Facing the sudden arrival of Zhang Yue, not only were Ikawa Riyu and Kawasaki Hayao at the scene shocked, even the several million Eastern Nation viewers in the livestream were equally stunned.
["Nani? Why is Zero here? Which battlefield is this?"]
["Battlefield 96! Zero really is in Battlefield 96, the same battlefield!"]
["This is bad! Running into Zero, there's no way out but death!"]
On the field, of all things Ikawa Riyu had calculated, she never expected to be on the same battlefield as the Dragon Nation's newly crowned king-class necromancer.
"Damn it…", On the other side, Kawasaki Hayao was completely dumbfounded, "A hundred battlefields, and we hit the 1% chance? I give up!"
Ikawa Riyu barely survived with 1 point of HP.
She clearly understood, it wasn't that she got lucky and survived Zhang Yue's attack with exactly 1 HP.
It was clearly because Zhang Yue had activated blood-lock protection mode on purpose, choosing not to kill her outright.
Although she didn't understand what Zhang Yue was trying to do, she quickly activated [Magic Healing], restoring her HP to about 60%.
If levels weren't reset, with her level 500, Tier 9 body, killing Zhang Yue would've been easy.
But in this situation where everyone's levels were reset to 175, Ikawa Riyu knew clearly: even the Myth-class profession Ghost Swordsman Elfa from the Beacon Nation, or the Ice Mage King Kwon Ji-Hyun from the Cold Nation, might not be Zhang Yue's match. Let alone her.
Facing a player of Zhang Yue's caliber, the only thing Ikawa Riyu could do was, run.
Ikawa Riyu quickly swung her staff to cast a spell, summoning a field of fog around Zhang Yue's area.
Taking advantage of the fog engulfing Zhang Yue, Ikawa Riyu retreated in the opposite direction.
On the way, she even considered taking out Su Jinya, who was low on health.
A flicker of killing intent passed through her eyes.
Just as Ikawa Riyu was preparing to cast a spell to strike the injured Su Jinya—
BOOM!
Another bolt of lightning fell from the sky, precisely striking Ikawa Riyu right after she completed her Blink.
The entire field was stunned.
["He predicted the landing point of her Blink? How is that possible?"]
["What kind of terrifying predictive ability is this?"]
As the casting was interrupted, Ikawa Riyu's newly recovered HP was completely emptied by Zhang Yue's strike.
Yet again, she was left with just 1 HP, alive but barely.
Ikawa Riyu looked up at Zhang Yue, her angry gaze filled with terror.
In the next moment, her eyes shifted suddenly, looking behind Zhang Yue.
Following her gaze, Nine-Shadow Ninja Kawasaki Hayao had, at some point, circled behind and created nine shadow clones, sneaking up on Zhang Yue from behind for a surprise attack.
"Watch out!", Su Jinya shouted a warning to Zhang Yue in alarm.
But Zhang Yue kept his eyes fixed on Ikawa Riyu, not even glancing behind him.
BOOM!
SSS-tier Rare Class · Flashing Thunder!
A lightning bolt descended from the sky, triggering a wave of electric light that engulfed Kawasaki Hayao and his nine shadow clones from behind.
In an instant, the nine clones were reduced to ashes.
As for Kawasaki Hayao himself, he was instantly killed, flashing into white light and vanishing from the battlefield.
In Kawasaki Hayao's livestream, millions of Eastern viewers stared at a suddenly blank screen, shocked speechless.
Dragon Nation's necromancer, his strength had reached the point where he could one-shot one of Eastern's top three experts, a legendary-class Nine-Shadow Ninja.
And Zhang Yue didn't even look behind him, blindly killing with no line of sight, treating a dignified legendary-class ninja and his clones like a pack of low-level mobs.
After finishing off Kawasaki Hayao, Zhang Yue continued closing in on Ikawa Riyu.
The overwhelming spiritual pressure left Ikawa Riyu momentarily unable to even resist.
Her every movement was read clearly by Zhang Yue.
His predictive ability was so powerful that Ikawa Riyu had become nothing more than a toy in Zhang Yue's palm.
After repeatedly attacking her while deliberately activating blood-lock protection and not killing her, Zhang Yue looked at the utterly exhausted and broken Ikawa Riyu, and said, "Well? Was that fun?"
In that moment, Ikawa Riyu finally understood, Zhang Yue was retaliating.
Because earlier, she had used these exact same methods to toy with Su Jinya.
Now, Zhang Yue was standing up for Su Jinya, using her own tricks to teach her a lesson.
Beneath the fear lay utter despair.
Ikawa Riyu completely gave up resisting.
But at that moment, she saw hope again.
Behind Zhang Yue, a dozen top-tier professional players from the Seven Nations alliance had crept up, weapons in hand, quietly closing in.
To create an opportunity for her Seven Nations allies to ambush, Ikawa Riyu deliberately shouted at Zhang Yue to draw his attention, "Is your strength only good for bullying women?"
"Is picking on women something to be proud of?"
"I took off my ring earlier, let me put it back on and we'll fight fair!"
Taking advantage of Ikawa Riyu drawing Zhang Yue's focus, the dozen or so top-tier professionals from the Seven Nations got into position.
Within attack range, they all activated their strongest ultimate moves, trying to take Zhang Yue down in one volley.
Zhang Yue, meanwhile, stood still as ever, pretending to be completely unaware.
Next moment—
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
An SSS-tier Fireball from a Mage!
An SSS-tier Power Arrow from an Archer!
An SSS-tier Backstab from an Assassin!
An SSS-tier Heavy Slash from a Warrior!
All kinds of ultimate skills rained down on Zhang Yue.
Ikawa Riyu's face lit up with a smug smile, "Looks like I overestimated your ability…"
Just as she thought the combined SSS-tier output from these dozen level 175, 4th-advancement professionals would be enough to insta-kill Zhang Yue, what she saw was, Zhang Yue's HP bar didn't move at all.
The twelve layers of white Void Shields above his HP bar,.only one was broken.
The smug grin on Ikawa Riyu's face froze instantly.
Behind her, those dozen attackers were all dumbstruck.
["This… this necromancer, don't tell me he's not a beast tamer advanced class?"]
["How could a beast tamer have such insane defense and HP?"]
They obviously didn't know, Zhang Yue was a perfectly balanced hexagon-type Beast Tamer who pursued comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physical ability, aesthetics, and labor.
His basic defense attribute alone far exceeded the attack power of 99.99% of players at this tier.
With a high-level stat of 2610% damage reduction, he was virtually unbreakable.
If not for the fact that these attackers were the cream of the crop from various countries, their attacks wouldn't have even scratched a hair on Zhang Yue.
Breaking one layer of Void Shield was already quite impressive.
A real man never looks back.
Zhang Yue still gazed forward, addressing the dozen ambushers behind him, "Didn't you learn your lesson?"
"Then let me teach you."
As soon as the words left his mouth—
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
A shadow as fast as lightning surged into the group, weaving rapidly among them.
In the blink of an eye, those top-tier professionals, each a one-in-ten-thousand elite from the Seven Nations, were all struck down.
Over a dozen white lights shot into the sky.
At the same time, a myth-class Apex Predator appeared in the midst of that field of white light with eyes gleaming with red. Like a demon born from the depths of hell.
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