Chapter 1662: Chapter 1242 Straightforward_2
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Darkness commenced the battle, with the God of War swarming in from the opposition. Darkness mounted the Light Cannon on her shoulder, her arms transformed into war blades, slashing through the ranks like a whirlwind. For any God of War, it was a one-hit kill, any within her line of sight were blown apart by the cannon.
"She’s much stronger than the last time I saw her," said the mask-faced God of War.
"It seems she has started to assimilate the Divine Status of the Beast Tamer, and it looks like she also has the ability to extract Divine Status from the Ancient Divine Texts," the Legion Leader’s phantom appeared beside the mask-faced God of War, still in real-time communication.
"Gods of War! Form the Hunt Formation!" the mask-faced God of War suddenly shouted.
The so-called Hunt Formation is a special tactical formation designed to take on formidable enemies, with each God of War as a vertex, forming a specific Ancient Divine Text. Darkness, trapped within the formation, would be greatly suppressed, while the Gods of War composing the Ancient Divine Text would temporarily enhance their Divine Status strength—this was also a result of the research into Ancient Divine Texts.
The formation immediately took shape, with Darkness successfully confined within, and the surrounding Gods of War began their siege.
"Finally, something a little different," said Darkness. "But compared to me, you are still not up to the mark!"
Divine Texts also appeared on Darkness’s body, these were left by Giant in the Golem’s body, designed to help the Golem break free from the influence of hostile Divine Power. Now, the suppression on Darkness was almost ineffective!
One down with each slash, no different from before.
The mask-faced God of War couldn’t stand by any longer, as he suddenly realized that the level of Darkness’s Divine Status was continuously rising! Although each God of War killed only provided her with a slight increase in Divine Status level, it was still an increase, not a decrease! She couldn’t be allowed to keep on advancing like this!
"All Gods of War! Retreat!" roared the mask-faced God of War, as waves of Divine Power radiated outward.
In such a short span of time, the loss of Gods of War had already exceeded three thousand. The fluctuations of Divine Status all over Darkness could be distinctly felt to have greatly increased, as the mask-faced God of War suddenly appeared in front of Darkness.
"Clearly, I cannot let you leave today, you must die by my hand!"
Clang!
A golden war blade suddenly appeared in front of the mask-faced God of War, and struck squarely upon his mask. The mask shone with a splendid golden hue, staunchly blocking the blow.
Without achieving a kill, Darkness instantly returned to her original position. A shallow cut was left on the mask of the mask-faced God of War, which was slowly healing.
"Sturdier than I thought," Darkness said.
The mask-faced God of War, however, was utterly shocked. His mask was almost his true form. To prevent enemies from focusing on the mask, he had continuously reinforced its hardness, making the enemy believe that it was merely a defensive measure. In fact, for tens of thousands of years, no one has been able to damage his mask.
Yet, just then, that unexpected slash from Darkness left a mark on the mask!
"Your performance is surprising, had we not been on opposing sides, I might have considered befriending you. But now, I cannot let you live!"
Like Darkness, the mask-faced God of War also suddenly appeared beside her, slashing down with Divine Power. But Darkness also vanished at the same moment, then reappeared behind the mask-faced God of War, her twin blades sweeping at nothing but the mask again!
The two kept clashing with blink-like movement, their speed ever increasing, within the local area only two figures could be seen incessantly flickering. Any lapse, even a fraction of a second, would lead to a direct hit by the opponent.
Even for a god, such blink-style offense was astonishingly consuming of Divine Power. Beyond that consumption, the landing points after each flicker were of utmost importance. It was crucial to evade the enemy’s attacks and to find a favorable position for oneself. This used to be what the mask-faced God of War did best. His true form was the mask, a relic left from the Central Divine Country by a certain god, and with his own Divine Status and will, as a created being, he possessed a computational core capable of making judgments faster than most gods, by burning Divine Power. This sort of flicker-fighting he had played countless times, never failing. But now, he found himself being suppressed by his opponent! The opponent’s reaction speed was even faster than his own, which he couldn’t accept at all!
Overload the computational core!
The mask-faced God of War decided to use his trump card, temporarily overloading the computational core to double its calculation speed. Though it would not double his strength, it could at least increase his speed by thirty percent! And this thirty percent increase in speed should have given him a dominant advantage! Perhaps it did for the first second, but subsequently, Darkness reasserted her control.
For a simple reason, Darkness had activated three computational cores.
At first, Darkness had only utilized one computational core, with the rest busy calculating the Ancient Divine Texts. But when the mask-faced God of War initiated core overload, Darkness immediately engaged two additional computational cores for calculation, a mere instant’s task.
Even with the core overload mode activated and failing to secure victory, the mask-faced God of War understood that he was no match for Darkness. Yet, the order had been given, and he must carry it out!
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