Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2574: Chapter 1216: Free-for-All Battle · Awakening Dragon (II)

[Reinforced Iron Bones]

This skill is not new to Motan. Although the Martial Monk players or NPCs he knows are very few, almost extremely rare, both Mr. Se who focused on Martial Monk used this skill with great effect. Whether facing Housekeeper Seabata in the Silent Whisper Manor that almost scared Feather Song, or in the fierce battle with the Woof Woof Team on the Caselo Prairie against the [Fer-de-Lance] Chamber of Commerce’s Sergei.

But no matter how effective it is, being able to perfectly activate this skill when Motan’s [Ghost·Gales], which takes less than 1.5 seconds from initiation to hit, is slashing down, especially without even turning the head, is somewhat unbelievable.

Moreover, even though [Reinforced Iron Bone] indeed provides a significant amount of damage reduction and resistance in a short time, and Motan’s [Dawn·Ruthless Sword] does have extremely low Attack Power due to its Shattered quality, it was astonishing that after hitting a critical point like the neck with this extremely sharp skill, it only left a white mark! A mark indicating no defense break, and indeed it did not break defense! Is this even scientific?

Scientific!

And extremely scientific!

Firstly, for an absolute professional-level player like Awakening Dragon, at the pinnacle of the pyramid, combat awareness, a seemingly elusive thing, is ingrained in his bones. Unlike the ordinary ’intuition’, Awakening Dragon’s combat awareness is honed through countless real battles. Compared to Motan’s almost unreasonable combat talent under the ’Orderly Good’ persona, this outstanding professional gamer is continuously refining himself, always converting ’experience’ into ’instinct’ through linear training of ’effort’.

It is worth mentioning that even though Awakening Dragon works much harder than Motan due to his professional gamer’s dedication, his talent is by no means lacking.

Or rather, it’s not just not lacking, this guy’s talent is simply off the charts.

Considering our country’s population base and the number of people working in e-sports in 2049, with such intense industry competition, for Awakening Dragon to firmly hold the top spot in this ’being bad is the original sin’ circle can only be explained by his exceedingly strong talent.

Just like Double Leaf’s talent in computing, Cordova’s talent in height, Yu Chen’s talent in frontal armor development, Jadka Diesel’s talent in the Knight field, and the Snow Bathing Sword’s talent in Sword Dao, Awakening Dragon’s talent in gaming and English is absolutely extraordinary.

Perhaps outside of the game, physically fit but with far less real-world combat experience than Motan, student Awakening Dragon might get beaten badly in a street fight, but in the game, Awakening Dragon can easily defeat the character ’Mor’, who is much stronger than ’Hei Fan’ and ’Tan Mo’.

[Reinforced Iron Bone], upon activation, grants the user an additional 30% physical defensive power for approximately 0.3 seconds, and similarly during this 0.3 seconds, the Magic Resistance provided by this skill is 30% lower than what is described in the skill effect.

This is something not mentioned in the skill description, known as a hidden setting, that even Martial Monks from the native-born Realm of Innocence, who truly hone their bodies, rarely perceive. However, Awakening Dragon realized this through extensive real-world combat and theoretical analysis and, with the assistance of the Red Constellation Club’s technical team, derived the exact values.

Awakening Dragon is strong because he possesses the ability to perfectly integrate this hidden setting, which ordinary people, even if they know the theory, could only discover by sheer luck, into his combat, and utilize its effects to the fullest.

The effect of [Reinforced Iron Bone] is to increase the user’s defensive power by 60% for five seconds, greatly reducing the chance of being critically hit and the effects of restricting-type skills, while also increasing resistance to Traits like [Bleeding] and [Fatal], and a very low probability of bursting gear.

Therefore, under Awakening Dragon’s nearly perfect use, not only did he not get defense-broken by Motan’s [Ghost·Gales] that suddenly raised his physical defensive power by 30%, he didn’t even get stunned, and he calmly turned around as soon as the blade touched his neck and punched towards Motan behind him.

An extremely firm and masculine [Collapse Fist]!

"Ugh!"

The follow-up sword move of the skill was dispersed even before it was fully executed by this simple yet terrifyingly powerful fist, and although Motan activated [Waning Moon] at the fastest speed, he still couldn’t avoid it even with the doubling of his movement speed, and was instead hit hard on the shoulder by Awakening Dragon’s palm-turned-punch while the force wasn’t exhausted, sending him flying horizontally.

Spending 1.8% Health Points in exchange for Motan’s 19% Health Points and one layer of the [Bone Crack] effect, this was Awakening Dragon’s answer in the first round of exchange.

So powerful it was suffocating.

Barely managing to adjust his posture mid-air, the staggering Motan landed back on the ground, struggling to lift his arm to wipe off the fine sweat on his forehead, experiencing an uncommon sense of helplessness.

No flaws, no blind spots, no weaknesses, clearly standing there so ordinarily, yet the person named Awakening Dragon didn’t expose even the slightest opportunity, even making the current persona of Motan involuntarily develop a sense of ’it’s no use fighting’.