A thunderous roar shook the stone hall. Jian Fangming drove his feet against the floor and charged, red and blue light tracing interwoven arcs.
Zhang Mingzhen keenly noticed that this sect master could wield two different elemental sword forces at once: the crimson blade unleashed a searing torrent of magic, while the azure blade sent sharp energy slicing through the air.
This was nothing like the usual techniques of swordsmen on Earth.
As far as he knew, aside from the new class players considered absurdly overpowered—the Heavenly Strategist—no class could unleash physical and magical attacks simultaneously like this.
Through repeated experiments, players had discovered that when a target took both types of damage at once, the resulting damage would randomly increase and disrupt the target's existing defenses.
Everyone speculated that this was because most people had uneven physical and magical resistances and could not defend against both types of damage at once.
To this day, this remained one of the mysteries in God's Domain that the experts had yet to fully explain.
Against most bosses, certain high-damage swordsmen could perhaps temporarily replace shield guards in the main defensive role.
But against a boss that dealt both types of damage, only a shield guard could serve as the main tank.
Only shield guards could withstand both types of attacks while maintaining a lasting defense.
Jian Fangming's attacks were not only swift and fierce, but also carried powerful crowd-control effects.
Locked in a sustained close-quarters fight, Zhang Mingzhen was knocked to the floor several times in succession.
At this point, he had to admit that having a professional shield guard up front to hold the boss's aggro would have made the fight much easier.
Of course, he felt this was probably a negative effect of the system sealing his talent.
Although it