Chapter 427: Too Short and Shallow
Hitchhich This shelter built deep underground needs no introduction to its sturdiness.
However, under the impact of the thought wave released by Moronaji, it was still penetrated layer by layer like paper.
This blow is almost releasing the power at the top of the system.
But even after being blasted to the underground shelter by such a terrifying wave of thoughts, the Ant King only had scratches on his hat and many places on his body.
To the ant king, such insignificant damage is almost the same as being unscathed.
He lay on his back on the cold ground of the shelter, his eyes reflecting the fluorescent green light that was getting closer and closer.
Since you have confirmed the power of the opponent's thought waves with your body, there is nothing to fear from the attack coming from above at this moment.
With this current situation, the Ant King even has time to recall the countermeasures that Moro used to hit him here just now.
"From the very beginning, he planned to hit me here.
The Ant King could sense the obvious calculation ideas from Moreau's attack and defense just now. He could also confirm from Moreau's attack method of squandering life energy that the other party had already known about this area. The existence of the underground space.
There must be a plan to break him into this place.
At the moment when the ant king came to a preliminary conclusion, the deception meteor that fell sharply along the tunnel hit his body impartially.
A flash of green light instantly swallowed the ant king's body, and the energy contained in it exploded. The turbulent air waves aroused suddenly surged into the entire space like a torrent that broke a bank.
The shock wave driven by energy slammed the ant king into the crumbling ground like a physical iron fist.
Until the energy of the explosion dissipated, a large number of finely broken stones fell from the air to the ground. The dust and smoke raised had nowhere to go and filled the surrounding area like mist.
The ant king is still at peace, but his body is embedded in the ground.
Morrow's eyes passed through the diffuse smoke and dust, and settled on the super-standard manifestation of the ant king's body that had never changed in any way.
The two waves of powerful release attacks actually had no real effect at all.
It can be seen how exaggerated the Ant King's manifest energy defense is.
Although Moreau is mentally prepared, he will inevitably feel helpless after verifying it with his own hands.
You must know that his current level is LV.97, which is just a few steps away from the peak of human beings.
It can also be seen that even if the level is raised to LV.100, it may be difficult to shake the Ant King's defense.
The more fatal problem is that the Ant King can kill any human with abilities with just one hit.
That is to say, Nitro has moves like Bai Shi Guanyin, so that he can fight against the Ant King in a head-on confrontation.
Switching to other enhancement systems, let alone a head-on confrontation, they would not even be able to withstand a single blow from the Ant King.
Of course, cheating is a different matter.
"Only conditional mechanical abilities like "Catching Fire" can deal with monsters like the Ant King."
If the numerical difference is too large, then use mechanisms to make up for it.
Catching Fire can bypass the kind of defense that even Baishi Guanyin can't do anything about, and directly cause fatal damage to the soul of the Ant King.
The only difference is that strict constraints must be met.
"Star Mark—Sacrifice."
After meeting the prerequisites for activating Catching Fire, Moreau directly sacrificed the Star Mark.
In order to create some advantages for his teammates, and now to drive the Ant King into the underground shelter, he has consumed part of his potential energy.
Conventional means cannot break the ant king's defense at all, so the sooner you start Sparking Fire, the more you can use every bit of potential energy on the blade.
As Moreau sacrificed the star, a cluster of blue flames suddenly appeared out of thin air on the Ant King's left arm.
This time we did not randomly select areas that are more difficult to ignite, such as the forehead and chest, so our luck was relatively average.
Although luck is sometimes important, it is always hard power that determines victory or defeat.
After activating the ability of Catching Fire, Moreau did not suppress the ant king with "release attack", but jumped down without hesitation and plummeted towards the underground shelter.
Theoretically, he can rely on the long-range offensive nature of the release system to completely suppress the Ant King while gradually igniting sparks in other areas.
But the reality is that the potential courage at the human level alone is simply not enough to support such extravagant tactics.
Unless he has a bottomless potential energy like Uppina.
Or maybe he lowered the conversion output rate of the release attack, and the ant king lay in the pit without resisting as if he had lost his mind.
Such a thing is of course impossible.
Faced with the Ant King who has a strong desire to attack, the only way to accurately achieve the ability conditions of Catching Fire is to confront him head-on.
And never waste any potential energy.
According to the game, Moro must ensure that every point of consumption of magic value can achieve results, so that the final boss can be killed before the magic value is exhausted.
But there was still one crucial condition: Morrow landed firmly in this spacious underground shelter, his telekinesis shattered into stars all over the sky, and red shadows appeared above his shoulders.
At this time, the ant king jumped out of the deep pit, bringing up a large amount of gravel.
He glanced at the rootless flame without any temperature that suddenly appeared on his left arm, and then his eyes swept across the dense star points connected with red thin lines, and finally settled on Moreau's face.
"Your advantage should lie in mid-to-long-range suppression, why did you actively interrupt the offensive or even give up this advantage?"
From reading books to immersing yourself in the chess game, this process completely stimulated the Ant King's learning ability, which also made him think subconsciously when looking at various things, so as to pursue the logic and answers behind it.
This thinking habit of exploring the essence has already been integrated into every judgment he makes in the game.
Faced with the Ant King's meaningless inquiry in a life-and-death battle, Moreau naturally remained silent.
Why should we give up this advantage?
Of course it is to win this life and death battle.
Morrow looked calmly at the ant king's aura that was as if it were soaring into the sky.
The reason why the conditions for achieving Catching Fire are so stringent is that after activating the ability, the precise number of ignitions cannot be obtained.
This requires Moreau to gradually explore and calculate in the fierce battle.
On the other hand is the gradual ignition of sparks. Most of this ability phenomenon will arouse the vigilance of the target.
And the target will gain insight into the nature of Catching Fire's ability based on the ability phenomenon.
Hence, in order to overcome these difficulties, Morrow had no choice but to give up the advantage of the release system and resort to high-intensity close combat.
The advantage of doing this is that he can grasp and even control the accumulation times of each spark area at any time.
Just like the time he used Catching Fire to deal with Nephibit, he had to make sure that the number of ignitions in other spark areas had also accumulated to a critical point before igniting the second cluster of sparks.
This way, the target's thinking space can be greatly reduced, thereby greatly increasing the probability of achieving the conditions for the ability.
However, it is not surprising that the ant king would be confused by this approach.
He just didn't know the purpose of Catching Fire, which was originally to provide Morrow with an upward option that would give him a chance of victory when facing enemies that even "Enhanced Flying Stars" couldn't defeat.
This is also the reason why the prerequisite for Catching Fire is to implant a star mark and then conduct an attack with a deception flying star. Only by conforming to the underlying logic of the ability and integrating the clear needs into the mechanism of oaths and restrictions can the power of "thought" be truly and fully unleashed.
Morrow has always practiced this principle.
Even the upgrade reward of "Love Etude" given by "Annual Ring Engraving" can greatly reduce the difficulty of developing telekinesis ability.
He will still build abilities based on the fit of his own mental attributes, rather than pursuing some unrealistic fantasies.
This is also the fundamental reason why he can always effectively utilize the tactical value of his telekinesis ability.
Now, the Ant King's physical strength is certainly superior to any powerful enemy it has encountered in the past.
But in the face of Moreau's complete ability system, the strength of the Ant King is essentially no different from those powerful enemies encountered in the past.
Morrow didn't say a word, just integrating his high fighting spirit into his aura.
Seeing that Moreau had no intention of answering the question, the Ant King did not force it. Under the surging momentum, he took an offensive stance.
With a sharp sound like a willow branch breaking through the air, the Ant King suddenly moved and rushed in front of Moreau in the blink of an eye.
Without any skill at all, the palm with thick knuckles, filled with majestic thoughts, penetrated straight into Moreau's chest.
For a perfect creature like the Ant King, which was created by plundering thousands of genes, the method of hunting and attacking has always been simple and crude.
That is to use absolute power to tear the prey into pieces from the front.
The ant king's rapid attack knocked away the surrounding dense star points, and also triggered many of Heizi's thoughts, causing them to tense and tremble, and controlled Moreau to jump back and sideways, creating enough room for evasion.
The palm that went straight towards him naturally failed.
Just at the next moment, the tail needle behind the ant king struck out like a poisonous snake, stabbing towards Moreau's neck.
However, the star points of the starlight were scattered in every nearby space. As soon as the ant king's tail showed signs of exerting force, Moreau read the message.
There was no accident. Driven by Heizi Wuxiang, Morrow jumped back again and opened the distance.
The ant king's tail needle immediately pierced the empty space.
While Morrow was leaping back, he waved his palm towards the ant king in the air, and slapped an air palm, hitting the ant king's left leg as he was about to step forward.
There was a soft snap.
The air palm shattered like a balloon, leaving only a few ripples on the ant king's manifest energy.
The result was naturally no harm, and it was not able to stop the ant king from taking steps.
With the force of his left foot after hitting the ground, the Ant King once again rushed towards Moreau, and the right arm that had just been retracted
also stretched out again like a spring.
But at this moment, Moreau struck the Ant King's right hand with another air palm.
The two attacks in succession hit the ant king's body movements just as he exerted his strength.
But the Ant King's energy defense was too strong, and after two attacks, it didn't even cause any hindrance.
But this is also an illusion that Moreau wants to create.
He wants the ant king to have an existing understanding that "the other party wants to hinder my offensive", thereby ignoring the true intention hidden under this seemingly ineffective blockade.
The Ant King did not take it seriously. He smashed the air palm with his powerful posture and sent another oppressive attack in front of Moreau.
This kind of straight-forward offensive, at this stage, is difficult to threaten or even put pressure on Moreau, who possesses "Starlight Convergence·Heizi Dance".
Morrow moved his body lightly and easily avoided the ant king's attack. At the same time, he still had enough energy to shoot another air palm towards the ant king.
It was still hitting the ant king's limbs that had just shown signs of strength, and it still did not cause any damage or hinder the ant king's offensive momentum.
But quietly accumulated the number of sparks lit once.
The Ant King could clearly sense Moreau's attempt to delay his offensive, so he naturally believed that if Moreau wanted to increase the power of his attack, he needed to complete the step of "accumulating energy."
So in order to completely destroy Moreau's intention, the Ant King's offensive is getting faster and faster.
However, every powerful and heavy attack he made failed to hit Moreau.
Even when Moreau was avoiding his offensive, he could always find a way to counterattack.
"His reaction is quick and precise, without any flaws - it's like playing a 'quick chess' game without thinking, but he can make every step precise."
After dozens of rounds of confrontation, the Ant King has never been able to touch Moreau.
etteu|The reason why this can be done——————
Out of the corner of his eye, the Ant King quickly glanced at the stars connected with thin red lines around him, and then looked at the red shadows above Moreau's shoulders with an expressionless expression.
In the fierce attack and defense just now, he tried to attack the red phantom and Nianxian, intending to destroy Moreau's "fast chess state" in this way.
However, both the red shadow and the chanting strings are in a state of being unable to choose, and they are not afraid of interference from external forces. "In that case-"
A flash of light flashed across the Ant King's eyes, and he said to himself: "I will record every move you make relying on those chanting strings."
The experience and harvest of playing chess allowed the Ant King to quickly find a way to break the game.
As long as you remember the related movements between the straightening and shaking of the chanting string, you can predict Moreau's body movements one step ahead.
In this way, you can gain the upper hand and increase the probability of your attack hitting.
The Ant King's changes in thinking during the battle could not be hidden from Moreau's eyes.
In this confrontation, the ant king, who was only thinking about increasing the intensity of the attack, did not realize it at all -
His control of life energy was too intuitive, and the flow of energy would always reveal his intentions faster than body movements.
"It's too short-sighted - in a sense, you are easier to deal with now than Nephibit."
Morrow was aware of the Ant King's tactics, but he did not use "hide" to eliminate Heizi Wu's desire to exist.
Because it is meaningless.
And he could see that the Ant King was a typical offensive player with a strong desire to attack.
So even when thinking at the tactical level, they will subconsciously focus on conforming to the tone of the offense without noticing the real problem.
For example, after Nephibit's attack failed, he quickly realized that the flow of mental energy exposed his offensive intentions and trajectory.
The Ant King, who has a strong desire to attack, only thinks about how to penetrate Moreau's dodge space faster and more accurately.
"I am not Nitro."
During the new round of attack and defense, Moreau said to himself in his heart.
The Ant King was able to carve a crack into Nitro's Hundred-Style Guanyin with its upright combat method brought about by its ultra-high fault tolerance rate.
But it doesn’t work for him.
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