In Yuumi's eyes, Mo Yi seemed able to see behind him. He spun around and cleanly sliced through the Slacking Missile with a horizontal slash. To Yuumi's utter confusion, the Slacking Missile simply dissolved into particles of magic power.
Yuumi: Hm?
Even if it had been cut apart, it should have exploded violently!
Mo Yi turned back, looked at the scheming little cat, and smiled.
"Don't rush. The night is still long, and we have plenty of time to play."
The Ignorant Cannot Escape Calamity
Just as Mo Yi had said, the night was still long, and he and Yuumi had plenty of time to play.
It was just unclear whether Mo Yi was playing with the cat, or being played by the cat.
In terms of versatility, Mo Yi, who could switch between different Character Cards at any time, definitely crushed Yuumi, who only knew Snow Cat's Meow and kept using the same move, Slacking Missile.
But having many skills did not necessarily mean being powerful. After all, magic power was limited, which naturally limited the number of skills he could use. Besides, abilities obtained from Character Cards were not truly his own. Using them inevitably lacked soul.
Heroes like Yuumi might have a single ability, but they had tempered that ability to its absolute limit. Their path was not necessarily inferior to developing a wide range of abilities.
Besides, when playing Honor of Kings, attacks and targeted skills could hit enemies with one hundred percent accuracy. That was naturally impossible in reality. Otherwise, combat would turn into a turn-based game, where whoever could cast skills faster and more often would win.
Thus, the battle between Mo Yi and Yuumi became Mo Yi chasing Yuumi around with his Rune Sword, slashing at her in every direction. Agile as she was, Yuumi also possessed an ability called Vigorous Energy. It was like she was playing Temple Run, except this time Yuumi was the one fleeing, while Mo Yi played the little monster chasing her down.
As the saying went, a defense maintained for too long would eventually fail. Yuumi, who kept running around and playing with Mo Yi, naturally had moments when she could not dodge. But that was fine, because Yuumi was not alone. She had her Book of Thresholds, which had always accompanied her.
The Book of Thresholds' strongest ability was traversing space. So whenever Mo Yi was just about to slash Yuumi, she and the book would instantly vanish, only to reappear several seconds away.
Whenever Yuumi felt Mo Yi was a little too far away and she could afford to show off, she would stop and taunt him with cute words, such as:
"You're already done so soon? Nora, Yuumi's master and a powerful Witch, said girls don't like boys like that."
"Tired? How about drinking a few more cups of hot water?"
"Don't stop, meow—"
After taunting him, she would fire several Slacking Missiles that could turn corners and home in automatically, sending them flying at Mo Yi.
Anyone else might have exploded on the spot from anger at this cute little cat, who fought so cowardly and had such a venomous tongue. But after ten years of being abused, along with the daily sabotage and griefing from teammates in Honor of Kings, Mo Yi had long grasped the principles of Immovable as a Mountain and Maintain Calm in Major Events. Compared to the frustration of being rubbed into the ground, or getting bitten to death by a Shiba Inu lurking in the bushes the moment he left the high ground, Yuumi was still far too naive.
I, Mo Yi, am the kind of adult who can keep a gentle smile and reason with someone no matter how angry I am inside, all while cursing them with MMP in my heart.
A little cat who did not even know what Peppa Pig was actually thought she could make me angry? Too naive!
The pain I had endured was greater than yours! (Shinra Tensei preview)
"Sky-Piercing Slash!"
Mo Yi once again unleashed a powerful Immortal from Beyond the Heavens at Yuumi, who was right before him.
"Meow— it's useless."
With nowhere to dodge, Yuumi stood in place and used Snow Cat's Meow. The Door Grimoire beside her flashed white once more, and cat and book instantly disappeared before Mo Yi's eyes, reappearing three meters behind him.
After another failed attack, Mo Yi stopped at once. He did not want to waste any more stamina chasing this energetic, sharp-tongued cat around and slashing at her.
Of course, he also understood that relying solely on the knowledge and abilities he had learned from heroes could not defeat Yuumi, who was incredibly fast and capable of Spatial Shift. Only by borrowing the power of a Character Card did he stand a chance of catching her.
As for why he had not used a Character Card from the start to empower himself with a hero's strength, one reason was to train his own abilities. After all, becoming strong himself was the proper path. If Little World Game ever disappeared one day, Mo Yi, stripped of his cheat, would still be strong rather than becoming an ordinary loser the moment he lost his golden finger.
The other reason was that once he used a Character Card and empowered himself with a character's abilities, it consumed energy and increased the rate at which his magic power drained away.
Character Card equipment was also divided into two states. One was the hidden state. After equipping it, Mo Yi looked the same as usual, only gaining the hero's strength and abilities. The other was the activated state, whose effect was like a Magical Girl transformation. His appearance and clothing would change dramatically, and the Character Card he equipped could naturally unleash far more power.
According to the law of conservation of mass and energy, if Mo Yi's combat power and output increased, then his consumption naturally increased as well.
In the activated state, at full strength, Mo Yi could probably fight at maximum output for three minutes.
As for Limit Release Mode, it was not a conventional skill. Not only did it have a hundred-day cooldown, it would also shatter the Character Card and render it unusable. It was plainly a desperate, explosive last-resort mode, one he could not possibly use in this kind of training.
The more than hour-long chase and slashing had not been meaningless. Through his observations during that time, Mo Yi had thoroughly grasped Yuumi's fighting style and habitual way of thinking, and found the Character Card best suited to dealing with her.
Mo Yi put his Rune Sword into his inventory and muttered to himself.
"Dream Transformation—Master of Shadows, Zed."
In truth, there was no need to say any lines. He only needed to control Little World Game in his mind and equip the Character Card he wanted to use.
But according to natural laws such as "damage output depends entirely on shouting," "a move without a name cannot possibly be an ultimate," and "calling out your moves in a fight looks cooler and more imposing," Mo Yi naturally came up with a fitting and cool move name.
After dodging Mo Yi's slash, Yuumi had wanted to tease him when she saw him stop. Then she saw his entire body suddenly erupt with dazzling black light like a shadow priest's, and she froze in bewilderment.
After the shadow priest effect dissipated, Mo Yi, clad from head to toe in black ninja armor, emerged from the darkness and said calmly, "Wherever the leaves dance, fire burns. The shadow of the fire shines upon the village and causes new leaves to sprout!"
Master of Shadows, Zed's entrance line should have been "The unseen blade is the deadliest," or "The ignorant cannot escape calamity."
But in Honor of Kings, players who used Zed tended to be at two extremes. They were either Hokage Zed, who outplayed the entire battlefield, or Child Zed, who got slaughtered on every holiday.
To become Hokage Zed, the Will of Fire line was naturally the most suitable for showing off.
Yuumi stared warily at Mo Yi, who had suddenly changed outfits, and said, "Don't think changing clothes means you can scare Yuumi—"
"I'm Wild Magical Cat, meow!"
Mo Yi clenched his fist and estimated the rate at which the magic power inside him was draining. I can maintain this for about a minute. Enough.
"Forbidden Ultimate! Chains of Shadow—"
Time was short, so Mo Yi naturally had no mood to keep chatting with Yuumi. He immediately unleashed the Master of Shadows' ultimate, turning into a mass of black shadow before Yuumi's eyes and instantly rushing to her side.
"It's useless—"
Faced with Mo Yi, who had been attacking with a sword until now but had suddenly switched to such a strange attack, the cautious, cowardly Yuumi immediately activated the Door Grimoire's ability and prepared to use Spatial Shift. As long as she escaped, no matter how powerful his attack was, it would be futile.
"No one can escape their shadow."
After the Spatial Shift, Yuumi suddenly heard Mo Yi's slightly low voice beside her ear.
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