Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 979 - 980: The Gap

Chapter 979: Chapter 980: The Gap

"Although I don’t know what you’re playing at, as long as I deal with them..."

Qi Chen said harshly to the black wolves, playing his stratagem, but Feng Yuan was truly resourceful. He could only ensure no moves came close; otherwise, tying would be nearly impossible. Indeed, Qi Chen never hoped to defeat him; after all, the opponent’s strength was overwhelming, and he was well aware that he could not truly defeat him at present.

"It’s too late."

As the words fell, Feng Yuan appeared out of nowhere, right where a black wolf was positioned. His dagger slashed fiercely, instantly breaking Qi Chen’s barrier. Qi Chen used his black longbow to block the incoming dagger, glanced below as he prepared to leap down, but a deep blue pillar of fire shot straight toward him.

A sky-blue barrier enveloped Qi Chen, and the next moment, he appeared outside the arena. Feng Yuan raised his dagger in a defensive gesture, and a light black, semi-transparent spherical shield appeared in front of his dagger. The deep blue fire split at the shield, continuing to burn behind. Feng Yuan looked at the vent spewing the blue flames, smiled, and shouted loudly,

"Okay! Xiao Ji, you can stop now!"

By that time, Ah Mu also began to withdraw its ultimate move. Freed from the vines, Xiao Ji joyfully flew to Feng Yuan, excitedly chirping, allowing the two daggers to dissolve. Feng Yuan scratched Xiao Ji’s neck and jumped down from Ah Mu’s canopy, watching Qi Chen walking toward Ah Mu and said with a smile,

"Not bad—pity that most of Ah Mu’s ultimate moves are terrain types, which makes you a huge vulnerability by default."

"Reality isn’t an official match; those enemies won’t abide by a rule against using lethal moves on Beastmasters. Besides, even in those tournaments, it’s quite common to bypass a Beast Tamer and attack the Beastmaster directly, isn’t it?"

Qi Chen looked at Ah Mu; he could sense some disappointment in him, glanced at Feng Yuan, and said grudgingly,

"Don’t take it to heart. It’s almost impossible to beat that guy, but speaking of terrain ultimate moves, you really have a point..."

Because they had been training for academy assessments, Ah Mu had mainly learned attacking moves, and with Ah Mu’s limited mobility, Qi Chen could only have it learn those with a wide attack range; otherwise, given Ah Mu’s relatively sluggish mobility, the opponent could easily dodge the attacks before they could hit.

The increase in area attack moves led, as Feng Yuan mentioned, to a preference for terrain types since Ah Mu’s mobility was extremely poor. Combined with its high endurance, it naturally ended up standing in one place, continuously deploying skills. However, this kind of terrain based attack method was easily disrupted by the kind of sneak attack Feng Yuan used.

"Don’t listen to his nonsense; different combat styles have different strengths and weaknesses. He’s just taking advantage of his experience to bully you."

Agunas said irritably after glancing at Feng Yuan. That guy’s real strength was far beyond Qi Chen and Ah Mu. Even if he suppressed his own power, he could still easily dodge the moves laid out by Ah Mu. If it were another student of the same age, even with slightly superior strength to Qi Chen, they wouldn’t easily get past those moves.

"Tch!"

Feng Yuan glanced at Agunas and turned his attention back to picking on Xiao Ji. Seeing Feng Yuan mess up his feathers, Xiao Ji chirped angrily, dodged away from Feng Yuan’s claws, and shook his body while grooming his feathers, all the while keeping a wary eye on Feng Yuan, afraid of another sneak attack.

"Truly... a young talent."

The middle-aged man sighed after watching the two battles. His strength was not weak, so he could discern that although Qi Chen was pressurized by Feng Yuan, his abilities were not weak—his adaptability was quite strong, else he wouldn’t have quickly thought of countermeasures after Feng Yuan’s initial sneak attack.

As for later, when Feng Yuan utilized Wolf Shadow and its swap to sneak attack, that skill was not something ordinary people could manage. Though the moves only required Common Level to execute, achieving what Feng Yuan did, using Wolf Shadow to rush to the target instead of himself, required exceptionally rich combat experience.

Perhaps captains from the Special Duty Team could do it, the ordinary members likely only if exceptionally talented—as Ghost Shadow type moves, to which Wolf Shadow belonged, were most vulnerable to attacks. Ghost Shadows lacked resistance to all attributes’ power and would typically dissipate upon being hit by an ultimate move.

Moreover, Ghost Shadows themselves don’t move; the user must exert themselves to control them. Feng Yuan managing to manipulate so many Wolf Shadows was indeed unexpected, but if he was that person, it seemed not so strange.

Before leaving, the middle-aged man remembered something and said to the administrative lady,

"Remember to turn off the surveillance here and have all the recorded footage deleted."

"Why?"

"Consider it protecting him, although it might be unnecessary for him."

The middle-aged man spoke with an inexplicable expression, wondering whether he should feel fortunate that today just happened to be the maintenance check, and perhaps not many people were paying attention to this place?

"Can’t you change your weapon?"

After several attempts, Qi Chen spoke to Feng Yuan with a speechless expression, annoyed that his opponent could always reach him. Although it wasn’t always because of the opponent’s dagger attacks that he failed—sometimes Xiao Ji directly defeated Ah Mu—he always felt somewhat irritated.

"Change to what? If it’s a long halberd, then it’s basically a straightforward breakthrough, boring."

"As for a crossbow, it seems like you can’t even block it."

Feng Yuan glanced at Qi Chen and told him, seeing doubt in his eyes, Feng Yuan turned to Veronia and said,

"Would you mind summoning some crystal targets to float in the air?"

Looking at Feng Yuan, Veronia smirked and waved her hand, and golden crystal birds appeared flying above the competition arena. Seeing this, Feng Yuan chuckled,

"You really are..."

Grabbing a small shield, a black longbow appeared in Feng Yuan’s hands. Clutching the longbow that burned with a pale blue flame, Feng Yuan looked at the crystal birds above and, in the next moment, he rapidly pulled the bow and shot, black arrows tearing through the air and shattering the birds that flew high in the sky.

Qi Chen watched Feng Yuan in astonishment, and nearby, Xiao Shuang said with some surprise,

"I thought you would use an ’Arrow Rain’ technique or something; I didn’t expect it could be done like this."

After glancing at Xiao Shuang, Feng Yuan said,

"The landing spot of ’Arrow Rain’ can’t be controlled, and I don’t have the energy to manage the trajectory of so many arrows. This move is much better than ’Arrow Rain’ when dealing with a large number of targets."

In just a short time, Feng Yuan had cleared the crystal birds in the air with his arrows. Qi Chen sighed—he knew this guy’s real combat ability was more exaggerated than he had thought. This kind of rapid-fire shooting was faster than a machine gun; he couldn’t even imagine achieving this, at least not currently.

Throwing the black longbow, letting it transform back into a small shield spinning around him, Feng Yuan shook his hand and said,

"Although effective, it’s really energy-consuming..."

After all, pulling the bow rapidly in a short time could make even Feng Yuan feel his arm ache, which was also one of the main reasons Qi Chen couldn’t match Feng Yuan’s efforts—let alone aiming, he simply couldn’t manage such rapid pulling.

"How does it compare to the energy consumption of ’Arrow Rain’?"

Xiao Shuang snickered as she looked at Feng Yuan; he shook his head and said,

"This is still relatively easier, at least it doesn’t consume much energy. If I really used ’Arrow Rain’, several rounds of it would probably use up a part of Xiao Ji’s energy."

Xiao Ji looked at Feng Yuan with some confusion. Although he had borrowed quite a bit of energy from it, it hadn’t felt those being rapidly depleted—was he bluffing again? Seeing that Xiao Ji also doubted him, Feng Yuan picked up the black longbow again and said,

"You still don’t believe it?"

After several rounds of ’Arrow Rain’, seeing Xiao Ji show signs of fatigue, Qi Chen said with some surprise,

"Why is this happening?"

"Because of the arrow density, his ’Arrow Rain’ really is like rain..."

Xiao Shuang said with a helpless expression, the dense arrows of his ’Arrow Rain’ thoroughly covered the sky. Comparing him with others using ’Arrow Rain’, theirs seemed incredibly sparse. However, she hadn’t expected that despite Feng Yuan’s actions, Xiao Ji could still hold up easily. How strong exactly is his energy...