Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Two Rituals of Ice and FireThis situation made the young man brought by Tang Xichen feel displeased, adding a touch of hostility in his gaze towards Rosen. Sear?h the Novёl?ire.n(e)t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    At this moment, Rosen was facing away from him, so he didn’t see his gloomy expression, in fact, he had unconsciously ignored the young man just now.

    Rosen replied to Tang Xuanze, "I feel that this ability you mentioned isn’t the right time to be exposed yet, I will see the situation, if necessary, I will reveal it, but I think the Lord Dominance Competition mainly focuses on the contest between armies, testing the ability to deploy troops strategically."

    Anyone who has read the rules knows that in the Lord Dominance Competition, Lords will be teleported to a specific space for almost a month-long territory contest, where their powers will be suppressed to the level of the weakest participant, and all items are prohibited, maximizing the fairness and neutrality of the competition.

    "Since you are participating in a team competition, you will inevitably encounter situations where attributes counteract each other, I am curious if you have the absolute determination to win?" Tang Xuanze continued with another question.

    After pondering for a moment, Rosen nodded, in desperate situations, transformation ability has to be used, even if the strength is exposed, others would only know the person with the transformation ability is called Xiaozhang, having nothing to do with Rosen.

    At this time, Tang Xichen seemed to remember something and said, "I almost forgot to introduce, this friend of mine is named Xu Chen, S-grade hero Ultimate Dragon Knight."

    Only then did Rosen and Tang Xuanze look at the low-key presence man, Rosen just saw him glance at himself with jealousy in his eyes, quickly shifting his gaze, gracefully looking at Tang Xichen, thanking him for the introduction.

    This person looks likely to become a competitor, what is the relationship between Tang Xichen and him, are they just ordinary friends?

    Rosen inevitably had some hidden concerns in his heart.

    Although knowing that Tang Xichen and he couldn’t have any particularly strong relationship, the thought that the other might become his replacement was unsettling.

    "Ultimate Dragon Knight, is it that powerful card from ’Yu-Gi-Oh’?" Rosen asked while touching his nose.

    Hearing Rosen’s question, Xu Chen raised his head proudly saying, "Exactly, this is a very rare card even among S-grade heroes!"

    Yet Rosen was unconcerned because having seen the Dark Great Mage, he surely wouldn’t care about some insignificant Ultimate Dragon Knight.

    "So it’s the one punched to pieces by the Giant Divine Soldier." Rosen grinned as he spoke.

    Xu Chen’s expression turned cold suddenly, and he snorted lightly, "Even if you are ignorant you should read more, it was the Blue-Eyes White Dragon that was punched by the Giant Divine Soldier!"

    "Did I remember wrong?" Rosen touched his nose again, and then saw Xu Chen’s mouth twitch.

    "Okay, let’s all enter the training room, simulate a chaotic battle scenario." Tang Xuanze said with a faint smile to everyone.

    The Tang Family’s training room also had the setting to fit the rules of the Lord Dominance Competition, capable of suppressing the Lord’s strength to the level of the weakest participant.

    Upon entering the training room, Tang Xuanze immediately said, "I will also participate in the upcoming competition, and I will choose the harshest map as the competition location, adapting to the harsh environment is one of the assessments."

    After speaking, he led the group through a passage opened by equipment in the training room, entering a scorching volcanic region.

    The ground around was covered in lava, contact would cause a burning effect, continuously depleting life points.

    As soon as the group appeared, they transformed into their hero forms to resist this harsh environment.

    Rosen transformed into a male version of Mavi, so his Goddess of Vengeance could be displayed without suspicion.

    The Goddess of Vengeance originated from Rosen’s equipment "Mavi’s Cloak," since only items were prohibited from being brought into the competition, equipment could evidently still be functional.

    This would be Rosen’s greatest advantage in the early stages.

    "Oh? Goddess of Vengeance? It seems you have obtained quite a good piece of equipment." Tang Xuanze looked at Rosen with a smile and nodded.

    Rosen also nodded in return, then looked towards the volcanic region, seeing beyond it was an extremely cold land, with a distinct red-white dividing line, this place was undoubtedly a place of ice and fire.

    Rosen remembered he had researched the map of the Lord Dominance Competition, this was public information, one of the maps mentioned was extremely harsh, named "Yin-Yang of Ice and Fire."

    Staying on this Yin-Yang of Ice and Fire map felt like being thrown into Laojun’s Eight Trigrams Furnace for alchemy, unbearably torturous.

    Before long, Rosen felt his skin would be scorched and his body was severely dehydrated.

    "You must have learned about this map, but I still need to explain, the Yin-Yang of Ice and Fire consists of two extreme regions of ice and fire, where we are in the flame region, possesses continuous burning effects, heroes and armies here will lose one life point per minute, initially the Volcano Race inhabits this region as enemy forces."

    "The farther snowy region has slow effects, slowing down the army’s movement by a third, and is the territory of the Icefield Race."

    "Whichever region you choose to camp and establish your territory, you must endure the pain from the environmental background, now, start choosing your site for camping."

    After Tang Xuanze finished speaking, he went towards the distant icy region.

    Apparently, if there’s no healing unit under command, choosing the icy region is certainly more prudent, even if frozen effects are applied, speed will slow down.

    This is still much better than continuously losing health.

    Rosen checked his personal attributes.

    Goodness, the health is not even three thousand?

    Evidently, it was suppressed to the weakest attribute among the four, in this situation, the weakest condition was completely exposed.

    And where did that Xu Chen get the courage to remain so proud?

    Only three thousand health points, too weak!

    Of course, this might be considered the base level for an average S-grade hero.

    Xu Chen was also checking his attribute panel, seeing no change at all, his face turned somewhat pale.

    He secretly glanced at Rosen, somewhat unable to believe that Rosen was actually stronger than him?

    "What are you looking at, can’t admit that among us four, you are the weakest?" Rosen said unceremoniously.

    This made Tang Xichen chuckle, revealing a beautiful smile not seen before.

    Xu Chen’s face turned even paler in an instant.

    "I’m going to see my uncle." He suddenly felt the shame of wanting to find a mouse hole to crawl into, following Tang Xuanze’s departing figure.

    In his heart he was thinking, "Letting Xichen be with you for now, it’s a chance to build a relationship with my uncle, you really think a major family’s marriage is for Xichen to decide?"

    He was Tang Xichen’s admirer, just never showed it.

    And this time, conveniently becoming an alternate competitor, having such a good chance to get close to Tang Xuanze, Xu Chen certainly wouldn’t miss it.

    Rosen glanced at Xu Chen’s back, then turned back with some confusion and asked Tang Xichen: "Is this Xu Chen really your friend?"

    "Doesn’t it look like?" Tang Xichen countered with a question.

    "I only know that you’ve never had male friends." Rosen said.

    This sentence had implications, but Tang Xichen seemed not to understand.

    "Father wants me to win over strong individuals for the Tang Family, that Xu Chen awakened as an S-grade hero, not bad, making him an alternate is the Tang Family’s way of respecting him." Tang Xichen said softly.

    Rosen then understood, it turned out the other party was similar to himself, chosen by Tang Xuanze for their hero template.

    As for cultivating a future son-in-law, that was nonsense, the Tang Family only valued the hero template.