Wu Meng steadied her breathing. Without wasting a moment on probing attacks, she unleashed her Second Soul Skill, Rift Leap. A faint light burst forth as she teleported twenty meters through space, appearing in Meng Hongchen's blind spot. Her landing position cut off every route of retreat.
Almost simultaneously, she imbued her twin maces with her First Soul Skill, Space-Prism Mace Edge. Layers of fine Spatial Cut blades coated the silver-white weapons, their sharpness tearing through the air as she brought them down hard on Meng Hongchen's back!
A close-range, instant kill in one fluid motion—that was the swift fighting style Wu Meng knew best!
But the blow did not land as she had expected.
Just as the Twin Maces were about to strike, a flawless white barrier enveloped Meng Hongchen. Soft light rippled across it, blocking the violent impact of the spatial blades.
A muffled boom rang out. Tiny ripples of energy burst from the collision, but the barrier did not budge.
Meng Hongchen turned around at her leisure, a sly smile on her fair face. "Shrek isn't the only team that gets to have an Invincible Shield."
As she spoke, a clear, translucent ice-blue sword formed in her palm, radiating bitter cold. Her First Soul Ring flared.
Her strike was clean and fierce. An arc of ice swept down toward Wu Meng's chest!
Wu Meng stayed calm. She crossed her Twin Maces in an instant and caught the slash.
The collision sent a tremor up the maces and through her arms. She was unhurt, yet a strange sluggishness crept over her, and her whole body began to tingle.
There was no time to examine it. She suppressed the discomfort, stepped forward, and attacked again.
Her Twin Maces whirled, layers of spatial power driving a relentless assault that pinned