The Captain Just Wants to Go Home and Play Games

Midou Ban could naturally continue his attack. As long as the number of hits was sufficient, he could break through the nut wall, but there was no need. Doing so would only give Mo Yi, hiding behind the nut wall, more time to dodge and react.

Failing to land a hit, Midou Ban erupted with extreme speed and circled around to the other side of the nut wall. As expected, nut walls hadn't grown in other directions yet, as cultivating plants also required time and energy.

"Checkmate," Midou Ban said with a smile. He lunged his right hand towards Mo Yi's face, preparing to take down Mo Yi, a common plant-type Awakened, with a single blow.

Under normal circumstances, cultivators specialize in one ability. Awakened individuals, especially those who have awakened special abilities, often focus on developing their awakened abilities. For an Awakened like Mo Yi, who manipulates plant abilities, he would surely focus on developing his potential around plants.

In other words, like a summoner, Mo Yi's close-combat abilities shouldn't be very strong.

"I think I can still do a bit mor—"

Mo Yi, who had already switched his Character Card ability to Dark Sovereign Syndra, smiled and opened his right hand towards Midou Ban. A powerful, invisible psychic force erupted from Mo Yi.

"Begone, weaklings (Almighty Push)!"

Dark Sovereign Syndra was a powerful mage who specialized in using dark magic to manipulate energy and matter. To conquer this character, Mo Yi had spent countless days and nights years ago. Fortunately, his dreams at night didn't affect his daily life; in fact, they provided even better rest than normal sleep. Otherwise, Mo Yi might have given up long ago.

The deepest impression the opponent left on Mo Yi, besides her powerful dark magic, was her image as a mature woman with white hair, red eyes, and legs that could drive one wild. Mo Yi's soul's weakness, 'Chinese people can't resist the special attack of white-haired girls,' was healed under her torment.

Midou Ban's right hand was still two or three centimeters away from grabbing Mo Yi's face for a "face grab" move. Plant growth takes time, and this amount of time was enough for Midou Ban to grab Mo Yi's face. He naturally felt as secure as an old dog, confident he would soon win big and eat chicken tonight.

Who could have imagined that Mo Yi would suddenly switch to a combat style completely different from his plant-based abilities? An invisible psychic force wall blocked him several meters away from Mo Yi.

"Ahhh—"

When two armies clash, the brave one wins!

Caught off guard by Mo Yi's psychic force wall, Midou Ban could only continue to exert force, seeing whether his "Snake Bite" was stronger or if the opponent's psychic power would give out first.

"Bang—"

Unfortunately, Mo Yi's psychic power was compressing Midou Ban's body from all directions. With his entire body as the surface area of force application, he couldn't hold on and was repelled by the psychic force, crashing heavily onto the ground.

"Psychic Force—"

Manipulate abilities to grab energy or matter, then hurl it at the enemy.

Dark Sovereign Syndra's most exquisite ability was naturally her signature dark magic skill – the dark orb. An energy sphere formed by pure and dangerous dark energy. All her abilities were used based on the "dark orb" to achieve their maximum effect.

At this moment, the skill Mo Yi used, "Psychic Force," could naturally create a dark orb and hurl it at Midou Ban. If a physical body were hit by such high-density dark energy, it would either be blown to pieces or burned away by the dark energy.

However, Mo Yi had no intention of truly harming Midou Ban. His previous actions showed he was a cultivator from the Order faction. Mo Yi, who considered himself to be from the Order faction as well, couldn't possibly kill a potential teammate for no reason. Moreover, if he actually killed him, he would make an enemy of the Cultivator Association, and people would have no choice but to deal with Mo Yi seriously.

Therefore, Mo Yi's "Psychic Force" at this moment simply transformed the psychic power into an invisible hammer and smashed it down on Midou Ban, who had just landed.

"No, when did this happen?"

Just as Mo Yi was about to observe the situation and continue his attack, he felt something amiss and immediately activated the "Resolve" rune within his body, which resisted negative status effects.

"Bang—"

The scene before his eyes instantly shattered like a mirror. However, the scene before him was no different from before; his psychic hammer was hitting exactly where Midou Ban had landed.

"Still not right—"

Mo Yi still felt something was wrong.

"A dream within a dream?"

During battle, even a second of distraction could lead to defeat. Mo Yi didn't care whether he was being overly suspicious or if he was still trapped in the opponent's illusion. He activated another powerful skill of the Summoner from Honor of Kings on himself – Cleanse!

Cleanse instantly removed all negative buffs from his body and temporarily strengthened his resistance to negative effects.

P.S.: In Honor of Kings, among so many female heroes, the author feels Syndra's character art is the most beautiful.

Chapter 41: If You Don't Love Me, Don't Take Off My Mask

In reality

Midou Ban, who had initially thought Mo Yi was just a fragile mage specializing in plant manipulation, couldn't have imagined that his common sense would deceive him. Mo Yi wasn't an ordinary player but a legendary "card insertion" (cheat) player. If he didn't switch abilities several times in a battle, he wouldn't even feel worthy of being called a passing Kamen Rider.

His rash close-quarters attack had instead given Mo Yi an opportunity, allowing him to send the opponent flying with a psychic force wall.

Midou Ban, after all, was an A-rank cultivator, a pillar of the cultivator community. Apart from the legendary S-rank cultivators who could single-handedly turn the tide of a war and fight against S-rank Honkai Beasts, he was already an extremely formidable figure.

In an era where Honkai Beasts frequently appeared, it was the few A-rank cultivators who guarded every city.

As for S-rank cultivators, they were more like a rapid response team, heading to where major disasters occurred to fight.

Of course, there were also many neutral-faction S-rank cultivators with distinct personalities who did as they pleased. Powerful cultivators from the chaotic faction naturally wouldn't join the Cultivator Association.

As Midou Ban was in a psychic confrontation with Mo Yi, his eyes, which harbored an ominous power, locked onto Mo Yi's gaze. The "Evil Eye" was activated, plunging Mo Yi into a minute of illusion.

The Evil Eye was Midou Ban's renowned ultimate technique, capable of trapping anyone who made eye contact with him in an illusion for one minute. It could be used on multiple people or animals simultaneously, but only three times a day, and not on the same person. Once the usage limit was exceeded, the user would completely disappear, including any trace of their existence in this world. It was a "non-existent eye" that could change fate.

Although he was still sent flying by Mo Yi's "Begone, weaklings," Mo Yi's subsequent "Psychic Force" didn't land. Mo Yi had merely fallen into the illusion created by the opponent, believing he had landed a combo.

"Ginji—"

As Midou Ban's companion, hearing him call out, Amano Ginji knew what he meant.

Taking advantage of Mo Yi being trapped in the Evil Eye's illusion, Amano Ginji, whose ability was to control abilities, would inject electricity into Mo Yi's body, disrupting his nerves so that even if he woke up from the illusion, he wouldn't be able to resist.

Midou Ban used his ultimate skill "Evil Eye," which ignored resistance and distance, for hard control, and Amano Ginji would follow up with "Thunderbolt" to finish the job. They had used this combo countless times, and when fighting two-on-one, it was basically a sure hit.

"Leave it to me—"

A minute might seem like a long time, but if you dawdle, getting killed in return is a welcome sight.

Amano Ginji quickly walked over to Mo Yi, who was standing still, and placed his crackling, electric hand on Mo Yi, zapping him precisely.

"Done."

"I've had it with this mask for a long time."

Midou Ban emerged from the crater he'd created, dusting off his shirt and muttering with clear annoyance, "Let's see if there's an ugly face under that mask that you're too afraid to show."

"Huh?"

Midou Ban grabbed the mask and tried to pull it off, but it wouldn't budge. It was as if the mask had grown there.

"Interesting..."