An Unreasonable Assessment

As a standard Mechanical type, Caroline knew exactly what her strengths were.

Under her observation, she had already made preliminary deductions about much of the old man's information.

"His energy fluctuations are irregular. Every time he blocks an attack, the white jade at the tip of his cane releases a dark energy field, with some frequencies resembling Star Beast fluctuations."

"Chen Xing's Bloodflame can burn stellar energy, yet it was directly shattered by this energy, indicating that it possesses the trait of 'energy stripping.'"

As Caroline rapidly analyzed the situation, her fingertips slid across the Tactical Tablet's screen.

Every lift of the old man's hand, every exertion of his cane, was broken down by her into precise parameters within an extremely short time, rapidly refreshing across the Tactical Tablet's screen.

"Preliminary estimate: if the connection between him and his cane can be severed, it may limit his strength to a certain extent."

"However, based on Chen Xing's earlier attack, the hardness of his cane's material fully meets the Association's S-rank stellar energy alloy standard. Therefore, the tactical recommendation is to focus on disarming him."

As she spoke, Caroline suddenly enlarged the image on the Tactical Tablet's screen.

The Tactical Tablet's optical zoom magnified every detail on the old man's body without limit.

The image she had frozen and enlarged for observation was the instant when the old man had raised his cane earlier, and the wind had lifted his sleeve.

In the image, a stretch of skin, pale to the point of near transparency, had briefly been exposed. Several ink-black patterns faintly crawled beneath it, winding toward his wrist like vines.

Although Caroline still did not know what these patterns represented, she gave a preliminary judgment.

"The distribution of stellar energy trajectories in the patterns beneath his skin has an