Trample Heaven's Court, Shatter Lingxiao

The terrain was randomly selected as hilly.

Bai Xiaowen opened the battle panel and saw the opponent's ID: Trample Heaven's Court, Shatter Lingxiao, whose rank was Silver Tier I.

Although he had developed a certain immunity to all sorts of silly and chuunibyou (delusional) IDs, Bai Xiaowen still laughed rather unkindly. He climbed up a high mound and saw his opponent, named "Trample Heaven's Court, Shatter Lingxiao," in the distance.

A single Insight was sent, and the other party's information was displayed.

[Niu Shaojun (Elite Tier Level 5)]

[Class: Shadow Warrior]

[Attributes: Strength 30, Agility 17, Constitution 22, Spirit 11]

[Skills: Shadow Warrior, Wind-Splitting Slash, Shadowstep, Blade Storm]

[Shadow Warrior] is a class skill; the following three are independent skills.

"Judging by his profession, I initially thought he was an agility-based assassin, but it turns out he's a strength specialist," Bai Xiaowen chatted with the audience under the filming of the Psionic Camera. "This opponent is a bit unusual. Despite being a strength specialist, his skills lean towards assassination, which is problematic in his skill selection."

Assassin-type skills require agility. For example, Shadowstep allows you to jump quickly between different shadows, but the jump distance is limited by agility.

It's quite normal for skills to not match one's attributes. Since Skill Book have a low drop rate, many awakened individuals, once they obtain a skill, will generally learn it reluctantly, unless it's a serious mismatch like a mage encountering Cleave or an assassin encountering Fireball. After all, an empty skill slot is better than nothing.

This is assuming Skill Book are tradable; if Skill Book were also Bind on Pickup, it would be even worse.

On the other side, "Trample Heaven's Court, Shatter Lingxiao" also spotted Bai Xiaowen on the high hill. He did not rush up to fight Bai Xiaowen, but instead raised his hand and a black shadow condensed in front of Bai Xiaowen, transforming into a warrior, and slashed at Bai Xiaowen with a long sword.

This dark figure was clearly the so-called "Shadow Warrior." Its entire body was ethereal, and the power and speed of its slashing sword were relatively weak, only equivalent to a level 4 Standard Class.

According to the skill descriptions that Bai Xiaowen Insight, the Shadow Warrior's attributes are limited by the Shadow Warrior's own attributes, and are only half of the Shadow Warrior's total attributes.

Bai Xiaowen's Combat Specialty were no joke; he easily dodged the attack and muttered to himself in confusion:

"That's strange, why isn't the other side charging at me? This weakened version of the Shadow Warrior can't possibly hurt me."

At this point, the number of comments in the live stream gradually increased:

"Yeah, the warriors are ranged, why aren't they charging in?"

"They probably don't know Xiao Wen's background."

A clever friend quickly pointed out the reason.

"Why aren't they charging in? Don't you have any idea, streamer?"

"Please open your personal panel and check your Virtual Battle Platform ID!"

"Tsk tsk, Big Knife, Many Kills... yet another poor kid deceived by Xiao Wen's ID."

Bai Xiaowen chuckled and said, "Understood, then let's send him on his way."

Bai Xiaowen activated her Intimidation skill.

"Trample Heaven's Court, Shatter Lingxiao" means that the awakened Niu Shaojun's spirit is only 11 points, far lower than Bai Xiaowen's. The fear effect turns into stun, rendering him unable to move. He can only watch helplessly as Bai Xiaowen raises his gun. Bang!

With a flash of light, Niu Shaojun used his crowd control removal skill, breaking the 4-second stun, and then twisted his waist to dodge.

The shot was originally aimed at the center of the forehead, but because the opponent reacted quickly, it ended up hitting the shoulder.

Critical Hit!

250% damage!

Blood splattered, Niu Shaojun's Life Value dropped by more than 70 points, a full third of his life! It's easy to imagine that if that shot had hit his brow, it would have been an instant kill without question.

"Damn it! It was a gunman!" Niu Shaojun felt as if his conscience had been deceived. He roared and quickly twisted his body, switching places with the Shadow Warrior.

This is the enhanced effect of Niu Shaojun's professional skill when he reached level 4: Shadow Swap!

"Facing the wind... one slash!"

Niu Shaojun gripped the longsword with both hands, and a bright flash of light swept across the room.

A powerful Wind-Splitting Slash, dealing heavy damage to the enemy and inflicting bleeding. At LV4, the enhanced effect has a high probability of crippling the enemy!

This move originally required extremely high speed, or high agility. However, Niu Shaojun was now close enough to Bai Xiaowen Bai Xiaowen that he had no room to dodge.

This is a tactic that Niu Shaojun developed through countless battles against ranged and Mage Class on Virtual Battle Platform.

Bai Xiaowen calmly raised his hand and Targeted Airdrop!

A Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier appeared, precisely blocking the path of the slash, and raised his iron shield.

Click.

A gleaming blade flashed across, cleaving the Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier and shieldman in two. The iron shield was left with a smooth, clean cut, a testament to the blade's sharpness.

"Skeleton Soldier? Are they items, or equipment with attached skills...?"

Niu Shaojun's charge came to an abrupt halt. He silently pondered the situation while simultaneously swinging his blade again. The Blade, with 30 points of strength, was not fast, but its power was immense.

Bai Xiaowen lightly touched the ground with her toes, Backward Jump, and landed gracefully on the hill, raising her hand again at the same time.

Targeted Airdrop!

Three Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier surrounded Niu Shaojun in a triangular formation, raising their iron swords in unison.

"Why are there so many Skeleton Soldier?"

Niu Shaojun swung his sword at one of the Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier, but the blow was Block the opponent's iron shield, and he only suffered minor shock damage.

Bai Xiaowen raised his hand and fired shot after shot at a steady pace.

[The opponent should be using Blade Storm around this time...]

The thought had barely crossed Bai Xiaowen's mind when Niu Shaojun let out a long roar, gripped his knife with both hands, and began to spin violently!

Amidst the piercing whistling sound of blades tearing through the air, Niu Shaojun transformed into a spinning mass of swords, engulfing all three surrounding Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier.

Combat skill, Blade Storm! This is Niu Shaojun's trump card; his Divine Might has dropped to a dangerous level.

Bai Xiaowen looked up at the Blade Storm, silently calculating the damage.

The Blade Storm, lasting 7 seconds, had already wiped out all the Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier by the 5th second. Bai Xiaowen tried to shoot, but all he got were "Your attack was Parry".

It seems that Niu Shaojun's Blade Storm is a skill that combines offense and defense, capable of Block physical attacks and making it impossible for bullets to hit him -- perhaps it's an enhanced effect at LV4.

Spell Talisman glowed in Bai Xiaowen's palm, and a beam of blue light shot out—he had chosen the Binding Talisman, wanting to test whether Blade Storm was also immune to control spells.

[They're immune after all...]

Seeing that the Binding Talisman was ineffective, Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly. However, he also noticed the weakness of the Blade Storm skill. When it was used, Niu Shaojun's movement speed decreased by about 30%, and he should be unable to use movement skills.