My stats are higher than yours!

"hehe."

Seeing that Bai Shuodong remained silent, Mingyu's smile grew even more composed. He continued, "I sensed it just now, and your mental attribute is around 65 to 70 points."

"As a level 2 legendary, your spirit attribute is passable, but for magic users, your attribute values ​​are completely unacceptable."

"Your stats are so low, your family must be really poor, right? Do they only give you a few million spirit points a year? And only a few different permanent attribute-boosting items? Your base physical potential hasn't increased much either, has it? Hahaha~"

"..."

Bai Shuodong fell even more silent.

Wait a minute, what do you mean by "only a few million spirit points a year"? And only a few different items that permanently boost attributes? Aren't those things used up once they're gone? Why does what he's saying seem different from what I understand?

Aside from basic physical potential, I simply cannot understand it.

Is this... the world of mages?

Horror!

What a mistake! I've stumbled into the imperial palace!

"How about this, I'll give you 2 spirit points, and you just admit defeat?" Mingyu suddenly said.

Although he appears arrogant, he is not stupid at all. His [Mental Detection] cannot detect Bai Shuodong's specific attributes. Coupled with Gu Changqing's hesitant attitude just now, Mingyu has actually noticed that something is wrong.

However, he lacked sufficient information, and even if he knew something was wrong, he didn't know what it was.

In his opinion, Bai Shuodong was truly weak, but fighting him was also potentially risky; the safest course of action would be to directly use his spiritual energy to attack him.

"..."

Bai Shuodong remained silent.

Twenty thousand psionic points is a considerable amount, but the winning streak reward is equally substantial. If the current winning streak ends, you will not be able to obtain winning streak psionic points for subsequent challenge ranking improvements.

If he can achieve a winning streak to rank 50, he can gain 3.9 psionic points by going from 89th to 50th. However, once the winning streak ends, he loses all of them. To start the streak again, he needs to achieve a winning streak of at least 10 ranks, and this streak cannot be triggered if his rank drops by more than 10 places within three months.

From a profit perspective, directly acquiring 20,000 psionic points now, and then slowly regaining the winning streak, is a profitable move overall, so it's acceptable.

but...

That's a useless mindset!

A true strongman should take him down!

Bai Shuodong's lips suddenly parted into a smile as Su Qingli's silhouette flashed into his mind.

If the other party had challenged him earlier, he might have actually agreed, because he was genuinely poor and terrified of being poor.

But Su Qingli had previously given him a five-star skill book and top-tier custom-made gold equipment. Her actions greatly enriched Bai Shuodong's parched heart, and changed his behavioral logic.

A mere 20,000 psionic points? I'm not interested!

I can earn it back myself!

"You won't agree?"

Mingyu slightly raised his chin. He believed that the conditions he had offered were good enough. After all, he was a level 3 mage, and the other party could not possibly have much confidence in defeating him. Agreeing at this moment was the best choice.

"That's the choice of a loser."

Bai Shuodong said.

Although he may have made this choice in the past, what does it matter to him now?

It's been cut!

"Utterly foolish."

Mingyu commented.

Please confirm the preparations with both parties.

confirm.

[Confirmation Completed]

The battle will begin in 3 seconds.

[3! 2! 1!]

[Battle begins!]

Mingyu quickly narrowed her eyes, raised the crimson magic circle to release spiritual energy, but did not attack immediately.

Because he didn't know that guy, didn't know how he beat an 8th-level hero, and didn't know why he was so confident. Maybe his class had some kind of absorption and damage reflection ability, combined with defensive trump cards.

A direct, simple, and crude attack is the most mindless choice. Even if Mingyu is only a novice, she is still a legendary mage.

He will not give the enemy a chance to retaliate.

Maintain a safe distance of 50 meters.

'Observe his specific changes in condition.'

'Use psionic energy to prepare for instantaneous attacks. The attack power doesn't need to be strong, but the speed must be fast. Ideally, you should be able to find out the guy's strength. If he's weak, just kill him instantly. If he's strong, then being more cautious is even better.'

'A car crash?'

'I'm a level 3 mage!'

On the other side, Bai Shuodong quickly raised his hands to his chest, palms facing each other, with the tips of his middle, ring, and thumb fingers touching, and the other two fingers bent.

He began to speak:

"Domain Expansion - Phaseless Forbidden Zone"

"?"

Mingyu was stunned for a moment. He admitted that he was scared for a second, after all, that was a domain.

Can a first-order cultivator master a domain?

You're awesome! I'll just give it to you directly!

but...

After the domain was expanded, nothing happened. There were no domain effects, no specific scope, and not even any rules. It was as if they had just shouted a slogan.

"Ah!"

Mingyu laughed in exasperation.

He was genuinely furious.

They put on such a convincing act, but in the end it had no effect whatsoever. Isn't that just playing with people's feelings?

"You bastard! How dare you play me!"

Mingyu cursed loudly, raised one hand, and instantly formed a deep blue spell pattern. The pattern was so detailed that it made one's scalp tingle. Terrifying spiritual energy constructed the spell with absolute order, and terrifying solid lightning formed in an instant.

"thunder..."

"cut."

Bai Shuodong spoke.

Suddenly, an invisible slash landed on Mingyu's neck.

Without any attack process, without any prelude to the release of psionic energy, and without any possible trajectory formed by magic, a slash that struck a vital point was generated out of thin air, and it was even generated from a distance of 50 meters.

"Ding!"

A deep blue shield instantly formed, triggered by Mingyu's life-saving passive ability. A top-tier mage like him would inevitably carry equipment with life-saving passive abilities. This type of equipment is different from life-saving items; it is a type of life-saving passive that can be used multiple times and is therefore more valuable.

but...

Although the shield had been generated, it was not able to completely block the slash that appeared out of nowhere. A small amount of the remaining force of the attack still cut into Mingyu's neck.

Mingyu flung the lightning bolt in her hand at Bai Shuodong, and at the same time subconsciously touched her neck. Warm blood gushed from between her fingers and dripped onto her bright red robe. The terror between life and death descended, and that feeling was even more frightening than triggering the arena's death protection mechanism.

"Boom!!"

On the other side, lightning struck, and Bai Shuodong quickly dodged, avoiding the direct attack range, but the aftershocks still splashed onto him, the terrifying power charring his hands black.

'Damn it!'

'What kind of insane damage output is this?'

Bai Shuodong cursed inwardly. He had stacked a lot of all-attribute resistance, and his anti-magic gauntlets also had magic resistance. His physical attributes were also high.

Even so, he was still injured by the opponent's out-of-control skill, which was thrown out of the box at random. The injury was quite severe, as it hit him directly and could have taken away most of his health.

This is just a small skill!

Is this mage's damage output really that high?

Is this the power of spending money?

so horrible!

[Note: Detected to have taken significant Electro damage; Short-term Adaptation triggered]

[Note: Lightning resistance increased, self-healing speed increased]

Bai Shuodong raised his eyes and looked at Mingyu's neck, which had been slashed and was bleeding. A strange smile appeared on his lips.

Just now...