Chapter One Hundred and Three: Thunder Storm
In the main competition area, Qin Liu stood in the center of the arena with her head held high, and Klein, Barton, and Vera scattered and surrounded her, intentionally or unintentionally, looking at her with different eyes.
"Qin Liu, you won't be able to win the 'Triple Crown of the Academy'."
Barton spoke in a deep voice, his bronzed skin reflecting a steely metallic hue in the sunlight.
No one should have won the "Triple Crown of the Academy" in this year, and even if there were, it couldn't be Qin Liu.
Because winning the "Triple Crown of the Academy" is equivalent to admitting that Qin Liu is the absolute strongest among them, and the Qin family's strength is stronger than the other three temple families.
But everyone is a temple family, why can you climb on top of me?
If it is the next "Holy Daughter" Vera Erlan to win the "Academy Triple Crown", it may be reasonable.
After all, based on the special historical status of the Erlan family, everyone acquiesced to the fact that the "Holy Maiden" had certain privileges, and it was not a shame to lose to the ruling.
Ke Qin Liu...... She is just a thunderbolt, and she has a younger brother who is a sword cultivator, and she will not even be the head of the Qin family in the future.
In addition to her, Crane, Barton, and Vera who were present will all become the heads of their respective families in the future!
Why should you win?
In the face of Barton's attack, Qin Liu just glanced at him lightly and said sarcastically:
"If you're not satisfied, let your sword answer me, not with your mouth."
"You're arrogant, Captain."
Barton shook his head, he raised the arm shield in his left hand, drew the long sword at his waist, and said solemnly.
"You are indeed very strong, but everyone is of the same rank, do you think you can block the attack of the three of us?"
Qin Liu didn't even answer this time, she turned her head to look at Vera and met her bright golden eyes.
The Ellan family is the former kings of Sidney, and their descendants all possess these breathtaking golden eyes.
Vera Elland, who inherited the unparalleled beauty of the current saint Shireen, has golden eyes and long silver-white hair that sets off her cold temperament even more.
After years of royal education, she was used to covering her expression, and just stood there quietly, even in the face of Qin Liu's gaze, she was not moved in the slightest.
"It's been three years, and until now, I haven't seen in your eyes the desire to win." Qin Liu said softly.
The silver-haired girl's eyes were always calm, calm to the point that it seemed that she was indifferent to everything.
Vera didn't speak, she looked away, looking at the VIP box next to the podium, knowing that her mother was watching her.
Her mother is the current "saint" Shireen of Sidnia, and she knows what her mother means.
As Barton said, this battle is about the family's face, and it is her responsibility to prevent Qin Liu from winning the championship and winning this final.
Because the legend of the invincibility of the same rank was created by the Erlan family.
At this time, the horn of battle sounded over the main arena, and the final officially began.
The voices in the audience suddenly lowered, and everyone subconsciously held their breath and watched the movement of the arena attentively.
Barton and Vera stood in place, silently examining Qin Liu, and on the side, Crane slowly walked over.
"It's an unfair fight."
Klein smiled bitterly and spread his hands, "I originally planned to refuse the family's instructions, but on second thought, with your character, maybe you are still looking forward to this situation?" ”
"You still know me."
Qin Liu tilted his head, his eyes blazing, "So my first opponent is you?" ”
"Please advise."
Crane's voice disappeared into the arena with his figure, and the Moon Shadow went into stealth.
Vera and Barton didn't move, the game had just begun, let Klein test Qin Liu's true strength first, and then it was not too late to make a move.
In the next moment, a black shadow suddenly appeared behind Qin Liu, and as soon as her mind moved, the spatial ring emitted a bright light, and she turned her hand to summon a long sword.
Although she is a descendant of the Qin family, she doesn't seem to have a high-grade long sword by her side, and the sword she took out this time is only a medium-grade spirit weapon level.
She didn't turn around to resist the black shadow's attack, but held the long sword flat in her right hand, and flicked the fingers of her left hand on the sword—
"Bell—"
The long sword let out a thunderous roar at this moment, and the sound of the sword roared over the arena, shaking everyone's hearts.
The thunder was rolling, and the black shadow that bore the brunt of it was shattered by this killing wave in an instant, but this was not Klein's body, but the "illusion" woven by the moon shadow.
Qin Liu stood still, she still didn't sense Klein's breath, and the "thunder sound" blasted away the black shadow, but it couldn't prevent her from falling into the illusion that Klein weaved.
In a trance, she had already left the main arena and was under a vast starry sky.
She stood on a grassy field, turned her head, and a brown-haired boy was sitting beside her, and said to her gently, "Isn't this starry sky beautiful?" ”
"It's you......"
Qin Liu's indifferent face softened, and she sat side by side on the grass with the young man, looking up at the starry sky.
"It's really beautiful, just like the night sky I remember."
She muttered, "Looking at it, memories of that night come flooding back, and even though I know it's an illusion, I still want to stay here a little longer." ”
"You can stay here forever." The boy leaned into her ear and whispered.
"Dead, he wouldn't say that." Qin Liu pushed the young man away with a smile and stood up.
"On that night ten years ago, you took me to the World Tree and watched the stars with me all night.
"I want you to take me over every day to see the stars, but you say I should go, this is a very high-rise place of the World Tree, not just a place where I want to come.
"So we made a pact - I will inherit your swordsmanship and strive to become stronger, and when I set foot under this star again, you will be there waiting for me."
"Now you're here." The young man looked at Qin Liu intently.
Qin Liu was silent for a while, she stretched out her hand to rub the young man's face, and said viciously: "You are fake, I won't believe your nonsense!"
"This starry sky is also fake, so I won't stay here.
"You're still the same as I remember, but when I meet you again in the future, you're about to become an uncle at that time, right?
"So...... I must become stronger as soon as possible in order to go to the higher worlds to find you and fulfill the promise between us. If I wait until I become a yellow-faced woman, it will be too late~"
Qin Liu's gaze deepened, she straightened up, and held the sword in her hand again.
"Goodbye, Master." She said softly, giving the boy one last look, then raising the sword in her hand.
The thunderous sword burst through the forged starry sky.
……
In the arena, after that thunderous roar, Qin Liu stood motionless, falling into an illusion and no longer moving.
Her shadow then turned into wriggling black tentacles, tightly wrapping around her feet.
With all the preparations done, Crane appeared behind her, dagger in hand, and stabbed her in the heart.
Each contestant is equipped with a special amulet developed by the Academy, which triggers and provides a shield when taking damage that exceeds the threshold, and heals the player.
At the same time, the player who triggers the amulet will be judged to be defeated.
The strength of Crane's blow undoubtedly exceeded the amulet's trigger threshold.
And Qin Liu hadn't yet broken free from the illusion he had cast, and her body was also firmly bound by the "Shadow Bondage", and she couldn't break free in a short period of time.
But just as Crane's dagger was about to touch her back, Qin Liu suddenly opened his eyes.
Brilliant lightning flashed in her azure pupils, and a violent electric field surrounded her side, and blue-purple arcs of electricity broke through the black tentacles bound by the shadows.
Seeing that she had regained her mobility, Klein immediately retreated, Qin Liu pointed with his sword, and the sky was covered with dark clouds, and then a thunderbolt fell from the sky, slashing towards Klein at an unparalleled speed!
Inducing the vision of heaven and earth to launch an attack is something that only high-level inheritors can do.
Under the pressure of the "falling thunder", Crane's figure turned into a hazy black mist and drifted backwards, and the lightning hit the place where it was originally standing, and the strong flash of light made everyone present squint.
Then, a thunderous bang exploded in the main arena, and everyone's ears buzzed, and they fell into a state of deafness for a moment.
After the lightning and thunder, a huge crater with a diameter of more than ten meters was left in the place where the lightning fell in the arena.
Not far away, Klein emerged from the black mist, looking at the exaggerated pit, his face was a little pale.
"Keep running."
Qin Liu looked at Klein indifferently, raised his sword again, and the dark clouds gathered more and more, and even half of the sky was darkened.
Another thunderbolt fell, and Barton snorted coldly, raising his arm shield in front of Crane.
Klein is the Moon Shadow, and he suffers a loss when he faces the enemy head-on in the arena, and if he wants to defeat the woman in front of him, he needs to cooperate with each other.
The "Earth Armor" covered his body, and at the same time, a golden circle spread from the surface of his shield, weaving a pentagonal spiritual shield in the air.
"Xuanwu Shield".
Barton stood still, propping up a semicircular defensive field, and the thunderbolt that hit the Xuanwu shield like a divine punishment was neutralized by most of the power.
The remaining part of the energy was skillfully directed to the ground, without causing any damage to people in the defensive field.
As a high-level guardian knight, when he stands on the earth, the whole land will become his solid backing.
And in the face of Patton's impeccable defense, Qin Liu's response was still a thunderbolt.
Uninterrupted thunder.
Continuous thunderstorms.
The rock is strong, and the water is still piercing, and no defense is eternal and impregnable.
Not to mention that what washes the rock now is thunder and lightning that is more violent than the flow of water!
"Boom—"
"Boom—"
"Boom—"
Every lightning bolt that falls will cause a blazing flash and roar, and just looking at it will cause a strong sense of discomfort to onlookers.
Under the bombardment of this density, even the Guardian Knight's defensive field was not enough, and more and more cracks appeared on the surface.
At this time, on the rostrum and in the VIP box, countless people watched this scene in shock.
Most of these people were powerful inheritor giants, and with their vision, they could naturally see that this level of attack could never be as simple as the sixth-order skill "Thunder Falling".
"This is the seventh-order skill 'Thunder Storm'......," someone muttered.
Everyone's faces were solemn and tangled, not because they saw that Qin Liu's strength was seventh-order, but because they saw that Qin Liu's strength was still sixth-order.
That's right, the [Thunder Storm] that was really cast by the Seventh-Order Thunder Summoner had a more powerful attack range and damage than Qin Liu's current cast.
In other words, the current Qin Liu is using the sixth-order cultivation to perform the seventh-order skills across the levels!
But is this reasonable?
Failing to light up the Inheritance Ladder in the Divine Consciousness to the seventh layer, how did Qin Liu learn how to use the seventh-order skill [Thunderstorm]?
The answer to this question is probably only known to Qin Liu himself, and with another thunderclap, the defensive realm supported by Barton was finally completely shattered.
Qin Liu's expression was indifferent, and she was about to continue to attract the heavenly thunder and give the two of them the final blow, when she suddenly saw the silver-haired girl walking slowly towards her.
Vera's golden eyes looked at Qin Liu calmly, and she stretched out her hand and gently wiped it away towards the dense dark clouds in the sky.
"Stop." Her voice was as clear and ethereal as the wind in the valley.
The next moment, as if the words were spoken, the dark clouds entrenched in the main arena really slowly dispersed like this.
The thunder stopped, and the violent thunder elemental energy in the air returned to calm.
The sky cleared the clouds, casting a long-lost sunshine on the arena, which made the spectators who had just been devastated by lightning and thunder breathe a sigh of relief.
Judgment 6th Order: "Law of Balance".
It weakens the excess attribute elements that exist in the current space, making the space calm and stable.
This skill, especially the natural enemy of attribute spells, after dispelling the excess thunder attribute elements in the current space, whether it is a large spell such as "Falling Thunder" and "Thunder Storm", it will be temporarily unable to be cast.
"Finally reluctant?" Qin Liu hung his sword and looked at her with a smile.
"I don't want to fight you." Vera sighed softly.
"But I want to." Qin Liu said lightly, "So far, you don't seem to have used your full strength, are you afraid of hurting me?"
"However, none of this matters, in this arena, you are gambling on the honor of the Ellan family to fight me.
"If you lose, no one will care if you use your best or not, they will only know that I have shattered the legend of the undefeated ruling created by the Ellan family with my own hands.
"If that's okay for you, please."
After finishing speaking, Qin Liu raised the blade of his sword, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at Vera.
It was undoubtedly a provocative gesture, and there was a slight commotion in the audience, and Vera nodded, and said:
"I'm going to give it my all."
A sword also appeared in her hand, which was a super-grade spiritual weapon-level stabbing sword.
The blade of the bayonet is slender and suitable for stabbing, but it can also be used for slashing, and its hilt is carved with flower-shaped gauntlets, which is extremely ornate and graceful.
The ruling was originally a single-handedly specialized inheritance, but now under the effect of the "Law of Balance", Qin Liu's strength as the inheritor of the thunder summoner has been greatly weakened.
But there was no trace of fear on her face, and she raised her head and smiled: "Then, I will also respond to you with all my strength."
"I once had the privilege of observing a sword up close, and that sword can turn mountains and seas, pick up stars and moons, and destroy cities and open the sky......
"For ten years, I've tried to recreate the glory of that sword, but until now, my understanding of that sword is still only scratching the surface—
"But even so, this is still my strongest sword."
As the words fell, her long sword rang out with a loud sword roar, as if some incomparable strength and will had been injected into it.
"It's ......!"
In the audience, Roy stood up and looked at Qin Liu in amazement.
From the body of this sword, he felt a familiar power.