Chapter: Chapter 482
In an instant, three sword lights bloomed. The shield Leticia held in front of her was covered in cracks after supporting the combined attack of the three sword lights for only a blink of an eye.
Seeing this, Leticia quickly used a spatial jump to leap behind Bai Ling. The moment she left her original position, the sword lights shattered the shield and struck where Leticia had just been standing.
The air was torn apart. If Leticia hadn’t left in time, these three swords would have likely drawn blood.
“Wow, you’re really not holding back at all?” Leticia patted her chest, feeling a bit of lingering fear. The Sword Saint’s attack power was truly outrageous. The shield she had just released was a super shield capable of withstanding several single-target ultimate spells, yet it shattered under the three sword lights.
It was terrifying.
“I really didn’t believe you could dodge this move,” Bai Ling said with a smile as she twirled her sword and turned back to Leticia. “You should show me some of your true abilities too, otherwise, you won’t be able to beat me.”
As the astral energy surged within her, Bai Ling’s face showed a hint of confidence. Even though Leticia was now a god, she was not afraid in the slightest.
Leticia wasn’t the only one who had been improving these days.
“You said it. Don’t blame me for bullying you later.” Leticia tapped her toes, retreating a few more steps. Then, she grasped her golden short staff with both hands and shouted, “Transform!”
*BOOM!*
Black mist enveloped the girl’s petite body.
After a few breaths, the head of a fierce beast emerged from the black mist. Its vertically slit pupils, like molten gold, stared at the small human not far away. It grinned, revealing a contemptuous expression, “I’m super strong now!”
To fully utilize the Dragon God’s authority, Leticia needed to enter her dragon form. Only in this state could she unleash her full power.
Completely different from the terrifying oppressive feeling she had before, Leticia had indeed become much stronger. Bai Ling, being stared at by the dragon’s eyes, felt her hands tremble slightly, but her eyes flashed with an unyielding light.
However, she wouldn’t back down just because of this.
It’s just a dragon, so what?
Her sword had no fear of dragons!
The Star Sword hummed with a clear ring. Facing such an enemy, it did not fear but instead became excited, as if anticipating savoring the blood of a dragon god.
“Come on, let me show you who I am now!”
Starlight enveloped the entire space, and the river of stars in the sky radiated brilliant light. The tiny human charged towards the dragon.
“This is quite something…” Leticia roared at the sky. She dared not be careless in the slightest. In her current perception, Bai Ling had completely transformed into an unstoppable divine sword, and anything in the path of this sword would be cut down and destroyed.
The dragon’s unique elemental breath spewed from its jaws. This attack, capable of flattening a small mountain in one blow, directly hit the charging Sword Saint girl.
But… it had no effect.
The torrent of elements, like water encountering a sharp sword, was split into two halves. It couldn’t even slow Bai Ling’s advance.
Seeing this, Leticia immediately flapped her wings and began to distance herself. Only a fool would try to block an attack she could dodge. Besides, Bai Ling’s attack would surely hurt like hell if it hit her.
It would be better to create distance and kite her slowly.
However, the dragon’s massive body was a bit clumsy to maneuver. Leticia only had time to retreat a few steps before Bai Ling, wrapped in starlight, rushed to her side and swung her sword towards Leticia’s dragon body.
In terms of agility, Bai Ling, who maintained her human form, clearly had an overwhelming advantage over Leticia.
*CLANG!*
The Star Sword collided with the dragon’s claws.
The formidable power of the dragon proved exceptionally effective, and Bai Ling’s charge was forcibly halted. She herself was sent flying backward by Leticia’s claw. However, after flying only a few seconds, she pushed off in mid-air and charged back towards the dragon.
As for Leticia, her current state was not good. Withstanding Bai Ling’s charge with her dragon claws came at a price.
With such a long charging distance, Bai Ling had accumulated considerable power. In the end, although Leticia repelled Bai Ling, a shallow wound appeared on the dragon claw used to block the attack.
The residual starlight on the wound prevented it from healing and also caused Leticia considerable pain.
“Tsk, you’re too agile.” Looking at Bai Ling charging at her again, Leticia twitched the corner of her mouth. She realized her current massive size had become a disadvantage.
It would have been better to fight Bai Ling in human form. At least she could dodge many attacks. Now, with such a large hit area, many attacks were impossible to dodge.
Hiss, but when I fought that bird before, human form was completely no match for beast form… Right, protective energy!
I didn’t seem to activate my protective elemental energy!
The giant bird was enveloped in unquenchable golden flames. These not only repaired the bird’s wounds and attacked enemies but also made the bird immune to less powerful damage to a certain extent.
For a lopsided fighter like Bai Ling, who put all her skill points into offense, protective energy would be even more effective. After all, she couldn’t focus on defense while attacking, and the counter-attack from protective energy was automatic. Leticia just needed to defend properly.
With Bai Ling’s current defensive capabilities, Leticia’s protective energy alone would be enough for her to handle.
But wouldn’t this be a bit like bullying?
Never mind. It’s a spar, and Bai Ling will still have to face protective energy when fighting Huang later. It’s better to prepare now to avoid suffering later.
With that thought, Leticia decisively chose a lightning shield from her Dragon God authority. Dark lightning surged from the dragon’s body, faithfully wrapping around the dragon’s body.
Just then, Bai Ling arrived with her sword and struck Leticia’s waist scales. The dragon’s powerful physical defense came into play. This sword only left a shallow white mark on the scales, while Bai Ling herself was struck by the dark lightning and retreated a few steps rather awkwardly.
“Shameless.”
“This is the only way to deal with agile enemies. I’m not a melee type,” Leticia spread her hands helplessly. She was indeed better suited to be a turret. “Let’s continue. I still have many moves left!”
Saying that, she roared at the sky again. Fierce cold winds began to howl with her call. The river of stars in the sky was covered by gray clouds, and swirling snowflakes fell from the sky.
Winter had arrived.
…
“Whoa, you’re using this. You really want to kill me!”
As she maneuvered her dragon body to barely dodge that concentrated beam of starlight, a fearful expression appeared on Leticia’s face. If that sword had hit her, her dragon body would have probably gained a large hole.
As for using other methods to defend?
Perhaps possible, but Bai Ling had been charging her attack for so long that it was enough for Leticia to use her mobility to dodge this move.
Why would anyone try to clash head-on when they could dodge?
Missing her attack, Bai Ling sighed, sheathed her Star Sword, and lost her fighting spirit, “I can’t beat you. We’ll stop here for today.”
After Leticia unleashed her shameless field magic and protective energy , Bai Ling was completely at a disadvantage. Her attacks couldn’t deliver a decisive blow, and her defense couldn’t withstand the damage from the field magic. The longer the fight dragged on, the lower her chances of winning became.
Leticia also held back a bit. If she had actively attacked without restraint, Bai Ling would likely have been defeated long ago.
Hearing Bai Ling’s surrender, Leticia snorted smugly. Her massive dragon body gradually became illusory, and the familiar black-haired girl reappeared before Bai Ling. “After all, I’m using the Dragon God’s power. You’ve done very well to fight me like this.”
Even Leticia felt threatened by the final beam of starlight Bai Ling unleashed. This was a very unusual performance, considering that with Leticia’s physical defense at the time, ordinary attacks couldn’t break through her defense!
Even that giant bird had to use its claws to injure Leticia!
And the sense of danger Bai Ling’s sword gave Leticia was even greater than that of the giant bird’s claws. This was enough to show how far Bai Ling had gone down the path of stacking offensive power.
“Xiao Bai’s attacks can completely injure you, Leticia. If you can create a situation where Xiao Bai can fully utilize her offensive advantage, you will have a significant advantage against Huang.” Even Inferno acknowledged Bai Ling’s attack power.
In terms of offense alone, Bai Ling was not weaker than Leticia. She could also pose a serious threat to deities.
“Come back for now. I have a rough idea of how you two should train.”
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“Well, now Xiao Bai’s disadvantage lies in her defense. When fighting against god-level enemies alone, she has to expend energy to resist their attacks, which will offset her offensive advantage, ultimately making her performance inferior to that of ordinary gods.” Inferno began her post-battle lesson, seemingly having conjured a small blackboard from somewhere.
“But if Leticia can allow Xiao Bai to fight without any worries, letting her unleash her offensive power completely, the threat she poses to enemies will not be much less than yours.”
A Bai Ling who didn’t have to think about defense and only focused on offense would be an ultimate output machine on par with Leticia.
“So, the key is here, Leticia. You must exert enough pressure on your enemies, forcing them to focus all their attention on you.”
“It’s worth it even if you sacrifice some output, because this way Xiao Bai can be fully unleashed and play to her greatest advantage.”
When Leticia sacrificed all defense and concentrated her power on offense, the destructive power she could unleash was slightly stronger than Bai Ling’s, but only slightly. There was no overwhelming advantage.
And now, in a two-on-one situation, with Leticia tying down the enemy and Bai Ling dealing full damage from the side, it was almost equivalent to having an extra fully offensive Leticia flanking and ambushing. For ordinary enemies, this was simply unbearable.
There probably aren’t any beings in this world who can fight two Leticias alone… excluding those deities sealed within divine artifacts.
“I get it. I’m the tank, attracting fire for her.” Leticia nodded, finding the combat plan quite easy to understand. “She’s the squishy main DPS, I tank the damage and she goes all out, right?”
“But how long can she go all out? What if her sustain can’t keep up?”
“You don’t need to worry about that. My sustain is quite good right now,” Bai Ling replied to Leticia’s doubts, stating that her sustain was actually quite decent. “My astral energy recovers quickly. Even in full combat, I can sustain it for about half a day, but my stamina might not keep up…”
“You’re just standing there as a turret, not needing to dodge skills. That shouldn’t consume much stamina, right?” Leticia blinked.
“Then it’s even less of a problem for me. As long as you can draw aggro, I can unleash a sword light like that every half a minute. I can keep it up for more than ten hours without issue.”
“Is your sustain cheating?!”
“This energy reserve… it’s indeed a bit terrifying.” Inferno also twitched the corner of her mouth. The sword light Bai Ling had just unleashed was no ordinary skill.
In a game, this would definitely be a ultimate with a cooldown of several minutes and extremely high mana consumption. Yet, Bai Ling was now saying she could unleash one every half a minute for over ten hours, which was simply absurd.
Even if Leticia, whose backup mana pool was close to breaking through the sky, were to unleash such an attack, she could only sustain it about twice as long as Bai Ling!
This was also because Leticia had the Dream Authority, which could accumulate energy during normal times. If she were to unleash such a big move using only her own mana pool without these advantages, Leticia would be spent after three or four uses.
“Where did you get so much energy from? With your small frame, you don’t look like the type who can store so much energy,” Leticia circled around Bai Ling, her small hands restlessly pinching and prodding the girl’s arms and waist.
She couldn’t feel any energy flow within Bai Ling. This guy probably just had good physical constitution.
“Because I’m using superpowers. Astral energy isn’t stored within me; I summon it,” Bai Ling extended her hand, summoning a bit of starlight. “So, theoretically, the astral power I can use is infinite, but my physical fitness limits the upper limit of my use of astral power.”
Bai Ling began to explain why she could have such high sustained combat ability. It was actually quite easy to understand. Bai Ling was merely a relay station; the astral energy she used to attack came from an unknown place.
Therefore, as long as Bai Ling’s body could hold up, she could continuously obtain astral energy from that place and use it to attack.
This was why her sustain was so magical. However, such a seemingly ideal infinite sustain wouldn’t usually occur.
