Chapter 2296

The crystal layer spread over Su Xiao's left arm, climbing near the wound of the severed arm, and rapidly formed half a crystal arm. The "Banished" split into dust-sized particles and mixed into the crystal arm.

Su Xiao raised his arm, and the pale blue, translucent crystal fingers moved. He controlled the "Banished" to make the crystal arm move, and the effect was quite good.

He picked up the Black King Armguard from the ground with his blade and put it on his left arm. Looking at it now, one couldn't tell at all that Su Xiao had lost his left forearm.

His health was only at 41.8%. That bullet just now had blown away nearly half of Su Xiao's health, and that was while he had avoided the vital areas. The quality of that bullet was absolutely ridiculously high.

Su Xiao wasn't having an easy time, but Nameless Saint was even worse. His heart had been pierced, and the slash that entered his neck had severed his vein.

If it weren't for the emergency life-support device in the kinetic armor, he would be half-crippled by now.

"Not a big problem, continue."

Nameless Saint glanced at Afni's side. In five minutes, this healer could reinforce him.

When Nameless Saint saw Afni's current situation, he almost fainted from anger. Afni was fighting with the summon she had created herself.

The plant girl Afni summoned initially had 90 loyalty points, so assisting in battle was no problem at all, and she could even be used as cannon fodder.

But after Afni gave her a puff of "poisonous healing," the plant girl's loyalty dropped directly to 41 points—more than half gone in one go. The plant girl's look at Afni began to change.

Afni's idea was to stall for as long as possible, so after 23.5 seconds, she healed the plant girl again.

This poisonous healing was ruthless. The plant girl's loyalty dropped directly to -3 points. Afni was stunned; her thought at the time was, can loyalty even be negative?

The answer was yes. The Blood Feather's ability was "Malicious Damage (Active)." With Afni's healing, the plant girl felt pain, malice, and confusion.

After Afni's second poisonous healing, the plant girl became completely chaotic and began to attack Afni.

Watching Afni, who was pinning the plant girl to the ground and hammering her, Nameless Saint closed the image in front of him, out of sight, out of mind, to avoid getting angry.

Dense slash beams headed toward Nameless Saint. He danced the cross-spear in his hand into a circle. If comparing comprehensive strength, in all fairness, Nameless Saint was stronger than the Gemini; he was just too wealthy.

The roaring sounds continued unabated. Su Xiao and Nameless Saint fought in a tangle, the blade clashing, explosions endless, and various one-time items were used by Nameless Saint.

After a few minutes of chaotic battle, Nameless Saint flew out of the combat group. At this moment, his kinetic armor was covered in slash marks, electric sparks jumping. More interestingly, the cross-spear in his hand was now held in Su Xiao's hand.

Su Xiao held Checking Zhan Long Shan in his right hand and the cross-spear in his left, golden lightning surging on the spear.

Su Xiao dared to use the enemy's weapon because his current left forearm was a crystal arm. Even if there was a backlash, he could immediately dissolve the arm.

Nameless Saint felt a sharp pain in his heart. Although the enemy couldn't obtain his weapon, if he couldn't get it back and was eliminated, he would lose this weapon forever. This wasn't a derived world of Apocalypse Paradise, nor was it a native world; it was the Hegemony Battle. This wasn't Apocalypse Paradise's territory, so there was no room for maneuver. That was a reinforced +14 Holy Spirit-grade weapon, embedded with three Holy Spirit-grade gems. Even if Nameless Saint was very wealthy, he couldn't afford this kind of loss.

This was also why Nameless Saint didn't like fighting enemies proficient in technique. He didn't understand this aspect well, and he had a prior record of having his weapon stolen, though fortunately, he had slaughtered that enemy afterward.

Nameless Saint fought relying on high-tech equipment + spiritual perception + survivability. Nameless Saint didn't rely on equipment; for example, this kinetic armor of his—if others wore it and could exert 100% power, he could exert at least 300% power, and he could activate the kinetic armor to a certain extent, turning it from a purely mechanical creation into a semi-living thing. This was his core ability, "Spiritual Perception."

Without this ability, after this kinetic armor was slashed into this state by Su Xiao, it would have been scrapped long ago, and it wouldn't have had such strong resistance to slashes.

Nameless Saint's kinetic armor was good at everything—resistance to slashes, high temperature, corrosion, etc. The only weakness was that it was somewhat weak against penetration. Unfortunately, after just a few rounds of fighting, his enemy had noticed this.

That was why Nameless Saint hated fighting enemies proficient in technique so much. This kind of enemy countered him, and he could only rely on various items to resist.

After fighting for just a few minutes, Nameless Saint had used up 19 one-time items, the trashiest of which was Epic-grade, 605 rating.

"The debuff status has ended."

Afni shouted, stepping on the plant girl who was no longer in human shape. It could be said that the plant girl was the unluckiest temporary summon in history. Fortunately, she was a plant lifeform; otherwise, she wouldn't have lasted until now.

It looked like Afni had perfectly resolved the crisis, but in reality, she had been acting the whole time because she had a way out. If Nameless Saint died in battle, she would immediately discard her Hegemon Badge and then flee.

In Afni's view, Nameless Saint was an "honest man" from Apocalypse Paradise. If the other party hadn't been strong enough, she wouldn't have made any compromises at all.

"Good."

Nameless Saint was invigorated. The only thought in his mind was to quickly reclaim his weapon; he couldn't hold on much longer.

A cluster of azure water-element energy appeared in Afni's hand. The next moment, this cluster of energy flew above Nameless Saint. This was the ultimate move among Afni's healing abilities.

Azure light surged, and the corners of Nameless Saint's mouth curled up. With Afni's cover, he had the confidence to fight Su Xiao.

With a whoosh, the azure light ball, half a meter in diameter, suddenly flew away, flying from above Nameless Saint to above Su Xiao. Su Xiao received a prompt.

【Prompt: You have received the protection of 'Source of Water'. In the following 10 seconds, your health will recover at a rate of 650 points per second, and your injury recovery speed will be significantly increased.】

High up in the canyon, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, having blended into the environment, maintained a prone position to avoid being hit by stray fire. The azure light ball just now had been controlled by it.

Skill 2, Life Energy Manipulation (Active, Lv. 57): Xiang Bubu Teni can forcibly control the flight trajectory of healing-type energy and change the target benefited by this healing effect.

This was Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's new ability. In its perception, that azure light ball was easier to control than flying energy; that thing not only had a flight trajectory but also existed continuously.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang looked at Afni, a hundred meters away. It prepared to go and harass the other party, not letting this healer have any room to perform.

Above Su Xiao, the azure light ball drifted down light particles, and the penetrating wound on his shoulder healed rapidly.

"This is also... an accident?"

The hand beneath Nameless Saint's kinetic armor began to tremble. Before, he could explain it away with the debuff status, but now 5 minutes had passed.

Just as Nameless Saint finished speaking, Su Xiao suddenly appeared in front of him.

Clang!

The long blade slashed at Nameless Saint's neck, cutting through the outer armor and sinking 3 centimeters into the flesh before being blocked by an energy shield.

Su Xiao tugged with the hand holding the blade. Because Checking Zhan Long Shan was caught by the energy shield, Nameless Saint's body was also uncontrollably pulled forward.

With a sizzle, the energy shield was slashed with large cracks by the long blade, and its durability dropped to below 10%.

The cross-spear in Su Xiao's other hand thrust forward. The energy shield, full of cracks, shattered, and the light in the gaps of the kinetic armor dimmed, clearly because this energy shield had caused the kinetic armor to suffer "energy load overload" in a short time.

Puff.

An arm wrapped in kinetic armor flew up. Nameless Saint slapped his chest with his remaining arm, blue flames erupted, and he successfully retreated.

"It's yours."

The armor plates on Nameless Saint's hand opened, and the Hegemon Badge protruded. Even if he were to be eliminated, he would be eliminated as the fifth place.

"My weapon."

Nameless Saint's meaning was simple: trade the Hegemon Badge for the cross-spear in Su Xiao's hand.

"......"

Su Xiao didn't speak. Nameless Saint's cheek twitched. He knew in his heart that his +14 Holy Spirit-grade weapon had fallen into a wolf's den and couldn't be retrieved at all. As for continuing to fight, he would die—he would absolutely die.