Lanya Heavenly Bridge, First Level.
Xue Xi chose a Controller as her opponent. An alluring woman with a slender, serpentine waist appeared across from her, just like the snake demon from Calabash Brothers. She held a bright blue crescent blade, which spun continuously in her hand.
The woman flicked her forked tongue in and out between her lips, then fixed her eyes on Xue Xi. "A little thing at the ninth level of Stellar Rank? You'd better go train for a few more years before coming back."
Xue Xi ignored her. She had no habit of trading pre-battle trash talk with virtual characters, so she simply flung her newly comprehended ultimate move at the snake demon.
A crystalline vortex of red and blue light illuminated the entire Battle Space. Sensing danger, Snake Woman hurriedly drove the blue crescent blade in her hand through the air, slashing toward Xue Xi's attack.
The instant the crescent blade collided with the vortex, the weapon—which had the hardness of D-grade metal—was squeezed like dough through a pasta machine. It turned into metal noodles and was sucked straight into the Red-Blue Vortex. Moments later, molten iron poured out from its center.
Snake Woman froze. So did Xue Xi. She had thought her fusion vortex would be thrown out and explode, like the fire lotus conjured by some fire-wielding boy. She hadn't expected it to melt her opponent's weapon outright.
Snake Woman was staring, utterly bewildered. What kind of move was this? Was it designed specifically to counter an enemy's weapons? That was certainly novel, but a Controller's methods weren't limited to a single weapon.
The pearl ornaments on her serpentine waist suddenly transformed into long needles and shot toward Xue Xi in a serpentine formation.
Xue Xi remained unhurried. She hadn't finished testing her fusion