Chapter 17 Weighing

As the clone hurtled down the snowy mountain and onto the alpine meadow at its foot, Fang Senyan, who was fleeing, suddenly faltered. He split into two; he had used the sixth-order Replicated Scroll (already inscribed) that Franklin had given him.

Tear this scroll and use it on the target to create a phantom of the target. The phantom has 100% of the target's health and 30% of the attack power. The phantom cannot use ability props, but its appearance is exactly the same as Fang Senyan.

The clone paused for a moment, seemingly instinctively searching for something in its item bar. Then, it immediately split into two as well, obviously using the same scroll, still employing a man-to-man strategy. For the clone, who had temporarily lost rational thought, imitating Fang Senyan's actions was undoubtedly the safest course of action.

At this moment, Fang Senyan had no way to distinguish the true clone. He didn't know whether the guy who was closely biting at his heels was the original or a phantom. He could only determine this through its attack power or whether it used skills.

This was also the reason why Fang Senyan didn't carry any weapons. Even without using any weapons, the clone's attack power could reach a very considerable level! This was almost unbearable for Fang Senyan, whose health was far less than his opponent's. So, weakening the clone's attack power as much as possible was also a top priority.

Of course, the relationship between Fang Senyan and the clone was also extremely complex. If he adopted this tactic, it also meant that Fang Senyan's attack power would drop to a terrifying level. Fortunately, the clone couldn't possess the Bulwark talent, otherwise… this battle would be impossible to fight.

Soon, the clone chasing behind Fang Senyan approached within a certain distance. The distance that Fang Senyan had painstakingly created earlier had completely disappeared.

Because Fang Senyan had entered the range of Horned Fury, in the next second, the clone activated this ability that could quickly approach the opponent, like a mad bull, violently ramming into Fang Senyan's back!

Fang Senyan staggered a few steps from the impact. After rolling violently, he entered a state of dizziness. Although the clone's strength couldn't suppress him, it was still far above him, so it would inflict the maximum duration of dizziness. Fortunately, with the weakening effect of Bulwark, it wouldn't last too long.

Lying face down on the ground, Fang Senyan's mind was a mess, completely losing control of his body. However, a cold, fresh scent, a mixture of alpine meadow and soil, entered his nostrils, invigorating his spirit.

Without a doubt, the one who attacked Fang Senyan was the genuine clone, as its ability to use skills was clear evidence.

Fang Senyan carefully monitored the combat log. When the combat log showed: "You have been attacked by the enemy, your health has been reduced by 23 points," Fang Senyan finally felt relieved.

In his plan, as long as the clone's actual damage to him each time didn't exceed fifty points, then everything was within control!

When Fang Senyan woke up from his dizziness, he immediately rolled and charged towards the battle group on the opposite side. Of course, because the clone's speed was higher and faster than him! So, this guy was actually chasing Fang Senyan and attacking him non-stop, and very maliciously only attacking Fang Senyan's legs.

However, Fang Senyan also possessed the Horned Fury ability, and at this time, the mirror images created by Franklin's abilities were also fiercely fighting together, unable to attend to other things.

As soon as the image entered his attack range, Fang Senyan immediately activated Horned Fury! He rushed towards the clone's mirror image at high speed, instantly shaking off the clone's beating.

At the instant he was hit by Horned Fury earlier, the thing Fang Senyan was most worried about didn't happen, that is, the clone definitely hadn't mastered the ability of the Devouring Beast! Otherwise, as soon as they got close, this terrifying ability would have been unhesitatingly smashed onto his body!

However, this was also quite normal.

Fang Senyan's experience of obtaining the Virus Overlord could be said to be the result of various coincidences. Some key props were even the products of multiple mutations. Just like how the space was also acquiring unknown wonders for analysis and research, they were not omnipotent either. Either the space had no way to completely copy the Devouring Beast ability onto the clone, a disposable item, or the cost of completely copying the ability was too high. This was also reasonable.

Undoubtedly, at this time, although Fang Senyan had escaped the clone's attack range, this guy was still relying on his speed advantage to relentlessly pursue Fang Senyan.

But at this moment, Fang Senyan raised his hand and smashed a bottle onto the ground! An oval crystal bottle, this thing was none other than the gene enhancement potion!

As the bottle shattered, with a crack, large clusters of smoke rolled up from the bottle, instantly shrouding the ground within a hundred square meters! A strong, damaging shockwave swept across, and the clone was rooted to the spot!

Gene Curse Cloud!

In that instant, all of the clone's attributes dropped by another 6 points, and he had to be stunned in place for three seconds. The movement speed of enemies in the cloud was also reduced by 40%! And after Saruman's final instruction, the duration of the Gene Curse Cloud was as long as fifteen minutes.

While the clone was still stunned, Fang Senyan swished and used the Dark Gold Leech. As soon as this disgusting monster appeared, it wriggled and crawled towards the clone. Fang Senyan also controlled the mirror image to join forces in attacking the clone, in order to trigger Saruman's Gaze.

At this time, the clone would be affected by both the Dark Gold Leech and the Gene Curse Cloud.

The Dark Gold Leech could forcibly reduce movement speed by 50%, while the Gene Curse Potion reduced movement speed by 40%. The speed reduction effects of the two stacked perfectly, which meant that the clone would be forcibly slowed by 90%!!

No one knew himself better than himself. That was why Fang Senyan clearly understood the powerful threat that a sustained speed reduction effect posed to him, it could be said to be almost unsolvable. Fang Senyan, who had escaped about fifty meters, began to stand still and continue to take out raw materials for mixing!

For the clone, it would normally take him three or four seconds to run fifty meters, but with a forced 90% speed reduction, and with Horned Fury also on cooldown, it would take him at least thirty or forty seconds to walk fifty meters.

Watching Fang Senyan skillfully mix more than a dozen ingredients together, quickly making bottle after bottle of gene potion, the clone was expressionless, moving towards Fang Senyan step by step like an ant moving a house.

Saruman's illusion of raising his staff and laughing wildly could be seen from time to time in the Gene Curse Cloud. This was because Fang Senyan's mirror image and the Dark Gold Leech's attacks were constantly triggering Saruman's illusionary special effect.

However, although the Dark Gold Leech could follow the clone, attacking and crawling at the same time, the Gene Curse Potion Cloud would not move. Although the clone was strongly slowed down and moving too slowly, he was still about to escape the range of the curse cloud…

But what did it matter? Fang Senyan now had an absolute speed advantage over the clone. He realized that the clone was about to escape the range of the Gene Curse Cloud, and immediately ran past the clone about ten meters ahead, actively rushing into the Curse Cloud.

Seeing this situation, the clone fell into a dilemma, a contradictory situation of advance and retreat. He had no long-range attack methods. If he wanted to attack Fang Senyan, then he would have to re-enter the Curse Cloud, but after entering, with a 90% speed reduction, he would not be able to touch even a single hair on Fang Senyan.

So, at this time, the clone had two choices. The first choice was to escape! It should be known that in this battle, as long as he didn't die, Fang Senyan would have to die. If the clone escaped, Fang Senyan would immediately be in tears.

However, for Fang Senyan, if the clone really had such combat thinking, then this task would be too perverted, it could be said to be without any chance of winning, unless a cliff was created when shaping the world, and then he could take advantage of the clone's moment of daze to kick his butt and let him fall to his death - but could the space tolerate such an obvious bug?

Fortunately, it seemed that the space didn't intend to force Fang Senyan into a dead end. After all, the purpose of the mission given by the space was evolution, not to kill people, so it didn't instill in the clone the instruction to immediately withdraw from the battle when encountering difficulties.

The clone made the second choice:

He also summoned his own Dark Gold Leech, wriggling and crawling towards Fang Senyan!

In a situation where both people were being attacked by the Dark Gold Leech, it was definitely the clone who suffered.

For example, if his movement speed was 200 points and Fang Senyan's was 120 points, after each being reduced by 50%, the clone would have 100 points of movement speed cut off, while Fang Senyan would only have 60 points cut off. But in this way, Fang Senyan would not have an absolute speed advantage, so it would not be possible to leisurely mix potions again.

This response from the clone was also within Fang Senyan's prediction!

The Dark Gold Leech's health could reveal this, not too much, not too little, just 20,000 health points, and it was defaulted to 0 defense. In that instant, Fang Senyan actually stood still and then pounced on the Dark Gold Leech summoned by the clone, while commanding his mirror image, the Dark Gold Leech simultaneously focused fire on the clone's summon!

The attacks of the three of them frequently triggered Saruman's Gaze. Plus, the Dark Gold Leech had zero defense, which meant that it was dealing true damage every time. On average, this could deal 100 points of damage to the 0-defense Dark Gold Leech every second, and it would only take two hundred seconds to kill the Dark Gold Leech!

There was a lot of data, so the update was a bit late!