The Fierce Battle
High-level players, especially those fully equipped with artifacts, often found that Space Artifacts and devices interfered with each other. Whether they could seize the right moment to activate a device depended on their reflexes in combat. They also had to think quickly enough to fend off attacks while choosing the right device. To improve combat efficiency, most players temporarily gave up on using devices if the odds of activating them successfully were low, and switched to artifacts that were harder to disrupt.
So, from the moment the battle began, both sides' spatial devices were practically useless. They also both had artifacts with defensive abilities, making those abilities difficult to activate as well. In close combat, everything came down to artifacts.
The players surrounding Xu Huo worked well together. They kept three fighters engaging him at close range while the other three supported from the side, mostly with ranged attacks. Once their artifacts ran out of uses or their effects wore off, they switched places with the close-combat fighters. This let them change artifacts promptly and avoid wasting time waiting.
Three players ganged up on Xu Huo, leaving him almost no chance to pause and switch artifacts. After seizing an opening to destroy one player's jamming device, he swiftly dragged him into the Mirror World. But that could only delay the others by two or three seconds. The artifacts of the other two players were already bearing down on him!
Bang! Bang! Several layers of World Apart's defensive barriers shattered. Several artifacts that had slipped through the gaps struck the Space Orb's barrier. Weakened by the barrier, their attacks managed only to shove Xu Huo back a little. But at the same time, the two close-combat players immediately brought their weapons down on the barrier. One of their