Chapter 311: Is This the Youth Version of the AT Field?
The Heart Priest's professional skills change with the current form.
As a defensive skill, 'Heart Barrier' has three different casting modes: normal state, Holy Radiance Heart form, and Demonic Nightmare Heart form.
The normal state creates multiple immovable, fixed, independent barriers. 1 MP corresponds to a 5 cm sided cube (roughly the size of a screen slightly larger than 5 inches) with 20 independent HP. There is no cooldown time, and the maximum number of simultaneous existences is 10. It can be used in conjunction with the other two forms.
In Demonic Nightmare form, the Heart Barrier transforms into a binding trap mode, capable of creating a confinement barrier theoretically strong enough to capture the Twin Goddesses.
The Heart Barrier of the binding trap barrier is semicircular. Under normal circumstances, the diameter of the semicircle is 5 meters. It is set by pre-judging individual units as targets, costs 50 MP to create, has 500 (Spirit attribute * 10) independent HP, has an unlimited duration, and a cooldown of 5 minutes.
Because Cheng Tian used the Heart Barrier binding barrier in Demonic Nightmare form, all non-'Holy Radiance' skills automatically received the 'Demonic Nightmare' tag's buff, increasing his Demonic Nightmare Corruption by 5 percentage points. Therefore, the actual HP of the barrier should be 525.
Unlike those personally cast by Cain Fact, Cheng Tian's Heart Barrier is the easiest to break in terms of difficulty. It only needs to take sufficient damage to be broken. However, precisely because of this, aside from teleportation abilities and abilities specifically designed to break barriers, one can only break it the old-fashioned way to escape.
Don't even think about digging a hole underneath to escape; the captured unit also has a barrier beneath their feet.
Fortunately, Irene was originally an agility-focused player and braked in time, otherwise her nose would have crashed into the barrier.
"You have so many tricks!"
Poking the binding barrier with the twin-bladed elven spear in her hand and feeling the energy feedback on the spearhead, Irene quickly determined that this thing's strength wasn't something that could be broken with just a few arrows.
Although she already knew from Cheng Tian that he had completed his class advancement, Irene didn't expect Cheng Tian to have advanced into a magic-based class focused on defense, which truly surprised her.
She had thought Cheng Tian might advance into some kind of pilot-type class related to piloting.
"There's more to this thing than just that."
Since it was a sparring PK to familiarize each other with new abilities, and not a fight to the death, Cheng Tian also spoke out directly to remind Irene.
Then, a series of punishing feather arrows were fired directly at Irene, who was bound in place by the barrier.
Seeing this, Irene also dodged backward within her limited range of movement, then saw the series of golden feather arrows penetrate directly through without any hindrance!
Clang clang clang!
The elven long spear was wielded so tightly that it was impenetrable, successfully knocking down every feather arrow that might have hit her.
"Reverse Barrier!?"
Irene finally understood what Cheng Tian meant by 'interesting'.
In 'Warhammer 40,000: Darktide', Psykers have the ability to release a semicircular psychic barrier. This barrier automatically distinguishes friend from foe, hindering enemy ranged attacks while posing no obstruction to friendly ranged attacks, and also not affecting entry or exit for either side.
However, Cheng Tian's Heart Barrier is the opposite: the barrier hinders entry and exit for both friend and foe, blocks all enemy physical and magical attacks, but does not hinder friendly ranged attacks!
In other words, if one doesn't find a way to break the barrier in a short time, the player inside can only be forced to become a target, accepting a barrage of ranged attacks from Cheng Tian's side in place.
"Are you not eating?! This attack intensity is too weak!"
After her magic perception ability was enhanced based on bloodline purification, Irene could clearly sense that Cheng Tian's energy arrow attacks were even weaker than expected. She continued to taunt him while twirling her spear.
Of course, she also knew that Cheng Tian's feather arrows were more often used to collide with other flying projectiles, trading attack intensity for wave judgment.
"You said it, alright~"
Hearing this, Cheng Tian became energized.
Cheng Tian pointed his staff at the sky, and the demonic shadow energy caused a noticeable haze to appear in the bright sky. Then, a long spear condensed from energy descended from the sky like a divine staff, aiming at the Heart Barrier—
Demonic Spear Thor!
In the original work, Cain used this spear to instantly kill Dales!
Even Dales, who had already been thrashed by players once, was still a BOSS unit in a state of fusion with the Demonic Source!
At this moment, Irene, within the binding barrier, her eyes wide open, felt a truly fatal threat.
No longer bothering to hide her ultimate move, Irene shook her long spear. The straight spear shaft bent on its own, and a vine connected the two spear ends, allowing it to revert to its original form as an elven bow.
And the moment she didn't draw an arrow but directly pulled the bowstring, the elven arrow, previously vanished into thin air and wreathed in a storm, reappeared on the bowstring!
It turned out that although Irene's Storm Power Strike gained a stronger instant damage cap after bloodline purification, it also inevitably required more charging time. Irene's solution was to charge it in advance, and when it reached its peak, let the elven longbow absorb it, then find a suitable moment to release it.
It's somewhat similar to Yusuke Urameshi's Spirit Gun release mechanism.
By relying on this pre-charging and storage mechanism, Irene chose to engage Cheng Tian in close combat, intending to deliver a powerful blow at the right moment, one that even a barrier couldn't defend against.
But if she didn't use it now, she wouldn't have a chance to use it later.
Irene intended to use her Storm Power Strike to forcefully clash with Cheng Tian's Demonic Spear Thor!
However, she inadvertently, or perhaps inevitably, overlooked a problem: her Storm Power Strike would inevitably have about 500 points of damage absorbed by the binding barrier first... Boom!
The barrier was broken, the demonic spear descended, kicking up a large amount of dust.
And before the dust could even settle, Kuroko, acting as the referee, had already raised the small white flag in his hand and waved it repeatedly towards Irene's side.
"The victor has been decided!"
Immediately after, the small red flag was raised from bottom to top towards Cheng Tian's direction.
"Victor! Orange!"
As the dust completely cleared, the scene of Irene, her entire abdomen pierced by the demonic spear and pinned to the ground, presenting a tragically beautiful image reminiscent of Vlad the Impaler, came into everyone's view.
Upon seeing this, the female compatriots subconsciously covered their slightly phantom-painful lower abdomens, almost unanimously casting disdainful glances at Cheng Mouren, who didn't seem to know the meaning of "cherishing and protecting the fair sex."
But Cheng Mouren showed no remorse, a look of utter contentment on his face.