Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2579: Chapter 1218: No-Holds-Barred Battle · Awakening Dragon (Serious Edition) (Part 2)

In the next second, the Awakening Dragon moved—

[Wind·Fire·Lightning]

Combat-type active skill

Mastering Requirements: Possess the Monk System profession, Agility 55, Mind Energy value limit > 1800

Consumption/Restriction: Sharpness value 500, Mind Energy value 300, Physical Strength value 300

Effect: Create two Mind Energy clones with attributes Cloud and Flame, and transform oneself into the Lightning attribute, lasting three seconds. The clones have 35% of the host’s basic attributes, actively attack designated targets, and replicate all skills of the host. When the host overlaps with Mind Energy clones, one can freely switch between the host and the overlapping clones’ traits, with a cooldown of 30 minutes.

Trait 1: The Cloud body’s movement speed is 150%, skill cooldown time is reduced by 10%, normal attacks and damage skills have a certain chance to add a slicing effect.

Trait 2: The Flame body’s critical hit rate increases by 30%, critical hit damage increases by 10%, normal attacks and damage skills have a certain chance to add a searing effect.

Trait 3: The Lightning body’s normal attack speed increases by 30%, full resistance increases by 10%, and melee damage dealt or received has a certain chance to add a static effect.

Trait 4: This skill, for every second sustained, will additionally consume 100 each of Sharpness, Mind Energy, Physical Strength values.

[Note: Omitted] (See Chapter 493 for details)

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As the Awakening Dragon transformed into a Phantom and directly charged at him, and simultaneously split into three in the process, Motan had already recognized this skill.

The reason is simple; firstly, he personally witnessed a Monk of Epic Tier named Sergei use this move to knock out Anthony Dubs in the battle at Caselo Prairie, and secondly, this skill, with its extremely low entry level and huge potential yet difficult mastery, always had a high discussion rate, frequently appearing in popular forums.

Due to the high discussion rate of this skill, even Motan, who hadn’t dealt much with monks, was well aware of the specific effects of [Wind·Fire·Lightning]. Plus, when his personality was ’Chaotic Neutral,’ he also possessed a similar skill, [Evasive Shadow Flash], and had been tormented by the Snow Bathing Sword with Sword Shadow Step. Thus, he was quite clear about its advantages and weaknesses.

To counter this move, it’s best to complicate the battle with high mobility, thereby making it difficult for the skill user to flexibly maneuver the clones, creating a situation for one-on-one confrontation with the clones only possessing 35% of the basic attributes, and destroy them with lightning speed.

If it were the previous Motan, without bonus from skills, it would be difficult to increase the opponent’s operational difficulty with high-speed maneuvers. After all, the Monk profession is far more agile than Knights, so the Lightning body where Awakening Dragon exists and the Cloud body with 150% of basic speed can easily stick to Motan, or use the slower-moving Flame body as the center to fight a positional battle.

But for Motan now, the swift figure that had suppressed him until he couldn’t lift his head just now was no longer considered fast. It’s important to note that the dragon wings behind him are not just for show, thus—

With a flap of his wings, Motan, who was originally hovering several meters away from Awakening Dragon, shot out like a cannonball, the [Xiao Ruthless Sword] in his hand wrapped in lightning, piercing straight at the clearly isolated Flame body!

There was no need for skill enhancement; at such speed, even if Motan was holding not [Xiao] but a slightly better quality brick, he could deliver a heavy blow to a clone with only 35% of Awakening Dragon’s basic attributes, which is possibly below the advanced stage.

In the next instant—

Bang!!!

Accompanied by a thunderous roar that made one’s scalp tingle, Motan’s figure, enveloped in dark purple electric light like a demon god, was knocked flying out, even faster than when he was charging in by flapping his wings!

Including Cole and Gu Xiaole, who were indeed paying attention to this match, no one saw what happened in that second.

Even Motan himself, by the time he reacted, had already been knocked flying...

Yet he vaguely remembered what exactly had happened just now!

Firstly, the targeted ’Flame body’ inexplicably transformed into the ’Lightning body’, which was supposed to be several meters away, at the very instant Motan approached, then raised its right hand and precisely grabbed [Xiao], while at the same time using the left fist, containing some explosive power, to pound Motan’s abdomen.

Then, the ’Cloud body’ gliding silently over the ’Lightning body’ turned its body slightly, using an elbow strike faster than the naked eye could detect to push Motan up, and in the following less than half a second, smashed out more than fifteen punches, each imprinted precisely in the center of Motan’s chest.

Finally, the ’Flame body’, initially vanished from Motan’s view, reappeared and swung a punch in the moment it crossed paths with the lightly retreating ’Cloud body’.

A massive punch named [Shape Intent·Flaming], directly zeroed out Motan’s almost fully recovered Health Points after activating [Scale Against].

Yes, directly zeroed out!

The starter ’Lightning body’ perfectly hit the ’Break Defense’ effect on Motan lasting two seconds using [Collapse Strength], and caused about 25% damage; the following [Wind Blasting] from the ’Cloud body’ directly threw Motan into a stunned state, leveraging the ’Break Defense’ effect on him to reduce Motan’s Health Points directly to 38%; and finally, the finishing [Form-Intention Flaming Fist] perfectly triggered a 100% critical hit effect after satisfying a series of hidden requirements, together with the Flame body’s innate ’critical hit damage increase by 10%’ effect, directly killing Motan.

Without even landing, the airborne Motan, after a sequence of details resembling yet not a montage, was turned into white light in a system transmission out of the duel room.

His opponent also waved to the unseen spectators before teleporting out, immediately checking the ’Andersen’ identity no longer used by Motan.

...

One minute later

The Realm of Innocence, Player Public Space, No.V803 Arena

"Xiao Yu sauce~"

After a roundabout return to where he had encountered Motan and Cordova earlier, Gu Xiaole, seeing only the latter standing dazedly, waved and blinked her pretty eyes curiously, "Eh? Where is Silent sauce?"

"Ah, Sister Xiao Le, why did you come back."

Cordova was initially stunned, then shook his head with an unsightly expression, "I haven’t seen that guy. He wasn’t here after I came out, didn’t reply to messages either, afraid he might... be sulking by himself."

[Ahahaha, although Silent sauce doesn’t seem like someone who’d sulk easily, it’s not impossible~]

Agreeing with Cordova in her heart, the girl asked blankly, "Eh? Why would Silent sauce sulk? Did he lose the match?"

"Yeah, he lost."

Cordova’s face was heavy, expression gloomy, "He lost miserably."

"How miserable?"

"Got beaten badly, weapon snatched and ridiculed, then just opened a skill and got instantly killed."

"This... could you explain more, Xiao Yu sauce?"

"Well, actually, it’s—"

Thus, over the next few minutes, Cordova used extremely concise language to explain the content of the last two Chapters to Gu Xiaole, who had watched the match. Given that spectators by default only hear skill sound effects and custom background music without receiving combatant dialogues, much was imagined by Cordova, like—the ’Awakening Dragon even removed his Dagger Claws, declaring Silent sauce unworthy of staining his weapon with blood’.

[Xiao Yu sauce’s imagination sure is rich. If I couldn’t read lips, I’d believe it...]

Joking inwardly, Gu Xiaole spread her small hands and asked, "So Silent sauce just got beaten into sulking?"

"Yeah, yeah."

"Not necessarily, after all, the opponent is that ’Awakening Dragon’..."

"Right, since it’s that Awakening Dragon, there must be plenty of spectators, getting a pounding with many watching would definitely drive anyone to sulking."

"Ahaha~"

"I must get back at him!"

"Eh?"

"I’ll avenge Silent!"

"Huh?"

Chapter 1218: The End