Chapter 355 (1/2)

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Little Piglet wasn't the only one who was shocked. If I wasn't sure if Little Piglet was super-tier or not before, I was now. I hadn't bothered parrying his Ice Ray Flurry because he had deliberately angled the beams so that they would hit me from three different directions. I was fast, but I was only human. No reaction was fast enough to counter such an unpredictable attack. Moreover, Little Piglet was a super-tier expert, meaning that my usual predictions were useless against him.

I let out a growl and imbued myself with Wild Roar. Currently, the most logical action for me was to run over my opponent with my devastating attack power.

Little Piglet watched me sternly as ice spread from beneath his feet. It was the visual effect of Freezing Heat. The skill would dissipate in about 7 seconds, so Little Piglet had to deal with me in this time frame. Otherwise, his 40% attack speed would be completely wasted.

I swung my sword and fired the Dragon Slaying Slas.h.!.+

Swhoos.h.!.+

A cyan blade energy dropped from the sky, forcing Little Piglet to change directions and dodge out of the way. My Dragon Slaying Slash had actually missed its target!

MISS!

I had thought this might happen eventually, but my heart still sank when the skill missed. Dragon Slaying Slash was a long-range skill with 1 to 1.5 seconds of channeling time. By predicting my enemy's movement and concealing my skill movement, I normally would have a 100% hit rate against ordinary experts. Unfortunately, Little Piglet was not ordinary, so it was impossible to hit him consistently with Dragon Slaying Slash.

“Hehe…”

Little Piglet chuckled before das.h.i.+ng toward me from the side. He moved as quick as lightning.

I ran toward him like the wind myself. After successfully parrying Little Piglet's first attack, I thrust my sword toward his chest in an attempt to hit him with Ice Ray. He would definitely be at a disadvantage if the skill hit!

“Naive!”

Little Piglet growled before gliding to the right like a nimble snake. The Purgatory Sword almost scratched his chest, but it still failed to make contact in the end! He was just too fast to be caught by an attack like this!

Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of my combo. Little Piglet's pleased expression froze when he realized too late that a bright cyan light was glowing from the left hand I had purposely hid from his view!

Boom!

I fired the Dragon Slaying Slash again at where Little Piglet was escaping too. This time, there was on dodging the attack!

Bang!

3459!

Failing to foresee my hidden move, Little Piglet suffered a lot of damage. He never thought that my Ice Ray was just the diversion, and my killer move was the Dragon Slaying Slash with a high chance to miss. In Heavenblessed, accuracy wasn't completely reliant on pure data. Sometimes, it was possible to increase one's skill hit rate to 100% through prediction and calculation!

The Dragon Slaying Slash almost ended Little Piglet where he stood. If he hadn't drank a large health potion earlier, he would've been dead already.

“Dammit!”

I thought Little Piglet was going to back off, and he did. But before he moved away, he spun around without warning and stabbed his sword toward me. Judging from the sheen of blue covering the blade, it was an Ice Ray!

My eyes turned steely as I circled to Little Piglet's flanks and swung my sword at the same time. The Ice Ray just barely missed me as my own sword traveled toward his neck!

1453!

He was still alive. It looked like Little Piglet had over 7000 HP. No wonder he thought he could challenge Lin Yixin and I solo.

……

Rustle rustle…

Our war boots dug deep into the snow and dragged long marks as we skidded away from one another. Staring at me with steely eyes, Little Piglet waved his sword and surrounded himself in a surge of cyan wind energy without warning. The energy turned into a cyan s.h.i.+eld, and the message in the combat log surprised me yet again—

Beep!

Combat Log: Player “Little Piglet” used “Wind of Recovery”, regenerating 50% HP over 10 seconds!

……

What an amazing recovery skill! It was much better than my Tenacity of the Dead! Just who was this Little Piglet, and why had I never heard of him in China before? He didn't even look old. Was he one of those super experts who chose to stay anonymous until now?

Little Piglet raised his sword into the air after recovering himself with Wind of Recovery. A b.l.o.o.d.y energy suddenly bolted down his weapon and into his body, buffing his attack power by 20%! It was yet another buff skill called Strength of Divine Arms!

s.h.i.+t, he's even harder to fight now!

……

Not far away, Pillar of the Nation laughed loudly. “Well done, Little Piglet! Kill Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand, and you'll become the number one expert of Sky City!”

But Little Piglet looked completely unaffected by his hirer's cheer. Right now, he probably only had eyes for me, the terrain around us and both our cooldowns. He was probably waiting for that one opening where he could launch a devastating strike against me, wasn't he? Even I had to admit that he was a true professional.

I myself was waiting for such an opportunity. Little Piglet's HP and Defense weren't too far behind mine, so the only way to beat him was to one-shot him. If the fight dragged out, he could rejuvenate himself with Wind of Recovery, while I only had a low-rank Regeneration of the Undead to pa.s.sively regenerate my health. It would be incredibly bad for me if I allowed that to happen. Moreover, Little Piglet hadn't summoned his pet to fight me, so I couldn't throw away my pride and order my little wolf to help me either.

Both of us were waiting for that one-shot. Both of us also knew that the other party knew that we were waiting for that one-shot.

We had returned to full health about ten seconds later. The atmosphere was murderous and solemn. At the side, Pillar of the Nation was recording the entire battle and waiting for Little Piglet to put me down with this one strike.

Swhoosh swhoosh…

Both of us took off at the same time as snow flew around us. We zigzagged toward each other and clashed swords about four to five times in just a couple of seconds, leaving at least five meters of intersecting footsteps on the ground. So far, none of us were able to hit each other because every attack and counterattack had been successfully parried by the other party.

Behind Pillar of the Nation, a warrior's jaw hit the floor as he said, “WTF, guys, change your camera angles and look at their movement from top to bottom…”

That's right, if you were to look at the ground from above, you would find that the footsteps we left on the ground looked incredibly similar to a hexagram.