Apocalypse: Master of Soul Beasts

In the end, it was Golden Armor who stepped in and brought this farce to a halt.

Dick staggered back to his private box in complete collapse, leaving behind nothing but a floor full of shock and contemplation for all the spectators.

”Invincible”—this kind of ability, in the eyes of normal professionists, absolutely counts as something high-end, classy, and top-tier. There aren’t many professionists who manage to get an Invincible-type skill. All along, everyone thought that a skill called Invincible was literally invincible. Yet who could’ve guessed that something ”invincible” would get beaten into scrap here by three punches and two kicks from Wen Yu.

And Wen Yu’s little teaching session also ended up triggering a lot of professionists to reflect on skills—there are no invincible skills, only invincible professionists.

The crowd watching the Sequence Member-Ranking Battle in front of the Exchange Stone Pillar only saw Wen Yu finish Dick off with three punches and two kicks. Some people even commented on how trash Dick was. But the Sequences still on the field all knew Dick wasn’t weak. Just over sixty thousand points in physical stats, Invincible plus Mountain Collapse Earth Shatter giving him one offense and one defense—on paper, Dick did have the ability to contend for the top ten Sequences. He just picked the wrong opponent.

And that was exactly Wen Yu’s intention in making a move this time.

”Beating up kids feel good?”

Seeing Wen Yu come back, Tang Haofei asked with a grin. Wen Yu just shook his head. ”It was just to cut down on future trouble.”

”Yeah, well, in order to cut down on trouble, you gave that Dick guy a pretty heavy psychological shadow.”

”Blame him for running into the muzzle. But I don’t think a Sequence is going to be so fragile that a little incident like this will crush him for good.”

”Heh...”

Tang Haofei’s mouth twitched. He clearly didn’t plan to dwell on this topic. ”Anyway, that little lesson of yours was done really well. And you’ve clearly got this stuff figured out.”

”I made my name off skills. My research into the essence of skills is fairly thorough. But there are still some things I can’t figure out.”

Wen Yu started counting on his fingers. ”I can’t figure out the Soul Skill System, can’t figure out the Energy Skill System, and I can’t even figure out Rebirth-type skill systems. I can only make stuff similar to game skills—Invincible actually falls under that too. But honestly, the power of this kind of skill just isn’t enough.”

To the average person, Invincible definitely counts as a high-end skill. But in Wen Yu and Tang Haofei’s eyes, this kind of pseudo–game-type skill—like Invincible, or ’increase your physical stats by this and that amount,’ or ’add this much attack damage’... really isn’t worth mentioning.

The effects they can produce are all fixed values—and fixed values mean the ceiling is locked, which means there’s not much potential.

The two of them kept chatting about this and that. After Dick’s little scene, Wen Yu had no more desire to sleep. And after Wen Yu’s fight with Dick, it took quite a while before the next pair of Sequences took the field in the arena—and it turned out to be a familiar pair...

Akad and Vincent, those two old arch-enemies.

...

”Sequence Number 56 applies to challenge Sequence Number 10. Battle starts now!”

With two flashes of light, Akad and Vincent’s figures appeared in the skill competition arena. The two didn’t bother with any chatter—they went straight to throwing hands!

Truly straightforward...

Blood shadows circled around Akad. In the blink of an eye, three Demon Fiends with ferocious faces appeared at his side. They let out deafening roars and lunged straight at Vincent!

Three Demon Fiends, each with physical stats above fifty thousand points—that was the biggest trump card Akad had built up over the past five years...

Yeah, the upper limit of this River of Death ability is very high—ridiculously high. If Akad happened to kill Wen Yu or Tang Haofei by accident, Akad would absolutely soar into the sky and no one would be able to control him. But unfortunately, fate is what it is—Akad had never managed to find blood slaves of a high enough grade. These three were the result of his hard work over five years.

And Demon Fiends of this level weren’t exactly troublesome for Vincent.

Thick poisonous smoke poured out from Vincent’s body, rapidly spreading through the entire skill competition arena. In the distance, Akad’s body visibly rotted and decayed to the naked eye. In less than a second, Akad had already lost one life.

But Akad simply had too many lives! Over the past five years, the number of Demon Fiends killed by him might not be in the billions, but there were definitely tens of millions. This level of immortality was enough to give anyone who became Akad’s enemy a splitting headache.

So, yeah, from Wen Yu’s point of view, the following fight was really awkward. Vincent’s poisonous mist was absolutely outstanding as a large-area group killing ability, but its lethality against single targets wasn’t all that strong. The three blood slaves were chasing Vincent all over the place, forcing him to jump up and down, and on top of that, those three blood slaves had very high resistance to toxins, which basically crippled over half of Vincent’s combat power.

And Akad didn’t have any way to truly solve Vincent either—a textbook bladder match...

Fortunately, Akad himself didn’t seem to have any real intention of stealing the Sequence Number 10 slot. After dying 3,586 times, he decisively chose to surrender. That’s right, he was there purely to disgust Vincent.

”Mad, someone help me snipe him! Mu Bai, Vila, Wang Yuwei, help me snipe him a few times too—I owe each of you a favor.”

Vincent came out of the battle yelling in fury, but the three people he named just curled their lips. Among the powerful experts in the military’s private boxes, the ones who could threaten Akad had all already ranked ahead of Akad.

It was Lin Haifeng who spoke up and stopped this farce. ”Enough, ignore him. Our focus needs to be on Walter. Qin Tian, get ready—you’ll take Walter out first in a bit.”

”Yes, Commander.”

Qin Tian accepted the order, and in the very next second, white light flashed over Vincent again.

”Sequence Number 56 applies to challenge Sequence Number 10. Battle starts now!”

Alright then, disgusting him once wasn’t enough. Had to at least disgust him two or three times...

The bladder match down below kicked off again. Lin Haifeng, however, had a smile at the corner of his mouth as he watched Akad’s figure, narrowing his eyes as if pondering something.

...

”This guy’s really interesting.”

Two challenges in a row, and both times it was Akad versus Vincent. Each fight could drag on for dozens of minutes. Annoying as hell, but still within the rules.

Anyone could see what Akad was thinking—this guy had no desire to compete for a Sequence ranking. He was just here to mess with people.

”By the way, I heard this guy’s one of yours?”

Faced with Tang Haofei’s question, Wen Yu was silent for a moment, unsure how to answer. ”Can’t really call him mine. We’re just... fairly familiar.”

”His ability is pretty interesting.”

Tang Haofei narrowed his eyes, staring at Akad for a long while before finally saying to Wen Yu, ”Introduce us after the Sequence Member-Ranking Battle is over.”

”What, you want to recruit a little brother? That guy’s personality is nothing to brag about, and besides...”

Wen Yu trailed off mid-sentence, suddenly shutting his mouth and turning his head to look at Tang Haofei.

After a long pause, Wen Yu let out a soft sigh. ”Alright, I’ll introduce you after the ranking battle...”

Wen Yu suddenly thought of a possibility... With Tang Haofei’s personality, sacrificing himself for the world once probably wouldn’t be enough.