They don't want me to try anymore.

Richard's two teammates slowly retreated to the edge of the city wall.

However, William, who was also being targeted, remained relaxed. He returned Harold's greeting and smiled, saying, "I think that since we have been entrusted by the Dwarf King, we should first complete the task of defending the city."

"...Are you kidding me? The Dwarf King is just a portrait."

"You'll understand soon enough."

On the other side, seeing William's confidence, Sophia narrowed her eyes in thought, then suddenly clapped her hands on the city wall, conjuring an ice slide leading outside, and pulled Catherine aside, saying:

"Something's wrong. Let's get out of here!"

Just as the other contestants were about to stop them, they discovered that the orcs had already attacked—not from the outside, but from behind!

"What's going on? Are the dwarves' defenses so easily breached?"

"No, there was a traitor who brought the orcs in!"

"There are so many..."

The sudden appearance of orcs completely changed the situation, putting the dwarves on the city walls in a pincer attack, causing them to fight a bitter battle with screams of agony. This also directly disrupted the plans of the lower-ranked players to eliminate the top seeds!

Sophia and Catherine used the makeshift ice path to slide down the city wall to a distance of a hundred meters. Looking back, they saw griffins on the mountain behind Stone City, cooperating with orcs to attack the dwarfs' arrow towers.

Sophia concluded: "William's team split in two. Damon and Aaron both went to the orcs' side. Their plan is to attack the dwarves from the inside..."

Catherine asked, puzzled, "Aren't they afraid of being ambushed and killed separately?"

A hundred meters away, William answered that question with his actions.

"We've all fallen for your trap? Well, at least you'll pay the price!"

The swordsman Harold didn't give up. Seeing that William didn't run away, he activated the green magic light flashing on his blade, exerted all his strength, and slashed at William's neck.

However, even at this moment, William remained unmoved and did not dodge or avoid.

then……

The blade pierced his body smoothly.

William's chest was unharmed, with only a few sparks appearing.

The surrounding contestants were all greatly surprised.

"Body, body elementalization?"

Chapter 97 Your conditions aren't very sincere!

To everyone's astonishment, William first transformed into fire, then into wind, his condensed gaseous body floating above the city wall, enduring countless attacks without sustaining any harm.

Elementalization doesn't mean becoming an elemental being. If William were just an ordinary fire or wind elemental, he would have been killed by everyone around him long ago.

A more academic description of elementalization refers to elemental mages using the soul and spirit as a bond to granulate and decentralize their bodies, thereby significantly increasing their overall magical conductivity.

This is basically the signature skill of a Gold-tier elemental mage. Once used, it can increase the power of magic and reduce the physical damage they receive—more specifically, it makes them almost immune.

Of course, this doesn't mean that humans become invincible after elementalization; saturation magic bombardment and many special combat skills can still effectively kill them.

Moreover, William hadn't yet advanced to the Gold rank, so his move wasn't very skillful and had even more flaws.

But the problem is...

In this competition, the others are far inferior to William.

Attacking weaknesses... I simply cannot do that!

Especially with the orcs sandwiching cheese between their two bags, the human players on the city wall were so flustered that they looked like middle school students who only realized they had missed their homework the day before school started. They couldn't even organize themselves to use magic to suppress William.

And what about William?

After transforming into an elemental form, he could completely ignore the interference of the orcs' swords and arrows, leisurely moving freely across the battlefield like a college student who remembered he was already a freshman the day before the college entrance exam. Whenever he saw a squad stabilizing its position, he would rush over and unleash a lightning strike, then calmly leave while bearing the counterattack.

Thus, a one-sided situation emerged.

What started as a group of people ganging up on one person turned into one person chasing and beating up a group of people.

After several rounds of back and forth, the other contestants gradually failed to build a decent defensive line. Without William even having to lift a finger, they were about to be overwhelmed and killed by the charging orcs.

"The gap is too big..."

"Can someone be this strong before the age of thirty?"

"We're doomed, we're going to lose."

The other players lost their composure and began making defeatist remarks.

But they weren't the only ones; in the distance, Catherine and Sophia were also stunned.

"He's really touched the threshold of gold..."

Although William was two years older than the two women, in their eyes, this speed was still terrifying; he truly deserved to be the second-best young person in the Empire after Luvia…

They only came to their senses when they heard Richard's voice.

"There are more and more orcs here, we need to move to a safer place."

Richard emerged from a small door inside the wall and said, "Even if we're going to fight William, we can't do it in this chaotic place. It's too disadvantageous..."

The two women realized what was happening, nodded in agreement, and followed Richard.

After being warned by Anton, Richard immediately realized that his companion was in danger, so he took the path that the summoned creatures had explored earlier, which was used by the dwarves to reinforce their troops, and quickly rushed over.

Now, he retraced his steps, leading everyone to a small garden where there were no orcs for the time being, where they met up with Anton, who was waiting there.

The two women saw Anton's team, but did not object. After introducing themselves, they officially formed an alliance.

However, just as they caught their breath and were about to discuss countermeasures, a hammer shadow descended from the sky with the force of thunder!

Catherine reacted swiftly, parrying the attack with her sword, and glared at the visitor from the sky, saying:

"Damon!"

"Long time no see, Miss Tory."

The young griffin rider circled in the sky and then laughed at Richard, "And Your Highness, haha, I knew you'd be eager to spar with us geniuses!"

Oh no, that's not why I entered the competition...

"...So you and I are the same kind of people after all! Let's fight with all our might! As long as we have a good fight, I'll let you do a handstand bear dance afterwards, or I can eat a hundred bananas in one go and not need to go to the toilet for three days, no problem!"

I'm not competing for that reason at all!

Looking at the silly guy, Li rubbed his forehead slightly, but suddenly sensed a murderous aura beside him. He subconsciously summoned a magic shield, which barely blocked the incoming bullet.

"...You won't be so lucky next time."

Without a doubt, this is Aaron, the shield guard and gunfighter.

Finally, accompanied by a burst of flames, William slowly descended from the sky.

have to.

Now both sides were clustered together, leaving no room for maneuver...

William raised his hand and said, "To be honest, I've been looking forward to this moment for a long time."

Catherine gave a cold snort.

The next second, gunshots rang out, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle.

Richard first summoned Big Black, sending the giant dragon to entangle Damon in the sky, while his main body, accompanied by three dragonflies, planned to flank and deal with Aaron from behind—otherwise, no one could stand having this guy taking potshots from the sidelines.

Sofia and Catherine team up to face the strongest William.

As for Anton and his team, since they hadn't practiced teamwork and were relatively weak, they were automatically assigned to roam the battlefield and seize opportunities.

Richard Targaryen!

As soon as Richard approached, Aaron grinned and pulled out a revolver that looked like an enlarged steampunk-style revolver. He fired five bullets in quick succession, which exploded into a fiery cloud in mid-air.

Richard summoned a water elemental, jumped into it, and quickly passed through the fire cloud.

Then he rode a dragonfly to Aaron's head and summoned ten wind elementals in one go, preparing to give him a good electrotherapy.

However, the wind elemental had barely taken its position when it was extinguished by a flying fire serpent.

Richard turned his head and saw that it was William who had done it!

Despite being surrounded by two women, the latter still had the energy to intervene!

To be fair, Catherine and Sophia are significantly stronger than the previous group of random players. At least when facing William, they took turns attacking and defending, and were not overwhelmed.

However, similarly, after being transformed into an elemental form, William is immune to too much damage, moves freely, and no one can stop him!

After defeating the wind elemental, he continued to disrupt Richard and the giant black dragon in the sky with howling winds, freeing Damon to continue wielding his warhammer downwards.

"Haha, have you witnessed true power?"

Seeing Richard stumble, Aaron laughed and pulled out a second, large-caliber, strange gun. He then placed a golden, round, fish-head-shaped object, about the size of a baby's fist, into the muzzle as a bullet...

But before he could launch it, others rushed up.

It's Anton.

At this moment, the fat young man from Guamara widened his eyes, roared, and manipulated the warrior puppet to grab Aaron's gun barrel.

"Where did you get your bullets?"