Yae Miko vs. Kamisato Ayaka: A Contest of Character Strength

Qian Renxue's attention was still on Hu Liena.

Or rather, most people's eyes were fixed on Hu Liena at the moment.

After all, this was the first time Hu Liena had displayed Yae Miko's abilities in front of everyone.

A god's familiar and the first genuine five-star at C1.

Those two labels had allowed Yae Miko to surpass Kamisato Ayaka and become the most popular character among the genuine five-stars who had appeared so far.

Everyone was curious about the effects of Yae Miko's skills.

And as it happened, Yae Miko was currently facing Kamisato Ayaka.

It was a contest between the most popular genuine five-star and the second most popular.

Every time Hu Liena flashed away, a purple Sesshou Sakura appeared where she had been standing.

There were three Sesshou Sakura in total now, and each one took turns summoning a fierce bolt of purple lightning from the sky to strike She Long!

This was a continuous attack, and each time, She Long could only use Kamisato Ayaka's Ice Sprint to dodge.

But if lightning happened to strike him while he was using Ice Sprint, the terrifying purple lightning would even spread outward, creating an area filled with lightning!

And at those moments, She Long also felt intensely weakened, and the pain grew worse.

He couldn't help shouting, "What's going on? Why is her damage getting stronger and stronger?!"

"That's a Superconduct Reaction! An Elemental Reaction between Cryo and Electro!"

Just then, a Spirit City resident held up the Elemental Reaction chart he had copied and shouted.

His expression was excited, as though the knowledge he had just learned had happened to come in handy.

Everyone stared at him blankly.

The resident proudly puffed out his chest, showing off with the superiority of a top student.

Then another resident said, "Elder She Long, Cryo is applied to you when you use Ice Sprint. If lightning hits you then, it'll trigger a Superconduct Reaction."

She Long looked shocked.

"A single Superconduct Reaction can increase her damage by almost fifty percent?! That's ridiculous!"

Another resident looked at the chart and replied, "It's forty percent. It can lower your physical resistance by forty percent, which is equivalent to increasing the other side's damage by forty percent, I guess."

Good grief...

Yan, Ling Yuan, and Chrysanthemum Douluo looked at the Spirit City residents in astonishment.

Damn it, were they all straight-A students?

The three of them had just gone to study Elemental Reactions too, but when they saw the battle, they couldn't immediately connect it to the principles of Elemental Reactions.

Cryo applied?

She Long frowned, but when he looked at Hu Liena, he saw that a lightning symbol had also appeared above her head.

"Doesn't she have Electro applied too?"

"Your skills haven't hit her, so naturally they haven't triggered a Superconduct Reaction on her."

She Long was beside himself. "Her skills have automatic targeting! Every time I use a skill, she flashes away. What am I supposed to do?"

Shen Luo couldn't help shaking his head with a wry smile.

Because the monsters in the game mostly stood there and let the characters hit them, even if a character's skills didn't have automatic targeting, the monsters would deliver themselves to their doorstep.

He hadn't expected Yae Miko, whose combat mechanics weren't considered promising in the game, to become such a hot commodity in reality instead.

Yan smiled. "Nana, let us see Miko's Elemental Burst."

She Long's eyes widened instantly. "What the fuck are you trying to do? We agreed we were just helping her gain experience, and now you want to take the chance to kill me?"

Hu Liena checked Miko's character level. She was already level three.

She smiled too. "Elder She Long, maybe using an Elemental Burst will get my Miko to level five. Let me reach level five first!"

She Long said seriously, "Then I'm using Kamisato Ayaka's Elemental Burst to counter it!"

"Elder She Long really is determined to come out on top his whole life. Even at a time like this, he hasn't forgotten to compare the strength of the two characters."

Ling Yuan smacked her lips.

She gave Yan a meaningful look. "Get ready to heal those two."

She Long quickly made his move, actually preparing to use his Elemental Burst first.

[Kamisato Ayaka - Elemental Burst - Kamisato Art: Soumetsu]

The white-haired girl opened her folding fan, a smile in her beautiful eyes as wind and snow filled the scene behind her. With a sweep of her fan, a terrifying tornado of wind and snow immediately swept forward.

Hu Liena gave a little humph.

[Yae Miko - Elemental Burst - Great Secret Art: Tenko Kenshin]

In an instant, the entire area around Hu Liena was covered in purple lightning!

The long-legged, pink-haired beauty appeared before everyone's eyes. She struck an alluring pose and revealed an enchanting smile, while a bewitching purple tenko totem appeared behind her.

Qian Renxue stared in a daze and silently took several steps back.

The two five-star characters faced off like two enormous humanoid Martial Souls gazing at each other from afar.

As the tornado of wind and snow reached Hu Liena, dense, surging purple lightning also came crashing down from the sky above She Long.

"Rumble!"

It was already too late for She Long to dodge. At the last moment, he switched to Ningguang and used a skill to trigger Crystallize, putting a shield around himself.

Even so, She Long's shield shattered, and he fell, lying face down on the ground, charred black from head to toe.

It was easy to imagine that Yae Miko's Elemental Burst was powerful enough to blast him to nothing.

Meanwhile, on Hu Liena's side, all she had to do was avoid the area covered by the snow tornado.

She used her Elemental Skill to flash away, but because Electro had been applied to her, she still accidentally triggered a Superconduct Reaction.

Hu Liena likewise fell to the ground, her body twitching, though Yae Miko had already risen to level five.

After Hu Liena fell, Yae Miko's illusory figure even crouched down and patted her on the head.

By contrast, Kamisato Ayaka could only make display expressions and movements.

Was this the character autonomy granted by being a god's familiar and having C1?

Jealous! So jealous!

When Yan went to heal Hu Liena, he silently stole another glance at Miko's long legs.

But Miko immediately flicked him on the forehead.

The tingling sensation only strengthened Yan's resolve to pull C1 for Itto!

However, because of the randomness of the pool, he knew pulling C1 would be harder than ascending to heaven.

This is getting me fired up... Really fired up.

The people waiting to pull turned around at once, their eyes burning as they looked at Shen Luo.

That was especially true of Qian Renxue and Yue Guan.

Qian Renxue looked at Qian Daoliu, only to see him desperately signaling her with his eyes. "Pull, hurry up and pull!"

Grandpa seems even more impatient than I am...

As for Yue Guan, seeing how exciting everyone else's genuine five-star battles were while his Qiqi could only huff and puff as she healed people made him feel terrible.

Guaranteed five-star, here I come!

Yue Guan stepped forward and held out his hand.

"Lord God, I'll pay seven levels of Soul Power. I'm going for the guaranteed five-star!"

Shen Luo nodded.

This time, he took an extra look at Yue Guan, because Yue Guan's guaranteed five-star was Nahida, the Dendro Archon.

Was the first genuine five-star god about to appear?

P.S. There's another chapter coming before one in the morning.