<h4>Chapter 801 Spar</h4>
Outside the Psionic Seal Ring, Han Xiao and Viru floated in the cosmic space. A spaceship was looking there from not very far away.
The spaceship carried Clotti and the other Beyond Grade As, as well as Ames, Aesop, and the rest who had arrivedter.
“It’s been a long time, Aesop,” that Ancient Ones member greeted with a fake smile.
“Raveude, you’re still alive,” Aesop replied.
“Ever since you were kicked out of the Ancient Ones, I have yet to hear from you. So, it turns out you went to the most rural area, the Shattered Star Ring. Why, you couldn’t make a living in any other Star Fields?” Raveude said with a mocking tone.
“You’ve lived so long that your memories are failing you. Why do I remember that I left the Ancient Ones?” Aesop gave him a faint nce.
Among the Ancient Ones, Aesop did not have a good rtionship with this person.
Back when Aesop left the Ancient Ones, other than because he did not want this title to prevent him from looking for trouble, it was also because he did not have a good rtionship with some of the other members. As a powerful Oracle, he did not like to use his ability for unrted people. When the times he rejected them started to pile up, it became the source of their conflict.
Ames did not know anyone, so she stood at the side and watched alone.
This was a chance to observe ck Star’s strength. Other than Clotti, who was not very interested, everyone else was focused and looked forward to the two of them to start the fight.
They knew how strong Viru was; hisbat capability had been tested countless times through battle. Therefore, the only question was—how long could ck Star hold on?
They had heard that ck Star had the ‘Indestructible Body’ nickname and that the toughness of his physical body seemed to be on par with the Tyrant’s. They wondered if he would be able to stop Viru’s sky splitting de.
Han Xiao activated his mechanical suit. The helmet covered his face and hid his expression. Then, he opened the secondary dimension gate. The mechanical army swarmed out and filled the battlefield instantly.
Quite a lot, but in front of me, these are all minions. Viru snorted in his mind. His muscle violently expanded, and a light blue me burned on the surface of his body.
A surging me concentrated on his palm and kept extending, forming a hundreds-of-meters-long blue energy sword so dense that it almost looked like it had a physical form.
Pugilists had different branches. The War Soldier Branch focused on fighting with des, but it was different from being a Mechanical Pugilist. Mechanical Pugilistspletely relied on weapons to fight and used Mechanical Force to enhance their weapons, while Pugilists only used weapons to better their own skills. Their damage source was still their own Pugilist me.
With a deep breath, the mes gushed into the hundreds of meters long de. Viru shed multiple times consecutively. Blue des of light shot out and created empty areas within the formation of the mechanical army. The power of those des of light dropped as they destroyed mechanical soldiers, frompletely shattering the first ones to only heavily damaging the ones after.
Han Xiao immediately activated various bonus abilities and controlled his mechanical army to join him in the battle.
Viru was surrounded by tons of mechanical soldiers. His sword danced so quickly that it formed a sphere. des of light continuously shot out from it and destroyed the formation of the mechanical soldiers, causing tremendous damage. It was as if a tornado had appeared in the cosmic space.
As thebat information kept refreshing, Han Xiao tutted in his mind. This guy’s damage is indeed high. Maybe even Heber is weaker in this respect.
Compared to Heber’s heavy and firm offense, Viru mainly focused on swiftness and sharpness. His area attacks were not bad, and his individual target damage was even more horrifying. Earlier, when colossal defense-focused Giant Soldier turned its shield to full capacity in an attempt to stop Viru’s attack, Viru still easily shed it in two without stopping.
Nheless, Han Xiao did not randomly pick this opponent. Viru’s attack damage was indeed high, but he was inferiorpared to Heber in one aspect... his tankiness!
Although this guy was also a Pugilist and had a ton of damage reduction talents, he did not have a very essential core tanky talent... he was not immune to True Damage!
Viru had a fifty-percent True Damage reduction talent, which was way weaker than True Damage Immunity. True Damage was still much more terrifying than normal damage even when halved!
Whenparing Heber and Viru, Han Xiao could only fight head-on with the former, but for thetter, he just so happened to be the type of enemy Han Xiao indirectly countered!
The des of light shot out in all directions. The mechanical army formation took quite a lot of damage, so the mechanical army dealt with it by spreading and attacking from further distances.
Under the focus fire of psionic cannons, Viru’s de formed aplete sphere. He used a certain ability, turning the des of light around him into a special kind of shield, blocking most of the psionic attacks. The explosions were blocked by the sphere of light.
However, the mechanical army was toorge, and their attacks were too concentrated. Viru’s defense could not stop all of them. asionally, psionic attacks would pass through the de shield andnd on his body, shaking his protective energy mes.
Feeling the obliteration of the cells in his body, the look in Viru’s eyes changed.
So powerful... prolonged battles are not suitable for me. I need to attack his physical body.
Having realized that, Viru’s energy me vibrated. The shield around his body expanded and turned into an impact wave, blowing away the mechanical soldiers around him.
Then, he held his sword backhand. His entire body turned into a blue phantom and charged toward Han Xiao, leaving countless afterimages behind. When he reached the frontline of the mechanical army, he turned from holding his sword backhand to front hand, striking forward. It was like all the afterimages were concentrated on this attack.
Star sher Style Technique—de Shadow!
Thousands of des of light erupted at the same time and spread outward in all directions, instantly shattering the formation of the mechanical army in one direction and prating manyyers of defenses. The shattered mechanical parts sshed everywhere.
Han Xiao immediately clenched his fist. Blue-gold Mechanical Force shot out from the Void Dimension, grabbing all the parts like a lightning and connecting them together.
[Waste Modification]!
[Advanced Machinery Construction]!
The shattered parts became mechanical soldiers again.
However, in just this short instant, Viru disappeared. As if he had teleported, he passed through theyers of defenses and appeared right in front of Han Xiao. The sword in his hand returned to normal size from hundreds of meters long. With the more concentrated Pugilist energy sword in his hand, he shed right down!
“It’s not my first time fighting a Mechanic,” Viru said with an expressionless face. It was not a secret that Mechanics had the Waste Modification ability. Being very experienced, he knew that a Mechanic would definitely use it. Using that opportunity, he used a special mobility ability and instantly got close to Han Xiao. He was a Pugilist focused on speed, so he had more ways of closing the distance than Heber.
Swoosh!
The de shed right through Han Xiao’s body without any resistance, as if it had cut him in half. However, Viru did not feel like he had shed through anything. His expression changed instantly.
The halved ‘Han Xiao’ suddenly disappeared. His real body was little more than ten meters away.
Earlier, Han Xiao had used some kind of illusion device and misguided Viru’s senses. Deceiving a Beyond Grade A Pugilist who could lock the target with his energy was very difficult, but this special illusion device was one of the high-level machines that Han Xiao had built that could be used in Beyond Grade A battles. It could create an illusion that perfectly simted even his own energy presence, and it had a quite long cooldown.
Having missed one attack, Viru’s movement did not stop. He turned and attacked another time, quicker and swifter. His de extended and shed onto Han Xiao’s chest like a whip.
Star sher Style Technique—Whip sh!
This attack was initially targeted at Han Xiao’s chest, but Viru changed its direction and targeted Han Xiao’s head.
However, Han Xiao’s response shocked him—he did not dodge at all and went toward it directly.
The de cut Han Xiao’s mechanical suit right open, shing across his forehead. Blood gushed down from his head.
Viru was shocked. Before he could withdraw his de, he saw Han Xiao grab onto his arm like he waspletely unharmed and punched right onto his chest.
Boom!
The vibration echoed in Viru’s body. Tons of cells were destroyed and quickly born through Viru’s energy. As the process repeated, he felt a strong pain in his body.
[Machinery Apostilization] and [Mechanical Force—Emperor’s Power] gave Han Xiao a lot of attributes, so his attacks were much stronger.
Then, Han Xiao’s bloody wound recovered right under Viru’s nose. The nanoparticles of the mechanical suit fixed the broken part as well.
This recovery speed... Viru’s pupils constricted.
This time, the mechanical army behind Viru turned their barrels and fired at the two of them.
Just as Viru was about to back away, two enhanced Oathkeepers appeared beside Han Xiao and held him back.
With a swing of his de, he shed an Oathkeeper’s body but met a tremendous force of resistance. He could not cut it in half with one sh. The blue-gold Mechanical Force shed inside the wounds of these two Oathkeepers.
These two Oathkeepers were elite mechanical soldiers that had received bonuses from the [Emperor’s Gift]. Even Beyond Grade As would not be able to destroy them in just one attack.
Unable to break the Oathkeepers into pieces in one sh, Viru reacted quickly and hastily blew them away with an energy impact wave. However, he was attacked by the Oathkeepers at the same time. Psionic cannon shotsnded on his chest, and his movement paused for an instant again.
The psionic cannon fired from behind him. Chains of shotsnded on his back. Viru was not willing to give up on the opportunity of being able to attack Han Xiao at such a close distance, so he released a defensive shield behind him that barely blocked the focus fire for an instant before attacking Han Xiao violently.
The battlefield left its original area and kept shifting.
The two of them fought at close range. Viru’s de shed through Han Xiao’s body time after time, cutting away parts of his mechanical suit and his flesh again and again. However, he recovered at a visible speed, and his wounds healed in seconds.
The longer Viru fought, the more shocked he was. He had heard about Han Xiao’s ‘Indestructible Body’ nickname, but he had never expected it to be so powerful.
Since some time ago, Clotti, who was watching from afar, had stopped being uninterested. He was now focusing on their battle with a serious look on his face.
Han Xiao’s recovery speed shocked even him.
He had never seen any Mechanic with a physique so strong that it could match up to even a Pugilist.
“A newbie who has just advanced shouldn’t have suchbat capability,” one of them said with shock. He voiced the thought that was in everyone’s mind.
Han Xiao used [Repel – Thorns] and [Void Dimension Jump] consecutively to guard against his opponent’s attacks. The two of them fought at close range for a short period of time before the enormous mechanical army finally held Viru back again. Han Xiao finally got out of the close-range battle.
After taking Viru’s chain of powerful attacks, Han Xiao was close to unharmed. At least the others could not see what damage he had taken on the surface.
Han Xiao patted his chest and opened his arms.
Before Viru could respond, the mechanical army’s attacks became stronger. With the help of all kinds of traps, Viru temporarily became passive.
At this time, many enormous mechanical barrels appeared behind Han Xiao. Psionic energy started to concentrate and gave off a powerful energy reaction.
ary Obliteration Cannon!
The expression on Viru’s face changed drastically.
Come on, using this kind of war level weapon has exceeded the context of sparring!
Suddenly, from the mechanical army around Viru, hundreds of electromaic chains dashed out and tied onto Viru from all directions.
Viru tried to escape, but to his shock, he realized that he could not escape from it in an instant. It was as if these chains were tentacles. They could direct his strength away.
Extreme Electromaic Locked Catcher, single target control type mechanical trap. This was equipment that Han Xiao had built with the Cutting-Edge Knowledge [Activation Theory]. It could temporarily control even Beyond Grade As and was considered as a high-level machine. It hid within the mechanical army and activated at a crucial moment, capturing Viru right away.
The next moment, the teams of mechanical soldiers fired on Viru, and psionic attacks rained like a thunderstorm!
The light illuminated Viru’s drastically changed expression. mes all over his body immediately erupted, turning into des of mes, and quickly spun around his body, forming ayer of shield-like defenses.
de Control—Energy Barrier!
The sphere of light expanded. Han Xiao fired the Secondary Skyary Obliteration Cannons that hadpleted their energy charge. Enormous dark-blue beams of light gushed out and headed right to Viru.
When the beams were only halfway through, clusters of dark energy suddenly appeared on the attack route and shed with the psionic energy beams. The two forms of energy caused chains of explosions, continuously expanding in the cosmic space.
On the other side, dozens of dark energy barriers stopped the focus fire of the army and gave Viru time to breathe.
Viru hastily escaped from the trap, activated some kind of mobility ability, turned into a stream of blue light, and escaped the battlefield. He hovered at the side with a pale face, looking like he was more than slightly injured.
If it were Heber, these attacks would just have been tickles. However, Viru’s health had been reduced quite a lot by the True Damage attacks.
Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and made the mechanical army stop attacking before looking at the spaceship.
Clotti was standing behind the porthole and had one hand raised. He was the one who had controlled the dark energy and interfered with their battle earlier.
“The spar has ended,” Clotti said in themunication channel. “This shall be... considered a draw.”
Draw?
The others had different looks on their faces.
They knew exactly that this was just a way of saying it so Viru would not be humiliated. Just from the situation earlier, Han Xiao had won undoubtedly. Han Xiao had showcased hisbat strength.
With his powerful recovery ability and enormous mechanical army, as well as his oddly powerful attacks, a Mechanic like him had close to no weaknesses. They were shocked, and they put away the slight underestimation they had for Han Xiao because of him being a neer and his Shattered Star Ring origin.
Han Xiao had earned their respect with his strength.
Viru’s expression was not looking good. As the one that had been challenged, he had initially beenpletely confident. However, he had instead be the target for the neer to showcase his strength. He felt very embarrassed and displeased.
However, the opponent had gained the upper hand with valid ways, so he had nothing to say and could only feel unhappy inside.
Hearing what Clotti said, Han Xiao did not deny it and withdrew his mechanical army.
The result did not matter. As long as the goal of showcasing his strength was achieved, it was enough for him.
Furthermore, if Viru had gone all out, his explosive power would only have been higher than Heber’s. It would not be easy for Han Xiao to deal with even with his powerful recovery speed.
One reason he had gotten the upper hand in the spar was because of thebat style counter; another was the nature of the battle. It looked like he hadpletely overwhelmed Viru, but if it had been a real battle, Viru might not have made the same mistakes.
I have to be stronger.
Among Beyond Grade As, he was very strong in long-duration battles, but his raw strength was not high enough.
He had umted arge sum of EXP. When the EXP penalty was over, he would be able to level up again.
He estimated that only then would he be able to obtain a higher position among the Beyond Grade As.
He returned to the spaceship and walked into the cabin. The others approached him.
Han Xiao noticed that there was no longer inspection in their eyes, and now there was some respect. Han Xiao nodded in his mind.
Through this spar, his strength had been recognized. Now, he had officially been epted into this circle.
Viru walked in after Han Xiao. With a long face, he turned around and said with a deep voice, “If there’s a chance in the future, we have to spar again.”
“Then I guess there won’t be any chances.” Han Xiao raised his brows. With no benefits, why would I fight you? It’s not like I’m a battle maniac.
Speaking of which, it seemed like most Pugilists were battle maniacs...