Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2578: Chapter 1218: Free-for-All Duel · Awakening Dragon (Serious Version)

Push the effect of [Scale Against] to the extreme, and the time limit to maintain this ultimate Dragon Transformation is—15 minutes.

Among the spectators, there is at least one familiar face, Cordova, and Gu Xiaole, who just added himself as a friend, might also navigate through the friend menu options to enter this match room, and they all know ’Mo Tan’.

When [Scale Against] ends, Mo Tan, who will lose all Half-Dragon People traits, will appear exactly as he does in reality, which is the core reason he cannot use this skill under most circumstances. After all, whether it’s Ji Xiaoge or Cordova, seeing his appearance exactly like outside the game would cause enormous trouble.

In simple terms, it means being exposed.

In contrast, the negative effect of [Scale Against], which is ’after the duration ends, the user’s all attributes will decrease by 20% for the following 12 hours, critical hit rate will decrease by 50%, and any form of attack will cause a ’break armor’ effect’ is insignificant.

It is a very powerful talent, yet due to reasons outside the game, it cannot be used normally. This kind of situation might only happen to someone like Mo Tan.

However, just as Mo Tan was about to concede, he suddenly realized something—

That compared to the no-way-out Innocent Continent after using Scale Against, this public space exclusively for players is actually a suitable soil.

A soil that allows him to take advantage of loopholes to use [Scale Against].

For Mo Tan, although he rarely enters public spaces, he has already memorized the relevant rules thoroughly. Even if Cordova and Gu Xiaole are watching in God’s Eye View, he can completely exit the game directly from the settlement interface at the first opportunity after the battle, and with operations like changing the refresh area and appearance upon re-login, deceive everyone without the slightest chance of accident.

In fact, if Mo Tan had chosen to create a character model different from himself in the Realm of Innocence when entering the public space earlier, he wouldn’t even need to exit the game, just leaving the match room would be enough.

Just like Cordova, who inexplicably turned into a low-cost Kobold mode after matching successfully, he still goes back to his ’Cui Xiaoyu skin’ after the fight.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise that [Scale Against] must not run out of time before the battle ends. In other words, once Mo Tan activates this talent, no matter what, he must win or lose within fifteen minutes, otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable.

However, in an arena where one can concede at any time, the public space is much easier to manage than the Innocent Continent’s mainland.

"Ah..."

Lowering his head to glance at his own armor, which instead of being shattered by the upper body, has merged with the equipment in a strange form, each piece covered in a glassy, transparent-like coating of dragon scales, Mo Tan’s face was hidden behind a visor of the same texture, unconsciously curling his lips upward. Gently clasping the left hand, which far surpassed the [Dawn· Ruthless Sword] in strength, attack power, and sharpness, he murmured in a low voice: "Although expected, it seems much stronger than imagined."

On the other side, seeing Mo Tan’s exaggerated ’transformation’, the always composed Awakening Dragon finally became serious.

Four streams of hazy mist in green, white, red, and black colors spread out from Awakening Dragon as the center, continuously neutralizing the invisible substance in the air that was nonetheless ceaselessly exerting ’Dragon Might’, completely blocking any possibility for Mo Tan to control the field through momentum.

"I think I should apologize for my previous attitude."

Until a few seconds ago, Awakening Dragon, who had regarded Mo Tan as merely ’interesting’, smiled spontaneously and then unexpectedly put back on his blade claws, which had been tucked back into his belt.

This action, which seemed quite lacking in demeanor to many (like Cordova), was in fact filled with a form of respect.

A respect that only those who have been truly defined by Awakening Dragon as ’opponents’ are worthy of having.

Namely—going all out!

Of course, going all out here doesn’t mean revealing all hidden aces at once and overwhelming the opponent, nor does it mean showing all the cards straightforwardly, but rather an attitude of leaving no room whatsoever, a professional spirit of a professional player.

Speaking of professional spirit, even within the professional gamer circle, Awakening Dragon is of the highest level. For example, more than twenty years ago, when Li Lei was only three or four years old and barely talking, he saw a trashy, disgusting, nauseating, and reeking national treasure piece named ’When You Pout You’re Awesome’ and smashed his family TV.

And that film’s mere existence was the biggest, biggest, biggest denial and insult to the industry he would pursue in the future.

Alright, that’s enough of allusion, let’s get back on track.

"Be careful."

Despite having become the less fashionable side, Awakening Dragon was the first to stress to the Mo Tan, who now looked like an elite boss, saying: "Be careful."

The broad dragon wings gave a gentle flap. Although he had not flown much himself, frequently watching Ji Xiaoge flapping around in front of him allowed Mo Tan to hover steadily in the air. Moving his gaze from his new skill bar, he said in a slightly low husky, and if listened to carefully, dragon-roar BGM-tinged voice: "Okay."