Chapter 585: Rookie Tournament (2)

Gu Qing and the others were all ready.

Seeing Zhao Chi return, they crowded around him.

Those female soldiers were all wearing face coverings.

Gu Qing, Tang Ruan, and Qi Yue were also wearing masks.

Gu Qing looked a little plumper.

Her figure's curves had become less pronounced.

Clearly her chest had already been wrapped in spider silk.

Tang Ruan was the same.

Zhao Chi gently tugged at Gu Qing's face covering.

It didn't budge—it seemed firmly glued to her head.

Gu Qing laughed: "Hehe, my lord, I used spider silk to wrap our three heads too. Only the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth have openings; everywhere else has quite a bit of spider silk."

Zhao Chi sighed: "Not bad, that's a good method. Did you use blood silk?"

"Mm, that's right, blood silk."

No wonder the face covering couldn't be pulled.

This way, not only is the face covering stuck on very firmly, even if the face covering is broken, all one can see is a face wrapped in spider silk, not their true features.

Although Gu Qing's spider silk is very transparent, that's for stockings.

Stockings only have a thin layer of silk.

With more silk like a shirt, it becomes semi-transparent.

Now that Gu Qing has wrapped multiple layers of blood silk, although it's still somewhat transparent, it's like red mosaic—you can't make out the face at all.

This way, whether face or figure, everything can be well concealed.

Nothing else is a problem.

No, there's still one.

"Gu Qing, why aren't you all wearing iron armor?"

Gu Qing asked: "Should we wear iron armor in the first round? Should we wait until later to put it on? Although iron armor has high durability, it probably can't last until the end, right?"

Zhao Chi said: "It's fine, just put it on. Virtual combat doesn't consume real durability; attributes reset after every battle. Everyone put it on."

"Understood."

Tang Ruan and Qi Yue brought over Zhao Chi's iron armor, wanting to help him put it on.

"No need, I'll do it myself. You put yours on too."

Tang Ruan laughed: "My lord, this iron armor is really nice. Its durability and defense are both very strong—much better than leather armor."

【Name】Iron Armor Set

【Quality】Standard

【Durability】400

【Defense】26

【Description】The most ordinary iron armor, but no matter how ordinary, it's still iron armor—more than enough against early enemies.

Iron armor costs a lot and takes a long time to make.

But its attributes live up to those costs.

Ordinary leather armor has 150 durability and 7 defense.

This iron armor's attributes are more than double.

An ordinary person wearing it is equivalent to having 4 times the health.

Besides durability, defense is also greatly raised to 26 points.

An ordinary iron sword deals 24 attack and can't break through the defense.

But ordinary iron swords all have 5 destruction, which deals extra damage to equipment.

A dozen or so slashes can break through the defense and wound the body.

But an iron spear has 34 attack and 20 penetration.

Even without destroying the armor, each attack deals 28 damage.

Not bad in power.

But this is the damage only possible when giving up shield defense.

And the attack speed isn't that fast.

At least quite a bit slower than swinging a sword.

If the sword is blocked by the weapon, then in close combat, it's hard to say who wins and who loses.

Zhao Chi's female spearmen all wield their spears one-handed, so attack power is reduced quite a bit.

But they make up for it with shields, greatly increasing defense.

Their mission was never to attack, but to hold off enemies and defend.

That doesn't really matter.

But when facing enemies wielding two-handed spears, one must be careful.

When that time comes, wearing iron armor isn't absolutely safe either.

But of course it's much stronger than leather armor.

Zhao Chi nodded: "Of course. After all, the materials are different, the difference is still quite big. But iron armor will lower your movement speed, so chasing down enemies won't be easy."

Qi Yue said softly: "Leave the pursuit to us."

Zhao Chi laughed: "Exactly. You're fast and you also have ranged spiritual techniques. Go for it, Qi Yue."

Qi Yue smiled faintly: "Alright."

Though he couldn't see her face, he could see her pink, tender lips.

Pink and tender?

Zhao Chi removed his gauntlet and held his fingers to Qi Yue's lips.

Gulp!

The sound of swallowing saliva.

Qi Yue knew a battle was about to begin; she had to replenish herself with Zhao Chi's blood to bring out the greatest advantage of her talent.

So she dropped all ceremony, took his fingers into her mouth, and gently sucked.

Her lips quickly turned a delicate, vivid red.

Finally, Qi Yue licked her lips, the corners of her mouth curving upward slightly.

Her voice carried a smile as well.

"Thank you, my lord."

"No need for thanks. Good luck."

Gu Qing leaned over and gave him a light kiss on the cheek.

Zhao Chi's fingers healed.

After a while, the system delivered a prompt:

【The first round of battle is about to begin. Teleportation will commence shortly. Please be ready.】