleton warriors’ grasp.
Looking back, they saw their Battle King support had already appeared outside the arena.
The four looked ashen...
Just moments ago they had been boasting about defeating Lin Moyu, but now they had lost so decisively.