Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 486 Completely Crushed
The transparent magic shield shattered instantly, and the magnificent ring beneath their feet collapsed completely.

The monk seemed to have been punched hard, and he jerked his head back sharply.

Li Xia's gaze sharpened as he clearly saw a large, crystalline piece shatter on the mage's face.

When the monk raised his head again, half of his cheek was mangled, revealing a large, bloody wound with broken teeth stuck in the flesh.

But what's most striking are the 'cracks' on his skin, making him look like a porcelain doll.

Ice Armor!

Li Xia suddenly realized that this ice magic was actually a layer of extremely solid ice covering the body. This ice was highly transparent, and with the control of the ice magic, there were not many body movements.

It's unbelievable that I can't tell!
That shot just now broke through two layers of shields and pierced through the ice armor before losing its power, only managing to smash the face.

Pity.
The most threatening thing for a sniper is always the first unexpected bullet.

If the first bullet fails to work, the threat posed by subsequent bullets will be greatly reduced.

Hei Tan was still a bit impatient. Li Xia stroked his chin, thinking that if Hei Tan had secretly left a shadow clone in place at the beginning to confuse them...

The threat might even be greater.

But Li Xia didn't expect that the Ice Mage on the other side was even more shocked than he was!
What the hell? What kind of terrifying long-range sniping is this?!
Ice Mage felt his heart pounding wildly, and the intense pain on his face made his lips twitch uncontrollably.

When he first saw the kitten running frantically backward, he had already guessed that the other party was going to attack from a distance, and secretly took precautions.

They planned to use this as an opportunity to launch a counterattack, but they never expected that its power would reach such a terrifying level!

He had prepared three layers of protection! The magic shield and the Radiant Ring were a nightmare for physical attackers and were known as the absolute bulwark for mages.

Equivalent to heavy armor with a defense tier of around 13, this super combination can shatter a shield with a single shot!
He even shattered his own ice armor!
The ice mage reached out and pressed his hand against his cheek. Ice energy surged, and a thin layer of ice froze the bleeding wound.

The pain of being frozen made his eyes twitch, and fine beads of cold sweat trickled down his forehead, only to be frozen solid by the chilling air before they could roll off, turning into glistening little ice beads.

Apostles of this rank are by no means lacking in vigor and courage.

The ice mage slowly lowered his hand, revealing a blood-stained, chilling smile.

A water-controlling 'egg', a dog in the front row that devours everything, and a cat in the back row that shoots snipers.
The combination is quite reasonable, but for a sniper rifle of this caliber, power, cooldown, and range can never coexist at the same time.

Now that we have the power and range, the cooldown will inevitably be very long!

so.
The ice mage abruptly turned his staff around, pointing it at Li Xia, the violent magic whipping up his robes and hair.

The way to break through an encirclement is to attack what the enemy must defend!

The most powerful spell—Freezing Ray!
A terrifying power surged from the tip of the staff, refracting a pure white beam of light containing terrifying power.

In an instant, it traversed space and shot towards Li Xia, who was sitting by the river watching the play.

The moment the staff was pointed at him, Li Xia's body tensed up, and he instinctively tried to dodge.

But then he suddenly remembered something, and gradually relaxed, quietly waiting for the other party's skill.

The moment the icy, bone-chilling ray struck Li Xia, a flicker of joy flashed in the Ice Mage's eyes, but then a hint of confusion appeared.

Why aren't the three summoned creatures in a hurry?
Could it be a fake body, specifically designed to deceive me?

No, that's not right. He could clearly sense a faint sense of threat emanating from that person.
Magic surged continuously into the staff, giving rise to even more dazzling light.

If they won't save you, then let you die!
The enemy's freezing ray will inflict effects such as slowing, freezing, and chilling on you.

The Eight-Nine Arcane Arts have taken effect; this effect will be weakened by the 'Primordial Unity' passive skill.

The enemy's freezing ray will deal 430 spell damage per second to you.

The Eight-Nine Arcane Arts have taken effect; the damage of this spell will be weakened by the 'Primordial Unity' passive effect.

[Calculating relevant resistances.] [You have taken 25 points of freeze damage per second.]

The true qi automatically boiled, offsetting the mere 25 points of damage.

Sure! Absolutely!
The passive skill of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, Hunyuan Ruyi, was already extremely powerful. After being completed, it has reached an even more insane level, with the added bonus of 'energy bodies, curses, mental attacks and other non-physical attacks will be weakened by 70%, and abnormal status resistance will be increased by 100%'.

In addition, there's Li Xia's terrifying physical strength and the fact that the Divine Enemy Armor, though not explicitly stated, definitely possesses resistance to ice and fire elements.

This resulted in a series of magical attacks dealing negligible damage to him.

In the third tier, his incredible toughness is no joke; even tanks probably don't have Li Xia's terrifying hardness.

The ice mage's eyes widened suddenly, and he almost dropped his staff.

He stared in astonishment at Li Xia, who was slowly rising from the ground under his rays, completely unconcerned that the action had reopened his wounds.

The ice mage looked down suspiciously at the ray in his hand that was still continuously firing.

No, the damage from the freezing ray isn't actually that high, but it causes a variety of abnormal statuses, which can be quite terrifying when combined.

Can.
He looked at the chilling aura emanating from Li Xia, which had long since frozen the entire river surface, and then at Li Xia, who seemed completely unaffected.

Finally, against my usual habit, I glanced at the battle prompts.

Your freezing ray has been resisted by an unknown enemy skill.

Your Freezing Ray has been weakened by an unknown enemy skill.

Your freezing ray will deal 25 points of freezing damage per second to enemies.

Your freezing ray damage has been negated by 'unknown energy', the enemy will take 0 damage.

Ice Mage felt his breath catch in his throat. He stared dumbfounded at the battle prompts, then looked at Li Xia 'bathed' in his light, and completely broke down.

[Executioner, your opponent has withdrawn from the battle. You have won this competition.]

[Returning to the preparation room]

Another blur appeared before her eyes, and Li Xia, who was about to step forward, silently sat back down on the sofa.

"Why did they surrender so quickly? I still had a move I hadn't used yet."

Awoo poked its head out of the dragon egg. It had been secretly hiding inside the egg, preparing to unleash a powerful attack, and hadn't even noticed the ice mage's process of breaking through its defenses.

"Woof—vomit!"

Xiaotian wanted to say something, but as soon as it opened its mouth, it spat out a mouthful of ice shards. In that short time, it must have swallowed several tons of ice.

It has a strong ability to devour, but it can occasionally suffer from indigestion.

Black Charcoal had the easiest time; it only fired one shot throughout the entire battle, which nearly made the Ice Mage jump out of his skin in surprise.

However, at this moment, the kitten also realized that it was extremely annoyed that it hadn't been able to get the kill with that shot, and it huddled together with Awoo, whispering and summarizing the gains and losses just now.

That's good too. You grow through battles, which is the very purpose of playing in the arena.

With Li Xia's current strength, it would be difficult for him to gain any growth by fighting against apostles ranked one or two hundred. He could easily crush them with his attributes and skills alone.

Looking at the current ranking, I'm 140th.
Li Xia stood up and said to the three little ones:
"From now on, I will only give you three minutes in each battle. If you cannot defeat your opponent in three minutes, I will go and finish them off."

A swift and decisive victory!

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