Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 954: Fate's Favor

"Step back," Xia Shou said.

Suppressing their excitement, Charles I and his entourage cautiously retreated, their hearts pounding with elation and confidence. The images that flashed through their minds nearly brought them to a climax.

Although the outcome of this battle has nothing to do with them, these humble and insignificant ants, the thought that the strongest of their time is about to defeat the strongest of the past and sweep the legendary figures who escaped from history books back into the dustbin of history fills them with a sense of pride.

Is it fair to say that this is related to honor?
Yes, it's awesome now than it was before!
Just knowing this result is enough to make one tremble with excitement.

Wait, who is that person?
Charles I suddenly noticed the person next to the Summer Guardian, a red-haired woman standing there with an unpleasant smile.

When did she appear?
In a battlefield where the power of curses is so violent and filthy, is the woman who can stand calmly beside Grand Duke Xia Shou a close confidante of the Grand Duke?

But even if she's a trusted confidante, is she really qualified to participate in a battle of this level?

It's important to understand that Spread's ability to demoralize and destroy people alone could turn anyone below him into a bunch of helpless sitting ducks.

If you can't get past this hurdle, don't even think about challenging Sprite.

"Are you afraid of death?" Sprite asked Shangguan Yan and Xia Shou the same question.

But the next second, Spright's expression changed, and he looked at Shangguan Yan with great surprise.

His "Mind Slash" didn't work!
Human thoughts are real things, although they are immaterial. Just like desires, they exist.

Various ideas have various differences and are oriented towards non-spatial "distances," which is why some people use "near or far" to describe longing and imagine Cupid's legendary weapon as a bow and arrow.

Because thoughts have distance and direction, he can cut apart the attacking thoughts directed at him, combining the small techniques he has mastered in forbidden knowledge with his own superpower.

He named this optimized superpower technique "Mind Slash".

Just now, he severed the man's aggressive thoughts, and now he continues to cut through the man's ever-growing new aggressive thoughts.

But this woman is strange; he can't cut her, or rather, when he uses his special ability, the ability he modified with forbidden knowledge is subtly adjusted.

The nature of the strike has changed, so it can no longer thwart the opponent's attack plan.

Does this woman... also understand the same forbidden knowledge as him?
"What's your name?" Sprite asked.

"Sprite, just one more question, did you learn this from the First King of Rifts?" Shangguan Yan evaded the other party's question.

“Interesting, what a pity,” Sprite murmured.

As soon as he finished speaking, new cracks appeared on the frozen lake surface, and an invisible slash was released, passing through Xia Shou and Shangguan Yan.

In an instant, Xia Shou's body transformed into a jumble of lines, twisting and turning in space with a counterintuitive visual effect, completely avoiding Sprite's slash.

Rosa taught him one of the forbidden techniques that could be used in the Blood Dynasty—the [Invisibility Technique]!
Meanwhile, on the other side, Shangguan Yan's cracks in the ground stopped abruptly half a meter in front of her. Just as she had blocked the writer's storm of attacks, she had also quelled the Crack King's attack.

“This should be the outline of Anuttara, right?” Sprite said, staring at the Natsume who had entered a state of invisibility.

What is the outline of Anuttara?

Is this what the Invisible Technique was called during the Scar Age?
Although it's unclear whether this is true, it's visibly that Sprite's attitude has become more serious.

"Sprite, did you jump out of time?" Shangguan Yan asked. "..." Sprite did not answer.

For a moment, Shangguan Yan and Sprite stared at each other for a long time.

Xia Shou was speechless. These two were really something else. They didn't answer any questions and just talked to themselves.

Of course, Xia Shou was also quite speechless at his own composure. Right now, he had absolutely no intention of starting a war, and his mind was easily wandering.

The reason behind this is probably that his intention to attack has been cut off.

In that case, it's time to put that guess into practice.

Xia Shou snapped open Dorian Gray's pocket watch and pressed the button.

In an instant, the idea of ​​attacking arose!
Sure enough, this method is effective!
Xia Shou was overjoyed, but he didn't show any emotion on his face.

In fact, he has always had a reasoning about the mechanism behind Sprite's collapse of fighting spirit: how exactly does a person's fighting spirit disappear?
Is it about erasing in a certain amount, like addition and subtraction, subtracting the amount that Sprite can eliminate in one disintegration from the original fighting spirit, and finally getting the remaining result?
If that's the case, it can only mean that Spreadt's ability to dismantle fixed forces is so high that it can reduce the fighting spirit of others to zero every time.

However, if we follow this line of thinking, as long as someone's fighting spirit is strong enough that Spread cannot deplete the opponent's fighting spirit bar all at once, then he can withstand Spread's fighting spirit collapsing and forcefully launch an attack on Spread.

If this is indeed the case, then Xia Shou will try to activate the Scorpion Spine's instincts to the maximum, and expand his fighting desire as much as possible to counteract Sprite's ability.

But if this conjecture is wrong, then let's think about it another way: Sprite's morale collapses because of a percentage reduction in every thought, except that the percentage is 100%.

The formula can be summarized as: Morale score × (100% - 100%) = 0
If this is the underlying logic behind the collapse of fighting spirit, then he would use Dorian Gray's pocket watch to mitigate the damage, allowing the portrait to bear part of the weakening of his fighting spirit.

These were the two countermeasures that Xia Shou had previously come up with.

Of course, he didn't think he was sure he would guess right; it was just a prediction.

If both of these lines of reasoning were wrong, Xia Shou devised a third plan.

However, the third option would significantly weaken their combat effectiveness, so he didn't want to use it until the very last moment.

The third option is to use [Blood Clone] to fight in his place.

Blood Clone is one of the abilities he obtained using Shadow when he first came to the Blood Dynasty. It allows him to consume a large amount of blood to create a blood clone that is exactly the same as himself.

The main body can not only use its clones to exert its abilities, but each blood clone can also swap positions with the main body three times.

Before entering the battlefield, he had already created a blood clone. If he couldn't deal with Sprite's morale collapse, he would switch places with the clone five kilometers away and remotely control the blood clone to fight.

However, this battle plan is terrible because although the clone can use the abilities gained from the Shadow Devouring, it cannot use the mask, scepter, or invisibility spell.

Xia Shou could foresee the consequences of using clones to fight Sprite.

It's basically that you can fight, but the only difference is that you'll be eliminated in a few seconds.

It was less of a battle and more of a slight act of resistance, just something to add a bit of fun to Sprite; it had no real significance.

But to everyone's delight, fortune was on his side, and Dorian Gray's pocket watch proved to be quite effective at resisting the collapse of his fighting spirit!
(End of this chapter)