RNP Chapter 228 Nana
Chapter 228 Nana
Chapter 228 Nana
Moreover, setting aside the advantage of physical fitness, Nana, as a ghost martial soul, is actually no match for Huo Yuhao in terms of unpredictability. Although she could tell at a glance that Huo Yuhao's fake body was moving somewhat stiffly, being able to react in time when facing him head-on requires extremely strong mental fortitude and practical combat wisdom.
In addition, Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye Martial Soul seemed to be very good at distinguishing between real and fake bodies, and he found Nana's real body from the three clones in the first place.
Most importantly, Nana, being a ghost spirit, is skilled at attacking souls, but Huo Yuhao may not be afraid of that, which is troublesome.
They finally managed to find Xiao and Meng a decent teammate, but they were constantly being suppressed by Huo Yuhao...
Jing Hongchen couldn't help but rub his forehead. How come there are so few capable people in the academy?
On the competition stage, Nana was now in a losing position. Not only did she have a real body, but sometimes when Nana parried Huo Yuhao's knife, she realized that it was just an illusion. The next moment, the real knife would attack from another angle, leaving a bloody mark on Nana's body.
The changes between the real and fake body and the real and fake knife made Nana furious. Every time she attacked, it was like hitting cotton. What kind of person is this? It's so disgusting.
After several exchanges, Nana discovered that, for some reason, the flames released by her level 5 melee soul tool, the Crimson Flame Blade, were not very effective against Huo Yuhao. She then switched to another spare wind-attribute melee soul tool, the Light Spirit Blade.
Although it's a backup weapon, it's actually one of the main weapons. It can easily unleash six powerful wind blades, attacking from several angles. The trajectory of the wind blades can also be used to determine the location of Huo Yuhao's true body.
In particular, the wind blades seem to be a permanent effect. With Nana's extremely fast sword swings, the next wind blade often arrives before the previous one has even disappeared.
For a moment, the arena was filled with flying cyan wind blades. Even Huo Yuhao couldn't withstand it. He instantly activated his mental shield, cleared away a group of wind blades, and retreated to look for a new opportunity.
Although the wind blade is considered to have low attack power among the five rings, and ordinary defensive battle spirit kings can easily block it, Huo Yuhao is only at the third ring and does not have a single defensive spirit skill that he can rely on.
Using a mental shield to withstand attacks is a very wasteful move. Even if you lose your soul power, you can still use a healing bottle or mental power as a temporary substitute (in the original work, mental power can replace soul power to release soul skills after obtaining the Eye of Destiny). But if Huo Yuhao loses his mental power, he really won't have many ways to deal damage.
"Well done!"
In the audience, seeing Huo Yuhao forced to retreat for the first time, all the audience cheered for Nana.
"Be careful."
Huo Yuhao suddenly let out a soft shout, put away his Tang sword, and replaced it with a circular chainsaw. The saw blade alone was as big as Huo Yuhao's head, and it was spinning at high speed, making a dangerous sound.
The chainsaw's outer shell and blade are made of the toughest titanium, which has been forged thousands of times, making it strong enough to withstand ordinary wind blades. Huo Yuhao did consider replacing the most fragile electronic components with forged metal, but the original material's conductivity became much worse after being forged. In the end, Huo Yuhao had no choice but to stick with the most fragile original structure.
But Nana had no idea about that...
After switching to the chainsaw, Huo Yuhao charged at Nana again, wielding the chainsaw and using the blade to block most of the incoming wind blades. The two were once again locked in close combat. The high-speed spinning chainsaw blade collided with the blade of the light and agile knife, instantly sparking a large number of sparks.
Feeling the vibration in her hand, Nana's pupils contracted, and she took a few steps back. Looking down, she discovered that the blade of the Light Spirit Blade had been cut open with a gap halfway deep, and the internal magic array patterns had also broken. A level 5 soul tool had been rendered useless!
"How did Huo Yuhao manage to create a rotating structure in such a small space?"
Xuan Ziwen's eyes lit up. If the weapon Huo Yuhao took out were installed on his eye project, wouldn't he be able to have a certain melee attack capability with just two extra soul guide arms?
Moreover, judging from the fact that Huo Yuhao could easily activate it with only three rings, the level of this magic array, that is, the consumption of soul power, must not be high, so there is no need to worry about it putting too much strain on the driver.
But what kind of magic array could achieve such a perfect rotation effect?
On the podium, Jing Hongchen looked at the chainsaw in Huo Yuhao's hand and had the same question.
If it were just about rotation, it could be made using a wind-attribute core magic array, but its speed and stability would be far inferior to the chainsaw in Huo Yuhao's hands. Moreover, Jing Hongchen could confirm that the strange soul tool in Huo Yuhao's hands did not have an air vent.
A soul master from Mingde Hall quickly walked to Jing Hongchen's side and whispered:
"Master, the results are in. Neither the soul power nor the mental power detector could detect any flaws in Huo Yuhao's invisibility ability."
"I see."
Jing Hongchen waved his hand, casually dismissing him. However, Jing Hongchen's heart was not as calm as it appeared.
The invisibility ability of a spirit-attribute martial soul is so powerful that even a spirit detection soul tool can't find any opening? This is troublesome. Does that mean only attacking can make the opponent reveal their true form?
Jing Hongchen thought of Huo Yuhao, who had been forced to reveal his true form by the wind blades that covered the entire arena, and fell into deep thought.
On the competition stage, Nana was furious when she saw that her light blade had been rendered useless.
You should know that these kinds of finished melee soul tools are very difficult to repair. If the internal core magic array is destroyed, it can only be melted down and rebuilt. Moreover, Nana herself is not good at soul tool making. She spent a lot of money to have her teacher make this sword for her.
She retrieved her Light Blade, switched back to the Crimson Flame Blade, and charged towards Huo Yuhao. What greeted her was, of course, the chainsaw.
Just as the spinning blade was about to strike Nana, her third spirit ring suddenly lit up, and her body instantly became illusory.
The third soul skill, Ghost Possession, allows the user to instantly transform into a ghost, rendering them immune to all physical attacks. However, this effect only lasts for one second. Furthermore, the user becomes unable to attack after casting the skill.
As the two figures passed each other, Nana's fourth spirit ring lit up. A dark shadow split off from Nana's body, and her face instantly paled. The shadow then suddenly landed on Huo Yuhao.
Are you here...?
Using the soul manipulation knowledge he had hastily learned, Huo Yuhao controlled the vengeful spirit released by Nana and extracted fragments of Nana's own soul from it.
Nana was about to stab Huo Yuhao, leaving him a bloody hole to avenge the destruction of her weapon, but instead she met Huo Yuhao's gray eyes directly. Then, she heard Huo Yuhao mutter something, and the vengeful spirit attached to him disappeared.
Nana's pupils contracted as she realized something was wrong. Just as she was about to unleash her final trump card, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her brain, as if she were being pricked by needles, and fainted.
Having achieved his goal, Huo Yuhao unleashed a soul strike on Nana, kicking her off the stage.
Things happened too fast. The audience on stage hadn't even had time to react to what was going on. After Huo Yuhao pulled out the strange close-combat soul tool, Nana's hard-won advantage disappeared again. Just when Nana was about to make a comeback with her last burst of energy, she was ruthlessly eliminated by Huo Yuhao.
"Do you need a rest?"
Xuan Ziwen's voice rang out again. Having defeated three level-five Soul Masters in a row, even if Huo Yuhao was a genius of Shrek Academy, he was still only a Soul Master. His strength must have been almost exhausted by now.
Huo Yuhao estimated the remaining mental energy and said, "Let's continue."
In the fourth match, Huo Yuhao didn't bother with any more words. He used all his remaining soul power and mental energy to launch a soul attack. The purple-gold light crossed the 150-meter-long arena and knocked his opponent unconscious.
Huo Yuhao didn't even wait for Xuan Ziwen to announce the verdict before he sat cross-legged and began to recover his mental strength.
Five seconds passed, then ten seconds passed, and only then did Xuan Ziwen declare Huo Yuhao the winner.
Before he even woke up in ten seconds, Huo Yuhao could have run over and stabbed his opponent with his bare body.
At this moment, the spectator stands erupted in commotion because Huo Yuhao's attitude was far too arrogant. He didn't even bother with any pretense and simply sat down cross-legged to begin meditating.
If Xuan Ziwen intended to target Huo Yuhao, he could easily find an excuse not to declare Huo Yuhao the winner. Of course, if he did that, the reputation of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy would be ruined, and Jing Hongchen would not allow such a thing to happen.
After dealing with Nana, there weren't many level 5 Soul Masters left who could threaten Huo Yuhao. It was just that ranged Soul Masters were having a hard time, as not everyone was as foolish as Xia Xuanchen, who gave Huo Yuhao the opportunity to get close.
But such opportunities don't necessarily have to be given to the opponent. Invisibility, decoys, mental interference, upgraded level four laser sights, smoke grenades, stun grenades...
Without any restrictions on his methods, Huo Yuhao had plenty of ways to prevent ranged Soul Masters from maximizing their output, leaving the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master students on the competition stage feeling extremely frustrated.
It seemed that as long as someone focused all their damage on Huo Yuhao, they could eliminate him, but no one could actually deal all the damage.
After a morning, Huo Yuhao, relying solely on his Spirit Eye Martial Soul, was still struggling. He barely managed to win twelve rounds before the game ended, with most of the time spent recovering his stamina.
By the afternoon, due to a decline in energy, Huo Yuhao had only won eleven games, bringing his total wins for the first day to twenty-three.
After all, using simulated invisibility is one thing, but sometimes when facing melee Soul Masters, one has to use a real and a fake body to accumulate an advantage. This kind of gameplay is extremely energy-consuming for Huo Yuhao.
Nevertheless, Huo Yuhao was quite satisfied with this result. After all, without the Ice Emperor Martial Soul and the Dark Gold Terror Claw, Huo Yuhao was unable to fully utilize his abilities in various aspects.
Besides, the lack of a fourth spirit ring was also a problem. However, Huo Yuhao used Xuan Ziwen's connections to check the information on the spirit guidance system of the Sun Moon Empire. After finding information on another spirit attribute race besides the Silver Moon Wolf King and the Demon Eye, he discovered that the signature skill of that spirit attribute spirit beast was actually mental impact. In addition, it had some spirit attribute debuff abilities that were better than nothing.
This really made Huo Yuhao want to vomit. These abilities didn't even seem as bad as the Silver Moon Wolf King's mental confusion. In addition, Huo Yuhao also looked through the information on illusion-type soul beasts and finally found that they were basically all hallucinations caused by the nervous system similar to neurotoxins. He just couldn't find a single soul beast that caused hallucinations purely by mental attributes.
Huo Yuhao didn't dare to absorb such a soul beast, fearing that incompatibility would lead to qi deviation.
It should be noted that there were several types of mentally hallucinogenic spirit beasts on the original Douluo Continent, but not a single one was found in the Sun Moon Empire.
This delayed Huo Yuhao's fourth spirit ring. Fortunately, when Ilex woke up for Xue Di some time ago, Huo Yuhao specifically consulted him. Ilex only vaguely said that he would think of a way, and then there was no further news.
Dragging his tired body back to the dormitory, Huo Yuhao did not cultivate. Instead, he took two pieces of Thousand-Refined Silver, one of Grade 1 and the other of Grade 2, and gently stroked the patterns on the metal, carefully feeling the difference between them.
"Knock knock knock..."
Three knocks sounded, and Huo Yuhao put away the metal object, walked over, and opened the door.
Unsurprisingly, the visitor was Nana.
Huo Yuhao opened the door and then gestured for people to enter.
Nana frowned, hesitated for a moment, took a deep breath, and still walked into Huo Yuhao's room, as if she were voluntarily walking into a tiger's den.
"What are you afraid of? It's not like it'll eat you."
Huo Yuhao smiled and closed the door, sitting on the bed without any regard for his image.
"I know why you're here. You just want your soul fragments back, right? Everything's negotiable."
Upon hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Nana did not feel joy; instead, she clenched her hands tightly, as if she were hesitant.
Seeing Nana's reaction, Huo Yuhao knew his tone was easily misunderstood, so he preemptively said, "Let's make a deal. I'll help your parents' souls find peace, and you'll work for me from now on. How about it?"
Nana was originally waiting for Huo Yuhao to make a condition, and was even prepared to lose something, but she didn't expect Huo Yuhao to not mention it.
wrong!
Nana suddenly raised her head and stared intently at Huo Yuhao: "How did you know?"
"Don't be nervous." Huo Yuhao waved his hand and said, "I'm definitely not on the same side as those evil soul masters. Our Shrek Academy's disciplinary team has always taken it as our mission to eradicate evil soul masters."
"As for how I knew, it was naturally obtained from the fragments of your remnant soul's memories."
Huo Yuhao said without batting an eye, "Although Electrolux does have the ability to read memories from remnant souls, to be honest, Nana's remnant soul is too fragmented. The memories that can be read are limited, and it might break if you use too much force. If you do that, Nana's fate will be a completely incomplete soul and paralysis."
The reason for this effect is that as mental strength increases, especially when it reaches the threshold of being able to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring, the soul master's soul will gradually replace the original nervous system, allowing the soul master's reaction speed to transcend the limits of the mortal body.
While Nana's soul fragment temporarily leaves her body, the connection in terms of the laws still exists and does not affect Nana's control over her body. However, once it breaks, the body area controlled by this soul fragment will be completely paralyzed.
"Can you really save my mom and dad?"
At this moment, Nana no longer cared whether her soul could be returned. Compared to her boring life, perhaps her parents, who were still suffering, were more important to her.
Huo Yuhao denied it, saying, "There's no way to save him, he's completely dead..."
"But helping them find peace and sending them to be reincarnated isn't a big problem, as long as you promise me..."
"I'm willing!" Nana exclaimed excitedly, "As long as you can help my parents find peace, I'm willing to take either my soul or my body!"
(End of this chapter)