A crisscrossing grid appeared across the arena before them.
The gladiators and servant soldiers in each square became chess pieces of varying sizes.
Every piece possessed different traits, moving along intricate, tangled trajectories.
And Meng Chao knew their traits and trajectories like the back of his hand.
He staggered three steps toward the front left.
The seemingly unconscious movement made him stand out slightly from Ice Storm Squad's skirmish line, exposing himself to the gaze of the particularly ferocious-looking rat servant soldier captain who was missing half a tusk.
Sure enough, this fellow missing half a tusk still remembered that Meng Chao had gotten two of his teammates killed just moments ago.
Two streams of red-hot air mixed with Blood Mist erupted from his nostrils as he charged at Meng Chao without hesitation.
Meng Chao once again assumed the appearance of a wooden chicken.
He neither dodged nor evaded, merely making minute adjustments to his stance and angle according to the positions and speeds of the two Totem Warriors.
He placed the rat servant soldier captain missing half a tusk, himself, and the two Totem Warriors on a single line 1.75 seconds later.
And he left Ye Zi, who would rush in to rescue him in alarm, the most comfortable angle of attack possible.
Bang!
Broken Tooth's nearly half-ton body, carrying ten times the impact force, slammed heavily into Meng Chao.
Yet in the instant before the collision, Meng Chao viciously kicked off the ground and accelerated in the same direction as Broken Tooth.
The relative velocity between them instantly dropped to rock bottom.
The flesh all over Meng Chao's body surged like waves, converting all of the opponent's crushing destructive force into potential energy and storing it within the tendons wrapped around his joints.
Like a cannonball, he smashed