Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2610: Chapter 1234: Deadly Game · Part X – The Path to Survival

The elite Gray Lizard Hunters breached the corridor.

The elite Gray Lizard Hunters charged into the room.

The elite Gray Lizard Hunters taunted Mei Fu.

The elite Gray Lizard Hunters were blasted to smithereens.

It must be said, this scene was indeed somewhat ironic, even somewhat... ridiculous.

At this moment, it’s not only another warrior of the Gray Lizard Hunters armed to the teeth who was puzzled, but even the spellcasters who had personally used various high-level spells to blast that old fellow to pieces were also a little dazed, failing to react in the first instance.

You really can’t blame them, nor even the big brother who was exploded to death earlier.

It’s worth noting that [Gray Lizard Hunters], the most violent organization at Duan Tou Cliff, responsible only to the current leader and composed entirely of pure-blooded Lizardmen is indeed formidable.

Firstly, their common warriors, through some secret ritual, after paying the price of never being able to promote to epic tier, can stabilize their realm at the high-order pinnacle in just a few short years. Among them, the outstanding ones even possess near ’Liyade Lin·Blood Maple·L·Diesel’ level of power, combined with their set of heavy armor offering good physical and magic resistance, they’re absolutely troublesome.

Additionally, they possess mounts like [Toxic-Horned Lizards] which can only be artificially bred, with a growth cycle of three and a half years during training... ahem, possessing endurance, speed, and strength, along with natural magic resistance — truly a case of adding wings to a tiger.

In this team, the officer-level figures are epic tier powerhouses directly assigned; these few people, including the legion commander of the Gray Lizard Hunters, are extremely powerful, capable of instilling fear in the enemy simply by appearing on the battlefield during the Northern Blood Barbarian internal strife.

Originally, these people were not members of the Gray Lizard Hunters, they were parachuted into this unit as cadre after advancing to epic realm, without affecting their tacit understanding with the proud soldiers of the team.

All in all, from any angle, [Gray Lizard Hunters] are outstanding, fortified to an exceptional degree.

It must be emphasized once more, within The Realm of Innocence, epic tier powerhouses are relatively rare, those who can advance to legendary tier are even scarcer still, revered even in large nations like Violet and Griffin, while in mid-sized powers barely respectable like Shaven Empire, having one or two is quite impressive; as for the former, though not sparse, they reside in the upper echelons of the pyramid, so for a force such as ’Duan Tou Cliff’ led by Lizardmen among the ’Northern Blood Barbarians’ having seven or eight epic tiers is already quite good.

Furthermore, unlike legendary rank, unless in large scale, epic powerhouses do not hold significant impact in legion-scaled warfare; even if they can fight tens, twenties or even a hundred foes, as war-level escalates, faced with thousands of low, mid, and high-level warriors, an epic powerhouse cannot affect small-scale battlefield turnarounds.

This explains why during the Violet internal strife neither Marshal Territory nor the Crusading Army featured many epic tier powerhouses prominently.

As for legendary tier powerhouses, they can indeed establish dominance single-handedly but akin to nuclear weapons outside of games, those with clear faction affiliations are mainly for ’deterrence’ and ’balancing’, except even if they want to act, their factions may not dare to employ them.

Allowing these serious individuals capable of massive slaughter and chaos to operate recklessly could result in becoming focal points or even enemies of the people.

Due to this, even the Holy Church Union possessing several legendary tier powerhouses struggles to easily vanquish those ’Blood Barbarians’ entrenched in the north.

The reason we might sense myths are rampant and high-levels are commonplace is primarily because those Motan associates interact with tend to be higher-end, not to mention Motan encountered Xia Lian early under absolute neutrality, along with Ruka Tifilo who has half a foot into myth realm, and even as ’Mor’ he allied early in the game with Sky Pillar Mountain housing numerous legendary figures. (PS: Cordova claims Luwei and other high-ranking inspectors are mostly legendary rank, Azure Dragon Fei Migel is a half-step legend ready to ascend.)

Academy City is the highest-standing neutral city on the Innocent Continent, enabling observance of uncommon occurrences like a college dean advancing to legendary while chatting casually.

Now, returning to the topic—

The reason for the instant downfall of the Gray Lizard Hunter brother, and causing quite a stir is simple; he grossly underestimated the skill levels of the spellcasters in the room. Typically, gladiators influenced by drugs can exert only about 60% of their strength, brandishing high-order pinnacle and equipped excellently, he could enforce ’tier suppression’ against any foe.

Furthermore, in the confined space of the underground control chamber, witnessing the gladiators as spellcasters, the Gray Lizard Hunter warrior was confident he had a stable advantage.