CHAPTER 189: CHAPTER 151: FALLING MOON

Fire Master increased energy infusion, breaking free from the influence of the Four-sided Age Fire Lamp, and continued to grasp toward Wu Chang.

He is an Energy Specialization Stream player, with the amplification of reincarnation, cultivation techniques, and items, his energy attribute has long surpassed a hundred, which is not something a balance-build like Wu Chang can compare to.

Wu Chang used the Four-sided Age Fire Lamp to absorb the Undying Soul Fire, accumulating a lot of energy in the lamp, but he wasn’t planning to waste it on Fire Master.

He sat motionless on the Golden Throne, just watching as the Soul-Burning Grip rushed forward, then grasped at empty air and fell into the sea. The position determined by the Soul-Burning Grip was where he had initially been standing.

The ability to break free from directional skill lock originated from his Inspiration.

Inspiration and Will, as non-combat attributes, possess unique mechanisms.

Once Inspiration exceeds 100 and reaches the theoretical limit of the Desolate Realm, it touches the barrier of the Desolate Realm, making the flicker of Spiritual Light clear. This can only be considered a bonus for breaking through.

The true improvement that can be considered an ability is Spiritual Pressure.

Inspiration is the human perception and understanding of the world’s essence. Absolute domination in perception and understanding will interfere with others’ recognition of him.

Simply put, when facing targets with a significant difference in Inspiration Value, Spiritual Pressure will cause them to be unable to accurately observe his existence. Since accurate observation is impossible, directional and judgment-based skills used on him have a high chance of failing.

If Spiritual Pressure advances further, it can achieve effects similar to Leman’s true form — unobservable, indescribable, undefinable, ineffable.

Just gazing directly at his existence can lead to a collapse in Inspiration.

Fire Master also noticed the strangeness of Wu Chang True Self, but he did not understand the existence of Spiritual Pressure and wouldn’t believe that the player in front of him could exert it.

He merely assumed that the opponent possessed some special item that allowed them to break free from the constraints of directional skills.

A bit tricky, but it doesn’t stump Fire Master.

When facing these mechanism freaks who possess unique skills, there are only two ways to defeat them: break their mechanism or use sheer numbers to overpower it.

Fire Master chose the latter.

Can’t you dodge?

If I refrain from long-range waves and opt for close combat, releasing wide-range damage skills up close, using pure numerical brute force to crush you, how would you break it, sir?

Fire Master’s temperament is as irritable as the flames he controls. Once he confirms the combat plan, he acts immediately.

He adjusted the flames into a jet state to propel the wooden boat beneath him, driving the small wooden boat through the waves, rushing toward Wu Chang True Self.

Seeing Fire Master’s high enthusiasm, Wu Chang was also happy to engage him in a fight, incidentally testing his true capabilities at the moment.

He didn’t use the spatial abilities of the Golden Throne. Instead, he merely maneuvered it to maintain a not-too-close, not-too-far distance with Fire Master, continuously attacking him with Palm Thunder and Dawn Hammer.

As the fight wore on, he even used the Thousand Thunder Summon, and at the cost of temporarily exceeding his Willpower Limit, he unleashed the Fourth Thunder.

The conclusion was that, in a straightforward fight, he still had a significant gap compared to legitimate high-level players.

Palm Thunder and Age Fire, such conventional attack means, were like scratching an itch for Fire Master. He didn’t even need extra defense; a mere Flame Shield was enough to block them easily.

Dawn Hammer, leveraging expansion mode and pairing with American Iaido, did cause Fire Master some trouble, but it was limited to just that.

Sniping with a cold shot, a fully charged Dawn Hammer could take down an unsuspecting Mikhail I, but against a prepared Fire Master, even a full-charge Charged Shot enhanced by Iaido was no stronger than Lei Hu’s all-out strike.

As the bullet just penetrated the Flame Shield condensed by Fire Master, he formed a second one to fend off the spent-shot Charged Shot.

The only thing that gave Fire Master a slight headache was the Fourth Celestial Thunder, enhanced naturally.

The Fourth Celestial Thunder shattered three of Fire Master’s Flame Shields and forced him to use a small red-hand shield to withstand it, just barely surviving the Thunder.

But while the person survived the Thunder, the boat did not.

The small boat underneath Fire Master was shattered by the aftermath of the Thunder, causing Fire Master to fall into the sea and remain submerged for five or six seconds without surfacing.

Wu Chang even wondered if this guy was a landlubber and drowned just like that.

The battle with Fire Master led Wu Chang to reevaluate his position.

As a player, his abilities compared to players of the same level or those about five levels higher, granted him a significant advantage.

However, if the levels rise further, encountering core players from large organizations like Sword Star, to win would require powerful items. In direct combat, a single misstep could lead to instant defeat.

The scene of Sword Star killing Lulei is still vivid in his memory. In life-and-death struggles, players won’t wait for him to unleash Thousand Thunder Summon step by step.

Above Sword Star, if facing a max-level player like Fire Master, especially from large organizations with deep foundations, using conventional combat methods, he stands no chance of winning.

After all, Fire Master has a hidden profession and a powerful cultivation technique, having risen to Level 30 with countless dungeons cleared, amounting to no fewer than eighty or a hundred.

Though he had used some minor plugins, trying to equate the reward of four or five dungeons with that of seventy or eighty is still somewhat demanding.

It’s worth noting that clearing seventy or eighty dungeons was possible for Fire Master due to his hidden profession, putting him on par with geniuses of the same level as Sword Star.