Zhao Mingwei listened to Yu Zhongqu's advice, and his goal from the beginning was to destroy Thorne's branches.
The state of the Mind Beast Dragon and Tiger Roar was attached to Zhao Mingwei. Thorne had already rushed in front of Zhao Mingwei and stabbed Zhao Mingwei's chest directly with the branch in his hand.
The energy shield spread around Zhao Mingwei, and the thorn from the branch directly shattered Zhao Mingwei's energy shield.
The moment the mind shield was broken, Zhao Mingwei's mind cannon flew out of his hand. Thorne easily dodged the oncoming mind cannon, and the branch in his hand pierced Zhao Mingwei's chest in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, Zhao Mingwei used the most basic side kick skill. Side kick is one of the few skills among the Qi Masters that can add dominance.
The domineering state lasted less than 0.3 seconds, which was enough to withstand the damage and stiffness caused by the branch in Thorne's hand.
But Thorne actually paused the branch in his hand for a moment during the high-speed stabbing, and the pause was so slow that it could not be captured by the naked eye.
Zhao Mingwei's dominance disappeared, and he kicked out sideways. The branch in Thorne's hand also changed its move and swung towards Zhao Mingwei's other leg.
Zhao Mingwei also knows how to change his moves. This is also a move that all high-end Holy Spirit players must know. Zhao Mingwei's side kick is not for floating in the air, but for...
see through.
Zhao Mingwei stepped directly on the branch that Thorne was sweeping towards him, but the branch in Thorne's hand was faster, and the huge force caused Zhao Mingwei to lose his balance and fall sideways.
The moment he fell, Zhao Mingwei did not choose to rush to get up, but chose to... grab Thorne's arm that was swinging the sword.
Caught!
Zhao Mingwei suddenly attacked in mid-air, and the phantoms of the dragon and tiger opened their bloody mouths and bit Thorne's arm tightly.
A damage value of -512 also appeared above Thorne's head. Not long after the damage appeared, Zhao Mingwei landed on the ground with the help of Thorne's arm. Thorne turned the branch in his hand and aimed it at Zhao Mingwei's forehead.
But Zhao Mingwei also took advantage of this moment to loosen his hands and released a lion's roar directly towards Thorne.
Thorne was hit by the lion's roar but did not feel dizzy. However, the branch in his hand was torn into pieces by the lion's roar.
Success!
The moment Zhao Mingwei saw the branch in Thorne's hand shatter, he vaguely heard cheers coming from the surrounding arena, but this time the cheers did not last long, because the players watching below Zhao Mingwei only saw Zhao Mingwei being instantly knocked to the edge of the arena.
Zhao Mingwei crashed into the air wall at the edge of the ring, adjusted his body and landed again, looking at Thorne with empty hands in the distance.
The damage from the lion's roar had indeed hit Thorne. Now scarlet blood was flowing out of his ears. It was obvious that his eardrums had been ruptured by the lion's roar, but Thorne always had an excited smile on his face.
"I destroyed the branch in your hand that served as a sword. If you continue to fight, you will only get hurt."
Zhao Mingwei said this to Thorne on the premise that he knew that Thorne was actually a real person... If it were a fist-to-fist fight, Zhao Mingwei would definitely have the advantage.
Because Thorne was under the attack of mental energy, even if he blocked Zhao Mingwei's attack with his fists, he would still be hurt by the mental energy.
The tree branch is his only means of 'long-range' attack.
"Do you think I can't cut you without a branch as a sword?" Thorne stretched out one of his hands and made a hand knife gesture. "A sword... is not such an inconvenient thing!"
Is the second phase started
Zhao Mingwei glanced at Yu Zhongqu who was standing on the second floor. He noticed Zhao Mingwei's gaze and could only shake his head helplessly to indicate that he hadn't expected it either.
At the moment when Zhao Mingwei was distracted, Thorne's face had appeared in front of Zhao Mingwei, and his left hand turned into a hand knife and slashed towards Zhao Mingwei like a sharp dagger.
Zhao Mingwei raised his hand to block Thorne's slash, but he found that he was blocking in the wrong direction, and Thorne was still stabbing.
The left hand, like a dagger, pierced Zhao Mingwei's throat directly from bottom to top. The moment Zhao Mingwei was knocked away, the energy beads surrounding him were released under Zhao Mingwei's control and hit Thorne.
This blocked Thorne's further attack. After Zhao Mingwei completed a perfect dive and landed on the ground, he rushed towards Thorne again.
The battle lasted less than three minutes, and in the end, Zhao Mingwei reduced Thorne's health by 5,700 points... but was killed by Thorne's sword.
All the holy spirits present were silent for a moment. After Zhao Mingwei was teleported out of the arena, he sat down on the ground in silence, and no one knew what he was thinking.
But the thought that came to the minds of the other players around was... 'Beat you!'
"It's finally my turn." When another contestant from Leaping Nuclear was about to go on stage to challenge Thorne, Mo Shigui reached out and put his hand on his shoulder, stopping him from going on stage.
"Give up this strategy area and change the main strategy area to New World Plaza." Mo Shigui said.
"Ah? Xiao Ye has taken away 5,700 of Thorne's health. He only has 19,000 left now. If a few of us go up and rub against him, we can probably kill him, right?" Mom barked, not understanding why we had to give up at this time.
The health of Eternal Thorn will not recover. Their goal is not to defeat Thorn, but to reduce his health. Now the Guild with the highest degree of sharing of the Flower Square strategy is the Nameless Guild to which Zhao Mingwei belongs.
"It's Mr. Yin's request." Mo Shigui said.
"Boss Yin?"
Mo Shigui posted a video link in the Holy Spirit Guild’s quarrel group, and sent the chat history between him and Mr. Yin to everyone in the guild.
The content of the video link is 'Coke fanatic Caramel vs. the new Lord of the Holy Spirit, Eternal Thorn... was defeated miserably.'
The chat record from Mr. Yin reads, "I also want to occupy the Flower Plaza area, but for the sake of the reputation of the club and the players, Coach Song, I think we should change the target."
Mo Shigui thought this decision was extremely correct. More and more people in Fanhua Square were paying attention to this match in real life. Although it was not a new thing for professional players to be abused by artificial intelligence, it would not sound good to say it out loud.
As players, they can be shameless in order to take away Thorn's blood without any scruples, but those who have the skills to take away Thorn's blood are basically professional players. The idol burden... actually still exists.
"White Snake, your magic can cause continuous damage over a large area. You don't need to fight him head-on..."
When Caramel learned that the next person to come on stage was Leaping Nucleus's White Snake, he quickly ran over to Leaping Nucleus and began to explain to White Snake the strategy for the next stage.
The delicious white snake looked at Caramel, then glanced at Mo Shigui, and finally made a gesture of clasping his hands and bowing to Caramel, and then said...
"Goodbye."
"Are you guys leaving? Hyo-nam will be here to save the day soon."
Caramel looked back and found that the members of Leaping Nuclear had turned around and left the Flower Square. Mo Shigui patted Caramel on the shoulder when he passed by him.
It probably means take care.
Leaping Atom was the first to withdraw from the regional battle for the Flower Square, followed by the Abyss Temple. Zanxin followed the members of Leaping Atom out of the Flower Square cursing all the way.
After Mo Shigui forwarded the video to the Holy Spirit Fighting Group, the presidents of all the major guilds analyzed it and realized that if they continued fighting like this, they might be able to wear down Thorne's health. However, they did not use the health of the characters in the game, but the popularity of their own professional players.
"You... President, are you also..." Caramel failed to pull Mo Shigui and the others back, and Bubble walked up to Caramel with a sad face.
"I also want you to keep fighting, but Sprite just put the knife on my neck. The Hotpot Prince was really ruthless." Bubble didn't want to withdraw from the fight for Thorne.
But the video of Caramel losing to Thorne had already spread online, and e-sports fans who heard the news began to gather in Fanhua Square.
Sprite even went offline to the real-life Fanhua Plaza for this purpose. It turned out that the first, second, third, fourth and fifth floors of Fanhua Plaza were all surrounded by fans of various teams, and even cheering signs were displayed.
They clearly heard the news and came to watch the 'First Holy Spirit All-Star Game'.
But what is the content of the 'First Holy Spirit All-Star Game'? The professional players of the eight major clubs were beaten by the Holy Spirit NPC.
After weighing the pros and cons, Sprite was unwilling to let Caramel continue to play.
“Sigh…” Caramel let out a long sigh. He didn’t think it was a big deal that the video was recorded and posted online. It was a normal thing to be wiped out by the BOSS during a dungeon.
But he is a professional player, a great player who should be extremely good at playing games and be worshipped by others. However, in the eyes of his fans, great players can only be bullied by other great players.
Caramel helplessly followed Bubble out of the Flower Square. Bubble was followed by a group of players from other clubs. They had also given up on the strategy of attacking Thorne this time. However, among the crowd of people walking out of the Flower Square, only Zhao Mingwei was walking slowly towards Thorne.
When Caramel passed by Zhao Mingwei, Zhao Mingwei suddenly said...
"You've worked hard, leave the rest of the blood to us."
Caramel suddenly turned around... At this moment, Caramel discovered that there were only seven people left in Thorn's challenge team of 23 people, and these seven players were all high-scoring passers-by in the arena.
They don't have any idol baggage like the professional teams. All they want is the 630,000 and the pleasure of fighting Thorne and defeating this powerful BOSS.
"President, is it too late to apply for retirement now?" Caramel suddenly blurted out this sentence.
"Are you crazy? Do you want Sprite to put a knife to your neck?" Bubble looked around, afraid that Sprite would pop out a knife from somewhere and stab him.
"Just saying, President, do you think there will be a professional league for the Holy Spirit?"
Caramel followed Bubble out of the Flower Square. What he said was just talk. If he really wanted to retire, it would be either after he won the world championship or when he couldn't play anymore. This was his passion and obsession with the game Dissidia, as well as his responsibility to his professional circle.
But the game of the Holy Spirit... it... is unreasonable. It's like he has already found a pretty wife and is living a happy life, but suddenly a prettier and better-mannered bitch comes in and disrupts his life, making him think about her all the time.
Caramel felt that after he returned, his mind would probably be full of thoughts about how to defeat Thorne, and other professional players who had been defeated by Thorne would definitely be thinking about the same thing.
"This... should exist, but I don't know what the official thinks." Bubble said, looking at the flower square behind him.
PS: Thank you for waiting for so long. The update time is normally between midnight and 6:00. Something happened today so it was even later. The next update will be released before midnight today...
(End of this chapter)