Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1168 - 1169 Restraint

The verdant energy barrier enveloped Ah Mu’s hands, which after enlarging in size became even larger tree-trunk-like hands. He clenched his fists and smashed down hard at the iron dwarf, who was in the midst of charging energy. Shadows instantly covered the round-shaped iron dwarf.

The energy gathering at the muzzle of the iron dwarf’s firearm gradually dissipated, and a beautiful light streaked through the air as a fiery red glow traced the path of the swinging muzzle, the fading light and shadow left by the dispersing fire energy at the gun’s mouth. The iron dwarf had no fire-element attribute; its ability to wield attacks of other attributes was solely due to the firearm in its hands.

This was a feature of the iron dwarves: the gun they wielded could use any kind of prepared bullet to launch attacks of varying attributes. Now forced to dodge Ah Mu’s crushing punch, the dwarf wasted its bullet that had yet to take effect. Activated bullets are consumed whether they are fired or not—this is unavoidable.

Of course, standing its ground to exchange blows was an option, but both the iron dwarf and the boy were clear that if Ah Mu, having enlarged himself, deployed such an attack, the force of the strike would be considerable. The iron dwarf’s evolutionary path endowed it with ferocious firepower, and though it possessed robust defense capabilities after ascending to the Legendary Level, its stamina remained limited.

As a Wood Spirit Beast and a Giant Tree Demon, Ah Mu boasted high standards in both defensive capability and stamina, and if these attributes were converted into attack power, even with confidence in his own iron dwarf, the boy wouldn’t dare to gamble.

Qi Chen wasn’t at all surprised to see the iron dwarf evade Ah Mu’s attack, because he was well aware that Ah Mu’s greatest shortcoming was speed. But what of it? With Feng Yuan’s assistance, Ah Mu’s attacks were mostly area-of-effect; although lacking in breach power, they were completely sufficient for most situations.

Before the iron dwarf could prepare to attack, at the very instant Ah Mu’s fist came down, a row of sharp rocks burst forth from the ground.

"Is this... a combined attack? That verdant energy barrier just now doesn’t seem to be an ordinary defensive ultimate move, and it’s unclear what exactly it is."

Witnessing this scene, the teachers from Shangjing Academy were somewhat surprised. The subsequent eruption of the rock spikes didn’t astonish them—it was a simple chaining of ultimate moves—but the initial verdant barrier enveloping Ah Mu’s hands was not so ordinary. With their insight, it was obvious that without the verdant barrier, Ah Mu’s pound would not have created a crater.

"Wrath of the Forest? It can even transform like this?"

Feng Yuan, who was watching Qi Chen’s match from behind the entrance, spoke with some astonishment. Wrath of the Forest was also a special ultimate move taught by Drudgeon, but it was a maneuver with a high difficulty in mastery. Aside from Qi Chen, he hadn’t seen any of his classmates successfully use it yet.

The original form of Wrath of the Forest involved summoning a verdant energy sphere to smash into the enemy. If it missed and hit the ground instead, small rocks would burst from the ground around the enemy and explode, using the blasts to attack the enemy.

Now this ultimate move had been altered by Ah Mu, who did not summon the verdant energy sphere but attached that energy to his hands, enhancing the punch’s power with a fighting-move-like force. The explosion was foregone in favor of launching rings of sharp rocks. It was difficult for Feng Yuan to say whether such a change was good or bad, but he was indeed surprised by this ability.

"Combat talent is unexpectedly strong."

Veronia looked at Qi Chen and spoke with an indistinct expression. Although she was also aware that Feng Yuan had fed various potions to Qi Chen’s Ah Mu, he hadn’t gone to the extent of using any exceedingly rare potions, merely utilizing collected ingredients to brew them. Therefore, even if some enhancement was achieved, it was not excessively exaggerated.

For Ah Mu to possess its current strength, its innate talents must also be quite high. Moreover, she did not believe Ah Mu could come up with so many variations. However, it made sense—Qi Chen did possess combat intuition, a talent that greatly impacted his fighting ability.

"Too careless!"

The boy suddenly said in a cold voice as he pulled the trigger of his fire gun. A dazzling red light flickered at the muzzle. While Ah Mu’s attention was completely on the iron dwarf, the boy had prepared his attack, believing that his iron dwarf wouldn’t be trounced by such an assault.

The red beam shot towards Ah Mu, and if this Good Level fire-element ultimate move, the Scorching Ray, were to hit, even with Ah Mu’s high defense, it would still suffer significant damage.

However, a rock barrier emerged from the distortion in space, and the stone engraved with mystic patterns remained unchanged under the heated rays. The boy’s complexion shifted, and before he could react, as the scorching ray disappeared, the rock barrier instantly crumbled into several Seistal Steles.

"This ultimate move?!"

Except for Feng Yuan and his group, everyone present was shocked. None of them had expected Ah Mu to manipulate the Seistal Steles in so many ways. As for why the scorching ray couldn’t break through the aggregated Seistal Steles or cause any damage, the explanation is quite simple. After the Seistal Steles are combined, their ability to resist non-Wood powers steadily increases—especially since Ah Mu adjusted the range of those few Seistal Steles.

What was originally an area effect resistance was concentrated on the surface of the steles. Thus, aside from Wood-element ultimate moves, it would possibly take a powerhouse two levels above Ah Mu, meaning Rare Level or higher, to break through that collective rock barrier with a non-Wood ultimate move. Of course, mere physical impacts don’t count; the barrier only has outstanding defensive capabilities against energy, which naturally means its physical resistance has hardly changed.

Emerald arrows shot out of the longbow, and with a wave of the boy’s hand, two mechanical knights wielding heavy swords materialized out of thin air. The knights constantly slashed the falling emerald energy arrows, scattering luminous green particles in the air above the boy.

However, the energy of the Iron Dwarf had its limits, and seeing the opponent do this, many of the teachers frowned slightly. Even among Feng Yuan’s classmates, numerous gazes at the boy seemed oddly amused.

Qi Chen’s Arrow Rain wasn’t just a singular attack on the boy. Since the Iron Dwarf had to maintain the two mechanical knights, it could only hold up its arms in a defensive stance. A bright golden glow flashed across its forearms, causing the emerald arrows that landed on them to shatter instantly without causing any harm.

At that moment, the boy seemed to say something, and the Iron Dwarf suddenly gave up its defense and charged towards Ah Mu. Just as everyone was wondering what was happening, Ah Mu controlled the Seistal Steles to fly towards the Iron Dwarf. Explosions occurred beside the dwarf, one after another, forcing it to abandon the ultimate move it was preparing.

Blades erupted from the ground, poking incessantly at the Seistal Steles. Witnessing this, Feng Yuan said with some surprise,

"This looks like the setup for Blade Storm? How come that Iron Dwarf is all about charging up for ultimate moves?"

He had noticed earlier that the opponent’s response to Ah Mu’s attacks was somewhat off, as if being constantly pressed down. However, the situation was peculiar. Even Xiao Ji, without his direction, would counterattack using moves like Flame Storm when suppressed by the Seistal Steles, instead of passively defending and counterattacking like it was doing.

But if that Iron Dwarf was all about charging ultimate moves, it made sense. Those charging moves are powerful but have an obvious flaw—they require time to charge. And in a one-on-one fight, who would give you the time to charge up? They’re typically interrupted.

"There are Beast Tamers specifically for protection, and the evolutionary form of the Iron Dwarf itself represents a type of high firepower. If aiming for ultimate firepower, this approach isn’t strange; after all, they prefer ’specialization’."

By the side, Dou Yanlan explained, to which Feng Yuan reacted with a moment of stunned acknowledge before replying,

"I see, so they use a specialized Beast Tamer for protection to buy time, then unleash a high-powered ultimate move to decide the battle? But have they not considered what would happen if they encountered a swift Spirit Beast?"

Ah Mu was only special in terms of ultimate moves. If it were someone like Cotton, it would not be easy to breach the defense. After all, the offensive capabilities of swift Spirit Beasts aren’t that impressive, and even if the Iron Dwarf isn’t at Legendary Level, its defensive capabilities aren’t bad either. Without unleashing extreme damage, it’s doubtful it would affect it much.

"So, Ah Mu unexpectedly has the advantage against it?"

Feng Yuan said with a mischievous smile as he watched the two Spirit Beasts on the field.