The Turtle and the Bird

Chapter 728: Turtles and Birds

Boom!

At that moment, the enormous dueling arena beneath everyone's feet—even the entire island—seemed to jolt violently, trembling without end.

A tidal wave erupted, and the blast wind soared upwards as though a bomb had detonated in the arena.

Swept up in the aftershock, fragments shot out like bullets, stopped only by hastily raised barriers. Had they not been pre-arranged, the people in the stands would have been blown away by the terrifying impact.

Now, everyone rose to their feet instinctively and looked towards the arena, dumbfounded.

They could not say a word.

Waste Ruins' full-powered strike—the terrifying mass and explosive force of a Transcendent Rank attack, Kzobel's all-out hammer blow—hung suspended in mid-air.

It had stopped before that raised finger.

It had been... blocked!

An Entropy-Type Chosen One, a squishy mage, had gone head-to-head with Waste Ruins' mechanics through sheer strength—and they had actually come out evenly matched? What kind of absurd dream was this?

Was this even reasonable?!

Even if you'd killed Kzobel in a single exchange by drowning him in spell damage, it wouldn't have been this ridiculous!

"Whoa—"

Within Chun Jun's accelerated perception, Ji Jue, who had witnessed the entire process, couldn't help but applaud in amazement. "You can micro-manage it like that?"

The answer was "mechanics."

A mechanic Ji Jue knew just as well: Blessing Chain · [[Terrifying Thunder]]!

An Entropy-Type Can Opener specially designed to deal with those magic-resistance turtle shells, capable of converting explosive energy into pure physical force—a simple and brutal transformation of spell damage into physical damage.

It looked simple, but once you started using it, its mysteries proved endless and its variations inexhaustible. Chosen Ones who had immersed themselves in it for a long time could even use delicate control to perform partial, incomplete conversions,