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109: Chapter 109 Fixed DamageOnly one minute had passed since the duel began.

However, amidst this intense confrontation, Fu Hao had to admit one fact: Leonhardt’s fighting style had completely diverged from the patterns in his memory.

Perhaps it was precisely because his opponent had changed to Fu Hao that Leonhardt had to discard his past habits and make such subversive tactical adjustments. Regardless of the reason, Fu Hao’s situation had undeniably become extremely tricky.

”Kings Protection... was just wasted like that?” A pang of pain shot through Fu Hao’s heart.

Unfortunately, the ring of the sage was currently on cooldown, unable to trigger its reset effect to salvage the situation.

And as the skill with the longest cooldown among the three skills of the ”First King” title, Kings Protection required a full 7 days! This meant that in this duel, there was no longer any possibility of using this precious spare life.

”Fortunately... there is still a ’spare life,’ even if the trigger conditions are a bit harsh.”

The ”spare life” Fu Hao referred to was the +10 effect of his ”Red Iron Top”—this effect had once forcibly pulled him back from the brink of death after a fatal blow from an assassin before the Rowen Kingdom civil war.

Although it required taking terrifying damage exceeding 100% of his maximum HP to trigger, it was ultimately a fallback for survival. Even better, once triggered, it would be followed by a full 10 seconds of absolute invincibility! This was far stronger than the fleeting 3 seconds of Kings Protection!

At this moment, Fu Hao had exhausted the resources in his ring, which stored the Absorb Shield and Light Sword magic.

Before the replacement statue cooldown ended, he also could not use the Blink skill to move.

But he was not without options—he still had the teleportation gem! This duel arena, the ”Lepis Territory Arena,” was his own domain, and he had long ago ordered the servants of his mansion to record the precise coordinates within the arena into the gem. Aside from the 5-second casting time, its effect was no different from Blink.

Deep down, Fu Hao was indeed deeply wary of engaging in close-quarters combat with Leonhardt, but if he were under the protection of invincibility, that would be a different story—as long as he successfully baited the invincibility effect of his top’s spare life, he could gather his strength once again and launch a fatal blow capable of ending everything!

Leonhardt might be able to escape using Blink again, but the teleportation gem in Fu Hao’s hand allowed him to freely control the timing of his teleportation.

In comparison, as a magic skill, Leonhardt’s Blink could not be controlled with such precision regarding the timing of its completion. Even if Leonhardt could complete the cast instantly, Fu Hao only needed to seize that fleeting, perfect moment!

”The only problem is... if Leonhardt intentionally controls the damage and doesn’t let me take more than 100% of my max HP in damage, this trick will be ineffective... but can he really do that?”

Fu Hao had already made the effects and trigger conditions of his top public in his live streams. If Leonhardt had reviewed his stream recordings, he might very well notice this and intentionally control his output.

But Fu Hao was not without countermeasures—he possessed the strongest three-piece defensive set (the +10 Guardian Shield, Taishan, and the Breath of Protection skill)! If Leonhardt wanted to truly break his defense and pose a threat, he would have to use his highest-output attack methods.

And Fu Hao only needed to deactivate his defensive skills or even intentionally drop his shield the moment the opponent launched such an attack to easily trigger that precious 10 seconds of invincibility!

The only variable to be concerned about was HP—Fu Hao’s current remaining HP was about 50,000, less than 20% of his total health. But there was no need to worry: he had long since reforged all the enhanced attributes of his top and bottom gear (Red Iron Top, Red Iron Bottom) into HP recovery-type affixes!

[Remaining HP is below 30%.] [Due to the ”Red Iron Top (+10)” effect, recovering 20% of maximum HP.] [Due to the ”Red Iron Bottom (+10)” effect, recovering 40% of maximum HP.] [Recovering 3000 HP.] [Recovering 3000 HP.] [Recovering 3000 HP.] ... (Continuous recovery prompts)

Leonhardt possessed a despairingly massive amount of health, while Fu Hao possessed a terrifying continuous health recovery ability!

- ”The recovery speed is ridiculously fast!” - ”How can he even die with that much health, haha!” - ”I’m truly impressed that he plays the game like this, hahahaha!”

While his HP was rapidly recovering, Fu Hao did not hesitate for a second and immediately activated his three major defensive skills, constructing an unbreakable barrier:

[Activating ”Taishan” skill, can be canceled after 5 seconds.] [Immune to all abnormal statuses.] [Block probability fixed at 100%.] [Defense increased by 283%.] [Cannot move while Block is active.]

[Consuming 30% of maximum HP and 30% of maximum MP to activate ”Breath of Protection” skill.] [Applying ”Final damage received reduced by 81%” buff to self and up to 40 allies.] [Cannot use ”Earth Shatter,” ”Spatial Slash,” or ”Shield Charge” skills while using Breath of Protection.]

[Consuming 20% of maximum HP and 20% of maximum MP to activate ”Guardian Shield” skill.] [Generating a shield equivalent to 83% of the current equipped shield’s capability for self and up to 40 allies.] [Cannot use ”Earth Shatter,” ”Spatial Slash,” or ”Shield Charge” skills while using Guardian Shield.]

Fu Hao adopted a stance of near-absolute defense. To most of the audience and the NPCs on the sidelines, this seemed to be a defensive stance where he was reduced to passively taking hits:

[”Fu Haos Eternal Fan” tipped 50 Yuan. (Are you being a coward?) ] [”NewNew” tipped 50 Yuan. (Do you not want to aim for a draw?) ] [”Bi Boran” tipped 50 Yuan. (Spear and Shield)]

However, the expression on Fu Hao’s face was by no means the solemnity of someone at a disadvantage; rather, it was like a hunter who had finally waited for the prey to step into a trap, with eyes gleaming with the light of having grasped the chance of victory.

”Come on, Leonhardt, let me see how you deal with this impenetrable wall.”

Even if Leonhardt chose not to attack in order to avoid triggering the invincibility, it was not a bad thing for Fu Hao—Kings Majesty had already been used, and the possibility of long-range attacks with Earth Shatter was reduced. However, Leonhardt’s Blink casting speed was extremely fast, and only ordinary attacks with no preparatory actions during close combat could potentially reveal his flaws.

If both sides continued to stand off, the cooldown of the replacement statue would end! At that time, Fu Hao could release the Light Sword magic again, forming a sword rain offensive with seven swords firing simultaneously. No matter how strong Leonhardt was, he would be unable to escape the fate of being suppressed by the dense attacks.

Even with a master artifact craftsman backing him, Leonhardt could not mass-produce the destruction sword magic artifacts, while Fu Hao’s +10 accessories were fully stocked with magic imprints of Light Sword!

In his backpack lay dozens of spare +10 red iron spears! Unless Leonhardt could pull out something entirely new capable of overturning the situation, Fu Hao already had the victory in the bag.

”He has chosen to attack.”

Leonhardt stared at Fu Hao’s absolute defensive stance, and after just a moment, he made his decision.

He raised his hands and began to chant a long and obscure incantation. This casting lasted for over a minute, and the concentration of magic power condensing in the air was terrifying—clearly, he was preparing an ultimate armor-breaking magic capable of tearing through this turtle shell.

”It seems... he failed to see through my plan.” Fu Hao secretly rejoiced. Leonhardt might have analyzed his data, but he might not have expected him to use the teleportation gem to carry out such a precise surprise attack.

Even more favorably, Leonhardt’s long casting time happened to bring the cooldown of the replacement statue to its end.

The magic that Leonhardt was preparing, which took over two minutes, would surely have earth-shattering power.

If he deactivated all defenses to take it head-on, there was a high probability that the damage would exceed his maximum HP and trigger invincibility.

But the damage pattern was unknown—if this was a multi-stage attack, he might be killed instantly before the accumulated damage reached the trigger threshold! Regardless, since there were other safe ways to deal with Leonhardt, Fu Hao decided to maintain his full defense state first to test the reality of this magic.

Just in the final few seconds before the replacement statue cooldown ended, Leonhardt’s long incantation was finally completed!

Boom—! A tornado, massive to the point of being suffocating, generated out of thin air and swept toward Fu Hao with a roar that destroyed everything!

The scale of this tornado occupied almost a quarter of the entire duel arena! Its movement speed was astonishingly fast, and with such a massive size, Fu Hao had no way to dodge.

Fu Hao’s throat moved as he swallowed—the pressure brought by this tornado left him in no doubt that without the protection of the +10 Guardian Shield, even if he activated all his defensive skills, he would absolutely be torn to shreds instantly!

The tornado hit the target violently, and the damage it caused was indeed as terrifying as expected:

[Received 35,031 damage from the enemy.] [Received 35,031 damage from the enemy.] [Received 35,031 damage from the enemy.] ...

About 18,000 damage per second, like the Grim Reaper’s scythe constantly falling! Even with the four-fold stacking recovery effect of ”recovering 3000 HP per second,” it was like a drop in the bucket, completely unable to offset this terrifying stream of damage.

Fu Hao even began to doubt whether the +10 Guardian Shield was really having any effect. But it was precisely because this damage far exceeded his expectations that it was more likely to trigger the ”spare life” invincibility.

”At least... it must deal over 1 million damage to trigger, right?”

Following his plan, he decisively put away the +10 Guardian Shield, while simultaneously deactivating the ”Taishan” and ”Breath of Protection” skills! Then, his gaze remained fixed on the combat log, waiting for the invincibility prompt that would announce the trigger of ”spare life.”

However, something unexpected happened. The damage prompts, like a pre-set program, popped up continuously, steadily, and without the slightest deviation:

[Received 35,031 damage from the enemy.] [Received 35,031 damage from the enemy.] ... (It was consistently 35,031 points)

The expected invincibility prompt was slow to appear!