Chapter 1264

Soon, host Lu Zhan finished presenting the award to Li Ruanyu.

Then the next team's award presentation began.

Li Ruanyu did not return to the Jade Squadron; she remained seated in the front row.

But she handed the commemorative medal to the female lord under her command.

Soon, that female lord distributed the commemorative medals to each row, passing them along in sequence.

The collective first-class honor medal was gold-plated, with even finer craftsmanship.

Though it served no real purpose, Zhao Chi liked it very much too.

He silently stored it in the system space, waiting for the commendation ceremony to end.

After the team commendations came the individual commendations.

These were honors for individuals who had performed outstandingly in this battle.

Soon, the host called out a number of names.

Each person's commendation was in a different area.

But without exception, all of them—over twenty people in total—went up to the stage beaming with joy and satisfaction.

Soon, the commendations were finished.

The host said: "Every battle brings us some surprises from newcomers, and this time, it truly brightened our eyes."

Zhao Chi's heart skipped a beat.

Newcomers?

Please don't tell me I'm one of them?

The host continued: "With a combat power of 523, he faced an enemy with a combat power of 936 head-on. Not only did he not need any assistance, he completely countered his opponent. After the battle, he still had 477 points remaining. Just how difficult that is, everyone should understand."

The moment those words were spoken, a buzz of discussion indeed rose from the crowd.

Everyone here had grown up from a combat power of just a few dozen points.

Every lord knew well the experience of having a combat power in the hundreds, and also knew exactly what it meant to face 936 with only 523.

If one could win, it would have to be an extremely hard racial counter.

For example, water element countering fire element.

But such situations were almost nonexistent in the early stages.

Otherwise, it would have to be a tactically perfect victory.

But that was also extremely difficult.

Even with a flawless ambush attack, facing such an absolute disparity in strength, it would be hard to produce such a great result.

Unless the enemy was stupid.

But no fool could ever develop a combat power of 936.

Unless one's luck was simply too good—not only a complete tactical victory, but also stumbling upon an enemy making a strategic blunder.

Such a combination could indeed produce a situation where a lower combat power completely defeated a higher one.

Or else…

There was hidden combat power.

Compared to all other possibilities, this was probably the most reasonable speculation.

Zhao Chi stared at the ceiling, already beyond words.

The instant the host mentioned the combat power, he knew it was about him.

He hadn't expected this broken World-Breaking Army would actually look into this sort of thing?

In fact, for the entire World-Breaking Army, Zhao Chi's victory was like a kindergartener beating an elementary school kid.

Truly not worth mentioning.

That was why Zhao Chi could fight without any hesitation.

He wondered whether the World-Breaking Army was really this meticulous, or whether Li Ruanyu had pulled some strings here?

Su Qin stared at Zhao Chi in excitement: "Zhao Chi, is it you? Is it you?"

She was thrilled; Zhao Chi was helpless: "Sigh, yes…"

"Huh? Why do you look unhappy? It's fine, this won't expose too much about you—at most it'll show you have some hidden combat power. But that's nothing—everyone has hidden combat power, just more or less. Think about it, even in our reserve group, at least Geng Zhan and I have hidden combat power. It's fine."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Mm, I understand."

The host kept speaking:

"Not only that, he then rushed with his 477 combat power to reinforce a battlefield where the disparity was enormous.

"At that time, our Stream Squadron lord had only 3,897 combat power remaining, while the enemy lord still had 6,886 combat power—and he was a lord of the Skeleton race! The gap between the two sides was nearly 3,000 points!

"Even with his 477 combat power joining in, it would have been useless.

"But the moment he joined, the battle was completely turned around.

"The details of the fight are unknown to us.

"And it's also impossible to go and ask about it in detail directly.

"However, the results speak for themselves!

"In the end, he still had over 200 combat power remaining, and our reinforced lord also had 2,700 combat power, while the enemy—completely wiped out!"

When those words were finished, the entire hall fell silent.

Everyone wore expressions of disbelief.

After all, the most common lords present were town-level lords, followed by village-level lords.

They were the ones who could empathize the most.

If it had been them, in such a situation, they could never have reinforced that kind of battlefield.

Moreover, their not sending reinforcements was, in everyone's eyes, perfectly reasonable and only natural.

After all, with only a little over 400 combat power of their own, entering a battlefield where the combat power differed by 3000 points was meaningless.

Unless it was going to die for nothing.

Sending aid in would be the abnormal thing.

Not to mention the enemy was the Skeleton race.

In a certain sense, the Skeleton race's combat power was the most genuine combat power.

Because skeletons really could fight out every last bit of that combat power from start to finish.

This made it even harder.

Moreover, skeletons were individually weak, and with such a huge gap in combat power, this meant being swamped.

Being completely drowned by the skeleton horde.

If before, the victory might have been due to relying on tactics, plus the enemy's mistakes.

Or because combat power had been hidden.

Then what about this time?

First, one could rule out victory caused by the success of tactics.

Tactics were very useful.

They were also the subject most people spent their whole lives researching and studying.

But in the face of an absolute disparity in strength, tactics were meaningless.

Even if the enemy lord made mistakes, he led the Skeleton race — there would be no situation of morale collapsing because of an ambush.

Then it was hidden combat power.

But…

Even if there was hidden combat power, there had to be a limit.

Some people were outrageous, sure, and could even have quite a bit of hidden combat power, but it couldn't be several times higher than themselves.

The system would have errors, but the error couldn't possibly be that large.

Hidden combat power reaching 1 times one's own strength was already very high and uncommon.

And having 2 times one's own strength could be called rare, and could only be achieved through special methods.

And to defeat skeleton enemies with a 3000-point combat power gap, how many times one's own combat power would be needed?

Completely impossible!

Then exactly what method was used, how was the enemy defeated?

And still have over 200 combat power left at the end?

Thinking of this, everyone fell silent.