Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 2820: Chapter 2821: Absolute Defense
Decision made, Xiao Ji called out to the Flame Chasing Furry Dog, flapped its wings, and an eerie blue flame ignited on its body. In the next moment, the eerie blue flame flew towards the Flame Chasing Furry Dog, covering it and forming an eerie blue fire armor.
Feng Yuan was taken aback; he hadn’t expected Xiao Ji to pull off this maneuver. Veronia looked at Feng Yuan with a strange expression and said,
"You wouldn’t be targeting only Xiao Ji, would you?"
"Of course not. When summoning, I suppressed the characteristics of both the Flame Chasing Furry Dog and Xiao Ji together. They only have a chance of winning if they work together. But... I didn’t expect Xiao Ji to do this."
Although he couldn’t understand what Xiao Ji was saying to the Flame Chasing Furry Dog, Feng Yuan guessed that Xiao Ji likely chose to give up the primary offensive position, which was a very difficult choice for Xiao Ji.
How did he figure that out?
In reality, that flame transformation is actually a special Ghost Series ultimate move: Power Relay. This ultimate move can only be used by Spirit Beasts with Ghost Series and Death Series attributes; its effects are simple yet absurd.
Power Relay can bestow most of its own power onto the relay target, and Power Relay can be used in succession.
To put it simply, after the first Spirit Beast uses Power Relay to transfer to the second Spirit Beast, the second Spirit Beast can use Power Relay to transfer its amplified final attribute to a third Spirit Beast.
And so on, as long as the number of relays is sufficient, the Spirit Beast at the end of the relay chain will have exaggerated strength.
Moreover, because this power exists as an additional attachment, its enhancement intensity is only affected by the upper limit of the Power Relay ultimate move. Even a Common Level Spirit Beast can be raised to Sacred Beast Level combat power after multiple Power Relays.
Of course, such absurd enhancement won’t appear here because only Xiao Ji can use Power Relay, and the ultimate move is limited by its own Attribute, not even Agunas can use it.
Nevertheless, with the attribute relayed from Xiao Ji, the ability of the Flame Chasing Furry Dog skyrocketed instantaneously.
Conversely, due to the effect of Power Relay, Xiao Ji’s own ability would decrease by 70%, the good or bad of this decision in the battle is still uncertain.
If Xiao Ji cannot utilize an ultimate move for defense in time, it might become the weak point in the team that the Shadow Leopard breaks through.
Clearly, Xiao Ji is aware of this. Although taking a shortcut, Xiao Ji cannot actively enter Qi Realm Stance, but pseudo-Black Sun defense isn’t impossible.
Combining its wings, Xiao Ji instantly transformed into a black sun hanging high in the sky. Even though the Shadow Leopard has an ultimate move like Void Instant Kill capable of targeting aerial targets, it’s wary to use it recklessly.
Not to mention whether the Flame Chasing Furry Dog may act while it’s high in the sky, Void Instant Kill is not a move with instant use; it has a not too long, nor too short cooldown period.
When Xiao Ji is low in the sky, it can land smoothly. Using Void Instant Kill for a high-altitude target might just make it fall to its death.
This is also why Xiao Ji hangs the Black Sun high in the air for this reason. There’s no other choice; after Power Relay, the attribute drops drastically, but it doesn’t mean it can’t do anything.
Just like Feng Yuan heavily targeted Xiao Ji in this battle for numerous reasons, Xiao Ji truly mastered a bunch of random ultimate moves, many of which have beneficial effects not relying on its own attribute.
This was also why Feng Yuan was surprised before; after using Power Relay, it could only retreat to a purely supportive role, something Feng Yuan hadn’t expected Xiao Ji to choose proactively.
Currently, the situation on the field turned into a two against one with the Flame Chasing Furry Dog’s tail aiming straight at the Shadow Leopard; the Shadow Turtle didn’t pose much of an offensive threat, so it could be ignored as long as it didn’t interfere.
Just as the Flame Chasing Furry Dog was contemplating actions, Xiao Ji’s loud call came. Listening to Xiao Ji’s call, the Flame Chasing Furry Dog shifted its gaze to the Shadow Turtle.
Even though it felt Xiao Ji openly revealed tactics could lead to an opposing counter, this seemed to be an option, since it and Xiao Ji hadn’t achieved enough harmony for understanding through mere glimpses.
Seeing signs of contemplation in both the Shadow Turtle and the Shadow Leopard, the Flame Chasing Furry Dog no longer hesitated, launching a Blazing Flame Spray onto the Shadow Turtle.
As a commonly used Fire Attribute ultimate move, although Blazing Flame Spray’s power isn’t strong, its numerous variations due to its fundamental nature have diversified.
What the Flame Chasing Furry Dog did now was mixing its own Meltdown Characteristic with the effects like exhaustion relayed from Xiao Ji into the flames.
The originally red flames turned into a chaotic hue with eerie, rainbow-like sheen upon incorporating those varied characteristics.
Simultaneously, because of the corrosive effects from characteristics like exhaustion, the range of the flame spray drastically reduced, but due to the proximity of the Flame Chasing Furry Dog to the Shadow Turtle, there wasn’t a dilemma of insufficient range to hit the target.
Of course, after incorporating so much randomness, the penetration ability of the flame spray became extremely terrifying, burning through the hexagonal Crystal Barrier instantly.
Before the flames reached the Shadow Turtle, the Shadow Leopard had already used Void Instant Kill to come behind the Flame Chasing Furry Dog. Since maintaining Blazing Flame Spray, the Flame Chasing Furry Dog’s response capabilities inevitably decreased and were limited.
In the air, the Black Sun flashed a red glow, and a bizarre mark surfaced on the Flame Chasing Furry Dog at the same time as the Shadow Leopard’s sharp ice-fangs struck the Flame Chasing Furry Dog; just as the Flame Chasing Furry Dog prepared to employ its ultimate move for recovery, it unexpectedly found it hadn’t sustained any injury?
"Curse Mark·Conversion?"
Veronia was taken aback; indeed, she hadn’t expected Xiao Ji to use such a risky ultimate move. The Curse Mark·Conversion ultimate move is a type from the curse category, but it’s a double-edged sword and among the few not seen as a curse by Justice Punishment.
The reason is simple, Curse Mark·Conversion swaps damage received between two targets, so damage inflicted upon the Shadow Turtle would land on the Flame Chasing Furry Dog, while damage aimed at the Flame Chasing Furry Dog would transfer to the Shadow Turtle.
Moreover, Curse Mark·Conversion lasts at least a minute, implying extravagant operations are impossible, as within a minute, the opposition will have reacted with counteractions.
As Blazing Flame Spray blended through the hexagonal Crystal Barrier, the Shadow Turtle took further action, solid azure crystals surged from within it, instantly encompassing it.
Extreme Space Barrier, a virtually invincible effect among extreme defense ultimate moves, immobilizes the user while producing a space crystal nearly equivalent to world barrier strength that wrappers up the user.
Even against the now immensely penetrating flames, such defense’s strength remains unaffected.
"It seems to really understand you, doesn’t it?"
With a peculiar expression, Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan; Curse Mark·Conversion, due to mutually beneficial effects, doesn’t constitute a negative state.
Of course, using this move comes with significant risks, such as triggering a lethal blow after being Curse Mark·Conversion-ed where its side effect of reducing health to one can become what the other side absorbs.
This also makes this ultimate move rare due to its indirect risks despite its strong effect; a minor mishap can cause the whole plan to backfire.
Why Xiao Ji dared to play like this, could it have predicted Feng Yuan’s choice for the Shadow Turtle to do this?
"It shouldn’t be an understanding of me; a Defender, especially a specialized Defender, would traditionally use an Absolute Protection to withstand shield-breaking methods." Feng Yuan shook his head and said.
But Absolute Protection, though boasting incredibly impressive defensive capabilities, has inevitable side effects, the inability to manually cancel it.
As a result, the situation evolved such that the Flame Chasing Furry Dog could leverage Curse Mark·Conversion to transfer damage, while the Shadow Turtle was rendered helpless, and the Shadow Leopard was equally powerless to make a move.
Absolute Protection does not discriminate between enemies and allies; even the Shadow Leopard cannot breach Absolute Protection.
Of course, doing so involves gambling; if the Shadow Turtle didn’t use the Absolute Protection type ultimate move, Xiao Ji’s tactic may instead place the Flame Chasing Furry Dog in great danger, but evidently, Xiao Ji won the gamble.
"Such a clever approach wouldn’t work in the grand tournaments." Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan calmly and said, rectifying her expression, to which Feng Yuan shook his head and replied,
"Not necessarily, utilizing Absolute Protection against shield-breaking is a customary tactic for pure Defenders, almost muscle memory now. Though infrequently used in the grand tournaments." Feng Yuan explained.
The reason is simple; pure Defenders are rare nowadays, especially after the emergence of Crystal Domain; everyone’s Beast Tamer is typically multi-functional, rarely solely providing defense, aside from those tailoring team defense.
For others, employing Absolute Protection when facing shield-breaking attacks is unlikely, as other countermeasures exist, even enduring the attack directly.

Comments

Loading...