Qu Jianlei's team had been ambushed, but most of them reacted remarkably quickly.
They were all battle-hardened Awakened Ones. Setting Supremes aside, Hua Xiezhi, Bentley, and the others—who among them had not fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood? After Paranoid killed the Metal Attribute Supreme, his fight against the nearby Wood Attribute Supreme was equally ferocious.
For Awakened Ones, using abilities in battle had always seemed like an inevitable choice, but that was not actually the case.
Even those who failed the Awakening process became strong, sturdy Modified Warriors. Most Awakened Ones possessed excellent physical constitutions.
After Paranoid activated Metal Attribute convergence, even large-caliber autocannons could not break through his defenses. That showed just how tough his body was.
However, there was one problem: killing an opponent in close combat placed extremely high demands on one's movement technique.
At long range, one could use fine control to manipulate abilities. But in close combat... at the Supreme level, no one's movement technique would be particularly poor.
As long as an opponent intended to flee, the close-combat attacker could only pursue passively.
What did it matter how sharp the attack was? If it could not hit the opponent, it was useless.
After learning Instant Flash, Paranoid had seriously considered how to use it in combat.
It just so happened that he greatly envied the imposing manner in which First One used cold weapons to kill enemies. It felt especially domineering.
More importantly, he did not need a weapon—his own body was the perfect tool for killing enemies.
The Wood Attribute Supreme under attack wore more than one layer of armor. Since they had been able to set up an ambush in advance, they naturally had time to put on armor.
Unfortunately, Paranoid was no ordinary Supreme.