He looked half-mad and not too bright, but he used his items with impressive skill. After his first attack failed, he quickly put some distance between himself and Xu Huo, launching more than a dozen attacks in just a few breaths. Though only a few of them managed to break through a single layer of petals, the Cannibal Player was still attacking with remarkable speed. Ordinary Defense Artifacts would have struggled to withstand his assault.
But there was a problem. Even after all those attacks, the Defense Artifact Flower Bloom remained unbroken, with four overlapping petals left in the layer the Cannibal Player had focused on.
Many good Defense Artifacts had time limits. The greater their defensive strength, the stricter those limits tended to be. An item this powerful that wouldn't disappear after a short time could be called perfect—at least for C-class players.
A-class items would certainly overwhelm C-class players, but against B-class or A-class players, Flower Bloom wouldn't be nearly enough. It was the sort of thing that could only make lower-level players envious.
The Cannibal Player, envious that he couldn't even break through a single Defense Artifact, stopped rolling his eyes. His figure immediately turned hazy, as if he were about to vanish on the spot.
Xu Huo didn't let him escape. He used a spatial barrier to force him back, while sending out Snow Dagger, which was made of overlapping sheets of paper. The instant the dagger left his hand, the sheets separated automatically, splitting into hundreds of thin blades that began sweeping indiscriminately across the corridor.
Neither the Cannibal Player nor Zhou Donghe, who were caught in the attack, managed to escape. They activated Defense Artifacts and ran for the corridor exit, but this B-class item had an attack range of fifty meters. Unless they