Chapter 310: Domestic Violence PK Battle
Heaven's Chosen Space, Northern District, Wooden Dummy Training Ground, Player PK Arena, Closed Mode.
Cheng Tian and Irene stood on opposite sides, preparing for a friendly PK match.
While the space didn't offer full body restoration like the Main God Space, it allowed players to set rules for PK through payment, such as saving their status before a PK and ensuring players always retained 1 HP, allowing them to fight all out without worrying about injury or death.
Before the Knights of the Round Table instance, Cheng Tian's overall combat power was decent, but his single-target damage was far inferior to Irene's. As an archer with a deadly one-shot kill archery, every arrow she shot was extremely lethal.
This lethality was further enhanced after she completed the purification of her half-elf bloodline; she had undergone a truly transformative change.
As for Cheng Tian, after his class change, he successfully shed the awkward situation of only being able to rely on templates, equipment, vehicles, mounts, and ultimate moves for some trick-based combat, gaining the ability to genuinely contend head-on with other combat professions.
In fact, by reviewing Cheng Tian's instance experiences, one would find that Cheng Tian's battles rarely involved pure head-on confrontation. He always leveraged his familiarity with instance rules, character traits, item mechanisms, and other aspects to borrow strength and strike. This even included his initial encounter with the Cyclops during the Novice Trial. If the Knight's Armor hadn't been present then, he definitely wouldn't have chosen to directly confront the giant.
This also meant that Cheng Tian's instance PVE capability was exceptionally strong, but his PVP combat capability against other players was relatively weak.
Precisely because he himself was a player, Cheng Tian understood even more clearly that players were truly imaginative individuals. Cheng Mouren himself would sometimes be led astray by his own habitual thinking, but the players here were truly ignorant of the instances, and precisely because of this, they could perform more bizarre operations.
The recently acquired Heart Priest class had not yet undergone any real combat, so its true effectiveness could not be accurately determined by panel data alone.
Conveniently, Irene also needed to confirm her own changes in strength, as well as Cheng Mouren's changes in strength.
As a Windwalker, she could keenly sense a peculiar wind-attribute aura on Cheng Tian, and the wind, perceiving this aura, responded to her with: "This person cannot be killed in one hit; it's best not to provoke him."
This feedback truly startled Irene, because it meant that the wind's judgment was that even Irene's proud one-shot kill technique would likely struggle to achieve its intended effect on Cheng Tian.
The half-elf archer, who usually maintained her composure, was quite unconvinced. She wanted to see just how ridiculously strong Cheng Tian had become.
"One-on-one or with followers?"
Cheng Tian, looking like a pure spellcaster with a heavy book in his left hand (which, with corner reinforcements, could double as a meteor hammer) and a staff in his right, asked.
"Both. One-on-one first, then multiple combatants."
Irene replied, holding her Elf Bow and silently praying. The vines and tender branches entanglement on the bowstring could be seen to have grown to some extent.
Meanwhile, Bazett, Utan, Mina, the Twin Goddesses, and a host of mount units from both sides stood on the edge of the PK arena, observing the battle.
"Should we set up some terrain?" Cheng Tian asked again.
"Hmph! I'll take you down even in non-forest terrain!" Irene replied fiercely.
The two sides opened up a distance of about a hundred meters. In the middle of their standoff, a small figure, clad in a black form-fitting suit with a covered face, the professional referee "Kuroko" from the Samurai Shodown blueprint, sharply waved the small flag in her hand after seeing both sides indicate readiness.
"Begin!"
Whoosh!
The moment the flag dropped, Irene's arrow had already sliced through the air, heading straight for Cheng Tian's face.
And now, after bloodline purification, with a significant increase in agility, she was capable of rapid-fire consecutive shots, similar to Mina, while maintaining the original power and accuracy of her arrows.
These five arrows, fired in rapid succession, were aimed at Cheng Tian's head and four limbs—
She was still planning to find an opportunity to use her 'fifth limb,' and it wouldn't be good if its function was affected. A good sex life was a crucial indicator for maintaining a good relationship.
Some couples always argue, but when asked why they don't divorce, the answer is often that their married life is quite good... Facing Irene's five-shot volley, Cheng Tian, whose low agility prevented him from dodging, simply chose not to, standing there seemingly Silly.
Subsequently, five arrows successively struck five small barriers in front of Cheng Tian.
Priest Skill: Heart Barrier!
Derived from the Factus family's Factus Barrier, the Heart Barrier theoretically possessed the strongest defense in the Kingdom of Ys, but its principle of effectiveness was rather interesting.
As a Heart Priest, Cheng Tian could expend different amounts of magic to construct magic barriers of varying sizes and forms. The magic barriers possessed independent health, with an MP to HP conversion ratio as high as 1:20. The barrier's position was fixed and immovable, and multiple barriers could be deployed.
For example, the Heart Barriers that blocked Irene's five-shot volley were all palm-sized regular hexagons. These magic barriers could only be set in fixed areas; if Cheng Tian's set position shifted, the arrows would penetrate and hit Cheng Tian himself.
Creating these five small barriers only cost Cheng Tian 10 MP.
His Spirit, which had reached its maximum of 50 points, allowed Cheng Tian to precisely judge the landing point of each arrow.
Irene was a bit unconvinced and continued to unleash volleys of arrows, but Cheng Tian's Judgment Arrows had already been generated simultaneously. They didn't need to be fired; they only needed to be used in conjunction with the Heart Barrier, waiting for Irene's arrows to strike them.
Suddenly, Irene's output stopped.
Great Wind! Rise!
Wind, so strong it formed a small tornado, entanglement around Irene and extended to the sharp arrowhead of her Elf Arrow.
Cheng Tian was quite familiar with this arrow; the twin player who was pierced through the chest by Irene's arrow had died from this very shot.
However, in terms of the momentum of its activation, the two were almost incomparable!
But just as Cheng Tian thought Irene was about to deliver a powerful blow with this Storm Strong Strike to give him a taste of her power, he found that the overwhelming momentum on Irene, strong enough to pierce through everything, suddenly diminished. Then, the bowstring, which Irene had drawn to its fullest extent, snapped on the spot!
Skill error? Weapon breakdown?
Just when everyone thought Irene's beloved bow had broken right before their eyes, the entire bow arm, freed from the bowstring's restraint, suddenly straightened. Blade-like edges, reminiscent of polearms, flashed at both ends of the bow arm.
The Elf Bow had actually transformed into a double-headed long spear!?
Irene, who as an archer should ideally maintain a certain distance from her opponent, charged towards Cheng Tian, bolstered by the swirling gale around her!
You're a melee archer too?
As this thought popped into Cheng Tian's mind, a layer of shadow suddenly enveloped him, and he raised his staff, pointing it towards Irene's position.
The next second, a semi-circular, purplish-black magic barrier enveloped Irene, blocking her charge—
Heart of the Demon Form: Heart Barrier: Binding Trap.