Chapter 179 Collision

The Flame Iron Arm, resembling a giant bear, holding a shield, was less than ten yards away from the Ferocious Snake. Suddenly, he roared!

Abruptly, a dazzling golden radiance erupted from his entire body, forming a series of holy blades around him, rotating around the Flame Iron Arm.

Tier 1 Skill, Holy Storm!

It could inflict three instances of holy damage on everyone within an eight-yard radius, each strike possessing 130% of the player's own Strength effect and 200% of weapon damage.

"This Flame Iron Arm is really showing no mercy, using his signature skill right from the start. He's using the Holy Storm to bait the opponent into dodging and resisting, but the real killing move is the Holy Light Judgment that he'll use when the opponent is unable to resist."

"That's right! Flame Iron Arm relied on the unavoidable Holy Light Judgment skill to make it all the way to the qualifying rounds in the last competition."

The players below the stage who were familiar with the Flame Iron Arm looked at the Ferocious Snake with some pity.

The Flame Iron Arm seemed to be a Guardian Knight, but most of his free attribute points were added to Strength, and the attribute gems he had inlaid were also Strength gems. He was practically a pure damage dealer, not a tank at all.

In terms of pure Strength attribute, he was enough to rival a top Berserker of the same level. Coupled with a burst skill that significantly increased Strength, instantly boosting it by 100%, even a top Berserker of the same level wouldn't be able to withstand a head-on clash.

Seeing the Flame Iron Arm charging towards the Ferocious Snake without any hesitation, the Ferocious Snake also directly used the power of darkness, his body faintly emitting a faint black mist, and he swung the warblade flashing with lightning in his hand fiercely.

Whirlwind Slash!

Instantly, a black storm rose.

"Courting death!" The Flame Iron Arm sneered, charging even more fiercely.

On the stage, the black storm collided with the golden storm, and a gust of wind directly spread across the entire arena.

As the storm dissipated, the crowd below the stage was stunned.

"How is that possible? Flame Iron Arm's offensive was actually blocked!"

"That Ferocious Snake is so strong!"

The Flame Iron Arm was a well-known Strength-type Guardian Knight. Only a few players could block him. As long as they blocked the first wave of attacks and maintained the best posture, the Flame Iron Arm's second move, Holy Light Judgment, would have no chance to be used.

However, compared to the surprised crowd below the stage, the Flame Iron Arm on the stage was now looking at the Ferocious Snake with a solemn expression.

In the previous collision, the Ferocious Snake only took one step back, but he had taken three steps back in a row, and his health points had also dropped by four or five hundred. The difference in strength between the two sides was obvious.

"How can he have such great strength?"

The Flame Iron Arm couldn't believe it was true. He knew that for this competition, the adventure team had specially lent him an Epic-level bracer, which had greatly increased his Strength attribute. He even felt that he had a chance to compete for the top 100 in the ranking competition.

But now he had lost in strength to an unknown Berserker.

"The Omniscient Magic Armor that the guild leader asked me to equip is so powerful!" The Ferocious Snake glanced at the skill completion displayed by the system, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

His Strength attribute was actually not much higher than the Flame Iron Arm's. The reason why there was such a big gap was entirely because of the skill completion he had achieved.

Just now, he used Whirlwind Slash with a skill completion of 90%. This was the first time he had performed such a smooth and satisfying Whirlwind Slash, and as long as the skill completion exceeded 85%, every 1% increase would increase the skill's power by a notch. Not to mention reaching the 90% threshold, which was a qualitative change.

Naturally, the Flame Iron Arm had difficulty resisting.

"Since strength doesn't work, let's see who can outlast the other!" The Flame Iron Arm quickly calmed down and immediately changed his fighting style, choosing to trade blows. After activating Blessing of Protection, he hardly made any defenses, just frantically attacking his opponent.

Blessing of Protection could halve the damage he received. Even if there was a gap in strength, the result of mutual attacks would be very unfavorable for a Berserker without damage reduction skills.

Just as everyone thought that the Ferocious Snake might temporarily avoid the confrontation, the Ferocious Snake not only did not retreat but instead took the initiative to meet him.

"Is he out of his mind? He clearly has the advantage. He just needs to stall for time. Isn't charging up to trade blows courting death?"

Everyone was very puzzled by the Ferocious Snake's behavior.

On the stage, the Ferocious Snake and the Flame Iron Arm exchanged blows, mutually attacking and defending. Compared to the Berserker, it was simply too easy for the Guardian Knight's shield to defend. With just a slight movement, it could defend a large area. On the other hand, the Berserker's warblade had to move a large range to defend only a small area.

Moreover, the damage difference between the two sides was obvious. Even if the Ferocious Snake's warblade hit the Flame Iron Arm, the normal damage was only three thousand points, but the Flame Iron Arm hitting the Ferocious Snake, any random strike was more than five or six thousand points. In terms of health points, the Flame Iron Arm had more than 80,000, while the Ferocious Snake had only more than 70,000, with a difference of 10,000 in between.

Seeing the Ferocious Snake's health points drop to half, the Flame Iron Arm still had more than two-thirds of his health points remaining.

However, the more the Flame Iron Arm fought, the more frightened he became, because as they fought, the Ferocious Snake's combat level was improving at an incredible speed, and the more he fought, the smoother he became. It was becoming increasingly difficult to hit the Ferocious Snake, and on the contrary, it was becoming easier and easier for the Ferocious Snake to hit him.

After the two sides had fought for less than five seconds, the Ferocious Snake's health points were less than one-third, while the Flame Iron Arm's health points were also only one-third remaining.

"I'll be damned! The Flame Iron Arm is completely at a disadvantage!"

Everyone looked at the Flame Iron Arm's increasingly low health points, and none of them could believe it was true.

"How can his combat level be so high! Was he playing with me all this time?" The Flame Iron Arm looked at his health bar, which was already approaching the red line, and knew that the situation was over. Not only was there a gap in skill level, but the duration of Blessing of Protection was also about to end.

However, the Flame Iron Arm didn't know that the Ferocious Snake was suddenly in a place with a very high concentration of magic power, and he was very unaccustomed to fighting. However, as he continued to fight, he gradually began to adapt to the magic power increase brought by the Omniscient Magic Armor.

In fact, the Ferocious Snake could have ended the battle long ago, but being able to fight against a top expert like the Flame Iron Arm gave him a lot of insight, so he didn't use any skills and just kept trading blows with the Flame Iron Arm.

As the Ferocious Snake took away the last trace of health points from the Flame Iron Arm, a burst of exclamations rang out from the crowd below the stage.

"That Ferocious Snake from the Zero Wing Guild is so powerful!"

"I didn't expect that the Zero Wing Guild, in addition to those top experts, actually had such a character. I really underestimated the Zero Wing Guild."

"It seems that we have to be careful of this Berserker called Ferocious Snake in the future. His close combat is too strong."

After the competition, the players from the major forces had a trace of fear towards this Berserker called Ferocious Snake. After all, just relying on normal attacks, he could kill the 37th-ranked expert on the Black Dragon Empire's professional ranking list. If he used various skill combos, his combat power could be increased by at least one level.

After the Ferocious Snake's competition, Feng Lun, Kuang Gu, Mo Wusheng, and others from the Zero Wing Guild also took the stage one after another and won the competition without any surprises. Moreover, they ended the battle without using any skills, completely making it impossible to see their true strength.

Just as the competition was in full swing, it was finally Zhao Yue'ru's turn to take the stage.

Group 5, No. 918 versus No. 29!

"No way! Scarlet Flame Witch versus Fallen Flower?"

"Both of them should be experts who are 100% likely to qualify, right? The system actually made them fight each other."

"This is going to be interesting. Fallen Flower is one of the top ten swordsmen in the Purple Thorns Kingdom. I heard that he recently defeated Sword Cry, who is ranked 394th on the Wind and Cloud Rankings. The Scarlet Flame Witch is also an expert who has made the dark guild Corpse Soul helpless. I'm afraid it will turn into a bitter battle."

Everyone looked at the two people walking onto the stage, and they were all excited.

As the competition began, both sides used their burst skills, instantly stunning everyone present.

Zhao Yue'ru directly used Triple Chant. Although it was two Tier 1 magic spells and one Tier 0 magic spell, both the chanting speed and the magic power were amazing.

One after another, large fireballs, flame spears, and flame chains attacked Fallen Flower. The magic spells were continuous. Even if Fallen Flower was an expert in the Realm of Micro, he couldn't resist them. In the end, after using all his life-saving skills, he was instantly killed by more than a dozen large fireballs and flame spears...