Chapter 201 Chris’ eruption (2/2)

“Hm?”

Ivan narrowed his eyes in spite of himself. The moment Nolan had taken his spot in the field, Chris had stretched out a right arm wrapped in bandages and pointed it at Nolan.

An invisible yet terrifying aura started radiating from her right arm.

“Is her body about to reach its limits because of Burden Overload? So she has no choice but to finish the fight as fast as she can, that’s why she’s going to use a destructive secret skill like Dark Destruction Dragon from the get-go?”

This kind of voices came kept descending from the stands.

Kleis and the assistant referees looked tense all of a sudden.

Dark Destruction Dragon was a taboo skill that became one of the ten most powerful skills on Doraster purely thanks to its raw power. Now that Chris was under the effects of Burden Overload, even they themselves might not be able to completely stop it.

“Is she going to bet everything on this skill? It looks like she’s already at her limits.”

Nolan took a deep breath. He looked up at Chris without any fear, his head held high. The arcane particles inside him started surging as well.

“Do they all think I’m at my limits because of Burden Overload?”

There wasn’t any change whatsoever on Chris’ face. She still looked as prudent and collected as before. But her heart filled with a warmth and happiness she usually never felt.

“You’re entirely wrong, all of you.”

She quietly told herself in her mind, “It’s because I don’t need to fight by myself anymore… It’s because I have faith my teammates will ensure victory, that’s why I can recklessly fight now, that’s why I can fight the way I choose to fight.”

…

Everyone knew that Dark Destruction Dragon was one of the most destructive skills on Doraster. But apart from some spectators who came from St. Lauren, almost no one had seen this skill with their own eyes. They’d merely heard about it.

A strange feeling of excitement, nervousness, and expectation all combined into one suddenly filled the stands.

“Chris against Nolan! Begin!”

“Not moving yet?”

Almost every spectator instantly felt their heart in their throat when Kleis declared the start of the fight. But what was different from the previous fights was, Chris and Nolan both stood immobile where they were.

The terrifying aura still continued to surge from her right hand. Even her bandages sounded as though they were on the verge of splitting open.

At the same time, a terrifying aura also started fluctuating around Nolan. With himself as the center, transparent ripples started spreading all the way to the stands.

“A domain-type skill!”

“Nolan also mastered a domain-type skill! He wants to go head to head with Chris’ Dark Destruction Dragon thanks to this domain skill!”

“Such a powerful undulation of arcane energy, Nolan’s already opened his fourth arcane gate! The level of his arcane particles right now should be around the same level as Chris while she’s under the effects of Burden Overload. So Chris must make sure her strike lands. Otherwise, she’s going to lose for sure! No wonder neither of them is attacking recklessly!”

Time ticked by. Seconds turned into minutes.

Two terrifying auras clashed against each other in the field, to the point vortexes visible to the naked eye formed in the air.

In such a deadlock, everyone knew that Chris would be at a disadvantage the more they waited, but even so, Chris didn’t make any move to attack. In the stands, the spectators all felt they were about to choke.

“If you don’t move, I won’t move either!”

Nolan had total confidence in his invocation speed, so he’d already decided that he wouldn’t act before Chris did, no matter what happened.

Chris’ eyes flashed all of a sudden and locked onto his position.

With an explosive “Bang,” all the bandages suddenly exploded on Chris’ right arm. The shattered pieces of bandage even made piercing sounds while they broke through the air.

“Here it comes!”

Every physical function in Nolan’s body operated at its maximum in this instant.

“Super Gravitational Pull!”

With a swift and silent chant, two light-yellow pillars covered in rune-like symbols suddenly appeared on both sides behind him.

There was an astonishing connection between these two pillars and himself. They allowed him to become so fast he reached the limits of the human eye, just like Rinloran when the latter launched a surprise attack at full speed.

“What!”

However, the Dark Destruction Dragon he’d been expecting didn’t come out yet in that precise instant.

There had been a clear change of rhythm in Chris’ skill invocation.

“Immortal Golden Strands!”

Exclamations rose from the stands, because countless golden lines had appeared on Chris’ right arm, like countless golden strands tightly bundling her arm inside.

“She relied on this secret skill so that her arm could bear the impact of the sudden change in rhythm when casting her skill!” Nolan understood in that instant why Chris’ arm hadn’t imploded after forcibly reining in the flow of arcane particles even amidst such a terrifying undulation of arcane energy.

“Holy Dragon’s Will—Siphon Barrier!” He realized at the same time it was already impossible to dodge Chris’ Dark Destruction Dragon. With a swift chant, arcane particles the color of yellow earth poured out of him.