"Come at me!"
Jacob remained unmoved by Jia Xiu's thoroughly provocative words.
Something was definitely up.
During the few days of preparation, he had conducted an in-depth study of Jia Xiu.
Besides his endless supply of bizarre spell modifications, he also had a knack for verbal attacks that often worked remarkably well.
Jia Xiu's taunts were laced with sarcasm, which was in turn steeped in an almost sickly sweetness. Under that kind of verbal interference, opponents could easily lose their temper. Once they did, they would lose their rationality and be unable to calmly assess his outrageous spells.
By that point, they were practically done for.
So Jacob had concluded that when facing Jia Xiu, he shouldn't listen to a word he said. He should just focus on doing his own thing.
He had already planned out a strategy that was theoretically guaranteed to win.
Before the final safe zone began to shrink, he would defend. He would make use of their strength in defensive magic, along with their ample supply of Healing Potions and their teammates' skilled healing spells, and do whatever it took to hold out until the safe zone's radius shrank to less than twenty meters.
That would be the moment that decided the winner.
He had spent almost all his points before the tournament on a single scroll: the Anti-Magic Field Scroll.
It was the most expensive item available for redemption, second only to the Dwarf Repeating Gun.
Once activated, it would prevent all magic from being used within a spherical area with a twenty-meter radius.
Its effect was somewhat weaker than that of an Anti-Magic Field. It only prevented spellcasting inside the area. Spells cast from outside could still hit those within. It couldn't erase incoming spells the way an Anti-Magic Field did.
But as