Starry Sky Railway: Opening Performance - Taixu Sword God

As Giovanni expected, the Lunar New Year was also equipped with an expansion chip that increased their starting energy, and they immediately used their ultimate move.

In an instant, the life of all five Ethers hit by the ultimate move was greatly reduced.

The healing aether spirit, whose health was piled up to over 30,000, also had 17,000 health points deducted directly, of which more than 9,000 were the maximum health points deducted!

“Seventeen thousand?!” Giovanni frowned.

Clearly, the one carrying the damage-enhancing expansion chip is actually a member of the Cheng Lu people!

That pawn, the trampler, is just a tool to deceive oneself!

Apart from the healing Aether Spirit, the other Aether Spirits also had nearly half their health taken down by a powerful attack from the Heavenly Man!

This is also thanks to the ability of the Lunar Creature to deduct 30% of the maximum health, which is combined with the terrifying damage-boosting chip. Before that, the Void Soldier Trampler used the defense-reducing chip to reduce the defense of the entire enemy force.

This blow was devastating!

Next, it was finally Giovanni's turn.

He commanded the Iron Guard officers to use their combat skills to immediately shield the healing Aether with the lowest health.

Then came Yan Huan's operation involving the Golden Man.

Yan Huan's actions were relatively normal until... it was the turn of the Abundant Mystic Lotus.

Its speed is extremely slow, it has no combat skills, no ultimate moves, and its basic attack has only one effect.

Absorb one skill point from the opponent and restore 50% of your health.

"I'm about to begin."

As Yan Huan spoke, she manipulated the Abundant Mystic Lotus to absorb one of Giovanni's combat skill points.

Immediately afterwards... the Abundant Mystic Lotus absorbed a second combat skill point.

"Huh?!" Giovanni's eyes widened.

"You installed a chip that allows it to reactivate in the first round?"

"Hehe...you only have one combat skill point left, right?" Yan Huan laughed.

"Let me guess, you'll use this skill point on your healing Aether Spirit so it can quickly heal the whole team and give them a break, right?"

“…” Giovanni remained silent.

That was exactly what he thought, because after being attacked by the Luminaries, all the Ethers' health was in grave danger.

But suddenly... he saw Yan Huan's restless, ethereal spirit.

"Wait...you!"

"Hey, you got it right!"

Without hesitation, the pulling ethereal spirit unleashed its battle skill on the Abundant Mystic Lotus.

This triggered the third action of the Abundant Mystic Lotus!

Without hesitation, it took Giovanni's last combat skill point!

At this point, Giovanni's combat skill points were reset to zero.

It's impossible to use skills at all!

"..." In this situation, Giovanni was at a loss for what to do.

Unlike Yan Huan, he didn't equip his Ether Spirit with an initial energy recovery chip... or an expansion chip that allows him to act again immediately after the first round.

Most of them increase health and defense.

Currently, there's one defensive Aether Spirit that hasn't had its combat skill used to boost the entire team's defense, so it's out of combat skill points.

The wet nurse hasn't even started nursing yet!

The Abundant Lotus, which had been used three times, consumed all of Giovanni's remaining combat skill points.

So, he had no choice but to order the healing Aether Spirit to perform a basic attack, which generated a combat skill point.

Subsequently, the defensive Aether Spirit used the combat skill point to quickly enhance the entire team's defense.

At this point, the combat skill points were reset to zero.

"..."

Watching from the sidelines on March 7th, I immediately felt that this style of play was extremely strange.

"Well done, Yan!"

"There's actually such a tactic..." Giovanni's gaze turned grave as he looked at Yan Huan:

"You'd better think this through. The lineups that have appeared on the Ether Front will one day go to the Forgotten Court to annoy the players..."

"What does that have to do with me now?" Yan Huan replied hastily, and then ordered the slowest Jin man to make a move.

Giovanni watched helplessly as the golden figure dealt a staggering 600 points of damage to his healing aether...

Subsequently, the speed of the healing Aether Spirit decreased significantly, and its action rounds were delayed by a large margin.

In turn-based games, the annoyance of slowing down is no less than that of strong crowd control skills!

Originally, Giovanni's counter-attack team was recognized as the team with the least shortage of combat skill points.

However, all members are currently at low health and are afflicted with negative status effects. The healing Aether Spirit not only lacks combat skill points, but is also so slow that it can't even perform a basic attack.

“…!” Giovanni took a deep breath and gritted his teeth to continue fighting Yan Huan.

But that pull-type Ether Spirit kept pulling either the Abundant Lotus or the Golden Man, constantly targeting its own combat skill points and healing slots.

The combination of slow deceleration and lack of combat skill points, despite the high defense of this lineup, made Giovanni look as disgusted as if he had swallowed a fly.

The most fatal thing was... his own healing unit taunted the Void Soldier. Trampler.

The Trample carries a slowing chip; each basic attack grants Giovanni's healer a turn, further delaying the action...

Although I can still manage to cast a few healing spells, it's not enough to cover the costs.

With a large number of defensive and life-saving chips, the Iron Guard officers' counterattacks were unable to affect Yan Huan's true core Aether Spirit.

Giovanni's Iron Guard Officer can only trigger a counterattack if the attack hits the shield of his own Aether Spirit!

But the Abundant Mystic Lotus doesn't attack at all! Yan Huan always leaves skill points for that pull-up Ether Spirit so that it can avoid normal attacks.

Therefore, most of the Silver Mane Iron Guards' counterattacks landed on the Void Soldiers, Tramplers, and Golden Men.

However, the latter seemed to have been equipped with a defensive chip, and despite being countered several times by the Iron Guard officer, its health remained around two-thirds...

As for the Lunar Elementalist, aside from unleashing his ultimate move, his normal attacks are specifically designed to target the Aether Spirits that have lost their shields, completely avoiding the Iron Guard Officer's counterattack.

So obscene!

In the end... Giovanni looked at his five etheric spirits who had died tragically, filled with emotion.

On Yan Huan's side, there was still a half-health Golden Man and a sliver of health Cheng Lu Man left.

After a moment of silence, Giovanni sighed and withdrew his ethereal spirit.

"That's enough, Ms. Yan Huan. I think there's no need for us to continue fighting."

"Why?" March 7 asked, puzzled.

“You have proven yourselves to me,” Giovanni exclaimed.

"What a terrifying battle tactic! Its core is actually the Abundant Mystic Lotus..."

Chapter 432 Participating in the Championship

"Wonderful... Absolutely wonderful!"

"What an exhilarating duel! I, Giovanni Giorgio, am utterly defeated!"

"Where's the badge?" Yan held out his hand.

"Hand it over quickly."

“…Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.” March 7th stopped Yan:

"Are you a stone that can't be stopped once you start rolling? We still have questions for you!"

"Haha, it's alright!" Giovanni laughed.

"Even if you forget, I will still give you the answers in full."

"First of all, you want to know who that expert player is, right?"

Giovanni crossed his arms and said calmly:

"So far, I can tell you this: I am not the expert player in the rumors; but I still have an obligation to keep that lady's identity confidential—it's an agreement between us."

Yan frowned slightly:

"What exactly is your relationship with that woman?"

Giovanni has been urging him on from the very beginning, and now he's still like this. Could this expert be someone close to him?

"Um……"

"The answer is—I have no special relationship with that expert player."

"It's just that the player wanted to see you, and I happened to have that ability, so we hit it off immediately."

“She presented me with a perfect celebration, and I am responsible for bringing you to her.”

After listening, March 7th asked in confusion:

"They went to such lengths just to meet us... Who on earth is this person?!"

“I am truly a sinful man…” Yan lowered his head and murmured.

"That lady must have come all this way just to catch a glimpse of my splendor..."

"I wonder which follower it is, sigh."

"..."

"Can you stop being so narcissistic?" March 7th said disdainfully.