King of Assassins-Chapter 873 - 627: Reward

On the circular arena, Zhong Mountain sized up Gao Xuan.

He said, "Seventh-Grade Thunder and Lightning Electromagnetic Saint Armor, a master from the Holy Hall, looks unfamiliar..."

Actually, the gap among the top one hundred on the leaderboard is not significant. Everyone is at a similar level; it all comes down to who has more patience to rack up points.

The truly powerful are the top ten on the leaderboard, which is a very high threshold. It's absolutely impossible to gradually squeeze into it just by accumulating points.

Only by surpassing other opponents by a whole level in combat power can one get into the top ten.

Zhong Mountain brushed points in cyberspace every day, having interacted with almost all experts of the same level. Even if he hadn't met some, he would have heard of them.

At this level, the circle naturally becomes smaller. Yet, he had never seen Gao Xuan.

Zhong Mountain was a bit curious, wondering where this expert had suddenly come from, already having won nine consecutive victories. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

In order to stop their winning streak, the system matched him up here.

At Zhong Mountain's level, every victory is significant. Moreover, he had already won four consecutive times, and a fifth win would earn him more points.

Let alone not knowing Gao Xuan, even if he did, there would be no reason to let him win.

Gao Xuan clasped his hands towards Zhong Mountain without speaking.

After all, they were just competitive opponents, with no need to get chummy. Being chummy would be meaningless anyway.

Zhong Mountain also clasped his hands in response, "Please."

Zhong Mountain said this and then conjured a heavy shield, a meter-tall, earth-yellow square shield that looked heavy and solid. In his other hand, he held a five-foot-long heavy sword.

Gao Xuan looked at Zhong Mountain's sword and shield setup and felt a headache.

In this interstellar era, people generally preferred long-distance attacks to avoid close combat as much as possible.

Advanced protective battle armor also followed this approach, maximizing speed while providing comprehensive protection and incorporating various functions.

The protective power of the armor is very important but not the most important.

Generally, as long as the armor can resist modern small arms and withstand attacks from experts of the same level, it's sufficient.

Few people, like Zhong Mountain, wear heavy armor and are equipped with a heavy shield. Such a setup is entirely prepared for close combat.

It is functional but not suitable for the broad and complex cosmos environment.

Strictly speaking, this equipment is very useful in the arena. Heavy shield, heavy armor, and heavy sword provide significant advantages in limited terrain for close combat with enemies.

Although Foundation Establishment Level experts are wealthy, they usually cannot afford two sets of equipment.

No matter how fun the arena is, it's ultimately a virtual battlefield in cyberspace. The vast majority still have to consider the real-world situation.

Therefore, seeing Zhong Mountain's setup, Gao Xuan felt it was quite troublesome.

Even revealing the Thunder and Lightning Blade, it would be hard to break through the opponent's heavy armor.

This is the advantage of equipment: the earth-element battle armor is particularly heavy, paired with a heavy shield. Combined with Zhong Mountain's cultivation in earth-element secret techniques, he truly stood like a mountain.

If it were real combat, Gao Xuan would have various means to probe the opponent's weaknesses and kill with one strike.

In the cyberspace arena, even without many spectators, Gao Xuan couldn't reveal his true skills.

Honestly, he was only using about twenty to thirty percent of his skills. His real special techniques were still completely concealed.

Facing such a tough opponent, winning was somewhat troublesome.

Zhong Mountain didn't think much of it. He raised his shield and strode toward Gao Xuan, who retreated at an angle.

After circling like this, Zhong Mountain didn't find an opportunity to strike, and Gao Xuan couldn't easily shake off Zhong Mountain.

The chase between the two seemed quite dull from the scene.

Yet among the audience, there were many experts watching with keen interest.

Zhong Mountain pursued steadily, constantly changing direction and speed to probe Gao Xuan while squeezing his activity space.

On the other hand, Gao Xuan retreated skillfully. Zhong Mountain's multiple attempts could not disrupt Gao Xuan's rhythm.

However, there's no draw in the arena. As the defender of the platform, a tie would count as a loss for Gao Xuan. Moreover, he was at a disadvantage in the situation, very passive. Continuing to evade would also result in a loss.

After all, this is an arena that encourages combat between both parties.

After watching for two minutes, most spectators concluded that Gao Xuan had no chance of winning. The Thunder and Lightning Electromagnetic Saint Armor was impressive, but it was completely restrained by Zhong Mountain's Thick Earth Armor. Neither electromagnetic power nor thunder skills could penetrate the Thick Earth Armor.

After circling for two minutes, Zhong Mountain also became impatient. He suddenly shouted and swung his shield, striking toward Gao Xuan.

Even before the shield reached, the surging source power had already descended like a mountain.

Gao Xuan, protected by the Thunder and Lightning Electromagnetic Armor, still felt the pressure on his whole body. If struck by the opponent's heavy shield, the battle would be over.

In terms of source power, Zhong Mountain indeed surpassed him.

Gao Xuan tried to stab with the Cloud Light Sword Technique, but the opponent's heavy shield shook violently, reducing Gao Xuan's standard longsword into dozens of fragments.

Gao Xuan's hands went numb, forcing him to retreat rapidly before the heavy shield could strike.

Zhong Mountain's right hand had already swung the heavy sword down, and Gao Xuan's Thunder and Lightning Electromagnetic Saint Armor flashed with electric light, his speed surging to the extreme.

The earth-yellow heavy sword swung down, slashing away the series of afterimages left by Gao Xuan. The heavy and strong sword qi descended, leaving a long, deep scar over twenty meters long on the arena.

Such power made the crowd of spectators exclaim in admiration.

Yuan Youyuan's palms were sweating as her heart raced, jumping from her throat to sinking into the pit within seconds, the tension was unbearable.

She wished she could lend her Sixth-Grade Spiritual Artifact to Gao Xuan, but unfortunately, no one could intervene in the battle now. No matter how anxious she was, it was futile.