Chapter 157 – A Broken Arm (1/2)
Chapter 157 – A Broken Arm
Up until now there hasn’t been anyone who a.s.sumed they had the superiority in close quarters against All-Mouthy King. Even the half-a.s.sed crowd just eating melon seeds as they watched could make such a judgement. All-Mouthy King continuously overturned the mental a.s.sumptions of everyone time and time again. This made them feel that such a measly disadvantage wasn’t anything to shout out about. Naturally, Chen Yu’er didn’t have such feelings herself. After all, there was still a very large difference between watching it live and watching it on video.
As she sighed, an autumn-ish, desolately large and flat plain appeared before All-Mouthy King’s eyes.
This flat plain model was one of the most commonly seen maps in the OP system. At first look it was an endless plain as fast as the ocean. The four corners of this yellowed earth connected directly with the sky and radiated with devastation. It made everyone aware that the dark era had indeed happened.
w.a.n.g Zhong moved his gaze toward his opponent before him. It was a formidable giant of a man at close to 2.3 meters in height. He had to back of a tiger and waist of a bear. Just based on his physical appearance, his opponent didn’t seem any weaker than Kostan who he’d fought before.
Right as the two looked at once another, w.a.n.g Zhong immediately noticed his opponent’s uniqueness.
His opponent’s eyes sparkled with a heavy earthen-yellow colored glow. It seemed he possessed a special ability. w.a.n.g Zhong felt as though he was being seen and exposed beneath his gaze.
“Everyone, please pay attention to Luo Zhen’s eyes! That’s Life Insight!” Chen Yu’er’s words rang out as she continued, “It’s said that he had been primarily focused on practising this ability since the end of the great compet.i.tion last year. Who would have thought he managed to successfully master it!
“Compet.i.tor Luo Zhen immediately displayed Life Insight the moment he entered the field. This is an outstanding auxiliary support skill only earth special ability users can train in. It allows the wielder to gain insight toward the weaknesses of his opponent. Simply speaking, it allows Luo Zhen to view and observe the strong and weak points being distributed in All-Mouthy King’s life force, thus allowing him to avoid the real and strike the false.”
Life Insight was an auxiliary support skill of the earth special ability. This kind of combat technique couldn’t be learned within the academies. In an instant, a clear picture started to form within Luo Zhen’s eyes.
Before him, All-Mouthy King transformed into an earthen-yellow glowing humanoid. It was like he was seeing an x-ray. All-Mouthy King sparkled with light and was extremely eye-catching. But what was noticeable was that his right arm was conspicuously darker and dimmer than the other parts of his body.
Special abilities had a variety of uses that didn’t only bring about destruction and killing power like the fire special ability. After many years of research and utilization, mankind grasped many of its uses and created techniques that revolved around them. These techniques were then spread around the Federation. Naturally, many of those prized and precious techniques were kept by the various clans and powers as strength was the most valuable commodity in this era. Of all the special abilities, earth and water control was the easiest to give rise to auxiliary support skills.
Luo Zhen had heard of the famous All-Mouthy King, but he had no interest in this so-called expert that rose from the weeds. He had indeed taken a look at All-Mouthy King’s videos. Regardless of whether it was the quick knife slashes he used to defeat Brooks or those gun techniques demonstrated, or even the techniques he used against Laura, in Luo Zhen’s eyes they were all just dregs! Garbage!
One could say it was just a counter due to their occupations. Or that it was a fundamental gap that arose from absolute strength. All-in-all, before the strongest heavy soldier they were just fancy moves with no substance! The thing heavy soldiers feared the least was such fanciful rubbish.
What he truly cared about was the match between All-Mouthy King and Kostan.
As a similarly peak famed heavy soldier of the Federation academies, Kostan’s rank had always been in front of his own. Martial Peak Academy had also been suppressed by Stogel Academy who stepped on their heads. In his mind, only Kostan was worthy to be his opponent!
But never would he have thought that fellow would lose to such an awkwardly named guy all because of a map. It was completely due to the map! There was no one who understood Kostan more than Luo Zhen. No one other than he knew how terrifying Kostan was when he combined his physical special ability with his soul power.
As such, he was still very interested in this match. If he could defeat All-Mouthy King, then he would at least feel some superiority toward Kostan in one aspect. It might even form a kind a mental pressure toward Kostan and give himself a favorable foundation for his revenge match in the CHF later this year.