Quadruple split.

Chapter 2548: Boiling Toad

Xinglong is very strong.

The reason why this sentence sounds like nonsense is that its concept is infinitely close to common sense such as "fire is hot", "ice is cold", and "iron is hard", which do not need to be mentioned deliberately.

However, this common sense has been completely broken in the context of [The Realm of Innocence], and has become a situation where an adjective must be added to ensure logical rigor.

Therefore, at least within the [Realm of Innocence], we must correct the spiritual core of this sentence to - 'Xinglong is very strong among the players'.

Indeed, despite losing to Cordova, he still proved his strength in the [Guilt Battle] and re-established his almost dominant position among professional players with his fists. However, if the entire game is used as the stage, then even the most loyal fans of Xinglong have to admit that their idol still has a long way to go before he can become a truly powerful player.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the eyes of all players in the Realm of Innocence, only [Question Brother] and [Second Brother], namely, '???' and 'Cordova', who are ranked first and second in the individual combat power rankings respectively, are qualified to sit on the table called the world stage.

As for the third person who ranks above Xinglong, he is not recognized by the general public because of his secretive nature and his petty nature of hiding even his identity.

See, this is why everyone likes to compete for the first place. The same is '? ? ? '. The first place that steps on Cordoba's anonymity is 'mysterious and low-key', and the third place after Cordoba is 'small-minded'.

To sum up, it has never been a secret that Xinglong is strong, but not strong enough, and the expectations he carries are the highest among all professional players.

Of course, the expectations of others and even fans don't really matter to Xinglong. After all, he is not the kind of passionate young man who says "I will do XXX to live up to everyone's expectations". In fact, under the unpretentious qualities of humility, sincerity, pragmatism, and integrity, this man's core is actually only two very simple things -

Like playing games.

I like to win when playing games.

That's it.

However, it is this extremely pure love and extremely pure desire to win that has made Xinglong one of the strongest people in the world.

He is lucky, because not only did he win everything in his past career, but he also found his goals and pursuits again when the passion in his body began to cool down.

That is - in the [Realm of Innocence], a stage that almost reshuffled the entire professional circle, start again as a challenger and challenge the mountains ahead that he has not seen for a long time.

As the first heavyweight opponent after the [Battle of Guilt], Xinglong sincerely hoped that the Lord Wet Poison Frog in front of him, which had already entered the 'second stage', would be troublesome enough.

And his hope was not in vain.

"Crack."

With a dull growl, the monster, whose name was only revealed as 'Poisonous Frog' after Lao Wang used the scroll of [Advanced Detection Technique], and whose other information was all question marks, stomped on the ground at the moment when Xinglong just ignited his fighting spirit and had not yet started to act, and shot towards the latter like a crazy cannonball. Its arms, which were already covered with knotty muscles, were raised with all its strength, and it punched Xinglong straight in a very tense posture.

【Qinglong·Chuanghua】

Xinglong did not dodge or evade, but directly raised his left arm which was attached with [Cang Di Qing Long Yi] and fought head-on with the poisonous frog. A green auspicious dragon with its neck stretched out and roared passed by. The monster's hideous face instantly spasmed due to severe pain, and after letting out a strange cry, it fell back to the ground in embarrassment.

But just as the players outside the poisonous miasma burst into cheers, Xinglong's two 'comrades' realized at the same time that the situation was not as optimistic as it appeared.

【Something's wrong! 】

【Dragon! 】

The Holy Light King raised his bone staff and without hesitation, shot out a brilliant golden-red beam of light, shining it straight onto Xinglong's left arm, causing the sleeve that was rapidly turning black to disappear in an instant, revealing Xinglong's arm that was surrounded by layers of Qinglong Qi.

Rebecca used her extremely aggressive displacement skill [Crazy Sword·Thug Slash] to rush to the front of the poisonous frog in the blink of an eye, leaving a heavy red cut mark in the air.

"Ah-"

As a result, the poisonous frog did not dodge or evade, but just held up its strong chest to take Rebecca's sword, and in an instant, a deep cut that could be seen to the bone was left.

Then, a burst of colorful blood burst out from the wound, as beautiful as fireworks exploding on the ground.

"Shit, be careful!"

While maintaining the golden-red beam of light shining on Xinglong's arm, the Holy Light King gritted his teeth and summoned a large number of golden light balls around Rebecca, trying to dissolve the oppressive poisonous blood in the air.

The bad news is that although Lao Wang tried very hard, because Rebecca's attack was so clean and neat, his magic was still half a beat slower.

The good news is that Xinglong didn't react.

Although he didn't know why Xinglong didn't react, after noticing this fact, Lao Wang still felt relieved, thinking that the foreign girl would not die from the poisonous blood bath.

"Don't play tricks on humans, you bald animal!"

Rebecca roared the common language swear words she had learned on the Internet. She had guessed what was going to happen when the opponent chose to take her [Thug Slash] head-on, so she raised her sword and slashed again. Two heavy, sharp, and powerful swords crossed each other.

[Crazy Sword·Cross Killing]

The cross-shaped slash composed almost entirely of red sharp edges directly knocked the poisonous frog to the ground. Not only that, the blood energy that soared into the sky actually "evaporated" the poisonous blood in mid-air. Not only was it directly evaporated from liquid to gas, but it was also stirred by the blood energy and absorbed onto Rebecca's two swords, becoming a temporary enchantment for the two heavy weapons.

Then--

[Crazy Sword: Refining Blood and Tempering the Edge]

Rebecca took a step forward without any fuss and crossed the heavy swords in front of her. With the ear-piercing sound of metal friction, the dark red blades of the weapons burst out with a series of red sparks, and instantly "tempered" the complex and domineering mixture of poisonous blood into blood-red battle patterns, which were branded on the swords like talismans, turning the two giant swords that only had physical damage into rune swords.

After the "tempering" process in less than half a second was completed, Rebecca immediately took the second step and threw the two swords at the chest of the poisonous frog.

"Cuck!!"

The poisonous frog had used almost all its strength in the head-on fight with Xinglong. Now even its toxin secretion efficiency could not keep up. It screamed again and instinctively leaped backwards, trying to escape Rebecca's capture range.

It almost succeeded, if Xinglong had not appeared beside it at a perfect time with the additional skill [Stepping Shadows] of [Mingyin Xuanwu Curse], firmly grasped its strong right arm, and pinned it down. ——!
The next moment, the two giant swords pierced into the monster's body with a teeth-grinding sound of flesh and bone rubbing against each other, and Rebecca, who completed the attack, happened to be standing opposite Xinglong, with a distance of less than half a meter between them.

"Is your arm okay?"

Rebecca glanced at Xinglong's left arm and raised an eyebrow, "It feels like it could catch fire any moment."

"In fact, I've been feeling feverish for quite a while."

Xinglong smiled slightly, then turned around and stood side by side with Rebecca. He blasted the poisonous frog several meters away with one palm, making it out of the girl's sword: "Be careful, I can feel that its vitality is still full."

Rebecca nodded and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the Berserker class is very good at fighting a protracted war. I... woo!"

Before she could finish her words, her face suddenly turned pale and she staggered on the spot without any warning.

You know, Rebecca is a physical professional who relies on her physical fitness for a living. Her control over her body is far greater than that of a mystical profession. If there is no big problem, it is impossible for her to have such unsteady steps and feel like she can't even stand steadily.

"Poisoned?"

Although he used a question sentence, Xinglong's attitude was extremely firm. Before he finished speaking, he had already raised his hand to hold Rebecca's wrist and transferred his mental energy, which had a strong detoxifying effect, into her body.

"What else? I have about twenty more DEBUFFs and more than ten DOTs jumping wildly at a high frequency."

Although her complexion was getting worse, her voice was getting more energetic, and Rebecca, with a more spirited look in her eyes, grinned and said without any tension, "It's no use covering your entire body with blood and energy. Isn't this thing a bit too difficult to deal with?"

"You'd better not find it too difficult."

Xinglong also laughed and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, there are at least fourteen more powerful ones than this one."

"That's true."

Not only was she very energetic, but even her face, which had just turned almost as pale as paper, had regained its rosiness. Rebecca, who was speaking with more and more vigor, exerted a little force to break free from Xinglong's hand and shook her head, saying, "No need to continue helping me. I have already built up my resistance."

Xinglong, who had never ignored the Berserker's characteristic of 'getting stronger as he gets weaker', nodded slightly, then turned around and waved to Lao Wang behind him: "Give Rebecca 'Lock Blood'."

"understood."

Lao Wang immediately understood what he meant, and set Rebecca's current state as the new standard, considering the corresponding health level as 100%. In an instant, he completed the auxiliary preparations specifically for the Berserker profession.

After all, unlike other professions that rarely complain as long as they are given a little care by the healer, the core idea of ​​the Berserker system is to exchange blood, injuries, and lives. It is a model of becoming stronger the more you fight. Therefore, in many games that use the same logic, adding blood to the Berserker is very troublesome. If you add too little, he will scold you for wanting to kill him. If you add too much, he will scold you for delaying his ability to deal damage.

All in all, if we were to say which profession has the worst compatibility with healing, the Berserker would definitely be the one.

However, for Lao Wang, this level of blood control does not even require special thinking or arranging skill axes. He can solve the problem by simply adding it instinctively.

Then, without much nonsense, Xinglong and Rebecca rushed forward again.

The Berserker still attacked vigorously, but with the increase of low health, his blood boiling was much more intense than before. Even though a considerable amount of BUFF was used to offset the poison, his offensive was still more fierce than the last.

Although Xinglong's action model is not as cool as the berserker who dual-wields two-handed weapons next door, he is not inferior in special effects. He has [Cang Di Qinglong Yi] on his left arm, [Li Zhan Baihu Jie] on his right shoulder, and [Ming Yin Xuanwu Curse] on his feet. Although his equipment [Xuanli Zhuque Yan] with the heart-protecting mirror category is hidden under his clothes, the pair of red flame phoenix wings behind him have already maxed out his fashion value.

Crazy battle takes the lead in attack, fighting spirit coordinates, and Lao Wang provides support.

Although it is not the traditional triangle combination of warrior, mage and priest, the triangle formed by Rebecca, Awakening Dragon and Holy Light King is still strong enough that even though the Poison Frog had already activated its second stage of transformation, giving everyone present a big surprise that they were caught off guard, it was still defeated one-sidedly by the three of them.

I have to say that in the eyes of most people, this poisonous frog does meet the combat power requirements of a 2/16 boss.

After all, there are still 14 secret realms to come. If the second one can make Xinglong and others helpless, how difficult will the subsequent leaders be? Can they drive a Gundam?
After the second transformation, this monster has achieved double A in strength and speed. Its toughness is like that of a thick earth dragon, its recovery ability is infinite and comparable to that of an immortal slime monster, and it can spray poison at any time. In everyone's opinion, Agua is already strong enough!
It was beaten and tumbled. It could only say that it was unlucky. Right at the start, it encountered a tough guy who was second only to [Question Mark Brother] and [Cordova] among the players, an equally powerful tough fan, and the top healing player in the professional circle.

As both are humanoid creatures, Rebecca's berserker style of play cannot be stopped at all once it gets going. Unless a heroic effort is made to slam on the brakes to force the girl, who is already extremely lucky, to stop herself, she will just be hit to death.

However, every time the poisonous frog tried to transform itself into a warrior, Xinglong would always strike at the right moment. Perhaps the power was not that strong, but it always allowed Rebecca to continue her offensive and let the scene of the toad stewed in boiling water continue.

As for the Holy Light King, he is said to be healing two people at the same time, but he actually doesn't need to care about Awakening Dragon who has activated [Xuanli Suzakuyan] and whose health has never been below 90%. As for one-on-one treatment, let alone a top player like the Holy Light King, even if a third-rate healer like Hei Fan comes over, there will be no technical or rhythm problems except that the health will be the same as if nothing was done due to the character's numerical values.

So at first glance, the three of them seemed to have complete control of the situation.

But among all the players present, only Xinglong, Rebecca and Holy Light King himself did not think so.

The reason is simple. These three professional players are very clear that the strength of this lord monster is designed to fight against countless players at the same time. So even if it is only the second secret realm lord, this design that can be forced to be continuously stiff by two players is still too strange!

But if it is changed to a type that requires an elite team to decapitate, then its strength will be wrong!
[There is a problem——]

For a moment, all three professional players were nervous.

It was not until three minutes later that Xinglong suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood without any warning and his health points instantly dropped below 60%. Only then did they all breathe a sigh of relief.

"That's right..."

Rebecca turned her head to look at her idol and said with a smile: "So, what is this toad hiding?"

"nothing."

Xinglong wiped the black blood from the corner of his mouth and revealed a happy smile.

"It's just a single area of ​​concern. Just leave it to Lao Wang to handle."

Chapter 2539: The End

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